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Pocket Knife

Bill drafted by United Russian MP orders up to 10 years prison sentence for female genital mutilation


RT
Fri, 19 Aug 2016 13:32 UTC
MP Maria Maksakova-Igenbergs
© www.rt.comMP Maria Maksakova-Igenbergs
A ruling party lawmaker has drafted a bill making female genital mutilation (FGM) a criminal offense in Russia and ordering up to 10 years in prison for those who perform the operation.

"Discrimination of women based on religious motives manifested in full or partial amputation of external sex organs must be punished by a prison sentence between five and seven years," reads the draft prepared by MP Maria Maksakova-Igenbergs.
"The same crime committed against an underage person must be punished by a prison sentence between seven and 10 years," it continues.

In a letter sent to major Russian media outlets and news agencies on Friday, the lawmaker noted that according to the Constitution, Russia is a secular state and no cult can be put by its followers above the country's basic law, which applies to all citizens regardless of their religious beliefs.

Maksakova-Igenbergs also wrote that there is an article in the Constitution that guarantees equal rights to men and women, but that the medical and psychological consequences of male circumcision cannot be compared to those of female genital mutilation. "Such interference is nothing other than a form of mutilation because this anachronism is being driven only by the idea that this procedure could physically keep women from having an immoral way of life," she noted.

The topic of FGM was brought up in the Russian mass media earlier this week after the Rights Initiative NGO released a report claiming the procedure is being practiced in a number of remote villages in the predominantly Muslim south Russian republic of Dagestan. The group said that tens of thousands of women had gone through the procedure, which is usually performed on children before the age of three, since the 1970s.

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Bizarro Earth

British blacks are twice as likely to be murdered as whites


RT
Thu, 18 Aug 2016 11:03 UTC
UK protester BLM
© Peter Nicholls/ReutersA supporter of the UK branch of "Black Lives Matter" in London demonstration.
Black people in the UK are more than twice as likely to be murdered as white people, and three times as likely to be prosecuted and sentenced, according to a new report which calls on the UK to "urgently" tackle the issue of racial inequality. The report from the Equality and Human Rights Commission, released Thursday, examined criminal justice, education, employment, housing, pay and health in Britain. It is the most extensive review of race equality ever to take place in the UK.

The research found that race was the motive behind 82 percent of hate crimes recorded in England and Wales, noting an "unprecedented spike" in such crimes after Britain voted to leave the EU in June. "The combination of the post-Brexit rise in hate crime and deep race inequality in Britain is very worrying and must be tackled urgently,"commission chair David Isaac said in a statement.

The paper went on to note the mortality rate of black African women in the UK is four times higher than white women. "If you are black or an ethnic minority in modern Britain, it can often still feel like you're living in a different world, never mind being part of a one nation society," Isaac said.

Inequality also exists in the workplace, with the report noting a 49 percent increase in long-term unemployment among 16- to 24-year-olds from ethnic communities, compared to a 2 percent fall among white people. In addition, the report found that black employees with degrees earn an average of 23.1 percent less than their white colleagues. Black people who leave school with A-levels earn 14.3 percent less than their white counterparts.

Comment: The most intriguing aspect of the numerous areas of inequality is the spike in hate crimes coinciding with Brexit. It is a harbinger to come if the geopolitical arena heats up in Europe, the influx of refugees rises, or if Brexit hits a snag. It speaks to the fragility of the people regarding big sweeping changes that impact a whole population and how this manifests within a society fraught with pressure points and uncertainties. It also tells us that it takes a whopping big event (such as 9/11 caliber) to bring all factions of society together. Anything less is just a breeding ground for the expression of anxiety and hate...needing a convenient sticker face to absorb it and a convenient/timely incident to ignite it.

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Hiliter

Muslim boy, age 12, forced into ISIS terrorist confession, family sues school


RT
Thu, 18 Aug 2016 01:00 UTC
Nashwan Uppal
© wakamag.comNashwan Uppal, special needs student bullied into false confession.
A bullying incident at a Long Island school turned into a violation of civil rights when the principal forced the victim, a 12-year-old Muslim boy, to sign a false confession that he was a terrorist and Islamic State supporter, according to a lawsuit. The complaint refers to an incident in January this year, when Nashwan Uppal, a seventh grader, was bullied by a group of students, who called him a "terrorist" and asked him what he was going to while at the cafeteria of the East Islip Middle School. The lawsuit, filed in a Central Islip Eastern District Court on Monday, named the school district as a defendant.

Uppal, a special needs student, repeatedly tried to get away, but in an effort to get the children to stop, he acquiesced and is alleged to have told the them he was a terrorist and was going to blow up the fence, according to the lawsuit. The family stated that because of his learning disability, Uppal thought "terrorist" meant "tourist,"and the fence was the first thing he saw when he looked out of the window.

