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Misplaced anger: 3rd refugee shelter torched in Sweden in 6 days


RT
Sun, 18 Oct 2015 14:22 UTC
Sweden refugee camp fire
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A string of suspected arson attacks have hit three facilities intended to house asylum seekers in Sweden this week alone. The country is preparing to receive almost double the amount of refugees this year than the previous record, set in 1992.

An old school building in Onsala in the affluent area of Kungsbacka, some 30 km south of Gothenburg, caught fire on Saturday night. Twenty firefighters responded to the emergency call.

"Half the building has been damaged by fire," said Mikael Lindgren, the lead operator of the emergency services in Greater Gothenburg, as cited by The Local.

Comment: It is sad to see some people resort to violence and deny the humanitarian efforts for the refugees. Their anger should be directed to the powers-that-be who created this situation.

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Calling out Israel on war crimes: London, Paris protest against Israeli treatment of pro-Palestine demonstrators


RT
Sun, 18 Oct 2015 12:52 UTC
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Hundreds of protesters have taken to the streets of European capitals to voice their support for Palestinians and express their anger against Israel and its use of force against demonstrators and biased media coverage of recent Israeli-Palestinian tensions.

The activists marched from Oxford Circus to BBC headquarters in London , blocking traffic along the way and bringing Palestinian statehood to the attention of UK shoppers. According to Guardian estimates, at least 150 people took part in the demonstration.

"We know that as long as the UK media keeps repeating Israeli government press releases and portraying Palestinians as either only helpless victims or violent aggressors, we have to shout out loud that there is [the] ... right of an occupied people to resist," one protester said addressing the crowd.

"Stop Israel's war crimes in Palestine", read one of the banners of the demonstrators, while some of the protesters shouted "Palestine don't you cry, we will never let you die!"
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Attention

Speak no evil: UCLA engages in absurd, anti-intellectual and dangerous attack on campus free speech

Michael Krieger
Liberty Blitzkrieg
Fri, 16 Oct 2015 12:38 UTC
College students
One of the most dangerous trends in America today is occurring on college campuses. These are the places I grew up viewing as laboratories for free speech, youthful energy and resistance to the status quo.

Unfortunately, what they're turning into are anti-intellectual wastelands in which America's supposedly "best and brightest" are being transformed into unthinking, mentally shackled, emotionally stunted automatons. The only thing being produced on college campuses these days seem to be frightened, thoughtless worker-bees, conditioned to shut-up and instinctively worship authority. Rather than teaching kids to think critically, administrators have created an environment where kids aren't encouraged to think at all.

For those of you who may have missed it, I've covered this topic before. See:

Rutgers University Warns Students - "There is No Such Thing as Free Speech"

A Professor Speaks Out - How Coddled, Hyper Sensitive Undergrads are Ruining College Learning
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Pistol

One killed and four wounded at Florida's ZombiCon, shooter at large


RT
Sun, 18 Oct 2015 11:19 UTC
ZombieCon
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One person has been killed and at least four were wounded at this year's ZombiCon in Fort Myers, Florida. Police are searching for the suspect in the city's downtown area.

The shooting took place a little after 23:30 local time on Saturday, just as the event was finishing, according to NBC2.

Police say a total of five people were shot. The four who were wounded are being treated at Lee Memorial Hospital for non-life threatening injuries.
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Monstrous! Two girls, aged two and five, gang-raped in New Delhi, India


Yahoo! News
Sun, 18 Oct 2015 00:19 UTC
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© AFP/Chandan KhannaIndian protesters shout slogans during a demonstration near the home of a minor girl who was raped in New Delhi, on October 17, 2015.
Angry crowds gathered Saturday in New Delhi to accuse police of failing to act over the rape of a toddler, with outrage mounting after the gang-rape of a five-year-old girl in a separate attack.

The two-and-a-half-year-old girl was abducted from a religious event in west Delhi by two men on Friday night and raped before being dumped in a park near her home, relatives and police said.

In a separate incident on the other side of the city, the five-year-old was lured to a neighbour's house and raped by three men, a police officer told AFP.

An agitated crowd of more than 100 people gathered near the toddler's home late Saturday afternoon attempting to block traffic and lambasting the police's failure to make arrests in the case, according to an AFP reporter at the scene.

"They (police) are not doing anything to arrest the rapists. We don't feel safe in this city and there will be a day when parents will stop giving birth to girls fearing they will be raped," a female relative of the girl told reporters without giving her name.

The two attacks come as New Delhi grapples with a grim litany of sexual assaults against women -- and in several recent cases, children -- that have sparked outrage in India and abroad." We have launched a manhunt for the suspects. So far no one has been arrested," Pushpendra Kumar, West Delhi police chief, told AFP of the younger girl's case.

Comment: A lot of bluster, sympathetic words mixed with blame and deflection - there is no excuse for this. None. UPDATE: Delhi police have made 5 arrests in these cases:
Two teenage boys have been arrested in New Delhi for raping a two-year-old girl after kidnapping her at her family home. In a separate attack another group of men have been detained following the gang rape of a five-year-old.

"Delhi police have solved [the crime] by apprehending two juveniles in the rape case of a child," said New Delhi police commissioner, Dependra Pathak.

The teenagers, both aged 17, were detained following a massive investigation that questioned more than 250 suspects following the discovery of the unconscious child late on Friday night. The commissioner said that both the alleged rapists were acquainted with the toddler's family, as both boys lived in the same neighborhood.


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Man stabs German mayoral candidate in the neck for supporting refugee policy


RT
Sat, 17 Oct 2015 18:04 UTC
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© Wolfgang Rattay/ReutersFirst aid equipment lies on the ground next to an election campaign poster of Henriette Reker in Cologne, Germany October 17, 2015.
A leading candidate running for mayor of the German city of Cologne has been stabbed in the neck and seriously injured just a day before the elections. According to police, she was attacked because of her support for German refugee policy.

