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Bill O'Reilly: Jesus is 'not down' with giving poor people food stamps because it's their fault

David Edwards
Raw Story
Wed, 04 Dec 2013 09:27 UTC
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No one knows what Jesus would do to feed today's poor, hungry Americans - but Fox News host Bill O'Reilly is pretty sure the Christian savior wouldn't be "down with" giving them food stamps because it's "their fault."

After Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) recently said that Jesus "didn't charge food stamps" in response to Republican efforts to cut the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and Pope Francis called income inequality immoral, O'Reilly tried to set the record straight with a segment about the "nanny state" on Tuesday.

The Fox News host acknowledged that Christ would have fed the poor, but objected to the idea that he would have "hurt" richer Americans to help feed them.

"The problem I have, as I stated is that you're helping one group by hurting another group and a bigger group, and so I don't know if Jesus is going to be down with that," O'Reilly told Pentecostal Pastor Joshua Dubois.

"Jesus would be down for the poor," Dubois pointed out. "He would want to make sure every single person in this country had enough food to eat. And the bottom line is if you add up every single private charitable dollar that feeds hungry people in this country, it's only 10 percent of what we would need to make sure everyone has food in their stomachs. The rest comes from the federal government."
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U.S. Army Seargents coerced rookie female soldiers into prostitution ring at Fort Hood - Officers ran base's 'sex assault and harassment prevention program'


The Guardian
Wed, 04 Dec 2013 16:56 UTC
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Seventeen-year veteran accused of using service set up by co-ordinator of base's sex assault and harassment prevention program

Female soldiers at Fort Hood testified Monday that they were recruited for a prostitution ring set up by a sergeant involved in the sexual assault and harassment program at the Central Texas post.

The testimony came as the court-martial began for another Fort Hood soldier accused of using the service, which Army prosecutors said preyed upon young, cash-strapped female soldiers at Fort Hood.

Master Sergeant Brad Grimes is a 17-year Army veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. Army prosecutors said in the military court on Monday that Grimes participated in the prostitution ring set up by another Fort Hood sergeant not yet charged but still under Army investigation, the Austin American-Statesman reported.

Comment: See also: 'One third of US military women raped'

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Eye 2

Cannibal cop allegations rock Germany


ABC News
Sat, 30 Nov 2013 16:48 UTC
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© MARTIN OESER/AFP/Getty ImagesSelf-confessed cannibal Armin Meiwes sits in the courtroom, Jan. 12, 2006 in Frankfurt, as prosecutors sought a murder conviction for him after he killed and ate an apparently willing victim he met on the Internet in 2001.
Over a decade after a similar case shocked the world, a German daily reported that a German police officer may have seduced and murdered a man he met on a cannibalism fetish website. The suspect has been arrested.

Police on Wednesday found body parts on a property in the Ore Mountains, in the eastern German state of Saxony, that, according to German tabloid Bild, came from a murder carried out as part of a cannibal fetish act. The body parts are believed to belong to a 59-year-old man from Hanover, while the main suspect, who, according to Bild, owns the property on which the remains were found, is a 55-year-old police officer.

The spokesperson for the head prosecutor, Lorenz Haase, confirmed to German news agency DPA that "the men knew each other." According to Bild, the two men met on a website for cannibal fetishists. The suspect then allegedly invited the man to his property in Reichenau, a small town in the mountains.

According to Bild, the victim had been cut into many small pieces some time in early November and many parts of the victim have yet to be found, leading to suspicions part of his body may have been eaten.
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Eye 2

Dozens of venomous lizards and snakes found in small Osaka flat in Japan

John Hofilena
japandailypress.com
Tue, 03 Dec 2013 09:43 UTC
A Japanese man living in the city of Osaka has been taken in for questioning by the city police after it was found that he has been keeping more than 80 reptiles, which includes venomous lizards and snakes, as pets in his small one-room flat. The police were alerted after a very scared neighbor found a long snake slithering along a wall outside his flat, after which he promptly informed the authorities.
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Police officers then raided the property and found that that there were dozens of reptiles being kept in individual containers within the very small 107-square-feet studio flat. For many of the different types of reptiles found, a prospective owner would need to obtain correct permits to keep them in a home within the city, and the owner could not show such permits. The reptiles for which the owner did not have permits for were then seized by the police, including a boa constrictor that stretched nearly 10 feet. The owner was a 40-year-old man, who reportedly told the officers that all the reptiles found inside his home were kept as personal pets, and he regularly fed them frozen mice.

Most Japanese pet owners would probably opt for cats or dogs, but owning exotic reptiles such as snakes and lizards have become increasingly popular in recent years. Japan is already home to a "reptile café", where visitors observe and pet a range of different species of reptiles while having a cup of tea. The prosecutors' office in Osaka is currently examining the case on suspicion that the man, who was not arrested, violated laws in relation to the welfare and the management of animals in his home. "The man told us he kept them as pets and fed them on things like frozen mice. We are investigating where he obtained these reptiles," a police official said.

Source: The Telegraph
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Nuke

IAEA: Truck with dangerous radioactive materials hijacked in Mexico


RT
Wed, 04 Dec 2013 07:44 UTC
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A truck carrying radioactive material was hijacked in central Mexico, the UN's nuclear watchdog reported.

The truck was reportedly carrying outdated medical equipment used to perform radiotherapy when it was hijacked at a gas station in Tepojaco, Hidalgo - near Mexico City - on Monday, the National Commission of Nuclear Safety and Safeguards (CNSNS) said.

The white Volkswagen Worker semi-trailer had reportedly stopped en route from a hospital in Tijuana to a radioactive waste storage center.

CNSNS authorities said the cobalt-60 teletherapy source posed no health risk as long as the part of the equipment housing the radioactive source is not cracked.

