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Builder uses backhoe to destroy row of houses after 'not being paid'


RT
Mon, 13 Aug 2018 11:49 UTC
Demolished house
© E Herts Rural Police / Twitter
A builder took his angry work outburst to an extreme degree when he used an excavator to destroy a row of newly built houses because he was reportedly upset that he hadn't been paid for work he had done on the properties.

Daniel Neagu was arrested at the scene and is due in court on Monday. The 31-year-old man has been charged with criminal damage after using the powerful machine to rip the facade off the buildings, in the small English town of Buntingford, on Saturday evening.

Resident Elaine Francois called the police as she watched the incident unfold. "It looks like an earthquake or bomb struck,"the 61-year-old told The Sun. "He was laughing and taking photos of the damage. When police got here he told them he wasn't paid and that's why he did it. He was totally calm."
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Biohazard

"Cocktail of harmful chemicals": Russian lawmaker targets junk food in new bill


RT
Mon, 13 Aug 2018 09:56 UTC
Sausages
© Anton Denisov / SputnikSausages made at a dry sausage robotized production plant in the Moscow Region
A Russian lawmaker has proposed banning the naming of foodstuffs made with excessive artificial components after traditional products such as "sausage" or "lemonade."

MP Vitaly Milonov of the majority United Russia party addressed the Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov in an open letter, insisting the state must toughen rules on product naming in the food industry to prevent false advertising and cheating of customers by dishonest producers. Milonov said the situation involving processed meats and soft drinks was especially serious.

The MP claimed that Russian stores were offering customers "processed meat products" that have no relation to actual meat and suggested that producers and retailers were deliberately cheating customers through product naming. Another sector where the situation is especially serious is the soft drink and fruit juice industry with "stores overstocked with various imported brands of drinks that are pure chemically-synthesized products that inflict heavy damage to human health at any age," Milonov wrote.

Comment: By law companies should be forced to clearly detail the exact ingredients in their product - which includes chemicals used to process the food - and this would go some way to allowing consumers to make an informed choice. But there also needs to be a culture shift away from processed foods, and this is most likely to happen by making the information of the harms available to everyone, and at an early age, as well as making cooking from fresh much more accessible.

While many countries in the West, and those under US dominance, continue to gamble the health of their citizen's on GMO's, Russia is at the forefront of an organic food revolution:

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Cow Skull

World's only 'prickly' woolly mammoth hat up for sale in Siberia for $10k


RT
Mon, 13 Aug 2018 15:00 UTC
Woolly mammoth
© Alexey Kudenko / SputnikA man stands beside Mammoths sculptures in Russia's Siberia. Alexey Kudenko / Sputnik
Heads up, fashionistas! A man in Russia's Yakutia region has made the world's only wooly mammoth hair hat, and is reportedly selling the item for the hefty price of $10,000.

Vladimir Ammosov, a 44-year-old builder from Yakutsk, the capital of Russia's coldest region, said he obtained the hair of the extinct animal from one of his relatives.

"He went to a woolly mammoth graveyard site at Kazachye village in Ust-Yanskiy in Yakutia. He picked up a full plastic bag of woolly mammoth hair and later sold it to me because he needed money," Vladimir told the Siberian Times.

Mammoths roamed the territory of modern Siberia tens of thousands of years ago, with their carcasses, preserved in permafrost since the Ice Age, from time to time discovered by locals and scientists.

Comment: See also: Russian scientists discover region's largest mammoth tusk yet in Ural mountains

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Megaphone

'Fascist pieces of sh*t!' Unhinged Antifa attack police during Unite the Right 2 rally in Washington, DC


RT
Mon, 13 Aug 2018 13:44 UTC
Protester shouts at police
© James Lawler Duggan / ReutersA protester shouts at police officers guarding the White House on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, US, August 12, 2018.
Radical counter-protesters assaulted and abused police, who were trying to stop them clashing with a white supremacist rally in Washington, DC. Furious Antifa members called officers "fascists" and "members of the KKK."

Sunday's left-wing counter-protests against the white nationalist Unite the Right 2 rally in the US capital were mostly non-violent, but some radical Antifa activists (short for anti-fascists) have been caught on camera insulting police, claiming officers were on the side of the far-right.

At some stage, an angry counter-protester, wearing black clothing and a red scarf, abused officers stationed near the White House who were providing security.

"F**k you! Who the f**k do you protect?!" the man yelled. "Who the f**k do you serve? You're all Ameri-KKK, fascist pieces of sh*t!" He then gave the middle finger to police officers in front of him while continuing to shout "f**k you!"
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Attention

France: Search underway for man who rammed car into mosque


RT
Mon, 13 Aug 2018 14:11 UTC
Al-Wifaq mosque
© Google mapsAl-Wifaq mosque
Police are looking for a driver who rammed his vehicle through the front doors of a mosque in a town in northern France, local media cited officials.

The car "deliberately broke the entrance of Al-Wifaq mosque" in Mons-en-Barœul, 3 km from the city of Lille, at about midnight, a local prefecture said, as cited by French media, adding that no one was injured in the incident. Mons-en-Barœul has a population of about 22,000 people.

