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Disgraceful! High school students chant 'Trump' to racially-diverse basketball team

Amanda Girard
U.S. Uncut
Thu, 25 Feb 2016 00:00 UTC
Trump make America great again
Black and Latino high school basketball players in Iowa had to endure white crowds chanting Donald Trump's name at them as a form of taunting.

Unlike the rest of Iowa, Perry High School's student population is 48 percent people of color, and its boys basketball team consists of African American, Latino, and Native American players. During a recent game against conference opponent Dallas Center-Grimes, those players walked into a gymnasium filled with white faces chanting, "TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP!" in an effort to psych them out.

"It's honestly disrespectful. That's how I take it. I hear it during the game, on and off the court. Everywhere I go," senior Shammond Ivory told WHO-TV.

Perry High student section leader Kevin Lopez called the Dallas Center-Grimes crowd out for its racist behavior. "We are all aware of racism, it's alive and well in small portions but it's alive and well, and it's just hurtful to see that's what they resort to," Lopez said.

Comment: This is flat out disgraceful! When a public figure such as Trump who it is looking to be the Republican candidate for President says what he does and it is not shunned outright by major portions of the media and a major section of the American people is it any wonder that it would spread and be given expression by the populace?

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Nuke

More US soldiers killed by Halliburton than by Iraqis

David Swanson
Peoples Voice
Fri, 26 Feb 2016 22:32 UTC
dick cheney
How is Darth Cheney going to handle how far left the corporate culture of his old company has become ?
The U.S. government, from Dick Cheney to Hillary Clinton, told blatant lies about the Iraqi government creating chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons in 2002, despite having been informed of the fact that Iraq was doing no such thing. U.S. leaders lied about ties between Iraq and terrorists that they also knew did not exist.

Then the U.S. military attacked and invaded Iraq, in the process heavily bombing old sites of Iraqi chemical weapons from the 1980s, many of those weapons having been provided by the United States. In large part because of the U.S. origin of the old Iraqi chemical weapons, the U.S. kept quiet about them during the new war. Another reason for the official silence was that, during the 2003 U.S. destruction of Iraq, many of those old weapons were seized by fledgling terrorist groups. The war had done exactly what it had been justified as being needed to prevent; it had given WMDs to terrorists.
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Arrow Down

Intentionally starving poor people on food stamps

Hamilton Nolan
Gawker
Sat, 27 Feb 2016 17:35 UTC
Food Aid
© Associated Press
At the end of March, 22 states will begin imposing work requirements on people who want food stamps. Hundreds of thousands of people will likely lose their food aid.

The Wall Street Journal reports that starting on April 1, all of those states plan to reinstate a rule that had been set aside after the financial crisis led to mass unemployment: that adults with no dependents or disabilities are limited to "three months of food stamps in any three-year period—unless they work at least 80 hours a month, or meet education and training or volunteer benchmarks."

Food stamps, by the way, are a government program that works extremely well.

If people are unable to find a job, it is cruel to force them to starve, and it is foolish to make a poor, unemployed, hungry person sit through classes that will not directly lead to a job, or spend their time volunteering, for no income, simply so they can have food to eat, but no money or free time to obtain it. The likely outcome of reinstating these rules:
"The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities estimates that 500,000 to one million people will lose access to food stamps this year, citing the experience in states where work requirements already returned."
This is the human cost of all of those years of right-wing rhetoric about fairy tale "welfare queens" ripping off the system. That rhetoric was used only for momentary political gain. But it engendered a deep belief in certain parts of the public that even food is too gracious of a gift for our poorest citizens. So now, hundreds of thousands of people will go hungry, so that some other, smaller number of better-off people can believe that they are not being ripped off by people they do not know and will never see.

Congratulations.
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Attention

Lawsuit: Sexual abuse of women allowed to flourish in New York prisons


RT
Sat, 27 Feb 2016 03:49 UTC
female prisoners
© Shannon Stapleton / Reuters
Multiple cases of male corrections officers sexual abusing female prisoners were brought to light in a class action suit filed against the New York Department of Corrections, which alleges a "culture of indifference" has allowed sexual abuse to flourish.

"Staff sexual abuse is a serious problem in New York's women's prisons," said Veronica Vela, staff attorney with The Legal Aid Society's Prisoners' Rights Project, in a released statement.

The lawsuit describes cases of alleged sexual intercourse, harassment, and abuse in the three all-women's prisons operated by the department: the Bedford Hills, Taconic and Albion correctional facilities.
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Heart - Black

Insane Idaho State Rep.: "If women get pregnant after rape, that means they must have enjoyed it"

Lea Vat Kens
Politicalo.com
Fri, 26 Feb 2016 20:37 UTC
Idaho State Rep
© Unknown
Another Republican lawmaker suggested women and girls are unlikely to become pregnant from rape or incest. Idaho State Rep. Pete Nielson (R-Mountain Home) spoke up during a legislative hearing Thursday to decide whether abortion providers should be required to give patients a list of facilities that offer free ultrasounds, reported The Spokesman-Review. Nielson expressed his doubts that post-rape pregnancies were medically possible.

"Now, I'm of the understanding that in many cases of rape it does not involve any pregnancy because of the trauma of the incident," Nielson said. "Therefore, it is a logical conclusion that any woman who got pregnant after such a despicable and gruesome act must have, in fact, enjoyed it even on a small scale, which eventually led to the obvious consequences. Now, I don't have a problem with women who make a mistake and then regret it, but I do mind when people let something happen, pretend that it's disgusting, and then it turns out they lied."

