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Indian ISIL recruit goes home after he's assigned to toilet duty instead of holy war


Raw Story
Mon, 01 Dec 2014 20:19 UTC
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© ShutterstockPerson cleaning toilet in rubber gloves
An Indian student who traveled to Iraq to join the Islamic State group has returned home disillusioned after jihadists made him clean toilets and do other menial jobs, according to media reports.

Areeb Majeed, 23, left for Iraq with three friends in late May amid fears by authorities that IS militants were attempting to recruit from India's large pool of young Muslim men.

The engineering student flew home Friday to Mumbai where he was arrested and charged by India's elite National Investigation Agency (NIA) with terror-related offences.

Majeed told NIA officers he was sidelined by the jihadists for whom he fetched water and performed other lowly tasks such as cleaning toilets, instead of taking part in the deadly offensive like he wanted, the Press Trust of India news agency reported.

He phoned his family to say he wanted to come home after suffering an unexplained bullet wound for which he did not get proper medical attention, the agency said late Sunday.
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Stock Down

Cracks are forming in central economic control

John Rubino
DollarCollapse.com
Sun, 30 Nov 2014 00:00 UTC
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John Rubino
Last week saw the global financial system tip from delusion - where it had happily drifted for several years - into chaos. Consider the following more-or-less randomly chosen data points:

French unemployment hits record high

Italian unemployment hits record high

Oil's price falls by $10.36/bbl, or 13.5%, in a single day, to its lowest price since 2010.

Copper falls by 6% to $2.86/lb, 25% below its 2013 high.

European bond yields fall to record lows. Even Italy, with government debt exceeding 130% of GDP, can now borrow for around 2%. Japan, meanwhile, issues bonds with negative interest rates.

European inflation approaches zero, with several member states apparently already in deflation.

Comment: Gordon T Long notes similar cracks in the central framework:



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Sheriff

Why the world needs fewer cops

Charles Kenny
Bloomberg Business Week
Mon, 01 Dec 2014 19:47 UTC
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The tragedy in Ferguson, Mo., highlights how predatory policing has reduced trust in law enforcement in many parts of the U.S. Court fines (mostly connected with traffic violations) are worth 20 percent of Ferguson's general-fund revenue. That's considerably more than property tax revenue and about two-thirds sales tax revenue. The police force accounts for 41 percent of the city's expenses, suggesting fines are worth about one-half of the police budget. The incentives that such a system created to fine people overzealously were one factor behind the dismal state of relations between locals and cops in the city even before the death of Michael Brown.

Comment: "If the police aren't fining, arresting, or investigating, they must be doing something else."

That something else includes tasing, maiming, stealing, raping, shooting, killing and getting off scot-free. Police worldwide are nothing but tools of the state. (When was the last time you heard of a wealthy member of the elite suffering at the hands of the police?) Police don't stop crimes from happening, they just show up after a crime has been committed. One should consider themselves lucky if they aren't subjected to further victimization after cops arrive on the scene.

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Attention

Sickening hypocrisy: Human rights violations ignored in NATO's war in Ukraine

Tony Cartalucci
New Eastern Outlook
Mon, 01 Dec 2014 16:34 UTC
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Grad rockets fired indiscriminately into populated areas by Kiev regime - a war crime NATO has condemned before, but only when politically convenient.

"The Grad rocket cannot be targeted, so shooting it into a town full of civilians, with no specific military objective, violates the laws of war." These words were found in a 2011 Human Rights Watch (HRW) document titled, "Libya: Rocket Attacks on Western Mountain Towns - Grads Striking Civilian Areas," one of many reports ceaselessly cited by the United Nations and in turn, NATO as part of justifying a military intervention in the North African nation.

At the time, accusations of indiscriminate bombardment of populated areas by air and artillery, and the use of punitive squads to detain, beat, torture, and/or arbitrary arrest citizens served as the rhetorical and legal foundation of NATO's "humanitarian war."