Police confirmed the incident to Le Parisien, noting that they know the identity of the attacker, but not his motives.
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Ambulance

Nearly 10,000 cancer cases in NYC are linked to toxic 9/11 debris


RT
Mon, 13 Aug 2018 14:03 UTC
9/11 explosions
© Ray Stubblebine / Reuters
Almost 10,000 people have a cancer diagnosis that is somehow linked to breathing in hazardous particles following the September 11 Twin Tower terrorist attack in New York City, the Post has learned.

Inhaling particles from the leaked jet fuel, asbestos, cement dust and glass shards following the destruction of the World Trade Center has led to cancer proliferation among at least 9,795 first responders and other New Yorkers, the federal World Trade Center Health Program revealed to the New York Post.

The numbers continue to grow exponentially ever since the program at Mount Sinai Hospital kicked off in 2013. In 2015 the number of 9/11 cancer-linked patients stood at 3,204 while the next year it jumped to 8,188.

Comment: See also:

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Propaganda

NYT has been publishing stream of articles defending the killing of protesters in Gaza

Phil Weiss & Donald Johnson
Mondoweiss
Mon, 13 Aug 2018 11:55 UTC
The New York Times
Yesterday in the New York Times, Bret Stephens characterized the shootings on the Gaza protesters as a "military quagmire." Just a throwaway line, but the former Jerusalem Post editor turned columnist said Benjamin Netanyahu was seeking to "shore up his popularity in the face of corruption allegations and a military quagmire in the Gaza Strip."

Stephens's swipe is merely the latest instance in a near-constant defense of the killings of unarmed protesters by op-ed columnists of the New York Times. Israeli forces have shot more than 4000 Palestinians with live ammunition during the 4-1/2 months of protests on the Gaza border, killing at least 124.

But that violence has been echoed in a barrage of New York Times hasbara columns. Tom Friedman in May blamed Hamas for "the tragic and wasted deaths of roughly 60 Gazans by encouraging their march." He said the Palestinian protesters were going about it it all wrong.
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Toys

UK dad's hilarious response to fine from head of education for taking kids on holiday during term time

Georgina Littlejohn
iNews
Mon, 13 Aug 2018 10:11 UTC
father school holiday kids fine
A father-of-two has condemned his local council for sending a letter informing him to pay a holiday fine which was littered with spelling mistakes. Daniel Moore, 31, from Exmouth, Devon, received the letter on Tuesday which asked him to pay a £60 penalty for taking his son Charlie on holiday during term time.

Mr Moore said while the fine was expected and he was happy to pay it, he was astonished at the seven spelling mistakes in the letter which was sent on behalf of Devon's Head of Education. He said: "It was a sting in the tail, to be honest. The head of education is sitting on her pedestal judging me for taking my kid out of school when she's allowed this to be sent out!"

'Must try harder' He corrected the mistakes in red pen along with a couple of choice comments and shared his marked letter on Facebook.

Comment: How exactly is a fine even effective in this situation? In most cases it's cheaper to pay the fine rather than paying the extortionate prices one encounters during the school holidays when demand is at a premium.

Moreover, the only reason a child's education would suffer - especially for one week - is because the tests themselves are designed to reward rote learning rather than intelligence and understanding of a subject: Also check out SOTT radio's: The Health & Wellness Show: Public schools: Where creativity, freedom and critical thinking go to die

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Arrow Down

Terrorist attacks in the Middle East and North Africa down by almost 40% last year

Luiz Romero
Quartz
Thu, 09 Aug 2018 09:52 UTC
ISIL
Where ISIL has been in retreat.
Terrorist attacks took a nosedive last year in one of the most terrorism-prone regions of the world.

The number of attacks in the Middle East and North Africa dropped to 3,780 in 2017, from more than 6,110 the year prior. That's a decrease of almost 40%. And the number of deaths caused by terrorism in the region fell by almost half.

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The numbers, from the Global Terrorism Database, a compilation of attacks published yearly by the University of Maryland, show that the steepest drops were in Iraq, Turkey (due to fewer strikes by Kurdish rebels), Libya, Yemen (where incidents fell despite the civil war), and Syria.

Comment: See also:

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Handcuffs

UK: 2 children among 10 injured in Manchester after pellet gun shot into crowd at carnival after party


BBC News
Sun, 12 Aug 2018 09:03 UTC
carnival uk shooting pellet
The shooting took place on Claremont Road
Two children were among 10 people hurt in a shooting in the Moss Side area of Manchester, which police are treating as attempted murder.

They were injured with what police believe was a shotgun with "pellets in its rounds" at a street party in Claremont Road at about 02:30 BST.

Nine victims had "pellet-type wounds" and a man suffered a broken leg.

The shooting took place at a party held after the first day of this weekend's Caribbean Carnival in Alexandra Park.

The victims, including two children over the age of 12, with "pellet-type wounds" were not seriously injured but the man with the broken leg was in a serious condition.

Another two people attended hospital later on Sunday to be "checked over" but their injuries are not thought to be serious, police said.

Comment: This sounds more like petty gang violence than the organized crime normally associated with some areas of Manchester:

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