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Swedish activists protest attack on Muslim woman


NZ herald
Wed, 21 Aug 2013 05:45 UTC
Hijab Sweden
© AP
Fatima Doubakil, one of the initiator's of the 'hijab outcry' campaign speaks to media outside the government building in Stockholm.
Sweden's justice minister on Tuesday met with activists who convinced prominent Swedes to wear headscarves this week to protest an alleged attack on a Muslim woman who wore a hijab.

"We tried to say that there is structural discrimination ...but (Justice Minister Beatrice Ask) kept referring to individual responsibilities," Foujan Rouzbeh, one of the organisers, said at a press conference after the meeting.

"I also said that under this government, we've gotten the impression that that this type of crime has increased," she added.
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Bell

Georgia school shooting: Suspect is in custody after reports of gunfire

Bill Barrow and Kate Brumback
Christian Science Monitor
Wed, 21 Aug 2013 02:09 UTC
School shooting
© David Goldman/AP
Police officers stand at the scene at Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy after reports of a gunman entered the school, Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013, in Decatur, Ga. Superintendent Michael Thurmond says all students at Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy in Decatur east of Atlanta are accounted for and safe Tuesday and that he is not aware of any injuries.

A suspect was in custody after shooting into the air at an Atlanta-area elementary school Tuesday, the school chief said. All the children and teachers were safely evacuated from the Georgia school.

Comment: For more on hysterization, read this article: Transmarginal Inhibition

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Question

Politicians say no! Canadian police chiefs propose ticket system for pot


CBC News
Tue, 20 Aug 2013 14:30 UTC
Proposal would give officer discretion, free up court time, chiefs say


Canada's police chiefs have voted overwhelmingly in favour of reforming drug laws in the country.

The Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, meeting in Winnipeg this week, wants officers to have the ability to ticket people found with 30 grams of marijuana or less.

Kentville, N.S., police Chief Mark Mander, chair of the association's drug-abuse committee, said Tuesday officers currently have only two choices: turn a blind eye or lay down the law.

Mander said officers could "either to caution the offender or lay formal charges resulting in [a] lengthy, difficult process, which results in a criminal charge if proven, a criminal conviction, and a criminal record."

Mander said ticketing the offender would be far less onerous and expensive.

However, federal Justice Minister Peter MacKay said there are no plans in the works to legalize or decriminalize marijuana. Though McKay had no follow up on the chiefs' recommendation, he said he appreciates their input.

"We don't support legalization or decriminalization," Mander said.
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Pistol

Sammy Yatim shooting: Murder charge for Toronto officer who shot 18-year-old nine times

Lorenda Reddekopp
CBC News
Mon, 19 Aug 2013 10:14 UTC
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A Toronto police officer has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of Sammy Yatim, the 18-year-old shot and killed in a streetcar last month.

A statement issued Monday from Ontario's Special Investigations Unit - the province's police watchdog - says the actions of Const. JamesForcillo in the downtown Toronto incident this summer justify a charge of second-degree murder.

Forcillo, the officer who fired the shots, had been suspended from duty during the investigation.


Comment: It'll be interesting to see if Forcillo gets away with it like Zimmerman did. Cops are outta control in North America these days. It might be time for people to shun them - don't serve them food, deliver their mail, babysit their kids, avoid them in church, whatever it takes to ostracize them.

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Black Magic

What our soldiers have become

Frances Farmer
12160
Tue, 20 Aug 2013 12:59 UTC
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Bales, on his fourth combat deployment, had been drinking and watching a movie with other soldiers at his remote post at Camp Belambay in Kandahar Province when he slipped away before dawn on March 11, 2012. Bales said he had also been taking steroids and snorting Valium.

At one point during his plea hearing, the judge asked Bales why he killed the villagers.

Bales responded: "Sir, as far as why - I've asked that question a million times since then. There's not a good reason in this world for why I did the horrible things I did."

Heartbreaking for all involved. This is who our soldiers HAVE to become to carry out the orders given in this bullshit war on terror. Of course he's fucked in the head. And these soldiers, after several deployments- any expectation that the end product will be anything other than a monster or a irretrievably broken human being should be an insult to all of us.

There are more soldier suicides than service related deaths. The unending testimonies of soldiers never being able to be "normal" again- you have to go out of your way not to hear them. And as much as we'd like to think, this isn't just a few rogue units- it is the operating system from the time they enter theater.
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Cult

Indian doctor who campaigned to end superstition in India murdered

Kay Steiger
The Raw Story
Tue, 20 Aug 2013 08:44 UTC
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A leading Indian rationalist, who was campaigning for a law to eradicate superstition in a country famed for its mystics and gurus, was shot dead on Tuesday, police said.

Two gunmen on motorbikes fired at Narendra Dabholkar, a medical doctor who had faced accusations of being anti-religion, as he was taking his morning walk in the western city of Pune, its police chief said.

