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As thousands flee East Aleppo, RT hears stories of those trapped there for years


RT
Sat, 10 Dec 2016 15:15 UTC
People evacuated from the eastern districts of Aleppo
© Omar Sanadiki / Reuters
People, who evacuated from the eastern districts of Aleppo, stand with their belongings in a government held area of Aleppo, Syria December 9, 2016.
People who've been trapped in eastern Aleppo for years are now being reunited with their families. Some of them told RT's Lizzie Phelan why they didn't flee when the militants took over.

"Only strong men have a good chance of escaping rebel areas. It's especially difficult for families, when you have kids they don't allow you to leave," local resident Ibrahim said. He told RT some families were simply unable to leave their children behind - if you have a boy of a fighting age, the terrorists simply won't let you take him with you. And fighting age in militant-held Aleppo is just 14.

"Because I have a boy, they wouldn't let him leave with me. That's why I stayed - because I have a boy. I stayed here for him. Thanks to God, today we were able to leave," Ibrahim says.

Comment: These are the terrorists that the US and the West are supporting and calling for a ceasefire to help them escape instead of helping the residents.

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Fire

5 people killed, over 20 wounded as cargo train derails, explodes in northeastern Bulgaria - police


RT
Sat, 10 Dec 2016 13:52 UTC
Train wreck
© Boris Kolev / AFP
An aerial view shows the site where a train transporting gas derailed and exploded in the northeastern Bulgarian village of Hitrino on December 10, 2016.
Five people have been killed and over 20 were wounded as a cargo train carrying liquefied petroleum gas derailed and exploded in northeastern Bulgaria, local police report.

The train going through the Shumen province in the country's northeast carried 26 tanks of propane-butane. They exploded after the derailment, destroying a few buildings, and claiming a few lives, too.
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Real Democracy: Petition Launched to Remove DNC tool and Faithless Texan Elector Chris Suprun

Andrew Kerr
Western Journalism
Thu, 08 Dec 2016 02:19 UTC
Chris Suprun

Chris Suprun: Faithless Texan Elector and unwitting tool of the Clinton cabal
"This is the type of action by an individual that will probably prompt us ..."

A petition launched Tuesday to remove Chris Suprun from the Texas Electoral College has exceeded 18,000 signatures.

Chris Suprun, a 9/11 first responder, wrote an op-ed Monday announcing he will not cast his electoral vote for Donald Trump.


Comment: As of the posting of this article, the petition has reached over 26,000 signatures. Good on them!

And to understand all this in context, see: The attempted Clinton-CIA coup against Donald Trump

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Oscar

Millennial Madness: "Gender Fluid" Performer Kelly Mantle Eligible in Male and Female Oscar Categories

Matt Pressberg
The Wrap
Fri, 09 Dec 2016 14:37 UTC
Kelly Mantle
© Getty Images
Kelly Mantle, a gender-fluid performer who was a contestant on the sixth season of "RuPaul's Drag Race," has made Oscar history as the first potential nominee eligible in both male and female categories, TheWrap has learned.

Mantle plays a transgender prostitute in "Confessions of a Womanizer," a Miguel Ali indie from Harbor House Films starring Andrew Lawrence and Gary Busey.

The film's producers ran into a dilemma when filling out Oscar paperwork, which required them to classify Mantle, who was born a man, as either male or female. Mantle was submitted for consideration in both categories, and the Academy confirmed that the performer can be nominated in either one.

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Ambulance

Fentanyl overdose deaths fill Vancouver morgues to capacity

Travis Lupick
The Georgia Straight
Tue, 06 Dec 2016 16:37 UTC
morgue at vancouver coastal health
© Vancouver Coastal Health
The B.C. Coroners Service reports that the morgue at Vancouver General Hospital is often at capacity, in part due to an unprecedented number of illicit drug-overdose deaths.
Vancouver morgues have reached a point where they are "frequently full", forcing health authorities to store bodies at funeral homes.

The B.C. Coroners Service made that admission in response to an inquiry by the Straight about unprecedented numbers of overdoses linked to fentanyl and other drugs.


Comment: Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid pain medication that has a rapid onset and short duration of action.


"The recent increase in deaths from illicit drug overdoses has put increased pressure on an already-stressed system," said Barb McLintock, a spokesperson for the coroners service.

The city's primary morgue is at Vancouver General Hospital. It has space for 70 bodies plus a small area set aside for police cases.

McLintock cautioned that "full" is not a word authorities use to describe morgue operations, given that spaces are always coming available as they are simultaneously occupied by new additions. But McLintock conceded that at this point, it is accurate to describe B.C. morgues as "frequently full", and she noted that fentanyl overdoses are largely to blame.

Comment: See also:

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Stormtrooper

Survey shows 71% of French people think there will be a terror attack over Christmas holiday period, two thirds in favour of armed security


RT
Fri, 09 Dec 2016 17:21 UTC
france
© Eric Gaillard/Reuters
Almost three-quarters of French citizens fear terrorist attacks during the upcoming holiday season, a recent survey revealed. In addition, 67 percent of respondents consider public places hosting festive events to be under the greatest threat.

As stated in the survey, conducted by the Odoxa research institute and published on Friday in Le Figaro daily, 71 percent of the respondents said they fear terrorist attacks during the upcoming holidays.

