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Wealthy Swiss municipality to pay $300k per year to not have asylum seekers live there

RT
Wed, 04 May 2016 16:29 UTC

The mayor of a rich Swiss municipality, which would rather pay $300,000 a year than allow 10 asylum seekers to live there, says the country should close its borders with barbed wire. A referendum on the country's asylum law is to take place in June.

Last weekend, the municipality of Oberwil-Lieli in the canton of Aargau held a local referendum on a budget passed last November. The budget decided not to pay 290,000 Swiss francs (about $300,000) a year as a compensation for not hosting its quota of 10 asylum seekers.

But the direct vote overturned the representatives' decision in a 579 to 525 vote. The wealthy municipality has some 2,100 residents.

The pay-off option has long existed for Swiss municipalities. But the price was hiked 11-fold last year as the country faced its share of the pan-European refugee crisis.

Comment: How about paying the US/UK/NATO to NOT bomb and destroy other countries so their people don't become refugees?

LAPD sheriff resigns after racist emails discovered

RT
Tue, 03 May 2016 15:26 UTC

A former Los Angeles Sheriff's Department official resigned after a slew of racist joke emails which he had forwarded were discovered. The emails were sent in 2012 and 2013 while he was the assistant chief of the Burbank Police Department.

Tom Angel became the chief of staff to LA County Sheriff Jim McDonnell last year, but on Sunday he resigned after some troubling emails surfaced.

"I took my Biology exam last Friday," one of the joke emails read. "I was asked to name two things commonly found in cells. Apparently, 'Blacks' and 'Mexicans' were NOT the correct answers."

"Japanese scientists have recently created a camera with such a fantastic shutter speed that it is now possible to take a photograph of a woman with her mouth closed," another said.

Police impunity: Virginia cops who tased man to death while in handcuffs won't face charges

RT
Tue, 03 May 2016 17:41 UTC

Prosecutors in Virginia will not charge police officers in South Boston for their part in the death of a man who was shot with a taser 20 times in 30 minutes while handcuffed in police custody, according to a new report.

Linwood Lambert was pronounced dead about an hour after he was taken into police custody in South Boston, Virginia, on May 4, 2013, following reports of a noise disturbance at a motel. Police decided to take Lambert, who later admitted he had used cocaine, to a nearby hospital, telling him they were not taking him to jail. When Lambert became agitated and ran out of the police squad car toward the hospital, police subsequently tased him repeatedly despite his pleas for them to stop.

Lambert died after about 87 seconds, total, of tasing by the officers, who acted in violation of the South Boston Police Department's guidelines for taser-use given Lambert was handcuffed the entire time.

Pentagon security analyst: 'Unbelievable' amount of child porn on US military and intelligence computers

Privacy SOS
Tue, 03 May 2016 00:00 UTC

If you've got nothing to hide, why worry about warrantless mass surveillance? One reason among many: The people who have access to your private communications may not have your—or your child's—best interest at heart.

NextGov reports that officials at a recent Intelligence and National Security Alliance symposium in Chantilly, Virginia discussed the widespread storage of child pornography on NSA and other military computer systems. Daniel Payne, director of the Pentagon's Defense Security Service, reportedly said that "the amount of child porn [he sees on government devices] is just unbelievable." An NSA official agreed, saying "what people do is amazing."

Comment: The level of psychological illness (not to mention hypocrisy) that is demonstrated by Security/Intelligence/Military personnel is breathtaking - and almost suggests that you have to have one of these perverted proclivities to fit in with the pathological culture of these institutions!

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Researchers find spanking is ineffective yet parents spank their children for even mundane offenses

Scott Kaufman
Raw Story
Sat, 16 Apr 2016 14:51 UTC

New research published in the Journal of Family Psychology indicates not only that parents punish their children more frequently than they admit, but that the form of the punishment — spanking — is an ineffective means of behavioral modification.

The study analyzed real-time audio recordings of parents interacting with their children. The parents had been given guidelines: spank infrequently, only for serious misbehavior, and only as a last resort.

Thirty-three families were recorded for between four and six evenings, and in 90 percent of the incidents involving corporal punishment, the immediate cause was "noncompliance," such as a refusal to stop sucking fingers, eating improperly, leaving the house without asking permission. In 49 percent of the spanking incidents, the parent sounded angry prior to initiating the spanking.

"The recordings show that most parents responded either impulsively or emotionally, rather than being intentional with their discipline," lead author George Holden, a psychology professor at Southern Methodist University, said. On average, it only required 30 seconds for nonviolent discipline to escalate to corporal punishment.

Germany considering legalization of medical marijuana

RT
Wed, 04 May 2016 11:59 UTC

Cannabis will be available to seriously ill German patients on prescription in drug stores and its use may be covered by medical insurance, German Health Minister Hermann Gröhe announced Tuesday. The law is expected to come into force in 2017.

