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Italy: 3rd soldier suicide in 6 months involved in Operation Safe Streets


RT
Mon, 30 Jul 2018 09:08 UTC
toilet
© FILE PHOTO Marijan Murat / Global Look Press
A 25-year-old Italian military has committed suicide while on duty at Palazzo Grazioli, the residence of ex-Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in Rome. The man went to the bathroom, where he took his own life.

Corporal Enrico De Mattia was participating in "Operation Safe Streets" at Palazzo Grazioli on Saturday before deciding to kill himself, according to Italian GrNet website. He reportedly took his service gun to the toilet and shot himself in the head. The motives that drove the man to this desperate act have not been revealed.

The suicide was later confirmed by the Italian military, politician Gianluca Rizzo from 5 Star Movement wrote on Facebook. He said that soldiers face "psychological shocks" more than other groups due to the specifics of the occupation.

Comment: A report by the Express detailed the operations mission:
The southern European country has about 2,000 troops in Lazio, Umbria and Abruzzo and a total of 7,000 throughout the entire nation.

The move is part of the 'Safe Streets' operation which is now in its ninth year which is used to keep a watchful eye on various possible activities - terrorism, migrants, fires and drought as well as the current 'Lucifer' heatwave that has swept through Italy as well as a number of European countries.
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Across the capital, there are 158 points that have a fixed army presence, which include embassies, archaeological sites, two airports - Fiumicino and Ciampino, one port, 13 train stations and 37 metro stations.
So is it the working conditions that are driving these soldiers to suicide or is there something else to the operation that for whatever reason is more "psychologically shocking" than other possible army assignments?

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Boat

Boats loaded with illegal immigrants caught on camera as they land on Spanish tourist beaches

Jack Montgomery
Breitbart
Mon, 30 Jul 2018 12:57 UTC
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© AP/Sima Diab
Pressure on Spain's maritime border is increasing, with videos showing boatloads of illegal migrants crashing into busy tourist beaches circulating online as the country overtakes Italy and Greece as the EU's major weak point.

Footage shared by Diario de Cádiz on Twitter shows an entire boatload of migrants landing in the middle of the packed tourist beach of Zahora on Saturday, July 28th, and disgorging onto the sand, before scattering into the interior unregistered and unvetted.


Comment: See also: Over 700 migrants storm Spanish exclave of Ceuta, several use homemade 'flamethrowers' (VIDEO)

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Eye 2

Save the Children report: Migrant children sexually exploited to 'pay' for crossing from Italy to France

Angela Giuffrida
Guardian
Sun, 29 Jul 2018 12:41 UTC
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© Miguel Medina/AFP/Getty ImagesA demonstration in support of migrants in Ventimiglia. The town is a major transit hub for migrants attempting to cross into France.


Save the Children report says children are being abused in order to afford safe border passage

Migrant children are being sexually exploited to pay for their safe passage into France from the Italian border, according to a report from Save the Children Italy. The minors, mostly from sub-Saharan Africa, are being forced to perform sex acts if they cannot afford the €50-€150 asked by drivers in exchange for a lift across the border.

The children are also being offered food or shelter in return for being abused. The charity says it has evidence of many cases, particularly since the beginning of this year.

"These are very young, and particularly at-risk girls, who are among the invisible flow of unaccompanied migrant minors in transit at the northern Italian border who, in an attempt to reunite with their relatives or acquaintances in other European countries, are deprived of the opportunity to travel safely and legally," Raffaela Milano, the director of Italy-Europe programmes at Save the Children, said in the report.
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Stormtrooper

Police releases video of Thurman Blevins shooting in Minneapolis that sparked mass protests (warning: graphic)


RT
Mon, 30 Jul 2018 12:20 UTC
Minneapolis police video
Screenshot from Minneapolis police video
Body camera footage has been made public, which shows the chasing of and the shots that killed Thurman Blevins, an African American whose death in June led to mass protests in Minneapolis.

The video shows two officers, Justin Schmidt and Ryan Kelly, driving in a car as they were responding to a 911 call about a man firing a gun into the air in the northern part of the city.


Comment: This seems to happen a lot in Minneapolis.

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Brick Wall

Ann Coulter: 'If Trump builds the wall, media will go crazy and his poll numbers will go through the roof'

John Binder
Breitbart
Sun, 29 Jul 2018 12:19 UTC
Ann Coulter
© AFP/Paul J. RichardsAnn Coulter
New York Times best-selling author and populist conservative columnist Ann Coulter says President Trump's "poll numbers will go through the roof" if he would simply build the border wall he promised to construct along the U.S.-Mexico border.

