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Braunschweig, Germany: Schools closed after emailed terrorist threat


RT
Mon, 05 Sep 2016 13:30 UTC
empty classroom
© Stefanie Loos / Reuters
Classes in nine schools in Braunschweig, a city in the German state of Lower Saxony, have been canceled following threats of terrorist attacks, sent by email overnight.

"The time when the attacks were supposed to take place has now passed," police spokesman Joachim Grande said, as cited by N24 news outlet.

The email threatened that the attacks would take place at 9am.

At least nine Braunschweig schools received the threats.

Classes were canceled in high schools, as well as corresponding elementary schools in the city, Braunschweiger Zeitung reported.

Comment: An anonymous bomb threat forced the closure of two schools in Bordeaux, France today as well. That's interesting.
Two schools evacuated in Bordeaux, France after anonymous bomb threat

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Tens of thousands of outraged Brazilians take to the streets against coup d'etat


RT
Mon, 05 Sep 2016 13:11 UTC
Brazil protests
© REUTERS/Fernando DonasciDemonstrators attend a protest against Brazil's President Michel Temer in Sao Paulo, Brazil, September 4, 2016. The sign reads ''Temer Out and Elections now'' in reference to President Michel Temer.
Mass protests have taken place across Brazil as tens of thousands took to the streets denouncing the "coup" that resulted in Dilma Rousseff's impeachment. The largest rally in Sao Paulo turned violent with police intervening to disperse the crowd.

Brazil has once again been rocked by a fresh series of large-scale protests. The largest demonstrations took place in cities like San Paulo and Rio-de-Janeiro, according to the Globo TV Channel. Smaller demonstrations were held in Curitiba and other Brazilian cities. Rallies were also staged in the capital Brasilia.

Demanding that President Michael Temer resign, some 50,000 people took part in the demonstrations in San Paulo, while several thousand participated in Rio de Janeiro, according to organizers' estimates. The official numbers have not been yet released. The demonstrators also called for new elections, shouting: "Out with Temer!"


Comment: Temer would hardly need to address the situation at the G20 summit if there indeed was only, "40, 50, 100 people". This is an absurd statement from an absurd man. Brazilians are justifiably outraged, and corrupt officials like Temer only know how to inflame the situation further. Let's see how that works out.

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Why do spiritual groups almost universally choose to vote Democrat? An open letter to 'new agers' on voting for Hillary Clinton


Cosmic Convergence
Wed, 31 Aug 2016 00:00 UTC
obama second coming
Dear Christian Mystics and Gnostic Christians,
Zen Buddhists and Tibetan Buddhists,
Sufis and Jains,
Kundalini Yogis and Siddha Yogis,
Transcendental Meditators and EST Practitioners,
Anthroposophists and Theosophists,
Kabbalists and Deists,
Pantheist and Wiccans,
Trappist Monks and Cistercian Monks,
Hindus and Sikhs,
Taoists and Shintoists,
Bahais and Zoroastrians,

Back in 2008 Candidate Barack Hussein Obama embarked on an unprecedented Internet campaign to surreptitiously seed the World Wide Web with fictitious stories and fake vignettes about his exceptional character, his parallels to Abraham Lincoln and his deep spirituality, among several other false and cynical messages.

Each of these tall tales eventually found their way into most of the New Age spiritual groups. With each passing month in 2008 some of the different groups came to the understanding that Obama was a Messiah of sorts. Some even spoke of him as "the Second Coming" and/or Lord Maitreya himself. Yes, the BS was flowing fast and furiously and a LOT of very smart, very aware and highly spiritual people were falling for it.

Comment: While it's hard to say exactly what bad juju or karma one can incur by voting for someone like Killary, one thing is for sure: many so-called spiritual or new age groups do easily fall for the thin veneer of progressiveness among politicians that passes for any real concern for the welfare and wellbeing of the average person. Many new agers are quite simply ignorant of the pathological natures of politicians across the political spectrum. But when the bombs fall, or the Universe exacts its cleansing, or both, these blissed-out new agers will be just as subject to the onslaught as the rest. More so perhaps because of their tendency of not looking at reality as objectively as possible.

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Echoes of Wounded Knee: Tribes mount prairie occupation to block North Dakota pipeline

William Yardley
Los Angeles Times
Sat, 27 Aug 2016 18:41 UTC
Tribes
© William Yardley/LA TimesNantinki Young--known as Tink -- stirs large pot of soup for protesters gathered along the banks of the Cannonball River in North Dakota
Long before Lewis and Clark paddled by, Native Americans built homes here at the confluence of the Cannonball and Missouri rivers, using the thick earth to guard against brutal winters and hard summer heat. They were called the Mandan people.

