Bonjour Planet Earth: August 2012

Friday, August 31, 2012

Why does the US govt treat military veterans like human garbage?

The way that the U.S. government treats military veterans is absolutely disgraceful. Men and women that have given everything for this nation are literally being treated like human garbage by their own government. After watching how vets are treated, it is absolutely amazing that anyone is still volunteering to be a part of the military. We pay those in the military like crap, we keep sending our best soldiers back to Afghanistan and Iraq again and again, we don't equip them properly, military suicides are at a record pace, hundreds of thousands of applications for veteran benefits are hopelessly backlogged, homelessness and unemployment among vets is much higher than for the general population, the condition of most VA hospitals is an absolute disgrace, and to top everything off now the Obama administration has started labeling military veterans as "potential terrorists". What you are about to read should make you very angry. The abuse, neglect and outright disrespect that military vets receive from their own government is absolutely shocking. We owe these men and women a great debt for the service that they have performed for our nation, but instead the federal government kicks them to the curb and treats them with no honor whatsoever. The way a nation treats military vets says a lot about the character of that nation, and right now the way that America treats veterans says that we have the character of a steaming pile of manure. Full story...

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Australian billionaire Gina Rinehart attacks 'jealous' poor...

The world's richest woman has rebuked her poorer Australian countrymen, telling them to work harder and cut down their drinking, smoking and socialising.

Gina Rinehart, a mining magnate worth an estimated £19 billion, has advised those jealous of the wealthy to "spend less time drinking or smoking and socialising, and more time working" in order to be successful.

Miss Rinehart, 56, also rounded on Australia's "class warfare", insisting it was billionaires such as herself who were doing more than anyone to help the poor.

She warns that Australia risks following European economies ruined by "socialist" policies, high taxes, and excessive regulation. Full story...

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"Galley slave" Vladimir Putin one of the world's wealthiest man...

President Vladimir V. Putin is rumored to be among the world’s wealthiest men, with an oil-fed fortune worth tens of billions of dollars. He denies that, vehemently, but a report to be published Tuesday suggests that the dispute may be beside the point.

In the report, sarcastically titled “The Life of a Galley Slave,” after the president’s own description of his tenure in office, Russian opposition leaders describe what they call an extraordinary expansion of presidential perks during the 12 years since the start of Mr. Putin’s first term as president — palaces, a fleet of jets and droves of luxury cars.

Among the 20 residences available to the Russian president are Constantine Palace, a Czarist-era estate on the Gulf of Finland restored at the cost of tens of millions of dollars, a ski lodge in the Caucasus Mountains and a Gothic revival palace in the Moscow region. The president also has at his disposal 15 helicopters, 4 spacious yachts and 43 aircraft, including the main presidential jet, an Ilyushin whose interior is furnished with gold inlay by artisans from the city of Sergiyev Posad, an Airbus and a Dassault Falcon. The 43 aircraft alone are worth an estimated $1 billion, the report says.

This, the authors note, “in a country where many people hardly make ends meet.” Full story...

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Even Muslims in Pakistan suffer vigilante mob "justice" for blasphemy as murders go unpunished...

Pakistani police and government authorities have remained silent over the recent immolation of a mentally disabled Muslim male near Bahawalpur, in the southern region of Pakistan, for alleged blasphemy against the Holy Quran.

It is the latest in a growing string of such murders. No arrests have been made since the July 25 incident, which took place in the South Punjab of Pakistan region. Ghulam Abbas, a homeless male in his 40s, was burned to death by a mob of 2,000 men for allegedly desecrating the Muslim holy book. Locals complained that he had supposedly ripped pages from the Quran.

Although he was arrested and taken into police custody, Muslim religious leaders began demanding on mosque loudspeakers that the people punish the alleged blasphemer. Within hours, a mob gathered outside the police station and demanded either police kill him, or hand him over for punishment The police were unable to control the emotionally charged crowd, mainly students from the neighborhood madrasahs, who attacked the police station, injured seven policemen, burned several police vehicles and broke into the jail. The mob also attacked the home of a police officer and burned his furniture.

The mob then dragged Ghulam through the streets, beating him, then doused him with petrol and set him alight despite his screams for help. Full story...

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LAPD commander brutally body slams nurse...

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Italian woman sues husband for seven years of 'slavery'

An Italian woman who signed up to a bizarre contract promising total sexual and mental submission to her husband is now suing him for divorce and mistreatment after seven years of "slavery".

