Saturday, March 31, 2012

Want to keep dementia at bay? Learn a second language...

Ex-pats in Norway who are putting off language lessons have just been handed another reason to dive in and learn Norwegian - speaking a second language keeps dementia symptoms at bay, scientists say.

New research by scientists in North America shows that years of speaking two or more languages can have a physical effect on the brain, as years of stashing extra vocabulary increases memory.

As the brain ages, the capacity developed to think in another language means it can call on its increased memory-bank to stem the onset of mentally degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s.

While it may seem daunting, learning Norwegian could hold back dementia symptoms for three to four years in an average case, American and Canadian scientists said in the March edition of the “Trends in Cognitive Sciences” journal. Full story...

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I want to be alone: the rise and rise of solo living...

Human societies, at all times and places, have organised themselves around the will to live with others, not alone. But not any more. During the past half-century, our species has embarked on a remarkable social experiment. For the first time in human history, great numbers of people – at all ages, in all places, of every political persuasion – have begun settling down as singletons. Until the second half of the last century, most of us married young and parted only at death. If death came early, we remarried quickly; if late, we moved in with family, or they with us. Now we marry later. We divorce, and stay single for years or decades. We survive our spouses, and do everything we can to avoid moving in with others – including our children. We cycle in and out of different living arrangements: alone, together, together, alone.

Numbers never tell the whole story, but in this case the statistics are startling. According to the market research firm Euromonitor International, the number of people living alone globally is skyrocketing, rising from about 153 million in 1996 to 277 million in 2011 – a 55% increase in 15 years. In the UK, 34% of households have one person living in them and in the US it's 27% – roughly one in every seven adults. Full story...

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The girl and the autorickshaw...

Singapore whisky on sale for £125,000 a bottle...

A whisky made to mark the Queen's diamond jubilee has been put on sale in Singapore for S$250,000 (£125,000) a bottle.

Only 60 bottles of Diamond Jubilee were made by the Johnnie Walker unit of Diageo PLC from a blend of whiskies distilled in 1952.

The city-state, home to the world's highest concentration of millionaires, has become a playground for the global jet-set with casinos, expensive shops, fine dining, top hotels and showrooms featuring Ferraris, Lamborghinis and other supercars.

 The same package – the vintage whisky in a crystal decanter with silver trimmings, two crystal glasses and a leather-bound booklet – is priced at £100,000 in Britain. Full story...

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California woman blames McDonald's for forcing her into prostitution!!!

A woman claims in a Federal Court complaint that her ex-husband met her after she was hired to work at McDonald's and later pushed her into prostitution in Nevada. She blames McDonald's USA in part for the events.

Shelley Lynn sued her ex-husband, Keith Handley, his company Ivernia, and McDonald's USA, in Federal Court.

Lynn claims she was "economically and psychologically" coerced into prostitution by Handley, whose company Ivernia owns or owned McDonald's franchises. The events she describes took place roughly two decades ago.
According to the complaint, Handley hired Lynn to work as a counter person at a McDonald's in 1982 in Arroyo Grande, Calif., and they began dating in December 1985.

Included in the allegations against McDonald's, she has the ubiquitous fast food franchise works to keep unions out, offers an inferior health care plan and no pension benefits. Most employees, she says, are paid minimum wages, as was Lynn. And, she says in her complaint, "There is no affirmative action to encourage women employees and other women to purchase franchises." Full story...

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Why are people dying to bring you dinner? America's sweatshop farm workers...

Cesar Chavez, the champion of farmworkers' rights who gets his annual day of state recognition this Saturday, must be rolling in his grave. It's been 37 years since Governor Jerry Brown, in an earlier life, signed the landmark agricultural labor relations act--and soon California legislators will debate whether to enforce rules to provide water and shade to the 400,000 farmworkers who harvest our food.

According to Assemblymember Betsy Butler, D-Los Angeles, author of the Farmworker Safety Act of 2012, "At least 16 farm workers have died since the state issued emergency regulations related to heat illness in 2005. Since all of the deaths were preventable, it's clear that the regulations and their enforcement are ineffective."

Let's replay that: every year farmworkers are dying from thirst and heat exposure due to inadequate water and shade.

In announcing AB 2346, Butler added: "It is absolutely abhorrent to think that in this day and age, farm workers are not regularly provided with shade and water. These two commodities are essentially free and we all know that no grower would let their crops go without water." Full story...

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Mysterious death of British businessman Neil Heywood in China...

