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Italian town devastated by earthquake sues Charlie Hebdo for its cruel cartoon


RT
Mon, 12 Sep 2016 19:20 UTC
italy earthquake
© Stefano Rellandini / ReutersA general view after earthquake that levelled the town in Amatrice, central Italy, September 1, 2016
The Italian town of Amatrice, devastated by an earthquake on September 24, has filed a lawsuit against French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo for "senseless" cartoons depicting quake victims as types of pasta.

"This is a grisly, senseless and unconscionable insult to the victims of the natural disaster," Mario Cicchetti, a lawyer representing the town hall of Amatrice, is quoted as saying by Italian news outlet ANSA.

Despite being an "inviolable right" in both France and Italy, not everything can be satire, the lawyer added.

Cicchetti has filed the legal complaint on behalf of the town's authorities at the magistrate in Rieti, near Amatrice. The lawsuit cites "aggravated defamation" by Charlie Hebdo, notorious for its provocative cartoons, Reuters reports.

According to the outlet, quoting Cicchetti, the legal case can be handled in Italy because the pictures "had been widely seen and shared there." The magistrate in Rieti is yet to decide how to proceed with the case. So far there has been no comment from Charlie Hebdo.

Comment: See: Charlie Hebdo's new caricature depicts Italian quake victims as pasta & lasagna

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Pirates

Glimpses inside ISIS courtroom, site of brutal sentences

Sophie Evans
Mirror
Sun, 11 Sep 2016 17:03 UTC
ISIS courthouse facade
© RuptlyExterior of the courthouse in Fallujah, Iraq, from which ISIS was driven out in June.
A look inside an ISIS courtroom with human cages where brutal sentences were handed out to terrified prisoners.

Defendants at the building in the Iraqi city of Fallujah were locked up in tiny, iron cages before being hauled before extremist 'judges' for trials.
ISIS cages
© RuptlyTiny iron cages where terrified men and women were locked up by militants.
Horrifically, these cramped cages were built in different shapes - so the men and women inside them were forced to either stand, kneel or curl up.

Comment: The footage shows the inside of an ISIS courthouse where some of the world's most brutal sentences were handed out to terrified prisoners.



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Eye 1

Widespread food insecurity has driven US children to swap sex for food


RT
Mon, 12 Sep 2016 16:43 UTC
teen supermarket
© AFP
Hunger is driving desperate US teenagers as young as 13 to search for ways to feed themselves and their families, with many resorting to crime or providing sexual favors in exchange for food and basic supplies, according to a study published Monday.

Researchers from the Urban Institute, a Washington-based economic and social policy research group, paired up with Feeding America - a US network of food banks - in an attempt to find out "how food insecurity affects teenagers."

They created two focus groups - one male, one female - in the 10 poorest communities across the States, including those in major cities such as Chicago and Los Angeles, as well as in some rural towns. Researchers interviewed 193 boys and girls aged 13 to 18, all anonymously, over the course of three years - and were deeply concerned at the results.

"What emerged was a portrait of impossible choices imposed upon teenagers who are forced to transition into adulthood much too quickly," the report states.

"When faced with severe food insecurity, teens can begin to feel the weight of adult responsibilities. But like their parents, teenagers [from low-income communities] have limited jobs available to them within their communities. It's in these moments of need when some teens make the choice to help their families stock the pantry by earning money outside of the legal economy."

Comment: What a horrific sign of what the United States has become when its children are so hungry that they feel forced to sell themselves for food. This alone should shatter any remaining notions of the US as a great nation.

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Life Preserver

UK government to open 'safe houses' in London for child victims of sexual assault


RT
Mon, 12 Sep 2016 16:14 UTC
child sex assault victims, child on beach
© Reuters
Two 'safe houses' offering medical care, psychological support and protection for child victims of sexual assault are due to open in London next year as part of a joint project between London Mayor Sadiq Kahn and Home Secretary Amber Rudd.

The Home Office funded facilities, which were modeled on the success of the Icelandic 'Barnahus' policy, will help an estimated 400 vulnerable children each year.

"Child sexual abuse is a horrendous crime that this government is taking action to tackle, both by protecting children from abuse and ensuring that offenders are swiftly brought to justice," Rudd said in a statement.


Comment: A rather disingenuous comment considering that only low-level predators are brought to justice while elite pedophiles are protected. Investigations into sex abuse by the elites are routinely covered up and many have simply been shut down to protect those in power.


Children's Commissioner for England Anne Longfield was optimistic about the initiative, which is now used across Scandinavia.

Comment: Hopefully these will indeed be 'safe houses', where the UK's high-level predators won't have access to these vulnerable children.

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House

Tent cities are booming all over the U.S. as poverty, homelessness spikes

Michael Snyder
The Economic Collapse Blog
Sun, 11 Sep 2016 16:19 UTC
Tent city near downtown Dallas, Texas
© Andy Jacobsohn/Dallas Morning NewsA view of Tent City, the massive homeless encampment under Interstate 45, near downtown Dallas.
Just like during the last economic crisis, homeless encampments are popping up all over the nation as poverty grows at a very alarming rate. According to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, more than half a million people are homeless in America right now, but that figure is increasing by the day. And it isn't just adults that we are talking about. It has been reported that that the number of homeless children in this country has risen by 60 percent since the last recession, and Poverty USA says that a total of 1.6 million children slept either in a homeless shelter or in some other form of emergency housing at some point last year. Yes, the stock market may have been experiencing a temporary boom for the last couple of years, but for those on the low end of the economic scale things have just continued to deteriorate.

