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Here's what Ahmed the clock-making kid should ask Obama when he visits the White House

David Sanchez
The Anti Media
Thu, 17 Sep 2015 00:00 UTC
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"Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House?"

That is what President Obama tweeted in support of Ahmed Mohamed, the Muslim-American 9th-grader who was arrested and threatened with charges for bringing a homemade clock for show-and-tell, because idiocrat school officials and cops thought, "It looks like a movie bomb to me."

Ahmed, who has become a viral sympathetic cause célèbre, has since confirmed in a press conference that he will indeed be visiting the White House.

For his supporters, this is a reappearance of the Obama they fell in love with: an American president who Muslims around the world can view not as an imperialist persecutor, but as a champion for tolerance, civil rights, and democracy.

Comment: This story explains so well precisely why Obama was given the role President: His extraordinary capacity to Lie about his crimes against humanity - and pretend to be sincere and benevolent at the same time. Par for the course for psychopaths in positions of power.

See also: Hysterical police state USA: 14-year-old Muslim schoolboy arrested for taking homemade clock to school

Arrest of 14-year-old student for making a clock: The fruits of sustained fearmongering and anti-Muslim animus

And for more on how on the resounding hypocrisy of world "leaders" see:

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National alert in north England - 'Super-gonorrhoea' outbreak spreading


The Telegraph
Fri, 18 Sep 2015 13:07 UTC
Public Health England 'concerned' about drug-resistant strain first reported in Leeds but which has spread to Macclesfield, Oldham and Scunthorpe
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Electron micrograph of Neisseria gonorrhoeae
An outbreak of highly drug-resistant gonorrhoea has been detected in the north of England, triggering a national alert. Fifteen cases have been detected by Public Health England (PHE) so far, the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV said.

Reports to PHE's sexually transmitted bacteria reference unit (STBRU) of cases of the infection being highly resistant to the azithromycin drug have previously been rare, it added.

The outbreak, which was first detected in Leeds in March, has since spread - with cases reported in patients from Macclesfield, Oldham and Scunthorpe. All of the cases involve heterosexual patients, and some people have reported partners from other parts of England. Around 10 per cent of men and almost half of women with gonorrhoea do not experience symptoms - meaning the condition can go untreated for some time.

In a statement, PHE said: "An outbreak control team meeting has been convened and STBRU are currently performing next generation sequencing on these strains to better understand the molecular epidemiology."It added: "PHE is concerned that the effectiveness of current front-line dual therapy for gonorrhoea will be threatened if this resistant strain continues to spread unchecked."

Comment: What better indication that we are out of balance with nature and with ourselves?

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Bad Guys

The illusion of choice: The ten corporations that own your supermarket


Sputnik News
Fri, 18 Sep 2015 12:24 UTC
grocery shopping market
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You might think there is a variety of choice when you go shopping to a supermarket, but you were wrong - there is only the illusion of choice as shown by the graph underneath.

Did you know the Kit-Kat chocolate bar and L'Oreal shampoo are owned by one parent company — Nestle?

The ten largest multinational corporations own almost everything people buy in supermarkets around the world. These corporations create a chain of smaller brands that specialize in different products, but at the end of the day customers' money still goes to the top ten corporations.

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

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"To better serve the American people": Obama's behavioral science order


RT
Wed, 16 Sep 2015 18:27 UTC
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U.S. President Barack Obama
President Barack Obama ordered government agencies to use behavioral science insights to 'better serve the American people.' While insiders are praising the step as historic, critics are blasting the measure - and the president - as manipulative.

"To more fully realize the benefits of behavioral insights and deliver better results at a lower cost for the American people, the Federal Government should design its policies and programs to reflect our best understanding of how people engage with, participate in, use, and respond to those policies and programs," says the executive order issued by the president Tuesday.

Obama instructed federal agencies to identify policies and operations where applying behavioral science could improve"public welfare, program outcomes, and program cost effectiveness," develop strategies for using behavior science insights, and recruit behavioral experts as necessary.

Comment: "To Better Serve the American People" might cause one to recall this Twilight Zone episode:



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Russian engineers build first camp in Syria for internal refugees: Tons of humanitarian aid continuously arriving


RT
Fri, 18 Sep 2015 09:51 UTC
Russia camp for refugees
© Khalil Ashawi / Reuters
The first tent camp for internal refugees, constructed by Russian engineers, has been opened in western Syria, in a location safe from the raging civil war. Over the last four years more than 50 percent of the Syrian population has been displaced.

The camp site is situated on a racetrack, practically in the downtown of the city of Hama (Hamah), some 40km from the nearest warzone. This site is considered to be relatively safe in a country suffering from active military operations since February 2011.

The camp for 500 refugees consists of 25 army tents fully equipped for living, a field kitchen, a canteen, showers, two mobile power generators and a water-storage facility. The dwelling tents are equipped with beds and heating furnaces for cold weather. In case the number of refugees increases sharply, the camp is ready to accommodate up to 1,000 people. Everything needed to set up a camp was delivered to Latakia Airport on September 12 by an Antonov An-124 Ruslan jet. The flight also brought 50,000 sets of disposable tableware and 15 tons of provisions enough to feed 50 people for 30 days.
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French mayor caught on film trying to evict Syrian refugees


RT
Wed, 16 Sep 2015 18:03 UTC
mayor
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France's Mayor Menard and police escort routs out refugees.
As Europe continues to face the worst refugee crisis since World War II, a far-right French politician has been filmed storming in on squats inhabited by Syrian refugees, telling them that they are "not welcome in this town."

