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Humanitarian crisis worsens in Sulawesi as transport difficulties impede efforts to distribute aid

Hannah Ellis-Peterson
The Guardian
Thu, 04 Oct 2018 20:08 UTC

More than 1,400 are dead and tens of thousands of people homeless on Sulawesi, but aid shipments are being held up

Indonesian police guard a petrol station as people queue for fuel in Palu.

The humanitarian crisis in Sulawesi has continued to worsen as organisations struggle to bring the millions of dollars in international aid that has been pledged to the island devastated by last week's earthquake.

At least 1,424 people are so far reported to have died from the 7.5 magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami that hit the Indonesian island on Friday. At least a further 2,500 have been injured and more than 100 are still missing.

More than 70,000 houses are damaged, leaving tens of thousands homeless and resorting to living in tents and shelters, with no clear idea when they will be able to begin rebuilding their homes. Makeshift shelters built from earthquake debris have sprung up across the island, while clean drinking water and food supplies remain scarce and people have been forced to queue for fuel for over 12 hours in some cases.

As the situation worsens by the day, survivors expressed hope that more government and international aid would be able to reach the area imminently.

However, despite millions of dollars in aid pledged by the UN and countries such as the US, China, Australia, UK and New Zealand, there have been delays in aid reaching the affected ares, due to difficulties transporting it into the area. Most roads were destroyed and the tiny airport in Palu was pushed to maximum capacity after being damaged in the quake.

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Over 250 people have died taking selfies - report

Caitlin Doherty
The Weekly Times
Thu, 04 Oct 2018 20:14 UTC

Indians rank first in Selfie deaths

More than 250 people have died while trying to take a selfie, according to new research.

Investigations by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences suggests that there were 259 selfie-related deaths in 137 incidents from October 2011 to November 2017.

A total of 98 people died a selfie-related death in 2016.

The findings, published in the Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, were collated by tracking references to "selfie deaths" and "selfie accidents" in news reports from around the world.

Drowning, fire and falling are among the most commonly listed causes of death in these circumstances, and it is far more common for men to die trying to take a selfie than women.

Of the recorded deaths, 72.5 per cent were among men, and only 27.5 per cent among women, with men found to be more prone to risky behaviour when taking selfies.

Nutty as a fruitcake vegans hurl bricks through the window of butcher's shop in France

Daily Mail
Sun, 30 Sep 2018 19:41 UTC

Members of animal rights group'Vegan 269 Life France' during a protest against cruelty to animals in Paris

'Radical vegans' hurled bricks through a French butcher's shop window in the latest attack by campaigners who are trying to change the eating habits in the meat-loving country.

The attack in a quiet town of Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines, 30 miles southwest of Paris, took place at 3am and startled butcher's shop owner Elisabeth Cure as she slept above the business.

As in other similar incidents around France during the last year, her tormentors left a tell-tale tag scrawled on the shopfront which read: 'End the Repression'.

'That's how I knew it was radical vegans,' she told AFP.

Syrian terror suspect tipped-off to FBI investigation by US special agent

Sputnik
Wed, 03 Oct 2018 22:26 UTC

Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) special agent Leatrice Malika De Bruhl-Daniels was arrested on Friday over accusations she shared classified information with a terror suspect ‒ Nada Diya ‒ with whom she was romantically involved.

According to multiple media reports, Bruhl-Daniels met Diya in Dubai in 2016 while working at the US consulate there. She had been a special agent for nine years and had top-security clearance with access to sensitive information on some subjects.

Diya was trying to get a tourist visa to visit the United States. Court documents say that Bruhl-Daniels contacted officials at the State Department and Department of Homeland Security (DHS), who informed her that both the DHS and FBI had their eyes on Diya in a counterterrorism probe.

Bruhl-Daniels, despite being told to "Stay away from Diya," went on to form a romantic relationship with him and told him that if he came to the US he would be arrested.

