In a commencement speech at Northeastern University, Secretary of State John Kerry criticized the presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump for his proposed wall on the southern border. Mr. Kerry told his student audience that technology has changed the world, and they must be prepared for a future without borders.
In other news, the world-famous double-decker buses of London are being outfitted with advertising displays that exhort Muslims to give “Glory to Allah” and pay their zakat during Ramadan.
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Demand for Physical Gold is Exploding
Precious metals are going insane right now, thanks in large part to the weaker U.S. dollar. Year-to-date, palladium is up 7 percent, platinum 19 percent, gold 21 percent and silver 25 percent. A correction at this point would be healthy, but looking ahead, this rally appears to have legs.
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80-Year-Old Woman Shoots, Kills Intruder Who Attacked Husband
Granny’s got a gun.
Barb Moles, an 80-year-old with eight grandchildren and three great-grandkids, shot and killed a home intruder who stabbed her husband last week in Washington.
“You know how mothers are with their kids. That’s the way I am with my husband,” she told KOMO. “I just protect his back. I’m not just the typical granny — in case you haven’t noticed.”
The woman, whose adult son was also home at the time, heard an altercation in her house and walked into the kitchen to discover her husband John lying in a pool of blood.
After he told her he’d been stabbed and hit with a crowbar by a man who authorities would later identify as Steven N. Sheppard, Barb ran to her bedroom to retrieve an item John gave her for Christmas a few years ago — a .38 caliber.
She waited, gun in hand, behind her bedroom door, but after there were no signs of the intruder, Barb walked into the hallway where the confrontation occurred.
The burglar said “gun” moments before Barb pulled the trigger four times, with three of the shots hitting the man.
“I felt like if I hadn’t, my son and I might both be dead and my husband might have bled to death on the kitchen floor,” she said.
“You know, never in my whole life did I ever anticipate having to take another life — especially at age 80.”…
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Flight Delayed When Math Mistaken for Terrorism by Passenger
An Ivy League professor says his flight was delayed when a fellow passenger mistook his scribbling on a math problem as a sign he might be a terrorist.
American Airlines confirms that a woman expressed suspicions about University of Pennsylvania economics professor Guido Menzio.
He was flying from Philadelphia to Syracuse on Thursday to give a talk at Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada. He was working on a differential equation, but said he was told the woman thought he might be a terrorist because of what he was writing.
Casey Norton, a spokesman for the air carrier, said the women’s allegations about Menzio were deemed not credible.
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Great-Grandma, 80, Guns Down Intruder After Crowbar Beating
(KTRK-TV) An 80-year-old great-grandmother shot and killed a home intruder after he beat her husband with a crowbar.
When she saw her husband in distress, Barb Moles rushed to get her gun, a .38-caliber pistol. When the robber came around the corner, she shot him three times.
Deputies say the robber, 25-year-old Steven Sheppard, died at the scene. Investigators believe he intended to burglarize the Moles’ home.
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John Kerry Says to Prepare for ‘Borderless World’ During Trump Jab
“You’re about to graduate into a complex and borderless world”
Secretary of State John Kerry told graduating students to prepare for a “borderless world” Friday during a commencement speech at Northeastern University.
Using the opportunity to take a jab at Donald Trump, Kerry criticized the idea of using a wall to protect the country’s porous Southern border.
“Many of you were in elementary school when you learned the toughest lesson of all on 9/11,” Kerry said. “There are no walls big enough to stop people from anywhere, tens of thousands of miles away, who are determined to take their own lives while they target others.”
Completely ignoring the fact that J. Michael Springman, the former chief of the visa section at the U.S. Consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, testified that the C.I.A. ordered him to approve the 9/11 hijackers’ visas, Kerry went on to accuse those who support a wall as “hiding” from the world…
Kerry not only balked at the idea of a border wall, but openly denounced national sovereignty by speaking against borders in general.
“The future demands from us something more than a nostalgia for some rose-tinted version of the past that did not really exist in any case,” Kerry said. “You’re about to graduate into a complex and borderless world.”
