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First Briton to contract Ebola virus now in London hospital isolation unit

Louella-Mae Eleftheriou-Smith
Independent
Mon, 25 Aug 2014 16:20 UTC
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William Pooly, who is infected with the Ebola virus, is shown being loaded into an Royal Air Force (RAF) ambulance after being flown home on a C17 plane from Sierra Leone.
The first British person known to have contracted the deadly Ebola virus has been flown to London and is being treated by doctors.

He has been named as William Pooley, 29, a nurse who had travelled to Sierra Leone as a volunteer to help care for the victims of the Ebola outbreak. He was identified by Dr Robert Garry, an American scientist who worked with him at the Kenema Government Hospital in the south-east of Sierra Leone.

A specially equipped military aircraft flew Mr Pooley from Sierra Leone's main airport in Lungi to the UK on Sunday, landing at the RAF base in Northolt, where he was then transferred under police escort to the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead, London.

The hospital has Britain's only high-security infectious-disease unit, and Mr Pooley, who is described as "not currently seriously unwell," is being treated in a specialist isolation unit containing a tent made of plastic and rubber that separates the patient from medical staff while ensuring he can be observed.

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Violent, enraged Internet trolls are everywhere

Sara Scribner
Salon
Sat, 23 Aug 2014 19:00 UTC
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Violent, enraged Internet trolls lurk everywhere, and have remade what seemed like an open space. Can we stop them?

A young poet, enough of a rising star to be profiled in the New York Times Magazine, posts a poem called "The Rape Joke." It begins, "The rape joke is that you were 19 years old. The rape joke is that he was your boyfriend." It is about as intense and intimate as an online post can get. In the magazine article, the poet's mother reads the poem, but it is the comment thread that makes the mother cry. "Do you see what these people were saying about you?" her mother asked. "Mom, it's O.K.," the writer, Patricia Lockwood, said. "It's just the Internet."

Internet cruelty is nothing new. It might only surprise children and the uninitiated, who dip into the public sphere for the first time and are shocked by what comes back at them. But Lockwood's response reveals a generational shift. Her mother calls the commentators "people." Lockwood identifies them as "the Internet," a strange hybrid of human and computer, innately vicious but also ubiquitous, phenomena to be ignored.

Others have a more difficult time ignoring it. After reaching out to her father's mourning fans, Robin Williams' daughter Zelda became a target of sadistic trolls - piling trauma upon trauma. She closed her Instagram account and shut down her Twitter feed. A budding journalist who had just had one of her first stories posted on her university newspaper's website was so stunned by the comments that she decided to find another line of work. A young writer in New York City who was photographed trying to make ends meet by hauling his typewriter to the High Line and busking stories was savaged online. (He ended up writing an article about his ordeal called "I Am an Object of Internet Ridicule, Ask Me Anything.") Journalist Amanda Hess, who wrote one of the most talked-about stories of this year on women and the Internet, relates getting this comment to one of her pieces: "Amanda, I'll f*cking rape you. How does that feel?"

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  • Trolls just want to have fun?

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Hacktivism! Anonymous strikes at Israeli government, Bank of Israel over Gaza genocide


RT
Mon, 25 Aug 2014 05:40 UTC
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Hacker collective Anonymous has taken down key Israeli government websites in a "retaliatory" attack against Israel and in solidarity with the people of Gaza. Israel Defense Forces, Bank of Israel, and the Israeli PM's Office were among the targets.

Others hit by the attack included Israeli's ministry of Finance, the Embassy of Israel to the United States, the Central Bureau of Statistics and Israeli Immigration.
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- Anonymous (@AnonymousGlobo) August 21, 2014
Many of the websites were still down at the time of writing.

The latest attack reportedly comes in retaliation for shutting down various Anonymous social media accounts, which focused on the atrocities of Israel's military operation in the Gaza Strip.

Anonymous has been targeting the Israeli government with cyber-attacks since it began its latest military offensive in Gaza on July 8.
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Racism in America: Darren Wilson and being "afraid for your life"

Katie McDonough
Salon
Thu, 21 Aug 2014 16:53 UTC
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On Wednesday, Matt Zoller Seitz shared an anecdote to illustrate how white privilege kept him from getting arrested or otherwise harmed by the police after he started a fight on the street. The full piece is worth your time, since it's a frank accounting of how whiteness protects in the United States, but the most revealing moment in the story comes when Zoller Seitz - who admits he escalated a confrontation with the stranger, a Hispanic man loitering outside a deli - talks to the cops who arrived on the scene. After telling the two white officers that he had confronted the guy and punched him in the face after the stranger jabbed him in the chest with his fingers, the cops asked Zoller Seitz if he wanted to press charges for assault:

Comment: Perhaps no one has said it better:
By all accounts, Brown was One Of The Good Ones. But laying all this out, explaining all the ways in which he didn't deserve to die like a dog in the street, is in itself disgraceful. Arguing whether Brown was a good kid or not is functionally arguing over whether he specifically deserved to die, a way of acknowledging that some black men ought to be executed.
As George Orwell stated, "If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever."