Comment: So let's get this straight. Libya fires a ballistic missile that doesn't hit anything or kill anyone, and it's a horrible crime showing how evil Gaddafi was. Kiev fires ballistic missiles into Novorussia regularly, killing civilians, and it's perfectly OK. Saddam, Gadaffi and Assad all "kill their own people" (either total lies or a gross progaganda slogan to cover the fact that they were engaged in fighting U.S. proxy terrorists) and get the regime-change, destroy-your-country treatment, and yet Kiev gets away with doing exactly this thing - killing their own people - no spin, no lie. The hypocrisy is stunning.

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Gold Bar

Rob Kirby: Gold price now at 50% over spot

Greg Hunter
USAWatchdog
Sun, 30 Nov 2014 00:00 UTC
Rob Kirby
A few months ago, financial analyst Rob Kirby said the gold price was ready to go up. In the international market, where it is sold by the ton - it has. Kirby explains,
"For large amounts of bullion in the Asian market, the pricing mechanism has completely and utterly divorced itself from the fraudulent paper prices that are being reflected in the exchanges in the Western world.

In the Asian market, if you could find . . . physical bullion . . . as cheap as spot plus 50%, you'd be doing really, really, really well . . . and you'd be hard pressed to find serious tonnage at that price in Asia."

Comment: Rob Kirby pretty much says it all. It's only a matter of time before the physical gold price diverges greatly from the paper spot price for even small quantities of gold. For the Russian perspective on gold, see:Chessmaster Putin's golden trap

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Heart - Black

Assisted suicide and the slippery slope towards eugenics

Janet Phelan
New Eastern Outlook
Sat, 29 Nov 2014 12:00 UTC
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With last week's vote on A2270, New Jersey's Assembly approved physician assisted suicide. Oregon, Washington and Vermont have also passed AS (Assisted Suicide) laws.

State courts in Montana and New Mexico have affirmed the rights to physician assisted suicide.

What's wrong with that, you might well ask. If a person is terminally ill and wishes to end his or her suffering, why should this not be permitted?

In fact, this issue is not as clear cut as some might wish you to believe. The effect of such legal permissions, as seen in other countries which have historically permitted doctor assisted suicide, is worth reviewing.

Comment: It's not as if eugenics euthanasia has not been used in the past to dispose of so-called "useless eaters". Nazi Germany comes to mind. It may start out as a choice, but in a totalitarian society that choice will be taken away.

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Boat

German govt: Turn off lights during sex to stop global warming - Better idea? Stop breathing, politicians!


RT
Sun, 30 Nov 2014 23:18 UTC
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Are you doing YOUR part to stop the evil menace of global warming?
Out with boring public information leaflets and in with flashy TV ads. The German Ministry of Environment has come up with a series of commercials on the problems of climate change, featuring sex and zombies in the message.

The scene: A young girl arrives home late one night and is confronted with the awkward situation of finding her parents engaged in the act inside a brightly lit room. After uttering a meek, "Hi," the teenager proceeds to switch off the lights in the room.

The lesson learned, as the female narrator says: "The world says thanks. 5 percent less energy consumption in German households makes one coal power plant redundant. Together it's climate protection."


Comment: If carbon emissions are such a problem, German politicians would do the world a favor by holding their breath - indefinitely. Just think of all the carbon dioxide expelled each day by politicians who fund the kind of asinine, juvenile, crass garbage seen above!
The world thanks you! Stop allowing useless politicians to breath up valuable air for no good purpose, if all they produce is more carbon dioxide and lie after lie after lie. Airing out the halls of power every 100 years or so is better for the health of humanity.
But of course, carbon emissions are not the problem. Never have been, never will be. But then again, it's possible that our global climate - and our imminent collapse - just might turn out for the better if all politicians suddenly stopped breathing! For more on that comforting idea, see SOTT editor Pierre Lescaudron's book, Earth Changes and the Human-Cosmic Connection.

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Bomb

Bird Bomb? Afghan police kill bird wearing antenna and explosives


NBC News
Sun, 30 Nov 2014 23:32 UTC

Afghan police said they are investigating how a wild bird came to bear an antenna, electronic devices and explosives. Police came across the strange sight around 8 a.m. in the northern Faryab province, a volatile region ravaged by Taliban violence. When police spotted the white bird - which isn't native to the area and appeared larger than an eagle - walking along a highway, they noticed it had an antenna and decided to shoot it, provincial police chief Maj. Gen. Abdul Nabi Ilham told NBC News on Saturday. The bird then exploded, he said, and "suspicious metal stuff" scattered around.

