The European Union Times |
- Cop crashes car, arrests sober woman for drunk driving
- Moldova puts borders on alert over Ukraine crisis
- All animals including the T-Rex were vegetarians in the beginning
- Romania conducts Black Sea war games to provoke Russia
- Saudi King’s Daughters kept Hostage for 13 years
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Posted: 07 May 2014 03:26 PM PDT
 Tanya Helena WeykerFor 25-year-old Tanya Weyker, the incident began on February 20, 2013, and its consequences have lasted to this day. Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Deputy Joseph Quiles initially crashed into her car, spinning it out of control and into a tree nearby General Mitchell International Airport. Weyker – who recently told FOX 6 Now, “It was a miracle I wasn’t paralyzed” – broke her neck in four places. Despite the severity of her injuries, Weyker was questioned at the scene as she was receiving medical attention, and that’s when accusations of drunk driving first emerged. Blamed by Quiles for the accident, Weyker was asked by authorities if she had been drinking. Weyker said she had taken a few sips from a friend’s drink. One of the deputies told her that her speech was slurred, and that her eyes were red and glassy. Weyker replied that she was crying. Asked about her intake of prescription drugs, Weyker said she was prescribed Vicodin after getting her wisdom teeth removed, but had not taken the drug for a week. Her injuries prevented her from being able to take a breathalyzer or perform any other sobriety tests, but the deputies ended up arresting her on five charges, including drunk driving causing an injury.  Milwaukee County Sheriffs Office“If Deputy Quiles hadn’t essentially blamed the accident on her, they never would’ve drawn her blood. They never would’ve arrested her,” said Andrew Mishlove to Fox 6. When those test results did come in, they were negative, meaning Weyker was neither drunk nor under the influence of other drugs. When the district attorney’s office decided not to file charges against her, Weyker said she wasn’t informed. About 10 months after the accident occurred, investigators decided to interview Quiles regarding the accident. Just two days after the crash, surveillance video that showed Quiles was responsible was made available to the sheriff’s office, but law enforcement had decided to continue pressing Weyker to pay for the damages caused in the accident. During the interview with investigators, however, Quiles admitted he probably rolled through the stop sign. Below is a transcript, courtesy of Fox 6: Internal Investigator “You believe that you probably did roll?” Voice of Deputy Quiles “Yes. Yes, I do.” Internal Investigator “And because of that, you believe you were at fault for this accident.” Voice of Deputy Quiles “That’s correct.” Weyker has now filed a complaint against the deputy who arrested her, a move that could lead to a civil rights lawsuit aiming to cover the cost of her medical bills. As for Quiles, although he is still listed as active in the sheriff’s office, the deputy has reportedly not worked since the accident. Despite reports stating he suffered only minor injuries at the time, Quiles has filed a permanent disability claim that is still pending. Source           |
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Posted: 07 May 2014 03:07 PM PDT
 Moldova has ordered the country’s borders to go on a state of alert due to worsening security and escalating violence in neighboring Ukraine. Moldova’s President Nicolae Timofti, Prime Minister Iurie Leanca and Parliament speaker Igor Coreman have announced in a joint statement that security forces had been ordered “to take all necessary actions to ensure public order inside the country.” The top leaders failed to identify a specific threat, but “expressed their concern about the deterioration of the security climate in the region following the escalation of violence in Ukraine.” The statement comes after Ukrainian forces deployed an elite national guard unit to the volatile port city of Odessa on Monday. Earlier in the day, pro-Russian activists and Ukrainian troops clashed on the outskirts of the country’s eastern city of Slavyansk. Pro-Moscow protesters in Ukraine continue to occupy a number of government, police and other administrative buildings in many cities and towns in the region. Moldova’s breakaway Trans-Dniester region submitted a plea in March to the Russian parliament to draft a law that would incorporate the territory into Russia. This is while, pro-Western Moldovan President Nicolae Timofti cautioned Moscow against trying to “annex” Trans-Dniester. Moscow argues that Pridnestrovie – which is better known under names such as Transnistria or Trans-Dniester – meets the requirements for statehood under international law. Moldova shares a 1,220 kilometer border with Ukraine, which is mostly controlled by pro-Russian separatists. Source      |
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Posted: 07 May 2014 02:42 PM PDT