Cristiano Ronaldo allegedly used 'fixers' to obstruct investigation into rape allegations made against him [Update]

RT
Wed, 03 Oct 2018 19:37 UTC

Cristiano Ronaldo has been accused of using a team of 'fixers' to obstruct a criminal investigation into allegations he raped a woman in a Las Vegas hotel room and coerced the victim into accepting $375,000 hush money.

Football icon Ronaldo is being sued by Kathryn Mayorga, 34, over the incident which allegedly took place in a Vegas penthouse suit in 2009, after a night of partying.

Las Vegas police confirmed that a they have reopened a sexual assault case from the same year, as per the request of the woman named in the suit made last month, AP reports.

Comment: According to RT Ronaldo continues to firmly deny the charges:

Football star Cristiano Ronaldo has tweeted his 'firm denial' of the accusations of rape of an American woman, saying that the 'abominal crime' goes against 'everything I am'.

Ronaldo tweeted on Wednesday: "I firmly deny the accusations being issued against me. Rape is an abominable crime that goes against everything that I am and believe in. Keen as I may be to clear my name, I refuse to feed the media spectacle created by people seeking to promote themselves at my expense."

The player then followed that tweet with a further post referencing the situation: "My clear conscious will thereby allow me to await with tranquillity the results of any and all investigations," he wrote.

The last six months in Gaza have been like another war

Mohammed Abu Mughaiseeb
Aljazeera
Mon, 01 Oct 2018 00:00 UTC

© Reuters/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
Medics carry a wounded man during a protest, demanding Palestinians' right to return to their homeland, at the fence between Israel and Gaza on August 31, 2018.

As a doctor living and working in Gaza all my life, I thought I had seen it all. I felt I knew the limits of what Gaza can endure

But the last six months have been the most difficult I have experienced in my 15 years with MSF in Gaza. And I have lived and worked through three wars: in 2008, 2012 and 2014.

The human suffering and devastation I saw over the past few months have reached another height. The shocking volume of wounded has been overwhelming.

I will never forget Monday, May 14. In the span of 24 hours, the local health authorities recorded a total of 2,271 wounded, including 1,359 people injured by live ammunition. I was on shift that day with the surgical team of al-Aqsa hospital, one of the main hospitals in Gaza.

At 3pm we started receiving the first wounded from the demonstration. More than 300 arrived though the doors in less than four hours. I had never seen so many patients in my life.

Hundreds were lining up to get into the operating theatre; the corridors were full; everyone was crying, shouting and bleeding.

No matter how hard we worked, we could not cope with the huge number of injured. It was too much. Gunshot after gunshot, our team worked for 50 hours straight trying to save lives.

It brought back the memories of the 2014 war. But really, nothing could have prepared us for what we saw on May 14. And what we are still seeing today.

Moving to higher ground: Flooding along the US' coastal areas is fueling a mass migration inland

Oliver Milman
The Guardian
Mon, 24 Sep 2018 21:00 UTC

Comment: The following article is awash in global warming hysteria and its predicted catastrophes. Just remember when reading this that although sea levels have been slightly rising, that trend may be reversing. Ice is now growing at both poles (except for areas such as West Antarctica, where undersea volcanoes are providing a heat source) and scientists have noted that the earth is undergoing a major cooling event; many are warning that we are facing an impending ice age. Yes, coastal areas are flooding (and so are other areas). These 'once in a lifetime' floods that are becoming increasingly common along with other extreme weather patterns have nothing to do with rising CO₂ levels or man-made global warming, but are part of a natural cyclical pattern. For a much more comprehensive explanation of these changes, read Earth Changes and the Human-Cosmic Connection - a review can be found here.

After her house flooded for the third year in a row, Elizabeth Boineau was ready to flee. She packed her possessions into dozens of boxes, tried not to think of the mold and mildew-covered furniture and retreated to a second-floor condo that should be beyond the reach of pounding rains and swelling seas.

Boineau is leaving behind a handsome, early 20th-century house in Charleston, South Carolina, the shutters painted in the city's eponymous shade of deep green. Last year, after Hurricane Irma introduced 8in of water into a home Boineau was still patching up from the last flood, local authorities agreed this historic slice of Charleston could be torn down.