Henriette Reker, an independent candidate running for mayor of Cologne, was attacked by a man armed with a "20 centimeter-long" knife when she stopped at an information stand for the Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union party (CDU). Her aide as well as three other people that tried to stop the attacker were also injured in the incident. "She had arrived here just a few minutes before ... She was talking to two other party members when it happened," Bernd Petelkau, a local CDU official, said as quoted by Reuters.

The incident took place around 9:00am local time (7:00am GMT) at a Sunday market. Reker was severely injured in her neck and torso, and was immediately transported to hospital to undergo emergency surgery. There are conflicting reports about the current status of her condition.

Reker's election campaign team claimed on Twitter that her injuries were not life-threatening. At the same time, German Focus news reported that she was severely injured and her life is still in danger, citing police sources. Bild also claimed that her "condition is critical."

"At the moment she is stable but not out of the woods yet," Cologne Police Chief, Wolfgang Albers, said at a press-conference on Saturday. According to the most recent statements, she feels "definitely better" after the surgery and her health is improving, according to local media citing medical sources.

Two other politicians, Anette von Waldow, from the liberal Free Democratic Party, and Marliese Berthmann, head of the CDU's local office, were also wounded in the attack.
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U.S. and Saudi led genocide: Over a million children facing acute malnutrition as famine risk grips Yemen

Stephanie Nebehay
Reuters
Sat, 17 Oct 2015 22:58 UTC
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© Reuters/Mohamed al-Sayaghi A boy stands at a wall of a house destroyed by a Saudi-led air strike in Yemen's capital Sanaa, September 13, 2015.
More than half a million children in Yemen face life-threatening malnutrition as a risk of famine grows, a senior official of the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Friday.

The figure, a three-fold jump since fighting erupted in March, reflects depleted food stocks compounded by a failing health system unable to care for hungry children or vaccinate them against disease, said Afshan Khan, director of UNICEF emergency programs worldwide.

"We are facing the potential of a huge humanitarian catastrophe ... The levels of malnutrition that are being reported for children are extremely critical," Khan told Reuters, saying more data and hard evidence was needed to declare a famine.

"A nutritional survey will be done at the end of October. How close are we to a famine declaration? We see some zones that are worse than others," she said.

Comment: Interesting that while the U.S. and Saudi Arabia have been destroying the country, Russia has been sending humanitarian aid to Yemen.

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Post-It Note

New study shows people with tattoos tend to be angrier


RT
Fri, 16 Oct 2015 04:49 UTC
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© Srdjan Zivulovic/Reuters
Staying away from tattooed people might be a good idea - there are high chances that they could be angry. According to a new study, inking one's skin is actually linked to rage. Women have "significantly higher" anger problems than men in this respect, it appears.

The research, published in the Body Image Journal, discovered that people with tattoos have significantly higher levels of verbal aggression compared to non-tattooed participants. Those with body art also showed a higher range of anger and reactive rebelliousness.

The research, led by Professor Viren Swami of Anglia Ruskin University, on 181 women and 197 men between 20 and 58 years old, also revealed that women had "significantly higher"anger management problems than men.

"We found that tattooed adults had significantly higher reactive rebelliousness, but not proactive rebelliousness, compared with non-tattooed adults," Swami said.

Out of those surveyed 25.7 percent had at least one tattoo. Out of over 350 people observed, subjects had on average 2.5 tattoos per person. Scientists found a correlation between the number of tattoos a person had and their levels of anger.

"One explanation is that people who have higher reactive rebelliousness may respond to disappointing and frustrating events by getting tattooed," Swami said.


Comment: See also:

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Evil Rays

Out of control homelessness prompts Hawaii to declare state of emergency


RT
Sat, 17 Oct 2015 17:59 UTC
homeless in hawaii
© Nicholas Kamm / AFP
Suffering from the worst homeless rate in the US, Hawaii has declared a state of emergency to encourage the quick construction of new homes for those without accommodation.

"We are making sure that we have options for those who are homeless to move into an emergency shelter, and the biggest deficit in the system is shelter space for families," said Democrat Governor David Ige at a press conference. "So the emergency proclamation would allow us to stand up shelters for families in an expeditious manner."

For a population of 1.4 million Hawaii has 7,260 officially registered people who are homeless - the highest rate in the country. The number has risen by 23 percent over the past year alone, as part of a long-term trend.
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AirFrance workers facing trial after assaulting executives over plans to cut 29,000 jobs


RT
Fri, 16 Oct 2015 12:23 UTC
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© Kenzo Tribouillard / AFP Director in charge of human resources of Air France long-haul flights, Pierre Plissonnier (C), nearly shirtless, runs away from the demonstrators, after several hundred employees stormed into the offices of Air France on October 5, 2015.
Five Air France workers have been suspended and face trial for an assault on company executives during union protests in early October. The employees are suspected of attacking and stripping their bosses who were meeting to discuss job cuts.

The company sent letters to the workers on Thursday, saying they were suspended without pay in connection with the incident and that disciplinary procedures had been launched against them, reports France 24, citing union sources.

Police detained the men on Monday, following their identification with the help of video footage of the incident, according to an official at the prosecutor's office. They were bailed to appear in court on December 2. The suspects face fines up to €45,000 and up to five years behind bars.

Comment: The French have a history of standing up to their masters, knowing full well that those in control of corporations will always take care of themselves at the expense of the average citizen.

Fed-up Air France workers storm meeting, rip shirts off executives planning to cut 2,900 jobs

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