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"I am of the view that terrorists, anti-national people, rapists, strongest possible punishment including death sentence, should be given,"

Union Minister Venkaiah Naidu on Sunday said that strongest possible punishment, including death sentence should be given to terrorists, anti-nationalists and rapists.

"Glorifying terrorists and anti-nationalists is no good. Death penalty is an issue which can be debated upon. But surprisingly, some people come out openly as and when death penalty is given to a terrorist, anti-nationalist" he told reporters.

"Somebody is saying death penalty cannot take place. It may be their view. I am of the view that terrorists, anti-national people, rapists, strongest possible punishment including death sentence, should be given," he said.

Calling for a nation-wide debate on the topic…

"Some people are running stories of what he (Memon) had for breakfast on that day" he said. Noting that some people were trying to bring religion into the matter, he said, "terrorist is a terrorist. Does he have any religion? An anti-national is an anti-national. Why are you talking about his religion whether he is Hindu, Muslim or Christian?"

He claimed 37 persons had been hanged in the recent past.

"We were all in Rameswaram for the funeral of the great man, the great son of India, Dr A P J Abdul Kalam. But some of the (TV) channels were prominently showing and highlighting a remorseless terrorist. Are we serving the nation's interest?," he asked.

About rapists below the age of 18 not being given serious punishment, Naidu said, "Some people do not want people below 18 years to be given serious punishment. But when they (rapists) know how to rape, torture a woman, I do not have any sympathy for him (rapist) even if he is below 18 years. So the debate goes on in these issues.

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Support for the young women. Options for adoption. Love and kindness.

Death cultists practice abortion as if human life was meaningless.

Is it trivial because it is small?

We were all so small once.

Too many young women are pressured into abortion. A traumatizing experience that causes great pain.

Hormone imbalances result from this corrupting practice.

If we can choose which innocent life dies and which lives. Are we still listening to our hearts?

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I approach you like one human being to another. Would you want to live in a society that steps on the weak when it is convenient?

A society that gets rid of the downtrodden when they become inconvenient? That is not the society I want to live in. Look in your heart.

""As a child born to a 16 year old mother who was kicked out of her home for wanting to keep me I know the story.

They tried to abduct her and convince her how finishing school right now was more important than the life of her child.

I was there growing. The stress put on my mother was great. Her family was not very religious.

40 years later today I live with my own kids, graduates from college. My mother was able to finish school while having me due to the support of her local church.

People she had never met before who saw two lives in need. Years later my mother is a devout christian that listened to her heart when everything else in her life felt wrong.

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Oath Keepers Arrive in Ferguson To Protect Community From Riots

The Oath Keepers are in Ferguson to help protect local businesses and residents, the group says. St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar said the presence of the organization primarily comprised of current and former police, military, and first responders, is both “unnecessary” and “inflammatory.”

The current Ferguson protests began on the anniversary of the Michael Brown shooting by police officer Darren Wilson. The former law enforcement officer was not indicted for any wrongdoing in the fatal shooting. As previously reported by the Inquisitr, the Oath Keepers went to Ferguson during the riots last year and were reportedly kicked off the rooftops where they had positioned themselves to help protect private businesses. The armed men have reportedly been threatened with arrest for their activities.

At least one dozen Ferguson businesses were burned to the ground in the wake of the Darren Wilson decision in the Michael Brown shooting case.

According to a report by NBC, both Ferguson police officers and protesters stated that they saw Oath Keepers carrying their rifles and related gear around the town on Tuesday morning. The city was placed under a “state of emergency” due to the ongoing protests of the Mike Brown shooting. Missouri state law respects the Second Amendment and does not prohibit the open carry of firearms as long as the act is not done in an “angry or threatening manner.”

“I’m happy that we’re able to defend ourselves,” a man identifying himself as an Oath Keeper said in footage from NBC affiliate KSDK. “It’s been our right for a long time.”

