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http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/homesick-and-fed-up-iraqi-refugees-in-germany-head-home-1.2755520
Apparently the drudgery of daily life wasn't what they expected when they went to Germany

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Fresh from a boycott by Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump, Fox News is facing criticism for failing to reveal that controversial pollster Frank Luntz, who led their post-debate focus group, has financial ties to candidate Marco Rubio.

Described as“the propagandist of the century,”Luntz polled a group of voters about the candidates’ debate performances and aired flattering clips of the Florida senator while asking questions about his likability.

What Fox and Luntz failed to disclose was that the pollster had been hired by Rubio in 2012 to help him write“100 Innovative Ideas for Florida’s Future”.


https://www.rt.com/usa/330649-luntz-cruz-fox-news/

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http://fresnopeoplesmedia.com/2016/01/2829/

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>A Detroit man was killed when he was ejected through the sunroof of his car while driving along the highway with his pants down and masturbating to porn being shown on his cellphone.

>Clifford Ray Jones, 58, was killed instantly when his car rolled over in the early hours of Sunday morning. As well as not wearing any trousers, Jones is not believed to have been wearing his seat belt which may have contributed to his partial ejection from the car.

>The accident happened at 3.30am on Sunday while Jones was travelling south on the Lodge ramp to Interstate 75. It is believed that Jones lost control of the car because he was distracted and was unable to prevent the 1996 Toyota from spinning because he did not have both hands firmly on the steering wheel.

>According to the Detroit News, Jones died at the scene of the accident. Lieutenant Mike Shaw of Michigan State Police said the incident was among the strangest he has dealt with during his professional career.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3418946/Pantless-driver-dies-ejected-sunroof-masturbating-porn-cellphone-car-rolled-over.html#ixzz3yU73Pq6D

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Mysterious booms confirmed not to be earthquakes felt all over South Jersey two days after the same occurrence took place in South Carolina

http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Jersey-Shore-Shaking-Hamilton-366879921.html

http://wncn.com/2016/01/26/loud-booms-heard-and-shaking-felt-near-charleston-sc/

Occurrences are argued to be sonic booms but local military bases are denying responsibility.

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>About half of Canada's soldiers have a history of child abuse and/or exposure to it, which is significantly higher than for the general population, indicates a new study led by a Manitoba researcher.

>"We thought it was really an important finding," says Tracie Afifi, associate professor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Manitoba and lead author of the research released Wednesday by the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Psychiatry.

>Any child abuse exposure was higher with members of the regular forces (47.7 per cent) and even higher among reservists (49.4 per cent).

>Adults who were abused as children make up 33.1 per cent in the general population, according to the study, which also involved the Canadian Forces Health Services Group Headquarters in Ottawa and the University of Ottawa.

>The researchers note that child abuse exposure can take many forms, including physical abuse, sexual abuse "and exposure to intimate partner violence, and deployment-related trauma."

http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/child-abuse-military-1.3421708

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Tradition. A simple word that is not always simple to stomach. Take for instance a ritual that has occurred for centuries in the small Indian village of Betul. Located in the state of Madhya Pradesh, in central India, the inhabitants of this town happily toss their children into a large, steaming pile of cow dung.

Diwali, also known as the Festival of Lights, is the largest celebration in Hinduism. In the weeks leading up to the event, villagers in Betul begin collecting cow poop from the roughly 600 cows that reside in the surrounding area. All of this dung is piled up in a location at the center of town. On the day after Diwali, parents take children and dip and roll their offspring in the feces, all the while drums and fireworks roar in the background.

The beliefs behind this activity are multi-faceted. First, cows are among the most sacred animals in Hinduism and anything that brings a person closer to a cow is viewed in a favorable light. Second, Hindu preachers claim that both cow pee and cow poop have curative properties. Third, adherents believe that the ritual honors their ancestors, who also participated in the cow dung dipping, and that this will bestow good luck onto the children as they grow up. The ceremony lasts from sunrise to sunset, with villagers waiting their turn to dunk their children. Youths, ranging from six months to nine-years-old, experience this smelly tradition. Older children are tossed into the pile of feces, while infants are gently laid in the dung.

While this is certainly a strange tradition, doctors note that there may be some truth to the claim that this weird practice has medicinal benefits. By their early exposure to the bacteria-filled dung, children are able to develop resistance to infections which they might otherwise succumb to as they grow up in a polluted environment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg6noSdfC00

http://www.weirdasianews.com/2016/01/26/indian-children-rolled-in-cow-poop-for-good-luck/

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HR 515, The scarlet letter, and ‘International Megan’s Law’

he statute (full text here) requires the secretary of state to affix a “unique identifier” on all passports issued to “covered sex offenders” — a “visual designation affixed to a conspicuous location on the passport indicating that the individual is a covered sex offender.” A “covered sex offender” is anyone previously convicted, at any point in his/her life, for a sex offense involving a minor.

