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5 policemen shot dead in Egypt security checkpoint ambush


RT
Fri, 14 Jul 2017 14:49 UTC
Egypt border guard
© Amr Dalsh / Reuters
Masked gunmen opened fire on a security checkpoint south of Cairo, Friday morning killing five policemen before fleeing the scene. Authorities are currently searching the surrounding countryside for the assailants.

The attack occurred in the al-Badrasheen area of Giza province, 30km (20 miles) south of Cairo, according to the Interior Ministry.

Two officers and three conscripts were killed in the attack.

No group has yet claimed responsibility but Egyptian forces have been battling Islamic State insurgents in the northern Sinai region. Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) claimed responsibility for multiple attacks against Coptic Christians in Egypt this year as part of their North Sinai offensive.
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Chart Pie

Poverty in Italy triples over decade as economy remains sluggish


RT
Fri, 14 Jul 2017 14:31 UTC
Naples, Italy
© Mario Laporta / AFP
The number of Italians living in absolute poverty reached its highest level for more than ten years in 2016, according to a report from the Italian National Institute of Statistics ISTAT.

According to the agency, the number of absolute poor in Italy rose to 4.7 million last year against almost 1.7 million in 2006. The figure represents 7.9 percent of the country's population with most of them living in southern regions.

In the south of the country, 9.8 percent of people were living in absolute poverty, compared to 7.3 percent in central areas including the capital Rome, and 6.7 percent in the north, including the business capital Milan, the report shows.

Absolute poverty is defined as the condition preventing people from buying goods and services "essential to avoid grave forms of social exclusion," according to ISTAT.
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Star of David

Two Israeli police officers confirmed dead following Temple Mount shooting


RT
Fri, 14 Jul 2017 13:59 UTC
Israeli policemen carry the body of an assailant after he was shot dead
© Ammar Awad / ReutersIsraeli policemen carry the body of an assailant after he was shot dead by Israeli police at the compound known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount, in Jerusalem's Old City July 14, 2017.
Two police officers were fatally shot during an attack at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem Friday morning. Police Chief Roni Alsheich confirmed the deaths following the incident involving three assailants.

The two officers were amongst three people initially injured. Three armed assailants were then pursued, shot and killed by police.

The gunmen, reported by Reuters to be Arab-Israeli, arrived at the site which is holy to both Jews and Muslims, and made their way towards the Lions Gate in the Old City. "When they saw policemen they shot towards them and then escaped towards one of the mosques in the Temple Mount compound," police spokeswoman Luba Simri.

According to Simri three firearms were found on the bodies of the attackers.

The officers were named by authorities as Hail Stawi, 30, and Kaamil Snaan, 22.
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Post-It Note

Money talks: Texan escapes ATM by slipping 'help me' notes through receipt slot


RT
Fri, 14 Jul 2017 10:54 UTC
woman at atm
© Fred Prouser / ReutersMoney talks: Texan escapes ATM by slipping ‘help me’ notes through receipt slot
Some of the notes asked people to call his boss.
A Texas man was rescued from inside an ATM after he sent desperate "help me" notes through the receipt slot.

The unnamed contractor became stuck inside the Bank of America ATM in Corpus Christi on Wednesday when he was changing the lock of the room that leads to the machine.

"Apparently he left his cellphone and the swipe card he needed to get out of the room outside in his truck," Corpus Christi police lieutenant Chris Hooper said, as cited by KXAS.
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Alarm Clock

Crazy person alert! I'm done pretending men are safe (even my sons)

Jody Allard
Role Reboot
Thu, 06 Jul 2017 18:30 UTC
jody_men

Comment: Warning! The following is written by an apparent crazy, narcissistic, and paranoid person who needs immediate help before she damages her sons any further! A good parent would be more concerned with creating a safe environment for her sons rather than painting them (and all men) as dangerous in the national media. It is this type of fanatical proselytizing that divides people and perpetuates a hostile social climate. The article is provided here as an insight into the current regressive liberal delusion spreading across the West.



If the feminist men—the men who proudly declare their progressive politics and their fight for quality—aren't safe, then what man is? No man, I fear.

I have two sons. They are strong and compassionate—the kind of boys other parents are glad to meet when their daughters bring them home for dinner. They are good boys, in the ways good boys are, but they are not safe boys. I'm starting to believe there's no such thing.

I wrote an essay in The Washington Post last year, during the height of the Brock Turner case, about my sons and rape culture. I didn't think it would be controversial when I wrote it; I was sure most parents grappled with raising sons in the midst of rape culture. The struggle I wrote about was universal, I thought, but I was wrong. My essay went semi-viral, and for the first time my sons encountered my words about them on their friends' phones, their teachers' computers, and even overheard them discussed by strangers on a crowded metro bus. It was one thing to agree to be written about in relative obscurity, and quite another thing to have my words intrude on their daily lives.