The next day, Uppal was taken to the assistant principal's office who interrogated him along with the school's principal, where he was asked repeatedly if he was a terrorist, if he made bombs, if he knew who "Osama" was, and if he was part of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL), according to the complaint.

The school principal Mark Bernard and assistant principal Jason Stanton are alleged to have demanded he write a confession stating he was part of IS, knew how to make bombs and was going to blow up the school, according to the complaint. The family maintains that he was forced to write the confession under "extreme duress" and had his civil rights violated. His backpack and locker were also searched.


Comment: Sad commentary on the workings of propaganda and fear mongering to the extent 12 year-olds with disabilities are accused of terrorism and are subsequently traumatized into making confessions. This principal should have known that this child may not have had the capacity to understand the accusations. Instead, he bought into the taunts of bully students and embellished further with his own bias and hubris. Nashwan is a US citizen of Pakistani background.

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Magnify

Princeton U. HR department: Do not use the word 'man'

Jeremy Beaman
The College Fix
Thu, 18 Aug 2016 00:00 UTC
Man computer
© precision-recruiters.comStuck in 'no man's land.'
The Princeton University HR department has largely wiped the word "man" from its vocabulary. The relatively new policy in effect at the Ivy League institution spells out the directive in a four-page memo that aims to make the department more gender inclusive. Instead of using "man," employees are told to use words such as human beings, individuals or people.

Other guidelines? Instead of "man and wife" use spouses or partners. Switch out "man made" with artificial, handmade or manufactured. Don't use the verb "to man," as in to work something, instead use to operate or to staff. Throw out workmanlike and replace it with skillful. The memo goes on to list a variety of occupations that typically include the word "man" in them and offers replacements: business person instead of businessman, firefighter instead of fireman, ancestors instead of forefathers, and so on.

"Consistent with style guidelines issued by Princeton's Office of Human Resources and Office of Communications, and as endorsed by the Institutional Equity Planning Group as a preferred University practice, HR has developed these gender inclusive style guidelines, to be utilized by all HR staff members in HR communications, policies, job descriptions, and job postings," the memo states. In a statement to The College Fix, John Cramer, Princeton's director of media relations, said the guidelines "reflect the university's initiative of fostering an inclusive environment."

While Princeton's language policy for its Offices of Communications and Human Resources, Princeton's LGBT Center also offers a guide on various gender pronouns for those who identify as "transgender, genderqueer, and other gender-variant," suggesting "ze, zie and hir," "they and theirs," and "Ey, em, eir and emself."

Comment: There are so many worse things in the world to obsess over. This is insanity. Get over it.

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Fire

Massive fire engulfs residential tower block in London's Shepherd's Bush, cause unknown (VIDEO)


RT
Fri, 19 Aug 2016 19:14 UTC
firefighters
© Eddie Keogh / Reuters
Twenty fire engines and 120 firefighters were called to battle a massive blaze that engulfed a residential tower block in west London on Friday afternoon.

Members of the public were evacuated from buildings in Shepherd's Bush as smoke and flames ripped through the tower block.
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Passport

Thousands of Middle Eastern illegal immigrants busted with forged papers at US border

Bob Price
Breitbart
Thu, 18 Aug 2016 17:57 UTC
Mexican immagrants
© AP File Photo/Moises Castillo
U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents working with Mexican immigration officials have found thousands of non-Hispanic illegal immigrants crossing Mexico's southern border to make their way to Texas. The "extra-continental" immigrants enter countries as far south as Brazil and make their way to the United States, often with forged travel documents.

"The reality is that the vast majority of the people that Mexico encounters [on its southern border] that are extra-continental will eventually end up on our border," a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) official told Reuters this week. The Reuters article confirmed the Syrian nationals reported at the Mexican border with Laredo last year by Breitbart Texas's Brandon Darby and Ildefonso Ortiz are part of this growing pattern of illegal migration. Just a few days after that, Darby and this writer broke the news of six men from Pakistan and Afghanistan being arrested about sixteen miles inside the United States in Arizona. Those men were quickly snatched up from the Border Patrol's custody by the FBI. Shortly after that, five more Syrian Nationals were detained at the Laredo port of entry.
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Wolf

Disintegrating humanity: Woman who cut off pet snakes' heads with scissors & ate them escapes jail


RT
Fri, 19 Aug 2016 17:49 UTC
snake
© Juan Carlos Ulate / Reuters
A drunken woman who decapitated her pet snakes with scissors and swallowed their heads has managed to escape jail time, despite causing "prolonged and painful suffering" to the reptiles.

