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Crestline resident claims she saw Sasquatch in San Bernardino Mountains, files Bigfoot lawsuit

AJ
BigfootBase.com
Sun, 22 Apr 2018 00:00 UTC
Sasquatch
© Bergamin
Claudia Ackley recently brought a Bigfoot lawsuit to California. She filed the suit against the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and the state Natural Resources Agency for failing to acknowledge Bigfoot as a species, thus delegitimizing her and her colleagues serious research, threatening the species' habitat, and endangering the public.

As advised by her attorneys, she revoked the suit to enhance the case. Teaming with Bigfoot researcher Todd Standing, Ackley is gathering every piece of evidence possible to once and for all prove in the legal system, on-the-record, that Sasquatch is real.

Claudia, a 46 year old Crestline CA resident, hiked with her two daughters in the San Bernadino Mountains on March 27th 2017 when she noticed something large in the oncoming tree-line. Thirty-feet high in a tree sat a giant being: "He looked like a Neanderthal man with hair all over him. He had solid black eyes. He had no expression on his face at all. He did not show his teeth. He just stared at the three of us." She reported the encounter, but the authorities dismissed her experience, insisting that she just saw a few bears.


Comment: Recommended reading: Author/expert David Paulides' Missing 411 series on Sasquatch abductions.

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Saudis decapitate 48 people in 4 months as part of Mohammed bin Salman's 'progressive reforms'


RT
Fri, 27 Apr 2018 13:58 UTC
Saudi Arabia beheading decapitation protest
© Darren Whiteside / Reuters
An activist holds a placard in front of the Saudi Arabia embassy in Indonesia
Despite apparent wide-ranging reforms in Saudi Arabia, the kingdom is certainly sticking to its death-penalty tradition, decapitating 48 criminals this year alone.

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman has been lauded by Western media as the 'great reformer,' he's even been given the catchy, friendly acronym -- MbS. Bin Salman has been praised for finally allowing women to drive, enter sports stadia and opening the country's first cinemas in a generation.

Bin Salman has been busy too, he has recently been on a worldwide charm offensive, with millions of dollars being spent on an army of PR firms, selling the image of Saudi Arabia as a modern country looking to reform, and diversify the country's oil-dependent economy.
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'No attack, no chemical weapons': Douma witnesses speak out at OPCW briefing at The Hague


RT
Fri, 27 Apr 2018 13:58 UTC
OPCW Douma witness Syrians
Witnesses of the alleged chemical attack in Douma, including 11-year-old Hassan Diab and hospital staff, told reporters at The Hague that the White Helmets video used as a pretext for a US-led strike on Syria was, in fact, staged.

"We were at the basement and we heard people shouting that we needed to go to a hospital. We went through a tunnel. At the hospital they started pouring cold water on me," the boy told the press conference, gathered by Russia's mission at the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague.

Hassan was among the "victims" seen being washed by water hoses in a video released by the controversial White Helmets group on April 7. The boy and his family later spoke to the media and revealed that Hassan was hurried to the scene by men who claimed that a chemical attack had taken place. They started pouring cold water on the boy and others, filming the frightened children.

Comment: The OPCW also confirms no chemical weapons were used in Douma, yet the Intercept and the MSM maintain that these witnesses are part of a Russian 'conspiracy theory'. ABC News reports:
Russia ratcheted up its efforts Thursday to try to disprove that a Syrian town was hit by a poison gas attack, bringing a group of Syrians, including an 11-year-old boy, to the global chemical weapons watchdog's headquarters to denounce the reports as fake.

The U.S., Britain, France and their allies boycotted the event at the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, branding it as "nothing more than a crude propaganda exercise" and an "obscene masquerade."
And the Intercept reports:
Over the objections of chemical weapons inspectors who are still at work in Syria, trying to determine if gas was used to kill dozens of civilians in the former rebel stronghold of Douma on April 7, Russia flew 17 Syrians from the war zone to The Hague on Thursday, where they all testified that they had seen no sign of a chemical attack.
No available reports confirm that the OPCW actually objected to witnesses speaking at the Hague. The Intercept also ignores the fact that the chemical weapons inspectors are only in Syria because they were invited by Russian and Syrian forces.

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Protests in Spain erupt after five men are cleared of gang-raping a teenager during Pamplona festival

Sam Jones
The Guardian
Thu, 26 Apr 2018 14:01 UTC
demonstration protest Spain
© Francisco Seco/AP
Demonstrators outside the justice ministry in Madrid protesting after five men were sentenced for gang raping a woman at Pamplona’s bull-running festival.
Men found guilty of lesser offence of sexual abuse of 18-year-old during Pamplona festival

Protests are being held across Spain after five men accused of the gang rape of a teenager during the running of the bulls festival in Pamplona were found guilty of the lesser offence of sexual abuse.

The attack two years ago prompted a national outcry, as did the subsequent trial, which was widely criticised as a cross-examination of the 18-year-old woman rather than the men who attacked her.

The verdicts were delivered at a court in Pamplona, the capital of the Navarre region of northern Spain. José Ángel Prenda, Alfonso Cabezuelo, Antonio Manuel Guerrero, Jesús Escudero and Ángel Boza were sentenced to nine years' imprisonment, five years' probation and ordered to pay €10,000 each to the woman. Guerrero, a Guardia Civil police officer, was also fined €900 for stealing her phone after the attack.

Protesters in Pamplona shouted "This justice is bullshit!", "It's not abuse, it's rape!" and "If they touch one of us, they touch all of us!" after the verdict was read out. On Thursday evening thousands more demonstrators gathered outside the justice ministry in Madrid, the Plaça Sant Jaume in Barcelona and in cities across the country.
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Not your average household cleaner: Russian town plans new 'Novichok' brand of products, thanked UK journalists for promoting it


RT
Fri, 27 Apr 2018 13:30 UTC
Cleaning products
© Evgeny Biyatov / Sputnik
Imported cleansers and detergents on sale in a Moscow store.
The mayor of the Russian town of Shikhany says his administration plans to copyright a 'Novichok' brand of household cleaning products, and thanked UK journalists for promoting it.

