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Recycling bin full of decapitated animals found in Florida (Update)

Christal Hayes
Orlando Sentinel
Fri, 19 May 2017 16:40 UTC
Crime scene tape
© Palm Beach Post
Deputies are investigating after a recycling bin was found Wednesday in DeBary filled with decapitated animals.

The bin was found by a woman while on her morning bicycle ride along Toms Road, just west of Interstate 4 near Lake Monroe, according to the Volusia County Sheriff's Office.

"I didn't get real close to it, but I know there was a goat and a chicken and they were all missing their heads, which I thought was kind of strange," the woman told a 911 dispatcher.

Deputies responded and found the blue recycling bin filled with beheaded animals, including a goat, turtle and several birds.

The incident possibly happened overnight but neighbors did not see or hear anything suspicious, deputies said.

Comment: Update: The Miami Herald reports that the beheading of these animals was part of a cleansing ritual organized by a family to rid their son of schizophrenic thoughts. The family will not face criminal charges

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UK radio stations refuse to play song calling Theresa May a 'liar' - reaches tenth place in download charts anyway UPDATE

Shehab Khan
The Independent
Tue, 30 May 2017 15:46 UTC
Theresa May
© Oli Scarff/Press Association The song attacks Theresa May's record
Track is performed and produced by Captain Ska.

A song accusing Theresa May of being a "liar" has reached tenth place in the download charts but radio stations have refused to play it.

The Big Top 40 show on Capital FM and Heart opted not to play the song, which is performed and produced by Captain Ska.

During the chart show, hosted by Marvin Humes and Kat Shoob, it was announced the song was in the tenth spot before the song in ninth position started to play.

The track features a range of Ms May's speeches and interviews and attacks the Prime Minister's record in office.

Comment: Update from The Independent:
"Liar Liar Ge2017", produced and performed by Captain Ska, skewers the Prime Minister on the NHS, education and poverty, and her party's several recent U-turns including calling the snap election.

The chorus and easy-to-sing-along melody - "She's a liar, liar, you can't trust her, no no no no" - has helped the song to overtake Miley Cyrus, Niall Horan and Ed Sheeran.

"When there's nurses going hungry and schools in decline I don't recognise this broken country of mine," the lyrics read.

Profits generated from downloads between 26 May and 8 June will be split between food banks in the UK and the People's Assembly Against Austerity.

Radio stations have refused to play the song. The Big Top 40 Show on Capital FM and Heart announced the song had made the Top 10, and skipped to the song in ninth position.

Social media users said they hoped it would reach the top spot.


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A petition calling on radio stations to play the song and oppose censorship has reached more than 460 names.
Update 31st May:

Captain Ska's political anthem has now reached number 1 on the itunes download chart but radio stations are steadfastly refusing to play it. One twitter user highlighted the establishment's hypocrisy:

The British establishment is so obsessed with exporting their "freedom and democracy" elsewhere around the globe, yet when it comes to upholding these values on home soil, it's a different story.

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Arrow Up

Majority of Eastern Europeans want neutrality between Russia and NATO


Russia Insider
Tue, 30 May 2017 15:44 UTC
Czechs, Slovaks, Hungarians and even Poles all agree they would be safer if they were not forced to pick sides between NATO and Russia.

This is according to research financed by America's own National Endowment for Democracy.

In each of the countries at least twice as many people agree with this sentiment as disagree with it.

(Slovakia: 73 percent to 24, Czechia: 61 to 34, Hungary: 58 to 27, Poland: 53 to 28.)
Europeans neutral NATO Russia
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Smoking

Man gets 9-year jail sentence after smoking on airplane resulted in toilet bin fire

Harley Tamplin
Metro
Thu, 25 May 2017 15:14 UTC
John cox smoking airplane nine years jail
© BPMJohn Cox smoking outside court
A man who lit a cigarette in a plane's toilet has had his jail sentence extended to nine years and six months.

John Cox triggered the Monarch Airbus' fire alarm when he discarded the cigarette in the plane toilet's bin.

And the aircraft captain issued a mayday call and considered an emergency landing when the crew struggled to extinguish the resulting fire.

Cox, of Coates Road, Kidderminster, pleaded guilty to arson being reckless as to whether life was endangered and was jailed for four years and six months at Birmingham Crown Court in January.

Comment: It's clear Mr. Cox's behavior was indeed reckless, however, the court's harsh ruling was very likely influenced by anti-smoking hysteria.

