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UK's Supernanny filming a series on kids who kill

Supernanny Jo Frost
© A+E NETWORKSDespite examining several harrowing cases, she still doesnt believe that children are born evil.
Jo Frost's new documentary about kids who kill has left her concerned for parents struggling with a violent child.

The TV childminder, known to millions of fans as Supernanny, investigates the shocking phenomenon of children who kill in a new four-part documentary airing on Crime + Investigation.

In Britain's Killer Kids she looks at separate cases of children who have murdered either other children, or adults they may or may not be related to, including a 12-year-old girl who stabbed a stranger 30 times.

She asks the audience: "What drives a child to kill? Should they be convicted of murder? Are they born innocent?"

Speaking to the Huffington Post, the 46-year-old said she was worried that parents of violent children, who could go on to physically harm or kill someone, were struggling to get help from relevant authorities, and more crucially, were too embarrassed to ask.

Comment: Can a Kid Be a Psychopath?


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UK: Attacks against Muslim-appearing people becoming so commonplace victims don't bother to report them

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Attacks on people who "appear to be Muslim" are so commonplace in the UK they are going unreported. Men and women who are Muslim, or appear to be, are targeted on public transport, in shops and at home, yet incidents are treated as a part of everyday life.

Just days after it was announced that that last 12 months has seen the largest increase in hate crime on record, RT heard that the statistics do not even scratch the surface.

Men and women who are not Muslim, but are of Asian and Middle Eastern appearance, are being attacked so often - verbally, physically and online - that they no longer go to the police. Hindu families have had the words "Muzzy's out" sprayed on their houses, while others are called "terrorists" and "c***s" in public.

Associate Professor Imran Awan of Birmingham City University delivered evidence to the APPG on British Muslims as part of National Hate Crime Awareness Week.

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Returning jihadists should be reintegrated into British society after leaving ISIS, says govt expert

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Britons who joined Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) in Iraq and Syria should not be prosecuted for their involvement, according to the Government's Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation. Max Hill QC says many were simply naïve, and should therefore be rehabilitated into British society.

Many UK nationals who have returned after taking up arms in the Middle East have not been charged with any crime, says Hill. Despite warnings from Britain's domestic intelligence agency MI5, hundreds of people will avoid punishment.

Andrew Parker, director general of MI5, announced just days ago that terrorism threats are evolving at an unprecedented rate.

Hundreds of jihadists are believed to be back in Britain after fighting in the Middle East. Around 850 are thought to have travelled to Syria since 2011. Hill says the way to deal with them could be simply to allow them back into society.

Attention

Transgender "woman" convicted of sexually assaulting 10yo girl in bathroom

Michelle Martinez
© Natrona County Detention CenterMiguel Martinez, who also uses the name Michelle, was convicted of sexually assaulting a 10-year-old inside a bathroom.
A transgender Wyoming woman was convicted Thursday of sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl inside a bathroom.

Michelle Martinez, who was known as Miguel Martinez before identifying as female, was found guilty of first-degree and second-degree sexual abuse of a minor and could face up to 70 years in prison.

The Billings Gazette reports Martinez, who is a family friend, invited the girl into the bathroom of a home on March 23, and touched her breasts and genitalia before penetrating her. The girl told her mother immediately after the assault, who then reported it to Casper Police.

After the attack, the girl told police "it hurt inside," according to the Casper Star Tribune.

Nurses at the Wyoming Medical Center performed a sexual assault exam on the minor and found redness and abrasions around the girl's genitalia.

When police initially questioned Martinez about the assault, she became "noticeably hostile and defensive" and said the girl was "talking crap" before denying being a child molester. Martinez also called the accusations a "publicity stunt," the Tribune reported.

Martinez pleaded not guilty on both counts.

