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German right-wing party sees rising support levels in light of migrant crisis


Reuters UK
Tue, 15 Sep 2015 18:07 UTC
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Support for the Alternative for Germany (AfD), a right-wing party that backs a tough line on immigration, has risen to its highest level in nearly four months as an influx of refugees from the Middle East gathers pace, a poll showed on Tuesday.

The INSA poll for German daily Bild showed support for the AfD, which was dogged by infighting in the first half of the year and saw its founder break away to form a new party, climbing to 5.5 percent, its highest level since late May.

The survey also showed support for German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative bloc slipping 1.5 points to 40 percent, still the strongest party by far, but its lowest reading since late June.

Merkel was feted in Germany earlier this month for opening Germany's borders to refugees fleeing war in Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq, but has since backtracked amid an outcry from the leaders of Germany's 16 federal states.
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Judge forces mother to go to Christian counselor or lose custody of children

David Ferguson
Raw Story
Tue, 15 Sep 2015 17:41 UTC
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New Mexico mom Holly Salzman
An Albuquerque, New Mexico mother was ordered by a judge to attend sessions with a Christian counselor or face contempt of court charges and lose custody of her children. However, when the counselor's practices were put under scrutiny, several serious problems became apparent.

According to KRQE Channel 13, Holly Salzman sought court aid in coparenting her 11-year-old sons with their father, from whom she is divorced. The judge ordered a set of 10 sessions with counselor Mary Pepper.

Salzman says that she assumed Pepper would be a regular couples and family counseling therapist, but "I walked into the session and the very first thing she said to me was, 'I start my sessions by praying,'" Salzman said. "When I expressed my concerns that I didn't pray she said, 'well this is what I do' and she proceeded to say a prayer out loud."

Because the sessions are court mandated, Salzman said, "You don't have a choice. You do it or you're held in contempt of court."

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Arizona freeway shooting 'copycat' teenagers arrested for shooting projectiles with slingshots at cars, pedestrians


RT
Mon, 14 Sep 2015 16:48 UTC
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© MCSOChristian Cook, Albert German and Aaron Nottingham, all 18, used slingshots to fire rocks at cars for four hours Saturday, police said.
Three Phoenix-area teenagers have been arrested for allegedly shooting projectiles with a slingshot at cars along a surface street. The arrests come as police are investigating 11 shooting incidents on nearby freeways that are unrelated to the teens.

Christian Cook, Albert German, and Aaron Nottingham - all of Mesa, Arizona - shot at several cars and pedestrians on Saturday afternoon and evening, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Arizona Department of Public Safety Director Frank Milstead said at a Sunday news conference.

The 18-year-old "copycats," as they were described by Milstead, were arrested after a victimized couple, whose car window was broken by a projectile shot by the trio, noted a license plate of the suspects' vehicle, authorities said.

"The victims were smart enough to get the license plate of the [suspects'] vehicle as it went alongside their vehicle...it was very critical," Arpaio said, according to the Arizona Republic. "It led to the arrest."

The teens were reportedly driving in the area of State Route 24 from 3 to 7 p.m.

"At the end of the day, the three 18-year-olds have all done criminal damage and conspiracy," Milstead said.

Comment: 11 attacks confirmed along Phoenix interstate in spate of serial freeway shootings

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Okinawa governor blocks construction of U.S. base in region


RT
Tue, 15 Sep 2015 17:31 UTC
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© Issei Kato / ReutersPeople protesting the planned relocation of the U.S. military base, to Okinawa's Henoko coast, shout slogans at a rally in front of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's official residence, April 17, 2015
The governor of Okinawa prefecture said he will revoke approval for works needed on the relocation of the controversial US military air base. His statement comes days after Tokyo announced the base's relocation process had been resumed.

"We will take all possible measures to block base construction in Henoko, and this is the first step," Okinawa Governor Takeshi Onaga, a long-term critic of US military bases in his prefecture, said at a press conference on Monday.

Okinawa locals welcomed Onaga's decision and gathered in front of US Camp Schwab, the US Marine Corps camp in the city of Nago. Okinawa, home to about one percent of Japan's population, hosts nearly half of the 47,000 US troops based in Japan.

