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Ammunition depot explodes in Kiev-occupied Donetsk


TASS
Fri, 22 Sep 2017 19:54 UTC
donetsk explosion
A series of explosions rocked an arms depot near the Ukrainian settlement of Maloyanisol in the Donetsk region, 36 kilometers from Mariupol, the press service of the regional police's chief department reports.

"Several blasts at the depots located in a field, came at about 16:20 local time (coincides with the Moscow time). A fire broke out practically right after the explosions," regional police reports.

The site has been cordoned off by law enforcement officers, while emergency services are dealing with the aftermath of the blasts, it said. Regional police authorities left for the site. "The territory is cordoned off to prevent people from getting into a fire trap," police reports.

There have been no immediate reports about possible victims. Depots belong to a local military unit. Earlier, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry said the fire had broken out at an ammunition depot of a military unit in the Donetsk region. It said military were being evacuated. According to the Defense Ministry, the fire spread to the military unit's compound from nearby agricultural land.
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Woman walks into a Longhorn Steakhouse and gets bitten by a copperhead

Cathy Jett
Fredericksburg.com
Fri, 22 Sep 2017 16:03 UTC
Rachel Myrick
© Peter CihelkaRachel Myrick, with boyfriend Mike Clem, was bitten by a baby copperhead snake while walking into LongHorn Steakhouse in Spotsylvania.
Rachel Myrick's first thought as she walked through the entrance to the LongHorn Steakhouse at Southpoint II and felt a sharp pain in her left foot was that she'd been stung by a bee, or possibly a hornet.

She tried to brush it off and keep going, but said that she felt such an excruciating pain as she took the next step that she dropped her cellphone, her wallet and her 13-year-old son Dylan's hand.

"I had my fingers under my foot and that's when I felt something moving," said Myrick, a Fredericksburg Realtor.

She'd been bitten twice on her toes and once on the side of her foot by a roughly 8-inch-long copperhead that had managed to get into the Massaponax restaurant's foyer. It was still attached to her sandal-shod foot until she shook it loose.

"I freaked out," said Myrick, who recalled yelling, "I got bit! I got bit!"

Myrick had gone to the restaurant for dinner on Sept. 12 with her son, boyfriend Michael Clem and some of Clem's friends and family.
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Eye 1

Destined for a black hole? McCain calls brain cancer prognosis 'very poor'


Yahoo! News
Mon, 25 Sep 2017 15:38 UTC
Soulless McCain
© Associated Press/Cliff Owen (file)
U.S. Sen. John McCain says doctors have given him a "very poor prognosis" as he battles brain cancer.

McCain underwent surgery in July for a brain tumor that was later found to be a form of glioblastoma, the same type of cancer that took the life of his former Senate colleague Edward M. Kennedy in 2009. McCain tells CBS' "60 Minutes" in an interview that aired Sunday night that he thinks about Kennedy a lot. He says Kennedy continued to work despite the diagnosis and "never gave up because he loved the engagement."

McCain says he has "feelings sometimes of fear of what happens," but counters that with gratitude for having lived "had a great life."

He adds: "it's not that you're leaving, it's that you - that you stayed."

Source: Associated Press


Comment: McCain has led a life fomenting wars, killing innocent people for profit. He's stayed well past his welcome.
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Attention

Eyes opened: California woman moves to Red State and her perception of liberal politics is forever changed

Benjamin Arie
Conservative Tribune
Tue, 19 Sep 2017 16:59 UTC
red state blue state
© Dr_Flash/Shutterstock
Flyover country. Bible belt. Middle America. Coastal elites in liberal cities have all sorts of terms for "red states," but they all seem to convey one message: Conservative areas of the country are somehow backward and should be avoided.

That's the impression one California writer had about America's heartland. Leah Singer never imagined that she would end up in Trump Country... but when she moved to Indiana not long ago, her entire perception changed.

In an editorial piece published last weekend in the Indianapolis Star, the author sent a clear message to liberal friends back in California and throughout the country: You might be wrong about "red states."

"I used to say I'd never move to a red state. And then I did. And it's changed my life for the better," Singer admitted.
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Target

Government bodies turn tables by suing public records requesters

Ryan J. Foley
Associated Press
Sun, 17 Sep 2017 14:01 UTC
Open records requests
© Sacramento Bee/Jack Ohman
An Oregon parent wanted details about school employees getting paid to stay home. A retired educator sought data about student performance in Louisiana. And college journalists in Kentucky requested documents about the investigations of employees accused of sexual misconduct.

Instead, they got something else: sued by the agencies they had asked for public records.

