Vladimir Putin: “Snowden’s trapped”

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Russian President Vladimir Putin describes Edward Snowden tietovuotaja to be trapped in Russia.
 
According to the BBC Putin has refused to surrender to the United States Snowden. At the same time, however, Putin noted that Snowden may stay in Russia only if the stop data leakage.
 
-He came to our territory uninvited and Russia have been his goal. American standards of any country does not want him, so he is trapped, Putin said the BBC that.
 
Snowden said Friday she has applied for asylum in Russia. Russian authorities, the application is not filed.
 
Snowden has been a Moscow airport since the end of June. Originally, he was supposed to just change the flight in Moscow.

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John Bolton Israel Should Have Attacked- Iran Yesterday

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Former US ambassador to the UN says every day that goes by "puts Israel in greater danger," urges Israel to stop waiting.
 
“Israel should have attacked Iran yesterday – every day that goes by puts Israel in greater danger, every day Iran makes more progress,” John Bolton, a former US ambassador to the UN, told The Jerusalem Post in an interview on Monday.
 
“I can understand why Israel wants us to take action, but the longer Israel waits for something that is not going to happen, the greater the danger Israel is in,” the senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute said.
 
The US and Israel cannot expect to have perfect intelligence about Iran’s nuclear capabilities, but if Israel attacked Iran after it gained that capability, there could be “nuclear retaliation,” he said.
 
During his first term, President Barack Obama implied that the US would not resupply Israel with weapons used in attacking Iran, Bolton said. He added that overwhelming congressional support would have forced the issue of resupplying Israel in any case.
 
Now he thinks the situation has changed and the issue is whether the US would take the necessary measures to make the case that Israel was acting legitimately in self-defense.
 
The interview, coming a day after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Iran was approaching the red line he set out at the UN last September, constituted a warning that Israel could attack Iran as a last resort to prevent it from gaining nuclear weapons capability.
 
Asked about the chances that the US president would order an attack before any Israeli one, Bolton responded skeptically, “It would take a character transplant for Obama to order a US attack.”
 
Bolton believes that the election of Hassan Rouhani as Iranian president will serve as a trap for the US, which will lull it into a false sense of security and more negotiations, inevitably leading to a nuclear Iran.
 
One can already see this by the reaction of the EU and the White House to Rouhani’s election, he said.
 
“The idea that Rouhani will negotiate seriously shows that this administration is on a different planet.”
 
There have been more than 10 years of negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program and it has just kept building “a broad and deep infrastructure,” he said.
 
“Rouhani is a snare for the unwary and we fell right into it,” said Bolton asserting that the main difference between President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the “moderate” president-elect is only rhetorical.
 
“The moderates say, ‘Stop talking about it,’ and the radicals don’t stop talking about it.” In fact, “Rouhani boasted repeatedly about how he had suckered the EU during negotiations.”
 
Regarding the regional fallout of an attack on Iran, Bolton said it is important that Israel and the US are politically aligned and sharing intelligence.
 
And regarding US policy on Egypt and throughout the region, Bolton said the policy is “incoherent” because Obama does not understand the nature of radical Islam and the risk it poses. Obama believes that talking about Islam would be perceived in the region as attacking the religion even though Muslims are aware of the radical Islam issue.
 
Bolton said that the only mistake the Egyptian military made so far was allowing Mohamed ElBaradei, the former director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, become vice president.
 
And on Syria, he said that at this point the principal US interest is that chemical and biological weapons do not fall into the hands of terrorists. The country is going through a great tragedy, Bolton said, but he does not see supporting the opposition as a viable option.
 
Asked about speculation regarding a presidential run in 2016, Bolton responded that he has not made a decision about running, but if he were to, it would be to get national security issues back to the center of political debate. International issues have “dropped under the radar screen,” and he would try to reverse that trend, he said.

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SCHOOL DECIDES FUTURE OF RADIO-CHIPPING FOR STUDENTS

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A San Antonio, Texas, school district that expelled from a magnet school a sophomore girl who had religious objections to being radio-chipped for tracking and identification purposes now has decided to drop the program.
 
The Rutherford Institute, which has defended 15-year-old Andrea Hernandez, a Christian, said the decision “is proof that change is possible if Americans care enough to take a stand and make their discontent heard,” said
 
Constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead, president of Rutherford, said that as Hernandez demonstrated, “the best way to ensure that your government officials hear you is by never giving up, never backing down, and never remaining silent – even when things seem hopeless.”
 
The program had allowed school officials to track students’ location on school property at all times.
 
According to school officials, the decision to stop the Student Locator Project was due in part to low participation rates, negative publicity and the Rutherford Institute’s lawsuit.
 
See the real strategy behind RFID chips, and what marketers, criminals and the government could learn, in “Spychips.”
 
Hernandez was a sophomore at John Jay High School’s Science and Engineering Academy when she raised religious objections to the radio chip. She was expelled from the magnet school in January.
 