"Unfortunately, although I met five times with the central government and explained Okinawa's position, the history of the bases and the feelings of the Okinawans, I got the impression that such thinking was not taken into account," Onaga said.

Comment: At least one politician is willing to listen to the people that elected him and stand up to the U.S. bully.

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Two cops caught on camera joking about shooting suspects


RT
Sun, 13 Sep 2015 16:14 UTC
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Two San Francisco police officers have been filmed in a donut cafe joking about getting away with killing suspects. Posted on Instagram, the video has caused public outrage and has prompted an investigation.

The uniformed officers can be seen seated at a Happy Donuts in San Francisco, according to the person who posted the video. The two can be heard graphically describing what bodycams would show as a result of a police shooting - and what evidence they would and wouldn't want to be seen on such footage.

"What you want on video is the guy holding the gun still and going... still pointing at you," one of the officers says in what appears to be a light-hearted conversation that makes the two laugh. "Not [showing hands up] and then BAM-BAM-BAM... cherry pie all over the wall," the officer said.

The videos surfaced on Instagram this week, with the user saying she "simply reposted these videos to inform the community about the individuals who are sworn in to 'serve and protect.'" Police in San Francisco do not wear body cameras yet, but a project to equip them is in the works.

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Lord of the Flies time: Economic dystopia is upon us


Investment Research Dynamics
Thu, 10 Sep 2015 00:00 UTC
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Scene from the classic 1963 film, The Lord of the Flies

Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero - Voltaire

I was driving around Denver yesterday doing my "boots on the ground" due diligence scouting of the local housing market. I continue to see some "sold" and "under contract" signs but I'm seeing a pile-up forming in new "for sale," "price reduced," and "for rent" signs. The traffic update on the sports radio reported a back-up at an intersection in Denver caused by a fist-fight that had broken out between two drivers. This country is sliding back into neanderthal times.

The U.S. economic system is slipping into dystopia and the Government/Fed is doing everything it can to try and prevent the process. The two most obvious signs of this are the perpetual market interventions by the PPT to prevent a stock market dump and the relentless propaganda flowing through the mainstream media which originates from the policy-implementing elitists (business and political). Both efforts are insidious attempts to force control over our system.


Comment: From the comments section on Zerohedge:
NoDebt:

"The U.S. economic system is slipping into dystopia and the Government/Fed is doing everything it can to try and prevent the process"

Yes to the first part, no to the second. If they were trying to "prevent" the process from happening they've sure found a funny way of doing it.

Threy are trying to preserve the oligarchy, not everything else. Do you think it's by accident that essentially ALL wealth (read: ownership) is being concentrated in the top 0.1%?

Small number of rich, large number of poor and just enough middle class to service the rich. As it has been in most societies throughout most of human history. One giant reversion to the mean. The 20th century was the anomaly, not the norm. Now we're reverting to the norm.
Well, perhaps not the norm!

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Number of homeschooled children soars in America

Terence P. Jeffrey
cnsnews.com
Tue, 19 May 2015 15:08 UTC
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In the ten-year period from 2003 to 2012, the number of American children 5 through 17 years old who were being homeschooled by their parents climbed by 61.8 percent, according to newly released data from the U.S. Department of Education.

At the same time, the percentage of all U.S. students in the 5-through-17 age group who were homeschooled increased from 2.2 percent to 3.4 percent.

Homeschooling is most prevalent in two-parent families where one parent works and the other does not, according to the DOE data. Among this type of family, 5.3 percent of all students are homeschooled.

Comment: Another reason the statistics may be going up for homeschooling is the growing concern among parents about the declining quality of American Education and the implementation of abysmal curriculums like Common Core. Christopher Chase makes some important points about about 'education systems' as a whole:

It's a Pink Floyd World - Welcome (back) to the machine - Kids
In most nations, educational systems are set up the same way animals are trained, where children who comply with adult demands are given a pat on the head and rewarded. Those who endure the training process increase their chances of getting into "good" colleges, and hopefully moving on to "good" jobs in the global economy.

