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Outspoken Turkish writer who discovered Erdogan lied about university degree found dead


Katehon
Fri, 22 Apr 2016 17:38 UTC
Ergun Poyraz
Turkish writer Ergun Poyraz pictured at left being taken to court by counterterrorism police
Turkish writer Ergun Poyraz, who had earlier said that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has no actual higher education and as president he recived this education illegally, is found dead.

Poyraz organized an investigation that proved that Erdogan's diploma is a fake and he did not study at the university. Poyraz published the original version of Erdogan's diploma, which he allegedly wrote while studying at Marmara University. It turned out that the diploma is dated when the University of Marmara was not existent.

It should be noted that the 4-year college education is mandatory for the election of the President of Turkey.

Turkish party "Salvation of the people" on the basis of the investigation lead by Poyraz appealed to the court, stating that Erdogan presented a fake diploma to participate in the elections.

Poyraz soon began to face various difficulties in Turkey. Now, he was found dead.
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Irish prisoner released from Iraq prison, fought IS with Kurdish YPG


RT
Sun, 24 Apr 2016 15:31 UTC
Joshua Molloy
© www.irishtimes.comJoshua Molloy, former prisoner of the Kurdistan government.
An Irishman who fought against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) in Syria has been released from an Iraqi prison after being detained there for 10 days for allegedly crossing into the country illegally. Joshua Molloy, 24, from County Laois, was detained in a prison in Erbil along with two British citizens, Jac Holmes, a former IT worker from Bournemouth, and Joe Ackerman, a former British soldier from Halifax. The men were crossing the border from Syria into Iraq, when they were arrested by the Kurdistan regional government.

British diplomats based in Iraq had been working to secure the release of all three men, according to The Irish Times. The Irish foreign minister confirmed Molloy's release Sunday morning. The Irish foreign ministry confirmed to RT that they are continuing to provide consular assistance to the Irishman, but had not determined when he would return to Ireland as "flight options are limited."

Molloy, a former British soldier, traveled to Syria in April 2015 and fought against ISIS alongside the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG). He was trying to make his way home to Ireland at the time of his arrest. He told The Irish Mail on Sunday, who interviewed him before confirmation of his release, that he went to Syria to protect innocent people in the face of ISIS: "All those terrible things were happening to Yazidis and we weren't doing anything about it so I decided to come and help them."

He said he was aware of the risk entering Iraq, and had a message for other fighters considering going to Syria: "Tell them don't go. Just don't go."

The young man appeared frail and exhausted, according to the Irish Mail article, and was sharing a cell with many other people. Meanwhile his father, Declan Molloy, said he and his family were "jumping for joy" when news of his son's release was broken to him Saturday night.

He said he spoke to his son Sunday morning via Facebook and that he was "fine", but would need some time alone after his ordeal.His father previously insisted on Irish radio that his son was "not a mercenary", but a "volunteer" who"sees this as a humanitarian crisis more than anything".
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Wisconsin school shooter killed by police after injuring two students at prom

Jonathan Anderson and Nathan Vine
USA Today
Sun, 24 Apr 2016 16:27 UTC
antigo high school
© Jacob Byk/USA TodayPolice tape cordons off an area outside Antigo High School, the site of a shooting that left the perpetrator dead and two others injured, April 24, 2016.
The man who shot two students at Antigo High School's prom late Saturday had been bullied since at least middle school and had expressed an interest in guns, according to a former classmate.

Jakob Wagner, 18, fired a rifle at the two students outside the school around 11 p.m. Saturday before police shot him. He later died at a hospital, while the victims survived with non-life-threatening injuries, according to authorities.

While investigators on Sunday were trying to piece together what prompted the shootings, a former classmate of Wagner's said that the man seemed like a nice, but socially awkward and troubled student when in school.
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How young women are helping to rebuild Nepal: This community will not crumble

Chris Sowton
Reuters
Sun, 24 Apr 2016 17:22 UTC
Dil Kumari.
© PHOTO/Global Action NepalDil Kumari, 12, ran away and worked as a cleaner in a restaurant in town, but is now back in her village of Lamjung and attending school, thanks to a mentoring programme.
The story in Lamjung, a district in Nepal's middle hills, where the landscape begins to yield to the high Himalayas, is an all too familiar one.

Rather than go to school, girls are often expected to help with the household chores or look after younger siblings, and even if they are able to attend, face more challenges in completing a full cycle and thence gaining meaningful employment.

These challenges were hard enough prior to April 25, 2015 - the day the first major earthquake hit Lamjung and many other districts - and since then, the situation has only got harder.

Comment: See also: Nepal quake survivors face threat from human traffickers supplying sex trade

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Connecticut man arrested for Trump rally bomb tweet


RT
Sun, 24 Apr 2016 16:01 UTC
Sean Taylor Morkys
© Connecticut State Police / FacebookSean Taylor Morkys
A 20-year-old man was arrested by Connecticut cops after allegedly tweeting that, if no one else was up to the task, he would have to bomb a Donald Trump campaign rally on Saturday. A follow up tweet warned his family to leave the Waterbury event.

Connecticut State Police were acting on information from the US Secret Service, who spotted the tweets and contacted the counter-terrorism office.

According to police, the first tweet, read: "Is someone going to bomb the Trump rally or am I going to have to?"

