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Backfire: Blockade of Crimea turning into disaster for Ukrainian farmers


Sputnik
Sun, 27 Sep 2015 21:09 UTC
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© Photo: t.ks.uaKherson farmers protesting the collapse of prices resulting from Right Sector and Tatar activists' blockade of Crimea.
Entering its second week on Sunday, the Ukrainian food blockade of Crimea has 'borne fruit', forcing Ukrainian farmers dependent on the Crimean market to sell their goods for a pittance, destroying what remains.

News portal Kherson.net.ua has reported that the blockade, initiated by the Right Sector and by Poroshenko Bloc Rada MPs and self-proclaimed leaders of the Crimean Tatar community Refat Chubarov and Mustafa Dzhemilov, has forced farmers in the region of Kherson to sell off their produce at prices up to ten times below what they would normally get.

The news portal explained that with produce meant for Crimea being dumped on the local market en masse by truckers turned back at the border, there is literally no point in bringing their goods to market. The oversupply and the loss of the Crimean market, combined with exorbitant gas prices, has led to a situation where the farmers "are literally feeding products to their livestock."

Comment: Well Poroshenko didn't plan that out too well, as psychopaths tend to do.

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The truth about refugees, welfare queens and bleeding heart liberals

Shawn Henfling
Good Men Project
Sun, 27 Sep 2015 20:58 UTC
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We put up our walls and tune our televisions to “Reality TV” to escape the reality of our depravity.
Since when has caring about other people been a character trait to belittle and devalue? Since we've been told they're freeloaders. Takers. Usurpers. Useless. Undesirable. Worthless. There are a host of names we call people who need help. We lump them in with the very few people abusing the system. It makes us feel better about their lot in life. Belittling them makes us feel better about how much we have and how much they do not. We dehumanize the most vulnerable to make us less likely to feel pity or remorse for the way in which we look past them on our way to get another Pumpkin Spice Latte.

Not long ago I had the opportunity to visit Las Vegas for the first time. I saw the fountains, the lights, the splendor and magnificence of the architecture and man's triumph over Mother Nature. I witnessed people by the thousands gambling away their money and drinking away their sorrows. I watched in horror as the wealthy carrying their Michael Kors shopping bags stepped over seemingly near dead homeless people. I saw indoor canals full of water while people in California struggle through a drought. While many look upon Vegas with starry eyed wonder, I felt horrible for my inability to reconcile the wealth and staggering poverty both on display in equal amounts. I feel worse for having done nothing to help.

Comment: America's real welfare queens
The real welfare queens: Low wage employers shift labor costs to taxpayers by impoverishing employees

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Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei demands apology from Saudi Arabia over deadly Mecca crush


RT
Sun, 27 Sep 2015 13:49 UTC
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© www.breitbart.com"The Saudis must apologize to the Islamic Ummah and their bereaved families."
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran, says Saudi Arabia should apologize for the deadly crush in Mecca that killed 769 worshippers who were taking part in the hajj pilgrimage. The announcement was made on Khamenei's website on Sunday.

"This issue will not be forgotten and the nations will seriously follow it and the Saudis, instead of shifting blame onto others and incriminating this or that, must accept their responsibility and apologize to the Islamic Ummah and their bereaved families," Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said. "The Muslim world has many questions and the deaths of more than 1,000 people in this incident is not a minor issue; therefore, the Muslim world must think of a remedy to this issue," Khamenei added.
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© shamlnews.comDeaths in Mecca.
Tehran says at least 144 Iranians were killed during Thursday's stampede, while over 300 others are unaccounted for, including the country's former ambassador to Lebanon, Ghazanfar Roknabadi, Fars news agency reported. Iran believes the death toll from the tragedy could exceed 1,000.

Comment: An estimated 2 million participated in the Mecca pilgrimage gone awry of which the death toll is still rising. The human stampede is allegedly due to the convoy of the son of Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, escorted by 200 army forces and 150 police officers, forcing the on-foot pilgrims to rapidly and unexpectedly change directions, crushing hundreds to their deaths. Death estimates, two days ago, ranged from 717 to 1300 with injured at 863. There may be other causes that come to light but in the meantime it seems there is not enough blame to go around as each faction weighs in.

