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White male @JCPENNEY employee assaults a black teenage girl with a headlock | 3CHICSPOLITICO

White male @JCPENNEY employee assaults a black teenage girl with a headlockPosted on January 3, 2017 by SouthernGirl2JC PENNEY, Y’ALL! It’s so damn disturbing.According to reports, the girl was with her family when they were told to leave by the suspect after telling them “they didn’t belong there.”On their way out, the girl knocked over a display as retaliation and the man jumped at her and wrestled her into a headlock.

Source: White male @JCPENNEY employee assaults a black teenage girl with a headlock | 3CHICSPOLITICO

vintage everyday: The Corman’s Missing Polaroids: The Story Behind 66 Lost Polaroids of Madonna Before She Was Famous

The Corman’s Missing Polaroids: The Story Behind 66 Lost Polaroids of Madonna Before She Was FamousThe missing Polaroids had kept Richard Corman awake at night for years. He had misplaced or, worse, thrown away dozens of shots he took of Madonna in April 1983, when she was a fiercely ambitious 24 years old unknown with blood-red-lips, a painted-on-mole and an armful of black rubber bangles.

Source: vintage everyday: The Corman’s Missing Polaroids: The Story Behind 66 Lost Polaroids of Madonna Before She Was Famous

Facebook blocks photo of Neptune statue for being ‘explicitly sexual’ | World news | The Guardian – Facebook becoming laughing stock of… world social media – grin

The statue was created in the 1560s by a Flemish sculptor called Jean de Boulogne, nicknamed by the Italians Giambologna, and it has dominated the piazza for approaching 500 years.Advertisement“Back in the 1950s, during celebrations for schoolchildren graduating, they used to cover up Neptune,” Barbari added. “Maybe Facebook would prefer the statue to be dressed again.” Facebook’s overzealous censoring software has brought the social media giant into controversy with increasing frequency, even as it faces intense criticism on another front for doing too little to prevent the spread of “fake news”.

Source: Facebook blocks photo of Neptune statue for being ‘explicitly sexual’ | World news | The Guardian

Egyptian Aak 2016/2017 ( Dec 26- January 1)

ugh – Prominent journalist Ibrahim Eissa terminates TV show after threats, legal complaints

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Top Headlines

  • Egypt’s government approves deal to hand two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia
  • An Egyptian appeal court backs government in Red Sea islands dispute
  • Prominent journalist Ibrahim Eissa terminates TV show after threats, legal complaints
  • Egypt’s army destroys 1,700 meter smuggling tunnel in Rafah
  • Egyptian Defence Ministry appoints new army spokesperson
  • Egyptian army renovates bombed Cairo church ahead of Coptic Christmas

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The annexation of Palestine could be closer than you think | +972 Magazine

Bennett’s desire to incrementally annex parts of the West Bank are neither new nor secret. The chairman of the Jewish Home party has run on a platform of annexation since he first ran for office in 2013 and in every election since. Through short videos and aggressive sound bites, the Israeli education minister has attempted shift the public discourse, in Israel and around the world, toward his annexationist aims.

Source: The annexation of Palestine could be closer than you think | +972 Magazine

Buffy Sainte Marie – “I’m Going Home” – YouTube

Buffy Sainte Marie’s ”I’m Going Home” Lyrics

Heaven isn’t so far away as people say

I got a home high in my heart

Heaven is right where I come from; I never throw it away

I know the place and I’m going home

I’m going home

I’m going home

See up there, it’s not the same

They know your name

And I’m not ashamed to need it

I’m going home

I’m going home

I’m going home

You keep on knocking but I’m not coming out of this state I’m in

I’m travellin’ right, I’m gonna get there soon

I’m standing up praying, I’m singing

Saying Heyo ha ha heyo ha hey ya

I know the way and I’m going home.

