1. Here is a fun video about Israeli defense capabilities and military innovations. Some amazing UAV and reactive armour inventions.
2. Four men arrested on terrorism charges in London
Four men have been arrested in London on suspicion of terror offences as part of an investigation into Islamist-related terrorism, police have said.
The men – two aged 21 and two aged 20 – were held by counter-terrorism police. A 21-year-old was Tasered by officers.
They were arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism, Scotland Yard said.
3. Ebola killing robot will likely give false confidence in Western ability to stop the spread.
4. Anjem Choudary: I Don’t Feel Sorry for Those Beheaded
(Hey England. Getting tired of your restraint yet?)
5. Belgium Prosecutes Lead Jihadists Recruiting for ISIS
(I edited an interview filmed by the Christian Action Network a few years ago with this exact fellow. See below and search YT for Sharia4Belgium and you will see enough on this man to wonder why it took till now to arrest him. We still don’t know what will happen however)
6. Four possible cases of Ebola in Madrid, says hospital
ANSA) – Madrid, October 7 – A hospital in Madrid said Tuesday it is dealing with three suspected cases of Ebola in addition to one confirmed case of the deadly virus.
The three new cases are being closely watched, said Rafael Perez-Santamarina, manager of the hospital Carlo III-La Paz.
The nurse who has been confirmed with the disease is believed to be the first health-care worker outside of Africa to be infected.
7. More cases of Ebola in Europe “unavoidable”, WHO says
The Metropolitan Police said the men were held on suspicion of being concerned in the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism.
A number of residential addresses and vehicles are being searched by specialist officers in west and central London as part of the investigation.
It is not clear if the alleged offences are linked to Britain or the ongoing conflict in Syria and Iraq.
8. Islamic State take Kobane, thousands flee to Turkish border
After days of siege, the militants have occupied three neighborhoods of the town, between Syria and Turkey, raising the black flag on buildings and hills. At least 2 thousand people have fled their homes, seeking shelter across the border. The Kurdish resistance is getting weaker, amid Ankara’s inertia and ineffectiveness of Arab-American air raids.
Damascus (AsiaNews / Agencies) – The Islamic State (IS) militia has taken three quarters of the town of Kobane, on the border between Syria and Turkey, after a long battle fought street by street with the Kurdish peshmerga. It is a center of enormous strategic importance, and had been held by the Kurdish troops for two years when they took control of the area after the retreat of the Damascus army.
Thank you Dan F., UK Pete, GoV., Maria J.
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Older article from the beginning of this year. Dont remember having this one. Some nasty stuff… (Pardon me for posting it in full.)
Mauritania must ban deadly force feeding of child brides – activists (reuters/trust, Jan 18, 2014)
http://www.trust.org/item/20140117185616-fl4hq/
“Mauritania must ban the practice of force feeding young girls to fatten them up for marriage, says a report which highlights the case of a child bride who died last year after being put on a dangerously high-calorie diet. Some young girls in Mauritania are even taking animal growth hormones and other dangerous drugs to help pile on the pounds and make themselves more marriageable. Many men in the West African country consider obese women beautiful, seeing their size as a sign of wealth and prestige. Girls of around eight can weigh 140kg (300lb) after force feeding, putting a huge strain on their hearts and jeopardising their health. Young women can tip the scales at 200kg.
The practice is discussed in a new report on child marriage by rights group Equality Now which describes the case of Khadijetou whose weight ballooned after she was force fed from the age of seven. She was married at eight to her father’s cousin, a man 10 years older than her father. Khadijetou was seriously obese by the time of her wedding. After she fell pregnant her health rapidly deteriorated and her doctor put her on a strict diet to lose weight. She gave birth by cesarean section to save her baby’s life. But Khadijetou’s mother, who prized her daughter’s obesity, would not accept her weight loss and gave her a type of medication which she said women used to put on weight. The report did not identify the drug, but said its effect is to inflame and swell parts of the body.
Khadijetou’s sight deteriorated and her doctor diagnosed eye strain, something she had been treated for before her wedding. Khadijetou was just 11 when she died last June, 20 days after giving birth. Although it is a poor, drought-prone country about 20 percent of females in Mauritania are obese, compared to 4 percent of men, according to the World Health Organisation. The practice of force feeding is known as gavage – the same French term used to describe the practice of fattening up geese to produce foie gras. But women’s rights organisations say they are increasingly seeing “chemical gavage” where girls take drugs including growth hormones, contraceptives and corticoids – steroid hormones – to bulk up. Health risks include heart failure, renal failure, diabetes, reproductive health problems, and joint pain.