Those who are bored, confused or disinterested may eventually find themselves with lower paying jobs and run the risk of being drawn toward "harmful" and "antisocial" activities such as gang membership, drugs, crime or alcoholism. Schools are society's indoctrination system, created to train and measure our children, using test scores to determine their future social status.

Pink Floyd's social criticism was pretty much on target. The system has been set up this way since the beginning of the last century, as a way of programming children, much as soldiers are trained, to serve as "tools" for those in positions of authority. It's a highly mechanistic and authoritarian system, not at all in tune with the creative and holistic ways young people naturally learn.

Time is cut up into disconnected periods, while children are forced to comply with the instructions of a single adult, rather than freely exploring what interests them. Subjects are taught in fragmented compartments, as if they had no connection to one another or the real world. We learned math and science for tests, not for building our own homes, managing bank accounts, understanding the global economy or experiencing how we are connected to the rest of the Universe.


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42 rescued from refrigerated truck containing refugees in Austria


RT
Sun, 13 Sep 2015 19:10 UTC
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© www.middleeasteye.netThis time rescue was successful. Others were not so lucky.
Police from Austria's Upper province say it has rescued 42 asylum seekers from a refrigerated truck near the border with Germany. Austrian authorities expect about 10,000 refugees to arrive from Hungary by the end of the day.

Five women and eight children were among the 42 refugees rescued from the Finnish-registered refrigerated truck used for transporting flowers, DPA news agency reported, citing police. The incident took place on the A8 highway at Aistersheim, about 30 kilometers from the German border.

Police report that none of the refugees had health problems or were in need of medical care. The smugglers, who turned out to be Iraqis, were arrested.
On August 27, Austrian police found 71 dead refugees in a tractor trailer in eastern Austria who had died from asphyxiation. Eight women and four children, including a girl aged one or two, died in that incident.
Police say that Austria expects about 10,000 refugees to cross the border between Hungary and Austria on Sunday. "The flow of refugees remains very high," the police spokesman said. "I don't think I would be wrong in saying that we might exceed the threshold of 10,000 if it continues like this."


Comment: ...and the world has come to this. Over 400,000 refugees and thousands more each day. Sad beyond words.

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In 20 years Russia built and reconstructed more than 8,000 mosques and Islamic schools


ITAR-TASS
Tue, 15 Sep 2015 12:59 UTC
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More than 8,000 mosques and madrasa Islamic schools have been built in Russia over the past 20 years, a deputy head of the Russian Mufti Council said on Tuesday.

"Russia had over 15,000 mosques, madrasas and prayer spaces before [the] 1917 [Bolshevik Revolution]. In 1991, only 100 were left," Rushan Abbyasov said.

"In just 20 years we managed to build and reconstruct more than 8,000 facilities," he added.

The Mufti Council says some 20 million Muslims live within Russia's 146 million population.

Comment: Russia shows us a model of how religions can live together quite peacefully.

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Suspected gunman in Delta State University shooting reportedly dead from self-inflicted gunshot


RT
Tue, 15 Sep 2015 04:53 UTC
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One person has been killed at Delta State University in Cleveland, Mississippi. Local media is reporting that the suspected shooter, who had been suspected of killing another individual 300 miles away, is now dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

The suspected gunman, Shannon Lamb, 45, was pulled over Monday night by Greenville police but ended up running away on foot, according to WLBT.

After giving chase, police reportedly found Lamb with a gunshot wound.

A press conference has been scheduled by local authorities for midnight.
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The hunt for Lamb began earlier on Monday, when a professor at Delta State was killed in the shooting.

The victim has been identified as history professor Ethan Schmidt, apparently shot and killed inside his office at Jobe Hall.

According to the university website, Schmidt specialized in US history and colonial America. A native of Kansas, he previously taught at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas.

"To be a historian... is to grapple with the very core of what it is that makes us human," Schmidt said in a 2013 interview for the American Historical Association. "Our triumphs, our tragedies, our flaws, and our strengths are all laid bare by the scholarly study of history and without this kind of inquiry there is little hope for mankind."

Comment: Delta State University shooting: College hosted many active shooter drills

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