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5yo Syrian girl dies in 'concentration camp' in Greece - Mass suffering of migrants with no end in sight

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© Zoie O'Brien / RTThe grave of a five-year-old girl who died on Lesbos
British aid money is propping up a European migrant camp routinely likened to a prison. In just one appalling example, a Syrian girl who survived war, smugglers and the Aegean Sea, died last week in a cold, damp tent in Moria, on the Greek island of Lesbos. She was five.

The girl, her parents and her five siblings had been offered a freezing tent in the squalid camp when they arrived in search of safety a week earlier.

Her body was discovered last Sunday by her father and pregnant mother, who just hours before were denied extra blankets to keep their daughter warm and given just paracetamol to treat her medical issues.

"I crawled inside and the blankets on the floor were wet, it was so cold and dirty and damp," Daliah, a volunteer and former protection team employee who visited the family, told RT UK.

Their daughter had just died and they were left there. They had nothing. No visit from a psychiatrist. The mother was silent. They were in shock and the children were saying 'my sister died - she died just here.'

Comment: And we'll say it again: None of this needless suffering and death would even be occurring if not for the US and Israeli-planned and executed wars of the Middle East - and the heartless thinking involved in taking political advantage of the migrant crises fallout we are now witnessing.


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At least 30 killed, 45 injured in suicide bombing at Kabul mosque

Crime scene at Imam Zaman mosque
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A suicide bomber killed at least 30 people in a Shiite mosque in the Afghan capital, Kabul, a senior security official told local media.

The attack took place inside the Imam Zaman mosque in the western Dasht-e-Barchi part of Kabul, during Friday night prayers.

At least 45 people were injured in the attack, according to an official at the Interior Ministry, cited by AP.

Attention

Mandalay Bay's owner insisted security guard Jesus Campos appear ONLY on Ellen Show

Jesus Campo
© EllenJesus Campos, the Mandalay Bay security guard who was the Vegas gunman's first victim, sat down for his one and only interview with Ellen, which aired on Wednedsay
Feared grilling by TV hardhitters fearing his answers to timeline questions could result in massive lawsuits from victims of the massacre

Mandalay Bay shooting hero Jesus Campos was pressured into giving his only interview to Ellen DeGeneres because the giant company that owns the Las Vegas casino feared he would spill the beans about the shooting timeline if he was grilled by real journalists, DailyMail.com has learned exclusively.

MGM is worried that families of the 58 people murdered as well as many of the 546 injured in the Mandalay Bay massacre will launch lawsuits potentially worth billions of dollars against the company, sources tell DailyMail.com.

And they thought Campos might not keep his story straight under the pressure of the TV lights and tough questioning.

That is why Campos, 25, appeared on a daytime chat show hosted by a fast-talking, dancing comedienne, rather than take questions from TV hardhitters such as Fox News' Sean Hannity, NBC News or ABC News.

Comment: An interesting take on Campo's Ellen interview from a body language analyst.

Transcript:
Bombard's Body Language:

"Ellen says, "certain amount of time supposed to check out on it, right?" She's talking about the door the security guard checked on and the maintenance man. Jesus responds, "Yes we got, uh, notifications," and he gives us a quick raised eyebrow. No knowledge confirm between the two - between him and Ellen.

"Making sure that, uh, to secure them," and he searches for the word. "Or if already secure making..." and it's a general phrase that puts it in the mind statement of a policy of alarms and doors - "that uh, check on the doors..." - search again. A lot of searching with the mind, trying to remember the story that he's putting out.

While re-telling the story he relies heavily on emotion for memory. It's a memory trick; associating things to memory by emotion helps with recall. So if you've got a story in your mind and you associate it with something in your mind that is emotional it helps you to remember it better. Because he has no memory on any visuals of that event. That's not normal.

And he also is struggling with it, and you can see that when he does his slow eye-closing. So he's struggling to remember it.

Another part of the video, Stephen [Schuck] puts his hand on Jesus's back in comfort. It is an unnatural movement; it is not comforting and a friendly comfort. It is awkward and it's not on any cues that Jesus gives for Stephen to do that.

