Prime Minister David Cameron, who was planning to stay in Paris overnight after meeting the French president, will return to the UK following the attack.

According to various witnesses those carrying out the attack were heard to be yelling “Allahu Akbar” (which means “God [or Allah] is Great”

London Mayor Boris Johnson has described the attack as a “sickening deluded and unforgivable act of violence”.

And with that summary, today’s [WORLD in PICTURES] collection is self-explanatory.

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Australian Greens senator Scott Ludlam claims that the federal government has now revived internet censorship concerns with evidence that its agencies are using powers to block Australian users from accessing websites more widely than first thought.

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) confirms that it has asked internet service providers (ISPs), including Telstra, to block access to two websites believed to be part of a share trading scam in late March. However, in the course of blocking the scammer sites; 1200 genuinely unrelated websites sharing the same web host or server were also blocked.

The Australian Federal Police has used rules under the Telecommunications Act of 1997 to prevent users from accessing specific websites in the past. This includes enforcing ISPs to do what is “reasonably necessary” to foil users attempts to break the law using communication systems such as the World Wide Web.

ASIC said it had begun sending notices to ISPs requesting blocked access to websites over the past nine months as part of its law enforcement capabilities.

Scott Ludlam has stated on record that: “It’s extraordinarily difficult to find who has issued these notices and on behalf of whom, for what categories of content, or what you do if you find yourself on a block list. We’ve got a very serious problem and it’s not at all clear whether the government knows what it’s actually doing,”

Budget documents released during the second week of May revealed that dumping Stephen Conroy’s exhaustive attempt to mandatorily filter the internet will save the government $4.5 million.

According to a regulatory chief, provider iiNet had previously complied with notices sent by the AFP to take down web sites that contained information regarding terrorism, bomb-making, Anarchist Cookbook and other “illegal” materials.

This concern follows ASIC’s pledge to alter privacy laws to allow data retention, phone call snooping and various other mandatory requests.

What is impeachment or impeaching?

With the White House belligerent to contain outrages from Benghazi to IRS snooping, it culminated in a chorus of Republican calls to impeach Obama. “Of all the great cover-ups in history, the Pentagon papers, Iran-Contra, Watergate, all the rest of them, this is going to go down as most egregious cover-up in American history.” Republican Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma claimed earlier this month.

The Benghazi scandal:

In September of 2012, you may remember the worldwide protests and reactions to the film “Innocence of Muslims” which is supposedly a factor for the Benghazi consulate attack in which J. Christopher Stevens lost his life.

Well – the Republican Party members have consistently accused Obama, the White House and The State Department of laying emphasis on or formulating/exaggerating the role of Islamic anger over the anti-Islamic movie. There has also been allegations that the administration was indisposed to label the ordeal as a terrorist attack. 

IRS Snooping:

In April this year, the IRS (Internal Revenue Service) proclaimed that the Fourth Amendment does not protect email and that a warrant is not needed to plant a GPS location tracker on a car in its owner’s driveway. (The Fourth Amendment is part of America’s Bill of Rights which protects your liberty not to be subject to searches and seizures or warrants without judicially sanctioned with good reason to suspect of wrongdoing)

 “The Fourth Amendment does not protect communications held in electronic storage, such as email messages stored on a server, because Internet users do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in such communications,”

Naturally, the above statement has caused an uproar and has caused criticism over Barack Obama’s handling (or lack of?) of the issue.

The Associated Press were paid a visit by the Department of Justice and all hell broke loose after the DoJ seemingly obtained logs of outgoing made by some AP reporters and editors involved in producing a story that appeared in May 2012. The story covered how a plot by a Yemeni terrorist to bomb an airliner was obstructed.

 Will it Happen?

It’s worth noting that, despite what some may claim, impeachment isn’t simple and it usually never happens. There’s a misconception that Richard Nixon was impeached – but he in fact resigned.

It’s unlikely that you’ll wake up tomorrow and see the headline “Barack Obama removed from power” but the attempts will be strong.

"We have mothers, sisters, little children who were shot," New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu told local press.
A New Orleans specialist confirmed that he has had to treat ‘severe injuries’ including wounds to the chest and abdomen.

New Orleans police are searching for suspects in the shooting. Shootings in New Orleans aren’t widely report, yet not entirely uncommon.

This article is bound to cause an uncomfortable feeling amongst some and garner criticism over its depictions of a way out of life. However, I first want to highlight that there are many reasons why written works like this should exist. If you take this information in as a guide, then we cannot recommend or encourage that you take your own life. This was written for the curious, the researching and those who wish to understand how the human body can in-fact have an ‘off switch’.

There are multiple ways to kill yourself, but they don’t always factor in the character and feelings of the person carrying them out. This is why I have put some prominence on the scrutiny and consideration of ending one’s life.

I think it is very important that the person is taken into consideration, because all plans can be disrupted by a doubt, fear, indecision, or self-deception of one’s true feelings and desires.

