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15 dead in Iranian Army Boeing-707 crash near Tehran


Sputnik
Mon, 14 Jan 2019 13:11 UTC
Iran cargo plane crash
© @HeshmatAlavi/Twitter
Shahriar, Tehran Province, #Iran Reports indicate a Boeing 707 cargo plane with 10 on board, has crashed near a city west of the Iranian capital. The plane was from Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan.
Fars has reported that the pilots lost control of the aircraft during landing, resulting in the plane crashing in a residential area. According to the news agency, the plane was meant to arrive at Payam International Airport in Karaj but accidentally went to Fath Airport.

A Boeing-707 cargo aircraft crashed in a residential area of Karaj on the outskirts of Tehran, the Iranian news agency ILNA reported on Monday.

According to media reports, some 16 people were on board the aircraft that was flying from the city of Bishkek.
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Heart - Black

Israel experiencing pandemic of 'revenge porn'

Noam Barkan
Ynet News
Sat, 12 Jan 2019 12:27 UTC
revenge porn
© Shutterstock/File
The dissemination of explicit photos and videos of minors online affects children as young as 6, but law enforcement authorities are unable to put a stop to it; a new Knesset study finds that while the law allows jail time for perpetrators, most cases never make it to trial.

It has been two years since Karen (not her real name) met the man who made her life in to a living hell. At first he made a wonderful impression, but unbeknown to her he covered her home with cameras and filmed her in her most intimate moments.

We dated for several months, and the relationship seemed promising. He treated me nicely and with respect," she says.

When she felt their relationship was fizzling out, she ended it and went on with her life, without knowing that her ex was obliterating her privacy.

Comment: Unfortunately, this uniquely modern form of assault has become ubiquitous.

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Quenelle

Gilets Jaunes: Is France ground zero for a global movement?

Gilbert Mercier
News Junkie Post
Wed, 09 Jan 2019 12:04 UTC
yellow vest tricolour
© Patrice Calatayu
France is at a crossroad. A fairly benign bread-and-butter protest has turned into a major popular dissent putting in question France's political system. It is new, unheard of, and because we live in the digital age, with immediate communication, the world is not only watching, but there is a contagious factor to it, which in the Anglo-Saxon world is called "Yellow Vests Movement". In what could be a healthy contagion of a social yellow fever of dissent, this polymorphic movement has already spread to 25 countries and counting. In the immediate vicinity of France, of course, in countries such as Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany, Spain, but also while not clearly identified as Gilets Jaunes chapters in Hungary, Bulgaria and Serbia. It has reached the Middle East with activities in Israel and Iraq, and the Americas with startup movements, still trying to structure themselves, in the United States and Canada. Is this explosion of dissent merely some short lived copycat effects or is a deeper systemic change in process or, in another word, the catalyst of a historical paradigm shift in real time. France is, for now, the main social battle ground, and critical test of the movement.
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Heart - Black

Family sues police department after cop finds missing teen only to rape & impregnate her

Michael Gordon
Charlotte Observer
Mon, 14 Jan 2019 11:48 UTC
Lowell police officer Paul Blair

Lowell police officer Paul Blair
When a Gaston County teenager went missing in 2015, Lowell police officer Paul Blair was assigned to her case.

First he found the 13-year-old, a new court document says, then he began showing up at her home late at night, bringing candy and giving her rides in his patrol car.

Blair, a husband and father, told the girl's parents he wanted to be their daughter's mentor. Instead, he initiated "numerous sexual acts" with her in his patrol car while still on duty and wearing his uniform, the court document says.
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Arrow Down

Kurdish SDF official: ISIS is in its 'final moments'

Rodi Said & Tom Perry
Reuters
Mon, 14 Jan 2019 11:48 UTC
ISIS terrorist jihadi
© Reuters
Islamic State militants are "living their final moments" in the last enclave they hold near the Iraqi border, where U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are attacking them, an SDF official said on Sunday.

A defeat of the jihadists in the enclave would wipe out Islamic State's territorial foothold on the eastern bank of the Euphrates River.

A spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition said the SDF were making "great progress ... but the fight continues".

The SDF, a coalition of militias led by the Kurdish YPG, have driven Islamic State from a swathe of northern and eastern Syria with the help of the U.S.-led coalition over the last four years.
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Cheese

Schizophrenic QAnon believer kills his brother with a sword... because 'God told me he was a lizard'

Ellen Iones
Daily Dot
Wed, 09 Jan 2019 10:32 UTC
Buckley Wolfe
© KIRO
Buckley Wolfe
A Seattle man is accused of killing his brother, who he believed was a lizard, on Sunday night.

Buckley Wolfe, 26, is being held on a $1 million bail for allegedly killing his brother, James, with a sword. Wolfe, who claimed to have been diagnosed with schizophrenia, according to the Seattle Times, told a 911 dispatcher, "Kill me, kill me, I can't live in this reality," and "God told me he was a lizard."

