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Update: 128 killed, 150 injured in suicide attack at Pakistan election rally


RT
Fri, 13 Jul 2018 18:21 UTC
A Pakistani yougman injured in a bomb blast is transported at a hospital in Bannu
© AFP
A Pakistani yougman injured in a bomb blast is transported at a hospital in Bannu on Friday; July 13, 2018
Some 70 people have died and more than 30 have been injured after a suicide bombing at an election rally near Quetta, Pakistan. Hours earlier a bomb went off at another election rally in the country's northwest, killing four.

More than 1,000 people were attending the rally when it was targeted, according to local police. Friday's bombing is the deadliest in Pakistan since two bomb blasts ripped apart a marketplace in Parachinar last June, killing almost 100 people.

The blast killed Siraj Raisani, who was running for a seat with the newly-formed Balochistan Awami Party. Raisani died while on the way to a nearby hospital, according to the provincial home minister.

Comment: Update 14/07/2018:
Pakistan: Death Toll From Mastung Suicide Bomb Climbs To 128

Nawabzada Siraj Raisani, a political candidate for the Balochistan Awami Party, was also killed in the latest attack in the run-up to Pakistan's July 25 general elections.

At least 128 people were killed by a suicide bomber at a political rally in Pakistan's Mastung district on Friday, including candidate Nawabzada Siraj Raisani, provincial Health Minister Faiz Kakar told DawnNewsTV.

The attack, which also injured a further 150 people, 12 of them critically, is the deadliest bombing in Pakistan since 2014, according to the BBC. No group has yet claimed responsibility.

Victims were transferred to the Civil Hospital Quetta, Bolan Medical Complex and Combined Military Hospital Quetta, according to Kakar.

Witnesses said the attacker targeted a meeting organized by Siraj Raisani, a Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) candidate for the PB-35 Matsung district.

"Mr. Siraj Raisani succumbed to his wounds while he was being transferred to Quetta," said provincial Home Minister Agha Umar Bungalzai.

This is the latest in a string of attacks on political candidates in the lead up to the country's July 25 general elections.

Earlier on Friday, a bomb explosion targeted a convoy carrying former Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani in Pakistan's Bannu district. Four people were killed and 32 more were injured. Durrani survived the attack.

Two people were injured in another bomb blast detonated near the BAP's election office in Khuzdar late Thursday.

On Wednesday night, a bomb exploded in Peshawar killing 21 people, including Barrister Haroon Bilour, leader of the Awami National Party (ANP). Local police said the attack, which used approximately eight kilograms of TNT, was claimed by the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). Another 75 people were injured.

Despite the latest attack, ANP officials said the party would not back down from contesting the upcoming general elections. Bilour was a candidate for the provincial assembly seat.


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New York mafia man miraculously survives point-blank range assassination attempt, shooter on the loose


RT
Sat, 14 Jul 2018 04:20 UTC
Shooting
© Citywide 911 / YouTube
An associate of a New York City crime family has narrowly escaped death after being chased and shot several times by a would-be assassin on the streets of the Bronx, video footage released by police has revealed.

Salvatore 'Sally Daz' Zottola, a partner in crime of the Bonanno family, which has ruled the streets of New York for over a century, was targeted by an unknown shooter at about 6.30am on Wednesday morning. The newly-released video of the incident shows a red Nissan pulling up next to Zottola's car.
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Tribal chief and Democratic candidate for state Assembly charged with fraud, grand theft

Damon Arthur and Amber Sandhu
Redding Record Searchlight
Thu, 12 Jul 2018 13:03 UTC
Caleen Audrey Sisk
© Shasta County Sheriff's Office
A Democratic candidate for state Assembly has been charged with grand theft and making fraudulent claims in connection to allegations she improperly entered thousands of hours on her time sheet as an employee of California In-Home Support Services.

The state paid Caleen Audrey Sisk, 65, of Redding $38,300 for 4,441 hours she claimed on her time sheet but did not work, according to a Shasta County District Attorney's Office investigation.

