Fundamentalist Christians love to blame National Socialism on the left when, in fact, it is a right-wing phenomenon, as was Fascism in Spain and Italy. They have accused liberals of being Nazis (as well as communists, somehow) and leveled the same accusation at feminists and secularists and atheists and pagans. They are also blaming homosexuals — via proglib.newsvine.com
Two dogs have been found hanged from an English village bridge in what the RSPCA has described as a barbaric act of cruelty — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Hundreds of herbal medicinal products will be banned from sale in Britain next year under what campaigners say is a discriminatory and disproportionate
European law — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Teaching young, violent criminals the first aid techniques that could save the lives of fellow gang members might seem a dangerous move but a new project doing exactly that is gaining the attention of youth offending teams across the country.
The brainchild of a group of medical students at Liverpool University, the course specialises in teaching teenagers already involved in knife and gun crime the skills to give pre-hospital care immediately after a penetrating injury.
The two-week Basics course is now a core part of Liverpool’s Young Offenders Team’s restorative justice programme. Youth offending experts in Nottinghamshire and medics in London have also expressed interest — via redwolf.newsvine.com
There aren’t many fairy stories that start at 6pm on a Tuesday evening in Sydney. Even fewer have no mention of dragons, pumpkins or enchanted apples. But this is a new fable, a truly modern tale for the Twitter and social media non-believers. A fairytale 2.0 if you will — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The world’s largest daily deals website, Groupon, which Google tried to buy this month for $US6 billion, has confirmed it is entering the Australian market — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The government is offering free nicotine patches to smokers in England planning to quit in the new year — via redwolf.newsvine.com
In a dimly lit room at the back of an Afghan house, 21-year-old Zahara is crouched on a plank of wood weaving a large carpet on a loom that she was able to buy using a microfinance loan of $1,100 (710 pounds).
Zahara started weaving carpets when she was 10 and did not go to school, but the loan from non-profit development group BRAC allowed her to start her own business about 18 months ago and she has since taken out two more loans of $330 each — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Australians may have consumed a lot of food over the Christmas weekend but it is unlikely many thought about eating hemp — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A grandfather who fell victim to the airport snow chaos after dropping his wife off at Gatwick airport spent three days lost on the M4 trying to find his way back to Wiltshire — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A teenager has been ordered by the Family Court to live with her father in a religious community, despite her mother’s claims it was a destructive cult
that exposed the girl to harm.
The 14-year-old was born into the community her parents joined 30 years ago. The father said it was a nurturing environment teaching Christian ideals; the mother said it was controlled by a self-proclaimed prophet
and rife with psychological abuse.
After the mother left and moved in with a new partner, the father said she would burn in hell
. For legal reasons, the family cannot be named — via redwolf.newsvine.com
It has already presided over one of the biggest PR disasters of the year and now Vodafone faces being sued by potentially thousands of its customers over poor network performance.
Sydney law firm PiperAlderman is seeking out disgruntled Vodafone customers to form a class action lawsuit over dropped calls, reception issues and poor data performance that have left customers fuming — via redwolf.newsvine.com
More than 2,000 people are signing up to the organ donor register each week in Scotland.
The number of people on the NHS register rose by almost 7% in 2010, with 113,517 people joining since December 2009 — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The whistle-blowing Web site WikiLeaks has not been convicted of a crime. The Justice Department has not even pressed charges over its disclosure of confidential State Department communications. Nonetheless, the financial industry is trying to shut it down — via redwolf.newsvine.com
US sanctions tend to be riddled with exceptions that are neither humanitarian nor democracy-related, a former US sanctions official has said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Government plans to block pornography at source
are unlikely to prove effective, say ISPs — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The maker of the Power Balance bracelet worn by many athletes has been forced to admit misleading advertising and to refund customers in Australia — via redwolf.newsvine.com
It’s amusing to see the country’s biggest retailers on TV pleading their case for a GST on imports and talking about Australian workers and jobs. After decades of sourcing the lowest possible manufacturing prices from India, China, and Vietnam, we have to defend Australian jobs by paying GST on our overseas Internet purchases under $1000 — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A senior Nigerian official says plans to rescue thousands of victims of sex trafficking have failed — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Denmark is cancelling plans to import tonnes of hazardous chemical waste from Australia — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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