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TV preacher and incessant idiot Pat Robertson: 'Smack' your children to protect them from 'evil' devil music in iPods

TV preacher Pat Robertson on Thursday advised parents to "smack" children around to protect them from the "evil" music that is often found inside of iPods.
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© CBN host Pat Robertson (screen grab)
A woman named Marie wrote in to Robertson about her 11-year-old son, who she said had "recently started listening to music that speaks of the 'beast within' and the 'infection in people'."

"I worry for his soul," the mother told Robertson. "I know the Lord is going to save him; but what can I do to help him become a nice person and the sweet little boy I miss so much?"

The televangelist advised that the boy was going into puberty and "it doesn't hurt to smack a little 11 year old around a little bit and say, 'You behave, you're not going to listen to that garbage in my house. If you do I'm going to tear it up and break those records or CD or whatever, iPods, however you get that mess.'"

"I know he's only 11, but he's just a little twerp, and you make that little twerp behave," Robertson continued. "There's a lot of evil in the world. And you have got to protect kids, and you have got to do it any way you want to."


Comment: Yes, do protect your children:

Monotheistic religions - Playground for psychopaths


Robertson concluded by speculating that the boy was misbehaving because Marie was a single mother.

"The little kids wouldn't do that with me, I promise you," he laughed. "Big Daddy's home! Wham!"

Comment: See also:

The Hidden Evil: The Psychopathic Influence


Pistol

Department of Homeland Security to purchase up to 62 million more rounds of ammunition

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© UnknownDomestic operation: 'Crush Dissent': Coming to the United States war theatre soon!
A recent posting to FedBizOpps.gov details Homeland Security's search for a company to provide 12.6 million rounds of .223 Remington ammo per year for up to five years. At the completion of the contract, DHS plans to have purchased over 62 million rounds.

The solicitation by DHS comes at a time of increased fears over a potential martial law scenario, with numerous Walmart shopping centers closing and Jade Helm 2015 on the horizon.

The purchase order claims that the bullets will go to U.S. Customs and Border Protection for training purposes, the same excuse given by DHS for their past ammo purchases which in the past three years total over 2 billion rounds. As noted by Paul Joseph Watson, that is enough, "ammo to kill around 30% of the world's population."

Comment: Whether purchases of the amounts described are to make ammo more scarce for commercial purchase among American citizens, or because the U.S. government anticipates having to cut down a very large number of American citizens, or both, this newsdoesn't bode well at all.


Megaphone

Michigan police officer with history of abuse arrests two women, holds them in jail four days without charges

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A Michigan police officer with a string of lawsuits and accusations filed against him over the years - including Tasering his partner and assaulting a disabled man — has now been accused of arresting two women and holding them in jail without ever filing any charges.

Highland Park police officer Ronald Dupuis — already under investigation for beating a suspected car hijacker — has been accused by two women of arresting them and holding them in jail for four days without every charging them with a crime, according to WXYZ.

According to Robert Morris, attorney for Rhianna Turner and her domestic partner Kera Hill, Dupuis arrested the two women when they were playfully wrestling over a set of keys in front of the old Detroit police headquarters in 2013. Despite the women's insistence that they were not assaulting each other, Dupuis took them into custody before driving them to the Highland Park station where they were held in a cell for four days before being released without charges ever being filed.

"The fact that he actually took them to Highland Park, which has no jurisdiction with anything that could have occurred in Detroit, and he was able to convince his supervisors, who were already skeptical and didn't understand why my clients were locked up - he was actually able to override their authority and keep my clients for four days," Morris explained.

Comment: Just about any encounter with the police in the U.S. has the chance of being a dangerous one for your average citizen. Police brutality is completely out of control and soaring while the alleged authorities do nothing to protect the innocent people these goons are assaulting. If more people in the country would stand up, the policing system might would be seen for what it is - a fear mongering arm of a totalitarian police state.


Dollar Gold

CEO with a conscience reduces his salary to give his employees huge wage increases

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© Matthew Ryan Williams for The New York Times Employees reacting to the news. The average salary at Gravity Payments had been $48,000 a year.
Dan Price, C.E.O. of Gravity Payments, surprised his 120-person staff by announcing that he planned over the next three years to raise the salary of every employee to $70,000 a year.

