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Woman escapes murder conviction after sawing lover to death during sex game


RT
Sat, 20 May 2017 15:46 UTC
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A woman who slit her boyfriend's throat with an electric saw during a sex game has escaped a murder conviction in a German court.

The accused, identified only as 'Gabi P', was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 12 years in prison by the District Court of Munich Friday, according to Süddeutsche Zeitung.
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Hundreds of activists fight occupation by rebuilding a Palestinian village


Mondoweiss
Sun, 21 May 2017 14:33 UTC
activists in Sarura rebuild their village
Hundreds of activists, organized by a coalition of Palestinian, Israeli and International organizations joined the families of Sarura to rebuild their village and create the "Sumud Freedom Camp."

The camp is located in an Israeli military firing zone on land belonging to the Palestinian village of Sarura, where 15 to 20 families were expelled by Israeli forces in the 1990's. According to Adam Greenberg, a participant, the camp is inspired by the Standing Rock protests in the U.S. which is working to prevent the building of an oil pipeline on indigenous land.

The coalition includes Palestinian, Israelis and international organizations: the All That's Left Collective, the Center for Jewish Nonviolence, Combatants for Peace, the Holy Land Trust, local Palestinian committees and Youth Against Settlements.

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German NGO worker killed and Finland woman kidnapped in Kabul amid multiple attacks by Taliban


RT
Sun, 21 May 2017 14:36 UTC
Afghan policemen
© Omar Sobhani / Reuters
A German woman working for an international charity has been killed in Kabul, and another woman from Finland has been kidnapped. The incident comes amid deadly Taliban attacks on police checkpoints, which have left up to 20 Afghan officers dead.


Comment: Spring offensive: Taliban kill at least 20 Afghan policemen


The German woman was killed by unknown attackers in the Afghan capital, Kabul, the German Foreign Ministry confirmed, according to DPA news agency.

Another woman, said to be from Finland, is missing and has possibly been kidnapped, spokesman for the Afghan Interior Ministry, Najib Danish, said.

Both women were inside a guesthouse in Kabul and worked for Swedish relief organization Operation Mercy.
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Terrorists versus terrorists: At least 40 Ahrar al Sham terrorists killed in a double suicide attack in Syria

Al Mayadeen - translated by Samer Hussein
Fort Russ news
Sun, 21 May 2017 14:25 UTC
Damaged Syrian motorcycle
At least 40 terrorists of the pro-Erdogan regime Ahrar Al Sham movement, including some of their leaders, were killed in a twin suicide attack that occurred in Ahrar Al Sham's headquarters in Tall Al Toukan, a rural settlement located in the eastern countryside of Syria's north-western province of Idleb.

The blasts, which were triggered by a pair of suicide bombers on motorcycles, reportedly targeted a meeting of Ahrar Al Sham's leaders at one of their headquarters. Several Egyptian nationals, who were among the leading figures of the movement, were reportedly killed as well.

According to some sources, Ammar Al Omar, Ahrar Al Sham's supreme leader, was also present at the meeting. His fate remains unknown. The claim cannot be independently verified.
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Info

Spring offensive: Taliban kill at least 20 Afghan policemen

Al Mayadeen - translated by Samer Hussein
Fort Russ News
Sun, 21 May 2017 14:21 UTC
Taliban fighters
At least 20 Afghan policemen were killed in a coordinated terror attack by the Taliban on Sunday.

According to Bismillah Afghanmal, the governor of Zabul province, a group of heavily armed Taliban fighters launched coordinated attack on 6 police checkpoints in the Shahjoi district of Zabul province in south-eastern Afghanistan and which lasted about 4 hours.

He also said 15 policemen were wounded in the assault, adding that police reinforcements have been dispatched to all 6 checkpoints, previously raided by the Taliban.
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Control Panel

Ideology Vs. Realism: How Devotion to a 'System' Can Blind Us to What Actually Works

Tony Cartalucci
Land Destroyer
Thu, 18 May 2017 00:00 UTC
ideologies
In reality, socioeconomic ideologies like socialism, communism, capitalism, agorism, and anarchy are like tools. They are best used under specific circumstances dictated by reality, and just like tools, are best used in combination or sequence toward achieving a certain end.

Healthcare provides a perfect example of this. All can most likely agree that one shouldn't die simply because they cannot afford healthcare. The current state of healthcare - particularly in terms of infrastructure and technology - means that in order to provide healthcare to individuals who cannot afford it "socialist" style policies and charity is required. However, neither is a sustainable or final solution - merely an incremental step toward one.