Tonight, countless numbers of homeless people will try to make it through another chilly night in large tent cities that have been established in the heart of major cities such as Seattle, Washington, D.C. and St. Louis. Homelessness has gotten so bad in California that the L.A. City Council has formally asked Governor Jerry Brown to officially declare a state of emergency. And in Portland the city has extended their "homeless emergency" for yet another year, and city officials are really struggling with how to deal with the booming tent cities that have sprung up:
There have always been homeless people in Portland, but last summer Michelle Cardinal noticed a change outside her office doors.

Almost overnight, it seemed, tents popped up in the park that runs like a green carpet past the offices of her national advertising business. She saw assaults, drug deals and prostitution. Every morning, she said, she cleaned human feces off the doorstep and picked up used needles.

"It started in June and by July it was full-blown. The park was mobbed," she said. "We've got a problem here and the question is how we're going to deal with it."
But of course it isn't just Portland that is experiencing this. The following list of major tent cities that have become so well-known and established that they have been given names comes from Wikipedia:
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Pistol

'Stop the Violence Peace Day' rally in Alabama ends with six people shot, one dead


PressTV
Mon, 12 Sep 2016 16:26 UTC
alabama shooting peace day rally
© AL photoPolice officers inspect the scene of a shooting in Alabama, September 11, 2016.
At least six people have been shot, one of them fatally, after a peace rally in the US state of Alabama. The shooting happened at around 8 pm on Sunday, around an hour after the "Stop the Violence Gate City Peace Day" peace rally ended at Gate City in Birmingham, police said.

Police said up to 60 shots were fired at the scene but the injured were expected to survive their gunshot wounds. Officers said they believe one person started the shooting and then the others joined in. According to Birmingham police spokesman Sergeant Bryan Shelton, all of the victims were innocent bystanders.

"The events of tonight are disheartening and troubling," Shelton said. "More lives could have been lost tonight due to reckless actions. We are working with our community to bring all responsible parties to justice."
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Family

World turns a blind eye to besieged cities as Syrians die of hunger 'while everyone is worried about Aleppo'


Sputnik
Mon, 12 Sep 2016 16:09 UTC
Syrian cities destruction
© Sputnik/ Michael Alaeddin
The residents of the Syrian cities of Kafriya and Fu'ah in Idlib province are dying of hunger and lack of medication. About 20,000 people are completely surrounded by the terrorists. RIA correspondent Mikhail Alaeddin met with the representative of the people's council of the besieged cities.

The representative of the people's council of the besieged cities is hereby called Amir [not his real name]. The correspondent met with Amir in the city of Aleppo in one of the small cafes.

Amir is the representative of the residents of the Shiite cities in question and was able to leave his home when it was still possible to escape before the blockade.

Comment: One can only hope the latest ceasefire will bring some relief to these cities.

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Heart - Black

Vienna swimming pool asks women wearing burkinis to leave, citing "hygiene and safety reasons"


RT
Mon, 12 Sep 2016 16:20 UTC
burkini
© Saeed Khan / AFP
A swimming pool in Austria's capital has stirred controversy by denying two Muslim women entrance because they were wearing burkinis, but the management says they were barred from swimming for hygiene and safety reasons, and not because they are Muslims.

One of the banned women, a 23-year-old student, said she was particularly annoyed because she had called the Stadthallenbad indoor swimming pool in advance and been told that she could wear a burkini, the full-body swimwear worn by some Muslim women adhering to ultra-conservative interpretations of Islam.

However, when she and her friend arrived at the pool in burkinis last Friday, they were told to leave, the Central European News reported.

"They said that we could not swim in the pool for hygiene reasons," she said.

The pool management says the problem was not the burkinis themselves, but rather that one of them was made of cotton.
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Family

Protesters rally behind Rousseff in 40 cities, demand resignation of the usurper Temer


PressTV
Mon, 12 Sep 2016 16:09 UTC
Brazil protests
© ReutersPro-Rousseff demonstrators protest against President Michel Temer in Sao Paulo on September 11, 2016.
Thousands of people have taken to the streets across Brazil to condemn the ouster of former president Dilma Rousseff and demand the resignation of her successor, Michell Temer. Hundreds of protesters rallied in Rousseff's hometown of Porto Alegre on Sunday, holing banners and chanting "Temer out." Police blocked the street of the town and attempted to disperse the protesters.

A similar demonstration was held in Sau Paulo by thousands of people who gathered outside the city's Art Museum. They held numerous anti-Temer placards and banners and called for new elections. Rallies were held at around 40 other cities across the country on Sunday. In addition to condemning Rousseff's impeachment, the protesters denounced labor, pension and social security reforms taken by the new government.
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Whistle

'Allah Akbar'-shouting, machete-wielding man goes on rampage in Sydney suburb; one man injured


news.com.au
Mon, 12 Sep 2016 16:06 UTC
terror attack Minto
© Channel 9Alleged terror suspect Ihsas Khan (front right) is seen brandishing a large knife in the Sydney suburb of Minto.
Horrifying footage has emerged of knife-wielding terror suspect Ihsas Khan going on an alleged rampage in a western Sydney suburb, which left one man critical and countless witnesses traumatised.

The CCTV images, shot from inside and outside a Minto hair salon, allegedly show Khan hunting down victim Wayne Greenhalgh and will be shown on A Current Affair tonight.

The chilling footage appears to show the 22-year-old attempting to force his way into the salon while clutching a very large knife.

He is seen wrestling with the door handle while holding the weapon up against the glass.

In other footage, a woman and a man armed with what appears to be a large tree branch, bravely confront Khan on the front lawn of a house as he lunges at them with the knife.
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