"I have commanded that the town administration works through the issue of copyrighting the word 'Novichok' as a brand name for a line of household cleaning products," Andrey Tatarinov said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

He also said that this would help to attract investors to the town, and took the opportunity to thank the British media for promoting Shikhany and the future products. "No one knew about us before they started this promotion campaign," Tatarinov noted.

The official was referring to reports by British media outlets after the poisoning of former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, in Salisbury. British reporters named Shikhany as the location of a secret military facility that allegedly produced the Novichok - or "newcomer" - nerve agent that according to British authorities was allegedly used in the attack.
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Berlin should foot bill for multi-billions lost by German firms in Russia due to US sanctions - analyst


RT
Fri, 27 Apr 2018 13:09 UTC
Germany gov't
© Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters
Politicians in Germany are not held responsible for multi-billion euro losses faced by their country's businesses as a result of US sanctions against Russia, and that is wrong, an analyst told RT.

"Why is it that only the economic sector is liable for the consequences of political decisions? If it is the political will of a state to impose sanctions, at least the financial consequences should also be shared by the state, and this burden should not be imposed on the randomly affected companies," Managing Partner at DELCREDA Andreas Steinborn told RT.

This week, the German-Russian Chamber of Commerce warned that German firms working in Russia face huge financial losses from the latest round of US sanctions against the country.
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Disintegrating into chaos: Latin America in grip of crisis of homicidal violence

Tom Phillips
The Guardian
Thu, 26 Apr 2018 13:20 UTC
violence murder Latin America Brazil
© Eraldo Peres/AP
An activist paints the silhouette of a murder victim at the Coque slum in Recife, Brazil. The report’s authors fear voters may look to strongman-style populists to solve the crisis.


Region has experienced 2.5 million murders since 2000 and report paints bleak picture of extreme violence and deteriorating security

Latin America has suffered more than 2.5m murders since the start of this century and is facing an acute public security crisis that demands urgent and innovative solutions, a new report warns.

"The sheer dimensions of homicidal violence are breathtaking," says the report by the Igarapé Institute, a Brazil-based thinktank focused on security and development issues.

The publication, released on Thursday, paints a bleak portrait of what it calls the world's most homicidal continent.

Latin America suffers 33% of the world's homicides despite having only 8% of its population. One-quarter of all global homicides are concentrated in four countries - Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela - all of which are gearing up for presidential elections in which security is a dominant theme.

Comment: If 75% of homicides are gun-related, this suggests that the increase in violence is a direct consequence of organized crime - much of which involves drug-traffic heading north.

For a recent example of the horror that Latin Americans are facing, see:

Mexican rapper working for drug cartel confesses to dissolving film students' bodies in acid

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#GreatReturnMarch demonstrations at Gaza border enter 5th week


RT
Fri, 27 Apr 2018 12:36 UTC
A wounded demonstrator
© REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa / Reuters
A wounded demonstrator is evacuated during clashes with Israeli troops on the Israel-Gaza border, April 27, 2018.
Protesters have gathered along the Gaza border as the 'Great March of Return' demonstrations enter a fifth week. Some 35 Palestinians, including two journalists, have been killed and thousands injured since the protests began.

Twenty-five people have been wounded in Friday's protest, three by IDF fire, according to local reports cited by Haaretz.

Comment: See also:

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Mexican rapper working for drug cartel confesses to dissolving film students' bodies in acid


Breitbart
Wed, 25 Apr 2018 12:42 UTC
Christian Omar Palma Gutierrez Mexican rapper murder
© YouTube / QBA OFFICIAL
Guadalajara (Mexico) (AFP) - A Mexican rapper and YouTube star with hundreds of thousands of followers confessed to dissolving the bodies of three missing film students in acid, authorities confirmed Wednesday.

Christian Omar Palma Gutierrez - also known as "QBA" - is one of two people detained over the deaths of Salomon Aceves Gastelum, 25, Daniel Diaz, 20, and Marco Avalos, 20.

Gutierrez admitted to state prosecutors that he disposed of the bodies after the trio's kidnapping, torture and murder in western Jalisco state last month.

Comment: In what has become the latest crime to horrify Mexican society, the three film students were targeted by the Jalisco New Generation cartel because they were confused with members of a rival gang while working on a school project near properties of drug dealers. Thus, for being in the wrong place and at the wrong time, they were kidnapped, tortured, murdered and dissolved in acid.

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Man run over up to 300 times by London Underground trains after dead body mistaken for fox corpse


RT
Fri, 27 Apr 2018 09:56 UTC
London Underground platform.
© Monika Skolimowska / Global Look Press
London Underground platform.
A man's corpse was run over up to 300 times by London Underground trains, after a tube worker mistook the dead body for a fox. It's thought the man's remains stayed on the tracks for 14 hours before being identified as human.

It has been claimed that the man's body was found on the tracks in a tunnel on the Piccadilly line, and stayed on the rail line for around 14 hours between Holborn and Russell Square. The man is understood to be a 47-year old from Maidstone.

A train service in the tunnel was stopped at around 11.30am on December 28 after a trip switch activated, The Sun reports. A member of staff was sent to investigate the cause of the tripped switch but thought he had just spotted a dead fox.

The worker advised controllers at Earl's Court that he had discovered the remains of an animal - despite a source adding that "no foxes have been found killed or otherwise seen in the center of the Piccadilly line tunnels for over 15 years."
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