Now, Native Americans are living here again. They sleep in teepees and nylon tents. They ride horses and drive quad cabs. They string banners between trees and, when they can get a signal, they post messages with hashtags such as #ReZpectOurWater, #NoDakotaAccess and #NODAPL. For weeks, they have been arriving from the scattered patches of the United States where the government put their ancestors to protest what they say is one indignity too many in a history that has included extermination and exploitation.

It is called the Dakota Access oil pipeline and it could carry more than 400,000 barrels of crude oil a day from the Bakken region of western North Dakota across South Dakota and Iowa to connect with an existing pipeline in Illinois.

The 1,100-mile pipeline, which is estimated to cost $3.7 billion, is nearly halfway complete. But construction on a section that would sink beneath the Missouri River, just north of the reservation of the Standing Rock Sioux, has been halted under orders from the sheriff of Morton County, Kyle Kirchmeier. He said protesters, nearly 30 of whom have been arrested in recent weeks, were creating safety issues.

Comment: Private security mercenaries pepper spray and sic dogs on Dakota Access Pipeline protesters
A private security firm guarding the highly controversial construction of $3.8 billion oil pipeline turned mercenary on Saturday, unleashing vicious attack dogs against a sizable crowd of peaceful protesters — including women and children.
Members of the Standing Rock Sioux and at least 100 other Native American nations as well as activists and advocates peacefully chanted "water is life" while guards held dogs nearby to intimidate the crowd. Without warning, these security henchmen showered the demonstrators with pepper spray and released the dogs — at least six people were bitten, including a young child...

Mainstream media has all but ignored the ongoing protest, despite both its ballooning size and pertinence in the continuing struggle for Native Americans fighting naked government and corporate exploitation.


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Another church lie: The Pope declares Mother Teresa a saint

Isla Bennie
Yahoo News
Sun, 04 Sep 2016 21:54 UTC
Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa of Calcutta, known as the "saint of the gutters" during her life, was declared a saint of the Roman Catholic Church by Pope Francis on Sunday, fast-tracked to canonization just 19 years after her death.

Tens of thousands of pilgrims packed St. Peter's Square at the Vatican for a service to honor the tiny nun, who worked among the world's neediest in the slums of the Indian city now called Kolkata and become one of the most recognizable faces of the 20th century.

A Nobel peace laureate, her legacy complements Pope Francis's vision of a humble church that strives to serve the poor, and the festivities in her honor are a highlight of his Holy Year of Mercy, which runs until Nov. 8.

Standing under a canvas hung from St. Peter's Basilica showing the late nun in her blue-hemmed white robes, Francis said she was a "dispenser of divine mercy" and held world powers to account "for the crimes of poverty they created".

Comment: Add a little church propaganda and some media spin to the the tale of a money-grubbing miser who reveled in the suffering of others and voila, you have a saint.

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Uganda: HIV positive women complain of forced sterilization at government hospitals

Yasin Kakande
Yahoo News
Sun, 04 Sep 2016 21:39 UTC
Ugandan mother
© ReutersA mother holds her baby at Kisenyi health centre in Uganda's capital Kampala April 10, 2015.
Ida, 29, was six months pregnant when she suddenly felt abdominal pains and went to a government hospital in Kampala.

Like all pregnant women in Uganda, she was tested for HIV as part of routine screening for the virus. She lost her baby and was then given the news that she was HIV-positive.

"I was in a lot of pain and the situation was bad. They told me they were going to clean my womb. They took me to the examination room and asked me how many children I had. I told them I had four," she said, recalling the events of 2008.

"They were using English. I did not understand what they were saying because I never studied English. They told me they were going to give me treatment. Later when I gained consciousness I saw a dressing on my belly, but because I was in great pain, I couldn't ask questions."
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American values: Rapists set free while marijuana offenders get life sentences

Claire Bernish
The Free Thought Project
Sun, 04 Sep 2016 00:00 UTC
prison bars
© Adrees Latif / Reuters
Our so-called justice system makes a mockery of due process, couldn't care less about integrity, and victimizes those guilty of nonviolent crime — while releasing violent criminals to create actual victims in order to free up space to cage those who sell or possess a plant, even for medical reasons.

In perhaps the most striking example of justice upended, convicted rapist Brock Turner — who claimed of his victim in a police interview, "She seemed to enjoy it" — now walks free after serving just three of an abhorrently paltry six-month sentence for the violent crime.

Meanwhile, accounts like that of Jeff Mizanskey, who had been slated to die in jail after three exceedingly minor cannabis-related offenses earned a life sentence, top the headlines with alarming frequency.

