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Dueling protests: Six detained by police as KKK, BLM and CSURJ engage in Charlottesville, VA


RT
Sat, 08 Jul 2017 22:17 UTC
KKK burning symbols
© The Root
At least half a dozen people have been detained in Charlottesville, Virginia, where Black Lives Matter supporters and members of a Ku Klux Klan group have engaged in a public standoff, according to a reporter from RT.

The dual protest comes after the city council decided to remove a statue of Confederate General Robert E Lee from a park and rename the area 'Emancipation Park'. The monument has been on the site since the 1920s.

Furious members of KKK group the Loyal White Knights have now turned out to Charlottesville's Justice Park to protest the move.
"[On] July 8th in Virginia we will make a stand for our southern history. They are trying to erase whites and our great culture right out of the history books," a statement on the group's website reads.
In response, members of Black Lives Matter movement and the Charlottesville Showing Up for Racial Justice group have gathered in the same park to oppose their message.


Comment: Irk Meets Ire: Some folks can't 'be somebody' until someone else pushes back, justifying definition and identity, validating hatred and reaction.

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Fire

California power plant explosion leaves large areas near Los Angeles without electricity


RT
Sun, 09 Jul 2017 11:01 UTC
los angeles power plant explosion june 2017
© TRW / YouTube
A power plant explosion has left large areas of Los Angeles without electricity, affecting homes, businesses and even vital infrastructure like traffic lights.

The outages hit more than 140,000 homes and businesses in the San Fernando Valley Saturday, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) confirmed.

"LADWP apologizes for the inconvenience and appreciates customers' patience as we work to restore power as safely and quickly as possible," the department said.

Comment: Interesting this fire occurred during a solar event:



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Manhunt for convicted kidnapper who used drone to escape South Carolina max-security prison ends


RT
Sat, 08 Jul 2017 14:47 UTC
Jimmy Causey
© South Carolina Department of Corrections / Facebook
Jimmy Causey
A convicted kidnapper is back behind bars after escaping a maximum security prison using wire-cutters flown to him via drone, authorities in South Carolina have confirmed.

Officials with the South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC) confirmed that Jimmy Causey, 46, was apprehended by officials from the Texas Department of Public Safety Friday around 3:00pm

At a news conference, South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) Chief Mark Keel said Causey was apprehended at Motel 6 in Austin, Texas, more than 1,000 miles away from the prison he escaped from. Keel said Texas authorities caught Causey while he was sleeping, and were able to arrest him without any resistance.

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Pistol

Four injured after gunman opens fire outside nightclub in Oslo, Norway


RT
Sun, 09 Jul 2017 08:57 UTC
shooting oslo norway nightclub
A man armed with a handgun has shot four people outside a nightclub in Oslo, Norway.

The gunman opened fire outside Blue nightclub in the Norwegian capital in the early hours of Sunday morning. Police said they have arrested one suspect and are not searching for anyone else.

The four victims were rushed to the hospital, but the extent of their injuries is not yet known, Oslo police said on Twitter.
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Snakes in Suits

Kentucky deputy who owns ambulance company sued for stopping competing ambulance to intimidate them

Jack Burns
The Free Thought Project
Sat, 08 Jul 2017 00:00 UTC
Steve McIntosh jackson kentucky

Kentucky taxpayers now owe $26,000 to an EMT after he was wrongfully pulled over by deputy Steve McIntosh, who owns a competing ambulance company.
Most people may see nothing wrong with a town councilman becoming a police offer, but what if that councilman cop also owns an ambulance company, and begins pulling over competing ambulances—then does he have too much power?

The answer is still "No" in the city of Jackson, Kentucky, despite the fact that the taxpayer-funded Kentucky Association of Counties is now paying a $26,000 settlement to Emergency Medical Technician Jason Crigger.

Crigger filed a lawsuit against Breathitt County Special Deputy and Councilman Steve McIntosh, claiming that McIntosh had no legitimate reason to pull over the ambulance he was driving in June 2016.
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Ohio cop dumps disabled woman from her wheelchair at protest, then turns and walks away

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Sat, 08 Jul 2017 00:00 UTC
cop dumps woman wheelchair ohio protest

A cop in Columbus, Ohio was seen allegedly dumping a disabled woman from her wheelchair, only to turn and walk away. Fellow cops did nothing to help.
A haunting video was uploaded to Facebook this week showing a Columbus cop allegedly dump a woman out of her wheelchair, then turn around and walk away.

