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US, Florida: Rally Calls for Dignity: TSA Screening Violates Citizens' Rights, Speakers Say


NWF Daily News
Fri, 29 Jul 2011 05:55 UTC

Following a wave of press coverage of the 95-year-old woman who was asked to remove an adult diaper in order to board a plane at Northwest Florida Regional Airport last month, radio host Burnie Thompson hosted a rally Thursday to protest passenger screening practices by the Transportation Security Administration.

"The last straw was the 95-year-old woman right here in our backyard," Thompson told about 130 people gathered at the Emerald Coast Convention Center for the American for Dignity rally. "We want no more humiliation and harassment."

Thompson said the TSA's screening tactics violate the Fourth Amendment, which protects citizens from unreasonable searches.

"Buying an airline ticket is not probable cause," Thompson said. "If it is reasonable to search an American who hasn't done anything, what would be unreasonable?"

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© Nick Tomecek / Daily NewsA rally for Americans for Dignity was held at the Emerald Coast Convention Center to protest TSA procedures in airports.
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Russia: Eight dead, one missing in Moscow River boat accident


RIA Novosti
Sun, 31 Jul 2011 13:44 UTC
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© Photo Denis VoroninMoscow River boat accident
Eight people drowned and one was missing on Sunday after a pleasure boat collided with a barge and sank in the Moscow River, the Emergencies Ministry said.

"Another body has been recovered. The fate of one person is still unknown," the ministry said.

Previous reports put the death toll from the boat sinking at seven.
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Africa: Mystery Toxin in Angola Schools


IOL News
Sat, 30 Jul 2011 10:55 UTC
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A wave of mysterious poisonings has hit hundreds over the last two days in Angolan schools.
Luanda - A wave of mysterious poisonings has hit hundreds over the last two days in Angolan schools, but police have yet to identify the toxin that has sown panic in the country, officials said on Friday.

About 300 students from both public and private schools have been hit by symptoms that include vomiting, headaches, sore throats and sometimes suffocation, said Renato Paulata, director of a public hospital in Luanda.

Two children are currently in "critical condition", he added.

Across Angola, nearly 570 cases have been recorded.

National police chief Elisabeth Rank Frank said on national radio that the poisonings were being taken extremely seriously.

"The police are aware of the situation. So far, they have no explanation for the phenomenon. We should take the time needed to conduct an investigation," she said.
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Cancer-stricken WTC worker gets $0 settlement check

Susan Edelman and Cynthia R.Fagen
New York Post
Sun, 31 Jul 2011 11:54 UTC
Edgar Galvis
© Angel Chevrestt'I thought it was a joke': Edgar Galvis, a Ground Zero worker who has throat cancer, holds the settlement check he got from a law firm.

Cancer-stricken Ground Zero worker Edgar Galvis has finally received a compensation check -- for zero dollars.

The 51-year-old Queens man, who suffered sinus problems and then throat cancer after months of removing toxic debris from the World Financial Center, was relieved to get a check in the mail for his court settlement with Merrill Lynch, whose offices he had cleaned.

But he was stunned when he saw the amount: $0.00.
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US: Two Planes Collide Over Alaska, 4 Dead


The Associated Press
Sun, 31 Jul 2011 05:20 UTC
Trapper Creek - Two single-engine float planes collided as they flew near an Alaskan lake and one of them crashed and burned, killing the four people aboard, authorities said. The second plane landed safely despite significant damage.

The Cessna 180 was destroyed by the impact and fire, Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor told The Associated Press.

"It was engulfed in flames on the ground," Alaska State Trooper spokeswoman Megan Peters said.

The crash around Amber Lake near Trapper Creek, 80 miles north of Anchorage, came nearly three weeks after another in-flight collision that remarkably left the 13 people aboard the two aircraft unhurt.

The second plane in Saturday's crash, a Cessna 206, sustained significant damage but was able to return to Anchorage International Airport and make an emergency landing, after the collision around Amber lake near Trapper Creek.
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Police kill 4 after blasts, attacks in China's west

Terril Yue Jones
Reuters
Sun, 31 Jul 2011 10:13 UTC
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© Reuters/Peter ParksThis file photo taken on July 10, 2009 shows Chinese soldiers marching behind a flag near the central mosque in Kashgar in China's farwest Xinjiang region. China's Xinjiang region was hit by a wave of violence at the weekend that saw 10 people killed by knife-wielding assailants and another four shot dead by police, state media and authorities said on July 31, 2011.

