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Drill hole blunder not meteorite caused depressurization on Soyuz spacecraft


RT
Mon, 03 Sep 2018 15:43 UTC
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© NASA
A suspected drill hole found in the Soyuz spacecraft.
A depressurization event on the Russian Soyuz spacecraft docked at the International Space Station (ISS) may have been caused by a hole which somebody apparently drilled accidentally and then covered up.

Several Russian media reports say the air leak, which was discovered last week on the spacecraft, may not have been caused by a micrometeorite, as initially speculated. Rather, a drill hole in the internal hull of the Soyuz spacecraft's orbital module leaked air, RIA Novosti reported citing a source in Energia, the producer of the capsule.

"The hole was made on the ground. The person responsible for the act of negligence has been identified," the source told the news agency.

Another source said a worker apparently accidentally drilled the hole, but instead of reporting it, simply sealed it. The sealant held for at least the two months the Soyuz spacecraft spent in orbit, before finally drying up and being pushed out of the hole by air pressure.

Comment: Well, at least the space agency was honest - even if their worker wasn't.

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'Insults' to Islam were motivation for Afghan man's attack on 2 Americans in Amsterdam


RT
Mon, 03 Sep 2018 20:28 UTC
Amsterdam Centraal station attack islam
© Germain Moyon / AFP
Security officials stand guard following the attack at Amsterdam Centraal station on August 31, 2018.
The man who stabbed two American tourists at Amsterdam's busy Central railway station says he was motivated by insults to Islam in the Netherlands and that he chose his victims at random, according to prosecutors.

The 19-year-old Afghan national, identified as Jawed S., said he traveled to Amsterdam from Germany - where he has residency - to carry out the attack, citing what he believes to be repeated insults against Allah, the Koran, and Islam's Prophet Mohammad in the Netherlands, the Public Prosecution Service wrote in a statement.

The attacker specifically mentioned the name of the anti-Islamist Dutch politician Geert Wilders. However, he declined to mention the Prophet Mohammed cartoon contest that Wilders had planned on holding but recently canceled due to security concerns. Drawing the Prophet Mohammed is considered blasphemous in the Muslim faith.

Comment: See also: Also check out SOTT radio's: The Truth Perspective: Weapons of Mass Migration: Interview with Michael Springmann on Europe's Migrant Crisis

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WhatsApp 'suicide game' 'Momo' claims lives of 2 Colombian children


RT
Mon, 03 Sep 2018 17:44 UTC
momo
© Instagram
Two Colombian children have been found dead within 48 hours of each other after reportedly taking part in a 'suicide game' called 'Momo' which urges participants to kill themselves or face being 'cursed.'

A 12-year-old girl and a 16-year-old boy reportedly killed themselves in the municipality of Barbosa, in Santander, after playing 'Momo' - the name of the WhatsApp game based on a scary fictional character that gives deadly dares and instructions.

The 'Momo' game features an eerie figure resembling a bird-like woman and sends challenges, threats and disturbing images to players, reportedly with a final challenge that demands participants kill themselves or be cursed with an evil spell.

Comment: This sadistic 'game' sounds a lot like the 'Blue Whale' from 2017: Blue Whale suicide curator sentenced to 3 years in prison

More information about the disturbing image being used in Momo from KnowYourMeme:
momo sculpture
Origin

On August 25th, 2016, Instagram[2] user nanaakooo posted a photograph of the sculpture (shown below).

On August 26th, Instagram users @ma_kimodo_shi[4] and @j_s_rock[3] posted photographs of the sculpture (shown below).

The sculpture was created by the Japanese special effects company Link Factory.[6] Pictures of it subsequently became an urban legend on the Spanish-speaking web and was associated with "a phone number that could be added to WhatsApp."


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Footage shows massive fire at prosecutor's office building in Saudi Arabia


RT
Sun, 02 Sep 2018 13:37 UTC
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A massive blaze has broken out at a Saudi Arabian public prosecution building in Dammam, footage from the scene shows.

Videos posted online show one side of the building entirely engulfed in flames, with thick plumes of black smoke emerging from the inferno.

More than 20 firefighting and rescue units were sent to the scene and were eventually able to control the fire, Al Arabiya reported.

Prince Saud bin Nayef bin Abdul Aziz, Prince of the Eastern Province, has ordered the formation of a committee to investigate the incident.

Comment: Other notable fires recently:

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Ex-European Central Bank chief warns of another global financial crisis due to excessive debt levels


Sputnik
Tue, 04 Sep 2018 08:45 UTC
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© AP Photo / Emrah Gurel
Europe's top central banker during the 2008 financial crisis outlined that the current premises could create the same meltdown as ten years ago.

Jean-Claude Trichet, who ran the European Central Bank between 2003 and 2011, told AFP in an interview that the amount of debt accumulated in the current financial market made the world's financial system as vulnerable as it was 10 years ago.

