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Central Michigan student with peanut allergy hazed with peanut butter while he was passed out

Matt Helms
Detroit Free Press
Thu, 02 Mar 2017 09:55 UTC
Andrew Seely
Authorities are investigating a Central Michigan University hazing incident in which a member of an off-campus fraternity smeared peanut butter on the face of a student with a peanut allergy while he was passed out, according to the victim's mother and the university.

"He could have been killed," Teresa Seely, the mother of now-former-CMU student Andrew Seely, wrote in a Facebook post this morning.

The incident happened in October, but Teresa Seely said her son kept the matter to himself until telling family Tuesday night. Now, she said, she wants parents and others to know about what happened to her 19-year-old son, who completed one semester at the Mt. Pleasant school before transferring because of the incident. She declined to identify the new school to protect her son from potential retaliation.

"Our family is devastated," Teresa Seely told the Free Press this afternoon. "We thought we were sending our child off to school in a safe environment, and obviously that wasn't the case. He could have died from this. He has a deadly peanut allergy."

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Snakes in Suits

Congressional candidate defends appearing in blackface Tiger Woods costume as 'good night in church'


RT
Thu, 02 Mar 2017 11:45 UTC
Robbie Gatti
© FacebookRobbie Gatti
A Republican candidate running for a Louisiana seat in the US House of Representatives has defended appearing in blackface after a 15-year-old picture of him dressed as Tiger Woods surfaced online.

Robbie Gatti, who is the frontrunner in Louisiana's 8th congressional district, attempted to explain away the photo in a Facebook post describing it as a part of a dress up event in his church.

"15 years ago, my church held a fall festival, where all the volunteers were told to dress as a famous person," Gatti explained. "Tiger Woods was at the height of his popularity, as a world champion, and that was who I was dressed as."
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Mr. Potato

Idiot Polish MEP says women should be paid less as they're 'smaller, weaker, less clever'


RT
Fri, 03 Mar 2017 16:20 UTC
Janusz Korwin-Mikke
© Janek Skarzynski / AFPJanusz Korwin-Mikke
Since women are "smaller, weaker and less intelligent" than men they rightfully should earn less, a controversial Polish member of the European Parliament has claimed during a debate on gender pay gap, sparking an immediate and fierce backlash.

To support his argument, Janusz Korwin-Mikke, a right-wing politician who represents the remote region of Silesia, claimed that there are no women among the world's top chess players. Women according to him are also much weaker when it comes to physics.

"Of course women must earn less than men because they are weaker, they are smaller and they are less intelligent, they must earn less, that's all," stated the 74-year-old MEP.

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Alarm after river in Pyrenees turns fluorescent green

Fiona Govan
The Local.es
Thu, 02 Mar 2017 16:08 UTC
Residents in Seu d’Urgell were alarmed to see the river had turned green
© RadioSeu / TwitterResidents in Seu d’Urgell were alarmed to see the river had turned green.
Authorities sought to reassure people living on the banks of Valira River after its waters turned a vivid green on Thursday.

The emerald green tint was not an early celebration of St Patrick's Day - as is seen in Chicago each March

The river began to turn green at its source in Andorra before spreading further downstream to the Valira valley in Catalonia.

Albert Batalla, the mayor of Seu d'Urgell, a town on the banks of the Valira issued a statement assuring residents that the dye was "entirely harmless, non-toxic and biodegradable" and had been used as part of an investigation at the Arinsal water bottling plant.
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Heart - Black

New York Jewish cemetery vandalized, third one in two weeks as investigating continues


RT
Fri, 03 Mar 2017 12:05 UTC
Cemetery
© Google view
A third Jewish cemetery in two weeks has been vandalized, this time in Rochester, New York. The Waad Hakolel Cemetery reported finding tombstones toppled along with the engraved faces of the deceased scratched out, possibly at another time.