First: Why do people want to take their lives, even if they are quite ‘normally’ surviving?

To answer this question we must dive into the scenarios of human thought and justification. Suicidal thoughts are often linked to depression and a loss of the will to live – and yes, that’s almost always the major factor – but there are plenty of reasons one may wish to put an end to their life. Suicidal emotions are prevalent when one:

•  Is sick and dying and wants a stress-free way out that doesn’t involve mobility.
•  Is depressed and can’t find the motivation to go the distances required for their situation.
•  Is disgusted with life and wants a way out that isn’t too painful, messy or likely to fail.
•  Wants to die for any of the listed reasons and is afraid of being discovered, seen as a coward, or judged as malevolent by those the person admires.
•  Wants to go out fashionably, making a strong statement against enemies and detractors (such as bullies or ex-boyfriends/girlfriends or those who requested the person to ‘prove’ they were really suicidal)
•  Wants revenge on society or group or a person, using suicide as the means of achieving their revenge
•  Wants to perplex their loved ones or enemies by knowing that their exit from the world will shock and confuse.
•  Feels as though there is more to life and that, in their death, they will enter another realm based on their spiritual beliefs

Suicide is always related to the fear of something. Whether the person is afraid of their existence, their depression, their inability to succeed, their inability to control their own body or the fear that they will be a burden on those they love.

The Empowerment of Accepting Death

We can be caught between knowing that we want to die and taking steps to accomplish it and really just wanting life to be different and trying to find some way to escape or hide from it. Attempting suicide can be a way of shuffling the deck. No matter how much we may decry the control exercised over us once we’ve failed an attempt, we are the ones who got us there. It is a means of changing the life we are leading (abandoning control, which a lot of us want to do but for which are afraid of the repercussions). This is in part why some people commit crimes — to return to a controlled environment where they cannot have to face the stress of decision-making.

Knowing that we can at any point terminate our lives can be a powerful incentive. Ok, now I can do anything. If the heat gets too much, I can exit and I don’t have to worry about the conditions I’ve created for myself. To many this is considered as the easy way out, the weak and selfish way out or the lazy way out. Is it selfish to say goodbye to your family, acknowledge the good times and bow out?

Preparing for the end

When one is dedicated to the task, suicide will not be difficult to achieve at all. the major problem is internal, not external. Some degree of self-analysis, preparation for death, the reaction one will not witness but apparently cause, etc., is important since we are conditioned to regulate our behaviour based on imagining the reaction others will feel in response to our choices.

Other than deciding on the method of self-termination, the practical preparation for suicide includes accepting one’s demise, how it will be effected, and one’s role in the social world prior to that event.

Deciding (or leaving undecided) the metaphysical issues inherent to the notion of suicide (such as how the cosmos may be structured, whether there are moral authorities who have forbidden the taking of your life, what happens to people when they die, whether it matters if someone has killed themselves as to the quality of any post-mortem experiences, etc.) is an important part of accepting the idea of effecting one’s own death.

Contemplating the likely responses to the type of suicide one has planned and the future development of the society in which one lives (i.e. how family and friends will react to the news of your choice to end your life, what, if any, repercussions, there may be to the message your death may symbolize, etc.) is essential in the construction of a satisfactory suicide method and context.

The ultimate ‘intelligence’ or ‘unexpectedness’ with suicide is perhaps the most shocking and well-thought-out elements of suicide. This may include lying to one’s friends and family (so as to avoid being bereft of autonomy and freedom in a misguided attempt to provide ‘help’), the resolution of administrative details (like arranging for payment of regular bills and any funerary expenses that will likely be incurred by your survivors, etc.), or a fierce and fiery ‘Shooting Star’ termination in which a huge mess is left to those whom you despise or have learned to disregard, knowing how to approach the world will put those destined for death one step ahead of those who may wish to see that a self-termination fails.

Fear of pain is an important reason to hesitate when contemplating self-termination. We want to terminate the pain we may be feeling (often psychological).

Many subjects who have survived suicide have stated that during what they believed were there final moments, they began to reconsider their situation.

For example; a man who had leapt from a bridge told that he began to feel a sudden tranquillity and type of rebirth during his descent. He survived the suicide and his mindset had changed. Likewise, many people who travel to Zurich to receive legal euthanasia have reportedly realised that, through expanding their horizons and discovering an all new ‘world’, they decide that they would start life anew.

We’ve gone through why – so HOW do people do it?

Asides from the obvious jump-off-bridge or pull-gun-trigger-at-head methods; there are several curiosities surrounding those who are trying to find methods on dealing with their own death. It wouldn’t be too farfetched to suggest that many seek ways to die in the same way that many seek ways on curing and surviving.

