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Muslim chaplain refused can of coke by United Airlines so she wouldn't weaponize it


RT
Sun, 31 May 2015 21:20 UTC
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United Airlines is facing a customer backlash after discriminating against a Muslim passenger. Tahera Ahmad was on an internal US flight when she was refused an unopened can of soda. The flight attendant believed she would use it as a weapon.

Ahmad, a Muslim chaplain from Northwestern University, was traveling from Chicago to Washington, DC, for a conference aimed at promoting dialogue between Israeli and Palestinian youth.

During the flight, she asked the flight attendant if she could have a can of diet coke. However, the 31 year-old's request wasn't granted. The attendant told her: "Well I'm sorry I just can't give you an unopened can so no diet coke for you," Ahmed wrote on her Facebook page.

Moments later, the passenger sitting next to her was given an unopened can of beer. This prompted Ahmad to ask the flight attendant why she hadn't been given an unopened can of diet coke.

"We are unauthorized to give unopened cans to people because they may use it as a weapon on the plane," the attendant is reported by Ahmad to have said.

An astounded Ahmad tried to ask her fellow passengers to support her claim, but unfortunately she only received more abuse.
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Sickening: Jerusalem kindergarten creates play acting out IDF soldier murdering Palestinian


RT
Tue, 02 Jun 2015 21:48 UTC
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A kindergarten in East Jerusalem has come up with a controversial play which showed a kid dressed as IDF soldier "killing" a Palestinian boy with a gun. The supporters of the "victim" then cover him in a Palestinian flag.

The play took place in a kindergarten at the Dar al-Hekma private school in Beit Hanina, a Palestinian neighborhood in East Jerusalem, the Arabic-language Himma News reported. The site posted a video of the performance but soon deleted it. It was later uploaded by the Jerusalem Post.

In the video, a kindergarten pupil dressed as an IDF soldier takes another boy, apparently a Palestinian, from the crowd. He explains to him something and then "shoots" him at close range.

Then kids playing Palestinian supporters are seen running to the victim, grieving the murder of their fellow comrade. They later cover him with a Palestinian flag.

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Renowned pianist Lisitsa, who condemned Kiev war against E. Ukraine, to perform concert in Donbas


Sputnik
Tue, 02 Jun 2015 21:23 UTC
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Valentina Lisitsa, a well-known Ukrainian-born American classical pianist who has faced censure over her strong opposition to Kiev's war in Donbass, has told Sputnik that she is getting ready to hold a concert in Donetsk later this month.

Speaking to Radio Sputnik on Tuesday, Lisitsa noted that her performance, to be held in Donetsk, the capital of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, is likely to take place Friday, June 22, the symbolic 74th anniversary of the start of the Great Patriotic War.

Noting that the performance would take place either at the Donetsk National Academic Opera Theatre or outdoors before the city's main square, Lisitsa stated that she would be very happy if it were held outdoors, "because I know how much interest and thirst for classical music and for music in general there is among Donbass residents, and I'm very excited to go there."

Asked about whose composers' works she planned to play, Lisitsa noted that it would be "very symbolic to perform Prokofiev, because he is from that region; he was a composer whose roots are [in the Donbass region]" and his music was inspired and influenced by his homeland. Moreover, she plans to play beloved pieces by composers including Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Beethoven and Bach, whose "pieces...unite all of us - that make us feel like one close family."


Comment: See: Toronto Symphony Orchestra cancels Valentina Lisitsa concert for speaking out on Ukraine atrocities

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A quarter of all Australians interested in having implanted chip used for payments

Alex Heber
Business Insider
Tue, 26 May 2015 21:06 UTC
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A mind-boggling 25% of Australians say they are at least "slightly interested" at the prospect of having a chip implanted in their skin that could be used for payments, new research has found.

The research by credit card company Visa and the University of Technology Sydney found Australians are open to the prospect of paying for items using wearable tech including smart watches, rings, glasses and even a connected car.

"Australians are among the world's earliest adopters of new technology," Head of Emerging Products and Innovation for Visa in Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific, George Lawson said.