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DPR dominating in east Ukraine despite civilian losses: Ukrainian National Guard loses 182 men over 24 hours


Itar-Tass
Mon, 25 Aug 2014 14:02 UTC
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The army of the self-proclaimed Donetsk's People's Republic (DPR) on Monday reported that 107 Ukrainian National Guard servicemen were killed and 75 wounded over the past 24 hours.

Militias said on Sunday, August 24, that they had decided to change their tactic to full-scale operations by fully capable formations and units, providing them with necessary fire support.

During the overnight fighting, the DPR army completely blocked a large grouping of Ukrainian military forces in six settlements - 5,000 servicemen from the Azov, Aidar and Dnieper battalions equipped with different types of hardware.

By Monday morning, the DPR army had trapped at least 7,000 Ukrainian servicemen armed with about 120 tanks, over 380 armored vehicles and about 1,000 Grad and Uragan multiple launch rocket systems.

Comment: By downplaying military deaths, Kiev is giving the world the impression they are 'winning the war' in east Ukraine, but the reality is that they are suffering heavy losses. The official death count is likely far below the real numbers.

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IDF snipers caught on camera shooting at Gaza children and celebrating a 'hit'

Syrian perspective
Youtube
Tue, 12 Aug 2014 13:41 UTC
Israeli soldiers doing what they do best: killing Palestinian civilians, including children. Watch as the soldiers mock the child they just shot in the leg for no reason whatsoever other than their pathological racism towards and hatred of Palestinians.

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Comment: In case anyone thinks that this is a 'one off' event, the result of a 'few bad apples, think again. This is par for the course in Israeli occupied Palestine, where Israeli soldiers murder with impunity, calling to mind the indiscriminate murder of Jews by Nazi troops during WW2.

From a 2004 UK Guardian article:
An Israeli army officer who repeatedly shot a 13-year-old Palestinian girl in Gaza dismissed a warning from another soldier that she was a child by saying he would have killed her even if she was three years old.

A tape recording of radio exchanges between soldiers involved in the incident, played on Israeli television, contradicts the army's account of the events and appears to show that the captain shot the girl in cold blood.

The official account claimed that Iman was shot as she walked towards an army post with her schoolbag because soldiers feared she was carrying a bomb.

But the tape recording of the radio conversation between soldiers at the scene reveals that, from the beginning, she was identified as a child and at no point was a bomb spoken about nor was she described as a threat. Iman was also at least 100 yards from any soldier.

Instead, the tape shows that the soldiers swiftly identified her as a "girl of about 10" who was "scared to death".

The tape also reveals that the soldiers said Iman was headed eastwards, away from the army post and back into the refugee camp, when she was shot.

At that point, Captain R took the unusual decision to leave the post in pursuit of the girl. He shot her dead and then "confirmed the kill" by emptying his magazine into her body.

The tape recording is of a three-way conversation between the army watchtower, the army post's operations room and the captain, who was a company commander.

The soldier in the watchtower radioed his colleagues after he saw Iman: "It's a little girl. She's running defensively eastward."

Operations room: "Are we talking about a girl under the age of 10?"

Watchtower: "A girl of about 10, she's behind the embankment, scared to death."

A few minutes later, Iman is shot in the leg from one of the army posts.

The watchtower: "I think that one of the positions took her out."

The company commander then moves in as Iman lies wounded and helpless.

Captain R: "I and another soldier ... are going in a little nearer, forward, to confirm the kill ... Receive a situation report. We fired and killed her ... I also confirmed the kill. Over."

Witnesses described how the captain shot Iman twice in the head, walked away, turned back and fired a stream of bullets into her body. Doctors at Rafah's hospital said she had been shot at least 17 times.

On the tape, the company commander then "clarifies" why he killed Iman: "This is commander. Anything that's mobile, that moves in the zone, even if it's a three-year-old, needs to be killed. Over."
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Remember Iman al-Hams, scared to death and murdered by Israeli psycho soldiers in 2004.

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Remember Abir Aramin, shot in the back of the head in 2007 by Israeli psycho soldiers.
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IDF leak: Sniper fire against civilians fleeing Shuja'iyya bombing massacre was 'revenge' - Whistleblower arrested after revealing this on Facebook

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Graham Philips interviews civilians on the receiving end of Kiev's 'Anti-Terror Operation': "We don't live, we are barely surviving"

Graham Philips
YouTube
Mon, 25 Aug 2014 07:41 UTC
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British journalist Graham Phillips does what The Telegraph's Roland Oliphant and The Guardian's Shaun Walker are too chicken to do: he goes into shelled towns and cities in eastern Ukraine to find out what's really going on. Here he speaks with Lugansk residents who have spent the summer living in terror from Kiev's airstrikes and artillery fire.