'There is a lot of D.A.N.G.E.R. at the moment,” said my contact, spelling out his words to befuddle anyone listening in. “Meet me at the place we agreed in 15 minutes and we can go for a walk.”

Two minutes later, a text message flashed up: “Take the battery out of your mobile phone now”. In China, there is a general belief that the authorities can track, and listen into, any phone which is not physically disconnected from its power source.

On a bright but windy day in Beijing we walked along the side of a motorway to drown out our voices. He glanced behind to check there was no one following. “I am sorry for being so paranoid,” he explained. “It is just that everyone is really scared at the moment.”

(...)

Most unsettling is that the death of this amiable businessman has been swept up into a power struggle at the very top of the Chinese leadership.Two weeks ago, Bo Xilai, Chongqing’s Communist Party secretary, was abruptly purged in a power struggle. The son of one of the founders of the party, Mr Bo was destined, according to supporters, to lead the nation. Heywood was close to Bo and his wife, Gu Kailai, and may have helped their son Bo Guagua gain admission to Harrow School and then Balliol College, Oxford. It is the sort of high-powered connection which few foreigners are able to maintain in China, and it may have cost Heywood his life. Full story...

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It's National Cleavage Day in London!!!

Breaking news: politician in India discovers how to prevent Aids...

Squeeze your private parts tightly and urinate forcefully after intercourse to keep AIDS at bay, is Rajasthan MLA Devi Singh Bhatti’s prescription for people.

The BJP MLA from Kolayat constituency in Bikaner district imparted his knowledge to a shocked gathering — which included HIV-positive people — during a sensitisation workshop for lawmakers on the assembly premises on Thursday.

Climbing onto the dais without being invited, Bhatti dispensed his advice, even as speaker Deependra Singh Shekhawat struggled to rein in legislators who were interrupting speakers. The HIV-positive people in the audience could not hide their disgust.

“What can we expect from common people if elected representatives behave in such a manner on the issue? But I am optimistic that awareness will change their mindset,” said Brijesh Dubey, president of the Rajasthan Network for People Living with HIV/AIDS. Full story...

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The life of a retiree in modern Singapore...

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But this affluent city, which enjoys worldwide reputation for its rapid development, still has one black mark.

To me the biggest failure is that too many elderly people are cleaning tables at food courts or washing public toilets instead of playing with their grandchildren at home.

In worse cases, they collect used cardboards for sale or sleep in street corners.

Retirement age is 65 and the government has said it wants to raise it to 69.

But, an extensive practice of bosses replacing workers once they reach 50 with younger, cheaper people – particularly foreigners – has made retirement age a bit redundant. Full story...

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Friday, March 30, 2012

Swaziland set to outlaw anti-king criticism on social networks...

Swaziland is planning a censorship law that will ban Facebook and Twitter users from criticising its autocratic ruler, King Mswati III.

Africa's last absolute monarch is facing growing protests over his undemocratic regime, which has pushed the tiny mountain kingdom to the brink of bankruptcy.

But Mswati's justice minister, Mgwagwa Gamedze, told the Swazi senate: "We will be tough on those who write bad things about the king on Twitter and Facebook. We want to set an example."

The government was finalising a law that will make it illegal to insult the king on social networks, Gamedze said. Full story...

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In this Chinese city, they eat eggs soaked and boiled in young boys' urine...

It's the end of a school day in the eastern Chinese city of Dongyang, and eager parents collect their children after a hectic day of primary school.

But that's just the start of busy times for dozens of egg vendors across the city, deep in coastal Zhejiang province, who ready themselves to cook up a unique springtime snack favored by local residents.

Basins and buckets of boys' urine are collected from primary school toilets. It is the key ingredient in "virgin boy eggs", a local tradition of soaking and cooking eggs in the urine of young boys, preferably below the age of 10.

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Detainee dies in Russia's Kazan after cops rape him with a wine bottle...

Hospital social workers call police to seize newborn baby, throw mother out of the building, assault child with dangerous vaccines...

I am not content to sit on the sidelines while the government gradually usurps the very essence of parental rights. I hope you share my determination. We need to stand with people like Scott and Jodi Ferris (obviously no relation to someone named Farris). Here’s their story:

Jodi went into labor a bit earlier than she had expected—and the baby was coming rapidly. Given their location and other factors, the midwife they had hoped would deliver the baby at their home encouraged them to get in an ambulance and head to the hospital.

Their baby, whom I will call “Annie,” was born in the ambulance in the parking lot of the Hershey Medical Center—a government hospital in Pennsylvania. Hospital personnel arrived very quickly and took charge of both baby and mom.