"I was sloshing through the water with my puppy dog, debris was everywhere," she said. "I feel completely sunken. It would cost me around $500,000 to raise the house, demolish the first floor. I'm going to rent a place instead, on higher ground."

Millions of Americans will confront similarly hard choices as climate change conjures up brutal storms, flooding rains, receding coastlines and punishing heat. Many are already opting to shift to less perilous areas of the same city, or to havens in other states. Whole towns from Alaska to Louisiana are looking to relocate, in their entirety, to safer ground.

Comment: People might want to consider moving away from low-lying coastal areas due to the threat of extreme storms, but as mentioned above there is no evidence to suggest that 'global warming' is behind these weather patterns. Extremes of both heat and cold have been witnessed and are all part of a natural process that cannot be halted by ludicrous schemes to reduce greenhouse gasses.

'Loud boom' heard near California's Defense Language Institute being investigated

Amy Larson
KSBW
Fri, 28 Sep 2018 12:06 UTC

Defense Language Institute in Monterey, CA

The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center briefly went on lockdown Friday morning because of a loud noise heard near the U.S. Army Presidio of Monterey.

Presidio officials said they are investigating what caused the noise, and have determined that there is no threat.

One witness described the sound to KSBW as a "loud boom," and said it sounded like a bomb went off.

Presidio spokesman Steven Shepard said the noise was reported from the vicinity of the Presidio's Tin Barn building. But investigators determined the noise came from somewhere off base.

Monterey police are taking over the investigation. It's still unclear what caused the noise.

Dunkin' Donuts employees dump water on homeless schizophrenic; internet raises over $18K to help him out

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Wed, 03 Oct 2018 19:00 UTC

Jeremy Dufresne - a mentally ill homeless man who suffers from schizophrenia - was in a Dunkin' Donuts last week charging his phone so he could call his mom to tell her good night. While sitting there, harming no one, two employees filled a pitcher with cold water and dumped it on his head. One dumped the water while the other filmed it. The video went viral and and the internet reacted with outrage.

As the video shows, Dufresne has his head on the table as the two employees sneak up behind him and then pour the water out. Dufresne immediately jumps up and looks back at the two bullies laughing at him.

"How many times I've got to tell you to stop sleeping in here?" the employee tells Dufresne in the video as the pair laughs. "You're here all day."

The video was uploaded to Facebook and subsequently went viral, receiving over 4.5 million views.

UK police rescue 58yo man 'kept as slave' living in shed for 40yrs

RT
Thu, 04 Oct 2018 18:58 UTC

A potential victim of modern slavery has been rescued from a six-foot shed, where it's believed he has been kept in captivity for the past four decades.

The Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA) in conjunction with Cumbria Police rescued the 58-year-old man on October 3 after receiving an anonymous tip via a confidential helpline.

"The information that was given to us was that he had been kept in the shed for a period of 40 years. When we found him he was like a rabbit in headlights and very confused," Martin Plimmer from the GLAA said, as quoted by The Metro UK.

Ehret an idiot beyond belief

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.. .. are wheel barrel sales are up too?

Jibrish

I doubt any pureblood would object to the "vaccinated" being masked, but if they (the "vaccinated") still feel unsafe then maybe their problem is...

HashAttack2

I said this would happen...now they are looking to mandate companies with less that 100 employees...shits getting real, people[Link]

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Society's Child

Humanitarian crisis worsens in Sulawesi as transport difficulties impede efforts to distribute aid

Over 250 people have died taking selfies - report

Nutty as a fruitcake vegans hurl bricks through the window of butcher's shop in France

Syrian terror suspect tipped-off to FBI investigation by US special agent

Cristiano Ronaldo allegedly used 'fixers' to obstruct investigation into rape allegations made against him [Update]

The last six months in Gaza have been like another war

Moving to higher ground: Flooding along the US' coastal areas is fueling a mass migration inland

'Loud boom' heard near California's Defense Language Institute being investigated

Dunkin' Donuts employees dump water on homeless schizophrenic; internet raises over $18K to help him out

UK police rescue 58yo man 'kept as slave' living in shed for 40yrs

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