New York Governor Charles Cuomo (D) called for state police to launch an investigation into the vandalism of the Jewish cemetery in Rochester that was discovered on Thursday. Rochester police spokeswoman Investigator Jacqueline Shuman said in a press release that they were still investigating the motivations of the crime, which follows a series of similar crimes committed across the country.

About a dozen tombstones were reported to be toppled and additional markers were defaced.


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UK Minister of State says torture not good enough reason to allow asylum seekers to stay


RT
Fri, 03 Mar 2017 15:38 UTC
torture hands taped
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Being a victim of torture is not a good enough reason for asylum seekers to be allowed to stay in the UK, according to Minister of State for Immigration Robert Goodwill.

While setting out the government's policy on people fleeing torture, Goodwill told MPs that victims of torture do not "automatically qualify for protection."

Goodwill claimed that unless torture survivors can present evidence that they will be at risk of further violence if they are sent back to their home country, they have no guarantee that they will be granted asylum in the UK.

"When considering asylum claims made in the UK it is absolutely right that we offer protection to those who face torture on the return to their country," Goodwill told Parliament.
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'Lie of religious freedom' v 'School isn't a mosque': German school bans Muslim students from 'provocative' praying, sparks heated debate


RT
Fri, 03 Mar 2017 09:57 UTC
Muslim student
© Getty Images
A school in western Germany has asked its teachers to report Muslim students who are found praying, with authorities branding the practice "provocative." The move sparked debate on social media - some users say the country lies about religious freedom.

The incident took place in Gymnasium Johannes Rau in the city of Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia state, and was first reported by Der Westen newspaper on Thursday.

The paper released a letter written by school authorities to the teachers.

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Passport

Ihre Papiere, Bitte! (Your Papers, Please): How the US is Being Set Up for a National ID System

John W. Whitehead
The Rutherford Institute
Wed, 01 Mar 2017 00:00 UTC
Papers please
"The triumph of the S.S. demands that the tortured victim allow himself to be led to the noose without protesting, that he renounce and abandon himself to the point of ceasing to affirm his identity. And it is not for nothing. It is not gratuitously, out of sheer sadism, that the S.S. men desire his defeat. They know that the system which succeeds in destroying its victim before he mounts the scaffold . . . is incomparably the best for keeping a whole people in slavery."
—Hannah Arendt reporting on the trial of Adolf Eichmann
You can't have it both ways.

You can't live in a constitutional republic if you allow the government to act like a police state.

You can't claim to value freedom if you allow the government to operate like a dictatorship.

You can't expect to have your rights respected if you allow the government to treat whomever it pleases with disrespect and an utter disregard for the rule of law.

If you're inclined to advance this double standard because you believe you have done nothing wrong and have nothing to hide, beware: there's always a boomerang effect.
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Black Cat 2

German comedian observes 'if a cat goes missing, Putin must have eaten it'


RT
Thu, 02 Mar 2017 23:41 UTC
Lisa Fitz
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A German comedian has called for the end of war as a "multi-billion dollar business" while speaking during an anti-war protest in Munich. She went on to criticize the media for "blaming everything on Putin," no matter the topic.

Lisa Fitz told demonstrators it is "naive" to believe wars start because there's a conflict between two countries which then escalates.

"Often you find something on the internet that finally clears your naive mind," she said during the protest, which coincided with a security conference in the German city.
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Rock art: French artist emerges after week trapped inside boulder (VIDEO)


RT
Thu, 02 Mar 2017 12:07 UTC
Abraham Poincheval
© Joel Saget / AFP French artist Abraham Poincheval.
French artist Abraham Poincheval has emerged "a little stunned" after spending a week entombed in a boulder in the Palais de Tokyo art museum in Paris while surviving on only ginger soup, water and dried meat.

A large crowd gathered at the museum to greet the artist as he emerged from the 12-tonne rock on Wednesday. The 44-year-old described his condition as "a little stunned" as he stepped out of the stone which he thanked for making him feel "so welcome."

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