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'Only minutes to spare': Teen clings to 300ft cliff face in heart-stopping, helicopter rescue


RT
Sat, 12 May 2018 12:51 UTC
Rescue
© Maritime & Coastguard Agency / YouTube
A 13-year-old boy hanging on to a 300ft sheer cliff face was rescued by a British Coastguard helicopter crew with "only minutes to spare," according to the rescue agency.

The extraordinary rescue took place in Langdon Bay, east Kent on Friday, after the boy became stuck in the middle of the steep cliff while attempting to climb it. According to the Coastguard, the child was some 175ft from the bottom of the cliff when he became immobilized.

Video captured by a camera mounted to the rescue chopper shows the moment when the HM Coastguard Lydd aircraft arrived on the scene and found the child "desperately clinging on by his fingernails to the perilous cliff face."
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Attention

'They're trying to kill him': Pamela Anderson calls on Kanye to help free Assange


RT
Sat, 12 May 2018 11:11 UTC
Pamela Anderson
Actress-turned-activist Pamela Anderson has become one of the most vocal allies for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, and now she wants Kanye West's help in setting him free.

Cooped up in the confines of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, the WikiLeaks founder has not set foot outside out of fear that he could be extradited to the US. Amidst all this, the UN has found that Assange's years inside the embassy amount to arbitrary detention.

Former Baywatch star Pamela Anderson has been an unlikely ally for the Australian recently, and, in an open letter published online, the Canadian actress pleaded with fellow celebrity Kanye West for help in bringing Assange to freedom.

Comment: Over the last week Kanye has faced huge backlash over his public support for Trump and has now officially been shunned by Hollywood and libtards. He appears to be fighting the battle for free speech, so hopefully he will consider Anderson's request and use his platform to promote Julian Assange's case.

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Rocket

Syrian SA-22 air defense system hit by Israelis was either off-line or out of ammo according to former Russian Air Force commander


RT
Sat, 12 May 2018 11:03 UTC
Pantsir-S1
© Evgeny Biyatov'It was either disabled or out of ammo': How Israelis hit the Syrian SA-22 air defense system A Pantsir-S1 (NATO reporting name SA-22 Greyhound) air defense system
A functional SA-22 would never let a missile reach it, a former deputy head of the Russian Air Force told RT. The Russian-made system filmed getting hit by an Israeli missile in Syria was either turned off or out of ammo.

Following a massive airstrike on what it called Iranian targets in Syria on Thursday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have released footage taken aboard a Spike NLOS cruise missile, which is seen hitting what appears to be a Pantsir-S1 (NATO reporting name SA-22 Greyhound) air defense system.

There can be only two possible explanations for a successful strike against a Pantsir-S1: "One is that it had already used up its ammunition reserve. The other is that it was simply turned off; it wasn't battle ready," Aytech Bizhev, a former Russian Air Force Deputy Commander-in-Chief, said.

"There can be no third option as it wouldn't have let itself to be destroyed... When it's battle-ready it performs constant surveillance of enemy aircraft and has a very fast reaction time. It would've brought down those cruise missiles with either its cannons or own missiles," he explained.

Comment: See also: Russian MoD: Pantsir-S1 repelling US strikes on Syria showed 100% effectiveness

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Deaths of Florida students in fiery Tesla electric car crash prompts investigation by federal agency

Linda Trischitta, David Lyons, Tonya Alanez, Wayne K. Roustan
Sun Sentinel
Thu, 10 May 2018 14:35 UTC
Crash Tesla electric car Fort Lauderdale
Two young men, "as close as brothers," were supposed to be attending college in the fall. Instead, their families and classmates are mourning them after a fiery crash of an electric car on a curvy road on Fort Lauderdale beach.

Driver Barrett Riley, of Fort Lauderdale, and front-seat passenger Edgar Monserratt Martinez, of Aventura, both 18 and students at Pine Crest School, were trapped in the burning wreck and died in Tuesday's crash, police and fire officials said. Another passenger, also 18, was taken to a hospital.

The trio was traveling in a Tesla Model S sedan along Seabreeze Boulevard before it crashed into a concrete wall, police said.

Fort Lauderdale Police said excessive speed may have been a factor in the crash, but they could not say how fast the car was going, where the fire began or what caused it.
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Attention

Hate crimes target Muslims most in Nottingham, says study


RT
Sat, 12 May 2018 14:03 UTC
muslim girls
© Dinendra Haria/ Global Look Press
Hate crime perpetrators are targeting Muslims more than any other section of the community in Nottingham, a study reveals. Victims were compared to Al-Qaeda terrorist Osama Bin Laden, while others were called "terrorist s***."

Muslims accounted for 59 percent of hate crime victims recorded by the study by Nottingham University and Nottingham Trent University, which gathered both statistical and harrowing anecdotal evidence of people being abused for reasons including race, culture, sexuality and religion.