POSING A FAKE RISK TO GET SHOT

Some try to force police officers to kill them by buying a cheap toy gun that looks real enough from a distance. Get stopped by a police officer and, from a distance, get emotional and pull the weapon. Refuse to put it down when they command it. Take a firing stance and aim the toy. Best to obscure your body except for your head when beginning the escapade. The important thing is though – you will not only lose your own life, but you may very well traumatise the officers, civilians and families surrounding the incident.

ASPHYXIATION AND THE ‘EXIT BAG’

Asphyxiation has been the subject of many ‘natural’ suicides. The Hemlock Society (which supports the right of the terminally-ill to die) says that the rubber band method may cause discomfort and the suggestion of the ‘exit bag’ (pictured) is often given.

In 1990 German Factory worker Peter Ditert (Google Books has an archive of the newspaper which mentions him briefly here) had multiple failed attempts to take his life. Some may even argue that ‘fate’ was on his side: his gun barrel jammed, he consumed multiple poisons and hazardous substances and he survived a couple of intentional car-related incidents too. I was unable to find any information on whether or not Peter Ditert was still alive or if he had finally achieved his death.

On the opposite side of the spectrum, a 46 year old tried to kill himself 7 times after his wife left him. He even gassed his entire house and lit a match after the monoxide poisoning didn’t happen soon enough. He was rescued and later reported to be on good terms with his estranged wife.

The use of chemicals such as propane is commonly brought up as slightly nauseating to the respiratory tract and may only cause non-life-threatening effects. Common symptoms whilst trying to suffocate with propane include dizziness, headache, drowsiness, and nausea, muscular incoordination, disproportionate salivation, incomprehension, vomiting, and even extreme excitation. In punishing cases, seizures or loss-of-conscience may occur.

Many common Liquid Petroleum gas (LPG) stoves have a regulation feature inbuilt that prevents the gas valve to open unless the pilot light is lit. Most homes and stoves are fitted with this type of safety. Propane freezes when it is allowed to escape quickly – so, ironically, you would be burned by cold temperatures. The gas regulator features allow propane to escape slowly enough under pressure so that the jet doesn’t ice up.

AIR INJECTION

Arterial Gas Embolism (known technically as “AGE”) embraces the idea that injecting air into the veins can cause an air bubble to facilitate a heart issue (likely, a heart attack) and kill you without the coroner being ever-the-wiser but this is somewhat of a myth. Small air bubbles injected into the vein cannot cause death. A large syringe would be required to give yourself a lethal dose of air. Surviving this suicide attempt could give render you brain-dead, which is arguably worse than dying.

Injecting a large dose of air into the body involves the air pocket travelling through the bloodstream and into the brain. Seeing as our brains are not meant to contain air, this initiates a stroke. Not all strokes kill.

KNOWN METHODS OF SUICIDE:

Some (most) of these are self-explanatory.

Bleeding/Wrist Slitting

The rapid loss of blood (or Exsanguination) is an uncommon cause of death. Though publicised by many cultural references as a major solution to death, the mortality rate of those who have self-harmed with the intention of suicide is quite low.

Drowning

(Often seen as technically an asphyxiation)

Suffocation

Hypothermia

Electrocution

Self-defenestration (jumping from height, but specifically, from a window)

Firearms

Hanging

Vehicular impact

Simply jumping in front of a vehicle, train, bus, and lorry. Suicide by aircraft is the least common due to the difficulties of gaining access to the front of a taxiing plane or jumping from a plane. It should be noted that whilst hijacking and crashing a plane is the act of suicide, it is not regularly seen as an occurrence for suicide, contradictory to the ideology of kamikaze and suicide hijacking. Despite this, there have been instances where pilots have intentionally crashed the aircraft due to depression or the loss of will to live – however, this is perhaps recognised as murder or terrorism due to the multiple deaths that occur. This, of course, isn’t the case when it comes to a solo pilot intentionally crashing an aircraft or a group of willing suicidal passengers choosing to take part in a group mortality. 

Poisoning

(Includes Drug overdose) 

Immolation

A reasonably useless method; Immolation (or in psychological terms – Self-Immolation) is the intentional basking in flames. This is usually survivable and bares the risk of rescue. Surviving self-immolation would incur drastic recovery and emotional scarring (not to mention the obvious physical scarring). Death by self-immolation is often used as a means of ‘peaceful’ and mind-strengthened protest rather than suicide.

Jumping into a volcano or enduring molten lava is also defined as self-immolation.

Intentional Starvation

Intentional Dehydration

Self-Decapitation

IN CLOSING:

Ultimately though, I want to remind you all that this should not be taken as a literal guide to suicide.

The order to remove the template files for the plastic gun comes after they were downloaded more than 100,000 times. They were being hosted on MEGA.

The US State Department wrote to the gun’s designer, Defense Distributed, suggesting publishing them online may breach arms-control regulations.

Naturally, you can still download the .STL files from The Pirate Bay…or…you know, the dozens of websites which will suddenly make sure there are as much mirrors as possible.