Sisk, who is chief and spiritual leader of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe of Shasta County, is running as the Democratic Party candidate for the 1st Assembly District against Republican incumbent Brian Dahle of Bieber in Lassen County.

Two days after she announced her candidacy for Assembly, the Shasta County District Attorney's Office filed charges against her.

According to Shasta County Superior Court records, she faces six counts of filing fraudulent claims and one count of grand theft of personal property, all felonies.
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Duh: Student loan debt unpayable if states take away licenses needed to work

C. Jarrett Dieterle and Shoshana Weissmann
USA Today
Thu, 21 Jun 2018 10:00 UTC
college graduates
© Seth Wenig, AP
Roderick Scott Sr., a Texas middle school teacher, had been teaching for several years when his professional license was up for renewal. Although the process is usually routine - the application can be submitted online and requires a simple fee - what happened next nearly left his life in ruins.

The Texas Education Agency denied Scott's renewal. The reason: He had fallen behind on his student loan payments, the loan he had taken out to allow him to obtain his teacher's license in the first place. Unbeknownst to Scott, Texas law allows the state to suspend or revoke a professional license as punishment for falling behind on student loan payments.

Scott started paying back his loan instead of his rent and other commitments, a decision that ultimately caused him to be evicted from his apartment and forced to file for bankruptcy.

Comment: As if student debt wasn't already an ever-expanding prison sentence. A bill like this simply makes it go from being unlikely to be able to pay off student loans to impossible.

See also:

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Brazilian lawyer murdered by hitman in front of his 18 month-old daughter (GRAPHIC IMAGES)


RT
Sat, 14 Jul 2018 12:25 UTC
André Ambrósio Ribeiro Pessoa assassinated Brazil lawyer
© flagrante Brasil / YouTube
Police are investigating the murder of a labor lawyer who was shot at point-blank range in the presence of his 18-month-old daughter. The gut-wrenching CCTV video shows the father calmly accepting his fate to save his little girl.

André Ambrósio Ribeiro Pessoa, 46, died after receiving five gunshots late Thursday afternoon in Caruaru, Brazil. The extremely graphic video of the assassination -captured on security camera- shows the victim arriving at his ex-wife's house to drop off the toddler. As soon as he gets out of the vehicle with his daughter and the nanny, the murderer approaches them, holding a gun.
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Hundreds injured and one teen killed as Gaza's March of Return marks over 100 days


RT
Sat, 14 Jul 2018 12:25 UTC
march of return gaza protest
© Agence France=Presse
Palestinians protest in Gaza on 13 May 2018 to mark the Nakba
A 15yo Palestinian has been killed by live IDF fire and over 220 people have been injured during the Great March of Return protest on the Gazan-Israeli border. The clashes marked over 100 days since the deadly weekly revolt began.

Othman Rami Hellas, 15, was killed on Friday evening after being shot by an IDF sniper during yet another tense standoff along the border demarcation fence, Wafa News reported. Another 220 Palestinians suffered injuries from the live bullets and tear gas that were used to repel the protesters.

The IDF said it was forced to respond to the Palestinian "violence" after a soldier received "moderate injuries" from a grenade that was thrown at him by the rioters.
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Nicaragua: Police capture AK-47 ammunition for 'protests', at least 241 killed in violence so far


TeleSur
Thu, 12 Jul 2018 11:51 UTC
Nicaragua protests
© Reuters
On Thursday, police captured three men traveling to the ongoing protests carrying four containers of ammunition for AK-47 rifles.
On Thursday, police captured three men traveling to the ongoing protests carrying four containers of ammunition for AK-47 rifles.


Comment: Peaceful student protests against a tyranical government? Unlikely.


According to a new report for the Nicaraguan Truth Commission, violent protests that have shaken the country since April have killed at least 241 people so far - one of several conflicting death tolls released in recent days.

Nearly half of the deaths, a total of 110, occurred in the capital city of Managua, in districts one and seven. Masaya, Carazo, Leon, Esteli and Matagalpa have also reported high levels of violence.

