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Imperiled Amazon Indians make 1st contact with outsiders

Megan Gannon
Live Science
Thu, 03 Jul 2014 11:27 UTC
Uncontacted Tribe
© Survival InternationalAdvocates are concerned by a recent uptick in sightings of uncontacted people. This image was released by Survival International in 2011.

Indigenous people with no prior contact to the outside world have just emerged from the Amazon rainforest in Brazil and made contact with a group of settled Indians, after being spotted migrating to evade illegal loggers, advocates say.

The news, which was released yesterday (July 2), comes after sightings of the uncontacted Indians in Brazil near the border with Peru, according to the group Survival International. Officials with the organization had warned last month that the isolated tribes face threats of disease and violence as they moved into new territory and possibly encountered other people.

"Something serious must have happened," José Carlos Meirelles, a former official with the Brazilian Indian Affairs Department FUNAI, said in a statement. "It is not normal for such a large group of uncontacted Indians to approach in this way. This is a completely new and worrying situation, and we currently do not know what has caused it." [See Photos of Uncontacted Amazon Tribe]

Survival International officials said dozens of uncontacted Indians were recently spotted close to the home of the Ashaninka Indians in Brazil's Acre state along the Envira River, while a government investigation in the region uncovered more ephemeral traces of the tribe on the move: footprints, temporary camps and food leftovers. On Sunday (June 29), reports suggest, the vulnerable group of Indians made contact with the Asháninka.
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Missouri man with stockpiled weapons arrested for terrorizing neighborhood

Travis Gettys
The Blaze
Thu, 03 Jul 2014 09:09 UTC
Roy McCool
Roy McCool
Police arrested a Missouri "doomsday prepper" who investigators said had been terrorizing his neighborhood for weeks.

Neighbors began complaining in May about 36-year-old Roy McCool after he allegedly assaulted a woman in Springfield home, reported the Springfield News-Leader.

Investigators said McCool forced his way into the woman's home and punched, slapped, and choked her before firing three rounds from a handgun into her living room wall.

McCool broke into the woman's home two days later and stole a bank card and $35 in cash from her children's piggy banks, police said.

Neighbors said McCool's behavior grew even more threatening about two weeks later, in late May, when he stood in his front yard with a gun and yelled threats toward other residents.

McCool continued getting into confrontations with neighbors, letting his dogs run loose, and displaying firearms, police said, causing other residents to live "in a constant state of fear."
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This is outrageous! NYPD brutally arrest man on subway 'for sleeping on way from work' (VIDEO)


RT
Thu, 03 Jul 2014 10:19 UTC
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An image grab taken from a video uploaded on YouTube by user@60thStreetWatch
A video has recorded a violent altercation erupting between a man on a New York City subway and police officers, who apparently arrested him for the crime of nodding off while commuting home for work.

The incident occurs at the 57th street station stop in Manhattan in a mostly-empty carriage.

The video posted to YouTube on Tuesday does not show what sparked the police confrontation, though from the man's reaction and those who viewed and filmed the scene, he was confronted by police for sleeping on the train.


"For what? I didn't do s***! I'm sleeping," he cries out during the arrest, before repeating that he was going home. The arresting officers, while speaking to him throughout the incident, are mostly inaudible.

Comment: From the beating of Rodney King to the murder of Kelly Thomas, police tactics in the U.S. have become so heavy-handed that people are regularly being murdered by those ostensibly sworn 'to protect and to serve' them.

The militarization of police forces - particularly since 9/11, the steady erosion of civil rights via draconian laws, and an atmosphere of hysteria generated by the 'War on Terror' have all combined to place the police 'above the law'.

But tyrannical and dictatorial repression is what 'those other countries' do, right? Why is it, then, that we constantly see headlines of people in the U.S. being beaten, tasered, and even shot to death for such minor infringements as traffic violations? Are cops 'out of control'? Are they 'just obeying orders'?

Listen to the SOTT Talk Radio taking a look at police brutality in the 'land of the free'.