In a pact reminiscent of the eroticism featured in the best-seller Fifty Shades of Grey and the notorious novel The Story of O, the saleswoman from Padua signed the explicitly-worded agreement with her then boyfriend in 2004, when she was 24.

They married in 2006 but the relationship eventually fell apart and the couple separated last year.

The woman, now aged 31, has shown the two-page contract to her lawyers to support her demands for a divorce and accusations of physical abuse. She also accuses her former partner of stalking her since their split.

The contract stipulated that she be considered a "slave" to her husband, a property manager who was 10 years older than her. Full story...

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Tiny Singapore risks economic gloom without big baby boom...

History suggests Singapore will enjoy a welcome baby boom in this Year of the Dragon, the most auspicious for births in the Chinese zodiac.

But after 25 years of state-sponsored matchmaking and fertility-boosting campaigns, the government's attempts to arrest a sliding birth rate are falling flat, with potentially profound consequences for the wealthy Asian city-state.

The calls to conception are now urgent and constant to citizens whose fertility ranks last among 222 nations in the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's World Factbook.

Faced with dismal statistics like that, the government has begun a review of population and immigration policy and says it plans new measures to encourage births by the time it publishes the results of its consultation early next year.

The message to have more babies is all the more pressing as resentment builds over an influx of foreigners who now make up more than a third of the population of 5.2 million, a factor that is eroding support for the long-ruling People's Action Party.

"We have a problem. The long-term trend is down but we cannot give up," Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said in a speech on Sunday about the nation's future. "We need to create the right environment, the right social environment, the right ethos so that Singaporeans want to settle down and have kids." Full story...

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Growing fascism in Greece as immigrants and minorities are targeted...

"After the immigrants, you're next." That's what was written on flyers that appeared this week in the gay clubbing district of Athens. As violence against immigrants and ethnic minorities escalates across Greece, supporters of the ultra-right Golden Dawn party have also begun to promote hate attacks on homosexuals and people with disabilities. These fascists march with black shirts and flares through Athens, terrorising ethnic and sexual minorities, waving an insignia which looks like nothing but an unravelled swastika, and declaring disdain for the political process. And yet, across Europe, they continue to be treated as a mere symptom of Greece's economic crisis.

Once, right-wing thugs only came out to attack immigrants at night. Now they do so in daylight, unafraid of the consequences because there rarely are any. In recent weeks, the number and severity of the attacks have increased – on 12 August, a 19-year-old Iraqi asylum seeker was fatally stabbed by a gang on motorcycles just streets away from the Greek parliament – and if migrants report attacks to police, they risk being arrested.

Not only are crimes against immigrants in Greece considered low priority, much of Golden Dawn's support base comes from police ranks. Exit polls in the May 2012 elections suggested that in some urban districts up to 50 per cent of Greek police voted for the racist group, which now holds 7 per cent of the seats in parliament. Full story...

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South African miners charged with murder of colleagues killed by cops...

Workers arrested at South Africa's Marikana mine have been charged in court with the murder of 34 of their colleagues shot by police.

The 270 workers would be tried under the "common purpose" doctrine because they were in the crowd which confronted police on 16 August, an official said.

Police opened fire, killing 34 miners and sparking a national outcry.

The decision to charge the workers was "madness", said former ruling ANC party youth leader Julius Malema.

"The policemen who killed those people are not in custody, not even one of them. This is madness," said Mr Malema, who was expelled from the ANC (African National Congress) earlier this year following a series of disagreements with President Jacob Zuma.

"The whole world saw the policemen kill those people," Mr Malema said, adding that he would ask defence lawyers to make an urgent application at the high court. Full story...

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Thursday, August 30, 2012

Amazonian Yanomami Indian community wiped out by illegal goldminers...

At least 80 members of a remote Amazonian tribal village may have been wiped out after gold miners launched an assault on the indigenous community, tribal leaders said.

The charred remains of dozens of Yanomami Indians were discovered inside the village “shabono” in the remote community of Irotatheri on the southern Venezuelan border with Brazil.

A shabono is a circular hut that typically houses dozens of tribesmen and women.

Three survivors were found walking in the jungle after the attack, having fled at the sound of gunshots, explosions and the sound of a helicopter while they were out hunting.

The massacre is believed to have happened sometime last month but due to the remoteness of the village, information had to be relayed from village to village until it reached Yanomami tribal leaders who alerted the Venezuelan authorities. Full story...

