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French police blast protesters with water cannon following silent march in Nantes

Nantes
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People protect themselves from police tear gas as they take part in a gathering in Nantes.
French police used water cannon and tear gas on a crowd of demonstrators following a silent march in commemoration of a man who was found dead this week after going missing during a police raid on a music festival last month.

Protesters took to the streets for a 'Justice for Steve' march in Nantes city center on Saturday following the discovery of Steve Maia Canico's body on Tuesday. As well as holding a silent vigil, the crowd also chanted slogans denouncing French President Emmanuel Macron.

Tensions escalated during the march and the police used water cannon and tear gas to disperse the crowd. Demonstrators used street furniture to create makeshift barricades and these were later set on fire. The police said that 1,700 people took part in the demonstration and 33 arrests were made.

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Heart - Black

3 killed after bluff collapses onto beachgoers near San Diego

Emergency responders attend to a cliff collapse
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Emergency responders attend to a cliff collapse that has trapped people at a beach in Encinitas, Calif., on Friday, Aug. 2, 2019.
Three people were killed Friday as a cliffside broke free and toppled onto beachgoers in Encinitas, California, on a sunny summer day at the popular seaside escape.

One person was found dead at the beach, while two others who were transported to a local hospital in critical condition were later pronounced dead, according to city officials. Two other people were pulled out from under the debris pile and taken to the hospital with minor injuries.

The fire department was notified of the bluff collapse just before 3 p.m. local time.

"We are devastated by the tragedy today and our hearts go out to the victims and their families," Encinitas Mayor Catherine Blakespear said in a statement. "We stand ready to help in any way possible. Our engineers and the public safety team are diligently working to assess bluff conditions."

Attention

UN: Sexual abuse of boys by U.S.-funded Afghan forces 'remains issue of concern'

afghan forces
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The U.S.-funded Afghan National Police (ANP) continues to engage in the ancient local custom of men sexually abusing young boys, the United Nations reported this week.

ANP is a component of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF), which the U.S. government has spent more than $80 billion to develop since the war in Afghanistan began in October 2001.

Known as bacha bazi, or "boy play," U.N. investigators found that the act by Afghan forces persists.

In February 2018, Afghanistan implemented revisions to its penal code that criminalized the cruel practice. However, the U.N. reported this past March, "Though bacha bazi is criminalized, prosecutions of cases involving the practice are rare and the practice remains common."

In its latest annual report on children and armed conflict issued on Tuesday, the U.N. declared, "the United Nations verified four cases of sexual violence [in 2018], affecting two boys and two girls, perpetrated by the Afghan National Police (3) and the Afghan local police (1). The two boys were used as bacha bazi."

U.N. officials noted in the March report that the ANP, a component of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF), was behind the sexual abuse of the two boys.

Heart

Emotional Infidelity: You Will Feel Attracted To People Besides Your Partner

relationships and love
What's emotional infidelity?

Loosely:
"Intimacy with someone besides our partner that's emotional, not physical."
It happens to many people, and in a world of hyper-communication and connectivity, it's becoming an increasingly big topic. So, what do we do?

Let's take this in two parts...
  • Part I: Attraction
  • Part II: What To Do With It

Red Flag

Antifa tries to silence Americans, should be added to list of extremist ideologies - GOP rep to FBI

Jim Banks
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Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., does a television interview in the Capitol on Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2017.
A Republican congressman on Thursday wrote to the FBI requesting it add Antifa to a list of extremist ideologies under a new category of "Anti-1st Amendment Extremists" -- adding to a growing number of Republicans demanding action against the violent left-wing group.

"Antifa employs violence to coerce Americans into silence," Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind, said in a supplementary statement. "As a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, I am intimately familiar with the tactics of terrorist groups and how they employ fear/violence to silence political enemies. To my great surprise, we are witnessing similar style tactics right here in our country. The FBI must take this threat seriously."

Republican calls to deal with Antifa have increased recently after journalist Andy Ngo was assaulted at an Antifa rally in Portland in June. Last month, a 69-year-old man firebombed an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center before being shot by police. He declared "I am Antifa" in his manifesto, while Banks notes that a Seattle "antifascist" group called him a martyr.

Comment: Antifa are not 'anti-fascists' - they are amateur totalitarians:




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Romanian tourist dies in accident at Yosemite National Park

Yosemite National Park
A Romanian tourist has died in a fall near a waterfall in Yosemite National Park in California.

Authorities say 21-year-old Lucian Miu was scrambling on some wet rocks below Bridalveil Fall on Wednesday when he fell about 20 feet. He died at a hospital.

Mr. Potato

Idiots think Tulsi Gabbard was hired by 'Russia' to bring down Kamala Harris

Tulsi Gabbard Kamala Harris
After Tulsi Gabbard destroyed Kamala Harris on her history of locking up black people as a prosecutor, idiots on Twitter began claiming that Gabbard had been hired by Russia to bring down Harris.