The St. Louis County Police Department said it would consult with the St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorneys Office about the legalities of the issue. Social media photos and posts about the Ferguson Oath Keepers sightings often stated that the men are armed with “assault rifles.” That phrase is most commonly used by individuals unfamiliar with firearms or gun control supporters. While the label is not used on any rifle box or item description, it is often cPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

TEXAS NATIONALISTS

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Even though the Texas Nationalist Movement is only 6 cities in on its 21 city tour across Texas, the evidence is clear that the tour is having an effect.

Take Texas Back, a tour to engage TNM supporters and train volunteers, is doing just that. With supporters coming to meet the leadership and volunteers coming aboard at every stop, the tour is fulfilling its intended purpose.

But according to TNM President, Daniel Miller, something unexpected is happening on this tour.

“It’s been great to connect with our supporters in these areas and get them trained as field volunteers, but what has been the most surprising are the people coming in from off the street, that have never had any interaction with the TNM, who are ready to get to work for Texas independence.”

The organization’s Executive Director, Daphne Armour, sees this as a growing trend that shows no sign of letting up.

“Although we didn’t directly reach out to these Texans, they are seeking us out. Whether it’s on social media, traditional media or through friends, family and co-workers they are finding out about us. They’ve got questions. We’ve got the answers. They want an organization with longevity and credibility on the issue of independence and they know that is the TNM.”

There is no doubt that the media has fueled the fire over independence and the TNM. With recent articles on Politico, the Houston Chronicle, Austin American Statesman, the Drudge Report as well as other TV and radio outlets, many Texans who support independence are realizing that there is an organization that represents them.

Miller commented on the recent media articles and their impact on the tour.

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CRUDE OIL AND THE ECONOMY

Companies without price protection in 2016 could be forced to cut back further on new drilling if prices remain below their break-even costs.

“I think it’s a fair assessment that just about nobody is putting on hedges at this point,” said Jason Wangler, an analyst at Wunderlich Securities. “Why lock in the bottom?”

The drop in later-dated prices surprised some analysts and investors. Oil trader Andrew Hall, who is known for making long-term bullish oil bets, wrote in an investor letter dated Aug. 3 that he didn’t foresee the “pessimism” in the oil market. Mr. Hall’s $2.8 billion hedge-fund firm Astenbeck Capital Management LLC fell 16.6% in July.

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"A large part of the current inflation is temporary. It has to do with the decline in the price of oil; it has to do with the decline in the price of raw materials," he said. "We are in a situation with … nearly full employment but very low inflation."

Fischer was careful not to give any solid indication as to when he believed the Fed would hike rates.

The glimmer of hope comes after Friday's U.S. jobs report quashed confidence the Federal Reserve might delay an interest rate hike until 2016. Not only did the U.S. economy see another month of job gains above 200,000, but any weakness in earnings looked to have abated as well. Stocks sold off on fears that the jobs report had set the stage for a rate hike as soon as next month.

Crude oil bounced back from levels that hit a four-month low last week. West Texas Intermediate crude closed 2.5% lower to $44.96 a barrel as the dollar fell on speculation about when the Fed might raise rates. Oil prices have been under pressure on signs of extended weakness in the Chinese economy, the world's second-largest, and fears that Iran will soon have the green light to add its production to already-oversupplied markets. Oil prices lost 6.9% last week.

The Ability to Prevent a Crash No Longer Exists

Financial writer and gold expert Bill Holter says the powers know that it physically can’t put off a financial crash much longer. Holter contends, “The system has gotten too big. The system has gotten bigger than the creators of the system, if you will. It is bigger than the sovereign governments collectively. It’s bigger than the central banks collectively. There’s too much debt. Too many sovereign governments have bumped up against debt saturation. In the U.S., we are over 100% debt to GDP. We are way over 100% debt to GDP if you include all debt. If you include all the off-book guarantees, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and all the other promises, we have blown up as far as debt to GDP ratios. So, the ability to prevent a crash no longer exists.”

For the people who think central banks can print money to infinity, Holter advises, “People have the belief in central banks because, to this point, it has worked. So, they extrapolate that it will always work. What they are not factoring in is many sovereign governments have reached debt saturation. In other words, many governments have gotten to the point of Greece or Puerto Rico. It can’t take more debt. The problem in Europe is the individual countries can’t print money. The U.S. can print money. The question is will foreigners accept what we print forever? The answer is no.”