The draft relaxing the regulations on the use of medical marijuana is aimed to alleviating the suffering of seriously ill patients who were previously not eligible to obtain the drug. The draft law is set to be approved by the government Wednesday and then forwarded to the German parliament for further debate.

"Without wishing to pre-judge the work of the Bundestag, it is likely that the law will come into force in the spring of 2017," Gröhe told die Welt.

Good job - not! FBI thwarts its own terror plot in Florida

RT
Wed, 04 May 2016 01:28 UTC

The FBI has thwarted a plot to bomb a Florida Jewish center on the last night of Passover. The suspect, who shared details of the planned attack with an informant, was arrested on his way to the synagogue carrying what he thought was an explosive.

On Monday, James Gonzalo Medina, 40, of Hollywood, Florida, was charged with attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction, which carries a potential life prison sentence. Department of Justice documents show he told an FBI informant in the run-up to the would-be attack, "I feel that I'm doing it for a good cause for Allah."

Comment: Ahh, the good ol' FBI, busy meeting their otherwise-unreachable quota of foiled terror plots! Just think about the absurdity of this drama: Medina is being charged with attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction. This is a legal fiction, because the weapon he used was utterly useless, created and provided by the FBI. But following the logic of this legal fiction, should not the FBI informant and his FBI handlers also be charged with building a WMD, trafficking in WMDs, and providing a WMD to a potential murderer? The only thing that made this 'bomb' a 'weapon of mass destruction' was Medina's belief that it was real. And since figures like George W. and Dick Cheney got away with murder for their own WMD delusion, maybe the justice system should re-consider Medina's charges and replace them with something more grounded in reality.

If any of our readers haven't noticed the pattern yet, please watch this TED Talk with Trevor Aaronson:

And read this article: The FBI honeypot entrapment of Khalil Abu Rayyan: Just another case of FBI incitement and radicalization

'Spying billboards' trigger calls for investigation

Sputnik
Mon, 02 May 2016 23:02 UTC

Senator Charles Schumer is calling for a federal investigation by the Federal Trade Commission into Clear Channel's "spying billboards," which access the mobile devices of those in close proximity.

The billboards use device data to determine the types of ads they display, based on the demographics of passersby, even to the point of whether those people end up in an advertiser's stores, CBS New York reports. Clear Channel currently operates over 675,000 of what Schumer has dubbed "spying billboards," globally.

Slave master rules: Large oil field found in West Bank; Israel won't let Palestine drill for it

The Palestinian Information Center
Mon, 02 May 2016 21:25 UTC

An Israeli energy company has announced that an oil field they have been surveying north of the Dead Sea is estimated to hold millions of oil barrels, worth 1.2 billion shekels ($321 million). The reservoir, known as Hatrurim, is estimated to contain seven million barrels of oil, while the high estimate is 11 million barrels, according to the company "Israel Opportunity."

Other partners in the Hatrurim project include Zerah Oil and Gas, Gulliver Energy, Ashtrom Group and Cyprus Opportunity. A previous company (Delek Group Ltd) had carried out an initial drilling at the same spot and discovered oil in 1995, but determined the field was not worth developing due to low oil prices.

The Israeli oil project in this area is expected to face opposition from the Palestinian government because the site is part of the Palestinian territory in the West Bank, which is classified as Area C under the Oslo accords. However, Israel prevents the Palestinians from drilling for oil and gas in the West Bank.

World Bank reports inadequate water supply may lead to global economic decline

Sputnik
Tue, 03 May 2016 21:20 UTC

Insufficient water supply could lead to a decline in the gross domestic product (GDP) in at least four parts of the world if governments do not make water management changes, according to a World Bank report released on Tuesday.

"If countries do not take action to better manage water resources, our analysis shows that some regions with large populations could be living with long periods of negative economic growth," World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said in a release about the report.

The report noted the regions of concern include Central Africa and East Asia, which do not have water scarcity problems at present, and the Middle East and the Sahel of Africa, where water is already in short supply.

Comment: Looks like banks and corporations want more control of the water supplies.

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Society's Child

Wealthy Swiss municipality to pay $300k per year to not have asylum seekers live there

LAPD sheriff resigns after racist emails discovered

Police impunity: Virginia cops who tased man to death while in handcuffs won't face charges

Pentagon security analyst: 'Unbelievable' amount of child porn on US military and intelligence computers

Researchers find spanking is ineffective yet parents spank their children for even mundane offenses

Germany considering legalization of medical marijuana

Good job - not! FBI thwarts its own terror plot in Florida

'Spying billboards' trigger calls for investigation

Slave master rules: Large oil field found in West Bank; Israel won't let Palestine drill for it

World Bank reports inadequate water supply may lead to global economic decline

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