"At the time the truck was stolen, the source was properly shielded. However, the source could be extremely dangerous to a person if removed from the shielding, or if it was damaged," the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said.

"The Mexican authorities are currently conducting a search for the source and have issued a press release to alert the public," the UN nuclear watchdog said. Local authorities have urged calm, telling the public the threat posed by the stolen equipment is minimal.
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Eye 1

DHS agent cites private medical history to deny disabled Canadian woman entry to U.S.

Travis Gettys
The Raw Story
Thu, 28 Nov 2013 00:00 UTC
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A Canadian woman said she was denied entry into the U.S. by a Customs and Border Protection Agent who cited her hospitalization last year for clinical depression.

Ellen Richardson, of Weston, Ontario, said she intended to fly Monday to New York City on her way to a 10-day Caribbean cruise, but she said the agent working with the Department of Homeland Security told her she must first get medical clearance.

Richardson, who is paraplegic and set up her cruise through the March of Dimes with about a dozen other travelers, said the agent told her she must be examined by one of three Toronto physicians approved by DHS.

"I was so aghast. I was saying, 'I don't understand this. What is the problem?'" said Richardson, who paid about $6,000 for the trip. "I was so looking forward to getting away . . . I'd even brought a little string of Christmas lights I was going to string up in the cabin . . . It's not like I can just book again right away."

Richardson, who said she hadn't discussed her private medical history or background with agents at the airport, said she was told that a call to her psychiatrist wasn't sufficient.
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Florida cop arrested for refusing to remove Guy Fawkes mask during Obamacare protest


RT
Tue, 03 Dec 2013 23:43 UTC
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A Florida police officer who was protesting US President Obama's newly implemented healthcare law has been arrested because he refused to take off a Guy Fawkes mask he was wearing at a demonstration.

Ericson Harrell, 39, was wearing a mask, a black cape, and holding an inverted American flag when police approached him in Plantation, Florida. Harrell told officers he was "protesting Obamacare" but the police report notes "he refused each time" when he "was asked several times to remove his mask and produce some form of identification or tell us his name" and taken into custody.

The mask is the same one popularized in the film V for Vendetta and then by the activist hacking collective known as Anonymous.

The police report does not mention whether other protesters were at the scene or if Harrell was holding his own individual rally. It does say Harrell was not willing to tell police who he was, "stating his anonymity was his cause, thus the mask...He stated the mask was used by movement groups around the world for protests."

He only told responding officers "I'm a cop, I'm a cop" and was apprehended when one policeman found a .40 caliber pistol in his waistband.

Harrell, who was charged with obstruction of justice and with wearing a hood or mask on the street, was given a notice to appear in court and not jailed.
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Question

Mystery of boy who 'fell from the sky' and landed in Coventry

Andy Hooper
The Telegraph, UK
Tue, 03 Dec 2013 19:19 UTC
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© ALAMYThe boy was discovered after approaching a person at a bus station who he heard speaking a language he understood.
A teenager who doesn't know his name, age or country of origin, may as well have "fallen from sky", a charity has said, after the boy was found wandering around Coventry.

The youth, who is believed to be in his late teens, is thought to be the victim of trafficking although he is not able to describe what has happened to him.

He is thought to have fled a house in London.

The boy was discovered after approaching a person at a bus station who he heard speaking a language he understood. The person put him in touch with staff at the Coventry Refugee & Migrant Centre in Bishop Street after the boy asked for help.

All he had in his possession when he arrived in Coventry was a letter from a solicitor saying he was "stateless".

He told staff he did not know his name, age, or country of origin. He said he had been trafficked into the country.

Paul Wheeler, from the centre, said: "As far as we can tell he could have fallen out of the sky.

"He doesn't know his own name or his country of origin. We don't know how long he has been in the UK - all we know is that he tells us he got on a bus in London and arrived in Coventry."
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Magic Wand

'He's alive!' Man rescued after spending days underwater, whole thing caught on tape


Mother Nature Network
Tue, 03 Dec 2013 11:03 UTC

How is this possible? A shipwreck survivor is stuck underwater for 60 hours, surviving only on pockets of air and sips of Coca-Cola. Watch the above video. At about the 5:30 mark, something unbelievable happens. A diver literally stumbles onto the man and shouts with glee, "He's alive! He's alive!"

Now here's the story behind the rescue: In June, a South African rescue diver was searching the wreckage of a capsized tugboat to recover bodies when a hand suddenly reached out to him. The hand belonged to Harrison Okene, the ship's cook, who had survived for days underwater in a 4-foot air pocket. The diving team fitted Okene with an oxygen mask and brought him to the surface.

Afterward, the man had to spend 60 hours in a decompression chamber, but he's since been reunited with his family. The video of the dramatic rescue surfaced online this week and, not surprisingly, has gone viral.
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Wolf

After boy mauled, Balkan animal cruelty in focus

Alison Mutler
AP
Mon, 02 Dec 2013 08:55 UTC
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A litter of puppies wrapped in a blanket and set on fire. A dog roaming the streets with its jaw hacked off. Cats found at the bottom of an apartment block, spines snapped.

It's part of a catalog of cruelty in recent months that has gone barely noticed in Romania.

The struggling EU country has seen a spate of brutal attacks against animals following the deadly mauling of a 4-year-old boy in August by one of Bucharest's tens of thousands of street dogs. Police and animal welfare officials say the attacks were fueled by relentless and "hysterical" media coverage of the case.

The Four Paws animal welfare group registered 15 cases of people savagely attacking animals in the six weeks after the boy's death, compared to six cases of similar cruelty in the previous nine months.

But animal cruelty has long been a problem in Romania - where animal protection laws are weak, people still grapple with the trauma of a brutal communist regime, and anger builds over economic misery and government incompetence.
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