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Hamilton couple refuse to tell foster kids Easter Bunny is real, CAS shuts down home: court docs

Rik Zamperin
Global News
Thu, 13 Apr 2017 00:41 UTC

The Children's Aid Society of Hamilton is being accused of shutting down a foster home over the Easter Bunny.

Derek and Frances Baars have filed a court application alleging the Hamilton CAS violated their Charter Rights by closing down their foster home because the couple refused to tell the girls in their care that the Easter Bunny is real.

Marines United nude photos sold on dark web amid ongoing military scandal - report

RT
Wed, 12 Apr 2017 18:09 UTC

Photos of nude women including US service members, which first emerging on a Facebook page of a group by the name of Marines United, are now being sold on the dark web, according to a Daily Beast investigation.

The Daily Beast has discovered three more Facebook groups spawned from the original, adding to the handful created following the revelation of the original Marines United group last month.

Two new private shared drives have also been discovered, along with groups selling Marines United t-shirts and challenge coins, with people posting links or attempting to sell the images on the dark web.

One private group by the name of Marines United 214 responds to requests for nude photos by demanding payment with links to the dark web market AlphaBay, where the photos are also listed for sale.

Comment: See also:

'Blockrats' military banter site claims it had noble motive for posting pictures of soldiers' 'conquests'

Facebook group admin tries to justify posting nude female Marine photos

Hungary's Constitutional Court overturns village's controversial ban on mosques & headscarves

RT
Wed, 12 Apr 2017 16:47 UTC

© Csaba Segesvari / AFP
A woman rests beside the border fence near the border village Asotthalom, at the Hungarian-Serbian border.

Hungary's Constitutional Court has overturned a controversial ban on building mosques and women wearing Muslim headscarves that was imposed by the far-right mayor of Asotthalom, a Hungarian border town.

The judges also annulled Asotthalom's decision to prohibit muezzins from performing Muslim calls to prayer in public areas.

The restrictions "aim to limit directly the freedom of conscience and religion, as well freedom of speech," Hungary's top court ruled on Wednesday.

The anti-Islamic measures, which were imposed in November by Mayor Laszlo Toroczkai of the far-right Jobbik party, were challenged in court by Hungary's ombudsman for fundamental rights, Laszlo Szekely.

Public relations firestorm: United Airlines mercilessly trolled after passenger dragged from overbooked flight

RT
Wed, 12 Apr 2017 22:20 UTC

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The PR firestorm which engulfed United Airlines since a passenger was dragged off one of its overbooked flights shows no sign of being extinguished. In fact, the incident has inspired Twitter users to invent company mottos for the company.

The incident that sparked the debacle took place on United Flight 3411 from Chicago O'Hare International Airport to Louisville, Kentucky, on Sunday. Videos filmed by other passengers showed a man screaming and resisting as airport police forcibly removed him from his seat.

People across the world reacted with shock and outrage when the footage emerged. Since then, United's bungled attempts to address the incident have managed only to heighten public outcry.

The videos show the man being dragged down the aisle on his back with his stomach exposed. There's a significant amount of blood around his mouth and his body is limp.

Comment: Just deserts: United Airlines takes $800m hit in value after passenger dragged off plane

Heartless: Spanish professors arrested for selling fake cancer, Alzheimer's drugs

RT
Wed, 12 Apr 2017 19:10 UTC

Five people, including two academics, have been detained by Spanish police on charges of fraud, after allegedly selling a fake cancer drug that had neither sales authorization nor any proven beneficial effects.

Among those allegedly involved in the criminal scheme were two professors from the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB), who took "advantage of the academic and professional recognition brought about by their posts," a spokesman of the Palma de Majorca police department told AFP, without revealing any details about the professors' identities or their posts at the university.

One of the suspects reportedly created a non-profit foundation that he claimed was linked to the UIB. The two academics then supposedly promoted what they called a "miraculous anti-cancer product" they developed through advertising campaigns on social networks.

Police confirmed that the cancer drugs that were sold by the foundation created by the academics were in fact a "placebo" that has been never approved by the Spanish Agency of Medicines and Health Products (AEMPS).

India's Supreme Court shuts down cell tower after man claims EMF radiation gave him cancer

Dhananjay Mahapatra |
The Times of India
Wed, 12 Apr 2017 19:09 UTC

A 42-year-old domestic help will go down in history as the man who persuaded the Supreme Court to shut down a mobile phone tower on the ground that its electromagnetic radiation+ afflicted him with cancer.

Last year, Harish Chand Tiwari, who works at the residence of Prakash Sharma in the Dal Bazar area of Gwalior, moved the SC through advocate Nivedita Sharma, complaining that a BSNL tower illegally installed on a neighbour's rooftop in 2002 had exposed him to harmful radiation 24x7 for the last 14 years.

The order is likely to further fuel the debate over the effects of radiation from mobile phone towers+ with a section of activists feeling vindicated while the government argues there is no evidence to prove that the waves cause cancer.

Radiation from the BSNL tower, less than 50 metres from the house where he worked, afflicted him with Hodgkin's Lymphoma caused by continuous and prolonged exposure to radiation, Tiwari complained.

In a recent order, a bench of Justices Ranjan Gogoi and Navin Sinha said, "We direct that the particular mobile tower shall be deactivated by BSNL within seven days from today." The tower will be the first to be closed on an individual's petition alleging harmful radiation.

New 'gold rush' in California after wet winter

Sputnik News
Mon, 03 Apr 2017 03:42 UTC

An extremely wet winter in California has caused a lot of damage, but there are those who welcome the erosion brought about by the long rains: gold seekers.

