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Insanity: 100,000 Americans sign petition calling for White house to declare "Black Lives Matter" a terrorist organisation


RT
Tue, 12 Jul 2016 09:49 UTC
Black protest
© Shannon Stapleton / Reuters
Black Lives Matter has come under fire from over 100,000 people who have signed on to have the anti-police brutality group classified as a terrorist organization in a White House petition. However, the signatories may learn that petitions don't matter.

A petition seeking to classify the civil rights organization Black Lives Matter as a terrorist outfit has exceeded 100,000 signatures on the White House's petition center, We the People. Any initiative that receives at least 100,000 signatures is placed on a list of pending petitions to which the administration must respond within 60 days.

Comment: Violence of any kind in this context should not be condoned. However, when considering the sheer volume of black deaths at the hand of US police, is it any wonder that black people are sick and tired of being treated this way, and so are now resorting to violence?

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Nearly 60% of Europeans believe refugee influx increases risk of terrorism, PEW survey finds


RT
Tue, 12 Jul 2016 06:05 UTC
Refugees in europe
© Kai Pfaffenbach / ReutersRefugees in Europe
Nearly 60 percent of Europeans believe the threat of terrorism increases as more refugees arrive in their countries, a PEW survey has found. Half of respondents also see them as an economic "burden" because "they take our jobs and social benefits."

A Pew Research Center survey, published on Monday, showed that the majority of people polled in 10 European countries, which accounts for 80 percent of the EU population, seems to mistrust refugees.

Comment: Anti-Muslim sentiment is becoming increasingly popular among people in the Western world as a result of fear-mongering tactics thrust upon the public via political pundits and mainstream media manipulation. Islamophobia renders people apathetic toward the slaughter of innocent civilian Muslim populations across the world, and therefore indirectly facilitates the pillage and plunder of resource-rich countries in the Middle East. The people who benefit from this are the psychopathic elites found in political circles, big business and the military-industrial-complex, who are intent on destroying entire nations to make profit from war and human suffering.

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Health

Head-on train collision near Bari, Italy leaves 20 dead and dozens injured


RT
Tue, 12 Jul 2016 12:51 UTC
italy train crash
© ITALIAN FIRE SERVICE
At least 20 people have been killed and dozens injured in a head-on collision between two trains in the south of Italy, a regional official has announced. Emergency services are already at the scene trying to treat the injured.

"There are many dead," said the head of the Andria police department Riccardo Zingaro. "There was a head-on collision on a single-track and some of the carriages are completely crumpled. The rescuers are pulling people from the wreckage," he added, as cited by La Repubblica.

The incident took place near the city of Bari on Italy's Adriatic coast, between the rural towns of Andria and Corato. A total of 34 people have been injured following the crash while 18 people who have been taken to hospital who are in a critical condition.

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Russian 6th-generation drone fighter jets to fly in swarms, enter near space


RT
Tue, 12 Jul 2016 12:56 UTC
Russia sixth-generation fighter jet
© Alexey Filippov / Sputnik
Planned to be unveiled by 2025, Russia's sixth-generation fighter jets will be rounding on the enemy in "swarms" largely consisting of unmanned aircraft flying at hypersonic speed. Developers say such groups would be able to interact and transit through space.

"The main principle of this aircraft's way of deployment is a so-called swarm, a collective solving of any task. There will be one or two piloted aircrafts in the group, the others will be unmanned vehicles," said Vladimir Mikheev, an advisor to the deputy head of the Radioelectronic Technologies Concern [KRET], Russia's largest radio electronics manufacture, in an interview to TASS on Monday.

The revolutionary drone technology developed by the company would allow a single piloted aircraft command from five up to 10 unmanned vehicles. The pilot's helm and suit will send a signal to the on-board system, which will assign a number of drones to his command. The tasks and number of vehicles depends on the pilot's status and experience.

