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Huge gas pipeline explosion injures 3 in southern Iran

Press TV
Sat, 06 Aug 2016 02:23 UTC

A gas pipeline explosion in the southern Iranian port city of Genaveh has wounded three people.

The huge explosion took place in the early hours of Saturday at a gas pressure boosting station near Shul village and some 35 kilometers (21 miles) from the port city in Bushehr province, IRNA quoted Genaveh Governor Ali Paknejad as saying.

The blaze is so huge that firefighters have not managed to reach it yet, he added, warning people not to come close to the scene for safety reasons.

Witnesses said the raging blaze could be clearly seen from a distance of 30 kilometers (18.5 miles).

Abdolhamid Khedri, Bushehr province's representative at the Iranian parliament, ruled out sabotage as the cause of the incident.

IRNA reported that immediately after the blast, the pipeline was disconnected from the rest of the system to limit the scale of the damage.

Black Texas woman arrested after calling 911 to request different officer

RT
Fri, 05 Aug 2016 16:02 UTC

Houston woman was arrested after being pulled over for a traffic violation and calling 911 to say she was afraid of what the cop might do. Lawyers say the situation is another example of excessive police force against African Americans.

A video released on Wednesday shows Earledreka White's arrest in March for allegedly crossing double solid lines on a highway. Apparently feeling frightened, she made a call to 911 as she stood outside her car next to the officer.

The officer can be heard indistinctly talking and sometimes shouting in the recording, while White told the dispatcher that she was being unfairly accused of crossing a solid traffic line, claiming that she did no such thing.

"I got out of the car to ask him what the offense was. He raised his voice at me and threatened to arrest me. So I'm really confused.

"I would like another officer to come out here," she added. "My heart is racing. I'm really afraid."

The 28-year-old was grabbed and put in handcuffs by the officer while White cried out for him to stop while still on the phone. The video captured her struggling as the officer presses her against the car. She was charged with resisting arrest.

White's attorney Zack Fertita said that the footage, which was taken from the surveillance camera of a nearby business, shows that the officer needlessly escalated the situation and that this is another example of excessive force being used against black Americans.

Fire in French bar kills 13 people

RT
Sat, 06 Aug 2016 01:25 UTC

At least 13 people have died after a fire ravaged and destroyed a bar in Rouen, the capital of the French region of Normandy, a local newspaper reports. Most of the victims were reportedly young people attending a birthday party.

The fire started around midnight at a bar where young people had been gathering to celebrate a private birthday party in the northern city of Rouen, the Paris-Normandie newspaper reports. Firefighters responded to the emergency, and have declared 13 people dead so far.

The fire was allegedly caused by an accidental explosion on site, the publication reports.

Islamophobia: Muslim couple kicked off Delta flight for 'sweating', saying 'Allah' and texting

Rachael Revesz
The Independent
Fri, 05 Aug 2016 22:41 UTC

A Muslim couple who accused Delta Air Lines of Islamophobia for throwing them off a flight have spoken of their ordeal for the first time.

They said they were singled out because flight crew had noticed them "sweating" and saying the word "Allah", which they denied.

Faisal Ali and Nazia Ali were waiting for about 45 minutes on a Delta Air Lines flight in Paris to fly back to Cincinnati, Ohio when a Delta employee asked the couple to exit the aircraft as he needed to ask them questions.

"We asked if we should get our stuff and he said, 'Yes, take all of your stuff as you won't be on that flight'," Ms Ali told The Independent. "That was really alarming."

A French police officer was waiting outside the gate.

"I was scared because it looked like some random guy was taking pictures of our passports on his personal phone," she said.

After interrogating them about their stay in Paris - the couple had been enjoying a brief holiday in the capital city for their 10th wedding anniversary - the officer said he had no problem with them and there was nothing else he could ask the couple.

The Delta employee then explained that the pilot had decided to ask them to leave as one of the crew members had felt "uncomfortable" in their presence, as the crew member had reportedly seen Mr Ali hide his phone as they walked by, and that Mr Ali had been sweating and saying "Allah".

Hysteria: Abandoned luggage sparks evacuation at Eiffel Tower

RT
Fri, 05 Aug 2016 21:43 UTC

The iconic Eiffel Tower in Paris has been evacuated after security services spotted an abandoned piece of luggage, French outlet BFMTV reports. Visitors have been posting pictures online of police cordoning off the entrance.

According to BMFTV, a backpack was the likely trigger of the evacuation.

People posted pictures of a heavy security presence at the monument, saying law enforcers were "are all over" the place. Soldiers and police armed with assault rifles were spotted in front of the Eiffel Tower's entrance.

Some people at the site had said previously that a "suspicious" package had caused the evacuation.

Merkel party colleague's campaign bus burnt down in Berlin

RT
Fri, 05 Aug 2016 21:37 UTC

bus belonging to CDU (Christian Democratic Union) party member Thilo-Harry Wollenschlaeger was set on fire

Berlin police are investigating a possible arson attack after the campaign bus of a party colleague of Chancellor Angela Merkel was burnt to the ground.

The bus belonging to CDU (Christian Democratic Union) party member Thilo-Harry Wollenschlaeger was set on fire in Berlin's Spandau district on Thursday, local media report.

Police were dispatched to the scene after a driver reported a fire had started at a parking lot on the outskirts of the German capital in the late hours of Thursday night, police reported, according to Der Spiegel. A crane and a tow vehicle parked nearby were also damaged in the blaze. There were no reports of victims.

Merkel's party ally Wollenschlaeger is running for the upcoming local parliament elections that are to take place on September 18.