See also:

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83-year old man brutally assaulted by stranger in Santa Ana, California parking lot

John A. Moreno and Kirk Hawkins
KTLA
Fri, 25 Sep 2015 19:06 UTC
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Santa Ana police on Friday asked for the public's help in identifying an assailant who punched and kicked an 83-year-old man in a vicious attack that was captured on surveillance video. Surveillance video provided by the Santa Ana Police Department shows an assailant standing over an 81-year-old man after a vicious attack that left the elderly victim hospitalized.

The incident occurred after the victim pulled into a parking lot at 5015 West Edinger Avenue about 6:10 a.m., parked and exited his vehicle, the Santa Ana Police Department said in a news release.

Family members later gave the man's name as Tuyen Nguyen.In accordance with his morning routine, he was on his way to buy coffee and a newspaper, police Cpl. Anthony Bertagna said. Footage released by authorities shows Nguyen walking unassumingly when he is suddenly approached by another man, who punches him in the face.

In an attack that police detectives described as "without provocation," Nguyen then falls to the ground and is apparently punched at least two more times before being kicked by the assailant.


The elderly man was hospitalized at Fountain Valley Regional Medical Center, where he was treated for a brain hemorrhage and broken facial bones, according to relatives.

Comment: What a vile, disgusting disgrace of a human being.

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Sheriff's Department raid couple's organic farm and assault them both because they were considered "Constitutionalists"

William Grigg
The Free Thought Project
Sat, 26 Sep 2015 15:11 UTC
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After being profiled by Idaho's Gem County Sheriff's Office as potentially dangerous "constitutionalists" and assaulted by deputies in a guns-drawn, SWAT-style raid, Michael and Marcela Cruz have finally found peace and security from government-inflicted abuse - but they had to leave the "Land of the Free" to do it.

"Bear and I are happily living in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico," Marcela told the Free Thought Project on Wednesday, referring to Michael by his long-time nickname. (His new friends in Mexico call him "Oso.") Their choice of residence might strike some Americans as ironic, given that just a few months ago the U.S. State Department issued a travel warning advising tourists and businessmen to avoid Puerto Vallarta due to violent clashes between Mexican police and politically protected narcotics gangs.

The much-advertised - and, according to some analysts, much-exaggerated - dangers to be found in that Mexican tourist haven didn't intimidate a couple who had survived an unprovoked paramilitary home invasion in their tiny western Idaho town.
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Dollars

Reports of debtor's prisons spring up in Louisiana and New Hampshire; federal lawsuit filed

Brian Sonenstein
Mint Press News
Sun, 27 Sep 2015 14:49 UTC
A federal lawsuit in New Orleans, Louisiana, and a report by the ACLU of New Hampshire, document the practice of jailing people unable to pay their court debts, violating the due process rights of the poor by failing to provide them with legal counsel and ability-to-pay hearings.
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New Orleans

In New Orleans, a class action lawsuit was brought this month by five people charging the government with levying fines and court fees against poor residents without first assessing their ability to pay. According to Courthouse News, "An estimated 104,900 people, or more than a quarter of the population, [live] below the poverty line" in New Orleans. Half of all adult black men in the city are unemployed and receive no unemployment compensation.

In one case, officers in tactical gear allegedly stormed a family's home to collect court debt:

Comment: Not only is lady justice not blind, she is also very greedy. Despite debtor's prisons being illegal in the US since 1833, the poor continue to be the prey of the American injustice system.

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What human rights: Anonymous targets Saudi websites as teen awaits crucifixion for 'anti-govt activities'


RT
Sun, 27 Sep 2015 12:19 UTC
Anonymous
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Hacktivist group Anonymous has called out Saudi Arabia for its horrific human rights record by attacking the Gulf kingdom's government websites. The attack is in response to the upholding of a death sentence handed down to 17-year-old Mohammed al-Nimr.

Earlier in September, Nimr's final appeal to the Saudi courts was dismissed, and his sentence of death by crucifixion for alleged anti-government activities in 2012 can now be carried out at any moment.