Both Andrea and her father, Steven Hernandez, testified they believed the electronic system was a sign of the antichrist described in the New Testament book of Revelation.
 
The Rutherford Institute said the question of whether Hernandez will be permitted to return to John Jay has yet to be resolved.
 
School officials declined multiple requests from WND for comment.
 
The Northside Independent School District launched the program last year
in an effort to increase public funding for the district by increasing student attendance rates.
 
Under the rules imposed by the district, about 4,200 students at Jay High School and Jones Middle School were required to wear “SmartID” card badges embedded with an RFID tracking chip.
 
The plan had been to spread the program to all 112 schools in the district eventually.
 
But Hernandez said the badge poses a significant religious freedom concern in addition to obvious privacy issues.
 
Her requests to opt out of the program, or use a chipless badge, were rejected.
 
The school required the radio identifier for students to access services such as the cafeteria and library.
 
A judge ultimately said in an opinion that Hernandez’ objections were not “grounded in her religious beliefs.”
 
But Whitehead noted the Supreme Court has made clear government officials are not allowed to question the validity of an individual’s religious beliefs.
 
Both Andrea and her father, Steven Hernandez, testified they believed the electronic system was a sign of the antichrist described in the New Testament book of Revelation.
 
 

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Britain steps closer to gay marriage; backers cheer

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British lawmakers took another big step toward allowing gay and lesbian couples to wed this week.

A bill allowing same-sex marriages cleared its last hurdle in Parliament on Tuesday, according to British news reports. After a two-hour debate, the House of Commons did not oppose a number of minor changes made by the House of Lords, which approved the bill Monday. The House of Commons had already voted in favor of marriage for same-sex couples.

The Telegraph newspaper reported the legislation could be sent to the queen for her signature before the end of the week.

The moves brought cheers from gay-marriage backers. This brings "us tantalizingly close to legal recognition for same-sex marriages in our Quaker meetings," Paul Parker, recording clerk for Quakers in Britain, told the Guardian newspaper.

The BBC created an extensive Q&A explaining how the gay marriage law would work and its effect on religious institutions.

Marriage for same-sex couples is already possible in France, the Netherlands, Denmark, Spain and Portugal.

As The Times' London Bureau chief, Henry Chu, reported in February, the votes "handed Prime Minister David Cameron, whose administration sponsored the legislation, both a political victory and a political defeat. Approval of the bill allows him to portray himself and his government as in tune with public opinion and modern values, but it came at the cost of an angry mutiny by his own Conservative backbenchers, who said he had no mandate to press for such a change."

Here is some more more background on the issue from a story Chu wrote in December:

"Religious groups in favor of conducting same-sex weddings include the Quakers and some liberal Jewish congregations. Currently, gay and lesbian couples can enter into 'civil partnerships' in Britain that carry almost the same rights as marriage. About 50,000 partnerships have been registered since 2005."

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Finland: Genetically modified soy used in feed

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Two Finnish companies, Suomen Rehu and Raisio, have started using genetically modified soy in their Turku feed mills.

 

Owing to the higher prices of genetically unmodified soy and their reduced availability, Suomen Rehu and Raisio have introduced genetically modified (GM) soy into their feed factories in Turku this spring. Raisio’s feed factory also introduced GM soy this spring into their pig and poultry feed.

Genetically modified soybeans imported into Finland has remained at 15 per cent. The largest feed manufacturers have so far avoided using it.

“What the consumers want is what determines what we produce. If price is the determining factor, then that’s where we go,” says Suomen Rehu’s Turku factory plant manager Jarno Erkamaa. Suomen Rehu is one of the leading brands in the Finnish food market and operates four feed mills in Finland.

About 95 per cent of the world’s soy is genetically modified, estimates Erkamaa.

“The GM-free soybean crop area is decreasing all the time and the price for GM-free soy is rising,” says Erkamaa.

No proven health risk
In the past, Finland has tried to steer clear of GM soy for ethical reasons. Erkamaa maintains that there are no safety concerns regarding GM soy.

“Both (GM and non-GM) are just as healthy and as functional, which is backed up by the prevalence of GM soy internationally,” says Erkamaa.

Nevertheless, some customers do not want to buy feed produced from genetically modified soy.

“I've heard that some firms want to stay GMO-free for ethical reasons,” says Erkamaa.

Products – whether for sale in shop or on offer in a restaurant – are not labelled to indicate whether or not the meat has been produced using genetically modified soy in feed.

“For example, for many years the meat served in restaurants has been produced using GM-soy feed and consumers have not asked about whether GM soy has been used or not,” says Erkamaa, adding that imported meat has long been largely GM-soy produced.

Genetically modified organisms, or GMO means an organism, such as an animal or a plant that has been altered using genetic engineering. For imported poultry and pork, 90 per cent have been fed GM-soy. In Finland, in cattle feeds, GM soy is not allowed. Fish and milk production also uses unmodified feed

GM technology has been criticized as its long-term health effects are unknown.