(...)

And then the story turns ugly.

The social worker left the room and called the police. Without a court order they took custody of Annie, immediately claiming that she was suffering from illness or injury—a patently false claim.

The social worker consented to the administration of the Hepatitis B shot even though no blood test had been done.

The police made Jodi Ferris get up out of her hospital bed and escorted her to the entrance—they were expelling her from the hospital because she had not signed the “safety plan.” Full story...

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13-year-old servant girl in Delhi was locked up while doctor-couple holidayed in Bangkok! WTF!

The Delhi police on Thursday rescued a 13-year-old girl who was locked up inside the house of her employers who had left the country on a holiday.

The doctor-couple in Delhi's Dwarka area allegedly abused their 13-year-old domestic help, locked her in their home without much food before heading for a six-day trip to Bangkok along with their daughter.

The girl finally mustered the courage on Thursday evening and cried out for help from the balcony. Neighbours called the police, who got a fire engine to bring her down. However the secretary of the building who was present when the girl was rescued said the girl had in fact raised alarm two days back as well.

"She would come out to the balcony and shout for help. But it was only yesterday that someone decided to call the police." said RC Yadav, the secretary of the building. They allegedly found her bruised too. Full story...

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TSA manager arrested for running prostituition ring...

A manager at the Transportation Security Administration has lost his job after being arrested on prostitution-related charges. According to court documents, the agency had received a complaint of "very similar" activities back in 2009.

Bryant Jermaine Livingston, 39, was arrested while on the job as a supervisor of TSA agents at Dulles International Airport. The Manassas, Virginia resident, said by phone he is innocent of the charges, but declined to discuss the details of the case.

According to charging documents, on February 15th, Livingston used cash to rent a room at the Crowne Plaza Hotel on Georgia Ave. in Silver Spring, Md. The hotel manager recognized Livingston as a previous customer who, on earlier occasions had "groups of males and females frequently entering and exiting Livingston's room," according to a court document. Full story...

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Pakistan to "punish" families who reject ineffective and dangerous polio vaccine...

Despite powerful mainstream evidence showing that 78% of polio cases in Pakistan are among those vaccinated with the polio vaccine, and even the fact that the polio vaccine is now the leading cause of polio paralysis, Pakistan is now moving to slam parents of non-vaccinated children with fees and school bans. The country has been battling the disease, which has been running rampant among those vaccinated against the condition for quite some time, even prompting potential travel restrictions until the epidemic is dealt with.

While attributing the spread and outbreak to unvaccinated children, and demonizing their parents for making such an ‘irresponsible’ choice, mainstream public statistics have shown that even those who have been administered polio drops on several occasions were still developing the disease. According to the National Institute of Health, whose polio action group compiled the data in the report, 107 polio-affected children out of the 136 total patients had been given the polio drops under a prescribed schedule — doctor approved.

What’s more, World Health Organization states that Pakistan — despite the large percentage of prescribed vaccination — had the highest number of polio cases in a decade. But perhaps most shocking of them all is a report by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) that shows it is possible that these children are developing polio from the vaccine itself. The report states: Full story...

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Frame of mind...

Scathing report about working conditions in Apple's Foxconn...

Apple's main electronics supplier has promised to dramatically increase pay and improve conditions for its Chinese workers following a string of suicides at its factories and a damning report into its employment practices.

The Taiwanese company Foxconn produces most of the parts for Apple's iPad and other products but in recent months has become a source of growing embarrassment for the technology giant as allegations of "sweatshop" conditions mounted.

At least 15 workers have killed themselves in recent years and in January of this year 150 more threatened to hurl themselves from the roof of their factory in protest over the poor working environment.

 In the face of a global backlash, Apple agreed to join the Fair Labour Association (FLA), a monitoring group that sent inspectors into three of Foxconn's 13 Chinese factories. Full story...

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Thursday, March 29, 2012

Lebanon: stop abuse of domestic workers...

Lebanese authorities should act quickly to reform restrictive visa regulations and adopt a labor law on domestic work to address high levels of abuse and deaths among migrant domestic workers, a group of eight concerned civil society groupssaid today. The government should also announce publicly the outcome of the investigation into the recent abuse and subsequent suicide of Alem Dechasa-Desisa, an Ethiopian domestic worker.

The eight groups are Human Rights Watch, Caritas Lebanon Migrant Center, KAFA (enough) Violence & Exploitation, Anti Racism Movement, Amel Association International, Insan, Danish Refugee Council, and Nasawiya.

