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Air defense missile system flipped upside down after military parade in Ukraine


Sputnik
Mon, 11 Jul 2016 02:10 UTC
Ukraine 9K35 Strela-10 air defense system
© Flickr/ Ed Brambley
Self-propelled air defense missile system Strela-10 turned turtle after a military parade in Ukraine.

UAF's air defense unit personnel flipped over the machine after a military parade in Konotop city in northern Ukraine, the Inspector General of local police department told media. The parade was held to mark 357 years since Ukrainian Cossacks won in the battle of Konotop.

Resident of the city Spartak Sergiyenko saw the 9K35 Strela-10 lying gracefully in the middle of the street and immediately posted photographs of the capsized machine on his Facebook page.

"How is this possible?" He wrote. "What a party it must have been."
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Pistol

Houston cops shoot man ten times for allegedly pointing a gun at them


RT
Sat, 09 Jul 2016 23:24 UTC
Alva Braziel
© Alva Braziel / Facebook
Police fatally shot an African-American in the early hours of Saturday in Houston, Texas. The man, identified by media as Alva Braziel, was reportedly shot ten times after he pointed his gun at law enforcement.

Video footage of the aftermath shows his wife explaining what happened before breaking down. "It ain't alright that's he's laying on the street dead out there," she said. "They don't care. Please ... get him up off the ground."

Houston Police Department said that two officers killed an armed man early Saturday morning, and that they were wearing body cameras at the time, ABC 13 reports.

Comment: Police shootings: Yes, they are about race

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Cow Skull

Top Spanish bullfighter gored to death in ring first time this century


RT
Sun, 10 Jul 2016 10:38 UTC
Spanish Bullfighter
© Cristina Quicler / AFP
A top Spanish bullfighter has been gored to death in the ring during a fight observed by hundreds of horrified spectators. He is the first person to have died at a bullring in the country during the last 30 years.

Victor Barrio, 29, was killed on Saturday when a bull's horn ripped through the man's chest. The fight was being staged in the town of Teruel in the eastern region of Aragon. The performance ending with Barrio's death was also broadcast on television.

The last matador who was killed during a bullfight in Spain was Jose Cubero, also known as Yiyo, in 1985. Manolo Montoliu and Ramon Soto Vargas were the last bandilleros, or matador's assistants, that died at a bullring, both in 1992.

Comment: See also:
  • Flaming-Horned Bull Fatally Gores Man in Spain


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Fire

Massive blaze breaks out at California recycling plant


RT
Sat, 09 Jul 2016 06:57 UTC
fire newark california recycling plant
© deipty222 / Instagram
A gigantic blaze overwhelming a recycling plant in Newark, California is quickly covering the sky and surrounding area in black smoke.

The Alameda County Fire Department is on the scene, where a fire broke out around 3:00 p.m., according to KGO. The Hayward and Fremont fire departments are assisting as well.

So far, no casualties have been reported.

Fire officials tweeted out that they are engaging the "2-alarm fire on the 6500 block of Smith Ave."
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Attention

Leftist riot in Berlin: Over 120 policemen injured and 86 civilians arrested


RT
Sun, 10 Jul 2016 20:46 UTC
Berlin leftist riot
© RT
Some 123 policemen were injured and some 86 people arrested as far-left extremists protested the eviction of a Berlin squat in what local authorities termed the most violent demonstration of the past five years.

An estimated 3,500 far-left radicals clashed with police in the Friedrichshain and Kreuzberg neighborhoods on Saturday and during the night that followed. They were opposed by some 1,800 security personnel. Police units came to the German capital from at least four different federal parts of Germany.

Other sources suggest there were up to as many as 7,000 rioters.
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Attention

102 arrested, 21 cops injured in Black Lives Matter protests in St. Paul


RT
Sun, 10 Jul 2016 20:40 UTC
Protestors shut down highway I-94 on July 9, 2016 in St. Paul, Minnesota
© Stephen Maturen / AFP Protestors shut down highway I-94 on July 9, 2016 in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Police detained some 102 people while 21cops were injured at a violent rally that saw Interstate 94 blocked in in Saint Paul, Minnesota, amid nationwide protests following the deadly shooting of policemen in Dallas last week over recent police killings of black men.

On Saturday night, hundreds of people protesting the deaths of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling, shot dead by police officers earlier in the week, gathered at St. Paul Governor's residence and marched to Interstate 94, shutting it down for at least five hours.

