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Israel Demolishes Family Home of Palestinian Driver Who Killed 2 Pedestrians – NYTimes.com

“This is not only collective punishment, it is a call for a violent reaction,” said Ms. Shaloudy, 43, who teaches English.

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Driver Plows Into Group at Jerusalem Train Station, Killing Baby, Police SayOCT. 22, 2014

Israel sealed or destroyed the homes this summer of four other Palestinians who killed Jews, and did so twice in 2009, after halting the widespread practice in 2005 when a commission found that it rarely worked as a deterrent and instead inflamed hostility.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel vowed to renew the policy as part of a wider crackdown following a wave of deadly attacks over the last month, the latest killing four worshipers and a police officer at a Jerusalem synagogue on Tuesday.

“You need a means of deterrence against the next suicide attacker,” Mr. Netanyahu said at a televised news conference Tuesday night. “When he knows that his house, the house in which his family lives, will be demolished, this will have an impact.”

via Israel Demolishes Family Home of Palestinian Driver Who Killed 2 Pedestrians – NYTimes.com.

Palestinian child today died of his wounds from July Israeli offensive on Gaza

Mohammed Siam, 14 years, from Gaza lost his leg in an Israeli bombardment during the latest aggression on Gaza last July.

After he lost 12 members of his family, and both of his legs, Mohammad was moved to Jerusalem to receive treatment there.

Later he was moved to Turkey where he obtained artificial legs and finally improved his health.

On Tuesday, Mohammed needed a respiratory tract and lung operation, where he was announced dead.

via Palestinian child today died of his wounds from July Israeli offensive on Gaza.

Meet the Lying Liars Responsible for Chipping Away at Roe v. Wade | Dame Magazine

They create nonprofits, staffed with die-hard ideologues, and set about producing and promoting bogus science, to build the illusion of dissent or doubt over conclusions drawn by peer-reviewed scientific or medical research. They develop their own “research findings” to suit their ideological views. Then they deploy scare tactics, all with the goal of passing laws that suit their agenda.

Abortion opponents, say Resnick and Coutts, have created “what might best be called the ‘False Witness’ industry,” a group of so-called experts willing to testify to unproven, anti-scientific claims about abortion.

via Meet the Lying Liars Responsible for Chipping Away at Roe v. Wade | Dame Magazine.

Kobani: A Victim Of Our Sins | Nervana

 Flirting with Islamist groups has a long history in the Middle East. Time and time again, regimes and leaders have wrongly assumed that it is easy and cost-free to use Islamists as a cheap tool to fulfill their goals and ambitions. Time and time again, this assumption has proven to be very costly and bloody. Sadat in Egypt released many Islamists from prison in a tactical move in his fight against Nasserism. Then they later turned against him and assassinated him in 1981. Recently, Arab Gulf States like Qatar and Saudi Arabia saw the Arab Spring as an opportunity to remove hostile regimes like Assad in Syria. They naively assumed that funding radical Jihadists would finish Assad. It did not work, because the Gulf Sheiks underestimated the depth of support that Iran and Hezbollah were willing to give to the Assad regime. Instead of defeating Assad, Qatar and others helped creating radical monsters such as ISIS. Kobani is just one of many tragic repercussions of the endemic political myopia that deluded autocrats into playing with the fire of radicalism. The role of Qatar is now exposed, but the young Emir of Qatar is fortunate, he is still enjoying his luxurious palace in Doha, unlike poor Syrians (Kurds and Arabs) sleeping in rough tents as refugees in Turkey, which is a result of his reckless decisions.

via Kobani: A Victim Of Our Sins | Nervana.

Modi supports India Cultural Fascism – Sanskrit or German? A row over foreign languages in India′s schools | Asia | DW.DE | 17.11.2014

Prior to this, India’s Sanskrit Teachers Association (SSS) had begun legal action in Delhi’s High Court, saying the continued allowance of German in the school curriculum went against national education policy. The group also described the teaching of foreign languages in Indian schools as “a Western conspiracy.”

via Sanskrit or German? A row over foreign languages in India′s schools | Asia | DW.DE | 17.11.2014.

Price tag violence by settlers now includes casual murder! Palestinian driver found hanged inside Israeli bus | Maan News Agency

Witnesses told Ma’an that other drivers saw al-Ramouni’s bus parked in the bus terminal during his working hours. A driver checked inside the bus and found al-Ramouni’s body hanging from a steel bar in the middle of the bus.