The growing popularity of Trump’s anti-globalist message, which approves of global cooperation but rejects the top-down global government model, has caused immense backlash from the political class.
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Policy: Security Spending Must Cover Disease Outbreaks
The United States spends at least $100 billion a year on counterterrorism efforts; it invests just $1 billion on pandemic and emerging infectious-disease programmes.
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A Saudi prince has urged Americans not to vote for Donald Trump in the upcoming general election.
Turki al-Faisal, who served as Saudia Arabia’s ambassador to the US from 2005 to 2007, spoke against the presumptive Republican nominee during a foreign policy dinner in Washington, DC on Thursday.
He blasted Trump’s proposal to ban Muslims from entering the US, which the billionaire first formulated in December last year before renewing his vow on Wednesday.
‘For the life of me, I cannot believe that a country like the United States can afford to have someone as president who simply says, “These people are not going to be allowed to come to the United States,”‘ Turki said according to the Huffington Post.
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Having failed to derail Donald Trump from a Presidential race that has left pundits, analysts and politicos in a state of shock and bewilderment, Democrat front runner Hillary Clinton is now anxiously soliciting donations so that she can save the world from the scourge of the strongest anti-establishment candidate in American history:
Hillary Clinton’s political team says that only the former Secretary of State can save the world from Donald Trump.
“I don’t know how else to say it: The whole world is counting on us to win this thing,” wrote Deputy Communications Director Christina Reynolds in an email to supporters. “And we owe it to them to step up.”…
“Please give today and let’s start defeating Donald Trump right away,” Reynolds concludes, promising to send donors a bumper sticker if they kick in.
Trump’s domination on the domestic political battlefield has changed the dynamics of the Presidential race to such effect that it’s not just Republicans and Democrats who are terrified of what the off-the-cuff candidate may do should he be elected, but global leaders as well.
Following Trump’s de facto nomination this week, none other than the former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, a card carrying member of the globalist Council on Foreign Relations, has weighed in, closely echoing Clinton’s warnings suggesting that the whole world has a Trump problem:
[Comment: These elitist scumbags are wrong. The whole world has an elite globalist problem. Elites have created a matrix of slavery. Humanity is at a crossroads — one path leads to freedom and self determination for nations. The other leads to a tyrannical socialist world order.]
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Could the Allies Have Bombed Auschwitz? Controversy and Reality
Dr. Rafael L. Medoff, executive director of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies once again on the eve Yom Ha Shoah 2016 raised the issue of why the allies couldn’t have bombed the death factory at Auschwitz Birkenau during 1944. A period when the USAAF 8th and 15th Air Forces were already bombing oil refineries and the Buna works less than five miles away. Medoff is the author of FDR and the Holocaust, A Breach of Faith.
What prompted revisiting this controversy was a Jerusalem Post article by Medoff critical of a 2015 book exonerating FDR’s role in the decision not to bomb the Auschwitz- Birkenau, “New Whitewash of FDR;’s failure to bomb Auschwitz.” Medoff wrote:…
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Europe Aiming for International ‘Moon Village’
The European Space agency is pressing forward in its plans to set up a permanent human outpost on the moon.
This envisioned “moon village,” a product of international collaboration between spacefaring nations, will be a base for science, business, mining and even tourism, Johann-Dietrich Wörner, director general of the European Space Agency (ESA), said here during the 32nd Space Symposium earlier this month.
The moon village would be open for use by ESA member states and other nations around the globe, Wörner said. ESA regards the moon as the next logical destination for humans beyond low Earth orbit, and utilizing Earth’s nearest neighbor should pave the way for human missions to Mars, he added.
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Greece: Defense Minister Keeps Wary Eye on Turkey
Turkey’s continuing violations of Greek air space and waters could lead to a spike in bilateral tensions or to a “serious accident,” Greek Defense Minister Panos Kammenos told Kathimerini’s Sunday edition, adding that NATO’s naval patrols in the area can strengthen the country’s position regarding Ankara’s expansionist policies.