Comment: Some relevant live tweets, for what they're worth:
  • "Protesters throwing objects at officers. #I94closed"
  • "Person with laser sight pointing it at officers. Fireworks being fired at officers by protesters. #I94closed"
  • "Officer injured by fireworks thrown by protesters. #I94closed"
  • "Protesters now arming themselves with rebar from construction site. #I94closed"
  • "Protesters on overpasses throwing objects at officers, dumping liquid on officers. #I94closed"
  • Officer injured after being hit with a glass bottle thrown by protesters. #I94closed
  • "Aggressors now throwing rebar from construction zone at officers. Rocks continue to fly at officers. #I94closed"
  • "Another officer has been injured by aggressors throwing objects. Three injured so far. #I94closed"
  • "Bricks now being thrown at officers, along with more rocks and bottles. #I94closed"
  • "An officer has been hit in the head with a rock. Unclear the extent of injuries. #I94closed"
  • "Another officer hit in the head with a large piece of concrete, possibly dropped from bridge. #I94closed"
  • "Molotov cocktail thrown at officers. Unclear if anyone injured. #I94closed"


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Better Earth

Forestalling disaster: Russia, UNESCO push program for a generation without racial, religious prejudice


RT
Sat, 09 Jul 2016 13:46 UTC
children
© Ronen Zvulun / ReutersThere's only a small window of time before children are shaped into small-minded bigots by their ignorant caregivers and society in general.
In an effort to find a solution to Europe's migration crisis, Russia's Federal Center for Tolerance has teamed up with UNESCO, campaigning to bring up a "new generation" of children and teachers "free from racial, ethnic and religious stereotypes."

Acting with the support of the Russian Federation of Jewish Communities at Moscow's Jewish Museum, Russia's Federal Center for Tolerance and UNESCO held their first joint conference on migration earlier this week.

The conference, "Migration for Sustainable Development: Social transformations, media discourses and education," took place in UNESCO's headquarters in Paris, and was attended by leading experts in social sciences and humanities from more than 30 countries.

Comment: Russia has arguably made use of the same type of "anti-terrorist" memes that the U.S. has in its war on terror at home and abroad in Syria. But the differences are striking. While the net effect seems to be exacerbating hatred in Western countries for Muslims, Russian leaders and society seem to make efforts to avoid that kind of programming. (Western leaders either do nothing, make it worse, or make half-hearted attempts to foster good will.) Further reading: What the U.S. can learn from Russia about Islamophobia

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Attention

Head-on collision of passenger trains in Czech Republic leaves seven people injured


Sputnik
Sun, 10 Jul 2016 13:50 UTC
train collision czech republic
A head-on collision of two passenger trains in Czech Republic early on Sunday has resulted in seven people receiving various injuries, local media reported.

The incident happened 200 meters (218.7 yards) away from the train station in the town of Rotava, the Blesk newspaper reported.

Police announced that the case in suspected criminal negligence was opened as the exact cause had not been identified so far, according to the daily.
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Pistol

Police shootings: Yes, they are about race

PM Beers
The Anti Media
Fri, 08 Jul 2016 16:52 UTC
Police brutality activist
© Scott Olson/Getty Images
"Why do you always have to make it about race?"

"Because it IS about race."

This is a common, growing conversation in the United States.

"Race and class are unfortunate, yet inextricable factors—for us, for the police and for the dead man," wrote Goldie Taylor, referring to Alton Sterling in her article for the Daily Beast. Mr. Sterling, a father of five, a small businessman, and an entrepreneur, was selling CDs in front of a mini-market with the blessing and consent of the owner, Abdullah Muflahi, who witnessed a Baton Rouge police officer shooting Mr. Sterling Tuesday night.
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Info

As Japan's population dwindles - bears & boars roam where schools & shrines once thrived

Julie Makinen
Los Angeles Times
Sun, 10 Jul 2016 14:57 UTC
Japan
© Julie Makinen / Los Angeles TimesYoshihiro Shibata visits the temple in Hara-izumi village, Japan. The last monk left years ago because donations were insufficient, given the village's dwindling population.
The red-roofed temple at the top of the hill closed about a decade ago, and now Yoshihiro Shibata can't even remember its name, though the 54-year-old dairy farmer has lived in this picturesque village all his life.

"The income of the temple depends on the number of residents, and there weren't enough to keep a monk here," he said, looking around the deserted grounds nestled amid the village's lush landscape of tea plants and hydrangeas, bamboo and pine trees.

A few years after the temple shut its doors, the village tea-processing factory closed down and the elementary school too. Now, the remaining students are bused an hour away.

"When I was young, we had about 100 kids here, but now there are just five," Shibata said.
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