His colleagues cut the body down and he was taken to Hadassah hospital. Medics at the bus station tried to resuscitate him but he was later pronounced dead.

“According to an initial investigation, it appears there is no suspicion of criminal activity, in other words a suicide,” Israeli police spokeswoman Luba Samri said in a statement, which said there were “no signs of violence on the body.”

But fellow bus driver Muatasem Fakeh said he had seen evidence to the contrary.

“We saw signs of violence on his body,” he told AFP.

“He was hanged over the steps at the back of the bus in a place where it would be impossible to hang yourself alone,” he added.

The victim’s brother, Osama al-Ramouni said the family did not accept the verdict of suicide, saying his body “had bruises on it,” suggesting he had been “tortured” before his death.

“My brother had children and was a happy man. It is impossible that he killed himself,” he told AFP.

“He had no problems that would make him do it,” he said, adding that a post-mortem would “reveal everything.”

“We reject the suicide theory. We all know it was settlers who killed him,” he said.

via Palestinian driver found hanged inside Israeli bus | Maan News Agency.

Rosebud Sioux Tribe: House Vote in Favor of the Keystone XL Pipeline an Act of War

In response to Friday’s vote in the U.S. House of Representatives to authorize the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, the Rosebud Sioux Tribal president announced that the Rosebud Sioux Tribe (Sicangu Lakota Oyate) recognizes the authorization of the this pipeline as an

“act of war.”

The Tribe has done its part to remain peaceful in its dealing with the United States in this matter, in spite of the fact that the Rosebud Sioux Tribe has yet to be properly consulted on the project, which would cross through tribal land, and the concerns brought to the Department of Interior and to the Department of State have yet to be addressed.

“THE HOUSE HAS NOW SIGNED OUR DEATH WARRANTS AND THE DEATH WARRANTS OF OUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN. THE ROSEBUD SIOUX TRIBE WILL NOT ALLOW THIS PIPELINE THROUGH OUR LANDS,” SAID PRESIDENT CYRIL SCOTT OF THE ROSEBUD SIOUX TRIBE.

“We are outraged at the lack of intergovernmental cooperation. We are a sovereign nation and we are not being treated as such. We will close our reservation borders to Keystone XL. Authorizing Keystone XL is an act of war against our people.”

via Rosebud Sioux Tribe: House Vote in Favor of the Keystone XL Pipeline an Act of War.

One Of Two Men Shot And Killed By Deputies Was Holding A BB Gun, Says Family: LAist

Being Brown can be lethal with LASC on the loose. They might be able to justify one but not the other. Will unfortunately  be forgotten too soon.

Two men were shot and killed by Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies early Sunday morning when authorities say one of the suspects exited their vehicle carrying what appeared to be a handgun. However, family members say it was all a tragic misunderstanding.

via One Of Two Men Shot And Killed By Deputies Was Holding A BB Gun, Says Family: LAist.

JBTC – Israeli forces shoot 10-year-old Palestinian in the head in Shufat | Maan News Agency

Just Because They Can! A Palestinian child was severely injured after Israeli forces opened fire on a car she was traveling in with family near the Shufat refugee camp checkpoint on Friday.

The shooting comes on a day of clashes with Israeli forces across the West Bank and follows the blinding of an 11-year-old Palestinian boy the day before in clashes in the nearby East Jerusalem village of al-Issawiya.

Mayar Amran Twafic al-Natsheh, 10, was riding in her grandfather’s car with her mother, grandfather, and her sibling when a rubber-coated steel bullet smashed through the car’s window and hit her in the face.

She was taken Hadassah hospital near al-Issawiya and medical sources said she suffered a fractured skull as a result of the attack.

Mayar’s father is currently being detained by Israeli forces.

via Israeli forces shoot 10-year-old Palestinian in the head in Shufat | Maan News Agency.

Danish MRSA pork found in Sweden – The Local – Make it very, very, very well done!

The massive increase in the prevalence of MRSA in Denmark is also affecting Swedish consumers. A study carried out by Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter in tandem with Sweden’s National Veterinary Institute (Statens veterinärmedicinska) found that four of 20 packages of Danish pork bought throughout the Stockholm area contained the resistant MRSA bacteria.

 

A random sampling of German pork found the presence of MRSA in just one of 20 packages.

via Danish MRSA pork found in Sweden – The Local.