Comment: Saudi Arabia is an example that humans don't have rights, only psychopaths in power do. See: Sadistic Saudi princes and Washington warmongers Vs Russia's civilizing force

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'Where are our boys?' Thousands rally in Mexico 1 year after 43 students kidnapped in Iguala


RT
Sun, 27 Sep 2015 00:24 UTC
anniversary of the disappearance of the 43 students from Mexico's Ayotzinapa College
© Henry RomeroDemonstrators take part in a march to mark the first anniversary of the disappearance of the 43 students from Mexico's Ayotzinapa College Raul Isidro Burgos, in Mexico City, September 26, 2015.
Thousands of people filled the streets of Mexico City on Saturday to remember 43 students presumed killed by a drug gang in 2014, after corrupt local police allegedly handed them over. Protesters are demanding a new probe from the Mexican government.

About 3,000 police officers were deployed in Mexico City, where the central avenues Paseo de la Reforma, as well as several other streets in the center, were blocked because of the mass demonstrations.

"Where are our boys?" and "We are lacking 43!" said the protest banners.

Comment: For more background on this tragic case, see also:

Mexicans protest and clash with police after government declares missing 43 students dead
In the wake of Murillo's press conference, Amnesty International issued a statement indicting the attorney general for failing to recognize or address the fact that the students' disappearance was a crime of the state, and not an isolated occurrence. It charged that the investigations into both the student disappearances and the June 2014 extrajudicial executions of 22 people by Mexican army soldiers in Tlatlaya, Mexico State, had been limited and incomplete, and accompanied by a refusal to question the collusion between the state and organized crime, which underlies these grave violations of human rights.
The Iguala Massacre - "You can't remain silent, the government can't remain in denial"
I have covered so many slaughters, I have seen so many ugly things in Mexico that I often say we've already hit bottom. But we haven't.... I have many doubts about where the bottom is. But I am sure that this (the massacre in Iguala) is a watershed for Mexico. You can't stop talking about this, about the corruption, the drug cartels. You can't remain silent, the government can't remain in denial.


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Police officer charged with first-degree murder of his infant son


Sputnik
Sun, 27 Sep 2015 03:55 UTC
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A Tennessee police officer was arrested Thursday for allegedly causing injuries that killed his infant son, according to law enforcement officials.

Christopher Warren Page, 28, of the Paris Police Department is facing charges of first-degree murder and aggravated child abuse, according to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.

TBI says baby Gunner Page succumbed to life-threatening injuries five days after they were inflicted while he was in his Puryear home on Sep. 2. The agency began investigating the incident immediately at the request of 24th District Attorney General Matthew Stowe.

"During the course of the investigation, agents developed information leading to Page as the individual responsible for his son's death," the TBI said.
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Australian tribunal finds workplace bully who unfriended colleague on Facebook guilty of bullying


RT
Sat, 26 Sep 2015 13:23 UTC
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Deleting a friend on Facebook could have serious consequences, after an Australian work tribunal found a woman in Tasmania, who unfriended a colleague on the social network following an argument, guilty of workplace bullying.

The Fair Work Commission ruled that Lisa Bird, who works at the View estate agency in Launceston, was guilty of bullying sales administrator Rachel Roberts. Bird was accused of showing a "lack of emotional maturity" for having the nerve not to say "good morning" to her colleague and subsequently deleting her from Facebook.

Bird decided to unfriend Roberts after an argument. Roberts had complained that Bird, the wife of the agency's principle, James Bird, had acted aggressively towards her in order to put her down in front of the other workers. Bird called Roberts a "naughty little schoolgirl for running to the teacher."

Roberts subsequently wanted to check the social network to see if her work colleague had written anything on the platform about the altercation. However, Roberts found that Bird had decided to delete her altogether.

"The 'schoolgirl' comment... is evidence of an inappropriate dealing with Ms Roberts which was provocative and disobliging. I am of the view that Mrs Bird took the first opportunity to draw a line under the relationship with Ms Roberts on 29 January 2015, when she removed her as a friend on Facebook as she did not like Ms Roberts and would prefer not to have to deal with her," the tribunal stated, as cited by the News.com.au.

Other complaints listed by Roberts include Mrs Bird failing to say hello to her in the morning and for not giving her copies of printouts, which were given to all the other staff members.

Comment: Bullies in the work place are adept and quite tactical. Kudos to the tribunal for recognizing a bully instead of blaming her victim.

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