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Nigeria: Food prices jump an average 50% as fuel costs jump three-fold


Punch (Nigeria)
Sun, 24 Apr 2016 19:33 UTC
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A marketplace in Lagos, Nigeria
Following the persistent shortage in fuel supply and the harsh economic climate, there has been an average of 50 per cent hike in the prices of consumer goods and buyers are complaining bitterly.

In some Lagos markets visited by our correspondent, including Oyingbo, Iddo, Mile 12, Alade and Ipodo, prices of some food items like tomato puree, rice, vegetable oil and seasoning had increased substantially.

Our correspondent found out at the Ipodo Market that a carton of Indomie was sold for N1,500 as against the former price of N1,000; a retail pack of Gino tomato puree (70gm), formerly offered at N1,250, went for N2,700, while a five-litre keg of vegetable oil previously sold for N1,800 was offered for N2,500.

Similarly, the price of a small bag of Semovita, which before now was N900, has gone up to N1,500. The big one is also selling for N2,400 instead of N1,800.

A small tuber of yam that sold for N250 before is now going for between N450 and N500.
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Sheriff

Colorado: Entire police force quits; town does not descend into chaos

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Sat, 23 Apr 2016 18:52 UTC
police state
Without giving any reason whatsoever, the entire Green Mountain Police department in Colorado has quit.

The chief of police announced his resignation on Tuesday and he was quickly followed by all the other officers. It has now been 4 days and, remarkably, the town of Green Mountain Falls does not look like a scene out of Mad Max.

"In an election year there's always some people who choose to stay and some people who choose to go, and I think that happens at every level of government," Green Mountain Falls Mayor Jane Newberry said.

Despite giving no reason, it is likely that the department disagreed with the local politics and reacted by abandoning their duty as public servants — thereby illustrating the irrelevance of their job in the first place.

Comment: Surely, the authoritarian followers will be clamoring for protection and rule enforcement soon enough.

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Stop

Disintegrating society: High school teaching aid attacks, wrestles student to the ground in one-sided brawl


RT
Sun, 24 Apr 2016 17:25 UTC
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© H. Nelson Goodson / YouTube
A teaching aide has been arrested in Milwaukee after he saw red and wrestled a 14-year-old boy to the ground in a violent classroom altercation caught on camera.

Students at Bay View High School watched as their biology lesson turned into a one-sided brawl involving a pupil and a teaching assistant.

The angry clash kicked off during an argument between the pair, and was filmed on a camera phone by another student, eyewitnesses told CBS News.

Shot from under a school desk, the shaky clip shows the unidentified 14-year-old boy appearing to raise his leg, before being pushed into a row over chairs by his teaching aide and onto the floor.
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Black Cat 2

Symbolic? Major US cities struggle with growing rodent problems


RT
Sat, 23 Apr 2016 03:31 UTC
rats
Cat lovers, prepare to gloat. Several major US cities have seen a serious uptick in rat-related complaints. Residents of Boston, Chicago, New York, and Washington, DC are growing frustrated with the surge in the rodent populations.

Major US cities are seeking new and creative ways to curtail their rat populations as complaints continue to roll in. The number of grievances in Boston tripled in the first quarter of 2016, while reports of rodents increased by 70 percent in Chicago and 39 percent in New York City, USA Today reported.

Washington, DC was previously headed towards a four-year decline in rat complaints, but the national capital's current trend seems inclined to ruin that streak, with 699 complaints as of April 15 compared to 2,004 complaints for all of 2015.

What is behind the spike in the rat populations? To start, the mild winters have not helped. In addition, seemingly minor transgressions common to city life - such as dog waste, open trash, and feeding other outdoor animals - can benefit rats.
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Family

Powerful gas blast in northern France leaves one dead, 4 injured


RT
Sat, 23 Apr 2016 03:07 UTC
gas explosion France
© Regis Duvignau / ReutersFrench firefighters
A strong explosion caused part of a residential building to collapse in the town of Nonacourt in northern France, killing one resident and injuring at least four.

One person died when they were buried under the rubble of the building, the town's sub-prefect reported according to AFP.

"Rescuers have managed to identify the person who was buried from under the rubble, but he passed away. According to our information, nobody else should be under the rubble, but we will continue removing it until the whole area is cleared," he is quoted as saying.

Le Point, citing police sources, reports that four people have been injured.
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Fire

Fire crews responding to blast, fire - train evacuated at Washington, DC metro station


RT
Sun, 24 Apr 2016 02:25 UTC
explosion, washington dc
© Google
Washington DC's Tenleytown and Friendship Heights Metro stations were evacuated after reports that an explosion in a mechanical room had caused a fire and heavy smoke. Witnesses describe a chaos and poor communications by metro staff.

