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Over 30 activists arrested in Dakota pipeline protest in Iowa


RT
Thu, 01 Sep 2016 20:21 UTC
pipeline activists
© Ruthy Munoz / ReutersDemonstrators join members of North Dakota's Standing Rock Sioux Tribe to protest against construction of a Bakken shale pipeline they say would pollute water and desecrate sacred land, in Washington DC August 24, 2016
More arrests have been made in North Dakota and have started taking place in Iowa over the proposed construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline. Since protests began several months ago, more than 60 people have been arrested.

Over 100 protesters took a stand against the pipeline in Boone, Iowa on Wednesday, near the construction site where they chanted "this is what democracy looks like."

The Iowa protest was held in in solidarity with rallies which began two months ago by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe over the construction of the pipeline in North Dakota. The pipeline, if constructed, would travel through the four states of North and South Dakota, Iowa and Illinois.

Iowa protesters tried to create human chains to block four entrances to a construction staging site leading to 30 arrests.

One of the arrestees was Crystal Defatte, a stay-at-home mother with three children. "Every year you hear about oil spills. I don't want oil in the water that my children drink. This is a moral responsibility for me," Defatte told the Des Moines Registrar.
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Blue Planet

Take that Soros! Human rights advocates in Russia propose alternative NGO for Eurasian states


RT
Thu, 01 Sep 2016 10:14 UTC
Russian Presidential Council
© Michael Klimentyev / SputnikA session of the Russian Presidential Council on Civil Society Institutions and Human Rights
Russian activists have prepared a proposal to launch a major international rights organization that would work in the Eurasian space and would be not as 'politically-biased' as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International.

"We want to create the Eurasian Human Rights Group or EARG with the primary task of constant monitoring of observation of human and civil rights. It is important for activists to coordinate their activities and when it's necessary to urgently go to places where violations of human rights are registered. In addition, our group will distribute humanitarian aid," the main figure behind the project, the head of the Russian Volunteers Union and secretary of the Russian Council for Human Rights, Yana Lantratova, said in comments to Izvestia daily.
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Russian State Library evacuated after bomb hoax by anonymous caller


RT
Thu, 01 Sep 2016 20:16 UTC
Russian State Library
© Maksim Blinov/Sputnik
More than 1,500 visitors and staff were evacuated from Russia's largest library in central Moscow, after an anonymous caller warned that a bomb had been placed inside. Police failed to uncover any explosives.

Several eyewitnesses told local media that a suspicious object had been found inside the Russian State Library in Moscow, before police began to escort people out of the building, which is located next to the Kremlin walls.

A police source, who was not authorized to reveal his name, told RIA Novosti that an "inebriated male voice" was heard during the initial call.

Military engineers, police patrols, emergency services and several fire crews were immediately directed to the scene.

Sniffer dogs began to inspect the visitor halls, which contain over 17 million tomes, while officials ordered the evacuation of all those inside.

"No devices or explosive were located inside the building," said a police statement. If the caller is found, he faces up to three years in jail for raising a false alarm.
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Romanian hacker Guccifer sentenced to 4 years in prison for exposing Killary's private email server


RT
Thu, 01 Sep 2016 20:15 UTC
guccifer
© Silviu Matei / ReutersMarcel Lazar Lehel, 40, is escorted by masked policemen in Bucharest, after being arrested in Arad
The Romanian hacker "Guccifer," who exposed Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server, was sentenced to 52 months by a US federal judge in Virginia. The near-maximum sentence under US law is meant as a deterrent to future hackers, the judge said.

Marcel Lazar Lehel, 44, a former taxi driver and paint salesman, was arrested in Romania and charged with hacking. He was extradited to the US in 2014.

In May this year, he pleaded guilty to one count each of aggravated identity theft and unauthorized access to a protected computer, admitting to hacking almost 100 Americans over a 14-month period.

"This epidemic must stop," said US District Judge James Cacheris on Thursday as he meted out a 52-month sentence to Lehel in his Alexandria, Virginia courthouse. A tough penalty would deter future hackers, the judge said.

Comment: The PTB are clearly sending a message that their illegal doings are off-limits to anyone considering revealing them to the rest of the world.

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Wikileaks dismisses NYT article on Russian intel behind DNC hack as conspiracy, not journalism


RT
Thu, 01 Sep 2016 19:49 UTC
assange
© Neil Hall / ReutersWikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
WikiLeaks has dismissed a wordy article by the NYT suggesting that leaks by founder Julian Assange may have benefited Moscow or come from "Russian intelligence." The claims are "false" and "impute conspiracy," the website states.

The article, published in the New York Times on Thursday, claimed that "the agendas of WikiLeaks and the Kremlin have often dovetailed," and that the majority of Julian Assange's revelations had an anti-American and slightly pro-Russia bias.

Without citing reliable proof, the newspaper went on to speculate that Assange could have received Democratic Party documents - leaked earlier this year - from Russian intelligence.

Wondering if the website has become a "laundering machine for compromising material gathered by Russian spies," the NYT said it comes into conflict with WikiLeaks' initial policy to fight "oppressive regimes" in China, Russia and Central Asia.

"The only hard news in the article is that 'American officials say Mr. Assange and WikiLeaks probably have no direct ties to Russian intelligence services,'" the website responded in a statement on Thursday.
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Blue Planet

Atone for global warming sins by recycling and carpooling, says the Pope

Thomas D. Williams, PhD
Breitbart
Thu, 01 Sep 2016 18:09 UTC
pope francis
© Tony Gentile / Reuters
In his message for the "World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation" Thursday, Pope Francis said that human-induced global warming, as well as a loss of biodiversity are "sins" against God, which must be atoned for by planting trees, avoiding the use of plastic and paper and "separating refuse."