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Three men in Tanzania struck dumb after thief-snaring ritual!!!

Three bar waiters became dumb recently after a witchdoctor from Tanzania conducted a ritual against them over allegations of theft.

The incident occurred at a bar and night club in Machakos town when the proprietor hired a witch doctor to compel those who had stolen his money to return it.

Earlier, the proprietor pleaded with all the waiters to disclose the one who had taken the money from the safe, in vain.

He later reportedly hired the witch doctor from Tanzania, who conducted the ritual in the presence of all the workers resulting in the capture of the three culprits. Full story...

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Romanian football team lose 31-0 to lower league opposition in cup!!!

Cash-strapped Romanian second division side CS Buftea paid the price for fielding a side of teenagers when they were thumped by the astonishing scoreline of 31-0 by third-tier ACS Berceni in a Romanian Cup match.

Buftea celebrated promotion to the second division in May but a team containing predominantly U19 players were on the wrong end of a goal deluge in the fourth preliminary round match.

Buftea, located 20 km north-west of capital Bucharest, conceded 19 goals in the second half of Tuesday's match.

Local media reported the loss as a record defeat in Romanian soccer.

"I'm ashamed to tell you the score," ACS Berceni president Stephen Stana told local media.

"But it's not our fault that they disregarded the competition." Source...

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The poisoning of Yasser Afafat...

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Arafat’s widow, Suha, has never been convinced about the official record of his death. When it comes to matters Palestinian and Israeli, nothing is ever entirely convincing – at least in the official channel. She has taken legal action claiming murder, encouraged by an al-Jazeera report that her husband had, in fact, been poisoned by the radioactive isotope polonium-210. That particular poison was made famous when the Russian dissident and former FSB agent Alexander Litvinenko succumbed to its effects in London. What new light this murder investigation by French prosecutors will shed will be intriguing but change little in the scheme of things. Truth is always the vassal to partisanship.

An investigation of Arafat’s belongings by a lab at the Institut de Radiophysique in Lausanne piqued Suha’s interest, largely because it seems to contradict the medical report of French doctors made after his death. In the words of the director of the Lausanne Institute, François Bochud, “I can confirm to you that we measured an unexplained, elevated amount of unsupported polonium-210 in the belongings of Mr Arafat that contained stains of biological fluids.”

We might have never known the contents of that report had it not been leaked to the New York Times in 2005. Where there is polonium, the dark hand of an agency casts its shadow, ever inconclusive on the public record – except in result. There is much to be made from the fact that three of the six known deaths caused by polonium occurred in Israel, all in the 1960s. Full story...

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Indian couple kicked off Delta flight for anti-TSA t-shirt...

Delta Airlines, in collusion, of course, with the Transportation Security Administration, seems to have a new division: Thought Police.

At least, that's what Arijit Guha and his wife think after being kicked off a Delta flight out of Buffalo-Niagara for wearing a satirical t-shirt that apparently made some passengers and employees "very uncomfortable."

Writing on his blog, Guha - who was returning home after attending his grandfather's funeral - tells how he was treated as a terrorist for nothing more than his attire which, he explained, puts a sarcastic spin on the screening process airline passengers in the U.S. must endure.

"The story begins on Saturday, August 18," Guha, who describes himself as a PhD at Arizona State University's School of Sustainability, says. Full story...

Read the blogger's version here...

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Google receives 1.5million takedown requests a week...

The number of requests by rights holders to have content removed from Google has doubled in the last month, according to the search engine’s transparency report.

Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), copyright holders have the right to demand that websites take down links which point to content infringing their rights.

One of the main recipients of those rapidly increasing requests is Google.

During the last four weeks, the number of such takedown requests sent to the search engine has doubled to almost 1.5 million URLs per week.

And over the same period Google fielded requests from rights holders and anti-piracy bodies to remove 5.7 million URLs from its search results. Full story...

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AIDS-like disease mysteriously appears where Merck conducted vaccine trials...

In Southeast Asia, specifically Thailand, an AIDS-like “virus” has been found in people that are not infected with HIV. Those infected have their immune-system compromised. Health officials say that this new AIDS “virus” is not contagious, which begs the question: how did these people come down with this new strain of AIDS?

This infection does not spread the same as AIDS does, according to Dr. Sarah Browne, scientist with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Browne led the team of researchers in Thailand and Taiwan where the disease made its first appearance.

The disease appears to be directed at people of Asian descent; even those living in the US.

