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Massive blast at Russian-owned oil refinery in northern Bosnia, one worker dead and nine injured


RT
Wed, 10 Oct 2018 00:51 UTC
Explosion at oil refinery in Brod, Bosnia
© AFPThe Russian-owned oil refinery in Brod, where an explosion occurred late Tuesday, is the only refinery in Bosnia
At least eight workers have been injured after a series of explosions struck an oil-processing plant in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina. Photos and videos show the plant engulfed in flames and black smoke billowing from the fire.

The first explosion hit one of the production facilities on the territory of the Brod oil refinery around 9.30 pm. The fighters called to the scene have since contained the blaze.

Witnesses say that the explosion was so powerful some thought the city was jolted by an earthquake. The blasts shattered some of the windows in the nearby buildings.

One witnesses said that the sound of the initial explosion was so loud that it resembled a bombing.

"The explosion was extremely loud, as if war started again," the witness said, as cited by Večernji List newspaper.

The bangs were also heard in eastern Croatia, in the city of Slavonski Brod, located just across the Sava River from the Bosnian town.


Comment: The blast has left one worker dead and nine injured, according to Reuters.

Brod's mayor said the refinery has continued operating after the incident, adding that an investigation, which was still underway, should establish the cause of the explosion.

The Brod refinery, which processes 1.2 million tonnes of crude a year, is majority owned by Russia's Neftegazinkor, a unit of state-owned oil company Zarubezhneft.

A couple of days ago explosions rocked Canada's largest oil refinery in New Brunswick.

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Mr. Potato

'F*CK. YOU. ALL': Google 'design lead' tweets wishes for Republicans to burn in hell in outrageous outburst


RT
Tue, 09 Oct 2018 03:12 UTC
google smart phone
© Igor Golovniov/ZUMAPRESS.com / Global Look Press
An apparent senior Google employee went on an expletive-laden rant against GOP lawmakers who'd voted to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the US Supreme Court. 'F*CK. YOU. ALL. TO. HELL,' the designer wrote, before deleting the tweet.

While Google continues to pride itself on being nominally politically unbiased, some of its employees don't appear to bother hiding their leanings - or watching their language while expressing them. One such employee sparked an outrage by launching a bad-mouthed attack on Republicans on Twitter.

Google tweet
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Cardboard Box

Flashback MH17 crash report: Bellingcat author was an employee of the Stasi


Sputnik
Sat, 06 Jun 2015 13:38 UTC
MH17 site
© Sputnik / Igor Maslov
New details are surrounding the Bellingcat's MH17 report. One of the persons who worked on the case of the alleged fake Russian MH17 satellite pictures was a former Stasi collaborator, Der Spiegel reported.

British investigative group Bellingcat has created waves in the media this week. The group accused Russia of having falsified satellite images of the MH17 disaster.

Now new details have appeared in the case. According to information obtained by Der Spiegel, one of the persons who worked on the MH17 report under the nick Timmi Allen was a Stasi collaborator.

The man from Berlin joined the Bellingcat under the nickname Timmi Allen. As the research revealed, Allen's real name was found on a list with 95,000 names of full-time employees of the Ministry of State Security of the GDR (shortly Stasi)," German magazine wrote.

Comment: More on the propagandizing, psy-oping circus of disinformation otherwise known as Bellingcat :

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Sheriff

On-duty cop caught selling OxyContin right out of his patrol car in Bonifay, Florida

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Tue, 09 Oct 2018 00:00 UTC
cop sold drugs
Showing just how callously this officer thought he was above the law, he was caught on duty, in uniform, selling opioids from his own patrol car.

Over the weekend, a person whose job description involves kidnapping and caging people for possessing or selling substances deemed illegal by the state-was found possessing and selling substances deemed illegal by the state. What's more, he was doing it right outside of an assisted living facility while on the taxpayer's dime.

The officer, Dwayne White, 48, with the Bonifay Police Department was in his patrol car, on duty, and in uniform selling opioids on Saturday when the Florida Department of Law Enforcement arrested him.

According to the FDLE, it began its investigation into White at the request of a neighboring sheriff's department, Holmes County Sheriff's Office.
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Attention

Busting the 'toxic masculinity' myth: Boys more likely to be victims of dating violence than girls - study

Toni Airaksinen
PJ Media
Sun, 07 Oct 2018 20:41 UTC
woman boxing
© Getty Images
A recent study has found that Canadian teen boys are more likely to be victims of physical dating violence, a disparity that has been documented - but rarely reported on - by researchers in other English-speaking countries.

The study, "Ten Year Trends in Physical Dating Violence Victimization Among Adolescent Boys and Girls," draws from a survey that was administered to nearly 30,000 students in 7th through 12th grade in western Canada.

"During the past 12 months, did your boyfriend or girlfriend ever hit, slap or physically hurt you on purpose?" the study asked Canadian teens, along with dozens of other questions about eating habits, grades, and friendships.

Comment: Given the lack of public support for men, especially in these times where males are denigrated simply for being male, it's entirely likely there is a greater under-reporting of dating violence from boys than from girls. This paints quite a different picture than what is commonly preached from those possessed by the feminist ideology. But then, isn't this twisted post-modern reality that has produced aggressive male-like women and passive female-like men what fanatical feminists are really after?

