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Head-on collision of passenger trains in Czech Republic leaves seven people injured


Sputnik
Sun, 10 Jul 2016 13:50 UTC
train collision czech republic
A head-on collision of two passenger trains in Czech Republic early on Sunday has resulted in seven people receiving various injuries, local media reported.

The incident happened 200 meters (218.7 yards) away from the train station in the town of Rotava, the Blesk newspaper reported.

Police announced that the case in suspected criminal negligence was opened as the exact cause had not been identified so far, according to the daily.
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Police shootings: Yes, they are about race

PM Beers
The Anti Media
Fri, 08 Jul 2016 16:52 UTC
Police brutality activist
© Scott Olson/Getty Images
"Why do you always have to make it about race?"

"Because it IS about race."

This is a common, growing conversation in the United States.

"Race and class are unfortunate, yet inextricable factors—for us, for the police and for the dead man," wrote Goldie Taylor, referring to Alton Sterling in her article for the Daily Beast. Mr. Sterling, a father of five, a small businessman, and an entrepreneur, was selling CDs in front of a mini-market with the blessing and consent of the owner, Abdullah Muflahi, who witnessed a Baton Rouge police officer shooting Mr. Sterling Tuesday night.
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As Japan's population dwindles - bears & boars roam where schools & shrines once thrived

Julie Makinen
Los Angeles Times
Sun, 10 Jul 2016 14:57 UTC
Japan
© Julie Makinen / Los Angeles TimesYoshihiro Shibata visits the temple in Hara-izumi village, Japan. The last monk left years ago because donations were insufficient, given the village's dwindling population.
The red-roofed temple at the top of the hill closed about a decade ago, and now Yoshihiro Shibata can't even remember its name, though the 54-year-old dairy farmer has lived in this picturesque village all his life.

"The income of the temple depends on the number of residents, and there weren't enough to keep a monk here," he said, looking around the deserted grounds nestled amid the village's lush landscape of tea plants and hydrangeas, bamboo and pine trees.

A few years after the temple shut its doors, the village tea-processing factory closed down and the elementary school too. Now, the remaining students are bused an hour away.

"When I was young, we had about 100 kids here, but now there are just five," Shibata said.
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The stories of six more women who allege Roger Ailes sexually harassed them

Gabriel Sherma
New York
Sat, 09 Jul 2016 14:45 UTC
Roger Ailes
© Charles Sykes
Fox News host Gretchen Carlson may be the highest-profile woman to accuse Roger Ailes of sexual harassment, but she is not the first. In my 2014 biography of the Fox News chief, I included interviews with four women who told me Ailes had used his position of power to make either unwanted sexual advances or inappropriate sexual comments in the office.

And it appears she won't be the last, either. In recent days, more than a dozen women have contacted Carlson's New Jersey-based attorney, Nancy Erika Smith, and made detailed allegations of sexual harassment by Ailes over a 25-year period dating back to the 1960s when he was a producer on The Mike Douglas Show. "These are women who have never told these stories until now," Smith told me. "Some are in lot of pain." Taken together, these stories portray Ailes as a boss who spoke openly of expecting women to perform sexual favors in exchange for job opportunities. "He said that's how all these men in media and politics work — everyone's got their friend," recalled Kellie Boyle, who says Ailes propositioned her in 1989, shortly after he helped George H.W. Bush become president, serving as his chief media strategist.

Six of the women agreed to speak with New York publicly for the first time. Two spoke on the record; the others requested anonymity for reasons that include shame and fear of retribution. "I didn't tell my husband, it was so mortifying," said Marsha Callahan, a former model who says Ailes harassed her in the late '60s, shortly before he became Richard Nixon's media adviser.

Comment: See also: Ex-Fox News host Gretchen Carlson accuses CEO of 'severe' sexual harassment

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Siphoning cash from minorities and the poor: Philando Castile was stopped 52 times by cops before his murder

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Sat, 09 Jul 2016 14:30 UTC
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© wearechange.org
A new report out of the Washington Post highlights the glaring profiling and gang stalking problem in America today. Philando Castile, who was murdered by police during a traffic stop, was a ticking time bomb — because of law enforcement policy in the United States.

Prior to being pulled over and murdered this week, Castile had been stopped a whopping 52 times! All of these 'offenses' were non-criminal, had no victim, and were used to extract thousands from this poor man.

According to the Post, Castile was assessed at least $6,588 in fines and fees, although more than half of the total 86 violations were dismissed, court records show.

Castile was not a criminal. Not only was he not a criminal, Castile was an upstanding member of the community who now mourns his loss, yet he was targetted by police dozens of times.
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Slap on the wrist: MasterCard faces £19bn lawsuit in UK over claims it ripped off shoppers


RT
Wed, 06 Jul 2016 14:20 UTC
Kreditkarte, Visa, Mastercard
© AP
For 16 years the leading global payments company MasterCard has been imposing unlawfully high interchange fees for using its cards in shops, according to UK's former financial services ombudsman Walter Merricks.

