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Children with mouths taped shut found in stolen van at traffic stop in Minnesota

RT
Fri, 13 Jan 2017 15:05 UTC

Several children with packaging tape strapped over their mouths and a woman in labor were found by police in a stolen vehicle during a routine traffic stop in Minnesota.

A police officer made the shocking discovery when he pulled over a minivan for a traffic violation in the City of Ramsey, Minnesota, Tuesday.

Three adults, who were reportedly related to the children in the vehicle, were detained after police established the vehicle was stolen. One man, who was later identified as the father of the children, Deszion Marquese Wraggs, 26, was charged with felony auto theft.

The van driver, who was a woman claiming to be in labor, was taken to a hospital.

New Hampshire state lawmaker proposes bill rolling back smoking bans

Kirk Enstrom
WMUR 9
Fri, 13 Jan 2017 14:30 UTC

Lawmakers in Concord are considering a bill that would roll back smoking rules across the state.

If passed, the legislation would let business owners decide whether people can smoke indoors. Ten years ago, it became illegal to smoke in bars and restaurants.

The legislation would apply to privately run grocery stores, restaurants, and cocktail lounges, along with transportation, such as taxis, buses and boats.

The sponsor of House Bill 279, Rep. Robert Hull, R-Grafton, said he drafted it at the request of a voter.

"It's a property-rights issue," Hull said. "Should the state be deciding what people do inside of private establishments? They are public places, but they are owned by private people, and the owner of the property should decide what's going on."

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Ambushed Arizona trooper saved by armed passing motorist who shot attacker dead

RT
Fri, 13 Jan 2017 10:58 UTC

An unknown motorist is being hailed as a hero after he shot and killed a suspect who had ambushed an Arizona state trooper on Interstate 10, west of Phoenix. The trooper had been investigating a car crash when he was shot and rushed by the attacker.

The trooper, identified only as a 27-year veteran of the force, was responding to a call about someone shooting at cars on I-10 at around 4:30am local time, Department of Public Safety Director Colonel Frank Milstead told local media.

At milepost 89, the trooper found a car that had rolled over and sought to help the female passenger who had been injured. While in the process of setting up flares, he was shot in the right shoulder. The shooter then charged the trooper, overpowered him and started slamming his head into the pavement.

It was at this point that an "uninvolved third party" pulled over and asked if the officer needed assistance.

'Immoral & uncivilized': Ukrainian Jewish community slams transfer to rehabilitate nationalist combatants

RT
Fri, 13 Jan 2017 10:43 UTC

Patriotic activists celebrate the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) anniversary

The head of Ukraine's Jewish Committee has learned of a draft bill that might see fighters from Ukrainian nationalist groups rehabilitated. As it relates to people who committed mass murders, he believes the move goes against fundamental European values.

The Ukrainian Institute of National Memory plans to legally rehabilitate members of several nationalist movements, including those from the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), the head of Ukraine's Jewish Committee, Eduard Dolinsky, wrote on his Facebook page.

According to Dolinsky, the institute is now working on the draft bill, which will be introduced to Ukraine's parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, in February. To discuss the bill, its initiators have already met with Ukraine's Prosecutor-General, Yury Lutsenko, he added.

Saying that the "dreadful" project might see fighters who took part in mass murders of Jews, Poles and Roma "automatically... declared not guilty," the activist added the bill might "open doors" for the future rehabilitation of Ukrainians behind some of the most notorious crimes of the 20th century.

"This is immoral and denounces the foundation on which contemporary European civilization stands. This is just a killing of the memory of 6 million Jews who perished in the Holocaust," Dolinsky wrote, while also calling the project "intolerable."

Vatican McDonald's promises to give free meals to the poor

RT
Fri, 13 Jan 2017 02:12 UTC

The controversial McDonald's that opened in the Vatican at the start of the year, despite protests from locals and top clerics in Rome, has promised to give out thousands of free meals to the homeless.

The Borgo Pio branch of McDonald's, also known as McVatican, is planning to cooperate with Medicina Solidale, a charity organization providing medical care and distributing food to Vatican-based homeless people.

Lucia Ercoli, the head of Medicina Solidale, said she was "very satisfied with this agreement with McDonald's," which has "promptly" accepted their proposal, according to Crux.com.

"Providing a meal guarantees an appropriate supply of proteins and vitamins to so many men and women who live on the street," said Lucia Ercoli, director of the charity. "I am very happy with this agreement with McDonald's."

Volunteers will start distributing food next Monday. They will collect nearly 1,000 meals from the restaurant and give them to homeless people.

Blast in Damascus kills 10, unknown number injured

Sputnik
Thu, 12 Jan 2017 22:19 UTC

A suicide bomber is suspected to have killed at least 10 people in a heavily secured district of the Syrian capital.

It is believed that the attack happened in the Kafr Sousa neighborhood where the Syrian government holds several major security installments, a local police source said. Syrian TV outlets first reported the deaths while an unknown number are injured. Eye-witnesses on the scene corroborated reports of multiple deaths. Its not clear what explosives were carried in the car.

