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India: Tragic school bus accident kills 23 children and 3 adults

Shri Puri
Times of India
Tue, 10 Apr 2018 22:58 UTC
Himachal Pradesh bus accident
At least 23 children and two teachers were killed when a school bus plunged 328 feet into a gorge in Himachal Pradesh's Malkwal, on the Punjab border, on Monday afternoon. Kangra district officials fear the death toll may rise as 11 other children have been injured in the worst school bus accident in the region in recent years. The condition of at least three of the injured children, hospitalised at Pathankot in Punjab, are said to be serious. All the kids are between 5 and 14 years.

The bus belonging to the Wazir Ram Singh Pathania private school had left the campus at around 3 pm. It had barely covered 6 km when the driver is believed to have lost control of the bus, resulting in the fatal plunge. A local woman who had taken a lift on the bus a few minutes earlier was among the dead.

Officials said it would be difficult to ascertain the cause of the accident until they speak to the survivors and get more details. They have, however, registered a case against the driver Madan Lal, an ex-army man, who, too, was killed in the accident. He has been booked for rash driving and causing death by negligence under the Indian Penal Code.
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The divorce industry: Many states have laws that offer financial incentives to destroy families

Terry Brennan
The Daily Caller
Tue, 10 Apr 2018 22:20 UTC
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While it obviously takes money to raise children, existing child support laws create fatherless kids.

Calls to restructure child support aren't new as editorials have appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Denver Post, The Baltimore Sun, The Boston Globe, The Charleston Post And Courier and in a report by National Public Radio.

Examining how child support creates fatherlessness begins at the national level by, as the saying goes, following the money.

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Pistol

More than a dozen cops corner a homeless man holding a box cutter and kill him

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Mon, 09 Apr 2018 21:47 UTC
police shooting
A disturbing video was brought to the attention of the Free Thought Project this week showing more than a dozen heavily armed Portland cops corner, and then execute a man inside a homeless shelter Saturday night.

The Portland police chief is calling on citizens to reserve judgement after the video began going viral online. Chief Danielle Outlaw said in a statement that she was aware of a video taken of the incident and posted on the Internet, and asked the public to "please be reminded that deadly force investigations are extremely complex and take time."

According to police, officers were responding to a report of a crash Saturday night and learned that one of the vehicles in the crash was stolen in a carjacking the night before.

Police claim the man they killed, John Andrew Elifritz, a 48-year-old shipyard worker, was believed to be the driver of the car who had fled inside the nearby Cityteam Ministries Portland Shelter in southeast Portland. Police claim they were given reports that the man may be armed, however, police spokesman Sgt. Chris Burley, told reporters on Sunday that they have "yet to determine if he had a weapon at the time of the shooting."
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2 + 2 = 4

Support for first amendment erodes among college students

James Murphy
The New American
Tue, 10 Apr 2018 21:36 UTC
free speech
"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it," Evelyn Beatrice Hall once wrote. Hall's pithy, concise quote is considered by many to be the ultimate defense of free speech. It was a truism; something we all, liberal and conservative alike, agreed upon in America. But on American college campuses in recent years, it appears as if an unseen editor has added the clause "unless what you say offends me" to Hall's quote.

A recent Gallup/Knight Foundation survey gives some interesting insights into how today's college students view our First Amendment-protected rights.
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Info

Five men to compete as females in Boston Marathon, claiming to be transgender women

Warner Todd Huston
Breitbart
Mon, 09 Apr 2018 00:01 UTC
Rainbow Flag
© AP Photo/Ted S. Warren
Boston Marathon officials have announced that men claiming to be transgender women, will be allowed to compete in the women's category for this year's race, reports say.

Organizers of the famed race, which started in 1967 for men only, told the media that they will now allow people to register in whatever category they "specify themselves to be," according to ABC News.

"We take people at their word. We register people as they specify themselves to be," said Tom Grilk, chief of the Boston Athletic Association. "Members of the LGBT community have had a lot to deal with over the years, and we'd rather not add to that burden."

Comment: Probably nowhere is the insanity inherent in the rise of the transgenders more evident than in sports. How can it not be seen as an unfair advantage to have men (or former men) compete in the women's categories? How can these transgenders honestly feel they're competing among their peers when they so obviously have an advantage? It seems the label is more important to them than not being a cheater.

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Pirates

British member of ISIS head-chopping crew claims in interview 'I didn't chop anybody's head off'

Tim Hains
Real Clear Politics
Sun, 08 Apr 2018 20:50 UTC
El Shafee Elsheikh british jihadist beatle

El Shafee Elsheikh
A member of the ISIS cell dubbed 'The Beatles' told an interviewer that John Lennon probably wouldn't like that characterization very much, in a bizarre interview with Arabic Al'Aan TV reporter Jenan Moussa.

El Shafee Elsheikh, who grew up in the United Kingdom, was part of the group referred to as 'The Beatles' in British tabloids by surviving captives because of their English accents. Elsheikh was captured in eastern Syria in January by the Kurdish-led, US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces.

The group held more than 20 Western hostages - and beheaded several American, British and Japanese journalists and aid workers and a group of Syrian soldiers, boasting in brutal videos released online.