I’m going home

I’m going home

That’s where the heart can rest

The best is there

And only a fool would leave it. I’m going home

I’m going homeI’m going home

I’m going home

I been around, I been to town

Hey, where you think I learned right from wrong

And I’m going home

I’m going home

Chilean court imposes heavier sentences on German cult leaders | News | DW.COM | 31.12.2016 “Wonder, how many more have not been identified? And who frequents them?”

A court in the Chilean capital, Santiago, has lengthened by one year sentences already imposed on three Germans found guilty of forming a criminal organization at “Colonia Dignidad,” a German colony located in the Andean foothills.The three men – Kurt Schnellenkamp, Gerhard Mücke and Karl van den Berg – were among the leaders of the commune, now called “Villa Baviera,” where systematic child abuse took place between 1961 and 1997. They have now been sentenced to five years and one day in prison.The 15,000-hectare (37,066-acre) settlement, sealed off from the rest of the world, was also used as a secret detention and torture center for political prisoners during the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet from 1973-1990. Several opponents of the Pinochet regime were murdered there. Paul Schäfer was arrested in Argentina in 2005The court also handed down similar sentences to former Chilean intelligence agents Fernando Gomez and Pedro Espinoza. Four other defendants were released.”Colonia Dignidad” was founded in 1961 by cult leader Paul Schäfer, an ex-Nazi corporal, who fled Germany for Chile with 250 followers after authorities in his home country began to investigate him for sexual abuse of children.Schäfer was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2006 for his role at the “Colonia Dignidad,” and died in prison in 2010, aged 88.

Source: Chilean court imposes heavier sentences on German cult leaders | News | DW.COM | 31.12.2016

Chile: torturers and murderers are compared with the apostles of Jesus – Red Harvest

Last week Manuel Guerrero Antequera, son of one of the slain, said the former agents “committed the worst crimes, not helped justice, they lowered penalties. They have special jail. Serving sentences and leave us alone. ” On Thursday, hearing parole granted to “Pegasus”, charged that Chile breached international human rights law and again criticized the famous mass. “Some say that such gestures are disinterested, gratuitous, deep and genuine repentance. False, they are pure instrumental rationality. With this action, all terrorist conspiracy that operated from the State in the case Degollados is free. ” The year that the five officers committed this crime, ’85, Manuel was 14. The school from which kidnapped his father, who worked there, it was also his high school: he witnessed the arrest of Manuel father to three meters away and ran after the helicopter monitored the entire operating until the school door. Just the Supreme Court issued the “comply”, the murderer of his father will released.TAGS: CHILE , AGAINST HUMANITY , PAROLES , APOLOGYANTONIA ORELLANA GUARELLOJOURNALIST.-

Source: Chile: torturers and murderers are compared with the apostles of Jesus – Red Harvest

Ebola Vaccine Success | The Scientist Magazine®

World Health Organization confirms further development of the first Ebola vaccine.

Source: Ebola Vaccine Success | The Scientist Magazine®

Translation: Some success proved for vaccine applied in “ring” around people exposed to 2013-2016 version of Ebola in West Africa. Read study carefully. Says nothing about how effective it might prove against a variation or mutation of the 2013-2016 version.

What is most scary/dangerous about 2013/2016 versions of ebola is that it has been found that a high number of people contracted ebola and never showed any symptoms and/ or survived.

What this means is that the virus in its most recent form is more effective, in that it can sicken and kill more people because it does not “burn” itself out of potential victims and carriers by being 98% effective in killing contacts.

In short, with a new version, 200,000 might be exposed and only 50,000 die. And a later, version may be able to sicken or infect 2,000,000 and only kill 100,000.

The “killer” flu of 1918 that may have killed 50 million world-wide may well have sickened 200-500 million.

A vaccine cannot be THE answer. Understanding what human actions help to trigger outbreaks is the only long term answer.

Influenza will mutate less often into new types of killers when humans stop breeding poultry and pigs in the millions and storing them nearby each other in live markets.