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Following Trump's scathing criticism, US Navy revokes awards given to prosecutors in case against SEAL acquitted of murdering Iraqi captive

Scott Neuman
npr
Thu, 01 Aug 2019 11:23 UTC
Edward Gallagher

Navy Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher celebrates after being acquitted of premeditated murder at Naval Base San Diego on July 2. Gallagher was found not guilty in the killing of a wounded Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017.
Military awards given to prosecutors in a case against a SEAL who was acquitted of murder in the death of a prisoner in Iraq have been revoked by the Navy's top official after President Trump tweeted Wednesday that the commendations should be withdrawn.

Navy Secretary Richard Spencer ordered seven Navy Achievement Medals and three letters of commendation given to the prosecution team be rescinded, Navy spokesman Cmdr. Jereal Dorsey said Wednesday, hours after a pair of scathing tweets from the president.

In the high-profile case, Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher was found not guilty by a military jury of premeditated murder of the 17-year-old Islamic State prisoner in 2017. In early July, Gallagher was sentenced to a demotion in rank and a reduction in pay for posing with the dead captive's body.

The jury heard testimony from fellow SEALs that Gallagher stabbed the captive in the neck, but one of the witnesses dramatically changed his story at trial, saying that in an act of mercy, he had killed the prisoner by blocking his airway after Gallagher stabbed him.

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4.5 TONS of cocaine valued at €1bn seized in record-breaking drug bust in Germany


RT
Fri, 02 Aug 2019 14:49 UTC
Drugs
© AFP / Hamburg Customs Investigation Office
The 4.5 tonne cocaine shipment, with an estimated street value of one billion euros ($1.1 billion), was seized by police in Hamburg
Germany's customs service has intercepted 4.5 tons of cocaine found in a shipping container in Hamburg - the country's largest drug bust to date.

The container was traveling to the Netherlands from Uruguay and was supposed to be full of soybeans. But German customs agents in the port city of Hamburg instead discovered copious amounts of coke inside.
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Saoirse Kennedy Hill, granddaughter of Robert F. Kennedy, found dead at Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port

Matt Zarrell
ABC News
Fri, 02 Aug 2019 01:16 UTC
Kennedy Compound

An aerial view of the Kennedy Compound, July 25, 2008, in Hyannisport, Mass.
Saoirse Kennedy Hill, the granddaughter of the late Robert F. Kennedy, was found dead on Thursday afternoon at the Kennedy Compound, according to a law enforcement source and people close to the family.

The Kennedy family confirmed the death in a statement.

"Our hearts are shattered by the loss of our beloved Saoirse. Her life was filled with hope, promise and love. She cared deeply about friends and family, especially her mother Courtney, her father Paul, her stepmother Stephanie, and her grandmother Ethel, who said, 'The world is a little less beautiful today,'" the Kennedy family said in the statement.

She lit up our lives with her love, her peals of laughter and her generous spirit. Saoirse was passionately moved by the causes of human rights and women's empowerment and found great joy in volunteer work, working alongside indigenous communities to build schools in Mexico. We will love her and miss her forever," the statement continued.
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Lawsuits filed against IBM reveal it fired up to 100K older employees recently to appear 'cool' and 'trendy' to millenials

Olivia Carville
Bloomberg
Wed, 31 Jul 2019 11:03 UTC
IBM age discrimination lawsuits

Last March, ProPublica published an extensive investigation that found IBM had fired an estimated 20,000 U.S. employees ages 40 or older in the past five years.
International Business Machines Corp. has fired as many as 100,000 employees in the last few years in an effort to boost its appeal to millennials and make it appear to be as "cool" and "trendy" as Amazon and Google, according to a deposition from a former vice president in an ongoing age discrimination lawsuit.

The technology company is facing several lawsuits accusing it of firing older workers, including a class-action case in Manhattan and individual civil suits filed in California, Pennsylvania and Texas last year.

"We have reinvented IBM in the past five years to target higher value opportunities for our clients," IBM said in a statement. "The company hires 50,000 employees each year."

Big Blue has struggled with almost seven straight years of shrinking revenue. In the last decade, the company has fired thousands of people in the U.S., Canada and other high-wage jurisdictions in an effort to cut costs and retool its workforce after coming late to the cloud-computing and mobile-tech revolutions. The number of IBM employees has fallen to its lowest point in six years, with 350,600 global workers at the end of 2018 -- a 19% reduction since 2013.

Comment: It will be interesting to note how the strategy impacts IBM in the coming years - will ditching experience / competence for 'trendy and cool' have the desired effects?

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Backlash forces Malaysia senator to withdraw bill preventing men from being charged with rape


RT
Fri, 02 Aug 2019 09:34 UTC
Chinese lanterns Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia woman
© REUTERS/Olivia Harris
A woman walks under Chinese lanterns in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
A senator from Malaysia's ruling party had to apologize for introducing a bill that would shift blame from male sex assailants to their female victims, whose clothing and conduct allegedly provoke men into harassment or rape.

Mohamad Imran, a member of the ruling coalition's People's Justice Party (PKR), pitched the bizarre initiative because he was concerned about men at risk of being "seduced and end up breaking the country's laws" due to "what women wear." His solution to the 'problem' was as simple as his logic: a Sexual Harassment Act.