"Global warming continues, due in part to human activity," Francis said, adding that "2015 was the warmest year on record, and 2016 will likely be warmer still."

"This is leading to ever more severe droughts, floods, fires and extreme weather events. Climate change is also contributing to the heart-rending refugee crisis. The world's poor, though least responsible for climate change, are most vulnerable and already suffering its impact," he wrote.

Comment: Man made global warming is a myth and it's gonna take a lot more than recycling aluminum cans to set things right, Pope. While it is true that the Earth is being despoiled, these atonements are directed at the little people while the true rapists and pillagers of the world -- the psychopaths in charge -- continue to wreak havoc with nary a peep from the Vatican. And speaking of a "polluted wasteland of debris, desolation and filth", have you looked at your own church lately?

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Bizarro Earth

Muslim family on holiday visiting a seaside town in England 'treated like aliens, branded terrorists'


RT
Thu, 01 Sep 2016 19:34 UTC
muslims at Beach
© Baz Ratner / Reuters
A Muslim family say they were accused of being terrorists and stared at as if they were "some kind of aliens" while on holiday at the Lincolnshire seaside town of Skegness.

The group of 12, seven of whom were wearing hijabs, visited the town for the first time last week and say they will not be returning.

One woman reported her experiences to Tell MAMA, an organization that records Islamophobic hate crimes in the UK.

"Once we reached the main area where there were shops, we noticed a lot of people just staring at us as if we were some form of aliens. It didn't really bother us until we walked past the pub and a man shouted 'terrorists,'" she said.

"As we went to the beach again, a lot of people continuously stared at us. We just smiled back, but it made us think how ignorant these people are.
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Jet Blue puts 5 y.o. boy on wrong plane; mom freaks out

John Marzulli
NY Daily News
Thu, 01 Sep 2016 18:26 UTC
Maribel Martinez
© Jesse Ward/NY Daily NewsMaribel Martinez, a Manhattan mom, lost it when she couldn't find her son on a plane that arrived at JFK. She's seen here holding a photo of her little boy.
It was JetBlue's plane stupidity that got a Manhattan boy lost.

A 5-year-old returning home alone from a family visit in the Dominican Republic was placed on the wrong flight — and ended up 214 miles away in Boston while his panic-stricken mom waited at Kennedy Airport.

Maribel Martinez said she lost her mind while it took more than three hours to locate her son, Andy Martinez Mercado.

"I thought he was kidnapped," Martinez, 38, told the Daily News. "I thought I would never see him again."
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HRW: Displaced minors recruited by Iraqi govt militias to fight ISIS


RT
Thu, 01 Sep 2016 10:01 UTC
child soldier
© www.warscapes.com
Child soldiers are recruited by government-aligned militias to fight Islamic State forces in Mosul, Human Rights Watch has learned. The NGO urges Iraq's allies to take action as the US-led coalition plans to retake the Iraqi city before year-end. Speaking to witnesses on the ground the HRW discovered that two tribal militias who are taking part in the fight for Mosul recruited at least seven children from the Debaga camp in August

The camp itself houses displaced persons who fled Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) from an area near Mosul. The HRW found that people living in the camp since March attested to seeing at least two militia groups, commanded by Sheikh Nishwan al-Jabouri and by Maghdad al-Sabawy, recruit from the camp for months.

Witnesses told the NGO that they have seen trucks arriving empty to the camps but driving away with new recruits, which sometimes included underage boys. On the evening of August 14, camps residents reported seeing some 250 recruits being taken away by Sheikh al-Jabouri's forces, with seven boys among them. The boys were said to be then driven to a town 7km from the front lines with IS, closer to Mosul, where Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) are preparing for an offensive to drive the terrorists from the city.

An unnamed aid worker revealed to the HRW that recruiting from the camps was part of the government-backed militias' plan to reinforce the front line with terrorists. The NGO has also documented that Iraqi Shiite militias as well used child soldiers to fight IS forces. On the other side of the front, militia's young soldiers are to be met by the so-called 'Cubs of the Caliphate', child combatants recruited and trained by IS.


Comment: War crimes are happening every day. They continue unaddressed. There is no global mandate/protocol/officiate -- authorized and willing -- to condemn such actions by enforcing severe and immediate consequence, therefore no rules apply. Using children as soldiers/jihadis in the line of fire is one of the worst of all ungodly offenses.

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Attention

Rutgers: Speak only when necessary to avoid microaggressions

Amber Athey
Campus Reform
Wed, 31 Aug 2016 04:55 UTC
poster Rutgers
© coed.com
Students in at least one Rutgers University residence hall are being encouraged to use only language that is "helpful" and "necessary" to avoid committing microaggressions. The display, which is part of the school's "Language Matters" campaign, also includes hand-written definitions of the three types of microaggressions, as well as a flyer listing potentially-offensive words and phrases.

The display, photos of which were obtained by Campus Reform, is titled "Language Matters: Think," and was placed in the College Avenue Apartments by a resident assistant, according to a current resident of the building who does not wish to be identified.

Erected as part of the university's "Language Matters" campaign, the bulletin board instructs students to ask themselves whether their choice of words is "true," "helpful," "inspiring," "necessary," and "kind" before speaking out, and also includes a list of potentially-offensive terms, such as "retarded" and "illegal aliens."

The board warns students that failing to follow these guidelines could lead them to commit a microaggression, which include "microassaults," "microinsults," and "microinvalidations."

Comment: Geez! Why don't they just hand out mouth band-aids? There is SO MUCH wrong with this! Someone who is offended by another's use of language should just say so and work it out between them, as in (duh) 'communication.' The bigger, broader picture is the authoritarian promotion of isolation and fear, leading to numbed down sheeple afraid to say anything...which serves the PTB just fine. Shhhh! Mums the word...

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