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German ISIS woman facing war crime charges for letting 5-year-old slave girl die of thirst

Agence France-Presse
Guardian
Fri, 28 Dec 2018 17:18 UTC
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© Reuters / Ari Jalal
Destroyed buildings from previous clashes are seen in Mosul, Iraq, January 10, 2018.
A German female member of Islamic State is facing war crimes charges in her home country for letting a five-year-old girl die of thirst in the scorching sun.

The 27-year-old German citizen identified only as Jennifer W and her husband purchased the child as a household "slave" when living in then Isis-occupied Mosul in northern Iraq in 2015, German prosecutors said on Friday.

"After the girl fell ill and wet her mattress, the husband of the accused chained her up outside as punishment and let the child die of thirst in the scorching heat," they said in a statement. "The accused allowed her husband to do so and did nothing to save the girl."

The federal prosecutors said they had laid the charges of war crimes, murder and weapons offences on 14 December in a Munich court that deals with state security and terrorism cases.

W had first left Germany in August 2014 and travelled via Turkey and Syria to Iraq where she joined Isis the following month. Recruited to a vice squad of the group's self-styled morality police, she would patrol the city parks of the Isis-occupied cities of Falluja and Mosul.
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Cosmonaut insists Soyuz module's hole was drilled from the inside

Seraphim Hanisch
The Duran
Sun, 30 Dec 2018 00:00 UTC
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© Unknown
Cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Oleg Kononenko, who investigated the hole in the Soyuz MS-09 docking module.
On August 30, 2018, there was a widely reported incident on board the International Space Station (the ISS). A slight loss of cabin pressure on board the station was found to be caused by a 2mm wide hole that was in the hull of the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft which was docked with the ISS at the time. After a failed launch attempt later in the fall, Russian cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev finally succeeded in reaching the ISS to conduct an intensive inspection of the hole. His conclusion is that it was not the result of a micrometeoroid impact, but that it was drilled from inside the crew module.

This statement was woefully misrepresented by several news media outlets, which adjusted their headlines and ledes to suggest that someone on board the ISS drilled the hole while the station was in flight. The sensationalist cries of "sabotage!!" can be laid aside, however, as there is no conclusive evidence that anything like this happened. The British tabloids like The Daily Mail and The Sun mishandled the article with headlines like The Sun's "Was it sabotage? Russian Cosmonaut insists mysterious hole in the ISS WAS drilled from inside the space station."

Surprisingly even the reputable magazine Popular Mechanics initially got aspects of the report wrong, saying that they had incorrectly stated that the Soyuz module had been landed on Earth for examination.

So what is the true story?

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Parisian Yellow Vests take on 'fake news' TV channel for spreading disinfo


RT
Sun, 30 Dec 2018 16:19 UTC
Yellow vests protest BFMTV Paris
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One of the protesters told RT France that BFM TV spreads false information about the movement, alleging that the channel purposefully underplays the size of its demonstrations.
Dozens of Yellow Vest protesters have descended on the headquarters of France's BFMTV channel accusing the station of broadcasting "fake news" and calling for the resignation of President Emmanuel Macron.

The demonstrators arrived at the offices in Paris around an hour after the gathering was announced on Facebook. There was already a heavy police presence at the building in the city's 15th arrondissement when the crowd formed.


Comment: Police in Rouen launched tear gas at protesters after a bank entrance was set on fire during what had initially been a peaceful march:





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Christmas 2018: West's 'bad guys' Iran and Syria show respect while Saudi Arabia bans celebrations & Israel drops bombs

Neil Clark
RT
Sat, 29 Dec 2018 13:46 UTC
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© Global Look Press
A shop displays Christmas decorations in central Tehran
Christmas is a time of goodwill to all men. Or at least it should be. But while the West's Middle East 'bad guys' Iran and Syria, showed the Yuletide spirit, its closest allies, Saudi Arabia and Israel, failed to do so.

Iran is demonized by Western neocons and we're meant to see the country as an evil, 'monster' regime of foaming-at-the-mouth religious fanatics who hate everyone.

So it goes against the dominant narrative somewhat that Iran's Foreign Minister Javad Zarif tweeted a Christmas message and wished 'peace and joy to all in 2019', on Christmas Eve.
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Yellow Vests v police: 'They want us to protest naked while they shoot flashbombs'


RT
Sun, 30 Dec 2018 10:44 UTC
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© Gonzalo Fuentes / Reuters
Gendarmerie during Yellow Vests rallies in Nantes, France.
The Yellow Vests' anti-government protests, which have been rocking France since November, are far from dwindling as police continue to shower the angry crowds with tear gas and rubber bullets, one of the activists told RT.

Last Saturday marked the seventh week of Yellow Vest rallies held in Paris and other cities across France. The protests, initially sparked by fuel-tax hikes, grew into a wider movement demanding the resignation of President Emmanuel Macron and his government.