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London’s Iconic Red Buses to Declare ‘Glory to Allah’
Britain’s largest Islamic charity says it wants to “break down barriers” and portray Islam positively by launching a new advertising campaign which will slap the phrase “glory to Allah” on the side of London buses.
The new campaign by Islamic Relief is, ostensibly, targeted at raising donations for their Ramadan aid to Syria, but is attracting attention for the “hundreds” of buses which will be decorated with the phrase “Subhan’Allah”, or ‘Glory to Allah’.
Muslims reading the advert are told that to “gather the rewards of Ramadan”, they must to donate to Islamic Relief, and organisation which had its accounts with banking giant HSBC closed due to “concerns that cash for aid could end up with terrorist groups abroad”.
Public transport has been chosen for the Islamic re-branding in London, Manchester, Leicester, Birmingham, and Bradford — all UK locations with high and growing Muslim populations, reports the Sunday Times.
That the announcement of the new campaign came the day after London crowned its first Muslim leader, Mayor Sadiq Khan. Islamic Relief called it a “nice irony” that the two events coincided.
Imran Madden, a British convert to Islam and director of Islamic Relief’s United Kingdom Branch said: “There is a lot of negativity around Muslims at the moment involving things such as counterterrorism issues.
“We want to change for the better the perception of Islam. The bus campaign is about breaking down barriers and challenging misconceptions”…
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UK: Congratulations Sadiq, You Have Just Proved That Labour Must Split
Labour is a party in denial. Actually, Labour is two parties in denial. There is Corbynite Labour, clinging to the belief it can bully, threaten and cajole recalcitrant MPs and activists into embracing their vision of a hard-Left socialist utopia. And there is moderate Labour, which clings to its own belief that all that is required is the swift, clean removal of Corbyn and his acolytes, at which point the Labour family will come together, hug, and march in step along the road to a post-Blairite Jerusalem.
It is a fantasy. A fantasy that Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell and Diane Abbott can happily — or even grudgingly — exist alongside Chuka Umunna, Dan Jarvis and Liz Kendall. Pick any issue of import. Defence. Foreign policy. Law and order. Immigration. Welfare. Economic policy. The two Labour parties do not just hold different opinions, they sit on opposite sides of diametrically opposed ideological battle lines.
Nor are the differences simply ideological. One of the defining moments of this Parliament — one which may prove to be a defining moment of any post-war Parliament — was that shaky camera footage of the confrontation between John Mann and Ken Livingstone over the latter’s comments linking Hitler and Zionism.
What came across was the hatred. Not two men with political differences, but a naked hatred of one another.
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The devastated boyfriend of a young honour killing victim has died after being been found hanged at his home — a decade after his lover was brutally murdered on the orders of her father and uncle.
Rahmat Sulemani was rushed to hospital after medics were called to his apartment in Dorset, but he died five days later.
The 38-year-old had never found love again after the killing of his girlfriend Banaz Mahmod, who was murdered at the age of 20 when she walked out of an arranged marriage to a another man.
Mr Sulemani once reportedly told police there was ‘no life’ for him after Banaz was strangled to death.
Rahmat Sulemani had never found love again after the killing of his girlfriend Banaz Mahmod (pictured), who was murdered at the age of 20
Her body was put in a suitcase and taken to the Midlands before being buried in a make-shift grave in a Birmingham back-garden.
Her father, Mahmod Mahmod, and uncle, Ari Mahmod, were jailed for life in 2007, after being found guilty over their part in what has become Britain’s most notorious honour killing.
According to the Sunday Mirror’s crime correspondent Nick Dorman, Mr Sulemani had been living under a secret identity and was part of a witness protection scheme after giving evidence in the court case.
But police were called to his home on March 20 after he contacted neighbours informing them of his intention to take his own life.
The Sunday Mirror quotes a friend as saying: ‘It is unbelievably sad. Rahmat has become another victim of this honour killing.’
Sources said he had attempted suicide on two previous occasions.
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Waqas Choudhry, 47, made up false names to give to the police when he or his family members were caught speeding between 2003 and 2014.