It is, as far as I can determine, the first time in U.S. history that any such special designation will appear on the passports of any U.S. citizens, and I think it should send at least a small chill down all of our spines. Not to overdo the analogy, but it does call to mind Martin Niemoller’s famous dictum (“First they came for the communists . . .”). It is part and parcel of a dispiriting and disheartening campaign (on which I have commented a number of times in the past — see e.g. here, here and here) piling punitive disability upon punitive disability — not just public shaming, but also restrictions on residency locations, employment, Internet use, etc. — on this particularly despised class.

https://www.change.org/p/u-s-house-of-representatives-vote-against-hr-515?recruiter=329453112&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=share_page&utm_term=mob-xs-no_src-no_msg

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/01/06/the-yellow-star-the-scarlet-letter-and-international-megans-law/

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https://archive.is/RB4bK

https://archive.is/VMIew

The chief diversity officer of the University of Iowa said her office plans to have a bias assessment response team in place on campus by the end of the current semester.

The proposed team — which would be known by the acronym BART — would address complaints of racial or other bias on campus concerning incidents that “skirt the line between a policy violation or even a crime.”

“I’ve been thinking about it since I’ve been here,” said Georgina Dodge, who has been serving since 2010 as UI’s chief diversity officer and associate vice president. “We’ve been talking about it for a couple of years, but it was a matter of having the capacity to do it.”

With help from the Office of the UI Vice President for Student Life, Dodge said UI officials will meet with various stakeholders over the course of the semester, with the goal of having a bias assessment process in place by May.

"It’s one thing to look at other institutions … but we really need to be specific to our own culture," Dodge told the Press-Citizen on Wednesday. "And that is something that is going to mean pulling everybody in and having a discussion."

Although UI’s team will be tailored specifically to the institution, Dodge said it will be modeled somewhat after the BART in place at Ohio State University, where she previously had directed the Department of African American and African Studies Community Extension Center.

The calls to create a bias assessment team at UI have grown louder from some student groups over past 18 months — especially after a visiting UI art professor displayed a controversial KKK-effigy on the Pentacrest. Although the artist said the unauthorized sculpture was intended to raise awareness of ongoing racial violence in the U.S., many students viewed the sculpture as a threat.
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Vladimir Putin confessed yesterday at a conference of the All-Russia People's Front (a political movement Putin started in 2011) that he is personally very fond of the ideas found in communism and socialism.

According to Putin, the Code of the Builder of Communism (a set of 12 codified moral rules in the USSR guiding every Communist Party member and Communist youth member) “strongly resembles the Bible.” “This is not a joke; it was actually an excerpt from the Bible,” Putin explained.

The president also noted that communism and socialism, as they were practically implemented in the Soviet Union, were far from what socialist-utopians proposed.

“The practical implementation of these ideals in [the USSR] had little in common with what the utopian socialists Saint-Simon or Owen spoke about. This country had little resemblance to their Sun City,” Putin said, referring to the utopian work by the Italian Dominican philosopher Tommaso Campanella, published in 1602.

Putin also said he never threw out or burned his Soviet Communist Party membership card.


This was not the first time Putin compared the Code of the Builder of Communism to the Bible. In 2013, he called the code “a pathetic copy from the Bible,” saying Soviet communism observed quasi-religious values.
On January 21, Vladimir Putin blamed Vladimir Lenin for the collapse of the Soviet Union. “There were a lot of ideas like autonomation and so on. They put an atomic bomb under the building we call Russia and then it blew up. We didn't need any world revolution,” Putin said at a meeting of the Presidential Council for Science and Education.

https://meduza.io/en/news/2016/01/26/putin-says-he-s-fond-of-communist-and-socialist-ideas

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well its finally over bundy is arrested and shots were fired
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/officials-close-highway-near-oregon-community-at-center-of-wildlife-refuge-standoff-oregonian/ar-BBoKsvV?ocid=spartanntp

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http://www.wired.com/2016/01/please-stop-saying-humans-arent-causing-climate-change/

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http://www.mediaite.com/tv/fox-responds-to-trump-dropping-out-hes-still-welcome-but-there-are-conditions/

http://www.mediaite.com/online/fox-news-responds-to-trumps-latest-twitter-poll-with-first-rate-trolling/

Donald is skipping the final debate before the Iowa caucus. Recently, Trump has been polling ahead of Ted and some commentators think he is trying to miss the debate to avoid going head to head with Cruz.

My opinion is that Trump is worried he will not win Iowa because if that happens it will shatter his aura of invincibly, and significantly slow his momentum going forward. He has presented himself above everything else as a winner, if he can not win then his other claims become suspect.

Ted also offered to go one-on-one with Trump with Mark Levin as the moderator.. Which we won't see and was a good taunt by Ted. I wouldn't be surprised if Cruz started to climb in the polls because of all of this.

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http://www.technologyreview.com/news/546036/first-monkeys-with-autism-created-in-china/

China greatest nation.

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http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/tom-delay-hillary-clinton-indict-fbi/2016/01/25/id/710813/

Thank god