The idea began percolating, said Dan Price, the founder of Gravity Payments, after he read an article on happiness. It showed that, for people who earn less than about $70,000, extra money makes a big difference in their lives.

His idea bubbled into reality on Monday afternoon, when Mr. Price surprised his 120-person staff by announcing that he planned over the next three years to raise the salary of even the lowest-paid clerk, customer service representative and salesman to a minimum of $70,000.

"Is anyone else freaking out right now?" Mr. Price asked after the clapping and whooping died down into a few moments of stunned silence. "I'm kind of freaking out."

If it's a publicity stunt, it's a costly one. Mr. Price, who started the Seattle-based credit-card payment processing firm in 2004 at the age of 19, said he would pay for the wage increases by cutting his own salary from nearly $1 million to $70,000 and using 75 to 80 percent of the company's anticipated $2.2 million in profit this year.

Comment: Sadly, it is a rare gesture for an executive to show such compassion to those who make his living possible. If there were more CEO's like this man running businesses, rather than the greedy psychopaths who are at the top of most corporations, the record levels of income inequality and poverty might be alleviated.


Pills

British soldiers seek psychiatric treatment after taking "zombie drug"

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The British military is accused of failing to protect its soldier's mental health. Figures show nearly 1,000 have sought psychiatric treatment after being given the MoD's budget price anti-malarial drug Lariam.

A Freedom of Information (FoI) request revealed the figure is much higher than previously thought, with 994 service personnel being admitted to mental health clinics or psychiatric hospitals since 2008.

The figures only go back to 2007, so the true number may be much higher, as Lariam, also known as mefloquine, has been in use for much longer.

The MoD has consistently defended the drug, which is one of several it issues to troops, amid concerns that Lariam is contributing to an Armed Forces mental health epidemic. This is despite growing pressure from senior military figures, campaigners and relatives of those affected.

The drug, banned by US Special Forces two years ago, and which the UK military avoids giving to pilots or divers, is still issued to UK troops.

Comment: The ideals of the warrior are long gone in the West. If the combat stress that comes from killing civilians, devastating societies and stealing resources doesn't defeat them, let's just dope them up with homicidal, psychotic drugs!


Nuke

Once again thieves steal deadly radioactive material in Mexico

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Authorities have issued emergency warnings to five Mexican states after it was reported that thieves had stolen potentially deadly radioactive material, the latest such heist to strike the Latin American country.

The interior ministry issued an alert in the states of Tabasco, Campeche, Chiapas, Oaxaca and Veracruz that a container holding iridium-192 - a man-made radioactive element that can cause burns, acute radiation sickness and even death - was stolen on Monday from a truck in Cardenas, a town in southern Tabasco.

"This source is very dangerous to people if it is removed from its container," the statement said.

Comment: Somebody wants to procure this material really badly.


Arrow Up

Low-wage workers unite to fight for living wage in largest protests in US history

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© Andy Katz/Demotix/Corbis Marchers with #FightFor15 banner on Amsterdam Avenue in New York City during rally on behalf of low-income workers nationwide.
Workers in Atlanta, Boston, New York, Los Angeles and more than 200 cities across the US walked out on their jobs or joined marches and protests on Wednesday during what organisers claimed was the largest protest by low-wage workers in US history.

Some 60,000 workers took part in the Fight for $15 demonstrations, according to the organisers. The protests are calling for a minimum wage of $15 an hour in the US, more than twice the current federal minimum of $7.25.

By late afternoon on the east coast no arrests had been reported, a marked contrast to last May's action when more than 100 people were arrested during a protest outside McDonald's Chicago headquarters.

The demonstrations were the latest in a series of strikes that began with fast-food workers in New York in November 2012. The movement has since attracted groups outside the restaurant industry: Wednesday's protesters included home-care assistants, Walmart workers, child-care aides, airport workers, adjunct professors and other low-wage workers. It also sparked international support, with people protesting low wages in Brazil, New Zealand and the UK.

Comment: The only way that the corporations who exploit these employees are going to pay them a living wage is for enough of the workers to finally come together and give them no other choice. Those running large corporations have no concern for the well-being of their workforce, which is why income inequality, and poverty are at record levels and children are going hungry while corporations profit handsomely at the expense of everyone else.


