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British teen found guilty of plotting terrorist attack on British Museum


RT
Mon, 04 Jun 2018 17:11 UTC
British Museum
© Tim Ireland / Global Look Press
Teenager Safaa Boular has been found guilty of plotting a grenade and gun terrorist attack on London's iconic British Museum. She is one of the youngest females to be convicted of terrorism offenses in the UK.

The 18-year-old, who lived at home with her mother, Mina Dich, 44, in Vauxhall, London, was accused of plotting terrorist attacks in London with her Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS, ISIL) partner, Naweed Hussain. She was also found guilty of attempting to travel to Syria to commit acts of terrorism. Boular denied the two counts of preparing acts of terrorism.
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Fire

Grenfell inquiry: Evidence deems fire service's 'stay put' policy a failure, safety measures were inadequate killing at least 72 people


RT
Mon, 04 Jun 2018 16:21 UTC
Grenfell Towers
© Stephen Lock / Global Look Press
The inquiry into events that resulted in the devastating fire at Grenfell Tower last year has been told that safety measures were inadequate, and that the authorities advice for residents to "stay put" had failed.

At least 72 people died as a result of the fire, which has been described by RT's Nadira Tudor as the "worst loss of domestic life since World War Two."
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Bomb

Dire conditions: Europe's largest prison housing radicalized inmates 'starting to explode'


RT
Mon, 04 Jun 2018 16:00 UTC
Prison
© Christian Hartmann / Reuters
A major French prison, which houses more than a hundred radicalized inmates, is overcrowded, understaffed and "starting to explode," a correctional officers' union warns. It says the guards suffer attacks and commit suicide.

Europe's largest prison Fleury-Merogis is in dire condition, the representative of the CGT Penitentiaries Union told RT. "Every day in France, there are prison supervisors who are attacked violently; every day we have security problems because all the proposals are not yet in place," Ambroise Koubi said. He added that the authorities offered to send in extra 1,100 supervisors, but so far it didn't happen.

"Fleury-Merogis is starting to explode already. Because we are tired of this. You are the first TV channel I'm telling this to, but yesterday we had a suicide," Koubi said, adding that the prison had 10 other suicide cases since January, with supervisors among the victims.

The prison, situated north of Paris, housed several well-known jihadists. Among them was Salah Abdeslam, who organized the Paris shootings in November 2015, Amedy Coulibaly, who attacked a kosher store in January 2015, and the Charlie Hebdo attacker Cherif Kouachi. The jail currently has over 120 radicalized inmates, says the penitentiaries union official.
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Pistol

West Ham manager Manuel Pellegrini robbed by gunmen in Chile


RT
Mon, 04 Jun 2018 14:45 UTC
Manuel Pelligrini
© Panoramic / Global Look Press
West Ham's Chilean manager Manuel Pellegrini has been mugged at gunpoint in his homeland. Pellegrini was with his wife and two friends when they were robbed by an armed gang in a Santiago suburb.

The Chilean, 64, was traveling with the group to a restaurant on Saturday when the incident happened.

Pellegrini's wife reportedly had her handbag snatched before the gang made off. The gunmen were later tracked down by police and became involved in a shootout, before driving off in a Porsche Cayenne which had reportedly been stolen two weeks prior to the incident. The vehicle was later found abandoned.
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Arrow Up

Successful deal: India welcomes first-ever shipment of Russian liquefied natural gas


RT
Mon, 04 Jun 2018 14:03 UTC
Oil tanker
© Issei Kato / Reuters
Russia's energy giant Gazprom has started supplying liquefied natural gas (LNG) to India. The first cargo docked on Monday at the Petronet LNG terminal in India's westernmost state Gujarat.

India's Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said his country will import LNG from Russia worth an estimated $25 billion over the contract period of 20 years. Supplies will come from Gazprom's Yamal LNG project in the Arctic.

"Today will be considered as Golden Day in India's energy roadmap," Pradhan told reporters. "Four years back, we were importing LNG only from Qatar. Today we are getting LNG from Australia, US and now Russia."

The minister called the Russia-India deal very successful, saying the shipment of Russia's LNG was a "big achievement."He detailed that $1.5 billion worth LNG will be bought from Russia every year, adding that "Gazprom's price is very competitive."
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Snakes in Suits

No shorts please, we're British: Oxford school tells male students to wear skirts if it's too hot for pants


RT
Mon, 04 Jun 2018 15:17 UTC
Skirts
© Getty ImagesUnder the 'gender-neutral' uniform policy, boys can wear skirts but not shorts.
As temperatures soared at the weekend, an Oxfordshire school told its male students that they can join their female peers by donning the school skirt if they find trousers too hot and uncomfortable.

The advice issued by Chiltern Edge Secondary School came after the school introduced a 'more formal' uniform policy at the beginning of the school year, which stipulated that students' legwear may only be either trousers or skirts.

Following the policy change, requests made by parents inquiring if their sons could instead wear tailored shorts in lieu of trousers in warmer weather were rejected by the school, according to the Mail Online.