Government bodies are increasingly turning the tables on citizens who seek public records that might be embarrassing or legally sensitive. Instead of granting or denying their requests, a growing number of school districts, municipalities and state agencies have filed lawsuits against people making the requests - taxpayers, government watchdogs and journalists who must then pursue the records in court at their own expense.
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Ambulance

San Diego seeks the help of Homeland Security with hepatitis A outbreak

Shannon Handy
CBS 8
Fri, 22 Sep 2017 09:08 UTC
Hep A outbreak
A clinic providing shots to in a bid to contain a deadly hepatitis A outbreak continued Friday inside the community concourse outside San Diego City Hall.

About 880 people received shots Thursday at the clinic, part of an extensive effort to curb the spread of the epidemic that has killed 16 people and sickened more than 400.

The clinic ran through 4 p.m., and was hosted by the city of San Diego, Downtown San Diego Partnership and American Medical Response, which provides the city with ambulance services.

Beyond the local Homeland Security office, Mayor Faulconer said he has no plans right now to ask for federal assistance. He does however, intend to continue working alongside city and county officials - an undertaking that will continue for quite some time.

The outbreak -- which started in November -- has primarily hit the homeless and drug users.
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'Tourists go home': Thousands take to streets of Majorca to protest mass tourism


The Express
Mon, 25 Sep 2017 03:37 UTC
Mallorca protest tourism
Streets of Majorca were filled with 3,000 people protesting over mass tourism in a latest backlash in the British holiday hotspot.

Holidaymakers in the capital of Palma looked on as the angry crowd chanted "Without limits, there is no future" and "tourists go home".

Spokeswoman Margalida Ramis said the holiday island was being saturated by visitors at the expense of the environment, local jobs, housing for residents and general co-existence.
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Conservative Roman Catholic theologians accuse pope of spreading heresy over marriage, sacraments


Chicago Tribune
Sun, 24 Sep 2017 23:52 UTC
Pope Francis
© Vincenzo Pinto / Agence France-Presse/Getty ImagesPope Francis waves as he arrives in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican for his weekly general audience on Sept. 20, 2017.
Several dozen tradition-minded Roman Catholic theologians, priests and academics have formally accused Pope Francis of spreading heresy with his 2016 opening to divorced and civilly remarried Catholics.

In a 25-page letter delivered to Francis last month and provided Saturday to The Associated Press, the 62 signatories issued a "filial correction" to the pope - a measure they said hadn't been employed since the 14th century.

The letter accused Francis of propagating seven heretical positions concerning marriage, moral life and the sacraments with his 2016 document The Joy of Love and subsequent "acts, words and omissions."

The initiative follows another formal act by four tradition-minded cardinals who wrote Francis last year asking him to clarify a series of questions, or "dubbia," they had about his 2016 text.

Francis hasn't responded to either initiative. The Vatican spokesman didn't immediately respond to an email seeking comment late Saturday.
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Dollars

Just a reminder: Obama paid the NFL millions to be patriotic

Timothy Meads
Townhall
Mon, 25 Sep 2017 00:53 UTC
Patriots
President Donald J. Trump doubled down his rhetoric against National Football League (NFL) players who refuse to stand for the national anthem on Sunday morning, but fans should be reminded the NFL's patriotism is relatively new in the league.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell claims that the "NFL and players are at our best when we help create a sense of unity in our country and our culture" but their weekly show of support towards members of the American military began only after NFL owners realized they could make money off it.

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Andre Vltchek: Western propaganda in Southeast Asia has successfully neutralized independent thought and killed its culture

Andre Vltchek
New Eastern Outlook
Sat, 23 Sep 2017 00:00 UTC
Propaganda in Southeast Asia
It is all done in a fully barefaced manner. Those who are not part of this world could never even dream about such a 'perfect' design.

You come to your club, in my case to The Foreign Correspondent Club of Thailand (FCCT), and immediately the long arm of indoctrination begins stretching towards you.

You place yourself on a comfortable couch, and soon after get fully serviced. You get instructed, told what to think and how to formulate or modify your ideas.

You are periodically shown movies about "corruption and immorality" in China. You get encouraged to participate in some public discussions that are, among other things, trashing the anti-Western president of the Philippines.

Although lately also the Middle East, and particularly Syria, are brought into the spotlight.

Of course almost all that is on offer in such places like FCCT is the Western view, or concretely a set of Western views raging from conservative to 'liberal'. The club is located in Asia, in the heart of Southeast Asia, but very few Asians are invited to speak here, except the few Thais who are well versed in the Western way of thinking. Or Western agents like the Dalai Lama, of course - such individuals can come anytime they want! Forget about hearing from 'the other side' - you'd never stumble here over speakers such as Communist thinkers or writers from Mainland China, or pro-Duterte academics or activists from the Philippines.
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