Comment: All indicates that Nicaragua is currently the target of a 'regime change/color revolution' operation. See:

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This is America

Caitlin Johnstone
caitlinjohnstone.com
Fri, 13 Jul 2018 16:29 UTC
Gambino america
In America they build flying war robots, but you can't drink the water. America is where the empire keeps its billionaires and bombs.

Giant wars left Europe a mess many years ago, so America rose to the top. Now it's where many rich and powerful influencers centralize their operations. America is the cattle prod used to compel the world to march along with the interests of western aristocrats. Governments which comply are rewarded with military "protection", while noncompliant governments are sanctioned and bombed. The Mafia does this also.

Americans are kept poor by the aristocracy, because money equals power and power is relative. The poorer ordinary Americans are kept, the more powerful the aristocrats are. Agencies like the FBI were invented so that there will be someone to help shoot and kill ordinary Americans if they ever decide to start eating the aristocrats for food.

It is very important that the aristocrats be able to control America, because they need to be able to protect their assets while directing its military firepower. This means keeping ordinary Americans poor and politically impotent while conducting trillion-dollar military operations overseas, which is a hard sell. The aristocrats engage that hard sell on a daily basis using the mass media corporations which they own. And they do so successfully.

Americans are surrounded by screens which promote capitalism and consumerism for eight-minute stretches between commercial breaks promoting capitalism and consumerism. If you ever get a bit uncomfortable about the expensive planes dropping expensive bombs on people who make less money in their lifetimes than the military explosives used to kill them, just turn on any of the screens you own and there will be a talking head ready to explain to you why you're just imagining silly things in that ditzy little head of yours. Relax. Don't worry. Uncle Sam has got everything under control. Uncle Sam loves you. Uncle Sam knows what's best.

Comment: See also: The new normal in America: Engineered chaos & fear

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An 'Overprescription of Opioids' that led to a crisis

Krishnadev Calamur
The Atlantic
Sat, 07 Jul 2018 15:17 UTC
opioids
© Brian Snyder/ Reuters
A woman crouches on the sidewalk next to her boyfriend, who is unresponsive and not breathing after an opioid overdose in the Boston suburb of Everett, Massachusetts, on August 23, 2017.
The director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse pointed to economic factors as a cause of the epidemic.

In 2016, 64,000 people died from drug overdoses in the U.S., most of them due to opioids. That's more than the number of Americans killed in the wars in Vietnam and Iraq combined.

Three factors led to those numbers, Nora Volkow, the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, a part of the National Institutes of Health, said at the Spotlight Health Festival, which is co-hosted by The Aspen Institute and The Atlantic. First, the epidemic was started by a healthcare system that sought to minimize pain and suffering. Physicians were taught that those with pain wouldn't get addicted to pain medication, she said. "Unfortunately, those beliefs were completely wrong," she said. What it resulted in was "an overprescription of opioids," Volkow said.
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Russia is a beacon of hope for a better future

Mark Dankof
Russia Insider
Thu, 12 Jul 2018 17:45 UTC
Crusader
As an American who has witnessed the metastasizing of 5th stage cancer in the Empire since the 1960s, I must freely admit that the three holidays in this country which produce the most sadness and profound depression for me at this stage of my life are the 4th of July, Veterans' Day, and Memorial Day.

Donald Jeffries covers the bases on many of my feelings today at Lew Rockwell in an essay entitled Our Plastic Patriotism. Suffice it to say that cardboard patriots in Star-Spangled Attire mouthing platitudes about "freedom" not only fail to understand that Washington, Adams, and Jefferson would not even recognize what this country has become internationally or domestically, but proceed to a mindless and terrifying embrace of the notion that utilizing the American military as a Regime Change Janissary force for Israel, the banks, and the multinational oil, gas, and mineral consortiums is a laudable thing.

Starting a war of aggression with Russia utilizing NATO would be just terrific by these folks.
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