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Syrian engineers to restore electricity supply in Eastern Ghouta in three months


Sputnik
Sat, 21 Jul 2018 14:21 UTC
Damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta
© REUTERS / Bassam Khabieh
Electricity in the Damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta in Syria will be restored in three months, an engineer told reporters on Saturday.

Months of fierce fighting cut power supply to the former militant enclave. Mohammed Muleiman, an engineer working to restore it, said 95 percent of the electric grid had been partially or completely destroyed.

"We are working to replace electric poles. Power lines have been downed in 35 districts of Eastern Ghouta... Plans are to restore electricity to all districts within three months," he said.

The Syrian government is busy rebuilding infrastructure in the areas it has recaptured. Cables and transformers are being produced near the capital city of Damascus. Mohammed Muleiman said that electric power poles are being made on-site.

Comment: France and Russia are also lending a helping hand: France first Western country to join Russia in delivering aid to Syria

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Military Council of Manbij reportedly wants city to return under Damascus control


Sputnik
Sun, 22 Jul 2018 14:16 UTC
SDF patrolling streets
© AFP 2018 / DELIL SOULEIMAN
In June, Turkey and the United States struck a deal regarding Manbij, agreeing that the US-backed Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) would withdraw from the city and yield control over Manbij to the Turkish and US troops.

City authorities and the military council of Syria's Manbij would like to transfer it under the control of the Syrian government army after Kurdish militants' withdrawal, Al Watan newspaper reported Saturday citing its sources.

"The military council and the majority of residents consider Turkey an occupying country that wants to oust the Kurds from their territory, as it was done in Afrin, so they want the return of the Syrian authorities in the city," the source said.

The talks between the council and representatives of the Syrian state are underway, and Moscow is aware about them, the source added.

"[Russia] will enter into negotiations with Turkey to satisfy the wishes of the inhabitants of Manbij, who are rejecting the Turkish presence," the source stressed.
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Gallup poll: Immigration at the top of Americans' concerns while 'Russia' barely mentioned and global warming not at all

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Citizens Task Force on Wind Power
Fri, 20 Jul 2018 13:07 UTC
Gallup
According to the latest Gallup poll, NOBODY thinks global warming is our most important problem, contrary to what NRCM, Audubon and CLF sock puppets tell us.

Gallup
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Comment: Notice that 'Situation with Russia' is way down the list with 1 single point between February and April and wasn't even mentioned afterwards. That is in spite of the hysterical media campaign.

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Deleted BBC News report on MH17: Local witnesses of the incident believe fighter jets brought it down


BBC
Sun, 22 Jul 2018 12:58 UTC
MH17 wreckage
Posted by Max van der Werff on Vimeo.


Comment: Why is Russia Being Blamed For The Downing of Flight MH17 - Again?

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India's Home Ministry: Over 100,000 rapes committed between 2014 & 2016


Sputnik
Sun, 22 Jul 2018 05:16 UTC
India rape protest
© AFP 2018 / Noah SEELAM
Despite sterner modifications having been made to rape laws, incidences of rape are on the rise in India. According to data furnished by the Ministry of Home Affairs, 38,947 cases of rape were registered in 2016, 34,651 in 2015 and 36,735 in 2014.

The minister of state for home affairs, Kiren Rijiju, told Parliament that 110,333 rape cases were registered in India between 2014 and 2016, meaning almost 100 rape cases were reported per day during these three years.

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Police stand by & watch as Ukrainian radical ties up & publicly humiliates 'Russia-lover'


RT
Sun, 22 Jul 2018 05:16 UTC
Oleksandr Tarnavskyi public punishment Ukraine

Screenshot from a video published by Facebook user Oleksandr Tarnavskyi
In a shocking scene filmed in Ukraine, police officers would not intervene as a group of radicals staged a pillorying of a man, whom they branded a pedophile and a supporter of the 'Russian world'.

The impromptu medieval public punishment happened in Chernigov, a city in northern Ukraine with a population of less than 300,000. The victim was apparently the man, who was detained a few days ago by the local police for throwing a bottle at a monument to the Heavenly Hundred, the victims of the 2014 Maidan violence. Police at the time identified the man as a convicted sex offender of minors, who had been released from prison a month earlier after serving a lengthy sentence.