"Depending on the status, he [the pilot] is given several subordinate drones. They, in their turn, understand - they must protect, for example, lieutenant Petrov. But if colonel Ivanov is in the cockpit, the number of subordinate drones should be more, and so forth," Mikheev said.
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Health

900 Gazans still need care for injuries sustained in 2014 war


Ma'an News Agency
Thu, 07 Jul 2016 08:52 UTC
woman child
© www.popularresistance.orgCare needed, little available.
Some 900 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip continue to require medical attention as a result of permanent disabilities they sustained during Israel's devastating 51-day assault on the small territory that began on July 8, 2014, according to UNRWA, the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees.

On the second anniversary of the war, the Gaza Strip's Shifa hospital had 3,839 registered patients waiting for scheduled operations, more than half of which were classified as major surgeries, according to a statement published Monday by UNRWA, adding that surgical appointments were being scheduled for as far away as 2018. "Some patients are still suffering two years after their injury and need ongoing care. Many others are still waiting for prosthetic limbs. The state of prosthetics in Gaza is still very precarious," Dr. Mahmoud Matar, an orthopedic surgeon at Gaza's Shifa hospital told UNRWA. UNRWA stressed in their statement that "The long waiting lists have left many frustrated, sometimes in unnecessary pain and facing health risks associated with delayed care."

Meanwhile, a significant part of Gaza's healthcare infrastructure remains severely damaged, which according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization (WHO) had already been near collapse prior to the start of the hostilities. Al-Wafa hospital in Gaza City and three primary healthcare clinics were completely destroyed in the war, in addition to 18 hospitals and 60 clinics that sustained damages. "To date, all of these facilities have been or are in the process of being repaired/reconstructed, with the exception of the al-Wafa hospital which requires major funding to proceed with reconstruction," UNRWA said.

A total of 11,200 Palestinians -- including 3,800 children -- were wounded in the war, according to UN documentation. Meanwhile, some 360,000 Palestinians -- 20 percent of the Gaza Strip's population -- are estimated to require mental health support as a result of the war, according to the WHO. UNRWA said the backlog in treatment was mainly due to the lack of skilled personnel in the Gaza Strip's crumbling healthcare system.

Comment: This is one of many ways Israel insures the defeat and demise of Palestinians. It is no less than criminal neglect and more than a slow moving atrocity. It is murder by attrition.

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Ambulance

Severely malnourished child on strict vegan diet removed from parents care after hospitalization requiring surgery


The Local
Fri, 08 Jul 2016 15:23 UTC
vegan infant
The severely malnourished one-year-old weighed as much as an average three-month-old,
A one-year-old boy in Milan, allegedly being raised on a strict vegan diet, has been taken away from his parents after being hospitalized weighing just five kilograms.

The boy was taken to Milan's Fatebenefratelli hospital by his grandparents on July 2nd, but doctors were shocked to discover the one-year-old weighed as much as an average three-month-old, Corriere reported.

Blood tests revealed the child was severely malnourished, having a level of calcium, which doctors described as "the minimum needed to survive".

The malnourished child was also suffering from a heart condition which left him needing emergency surgery. While the condition was not caused by diet, the child's chronic lack of calcium is thought to have aggravated the problem as low calcium levels cause irregularities with the cardiac rhythm.

The child survived the surgery and is recovering well, but concerned medical staff reported the incident to social services after the parents allegedly refused to change the diet they were feeding their child.

A Milan court has ruled the child will remain in the custody of the Policlinico San Donato hospital, where he underwent the lifesaving surgery, pending further investigation.

Comment: See also:

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Pistol

2 court bailiffs shot, killed by inmate in Michigan; shooter dead

Andrew Krietz
WZZM
Mon, 11 Jul 2016 22:13 UTC
Michigan courthouse shooting
© Brian Dorman, ABC 57

Berrien Co. Sheriff's Deputies, Michigan State Police are on the scene of shots fired at the courthouse
Michigan State Police, county officers and other police agencies responded to the shooting around 2:30 p.m., Monday, July 11.

Two court court bailiffs were shot and killed by an inmate at the Berrien County Courthouse before police returned fire on the suspect, killing them.

"Brave officers" took down the shooter, said Sheriff Paul Bailey during a news conference Monday, July 11.

A county deputy and a civilian also were shot but injured, according to a news release. Those injured were taken to Lakeland Regional Medical Center in St. Joseph for treatment.

