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Shock wave from Chinese chemical plant explosion shatters windows miles away


RT
Fri, 22 Mar 2019 17:39 UTC
Chinese explosion site
© Reuters / StringerRescue workers are seen at the scene of the explosion that killed 47 and injured more than 600 people.
Incredible video footage of the explosion at a Chinese chemical plant shows how the sheer force shattered windows miles away. The death toll from the blast has risen to 62, with more than 600 people injured.

The explosion rocked the Chenjiagang Industrial Park in the city of Yancheng, in east China's Jiangsu province, on Thursday afternoon. The resultant fire was not brought under control until 3am the following day.

The death toll has risen to 62 people and about 640 were injured in the catastrophe, according to state media. Survivors were transported to 16 different hospitals where 32 are believed to be in a critical condition, and 58 others severely injured.

The blaze from the explosion spread to neighboring factories and even to a kindergarten where some children were injured.
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Facebook stored hundreds of millions of user passwords in plain text visible by employees for years


Krebs on Security
Thu, 21 Mar 2019 15:57 UTC
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Hundreds of millions of Facebook users had their account passwords stored in plain text and searchable by thousands of Facebook employees - in some cases going back to 2012, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Facebook says an ongoing investigation has so far found no indication that employees have abused access to this data.

Facebook is probing a series of security failures in which employees built applications that logged unencrypted password data for Facebook users and stored it in plain text on internal company servers. That's according to a senior Facebook employee who is familiar with the investigation and who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the press.

The Facebook source said the investigation so far indicates between 200 million and 600 million Facebook users may have had their account passwords stored in plain text and searchable by more than 20,000 Facebook employees. The source said Facebook is still trying to determine how many passwords were exposed and for how long, but so far the inquiry has uncovered archives with plain text user passwords dating back to 2012.
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Blue Planet

Famous falcon family returns to FM building spire in Moscow


RT
Fri, 22 Mar 2019 11:19 UTC
Falcon
© Global Look Press / Frans Lanting
A peregrine falcon family, which used to nest at the spire of the main building of Russia's Foreign Ministry, has finally returned home after a year of maintenance works on the roof.

The bird family was discovered by engineers, who were inspecting the roof for repairs work a few years ago. The ministry delayed the start of the repair work in order to wait for the peregrine chicks to grow up. When the works eventually started, the birds resettled to the spire of one of Moscow historic skyscrapers.

Peregrine falcons are very rare in big cities and mostly reside on the tops of high-rise buildings. In Moscow, peregrines nest at the spires of historic skyscrapers known as the Seven Sisters, which were built in the 1950s in so-called Stalinist style (a mix of Russian Baroque and Gothic). They include the main building of the FM and Moscow State University, and are considered an icon of Soviet architecture.
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New Zealand bookstore chain bans Jordan Peterson's books 'because terrorism'

Susan Edmunds
Stuff
Fri, 22 Mar 2019 10:30 UTC
Jordan Peterson
© Mikko Stig/Rex/Shutterstock
Bookstore chain Whitcoulls appears to have stopped selling controversial right-wing author and speaker Jordan Peterson's book 12 Rules for Life amid concerns about "disturbing material" circulating around the Christchurch attacks.

A staff member at Whitcoulls in Albany said it was not available in any stores around the country. She did not know whether that was a permanent move. A search for the book on the chain's website does not return any hits.

Jordan Peterson was pictured with a fan wearing an "I'm a proud Islamophobe" t-shirt during his recent trip to New Zealand. The photo circulated on Twitter in the wake of the Christchurch mosque attacks.

Comment: New Zealand authorities' reaction to the massacre has been completely fascist, of which this is just one example.

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'Day of mourning': General strike declared after Israeli forces kill 4 young Palestinians in 24 hours

Yumna Patel
Mondoweiss
Fri, 22 Mar 2019 10:30 UTC
Palestinian victims Israel IDF Omar Abu Laila Raed Hashem Muhammad Hamdan Zaid Imad Muhammad Nuri
© FacebookOne of the popular photos circulating on social media reads "In 24 hours, four martyrs," with photos of the deceased below
Israeli forces shot and killed four young Palestinian men over the course of 24 hours between Tuesday and Wednesday in the occupied West Bank.

On Tuesday evening, around 7:00 pm, Israeli forces raided the Ramallah-area Abwein village in the central West Bank, in search of 19-year-old Omar Abu Laila, who was believed to be responsible for an attack over the weekend that left one Israeli soldier and a settler dead.

After besieging the village and surrounding the house where Abu Laila had been hiding, Israeli forces engaged in a lengthy shootout, eventually shooting and killing the teenager.
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Pakistan student kills professor for organizing co-ed event because 'it went against Islam'


TRT World
Fri, 22 Mar 2019 10:30 UTC
Associate professor Khalid Hameed
© TwitterThe Punjab provincial government said on Twitter that the student had been arrested and the chief minister had sought a report from the police.
A Pakistani student was arrested on Wednesday after stabbing his professor to death for organising a mixed-gender reception at a government college, police said.

