Archived threads in /news/ - Current News - 253. page

File: Turkroach_a5e67e_5943210.gif (288KB, 484x480px) Image search: [Google]

288KB, 484x480px

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/08/15/world/europe/ap-eu-turkey-austria.html

>ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey has summoned officials from Austria and Sweden to protest against news reports and Twitter comments in the two countries relating to a Turkish Constitutional Court ruling on child abuse.

>Turkey protested to Austria over a news ticker at Vienna's airport that claimed Turkey allows sex with children under age 15. Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu also accused his Swedish counterpart of spreading "lies" after she called on Ankara to protect children's rights through her Twitter account.

>Cavusoglu said the reports that appeared in Austria and Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom's tweet were a reflection of the "racism, anti-Islamic and anti-Turkish (trend) in Europe."

>Turkey's Constitutional Court last month scrapped an article in the penal code that defined all sexual acts against children as abuse, triggering concern among children's rights advocates that the move will lead to an increase in child sexual abuse cases.

>The court justices voted 7-6 to uphold a local court which argued that all cases should be reviewed individually and that someone who abuses a 4-year-old should not receive the same punishment as someone who has consensual sex with a 15-year-old. The previous law remains in force for six months, giving Parliament time to enact a new law, while children's rights advocates will seek to have the judgment reversed at the European Court of Human Rights.
...

File: Don't look lil Mohammad, it's blasphemy.jpg (67KB, 960x638px) Image search: [Google]

67KB, 960x638px

>ROUEN, France — In a gesture of solidarity after the gruesome killing of a French priest, hundreds of Muslims on Sunday attended Catholic Masses in churches and cathedrals across France and Italy.
>More than 100 Muslims gathered at the towering Gothic cathedral in Rouen, near Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, where the 85-year-old Rev. Jacques Hamel had his throat slit by two teenage Muslim fanatics Tuesday.
>‘‘We are very moved by the presence of our Muslim friends and I believe it is a courageous act that they did by coming to us,’’ Dominique Lebrun, the archbishop of Rouen, said after the service.
>Some of the Muslims sat in the front row, across from the altar. Among the parishioners was one of the nuns who was briefly taken hostage at Hamel’s church when he was killed. She joined her fellow Catholics in turning to shake hands or embrace the Muslim churchgoers after the service.

>https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/world/2016/07/31/muslims-catholic-masses-europe-show-solidarity/otPLObCMGLjL62lcUkBRaJ/story.html
>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/muslims-catholic-mass-france_us_579e3c67e4b0e2e15eb63576?utm_hp_ref=world

*But keep in mind:

>Many of the Muslims who attended the service in Rouen — including those with the banner ‘‘Love for all. Hate for none.’’ — were Ahmadiyya Muslims, a minority sect that differs from mainstream Islam in that it doesn’t regard Mohammed as the final prophet.

So all of them would be killed if sent back to the middle east.

File: temp.png (28KB, 545x144px) Image search: [Google]

28KB, 545x144px

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq2_wSsDwkQ

First off, in general fuck this guy, he has completely glossed over the fact that wikileaks uncovered pretty much every major news network in the USA has ties to Clinton.

A free and independent journalist branch along with the right to keep and bear arms are the 2 most important things in existence for protecting the people from a tyrant.

But how do we make sure the press is free and not controlled by the state, a special interest, or a rich individual who then prevent certain stories from getting out there or purposely manipulate the news for their own purpose?

You surely cannot say the USA or UK have free or independent press, not after gamergate and the clinton email hacks. Is it even possible to stop government corruption with journalism like it used to or are those days behind us? Do the writers and editors themselves even want to?

Is Wikileaks the last and only actual journalist alive ?

File: moot.png (99KB, 187x231px) Image search: [Google]

99KB, 187x231px

Hungry Jack's: Corpse lay undiscovered in Australian fast food outlet toilet for days

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-36869072

File: 160803115250-duterte-crime-16-exlarge-169[1].jpg (97KB, 780x438px) Image search: [Google]

97KB, 780x438px

http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/07/asia/duterte-war-on-drugs-officials-named/

>The President of the Philippines has named over 150 government officials who he says are complicit in the country's drug trade.

>Among those named in a speech early Sunday in the southern city of Davao -- once President Rodrigo Duterte's mayoral stomping ground -- were government officials, members of the judiciary, congressmen and police officials.

>While some are retired, many on his list were active officers, according to CNN affiliate CNN Philippines.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/08/world/asia/duterte-philippine-president-links-150-public-servants-to-drugs.html

>MANILA — The Philippines’ new president, Rodrigo Duterte, on Sunday publicly accused scores of judges, mayors, lawmakers, military personnel and police officers of involvement with the illegal drug trade, giving them 24 hours to surrender for investigation or, he said, be “hunted” down.

