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Yemen: Saudi airstrikes on UNICEF water facility compounds cholera risk

Ahmed Abdulkareem
MintPress News
Wed, 25 Jul 2018 00:00 UTC
bombed water facility
© Hani Mohammed/AP
Rubble of the Alsonidar Group’s water pump and pipe factory after it was hit by Saudi-led airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen.
Four Saudi warplanes launched airstrikes against the UNICEF-funded al Asayed Water Network, destroying water pumps, an electric generator, a nearby solar energy system, and a guard room. Much of the facility was destroyed in the attack, leaving thousands of residents of the Al Safra district of Yemen's Saada governorate, including internally displaced families, without clean drinking water.

Mohammed Kamel - an engineer with the National Foundation which operated the Water Network - said in a statement to MintPress:
Saudi airstrikes targeted the main well of the Water Network, as well as the pump room, generator and solar system. This water project was providing more than 25,000 people in Noshour district as well as the 20 villages around Noshour with clean drinking water. It was completed at a cost of $650,000"
MintPress News obtained the following photos showing the aftermath of the Saudi strike:
saudi Yemen destruction
© Unknown
Aftermath of Saudi strike.

Comment: Is there ANY action or reason so ideologically and geographically imperative that it is worth the life of one child? A thousand? A million? 8.6 million?

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TSA surveillance team, 'Quiet Skies', targets Americans on domestic flights without warrant


RT
Sun, 29 Jul 2018 05:04 UTC
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© SFGate
If you board late or change your appearance before a domestic flight, the TSA might have you followed, based on a new screening program, which many critics say wastes taxpayer's money, an investigation by the Boston Globe reveals.

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) launched a covert civilian surveillance program called Quiet Skies across major US airports in March this year, the Boston Globe reported, after examining TSA internal documents and interviewing more than a dozen people with direct knowledge of the matter.

While the aim of the initiative is to "identify and provide enhanced screening to higher risk travelers" before they board aircraft, in reality TSA agents analyze everyday passenger behavior based on at least 15 rules, which include monitoring individual looks and behavior.

So, if somebody is "reversing or changing directions" and "stopping while in transit through the airport," or looks like having "changed appearance," then this person might be selected to have air marshals tag you along your route. Excessive fidgeting, perspiration, rapid eye blinking are just a few indicators which the federal agents are looking for.

Comment: Another layer of 'security' and another layer of privacy infringement. Pat downs, x-rays, facial recognition, personal items contraband, luggage searches, dog patrols, ID verifications, phone usage, bathroom watch...now 'sweat' and 'looks' monitors, people shadowing? The TSA is more threatening than the suspect.

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'Zuckerspy & Jack the Ripper' - Kim Dotcom declares 'Deep State social media meddles in US elections', not Russia


RT
Sat, 28 Jul 2018 17:13 UTC
Kim Dotcom
© WikiMedia Commons
Kim Dotcom
Kim Dotcom has slammed 'deep state' Facebook and Twitter for meddling in US elections, warning they do '100 times' more damage to democracy than all foreign meddlers combined.

"I wouldn't be concerned about Russian meddling in US elections," Dotcom wrote on Twitter. "Be concerned about Deep State social media companies like Facebook and Twitter meddling in US elections."

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Actor from 'The Americans' and 'House of Cards' makes accurate film on breakaway republics of Ukraine, gets airtime on Fox, Sky in UK

Michael Quinn
Russia Insider
Sun, 29 Jul 2018 16:37 UTC
Peter von Berg

Peter von Berg played Vasili Nikolaevich on 'The Americans'.
Political winds might well be changing if they are allowing honest portrayals of what is happening in Ukraine onto mainstream TV.

The film, now available on YouTube, is very well made with excellent production values. It consists of a series of interviews with residents of Donbas, from ordinary people, to an American volunteer soldier from Houston (Russell 'Texas' Bentley), to the Prime Minister (Zakharchenko). It includes an interesting segment with a parish priest, who talks about the spiritual aspect of the war.
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Many hoppy returns: German beer producers running low on bottles as heatwave fuels demand


RT
Sun, 29 Jul 2018 11:07 UTC
Bottles of beer
© Michael Dalder / Reuters
The bottling plant of the Bavarian Weihenstephan brewery in Freising, Berlin.
Increased beer production and a summer heatwave in Germany have created a bottle shortage problem for local producers, with some breweries even turning to social media to ask for help.

The problem is especially acute for independent, regional, family-run breweries like Fiege in the western German city of Bochum. The brewery's spokesperson told Deutsche Welle that Fiege normally bottles 100,000 to 120,000 beers a day, whereas this summer that figure is up to 150,000 to 160,000.

The struggling brewery has even launched an urgent appeal to consumers via Facebook.