Browne has concluded that the new AIDS causes those infected to produce autoantibodies that block interferon-gamma, a chemical signal that assists the human body in fighting infections. The new AIDS targets this chemical and leaves the victim unable to fight off any infection – leaving the person vulnerable to developing deadly sicknesses from even the common cold. Full story...

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Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Outrage in Belgium as ex-wife of child killer Marc Dutroux is cleared for early release...

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How the US and Israeli justice systems whitewash state crimes...

The US military announced on Monday that no criminal charges would be brought against the US marines in Afghanistan who videotaped themselves urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters. Nor, the military announced, would any criminal charges be filed against the US troops who "tried to burn about 500 copies of the Qur'an as part of a badly bungled security sweep at an Afghan prison in February, despite repeated warnings from Afghan soldiers that they were making a colossal mistake".

In doing so, the US military, as usual, brushed aside demands of Afghan officials for legal accountability for the destructive acts of foreign soldiers in their country. The US instead imposed "disciplinary measures" in both cases, ones that "could include letters of reprimand, a reduction in rank, forfeit of some pay, physical restriction to a military base, extra duties or some combination of those measures". Both incidents triggered intense protests and rioting that left dozens dead, back in February this year.

Parallel to that, an Israeli judge Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit against the Israeli government brought by the family of Rachel Corrie, the 23-year-old American student and pro-Palestinian activist who was killed by a military bulldozer in 2003 as she protested the demolition of a house in Gaza whose family she had come to befriend. Upon learning of the suit's dismissal, Corrie's mother, Cindy, said: Full story...

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India's Dongria Kondh tell Vedanta 'we won't leave our land'

Ahead of the AGM of Vedanta Resources in London today, (28 August) India’s Dongria Kondh tribe has sent a strong message to the company’s chairman Anil Agarwal.

"‘Even if Anil Agarwal himself comes here, we won’t leave our land. We will use all our strength to make them leave this place. Let us live our lives in peace", two Dongria women said to Survival International, the NGO which campaigns for the rights of tribal people.

The FTSE100 company is intent on mining the Dongria’s mountain for bauxite.

The company’s failure both to consult with the Dongria, and to get all the necessary clearances for the mine before starting works on its refinery, has damaged Vedanta financially as well as in terms of its reputation. Last week, it was announced that running its refinery without being able to mine locally has cost the company over US$540 million (£340 million). Full story...

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Michelle Obama undressed: Lost in translation or just racist?

On newsstands across Spain, Michelle Obama can be seen gracing the August 2012 cover of Magazine Fuera de Serie, a lifestyle supplement to the newspaper Expansión. She is seated on a chair draped in the American flag, partially nude in slave attire, complete with one of Aunt Jemima’s chicer headscarves. Perhaps because it seems so obviously offensive, the mind attempts to rationalize; “Did this get lost in translation, or is this as racist as I think?”

As a black British woman, born and raised in London, I am acutely aware of other recent European racist train wrecks concerning the representation of black womanhood: the Dutch magazine Jackie “deconstructing” Rihanna’s style under the obscene headline “De Niggabitch” and Sweden’s minister of culture cutting into a cake depicting a caricature of a naked black woman to name but two. Unfortunately, this Michelle Obama/Slave Woman mash-up sees Europe produce yet another epic fail in black female representation.

The magazine cover for the feature article “Michelle Tataranieta De Esclava, Dueña De América” (Michelle Granddaughter of a Slave, Lady of America) is the brainchild of white French/English fine artist Karine Percheron-Daniels. Her mixed-media portrait superimposes Obama’s head onto the famous art-historical body of an African Guadeloupean female slave painted by French artist Marie-Guilhelmine Benoist in 1800. More + image...

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Vladimir Putin’s 'life of four yachts and 58 aircraft’

Vladimir Putin cultivates the image of a man who enjoys simple pursuits such as fishing and hiking, but the perks of his presidential office make his tastes appear rather less Spartan.

A dossier drawn up by a political rival of the Russian president suggests that he has 58 planes and helicopters at his use, that he has a collection of watches worth £400,000, and that he relaxes at more than 20 palaces and country retreats.

The report also claims that Mr Putin uses an Ilyushin jet with a £111.3 million cabin that includes a bathroom that has gold fittings and a £50,000 lavatory.

Boris Nemtsov, a former deputy prime minister, concluded in his report that Mr Putin’s existence “can be compared with that of the monarchs of the Persian Gulf or the most outrageous oligarchs”. Full story...