He is leading a court action which is expected to be filed soon under the Consumer Rights Act. The law which was introduced in 2015 allows for collective damages claims.

"The prices of everything we all bought from 1992 to 2008 were higher than they should have been as a result of the unlawful conduct of MasterCard. To be clear, there is no question that MasterCard acted illegally in the way it conducted its business, a business that affects all of us. All of us overpaid to the tune of up to £19 billion ($24.5 billion) during a period lasting 16 years," Merricks said.

He added that "although most of us did not know this, experts who study the retail economy knew it was happening — and so did MasterCard."

Merricks has already instructed US-based law firm Quinn Emanuel in an effort to seek redress to which UK consumers are entitled and to ensure MasterCard cannot hold on to the illegal profits it made.

"This case should send a signal to companies that break competition laws at the expense of UK consumers that they do so at their financial peril."
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Who owns your DNA? Gene sequencing company has been selling genetic data of millions of Americans

Mac Slavo
SHTFplan.com
Sat, 09 Jul 2016 14:02 UTC
DNA prison
The questions of our time have become - Who owns you? Your data? What about your DNA?

For customers who opted into signing a consent form when they signed up to have their DNA sequenced through the company 23andMe, it would appear that their DNA data belongs to a giant database that is being shared and sold to third-party medical and pharmaceutical firms.

As Gizmodo reported that the company that has been featured in Walgreens stores to sequence your DNA for a cheap one-time cost of $99 has a lot more at stake:

Comment: What will the government be doing with all that DNA?

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Teen found dead body in river while looking for Pokemon with phone game


RT
Sat, 09 Jul 2016 14:12 UTC
Pikachu pokemon
© Sadie Hernandez / Flickr
A 19-year-old stumbled upon a dead body while searching for a Pokemon with an augmented reality game she was playing on her smartphone.

Shayla Wiggins said she came across the body of a man as she was playing the game on her phone near the Big Wind River in Wyoming.

The 'Pokemon Go' augmented reality game was launched earlier in the week and requires players to visit various real world locations to "capture" virtual Pokemon.

The teen told County 10 she was playing the game at a stage that required getting Pokemon from a natural water resource when she found a man's body floating in the river.

"I was walking towards the bridge along the shore when I saw something in the water," Wiggins told the news outlet. "I had to take a second look and I realized it was a body."

Police said the man's death appeared to be accidental and could potentially be the result of drowning, but an investigation is ongoing.
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911 caller ambushes responding officer in Georgia - both wounded in shootout

Gary Fineout and Kate Brumbak
My Earthlink
Fri, 08 Jul 2016 13:53 UTC
cop shooting Georgia
© Gabe Burns/Associated PressA man who called 911 to report a car break-in Friday ambushed a south Georgia police officer dispatched to the scene.
A man who called 911 to report a car break-in Friday ambushed a south Georgia police officer dispatched to the scene, sparking a shootout in which both the officer and suspect were wounded, authorities said. Both are expected to survive.

The shooting in Valdosta, just north of the Georgia-Florida state line, happened hours after five police officers were killed Thursday night in an ambush in Dallas. Despite saying the officer was lured to the scene by the gunman, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said there was no immediate evidence that the shootings were related.

Tensions between law enforcement and the African-American community flared this week following two instances where white officers fatally shot black men. Videos of those shootings or their aftermath went viral. In the shooting in Valdosta, police said the suspected gunman is Asian.

"We're putting pieces together to understand what happened and why, developing witnesses," said Scott Dutton, spokesman for the GBI, which is handling the case at the request of local police. "There's nothing to indicate there's a connection to that."

Officer Randall Hancock was shot multiple times as he responded to a 911 call about a car break-in outside the Three Oaks Apartments just after 8 a.m. Friday, Valdosta Police Chief Brian Childress said at a news conference.
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Anti-NATO crowds from across Europe march through Warsaw during alliance summit


RT
Sun, 10 Jul 2016 12:50 UTC
anti nato protests europe
© RTAnti-Nato protest in Warsaw
Protests have taken place in Warsaw with members of the public angry the Polish capital is hosting a NATO summit. A few hundred demonstrators gathered in the city to march towards the national stadium where the conference was taking place.

Some of the protesters were carrying placards, such as "Stop NATO, Stop the War" and "Yankees, go home" as they marched from Charles de Gaulle Monument towards the national stadium.

"There were over 300 of us, which is not bad at all given the torrential rain and the circumstances. Everyone is in great spirits and we almost got to where we wanted. The demonstration is over," a member of the international group No to War - No to NATO, Rainer Braun told RIA Novosti.
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