One Muslim victim described how she had been harassed for wearing her traditional clothing. "I wear the Islamic dress and the perpetrator was shouting that I was hiding a bomb," one respondent said. "On another incident whilst driving in my car, a passerby was shouting and calling me Bin Laden."
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Light Saber

Lee Camp's pointed take on Israel and Trump lying about Iran's nuclear activity

Michael Quinn
Russia Insider
Fri, 11 May 2018 14:08 UTC
lee camp
Lee Camp
Lee Camp does an excellent analysis on US military policy along with the irony that America now pushes baseless accusations against countries like Iran.

Lee Camp is a bit liberal for our tastes on most issues but he really hits it out of the park with his takedowns of US foreign policy.

America is not in a position to accuse other nations of possessing dangerous weapons. The real weapons of mass destruction are those manufactured by the World Police themselves, the American military. Per capita Americans give over $3,000 per year to the Pentagon's military programs.

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Attention

Witness claims a Rio councilor and military chief planned the assassination of Brazilian activist Marielle Franco


teleSUR
Tue, 08 May 2018 00:00 UTC
Marielle Franco assassination
© ReutersA demonstrator holds a t-shirt reading "Marielle is Present" in a protest against the shooting of Rio de Janeiro city councillor Marielle Franco.
The unnamed witness claims councilor Marcello Siciliano and paramilitary chief Orlando Oliviera de Araujo planned the activist's murder.

A key witness in the Marielle Franco case has alleged that a councilor and a military police officer are responsible for the murder of the activist in March.

The witness, whose identity remains protected, says he was part of a powerful paramilitary organization in Rio de Janeiro, and agreed to testify about the case in exchange of personal protection, according to the local newspaper "O Globo."

He claims to have been present at meetings between councilor Marcello Siciliano, from the Solidarity Humanist Party (PHS), and Orlando Oliviera de Araujo, a former member of the Military Police and chief of a paramilitary group, in which they were planning the assassination of Franco.

Comment: See also:

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Bad Guys

Study finds half of 'terror suspects' arrested in Spain are Moroccan


Middle East Monitor
Sat, 12 May 2018 14:00 UTC
spanish police cars
© Les Haines/FlickrSpanish police vehicles
Almost half of people arrested in Spain on terrorism charges are Morocco-born or of Moroccan descent, a study by Spanish think tank Elcano Royal Institute has found.

Based on information from their database of terrorist activities between 2013 and 2017, the study found that approximately 46 per cent of the 233 people arrested or killed for alleged involvement in terrorism-related activities in Spain were Moroccan nationals.

The study also found that six out of ten people were second generation descendants of Moroccan immigrants, who were affiliated with terrorism cells and networks based in Spain. Many of these arrests took place in Catalonia, which the think tank argues is "increasingly known as a centre of extremism, with nearly one third of ISIS-linked arrests in Spain made there," Morocco World News reported using another acronym for Daesh.
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Bizarro Earth

IDF revives anti-Semitic trope, depicts Iranians as evil puppet masters


RT
Fri, 11 May 2018 13:52 UTC
puppet master
© WIN-Initiative / Getty Images
Using "puppet master" and "Jew" in the same sentence will likely land you on an Anti-Defamation League blacklist, but it seems to be okay when the Israeli military rolls out the tired trope against others - that is, against Iran.

The Israeli Defense Forces' (IDF) official Twitter account pulled back the veil on the Iranian global conspiracy on Thursday. It posted a poorly edited picture showing Iranian leader Ayatollah Khamenei pulling the strings of a Bashar Assad marionette, against the backdrop of a ruined city ravaged by explosions. One may already start to wonder what the message is, given that the photo actually shows Kobane, the northern Syrian city that was seized by Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) in 2014, and liberated by Kurdish fighters a year later. But most importantly, the MS Paint masterpiece is accompanied by the caption: "WHO REALLY CONTROLS YOUR LIFE?"

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Snakes in Suits

Red Ants: Meet South Africa's private security firm violently evicting squatters

Jason Burke
The Guardian
Tue, 08 May 2018 05:00 UTC
red ants SA
© Alaister Russell/The Sunday Times
The Red Ants are a South African private security company specialising in clearing "illegal invaders" from properties. Two, sometimes three times a week, a convoy of trucks drives out of the gates of a sprawling farm in Gauteng province, carrying hundreds of men and led by "officers" armed with shotguns and handguns.

The company is rarely out of the headlines in South Africa and has been repeatedly accused of crimes ranging from theft to murder. It is fiercely criticised by human rights campaigners. But the attitude of the general public is more ambivalent - and the Red Ants themselves are fiercely loyal to each other and their employers. "We are a family. We look after each other ... We have built a community," says Johan Bosch, the farmer who founded and owns the company.

Comment: While illegally squatting in buildings is a criminal act, reports suggest that the Red Ants have carried out evictions without court notices and without allowing people adequate time to vacate the properties. In addition to that, it's not surprising that allegations of murder and theft have been made against them if they are hiring ex-cons!

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