Yes, really.

During last night's debate, Gabbard took Harris to task for her role in "putting over 1500 people in jail for marijuana violations" then laughing about it when asked if she ever smoked marijuana.


Comment: Idiots indeed.

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Cult

Saikat Chakrabarti, the brain behind Ocasio-Cortez to leave office

Saikat Chakrabarti
"Saikat [Chakrabarti] has decided to leave the office of Rep. Ocasio-Cortez to work with [nonprofit group] New Consensus to further develop plans for a Green New Deal," Corbin Trent, Ocasio-Cortez director of communications, said Friday.

Saikat Chakrabarti, was the chief of staff and also managed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's upstart 2018 campaign. He is leaving office after a series of controversies, and high profile fights with other democrats in the house of representatives.

Comment: AOC's brain? Not exactly what you would want to be known for. Breitbart adds:
The shakeup comes as the congresswoman's office has been engulfed in controversy since Chakrabarti attacked more moderate members of the House majority.

In June, Chakrabarti took to social media to air his frustration with moderate Democrats for forcing Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to abandon a $4.6 billion emergency border appropriation bill favored by progressives. In a series of tweets, Chakrabarti likened the moderates to old Southern Democrats, many of whom were avowed segregationists.

He stood by the comparison even when a progressive activist noted Rep. Sharice Davids (D-KS), the first openly LGBT Native American woman elected to Congress, was one of the moderates that wavered on the bill.

"I think the point still stands. I don't think people have to be personally racist to enable a racist system. And the same could even be said of the Southern Democrats," Chakrabarti said in a now deleted follow-up tweet. "I don't believe Sharice is a racist person, but her votes are showing her to enable a racist system."

Although Breitbart News reported on the controversial comments at the time, neither Ocasio-Cortez nor House leadership acknowledged that Chakrabarti may have crossed a line. The situation, though, changed sharply in July when Ocasio-Cortez accused Pelosi of "singling out newly elected women of color."

After the rebuke, Pelosi's allies within the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) moved simultaneously to defend the Speaker and attack the freshman congresswoman. A number of the CBC's members, including Rep. William Lacy Clay (D-MO), directed their anger at both Ocasio-Cortez and her chief of staff.

"It shows you how ignorant and little history [Chakrabarti] knows, how ignorant he is to American history. How dare he," Clay toldThe Hill.

The Missouri Democrat extended his criticism to Justice Democrats, the group started by Chakrabart to support left-leaning primary challenges to establishment Democrats.

"I find it juvenile, their tactics, I find their ignorance to be beyond belief about American history and about who are really segregationists," Clay said. "And so how dare they try to play the race card at this point, it shows you the weakness of their arguments."

Other moderates appeared to echo the sentiment, with some even anonymously calling for Chakrabarti's ouster.


Saikat Chakrabarti, and the organization Justice Democrats has some interesting history:





Fire

Kentucky: Enbridge pipeline explosion kills 1, injures 5

gas explosion
© Naomi Hayes/AP
In this Thursday photo provided by Naomi Hayes, a fire burns after an explosion near Junction City, Ky. A regional gas pipeline ruptured early Thursday in Kentucky, causing a massive explosion.
A regional gas pipeline ruptured early Thursday in Kentucky, causing a massive explosion that killed one person, hospitalized five others, destroyed railroad tracks and forced the evacuation of a nearby mobile home park, authorities said.

Some structures were completely consumed by the blaze, and five to seven people were unaccounted for when firefighters extinguished the flames hours later, Lincoln County Emergency Management Director Don Gilliam said.

"The part of the area that has been compromised, there's just nothing left," Gilliam said when asked whether residents might return to their trailer homes. "The residences that are still standing or damaged will be accessible. There doesn't really look like there's any in-between back there. They're either destroyed or they're still standing."

Kentucky State Police spokesman Robert Purdy said at least five homes were completely destroyed and structures within 450 metres had damage. He said a handful of people who were missing after the blast have now been accounted for.

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Eight Covington Catholic teens file defamation lawsuit against Sen. Warren, others

covington catholic high school
© Madalyn McGarvey/Reuters
Eight Covington Catholic High School students claim they were defamed during a field trip to Washington in January in a lawsuit filed in Kentucky.

The lawsuit seeks damages for alleged defamatory comments by 12 individuals — lawmakers, journalists and social media personalities, Law & Crime reported Friday.

The individuals include presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman.

The field trip drew international headlines after Covington High student Nicholas Sandmann, wearing a MAGA hat, was filmed directly facing a Native American activist near the Lincoln Memorial.

Just days ago, a lawsuit Sandmann and his family brought against The Washington Post over its coverage was dismissed by a Kentucky federal judge.

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