Choudhry, of Wilmslow, Cheshire, did so after accumulating motoring fines in a fleet of luxury cars including a Porsche Cayenne and a Range Rover and then used his property portfolio to try and con his way out of them.
Manchester Crown Court heard Choudhry, who is the company director of furniture firm Speedy Sofas, was eventually caught after using an ‘untraceable’ foreign number plate.
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UK: Schools Under ‘Huge and Unsustainable Pressure’ From Rise in Number of Children
Nearly 700,000 school-aged youngsters have a mother or father who is a citizen of another country in Europe — more than double the number in 2007, research has revealed.
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UK: Sadiq Khan Accuses David Cameron of Using ‘Donald Trump Playbook’ of Race Tactics
In his second day in his new job as London’s first Muslim mayor, Sadiq Khan (pictured) hit out at Zac Goldsmith’s ‘nasty’ and ‘divisive’ Tory tactics, which had the full backing of the Prime Minister.
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UK: Sir David Attenborough: Tributes Paid as He Turns 90
Tributes have been paid to renowned naturalist and broadcaster Sir David Attenborough who has turned 90.
Sir David joined the BBC after serving in the Royal Navy from 1947 to 1949 and launched Zoo Quest in 1954.
A string of successful natural history programmes followed including Life On Earth, The Living Planet, The Trials Of Life, The Blue Planet and Planet Earth.
Cameraman Gavin Thurston, who has worked with Sir David for many years, described him as “an amazing man”.
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Watch: Shock Video Reveals Secretive TTIP Process Inside the European Parliament
The video shows a Member of the European Parliament being escorted into a guarded reading room, and kicked out when ‘minders’ caught him taking notes.
Luke Flanagan MEP, an Irish independent, took the video last week as he tried to lift the lid on what he jokingly refers to as “democratic oversight”.
The video begins with Mr. Flanagan making his way to the reading room before being told to surrender any electronic devices and enter the room “quickly” with just a pencil and paper.
When it emerges that Mr. Flanagan has been copying the text of the documents in front of him, he is ejected from the room and told to contact the Chairman of the Committee on International Trade, Bernd Lange.
Mr. Lange’s staff tells Mr. Flanagan: “The fact that these confidential documents can be consulted in the premises of the European Parliament has been a great achievement for this institution and has enabled us MEPs to better exert our role of parliamentary scrutiny of these negotiations”.
But Mr. Flanagan assets that there is no scrutiny, as MEPs as elected representatives of the people have no say in the documents or negotiations, but are simply allowed to read the details that have already been agreed upon by European Union and United States negotiators.
“The texts I’m going to view, they have already been decided on,” he says, adding: “It’s important to point out that all I do is get a chance to read them”.
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Gunmen Kill 8 Police Officers in Egypt
Militants opened fire on a microbus filled with plainclothes police in a Cairo suburb early Sunday, killing eight of them, including an officer, in an attack claimed by a local ISIS affiliate.
The attack was the deadliest in the heavily policed capital since November, when gunmen attacked a security checkpoint, killing four policemen. That attack was also claimed by the local ISIS affiliate.
Egypt’s state-run MENA news agency said the policemen were inspecting security in the south Cairo suburb of Helwan early Sunday when four gunmen in a pickup opened fire on them.
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ISIS Thugs Hurl Innocent Syrian Man to His Death Just Because He is Homosexual
The unidentified man had been accused of ‘sodomy’ and was punished for this supposed ‘crime’ by being thrown off a five-storey building in Manbij, Aleppo province in northern Syria by ISIS forces.
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ISIS Jihadis in Syria May Have Intercepted Millions of Pounds’ Worth of British Foreign Aid
The astonishing revelation comes in a report from the Department for International Development (DFID) about a programme to provide humanitarian relief to refugees caught up in the conflict in Syria.
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Pentagon Admits US Soldiers Have Been Deployed to Yemen to Battle Al Qaeda
The US military has acknowledged that US soldiers have been deployed to Yemen to battle al Qaeda and its allies. Yemen has been wracked with civil war as a Saudi-led coalition battles Iran-backed militants.