>Mr. Duterte rejected calls last week from international human rights groups to observe due process in the war he has declared on both sellers and users of illicit drugs, after a photograph of a drug user shot and killed by vigilantes made it to the front pages and became a symbol for the bloody antidrug campaign.

>“I ordered the listing, I ordered the validation,’’ he said Sunday in a nationally televised speech at a naval base, referring to the roughly 150 people he mentioned by name. “I’m the one reading it, and I am the sole person responsible for these all.
...

File: CprvFCTWYAYkTHO.jpg (66KB, 700x466px) Image search: [Google]

66KB, 700x466px

ended with one guy flipping out and killing the american paid taxes bodiguard.
http://timer-odessa.net/news/lektsiyu_rossiyskogo_politicheskogo_chlenovreditelya_pavlenskogo_sorval_pyaniy_s_nojom_est_postradavshie_708.html

File: HackedThermostat[1].jpg (85KB, 1024x621px) Image search: [Google]

85KB, 1024x621px

http://thenextweb.com/gadgets/2016/08/08/thermostats-can-now-get-infected-with-ransomware-because-2016/

>If you’ve encountered ransomware before, you’re familiar with how incredibly destructive it can be. It literally holds your computer and files hostage unless you cough up a steep ransom, usually paid in Bitcoin.

>Now, it looks like ransomware is about to make the leap from computers and smartphones to Internet of Things devices.

>Andrew Tierney and Ken Munro – two UK-based researchers for IT security firm Pen Test Partners – demonstrated the world’s first ransomware for a smart thermostat earlier this week at the DefCon security conference in Las Vegas.

>The Wi-Fi enabled thermostat that the researchers targeted is basically a Linux computer. It allows the user to upload wallpapers and configuration settings through an SD card; that’s what they use as a vehicle to install a malicious program onto the device. At this point, an attacker would have full control over the thermostat.
...

File: lightning.jpg (7KB, 300x168px) Image search: [Google]

7KB, 300x168px

Am I the only one that finds this incident odd?

A lightning bolt that struck during a fast-moving storm killed one person and injured four, two critically, at a park in the center of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., on Friday afternoon, the police and the mayor of the Hudson Valley city said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/13/nyregion/lightning-strike-in-poughkeepsie-ny.html?_r=0

File: LabsMatter.jpg (4KB, 124x125px) Image search: [Google]

4KB, 124x125px

>According to an affidavit, Timothy Batts first told police that his daughter, Timea, woke him up and said she had been shot after getting off the bus. Police obtained a search warrant and found evidence that he had fired his gun inside the house.
>Police said he admitted that he accidentally shot his daughter after being awoken to a sound in the home. He reportedly grabbed the gun from under the dresser and fired a shot when she yelled and scared him.
>He was previously convicted of felony drug possession and was charged with attempted criminal homicide stemming from a 2012 incident. He was accused of shooting at a man on Rosa Parks Boulevard.

http://www.newschannel5.com/news/local-news/father-charged-in-fatal-shooting-of-11-year-old?ftag=MSF0951a18

File: logo[1].png (12KB, 110x100px) Image search: [Google]

12KB, 110x100px

http://www.interpol.int/News-and-media/News/2016/N2016-099

>RIVER STATE, Nigeria – The head of an international criminal network behind thousands of online frauds has been arrested in a joint operation by INTERPOL and the Nigerian Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC).

>The 40-year-old Nigerian national, known as ‘Mike’, is believed to be behind scams totalling more than USD 60 million involving hundreds of victims worldwide. In one case a target was conned into paying out USD 15.4 million.

>The network compromised email accounts of small to medium businesses around the world including in Australia, Canada, India, Malaysia, Romania, South Africa, Thailand and the US, with the financial victims mainly other companies dealing with these compromised accounts.

>Heading a network of at least 40 individuals across Nigeria, Malaysia and South Africa which both provided malware and carried out the frauds, the alleged mastermind also had money laundering contacts in China, Europe and the US who provided bank account details for the illicit cash flow.

>Following his arrest in Port Harcourt in southern Nigeria, a forensic examination of devices seized by the EFCC showed he had been involved in a range of criminal activities including business e-mail compromise (BEC) and romance scams.
...

File: 460x.jpg (40KB, 435x512px) Image search: [Google]

40KB, 435x512px

>A judge on Friday overturned the conviction of a Wisconsin man found guilty of helping his uncle kill a woman in a case profiled in the Netflix series "Making a Murderer," ruling that investigators coerced a confession using deceptive tactics.

