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Teenage researcher finds most of Wisconsin's black neighborhoods are jails

RT
Thu, 18 Aug 2016 15:53 UTC

Using racial dot maps for Wisconsin, a teenage researcher discovered half the state's black neighborhoods are "actually jail or prisons." The remaining neighborhoods are subsidized housing, homeless shelters and apartment complexes.

Conclusions deducible from the data confirmed decades of neglect and frustration that contributed to a violent uprising over the weekend, following a police shooting of a black man, according to Milwaukee residents.

Teenager Lew Blank began his research checking out the racial dot map that places one dot per person on a map colored by race. He compared his data with Google maps and other online resources to identify "certain areas where the majority of residents were African-American."

"As I researched, I began to find those isolated black neighborhoods in the middle of nowhere on these maps in almost every state," Blank told Madison365. "I stated matching them to Google Maps imagery. I checked he address. I double-checked, triple-checked."

Choudary conviction could lead to ban on 'hate preachers' from mosques, universities

RT
Thu, 18 Aug 2016 15:45 UTC

Blanket bans could be introduced by the British government to stop extremist preachers from entering mosques and universities. It follows the conviction of radical cleric Anjem Choudary for supporting Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL).

Along with bans on entering mosques, community groups and universities, ministers are also considering barring radicals from speaking to groups of a certain size in public, the Telegraph reports.

They are also looking at the possibility of giving authorities more powers to order Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites to remove extremist materials. UK law would be limited in this respect, however, as such companies are based abroad.

Final proposals on tackling radicalization will enter government consultation and eventually form the basis of a new extremism bill, which was announced in this year's Queen's Speech. The bill is set to be tabled in May 2017.

Comment: Further reading on Choudary:

As Kevin Barrett has written, 'Bottom line: Anjem Choudary and other "Finsbury Park Mosque" Muslims, presumably including the two Woolwich suspects, are agents of the British crown, whether they realize it or not.' It looks like Choudary has fulfilled his purpose. Now he's fulfilling a new one. Not only will he be able to recruit even more jihadis for service to the Crown from prison, his arrest will provide the precedent for more draconian laws, which in turn will anger and radicalize even more young Brits, who can then be shipped off to Syria to die for Great Britain.

Italy rejects 'burkini' ban, mulls tighter control of mosques instead

RT
Thu, 18 Aug 2016 15:28 UTC

The Italian interior minister has ruled out the possibility of Italy following in France's footsteps and banning Muslim female swimwear. The minister called any ban on 'burkinis' counterproductive, saying it could provoke violence instead of deterring it.

"The interior minister's responsibility is to ensure security and to choose the severity of responses which, however, must never become provocations that could potentially attract attacks," Angelino Alfano told the Corriere della Sera daily newspaper, in answer to a question on his view of the widespread bans on full-face veils and other Muslim clothing in Europe.

When asked specifically about the burkini swimwear bans introduced by at least six French seaside towns following the terrorist attack in Nice, Interior Minister Alfano stated he does not think "that the French model has worked for the best."

Comment: First burqa ban, now burkini ban: Why Europe prohibits full-body swimsuits for Muslim women

Wife of convicted ISIS-linked extremist cleric Choudary now facing investigation

RT
Thu, 18 Aug 2016 15:09 UTC

Scotland Yard has confirmed that the wife of extremist cleric Anjem Choudary is under investigation. It comes as the brother of a man who became radicalized after meeting Choudary expressed fears that the cleric's influence could grow in prison.

Broadcast in November 2015, a Channel 4 Dispatches documentary showed undercover footage of Rubana Akhtar, referred to as Umm L., telling a group of women and teenagers about "plots" against Muslims and describing the "audacity and the arrogance of these Jews" over the Palestine conflict. She also referred to Jews as "filthy."

She went on to praise the establishment of a caliphate by Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL), saying: "The good days have already begun, nobody ever [would] have thought in our lifetime we would see the establishment of the Khilafah [Islamic State]."

Exposing the inhumanity: Obama admin has to remind Louisiana flood responders not to discriminate against victims

RT
Thu, 18 Aug 2016 15:07 UTC

© Brendan Smialowski / AFP
A man navigates a boat of rescued goats past a partially submerged car after flooding on August 16, 2016 in Gonzales, Louisiana.

With torrential rains and fatal flooding battering parts of the southern US, the Obama administration has urged affected states to abstain from discrimination and provide emergency aid, regardless of race, color and origin.

"Discrimination has no place in the disaster response and recovery process," Director Willisa Donald of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) said.

A 16-page "guidance" memo released Tuesday recalled cases of African-Americans being discriminated against while looking for help in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005.

"In the days after Hurricane Katrina made landfall, numerous media reports showed images of African Americans stranded on roofs in New Orleans. These images exposed significant inequalities in access to emergency response and recovery efforts," said the guidelines issued jointly by the Departments of Justice, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Homeland Security and Transportation.

Comment: More coverage on the flooding in Louisiana:

Navajo Nation sues EPA over toxic gold mine spill which turned Animas River yellow

RT
Thu, 18 Aug 2016 14:57 UTC

© EPA / Reuters
Waste water from the Gold King Mine collects in a holding pool in San Juan County, Colorado, on August 7, 2015.