"We need your help," the brewery wrote. "Although we regularly buy new empty bottles, they're becoming scarce in our bottling facility. So before you go on summer holidays, please bring your Moritz Fiege empties back to the shop. First the deposit, then the party!"
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Evil Rays

Double standard: Reporters who interrupt Obama are racist, reporters who interrupt Trump are heroes

Paul Bedard
The Washington Examiner
Sat, 28 Jul 2018 16:14 UTC
Trump press conference
© Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post/Getty Images
Reporters ask questions during a press conference in Washington, DC
Hall of Fame conservative radio host Mark Levin is blowing the whistle on what he sees as a double standard over the Trump administration's move last week to bar a CNN White House reporter from an event after she shouted several questions at the president inside the Oval Office.

On his top-ranked radio show, Levin mocked media that has "circled the wagons" around CNN's Kaitlan Collins who asked Trump, sitting with European Union Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker, about tapes the cable network had of the president allegedly talking with his former lawyer about payments to a Playboy model.

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Fire

'Firenado' caught on film as emergency services battle California blaze


RT
Sun, 29 Jul 2018 16:04 UTC
Carr fire shasta county california
© Reuters
The Carr Fire in California
California's raging Carr Fire has now scorched more than 48,000 acres of land, with firefighters filming how strong winds whipped flames into a deadly tornado as they battled to put out the persistent blaze.

California is facing a fire crisis at the moment with extremely dry weather making grassland ripe for the spread of wildfires. In Shasta County, where the Carr Fire is burning, an estimated 38,000 people have already fled their homes, according to ABC7.

Now firefighters servicing the Whiskeytown National Recreation Area, where whole wooded areas were filmed burning bright red, have released images of the extremely dangerous conditions the face.
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US 'Super Spy' program might explain mysterious diplomat brain injuries

Finnian Cunningham
Strategic Culture Foundation
Mon, 16 Jul 2018 15:57 UTC
diplomats
Over the past two years there have been increasing reports of supposed "sonic injuries" among US diplomats. First in Cuba and more recently in China. Controversial implications are that the US officials may have been maliciously targeted by a "sonic weapon" in host countries. However, a more likely explanation is that the alleged victims are the result of US attempts to create "super spies".

The number of American diplomats reportedly suffering from suspected "sonic injuries" is increasing, with 11 officials evacuated earlier this month from China. Initially, the mysterious incident was reported at just one US consular location in the city of Guangzhou. Now the suspicion of brain injuries has spread to American diplomats stationed in Beijing and Shanghai.

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Federal judge appoints independent monitor to evaluate Texas border facilities for children


Chicago Sun-Times
Fri, 27 Jul 2018 15:40 UTC
immigration child
© AP Photo
Evelyn Zepeda cares for a 4-year-old boy at her home in Austin, Texas. The boy's adoptive mother and Zepeda's biological mother, Josefina Ortiz Corrales, remain in an immigration detention center in south Texas.
A federal judge in Los Angeles said Friday that she will appoint an independent monitor to evaluate conditions for immigrant children in U.S border facilities in Texas after a spate of reports of spoiled food, insufficient water and frigid conditions faced by the youngsters and their parents.

Judge Dolly M. Gee said she reached her decision after seeing a "disconnect" between U.S. government monitors' assessment of conditions in facilities in Texas' Rio Grande Valley and the accounts of more than 200 immigrant children and their parents detailing numerous problems.

"It seems like there continue to be persistent problems," she said during a hearing in a longstanding settlement agreement case focusing on the care of children in government custody. "I need to appoint an independent monitor to give me an objective viewpoint about what is going on at the facilities."

Gee's decision came as the Trump administration worked to reunite families separated at the U.S.-Mexico border under a second, separate court mandate out of San Diego. Hundreds remained separated as the government worked to clean up the effects of its policy that prompted global outrage and a presidential order halting separations.


Comment: See: Trump admin reunites 57 of 103 separated migrant children with parents - other 46 not eligible because of parents' criminal histories

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Fire

France: Vandals write 'Allah ou Akbar' on church walls, smash furniture and set fires

Chris Tomlinson
Breitbart
Sat, 28 Jul 2018 14:54 UTC
christian church
A church in the French city of Orleans was attacked this week by unknown vandals who set partial fires, vandalised the interior of the building and wrote various "hate tags" according to police.

The Saint-Pierre du Matroi church in Orleans was the target of an attack by vandals on Wednesday, according to investigators, who said that the perpetrators smashed furniture within the building, set objects on fire, and wrote "Allah ou Akbar" on the walls, 20 Minutes reports.

After the blaze had been reported to police, firefighters were able to arrive on the scene and subdue the fire, ensuring that the church did not suffer major structural damage as a result of the attack. Police say they have opened an investigation and are pursuing potential suspects in the case.

The attack is just the latest church attack in France over the last several years, with another church in Toulouse being the target of attempted arson in May 2016.
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