During an interview on SiriusXM's Breitbart News Daily, Coulter told Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow that if Trump finally followed through on his key campaign promise to build a wall along the southern border, his poll numbers would skyrocket.

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Stormtrooper

Nazi symbols spray-painted near Indiana synagogue spark outrage and calls for a state hate crime law


RT
Mon, 30 Jul 2018 12:00 UTC
Israel
© Kai Pfaffenbach / Reuters
Social media users have called on state legislators to pass a hate crime law in Indiana, after Nazi symbols were discovered on a wall at the refuse disposal shed wall of a synagogue in Hamilton County, Indiana.

Sometime before Saturday morning, unknown individual(s) spray-painted a pair of Nazi flags and iron cross graffiti on two walls of a brick shed where trash cans are stored at the property of Congregation Shaarey Tefilla in Carmel, Indiana.

After the synagogue notified the police about the defacement, the Jewish Community Relations Council and the Jewish Federation of Greater Indianapolis have been working to make sure that "appropriate measures" are taken following the incident.

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Stock Down

Tech giants aren't making any money and a bubble's on the horizon


RT
Sat, 28 Jul 2018 14:35 UTC
Stocks
© Wang Ying / Global Look Press
Tech giants like Tesla, Uber, or Spotify are making less and less profit at the moment and experts are worried about their impact on the world. Are we seeing a new economic bubble in the making? RT's Daniel Bushel finds out.

American tech corporations are often making headlines nationwide and internationally, although their own performance is far from perfect. They lose more and earn less, and experts warn of a potential "bubble" looming in the horizon.

Tesla, Elon Musk's flagship company, is worth more than Ford or GM, but produces only a small number of cars. Spotify, a music streaming service, as well as Uber, are losing billions of dollars every year.


"Definitely, there's a bubble, not just in tech stocks but in general stock market itself," Jack Rasmus, professor of political economy at St. Mary's College, told RT, warning that "there are signs of financial fragility" that endanger the world.

Comment: Our whole economy is a pyramid scheme built like a house of cards. It won't take much to have it all come crashing down. See also: It looks like we've just reached the point of peak stock market absurdity

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Propaganda

Twitter tells Trump that it does not 'shadowban,' then admits that it does

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Mon, 30 Jul 2018 10:45 UTC
Twitter
© AFP Photo/JOSH EDELSON
In response to growing outrage over the practice of "shadow banning" conservatives, as confirmed last week by the liberal publication VICE and promptly tweeted about by President Trump, Twitter issued a strange explanation to "set the record straight," where they explicitly state that they do not engage in the practice - except then they describe how they do exactly that.
"People are asking us if we shadow ban. We do not. But let's start with, "what is shadow banning?"

The best definition we found is this: deliberately making someone's content undiscoverable to everyone except the person who posted it, unbeknownst to the original poster." -Twitter
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Arrow Down

Poll finds support for Macron & Merkel's coalitions plunged to record lows


RT
Mon, 30 Jul 2018 10:45 UTC
Merkel Macron
© Hannibal Hanschke / ReutersGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron
The people's dissatisfaction with the leading EU governments appears to be rising, as fresh polls show a record decline in the ratings of French President Emmanuel Macron and of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling coalitions.

Support for Merkel's conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its sister party, Bavaria's Christian Social Union (CSU), has gone down to its lowest level since 2006, an Emnid poll, published by Bild am Sonntag, has revealed.

The CDU/CSU are currently polling at 29 percent, their lowest result in 12 years. Merkel's party came out tops in the country's federal election in September 2017 with 33 percent of the vote.
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Stock Up

Looking deeper: Companies are not responsible for the gender pay gap

Tracey Smith
Numerical Insights
Sat, 28 Jul 2018 00:01 UTC
women executives
For quite some time, I have been working with large, global companies analyzing topics related to gender. Specifically, many companies are concerned with providing equity between men and women.
  • Are we promoting men and women in equal proportions?
  • Are we hiring fairly across gender?
  • Are we paying men and women equal pay for the same job role?
In recent times, this topic has received great focus in the news. Unfortunately, there is often a large difference between facts and opinions. Real company data show results that are very much in line with studies that have been conducted by academic professionals for the last 30 years. Here are a few real results.

Comment: As long as the myth that men make more than women 'because sexism' exists, this skewed vision of reality does nothing but create resentment and division. We need an accurate picture of reality to properly assess where problems exist and come up with possible solutions. Unless the goal is to create division; in which case, well done.

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