Holter says the Fed will print more money. It will be forced to and it will not work the same as other money printing. Holter explains, “The next one, in my opinion, is going to be ‘QE Forced.’ It’s going to be forced on the Fed.”

The recent announcement the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will put off allowing the Chinese yuan to become part of the Special Drawing Rights (SDR) basket of currencies is a bad omen for the U.S. dollar. Holter thinks, “China being pushed off by the IMF until at least 2016 is a slap in China’s face. They publicly and officially requested to become part of the SDR. . . . The IMF, steered by the U.S., basically slapped them in the face. You’ve got to look at this as a financial war. This is a shot by the U.S. saying, no, we are not letting you in the club. It is inevitable that the Chinese Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

REAL NEWS GETS NEWS FIRST

>Grey for Good teamed up with Talwar, a prominent bindi distributor, and Neelvasant, an NGO doing extensive work in rural areas of the western Indian state of Maharashtra, five months ago.

>The group came up with a standard scarlet bindi with a twist: Each bindi’s adhesive came covered with 150-200 micrograms of iodine. Throughout the day,

>a woman wearing the iodine bindi absorbs on average 12% of their daily requirement of iodine, a marked improvement from before.

>The Life Saving Dot uses the same technology and design as nicotine patches, and it’s cheap; production costs are minimal, Shabaz says, and are affordable

>at just two rupees per pack. (The rural Maharashtrian women Grey for Good worked with earned an average of 20-30 rupees per day.)

>Plus, wearing the iodine-infused bindi requires no behavioral change.

>The campaign hopes to spread awareness about iodine deficiency, a problem that even the most vulnerable populations don’t always know exists.

>Initial tests have been positive; of the approximately 150 women who have been given the bindis to wear,

>none have reported negative side effects and many have reported decreases in headaches, a common side effect of iodine deficiency.

>There are still some shortcomings. Since bindis are worn by the country’s dominant Hindu majority,

>rural women of other religions aren’t going to reap the benefits. And while women face the brunt of iodine deficiency—pregnancy and birth often exacerbate symptoms and effects, making women particularly susceptible to the consequences of iodine deficiency—

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US Army Secretive Purchase of Riot Control Agent

The U.S. Army is buying an undisclosed number of riot control CS gas canisters in order for troops to “become familiar with the effects of the agent,” as concerns grow about civil unrest inside the United States.

According to a solicitation posted on August 5, the U.S. Army is looking to secure a five year contract for the procurement of K765 CS Capsules.

“The CS (ortho-chlorobenzylidene malono-nitrile) Riot Control Agent Capsule is used in training scenarios for troops to become familiar with the effects of the agent,” states the solicitation.

The exact nature of the solicitation and the quantity of canisters being purchased remains secret as a result of the “Technical Data Package” that accompanies the order being classified.

“Distribution Statement D means that the TDP cannot be distributed on the Internet,” states the solicitation.

The equipment will be delivered to Army Contracting Command at Rock Island, Illinois, which hosts the largest government-owned weapons manufacturing arsenal in the country.

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FBI Says Citizens Should Have No Secrets That Government Can't Access

The police and surveillance state predicted in the forward-looking 1940s classic “1984” by George Orwell, has slowly, but steadily, come to fruition. However, like a frog sitting idly in a pan of steadily-warming water, too many Americans still seem unaware that the slow boil of big government is killing their constitutional liberties.

The latest sign of this stealth takeover of civil rights and freedom was epitomized in recent Senate testimony by FBI Director James Comey, who voiced his objections to civilian use of encryption to protect personal data – information the government has no automatic right to obtain.

As reported by The New American, Comey testified that he believes the government’s spy and law enforcement agencies should have unfettered access to everything Americans may store or send in electronic format: On computer hard drives, in so-called i-clouds, in email and in text messaging – for our own safety and protection. Like many in government today, Comey believes that national security is more important than constitutional privacy protections or, apparently, due process. After all, aren’t criminals the only ones who really have anything to hide?