 The Bible teaches in Genesis 1:30 that in the beginning all animals, birds, and insects subsisted on a vegetarian diet. God created a perfect world in the beginning. There was no struggle for survival, no disharmony and fighting among God’s creatures. Suffering and death entered into the world only after man’s sin. If there were no meat-eating animals in the beginning, then how do you explain the sharp teeth of dinosaurs? The panda bear, a living species today, has among the sharpest teeth of any creature but it mostly subsists on bamboo. Sharp teeth don’t necessarily mean the animal was carnivorous. No doubt, after sin entered the world, the animal world went through many transformations for life in a harsh world, but the world still was not as harsh as it would be after the great flood of Noah’s day. Before the world-wide flood, there was no rain on the earth. That’s why mankind never saw a rainbow until after the great flood. How did crops get water? The Bible says in Genesis 2:6 that a mist arose from the earth which watered the whole face of the earth. Before the great flood, the entire earth had a warm and temperate climate, even the North and South Poles. This is why fossils of tropical plants and animals have been found in the polar regions of the earth. What gave the earth such a temperate climate? The Bible teaches in Genesis 1:7 that there was a great body of water above the sky. This feature would have had a greenhouse effect for the earth so that even the Polar Regions, furthest away from the sun, would have been warm. When the great flood occurred, the Bible teaches in Genesis 7:11 that great amounts of water burst from under the earth and together with the water falling from above the sky, the entire earth became inundated with water and even the earth’s land mass started to break and divide. It was this world-wide flood that caused the sudden death and fossilization of animals and plants over all the earth. Before the flood there were no great mountains on the earth. The Bible teaches in Psalms 104:8 that God raised great mountains from the earth during the flood so that the flood waters could recede into new ocean basins. Before the worldwide flood, Noah was commanded to build an ark to save a remnant of human kind and other land forms of life. According to Genesis 6:14-16, the Ark was at least 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high. It was one long box that would be stable and couldn’t capsize or overturn during the ravaging period of the flood. Noah wasn’t required to take every animal into the Ark, only two of each “kind,” male and female of the land animals. Many of the sea animals would have been able to survive through the flood. The first pair of dogs in the Ark would have carried the recessive and dominant genes for producing all the varieties of dogs we have today. The same would be the case with all the other animals. God says in Genesis 1 ten different times that all life must reproduce after its “kind.” We know from science that there are genetic limits to biological variations in natural species. A dog will always be a dog no matter how many varieties come into being. The genetic and biological similarities between all forms of life are due to a common Designer (God) Who designed similar functions for similar purposes in all of the various forms of life. What about “Junk” DNA? The latest science shows that “Junk DNA” isn’t junk after all! It’s we who were ignorant of how useful these segments of DNA really are. Recent scientific research published in scientific journals such as Nature and RNA has revealed that the “non-coding” segments of DNA are essential in regulating gene expression (i.e. how, when, and where genes are expressed in the body). God created all species, including micro-organisms, as complete and fully functioning from the very beginning. They couldn’t survive any other way. A partially-evolved species wouldn’t be fit for survival. Darwinian evolutionary theory would have us believe that, by random forces of nature, partially-evolved species came into existence along with partially-evolved skin, muscles, nerves, tissues, organs and then survived over millions of years as they eventually became complete. What utter nonsense! What about natural selection? Natural selection doesn’t produce biological traits or variations. Natural selection has limits because it can only “select” from biological variations that are possible and which have survival value. Visit the author’s popular Internet site: THE SCIENCE SUPPORTING CREATIONhttp://creationismnow. The author, Babu G. Ranganathan, has his bachelor’s degree with concentrations in theology and biology and has been recognized for his writings on religion and science in the 24th edition of Marquis “Who’s Who in The East.” Source      |
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Posted: 07 May 2014 02:29 PM PDT
 A warship firing during a naval drill at Black SeaRomania’s Defense Ministry said in a statement on Monday that the war games code-named “Vector 2014”, will run through Friday in the Black Sea. It said the drills are part of long-planned and regular naval exercises. The exercises coincide with the escalation of tensions in Ukraine whose port city Odessa has plunged into violence. Romania, a close ally of the US and a NATO member state, is only 300 kilometers (190 miles) away from Odessa. Last month, the US Navy destroyer USS Donald Cook left the Black Sea after two weeks of joint war games, but USS Taylor, a frigate, is still in the region. On May 2, nearly 70 people were killed and hundreds of others injured in Odessa after the Ukrainian forces launched a military operation against pro-Russia protesters, who are in control of several eastern cities. Among those killed there were nearly 40 people, who died in Odessa after a trade union building, where pro-Russia activists had taken shelter, was set ablaze. Moscow slammed Kiev over the deadly incident in Odessa, saying it was “another manifestation of the criminal irresponsibility of the Kiev authorities.” Tensions in Ukraine heightened after Crimea declared independence from Kiev and formally applied to become part of the Russian Federation following a referendum in March. Ukraine’s Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk announced the dismissal of Odessa’s police chief Pyotr Lutsyuk on Sunday after the country’s interim president, Oleksandr Turchynov, declared two days of national mourning over the deadly unrest in the city. Source      |
