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Syrian refugees in Austria out terrorist - Put on trial for executing 20+ Syrian soldiers


RT
Thu, 23 Feb 2017 19:19 UTC
fsa farouq
© Shaam News Network / ReutersMembers of Free Syrian Army, under the name of Farouq Brigades
A Syrian refugee is on trial in western Austria for allegedly murdering at least 20 unarmed or wounded soldiers during the Syrian civil war, local media reported.

The trial for the 27-year-old man began in the city of Innsbruck in Tyrol state on Wednesday. He was arrested in June 2016 after allegedly boasting about the killings to a fellow Syrian at a refugee center.

The accused was a member of the Farouq Brigades, a group that is a part of the Free Syrian Army, which was operating in Homs and Aleppo provinces, Kronen Zeitung reported. The organization is now largely defunct.

The Syrian refugee is accused of allegedly killing at least 20 wounded and unarmed Syrian Army soldiers in the city of Homs and the near-by village of Al-Khalidiyah between 2013 and 2014.

Comment: Another recent case: Sweden jails "rebel" asylum seeker for life - turns out he helped murder 7 Syrian troops

This is a positive development. The only way to ferret them out (before they go do something horrific) is if the refugees can point out the terrorists among them.

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Heart - Black

Abused children made to feel like criminals and 'prodded like a monkey in cage' by UK authorities - report


Sputnik
Thu, 23 Feb 2017 18:45 UTC
scared child holding stuffed animal
© Flickr/ Heather Katsoulis
Young victims of abuse are being failed by criminal justice agencies in Britain, which are not doing enough to protect them, a recently published report has found.

It has been revealed that children and teenagers in Britain were made to feel like criminals and accused of wasting police time, when they informed authorities that they had been sexually or physically abused. In some cases, the young person's story simply wasn't believed.

As a result, Victims' Commissioner, Baroness Newlove, has published a review titled, Are We Getting it Right for Young Victims of Crime?, which shockingly found that children and teenagers were made to feel like criminals themselves.
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Megaphone

Where's the outrage: Outspoken liberal George Takei jokingly admitted in 2006 of having a sexual relationship with an adult as a minor

Sara Gonzales
The Blaze
Wed, 22 Feb 2017 18:13 UTC
George Takei
© Photo by Phil McCarten/Invision/APActor George Takei
On the heels of the controversy stemming from former Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos's comments condoning sexual relationships between adults and teenagers, audio has surfaced of liberal actor George Takei seemingly doing the same thing.

Takei, best known for his role as Hikaru Sulu in the original "Star Trek" TV series and movies, joined radio host Howard Stern in 2006 for an interview and, unsurprisingly, the conversation turned sexual in nature. Takei began cheerfully talking to Stern and co-host Robin Quivers about an experience he had in summer camp with a male camp counselor when he was only a 13-year-old boy. The counselor, he said, was 18 or 19 years old.

"I was very young," Takei said. "He was about 18 or 19, and he was experienced."

Comment: So while the entire Western media is up in arms over Milo Yiannopoulos' comments about relationships between underage men and adult men, here is a popular liberal pop culture icon downplaying the same situation, and apparently no one in the media had a problem with it.

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Life Preserver

Program to help addicts instead of jail them so effective, 200 police depts in 28 states have adopted it

Justin Gardner
The Free Thought Project
Thu, 23 Feb 2017 17:54 UTC
drug addict seeking help
© ELISE AMENDOLA/AP/FILE 2015A woman inside the police station in Gloucester, Mass. She voluntarily came to the police for help kicking her heroin addiction.
The problem of the war on drugs can be summed up in one phrase - it's a war on people. While far too many cops gladly take part in this war to profit from civil asset forfeiture or to perpetuate the oppression of minorities, some are taking a decidedly different approach and it's working.

As the opioid epidemic came into full force in recent years, one police chief in Massachusetts had a novel idea - help drug addicts instead of throwing them in a cage. This led to the creation of the Angel Program.

As the Boston Globe reports:
"As Gloucester police chief, Leonard Campanello pledged in 2015 that drug users could walk into the police station, hand over heroin, and walk out into treatment within hours — without arrest or charges. The concept of help rather than handcuffs became a national sensation."
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Horse

The Lairy Godmother accused of whipping fox hunt protester (VIDEO)


RT
Thu, 23 Feb 2017 13:26 UTC
Royal godmother whipping fox protester
© GuildfordHuntSabs / Facebook
Princess Eugenie's godmother has been reported to police after footage emerged on social media of her apparently whipping a foxhunt protester with a riding crop.

