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Clucking hell: Ministry of Defense pays $2.8mn in compensation for scaring animals to death


RT
Mon, 05 Feb 2018 18:03 UTC
Poultry
© Brian Snyder / Reuters
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has paid out almost £2 million (US$2.8 million) in compensation to farmers over the last four years because its low-flying aircraft have scared pigs, lambs, birds and horses to death.

Some £250,000 has been given to poultry farmers because MoD helicopters and planes have left hens so spooked they trampled each other to death, according to the Daily Mail. Some hens who survived were so scared they were unable to lay any more eggs.

A spokesman for the British Egg Industry Council told the newspaper: "Low-flying aircraft can cause the birds to smother in a panic reaction. Smothering is when the hens all pile in on top of each other, sometimes against an obstacle such as a wall.

"The ones at the bottom suffocate. Many hundreds of birds can be lost in this way. The other possible effect on hens from stress is that they go out of egg production and the eggs the hens do produce are often poorly shelled and not fit for the table market."
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N. Korea obtained missile parts through the Berlin embassy


RT
Sun, 04 Feb 2018 16:54 UTC
N. Korean Embassy Berlin
© Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters
North Korean Embassy, Berlin, Germany
North Korea obtained materials for its arsenal of ballistic missiles through its embassy in Berlin, Germany's top intelligence chief has revealed.

Hans-Georg Maassen, head of Germany's domestic intelligence agency (BfV), is set to detail how Kim Jong Un's administration has attempted to buy high-tech parts for its weapons in a new documentary about Kim Jong Un. Preview information of the film suggests that North Korea used offices in Germany to facilitate its clandestine nuclear and weapon procurement operations.

An investigation by the German broadcaster NDV found that the intelligence services found evidence of procurements as recently as 2017, according to a press release.

We found out that there were procurement activities from there, in our view, with regards to the rocket program, and partly the nuclear program," Massen told NDR. "If we find such things, we prevent it. But we cannot guarantee that this can be detected and prevented by us in all cases."

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Turkish Muslim authority states only demons eat left-handed


RT
Mon, 05 Feb 2018 01:18 UTC
turk eating
© Nasir Kachroo / Global Look Press
Turkey's highest religious authority has said that every pious Muslim must only use their right hand to eat and drink - because, apparently, only demons are left-handed.

Turkey's Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet), which is an official state institution, issued a fatwa (decree) Saturday, implying that those who happen to be born left-handed should switch sides for their own good, at least when it comes to the dinner table. The fatwa came in response to a question on eating with the left hand.

"Establishing general principles regarding eating and drinking, the Prophet Muhammad did not regard eating with the left hand as pleasant," the watchdog said, adding that the Prophet "attached great importance to this issue and warned his community that demons eat and drink using their left hand."

"It is the duty of every Muslim to adhere to the advice and guidance of the Prophet on eating and drinking with the right hand," Dyianet stated on its official website.
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Israel demolishes only school in Bedouin Palestinian community, children gather to protest


RT
Sun, 04 Feb 2018 19:01 UTC
Palestinian kids
© RT
Palestinian students now without a school.
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have demolished the only educational facility in a Bedouin Palestinian community in the occupied West Bank. The demolition was reportedly aimed at paving the way for an Israeli settlement project.

Israeli soldiers backed up by a helicopter knocked down the two-classroom facility located in the Abu Al-Nawwar community situated east of Jerusalem early on Sunday. The Israeli police and members of the IDF Civil Administration "stormed" the community, cordoned off the area and demolished the building that served as the community's only school, the Jordanian Petra news agency reports, citing local community member Dawood Jahaleen.

Footage from the Ruptly video news agency shows the school children standing around the demolished building and sitting on the rubble as they wave Palestinian flags. The children, who came to the ruins of their school, were also holding placards that read: "It is my right. Do not demolish my school" as well as "We are steadfast despite all [the Israeli efforts]. We are not leaving our land."


Comment: Israel -- without shame, more of the same.

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Turkish Media Disclose New US Plan to Help Kurdish Militants to Build Bomb-proof Tunnels in Manbij


FARS
Mon, 05 Feb 2018 20:28 UTC
Kurdish forces
© FNA
The US forces plan to help the Kurds in the town of Manbij in Northeastern Aleppo to build bomb-proof tunnels to resist against the Turkish Army's possible attack on the town, a Turkish media outlet reported on Monday
The Turkish-language Yeni Safak daily reported that the US forces are planning to build modern tunnels in the Kurdish-held town of Manbij in Northeastern Aleppo after the Kurdish forces' US-built tunnels in the town of Afrin in Northwestern Aleppo were destroyed in the Turkish troops' attacks.

The daily said that the new tunnels are capable of resisting against cement-piercing bombs, adding that identifying the exact location of the tunnels is not simply possible too.

Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag said Sunday If the PYD/PKK terror group does not leave Syria's Manbij, Turkey would move there and towards East of Euphrates River.