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Rosen: Obama Administration ‘Unquestionably’ Engaged in Deception to Sell Iran Nuclear Deal
“There are numerous such instances of deception on the part of this administration.”
Fox News correspondent James Rosen laid out a case that the Obama administration engaged in mass deception to enact and sell the Iran nuclear deal during an appearance on The O’Reilly Factor Friday.
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SAS Team Ambushed in Iraq Saved When US Military Alsatian Attacks ISIS Fighters
The heroic Alsatian had been travelling with an SAS convoy of four vehicles which came under attack after finishing a training operation with Kurdish Peshmerga forces in northern Iraq.
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Sykes-Picot: ‘A Kind of Tapestry of Plans and Promises’
One hundred years ago, the Middle East was divvied up between the French and the British. The historian Maurus Reinkowski talks with DW about the long-term effects of the colonialist splitting up of the spoils.
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A navy officer who trained at one of Britain’s most prestigious maritime colleges has fled to Syria to join the Islamic State terror group.
Defence experts warned last night that 28-year-old Ali Alosaimi’s high-level skills and exhaustive knowledge of the nation’s shipping fleet represented a terrifying security threat.
Having already targeted passenger jets, there has long been concern that militants will try to bring terror to the seas by attacking ships and ferries.
‘This suddenly raises the spectre of IS damaging shipping,’ said former Royal Navy chief Admiral Lord West. ‘Someone with his knowledge opens up a whole new area where terrorism can take place.’
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Why Obama Prioritizes Ousting Assad Over Defeating Syria’s Jihadists
Dr Christina Lin, a leading young scholar on jihadist groups, opens her April 8th commentary at Asia Times: In a blunder reeking of the fallout caused by supplying Stinger anti-aircraft missiles to 1980s mujahideen in Afghanistan, civilian airline passengers are now under threat from Syrian jihadists armed with portable surface-to-air missiles (MANPADS).
Reports say some American-backed jihadi groups are being equipped with US-made MANPADS. Indications are they’re obtaining these advanced weapons either directly or indirectly from the US or its Mideast allies in connection with a recent escalation in the fighting in Syria.
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At Least 52 Killed After Two Buses Collide With Fuel Tanker in Afghanistan
Two buses and a fuel tanker collided Sunday on a major highway in Afghanistan, killing 52 people, officials said.
Another 73 people who had been on the buses were wounded in the accident, which set all three vehicles ablaze, said Jawed Salangi, spokesman for the governor of the eastern Ghazni province.
Records show the two buses were carrying a total of 125 passengers, Salangi said. “With 73 survivors out of the 125, 52 people are dead,” he said, adding that the survivors had been transferred to hospitals.
The collision happened at 7 a.m. on the main highway linking the capital, Kabul, to the southern city of Kandahar.
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Pakistan: Hindu Minor Murdered in Swimming Pool Being Victim of Sodomy by Two Allah Followers
11-year-old minor Hindu Boy allegedly Raped and Murdered in Pakistan. Islamic Admin and Police go slow.
Ramsunder Kolhi | HENB | Mirpurkhas | May 7, 2016:: A 11-year-old Pakistani Hindu boy named Inder Vineet Hotwani has been allegedly raped and murdered at the premises of a club in Sindh province, triggering protests by people demanding justice for the family, a media report said today.
The son of a Hindu doctor was found dead in a swimming pool inside the Hyderabad Club on April 13. The family members of the boy claim that he was deliberately thrown into the pool to cover up sexual abuse and murder. After the lapse of about a month, no clue is found to unearth the mystery behind the innocent Hindu boy.
Dr. Chetan Kumar Hotwani, the father of the victim, said that the boy went missing for more than an hour despite tight security inside the club on that day. His son’s body was later found ‘bearing torture marks on his face’ floating in the four-foot-deep swimming pool in the club.
Chetan Hotwani said that despite repeated requests, the club’s administration was not providing him access to the CCTV footage from the day of the incident.
However, senior police official Rahat Azeem said that CCTV footage has been secured and investigation into the matter is going on.