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Attention

Watch as bridge collapses on world's longest railway linking Russia's west & east


RT
Tue, 09 Oct 2018 03:52 UTC
Bridge collapse
© Russia’s Investigative Committee
A motorway bridge has collapsed on top of the Trans-Siberian Railway in the Russian Far East, just as a truck was driving on the bridge and a train had passed underneath it. CCTV footage of the collapse has appeared online.

Two sections of the motorway bridge in the Amur region of Russia collapsed as a truck was passing it, according to the local emergencies ministry. The driver was hospitalized with a broken shin and shattered foot. His life is not in danger.

The collapse forced train traffic through the affected area to be suspended.

Comment: See also:

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Attention

UK: Schools threaten a social services referral if parents don't let their sons wear skirts

Camilla Turner
The Telegraph
Thu, 04 Oct 2018 19:27 UTC
mom and son
© AlamyA council has sent school's guidance on parents and gender.
Parents who refuse to let their son wear a skirt to school may need to be referred to social services, a council's guidance has advised schools.

Mothers and fathers who dismiss a "gender questioning" child's requests to change their name could also be a trigger for concern, according to Brighton and Hove City Council's "Trans Inclusion Schools Toolkit".

It comes after warnings that schools are "sowing confusion" in children's minds by over-promoting transgender issues, and that children are being encouraged to "unlearn" the difference between boys and girls.

The guidance advises teachers on how to handle a number of different scenarios, including if parents say: "I refuse to allow my son to change his name or wear skirts".

Comment: We've come to the point where parents can no longer transmit their own values to their children. The state is in charge.

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Light Sabers

'Churchill was an imperialist racist': Piers Morgan clashes with professor live-on-air


RT
Tue, 09 Oct 2018 20:31 UTC
churchill
© Jason Redmond/Reuters / imago stock&people / Global Look Press(L) Piers Morgan (R) Winston Churchill
TV presenter Piers Morgan has clashed on air with a professor over the academic's claim that Winston Churchill was an "imperialist racist." Morgan said he won't be told "to feel ashamed of this country."

Morgan lashed out at Professor Kehinde Andrews' assertion that Britain was a country "built on racism" that had ruined the world. The broadcaster labelled the attack "baloney."

Professor Andrews, an academic in Black Studies at Birmingham City University, told an intransigent Morgan on his breakfast show Good Morning Britain: "[Churchill] was someone who believed the white race was superior, the natives didn't have any right to their lands in the Americas, the Indians were a ghastly people and was just a general imperialist racist."

The academic then insisted that Churchill's views on India "were so extreme, they couldn't be separated from Hitler's," quoting Leo Amery, the secretary of India during the early-to-mid 1940s.
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Dominoes

Fear of Trump 'outrage' led to UK dropping objection to death penalty for IS suspects


RT
Tue, 09 Oct 2018 20:22 UTC
Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheik
© ReutersAlexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheik
The high court has been told that UK Home Secretary Sajid Javid, did not seek assurances from the US that two IS fighters suspects would not face the death penalty, to avoid "political outrage" in the Trump administration.

The allegation came as the high court in London heard an application on behalf of the mother of El Shafee Elsheikh, who along with Alexanda Kotey, faces prosecution over their alleged involvement in terrorist group, Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL). Maha Elgizouli's application questions the legality of the Home Office's deal to provide evidence to US prosecutors.

Edward Fitzgerald QC, representing Elgizouli alleges that Sir Kim Darroch, the British Ambassador in Washington, had warned UK Home Secretary Javid that seeking assurances over the death penalty of the two suspects would only provoke "something close to outrage" among US President Donald Trump's top aides, namely US Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, Mike Pompeo, the US secretary of state and James Mattis, the US defense secretary.
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Brick Wall

Gender madness: Trans student barred from all locker rooms, left in the open at school shooter drill


RT
Tue, 09 Oct 2018 15:37 UTC
bathroom
© SARA D. DAVIS / GETTY IMAGES / AFP
LGBTQ groups have criticized a Virginia public school for leaving a transgender student unprotected during a lockdown drill. While others hid in boys' and girls' locker rooms, teachers argued over where to hide the trans student.

After a spate of school shootings earlier this year inspired copycat threats at Virginia middle schools, area school districts began scheduling "lockdown drills" to put parents' minds at ease. Like fire drills, such pantomimes only go so far to prepare for real, unscripted emergencies. Sometimes a real emergency isn't even required, as one transgender student in Stafford, Virginia discovered last month.

Students at Stafford County public schools are instructed to seek shelter in the middle school's locker rooms during an active shooter drill. The school's lone transgender student was, however, singled out, barred from both male and female locker rooms and made to sit in the gym bleachers while teachers debated what to do with her. She was finally moved to a hallway between the locker rooms, where teachers presumably stopped short of cleaving her in two. Equality Stafford, a local LGBTQ rights group, reported the incident.

The Stafford incident is a warning of what happens when signaling one's virtue outpaces showing common sense. As teachers debated the best way to avoid hurting anyone's feelings, they left the transgender student in an extremely exposed position - easy pickings should a real shooter have been present.
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