The controversial video was livestreamed on Facebook by Oleksandr Tarnavskyi, who according to his page has ties to the notorious Azov Battalion, a unit in the Ukrainian Interior Ministry with strong ties to right-wing radicals and neo-Nazis. The half-hour clip shows a couple of young men sitting a few meters from a road sign pole. Tied to the pole is a man, who seems to be in his 60s, with a note taped to his chest. The note says: "I am a vatnik [derogatory term for a Russian used in Ukraine]. I was raped in jail. I damaged the monument to the Heavenly Hundred. Spit at me."
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French 'anti-racist' organisation calls out Croatian football team for being 'too white'

Abdelhamid Kaddour
Voice of Europe
Sun, 22 Jul 2018 05:16 UTC
Croatian football team
© Oleh Dubyna / shutterstock.com
Croatia's World Cup football team was called "dramatically uniform" and "without colour" (or too white) by a major French 'anti racist' NGO, news outlet Valeurs Actuelles reports.

The LICRA (in english : International League against Racism and Antisemitism), is a supposed anti racist organisation. Yet on 15 July remarks made by the organisation regarding Croatia's football team can only be described as racist.

The LICRA is perhaps the most influential of all anti racist NGOs in France, having the right to sue anyone they deem racist.

Comment: This racist Tweet upset even LICRA's national leadership, who are now calling for the resignation of their Paris office.

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Arizona transgender woman denied her hormone prescription by pharmacist

Grace Palmieri
Arizona Republic
Fri, 20 Jul 2018 21:42 UTC
transgender woman
© ACLU of Arizona/Special for The Republic
Hilde Hall, a transgender woman, says a CVS pharmacist refused to fill her hormone medication and loudly questioned her in front of other customers.
A transgender woman in Arizona is speaking out after she says a CVS pharmacist denied her hormone prescription.

The pharmacist questioned her loudly in front of other customers and rejected her and her doctor's requests to transfer the prescription to another location, Hilde Hall said in a blog post published on the ACLU of Arizona's website Thursday.

News of the encounter comes weeks after another woman, Nicole Arteaga, was denied her miscarriage medication at a Walgreens pharmacy in Peoria.

Arizona is one of six states that allows pharmacies and pharmacists to refuse to fill a prescription on religious or moral grounds. The pharmacy isn't required to transfer refused prescriptions, but companies may make workplace polices that require referrals.

Hall said the prescription marked her first round of hormone therapy.
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Catholic Chaplain at Scottish University fired for opposing gay pride

Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.
Breitbart
Fri, 20 Jul 2018 00:01 UTC
Pride
© Robert Perry/Getty
A Scottish university fired its Catholic chaplain this week after the priest held a liturgical service in reparation for the sins of Gay Pride.

Fr. Mark Morris conducted a rosary, litany, and benediction at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church on Monday night to atone for the "gross offence to God" of Glasgow Pride and the next day Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) announced that his work as Catholic chaplain was terminated because his views conflicted with those of the educational institution.

"Following due consultation Father Mark Morris will not return to his chaplaincy role at the university in September," said Professor Pamela Gillies, principal and vice-chancellor of GCU, a public university of some 16,000 students.

Comment: Ah, the hypocrisy of the left. Identity politics preaches acceptance and diversity, but are anti-Christian (yet pro-Muslim, for some reason) and clearly have no tolerance for diversity of opinion. Anti-Christian sentiment is growing in these leftist circles and it's manifesting in more egregious ways every day.

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Israel and Hamas reportedly agree to cease fire - IDF immediately breaks agreement, shells 'Hamas outpost'


Sputnik
Sat, 21 Jul 2018 18:45 UTC
gaza protest
© AP Photo / Khalil Hamra
Israel and Hamas have agreed to restore calm in the Gaza Strip, a spokesman for Hamas told Reuters on Saturday.

"With Egyptian and United Nations efforts it has been agreed to return to the era of calm between (Israel) and Palestinian factions," Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum was quoted as saying by Reuters.

The Jerusalem Post reported on Saturday that Israel and Hamas agreed to cease fire in the Gaza Strip after a day of cross-border hostilities, adding that Palestinian armed groups in the enclave have confirmed to mediators in Egypt their willingness to restore peace.

"Egyptian and international efforts have brought a lull in fighting between the occupying forces and Palestinian groups," Barhum said.

Earlier in the day, Israeli forces unleashed a series of strikes on more than 40 Hamas military targets in the Gaza Strip.

"Israel's military said its aircraft and tanks targeted 40 Hamas posts and that the strikes formed part of a 'wide-scale attack' in response to the border shooting," the IDF's Jonathan Conricus tweeted.

Comment: Just like the U.S. - and jihadis - ceasefires mean nothing to Israel:
IDF Tank Strikes Hamas Outpost in Gaza Strip After Ceasefire Reached

The incident follows a ceasefire agreement between the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and Hamas on Friday after a series of clashes on the Gaza Strip border.

According to an IDF spokesperson, a tank struck a Hamas outpost amid a reported breach of the border fence by a few men.


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