Michigan State Police, county officers and other police agencies responded to the shooting around 2:30 p.m.

A Berrien County Commissioner told WZZM's ABC affiliate WBND reporter Vahid Sadrzadeh on scene that a man who was on his way to jail took a gun off a deputy and started opening fire.
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Alarm Clock

Over 50 young sharks killed, left on shore in Mobile Bay, Alabama


AL.com
Mon, 11 Jul 2016 21:42 UTC
Black tip sharks
© WKRG
Alabama's Marine Resources Division and Dauphin Island Sea Lab are investigating the deaths of dozens of sharks found Saturday morning along the shore of Mobile Bay, WKRG television news is reporting.

The director of the Alabama Marine Resources Division said the number of sharks an officer found was 57.

The sharks, identified mostly as bull sharks, were discovered by residents and visitors on the beach on Belleair Boulevard, near Dauphin Island Parkway, the television station reported. One woman, who is on vacation with her family, reported finding a net with close to 40 sharks inside, the television station reports.

"It definitely caught our attention because I know that that is illegal and you shouldn't be doing that. We just didn't know what to do about it," Sabrina Rios told WKRG. Rios reported she and others tried to bury as many of the sharks as they could because of the smell.

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Question

Fire officials searching for source of mysterious boom in Kentucky

Gayle Deaton
The State Journal
Sun, 10 Jul 2016 09:32 UTC
Downtown Frankfort, Kentucky
© Wikimedia CommonsDowntown Frankford, Kentucky.
A report of a low-flying aircraft and a large explosion or boom followed by white smoke last night off Harvieland Road in Bald Knob led emergency responders to conduct an intense search of the area.

This morning, the source of the boom remains a mystery.

The first reports of a loud boom or explosion off O'Nan's Bend in Bald Knob came in at about 40 minutes before sunset Saturday night, according to Franklin County Fire Chief Kevin Hutcherson.

Franklin County firefighters responded to the call and started a search of the area, Hutcherson said, but did not find anything. Another call came in from an off-duty city police officer who reported that the boom sounded like much more than just fireworks, Hutcherson said, so emergency responders stepped up the search effort to include a helicopter from the Lexington Police Department, the Franklin County Sheriff's Office and Emergency Management.

Hutcherson said the helicopter flew a wide radius over the area twice before the search was terminated after about four and a half hours.

Hutcherson also noted that one of the callers said they saw white smoke in the area of the boom, and he said black smoke is typically what witnesses would see if the explosion involves a petroleum byproduct.
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Best of the Web: The US has legalized murder against its own citizens and created state terror to deal with those fighting back against oppression

Chris Hedges
Truth Dig
Sun, 10 Jul 2016 20:32 UTC
police protester
© Max Becherer / APA protester yells in front of police headquarters after officers arrived in riot gear to clear protesters from the street in Baton Rouge, La., on Saturday
Police officers carry out random acts of legalized murder against poor people of color not because they are racist, although they may be, or even because they are rogue cops, but because impoverished urban communities have evolved into miniature police states.

Police can stop citizens at will, question and arrest them without probable cause, kick down doors in the middle of the night on the basis of warrants for nonviolent offenses, carry out wholesale surveillance, confiscate property and money and hold people—some of them innocent—in county jails for years before forcing them to accept plea agreements that send them to prison for decades. They can also, largely with impunity, murder them.

Those who live in these police states, or internal colonies, especially young men of color, endure constant fear and often terror. Michelle Alexander, author of "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness," calls those trapped in these enclaves members of a criminal "caste system." This caste system dominates the lives of not only the 2.3 million who are incarcerated in the United States but also the 4.8 million on probation or parole. Millions more are forced into "permanent second-class citizenship" by their criminal records, which make employment, higher education and public assistance, including housing, difficult and usually impossible to obtain. This is by design.

The rhetoric of compassion, even outrage, by the political class over the police murders in Baton Rouge, La., and near St. Paul, Minn., will not be translated into change until the poor are granted full constitutional rights and police are accountable to the law. The corporate state, however, which is expanding the numbers of poor through austerity and deindustrialization, has no intention of instituting anything more than cosmetic reform.
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