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Are Adobe committing suicide with their new ‘mandatory subscription only’ model for the tools of choice (Photoshop, Dreamweaver etc.) for so many industries?

With a Facebook page full of disappointment from loyal users and multiple petitions demanding Adobe to re-think their plans – Adobe has annoyed many freelancers and designers (such as yours truly) with accusations of greed and capitalising on people already struggling during this economy.

Adobe is expecting users to enter a forced 12 month commitment, but the user owns nothing. You’re not buying the Adobe suite of applications; you’re renting them.

Your applications WILL be installed on your PC – so they aren’t browser based – but you’d be forced to connect to the net frequently to verify that you’ve licensed the software. This decision, however, is apparently not an attempt to avoid piracy.

There are worries that those who have had their licenses expire won’t be able to access their files and would have to enter another 12 month contract just to simply remove a layer and export the image or adjust a website layout. This, ultimately, could mean that freelancers will have to charge more in order to break even on their projects.

I’ve compiled some of the many comments (ironically, using Photoshop) but perhaps one of the most interesting comment is the response issued by competitor Corel.

Mummified foetus, alien or hoax? This strange 12cm skeleton has gotten sceptics and believers debating.

The skeleton was discovered 10 years ago in a ghost town in the Atacama Desert of Chile.

The ‘thing’, which has been called “Ata” ended up in a private collection in Barcelona; producers of the documentary Sirius claim it is evidence of extra-terrestrial life forms.

Last year Garry Nolan, director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute’s Proteomics Centre for Systems Immunology at Stanford University in America heard about Ata from a friend and contacted the people behind the documentary. He offered to give them a scientific readout on the specimen.

Among the deceptive abnormalities, Ata has 10 ribs instead of the usual 12 and a severely malformed skull.

Nolan took the specimen to paediatric radiologist Ralph Lachman who stated that it was unlike anything he had ever seen.

Garry Nolan hypothesised that the specimen was tens or hundreds of thousands of years old. His claims were backed by the fact that the Atacama Desert may be the driest spot on Earth, preserving the specimen for incredible lengths of time.

Upon investigation, scientists concluded that "the DNA was modern, abundant, and of high quality" and therefore likely to be merely a few decades old.

Further research revealed that the paternal parent of the specimen was most definitely Chilean. This would make it apparent that Ata is a human skeleton.

Several sceptics have branched out claiming the ‘thing’ is the work of a hoax to promote the upcoming documentary, but reasonable explanations have been given. One, for instance, is that it could be a mummified foetus of someone suffering deformity or perhaps even a mix between Progeria and Dwarfism.

William Jungers, a paleoanthropologist and anatomist at Stony Brook University Medical Centre in New York has stated that "This looks to me like a badly desiccated and mummified human foetus or premature stillbirth…[with] barely ossified and immature elements"

Currently – it’s almost 100% fact that the skeleton is of human origin but more studies are set to take place to clarify what exactly this thing is.

[SPECIAL SERIES] [The Deep Web] an Introduction to the Deepest, Darkest Parts of the Internet.

[SPECIAL SERIES] [The Deep Web] Human Experiments and Groups Dedicated to Subject Research.

First let me explain my criticisms for the way Child Pornography (CP) is dealt with by the worlds’ top governments. For starters; CP is not illegal within the entire world. It may come as a surprise but accessing, owning or distributing the content is still a legitimate trade in some parts of Asia and so therefore if something is hosted within a country that has no strict policy against it – then it cannot be removed by a foreign government.

For a good 3 years I suggested that through using the deep web we could illegally bring down the content and yet never be traced back to our failure to obtain warrants and so on – this plot was never accepted and my ideas were constantly ignored.

The government buildings that house evidence in the UK have large data centres all storing child pornography for the purposes of substantiation and investigations (such as attempts to trace the pictures of the children involved).

Many of these files are low quality images with either faces blurred out or the suggestion of being old and inconveniently useless for gaining a conviction.

The amount of content that is clearly distributed by abusers is tear-jerking.

Child pornography is like war in the way that you cannot simply bring an end to it. CP was not born on the web and so simply persevering at closing CP websites will not help. It certainly isn’t as simple as ‘shutting the provider down’ either. The website owners cannot be traced, the location of the content cannot be revealed and the details are entirely hidden from anyone hoping to gain a conviction or bring an abuser to justice.

Admittedly, my previous post hinting on the ‘real-life gladiator’ fights that are organised through the deep web was probably the discovery of an exaggerated firm, but there’s no way of verifying whether or not these things exist without attempting to join yourself – oh and a shout-out to Eiley for her story about this here.

Whether you believe me or not – I worked on behalf of the investigations unit in the UK and after an 11 month inquiry; we found no conclusive evidence that this is happening in the UK and we have closely worked with international researchers who, too, have yet to verify the details. (To clarify – I am now a retired investigator working in a completely different field outside of law)

The deep web is full of interesting surprises, with the claim that one can even have somebody killed using online contact (see gallery), but there’s no irrefutable proof that this industry exists online. One can be sure, however, that child pornography and animal abuse can be found quite ‘easily’ when you’re looking for it.