Visa is currently looking at how its payments tech can be integrated with wearable devices and is working with UTS to figure out how it might be adopted by the next generation of shoppers.

"New technology like tokenisation makes it possible to turn any device into a secure vehicle for commerce. We're already seeing smartphone payments take off in Australia. Partnering with UTS gives us the opportunity to explore what our next device might be," Lawson said.
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Christian website "Biblical Gender Roles" supports marital rape in the name of God

David Edwards
Raw Story
Mon, 01 Jun 2015 19:52 UTC
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A website that gives sex advice to married Christians argues that women can never give their spouses "a flat no" when asked for sex because "her body does belong to her husband."

The anonymous founder of the Biblical Gender Roles website, who says he is a white male in his 40s, came under fire earlier this month after he wrote an article titled, "Is a husband selfish for having sex with his wife when she is not the mood?"

"Feminists and even some women who would not consider themselves feminists believe it is selfish for a man to have sex with his wife, knowing she is not in the mood," the writer explains. "In fact some claim if a man has sex with his wife when she is not the mood this is rape... Here we will try to answer this very important question, from a Biblical perspective."

Although the author insists that he would not advocate "for a husband to force himself physically upon his wife," he says that "a Christian wife should never give her husband a flat no, BUT she can humbly and gently ask for a delay."

And any request for a delay "must be done humbly and respectfully, and always with the attitude in mind that her body does belong to her husband."

A "wife does not have the right to stand and deny her husband access to her body," he writes, adding that she can ask for a delay with a "legitimate" reason, but "the judge of what is legitimate or not is her husband."
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San Andreas: A prepper's view of earthquake survival

Daisy Luther
The Organic Prepper
Mon, 01 Jun 2015 19:54 UTC
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Nothing warms my prepper's heart more than a good disaster movie that supports my hypotheses about a specific event, and the recent movie San Andreas was no exception.

Okay, sure, there was some pretty unrealistic stuff like when The Rock was driving a boat through post-tsunami San Francisco and just happened to find his daughter that he was looking for. The last time I went to San Francisco, my daughter and I had trouble finding each other on the first floor of Forever 21, for crying out loud.

But, when you only have two hours for a movie, you have to be willing to suspend your disbelief somewhat and put that kind of stuff aside. So, putting that aside, I enthusiastically recommend the movie. We live about 4 hours from San Francisco and go there occasionally for educational outings to the excellent museums, so the setting was quite familiar to us, as was the premise of what would occur if an earthquake happened there. So familiar that my daughter was the frequent recipient of my elbow, as I whispered, "See!!!! I told you this was what would happen if the Big One hit that time we went to the Science Museum!" Trooper that she is, she said, "Yes, Mom, I know, you were right about that too." Since she's a teenager, she probably also rolled her eyes each time, but it was dark and I can't be absolutely certain of that.
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French romanticism disappearing: Paris authorities remove up to 1 million "love locks" from famous Paris bridge


RT
Mon, 01 Jun 2015 19:55 UTC
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© Reuters / John SchultsA recently-married couple from Poland, Dominika and Bartek Mieczkowski, embrace near grills covered with "love locks" on a walkway which leads to the Pont de Arts over the River Seine in Paris, France
Paris authorities removed hundreds of thousands of metal padlocks from iconic Pont des Arts bridge in front of the Louvre on Monday, with the new anti-romantic token ban possibly breaking millions of hearts around the world - for security reasons.

Both Parisians and tourists had been attaching their tokens to the famous 19th century bridge for years. The padlocks symbolically immortalize their love.


Both Parisians and tourists had been attaching their tokens to the famous 19th century bridge for years. The padlocks symbolically immortalize their love.
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Best of the Web: Everything Americans think they know about Russia is wrong

Lisa Marie White
Russia Insider
Tue, 02 Jun 2015 00:43 UTC
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© Russia InsiderOne day she'll get paid maternity leave. The horror!
Russia is actually ahead of the United States on many issues championed by the American Left

We all know what it feels like to log onto the Newsweek-owned Daily Beast, or the puerile random listicle generator known as Buzzfeed, and peruse the invective-laden anti-Russian, anti-Putin screeds contained therein. These hysterical publications serve a function; that function is to convince members of the American public who might balk at militarism that today's Russia is a dangerous, dirty, backward, evil place, and its leader is some amalgamation of Dr. Evil and Emperor Palpatine.

