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'The city is orphaned': 120,000 mourners bid farewell to assassinated Donbass leader in Donetsk

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People wait in line to pay their last respects to Alexandr Zakharchenko in Donetsk, Ukraine.
At least 120,000 people have attended the funeral of Aleksandr Zakharchenko, the leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, who was killed by an explosion in a cafe in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on Friday.

Zakharchenko's remains were placed on display in the lobby of the State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre in the center of Donetsk. It is not far from Cafe Separ, where the leader of the self-proclaimed DPR was murdered.

Over 120,000 people came to bid farewell to the assassinated leader, a spokesperson for the city council confirmed to reporters.

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Australian public servant accidentally overpaid by almost AU$500,000

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A public servant in Australia has been paid more than 100 times his normal salary as a result of a misplaced decimal point. He was meant to get a salary of $3,582 but found $360,700 in his account.

The mistake was revealed by the Northern Territory's (NT) auditor-general, who put it down to human error.

"The cause of the overpayment was a combination of two different human errors, those being the erroneous initial data entry and a subsequent failure to adequately address [a system-generated alert]," the auditor-general's report said.

The worker, who was based in a remote area of the Northern Territory, returned the money four weeks later.

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Venezuela's top prosecutor receives numerous complaints of economic crimes following implementation of Maduro's recovery plan

Venezuelan Attorney General Tarek William Saab
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Venezuelan Attorney General Tarek William Saab
The complaints report crimes of price speculation, hoarding, and economic destabilization.

Attorney General of Venezuela Tarek William Saab reported on Thursday that his office has received numerous complaints this week in reporting price speculation, hoarding, and economic destabilization, following the implementation of the Economic Recovery Plan implemented by the government of President Nicolas Maduro.

"In a week we have received 140 cases of which 111 were caught red-handed with a total of 131 people arrested, 92 were detained, 29 with precautionary measures of imprisonment and 10 still free," said Saab.

Among the prisoners are several managers of large commercial chains, who speculated and hoarded basic basket products which causes damage to the population.

These people have been indicted for the crimes of resale, speculation, hoarding, boycott and economic destabilization.

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Polish lawmaker: Islamists should not demand more rights in Europe than Europeans have in Saudi Arabia

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“If you don’t like Christian Europe, go to Saudi Arabia, and deal with those who treat you in the way you expect.”
Polish lawmaker Dominik Tarczyński has waded into the European burqa debate, saying it should be banned partly for security reasons, and partly to make it clear to Islamic radicals that they cannot demand more rights in Europe than Europeans have in Saudi Arabia.

Mr Tarczyński, a member of Poland's ruling Law and Justice Party, made waves in Britain after clashing with left-liberal journalist Cathy Newman over illegal immigration.

Speaking exclusively to Breitbart London shortly after ex-foreign secretary Boris Johnson's run-in with the establishment over his criticism of the burqa, the Polish law graduate insisted that Islamic face veils "should be banned in the same way the Christian cross is banned in Saudi Arabia".

He suggested the relationship between the West and the Islamic world was currently unbalanced, citing a mosque which Saudi Arabia's theocratic regime wants to construct in the Polish capital of Warsaw as an example.

"We're happy to have it once they agree for Poland to build a cathedral in Saudi Arabia," he said.

Bad Guys

13-year-old New Mexico compound victim says children were 'trained to wage jihad'

Jany Leveille Siraj Ibn Wahhaj New Mexico jihad compound
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Defendant Jany Leveille (L to R) sits next to her defense lawyer, defendant Siraj Ibn Wahhaj and his defense lawyer
The chief suspect in the case of the New Mexico compound, where 11 children were kept in slum-like conditions, sought to build an army of child recruits to carry out jihad, according to an FBI interview with one of the victims.

Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, 37, who was arrested by the FBI and charged with child abuse resulting in the death of his three-year-old son Abdul Ghani, dreamt of turning the children into an army by training them for a religious war against non-believers.

That's according to an FBI interview with a 13-year-old boy who was among the 11 children Wahhaj and his associates kept in wretched conditions for months at a desert compound in Amalia, New Mexico. The interview is included in the agency's affidavit in support of the criminal complaint filed against five adults with hardline Islamist views, and cited by Reuters.