Once again, the conventional media is tarnishing Euthanasia advocate Dr Philip Nitschke as the ‘advocator of death’ with Nitschke under investigation for assisting people with voluntary suicide.

Dr Nitschke’s latest invention is a nitrogen gas suicide system, which he specifies is a harm-minimisation device.
He is currently the object at the centre of complaint by the anti-euthanasia group HOPE.

See our case study: The Arguments for Assisted Suicide and the Right to End Your Life. And the coverage: Assisted Suicide Campaigner Tony Nicklinson Dies After Court Refuses Euthanasia.

Dr Nitschke currently distributes nitrogen cylinders that can be used for home beer brewing, ending one’s life and “a hundred other uses”, through Adelaide-based business Max Dog Brewing.

He says using nitrogen to squeeze oxygen out of the body, leading to hypoxic death, is the best lawful way of suicide.

With the label ‘Dr. Death’, there’s no denying that Philip Nitschke has forced many people onto their high horses over the argument that we, as human beings with free thought, don’t in fact have the right to choose whether or not we want to continue living.

Whilst prolife campaigners will vex me for saying it – it’s my choice to do whatever I want to and if I choose to end my life due to illness then what say should you have?

Facebook users: have you noticed a rising trend of strange, gory, sexual or generally disgusting videos trending on the social networking site? You’re not alone in thinking it’s bizarre to see it on a site like Facebook.

Whether you wish to or not – Facebook has attracted criticism for showing the footage whenever someone on your friends list views it or comments (for whatever reason). My personal Facebook news feed often shows “_____ commented on video” and more than half the time, it’s actually a friend commenting “This is just fucked” or “Use other websites to raise awareness”

In its Community Guidelines, Facebook says that graphic imagery is allowed, except when it’s posted "for sadistic pleasure" or might lead to someone being harmed.

Facebook has been bold about the complaints that they should be removing videos of decapitations. One example is a video involving a teenage female inserting a purportedly blood-soaked tampon into her mouth. (If you’re actually interested in seeing that, then have a search on Google and for the record – it was definitely fake attention-whoring)

I’m all for freedom and net neutrality; but Facebook isn’t really the platform to share this content is it? Well according to Facebook it’s rather acceptable to share such content.

With censorship defending initiatives in the past (such as the [Controversial Humour] tag added to scandalous pages) and the removal of photographs which were taken of breastfeeding mothers (stirring up a bit of an argument when we mirrored the images that were removed) – the condition that breastfeeding was nudity seemed to be altered following this debate – it’s interesting to point out the following mentions in the community guidelines page:

“Sharing any graphic content for sadistic pleasure is prohibited.”

“We aspire to respect people’s right to share content of personal importance, whether those are photos of a sculpture like Michelangelo’s David or family photos of a child breastfeeding.”

We’d be hypocritical if we said we don’t commend the use of realistic portrayals of war and conflict – but, even though Facebook is where most of the internet’s population will notice it, is uploading footage there the most effective way of getting a message across?

It’s moments like these where Facebook should take a leaf out of YouTube’s book and have a content advisory warning that allows people to flag videos as potentially offensive or disturbing. A simple fix could go a long way.

The investigation into sex abuse allegations against Rolf Harris will now expand to his homeland, Australia, with detectives from Scotland Yard making the trip to New South Wales to interview a woman who supposedly has no allegations against Harris.

Officers from London spent two hours in the home of a mother, aged 43, with two children in Wisemans Ferry.

It’s important to recognise that Rolf Harris has not been charged. He denies any wrongdoing and has expressed his anger over the investigation. Rolf’s wife of over 50 years, Alwen, has stated that they are both distraught over the accusations.

According to our unverifiable source who provided us with the first details regarding the allegations; Rolf is being questioned as part of a division which does not link any of the alleged with Jimmy Savile.

Medical personnel have been dispatched to Guantanamo Bay to assist with the force-feeding of inmates who have been refusing food on the grounds of alleged mishandling of their religious texts by guards and their overall detainment without trial.

100 of the 166 held in Guantanamo by the United States are currently on hunger-strike.

In the light of such coverage, Barack Obama has vowed to close Guantanamo bay but it should be noted that he has claimed the closure is his intention long ago to no avail.

President Obama defended the military actions: "I don’t want these individuals to die", he said.

But are the US right to prevent the prisoners from refusing food?

Technically hunger-striking is a suicide attempt, and therefore Barack Obama has defended the choice to force-feed detainees as a measure to prevent prisoners from killing themselves.

The UN Commission for Human Rights has criticized the use of force-feeding detainees claiming that it is “ethically and legally unjustifiable” as well as degrading to the recipient, who is in full possession of their senses.