"We are gathering all the stuff, but found parts of what looks to be GPS and a small camera," Ilham said. He added that this was the first time police have made such an encounter. Police added that it is possible the bird had been "deployed" on a surveillance mission. Using animals in warfare or for suicide missions is unusual but not unheard of. Hamas militants reportedly put explosives on a donkey and pushed it in the direction of Israeli soldiers as fighting intensified this summer in Gaza.
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Stormtrooper

The path to tyranny: The Nazi Gestapo and the US police state

Timothy Alexander Guzman
Silent Crow News
Sat, 29 Nov 2014 00:00 UTC
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The world is watching what is happening in Ferguson, Missouri. After the announcement by the grand jury that Officer Darren Wilson was acquitted for the shooting death of Michael Brown, angry residents took to the streets of Ferguson and other towns and cities across the U.S. to protest police brutality. The U.S. government has the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) along with the Ferguson police department and the Missouri National guard ready to confront the angry protesters with force.

Michael Brown's murder is not the only incident that sparked riots. There have been other similar incidents involving police brutality such as the Rodney King beating by the Los Angeles Police Department in 1991 that also sparked riots. The Police used excessive force against the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York and other anti-Establishment protests across the U.S. In 1997, NYPD officers sodomized a Haitian immigrant by the name of Abner Louima with a broken-off broom handle after he was arrested during an altercation between the police and patrons outside a Brooklyn nightclub. He was hospitalized and most of the police officers involved were not found guilty because of insufficient evidence, except for one of the officers who received a 30-year sentence.

Following the verdict of the Michael Brown case, another African-American man was recently shot and killed by an NYPD officer in a housing project in East New York, Brooklyn. White Americans have also been victims of police brutality. In 2012, Kelly Thomas, a 37-year-old homeless man with schizophrenia was beaten to death by two veterans of the Fullerton Police Department in California. Both men were acquitted by the grand jury. Although statistics do show that minorities are more likely to get harassed (by Stop and Frisk in NYC for example), arrested and even murdered by the police. The United Nations Human Rights Committee issued a report on human rights abuses in the United States which included the epidemic of police brutality. It stated:

Comment: No longer a day goes by that one doesn't hear of a man, woman or child getting severely abused, or even killed by an "officer of the peace". And it's clearly getting worse. Far worse. If we look at the author's comparison of developments in Nazi Germany to today's militarized US police state, we notice that the changes there, as here, occurred incrementally. First new laws and institutions, then the "crackdowns" on dissent. And much of it occurring oh so covertly. One would not be incorrect in extrapolating the events of today into the near future and using one's imagination to see how far this can and will go.

"Never in America"? Don't count on it. The Nazis, fascists, totalitarians, pathocrats - choose your own descriptive - are already doing their will, and have the spilt blood to prove it.

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No Entry

The American dream is an illusion with rates of social mobility that are no better than medieval England


Mail Online
Sun, 30 Nov 2014 18:18 UTC
  • Gregory Clark
    Gregory Clark, an economics professor at the University of California, Davis
    Gregory Clark, of UC Davis, claims American dream is simply an illusion
  • Instead, social mobility in U.S. is no higher than in rest of world, he says
  • Disadvantaged citizens 'will not be granted opportunities for hard work'
  • They will remain stuck in social status for life - and so will their children
  • Mr Clark's findings were obtained using figures from the past 100 years
  • But his students disagree, saying parents' wealth is not 'deciding factor
It has powered the hopes and dreams of U.S. citizens for generations.

But the American Dream does not actually exist, according to one economics professor.

Gregory Clark, who works at the University of California, Davis, claims the national ethos is simply an illusion and that social mobility in the country is no higher than in the rest of the world.

Comment: As the late, great George Carlin said, "It's called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it."

See also:
The facade of the American dream

The American Dream As We Know It Is Obsolete

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