Heavy winter rains have brought troubles for Californians, with the Oroville Dam spillway destruction and subsequent evacuation arguably the scariest. But the rains have also displaced a significant amount of topsoil and smaller rocks, providing new opportunities for those looking for gold.

According to a report by KPIX TV, heavy rains have washed out legacy gold mines, sending chunks of the metal down streams and rivers. Officials with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) told KPIX that erosion concentrates the heavier gold by removing the lighter rock and soil.

A mountain property owner, known as "Miner Gary" Thomas, who used to find some gold on his property now and then, said, according to KPIX, that now is the perfect time to look for gold.

California community college becomes first to pass Israel divestment resolution

Nora Barrows-Friedman
The Electronic Intifada
Fri, 07 Apr 2017 00:00 UTC

A community college in Cupertino, California, has become the first educational institution of its kind in the US to support a resolution in favor of divestment from companies that profit from Israel's violations of Palestinian rights.

The resolution, which the student senate passed on 15 March, urges the De Anza College's board of trustees to pull the college's investments from three US-based corporations that enable Israel's rights violations - Hewlett-Packard, Motorola Solutions and Caterpillar - as well as from G4S, the largest private security firm in the world. G4S has provided equipment and services to Israeli military checkpoints and inside prisons where Palestinians have been tortured. Due to mounting international boycott pressure, G4S announced last December that it was exiting most of its businesses with Israel, but remains co-owner of a police training center.

The resolution also calls on the community college to implement a socially responsible investment policy. In authoring the resolution, members of Students for Justice at De Anza investigated and discussed themes of mass incarceration, state violence and settler-colonialism from the US to Palestine, according to Sara Elzeiny, a Students for Justice member.

Comment: As student-faculty consensus calls for divestment increase, some campuses have been intimidated by the Anti-Defamation League to treat BDS efforts as "hostile events" that the universities should deem security threats. If BDS wasn't effective, there wouldn't be such intense blowback.

Bomb scare: Triple blasts near Borussia Dortmund football team bus - Update

RT
Tue, 11 Apr 2017 18:12 UTC

A bomb went off near the bus of the German football team Borussia Dortmund as it prepared to leave the hotel for their home Champions League quarterfinal game, the team has said. Police have confirmed that three explosions occurred, but did not say what exactly caused them.

The club said in a twitter post that there was "a bomb blast" close to the team bus, adding that the team players are now "in safety" and "no threat is posed to the stadium," where the quarterfinal was due to take place.

"We can confirm that there were three explosions near the Borussia team bus," police have announced. Large police forces have been deployed to the scene, the law enforcement added.

The wheel rims of the bus were destroyed by the blast and one person was injured, police announced.

The incident occurred around 19:00 (local time) (18:00 GMT) ahead of the team's Champion League quarterfinal game against AS Monaco.

Comment: Update

April 12 RT (11:39) and (17:12)

German police have searched the apartments of two suspects with Islamic backgrounds; one has been arrested and officials are attempting to secure an arrest warrant for the second. Letters found at the scene of the blast and one posted online, referenced Germany's involvement in anti-IS operations:

According to the German newspaper Sueddeutsche, it opens with: "In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful," and also mentions the Berlin attack.

It also references Germany's military involvement in surveillance operations against the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) as the reason for the attack, reports Reuters, citing Sueddeutsche.

It adds that athletes and other celebrities "in Germany and other Kreuzfahrer [Crusader] nations" would be on a "death list of the Islamic state" and this will apply until German Tornadoes are withdrawn and the American airbase is closed at Ramstein.

[..]

Investigators are also examining a second letter claiming responsibility for the attack that was published online on Tuesday evening by a group named Antifa, a so-called "anti-fascist scene," which claimed the attack was a "symbol for the policy of BVB [Borussia Dortmund]," reports Reuters citing Focus magazine, referencing neo-Nazi and racist fans of the club.

Hysteria! Sweden's best selling newspaper says 'ban cars to stop terror'

Virginia Hale
Breitbart
Wed, 12 Apr 2017 18:14 UTC

Cars and other vehicles "have turned into deadly weapons", and should be banished from cities to stop attacks like the one in Stockholm from happening in future, according to Aftonbladet editorialist Eva Franchell.

Crackdowns on immigration or extremist ideology are not the way forward when it comes to terror prevention, according to the veteran journalist, writing after Friday's terror attack in Stockholm left four people dead.

Instead, it is cars — which she calls "effective murder machines" — that Franchell says "must simply be removed from city centres and places where people gather, if people are to be protected in future".

Vehicles are "easy to steal, and so nothing has been able to stop their advance", writes Ms. Franchell.

"It just isn't reasonable that a big truck can be driven right into one of Stockholm's busiest streets on a Friday afternoon right before Easter."

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Society's Child

Hamilton couple refuse to tell foster kids Easter Bunny is real, CAS shuts down home: court docs

Marines United nude photos sold on dark web amid ongoing military scandal - report

Hungary's Constitutional Court overturns village's controversial ban on mosques & headscarves

Public relations firestorm: United Airlines mercilessly trolled after passenger dragged from overbooked flight

Heartless: Spanish professors arrested for selling fake cancer, Alzheimer's drugs

India's Supreme Court shuts down cell tower after man claims EMF radiation gave him cancer

New 'gold rush' in California after wet winter

California community college becomes first to pass Israel divestment resolution

Bomb scare: Triple blasts near Borussia Dortmund football team bus - Update

Hysteria! Sweden's best selling newspaper says 'ban cars to stop terror'

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