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Shadowban: Facebook claims 'employee error' caused PragerU's 99.9999% drop in reach

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PragerU's recent Facebook shadowbanning was reportedly due to a single "employee error" - this employee has been sent for guideline re-education but is still employed by the company.

Breitbart News spoke with PragerU recently following their issues with Facebook, the conservative non-profit found that many recent posts from their page were suffering from a 99.9999 percent drop in engagement based on Facebook's own dashboard. The Social Media Masters of the Universe also pulled down two PragerU videos, which it labeled "hate speech."

Since then, Facebook has apologized to PragerU, stating that the removal of videos was an error. A Facebook spokesperson said in a statement: "The videos in question were mistakenly removed. While we continue to research what caused this error, we have restored the content because it does not break our Community Standards and apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused."

Comment: The internet giants have been manipulating what we see and hear for years and are increasingly getting exposed as tools in the Deep State's information war:


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The Alex Salmond Show: The Case For And Against Renationalizing Britain's rail network

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This week's Alex Salmond Show explores the case for and against renationalization of Britain's rail service, as millions of passengers become increasingly more disgruntled with price hikes and poor service.


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FBI arrests New Mexico Muslim compound members on new charges

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Defendant Jany Leveille (L to R) sits next to her defense lawyer Kelly Golightley, defendant Siraj Ibn Wahhaj and his defense lawyer Tom Clark at hearing in Taos County District Court in Taos County, New Mexico, U.S., August 29, 2018.
Five residents of a New Mexico compound were arrested on Friday by the FBI for violating firearms and conspiracy laws in what one of their lawyers described as a "bad development" for the group, who are accused of planning anti-government attacks.

Jany Leveille, 35; Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, 40; Hujrah Wahhaj, 37; Subhanah Wahhaj, 35; and Lucas Morton, 40, were charged in criminal complaints filed in U.S. District Court in New Mexico, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said in a statement.

The arrests and charges came two days after two judges dismissed child abuse charges against the five defendants on procedural grounds and allowed three to be released from jail in Taos.

The FBI said it arrested the defendants "without incident" in Taos.

Marie Legrand Miller, defense attorney for Hujrah Wahhaj, called the arrests "a very quick and peaceful turn-in."

Tom Clark, Ibn Wahhaj's lawyer, said the arrests were not a huge surprise as the FBI had been "involved from the beginning."

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Eight injured and 1,800 evacuated in Bavaria refinery explosion

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Around 400 firefighters were deployed to battle a large fire ravaging a petroleum plant in Bavaria, while the locals were asked to keep doors and windows shut to avoid heavy smoke.

A total of eight people were injured by the blast that rocked the Bayernoil refinery on Saturday in the town of Vohburg an der Donau in Bavaria, southeast Germany, local media reported. The large explosion occurred at around 5:30am, waking residents and setting off car alarms in the nearby towns. Locals situated several kilometers from the blast could see thick smoke clouds coming from the burning plant.

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18 people injured, including 3 children, as passenger plane overshoots runway & catches fire in Sochi - UPDATE

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A passenger plane from Moscow has made a rough landing in Sochi, hitting a fence, losing a wing and catching fire.

It took the Utair-operated Boeing 737, arriving from Moscow, two attempts to land in Sochi, southern Russia, with strong wind and rain the likely cause of the failed first attempt. When the crew managed to land the plane, it overshot the runway and hit a fence.

After crashing through the fence, the plane plunged into a riverbed. The impact destroyed a wheel stand and one of the wings, and caused the left engine to catch fire, an Utair spokesman told RIA Novosti.

Comment: Update 23:15 CET

Passengers have told how they miraculously survived when a Russian Boeing 737 slid off a runway in Sochi, crashing into a river and catching fire on both wings.
"We crashed, but it's OK, I guess," a man can be heard calmly saying in a short clip recorded minutes after the airliner crashed into a river in the southern Russian city of Sochi. The video shows flames blazing in the night, and some people can be heard shouting at the background.