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16 civilians killed in suspected ADF Islamist militia attack in DR Congo


Yahoo
Fri, 23 Jul 2021 11:20 UTC
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Congolese troops patrolling the highway from Beni to the Ugandan border. The road and its surrounding villages have suffered several dozen ADF attacks since last December
Suspected members of a notorious Islamist militia killed 16 people as they were returning from a weekly market in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), local and medical sources said Friday.

The dead from the ambush on Thursday evening included six women and a child, all of whom were shot, Jerome Munyambethe, head of the hospital in the town of Oicha, told AFP.

"We have 16 bodies in the hospital morgue," town mayor Nicolas Kikuku said.

Comment: From 2015: Sott Exclusive: Western civilization's legacy in the Congo, and the spirit of Che

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Florida Governor DeSantis hints at special session to fight school mask mandates: We're not doing that in Florida!


Tallahassee Democrat
Thu, 22 Jul 2021 03:42 UTC
DeSantis
© Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis
Gov. Ron DeSantis doubled down Thursday on his opposition to mask mandates for public-school students during the COVID-19 pandemic, saying he would call for a special legislative session if the federal government moves toward requiring masks in schools.
"There's been talk about potentially people advocating at the federal level, imposing compulsory masks on kids. We're not doing that in Florida, OK? We need our kids to breathe."
DeSantis made the remarks while in Fort Pierce for a ceremonial bill signing with House Speaker Chris Sprowls, R-Palm Harbor. DeSantis said he and Sprowls would back a special session if the federal government requires masks in schools, adding that Florida districts will keep masks optional for students.
"As of right now, all the school districts are going in that direction. But there is going to be, it looks like, a campaign from Washington to try to change that. I've talked to Chris Sprowls, if we need to bring (lawmakers) back in to be able to do something from the legislative perspective, he's all in."

Comment: See also:

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Syringe

Sean Hannity clarifies stance on coronavirus shots: 'I never told anyone to get a vaccine'

Andrew Blake
The Washington Times
Fri, 23 Jul 2021 00:00 UTC
Hannity
© Fox News/"Hannity"/AP
Fox News host Sean Hannity, taping a show
Fox News host Sean Hannity denied Thursday night that he said viewers should get vaccinated against COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, and ripped "idiots in the media mob" for reporting otherwise.

Mr. Hannity said during his cable show:
"I never told anyone to get a vaccine. I've been very clear. I am simply not qualified. I am not a medical doctor."
Mr. Hannity, one of the country's most well-known conservative media personalities, made headlines this week after delivering a dialogue imploring his audience to "please take COVID seriously." Mr. Hannity said Monday night:
"Please take COVID seriously. I can't say it enough. Enough people have died. We don't need any more deaths. It absolutely makes sense for many Americans to get vaccinated."

Comment: Same schtick - different approach. Facts don't apply.

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At least 17 Brits drown trying to cool off in 30-degree-Celcius heatwave as agencies warn swimmers to stay out of water


RT
Fri, 23 Jul 2021 12:50 UTC
Swimmers Lake
© Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
Swimmers in the lake at Beckenham Place Park, England
As a heatwave scorched the UK in temperatures as high as 32 degrees Celsius (nearly 90F), at least 17 people drowned while trying to cool off in the country this past week, with agencies warning Brits to avoid getting into water.

While many Brits flocked to the nearest water source in an attempt to stay cool in the high temperatures, over a dozen did not come out, with at least 17 drownings recorded in reservoirs, canals, lakes, and other bodies of water in just a few days, according to reports.

Many of the victims were teenagers, with the body of the latest - a 14-year-old boy who went missing while swimming near Steetley Pier in Hartlepool - found on Thursday, following a coastguard search.

According to the Daily Mail newspaper, at least 17 others also drowned during the heatwave, which started late last week and continued to rise this week. The majority of cases were recorded on Sunday, July 18, when temperatures in London reached 30 degrees Celsius. Seven people reportedly drowned that day, at least two of them teenagers.
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USWNT files appeal in equal pay lawsuit against U.S. Soccer Federation

Liz Roscher
Yahoo Sports
Fri, 23 Jul 2021 10:34 UTC
USWNT
© Yoshikazu Tsuno/AFP/Getty Images
USWNT is fighting for equal pay while battling for a gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics.
The U.S. women's national soccer team is fighting two battles right now. One is in Tokyo, where they're fighting for a gold medal. The other is back in the United States, where they're continuing to fight for equal pay.

The USWNT filed their opening brief with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday, asking the court to reverse the district court's May 2020 decision to dismiss most of their equal pay suit against the U.S. Soccer Federation.

The brief argues that the summary judgment that was issued in May 2020 was inherently flawed and failed to consider the overwhelming evidence that USWNT are underpaid compared to their male counterparts, despite being the most dominant team in international soccer history. The federal judge who heard the case ruled that the USWNT's claims of equal pay weren't sufficient to warrant a trial because they're being paid under the terms of the contract they'd signed.
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Bizarro Earth

DC police chief 'mad as hell' over shootings: Justice system 'not functioning'

Bruce Golding
New York Post
Fri, 23 Jul 2021 18:40 UTC
Metropolitan Police Chief Robert Contee wasington dc
© Getty
Metropolitan Police Chief Robert Contee says the justice system is coddling "violent criminals" and leading to more shootings.
A brazen shooting in a trendy part of Washington, DC, that wounded two men and sent restaurant patrons and bystanders scrambling for safety prompted an epic rant from the city's fed-up top cop on Friday.