Angry that the refugees have allegedly broken into apartments and begun squatting there, Robert Ménard, mayor of the town of Beziers in southern France, is seen marching into a building while surrounded by police - including an armed guard.

Accompanied by a translator who delivers the messages in English, Ménard tells a Syrian man: "You are not welcome in this town. You came in this apartment breaking the door." He goes on to say: "You are stealing the water. People are paying for water, but you are just stealing electricity and water. It's not allowed in this town to just come in an apartment and live in it, without being allowed to it."

The right-wing politician says the Syrian refugees would be welcome if he "behaved correctly." He then continues his 'tour,' knocking on two more doors and telling a person that he "will be welcome only if he respects the rules of this country and city."


Comment: Oh no! These squatters were stealing water, stealing electricity, taking advantage of a shelter - something so hard to understand they must be evicted and criminalized for the most basic humanness of it. Country for country, an invasion for an invasion...perhaps it is worth some reflection.

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Wave of refugees break police lines, push through Croatia's border

Jim Hoft
Gateway Pundit
Thu, 17 Sep 2015 23:07 UTC
Slovenia border refugee
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Riot police were forced to stand aside after they failed to hold back the latest wave of refugees and migrants that pushed into Croatia today.

Chaos broke out today as a mass of migrants broke through police lines on the border.

Migrants targeted Croatia after Hungary closed its border.
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Comment: The U.S. and UK warwhores are to blame for this crisis by invading and destroying the countries these people are from. Unfortunately, there's probably more to come. See: Syrian refugees in Europe, regime change in Damascus, and the mass migrations still to come

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Arrest of 14-year-old student for making a clock: The fruits of sustained fearmongering and anti-Muslim animus

Glenn Greenwald
The Intercept
Wed, 16 Sep 2015 13:20 UTC
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There are sprawling industries and self-proclaimed career "terrorism experts" in the U.S. that profit greatly by deliberately exaggerating the threat of Terrorism and keeping Americans in a state of abject fear of "radical Islam." There are all sorts of polemicists who build their public platforms by demonizing Muslims and scoffing at concerns over "Islamaphobia," with the most toxic ones insisting that such a thing does not even exist, even as the mere presence of mosques is opposed across the country, or even as they are physically attacked.

The U.S. government just formally renewed the "State of Emergency" it declared in the aftermath of 9/11 for the 14th time since that attack occurred, ensuring that the country remains in a state of permanent, endless war, subjected to powers that are still classified as "extraordinary" even though they have become entirely normalized. As a result of all of this, a minority group of close to 3 million people is routinely targeted with bigotry and legal persecution in the Home of the Free, while fear and hysteria reign supreme in the Land of the Brave.

Comment: Read more by Joe Quinn: Hysterical police state USA: 14-year-old Muslim schoolboy arrested for taking homemade clock to school

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Grand Jury charges fraternity members with murder for pledge hazing death

Michael Rubinkam
Yahoo News
Tue, 15 Sep 2015 20:53 UTC
michael deng, hazing
Five people, including the former national president of a fraternity, have been charged in the 2013 death of a New York City college freshman during a brutal hazing ritual in Pennsylvania, police said Tuesday.

Fraternity members at Baruch College physically abused Chun "Michael" Deng, then tried to cover it up as the 19-year-old lay dying in their rented house in the Pocono Mountains, police said.

A grand jury recommended charges for 37 people in Deng's December 2013 death. Pocono Mountain Regional police intend to arrest suspects in waves, moving from least to most culpable, to keep the courts from being overwhelmed.

Comment: Going to college should be about getting an education, but in US colleges, students are increasingly being harassed, raped and murdered. It's what you would expect of a society that has been ponerized by psychopaths which have embedded their violent, immoral values in the culture.

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Fuel tanker explosion in South Sudan causes over 170 fatalities

Caroline Mortimer
The Independent
Thu, 17 Sep 2015 20:59 UTC
Local hospitals are struggling to care for the injured as they lack 'facility to treat highly burnt people'
tanker explosion Sudan
More than 100 people are reported to have been killed in South Sudan after a fuel tanker exploded.

A local government official, Charles Kisagna, said at least 100 people were killed and a further 50 people were injured in the blast in Maridi in the country's heavily rural Western Equatoria state when the truck veered off the road.

The local county commissioner, Wilson Thomas Yanga, told the BBC that the death toll had risen to 176 and said officials were concerned that the true number of wounded was not currently known as many are believed to have fled the scene.Mr Kisagna said local hospitals had been overwhelmed by the injured saying: "We don't have medical equipment and these people may not survive because we do not have the facilities to treat the highly burnt people."

A local doctor told Sudanese radio station Radio Tamazuj that they were running out of basic medical supplies like oyxgen and pain killers.

Layal Horanieh, spokeswoman for the International Committee of the Red Cross in the South Sudanese capital of Juba, said the aid group had sent two burn kits to Maridi, each with enough equipment to treat at least 50 patients.

Comment: South Sudan is another country that has suffered due to Western meddling. Creating decent infrastructure is last on the list when power is up for grabs.

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