The tweet, later deleted from the account, was followed by a second that apparently warned the suspect's family to leave the campaign event in Waterbury to avoid harm.
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Deputy police chief and his family beaten to death in Southern Russia, 7yo girl in coma


RT
Sun, 24 Apr 2016 11:20 UTC
Andrey Gosht
© RTAndrey Gosht
A deputy chief of the Samara Region police in southern Russia has been found murdered alongside with five of his relatives in their village house. They were reportedly beaten to death. The only survivor of the attack, a 7-year-old girl, is in a coma.

The incident took place in the Ivashovka village in Samara Region on Sunday. Forty-nine year-old Andrey Gosht and members of his family died of multiple injuries.

According to the local media, the victims were beaten to deaths by clubs. The killed family members were identified as Gosht's parents, his brother, the brother's wife and their daughter.

The only survivor of the attack is a 7-year-old girl. She was taken to hospital with injuries to her head and other parts of the body. She is now in a coma, officials said.

Gosht was deputy head of police of Samara region. Before that he had served as police chief of Syzran, the third largest city in Samara region.

Russia's Investigative Committee has started investigating the murder.
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Why the U.S. will not likely survive the next century

Alvin Conway
The Extinction Protocol
Sun, 24 Apr 2016 13:08 UTC
fall of the republic
America is in the advanced stages of a moral and cultural rot. The country is $19 trillion dollars in debt and is ruthlessly spending and printing its own way to financial oblivion. It is suffering from hegemony and military overreach with its 662 military bases, scattered across some 38 different countries. If the U.S. is not inciting revolution and anarchy across the globe in the name of democracy, it is deployed directly in conflicts or has military advisers on the ground to puppeteer the conflict towards its own favorable ends. 43% of all U.S. citizens are obese. Its borders are unsecured - with a 40% increase seen in illegal immigration since 2014 along.

While the debates continue on exactly what to do about the immigration problem or should fences be built along the US-Mexican border, ISIS continues to exploit the situation to potentially transport foreign Islamic terrorists unto American soil. According to Covenant Eyes, an internet search group, 1 out of 5 mobile searches on the internet involves pornography.

Illegal drugs continue to be both manufactured and transported into the U.S. with no apparent way of halting or stopping the flow. In the US alone, more than 15 million people abuse prescription drugs, more than the combined number of people who reportedly abuse cocaine, hallucinogens, inhalants and heroin. If the war against drugs can't be won, what luck will we ever have winning the war on terror? Does anyone remember who won Lyndon B. Johnson's famed war on poverty? Regardless, let's throw some more taxpayers' money at an issues that money alone can't fix.
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Family of police shooting victim, Tamir Rice, will receive $6 million from the city of Cleveland


RT
Mon, 25 Apr 2016 15:38 UTC
Justice for Tamir Rice
© Ken Blaze/Reuters
The city of Cleveland will pay $6 million to the family of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old boy fatally shot by police in 2014, based on a settlement agreement that allows the city to avoid a high-profile federal civil rights trial.

Lawyers for Rice's family said Monday that " no amount of money can adequately compensate" for the boy's loss.

"In a situation like this, there's no such thing as closure or justice," attorneys Jonathan S. Abady and Earl S. Ward in a said statement, according to the New York Times. "Nothing will bring Tamir back. His unnecessary and premature death leaves a gaping hole for those who knew and loved him that can never be filled."

The agreement, which must still be approved by a probate court, was announced early Monday. The city of Cleveland - including officers and police dispatchers involved in the incident - does not admit any wrongdoing based on the terms of the settlement, according to reports.
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Apparent arson attack in Sweden burns down future home for refugee kids


RT
Mon, 25 Apr 2016 15:14 UTC
sweeden refugee home arson
© Adnan Abidi / Reuters (file photo)
A building that was to be repurposed into a home for refugee children has been set ablaze in a second apparent arson attack in the east of Sweden. Firefighters managed to contain the fire, but not before it devoured the former school building.

Firefighters were still at the scene Monday morning in the city of Haernoesand, according to Aftonbladet daily, after receiving a call at 4am. No one was injured in the incident, though the building was totally destroyed. An investigation has been launched, while the incident was classified as an arson, according to local media.

Sweden is refurbishing old buildings to house arriving refugees, 163,000 of whom came to the country in 2015, making it the European Union's most active asylum host, with most arrivals per capita.

The former school was to be made into accommodation for children unaccompanied by parents. But apparently not everyone agrees with the policy on welcoming refugees: the same building was targeted in a failed arson attempt on April 9.

Comment: The inmates are taking over the asylum. What kind of heartless "people" deny children a safe place from strife and war?

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White House economists admit that prison time for victimless crimes devastates the economy

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Mon, 25 Apr 2016 15:11 UTC
prison vs school
On Saturday, economists in U.S. President Barack Obama's administration released a report detailing the adverse effects on the economy derived from locking non-violent drug offenders and criminals behind bars.

For decades, a guiding philosophy of authoritarians was that locking more people up would result in less crime. This has created a prison state in the U.S., which represents 4.4% of the world's population yet houses 22% of the world's prisoners.

Since 1980 alone, the US prison population has skyrocketed by nearly 5 times.

However, the negative effects of such a totalitarian approach to drug crimes and other victimless offenses is having a staggering economic impact on the United States.

Comment: There is only one beneficiary of the War on Drugs: The Prison Industrial Complex.

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