Comment: That's obviously, medically, scientifically inaccurate. Where the heck did he get his education, and how did he get in the position to make laws?

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Quenelle

Protesting war crimes: Kurdish women march against Erdogan in France


Sputnik
Sat, 27 Feb 2016 20:34 UTC
kurdish women protest in france
© AFP 2016/ MIGUEL MEDINA
Kurdish women continue to protest Ankara's ongoing atrocities against Kurds in the mainly-Kurdish town of Cizre in Turkey's southeast and elsewhere in the region.

Kurdish women will continue to hold protest rallies in Strasbourg against Ankara's ongoing atrocities against Kurds living in the mainly Kurdish town of Cizre in southeastern Turkey's Sirnak province, according to Nursel Kilic, a representative of the Kurdish Women's Movement in Europe.

In an interview with Sputnik, Nursel Kilic, who represents the Kurdish Women's Movement in Europe, said that the protests are being held in front of the buildings of the Council of Europe and the European Court of Human Rights.

She recalled that in addition to Cizre, the violence shows no sign of abating in other towns throughout southeastern Turkey, where Turkish irregular troops have stepped up their activity.

Comment: Erdogan continues to demonstrate his totalitarianism and relentless pursuit for power by murdering innocent Kurds. He and Netanyahu are clearly exchanging notes. See more:

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Bomb

Kabul: Series of bombings kill over 20


RT
Sat, 27 Feb 2016 11:11 UTC
boy in hospital
© www.reuters.comInjured boy after a suicide attack in Asadabad, Kunar province.
A loud explosion has taken place near a police headquarters in the Afghan capital, Kabul, local media reports. At least 12 people are feared to have been killed there - on top of another dozen killed by a suicide bombing in eastern Afghanistan. The explosion occurred hours after a suicide bomber killed at least another 12 people in the eastern province of Kunar.

Provincial Governor Wahidullah Kalimzai said the attacker arrived on a motorcycle to the entrance of the government headquarters, and blew himself up. "Most of victims were civilians and children who were either passing by or playing in the park," he told Reuters.

No organization immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, but tribal elder and militia commander Haji Khan Jan was killed. He had participated in several operations against the Taliban over the last year.

Violence in Afghanistan has been escalating since the US-led international coalition withdrew the majority of its troops fighting the Taliban Islamist movement in 2011-14.

The US continues to provide the Afghan government with training and logistical assistance, as well as with air support. In October 2015, the US Air Force targeted a hospital in the city of Kunduz operated by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) killing at least 42 people, including 14 MSF staff. According to a UN report, last year the conflict in Afghanistan left more than 3,500 civilians killed and about 7,500 injured.
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Cell Phone

New Mexico rules 14-17 year-olds can sext each other without charges


RT
Sat, 27 Feb 2016 19:05 UTC
texting teens
© Lucas Jackson / Reuters
Teens in the US state of New Mexico have been officially allowed to keep themselves busy sexting - sending or receiving sexually explicit messages, images through e-means, particularly between cell phones - without fear of paying the price and going to jail.

A new bill has legalized sexting between 14 and 17 years old, who willingly send explicit images of themselves to one another. Before it was passed, New Mexico minors could face charges of possessing, distributing and manufacturing child abuse images, if caught sexting. From now on, a pair of youths sharing explicit photos with each other no longer risk facing child pornography charges, prison terms and a criminal record.

"Kids will be kids, and they're going to make mistakes," state senator George Muñoz, a Democrat who pressed for an amendment to the child pornography bill. "You can't punish them for the rest of their lifetime with a charge of child pornography... if they're consensually sending photos back and forth," the Guardian quoted him as saying.

Comment: No, kids should not be charged for sexting each other. It's just disturbing that kids have become so hypersexualized in this warped society that they feel the need to do it in the first place. What happened to dating? Is that too passé?

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Info

Send Merkel to Siberia and bring Putin to Berlin: Germans voice their political choice


Sputnik
Sat, 27 Feb 2016 19:08 UTC
Russia and German flags
© REUTERS/ Hannibal Hanschke
Many residents of the eastern German state of Saxony are convinced that the only person capable of saving their country from political chaos, the refugee influx and their "corrupt, anti-popular government" is Russian President Putin; actually taking to the streets while chanting an invitation for him to come.

Every Monday evening in Dresden, the capital of the the eastern German state of Saxony, thousands gather in front of the city's Opera House mostly in protest of the German government's refugee policies.
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Bad Guys

Jihadis in Syria resort to selling their surplus U.S. supplied weapons on Facebook

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Sat, 27 Feb 2016 17:49 UTC
jihadi weapons facebook
The US has been dumping so many weapons into the Syrian conflict that there is now an apparent surplus. ISIS has since taken to selling them online.

Last year, the Free Thought Project reported on a video, apparently recorded just outside of Aleppo, Syria. The video illustrated just how insane the US "War on Terror" has become.

In the video, the U.S. backed, armed, and financed Free Syrian Army, (aka moderate rebels, aka ISIS-linked terrorists) are firing a U.S. supplied anti-tank TOW guided missile.

Of course, the 'moderate rebels' firing a US missile is nothing out of the ordinary. However, what makes this U.S. paid for missile so special is that it was fired at what is clearly a U.S. paid for Humvee.
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