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Teen Gets Removed While asking Immigration Minister a Question During Tory BBQ

Rob Drinkwater
The Canadian Press
Sat, 14 Jul 2012 00:00 UTC
Jason Kenney
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Jason Kenney
Canada, Edmonton - A protester who made it into a Conservative party barbecue in Edmonton says he was dragged out of the event and arrested by police when he tried to ask Immigration Minister Jason Kenney a question.

Bashir Mohamed, 17, planned to confront Kenney about the federal government's cuts to refugee health care.

Mohamed says he was born in a refugee camp in Kenya and came to Canada with his parents when he was three.

He said he stood up and began to ask a question while Kenney was speaking, but was quickly grabbed by four men who pulled him outside.

He says police arrested him, but he was later released without charges.

"The police were very nice. They just wanted to figure out what was going on. I have nothing against the police," Bashir said shortly after he was released.

Steven Dollansky, the president of the Edmonton Centre Conservative Association and a member of the group that organized the barbecue, explained that the protester was removed because he interrupted the minister in the middle of his speech.

"He stood up and screamed at the minister during his speech. That was not the appropriate time to speak and he was asked to leave," Dollansky said.
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Whale Starved to Death on British Columbia Beach after Fishing Gear Caught in Mouth: Expert


The Canadian Press
Thu, 12 Jul 2012 00:00 UTC
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People look at a young humpback whale that was found on White Rock Beach on Tuesday morning.
Canada, Vancouver - A Fisheries Department spokesman says a humpback whale that washed up on the beach in White Rock, B.C., had fishing gear caught in its mouth before it starved to death.

Paul Cottrell says it's tough to pin down where the longline fishing gear came from or whether it was being used or abandoned.

He says more and more young humpbacks are getting entangled in fishing gear and other items as they move into in-shore waters.
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Parents Deny Daughter Life-Saving Transplant


Fairfax
Sat, 14 Jul 2012 18:19 UTC
Operation
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An Auckland girl suffering a rare kidney disease has been put into the guardianship of the High Court because her Jehovah's Witness parents will not consent to her receiving a life-saving kidney and liver transplant.

The 2-year-old girl, whose name and identifying details are suppressed, has had her kidneys removed and is being kept alive by dialysis. Because of her precarious health, she is at risk of infection and doctors believed she needed to have an urgent kidney and liver transplant or she would die from infection.

Jehovah's Witnesses allow transplants but the faith is strict in rejecting the inevitable blood transfusions that would accompany such an operation. They believe blood that leaves the body must be disposed of and not consumed or transfused.

The Auckland District Health Board went to the High Court last month and sought urgent orders placing the girl under the care of the court. A team of doctors including renal, blood, liver and gastroenterology specialists care for the girl.

Justice Helen Winkelmann, who heard the application, said the team agreed the day before the court hearing that "without a liver and kidney transplant M will most likely die from infection within weeks to a couple of months.

"She will most certainly become so unwell within a few weeks that it will not be possible to consider her for a transplant.

"Dr K says that at the moment M is relatively well and a transplant is viable."
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Black and White Cat Saves Diabetic Owner


Daily Mail, UK
Sat, 14 Jul 2012 18:01 UTC
Charley The Cat
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Life-saver: Charley alerted Susan's husband after Susan collapsed on the bathroom floor.
A cat called Charley could scoop a national award after saving the life of her diabetic owner.

The three-year-old black and white moggy sprang into action when Susan March-Armstrong had a potentially fatal hypoglycaemic attack in the middle of the night.

Susan, 47, had collapsed unconscious on the bathroom floor of the family home in Haltwhistle, Northumberland, as her husband Kevin, 49, slept on the room next door.

Sensing something was wrong, Charley pounced on the bed and continuously licked Kevin's face and pawed at his hand until he woke up, then led him to the bathroom.

Kevin was able to give his wife a life-saving glucose injection.

The little cat has now been nominated for the Cat Protection League's Hero Cat award and her owner Susan will attend the ceremony at London's Savoy hotel on her behalf in August.

Mrs March-Armstrong, who suffers from emphysema as well as diabetes, said: 'She is absolutely amazing. You hear of dogs who do things like this, but not cats.'

The mother-of-one added: 'I have no recollection of what happened after I went to the bathroom, but when I came round Charley and Kevin were both next to me and she was purring away.
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UK Police fabricated evidence against Muslim student and locked him up without charge as a suspected terrorist

Mark Townsend
The Guardian
Sat, 14 Jul 2012 17:51 UTC
Rizwaan Sabir
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Rizwaan Sabir was accused by police of downloading an al-Qaida training manual for terrorist purposes.
Rizwaan Sabir was held for seven days without charge as a suspected terrorist after police allegedly fabricated evidence

A Muslim university student was held for seven days without charge as a suspected terrorist after police "made up" evidence against him.

Documents from the professional standards unit of West Midlands police reveal that officers fabricated key elements of the case against former University of Nottingham student, Rizwaan Sabir.

The highly controversial case generated a debate over the extent of Islamophobia within UK universities and also an international furore over academic freedom led by renowned US scholar Noam Chomsky.

Sabir was researching terrorist tactics for a master's at the University of Nottingham in 2008 when he was detained under the Terrorism Act and accused by police of downloading an al-Qaida training manual for terrorist purposes.

The 27-year-old, however, had downloaded a manual from a US government website for his research which could be bought at WH Smith, Waterstones and Amazon as well as the university's own library. After seven days and six nights in police custody, Sabir was released without charge or apology.