 On March 8, 2012, Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International (LBCI), a Lebanese television network, released a video  filmed on February 24 by an anonymous bystander in which a labor recruiter physically abused Dechasa-Desisa outside the Ethiopian consulate in Beirut. As she protests, he and another man drag her into a car. LBCI later identified the man beating Dechasa-Desisa as Ali Mahfouz. Full story...

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Egyptian father tortures and kills 10-year-old daughter for being raped...

A 10-year old Egyptian girl EH was killed after being tortured by her father after he discovered that she was raped, according to the Egyptian news website Masrawy

The father is a 40-year old man identified as MH, working as technician at the Egyptian House of Folk Arts.

He confessed to killing his daughter because of the mother’s misconduct as well as because his daughter had lost her virginity

He said he subjected his daughter to regular torture by beating her and denying her food and water

He said when her health condition worsened he tried to transfer her to the Suzanne Mubarak Hospital located in, but the hospital declared her dead

The website said that General Mohsen Murad, Head of Cairo Security, referred the case to the public prosecution for further investigation. Source...

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Vietnam banning exporting its women as brides...

Vietnam is banning the practice of exporting its women as brides.

According to Lianhe Wanbao, more than 100,000 women have been exported this way in the past ten years to countries like Singapore, Taiwan, Malaysia and South Korea.

As a result of the large number of women leaving the country, Vietnamese men are now finding it hard to find wives.

In a bid to reverse the trend, the Vietnamese government has enacted new laws to ban local and overseas matchmaking agencies from arranging overseas marriages for the local women.

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Anthony Griffith: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...

Are you alone? Or strategically placed?

I hear from so many people who feel isolated and alone during this awakening and massive paradigm shift taking place around the globe. Spouses can’t wake up partners to the truth; family members and close friends think you’ve gone wonky, while the mainstream matrix mouthpieces keep up their barrage of derision against anyone who dares to look past the range of their narrow blinders.

It does suck. We all experience this phenomenon and the isolation that seems to accompany the wake up.

Here’s a hugely happy thought. If we’re an organic, cosmically influenced body of crystaline receivers and broadcasters in an alive and amazing all-knowing Universe, perhaps we’re exactly where we’re each supposed to be.

In fact, we’re probably carefully distributed to create a world-wide grid of truth!

Cool? In other words, once again there’s no mistake with synchronicity! Full story...

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How EU bureaucrats rip off the taxpayer: 17 weeks holiday in a year!!!

Diplomats working in Baroness Ashton's EU foreign service are entitled to 83 days or almost 17 weeks holiday a year, entitlements more than four times the holiday allowance enjoyed by most British workers.

Pressure is growing on the European Commission to overhaul Brussels staffing regulations that leave overseas EU leaving embassies and delegations empty for "many months" a year.

Generous holiday and flexitime are also topped up with two weeks off for "professional training in Brussels", meaning that overseas diplomats, representing 60 per cent of the EU's foreign service, can be out of the office for 19 weeks, nearly five working months, a year.

 On top of that, additional "special leave" entitlements mean that diplomats working in 30 EU delegations in the Far-east, Asia and Africa can have their desks unfilled for between 21 to 24 weeks, up to half the working year due to time-off for officials. Full story...

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Where is the black outrage over Thusha’s shooting?

This week’s report into last summer’s riots found that the shooting of Mark Duggan was apparently the last straw for a black community under siege from the Met and its stop-and-search tactics. But this week has also seen the conviction of three young black men for shooting a five-year-old girl, Thusha Kamaleswaran, through the spine in an attempted gangland hit.

The killing of a known criminal and gang member in Tottenham triggered an orgy of looting; many community leaders leapt to Duggan’s defence. Yet the paralysing of an innocent child hasn’t elicited a peep of condolence from such leaders, let alone outrage at those responsible. And not one pair of Nikes has been stolen in protest.

The two cases highlight the hypocrisy that frames our discussion of race and crime. About a thousand people attended Duggan’s funeral, as though his death were akin to the assassination of Martin Luther King. How many of them will contribute to Thusha’s appeal fund as she contemplates life in a wheelchair? Full story...

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EU acts to end 'rip off' roaming charges on mobile phones...

By July this year mobile firms will be forced to lower the prices of making a call or downloading data abroad.

Under new rules agreed by the European Parliament, consumers will pay no more than 29 cents (24p) per minute to make a call and 70 cents (59p) per megabyte for data downloads across Europe.