"The growth in debt, especially private debt, in advanced countries has slowed, but this slowdown has been offset by an acceleration of emerging country debt," said Trichet, noting that this situation could be even more devastating than the financial crisis of 2008.

He also outlined that there is now agreement that the excessive debt level in the advanced economies was a key factor that triggered a global crisis in 2007 and 2008, thus this is the vulnerability of the markets that could potentially trigger a new economic meltdown.

Comment: See also:The world's economic debt train has runaway and it spells disaster for everyone

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America constantly portrays Russia as the enemy, but what do Russians do?

Seraphim Hanisch
The Duran
Mon, 03 Sep 2018 08:10 UTC
Russian people do not obsess about America at all now, nor did they while Russia was part of the Soviet Union.

Babushkas
Americans are immersed in a culture that is steeped with war dramas. If there is not a real war to depict, it is common to create a drama from a "what if?" style of fantasy. In that regard, American cinema is well-supplied with movies about Russia, the Soviet Union, the Cold War and possible alternate histories.

Do these titles look familiar?
  • The Hunt for Red October
  • Bridge of Spies
  • Thirteen Days
  • Rocky IV
  • Crimson Tide
  • The Day After
  • Red Dawn (1984)
  • WarGames
  • Rambo
  • Threads
  • Dr Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

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Hayat Tahrir al-Sham militants dig huge tunnel network, plan chemical weapons provocations in Idlib


Sputnik
Sun, 02 Sep 2018 08:45 UTC
Idlib militant in a tunnel
© Sputnik / Michail Voskresenskiy
Secrets of underground life and war inside the Syrian tunnels
Moscow previously informed the UN and submitted evidence about planned provocations in the province of Idlib using chemical weapons. According to the Russian foreign minister, militants are hoping to use such provocations to convince Western countries to launch a new round of airstrikes on Damascus' positions.

Sputnik Arabia's sources have reported that militants from the group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham are digging a tunnel network throughout the province as a part of their preparations for battle against the Syrian army. Locals told Sputnik that the group had forced thousands of captives to dig the tunnels both with and without special equipment. The sources also said that some of the tunnels were so wide that a car could drive through them.

Sources noted that the tunnels look very much like the ones that were previously found in Eastern Ghouta. Since many of the militants from Ghouta have relocated to Idlib, it is possible that those who constructed the tunnels there are now overseeing the same work in Idlib.

Comment: See also: 'In detail': Russia gives US intel on planned chemical weapons provocation in Syria

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Fire

At least 12 fire engines, 80 firefighters called to primary school fire in London


RT
Tue, 04 Sep 2018 08:15 UTC
Firefighters
At least 12 engines and around 80 firefighters have been called to a blaze at a primary school in London, the fire brigade said.

The incident took place at Hewett Road in the Dagenham area of East London, according to the statement.

"Around half of the single-storey building is currently alight," the firefighters said, adding that the cause of the blaze is unknown.
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White workers at South African energy plant plan strike over blacks-only share plan


RT
Mon, 03 Sep 2018 16:11 UTC
Sasol plant
© Siphiwe Sibeko / Reuters
South Africa's Solidarity trade union is set to stage a strike against a share ownership plan offered exclusively to black staff at oil and gas major Sasol. The union says the firm's white workers are facing racial exclusion.

"We intend to switch off a different section of Sasol each day by means of well-laid and strategic plans," the 6,300-person union said in a statement.

"We are getting overwhelming support from the community. We expect hundreds of people from the community to join the Sasol employees in a mass rally. There are even businesses who said they will close so that they will be able to participate."

Under the current legislation, South African businesses are mandated to meet quotas on black ownership, employment and acquisition. The measure was imposed by the country's government as part of a broader program aimed at countering decades of omission under apartheid.

"This will be the first time in the history of South Africa that white employees strike because of racial exclusion, 89 percent of Sasol workers in Sasolburg and Secunda voted in favor of industrial action," the statement reads.
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BDS protest over Northern Ireland vs Israel football match to be held at Belfast McDonald's

Gareth Cross
Belfast Telegraph
Mon, 03 Sep 2018 18:34 UTC
BDS Ireland MacDonalds
© Chris Ison/Press Association
BDS Ireland are staging a protest at a McDonald's in west Belfast.
A group which advocates the removal of Israeli products from Ireland is holding a protest outside a west Belfast McDonald's against its sponsorship of the Irish Football Association (IFA).

BDS Ireland is hosting the protest to call on McDonald's to end sponsorship of the IFA unless the organisation cancels its upcoming friendly with Israel at Windsor Park on Tuesday, September 11.

The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement is a global campaign which promotes various boycotts against Israel due to its treatment of Palestine over disputed lands in the West Bank area.

The protest is taking place at the McDonald's in Kennedy Way, west Belfast on Tuesday from 7.30pm-8.30pm.
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