The incident reportedly happened at the Huntington Bank building at Senator Rob Portman's office during a health care protest.

According to FOX 28,
National ADAPT, an activist group on behalf of the disabled, was inside the lobby of the Senator's office with the hopes of arranging a forum to discuss the potential issues that will arise for those on Medicaid, specifically the cuts to it and caps on coverage, under the proposed health care plan. The goal was for the senator to give them a firm "no" that he wouldn't support the health care repeal. Some of Portman's staff members said they took notes of the complaints, but it ultimately wasn't enough for those who wanted to speak directly to the Senator.

Portman has said he doesn't plan on supporting the legislation, citing concerns about what it would do to Medicaid. Many fear that he could change his vote to a yes.

The protests began on Thursday and continued over to Friday morning after several of them staged a sit-in at Senator Portman's office at Huntington Plaza in downtown Columbus office. Some of them even slept in the Portman's waiting room overnight.
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2 + 2 = 4

Putin's delegation finds out from media that guards at his Hamburg hotel were assaulted


TASS
Sun, 09 Jul 2017 10:44 UTC
German newspaper Bild reported on its website that unknown men attacked security guards at the hotel where Putin and his delegation are staying

Putin
© EPA/FELIPE TRUEBA
Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told TASS on Friday he was unaware of an incident at a hotel in the German city of Hamburg where Russian President Vladimir Putin is staying during the G20 summit.

"We've heard about this for the first time," Peskov said when asked to comment on media reports that the hotel's security guards were attacked.
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Nepali teen dies from snake bite in 'menstruation hut'


Al Jazeera
Sat, 08 Jul 2017 14:45 UTC
Menstruation hut Nepal
© Reuters
The chhaupadi practice has been banned in Nepal for more than a decade.
An 18-year-old girl has died in Nepal after she was bitten by a snake while banished to a shed because she was menstruating, under an ancient Hindu practice that has been banned for more than a decade, officials said.

Tulasi Shahi was bitten twice by a venomous snake and died on Friday morning in western Dailekh district, according to local officials.

"She survived for seven hours after the snake bite but died because medical treatment was delayed," local mayor Surya Bahadur Shahi told AFP news agency on Saturday.

Some Hindus view menstruating women as impure and in parts of Nepal they are forced to remain in a hut or cowshed for day as part of a practice known as chhaupadi.

According to local media, her family took her to the village shaman for treatment instead of taking her to a hospital.

Local police confirmed that a girl had died but were unable to provide further details on the cause.
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People

Molotov cocktails and iron bars: G20 protests rage on in Hamburg, over 200 police injured


RT
Sat, 08 Jul 2017 18:51 UTC
A police helicopter lights a street at anti-G20 protesters
© Hannibal Hanschke / Reuters
A police helicopter lights a street as anti-G20 protesters burn fires in the middle of the Hamburg Schanze district, July 7, 2017.
Violent protests against the G20 summit in Hamburg continued for the second night with rioters attacking police, erecting barricades and trashing shops and vehicles. At least 143 people have been detained and over 200 police officers injured so far.

"We have never experienced this level of hate and violence," Hamburg police spokesman Timo Zill told the Bild tabloid.

Demonstrators were armed with Molotov cocktails and iron bars, police said in a press statement.

"At the interception Schanzenviertel district [in central Hamburg], the forces were permanently subjected to violent attacks," the statement added.
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Bad Guys

'Slaughtered': Islamist militants suspected of beheading 9 men and killing 3 policemen in Kenya


RT
Sat, 08 Jul 2017 18:43 UTC
Kenyan soldiers
© Siegfried Modola / Reuters
Islamist militants are suspected in the beheading of nine men in an overnight attack on a village in Kenya, police have said.

The attack took place in the coastal district of Lamu, coming just days after another assault in which militants from the Al-Shabaab group killed three policemen in a nearby village.

Police and witnesses said Saturday that nine people were killed in the latest incident.

"They raided Jima and Poromoko villages and killed nine men. They were slaughtered like chickens, using knives," a witness told Reuters.
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