Multiple individuals were "seriously wounded" among the group of victims admitted to the hospital, a source told RIA Novosti in via phone. The source added that the blast was most likely a terrorist attack. A witness told RIA Novosti in a phone call earlier in the day that the explosion occurred near a sports complex in the Kafr Sousa district.

The bombing occured near the Al Andalus Hospital, according to reports originating in Damascus. In multiple videos of the carnage, bodies lay strewn across the street.

Comment: Update: At least 15 injured and 7 killed from this explosion amid current ceasefire in Syria.

Landowners sue Dakota Access Pipeline over threats, fraud

RT
Thu, 12 Jan 2017 23:16 UTC

A group of landowners in Morton County, North Dakota, has sued the company responsible for developing the Dakota Access Pipeline, claiming the company deceived them during negotiations for pipeline easements.

The federal lawsuit, filed Wednesday in US District Court, claims agents working as contractors for Dakota Access LLC harassed, threatened and misled residents who owned land that the company wanted in order to build the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). Landowners involved in the lawsuit own 11 separate parcels of land in Morton County, adding up to about nine miles of the pipeline's route, attorney Peter Zuger said, according to Forum News Service.

Some landowners were deceived into believing they were offered the best price for pipeline easements when, in fact, other landowners had been offered much more, the lawsuit says. Agents also told landowners they had 30 days to consider the company's offer before a 20 percent signing bonus would be rescinded.

Lawmaker faces life in prison for exposing Turkey's arms aid to Syrian jihadis

Press TV
Thu, 12 Jan 2017 23:00 UTC

Ahrar (white flag) and Qaeda (black flag) palling around in Syria

A Turkish prosecutor has called for life imprisonment for an opposition lawmaker who is being tried for exposing to a newspaper a video showing weapons shipment to parts of Syria held by foreign-backed terrorists.

In an indictment released on Wednesday, Prosecutor Mehmet Yesilkaya said he sought life term for MP Enis Berberoglu of the opposition Republican People's Party, accusing him of "aiding an armed terrorist organization knowingly and intentionally without being a member."

Yesilkaya further accused the lawmaker of purportedly revealing "confidential information and documents of the state... and undertaking political or military espionage."

Comment: Further reading:

In bizarre 'takeover', RT broadcasts live on C-SPAN feed for 10 minutes

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Thu, 12 Jan 2017 22:02 UTC

In a strange "hostile takeover" of state TV broadcasters, not to mention a bizarre moment of startling symmetry with the current state of American politics, C-SPAN, the public affairs network that broadcasts political proceedings the United States House of Representatives and Senate, was interrupted by a live feed of Russian TV channel, RT, formerly known as Russia Today.

The state-funded Russian news network, which was accused by the US intelligence community of spreading "fake news" and directly influencing the US elections, took over the online feed of C-SPAN1, which had been broadcasting a discussion in Congress regarding the Securities and Exchange Commission Regulatory Accountability Act, for about ten minutes at 2:30 pm ET.

As California Democrat Maxine Waters was speaking, the feed suddenly cut from the House floor to a broadcast of RT. The feed cut in with a commercial break before returning to the RT news desk, where an anchor spoke of a suicide bombing. As the IBT noted, multiple C-SPAN watchers (although hardly too many, as C-SPAN's Nielsen Ratings are even lower than those of CNBC) made mention of the sudden change on Twitter, including Deadspin editor Timothy Burke, who captured the moment the C-SPAN feed switched to RT.

National police survey reveals heightened fears of attack & greater racial tensions

CBS
Thu, 12 Jan 2017 22:02 UTC

The Pew Research Center released results from the National Police Research Platform survey of 8,000 police officers and sheriff's deputies.

They were offered questions about attitudes and experiences of their work environment.

"Do we feel we're targeted right now? Yes," said a 12-year veteran of the Dallas Police Department after a question about police safety. The question was posed after the release of the national survey.

In one segment of questioning, 93 percent of polled officers surveyed said they were more concerned about their safety today than in the past.

Comment: Further reading: Blowback: Police homicides and public backlash making many cops reluctant to carry out their duties

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Society's Child

Children with mouths taped shut found in stolen van at traffic stop in Minnesota

New Hampshire state lawmaker proposes bill rolling back smoking bans

Ambushed Arizona trooper saved by armed passing motorist who shot attacker dead

'Immoral & uncivilized': Ukrainian Jewish community slams transfer to rehabilitate nationalist combatants

Vatican McDonald's promises to give free meals to the poor

Blast in Damascus kills 10, unknown number injured

Landowners sue Dakota Access Pipeline over threats, fraud

Lawmaker faces life in prison for exposing Turkey's arms aid to Syrian jihadis

In bizarre 'takeover', RT broadcasts live on C-SPAN feed for 10 minutes

National police survey reveals heightened fears of attack & greater racial tensions

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