During a visit to the scene of the crime, Metropolitan Police Chief Robert Contee declared that, "the justice system that we have right now, it is not functioning the way that it should," adding, "I'm mad as hell about this."

"I'm saying to you, enough is enough," Contee fumed during his seven-minute diatribe.
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German cops identify over 1,600 suspects in online chat sting op where child porn & zoophilia materials were distributed


RT
Sat, 24 Jul 2021 14:46 UTC
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© Getty Images / sakkmesterke
Police in Germany have identified more than 1,600 potential child sex-abuse suspects who participated in online chat groups on which child pornography and zoophilia material was shared. Many of the suspects are reportedly minors.

While most of the suspects came from across the country, digital forensic experts had picked out people from the US, Austria, Switzerland and France on suspicion of possessing or sharing images of child sex abuse in the chat groups.

According to a press statement from Bavarian police, the suspects were being evaluated as part of "two large-scale trials" being prepared by police and prosecutors. If convicted, all suspects, including the minors, would be looking at a prison term of "not less than a year."

Comment: It's worth something that the police are catching these predators and perverts, even though the sentences for these abhorrent crimes seems to be increasingly lenient. That these crimes appear to be on the rise probably reflects the sickness present in Western civilisation.

It's also notable that the police don't seem to be so quick to act when the criminals involved are high profile personalities, with a number of examples showing the cases were held back until the offender died, if not their crimes being buried completely:

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Slow collapse: UK police ABANDONED investigations into over 1,000 crimes daily in 2020 - one in seven probes dumped within 24 hours


RT
Sat, 24 Jul 2021 18:30 UTC
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© REUTERS/Hannah McKay
Police forces across the UK reportedly wrote off over 1,000 crimes a day last year. Investigations into serious crimes like threats to murder, rapes, assaults and arson were apparently closed within 24 hours during the pandemic.

Despite lower crime levels in the country during the Covid lockdowns, some forces doubled the number of crime investigations they "screened out". One in seven crimes reported last year were allegedly abandoned within a day of police opening investigations into them.

The shocking figures, revealed in freedom of information requests by the Daily Mail, showed that police probes into some 432,634 crimes were ditched within a day - or about 1,185 crimes per day last year. The paper noted that the true figure was likely at least twice that amount since less than half of the UK's police forces shared their data.
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Syringe

No surprise: De Blasio now calling on employers to require COVID vaccine: 'It's time for more mandates'

Nolan Hicks
New York Post
Fri, 23 Jul 2021 17:52 UTC
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© Reuters
Bill de Blasio's remarks on WNYC came just two days after he imposed a mandate on employees of the city's public hospital system and the Health Department's community clinics.
Mayor Bill de Blasio called on private employers Friday to impose vaccination requirements as workers begin to head back to the office, as part of his latest bid to head off a surge in COVID cases driven by the more contagious Delta variant of the virus.

De Blasio's remarks on WNYC came just two days after he imposed a mandate on employees of the city's public hospital system and the Health Department's community clinics to finally get vaccinated or face weekly coronavirus testing.

"We tried purely voluntary for over half a year. We tried every form of incentives," he said during his weekly appearance on WNYC's The Brian Lehrer Show. "But now we've got to go further, we've reached the limits of a purely voluntary system."

"It's time for more mandates," he added.

Comment: The media does their bit:

'The carrot is no longer going to work': CNN exec says in leaked email that US should rethink 'carrot vs. stick' vaccination drive

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Pirates

Bombs rain down on Idlib, NATO-backed terror against Syria's citizens continues unabated

Vanessa Beeley
RT
Fri, 23 Jul 2021 17:35 UTC
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© Vanessa Beeley
A young child injured during a recent attack on homes in Jurin, a Syrian village near the frontlines of Idlib.
Children are being killed, homes are being shelled, and fields scorched, often by Al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorists armed with US-made weapons or by Turkish artillery. Where's the outcry in the West against these war crimes?

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres celebrated the extension of a "humanitarian" border crossing at Bab Al Hawa on July 10 as a "lifeline for millions of people" - many Syrians would rather describe it as a "lifeline" for Al-Qaeda.

On July 15, I visited Jurin, a village to the north of the Hama governorate and only 5km from the Syrian-allied military frontlines with the Al-Qaeda-dominated armed groups controlling Idlib in northwest Syria. We arrived at around 9a.m. to the boom of mortar and rocket fire from the Jabal az Zawiya mountain that is under the control of Turkish-backed armed groups. Jurin is in the Al Ghab plains at the foot of two mountain ranges, and is an easy target for the elevated terrorist positions on Jabal az Zawiya.

Comment: See also:

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