Associate professor Khalid Hameed was killed on the campus of Sadiq Egerton College in the southern city of Bahawalpur, a local police official told AFP news agency.

"The professor had organised a gender mix reception for the new students and the event was supposed to take place tomorrow, on Thursday," he said.
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Anti-Semitic graffiti defaces Jewish cemetery in Massachusetts

Shamar Walters
NBC News
Fri, 22 Mar 2019 10:30 UTC
Jewish cemetery antisemitic graffiti
© Anti-Defamation League / via TwitterReward offered for info leading to arrest of people responsible for #AntiSemitic stmts of hate on dozens of graves in #FallRiverMA. Incredible work by @FallRiverPD today but they need the public's help. Silence is not an option...time to step up."
Authorities are investigating a possible hate crime after dozens of graves were vandalized at a Jewish cemetery in Fall River, Massachusetts.

Police found more than 20 gravestones defaced at the Hebrew Cemetery with swastikas and other anti-Semitic graffiti on Sunday.

Authorities made the discovery after responding to call from a resident who lives close to the cemetery, according to a statement on the department's Facebook page. Some of the gravestones had also been pushed over.
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Nuclear fuel convoy attacked by heavily armed gangsters in Brazil

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Thu, 21 Mar 2019 21:00 UTC
angros dos reis
Brazillian gangsters armed with assault rifles attacked a convoy of trucks carrying nuclear fuel in Southern Brazil earlier this week, according to police reports.

The convoy left the headquarters of Indústrias Nucleares de Brasil in Resend around 6:20 am Tuesday and headed towards the Angra Nuclear Power Plant located at the Central Nuclear Almirante Álvaro Alberto on the Itaorna Beach in Angra dos Reis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Within the convoy, there were two specialized trucks hauling uranium pellets were escorted by the Federal Highway Police and vehicles of the State Environmental Institute.

According to Brazil's O Globo newspaper, the convoy was peppered by heavy fire two miles north of the power plant. The Brazilian Federal Highway Police said in a statement that its vehicles were escorting the nuclear fuel convoy when the attack occurred. Law enforcement returned fire, which developed into a fierce shootout.

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People

When children protest, adults should tell them the truth

Kathrine Jebsen Moore
Quillette
Thu, 21 Mar 2019 07:55 UTC
Greta Thunberg
Last Friday, children in over 120 countries skipped school to follow the example of a Swedish 16-year-old who has become an international icon of climate change activism. Greta Thunberg's extensive media coverage has made her a familiar figure-large almond-shaped eyes, brown plaited hair, serious expression, and diminutive stature. This month she was named Swedish Woman of the Year and also nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by three socialist Norwegian MPs. She has spoken to world leaders at the United Nations Climate Change Conference and she has delivered a talk to the World Economic Forum in Davos. Her achievements are extraordinarily impressive for a young girl suffering, by her own account, from several mental health issues.


Thunberg is inspiring thousands of schoolchildren to join her skolstrejk för klimatet, or "school strike for the climate." She has dedicated every Friday to this cause since August 2018, following her first full-time strike. Inspired by the teen activists in Florida who organised the March For Our Lives in response to the shooting at Parkland school, Thunberg's protests outside the Swedish Parliament and clever speeches-a TedxStockholm talk in November 2018 and rallies in Hamburg and London-have brought a fresh face to the environmental movement. Her activism has received uncritical adulation from public figures and world leaders, including Germany's chancellor Angela Merkel and US Democratic Socialist Bernie Sanders, who tweeted:

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France: 12 churches attacked, vandalized in a week

Thomas D. Williams
Breitbart
Fri, 22 Mar 2019 02:47 UTC
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© Twitter / Stephane LarueA screenshot from footage shot inside the church
A dozen Catholic churches have been desecrated across France over the period of one week in an egregious case of anti-Christian vandalism.

The recent spate of church profanations has puzzled both police and ecclesiastical leaders, who have mostly remained silent as the violations have spread up and down France.

Last Sunday, marauders set fire to the church of Saint-Sulpice - one of Paris' largest and most important churches - shortly after the twelve-o'clock Mass.

Police have concluded that the fire was the result of arson and are now looking for possible suspects. The restoration of the church from the damage caused by the fire will reportedly cost several hundred million euros.

Comment: In addition, yesterday, in the UK, four mosques were vandalized. It's possible that some of these vandals are a ideologically motivated by recent events, some are copycats, while others are a deliberate effort to incite further trouble: See also: Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal #30: Christchurch Massacre - Don't Fall For The Manipulation

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