Force-feeding is commonly done by inserting long tubes through the nostrils.

An All Nippon Airways Dreamliner test flight has landed securely in Tokyo, three months after the global fleet of Boeing 787s was grounded amidst complaints over battery problems.

The success of the flight comes a day after Ethiopian Airlines resumed its typical usage of the Boeing Dreamliner.

The test flight lasted two hours.

Although the exact cause of the battery failures has yet to be pinpointed – according to the FAA on – it has been insisted that all refitted planes pose no risk.

"Even if we missed the root cause, we have identified 80 potential causal factors and we have addressed all of them in the design," a spokesman has asserted.

I’m all for human rights, equality and respect towards all genders but one thing that I see as a grey area is the feminist movement.

Now, I’m not talking about females who don’t want to be seen as an accessory to man – I’m talking about the far-left fundamentalist beliefs that some females possess.

The age-old remark many feminists have is that when a man holds the door open for a lady or pays for the meal he is signifying that the woman is incapable. This is a ridiculous belief that really shows the nit-pitting that people do to claim victim.

Don’t get me wrong, I believe that the Sharia law is an abomination to how some men can oppress women. I think females shouldn’t be given shortened tennis sessions and I think that we shouldn’t assume that they are too delicate for sports such as rugby. Female derby teams – appropriately known as Derby Girls – are enough proof that a woman can kick a men’s ass.

One of the most intricately insane things I’ve ever heard come from a feminist is that if a woman regrets sleeping with a man after she makes the decision to, then it is rape. Simply changing one’s mind apparently constitutes a criminal offence. (I’ll note here that a fellow anti-feminist female has done a brilliant story covering this sort of thing here)

Excessive female rights campaigners often criticise or claim the following:

Cleaning products are only marketed to women on TV.
Men do not ever express issues in the balance of raising children and a career simultaneously.
Situation comedies such as The Drew Carey Show, Family Guy, The Simpsons and so on are disrespectful as they contain obese ‘slobs’ with attractive partners.
Men who describe the weaker amongst them as “pussies” are disrespectful and that the use of the term ‘the balls’ (as in, I have balls for writing this) shouldn’t be used.

With violence, genital mutation and inequality in mind; I think it is very important we acknowledge that females are not the only victims. The western world sees a lot of men put through unwanted genital mutilation (think of circumcision for instance) as well as violence within a relationship. If a woman hits a man it seems to be accepted as normal, but if a man fights back then he is forever crucified for being a “woman beater”. In the end, is that not contradictory of what true equality is? Or would you argue that the female species is weaker than any male? That, too, is a contradiction.

One of the many online bloggers and authors that I despise (trust me, there’s a lot of them) would be Kotaku’s Patricia Hernandez who has gone from criticising the light-hearted talk of “bro! I totally raped you in that game!” and claiming that someone who uses the term is just as bad as someone who actually rapes as well as the fact that people who dress provocatively are treated like meat, that Sony’s Playstation 4 announcement didn’t feature any or enough females and that despite the historical accuracy, it was shameful that 1998’s “Saving Private Ryan” did not show women in the battlefield. Right-oh!

Ask your questions or give your thoughts in the comments section and I’ll try and address the issues in the next part of my series.

What appears to be a airplane landing gear thought to be part of one of the aircrafts’ engines involved in the 9/11 attacks was allegedly found in New York between the structure of an apartment complex and the proposed Ground Zero Mosque.

The landing gear/debris was discovered to display a Boeing identification number

The debris is stuck between the back of 51 Park Place and the rear of 50 Murray Street

The NYPD is purportedly securing the location as a crime scene, detailing it

photographically and restricting access until the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner completes a health and safety evaluation procedure after which a decision will be made regarding examining the soil for possible skeletal remains. As a result the aircraft part will not be removed until the process is completed.

Surveyors say they found the landing gear while checking out the back of the lot which has been leased by the Ground Zero Mosque developer Sharif El-Gamal. El-Gamal’s surveying team contacted the New York police immediately after discovering the object.

Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev have both been the two young men at the centre of unprecedented attention by the mainstream media. At the age of 19, Dzhokhar is in hospital with severe neck wounds that have caused him to find great difficulty in speaking. His older brother Tamerlan was purportedly ‘heavily wounded’ when he was rushed to a hospital – he died as a result of his injuries. Many have stated he was shot dead at the scene, which, by technicality, is probably accurate as well.

A criticism that has been amongst many onlookers is how Dzhokhar Tsarnaev could have exited the boat in which he was hiding with such gruesome wounds. Did he harm himself, or was he ‘interrogated’ after his arrest?

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According to Boston detectives, Dzhokhar (the survivor) has been answering police questions by writing. The FBI has been energetically searching for the two brothers’ links to other terrorists by scrutinizing Tsarnaevs’ contacts.

