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Explosion and fire at Iranian oil facility leaves 2 dead

RT
Fri, 20 Jul 2018 17:24 UTC

A huge explosion and fire have engulfed an oil storage facility in Khomein, central Iran, leaving two people dead and one injured, according to local media citing officials.

An oil purifier unit in Khomein industrial park caught fire around noon on Friday, Irna reports.

"The fire has been thoroughly contained, but the fire fighters are still on the scene to ensure the cooling operation," Deputy Governor of Markazi Province Fathollah Haqiqi said as cited by the agency.

Firefighting crews from Khomein and the nearby provinces have been mobilized to battle the blaze, according to Tasnim. The agency also reported that two people working on the site disappeared, and one was injured in the blast.

Crazed man goes on knife attack in Germany leaving up to 14 injured

RT
Fri, 20 Jul 2018 17:19 UTC

Up to 14 people have reportedly been injured in a knife attack in the northern German city of Luebeck, local media reports. Police managed to detain the suspected attacker following what was described as 'carnage' by witnesses.

The incident happened in Luebek's district of Kuecknitz. People "jumped out of the bus and screamed, it was terrible, and then the injured were taken away," an eyewitness named Lothar, who lives next to the scene, told Luebecker Nachrichten (LN).

Another eyewitness, who was in the bus at the moment of the attack, told LN that "one of the victims had just offered his place to an elderly woman as the perpetrator stabbed him in the chest."

"It was carnage!" she added.

Facebook should stick to German laws on Holocaust denial, Germans say after Zuckerberg's comments

RT
Fri, 20 Jul 2018 16:28 UTC

Facebook must comply with Germany's laws banning Holocaust denial regardless of its own internal polices, authorities gave a warning to the company CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, who said Holocaust deniers' comments should not be removed.

"There should be no place for anti-Semitism anywhere!" German Justice Minister Katarina Barley said in a Twitter post in response to Zuckerberg's recent comments he made in an interview to the Recode technology news website. She went on to say that anti-Semitism includes "verbal and physical attacks on Jews as well as the denial of Holocaust" and is "punishable by us and will be strictly prosecuted" in Germany.

Disney director James Gunn's abhorrent history of child rape 'jokes'

John Nolte
Breitbart
Fri, 20 Jul 2018 16:53 UTC

Disney director James Gunn has a years-long history of "joking" about his own fantasies about raping and molesting children. Gunn also has a history of making racist and homophobic jokes about the Holocaust, rape, Jews, AIDS, and Mexicans.

Gunn is most famous for directing Guardians of the Galaxy and its sequel. He also has an executive producer credit on Avengers: Infinity War. All are Marvel products. The following is important...

Marvel is owned by Disney.

Disney also owns ABC Television, the network that produced the hit series Roseanne.

ABC fired Roseanne Barr after she apologized for one terrible tweet she defended as a joke.

Russian intel investigating leak of files on newest hypersonic weapons to West

RT
Fri, 20 Jul 2018 17:05 UTC

Dozens of employees in the Russian missile industry came under intense scrutiny after the FSB reportedly conducted an all-out search for a mole who leaked top secret files on the newest hypersonic weapons to Western intelligence.

The FSB, Russia's domestic intelligence agency, believes classified information on top-notch hypersonic projectiles was leaked out of two major research and development centers based in and outside of Moscow. Citing its own intelligence sources, Kommersant newspaper broke the news that an employee with top secret clearance allegedly leaked the data.

Early Friday morning, FSB operatives searched the quarters of TSNIIMASH (the Central Research Institute of Machine Building) and the United Rocket and Space Corporation (URSC), both part of Russian Space Agency Roscosmos, which was involved in the development of hypersonic projects.

The newspaper reported that all of this comes as part of a recent investigation into the leaking of secret files to foreign intelligence services.

Sources tell RT Ecuador will hand over Assange to UK 'in coming weeks or days'

RT
Fri, 20 Jul 2018 16:57 UTC

Ecuador is ready to hand over the WikiLeaks founder to the UK in "coming weeks or even days," RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan said citing her own sources, as prospects of his eviction from the embassy are back in the media.

"My sources tell [Julian] Assange will be handed over to Britain in the coming weeks or even days," Simonyan wrote in a recent tweet which was reposted by WikiLeaks. "Like never before, I wish my sources were wrong," she continued.

Simonyan's message comes, as speculations Ecuador is in talks with the UK over the future of Assange are back again in British press. Earlier this week, the Times reported Britain is locked in top-tier discussions with the Ecuadorians in a bid to remove Assange from their London embassy.