Free market competition, collaboration, entrepreneurship, and the advance of medical technology makes it cheaper and more accessible for everyone, including those who cannot afford it at current costs. Incrementally, research and development will yield healthcare infrastructure and technology even the poorest can afford without government intervention or charitable organizations.
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8 injured when plane crashes into truck on LAX taxiway


Yahoo News
Sat, 20 May 2017 14:05 UTC
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An Aeromexico passenger jet collided with a utility truck on a taxiway of Los Angeles International Airport shortly after landing on Saturday, injuring eight employees who were aboard the truck, but no one on the plane was hurt, authorities said.

The cause of the mishap, which damaged the right wing of the Boeing 737 and left the large supply truck overturned on its side, remained under investigation, said Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Brian Humphrey.

Six men and two women aboard the truck were taken to an area hospital for treatment of various unspecified injuries, none of them considered to be life-threatening, Humphreys said.

Airport officials said all eight were listed in stable condition.
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'The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct': Hoax gender studies paper accepted by a peer-reviewed academic journal

Peter Boghossian, ED.D & James Lindsay, PH.D.
Skeptic
Fri, 19 May 2017 19:08 UTC
transgender kids children gender identity
Note from the Skeptic editor: Every once in awhile it is necessary and desirable to expose extreme ideologies for what they are by carrying out their arguments and rhetoric to their logical and absurd conclusion, which is why we are proud to publish this expose of a hoaxed article published in a peer-reviewed article today. It's ramifications are unknown but one hopes it will help reign in extremism in this and related areas.
—Michael Shermer

"The conceptual penis as a social construct" is a Sokal-style hoax on gender studies. Follow the authors @peterboghossian and @GodDoesnt.

The Hoax
The androcentric scientific and meta-scientific evidence that the penis is the male reproductive organ is considered overwhelming and largely uncontroversial.
That's how we began. We used this preposterous sentence to open a "paper" consisting of 3,000 words of utter nonsense posing as academic scholarship. Then a peer-reviewed academic journal in the social sciences accepted and published it.
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The Syrian war and the Western left's misguided obsession with Empire

Danny Haiphong
Black Agenda Report
Tue, 18 Apr 2017 16:46 UTC
Western left and imperialsim

The left has always been small in the U.S., but now much of it cannot be called "left" at all. Jacobin throws its weight behind the jihadists waging holy war in Syria on behalf of US imperialism and its junior partners" - a reflection of "the infantile state of the anti-war left in the US." Imperialism has a twisted, phony left face. "Rather than defend Syria's self-determination, many in the West have bought into the imperialist narrative."


Comment: Jacobin is this website.


The Trump Administration's decision to conduct tomahawk missile strikes on a Syrian Arab Army airfield prompted activists in the US to hit the streets in protest. Protesters marched and spoke out against the airstrikes, which killed over a dozen Syrian soldiers on April 6th. The strikes come amidst intense pressure on the Trump Administration to abandon his campaign promises to ease relations with Russia and end regime change policy in the Middle East. In the days prior to the strike, Trump removed Steve Bannon as a formal leader in the National Security Council. Then, an alleged chemical weapons attack hit Idlib province, prompting President Trump, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, and US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley to reverse their position that the future of the Syrian government rested in the hands of the Syrian people. Once again, the anti-war movement was put to the test.
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Global Future report: Britain needs 200,000 migrants per year to save itself from Brexit 'catastrophe'


RT
Sat, 20 May 2017 21:16 UTC
Nurse
© Stefan Wermuth
Britain must allow at least 200,000 migrant workers to enter the country if it wants to escape the economic "catastrophe" of Brexit, a new study reveals.

According to the Global Future report, Britain's ageing population, its low productivity and labor shortages in key areas such as the National Health Service (NHS), means the UK must maintain a net inward migration target of 200,000, broadly in line with actual levels since 2000.

The report slammed both the Conservative and Labour parties for failing to be honest with the public about the extent to which the UK needs migrant workers.

The Tories have on Thursday renewed their manifesto pledge to cut net migration to the tens of thousands, something former PM David Cameron had initially committed to back in 2015, but which the government has repeatedly failed to deliver.

However, the report warned that if the government continues to be picky over its labor resources, the country risks a decade of slow growth similar to that experienced by Japan.
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