Many customers have faced bills for thousands of pounds after falling foul of current high roaming charges.

"Consumers are fed up with being ripped off," said commissioner Neelie Kroes. Full story...

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Teenage girls in Pakistan turn to suicide to escape poverty, uncertain future...

To escape from poverty or an uncertain future, teenager girls in Karachi are turning towards the option of ending their lives, said the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan in its annual report, ‘State of Human Rights in 2011’ released on Wednesday.

Everyday around five to six teenage suicide attempts are taking place in the city.

Last year, around 1,153 people attempted suicide across Pakistan and 2,131 were successful. HRCP cites data from the National Poison Control Centre in Karachi which receives five or six cases in which people have deliberately tried to ingest poison to end their lives. About 60% of all reported cases are of teenage girls whose families do not want to register the cases as attempted suicide.

HRCP Chairperson Zohra Yusuf said that young women are committing suicide because they are unable to cope with the pressure of everyday life. “Factors such as poverty and forced marriage are making young women commit suicide,” she said. Full story...

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The real story of the Route 29 Batman...

Police pulled a man over on Route 29 in Silver Spring last week because of a problem with his plates. This would not ordinarily make international news, but the car was a black Lamborghini, the license plate was the Batman symbol, and the driver was Batman, dressed head-to-toe in full superhero regalia.

t didn’t take long before images of the Dark Knight’s encounter with law enforcement began turning up in Facebook news feeds, on CNN and the London tabloids. The episode even made it into Jimmy Fallon’s monologue on NBC earlier this week.

Jokers emerged instantaneously too. “Let him do his job,” one commenter urged on the Post Web site. “Batman has expensive taste,” noted another. Meanwhile, questions about Batman’s identity mounted: “Did they make him take off his mask?” someone asked.

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I actually know Batman. His parents are dear friends of my wife’s family, and I see him at holiday dinners where my 4-year-old son believes he is the real-life Bruce Wayne. “Daddy, he’s Batman, too,” my son will whisper to me. Though Batman has long been aware that I’m a journalist, he has never suggested I write about him. He does not crave publicity. Like his comic book namesake, he doesn’t seek credit for what he does.

“I’m just doing it for the kids,” he says. More + photos...

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Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Maldives police accused of sexually harassing female detainees...

The Maldives authorities must immediately investigate allegations that police beat and sexually harassed four women detained during an anti-government rally, Amnesty International said today.

According to testimony gathered by Amnesty International, the women, who were arrested on 19 March, were beaten during and after their arrest.

 While in detention they were forced to undergo naked body checks on the spurious suspicion of concealing drugs in their genitals. They were forced to strip and squat several times while in prison.

(...)

There is no indication that the women protesters were involved in any acts of violence during the rally. Their detention therefore was arbitrary.

 Cases of molestation and other humiliating sexual acts against women have been reported in the past but these latest allegations highlight a new police drive to suppress political activity under the pretext of body searching female detainees for alleged possession of drugs. Full story...

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Skin colour reason enough for police identity check, says German court...

A German court's ruling that the police can check an individual's ID on the basis of skin color has drawn severe backlash from the black community, which likened the court decision to institutionalized racism.

The administrative court of Koblenz in western Germany dismissed a complaint by a black German who was asked to show his documents while on board a train, German media reported.

He was taken to the police station after he refused to produce his ID for police verification. The two federal police officers who questioned the man filed a complaint in the court alleging that the black man abused them in the process.

One of the officers said he checked the ID of train passengers if he considered them foreign citizens based on their appearance and skin color. Full story...

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Trayvon Martin and Obama's arrogance and rampant hypocrisy...

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And of course, the president himself, Barrak Obama, the king of all politicians, also came forward to speak to the nation about this particular incident. His words and gestures were the epitome of agenda driven politics. As usual, his phrases were carefully chosen, and delivered in such a manner as to invoke false pity. He even made the comment: "My main message is to the parents of Trayvon Martin. You know, if I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon." With this statement, he placed himself, metaphorically speaking, into the Martin family, while at the same time using the death of this young man as a political ploy to raise his poll numbers. What a narcissistic display by this pathetic political performer!

There are on average about 61,000 murders in the U.S. each year, with about half of those due to gunshot wounds. Many more deaths occur for other reasons every day, but Obama chose this single case to take on personally, and spoke about it to the entire nation. Why just this one incident? Why did he not feign sympathy for any of the many other deaths that occur in this country? Why does he not feign sympathy for the deaths of those innocents murdered overseas by American forces, forces that he commands?