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Poor in India starve as corrupt politicians steal $14.5 billion of food...

Ram Kishen, 52, half-blind and half- starved, holds in his gnarled hands the reason for his hunger: a tattered card entitling him to subsidized rations that now serves as a symbol of India’s biggest food heist.

Kishen has had nothing from the village shop for 15 months. Yet 20 minutes’ drive from Satnapur, past bone-dry fields and tiny hamlets where children with distended bellies play, a government storage facility five football fields long bulges with wheat and rice. By law, those 57,000 tons of food are meant for Kishen and the 105 other households in Satnapur with ration books. They’re meant for some of the 350 million families living below India’s poverty line of 50 cents a day.

Instead, as much as $14.5 billion in food was looted by corrupt politicians and their criminal syndicates over the past decade in Kishen’s home state of Uttar Pradesh alone, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The theft blunted the country’s only weapon against widespread starvation -- a five-decade-old public distribution system that has failed to deliver record harvests to the plates of India’s hungriest.

“This is the most mean-spirited, ruthlessly executed corruption because it hits the poorest and most vulnerable in society,” said Naresh Saxena, who, as a commissioner to the nation’s Supreme Court, monitors hunger-based programs across the country. “What I find even more shocking is the lack of willingness in trying to stop it.” Full story...

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Megaupload founder Dotcom: I'm going to turn this world upside down...

In July, a little over six months since the January raids on Megaupload, Kim Dotcom told the world his now-infamous service would be back.

“MEGA will return. Bigger. Better. Faster. Free of charge & shielded from attacks. Evolution!” the Megaupload founder announced on Twitter.

Coming from most regular people in the online space, such claims might be considered fanciful, particularly given the precarious situation Dotcom and his associates find themselves in. But with enthusiasm, energy and positivity coming out of his every pore, there is something about the larger-than-life German that inspires confidence that these were not casual off-the-cuff remarks.

Today, in a series of announcements, Dotcom has added to his earlier promise that not only will Megaupload return, it will indeed be bigger, better and more secure than ever before. Full story...

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Tuesday, August 28, 2012

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Ron Paul on meaningless words in politics: democracy or freedom?

As we enter the fall political season, we will hear a great deal of rhetoric from both major political parties and their many candidates for office. It’s important for us to remember, however, that words can be made meaningless by misuse or overuse. And when we as citizens allow politicians to obscure the truth by distorting words, we diminish ourselves and our nation.?

For example, we’ve all heard politicians use the words “democracy” and “freedom” countless times. They are used interchangeably in modern political discourse, yet their true meanings are very different. They have become what George Orwell termed “meaningless words”. Words like “freedom,” “democracy,” and “justice,” Orwell explained, have been abused for so l?ong that their original meanings have been eviscerated. In Orwell’s view, such words were “often used in a consciously dishonest way.”

Without precise meanings behind words, politicians and elites can obscure reality and condition people to reflexively associate certain words with positive or negative perceptions. In other words, unpleasant facts can be hidden behind purposely meaningless language. As just one example, Americans have been conditioned to accept the word “democracy” as a synonym for freedom. Thus we are conditioned to believe that democracy is always and everywhere benevolent. Full story...

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Sinister Nigerian scam: young woman lured to Lagos and murdered by Facebook "friends..."

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We learnt that the deceased before her death, had been chatting with some new friends on Facebook for a few months, not knowing that her newfound friends had other plans on their minds beyond mere friendship. On realising that she was a frequent visitor to Lagos, her new friends, described as two young men, were said to have promised to host her on her next trip.

They were said to have paid for her flight ticket as well as her hotel fee and based on the level of trust she had developed for them, she went along with the plan without knowing that they had sinister motives.

After picking her from the airport, they drove her to a hotel in FESTAC Town where she was lodged. As part of their sinister plot, they had recruited a member of staff of the hotel and a pharmacist who produced a toxic substance used to drug her.

The deceased was tied up and eventually robbed of all the money she brought to shop for her business and then strangled to death. Her assailants dispossessed her of her phone, her identity card and other things that could be used to identify her.

Her details in the hotel were scanty, apparently to throw off the police and hotel management, as they would think she was a call girl who died in service. Full story...

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Britain's barbaric "special relationship" with Bahrain despot...