Contrary to the legislation's name, it would enable Malaysian males to deal "with the acts, speech or dressing of women that could seduce men into committing incest, rape, molest and pornography, among other things."
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NY fire commissioners demand new 9/11 investigation, citing 'overwhelming evidence' of pre-planted explosives

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Fri, 02 Aug 2019 09:34 UTC
New York fire commissioners

Franklin square and Munson Fire District commissioners: Philip F. Malloy, Jr (left), Dennis G, Lyons (second from left); Joseph M. Torregrossa (center); Christopher L. Gioia (second from right); Les Saltaman (right)
New York area fire commissioners have called for a new investigation into 9/11, claiming that "overwhelming evidence" of "pre-planted explosives...caused the destruction of the three World Trade Center buildings." The Franklin Square and Munson Fire District outside of Queens, New York made history by becoming the first legislative body in the country to support a new investigation into the events of 9/11, according to Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth.

The resolution, read aloud and passed during a July 24, 2019 meeting and calling for the investigation was drafted by Commissioner Christopher Gioia and was unanimously approved by the five commissioners.

According to Activist Post, Commissioner Christopher Gioia said: "We're a tight-knit community and we never forget our fallen brothers and sisters. You better believe that when the entire fire service of New York State is on board, we will be an unstoppable force. We were the first fire district to pass this resolution. We won't be the last."
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New York man reports being attacked by group of teens for wearing MAGA hat

Morgan Gstalter
The Hill
Fri, 02 Aug 2019 09:34 UTC
MAGA
© Global Look Press/Chirag Wakaskar
A New York man claims he was attacked by a group of teenagers in Manhattan this week for wearing one of President Trump's "Make America Great Again" hats.

Jahangir "John" Turan, the owner of an art gallery, told Fox 5 New York that the incident occurred Tuesday afternoon on Canal Street.

Earlier in the day, he said he visited Trump Tower and purchased one of the signature red hats featuring Trump's 2016 campaign slogan because "I think he's doing a great job."
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Degenerate people are recording themselves spitting in food, licking tongue depressors, and other disgusting things. Why?

Dagny Taggart
The Organic Prepper
Wed, 31 Jul 2019 07:34 UTC
degenerates


degenerate

verb

de·​gen·​er·​ate | di-ˈje-nə-ˌrāt

to sink into a low intellectual or moral state

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There are many reasons to be careful about food safety - recalls and contamination with bacteria sure seem fairly common these days - but it turns out, there's another menace lurking in grocery stores...

People.

Yesterday as I was scanning the news, a headline caught my attention:
Woman Wanted For Urinating On Potatoes At Pennsylvania Walmart, Police Say
Police released surveillance images of the woman on their website. Today, it was announced that the woman turned herself in:
According to police, the woman is accused of urinating on a bin of potatoes after entering the store. She left soon after.

Police identified that woman as Grace Brown. She is now being charged with criminal mischief, open lewdness, disorderly conduct, and public drunkness. She is awaiting a preliminary hearing. (source)
Thankfully, employees spotted the urine, cleaned and sanitized the area, and tossed out the potatoes.

This, unfortunately, is not the only recent case of someone tampering with food in a store.

Comment: See also: Suspect, identified in gone viral 'ice cream-licking video', could get 20 years in prison

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Drugged Nation: Over a Million children under the age of Six are taking Psychiatric medications in America


Healthy Food House
Sun, 21 Jul 2019 00:00 UTC
psychiatric drugs
Statistics shows that one in six Americans takes psychiatric drugs. This is a rather serious information, and it points out to the fact that most people are unaware of the danger brought by this medication. Do you know that children take these drugs, too?

According to mental health watchdog group Citizen Commission on Human Rights, more than a million kids under six take psychiatric drugs. Half a million kids are aged between four and five. Believe it or not, 274,804 are a year old or younger. Babies are given psychiatric drugs. Does it get any worse than this? About 370,778 toddlers aged 2-3 take this medication.

The situation is a lot more serious than this. About 4,130,340 children aged 6-12 take psychiatric drugs as confirmed by the data from IMS Health.

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Historic moment in India as law banning 'triple talaq instant divorce' Islamic practice is passed by parliament


RT
Wed, 31 Jul 2019 00:00 UTC
Modi india

'And if anyone doesn't like it, they can move to Pakistan.'
Indian lawmakers have passed legislation banning the Muslim practice known as 'instant divorce.' Proponents of the bill say it will protect Muslim women while critics argue its penalties are too harsh and target Muslims unfairly.

'Triple talaq,' as the controversial practice is also known in India, allows a husband to separate from his wife merely by uttering "talaq," the Arabic word for divorce, three times consecutively, whether verbally, in written form or even through a tweet or text message.

Comment: Narendra Modi has changed Indian politics for the better by tackling the issues that no other political party would dare touch since the country's independence in 1947. By empowering tens of millions of Muslim women with this bill, he has done more to reform Islam than any other leader in the past century.

During the recent parliamentary election, Modi received large support from all sections of society, including businessmen (of all sizes), farmers, Dalits (so-called untouchables), backward casts, the upper caste and remote tribal groups, thus dismantling more than four decades of entrenched voting habits.

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