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First census in over 20 years shows Bosnia lost 25% of its population

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© ReutersVolunteers hand out leaflets with information about new Bosnia's census in Jablanica, 60 kilometers south of Sarajevo, in September 2013.
Bosnia-Herzegovina is set to publish the results of its first census since the end of its civil war two decades ago, providing the first statistical view of how much the fighting redistributed its population geographically.

The expected publication on June 30 of the census, conducted in 2013, is widely expected to raise tensions in the ethnically divided country, where memories of the 1992-95 conflict remain fresh.

The war killed 100,000 people and displaced 2 million more amid widespread forced movements of civilians on all sides.

Although they have not been leaked, the new census figures are likely to confirm that the once ethnically mixed capital, Sarajevo, is now overwhelmingly Bosnian Muslim.


Comment: Some preliminary results:
The first census since the end of the civil war in Bosnia shows the country's population shrank by nearly one-quarter over the past 25 years. According to the 2013 census published on June 30, 3.5 million people live in the country, compared with the nearly 4.4 million counted in 1991. Half of the population -- or 50.11 percent -- are Muslim Bosniaks, 30.78 per cent are Christian Orthodox Serbs, and 15.43 percent are Roman Catholic Croats.

Comment: Authorities from the Republic of Srpska immediately refused to recognize the census. As journalist Zlatko Dizdarevic put it, "Without 50 percent means sharing power in three equal parts. More than 50 percent of one ethnic group would be a different state, a Bosniak [Bosnian Muslim] Bosnia-Herzegovina with two other minorities."

A little history: The Weight of Chains: US/NATO Destruction of Yugoslavia (Documentary)


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Travel alert! Border Patrol wants to vet social media accounts of travelers entering the US

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© Chris Hondros/Getty ImagesReporter notes that proposed change to visa forms, as phrased, could include: Twitter handle, the url for your Facebook page, OkCupid or Grindr handle, Instagram account, Tumblr, Vine account, Snapchat, Reddit account, Pinterest page, PornHub account, "and any random messaging forums in which you take part."
File this under Another Unsettling Development: People who want to travel to the United States may soon have their Facebook profiles and other social media accounts "vetted" by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) before entering.

A proposed change to the Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA) and to Form I-94W posted to the government's Federal Register last week suggests adding the following question: "Please enter information associated with your online presence—Provider/Platform—Social media identifier."

These forms are filled out by all international travelers who wish to travel to the U.S. under the Visa Waiver Program.

The report states that this would be an "optional data field to request social media identifiers to be used for vetting purposes, as well as applicant contact information."

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Judge Napolitano: FBI transcript shows nobody died in Orlando shooting until SWAT teams entered the nightclub at 5:13am

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© REUTERS/Steve NesiusOfficers arrive at Orlando police headquarters during the investigation of the deadly shooting at the Pulse
What should have been front page news everywhere, somehow got buried amid the official narrative we were given about the Orlando shooting. Judge Andrew Napolitano told FOX News that an FBI transcript indicated that no one died until 05:13am Sunday morning when the police SWAT teams entered the building.

"Here's what is news in the summary - nobody died until 05:13 in the morning, when the SWAT team entered. Prior to that no one had been killed. The 53 that were injured, and the 49 that were murdered all met their fates at the time of, and during, the police entry into the building," Judge Napolitano said.

Consider that the narrative we have been given was that Omar Mateen entered the club around 02:00am on Sunday morning to begin his killing spree, so why was no one actually killed until 05:13am, over three hours later?


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Attention

Nanny state hysteria: Police called to school over 9 year old's brownie remark

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It's difficult to say which trend is more alarming in America today. It could be the rampant political correctness that is turning everything into a thought crime. Others would argue that the proliferation of our nanny state is far more alarming. But no one could argue that there's anything worse than when these two forces collide.

That seems to be what occurred at the William P. Tatem Elementary School in Collingswood, New Jersey earlier this month. During an end-of-the-year class party, a third grade student made a remark about the brownies that were being served (the precise wording of that statement hasn't been revealed). Another student claimed that the statement was racist.

Instead of letting it go, or perhaps dealing with the issue internally if it warranted that, the school's staff called the Collingswood Police Department, and a police officer showed up to question the 9-year-old child. The police would later tell the boy's father that the incident had been referred to the New Jersey Division of Child Protection and Permanency.

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Flashback Mega-restaurant chain Darden rips off workers by paying wages with high-fee debit cards

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Chances are good that you've never heard of Darden Restaurants. They don't advertise under their name, but they are the food-service behemoth that owns popular eateries such as The Olive Garden and Longhorn Steakhouse. You've probably eaten at one of those restaurants more than once in your life and perhaps even enjoyed the food they serve. But how good would the food taste if you knew how the restaurant was exploiting their workers with the help of big banks?

Workers at restaurants owned by Darden are not paid by cash or check, like most of us. Instead, they are given prepaid debit cards. A quarter of workers who were surveyed by the Restaurant Opportunities Center (ROC) said they had repeatedly asked to be paid some other way and were told the debit cards are their only option.