Being racially Chechens, the brothers spent very little time in their hometown in Caucasus but the brothers immigrated to the US to receive a refugee status. The Tsarnaevs left their residence in the country of Kyrgyzstan in 2001.

"I don’t have a single American friend…I don’t understand them."

Tamerlan was an avid boxer. Tamerlan Tsarnaev — “Will Box for Passport” promo (PDF) via Disclosure Vault

The Tsarnaev’s parents – who also lived in the US for many years – currently reside in Dagestan (a federal subject of Russia). The country’s population is composed of over 80% Islamists.

Father Anzor Tsarnaev said: "Chechens are stereotypically not welcome in so many places. We hoped the US will be the place to leave peacefully and free from judgment.”

He alleges his children have been framed.

Whilst initially, Anzor Tsarnaev was very willing to answer some questions via email, he later refused to discuss any information – most likely due to fears that we would twist his words.

The brothers names apparently don’t ring any bells in their local (or any other) mosque, despite the claims that they may have been militantly radical Islamists.

Tamerlan (the brother who was killed) married in the US. The two fathered a little girl. Both his wife Katherine and their daughter are in hiding due to the speculations that have arisen since his death.

The allegations against Dr. Gosnell include that he killed living babies and endangered the mothers. The important use of the term ‘babies’ in the Grand Jury’s report should be noted as not only did he abort foetuses, he allegedly delivered living and liveable babies and severed their spinal cords with scissors.

The medical practice’s allegations include overdosing patients with hazardous drugs, spreading venereal infections among them with septic instruments as well as the claims that Gosnell perforated the wombs and bowels of female patients. The allegations extend to say that he caused the death of two women.

The media have been accused of ‘ignoring’ the story over finger pointing that it may persuade differences in opinion by Pro-Choice/Pro-Life activists.

The peril here is not one of supporting abortion, but of encouraging abortions to be performed in professional environments – and not by budget back-street doctors.

According to court papers, Gosnell’s clinic was evidenced as having a distinctly strong odour of animal urine as well as the claim that cats were allowed full-run of the clinic.

The emergency exit was padlocked shut.

With the suggestion that furniture and blankets were stained with blood comes the evidence that instruments found in Gosnell’s clinic were not properly sanitized. Disposable medical supplies were not disposed of and were reused several times.

Foetal remains were discovered in cabinets, jars, bags, plastic jugs and in the freezer.

Two of Dr. Gosnell’s employees had been to medical school, but neither of them were licensed physicians.

(Infograph courtesy of the Pennsylvania Family Institute)

One of the allegations is that he had invented a procedure to terminate congenital babies – again, not foetuses. He titled it “ensuring foetal demise” when an unwanted child was delivered. The gruesome details state that Gosnell would place a pair of scissors into the back of the baby’s neck and cut the spinal cord.

Charges listed include:

Murder of Karnamaya Mongar (pictured)

Murders of babies born alive.

Infanticide.

Violations of the Controlled Substances Act.

Hindering.

Obstruction and Tampering.

Perjury.

Illegal late-term abortions.

Violations of the Abortion Control Act.

Violations of the Controlled Substances Act.

Abuse of Corpse.

Theft by Deception.

Conspiracy.

Corruption within an Organisation.

Corruption of Minors.

The Lockerbie bombing in 1988 was

A Boeing 747–121 (PAN AM 103) was destroyed by an explosive device killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew members. Large sections of the plane crashed into Lockerbie, in southern Scotland, killing an additional 11 people on the ground.

In 2001, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was convicted of the bombing but freed on “compassionate grounds” 8 years later. A doctor claimed he had less than three months to live but did not die until May of 2012.

Over the years, several conspiracy theories have emerged regarding the Lockerbie bombing. With many asserting that Muammar Gaddafi was behind the bombing, having personally ordered it, an officer gave birth to a theory in particular that Libya was ‘framed’ and that evidence submissions were faked for political benefit.

Gaddafi was previously known for supplying arms to the terrorist group Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) and whilst some argue that this was an attempt by Libya to fight the UK, many critics claim that Libya was merely supplying arms for financial reasons; as many other countries do. For example, Russia and China.

There has also been the concern that crucial evidence presented at the trial (such as a timer fragment, parts taken from a specific radio cassette model etc.) may have been fabricated or planted by the U.S. and Britain for the "political" purpose of incriminating Libya.

John Lydon – also known as Johhny Rotten – of the bands Sex Pistols and PiL was due to board the Pan Am flight but missed it due to delays. Since then, he has been very vocal about the terrorist organisations involved in the Northern Ireland conflict, commenting that both the Irish Republican Army and the Ulster Defence Association were "like two mafia gangs punching each other out."

Many cite the political turmoil that British PM Margaret Thatcher and US president Ronald Reagan shared was one of the main factors in why both countries would want to lay the blame on Libya.