People 2

Yemen: UN's Zeid wants investigations into civilian casualties

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© rebloggy.comKilling the children, how honorable is that?
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein on Tuesday reminded all sides to the conflict in Yemen to ensure that attacks resulting in civilian casualties are promptly investigated and that international human rights and international humanitarian law are scrupulously respected during the conduct of hostilities in the country.

In addition to hundreds of fighters, at least 364 civilians are reported to have lost their lives since March 26, including at least 84 children and 25 women. Another 681 civilians - possibly more - have been injured. Dozens of public buildings, including hospitals, schools, airports and mosques have been destroyed in airstrikes, through shelling and other attacks.

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© armiesofliberation.comYemeni combatants have a history of using children in clashes. Up to 50% of fighters in tribal wars are children.
Over the past week, street fighting also intensified in densely populated areas, particularly in Aden between armed groups affiliated with President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi on one side, and those affiliated with the Houthis and the former President Ali Abdullah Saleh on the other. There have also been accounts of recruitment of children as fighters in Aden, Dhale and Mareb.

"Every hour we are receiving and documenting deeply disturbing and distressing reports of the toll that this conflict is taking on civilian lives and infrastructure," High Commissioner Zeid said."Such a heavy civilian death toll ought to be a clear indication to all parties to this conflict that there may be serious problems in the conduct of hostilities. The parties to the conflict are obliged to ensure that international humanitarian law and international human rights law are scrupulously respected and that the civilian population is protected. Any suspected breach of international law must be urgently investigated with a view to ensuring victims' right to justice and redress and to ensure that such incidents do not recur."

Comment: Children killed in drone strikes: "If ever these strikes are reported in the MSM, many of these children are listed as "militants," a word redefined by President Obama to mean any male of military age in a strike zone, so as to disguise the number of children killed by his drone policy. Under this abuse of presidential power with lack of judicial oversight, Obama has escalated George W. Bush's drone program more than five times over. Not only are children & civilians caught in strike zones, but drones are killing rescuers & family members with the "double tap" method, a second strike in the same zone. The "double tap" is considered to be a war crime under international law."

Perhaps there is just this romantic notion that wars are fought by military against military. And, well, it should be that way. However, the more removed we become from the actual ground-zero battle due to proxy armies, drones, strategies thousands of miles away, etc., the easier it is to be indiscriminate of civilian casualties and a country's historic legacy. War has degenerated. It reveals how high the cost and how low the devaluation of life has become. It is not a pretty world and run by not pretty people.


Cheeseburger

Texas chef fined for feeding the homeless

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A Texas chef who has fed San Antonio's homeless population for the past 10 years from a non-profit mobile food truck was suddenly cited and fined by local police for feeding the homeless.

Despite the ticket being issued a week earlier, Joan Cheever, founder of a San Antonio mobile food truck called the Chow Train, was nevertheless out feeding the homeless on Tuesday. There has been an outpouring of support for Cheever after news of the ticket surfaced, which she still has to fight in court in June - and which she said she would do under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

Cheever told Texas Public Radio she was inspired by the show of support.

"It warms my heart but it doesn't surprise me because the community is behind me and they are behind every other nonprofit that does what I do and there are a lot of them," she said.

Comment: Psychopathic governments don't want people showing empathy for others.


Satellite

Introducing the 'Outernet': Information warfare taken to a whole new level

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The information war can be quickly lost if one cannot get their assets onto the "battlefield." For the US, UK or Europe, the constant din of their propaganda spread across the planet via their impressive and immense media networks has recently run into a few snags.

In nations like Russia, China or Iran, ruling governments and local industry have begun creating their own Internets, their own alternatives to US-controlled social media platforms and search engines, and in some cases, even their own hardware to run it all on. They have also taken a cue from the US and decided to put in "kill switches" and censorship measures to prevent information from abroad being piped into their nation and disseminated among their populations.

Or more accurate than saying "to prevent information from abroad," one could say, "propaganda from abroad."

For instance, the US State Department's Voice of America network openly attempts to insert narratives favorable to US interests in targeted countries. So important does the US State Department see this mission, it has even attempted to construct independent communication networks by building their own towers and relay stations.

Comment: Another highly sophisticated, super covert, extremely cynical method for trapping your heart, mind and soul. And, of course, it starts by playing on an individual's best instincts. But that's usually how it goes. COINTELPRO takes many different forms and this is just a new one to be aware of. There are many though, and the stakes are very very high.