The bus was not targeted by coincidence, director of the CDU Berlin office Dirk Reitze said, according to Berliner Zeitung.

Norwegian cops haven't killed anyone in over a decade

Alexa Erickson
Collective Evolution
Thu, 04 Aug 2016 18:03 UTC

As a child, I was appalled by many of the events that I read about in my history books. The civil, social, and economical injustices confused and angered me. I felt for the millions of people who were victims of such wrongdoings, yet grateful for the ones who risked their lives to make our world, and my home, the United States, a more peaceful place.

As an adult, I can't help but feel like my home has taken so many steps backward.

Despite the fact that it's 2016, it's hard not to turn on the news, flip through Facebook, or look at your phone's news apps without being informed of yet another police shooting. Police killed at least 102 unarmed black people in 2015, nearly two each week.

In 2016, police have killed more than 130 black people, according to a project by the Guardian. Just this past Monday, Korryn Gaines became the 9th black woman killed by police this year.

Comment: The above video is what protecting and serving is all about. Could it be implemented nationwide? Doubtful. The outcome is bleak when psychopaths rule the world.

Reality check: The police were created to control people, not protect them

Humanity: Russian CCTV footage catches man racing to save 3-year-old child from cargo train

RT
Thu, 04 Aug 2016 14:36 UTC

A life-or-death race to save a child from an oncoming train in southern Russia was caught on CCTV. The railroad security team reached the boy as cargo train slammed on the brakes.

Staring death in the face and unable to move, the three-year-old child is snatched from the train's path by railroad security. The duo had set out earlier than usual on patrol, and were just in time.

One of the rescuers, Arseny Ghazarian told LifeNews that campers from a nearby site often stray onto the tracks.

"The most important thing", he added, "is that the child's life was saved." Desperate to save the boy, Ghazarian fell some 20 meters short but says sheer adrenaline carried him on.

"I cursed myself, when I fell - because of me, old fool, a child could have died." "I never ran so fast in my life," he said. "Can you imagine, no mother, no father, no one was there?"

They had 'some 130 meters' to cover but managed to signal the train driver, who slammed on the brakes and blew the horn.

This may have actually frozen the child with fear, as he stood still and stared at the oncoming train.

DHS provides Somali Muslims special airport security tours due to harassment, profiling complaints

Judicial Watch
Tue, 02 Aug 2016 00:00 UTC

The Obama administration gave Somali Muslims behind-the-scenes tours at a major U.S. airport after the group complained to Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson about feeling harassed and profiled, government records obtained by Judicial Watch reveal. The special security tours not offered to any other group occurred at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport after Department of Homeland Security (DHS) roundtable meetings with local Somali leaders to obtain feedback for "modifications to practices that would allow for operations to be more culturally sensitive."

On at least two occasions—December 18, 2014 and February 18, 2015—federal authorities granted the unprecedented excursions of the facility's sterile and secure areas, according to Transportation Security Administration (TSA) records obtained by Judicial Watch. The DHS agency that conducted the expeditions, Customs and Border Protection (CBP), provided the Muslim participants with "an in-depth, on-site tour and discussion of CBP's airport, including both inbound and outbound passenger processing," the TSA files state. Besides multiple roundtable meetings between CBP and Somali community leaders including imams, the records show that a luncheon and "cultural exchange and educational brief" also took place between December 2014 and February 2015 so that attendees could ask about the agency's "specific practices" at the airport.

Nigeria: New Boko Haram leader identified, Shekau suddenly resurfaces

Michelle Faul
AP
Thu, 04 Aug 2016 08:07 UTC

Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamic extremists have a new leader who is threatening to bomb churches and kill Christians while ending attacks on mosques and markets used by ordinary Muslims, according to an interview published Wednesday by the Islamic State group. He also says there is a Western plot to Christianize the region and has accused charities of using their aid for that, according to a SITE Intelligence Group translation of an interview published Wednesday in the Islamic State newspaper al-Nabaa.

The newspaper identified Abu Musab al-Barnawi as the new "Wali," or governor, of its so-called West Africa Province. The "Wali" title was previously used to describe long-time Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau. The report did not say what Shekau's current status was, although there have been rumors for weeks that he had been replaced.

The interview with al-Barnawi indicates a major shift in strategy for the Nigerian extremists, who have killed many more Muslims than Christians in attacks in mosques with suicide bombers and gunmen. There have also been attacks on crowded marketplaces in predominantly Muslim areas and the killings and kidnappings of school children. The targeting of students accounts for its nickname Boko Haram, which means Western education is sinful or forbidden.

Comment: Shekau surfaced, and in a confirmed audio recording, said he is still around, living by the Koran, will never cause discord among the people. He also says he was betrayed and the new leader is an infidel. Two leaders, one sub-divided bad-ass organization. Upcoming rumble Nigeria? Or sound and fury, signifying nothing.

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Jibrish

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parzival

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Society's Child

Huge gas pipeline explosion injures 3 in southern Iran

Black Texas woman arrested after calling 911 to request different officer

Fire in French bar kills 13 people

Islamophobia: Muslim couple kicked off Delta flight for 'sweating', saying 'Allah' and texting

Hysteria: Abandoned luggage sparks evacuation at Eiffel Tower

Merkel party colleague's campaign bus burnt down in Berlin

Norwegian cops haven't killed anyone in over a decade

Humanity: Russian CCTV footage catches man racing to save 3-year-old child from cargo train

DHS provides Somali Muslims special airport security tours due to harassment, profiling complaints

Nigeria: New Boko Haram leader identified, Shekau suddenly resurfaces

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