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Take a look inside the bizarro online world of YouTube shooter Nasim Aghdam


RT
Thu, 05 Apr 2018 15:22 UTC
Nasim Najafi Aghdam
© Nasim Najafi Aghdam / YouTube
Three people were shot when Nasim Najafi Aghdam opened fire at Youtube's HQ in California. Her videos offer a startling insight into the vegan bodybuilder's inner world.

The 39-year-old from San Diego also went by the name of Nasime Sabz, which means "Green Breeze" in Persian. She also harbored a grudge against the video-sharing platform. On her website, which has since gone offline, she accuses YouTube of "filtering my videos to reduce views & suppress & discaurage [sic] me from making videos."

Aghdam, who was of Persian origin, had at least four YouTube channels in English, Farsi and Turkish. All of her channels on social networks have now been suspended. However this has not stopped social media users sharing her videos, which have raised more than a few eyebrows.

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'I can't imagine my life without him': Tina Boileau after the death of her son Jonathan Pitre

Andrew Duffy
Ottawa Citizen
Sat, 07 Apr 2018 15:04 UTC
Jonathan Pitre
© Julie Oliver / OTTAWA CITIZENJonathan Pitre
He found solace and strength in science fiction, and like those he read about, Jonathan Pitre had otherworldly qualities.

He had one of the most painful diseases known to medicine, epidermolysis bullosa (EB), but was defiantly happy. He couldn't scratch without tearing his skin, but dreamed of playing hockey. Ostracized by other children, he thrived in the adult world: poised, thoughtful and genuine.

Jonathan found purpose in helping others with EB. He made himself the face of the disease, shared his story worldwide, and raised a small fortune for the EB charity, DEBRA Canada. His sunny, red-haired resilience charmed millions of people, and made him an Ottawa celebrity. None of it changed him.
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Body of missing CDC scientist found in Atlanta river

Cristina Laila
The Gateway Pundit
Thu, 05 Apr 2018 14:50 UTC
Timothy Cunningham
© Atlanta PoliceTimothy Cunningham
As previously reported, the day before mysteriously disappearing, Center for Disease Control and Prevention scientist, Tim Cunningham, told a neighbor to tell his wife to delete his phone number from her cell phone, reports WHAS 11.

Cunningham vanished February 12th after meeting with his supervisor, who explained to him why he was passed over for a promotion.

All of Cunningham's belongings were in his residence.

Police found the missing man's keys and wallet in his car.
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Florida Congressman Darren Soto's wife arrested at Walt Disney World on a charge of disorderly intoxication

Stephen Ruiz and Steven Lemongello
Orlando Sentinel
Mon, 02 Apr 2018 03:27 UTC
Amanda Soto
© Orange County JailAmanda Soto, the wife of U.S. Rep. Darren Soto, was booked into the Orange County Jail late Sunday night on suspicion of disorderly intoxication.
The wife of U.S. Rep. Darren Soto was arrested at Disney Springs on Sunday on a charge of disorderly intoxication.

Amanda Soto, 33, of Celebration, was with her mother at the West Side bus loop when Orange County Sheriff's Deputy Cory Heller saw her "holding ... her mother by the straps of the backpack she was wearing in an attempt to keep her from walking away," according to the arrest report.

A security guard later told Heller that Soto and her mother had become "aggressive" toward each other.

Heller, who said both Soto and her mother appeared intoxicated, helped them call an Uber vehicle to take them home but Soto began yelling profanities at Heller and the driver.
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Facebook among 30 organisations facing UK political data investigation

Alex Hern
The Guardian
Thu, 05 Apr 2018 14:36 UTC
Zuckerberg london
© Noah Berger/Associated PressMark Zuckerberg: 'I still think that I'm going to do the best job to help run Facebook going forward.'
Information commissioner is investigating use of personal information in political campaigns

The UK Information Commissioner's Office is investigating 30 organisations, including Facebook, as part of its inquiry into the use of personal data and analytics for political purposes.

The information commissioner, Elizabeth Denham, said:
"As part of my investigation into the use of personal data and analytics by political campaigns, parties, social media companies and other commercial actors, the ICO is investigating 30 organisations, including Facebook.

"The ICO is looking at how data was collected from a third-party app on Facebook and shared with Cambridge Analytica. We are also conducting a broader investigation into how social media platforms were used in political campaigning."
Denham welcomed changes made by Facebook to boost user privacy, but warned that it was too early to say whether they were sufficient under the law.

Comment: What ever Facebook eventually does, you can be sure it wont interfere with its real client's needs.

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The Atlantic's recent firing of columnist Kevin Williamson and victimhood culture

Bradley Campbell
Quillette
Sat, 07 Apr 2018 14:40 UTC
Kevin Williamson
The circumstances of The Atlantic's recent firing of columnist Kevin Williamson make clear that victimhood culture is rapidly spreading beyond university campuses.

Williamson was fired for comments about abortion - comments made in tweets and a podcast before The Atlantic ever hired him. His position, that abortion is murder, is certainly a mainstream position shared by millions of Americans. What is not mainstream is his view that women who have abortions should be subject to the same legal penalties as other murderers - possibly including the death penalty. This is an unpopular opinion that even many pro-lifers find offensive. Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg, in explaining why he fired Williamson, called it "callous and violent."
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Video of Palestinian teen activist Ahed Tamimi's THIRD interrogation come to light

Jesse Rosenfeld
The Dailly Beast
Sun, 01 Apr 2018 14:18 UTC
Ahed Tamimi
© Ammar Awad / ReutersPalestinian teen Ahed Tamimi
The Daily Beast obtained an exclusive look at video of Israeli military interrogating Palestinian teen activist Ahed Tamimi for slapping a soldier who shot her cousin.

