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'Asylum seeker' stabs Belgian priest at his home who let him in to shower, but refused to give cash


RT
Mon, 01 Aug 2016 14:21 UTC
Belgian priest Father Jos Vanderlee
© Twitter
A Belgian priest has been attacked by a man who claimed to be an asylum seeker. The perpetrator first asked Father Jos Vanderlee if he could take a shower and then demanded money. When the priest said no, the man stabbed him.

The incident took place in the small town of Lanaken, Limburg province, on the Belgium-Netherlands border on Sunday. The man who presented himself as an asylum seeker knocked on the door of Vanderlee's home, asking for a shower and help.

"He said he was going to ask asylum in the Netherlands," a spokesman for the Limburg prosecutor, Bruno Coppin, later said, as cited by Het Laatste Nieuws newspaper.
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Brazil sends 1,200 troops to city of Natal after gangs start all-out war on government


RT
Mon, 01 Aug 2016 14:06 UTC
Brazil firefighters
© Claudinha Gadelha / Facebook
The Brazilian government authorized sending 1,200 troops to the Rio Grande do Norte capital, Natal, to quell gang uprisings, now in their third day. Urban unrest exploded when the government decided to jam cellular coverage in a local prison.

So far 52 arrests have been made of people suspected of involvement in the attacks. According to Portalnoar, a total of 53 cases of debauchery and destruction of property were reported by Sunday night. Government and other buildings also sustained heavy gunfire. Unrest was experienced in 20 municipalities, according to the Secretariat of Security.

The situation was only beginning to show signs of calming down on Monday, authorities told Brazilian media. But people were tweeting worrying images amid confusion surrounding the hashtag #PrayForNatal, because so few people knew what was going on.
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Innocent bystander live streams his own arrest, cop says 'I'm gonna f**k you up!'

Matt Agorist
Free Thought Project
Sat, 30 Jul 2016 00:00 UTC
Syracuse cop
© YoutubeSyracuse cop eg. glorified thug
Maurice Crawley, 52, was live streaming on his Facebook page Thursday when he was attacked and arrested by jackboot thugs for practicing his First Amendment right.

Crawley had not committed a crime and had harmed no one when two officers from the Syracuse police department went out of their way to cross the street, assault and kidnap him.

The incident happened Thursday as Crawley was out on the streets holding police officers accountable by filming them. As Crawley is filming two officers arrest a motorist, he says, "see what's going on with these boys, make sure they're doing everything they're supposed to be doing."

Comment: For up to date reports of police brutality tune in to SOTT Radio network's 'Behind the Headlines' here every Sunday for the police state roundup.

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Snakes in Suits

Rape culture on campus: Baylor University coerced rape victims into silence by threatening them with code of conduct violations

Hannah Wise
Dallas Morning News
Sun, 31 Jul 2016 11:25 UTC
baylor
© Tony Gutierrez/Associated Press
The sexual assault scandal that took down Baylor University's president and revered football coach also found a problem with a bedrock of the school's faith-based education: a student conduct code banning alcohol, drugs and premarital sex that may have driven some victims into silence.

Investigators with the Pepper Hamilton law firm who dug into Baylor's response to sexual assault claims determined that the school's rigid approach to drugs, alcohol and sex, and "perceived judgmental responses" to victims who reported being raped "created barriers" to reporting assaults. Some women faced the prospect of their family being notified.

"A number of victims were told that if they made a report of rape, their parents would be informed of the details of where they were and what they were doing," said Chad Dunn, a Houston attorney who represents six women who have sued Baylor under the anonymous identification of Jane Doe.

The nation's largest Baptist university is a notably conservative place in one of the most conservative states in the country. Dancing on campus was banned until 1996. Fornication, adultery and homosexual acts were included in an official list of misconduct until May 2015, and the current policy stresses that "physical sexual intimacy is to be expressed in the context of marital fidelity."

Comment: It is unfortunately very common for large universities to handle rape accusations in this way. Not only is the "blame the victim" mentality practically de rigeur on college campuses, it is endemic in society as a whole. What you see here is the university officials just repeating the behavior they see authorities around the country take. There may have been a concerted effort to underplay and even demonize college rape stories in the wake of the much-publicized "A Rape on Campus" which was found to contain major holes, but despite those efforts there is vast evidence that a culture of rape exists not only on college campuses, but across the nation as a whole:

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Schoolboy questioned after teachers mistake his T-shirt slogan for ISIS propaganda


RT
Mon, 01 Aug 2016 12:34 UTC
UK school boy
© Ibraheem Abu Mustafa / Reuters
An eight-year-old schoolboy was questioned by British authorities after his teachers mistook a slogan on his T-shirt for Islamic State propaganda.

The child, from a school in East London, went to class wearing a top written with the words, "I want to be like Abu Bakr al-Siddique" - the first Caliph of Islam - but teachers instead confused the name with Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of terrorist group Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL).

The boy was also asked about his faith and whether he believed Christians go to hell when they die, along with what TV programs he liked.

Social services informed the boy's mother that they had recorded a "form of caution" against her son and it remains unclear whether this will affect him in future.
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Barbaric double honor killing: Pakistani man murders his two sisters on eve of weddings


RT
Mon, 01 Aug 2016 12:22 UTC
Pakistan women protesting
© AFP
A Pakistani man killed his two sisters the evening before their weddings because they had chosen their own husbands, rather than settling for arranged marriages. It's the latest in a string of so-called "honor killings" to take place in Pakistan.

Nazir Hussain, 35, from Pakistan's central Punjab province, shot dead his two sisters on Friday. The two victims, 22-year-old Kosar Bibi and 28-year-old Gulzar Bibi, were set to get married the next day.