Comment: See also: US reportedly sets up military base to protect Kurdish/SDF stronghold in Manbij

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German court bans outdoor Muslim call to prayer

Simon Kent
Breitbart
Fri, 02 Feb 2018 19:23 UTC
minaret
© Denis Balibouse / Reuters
The announcement of the traditional Muslim call to prayer via public outdoor loudspeakers has been banned by a German court.

The Gelsenkirchen Administrative Court of North Rhine-Westphalia issued the ban on Friday Muezzin calls, endorsing the local municipality's withdrawel of the mosque's original permit for gathering Muslims over loudspeakers, the local Westfalen Post reports.

The city of Oer-Erkenschwick first gave permission for the loudspeaker calls - also known as adzhan - by the Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (Ditib) in 2013. Every Friday afternoon since the local imam issued two-hour public prayer calls until a local couple complained to the city over its permit to the mosque.

The complainants - who live just 900 metres from the mosque - said they felt affected by the muezzin's reputation for being against religious freedom. Their legal counsel stated: "This lawsuit is not only about the loudspeaker permit, but in particular about the inherent messages that are publicly distributed in the muezzin call."
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Where is the coalition? Mosul lies in ruins, corpse-filled and receiving no aid months after liberation


RT
Mon, 05 Feb 2018 06:46 UTC
Mosul
© Khalil Dawood / www.globallookpress.com
The ruins of al-Nuri Mosque are seen in Mosul, Iraq, on January 4, 2018.
More than half a year after being liberated, Mosul's battle wounds still fester. Entire districts lie in ruins with bodies scattered in the streets, and locals say they have yet to see the aid they were promised.

Iraq's once-bustling second largest city, Mosul now looks like a battle-scarred shadow of its former self. More than seven months after Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi swooped into Mosul to declare "total victory" over Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) terrorists there, large swathes of the city are still nothing but deserted crumbling ruins.

Aerial footage taken by the Ruptly video news agency reveals the devastation that still straddle the once densely populated areas, the consequence of incessant US-led coalition bombings and months of heavy fighting between Iraqi forces and the terrorists.

Comment: Washington is darned good at destroying stuff - but helping to rebuild, or create, is quite another story.

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Cops rob business of $30K in booze and $10K in cash

Matt Agorist
Free Thought Project
Mon, 05 Feb 2018 19:01 UTC
NYPD
An innocent business owner is calling out the NYPD after he says they robbed him of $30,000 in liquor and beer as well as $10,000 cash. Adding credibility to the owner's claims is the fact that the entire robbery was captured on video.

Rolando Feliz has just filed a lawsuit against the 50th precinct of the NYPD after they stole his entire restaurant's liquor stock - from Corona and Negro Modelo to Patrón Silver and Hennessy - 124 cases in total.

According to the lawsuit, police had no reason to be at his business that night and the entire seizure was illegal.
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Abdul El-Sayed, a young doctor running a populist campaign in Michigan may become America's first Muslim governor

Ryan Cooper
The Week
Mon, 05 Feb 2018 00:00 UTC
Abdul El-Sayed

Abdul El-Sayed, a 33-year-old doctor and son of an Egyptian immigrant, is running an economically populist campaign that would also make him the first Muslim governor in American history.
Perhaps the signature state loss of Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign was Michigan. It had been the beating heart of the greatest industrial engine in the world and FDR's New Deal Democrats, but was economically obliterated by deindustrialization, enabled to no small degree by Clinton-style policies. Still, President Obama won the state by nearly 10 points in 2012, and liberals confidently predicted that Clinton would manage to hold the line. Instead she lost by 0.3 percent.

Today, a rather unlikely-sounding candidate to become Michigan governor is looking to take back the state for the Democrats.

Abdul El-Sayed, a 33-year-old doctor and son of an Egyptian immigrant, is running an economically populist campaign that would also make him the first Muslim governor in American history. He's competing to replace the term-limited Rick Snyder, the despised Republican who oversaw the infamous lead poisoning crisis in Flint (which was incidentally only recently declared over). It's a major test of whether diverse economic populism can assemble a multi-racial coalition to defeat Trump and his Republican lackeys.
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Bad Guys

Politicized harassment: WADA and IOC continue targeting Russian Olympic athletes


RT
Mon, 05 Feb 2018 15:08 UTC
Russian ice hockey Alyona Starovoytova
© Elena Rusko / Sputnik
Russian national women's ice hockey team player Alyona Starovoytova.
Russian female ice hockey players at the Winter Olympics came under scrutiny from World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) officers, who took 16 team members to doping control hours before a scheduled training session.

The team is competing at the Games under the name 'Olympic Athletes from Russia' following the ban imposed on the country by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) amid the ongoing doping scandal.

"The team had an exhausting journey [to South Korea], our luggage was delayed, and we were late for an evening training session," Aleksey Chistyakov, the head coach of the women's hockey team, told Match TV on Monday.

Comment: Spats and dramas between world leaders are one thing, but it's pretty reprehensible when international institutions use political agendas to target everyday people striving to make their mark in the world.

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