And you can tell by their talk and the same words that they use, the witnesses have corroborated with each other and have come up with a story together.

Also Ellen's touch on Jesus is on cue, and Jesus is giving no indication that he needs comforting when she does it."
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Playboy's 1st transgender centerfold: Not everyone approves of the change

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The first issue of iconic men's magazine Playboy after the death of its founder, Hugh Hefner, has become a first in one more way, featuring a transgender playmate - to mixed reactions.

While French model Ines Rau is not the first trans woman to pose for Playboy - that would be Caroline "Tula" Cossey in 1991 - she is the first to feature in the centerfold in the prominent status of a playmate.

Comment: See also: Hugh Hefner's legacy


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North America's first "burqa ban": Quebec bans face coverings in public services in name of religious neutrality

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© RYAN REMIORZ/THE CANADIAN PRESSA woman wears a niqab in Montreal on Sept. 9, 2013.
Quebec has adopted a law that will force people to show their faces when taking the bus or borrowing a book from the library, pushing ahead with legislation that is being criticized for targeting Muslim Canadian women.

Bill 62, which the Justice Minister described as a North American first, requires one's face to be uncovered when giving or receiving public services. The law marks the outcome of a contentious, decade-long debate about the place of religious minorities in Quebec.

Details of how the law would apply have yet to be worked out, but critics are concerned it will empower civil servants such as front-line hospital workers to refuse service to a woman in a niqab or burka.

The Justice Minister, Stéphanie Vallée, confirmed that the law would apply to anyone taking a city bus. "To take public transit, you have to have your face uncovered. All through the ride," Ms. Vallée said on Wednesday.

Comment: More criticism from Muslim and feminist groups:
Critics, like Shaheen Ashraf of the Canadian Council of Muslim Women, question the religious neutrality narrative. "I define neutrality as being able to do what I choose and you are able to do what you choose and everyone else is able to do what they choose and that's neutral. Accepting each other as we are," Ashraf told CTV Montreal.
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"Bus drivers are now being empowered to decide who gets a ride based on their understanding of the nuances of Muslim head scarves," pointed out Allison Hanes in the Montreal Gazette. "Are they going to get training on the difference between a hijab and a niqab? This law could not be worse for civil rights or social cohesion."

"Telling a woman how to dress - whether she's wearing a bikini or a burqa - is the opposite of feminism," continued Hanes. "And using the full weight of the state to marginalize one particular group, no matter how much thou doth protest that a law applies to everyone equally, is reprehensible."

Although Quebec politicians pushed the new policy as a feminist one, Canadian feminists commenting on it are largely unimpressed. "A bill that legislates clothing ends up linking emancipation of women to how little or how much they wear," wrote Shree Paradkar in The Star. "In doing so, it works against choice" and "should have been rejected."
Feminism's horns of a dilemma: "Telling a woman how to dress is the opposite of feminism." Ergo, religious authorities who compel women to wear burqas are anti-feminist. As are those secular authorities who tell them not to wear burqas. The question feminists don't seem to be answering is this: how to end the religious compulsion that causes women to wear burqas, without telling the women not to wear burqas.


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Houston suburb rejecting grant applications for hurricane relief if applicant supports boycotting Israel

Vehicles on Interstate 10 navigate through flood waters caused by Tropical Storm Harvey in Vidor, Texas, U.S. August 31, 2017.
© Adrees Latif / ReutersVehicles on Interstate 10 navigate through flood waters caused by Tropical Storm Harvey in Vidor, Texas, U.S. August 31, 2017.
A Houston suburb will not approve grants to repair homes or businesses damaged in Hurricane Harvey if the applicant supports boycotting Israel.

The city of Dickinson's application form for storm damage repair funding includes a clause stating that "By executing this Agreement below, the Applicant verifies that the Applicant: (1) does not boycott Israel; and (2) will not boycott Israel during the term of this Agreement."

No other clauses about political affiliations or beliefs are included in the form.