Wolfe has been charged with second-degree murder. Wolfe's social media also reveals that he was interested in the QAnon conspiracy theory, according to the Daily Beast.

The Facebook page contained numerous references to President Donald Trump, Pepe the Frog, and other figures. There were also associations with the Proud Boys, the "Western chauvinist" group under fire for a number of violent incidents across the country.

Comment: That's why it's important to not become ideologically-possessed.

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Bad Guys

Agents provocateurs? French journalists viciously beaten at Yellow Vest protest


RT
Mon, 14 Jan 2019 11:44 UTC
journalists attacked yellow vest
© Ruptly
A bunch of protesters have unleashed their anger at a French television crew and their bodyguards amid a Yellow Vests protest, kicking and punching them on the streets of the northwestern city of Rouen.

A video released by a local news website Paris-Normandie shows reporters from France's LCI broadcaster and their security guards being violently attacked by a group of men, some wearing the distinctive yellow vests used by anti-government protesters. The mob tries to encircle the journalists before chasing them down the street.

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NewsReal #23: It's a Trap! The Left vs Right Paradigm


Sott.net
Sun, 13 Jan 2019 23:00 UTC
newsreal left right trap
From 'conservatives' vs 'liberals', pro-mass migration vs anti-immigration, Islam vs the West, and even men vs women, Western society appears to be in a state of increasing social conflict.

Beyond the often legitimate rationale for holding these positions lie foundational and deep psychological differences between human beings, but is it possible that 'someone' is deliberately exploiting them, ultimately against the interests of all?

Joe & Niall also discuss US Sec. of State Mike Pompeo's speech in Cairo, in which he announced a brand new US foreign policy for the Middle East. How different is it from the Obama administration's?


Running Time: 01:13:45

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Airplane Paper

UK defenseless against disruptive drones at British airports, minister admits


RT
Mon, 14 Jan 2019 01:09 UTC
drone
© AFP / Roslan Rahman
There's no easy way to prevent rogue drone pilots from causing disruptions at UK airports, transport secretary Chris Grayling has said. It means the chaos recently experienced by passengers at Gatwick and Heathrow may be repeated.

Currently, there is no "off the shelf solution" to the new problem, while the technologies that are now being developed are "very immature," Grayling told Sky News.

Drone disruptions have become a hot topic in the UK recently after two major airport incidents in London. Around 1,000 flights were canceled, affecting the travel plans of 140,000 people, after two unmanned aircraft hampered Gatwick's operations for two days in December. Heathrow had to hold plane departures for an hour last Tuesday after a drone was spotted in the vicinity of the airport.

Comment: Fines and licenses are typical bureaucratic solutions to a problem, but UK airports weren't able to track down the operators of the alleged drones and, with over 100 credible sightings reported at Gatwick, only one video of the 'drone' seems to have surfaced - granted, at nighttime in particular, this could be tricky. And so even after ordering "several millions" of pounds worth of military anti-drone equipment the UK government has been forced to admit it is powerless, which is curious indeed.

For those incidents where it is verifiable that the problem is a drone - because the airport incidents were surrounded with conflicting information - the UK should take its cue from Russia and look into training falcons that can hunt and intercept drones.

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Fire

1 dead, 5 injured in gas explosion at apartment block in Rostov, Russia


Sputnik
Mon, 14 Jan 2019 07:16 UTC
rostov gas russia
At least five people were injured in a household gas explosion in a 9-storey building in Russia's Rostov Region.

A spokesperson for the operational headquarters of the Russian Emergencies Ministry at the site of an incident told Sputnik on Monday that floors in two storeys collapsed and at least five people were injured after a gas blast in a 9-storey building in Russian city of Shakhty in Rostov region.

"The gas clap occurred in apartment 30 on the ninth floor on Khabarova Street 16," the spokesperson said.

According to preliminary information, the blast occurred on the ninth storey. Circumstances of the incident are being investigated.

Comment: TASS reports with a few more details:
Gas blast in Rostov residential building: What we know so far

A household gas explosion hitting a residential block in the city of Shakty, Rostov Region, killed a woman, seven people have been rescued, while another four are still unaccounted for, according to updated information provided by Russia's Emergencies Ministry.

"A total of 12 people lived in the destroyed apartments. One of them was killed, seven were rescued, the search for another four continues," the ministry's press service told TASS.

According to the press service, there were three people in apartment number 71: a woman was killed, while a man and a child were rescued alive. A woman who lived in apartment number 72 is missing. "Three people lived in apartment number 68, they are being searched for. Five people were rescued from apartment number 68 on the eighth floor," the ministry said.

According to the Russian Emergencies Ministry, a gas and air mixture exploded on the ninth floor of a residential building in Shakhty, damaging four apartments on the ninth and eighth floors. A total of 140 people have been evacuated from the 72-apartment building.

A search and rescue operation involving about 120 people and 35 pieces of equipment is being carried out at the site.
There have been a notable number of similar explosions and gas related fires in the news recently, from the US to Russia, with one just two days ago in Paris, France:


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