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Gone but not forgotten: Why has Google cast me into oblivion?

Robert Peston
BBC News
Wed, 02 Jul 2014 16:16 UTC
Google
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This morning the BBC received the following notification from Google:
Notice of removal from Google Search: we regret to inform you that we are no longer able to show the following pages from your website in response to certain searches on European versions of Google:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/legacy/thereporters/ robertpeston/2007/10/merrills_mess.html
What it means is that a blog I wrote in 2007 will no longer be findable when searching on Google in Europe.

Which means that to all intents and purposes the article has been removed from the public record, given that Google is the route to information and stories for most people.

So why has Google killed this example of my journalism?

Well it has responded to someone exercising his or her new "right to be forgotten", following a ruling in May by the European Court of Justice that Google must delete "inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant" data from its results when a member of the public requests it.
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Gold Bar

Netherlands promises to resolve return of Scythian gold to Crimea by September


Voice of Russia
Thu, 03 Jul 2014 16:13 UTC
scythian gold
© RIA Novosti/RIA Novosti
The Russian Culture Ministry has hired lawyers to prepare an appeal to the Netherlands concerning the return of Scythian gold from Crimea to Russia, Interfax reports Russian Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky saying. "A well-known international law company which will defend the interests in the event of litigation, which we hope will never happen", media cites the official saying.

"We have lawyers drafting the relevant complaints. I am very hopeful that our counterparts in the Netherlands will approach the matter from the viewpoint not of petty politics but that of the law," Medinsky told reporters in Moscow on Thursday.

Netherlands promised to resolve the issue of the Scythian gold collection that came from Crimea by the end of September, however, Russia still sought legal advice in the case that it does come to court, Medinsky said on Thursday.

"Crimean museums filed official requests to according to which the collection has to be returned and the Dutch have promised to consider them at the end of the summer or in September," minister said.

"At this stage the exposition has been extended due to excessive politicization of this issue," Medinsky added.

Comment: The answer should be obvious: these artifacts belong in Crimean museums!

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Arrow Down

Overpass collapse at World Cup host city Belo Horizonte kills at least one

Michael Martinez
cnn.com
Thu, 03 Jul 2014 15:54 UTC
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At least one person was killed and two buses were damaged when an overpass bridge under construction collapsed in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, one of the host cities for the ongoing World Cup, said CNN affiliate TV Record, which cited firefighters.

Images that circulated on social media showed a bus trapped underneath the collapsed structure.

No further details were immediately available.

Belo Horizonte will host Tuesday's semifinal match between the winner of the France-Germany match and the winner of the Brazil-Colombia game.

The city has so far hosted five World Cup games since June 14, when Colombia beat Greece 3-0. Tuesday's game will be the last to be hosted by the city in this year's World Cup.

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Independence Day? 79 percent of Americans are completely okay with the current level of tyranny

Michael Snyder
endoftheamericandream.com
Wed, 02 Jul 2014 15:39 UTC
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On July 4th, the United States will celebrate Independence Day once again. But who in the world are we trying to kid? Our founders intended to create a society where freedom and liberty would be maximized, but that is not what America looks like today. Instead, we live in a country that literally has millions of laws, rules and regulations.

We have a government that is obsessed with spying on the entire planet and that tries to watch, monitor, track and record as much information about all of us as it possibly can. A "Big Brother" surveillance grid is being constructed all around us, and our militarized police are becoming more brutal with each passing day.

Sadly, most Americans don't seem too alarmed by any of this. In fact, a new Gallup survey has found that 79 percent of Americans are "satisfied" with the level of freedom in this nation. That is a very alarming statistic.

If most people believe that everything is "just fine", then our leaders are going to feel free to keep doing the same things that they have been doing.

That is why it is so frustrating that so many American "sheeple" appear to be so apathetic about the loss of our freedoms and our liberties.

But it was not all bad news in the Gallup survey. Let's take a look at the good news first...
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2 + 2 = 4

British graduates face jail time for lying on CVs


RT
Thu, 03 Jul 2014 17:29 UTC
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© Reuters / Kieran Doherty
Students who are caught lying on their CVs will risk a jail sentence, amid fears that university graduates are embellishing the truth to get ahead in the jobs market.

Fraud prevention officers have sent a pamphlet to every university in the UK, warning students that "white lies" on their job applications could be classed as "fraud by false representation" - a crime that carries a prison sentence of up to 10 years.

The pamphlet, produced by the government's anti-fraud service CIFAS, says: "Your dream job asks for a 2:1, but you've got a 2:2 - so you just make a little change on your CV. You're worried you don't have enough work experience - so you pretend your summer of trekking through Nepal was actually spent working at a local solicitor's firm.

"After all, no one really checks, right? It's just a little white lie, right? Wrong. It's fraud."

Comment: As usual we see the law in pursuit of 'the little man' and still nowhere does it lean in on perpetrators of the true crimes against mankind. The law aims to please the ones above it who perfected "fraud by false representation".

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Pistol

Indiana cop assaults wheelchair-bound man, keeps job, faces no charges


Police State USA
Thu, 03 Jul 2014 15:23 UTC
Nicholas_1
© Police State USA
Nicholas Kincade is dumped out of his wheelchair by Lafayette Officer Tom Davidson.
Lafayette - An officer has been allowed to keep his job and face no legal consequences after accosting a paralyzed man and dumping him out of his wheelchair into the street.

The incident occurred on October 1, 2013. Some Lafayette police officers had just finished issuing a warning to 25-year-old Nicholas Kincade, who requires a motorized scooter for mobility.

Kincade had been dismissed, and began slowly rolling down the sidewalk. His wheel inadvertently grazed Lt. Tom Davidson's foot.

Davidson's fury erupted in an instant. With both hands he plowed into the paralyzed man, sending him sprawling helplessly onto the pavement.

"You did not drive over me, f*****!!" Davidson barked. "Now you're going to jail. Now you're going to jail."

Officers swarmed the man as he lie awkwardly in the street. Mr. Kincade attempted to explain it was all an accident.

The incident was captured on dash-cam video, which has finally been released after 9 months.
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Info

Imperiled Amazon Indians make 1st contact with outsiders

Megan Gannon
Live Science
Thu, 03 Jul 2014 11:27 UTC
Uncontacted Tribe
© Survival International
Advocates 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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Handcuffs

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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Handcuffs

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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Whistle

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
Soccer
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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