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Teen who filmed sister's death after car crash is jailed for six years

Richard Hartley-Parkinson
Metro
Fri, 09 Feb 2018 20:13 UTC

A teenager has been jailed for more than six years after she live-streamed the moment she killed her sister in a drink driving crash.

Obdulia Sanchez continued to film on Instagram as her 14-year-old sister Jacqueline lay dying after being thrown from the car in Los Banos, California.

The 19-year-old was sentenced yesterday after being convicted of gross vehicular manslaughter, DUI and child endangerment stemming from the July crash.

The car driven by Sanchez veered onto the shoulder of a road in Los Banos, about 100 miles south of San Francisco.

Authorities say she overcorrected, causing the vehicle to swerve and overturn, ejecting and killing her 14-year-old sister.

'I just want what's best for him': Newborn abandoned at Tucson Airport

RT
Fri, 09 Feb 2018 19:37 UTC

Authorities at the Tucson International Airport are looking for a woman who abandoned a newborn baby. The mother vanished after giving birth alone in the airport bathroom, leaving behind only a handwritten note.

"Please help me. My mom had no idea she was pregnant. She is unable and unfit to take care of me. Please get me to the authorities so they can find a good home," the note said.

"Please, I'm sorry," the note concludes. "I just want what is best for him and it is not me."

Authorities are seeking the woman who is thought to have given birth at around 9pm on January 14, in the Concourse B restroom at Tucson International Airport in Arizona.

Egyptian Air Forces Hit Militant Targets in Sinai Peninsula - Army spokesperson

Sputnik
Fri, 09 Feb 2018 20:43 UTC

© AFP 2018/ STRINGER
Egyptian security forces stand by their Armoured Personnel Carriers ahead of a military operation in the northern Sinai Peninsula

Egypt has been fighting jihadist insurgency in northern Sinai since the ouster of then-President Mohamed Morsi in 2013. A year later, Sinai's indigenous militants pledged their allegiance to Daesh terrorist group.

The Egyptian Air Force has carried out strikes on militant's hideouts in the northern and central parts of the Sinai Peninsula, the army spokesperson said Friday.

"The Egyptian Air Force has carried out strikes on shelters and munition storage, which are used by terrorists to mount attacks on law enforcement bodies and civil facilities in the northern and central Sinai Peninsula," the spokesperson's statement reads, adding that Egypt's navy, border security forces, and police had stepped up measures to protect Egypt's land and maritime borders in order to prevent the flow of terrorists to the country's territory.

Comment: See also: Egyptian Air Force bombs 40 ISIS-affiliated terrorists in Northern Sinai

Ex-Chief of Israeli and US-trained elite forces unit in Mexico arrested over 'forced disappearances'

Tele Sur
Thu, 08 Feb 2018 00:00 UTC

© Reuters
Members of the Fuerza Civil (Civil Force) police patrol during a media presentation in Monterrey, Mexico. Dec. 17, 2014.

Official documents show that the Civil Force of Veracruz state and other local agencies have been investigated for 145 cases of disappearances.

A former high level police officer from the eastern Mexican state of Veracruz was arrested Wednesday over charges of "forced disappearances" during his tenure as the head of an elite unit called Civil Force, which has received training from U.S. and Israeli agencies.

Federal and state agents captured Roberto González Meza, former director of the Civil Force of Veracruz, an elite unit that included 2,000 highly trained agents during the administration of Governor Javier Duarte de Ochoa between 2010 and 2016. Duarte himself is in prison and faces charges related to organized crime and money laundering.

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Rocky Mountain high: Aspen marijuana sales outperformed alcohol

RT
Fri, 09 Feb 2018 18:37 UTC

Legal distributors of cannabis in Aspen earned $11.3 million in revenue in 2017 compared with $10.5 million for liquor stores. It is the first time marijuana sales outperformed liquor for the year in the Colorado town.

The latest marijuana figures showed a whopping 16 percent increase over 2016, which registered just $9.7 million in sales, according to The Aspen Times, quoting the city's finance department.

By comparison, Aspen's total haul from the Food & Drug industry amounted to $56.1 million in 2017, just a 1 percent change from 2016; the restaurant and bar sector, meanwhile, pulled in $129.7 million, a 3 percent change.

Colorado voted for legalizing recreational marijuana in 2012, with sales starting in 2014.

Comment: More on marijuana: San Francisco to expunge thousands of marijuana convictions which will "right so many wrongs"

Social media giants 'just don't get it': UK 'fake news' committee plods ahead despite no evidence of Russian Brexit meddling

RT
Fri, 09 Feb 2018 17:15 UTC

The UK government's fake news crusade is not quite going according to plan. A taxpayer-funded trip to the US saw representatives of social media giants rather lukewarm on claims of Russian interference in the Brexit referendum.

UK lawmakers from the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee traveled to Washington in an attempt to extract information from leading tech firms including YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Google. Committee members held hearings with the company's executives, during which they were told there was little or no evidence of fake news being circulated on their platforms.