People reported hearing blasts and seeing flames and smoke underground.

Social media messages described the panic on a smoke-filled Red Line train.
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Stormtrooper

Cop picks up a 2X4 at a shelter and beats 3 dogs, killing one: Report

John Vibes
The Free Thought Project
Sat, 23 Apr 2016 21:24 UTC
rock
© MCAS Rock, a 5-year-old pit bull mix, was euthanized at the Montgomery County Animal Shelter Saturday
An off-duty police officer was recently accused of brutally assaulting 3 dogs with a large wooden board while visiting an animal shelter with his family to adopt a dog.

Staff members at Montgomery County Animal Shelter said that they were not involved in the incident, but allegedly, the officer let at least three different dogs out of their pens and into an exercise area where the animals began to fight.

The officer has not been officially named by the media or the police department.

According to the staff, fights sometimes do occur, but they usually avoid having the dogs in the same area so they can bypass that problem.

Comment: We would guess he is probably not fit to be responsible to protect and serve humans either.

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Cell Phone

The zombie apocalypse is here: People have merged with their smartphones


Truthstream Media
Sat, 23 Apr 2016 20:57 UTC
smartphone merger
Have you looked around lately? The zombie apocalypse is already here. It's as if people have merged with their smartphones, as if the device is now a part of their bodies like another hand or another foot.

Reality is becoming a little less real by the day. Can you even imagine what it will be like when virtual reality hits the mainstream?

Comment: This may (or may not) help: The Complete Guide to Breaking Your Smartphone Habit

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Handcuffs

Outrageous: UK govt pushing for 10-year web piracy sentences


RT
Sat, 23 Apr 2016 18:56 UTC
matrix computer
© Alexandr Kryazhev / Sputnik
The UK could impose extremely harsh punishments for online copyright infringement, as the government has confirmed it is pushing for legislation that would increase the maximum sentence for web piracy to 10 years behind bars.

Baroness Lucy Neville-Rolfe, the Minister for Intellectual Property, has confirmed that the British government is leaning toward the idea of increasing the sentence to bring it into line with that for physical infringement.

"Last year the government consulted on increasing the maximum term to 10 years. We received over a thousand responses, which have played a significant part in helping to shape the discussion," she stated in a document published on Thursday.

"As a result we are now proposing changes that include increasing the maximum sentence, but at the same time addressing concerns about the scope of the offence."

Comment: More potentially draconian new legislation from the UK government. Despite Neville-Rolfe's caveats, this has the potential to be used to stifle dissent, to cover for mass media lies, and to censor civil society members whom the government fears. All this while serial political pedophiles are walking around free. How's that for priorities?

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Red Flag

The American bureaucrat's descent into madness

Sean Kerrigan
Activist Post
Sat, 23 Apr 2016 20:28 UTC
Bureaucratic insanity
In the United States today, a child can be charged with battery simply for throwing a piece of candy at a friend. Students can even be locked in solitary confinement for skipping school. Adults aren't much better off. The Supreme Court decided in 2011 that anyone arrested, even for an offense as minor as an unpaid traffic ticket, can be strip searched at the discretion of police. These authoritarian and merciless acts of force are just the tip of the iceberg in our authoritarian society, still cruelly nicknamed "the land of the free."

The number of rules and laws we are subjected to is comedically excessive. But what makes it so unbearable is that they are often enforced with a kind of insatiable, self-righteous venom. Increasingly, modern American bureaucrats - whether they be police, teachers, or government paper-pushers - are obsessed with conforming to rules and mercilessly punishing those who fail to comply.

Comment: Another name for these micro-managing rule enforcers is authoritarian follower. Since they have no moral exoskeleton of their own they need strict rules to keep themselves in line and force their worldview onto others.
It becomes clear why such people - with intense moral concerns combined with a reliance on external moral structures to keep one's own forbidden impulses in check - would support a state that enforces moral rules and a social culture that stigmatizes those who violate those rules. It really is a threat to them - a threat to their own inner moral order - when the society around them fails to be clear in its rules and strict in its enforcement. ...

It is their dependence on the strength and integrity of the external moral order that drives many "exo-skeletons" to crusade to make the whole world around them conform to the moral system to which they themselves are striving to adhere. The unspoken - and generally unacknowledged - need is: please, society, be morally strict enough to keep me on the straight-and-narrow path."


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