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Historic black school defaced with 'white power' and Nazi graffiti

T. Rees Shapiro
Washington Post
Sat, 01 Oct 2016 23:49 UTC
Ashburn Colored School
© Deep Sran
The Ashburn Colored School building in Loudoun County was vandalized Friday night.
A historic one-room school house that once served as a segregated place of learning for black children in Loudoun County was defaced Friday night with the Nazi swastika and references to "white power".

The old Ashburn Colored School building, which dates to 1892, was spray-painted with graffiti that covered three sides of the structure with the Nazi-era symbol as well as racist slogans.
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At least 77 people reported injured in gas leak explosion at cafe in Velez-Malaga, Spain


RT
Sat, 01 Oct 2016 23:02 UTC
Gas explosion Malaga, Spain
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Personnel examine the cafe where the explosion happened.
Scores of people have been reported injured and at least five seriously hurt in a gas cylinder explosion near the southern Spanish city of Malaga.

77 people have been injured in the explosion, according to a spokesman for the Andalucia region's emergency unit, as reported by Reuters. Earlier reports put the number of those injured at around 50.

The blast occurred at a cafe in Velez-Malaga. Five people are being treated for serious injuries while dozens of others are being treated for cuts.

More than fifty people were transferred to the Regional Hospital of Axarquia for emergency treatment, while dozens others were tended to at a nearby health center, according to Cadena SER.
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Navy widow first to sue Saudi Arabia over 9/11 attacks, hundreds more set to follow


RT
Sat, 01 Oct 2016 21:30 UTC
World Trade Center in New York on September 11, 2001
© Peter Morgan / Reuters
The first lawsuit has been filed against Saudi Arabia for allegedly providing material support to Osama bin Laden and his team of terrorist hijackers prior to the 9/11 attacks. The filing comes days after Congress passed a law that allows US citizens to sue terror-supporting states.

Stephanie Ross DeSimone was pregnant with Navy Commander Patrick Dunn's daughter when he was killed by American Airlines Flight 77, which was deliberately steered into the Pentagon building on the morning of September 11, 2001.

The hijackers at the wheel of that plane were Saudi nationals, as were 15 of the 19 who took control of the four planes, the crashing of which resulted in the deaths of almost 3,000 people in what remains the worst-ever terrorist attack on US soil.
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Up in smoke: Marijuana grow labs are exploding across the country

Verena Dobnik
Seattle Times
Sat, 01 Oct 2016 20:18 UTC
apartment explosion
© Michael Schwartz/NY Daily News
A deadly drug lab explosion in a Bronx home killed an FDNY battalion chief and left 20 others injured on Sept. 27, 2016.
An explosion that destroyed a New York City home and killed a firefighter has drawn attention to marijuana-making methods that are legal in many states — but can also be lethal.

A New York fire battalion chief died responding to the blast Tuesday in a Bronx home that authorities say had been converted into an indoor marijuana farm. They're investigating whether the alleged growers tampered with gas lines and mishandled other materials in ways that caused the explosion.

Indoor marijuana farmers can create potential fire hazards by using natural gas, propane or butane to power carbon dioxide generators that make the plants grow. In recent years across the country, similar methods used to produce more potent marijuana extracts have resulted in explosions and other catastrophes.
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The Great Wall of Calais: The French are building a wall to keep those pesky migrants out of Britain

James McAuley and Michael Birnbaum
Washington Post
Thu, 29 Sep 2016 19:12 UTC
migrant wall construction
© Sylvain Lefevre/Getty Images
Workers dig the foundations of a wall near the “Jungle” migrants camp along the road leading to the harbor of Calais, France, on Sept. 26.
So far, Donald Trump's plan to build a wall along the Mexican border is all talk. Last week, France and Britain actually began building one along theirs.

Construction started here on a roughly mile-long concrete barrier intended to separate a sprawling migrant camp from the tunnels that offer passage to Britain, the latest attempt in what has become a global effort to throw physical barriers in the way of historic streams of human ­migration.


Comment: Caused, of course, by the US and NATO led war-mongering in the Middle East.


From a razor-wire-topped border fence in Hungary to the sealed border of Macedonia and Greece to Trump's proposed wall , polarized societies across the world are finding that they can unite around keeping others at bay.