The number of protesters dropped during the holiday season, but the movement itself is "not waning down," Yellow Vests activist Julien Duclos told RT France. The government gives people enough reasons to stay angry, and the upcoming taxes and spending cuts will "motivate" others to join the protests, he said.

Comment: With Macron nowhere to be seen - even keeping his Christmas plans a secret - the police are being vilified for their brutality and protection of an elitist puppet, whilst also suffering the same financial struggles at home, and with the movement spreading all over Europe, particularly with the totalitarian implementation of the UN 'migration' bill, this movement is unlikely to fizzle out anytime soon. However, as some commentators have made clear, they may need to form a more coherent message and structure before the movement is usurped by nefarious establishment backed groups: Also check out SOTT radio's:

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Germany's Hannover Airport on lockdown for hours after drugged European man drives car onto runway


RT
Sun, 30 Dec 2018 10:34 UTC
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A police spokesman said a car with a Polish license plate managed to get on to the runway just after a plane had landed.
Hannover Airport, one of Germany's biggest air hubs, was put on lockdown for hours after a man, apparently on drugs, rammed his car through a gate and drove on the tarmac runway area, before being stopped and detained by police.

"A man broke through a gate and drove to the tarmac. Police officers managed to stop the vehicle and overpower the man," Hannover police wrote on their Twitter page after the Saturday chase.

The trespasser was only stopped after he managed to drive "several hundred meters" onto the tarmac, local media report. At one point he attempted to follow a plane of the Greek Aegean Airlines, which had just landed at that time.
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California organizers cancel Women's March due to 'overwhelmingly white' participants

Marissa Papanek
ABC3340
Fri, 28 Dec 2018 00:01 UTC
women's march
The organizers of the annual Women's March have decided not to hold a rally in Eureka on Jan. 19, as previously planned, because they say participants do not represent the diversity of the area.

"This decision was made after many conversations between local social-change organizers and supporters of the march," organizers said in a press release.

They said organizers will continue to meet and discuss how to broaden representation to create an event that represents Humboldt County.

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Some Gatwick Airport drone sightings may have been of police equipment, chief constable admits

Gareth Davies
Telegraph
Sat, 29 Dec 2018 10:19 UTC
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© EDDIE MITCHELL
Some of the drone sightings which kept Gatwick airport on lockdown for 36 hours may have been reports of Sussex Police's aircraft
Some of the drone sightings which kept Gatwick Airport on lockdown for 36 hours may have been reports of Sussex Police's own aircraft, the force's highest-ranking officer admitted yesterday.

Police received 115 reports of sightings in the area surrounding the airfield, including 92 confirmed by Sussex Police's Chief Constable Giles York as coming from "credible people".

But the force launched its own drone to search for what officers believed at the time to be malicious aircraft deliberately being flown above the runway in the early hours of December 19 to intentionally force Gatwick to shut down.

Yesterday, Mr York conceded that subsequent reported sightings may have been of the surveillance aircraft as opposed to any illegal activity.

Comment: The event just gets even more ridiculous. The police should be held accountable for abusing their authority in the mishandling of the 'suspects'. This is a sorry reflection of the state of the police force in the UK:

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'Perverting history': Bulgarian priest condemns Constantinople's backing of Ukrainian split from Orthodox Church


RT
Sat, 29 Dec 2018 06:49 UTC
The Kiev Pechersk Lavra
© Reuters / Valentyn Ogirenko
The Kiev Pechersk Lavra
A Bulgarian Orthodox priest has condemned the actions of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, who is set to grant self-rule to a schismatic Orthodox church in Ukraine - contrary to the religion's canonic law.

A day before millions of Orthodox Ukrainians celebrate Christmas, Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople plans to grant independence to a freshly created 'Orthodox Church of Ukraine' - a unified body of two schismatic churches in the country.

The Russian Orthodox Church, which was the supreme Orthodox authority over Ukrainian territory for centuries, denies Constantinople's claim over Ukraine and says its autonomous branch, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, remains the only canonical Orthodox organization in the country.

Comment: As Patriarch Kirill declared recently: A 'global conspiracy' undermines Orthodox world

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China releases Canadian teacher Sarah McIver, detained during furor over arrest of Huawei's Meng Wanzhou


South China Morning Post
Sat, 29 Dec 2018 21:39 UTC
china releases canadian Sarah McIver
Canada's government said a Canadian teacher detained in China over a problem with her work permit had been released and was back in Canada.

Albertan Sarah McIver was arrested earlier this month for issues related to her teaching job, but Global Affairs Canada spokesman Richard Walker said Friday that she has returned home.

The Globe and Mail reported that Mclver had assured her family in mid-December that she was fine and would be deported from China within days.

"She's sweet, she's kind, she's happy, she's so smart - and she just loves different cultures," the report quoted Jenn Smith, who has known McIver for about a decade, as saying.

"Before she is going on trips, she makes sure everything is in order."
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