“We have secured the CCTV footage and are questioning employees at the club to find out what happened but the father says the boy had marks on his face and body and was first abused and then murdered to cover up the crime,” Azeem said.
“The club administration called us at 4:35pm that day to tell us that our son drowned and that they have shifted him to Ghani Hospital. When I reached there his [Inder’s] pulse was zero and his heart was not beating,” said the boy’s father, Dr Chetan Kumar Hotwani, a pediatrician and assistant professor at Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences, at a press conference a few days ago.
For the next nine days he kept his son on a ventilator at hospitals in Hyderabad and Karachi, trying to resuscitate him but Inder was dead even before being taken to the hospital.
“I had seen the bruises on his body, which are unusual in the case of drowning. Drowning didn’t seem to have taken his life,” Hotwani argued. After several days of protest by the family, the G.O.R police finally registered a murder case against the club’s administration.
Initially, Hyderabad SSP Irfan Baloch formed an inquiry committee, headed by ASP Suhai Aziz, but the Sindh home minister later assigned the inquiry to the SSP himself. Two suspects, Sajjad Parehar and Nadir Parehar, both lifeguards at the club, were arrested.
However, to the family’s discontent, the police obtained only a one-day physical remand of the suspects and on Friday, they were sent to jail on judicial remand. “How can the police complete an investigation in such a serious case in just one day?” wondered Hotwani.
SSP Baloch said the CCTV footage provided by the club is blurred. “The club maintains CCTV record of seven days. During the first seven days after the death, the family approached the administration to give them the footage but they refused,” he explained. The police received the footage after the registration of the FIR on May 2.
Shocked by the incident and being frustrated by the police actions, members of civil society, social activists, Hindu forums and political leaders gathered in Mirpurkhas city on Saturday to demand an inquiry into the alleged rape and murder of an eleven-year old boy in Hyderabad.
Protesters have demanded the Sindh government to order a thorough probe into the alleged murder of the boy, the Pakistani newspaper Dawn reported.
Former Member of National Assembly Kiswan Chand Parwani, former Member Provincial Assembly Lachhman Karmani and others contended that the young boy did not drown but was raped and then thrown into the pool.
Hindu Panchayat activist Karmani alleged that the Hindu boy was killed after being a victim of sodomy by the Muslim culprits.
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Wave of Suicides Engulfs Indian Village: Locals Blame Demons, Science Blames Pesticides
A tiny village in central India has seen an unprecedented 80 suicides since the beginning of the year. Locals blame it on demon spirits, but some researchers say pesticides could be behind widespread depression.
The village of Badi in Khargone district has 320 families and each one has lost at least one family member to suicide, the newly elected head of the village, Rajendra Sisodiya, told The Times of India.
Sisodiya took over as head of the village only after his cousin Jeevan, the former head, hanged himself from a tree in front of his house. Sisodiya’s mother and brother also took their own lives.
Badi, which is home to 2,500 residents, has recorded over 350 suicides in the last two decades. But recently, things became much worse -during the first three months of 2016 there were 80 suicides, according to Amit Singh, of the district police office.
The village head says a “demonic presence” is responsible for all the suicides. However, some researchers point to severe cases of depression caused by excessive use of pesticides.
The Times of India interviewed psychiatrist Dr Srikanth Reddy, who said that the suicides are likely caused by depression and schizophrenic episodes, which could be triggered by excessive use of pesticides when farming.
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U.S.-Funded Somali Intelligence Agency Has Been Using Kids as Spies
For years they were children at war, boys given rifles and training by al-Qaeda-backed militants and sent to the front lines of this country’s bloody conflict. Many had been kidnapped from schools and soccer fields and forced to fight.
The United Nations pleaded for them to be removed from the battlefield. The United States denounced the Islamist militants for using children to plant bombs and carry out assassinations.
But when the boys were finally disarmed — some defecting and others apprehended — what awaited them was yet another dangerous role in the war. This time, the children say, they were forced to work for the Somali government.
The boys were used for years as informants by the country’s National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA), according to interviews with the children and Somali and U.N. officials. They were marched through neighborhoods where al-Shabab insurgents were hiding and told to point out their former comrades. The faces of intelligence agents were covered, but the boys — some as young as 10 — were rarely concealed, according to the children. Several of them were killed. One tried to hang himself while in custody.