After drinking seven cans of lager and shots of amaretto and whiskey on April 8, 28-year-old Jennifer Lampe decided to chop the heads off of her boa constrictor and ball python, at her sister's home in Church Stretton, Shropshire.

Following the decapitations, Lampe swallowed the heads but later vomited them up, stating that she had "wanted to keep them."

Lampe was discovered by her sister following the gruesome acts, who called the police.

Officers arrived to find Lampe covered in blood with the headless - but moving - body of her boa constrictor draped around her neck. Both of the reptiles' severed heads were in her trouser pockets.

Comment: Given this latest bizarre episode, conventional medicine will probably opt for increasing the woman's medication schedule, which will likely only worsen matters. At the very least she should be barred from any contact with animals not for five years, but for life.

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Laptop

Houston mom finds daughters' bedroom featured on Live App via hacked webcam

Enjoli Francis
ABC News
Wed, 10 Aug 2016 18:36 UTC
Jennifer from Houston, Texas
© ABC NewsJennifer from Houston, Texas
A Houston, Texas, mother said her "worst nightmare" was realized recently when she learned that someone had hacked into a webcam positioned in her two daughters' bedroom and had been streaming their private goings-on live online for thousands to watch.

"We have security cameras to protect them," said Jennifer, a mother of three who asked that ABC News not use her last name. "I feel like I've failed. ... People are watching my kids in their home, dressing, sleeping, playing."

She told ABC News today that she found out about the live stream when a friend informed her that someone had posted a picture of the girls' room on a Houston mothers' group on Facebook in an effort to track down the family and warn them. The post belonged to Shelby Ivie, another mother more than 2,000 miles away in Oregon, who had made the shocking discovery Sunday. "I was in tears, thinking of the violation [Jennifer] must feel," Ivie told ABC News today.

Ivie, a mother of two in Keizer, Oregon, told ABC News today that last weekend she and her son were looking at satellite images of Earth online. As she searched for additional live satellite feeds, she came across the free app Live Camera Viewer, which she then downloaded.


Comment: Kudos to Shelby Ivie for her efforts!

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Sherlock

Bill Clinton sexual assault accusers unite against NBC's whitewashing of his dirty deeds

Aaron Klein
Breitbart
Fri, 19 Aug 2016 17:20 UTC
andrea Mitchell
Kathleen Willey and Paula Jones, both of whom have accused Bill Clinton of sexual assault, are standing up for Clinton rape accuser Juanita Broaddrick.

Willey and Jones are demanding that NBC News Anchor Andrea Mitchell issue a public apology for baselessly calling Broaddrick "discredited" during a segment that aired May 19 on the highly-rated Today Show.

Following a letter from Broaddrick's attorney demanding a retraction, NBC deleted the "discredited" referenced from the Internet version of Mitchell's report. But NBC has not fulfilled Broaddrick's request, which she says was communicated in the letter, for an apology from Mitchell on the Today Show, as well as an acknowledgement on the show and on NBC's website that there is no information indicating that Broaddrick's story is untrue.

Comment: Bill Clinton's sexual escapades and rape allegations extend way beyond Juanita Broaddrick, Kathleen Willey and Paula Jones.

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Ambulance

The war on drugs: How it makes people eat faces, stab people to death

Justin Gardner
The Free Thought Project
Wed, 17 Aug 2016 17:10 UTC
Flakka victims
© The Free Thought Project
The news that 19-year-old Florida State University student Austin Harrouff stabbed two strangers to death, and then proceeded to bite chunks of a deceased victim's face off, seems too bizarre to believe - unless you've heard of the drug flakka.

When police arrived, "It was an impossible task to get him off of the victim." A Taser had no effect, nor did a police dog. It took multiple cops and several minutes of fighting with "every bit of strength" to pry Harrouff, who was a football player and wrestler, from the face-eating bear hug he had on the dead man.

Harrouff was making "animal-like" noises when he was transported to the hospital, and could die of "sustained trauma" from officers or a drug overdose. Toxicology reports will confirm whether flakka was in his system, but Martin County Sheriff William Snyder says he would not be surprised.
"When you see a case like this where someone is biting off pieces of somebody's face, could it be flakka?" Snyder said. "The answer is it absolutely could be a flakka case."
Flakka, a synthetic drug similar to bath salts, has taken off in popularity in South Florida over the past few years. It causes delirium and the feeling of superhuman strength, and is known to cause extremely bizarre behavior - including a 17-year-old girl "running down a street naked, covered in blood and screaming, "I am God! I am Satan!"

Comment: See also: The "War On Drugs" Is A $2.5 Trillion Racket: How Big Banks, Private Military Companies And The Prison Industry Cash In

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