Unlike during the lead-up to the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, where the left took the lead in opposing the Bush administration's reckless Middle East policy, American liberals have more or less given Obama a free hand in his dealings with Russia and the Evil Putin. Liberals opposed the Iraq War, and spent many an hour arguing with Bushies about the errors of his foreign policy. It just so happens that these individuals turned out to be right, but their insistence on facts, logic, and commitment to the truth have gone out the proverbial window when it comes to Russia and Ukraine. "Putin is just like Stalin," my earnest, well-educated, liberal friends tell me. "His next target is Moldova and he hates gay people and Pussy Riot and now he wants to use prison labor to build the World Cup venues and he hates all women and doesn't support women's rights. I don't understand why you are so pro-Russian." I am pro-Russian because I can tell the difference between right and wrong. I can also realize when a country and a leader are being demonized to further an American geopolitical agenda. Furthermore, I can see that the more the United States tries to create some philosophical difference between the U.S. and Russia as existed during the Cold War, the more the former opens itself up to critique.

Comment: See also: 'Pussy Riot', the U.S. State Department and Economic Shock Therapy

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Sepp Blatter to resign as FIFA president


RT
Tue, 02 Jun 2015 17:45 UTC
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© Reuters/Ruben SprichFIFA President Sepp Blatter arrives for a news conference at the FIFA headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland, June 2, 2015.

Comment: One can't help but wonder if Blatter's resignation is a result of pressure from the U.S. over his insistence that Russia will host the 2018 World Cup. It certainly appears as though Russia hosting the World Cup in 2018 is now decidedly up in the air.


Sepp Blatter has said he will resign as president of football's governing body, FIFA, at an extraordinary congress of the organization. The sensational announcement comes just four days after Blatter was reelected as FIFA boss for a fifth term.

"I cherish FIFA most of all and always try to do the best for football and the organization," Blatter said at a press conference in Switzerland. "I decided that I should keep running in elections. The election now is over, but the challenges remain. FIFA needs restructuring, the FIFA delegates have given me the mandate. But it is not supported by other members of FIFA, fans, clubs. Those who inspire FIFA like we do.Therefore, I ask to convene an extraordinary congress as soon as possible to elect my successor."

Blatter, who took charge of world football in 1998, said he would be carrying out the duties of FIFA president until the extraordinary congress.

The new congress will take place between December 2015 and March 2016, the chairman of FIFA's audit and compliance committee, Domenico Scala, has said. He has taken the floor after Blatter.


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Reports of food poisoning at homeless shelter in Salt Lake City, Utah; 50 people taken to hospital

Mark Green
Fox13
Mon, 01 Jun 2015 12:14 UTC
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About 50 people were taken to Salt Lake City hospitals Sunday night after reports of food poisoning at a homeless shelter, and some individuals were transported by bus due to the high volume of patients; firefighters said there don't appear to be any serious illnesses as a result of the incident.

Jasen Asay, Salt Lake City Fire Department Spokesman, said about 50 individuals from the Road Home Shelter, located at 210 South Rio Grande, were taken to nearby hospitals. He said they evaluated the patients and transported some by ambulance and others who were less ill by bus.

"This evening around 9:30, the Salt Lake City Fire Department responded to several reports of food poisoning here at the shelter at 210 South Rio Grande," he said. "When our crews arrived, they started evaluating some people down here at the shelter, started noticing that a lot of them were suffering from symptoms similar to food poisoning."

The patients were taken to hospitals for treatment of symptoms that included vomiting and nausea.

"We've transported approximately 50 patients from both the men's shelter and the women and family shelter to the hospital in minor condition, no real serious injuries, but a lot of discomfort," Asay said.

Asay said they evaluated numerous patients and transported about 50 of them, and he added that more patients may have sought treatment at hospitals prior to when first responders were dispatched.

The exact cause of the illnesses remains unknown.
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