The study also states that "for nearly six out of 10 (57%), department stores and shopping centers are also a matter of concern, as are places of worship - for more than one in two (54%)."

Some 78 percent of respondents said they are in favor of establishing secure areas in public places where New Year will be celebrated.

On a greater scale, when asked about their "everyday safety," the French appear overwhelmingly supportive of the presence of security officers, for instance at the entrances of department stores (91 percent). Almost one-third of the respondents even said they will either make do without Christmas shopping or purchase gifts on the internet to avoid traveling to large shopping malls.

Comment: This study that claims to represent the majority of French people but was really only 1,000 people, serves to ramp up the fear and make the French people accept a security state for their 'safety' in exchange for their freedoms. See the video below for more information:



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Black Cat

Guatemalans burn Trump effigies to dispel evil spirits


Yahoo News
Sat, 10 Dec 2016 14:09 UTC
trump effigy burned Guatemala
© Luis Echeverria/Reuters

A pinata representing U.S. President-elect Donald Trump as a devil burns during the traditional Burning of the Devil festival, ahead of Christmas in Guatemala City, Guatemala December 7, 2016.
Revelers in Guatemala set ablaze cardboard representations of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump wearing devil horns during a traditional ceremony, "La Quema del Diablo", or the Burning of the Devil, held ahead of Christmas every year.

Trump's hardline stance on immigration during his presidential election campaign, including a promise to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, has drawn anger from Latin Americans in the United States and around the world.

"We are against this person in many respects, regarding deportations, the wall he wants to build. We do not agree," said participant Astrid Soto, just before setting fire to the Trump figures, which clutched fistfuls of fake cash, and a U.S. flag.

Participants believe the practice of torching the devil helps banish bad spirits from their homes and neighborhoods. The custom began in the 16th century, but has spread out from various towns since the 1990s to become popular nationwide.

Via Reuters
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Airplane

Pakistan plane crash: 47 killed, Airliner blames Engine failure


Times of India
Thu, 08 Dec 2016 00:00 UTC
Pakistan villager at crashed PK-661
© AP photo
A Pakistan villager stands at the site of plane crash in Gug near Havelian, Pakistan on Dec 8, 2016.
Pakistan International Airlines flight PK-661 crashed after one of its two turboprop engines failed en route to Islamabad killing everyone on board, authorities said on Thursday, even as they began a probe into the accident and sent bodies for DNA test to identify the victims.

The flight with 47 people, including pop singer-turned-Islamic preacher Junaid Jamshed, his wife and deputy commissioner Chitral Osama Warraich, on board crashed in Saddha Batolni village near Havelian on Wednesday while en route to Islamabad from Chitral in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.

According to flight manifest, 31 men, nine women, two infants and five crew members were on board the ATR-42 aircraft, which lost contact with the Air Traffic Control (ATC) at Islamabad's Benazir International Airport.
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Bomb

Two explosions kill 6 Egyptian policemen, wounds others in Cairo

Ralph Boulton/ Robin Pomeroy
Reuters
Sat, 10 Dec 2016 11:00 UTC
An explosives expert looks for evidence at the site of Friday’s bomb blast in Cairo
© ASSOCIATED PRESS
An explosives expert looks for evidence at the site of Friday’s bomb blast in Cairo
Egyptian security forces were hit by two roadside bombings in a single day on Friday that killed six policemen and wounded six in Cairo and the north of the country, security sources and officials said.

The attacks come as the government of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi faces an insurgency waged by Islamist groups.

In the first incident, on Friday morning, a recently emerged Egyptian militant group claimed responsibility for a bomb in Cairo that the interior ministry said killed six policemen and wounded three others at a checkpoint on a main road leading to the Pyramids.


Comment: Six dead in bomb blast near Egyptian pyramid


The Hasm Movement, which has claimed several attacks in Egypt in recent months, said it set off the bomb which, security sources said, also injured four civilians.

Eyewitness Ahmed Al-Deeb described a scene of carnage, with dead and dying policemen lying next to wrecked cars. One of the policemen had blast fragments in his chest and two more had lost legs, he told Reuters Television.

Comment: A terrorist group affiliated with the Daesh jihadists might be behind the deadly explosion in the Egyptian capital on Friday, a source in the country's Interior Ministry told RIA Novosti.
Earlier in the day, an improvised explosive device went off in Cairo, killing at least six policemen and injuring six other people, including three civilians.

"The evidence points at an armed cell, affiliated with Ajnad Misr [Soldiers of Egypt], taking into consideration that the group has recently demonstrated its will to return to the criminal activities," the source said.


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Ambulance

At least 4 killed, 20 injured as train derails in Bulgaria


Sputnik
Sat, 10 Dec 2016 09:48 UTC
Bulgarian health care officers help to transfer the bodies from the burnt train
© AFP 2016/ BORYANA KATSAROVA
Bulgarian health care officers help to transfer the bodies from the burnt train
The train was transporting 26 tanks of propane-butaine in the Hitrino village of the Shumen Province in the east of the country. Their explosion was lethal.

"At least four people died and over 20 were injured," a local fire-fighting crew's chief Nikolay Nikolov said as quoted by the BTV.

The blast destroyed several buildings. Twelve people were extracted from under the rubble.
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