However, since the uniform policy was 'gender neutral,' boys could instead wear a skirt if they wished.
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Dollar

Global shift: Legalizing marijuana would pay for the NHS - Non-profit report


RT
Mon, 04 Jun 2018 11:03 UTC
Cannabis
© Giorgos Georgiou/ Global Look Press
The UK "can't afford" to ignore the lucrative benefits of legalizing cannabis, an international development organization has warned, claiming the class-B drug could earn the economy up to £3.5 billion ($4.7 billion) a year.

While Westminster is at loggerheads over the much-debated issue of legalizing the drug for medical purposes, a new report published on Saturday by Health Poverty Action sets out huge economic and social benefits that the country could yield from cannabis tax income.

Martin Drewry, director of the non-profit Health Poverty Action, said: "This week Canada will become the first G7 country to vote to legalize and regulate cannabis, it is clear that the war on drugs has failed and that responsible regulation protecting public health is the way forward."

The report argues that the money gained by legalizing cannabis could be used to support public services. It singled out the NHS, which is facing an unprecedented staff and funding crisis, claiming that revenue from cannabis taxation could write off the service's £1 billion ($1.3 billion) deficit.

Comment: Everybody must get STONED.

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Bullseye

One shot, one kill: Death of the Israeli defense narrative

Phil Butler
New Eastern Outlook
Sat, 26 May 2018 00:00 UTC
Mohamed Wahdan
© Bahaa SalmanSixteen-year-old Mohamed Wahdan, hit by IDF sniper fire.
Gaza is all in the news since protesters were fired upon by Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) from inside perimeter fence dividing peoples and ideas. As complex as the situation in Palestine is though, there are only four concrete sides to the crisis. Here are those four sides framed and simplified in the hopes that sanity and humaneness can prevail henceforth.

Western media takes the side of Israel. This is plain to see whether you watch TV, or if you read newspapers on or offline. It is a fact. No matter how conciliatory or understanding mainstream outlets and writers may seem, the Israeli narrative ends up dominating. Hamas becomes the villain no matter how many men. women and children vaporize in front of or beneath IDF guns, cannons, missiles, and bombs. In the end, it all looks like honest reporting. The Washington Post piece today by former U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Daniel B. Shapiro is a Xerox copy of a now familiar style that boils down to "those poor Palestinians, victims of the dastardly Hamas henchmen." The story always goes like this, sweet and cuddly and defenseless Israel forced to shoot. In short, our media depends on stupid and gullible readership and viewers. It does not matter "why" our media sides with Israel, they simply do. This brings us to the next side of the situation.
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Attention

Under California's new water laws it will be illegal to shower and do laundry on the same day

Daisy Luther
The Organic Prepper
Sun, 03 Jun 2018 15:07 UTC
no laundry shower
Governor Jerry Brown is retiring but not before he passes a few draconian laws as parting gifts for California. Two bills were signed into law on Thursday of last week to "help California be better prepared for future droughts and the effects of climate change."

The mandatory water conservation standards will be permanent, according to their wording, and not just for use in times of crisis. To make a long story short, now that these bills are law, it's illegal to take a shower and do a load of laundry in the same day because you'll exceed your "ration."

Here's the wording of the new laws.

Senate Bill 606 establishes a "governing body" to oversee all water suppliers, both private and public and will require extensive paperwork from those utility companies. Assembly Bill 1668 is where it gets personal. This establishes limits on indoor water usage for every person in California and the amount allowed will decrease even further over the next 12 years.
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Handcuffs

'Real' assassin arrested in staged hit on anti-Putin journalist as official story unravels

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Sat, 02 Jun 2018 14:24 UTC
Oleksiy Tsimbalyuk
Supposed "hitman" Oleksiy Tsimbalyuk
The Ukrainian government's staged assassination of anti-Putin journalist Arkady Babachenko has taken an even stranger turn, as evidence has emerged that his would-be "Russia-ordered" assassin and the man who supposedly hired him, both say they worked for Ukrainian counterintelligence, casting serious doubt on the official story.

To review, Ukrainian authorities announced last Tuesday that Babachenko had been assassinated after returning home from the store. On Wednesday, Babachenko appeared at a press conference with Ukrainian authorities who said that the faked assassination was an elaborate sting to bust an actual hit planned by Russia.


Comment: Fake News: "Delusional" Kiev accuses Russian intelligence of plot to murder journalist Arkady Babchenko


Only now we find that the hitman, Oleksiy Tsimbalyuk, is an outspoken critic of Russia who says he worked for Ukrainian counterintelligence - a claim Ukraine initially denied but later admitted to be true. Meanwhile the guy who supposedly hired Tsimbalyuk, Boris L. German, 50, also says he worked for Ukrainian counter-intelligence, a claim Ukraine denies as its immediately destroys the carefully scripted, if rapidly imploding, Ukrainian narrative meant to scapegoat Russia for what has been a "fake news" story of epic proportions, emerging from the one nation that not only was the biggest foreign donor to the Clinton foundation, but has made fake news propaganda into an art form.
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