The image of British Prime Minister David Cameron greeting Bahrain’s King Hamad on the steps of 10 Downing Street last week conveys a subtle message of Britain’s presumption of global superiority. It also betrays the real role of Britain’s rulers in the suppression of democracy and human rights around the world.

The taller Cameron, in dapper pinstripe suit, is seen extending a benevolent hand to the dumpy little Arab tin-pot king who is donning a medieval-looking headdress and robe.

It would appear, from the photo-op, that patronage is being afforded by a thoroughly democratic leader to an antiquated ally from the Arabian desert, the latter in need of jolly-good-old Anglo-Saxon tutelage in the art of modern statecraft.

How civilized. The British premier invites the Bahraini monarch into the iconic dwelling near the supposed “mother of all parliaments” for a serving of English tea and cakes over “low-key talks”.

On the agenda, according to one of Britain’s “liberal” newspapers, the Guardian, the prime minister raised, apparently, the troubling matter of human rights as well as - and this is the unmentioned significant bit - trade opportunities for British businesses in the Persian Gulf kingdom. Full story...

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Rachel Corrie's bulldozer death was her own fault, says Israeli judge...

An Israeli court on yesterday rejected a lawsuit brought against the military by the parents of a US activist crushed to death in 2003 by an army bulldozer as she tried to block its path in the Gaza Strip, ruling the army was not at fault for her death.

The bulldozer driver has said he didn't see 23-year-old Rachel Corrie, a pro-Palestinian activist who opposed the military's demolition of Palestinian homes. The military deemed her March 2003 death to be accidental, but Corrie's parents were not satisfied by the army investigation and filed a civil lawsuit two years later.

Explaining the district court's ruling, judge Oded Gershon said Corrie "put herself in a dangerous situation" and called her death "the result of an accident she brought upon herself." He said the military conducted a proper investigation, and rejected the Corrie family's request for a symbolic $1 in damages and legal expenses.

Corrie's parents, Craig and Cindy Corrie, did not speak immediately after the verdict, but clasped each other's hands. Full story...

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The dangers of dairy products explained...

Have you ever wondered why humans are the only mammals that drink another species' milk? Or maybe this thought never crossed your mind... until now. Today's milk is pumped full of hormones, provides less calcium and vitamin D than other sources, and is causing an onslaught of health problems. Flavored milks offered in schools around the United States are loaded with unfathomable amounts of sugar; the thing parents struggle to limit at home on a daily basis. Understanding the dangers of dairy and avoiding it as much as possible can help to eliminate a number of growing health problems and slow down the onset of early puberty in today's young population.

Today's milk contains roughly 60 hormones, a number of allergens, fat, cholesterol and has a possible link to turning on and off cancer genes. Most people were taught that we must drink milk for strong, healthy bones but, countless other foods contain higher, hormone-free nutrients, such as dark leafy greens, especially spinach, broccoli, wild caught salmon, and almond/coconut milk. Plant based sources of vitamin D and calcium can be absorbed much easier than animal based sources, and are much healthier for you. Single serve cheese slices are overly processed, high in sodium, and not a significant source of calcium. Flavored yogurt usually contains a long list of ingredients, including the toxic chemical, aspartame. Most people focus on the importance of these two vitamins, but magnesium is also extremely important and necessary for proper bone health, and the majority of people are deficient. Full story...

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Texas man in murder plot against Ukrainian Internet 'bride' who scammed him...

David Sartin, a rather quiet and unassuming man, was living alone in an old manufactured home on a 3-acre plot in Hankamer, about 25 miles east of Houston. The 49-year-old's only scrape with the law had been a single traffic ticket - until he visited a "dream marriage" website that boasted the "hottest Russian brides."

Now he finds himself sitting in a jail cell, waiting to be sentenced after pleading guilty last week in Beaumont to attempted kidnapping and brandishing a firearm in connection with a bizarre murder-for-hire plot involving a Ukrainian blonde half his age.

The scheme involved abduction, lead poisoning and a fortified room that Sartin added onto his home where he allegedly planned to imprison his would-be wife.

Before his life spun out of control, the small-framed man was living thriftily. His only income came from a disability check following two surgeries on his back which he injured while installing loading dock equipment, relatives said. Full story...

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Murdoch: "No such thing as a free press in the UK"

News Corp boss Rupert Murdoch has weighed in to the debate over the naked Prince Harry pictures – claiming there is “no such things as a free press in the UK”.