In its report Equality Now calls for Mauritania to ban force feeding and child marriages, which account for over 35 percent of all marriages in the country, according to the U.N. Population Fund. The report says gavage is closely linked to early childhood marriage because it accelerates puberty and makes younger girls appear more womanly. L’Association des Femmes Chefs de Famille (AFCF), a local women’s and children’s rights organisation, is also calling for child marriage to be criminalised and is campaigning to get force feeding included as an offence under a new Bill on violence against women. AFCF says it has seen an increase in the number of girls being fattened up and married off early, which it attributed to families facing increased financial difficulties.
The organisation has recently handled around 140 cases of child brides subjected to gavage, mostly chemical gavage. It tries to annul marriages, and encourage girls to lose weight, get medical attention and go back to school. Activists point out that girls who take corticoids do not realise that the extra weight comes from water retention rather than fat, which is highly dangerous. Many girls and women also develop problems from fake drugs or expired black market drugs, AFCF says.”
Add Mauritania’s slave markets to that and it has to earn the most disgusting place on earth award. I don’t think even Vice has done a video about that place.
Africa Uncovered – Mauritania: Fat or Fiction – 11 Aug 08 – Part 1
Africa Uncovered – Mauritania: Fat or Fiction – 11 Aug 08 – Part 2
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3. Works without starting on it’s own:
3/ I agree with you Eeyore, about false confidence.
Ultraviolet light was once touted for disinfection against the polio virus. The principal researchers set gizmos up at the doors of their own family homes. One child in each family subsequently contracted the disease.
Which is not to indict all ultraviolet forever. It’s just way too easy to get sloppy when you become enthralled to the latest miracle in modern medicine.
I agree also, this will make the public feel safe and the virus will spread much faster.
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Too bad they can’t come up with anti-propaganda drones…
lol
Twitter sues US government over spying (BBC, Oct 7, 2014)
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-29528665
“Twitter has sued the US government over surveillance laws.
Under current regulations, Twitter cannot reveal certain information about government requests for users’ data relating to national security.
Twitter argues that this violates the right to free speech, as defined by the First Amendment to the US Constitution.
The firm said it brought the case in an effort to force the government to be more transparent about personal data requests.
“It’s our belief that we are entitled under the First Amendment to respond to our users’ concerns and to the statements of US government officials by providing information about the scope of US government surveillance,” Twitter’s lawyer, Ben Lee, wrote in a blog post.
Twitter brought the action against the US Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation in a northern California court on Tuesday….”
At least nine dead in as Kurds protest in Turkey (BBC, Oct 7, 2014)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29530640
“At least nine people have been killed in clashes between Kurdish protesters and police in Turkey, reports say. They are unhappy at perceived Turkish inaction in defending the predominantly Kurdish town of Kobane in Syria from an attack by Islamic State militants. Curfews were imposed in several predominantly Kurdish cities in southern Turkey after the unrest. Turkish Prime Minister Yalcin Akdogan said that Turkey was doing “whatever can be done” for Kobane. He said that it was a “massive lie” that his country had done nothing for the towns inhabitants. Turkish troops and tanks have lined the border but have not crossed into Syria….”
After the 7/7 bombings, Anjem Choudary appeared on the BBC’s flagship political interview show: HardTalk. The idea is that politicians get a particularly hard grilling on that programme.
Of those who were killed in the 7/7 bombings, devout muslim Choudary said that only the muslims who died that day were innocent. The implication being that the rest deserved to die. Did he get a particularly hard grilling in response to this? Of course not. Moreover, that he should have shown sympathy for the killers but not for the kafir victims of the suicide bombers has not been kept alive by the media, the politicians or self-styled “anti-fascists”.
There are those who believe that Choudary is a MI5 agent – a honey trap. But since only 30% of all those convicted for islam-related terrorism in the UK have had any connection with him (no matter how slight), it shows that the problem is far bigger than the likes of Choudary.
Moreover, don’t these 4 would-be beheaders in London show that the UK (as well as Baghdad) now has its own ISIL cells?
4/ Why oh why has Andy Choudary’s ass not been kicked, spining and skidding, right into the gutter already?
Another great show. Good point about the shifting of the frame of reference making the unacceptable an everyday part of the environment. At what point do Canadians revolt? The book I’m looking at says the Qing Dynasty had 813 capital, as in decapitating, offenses on the books, and they lasted 250 years. It seems that sufficiently frightened people get used to anything. Multicultural Canada must have about as many hate crimes now for which you can lose, if not your life your livelihood.
#5 The Clarion Project could stop calling Islam ‘the subculture of Islamism’ and ‘Islamic extremism’ and ‘political Islam,’ or making out that this is an ‘interpretation’ of Islam that only certain Muslims believe. Their enemies will be their enemies whether they throw them that sop or they don’t.