Darden, you see, is trying to cut costs anywhere it can because the company is struggling financially, but their use of debit cards places a very expensive and unnecessary barrier between workers and the money they have earned through their labor. How so? Well, the cards come with a variety of fees for usage: 99 cents for using it to pay a utility bill, 50 cents if the card is ever declined at a cash register, $1.75 to withdraw money from an out-of-network ATM, and 75 cents just to check the card's balance. And if a worker happens to lose the card, he or she will be forced to pay $10 to have it replaced.

Comment: Classic corporate psychopathy. Only the bottom line matters.


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Massive explosion levels house and damages dozens of adjacent homes, killing one person

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A massive explosion killed one person and injured nine others in the Canadian town of Mississauga, southwest of Toronto. At least one house was completely wiped out, while over a dozen of adjacent homes were damaged.

The footage from the site shows massive debris piled up. Locals have posted devastating photos and videos from the scene, with heavy gray smoke seen rising above from where the house used to stand.

Dozens of police, fire and ambulance vehicles are in the area. Police are going door-to-door to investigate what happened. At this point it is unknown what caused the blast.

Emergency crews found one victim with no vital signs. So far nine people got help from paramedics, but none were sent to the hospital for treatment.

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Drunk Florida woman threatened boyfriend with hatchet for refusing sex

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Florida police arrested a woman after a man claimed he had been chased around her home and threatened with an ax - because he refused her sex.

Leslie Mills, who had been on a drinking binge, had a boyfriend staying over at her home in Ocala city when she began demanding sex from him.

The man refused, but Mills kept badgering him to "engage in sexual activity with her," according to the police report first reported by The Smoking Gun.

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Bravo! Man sues stupid and tyrannical TSA for making him miss his flight

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It's about time.

A Twin Cities man has sued the TSA and the Twin Cities airport operator for $506.85, the cost of missing his flight and having to buy a ticket for another flight due to a long security delay, the kind that have been hitting major airports all across the country lately.

Via Star Tribune:
In the lawsuit filed in federal court last week, Hooman Nikizad said his wait of more than 90 minutes on March 19 before he passed through security screening by the federal Transportation Security Administration (TSA) made him miss his afternoon flight to Los Angeles.

"I had to buy a ticket with another airline to be able to make my destination and meet my obligations," Nikizad said in his claim, which noted the TSA had limited staff on duty at the time and "only one body scanner for the regular security line [in operation]."

Nikizad, a resident surgeon with the University of Minnesota, said in his suit that the TSA and the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport "have done a very poor job of getting passengers through security."

Question

Uzbek, Kyrgyz, Russian nationals suspected of carrying out Istanbul airport attack

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© REUTERS/ Murad Sezer
Foreign nationals suspected of carrying out Tuesday's deadly attacks in Turkey's Ataturk Airport were from the CIS states, namely from Russia, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, media reported on Thursday, citing a Turkish official.

On Tuesday, a coordinated terrorist attack at Istanbul's Ataturk International Airport left at least 42 people dead and more than 240 injured.

With the total number of arrests in connection with the attack now up to 22, 13 people have been detained in Istanbul and nine in Izmir, three of these foreign nationals, the CNN reported.

Comment: RFE/RL adds a few more details:
The pro-government Yeni Safak newspaper said the Russian bomber was from Daghestan, which borders restive Chechnya.

The Kyrgyz security service declined to comment, while the Uzbek security service could not immediately be reached.
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Separately, security forces killed two suspected IS militants at the border with Syria, Turkish media reported on June 30.

The Anadolu Agency, citing unnamed security sources, says the two Syrian nationals were killed on June 25 while trying to cross the border illegally and ignored security forces warnings to stop.

One of the two militants was wanted by Turkey on suspicion that he would carry out suicide attacks in the capital, Ankara, or in the southern city of Adana, Anadolu said.



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Game simulation predicts unrest after 395% food price spike coming soon

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Preparations by various cogs of the national security complex, including FEMA, indicate a coming worldwide food shortage — and a resulting crisis marked by extreme civil unrest around the globe.

As Motherboard noted of two reports published previously by CNA Corporation, but which largely escaped attention, the world's food supply could be insufficient to maintain even current populations much further into the future. And the crisis — which several factors indicate may already be underway — may begin to worsen considerably as early as 2020.

Employing a desktop game simulation of the conditions of a global food shortage, titled "Food Chain Reaction," CNA's Institute for Public Research brought together "65 officials from the US, Europe, Africa, India, Brazil, and key multilateral and intergovernmental institutions," Motherboard explained. And the Institute, which oversaw the simulation, "primarily provides scientific research services for the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency [FEMA]."

Comment: A better solution would be people realizing the psychopathic manipulations of our world and refusing to allow them to rule over us.

The psychopaths : Game theory and market democracy

As for the idea of switching to vegetarian diets, listen to this interview which backs up, with data, the idea that vegetarianism is any way helpful to the environment or to ourselves:

Behind the Headlines: Dissecting the Vegetarian Myth - Interview with Lierre Keith