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US Army employee in Germany says attack was not a 'simple burglary', stabbed robber who later died

Lucia I. Suarez Sang
Fox News
Wed, 13 Feb 2019 14:36 UTC
German police
Police in Germany said an American Army civilian employee killed a suspected burglar who tried to break into his home.
The civilian U.S. Army employee who fought off a group of suspected robbers - killing one with a kitchen knife - during an attempted home invasion in Germany said it was not a "simple burglary" as one man tackled his wife who was upstairs with their three children.

The American, who reached out to Fox News via Facebook messenger, said he answered his front door in Landstuhl on Sunday night to one individual, but as soon as he opened, three others appeared and "attacked me."

"While I fought three in my entry, one got past and made it upstairs to where my wife and children were," he said. "After I fought off the three, got them out of the door - that is when I got the kitchen knife and went upstairs to get the fourth attacker, who had tackled my wife and was strangling and pinning her down.

He did not want to be identified fearing possible recriminations from the attackers still on the loose.
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Fire

2 employees burned alive as liquid metal spills at Russian iron & steel plant


RT
Wed, 13 Feb 2019 08:55 UTC
Steel plant
© Sputnik / Aleksandr KondratukProduction facilities of the Mechel iron and steel plant in Chelyabinsk.
Two workers were trapped in a crane cabin in a deadly blaze following a liquid metal spill at the iron and steel factory in Chelyabinsk, Russia.

A fire struck the Mechel iron and steel plant in the Russian city of Chelyabinsk (1,783km east of Moscow) early on Wednesday as red hot liquid metal spilled from a scoop on a 150 sq. m. surface, leaving two people dead, local authorities report. Officials say a moving crane was burning as firefighters arrived at the scene.

A witness reports that the fire was caused by a blast as hot metal poured into the mold, which mistakenly contained water or ice. The incident reportedly caused major damage and left the production facility without a roof.
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Camera

PC totalitarianism? Yale student says she's collecting dirt on 'ambitious white boys'


RT
Wed, 13 Feb 2019 10:30 UTC
yale
© Reuters / Shannon StapletonStudents gather on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, October 7, 2009.
A Yale University student has pledged to monitor "white boys" on campus and document any potentially embarrassing behavior - in hopes of sabotaging their future careers. RT analysts weighed in on the controversial op-ed.

Isis Davis-Marks, a senior at the Ivy League school, vowed in an opinion piece published by the Yale Daily News that she would not allow "white boys" with "great ambitions" to enter the halls of power without first being held accountable for any politically incorrect transgressions made during their time at Yale.

Regretting that she hadn't documented past "white boy" misdeeds (such as "an unintentional utterance that he made when he had one drink too many at a frat party during sophomore year") she stated: "I can't do that anymore - I can't let things slip by. I'm watching you, white boy."

Comment: PC culture has pretty much adopted Stasi-like "report your neighbor" tactics of control at this point, including reporting anything from decades ago that may trigger a news cycle. The PC-friendly future is a paranoid totalitarian dystopia, yet the regressive left welcomes it with open arms.

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Star of David

Ilhan Omar sets off more hysteria for not being apologetic enough about 'anti-Semitic tweet'


RT
Wed, 13 Feb 2019 10:57 UTC
Ilhan Omar
© Reuters / Eric MillerIlhan Omar
Freshman Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan Omar has been forced to apologize by senior House Democrats for a series of "anti-Semitic" tweets - but her apology has set off another round of hysteria for not being apologetic enough.

In a post captioned "listening and learning, but standing strong," the Muslim representative thanked her "Jewish allies and colleagues" for "educating" her about "anti-Semitic tropes," while reiterating her original point about the "problematic role" of lobbyists like AIPAC.

Comment: RT reports more on both the backlash Ilhan Omar has faced and the support she has received:
Social media users are flocking to #StandwithIlhan after Rep. Ilhan Omar was pressured to issue an apology for her tweets about the Israel lobby's influence over US politicians, after she was accused of anti-Semitism. [...]

Many voicing their support for Omar pointed to American values of freedom of speech and shared a petition urging the Democratic leadership to stand up against "bad faith attacks" targeting Omar even after her apology. Others said they had donated to her campaign. [...]

Ironically, smearing people as anti-Semites is a tactic employed by the Israel lobby both in the US and theUK, as detailed in two Al Jazeera documentaries which saw an undercover reporter infiltrate both the US and UK lobby to reveal methods employed by the groups. The US version was never aired by Al Jazeera as a result of pressure wrought by the Israel lobby and members of Congress, who accused the network of... anti-Semitism.
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Attention

Disgusting: Florida man arrested for recording himself having sex with his dog


WTSP.com
Wed, 13 Feb 2019 10:57 UTC
Christian Steward Oscar Nichols
Christian Steward Oscar Nichols
An Oldsmar man was arrested Monday after allegedly recording himself having sex with his Siberian Husky, Pinellas County sheriff's deputies say.

Christian Steward Oscar Nichols, 21, was charged with aggravated animal cruelty.

According to detectives, the investigation began last month when someone reported to Pinellas County Animal Services seeing video and photographs on the internet of a man having sex with a dog.