In testimony before a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee entitled “Going Dark: Encryption, Technology, and the Balance Between Public Safety and Privacy” Comey said that in order to stay one step ahead of terrorists, as well as international and domestic criminals, Uncle Sam’s various spy and law enforcement agencies should have access to available technology used to de-encrypt protected data. Also, he believes the government should be the final arbiter deciding when decryption is necessary.

What could go wrong there?

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Top Chinese TV Star to Face Severe Punishment for Insulting Fascist Dictator Mao

One of China’s best known television presenters is to face “severe punishment” after being caught on camera referring to his country’s Great Helmsman, Mao Zedong, as an “old son of a bitch”.

As the host of “Star Boulevard” - a Britain’s Got Talent style variety show - Bi Fujian was one of the most recognisable faces on state broadcaster CCTV.

The 56-year-old had worked for the channel since 1989.

However, Bi’s future at the channel was cast into doubt in April after he was filmed at a private dinner mocking Chairman Mao, who founded the People’s Republic of China in 1949 and ran it until his death in 1976.

The video – which has been viewed more than 480,000 times on Youtube – shows Bi entertaining fellow diners with a rendition of a song from a Cultural Revolution era opera called Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy.

The television host peppers his table-side performance with a series of sarcastic asides about Mao, including: “Don’t mention that old son of a bitch – he tormented us!”

Those “disparaging” remarks represented “a serious violation of political disciplines”, China’s media watchdog announced on Sunday. It called for CCTV, which had already suspended its star presenter, to impose a “severe punishment”.

In an editorial the China Discipline Inspection Daily, a state-run newspaper, said CCTV had been ordered to “educate its entire staff” in order to “combat behaviours that violate political disciplines and regulations”.

“There should be zero tolerance for such cases,” the newspaper added.

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FASCISM: Senate Intelligence Authorization Act, Would Allow Arrest of Journalists, Anti-war Activists, Academics and Students

Freedom in America is being systematically destroyed: one police state law at a time – with most people ignorant and/or indifferent about what happening.

Washington’s criminal class is bipartisan – in lockstep against government representing everyone equitably and fairly, serving privileged interests only.

S. Res. 1705: Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 compromises free expression and privacy rights already gravely eroded.

If enacted, Section 603 will require online companies to inform Washington of any “actual knowledge” of “facts and circumstances” related to undefined “terrorist activity” – meaning warrantless searches and seizures of personal electronic content will be authorized, potentially subjecting countless numbers of innocent people to unjustifiable scrutiny.

Vague language makes independent journalists, political, anti-war, and social justice activists, academics and students doing legitimate research, as well as others vulnerable to being called suspected terrorists.

The possibility could encourage self-censorship. Service providers may over-report to show compliance with the law. Online users could be flagged for using suspect words or phrases.

One definition of terrorist activity can be another’s way of describing freedom fighting. Legitimate government criticism could be misinterpreted and misused.

Anyone ideologically opposed to US policies could become vulnerable to arrest, prosecution, conviction and imprisonment for expressing their views online. Police states operate this way.

Provisions like Section 603 violate fundamental constitutional and international law guaranteed rights. At stake is further erosion of First and Fourth Amendment freedoms.

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Plummeting Oil Price: Near-prophetic Words of Sheikh Yamani

The price of oil is plummeting and it has lost its value almost by 50% of what it was a year ago, without a trace of an immediate reversal, despite the never-ending volatility in the Middle East, which used to push the price up in the past.

Those who think otherwise, while ignoring the strong facts that slowly contributed to the catastrophic culmination, are simply burying their heads in the sand, in the desert or elsewhere, in the hope of an onset of good old days by a miracle.

Up until November last year, investors, economists, and experts had been forecasting a healthy growth in the oil industry – and a steady increase in price too – based on mathematical models, over-optimistic growth charts of emerging economies and of course, matching rhetoric of the corresponding political circles.

Who on earth forecast a steep decline in oil price, let alone more than 50% drop in price, this time last year? I can’t think of anyone. Nor can anyone from our readership, I assume.

There was someone, however, who foresaw what we see now almost 15 years ago. Surprisingly, he was an Arab; a powerful oil minster too. It was Sheikh Yamani, the former Saudi oil minister who predicted a cataclysmic crash in the price of oil, in an interview in June, 2000, with Gyles Brandreth, a Member of Parliament in Britain, who was a columnist for the Telegraph newspaper too.