Obama’s hypocrisy here is beyond the pale, and is beyond the imagination of any moral thinking person. This president has taken the aggressive wars started during the Bush administration, and dramatically expanded the carnage. He has presided over more aggressive interference and war in Egypt, Pakistan, Libya, Yemen, and Syria, while threatening Iran and other countries. His regime and its military have murdered thousands upon thousands of innocent civilians in the Middle East. The recent attack in southern Afghanistan by a U.S. soldier was a literal slaughter of families, including little children while they slept. All this, but not a whisper of real sympathy was ever forthcoming from Obama about any of those deaths, except in the form of ‘blood money’ to pay off those relatives of slain family members in Afghanistan. Full story...

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Widow in India chops off man’s penis after he tries to rape her...

A 37-year-old widow chopped off a man’s penis when the latter attempted to sexually assault her at a village in outer Delhi, police said.

 According to the police, the incident was reported from Bakhtawarpur, a village in outer Delhi’s Alipur, on Sunday evening. “The victim’s husband passed away a few years ago and she’s been a loner ever since. Used to mostly staying indoors, she claims the accused, Jeevat, barged into her house last evening and tried to rape her,” said a senior police officer.

The police said that the woman fought back as soon as Jeevat entered the house. He attacked her with a tool when she resisted him. She somehow managed to make her way to the kitchen and returned with a knife. Full story...

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Mobile operators in Sweden trying to block Skype and Viber...

Swedish telecom operators want to implement technologies that will block mobile phone users in Sweden from making free calls using services like Skype and Viber.

A spokesperson for telecom service provider Telia told Sveriges Radio (SR) that the technology exists to block users' ability to use mobile voice over IP (VoIP) telephony services.

"It's going to mean that there will be service plans where it's not included so it won't work," Telia spokesperson Charlotte Züger told SR.

 "I believe, quite simply, that we need to be able to get paid for our various services no matter what, as different service plans include different things." Full story...

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Political correctness gone crazy: New York bans students from using "dance", "dino", "wealth", "divorce"

In a bizarre case of political correctness run wild, educrats have banned references to “dinosaurs,” “birthdays,” “Halloween” and dozens of other topics on city-issued tests.

That’s because they fear such topics “could evoke unpleasant emotions in the students.”

Dinosaurs, for example, call to mind evolution, which might upset fundamentalists; birthdays aren’t celebrated by Jehovah’s Witnesses; and Halloween suggests paganism.

Even “dancing’’ is taboo, because some sects object. But the city did make an exception for ballet.

The forbidden topics were recently spelled out in a request for proposals provided to companies competing to revamp city English, math, science and social-studies tests given several times a year to measure student progress.

 “Some of these topics may be perfectly acceptable in other contexts but do not belong in a city- or state-wide assessment,” the request reads. Full story...

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Italian newspaper claims that Toulouse gunman Mohammed Merah was a French intelligence asset...

The case of Mohammed Merah, this young French of Algerian descent who claimed the killing of seven people in Toulouse and Montauban on behalf of Al Qaeda, triggering a war between various secret services. According to sources of information confided in Il Foglio, the Directorate General for External Security (DGSE), the French agency charged with espionage and counter-terrorism outside the borders, would have guaranteed Merah - in his capacity as an informant - access to Israel in September 2010 by a checkpoint at the Jordanian border. The French would have stayed there three days in "tourist" before returning to Jordan and then to head to Afghanistan. Its entry into Israel, covered by the French, had to prove the ability of jihadist network to easily pass the borders with a European passport.

These statements have not been officially confirmed, but an article published Monday in Haaretz , quoting sources from the Israeli intelligence service Shin Bet, however, seems to give credence to this thesis. The article relays the words of the Israeli government that confirms entry into its territory of Merah, but the Shin Bet argues that there is no record of the arrest of the French in Jerusalem in possession of a knife, as 'said Bernard Squarcini, head of the Central Directorate of Internal Intelligence (DCRI) in Le Monde .

Furthermore, doubts remain about visiting Merah in the Occupied Territories. To summarize: we have two conflicting versions. It is unclear whether Merah was indeed arrested and where it is specifically made, and the Shin Bet contradicts its French equivalent. Same confusion on the side of Pakistan's military intelligence. Last week, when the French media have written that Merah went twice to train in centers in Waziristan [mountainous north-west Pakistan], the Pakistani government has denied: "We have no trace of its entry into the country. " Full story...

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