News International’s The Sun was the only paper to break ranks by publishing the pictures in the UK on Friday, after Clarence House issued a warning to newspaper editors.

Murdoch took to Twitteron Sunday night in defence of the decision, telling users: “Needed to demonstrate no such thing as free press in the UK. Internet makes mockery of these issues.”

He later urged people to give Prince Harry “a break”, adding: “He may be on the public payroll one way or another, but the public loves him, even to enjoy Las Vegas.”

And in a Twitter exchange with former deputy prime minister John Prescott, Murdoch denied that the decision to publish the photos was taken by him. Full story...

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Two killed in Indonesia as radical Islamists attack Shi'ite school group...

about 500 men attacked a group of about 30 Shi’ite students and teachers in an East Java city Sunday, killing two men and injuring another five who were trying to protect the women and children.

Unicef, the United Nations children’s aid organization, denounced the attack, saying there is “no excuse for violence against children and actions that put children at risk are unacceptable in any society. “ The organization called on the community to condemn the violence and “to ensure that every child is protected from harm.

Violence has slowly been picking up against Shias despite a ruling by the Indonesian Council of Ulemas, considered the country’s highest authority on Islam, that Shi’ite religious teachings are in the Islamic mainstream.

In the past, mainstream Muslim groups largely confined themselves to attacking fringe Muslim groups such as the Amadiyah, who believe their prophet, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, succeeded the Prophet Muhammad as the last messenger of Allah. The sect was declared apostate in 2008 by the Ulama. The sect has been the target of horrific sporadic violence, including an incident in February 2011 in which three Ahmadiyah members were hunted down and beaten to death by a mob of more than 1,500 villagers in a city in Banten Province in East Java. Full story...

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South Africa 'in the grip of increasing lawlessness'

South Africa is in the grip of increasing lawlessness borne out through corruption and vigilantism as its government struggles to provide a clear and effective response to the country's problems, a report by the Institute for Security Studies has claimed.

South Africans rebelled more the more they found that promises made to them at the ballot box were not kept, it said.

It warned that anger was growing over the ruling ANC's failure to deliver basic services and narrow a gaping wealth gap, 18 years after defeating apartheid.

Johan Burger, its author, said that the shooting by police of 34 striking miners by police at the UK-listed Lonmin mine in Marikana was an example of the consequences of government inaction. Full story...

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Egyptian designer runs afoul of Saudi princess, gets 500 lashes...

Human-rights activists are demanding the release of Nagla Wafa, an Egyptian wedding planner and designer sentenced to 500 lashes and five years in prison in Saudi Arabia following a business dispute with a princess.

Wafa ran afoul of a royal in the Saudi kingdom over the finances of a joint business venture, according to her family. She was reportedly accused of cashing a check from the princess but not following through on their deal to start a restaurant.

“As of May of 2012, Ms. Wafa has been subjected, on a weekly basis, to 50 floggings per week within the ‘Al-Malz’ Prison. She currently faces 200 more floggings ... despite her suffering from distortions to her spine,” the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights said in an online statement.

Accusing Saudi Arabian authorities of unlawfully detaining the 39-year-old mother of teenage twins, the organization said the case was a “blatant violation” of human rights and filed a complaint with the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Full story...

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Monday, August 27, 2012

How the internet can read your mind...

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The Empire State Building mass shooting: truth in oppostion to propaganda...

The reality behind what was originally reported as a mass shooting near the Empire State Building in New York City on Friday morning is being manipulated in an effort by the international soviet socialist, Michael Bloomberg, to blame the existence of Jeffrey Johnson’s .45 semi-automatic pistol as the cause of the deaths and woundings.

In a case like this if you watch the propaganda being put forth from every angle, the little bits of truth, mixed with the half truths and the lies, reveal the probable cause for the incident. I heard it mentioned that Jeffrey Johnson asserted that Steve Encrolino stole designs from him and the revenues there from.

This is what I believe happened. Jeffrey Johnson took his case to the corrupt corporate courts where he was denied his rightful claim as Steve Encrolino was corporately powerful enough, and probably of a high enough degree in the Masonic Lodge, to unjustly prevail. After losing his job and being denied justice for two years, Johnson found himself in a situation of force majeure. The law had failed him and he was left to his own devises. He could either accept the injustice or take justice by his own hand, which he did.

I am not condoning this shooting. I am just saying that the failure of the private corporate courts to deliver justice has, in the past and is today, driving those who will not be denied justice to the most extreme measures. Full story...

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