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Cultivated aggression: The science behind what drives a soccer player to break the rules

Maria Kavussanu - University of Birmingham
The Raw Story
Sat, 28 Jun 2014 20:04 UTC
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FIFA's decision to hand Luis Suarez a four month ban for biting Italian defender Giorgio Chiellini has sealed Suarez's place as the villain of World Cup 2014. The incident has provoked outrage across the globe, with many saying the punishment is too lenient for such a heinous crime.

But where does this behaviour that we find to be so unsportsmanlike come from? Suarez is not the only culprit: diving, dirty tackles and other foul behaviour takes place on the pitch that leaves us wondering why players sometimes act this way. Sports psychology research shows that clearly there are some personal characteristics that predispose players to cheat, but the social environment also plays a key role.

Comment: Soccer is big business and winning is all that counts, because it translates into earning money. As long as success is measured in winning, nothing will change. In fact, in all these sports, aggression is cultivated, which often translates into aggressive behaviour of players off the field. Players are built up as role models, provided with celebrity status and showered with ludicrous amounts of money, just to push a ball around the soccer pitch - despite their pathological traits and misbehaviour on and off the play field, that get excused again and again.

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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg's 35-page dissent burns Scalia in Hobby Lobby ruling

Travis Gettys
Raw Story
Mon, 30 Jun 2014 07:19 UTC
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg
© Wikipedia CommonsJustice Ruth Bader Ginsberg
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg said the ruling on the Hobby Lobby case was based on a misreading of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and would likely open the door to a host of unintended consequences.

"Little doubt that RFRA claims will proliferate, for the Court's expansive notion of corporate personhood - combined with its other errors in construing RFRA - invites for-profit entities to seek religion-based exemptions from regulations they deem offensive to their faith," she wrote.

The court ruled 5-4 Monday that the government cannot compel closely held corporations with religious owners to provide contraception coverage for its employees.

In a scathing, 35-page dissent, Ginsberg concluded that the contraception mandate did not impose a substantial burden on Hobby Lobby or Conestoga Wood Specialties - and therefore did not violate the RFRA.

She said the Affordable Care Act required employers to direct money into undifferentiated funds to pay for a wide variety of benefits under comprehensive health plans, and Ginsberg said employees were not obligated to use contraception coverage.

"Even if one were to conclude that Hobby Lobby and Conestoga meet the substantial burden requirement, the Government has shown that the contraceptive coverage for which the ACA provides furthers compelling interests in public health and women's well being," Ginsberg wrote. "Those interests are concrete, specific, and demonstrated by a wealth of empirical evidence."

While the court has recognized First Amendment protections for churches and other nonprofit religion-based organizations, Ginsberg noted that no previous court decisions had ever recognized a for-profit corporation's qualification for religious exemption from any laws.
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80% of UK school buildings are 'crumbling, beyond their life cycle'


RT
Wed, 02 Jul 2014 03:19 UTC
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© Reuters / Eddie Keogh
The Government must invest more in building new schools as 80 per cent of current buildings should not still be in operation, architects claim

Children across the UK are being failed by four-fifths of schools that are "beyond their life cycle," while 75 percent of existing schools also contain asbestos, the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) claims.

With 250,000 extra school places needed by September, the current wave of new designs is not big enough to prevent overcrowding, the society for the architectural industry's "Building Better Britain" advisory report argues.

"Overcrowding in narrow corridors exacerbates bullying and harassment, fewer social areas outside classrooms limit students' abilities to socialize," the report adds.

The standardized "baseline" designs are 15 percent smaller than those built under the previous Labour government's "Building Schools for the Future" program, the group said. The report claimed the next government must increase the cost per square meter of new schools by 20 percent.

Comment: While school buildings are crumbling, the ruling elites are busily waging wars overseas and implementing new ways of controlling the domestic population. Such is the state of Western societies.

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19 year-old tortured to death by cops in Florida jail


Police State USA
Wed, 02 Jul 2014 20:47 UTC
Daniel Linsinbigler
© Daniel Linsinbigler
"God can't help you now," the homicidal jailers taunted.