Comment: Ok, so let's see if we've got this straight.

You went over there to save people who were being oppressed... Then when you got there you realized they had a better life than you have in Europe, where you were 'oppressed by corruption'... So your advice to Muslims in the Middle East is to not go to Europe or you'll be corrupted.

So why the heck did you stay there destabilizing a stable situation that led to millions more Muslims going to Europe where they'd become corrupted by the West??

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Brazil, the Assassination of Justice; a Coup in a Coup

Stella Calloni
Resumen
Fri, 06 Apr 2018 00:01 UTC
Sergio Moro

Sergio Moro
Can a Federal Superior Court (TSF) in a country like Brazil function and hold sessions as if nothing had happened, after at least three generals, one of them the current Army Chief, publicly warned that if former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva did not go to jail, they would be "forced" to carry out a military coup?

After an assassination attempt against the former president last week in the state of Paraná, General Luiz Gonzaga Schroeder Lessa told the press in a threatening way that the TSF would induce violence in the country if Lula was not imprisoned and then he raised the possibility of a military coup d'état. Also General, Paulo Chagas, said that "our goal (the Armed Forces) is to avoid changing the law and to avoid the head of a criminal organization sentenced to 12 years in prison, to circulate freely, proclaiming hatred and class struggle." This is a clear connotation of cold war.

If something was missing a few hours before the STF's session, the head of the Army, General Eduardo Villas Boas, said that his force "shares the desire of all good citizens to repudiate impunity." Said more diplomatically, but the threat was the same.

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USA

Raging narcissism: Why American lives matter most

Donald Earl Collins
Al Jazeera
Sun, 08 Apr 2018 20:36 UTC
america first sign
© Brian Snyder/Reuters
A delegate waves a "Make America First Again" sign on the floor during the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, US
America's racism and narcissism is the reason why its foreign affairs are a mere projection of its domestic ills.

Twenty-five years ago, when I was a second-year graduate student at the University of Pittsburgh, I overheard a conversation between an instructor and an undergraduate student who had recently served during the Gulf War in 1991. The young veteran expressed disappointment that the powers-that-were had curtailed the military offensive, limiting the US-led blitzkrieg to Kuwait and southern Iraq. What he said to the instructor next had my ears burning. "We [the US military] should've turned the whole place [the Middle East] into a nice sheet of glass!" the young man said with glee.

While the instructor let go this student's quip about how the US and its Western allies should've considered nuking as many as 100 million humans as an alternative to Operation Desert Storm, I couldn't. It has always amazed me how easily Americans of every stripe could so easily write off people's lives the world over. And it's as true in 2018 as it was in 1993, as President Trump's newly appointed National Security Adviser John Bolton recently made the "legal case" for a pre-emptive attack against North Korea's nuclear weapons programme.
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Teaching British values might offend warns Scottish government


RT
Mon, 09 Apr 2018 09:25 UTC
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© Sydney Bourne / Getty Images
Is political correctness getting in the way of education? The UK security minister fears that it might be, after Scottish teachers were told not to use the term 'British values' in the context of terrorism, as the term may offend.

Security Minister Ben Wallace accused the Scottish National Party administration and Education Scotland of "putting PC politics before children's safety" over the directive.

The guidance issued to teachers highlighted "problematic language" that should be avoided in the classroom. The advice warned that the idea of British values might "cause offense and could play into the hands of groups who seek to assert that there is an inherent conflict between being British and being Muslim."

Comment: The general public - including Muslims - see no issue at all while the 'liberal, multi-cultural and politically correct', bureaucratic thought-police are getting themselves all in a tizzy, as usual. The serious issue here is that they hold the power to demand their irrational diktats be followed or risk losing your job: Also check out SOTT radio's: The Truth Perspective: Radical political correctness, liberal ideologies and the decline of modern civilization

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TV

North Americans take prime time slot: Watch over four hours of TV per day

Taimaz Szirniks, Fiachra Gibbons
AFP
Mon, 09 Apr 2018 19:41 UTC
american tv watching
© AFP Photo/Frederic J. BROWN
Americans gathered to watch the final presidential debate ahead of 2016 US election that Donald Trump went on to win
The average person around the world spent nearly three hours a day in front of their television last year, according to a report released Monday.

Eurodata TV Worldwide said that television viewing was holding up despite more and more people watching online platforms like Netflix and Amazon.

Americans and Canadians are the biggest TV addicts, said the report, watching four hours and three minutes on average daily.

European viewers came next watching three hours 49 minutes a day in 2017, just ahead of Russia and Brazil, the data gathered from 95 countries showed.

"The length of time people watch television is holding up despite the growing availability of online content," said its vice president Frederic Vaulpre as the report was presented at MIPTV, the world's biggest TV market in Cannes, France.

"There was a slight fall in TV viewing in North America and Asia, but it is still growing in South America and in Europe it is maintaining historically high levels," he added.

Comment: 4 hours per day is a lot of time to be spending in front of the mind control box. There is also something called a 'book' and 'outdoors'. Perhaps they should try it sometime.

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