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Pharoah

Egypt's Mursi flees palace as police battle protesters

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© Reuters/Mohamed Abd El GhanyA woman stands near barbed wire in front of the presidential palace in Cairo, December 4, 2012. Egyptian police battled thousands of protesters outside President Mohamed Mursi's palace in Cairo on Tuesday, prompting the Islamist leader to leave the building, two presidential sources said.
Egyptian police battled thousands of protesters outside President Mohamed Mursi's palace in Cairo on Tuesday, prompting the Islamist leader to leave the building, presidency sources said.

Officers fired teargas at up to 10,000 demonstrators angered by Mursi's drive to hold a referendum on a new constitution on December 15. Some broke through police lines around his palace and protested next to the perimeter wall.

The crowds had gathered nearby in what organizers had dubbed "last warning" protests against Mursi, who infuriated opponents with a November 22 decree that expanded his powers. "The people want the downfall of the regime," the demonstrators chanted.

"The president left the palace," a presidential source, who declined to be named, told Reuters. A security source at the presidency also said the president had departed.

Mursi ignited a storm of unrest in his bid to prevent a judiciary still packed with appointees of ousted predecessor Hosni Mubarak from derailing a troubled political transition.

Handcuffs

Police brutality and random detentions as Mexicans protest return of old ruling PRI party


Comment: At 4:51 we read: "Meanwhile, other armed groups enjoyed immunity within the police enclosure around Congress in San Lázaro". Agent provocateurs, anyone?

The list of people at the end of the video are the names of those who are known to have been detained.


Bomb

Syrian 'Freedom Fighters' kill 29 students and a teacher in mortar attack on school

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© SANAAn injured Syrian student, lies at a hospital bed after he was wounded when a mortar hit the al-Batiha school in al-Wafideen camp, about 25 kilometers
A mortar slammed into a ninth-grade classroom in the Damascus suburbs on Tuesday, killing 29 students and a teacher, according to state media, as the civil war closed in on President Bashar Assad's seat of power.

The state-run news agency SANA blamed the attack on terrorists, the term the regime uses for rebels who are fighting to topple the government.

An Education Ministry official, however, said 13 students and one teacher had been killed. The discrepancy could not be immediately reconciled.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief the media.

The mortar hit the al-Batiha school in al-Wafideen camp, about 25 kilometers (15 miles) northeast of Damascus, according to SANA. The camp houses 25,000 people displaced from the Golan Heights since the 1967 war between Syria and Israel.

"It's a terrorist attack on educational institutions and on students," Hassan Mohsen, the director of Quneitra Education Department, told The Associated Press.

Comment: The attack was by the Anglo-Saxon-financed and supported Syrian opposition. The so called 'freedom fighters' that have been engineered to topple the Assad regime.

The current hyping of Syrian chemical weapons is pure US propaganda taken from the Iraq WMD lies and subsequent illegal invasion. Rather like the MSM use of words like 'alleged' or 'reportedly' the word 'believed' is used because it is complete make-believe.


Padlock

The new business model: Steal a coat, get caught, go to jail, make a coat

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'chain gangs' from the earlier prison labor system
There are several ways to look at prison labor. Generally speaking, we can view it the way many guards and wardens do, as having a salutary effect on those inmates who would otherwise be doing nothing or, worse, getting into mischief; we can view it the way most sociologists do, as providing inmates with marketable skills; we can view it the way some taxpayers do, as a way for these useless reprobates to earn their keep instead of bleeding us dry; or we can view it the way most working people do, as a genuine threat to their jobs.

While there's an argument for each of those perspectives, one thing is certain: Because the U.S. leads the world in the number of people living behind bars, and because businesses already realize that plentiful, dirt-cheap prison labor could be a panacea, prison labor is not only going to continue, but as more inmates are "harvested," as more of them are trained in diverse industries, it's likely to expand exponentially.

The U.S. used to be recognized as the entrepreneurial capital of the world. Today (thanks largely to our unenlightened drug laws), we're recognized as the prison capital of the world. Just as Mr. Chocolate and Mr. Peanut Butter fortuitously met to form Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, the obvious next step was to combine the two. Prisoners, meet your new employers.

Pistol

Zombies a factor in gun sales increase as weapons manufacturers play up to hysteria

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It's not just President Obama's re-election that's lead to a spike in gun sales. The living dead are also providing a reason to stock up on firearms and ammo.

My Northwest.com reports that, according to FBI data, background checks for guns rose 20 percent on Black Friday from the same day last year. According to KIRO, one gun rights advocate said part of the reason for the increase is zombies.