"The patience of policy makers is running out," Chairman of the Committee Damian Collins told a press conference, following the hearings.

Angered, Collins insisted the committee from Britain be heard and ordered Google and others to have a "sense of compulsory obligation" and accept their investment in dealing with "bad content" was "still very small."

Despite numerous investigations, one of which revealed that less than $1 (£0.72) was spent on Facebook ads in the Brexit referendum from accounts linked to Russia, the UK government is seemingly not giving up their battle with fake news.

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Propaganda alert: White Helmets terror group sympathizer nominated for award - therefore "Russia wants to hack Oscars"

Olivia Solon
The Guardian
Fri, 09 Feb 2018 18:34 UTC

The film-maker behind the Oscar-nominated documentary Last Men in Aleppo has been targeted by a smear campaign that seeks to paint him as a terrorist sympathiser in the run up to the Academy Awards.

Comment: Is it really a "smear" campaign if he really is a terrorist sympathiser?

Director Feras Fayyad spent a year working with local journalists to follow a handful of volunteer rescue workers in the besieged Syrian city as they rushed towards bombed buildings to try and find people in the rubble. The resulting documentary has earned widespread critical praise and won awards including the Sundance grand jury prize.

Comment: I.e., the White Helmets, al-Qaeda's "humanitarian PR" arm.

However, the international recognition has been accompanied by an organized attempt to tarnish the film-maker's reputation, following a playbook of Russia-backed disinformation and manipulation.

"It is like Russia wants to hack the Oscars like they hacked the US election," he told the Guardian.

Comment: That darn pesky Russian playbook. If only it would stop telling the truth already!

Lebanon to open its ports to Russian fleet, in return Russia will train the Lebanese army

Middle East Monitor
Fri, 09 Feb 2018 19:24 UTC

© Bandar Algaloud/Saudi Royal Council/Anadolu Agency
Russian Prime Minister Dmitriy Medvedev in Moscow, Russia on 6 October 2017

Russian media sources revealed that on Tuesday Russian Prime Minister, Dmitry Medvedev, instructed the Russian Defence Ministry to begin talks with its Lebanese counterpart to sign a military cooperation agreement between Russia and Lebanon.

The draft agreement to be signed between the parties included the opening of Lebanese ports in front of Russian military vessels and fleets, in addition to making Lebanese airports a transit station for Russian aircrafts and fighters, and the dispatch of Russian military experts to train and strengthen the capabilities of members of the Lebanese army, according to the Russian agency Sputnik.

Comment: See also: Russia will arm Lebanon against ISIS and other extremist groups

South Korean crazies protest Winter Olympics ceremony, call for US to bomb the North

RT
Fri, 09 Feb 2018 18:29 UTC

A crowd of anti-North Korea protesters scuffled with riot police and tore down portraits of Kim Jong-un ahead of hours before the Winter Olympics Opening ceremony.

Some 800 activists, some bearing South Korean and US flags, gathered for the rally near the Olympic stadium in Pyeongchang, according to Reuters estimate. One banner was apparently addressed to US leader Donald Trump, reading: "Mr President. North Korea bombing, please." Many activists were seen holding posters, referring to Kim by the Trump-devised nickname of "mad little rocket man".

Protesters also carried banners, saying "Moon Regime is leading Korea to destruction," referring to South Korean President Moon Jae-in. On Friday, Moon met with the North's ceremonial head of state, Kim Yong-nam.

Comment: Just goes to show: every nation has its suicidal lunatic fringe.

1 killed, over 45 injured in twin bombings at Benghazi mosque

RT
Fri, 09 Feb 2018 14:33 UTC

At least one person has been killed and dozens more injured following a double bomb attack at a mosque in Benghazi, eastern Libya, following Friday prayers.

Late last month around 35 people were killed in two bombings at another mosque in the city.

Local media are reporting that the bombing of the Abi Harira mosque in the Majuri neighborhood was carried out by an attacker with a bag of explosives. One person has been killed, according to local reports.

A military source told Reuters that the devices appear to have been detonated remotely using a mobile phone.

Comment: See also: Dozens killed & injured in twin car bomb attack in Benghazi, Libya (GRAPHIC VIDEO)

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Society's Child

Teen who filmed sister's death after car crash is jailed for six years

'I just want what's best for him': Newborn abandoned at Tucson Airport

Egyptian Air Forces Hit Militant Targets in Sinai Peninsula - Army spokesperson

Ex-Chief of Israeli and US-trained elite forces unit in Mexico arrested over 'forced disappearances'

Rocky Mountain high: Aspen marijuana sales outperformed alcohol

Social media giants 'just don't get it': UK 'fake news' committee plods ahead despite no evidence of Russian Brexit meddling

Propaganda alert: White Helmets terror group sympathizer nominated for award - therefore "Russia wants to hack Oscars"

Lebanon to open its ports to Russian fleet, in return Russia will train the Lebanese army

South Korean crazies protest Winter Olympics ceremony, call for US to bomb the North

1 killed, over 45 injured in twin bombings at Benghazi mosque

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