Lulu Hutley, who is the joint master of the Surrey Union Hunt, got into a heated argument when activists attempted to stop a hunt on Slades Farm, Guildford, last week.

In a video posted by the Guildford Hunt Saboteurs on Facebook, Hutley is seen telling campaigners that she will call the police if they do not leave the private land.

When some of the 'sabs' insist on climbing over a gate, bringing them closer to Hutley and her horse, the socialite appears to hit a man with her riding crop.


"The hunt claimed today was a 'fun day' as Princess Eugenie was apparently in attendance but that clearly wasn't the case," Guildford Hunt Saboteurs wrote on their Facebook page on Sunday.
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Stormtrooper

Police & National Guard troops move into Standing Rock camp


RT
Thu, 23 Feb 2017 18:45 UTC
Cannon Ball, North Dakota, U.S., February 22, 2017
© Terray Sylvester / ReutersCannon Ball, North Dakota, U.S., February 22, 2017
Military vehicles, bulldozers and riot-geared police have moved into the Oceti Sakowin camp near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota, intended to clear out the remaining protesters against the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Live-streams from across the Cannon Ball River showed police and what looked like National Guard troops entering the mostly abandoned encampment on Thursday morning, accompanied with armored vehicles and construction equipment.

Comment: See also: As construction begins, veterans return to Standing Rock to form human shield to protect DAPL protesters against police

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'How to deal with right-wing views': Academics in Sussex under fire for 'intolerant' seminar


RT
Thu, 23 Feb 2017 16:09 UTC
University of Sussex
© wikipedia.orgUniversity of Sussex
University lecturers have been accused of trying to curb free speech on campus by organizing a seminar on how to "deal with" right-wing students.

Academics at the University of Sussex have come under fire for arranging a meeting called "dealing with right-wing attitudes and politics in the classroom."

Critics have accused researchers and lecturers of trying to clamp down on free expression, but the university insisted the meeting was organized to address extreme views such as racism and homophobia.

The seminar was organized by International Relations Professor Jan Selby, who specializes in the Israel-Palestine conflict and is director of the Sussex Centre for Conflict and Security Research (SCSR).

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Red Flag

Facepalm: YouTube pulls giraffe birth livestream due to "pornographic content"


Fox 5 NY
Thu, 23 Feb 2017 17:30 UTC
giraffe livestream
Millions of people have been watching and waiting with anticipation to witness the birth of a baby giraffe at Animal Adventure Park in Harpursville, NY.

The park set up a webcam in order to share the precious and educational moment with the world. Park officials in a little more than 12 hours they've seen between 20-30 million views.

April the giraffe is 15-years-old and is expecting a calf with her mate, Oliver. Park officials say April could give birth at any moment, but now the world might not get to see it.

Comment:
double facepalm


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Seriously disturbed: Tattoo artist cuts off her own little finger with bolt cutters, shares picture on Facebook (GRAPHIC)


RT
Thu, 23 Feb 2017 16:54 UTC
Torz Reynolds
© Torz Reynolds / Facebook
A British woman has chopped off her own little finger because she "wanted to."The horrifying act of self-mutilation comes after she sliced a tattoo from her forearm with a scalpel and posted it to her ex-boyfriend.

Essex body piercer and "modification artist" Torz Reynolds used a pair of bolt cutters to sever the little finger of her left hand last week, sharing the process with her followers on Facebook.
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Snowflake

Liberal hypocrisy: Students at University of Michigan demand school provides 'no-whites' space to organize social justice activism

Mason Clark
The College Fix
Thu, 23 Feb 2017 16:53 UTC
university michigan protests
A student activist group at the University of Michigan is demanding campus officials provide them with "a permanent designated space on central campus for Black students and students of color to organize and do social justice work."

The demand is one of several lodged by "Students4Justice," who this month ratcheted up campus demonstrations to pressure administrators to cave, complaining in a newly launched petition that President Mark Schlissel has snubbed their demands.

The clamor for a segregated space for students of color to organize social justice efforts comes even as the public university builds a $10 million center for black students in the center of campus.

In their demands, students explain why the new black student center is not enough, "because we want a space solely dedicated to community organizing and social justice work specifically for people of color."

Comment: As the student news outlet pointed out in the article, it's incredibly hypocritical of a group that calls for diversity on campus to then ask for a space that completely nullifies diversity and inclusion. Do these liberal snowflakes even hear themselves?

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