Clay County, Florida - Jailers taunted a young man as he begged for his life, strapped to a restraint chair and suffocating on pepper spray. The death of the teen was officially ruled a homicide, although the state later concluded that no one should be punished.

Daniel Linsinbigler, 19, was being detained at the Clay County Jail on non-violent misdemeanor charges resulting from some sort of psychotic break.

His incarceration did not go smoothly. After one day, he was placed in solitary confinement, supposedly for his own safety. He was placed on suicide watch.

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The Vatican approves International Association of Exorcists


Yahoo! News
Wed, 02 Jul 2014 12:31 UTC
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© APTN/AP
Exorcists now have a legal weapon at their disposal.

The Vatican has formally recognized the International Association of Exorcists, a group of 250 priests in 30 countries who liberate the faithful from demons.

The Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano reported Tuesday that the Vatican's Congregation for Clergy had approved the organization's statutes and recognized the group under canon law.

More than his predecessors, Pope Francis speaks frequently about the devil, and last year was seen placing his hands on the head of a man purportedly possessed by four demons in what exorcists said was a prayer of liberation from Satan.
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Liverpool, UK: Gang of teen thugs cornered terrified teenager in laundrette, brutally stabbing him to death

Martin Robinson
The Daily Mail, UK
Wed, 02 Jul 2014 16:58 UTC
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© Mirror, UKSean 'Shorty' McHugh
  • Sean 'Shorty' McHugh was hacked to death in a Liverpool launderette
  • Gang of five teenagers as young as 13 attacked him in a 'revenge' fight
  • Ringleader Reece O'Shaugnessy, 19, with IQ of an 11-year-old, jailed for life
  • Four others sent to jail for between six and 12 years
  • Sean's mother says their family has been ripped apart by his death
  • She said: 'The night they killed my son, they might as well killed me too'
This is the moment a gang of baby-faced teenagers stabbed a rival to death in a laundrette in Liverpool. Footage shows. Sean 'Shorty' McHugh running into the shop in Anfield and desperately looking for somewhere to hide. The gang members run in after him including ringleader Reece O'Shaughnessy who was holding a sword.

The gang proceeded to kick the back door of the shop open where Sean was hiding before he was stabbed to death. CCTV issued by Merseyside Police of Sean McHugh, 19, as he ran into the laundrette to hide. The gang members follow Sean into the laundrette where he tried to hide from the group of teenagers

After the killing, one of the gang members posted on Facebook: 'RIP Shorty - we always knew ye was a p***y''. Today five teenagers were jailed for a total of 54 years between them.

Sean McHugh, 19, was chased and murdered by the five knife-wielding youths for straying on to their 'turf' to do his girlfriend's washing at a launderette.
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Another civil right gone: Oregon police plan 'no refusal' blood-draws for drivers


Police State USA
Thu, 26 Jun 2014 19:29 UTC
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Field sobriety test
Celebrate Independence Day with forcible DNA collection by police.

Police are announcing a blitz of forced 'no-refusal' blood-draw warrants for drivers this holiday weekend.

In Oregon, and many other states, drivers that are suspected by police of driving under the influence are presented with a choice: submit to a Breathalyzer search or lose your driver's license for a year.

From a driver's perspective, however, submitting to a Breathalyzer presents some problems. One is that the machines inherently present the possibility of error, and could provide an incorrect measurement incriminate an innocent person. There is the argument that people should not be forced to prove their innocence or provide police with self-incriminating evidence.

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© Associated Press/Ross D. FranklinA cop with a needle confiscates blood from a suspect.
The policy of revoking licenses is not without faults, but for the most part it balances the forces calling for safe roads and protects people's individual rights.

However, in Oregon, that's not good enough. Judges are teaming up with police to sign warrants on-demand for the forcible confiscation of blood. The intention is to collect the evidence necessary to lock people in prison.

Comment: Oregon is following on the heels of Georgia. And believe it or not, the forced drawing of blood for suspected intoxication has been legal since 2005. Expect to see this policy being adopted nation-wide. Those private prisons aren't money-makers with out inmates to fill them.
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