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Friday, May 10, 2019

THE WAR ON THE SUFIS CONTINUES

The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the blast, which killed at least eight people.

DW.COM

Pakistan: Deadly bomb blast at Sufi shrine in Lahore

Police say a bomb targeting security forces guarding a Sufi shrine has detonated in the city of Lahore. At least eight people are believed to have been killed so far, with many more wounded.

The blast, a day after the beginning of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, went off at a police checkpoint near the Data Darbar, one of the largest Muslim shrines in South Asia.

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Deadly Blast Hits Sufi Shrine in Pakistan, 9 Killed

"Police was the prime target in this attack. We are collecting forensic evidences to ascertain the nature of the blast," said Ashfaq Khan, de

Dawn.com

Prime Minister #ImranKhan took to Twitter to condemn the explosion targeting Elite Force vehicle near #DataDarbar in #Lahore today.
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EDITORIAL: According to media reports, Hizbul Ahrar, said to be a splinter faction of the local Taliban, claimed responsibility for the attack.

Of course, this is not the first time that a Sufi shrine has been attacked in Pakistan.

DAWN.COM

Data Darbar blast

The families of the martyred personnel must be looked after by the state.

With the death toll in Wednesday’s Data Darbar shrine blast rising to 11 on Thursday, law enforcement agencies shifted focus to three major terrorist networks of the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in Punjab to lay their hands on handlers/facilitators.

Talking about investigation into the suicide blast, a senior police officer told Dawn that two high-profile teams of the law enforcement agencies had been assigned the task to go after three offshoots of the TTP and t...

Some radical religious activists, taking it as a violation of the Ehteram-i-Ramazan Ordinance, objected to the operation of heatstroke centres during the fasting hours. They told operators of several centres to shut them “or face the consequences”, according to Mr Taufiq Bandhani, SMC’s contractor of the centres.

After repeatedly issuing such threats and getting annoyed by the operators’ defiance, a group of armed radicals stormed the Ayub Goth centre and forced its operators to shut it down. They fired into the air making the operators flee.

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When asked why he was being detained, police said "we'll sort that out later".

I LOVE IT SITUATIONIST OR SURREALIST EITHER WAY IT EXPOSES THE POLICE STATE WE ALL LIVE UNDER TO ONE DEGREE OR ANOTHER

BBC.COM

Kazakh detained over empty placard vigil

Thursday, May 09, 2019

The donated bell "most likely" came from a slave plantation, a spokesperson for St Catharine's College said.

PUT IT IN THE SCHOOL MUSEUM WITH AN EXPLANATION
MAKE IT A TEACHABLE MOMENT

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Cambridge University bell removed over possible slavery link

Jerome Kunkel was banned from school for not getting vaccinated, so he sued. Now he has chickenpox.

BBC.COM

US anti-vax poster child gets chickenpox

She said she feels lucky she didn't get seriously sick and isn't willing to take that chance on her own children.

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A Formerly Anti-Vax Mom Posted About Why Her Kids Are Getting Vaccinated

"Glad my babies don’t need to suffer through preventable infectious diseases."

Uber drivers are striking in cities across the US for better wages. Is the gig economy all that great?

Apps and algorithms: Who wins in the gig economy?

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This US state is actually paying people to move there.

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Trump says the US is 'full', but is it?

The Cuban fighter pilot served the longest-ever non-violent marijuana jail term in American history.

600,000 LBS 40 YEARS

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Free after the longest ever US pot sentence

HE WAS FUNDED BY THE SCIONS OF THE BRONFMAN FORTUNE THE TWO SISTERS FROM QUEBEC WHO LIVE IN NYC
THEY WERE NOT BRANDED THAT WE KNOW OF
HIS SEX SLAVES WERE BUT THEN THEY DID NOT PAY HIS BILLS

Nxivm's female "slaves" were branded with leader Keith Raniere's initials, say prosecutors.