When an Israeli military judge opened the courtroom at Ofer prison for the press to watch his acceptance of Ahed Tamimi's plea bargain, the teenage Palestinian activist who had already spent months in prison for slapping a soldier was blunt in her short message to the world.

"There is no justice under occupation," said the 17-year-old cuffed in the docket on March 21, looking at her family and friends at the back of the gallery. "We are in an illegitimate court," she continued in Arabic, speaking in a calm, explanatory tone until her guards shut down the impromptu statement.

The curly-haired teen has grown up with cameras documenting her family and village's struggle against Israeli settlements on their land and military rule over their lives. She has learned, over years in a local protest movement, against overwhelming army domination, that publicly speaking out is her best defense. So in February, when the military judge ejected the media and diplomats who packed into the first hearing of the trial where Ahed intended to make a statement, the strategy changed, says her father, Bassem Tamimi.

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Israeli lawyer Gaby Lasky who is defending Palestinian teen Ahed Tamimi has accused investigators of sexual harassment, Arab48.com reported yesterday.

Lasky has filed several complaints against interrogators for verbal and physical sexual harassment but said that no investigations were opened into any of her complaints. She has described this as a "gross violation of the law".

In her complaint, the lawyer wrote that one of the interrogators questioned Ahed in an inappropriate way for a female minor, which amounted to sexual harassment.

The same interrogator told Tamimi that he would arrest her relatives and interrogate them if she did not respond to his questioning.

Lasky also said that despite the fact that Tamimi is young, she was interrogated simultaneously by two men without the presence of a woman in the room or even an interrogator specialised in questioning minors.

"This proves that the [Israeli] law enforcement system infringes upon the rights of Palestinian minors," Lasky also wrote in her complaint to the Israeli attorney general.

Reporters at The Daily Beast said they had watched an exclusive video footage of Tamimi's interrogation leaked on Sunday which reportedly shows the teenager enduring two hours of questioning on 26 December. One of the interrogators tells her: "You have eyes like an angel" then tries to explain how she is like his sister who "spends all his money on clothes".

According to Al-Araby Al-Jadeed sexual harassment and abuse, including rape, is routinely used by Israeli authorities to humiliate and torture both female and male Palestinian prisoners.

She told reporters last month before the court accepted the plea bargain that "there is no justice under occupation and this is an illegitimate court."


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BP thinks an oil spill in Australia would be a 'welcome boost' for local economies


RT
Sat, 07 Apr 2018 10:33 UTC
Ocean
© WikipediaGreat Australian Blight
BP, the company behind the deadly Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster, the biggest in history, has claimed an oil spill off the South Australian coast would be a good thing, as the clean up would boost local economies.

BP made the outlandish claim as part of its bid to drill for oil in the pristine Great Australian Blight. "In most instances, the increased activity associated with cleanup operations will be a welcome boost to local economies," it said, in its second rejected environmental safety plan, submitted to the National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA) in March 2016.

The strange argument was uncovered thanks to a two-year-old freedom of information request made by Climate Home News. Government documents reveal Australia's doubts about the oil giant's proposal.

In a letter to BP, NOPSEMA pointed to a number of statements that BP should remove from its proposal. These included the "welcome boost" claim and the giant firm's allegation that a spill would not have a social impact, which it said meant, "BP interprets this event to be socially acceptable."

Comment: See also: Study finds BP oil spill caused $17.2 billion in damage to natural resources in Gulf of Mexico

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A 'David and Goliath situation': How New York City poop became a rural Alabama town's problem


RT
Sat, 07 Apr 2018 12:57 UTC
Trains
© John Gress / Reuters
The unbearable stench of some 150 rail cars filled with human waste has pushed a small town in rural Alabama into the international spotlight. It turns out the toxic sludge came from New York City, over 1,000 miles away.

Since January, freight cars filled with human waste and other "sludge" from New York City and nearby New Jersey have been piling up at the rail yard in Parrish, Alabama, about half an hour's drive northwest of Birmingham. The town of less than 1,000 residents has been overwhelmed by the stench.

"It smells like dead bodies," one resident told WVTM, a Birmingham-based CNN affiliate, in mid-March. Other locals compared the smell to rotting animals.

"It greatly reduces the quality of life," Mayor Heather Hall told CNN. "You can't sit out on your porch. Kids can't go outside and play, and God help us if it gets hot and this material is still out here."

The rail yard is "right next door to our softball and baseball fields and right across the street from houses," Hall told Canadian radio. "It's a very small town."
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'You have to be brain-dead to believe US in Syria for democracy' - Eva Bartlett interview on RT America


RT
Fri, 06 Apr 2018 15:19 UTC
eva bartlett
The US should, but likely won't, pull out of Syria soon, independent journalist Eva Bartlett told RT's Lee Camp. She added that you have to be "brain-dead" to believe the myths used by the US to justify the conflict.

Comedy show Redacted Tonight hosted by Lee Camp strikes a more serious tone in its special interview editions. This week he spoke with Bartlett - whose extensive reporting from inside Syria has challenged mainstream coverage of the conflict - about what the US is doing in Syria, the human cost of "bringing democracy" to the Middle East, and the many myths used by the West to justify its involvement in the war.

US President Donald Trump's recent comments about wanting to bring home US forces currently operating in Syria caused an uproar in Washington and the media. Administration officials quickly clarified that while an immediate withdrawal was not being seriously considered, Trump was opposed to maintaining a long-term presence in the country.


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