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'Hillary should've learnt to tell truth': Mother of slain Benghazi attack victim


RT
Tue, 30 May 2017 14:49 UTC
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The mother of a US State Department officer killed in the 2012 attack on US facilities in Benghazi, Libya told RT she is determined to win a court battle against Hillary Clinton that would force the former Secretary of State to disclose all of the facts.

Patricia Smith, the mother of Sean Smith, a US State Department information management officer who was killed in Benghazi on September 11, 2012, talked to RT after a Washington court rejected a lawsuit alleging that the weak security system set up to protect Hillary Clinton's emails was partly responsible for the attack.

"I don't think it should've been handled the way it was, I believe these judges were politically appointed by Clinton and that administration, and I don't believe what they said," Smith told RT.

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Info

Japan has more jobs than applicants but no impact on wage increases


RT
Tue, 30 May 2017 15:05 UTC
Japanese shoppers
© Kiyoshi Ota / Reuters
The labor shortage in Japan is at its highest in more than four decades, according to new government data. Low birth rates and an aging population have resulted in a shrinking workforce.

There are currently 1.48 jobs for every applicant, the highest figure since 1974 when fast growth drove the ratio to 1.53.

The data outpaces the labor shortage peak in the early 1990s, during the country's period of economic stagnation.

However, the latest statistics are seen by some experts as good news for the Japanese economy.

"There are lots of people entering the labor market, which is one upside," said Marcel Thieliant, senior Japan economist at research firm Capital Economics, as quoted by CNN Money.
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German police detain 'jihadist' teenager over suspected Berlin terrorist plot


RT
Tue, 30 May 2017 14:29 UTC
German police
© Fabian Bimmer / Reuters
A 17-year-old "jihadist" has been detained in northeast Germany, local police said. He is reported to be a Syrian national suspected of planning a terrorist attack, officials announced, according to DPA news agency.

The suspect was allegedly planning to carry out a suicide bombing attack in the German capital, DPA reports, citing the interior minister of the state of Brandenburg, Karl-Heinz Schroeter.

In a tweet with an attached statement, law enforcement authorities said they had detained a "jihadist" in the community of Uckermark, north of Berlin on the border with Poland.
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SOTT Focus: The demise of Western Civilization: "Gender fluidity" as a harbinger for Postmodernist Hell

Zoya Klebanova
Sott.net
Tue, 30 May 2017 16:15 UTC
values
Traditional values refer to those beliefs, moral codes, and social mores that are passed down from generation to generation within a culture, subculture or community. Their subject matter usually includes that of family, community, religion, and art. And, although each culture has its own definition of traditional values, there appear to be universal principles that are based on experience, and that were created in order to maintain the integrity of societies comprised of a wide range of people with different personalities and interests and to prevent a descent into social chaos.

Taking it further, this visceral knowledge is, at least in part, shaped by evolution. It is also shaped by various psychological and psychopathological phenomena via the interaction between our subjective consciousness - individually and as a species - and the 'real world' throughout time.
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Cut them off: Australia plans to revoke convicted pedophiles' passports to prevent 'child-sex tourism'


RT
Tue, 30 May 2017 14:01 UTC
child pressing on shower door
© RinoCdZ / Getty Images
The Australian government wants to cancel the passports of convicted pedophiles to prevent them traveling abroad where they are out of reach of the country's laws. Scores of child sex offenders left the country in 2016 without permission, officials said.
"Today the Coalition Government [of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull] announced it will introduce tough new laws which will prevent registered child sex offenders from travelling overseas," Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said in a statement on her official website.
The new legislation aims to make Australia "a world leader in protecting vulnerable children from child sex tourism by prohibiting registered child sex offenders from leaving Australia or holding Australian passports."
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Yoda

Trump pays tribute to Portland stabbing victims - 'They stood up to hate & intolerance'


RT
Mon, 29 May 2017 13:43 UTC
A flag at a makeshift memorial for two men who were killed while trying to stop an Islamophobic attack against two women in Portland
© Terray Sylvester / ReutersA flag at a makeshift memorial for two men who were killed while trying to stop an Islamophobic attack against two women in Portland, Oregon on May 29, 2017
US President Donald Trump has condemned the killings of two men in Portland Friday, describing the victims as defenders against hate speech and intolerance.

Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche, 23, and Rick Best, 53, were stabbed to death and another person sustained injuries after intervening in an Islamophobic attack against two women on board a local commuter train in Oregon's largest city.

Trump tweeted from the official presidential account Monday to denounce the "violent attack" and offered his prayers to the victims.
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