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800,000 Invaders With Criminal Records
There are in excess of 800,000 nonwhites living illegally but openly in the United States in “sanctuary cities”-and nearly 700,000 of these illegals have felony arrest records.
There are now more than 300 jurisdictions-entire states, counties, cities, and municipalities-which have enacted “sanctuary city” laws which prevent the full enforcement of federal immigration law.
According to a press release issued by the Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS), most of these “sanctuary city” zones are “controlled by Democrats in general and liberals in particular.”
What CAPS did not mention-for fear of being called “racist,” of course-is that most of these zones are also now majority nonwhite, thanks to legal immigration policies enforced by both Republican and Democratic parties. Of the more than 30 “sanctuary cities,” only a handful are still majority white…
“Among them, most infamously, is Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, a seven-time convicted felon and five-time deported illegal alien who was not turned over to ICE by the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department that held him in custody on a drug charge.
“He was instead released just weeks before he murdered Kate Steinle,” CAPS said, referring to the infamous July 2015 case where a nonwhite invader murdered a white woman on Pier 14, San Francisco.
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‘Breadwinner Bigots’ Latest Government Smear
Admitting resentment for foreigners getting jobs first gets you government-branded as an unemployed breadwinner bigot.
Millions of Americans now out of work can add being smeared as breadwinner bigots to the profound worries they already have about how to put food on the table for their families.
‘Breadwinner bigots’ is how the government defines those out of work who dare mention that any available jobs are going to foreigners.
The big governments of the day at home and abroad don’t want their citizens to work. Work comes with dignity and dignity is what government needs to deprive from its citizens.
They want outspoken citizens on the pogey. It’s so much easier for governments to control populations demoralized by being out of work in a culture that has been seeking to scrap the ‘work ethic’ for decades.
Even so, the chickens are now coming home to roost in an increasing number of nations whose leaders have allowed them to be overwhelmed by rivers of migrants…
Globalists waited to make their move on unsuspecting societies by pressing forward at a time when their populations were aging.
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Kerry Slams Trump’s Wall, Tells Grads to Prepare for ‘Borderless World’
Secretary of State John Kerry took a shot at Donald Trump during his Friday commencement speech at Northeastern University, by saying no wall is big enough to keep dangerous terrorists out of the United States.
Kerry also seemed to dismiss the importance of national borders, and said technology has reshaped the world into one that the U.S. must engage at the risk of being left behind. He said Trump and others who want to look inward are making a mistake, even in the face of rising tension and violence in the world.
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What dhimm-witted idiot decided to let London buses be uglified with ads exhorting moslems to pay their zakat? It seems to me that the loudest western defenders of islam are the most ignorant of the tenets of this false religion.
Reliance of the Traveller, p272 h8.17 Giving Zakat to Deserving Recipients.
‘The seventh category is those fighting for Allah, meaning people engaged in Islamic military operations for whom no salary has been allotted in the army. They are given enough to suffice them for the operation, even if affluent; of weapons, mounts, clothing and expenses.’
John Kerry, one of the most stupid politicians I have ever seen. And he is daring to tell us that a borderless world is a good thing? What moonbat planet spawned him? Maybe he should get together with Angela Merkel — how well is that borderless Germany working out, Mrs. Merkel? Rape up, crime up, murder up. I’m surprised the Germans haven’t rebelled but they have always been an obedient people, witness Hitler.
Well, I have had my depressing news for the day, thanks to you all. I come here every day anyway. I guess it’s better to know the truth than to live in the fog of unknowingness (assuming that’s a word).
P.S.
I will take a Trump over a Kerry any day.
From his remarks it is obvious that John Kerry is in cahoots with George Soros et al., as is his master Obama and practically every leader in Europe and certainly Turkey. (With a very few but very notable exceptions). I suppose everyone has to have a paymaster – but how pathetic that theirs are so old and so desperate to still wield power in their dotage. May they all rot.