"He was shot dead this morning, our investigations are on," Pune police commissioner Gulabrao Pol told AFP, adding that no suspects have yet been identified.

Dabholkar founded more than two decades ago the Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti - the Committee for the Eradication of Blind Faith - that aimed to change mindsets of India's deeply superstitious population.

Dabholkar, known for his campaigns to promote progressive and scientific thought, had for several years been lobbying for Maharashtra state's parliament to pass legislation banning superstition and black magic.

Two years ago, in an interview with AFP, he rejected critics' charges that the bill was anti-religion.

"In the whole of the bill, there's not a single word about God or religion. Nothing like that. The Indian constitution allows freedom of worship and nobody can take that away," he said.

"This is about fraudulent and exploitative practices," he said.
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Sheriff

Kids are now being brainwashed into accepting the police state

justinwoolie
Youtube.com
Mon, 19 Aug 2013 00:00 UTC
Now they're brainwashing our KIDS. Kids are now taught to love the SS invasion.

How they're brainwashing your kids into accepting the Police State. Watch this (6 min. school bus 'hijacking' begins around 1:00):

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Gold Coins

Surprise! Senators generally represent wealthy constituents while ignoring lower-classes

Eric W. Dolan
The Raw Story
Mon, 19 Aug 2013 16:19 UTC
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Members of the U.S. Senate do not respond equally to the views of all their constituents, according to research to be published in Political Research Quarterly next month. Senators overall represent their wealthiest constituents, while those on bottom of the economic rung are neglected.

"The fact that lower income groups seem to be ignored by elected officials, although not a new finding, remains a troubling observation in American politics," Thomas J. Hayes of Trinity University wrote in his study.

The study used data from the 2004 National Annenberg Election Survey to compare constituents' political opinion to the voting behavior of their Senators in the 107th through 111th Congresses. With more than 90,000 respondents, the NAES is the largest public opinion survey conducted during presidential elections.

In all of the five Congresses examined, the voting records of Senators were consistently aligned with the opinions of their wealthiest constituents. The opinions of lower-class constituents, however, never appeared to influence the Senators' voting behavior.

The neglect of lower income groups was a bipartisan affair. Democrats were not any more responsive to the poor than Republicans.
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Heart - Black

New York woman whose testimony as a child jailed father for rape now says she lied

Nina Golgowski
New York Daily News
Mon, 19 Aug 2013 16:51 UTC
Chaneya Kelly
© NBC News
Chaneya Kelly says that in 1997, she falsely accused Daryl Kelly, her father, of raping her after pressure and threats from her mother.
Nearly 16 years after a New York man was jailed for raping his 9-year-old daughter, that victim has publicly come forward admitting that she lied all along.

Chaneya Kelly, now 24, says the graphic stories she told about her father that sentenced him to 20-to-40 years in prison were never true.

"I'm 24 years old and I made this mistake when I was 9 years old," she told NBC, "but it's never too late to try and right your wrong."
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Bad Guys

Gulf spill sampling questioned

Henry Fountain
The New York Times
Mon, 19 Aug 2013 14:30 UTC
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© U.S. Coast Guard, via Reuters
Fireboat crews battling a blaze at the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, off Louisiana, on April 21, 2010, a day after the rig exploded, killing 11 workers and resulting in the blowout of an exploratory well owned by BP. Ultimately, roughly 200 million gallons of crude oil gushed into the gulf.
An analysis of water, sediment and seafood samples taken in 2010 during and after the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has found higher contamination levels in some cases than previous studies by federal agencies did, casting doubt on some of the earlier sampling methods.

The lead author, Paul W. Sammarco of the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, said that dispersants used to break up the oil might have affected some of the samples. He said that the greater contamination called into question the timing of decisions by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to reopen gulf fisheries after the spill and that "it might be time to review the techniques that are used to determine" such reopenings.

Eleven workers died and roughly 200 million gallons of crude oil gushed into the gulf after a blowout at an exploratory well owned by BP caused the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig to explode on April 20, 2010. Nearly two million gallons of Corexit, a dispersant, were sprayed on the surface or injected into the oil plume near the wellhead.

In all, more than 88,000 square miles of federal waters were closed to commercial and recreational fishing. Some areas were reopened before the well was capped three months after the blowout; the last areas were reopened a year after the disaster.

Comment: For more information on this topic, see The Day the Water Died: Detoxing after the Gulf Oil Spill:
"Whose truth are we talking about, your truth or my truth?" public relations specialist, John Scanlon, retorted to a reporter who had asked him whether he served his clients or the truth. Until science deals with its Achilles' heel of advocacy science,it cannot meet society's needs to protect life and we will continue to pollute our soil, air, and water, ourselves, and other life on this planet. Like lemmings,we are all racing towards the cliff. -Riki Ott, PhD., Sound Truth and Corporate Myth$: The Legacy of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill.


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