Leaders from the sovereign Navajo Nation have filed a lawsuit against their next-door neighbors, the Americans, and their Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), for playing a part in the spilling of 3 million gallons of toxic waste into the Animas River in Colorado and New Mexico.

The "reckless" environmental disaster last year contaminated the major river with nasty acid and metals leading to long-term effects for wildlife and communities around the area.

The incident, which is also known as the "Gold King Mine Spill," occurred when contracted workers from the EPA attempted to drain some of the toxic water from the mine, but instead a huge blowout sent arsenic, lead and mercury into the river, turning it yellow and pouring over 888,000 pounds of toxic metals into the water.

Protecting pedophiles: College ignored complaints about sexually abusive teacher for 15 years

RT
Wed, 17 Aug 2016 15:35 UTC

Students at Clifton College

A peeping-tom teacher found by his pupils half-naked and tied to his chair kept his job despite years of complaints to three successive headmasters, according to a report by an independent investigator.

Jonathan Thomson-Glover, 53, was jailed for three-and-a-half years for filming pupils naked over a period of 17 years at the prestigious Clifton College in Bristol.

He taught German and was a house master responsible for the welfare of hundreds of teenagers at the leading public school, which charges its pupils £33,000 (US$43,000) a year.

At Thomson-Glover's trial at Bristol Crown Court last year, he was found to have placed concealed cameras in school showers and studies, and in a bedroom where children were encouraged to engage in sexual activity.

Comment: It' s no surprise that complaints were ignored for so long - pedophilia is practically institutionalized in the UK. Cover-ups and blocked investigations into predatory activities are routine.

Aleppo residents displaced by al-Qaeda 'rebels' are the real victims

Sputnik
Wed, 17 Aug 2016 22:41 UTC

A Syrian residential quarter called "1070," located in Aleppo, was captured by al-Nusra Front at the end of July. The residents of the quarter are now barely making ends meet in areas of Aleppo.

The 1070 quarter is referred to this because there are 1,070 residential apartments built in the area. Residents of this quarter, which was previously a haven for many local refugees, have been forced to flee their homes to escape the violence of the militants.

In areas of Aleppo, which are under the control of the Syrian Army, a small camp for fleeing civilians has been organized. Those who did not get a place in the shelter, sleep on mattresses under the scorching sun.

Talking about his ordeal and the horrors inflicted by the al-Nusra Front terrorists, one resident who fled 1070 named Samer told Sputnik how he ran for his life.

Car bomb rocks Turkish police station near Iran border killing 3 and injuring 40

Sputnik
Wed, 17 Aug 2016 22:14 UTC

A car bomb blast struck Turkey's eastern province of Van near the Turkish-Iranian border followed by intense fighting.

Local authorities have not yet confirmed who is behind the strike in Van although residents suspect that the attack was carried out by PKK terrorists opposed to the Erdogan regime. Local reports indicate that three have been killed and 40 have been wounded by the major terror attack with ambulances continuing to swarm to the scene to tend to the victims of the lethal strike.

There has been reportedly the outbreak of shooting or armed clashes in the wake of the blast. Reports from the Dogan news station indicate that the target was a station that also serves as a police barracks.

Largest Afghanistan province could fall to Taliban at any time

Sputnik
Wed, 17 Aug 2016 19:43 UTC

As Lashkar Gah, the besieged capital of Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan, is suffering a major humanitarian catastrophe, officials warn that it may not be long before the whole province falls to the Taliban, Nasima Naiazi, a member of the provincial legislature, told Sputnik.

"There is heavy fighting going on in Helmand where the Taliban militants have resumed their offensive in Hermsar and Lashkar Gah. The situation is changing every hour, but the Taliban controls the southern districts of the province," Nasima Naiazi said.

She added that with the local airport in Lashkar Gah was now closed, dozens of flights had been cancelled and the roads all blocked by the militants; there was virtually no access to Kabul from Helmand.

Comment: Mission accomplished? Fifteen years and counting...

There's no mileage in anything the Smith's have to say, their well versed in interfering with things. So we can all sleep safely in our bed...

Winternights3

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Buffalo_Ken

Forensic pathologists performed a postmortem and concluded that the man had probably died mid-flight Let me see ... he walked onto the plane,...

HashAttack2

This ain't no fucking real emergency. It is an effing emergency in the mind of a few....who thought they were gonna put the rest of us into...

Buffalo_Ken

The administration defended OSHA's legal right to issue these requirements, saying that the Occupational Safety and Health Act "gives OSHA the...

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Society's Child

Teenage researcher finds most of Wisconsin's black neighborhoods are jails

Choudary conviction could lead to ban on 'hate preachers' from mosques, universities

Italy rejects 'burkini' ban, mulls tighter control of mosques instead

Wife of convicted ISIS-linked extremist cleric Choudary now facing investigation

Exposing the inhumanity: Obama admin has to remind Louisiana flood responders not to discriminate against victims

Navajo Nation sues EPA over toxic gold mine spill which turned Animas River yellow

Protecting pedophiles: College ignored complaints about sexually abusive teacher for 15 years

Aleppo residents displaced by al-Qaeda 'rebels' are the real victims

Car bomb rocks Turkish police station near Iran border killing 3 and injuring 40

Largest Afghanistan province could fall to Taliban at any time

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