In the unprecedented interview, Sheikh Yamani said that within a few decades, vast reserves of oil would lie unwanted and “oil age” will come to an end.

Then, Sheikh Yamani, a Harvard-educated law graduate, went on elaborating what he really meant: "Thirty years from now there will be a huge amount of oil - and no buyers. Oil will be left in the ground,” said Sheik Yamani before going poetic to take Mr Brandreth, who by then may have been shell-shocked by the revelation, to the metaphorical zenith of his blunt prophesy: “The Stone Age came to an end, not because we had a lack of stones, and the oil age will come tPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

With global crisis, unemployment, dissatisfaction, poverty and intolerance has increased and with it also nationalism. Political parties with nationalist platforms are rising and gaining more support around the world and Europe is no exception.

In Spain, Italy, and the United Kingdom and across Europe we can see the rise of the right. The financial crisis in the Eurozone and beyond has triggered rising of nationalists and far-right political parties.

The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) on 9th of July released a report about the dramatic increase in anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, online hate speech and xenophobic political discourse as the main trends in 2014.

Nationalism can be positive with legitimacy, promotion of nations and inspiration for citizens or negative by creating tensions between different ethnicity and groups in or outside the country. Some negative aspects of ideology or political movement can be seen in the latest football matches in the Balkans, where supporters of team groups have burned many national flags and hooliganism that is the result of long lasting hatred and nationalism on the ground. Every country has its own history and different positions, but still similarities could be found.

The country all news is regarding to in recent times is Greece. A known slogan “Greece for Greeks” is well known in its anti-austerity party. Attacks against minorities and immigrants with racism are seen in one of the European Union (EU) members. Golden Dawn neo-Nazi party is linked to hundreds of violent attacks against minorities.

It is known for anti-immigration, racist-nationalist worldview. With elections being held this year in January the party captured 6.3% of the vote and 17 senate seats in Hellenic parliament and become the country’s third largest party. In 2014 the party won 9.4% of votes in European parliamentary election and with it 3 seats out of 21.

The party has been put on a trial this year for its criminal activity.

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QE Death Sentence & USTBond Black Hole

Rather than stimulus, the USFed's Quantitative Easing is a death sentence for the USDollar. It might provide an ongoing backdoor bailout opportunity for Wall Street banks, and even a window for China to switch from long dated to short dated USTreasurys, but QE is death sentence. It guarantees that the USDollar will be removed from the global premises and placed in the dustbin of history. Foreign banking systems are largely devoted to USTBonds as the foundation for their entire reserves system. The African type of hyper monetary inflation blessed as good and fine stimulus is a sentinel signal by the US Federal Reserve itself, given to the Eastern producing nations who save in the $billions. They will start a caravan to exit the USDollar in their banking systems. They have great challenges in doing so, and must follow a prescribed path. That path is the Chinese RMB as an intermediary device, a transition tool. The goal is the return of the Gold Trade Standard, which will assure the return to the Gold Currency Standard and the Gold Banking Standard. The absent solution to the chronic global financial crisis has been the refusal to put Gold at the apex. Instead, the big banks have become zombies, the economies have become sclerotic, the financial structure have been control rooms, the bond platforms have been fracturing, while the USGovt has relied upon bond fraud, gold thefts, the printing press, and predatory wars to defend the King Dollar regime. It is due for the funeral pyre.

QE FACTORS

The QE initiatives are backfiring, adding incentive to the financial markets in a sick distorted manner, but at the same time killing the USEconomy from capital destruction. It has an equally destructive macro effect on the global economy. The USD is wrecking the world economic and financial system, even while the Petro-Dollar delivers equally powerful blows from its dismantling to the contract net foundation. The macro effect from QE is seen in hedging against the USD which is subjected to the African monetary policy. To praise it as adaptive and effective is intellectually criminal and abominable. Ironic that the White House has an African resident, and the USFed has an African monetary policy, and the USMilitary has hiddenPost too long. Click here to view the full text.