>U.S. Magistrate William Duffin in Milwaukee ordered Brendan Dassey freed within 90 days unless prosecutors decide to retry him. The state Department of Justice, which handled the case, declined to comment Friday. The state could also appeal Duffin's ruling.

>Dassey's case burst into the public's consciousness with the popularity of the "Making a Murderer" series that debuted in December. The filmmakers cast doubt on the legal process used to convict Dassey and his uncle Steven Avery in the death of Teresa Halbach, and their work sparked national interest and conjecture. Authorities involved in the case have called the 10-hour series biased, while the filmmakers have stood by their work.

>Dassey confessed to helping Avery carry out the rape and killing of Halbach, but his attorneys argued that his constitutional rights were violated throughout the investigation. Dassey didn't testify at his uncle's trial and his confession wasn't presented as evidence there. Both men are serving life sentences.


>Duffin said in his ruling that investigators made false promises to Dassey by assuring him "he had nothing to worry about."

>"These repeated false promises, when considered in conjunction with all relevant factors, most especially Dassey's age, intellectual deficits, and the absence of a supportive adult, rendered Dassey's confession involuntary under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments (of the U.S. Constitution)," Duffin wrote.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/3e5bb3947bbc4506937efe10bb2203b4/federal-court-orders-release-man-featured-murderer

File: NO_FILE_GIVEN (0B, 0x0pxpx)

0B, 0x0pxpx

After finding a young boy all alone trying to sell his teddy bear for food, Franklin police charged the child’s parents with child endangerment.

Officer Steve Dunham found the child in a busy area and went beyond the requirements of his badge to help.

Officials said they received a call on Sunday afternoon that a young boy was wandering in downtown Franklin alone.

Police said the 7-year-old was peddling his toy in front of a drug store to get money for food.

“It broke my heart,” Dunham said. “He told me he was trying to sell his stuffed animal to get money for food because he hadn't eaten in several days.”

Dunham took the child to a nearby Subway to get something to eat, then brought him back to the Franklin Police Department.

“(We) said a little prayer and ate dinner together,” Dunham said.

Police Chief Russ Whitman said Dunham gave the boy comfort and safety that he didn't have at home.

After further investigation, police said the child and his four brothers lived in squalor. Investigators described the home on Main Street as full of garbage, cat urine and liquor bottles.

Investigators charged the parents, Tammy and Michael Bethel, with 10 counts of child endangering.


http://www.wlwt.com/news/franklin-boy-tries-to-sell-teddy-bear-for-food-police-go-beyond-call-of-duty/41162218

File: cannabis-exec-gary-johnson-launches-presidential-bid-we-think.jpg (85KB, 960x576px) Image search: [Google]

85KB, 960x576px

http://www.msnbc.com/stephanie-ruhle/watch/libertarian-candidate-getting-more-attention-742315075932

File: NO_FILE_GIVEN (0B, 0x0pxpx)

0B, 0x0pxpx

Every day, police officers kill three people and injure 150 people who need medical treatment at the hospital, found a new study.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/tarahaelle/2016/07/26/1-in-13-people-who-die-from-gunshots-were-killed-by-police-with-blacks-at-higher-risk/

File: NO_FILE_GIVEN (0B, 0x0pxpx)

0B, 0x0pxpx

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8wnEGNRD6Y
Putin drew the Attention of the United States that Ukraine turns to terror. Another statement: "From the Russian side, in the course of preventing a terrorist attack in Crimea, died two soldiers. We this do not forgive." Next Putin said about preparation of a terrorist attack of Ukrainian special services in the Crimea (and canceled the meeting in Norman Format G20 - makes no sense).

Пyтин пpивлeк внимaниe Coeдинeнных Штaтoв, чтo Укpaинa пpeвpaщaeтcя в тeppop. Eщe oднo выcкaзывaниe: "c poccийcкoй cтopoны, в хoдe пpeдoтвpaщeния тepaктa в Кpымy, пoгибли двa coлдaтa. Mы этoгo нe пpocтим". Дaлee Пyтин зaявил o пoдгoтoвкe тepaктa yкpaинcких cпeцcлyжб в Кpымy (и oтмeнил вcтpeчy в Hopмaндcкoм фopмaтe в G20 - нeт cмыcлa).

http://nation-news.ru/208265-mid-rossii-predupredil-kiev-o-posledstviyah-za-gibel-rossiiskih-voennyh
http://runews24.ru/politics/11/08/2016/f1d61f4206aa20c3fadc14730af2130c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7OpSeOtYnU