Police shot dead four "rioters" in China's far west on Sunday after at least three people, including a policeman, were killed in the latest in a series attacks in the region this month, the state-run news agency Xinhua reported.

Four suspects were caught and four others were being sought in the latest violence in Kashgar, in a region long beset by anti-Chinese sentiment from the native Uighur population.

Local sources had earlier said three people were killed on Sunday in an explosion, but witnesses reported that the three were hacked to death by the attackers, Xinhua said. Ten people including pedestrians and police were injured, it said.
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Israeli official resigns amid protests


Press TV
Sun, 31 Jul 2011 10:08 UTC
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Former Israeli Finance Ministry Director-General Haim Shani
Israeli Finance Ministry Director-General Haim Shani has resigned from his post as the Israeli people continue their protests against high costs of living and social inequalities.

"Recent events illustrate the problems I have outlined and support my view that under the current circumstances I cannot fulfill my role as Finance Ministry director as I see fit," Shani wrote in a letter to Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz on Sunday morning, Xinhua reported.

Tens of thousands of Israelis have in the past weeks protested against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's economic and social policies.

The demonstrators say they can no longer afford the sky-rocketing housing prices, which have jumped by 50 percent in recent years. They also call on the regime to curb the high costs of fuel, food and healthcare.

The protests revealed the deep frustration of the country's middle-class over the economy.

Moreover, some 150,000 Israelis marched in more than ten cities on Saturday, making it the largest demonstration being mounted in Tel Aviv. Many of the protesters, however, were arrested during scuffles with the police.
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Anti-regime rally held in Bahrain


Press TV
Sun, 31 Jul 2011 10:04 UTC
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Anti-regime protesters in the Saar area near the Bahraini capital, Manama
Anti-government protesters have held another rally in northern Bahrain, despite the regime's continuing crackdown on demonstrations.

The demonstrators in the northern village of Dair called on the ruling al-Khalifa regime to free all those Bahrainis detained during months of protests.

The protesters also rejected the results of the regime-backed "National Consensus Dialog" in Bahrain.

Facing countrywide anti-regime revolution, Manama launched the talks on July 2 with the alleged aim of introducing reforms in the governing system of the Persian Gulf sheikdom.

The largest Bahraini opposition group, al-Wefaq, quit the national talks in protest, saying the views and the demands of the opposition were ignored and the talks were dominated by pro-government representatives.

Al-Wefaq said that the opposition has been given too small a fraction of the seats -- 35 out of 300 -- at the talks.

Also on Friday, tens of thousands of Bahrainis took to the streets outside the capital city of Manama to condemn the results of the national dialogue, saying it had failed to address the people's demands and to bring real democratic reforms in the Middle Eastern country.
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Psychopath: Ex-FLDS member: Warren Jeffs "partially crazy"


CBS
Sat, 30 Jul 2011 20:06 UTC
The trial of polygamist leader Warren Jeffs has taken another strange turn. Jeffs stunned the courtroom by abruptly breaking his silence Friday.



After sitting silently during his sexual assault trial, CBS News Correspondent Hattie Kauffman reported, Jeffs suddenly sprang out of his seat Friday to make an objection - an objection that went on for 50 minutes and ended with a threat.

On "The Early Show," Elissa Wall, a former member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and Jeffs' compound, said she's not surprised by Jeffs' outburst.

Wall said, "I couldn't expect anything less from such an irrational, honestly, partially crazy leader as I knew him."
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More proof the Department of Homeland Security and TSA are actively destroying America

Madison Ruppert
Activist Post
Fri, 29 Jul 2011 19:20 UTC
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© FlickrA valiant TSA agent at work

While the deadline for the end of the political circus that is the debt ceiling debate rapidly approaches, the American government continues to flush millions of taxpayer dollars down the toilet.

One could easily set aside the almost never ending invasions of privacy carried out by the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration goons and still have a strong case against these cancerous government bodies.

One could also set aside the health implications and rapid rise in cancer associated with their pet naked body scanning technologies.
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