"The brother shot dead both the sisters yesterday and fled the site," police officer Mehar Riaz told AFP. "It is a simple case of killing for honor."

Hussain had objected to the nuptials, wanting the women to marry within the extended family rather than choose their own spouses, Riaz said.

The father of the family, Atta Mohammed, said his son had "ruined my family, he destroyed us, he destroyed everything," the Express Tribune reported.

Hussain is now on the run, and a police search is underway.

Comment: This practice is so barbaric that to say it is "honor' killing lacks any humanity whatsoever.

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India sends 16,000kg of food to starving workers in Saudi Arabia after mass layoffs


RT
Mon, 01 Aug 2016 10:37 UTC
immigrants
© AFPForeign laborers outside the Saudi immigration offices.
Over 10,000 starving Indian workers in Saudi Arabia have received 16,000kg of food from their own government, which was distributed in front of the India's consulate in the port city of Jeddah.

Over 10,000 Indian workers were laid off in Saudi Arabia after growth has slowed in the country, triggered by the negative effects of falling oil prices. The workers were left without any money to buy food or travel back to India. They asked their government for help.

The desperate situation came to light after India's Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj said "large numbers" of Indians had been laid off in Saudi Arabia.

Swaraj appealed to the Indian community on Twitter to "help your fellow brothers and sisters." "I assure you that no Indian worker rendered unemployed in Saudi Arabia will go without food," she wrote.
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Psychopaths? Parents charged with child abuse after forcing child to stand on pavement barefoot in 110 degree weather

Peter Holley
Washington Post
Sun, 31 Jul 2016 10:29 UTC
mark sarah simmons
© Maricopa County Sheriff’s OfficeMark and Sarah Simmons
On July 12, the high in Phoenix was 110 degrees, according to Weather Underground.

That's not quite hot enough to effectively fry an egg on the street, according to The Washington Post, but it is hot enough to severely burn the bottom of someone's feet.

Police said that's exactly what happened when Mark Simmons decided to punish his 6-year-old son by "taking the boy outside and making him stand barefoot on the ground in the backyard as punishment," according to court records cited by ABC affiliate KNXV-TV.

Simmons also allegedly told police that he used a belt to whip the child, leaving him with bruises.

On camera, KNXV-TV reporter Sonu Wasu demonstrated that she could barely endure the blazing Phoenix concrete for more than a second or two.

Police claim Simmons's child was forced to stand outside for about 10 minutes, the station reported.
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Four dead after medical plane crashes in northern California; pilot declared 'smoke on board'

Madison Park and Joe Sutton
CNN
Sat, 30 Jul 2016 13:43 UTC
medical plane crash in California
A medical transport plane crashed in northern California killing all four people on board Friday.

Around 12:30 a.m. local timeFriday, the Piper Cheyenne aircraft containing three crew members and one patient departed from airport in Crescent City, California -- about 20 miles south of Oregon.

The plane, which is part of Cal-Ore Life Flight's fleet, was headed for Oakland International Airport, located about 400 miles south.

By 1 a.m., the pilot declared an emergency indicating that there was smoke onboard, said Lt. Wayne Hanson of the Humboldt County Sheriff's Department. Five minutes later, communication with the plane was lost, according to Cal-Ore Life Flight.

Search teams from several agencies including the Coast Guard, Humboldt County Sheriff's Department and Cal Fire fanned the area trying to locate the crash site. Around 10 a.m., rescue teams found the wreckage just north of McKinleyville, California. But there were no survivors. The plane crashed in a rural, mountainous area, so no one on the ground was hurt, said Hanson.

"This is one of the saddest moments in our history," said Cal-Ore Flight in a statement. "First and foremost, our thoughts and prayers are with the families of the patient and our crew members.

"A transport medic, a flight nurse, a patient and the pilot had been onboard, according to CNN affiliate KIEM-TV in Eureka, Calif. The company stated that it could not release the identities of the deceased until they receive confirmation from local authorities.

Comment: There was another fatal plane crash in California last week. See also: Columbia Airport, California: 4 dead in fiery plane crash

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Blooming only once a decade, fetid corpse flower overwhelms New York Botanical Gardens visitors

Nicole Puglise
The Guardian
Fri, 29 Jul 2016 02:02 UTC
corpse flower
© Kathy Willens/Associated PressLike a decomposing body, the inside of the flower heats up to help distribute the smell.
One of the world's largest flowers, Amorphophallus titanum takes around a decade to bloom and promptly dies two days later in a foul-smelling crescendo

On Friday morning, visitors to New York's botanical garden in the Bronx gathered together and began to sniff. They were there to witness one of the world's largest and smelliest flowers - Amorphophallus titanum, also known as the corpse flower - bloom.

"It smells like lettuce when you take it out of the bag," a woman yelled from the crowd of onlookers in the Enid A Haupt conservatory. "It smells like the aquarium. Like the penguin enclosure," another added. The odor came in waves as onlookers jostled for the best spot to take photos and selfies with the giant flower. Some left holding their noses.

Kathryn, an 11-year-old plant enthusiast, said it smelled like her cat's litter box but sharper. Her six-year-old brother, Toby, said it smelled worse than "one thousand pukes". Like many others, the young girl watched an online live stream of the plant all week anxiously waiting for its petals to open.

Friday marked the first time the flower, which takes around a decade to bloom and then dies after 24-36 hours, appeared in the city since 1939. The blooming was highly anticipated due to the "gross-out factor" and the flower's rarity, said Marc Hachadourian, director of the Nolen Greenhouses at the garden. Its petals began to creep open on Thursday afternoon.
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