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Posted: 07 May 2014 02:12 PM PDT
 Sahar and Jawaher Al Saud“We are running out of food and out of water. We are on survival mode. We are eating some expired food. All that we can find,” Sahar and Jawaher Al Saud, the daughters of Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah, told RT. The sisters are being kept, as they say, against their will in two mansions inside a royal compound in the city of Jeddah along with their two other sisters – Maha and Hala. They are between the ages of 38 and 42, with at least one said to be suffering from psychological problems. “We’d like to know what we are being charged with. We’d like to know that. … This is called captivity and captivity is illegal anywhere in the world. This is abuse,” Sahar and Jawaher added. The sisters say they are waiting for international bodies to react to their situation. “We are waiting to hear from some so-called international community, everyone who is defending human rights and obviously call human rights organizations to come out and actually hold the king and his sons to account,” Sahar and Jawaher told RT. Earlier, in rare interviews to media outlets, the sisters said they don’t have any passports or ID and the king has also forbidden any man to seek his daughters’ hands in marriage. In the interview to the New York Post in April, the sisters said they were suffering from dehydration and their rooms were full with bugs. Water and electricity were shut off at random, sometimes for days or even weeks, they added. According to their mother, Alanoud Al-Fayez, who married king Abdullah back in 1970s when she was only 15, “her daughters’ case is a tip of the iceberg.” “They speak about driving. It’s funny… women in Saudi Arabia need more than driving, they need their rights first,” Al-Fayez, a descendant of a well-to-do Jordanian family, told RT. “My daughters were mistreated psychologically, some are physically abused, sometimes by their brothers, father, yes my daughters’ plight is highlighting this,” she added. Abdullah who has had over 30 wives, and has fathered more than 40 children, divorced AlFayez in the 1980s. In 2001 she left for London. In 2002, less than one year after Al-Fayez escaped, Abdullah began tormenting his daughters. The girls told their mother that he drugged their food and water to keep them docile when the sisters openly spoke in opposition to women being illegally detained and placed in mental wards. In March, Al-Fayez asked Barack Obama, who visited Riyadh, the Saudi capital, to help release her daughters. “They need to be saved and released immediately. Mr Obama should take this opportunity to address these grave violations committed against my daughters,” she said, reported AFP. The Saudi Arabia authorities, however, rejected the allegations, saying the princesses are allowed to freely move about Jeddah, as long as they are accompanied by bodyguards. Meanwhile, in April Sahar urged there should be a popular revolution against her father in her video message. “Greetings to martyrs and to free men in jail! It is an honor for me to learn the meaning of freedom, rights and dignity from you revolutionary people … God’s hand will be above us,” she said. Women in SA can’t go to school, travel, open any business or get medical treatment without male permission. It is the only country in the world that prohibits women from driving. Attempts to resist the rules are few and rarely successful. The latest protest against the ban on woman driving in October 2013 saw some 60 activists taking to the wheel At least 16 women were stopped by police during this protest; they were fined and forced to obey state laws. Many Saudi clerics condemned the act. ‘No real reform in Saudi Arabia’ According to Naseer Alomari, writer and political commentator, “the crescendo of the criticism” towards SA has increased judging from social media. “The legal system in Saudi Arabia is not even written down. There is no real reform going on in Saudi Arabia and the Saudis understand this more than at any time in their history,” Alomari told RT. Alomari added that the Obama administration “turned a blind eye” to these human rights violations that have gone on for so long in the country. “You can never have an American official on record as saying that ‘we do not accept human rights violations.’ … Arabs in the Middle East can see the hypocrisy and the double talk when it comes to human violations in Saudi Arabia and the rest of the Arab world,” he added. In March, during Obama’s visit to the kingdom, the subject on the new controversial anti-terrorist law wasn’t raised, according to a US official despite mounting concern over human rights abuses in the country. Earlier, human rights groups urged Obama to mention a controversial new anti-terror law in the Saudi kingdom that any act that undermines the security of the state may be treated as an act of terrorism. Rights groups such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (HRW) have been extremely vocal in their demands that Saudi Arabia soften its clampdown on human rights activists in the country. Source     |