Reagan was committed that Libya was responsible for the 1986 Berlin disco bombing where two American servicemen were killed. In retaliation, Reagan ordered an airstrike which killed 15 civilians including Colonel Gaddafi’s 15-month old daughter and injured more than 2000 including the Muammar Gaddafi’s son Khamis Gaddafi who sustained multiple injuries at age 3.

Earlier this year it was announced that the FBI and multiple British police officers would travel to Libya after Prime Minister David Cameron practically re-opened the investigations.

Libya’s deputy justice minister Hameda al-Magery criticised the move saying

 “Britain and America are asking us to reopen this file. But this is something of the past. We want to move forward to build a new future, and not to look back at Gaddafi’s black history. This case was closed and both UK and US governments agreed to this. They had their compensation.”

Muammar Gaddafi paid families of the victims more than $2 billion. His government cited the reparation as a political move and continued to deny Libya’s involvement of the bombing.

A Californian business known as Ntrepid has been bestowed a contract with United States Central Command (Centcom), which oversees US operations in the Middle East and Central Asia, to advance what is described as "online persona management service" that will allow one user to control the identity of 10 individuals on the net – 10 non-existent individuals that is.

False online personalities are known to users of social media and Wikis as "sock puppets".

The Centcom agreement requires that each false online persona must have an undoubted background, history and supporting details, and that up to 50 US-based controllers should be able to operate false identities from their computer terminals "without fear of being discovered by sophisticated adversaries".

There is the concern that the use of such botting software will allow the US military to create a false consensus online and suppress criticisms against the country.

Centcom spokesman Bill Speaks has responded to the criticism that: "The technology supports classified blogging activities on foreign-language websites to enable Centcom to counter violent extremist and enemy propaganda outside the US."

He said none of the interventions would be in English, as it would be dishonest to "address US audiences" with such technology. Right.

Most countries deem the use of such technology and methods as a crime of “impersonation”. Ntrepid have allegedly been awarded around $3 million USD for the project.

At least three people have been killed and up to 60 people have been injured after two explosions went off near the finish line of the famous Boston Marathon.

A no-fly zone has been implemented.

Boston police have confirmed two dead. However, there are no suspects in custody according to Boston authorities as some major news outlets previously suggested.

Google have launched an online person finder for those with apprehensions or information about friends and family in Boston.

Speculation over the motives of the attack are obviously mounting but no details are known.

President Barack Obama has addressed the incident stating “We don’t yet have all the answers” and has praised the way that fire-fighters, paramedics and those who responded to the tragedy as “heroic” Barack Obama has reminded people not to jump to conclusions.

“Any responsible individuals or groups will feel full weight of justice”

Boston was celebrating Patriots Day.

A growing trend seems to be the remarks that multiple deaths happen in the Middle East due to explosions every single day. Whilst I agree with that statement, most of the folks supporting it only bring up the lack of coverage on the Middle East when there’s a lack of coverage on Middle East.

So far a High Court verdict has enforced mandatory censorship for major internet service providers BT, Sky, Virgin Media, O2, EE and TalkTalk. The sites in question that have been blocked are The Pirate Bay, KickAss Torrents (KAT), Fenopy and H33T.

Earlier this month, Torrentfreak reported that the fantasy action series “Game of Thrones” was the most pirated television program. This triggered a rather welcoming response from HBO’s programming president Michael Lombardo who considered the statistics as a compliment, especially as Game of Thrones was the network’s best-selling DVD season release of 2012.

“The demand is there. And it certainly didn’t negatively impact the DVD sales. [People downloading is] something that comes along with having a wildly successful show on a subscription network.”

Now it would seem that the monopolists in the USA have expanded their missions past the UK to the European Union with the threats that Spain – who have been rather apathetic on copyright infringement – would be added to their trade block list.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – Boycott the industries that waste their money on abusing the political system to maintain their ridiculous profits and support the industries that support piracy and understand the true benefits of it and support the artists that don’t push the excess of anti-piracy messages.

Random note for fans of the band Senses Fail – managing to ask drummer Dan Trapp a question about piracy during his chat with AbsolutePunk yielded this response:

The United Nations have claimed that they, along with a few Western Nations – possess “hard evidence” that chemical weapons have been used during the civil war in Syria.

President Bashar Assad’s administration requested the UN investigate claims against rebel forces but has since refused to let international experts into the country after the UN wanted to investigate into Assad’s forces as well

Without giving the details of evidence or providing his identity, a Western diplomat has claimed "There are several examples where we are quite sure that shells with chemicals have been used in a very sporadic way"

Both the United Kingdom and France have submitted material to the United Nations regarding allegations that Syria’s government forces used chemical arms in the city of Homs in December of 2012.

"It is regrettable that the Syrian government has rejected my offer to engage in [an] investigation," UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stated after talks with US President Barack Obama in Washington.

Since the inception of the conflict, Russia and China have blocked several council resolutions intended to increase pressure on Assad over the conflict.