Although outrage over Mizanskey's court-induced punishment ultimately earned a commutation by Missouri Governor Jay Nixon, 21 years of his life spent behind bars cannot be justified — no matter what erroneous propaganda the government shoves down our throats.

Mizanskey's automatically earned the life sentence as dictated by Missouri's three strikes law — the controversial penalty system whereby anyone convicted of a third felony reflexively earns an arbitrarily harsh sentence, generally a life term, depending on the state. His three offenses, according to Reason, "included selling a small amount of pot to a relative, possessing less than three ounces in his home, and driving a friend to a hotel to buy pot from an undercover officer."

Hardly the stuff of a career criminal hell-bent on violently victimizing the public.

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Money for war, but not education: U.S. teachers resort to crowdfunding to supply their classrooms

Megan Trimble
Phys.org
Sun, 04 Sep 2016 00:00 UTC
teachers crowdfunding
© AP / Matt RourkeKindergarten school teacher, Shannon Raftery raised funds through crowdfunding to supplement the money she took out of each paycheck to pay for classroom supplies.
Paper? Pencils? Laptops? Robots? Teachers are increasingly relying on crowdfunding efforts to stock their classrooms with both the mundane and sometimes big-ticket items.

Contributions to education campaigns have climbed on GoFundMe and DonorsChoose, collectively, from just more than $31.2 million in 2010 to nearly $140 million in 2015, the do-it-yourself fundraising sites report. Both sites are on pace to eclipse that in 2016.

GoFundMe has collected $58 million in just the last 12 months, and DonorsChoose saw more than 50,000 campaigns live on the site for the first time this back-to-school season.

In her first year as an elementary school teacher in Kingman, Arizona, Shannon Raftery raised $340 through crowdfunding to supplement the money she took out of each paycheck to pay for classroom supplies. Now in Philadelphia, she's looking to raise $500 for her new kindergarten classroom at Roosevelt Elementary School.

She has a supportive principal, she said, but there is just not enough money in the notoriously cash-strapped Philadelphia district to equip her classroom the way she'd like.

Comment: While the defense budget balloons, cutbacks to school funding have forced teachers to provide items that used to be provided by school districts. Data from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities found more than 30 states actually paid less per student in school funding in 2014 than they did in 2008. But none of this is surprising as the PTB have no interest in creating a generation of intelligent, creative problem solvers, but rather a compliant, brainwashed populace that won't question the established authorities.

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'Forward' breaks an important story: Many leftwing Israelis are leaving the country

Philip Weiss
Mondoweiss
Sun, 04 Sep 2016 20:45 UTC
Mairav Zonszein
© Mairav Zonszein / Twitter
Yesterday the Forward ran an important piece, by Mairav Zonszein, saying that she and other leftwing Israelis are thinking of leaving the country, and many have left already:
Everywhere I turn these days, many of my peers have left, are leaving, are planning to leave or are talking about leaving. My family and I included. The reasons for leaving are always personal, and it's hard to point to a specific political trend. But the discourse around leaving is indicative of a real crisis in the Israeli left regarding the inability to effect change, and the increasing sense that our ideals are unwanted and that we are outnumbered. Not just at the polls, but at the family dinner table, too.
This is an important piece because it is news, and Zonszein is telling the truth, based on my own travels in Israel earlier this year: lots of left-leaning Jews are thinking of leaving. Two friends of mine have left, a Palestinian and a Jew, because they feel their idealistic hopes of coexistence have no place in Israel. Zonszein says the debate over emigration is raging on her Facebook page and on the Haaretz opinion pages. In January in New York, at a Haaretz photo exhibition, Chemi Shalev mentioned the discussions of emigration, and the immense social pressure against it. Five years ago Gideon Levy reported that more and more Israelis were seeking foreign passports, for fear of the society coming apart.
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Merkel CDU party beaten into third place by anti-migrant AfD in local election


Sputnik
Sun, 04 Sep 2016 20:25 UTC
German Chancellor Angela Merkel
© AP Photo/ Markus Schreiber
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) slumped to third place after being edged out by the anti-migrant Alternative fuer Deutschland (AfD) in a regional election, an exit poll showed Sunday.

Some 1.33 million of eligible voters went to the polls on Sunday in the northeastern Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Merkel's home state, to elect a new government. The pre-election campaign was overshadowed by growing dissatisfaction with the federal open-arms policy on refugees.

Figures, published by the public broadcaster ARD shortly after the polling stations closed at 6 p.m. local time, showed the ruling Social Democrats (SPD) in the lead with 30.2 percent of votes, down from 35.6 at the previous polls in 2011.
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