Sir Alan Duncan, the Foreign Office minister, is said to be spearheading the diplomatic effort. Sources close to Assange said he himself was not aware of the talks but believed that America was putting "significant pressure" on Ecuador, including threatening to block a loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) if he continues to stay at the embassy.

Russian authorities launch criminal probe after footage of prisoner being tortured emerges online

RT
Fri, 20 Jul 2018 16:54 UTC

Russian authorities have launched a criminal probe after gruesome footage showing a prisoner being tortured in a Russian jail emerged online. It shows a half-naked, handcuffed man being severely beaten by multiple guards.

Russia's Novaya Gazeta newspaper published the video on Friday, but says the incident took place in June of last year in a prison in the central Russian city of Yaroslavl.

Around a dozen officers were filmed beating a prisoner, who's lying on the table, with batons and fists on his legs and heels, and also pouring water on him. The footage was reportedly filmed by a Federal Penitentiary Service officer and was provided to the newspaper by lawyers of the Public Verdict Foundation, a human rights organization.

The prisoner, whose name is Evgeny Makarov according to the paper, reportedly choked and lost consciousness several times, pleading with the guards to stop.

Russia's Investigative Committee has launched criminal proceedings for violent abuse. Earlier, the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in Yaroslavl Region also launched a probe into the incident and said that all perpetrators will be held accountable.

Russia under Putin's guidance has become sovereign and well-protected from financial storms

Arkady Savitsky
The Strategic Culture Foundation
Fri, 20 Jul 2018 16:47 UTC

During his election campaign, Russian President Vladimir Putin promised to make Russia less vulnerable to geopolitical risks. He has been true to his word. The country is making strides to guarantee its economic stability and financial sovereignty.

The de-dollarization process is in full swing. It was big news last month when the world found out that Russia's US securities holdings had plunged from $96 billion to $48.7. On July 18, it was reported that Moscow had done it again, once more selling off 70% of its US treasuries, leaving it with only $14.9 billion of that $48.7.

Sanctions and trade wars? Yes, the US use of punitive measures as tools of foreign policy prompted the move, but that wasn't the only motive. This is a part of deliberate, long-term policy to put Russia in a strong position globally, taking advantage of the country's negligible amount of international debt and the availability of its sizable gold reserves.

Russian Foreign Ministry tweets out support of Maria Butina and Westerners freak out

RT
Fri, 20 Jul 2018 16:39 UTC

The Russian Foreign Ministry's Twitter account has launched a campaign in support of a Russian gun activist jailed in the US for 'acting as an unregistered agent' , opening a floodgate of crude and abusive comments.

Butina, 29, is currently awaiting trial in Washington DC, arrested last week on charges of conspiracy to act, and acting as, an agent of a foreign government without proper notice. Her lawyer says the trial is being politicized and Russian embassy staff were only allowed to visit her in jail on Thursday. Now, the Foreign Ministry is trying to raise awareness of the case, by launching the hashtag #FreeMariaButina and changing its profile picture to Maria's photo on Twitter.

What resulted was a deluge of crude smears and bizarre hyperbole from a diverse squad of anti-Russian, anti-Republican and pro-establishment figures.

'Britain's hottest politician' sacked for missing key council meeting while partying in Spain

RT
Fri, 20 Jul 2018 14:48 UTC

A Lib Democrat councilor once branded as one of "Britain's hottest politicians" has been removed from his seat in Merseyside, after he failed to attend a key meeting because he was reveling at one of Europe's biggest festivals.

Carl Casham has been disqualified from the Town Parish council in Knowsley because he gave a no-show at a key meeting while he was at the Benicassim music festival in Costa del Azahar, Spain.

Casham, however, says he was not dismissed, claiming he instead resigned from the position himself. "I resigned my seat because I had too many commitments and needed to focus my work on the people of Knowsley Village and Prescot as a borough councillor.

"It is difficult to stay on a Labour dominated council that ignores its residents and is so heavily biased towards one side of the township," the young politician said, the Liverpool Echo reports.

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Society's Child

Explosion and fire at Iranian oil facility leaves 2 dead

Crazed man goes on knife attack in Germany leaving up to 14 injured

Facebook should stick to German laws on Holocaust denial, Germans say after Zuckerberg's comments

Disney director James Gunn's abhorrent history of child rape 'jokes'

Russian intel investigating leak of files on newest hypersonic weapons to West

Sources tell RT Ecuador will hand over Assange to UK 'in coming weeks or days'

Russian authorities launch criminal probe after footage of prisoner being tortured emerges online

Russia under Putin's guidance has become sovereign and well-protected from financial storms

Russian Foreign Ministry tweets out support of Maria Butina and Westerners freak out

'Britain's hottest politician' sacked for missing key council meeting while partying in Spain

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