"A lot of people appear to be really enthralled by this," Dave Workman said. "I've seen lines of zombie targets, I know one or two ammunition companies have introduced boxes, lines of cartridges they called zombie cartridges, shotgun shells and rifle shells."

The zombie-themed merchandise has ushered in a new generation of gun shooters, according to Workman.

Gold Seal

First ever presentation by Bradley Manning's attorney David Coombs

In his first ever presentation, attorney David Coombs speaks about the case of his client, Bradley Manning. He is preceded by Emma Cape of the Bradley Manning Support Network and Michael Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights, who represents WikiLeaks and Julian Assange.

The event was held at All Souls Church Unitarian in Washington DC, 3 December 2012.

For more information on the event, see here.


Che Guevara

People in Occupied Golan Heights hold sit-in to slam Western terrorism in Syria

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Druze in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights show support for their leader
In solidarity with their families in the motherland Syria and to condemn the terrorism which strikes across Syria, a sit-in was held in the occupied Syrian Golan heights attended by the people of the occupied Golan, and in the presence of the Palestinians.

They came here to show solidarity with the people of their motherland Syria who face the terrorism practiced by western-backed countries.

The people of Golan confirm their condemnation of the terrorist groups who try to impose a sectarian strife in Syria and also want to divide Syria by killing the spirit of resistance. People here say these gangs have forgotten that there are deep roots of unity among Syrians.

Syrians and Palestinians here are insisting that the war against Syria will expire soon. They are demanding the Syrian army and Resistance parties to do their best to liberate the occupied lands soon.

The people in the occupied Golan heights were gathered on Saturday to support the Syrian army and also to send a message to all the world that Syria was and will remain one of the most important countries of the resistance in the region.

Info

Dolphin "attacks" 8-year-old girl at SeaWorld Park

An 8-year-old girl has recounted the terrifying moment a hungry dolphin leapt out of the SeaWorld park pool and sunk its teeth into her hand, almost pulling her back into the water with it.

Jillian Thomas of Alpharetta, Georgia, told ABC's Good Morning America in an interview on Monday that while she was feeding the dolphins in the Orlando, Florida park she had raised a paper carton she was holding and "when the dolphin saw that, it leaped at me and bit me, ate the carton."

"It really, really hurt," Jillian said on the morning show where she showed hosts her three healing punctured wounds.

Jillian's father, Jamie Thomas, who was by his daughter's side at the theme park and had captured on video (see video below) the moment when the dolphin had latched onto Jillian on November 21, said his reaction to his daughter being bitten was "instant fear".


"I thought that, wow, I may have to lunge at the dolphin, and pull her or, get physically involved," he recalled.

He said that after he pulled his daughter away from the dolphin tank, a SeaWorld employee had asked if the family needed help.

Attention

Best of the Web: Are psychopaths in the workplace on the rise and what does it mean?

Dr. Paul Babiak
© The Washington Times CommunitiesDr. Paul Babiak
Florida - Most of us experience empathy at some level. It is one of those things that keep us human, even in the face of great adversity. Are psychopaths capable of such deep emotion?

Over the last several years, we have been hearing more and more about psychopaths wreaking havoc in the workplace. Are actual incidences of psychopathic behavior on the rise?

Furthermore, can business leaders take steps to deal with the possibility of psychopathy among their employees?

The co-author of Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work, Paul Babiak is an industrial-organizational psychologist, who has devoted much of his career to raising awareness about how mental and emotional predators have found their way into the business world.

In this second part of our discussion, he shares his views on the above-mentioned questions, explains what inspired him to write about psychopaths in the workplace, and discusses his life and career.

Heart - Black

Family to be deported from New Zealand because husbands' brain tumour might cost government too much money

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A British couple and their three children are set to be deported from New Zealand because the father was diagnosed with a brain tumour.

Paul and Sarah Crystal and their children, aged 7, 15 and 17, moved to New Zealand more than six years ago but their application for permanent residency was turned down because the government was concerned about his inability to work and the treatment cost.

Mr Crystal, from Evesham, who has been given a 20 per cent chance of surviving the next three years, said the family was now "stuck" between Britain and New Zealand. They cannot afford air travel back to Britain but cannot stay in New Zealand without access to welfare benefits, he said.

"I don't know how we'll get by," he told The Daily Telegraph. "I just have to get the family safe. I have to get them somewhere where they have a future and get them settled To come out and realise you're left struggling on the other side of the world with nothing is a shock."

Mr Crystal, 49, drove petrol tankers in Britain for 20 years and moved with his family to New Zealand to work for Caltex in February 2006. From 2009 he ran a painting business and a separate business installing amusement machines.