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Finland: No links between organised crime, human trafficking and Roma beggars

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Beggars from Romania have nothing to do with organised crime, as Roma families oversee the begging, according to an expert from Helsinki’s Department of Social Services and Health Care. The police also dismiss claims of connections to organised crime.

 

Jarmo Räihä, a senior Social and Healthcare official of Helsinki City, debunks speculations that have surfaced in public discourse and the media in past years. Roma beggars in Helsinki do not have connections to organised crime.

“Some arrive with their own cars. Some passengers pay something for the lift, and fund their trip with income from begging and collecting bottles in Finland”, says Räihä.

According to the social services expert, Roma families decide how begging spots in Helsinki are distributed, and even the countries to which different Roma can travel to beg. Räihä points out that this cannot be equated with organised crime.

Räihä is in support of banning begging, as this could send a message to the beggars’ countries of origin that there is no point travelling to Finland to beg. As another alternative, Räihä proposes that cities adopt rules and regulations to allow for more effective interventions.

Police: Roma not victims of human trafficking

Räihä’s comments came after a new police appraisal found no links between Roma beggars, organised crime and human trafficking.

The police investigated the case of Roma beggars at the start of July. According to the investigation, the Roma have come to Helsinki of their own accord, and they are not victims of human trafficking.

“They are here voluntarily. No one gives them orders, which means human trafficking is not involved”, said Inspector Kari Niinimäki from the Helsinki Police.

In Helsinki, the National Coalition Party has called for banning begging based on claims of its connections to human trafficking and organised crime.

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Finland: Räsänen’s home vandalised after speech controversy

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Controversial Interior Minister Päivi Räsänen says her home was vandalised after a recent speech in which she suggested that people could break the law in certain circumstances because of their religious beliefs.

Päivi Räsänen Image: Yle Uutiset

 

The Christian Democrat leader, who has faced calls to stand down as Interior Minister following the speech, says she did not expect such a strong reaction.

“The fuss was a surprise,” Räsänen said on Yle’s A Studio current affairs show. She suggested that the story may have been bigger than it should because of the summer lull in political news.

She said that she has received thousands of emails, and that the majority were positive and supportive.

“They were concerned that devoted Christians who feel that there is not total freedom to practice religion and be open about your views in this society,” said the minister.

Räsänen also said that her home had been vandalised since the scandal erupted. Despite the reactions, she says she stands by her words and wants to retain ministerial responsibility for church affairs.

Several politicians had demanded that such matters be stripped from her portfolio after her comments.

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Tampere MP defends the right to act on conscience

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Minister of Parliament Anna Kontula (Left Alliance) has spoken out on illegally assisting undocumented immigrants seeking to avoid deportation. According to her, in some situations the letter of the law does not always equate to justice.

 

The Left Alliance MP from Tampere discussed the issue as part of Pori’s Finland Arena event in western Finland.

MTV3 was first to report on her statement that the act of hiding paperless persons is morally defensible, even if the actions themselves may be contrary to the law.

Kontula says that Minister of the Interior Päivi Räsänen (Christian Democrats) is of the same mind, in that they both believe that law and justice are not always the same thing.

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Paddlers rescued from windy Gulf of Finland

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On Tuesday the Finnish coast guard rescued seven Nepalese kayakers who found themselves washed up on an island shore in high winds.

The seven men and their rental kayaks were picked up from an isle off the east coast of Helsinki and taken to safety by a coastal patrol unit. The paddlers had hit trouble between East Villinki and Iso Leikosaari.

The men were relieved to be rescued but did not say what had led them to journey out on the windy Gulf of Finland. One man had fallen out of his kayak and was wet and cold.

At the time of the incident the wind had been blowing at ten metres per second. Today’s forecast had promised blustery winds.

The coast guard urges those wishing to move about on the sea to put to sea only in fine weather, monitor weather conditions closely and only attempt journeys for which they have sufficient skills and experience.

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Finland: Public dissatisfaction over social and healthcare reform

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Minister of Health and Social Services, Susanna Huovinen (SDP) says that explaining the positive aspects of reforms to the Finnish social and health care system (SOTE) will help dispel public concerns regarding the issue. In turn, she says that low ratings of social and healthcare reform are cause for introspection on the part of the government.

According to new research from the Foundation for Municipal Development, the majority of Finns believe that the so-called SOTE reforms weaken current social and healthcare services. Minister Huovinen says that the government should consider the research findings as if they were school grades.

“I think that these things should be taken seriously,” says Huovinen. “The fears and concerns in the minds of citizens should be clearly assessed and then progress can be made towards dispelling them.”

She adds that the objective of the reform is to ensure an improved, more straightforward system that delivers services to citizens better.

A Foundation for Municipal Development survey shows that 59 percent of citizens believe that service will decline. Only 16 percent estimate that the changes will bring improvements.

According to the research, Finns are also dissatisfied with how the social and healthcare reform is proceeding so far. Citizens gave the SOTE reforms a rating of 5.7.

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