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5 glaring signs that we're not living in a post-racial society

Sean McElwee
Salon
Sun, 24 Aug 2014 17:30 UTC
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Protesters at Meridian Hill Park, also known as Malcom X Park, Aug. 14, 2014 in Washington, to protest the fatal shooting of Michael Brown by police in Ferguson, Mo.
Privileged pundits love to insist that race is no longer a factor in American life. The numbers say they're wrong

In the wake of the Ferguson shooting, a recent Pew poll finds that 47 percent of whites believe that "race is getting more attention than it deserves," with regards to the death of Michael Brown, while only 18 percent of African-Americans feel the same. Meanwhile, a similar Pew study found that whites are far less likely to see discrimination in the treatment blacks receive by the education system, the courts and hospitals. Such views are held by many Americans, who believe that "blacks are mostly responsible for their own condition." Police killings of unarmed blacks are certainly the most visible manifestation of systemic racism, but data show that racism still manifests itself frequently in everyday life.

In America, race determines not just where someone lives and what school he or she attends, it affects the very air we breathe. Although many whites wish to believe we live in a "post-racial" society, race appears not just in overt discrimination but in subtle structural factors. It's impossible to delineate every way race affects us every day, but a cursory examination of major structural racial problems can give us a feeling for how far we still have to go.

1) Education

Education is an important key to fostering upward mobility and alleviating inequality. However, schools today are becoming more segregated, rather than less segregated. At the peak of integration, 44 percent of black Southern students attended majority white schools. Today, only 23 percent do. This is particularly worrying because recent research by Rucker C. Johnson finds that school desegregation benefited black students, because it "significantly increased both educational and occupational attainments, college quality and adult earnings, reduced the probability of incarceration, and improved adult health status."
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Mission accomplished! Luhansk begins distributing Russian humanitarian aid


Itar-Tass
Mon, 25 Aug 2014 11:28 UTC
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Humanitarian aid at a storage facility in Ukraine's Luhansk Region
Authorities in the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) have started to distribute humanitarian aid delivered by Russia, the LPR press office reported on Monday.

A convoy of over 260 Russian trucks delivered more some 2,000 tons of foodstuffs, water, baby food and medications to besieged Luhansk residents on Friday.

"Humanitarian aid will be distributed at 28 outlets at the place of residence," the press office said, adding the aid distribution centers would work taking into account the city's possible shelling by the Ukrainian army.

The Russian convoy has delivered enough foodstuffs and humanitarian aid packages will be handed out for free, according to the lists of residents, the LPR press office said.

The concluding stage of Russia's humanitarian aid delivery to the war-torn east Ukraine took slightly more than 24 hours.

The Russian trucks that had stood for more than a week at the border with Ukraine started moving to Luhansk on Friday afternoon. Several hours later, the Russian convoy delivered humanitarian aid to the city, with no incidents registered along the route.

On Saturday, the Russian humanitarian convoy returned to Russia.

Russia's Emergencies Deputy Minister Eduard Chizhikov said that both Russian and Ukrainian customs officers and border guards took part in the trucks' inspection as they were crossing back into Russia from Ukraine.

The quick return of the Russian humanitarian convoy from east Ukraine has dispelled speculations about a possible "Russian intrusion" into Ukraine, the US online portal Globalpost reported.

The delivery of humanitarian aid to the besieged Luhansk ended as quickly as it began and was done without any provocations, which could have been used as a pretext for Russia's alleged military intervention as some critics asserted, Globalpost wrote.

Comment: Russia wins another round in the war against Western propaganda. The whole convoy was not only morally correct, it was a total PR coup. The West cannot be seen to support ANY move the Russians make. Knowing this, the Russians orchestrated a humanitarian mission that was beyond reproach, complying with inspections, reams of paperwork, and unreasonable delays. In the end, it's the West that looks like a monster: condemning a truly humanitarian act directed at a civilian population being senselessly bombed by a violent regime. Sorry, U.S., but Russia's got you beat in the humanity department!

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Lugansk, Ukraine: Thank you Russia! Please come back soon (with more humanitarian aid)!


RIA Novosti
Sat, 23 Aug 2014 05:00 UTC
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A wonderful sight for sore eyes; the first group of trucks, that have delivered humanitarian aid to eastern Ukraine, return to Russia
Residents of Luhansk People's Republic hope to receive more humanitarian aid from Russia, Vice Prime Minister of the Council of Ministers of the People's Republic of Luhansk Vasyl Nikitin told RIA Novosti.

"Our republic has almost no food provisions left," Nikitin said. "We hope such food and humanitarian convoys will become common. We hope for help and wait for it."

According to Nikitin, situation with food provision in Luhansk People's Republic is dire. Despite the harvest season, the food market was closed due to shell attacks and the ensuing fire. The residents of the city are surviving on their own stocks.

Comment: Europeans, now living under the EU allegedly so that 'there will never be war or want in Europe again', seem to have forgotten what it was like to be hungry and to live in towns and cities being bombarded to smithereens. Remember, during the second world war?

People today lack compassion because they follow the example and imbibe the lies of their psychopathic leaders.

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