Comment: By no means an isolated incident where fabricating evidence is the modus operandi that has been commonplace throughout the so-called "War on TerrorTM"

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1,000 Innocent Victims of Big Brother Britain

James Slack
Daily Mail, UK
Sat, 14 Jul 2012 17:45 UTC
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Eyes everywhere: David Cameron has called for greater accuracy when 'spying' on supposed suspects.
Almost 1,000 entirely innocent people were wrongly spied upon using anti-terror powers last year following blunders by officials, it emerged last night.

In two shocking cases, two members of the public were arrested and accused of being serious criminals.

Details of phone calls and texts by genuine crime suspects had wrongly been attributed to the pair in a terrible mix-up between police and an internet company.

Sir Paul Kennedy, the Interception of Communications Commissioner, said the mistakes had 'significant consequence' for the victims.

The internet provider involved was slow to report the errors and initially gave unsatisfactory explanations as to how they occurred or what was being done to stop it happening again, Sir Paul said.

He also revealed details of a council going beyond its legal powers to use snooping laws to spy on a family suspected of cheating school catchment area rules.

The council obtained details of phone calls and texts to seek to establish if the family lived where it said, the first known case of a town hall spying on a person's phone records over school catchment areas.

The unnamed council was not acting within the rules, which say officials must be seeking evidence for use in a criminal prosecution. Instead, the council wanted only to withdraw a school place offered to a child in the family.
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Civilization unravel: Belfast explodes in new wave of rioting and violence - history repeat?


Belfast Telegraph
Sat, 14 Jul 2012 17:38 UTC
A night of serious rioting after rival Protestant and Catholic parades were allowed to go ahead within hours of each other in the nationalist Ardoyne district of north Belfast has left 20 police officers injured.

The chairman of the Northern Ireland Parades Commission has defended the decision to allow to parades to take place.

The Commission was established to adjudicate on contentious marches, and even though there has been major trouble at this particular Catholic/Protestant flashpoint every year for over a decade, the chairman Peter Osborne said given the circumstances, the rulings were correct.

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Frog Wedding Breaks the Drought


Australian Associated Press
Sat, 14 Jul 2012 16:54 UTC
Frog Wedding
© AFP
Hopping for rain: An Indian village has held a marriage ceremony for two frogs, in hopes that the ceremony will bring some much-needed monsoon rain.
A frog couple have been joined in holy Hindu matrimony by Indian villagers hoping the custom will bring rain.

With five priests chanting scriptures, a frog groom named Punarvasu and his amphibian bride Pushala were married by villagers hoping to summon monsoon rains to their drought-stricken district.

Organiser Nandkumar Pawar says thousands of people gathered on Thursday in a massive tent in Patkhal village for the lavish wedding banquet.

He said on Saturday that the frogs were decorated with flowers and smeared with turmeric, a holy and auspicious ointment. A brass band played Bollywood film songs while the priests blessed the frogs.

The region in Maharashtra state is 400km southeast of Mumbai, India's financial capital.

Frog weddings are practiced in some parts of India and other areas of South Asia.
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Egyptian Politician Urges Resumption of Ties with Iran


Fars News
Sat, 14 Jul 2012 16:10 UTC
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A senior Egyptian politician underscored the Iranian and Egyptian nations' abundant commonalities, and called for the resumption of relations between Tehran and Cairo.

"Iran is one of the third world countries like Egypt and we should cooperate with other countries, including Iran, regardless of religious differences," member of the secretariat of Egypt's popular socialist coalition party and deputy head of the country's al-Tajmee' party Anis al-Beya' told FNA on Saturday.

In relevant remarks last month, Egyptian new President Mohammad Mursi also underlined his enthusiasm for the further expansion of ties with Iran, and said relations between Tehran and Cairo will create a strategic balance in the region.

"The issue will create a strategic balance in the region," Mursi told FNA in June, hours before the final results of the presidential election was announced.

Earlier this month, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Mursi, in their first telephone conversation, conferred on the two Muslim countries' ties and the upcoming summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in Tehran.

President Ahmadinejad said Tehran welcomes close interactions with the Egyptian government and nation, and attaches no limitations to the expansion of ties and cooperation with Cairo.

Ahmadinejad expressed Iran's preparedness to transfer capabilities, achievements and experiences in various scientific, technological, industrial and economic fields to the Egyptian people.

He also invited Egypt's first democratically-elected president to participate in the NAM summit.
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Cannibal Cult Ate Brains and Made Unmentionable Soup, Papua New Guinea Police Say

Rod McGuirk
Associated Press
Fri, 13 Jul 2012 09:51 UTC
Canberra, Australia -- Authorities have arrested 29 people accused of being part of a cannibal cult in Papua New Guinea's jungle interior and charged them with the murders of seven suspected witch doctors, police said Friday.

Madang Police Commander Anthony Wagambie confirmed a report in The National newspaper that said the cult members allegedly ate their victims' brains raw and made soup from their penises.

"They don't think they've done anything wrong; they admit what they've done openly," Wagambie told The Associated Press by telephone.

He said the killers believed that their victims practiced "sanguma," or sorcery, and that they had been extorting money as well as demanding sex from poor villagers for their supernatural services.

By eating witch doctors' organs, the cult members believed they would attain supernatural powers and literally become bullet-proof, he said.

"It's prevalent cult activity," Wagambie said. He said he believes there could be between 700 and 1,000 cult members in several villages in Papua New Guinea's remote northeast interior. All of them might have eaten human flesh, he said.
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