Sheriff's detectives obtained the photos and video showing a man dressed in a dog costume molesting a husky.
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Dollar

Bill Gates: Taxes could be higher but policies like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's are 'crazy'

Nilay Patel
The Verge
Wed, 13 Feb 2019 10:57 UTC
Bill Gates
© Jack Taylor/Getty Images
Bill Gates thinks taxes can be higher.

Speaking on The Vergecast this week, Gates said that while marginal tax rates in the United States can be "more progressive" - higher, in other words - there are now some politicians who are "so extreme" that their proposals would lead to wealthy people hiding income and stashing it offshore. That's a clear reference to new members of Congress like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), who had just suggested a new top tax rate of 70 percentin the week before Gates sat for this interview.

Gates also said that the world's wealthiest people only have a "rounding error" worth of actual income compared to their wealth - they don't have a lot of salary, but instead sell stocks and other assets to raise cash, which isn't taxed as income anyway. The top 400 earners in the US are only paying something like a 20 percent tax rate, he pointed out. "It has nothing to do with the 39.6 percent marginal ordinary income rate. So it's a misfocus. If you focus on that, you're missing the picture."
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Propaganda

Latest NY Times pro-Israel piece is a bizarre attempt to connect Al-Qaeda, Palestinian rights and Africa

James North
Mondoweiss
Sun, 10 Feb 2019 00:00 UTC
Netanyahu red carpet
Israel's propaganda apparatus, Hasbara Central, must be delighted with a bizarre, convoluted article in today's New York Times that used tortuous logic to:

* Dishonestly try to connect 2 recent terrorist attacks in Africa to Al-Qaeda, the organization once headed by Osama bin Laden

* In passing, try to tarnish genuine Palestinian grievances by saying that Al-Qaeda agrees with those grievances

* Somehow use the fake Al-Qaeda connection to endorse Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's efforts to improve Israel's diplomatic standing in Africa

You have to read the Times article - which is bylined Dionne Searcey, David M. Halbfinger and Rukmini Callimachi, and datelined Dakar, Senegal- a couple of times to appreciate just how dishonest it is. Let's start with actual facts: two different groups of gunmen in Africa, in Kenya and across the continent in Mali, carried out terrorist attacks last month. Plenty of experts could have explained how both groups emerged due to conditions in their own countries, but the Times never contacted them.
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TV

Russian YouTube viewers struck by Siege of Leningrad horrors as told by 88yo WWII veteran


RT
Tue, 12 Feb 2019 13:11 UTC
Leningrad horrors
© RIA Novosti archive / Vsevolod Tarasevich; Instagram / sergei_berezovskiy_istorii
A Siege of Leningrad survivor has stirred Russian YouTube with vivid stories of streets lined with corpses and people being so starved they resorted to eating jellied leather belts as he revisited his childhood war experience.

Sergey Berezovsky was an 11-year-old boy when the Nazis and their Finnish allies shut down Leningrad, the former imperial capital and the second largest city in USSR back in September 1941. The blockade which lasted 872 days was one of the longest and bloodiest in history as up to 1.5 million people died from hunger, cold, illnesses and injuries from bombings.

Leningrad in 1942
© Photograph photocopy of Leningrad in 1942 Sputnik

Comment: To get some greater sense of how tragic and impactful the Siege of Leningrad was and is for the Russian people, see:

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Broom

Triggered: Bloomingdale's apologizes for and pulls 'Fake News' shirt from store shelves

Nicole Darrah
Fox News
Tue, 12 Feb 2019 00:00 UTC
Bloomingdale's
© iStockA "fake news" shirt being sold by Bloomingdale's has been removed from the store's selling floor.
Bloomingdales apologized on Monday for selling a "fake news" shirt in stores and confirmed the item was removed from the department store's selling floor.

"Hey @Bloomingdales, this isn't funny or fashionable," Allison Kaden, a reporter for WPIX, tweeted on Sunday alongside a photo of the clothing item. "It further delegitimizes hard working journalists who bring REAL news to their communities."


Comment: There it is: no one's even allowed to call attention to the fact that much of the news as promulgated by the corporate media is, indeed, fake news,

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Red Flag

The NHS stockpiles body bags in case of a no-deal Brexit


RT
Tue, 12 Feb 2019 22:18 UTC
body bag protest
© REUTERS/Neil HallFILE PHOTO: Protesters wearing bodybags outside the Houses of Parliament in London, June 6, 2013
A health minister's letter aimed at reassuring people that the UK is all set for a no-deal Brexit, reveals that the NHS is stockpiling body bags. It's prompted Twitter to utilize some dark humor.

The morbid course of action was disclosed by ITV's Robert Peston, who released extracts from Health Minister Stephen Hammond's letter via social media, in which he insists "the government is preparing for all exit scenarios."

In his letter, Hammond singles out body bags as "essential products" that come to the UK from or through the EU, which are being stockpiled to mitigate against severe disruption to the NHS.

The Tory MP for Wimbledon also lists a number of medical products, consumables and equipment, including medicines, vaccines and blood products that are being amassed to cope with a no-deal Brexit scenario.
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