The "Great Wall of Calais," as the project is informally known, is considerably shorter than Trump's proposed partition of the United States and Mexico, but its message is much the same: Keep out. The concrete wall, which will rise to 13 feet, extends a fence near the sprawling Calais migrant camp known as the "Jungle," where more than 7,000 migrants have been stranded as they seek to enter Britain by all means possible. The concrete will be specially formulated to make it difficult to scale.

Comment: See also:

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El Cajon Police Department releases Alfred Olango shooting footage from drive-thru restaurant


RT
Sat, 01 Oct 2016 13:43 UTC
Alfred Olango
© Patrick Fallon / Reuters
Footage of the shooting of Alfred Olango by police in a suburb of San Diego has been released by the El Cajon Police Department. Prior to this, the only evidence released had been a still from the video .

One video is a surveillance tape from the drive-thru of the restaurant. It shows Olango walking in the parking lot, moving quickly and pacing back and forth while officer Gonsalves remains close and pursues him.

Comment: See also: Protests erupt in San Diego after police kill unarmed man pointing e-cigarette at them

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Women should undergo virginity tests before enrolling at universities - Egyptian MP


RT
Sat, 01 Oct 2016 17:56 UTC
Arab woman
© Filippo Montefort / AFP
All women attempting to enter a university should be forced to undergo a virginity test, the results of which would be submitted to their parents, an Egyptian MP has urged.

The lawmaker, Elhamy Agina, addressed the Egyptian Minister of Higher Education on Friday to issue a mandate making virginity tests obligatory for future female students.

Comment: Wanna-be leaders should undergo a thorough psychological examine before being allowed to inflict themselves on society.

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Chicago's "top cop" says he's breaking police "code of silence"

Tasha Sharifa
Counter Current news
Fri, 30 Sep 2016 16:35 UTC
chicago_police
In a rare and refreshing instance of a police officer striving to do the right thing, Chicago Police Department Superintendent Eddie Johnson is standing up against "the culture of the code of silence" between brethren in blue.

Following the discovery that seven police officers filed false reports in the 2014 shooting of Laquan McDonald, Johnson is recommending for the days of paid administrative leave to be over, and that corrupt officers be outright fired. While these measures may seem drastic to some- former Chicago Police investigator turned attorney- Lorenzo Davis seems to agree: "We're trying to change the police culture - that culture has existed since before I was born - that culture of the code of silence. "How else can you finally change that without taking serious drastic measures?"
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FBI investigates young Democrat who registered 19 dead people to vote

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Fri, 30 Sep 2016 17:09 UTC
Andrew Spieles

Andrew Spieles
Just yesterday we wrote about an FBI investigation into potential voter fraud in the critical swing state of Virginia after it was revealed that 19 dead people had recently been re-registered to vote (see "FBI Investigating More Dead People Voting In The Key Swing State Of Virginia"). While the Washington Post caught wind of the investigation, it was not known who was behind the operation...until now.

Meet, Andrew Spieles, a student at James Madison University, and apparently "Lead Organizer" for HarrisonburgVOTES. According to the Daily News-Record, Spieles confessed to re-registering 19 deceased Virginians to vote in the 2016 election cycle.

While this should come as a surprise to precisely 0 people, Spieles just happens to be Democrat who, accorded to a deleted FaceBook post, apparently recently ran for Caucus Chair of the Virginia Young Democrats.

It's too bad really, sounds like Spieles had all the right "special talents" required to be very successful politician...he just forgot the most important first rule: "Don't get caught."

Comment: Why go through all the trouble? Killary, the media darling, has this election cinched.

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Cell Phone

Samsung fan? Man walks into Apple store and smashes the iPhones


news.com.au
Sat, 01 Oct 2016 17:00 UTC
man smashing phones

The angry customer.
Somestimes it's a good idea just to give somebody a refund.

On Thursday a French Apple store refused to give one of its customers his money back, and boy did he get his revenge.

He went into the store with a steel ball and calmly began destroying iPhones and a Macbook Air while onlookers froze with shock.

He placed the smartphones flat on the table and smashed them with the ball, one after another.

In a video posted to YouTube, he speaks in French about his rights as a customer and said he was unhappy with how Apple handled his case.
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