One of my sons was hurt by my words, although he's never told me so. He doesn't understand why I lumped him and his brother together in my essay. He sees himself as the "good" one, the one who is sensitive and thoughtful, and who listens instead of reacts. He doesn't understand that even quiet misogyny is misogyny, and that not all sexists sound like Twitter trolls. He is angry at me now, although he won't admit that either, and his anger led him to conservative websites and YouTube channels; places where he can surround himself with righteous indignation against feminists, and tell himself it's ungrateful women like me who are the problem.

Comment: This is reminiscent of the story of Julie Burchill, a feminist who wrote an article for the Guardian in 1999, mocking male suicide. Here's what she wrote:
That young men succeed in suicide more often than girls isn't really the point. Indeed, the more callous among us would say that it was quite nice for young men finally to find something that they're better at than girls...

To ask me to feel sympathy with suicides after witnessing this (the death of her father from asbestos-induced cancer) is, I suggest, just as unfeeling and ignorant as my callousness must appear to you - like asking a starving African to sympathise with an anorexic. In a society still beset with the most vicious social deprivation and rampant cruelty to the very young, the very old and the very weak, the voluntary exits of a few hundred able-bodied young men each year are best dealt with as private tragedies rather than a public concern. Let them go.
In 2015, her son Jack, committed suicide. She was out in force gathering sympathy in a Daily Mail article.
'After a lifetime of acting as my boy's life coach, ATM and personal maid, I had had enough,' Burchill said.'Finally I peeled his drowning fingers off of me and saved myself, and so when he died I hadn't seen him for a year, having become so despairing over his self-destructiveness.'
Considering she admits to having lost custody of Jack due to her flousy lifestyle and various infidelities, and only having lived with him off and on for a year at a time later in his life in most cases, it's hard to imagine she spent 'a lifetime of acting as my boy's life coach, ATM and personal maid...'

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Police beat homeless man over 'bag of dope'

John Vibes
The Free Thought Project
Thu, 13 Jul 2017 20:31 UTC
philadelphia police beating
A witness recorded an act of police brutality this week and posted it online to raise awareness about what she had seen. In the video, police can be seen brutalizing a man after he had been handcuffed because he was not allowing them to carry him away for arrest.

During the altercation, the police smashed the man's head against the side of a pool and threw him against the ground repeatedly. The man showed no signs of fighting or violence and was simply making himself "dead weight" and attempting to sit down on the ground.

According to the witness, Ariel Rivera, the arrest was taking place because the man was caught with a bag of "dope," but it was not specified whether this was marijuana heroin or another drug. For those that are unaware, "dope" is a slang that is used to describe many different drugs. However, regardless of the type of drug that this man was in possession of, he had not hurt anyone and was not fighting back against the officers.

"3 Philadelphia police officers beat the bs out of this guy over one bag of dope smh share to stop this police brutality. The reason I recorded it and posted it and pushed for people to share it is because this isn't something that happens once in a blue moon in our neighborhood, this is very common. A lot of people go through stuff like this. Our community is bad enough already, to be honest, we should not have to fear calling the police," Rivera said.
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Bullseye

Japanese protesters forcibly removed from anti-Marine Corps sit-in


RT
Thu, 13 Jul 2017 20:21 UTC
japanese protester arrest
© Ruptly
Police have forcibly removed protesters staging a sit-in outside the US Marine Corps' Camp Schwab in Okinawa in a campaign to protest the relocation of the Futenma base.

The US Marine Corps Futenma Air Station is going to be moved from the densely populated Ginowan to a less populated location in eastern Okinawa - the Henoko coastal area of Nago.

Using rocks and gravel intended for the construction of the base, protesters reportedly refused to let trucks pass, blocking the way near the neighboring US Marine Corps base Camp Schwab.

"Marines out!" and "Stop illegal work," the demonstrators' posters read.

Comment: See also:

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People

Up to 1,000 Ukrainian nationalists clash with police, block Rada parliament building


RT
Thu, 13 Jul 2017 20:09 UTC
Ukraine's nationalist movement protesters
© Ruptly
Around 1,000 protesters, mainly from Ukraine's nationalist movements, have blocked the parliament building in Kiev and several streets in the area, while deputies were voting on immunity of certain MPs. Police deployed tear gas to repel crowds turning violent.

Having gathered in the center of the Ukrainian capital at the entrance to the Verkhovna Rada parliament building on Thursday morning, around 1,000 protesters scattered smoke pellets and started banging on metal barrels with sticks, Interfax Ukraine reported.

Clashes erupted between the protesters - many of who covered their faces with black masks - and police, with some nationalists having pepper sprayed the officers, Ruptly reported. Police deployed tear gas against the protesters.

No one has been arrested, according to Interfax.
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Teen assaulted by cops and mauled by K-9 in ridiculous case of 'mistaken identity'

John Vibes
The Free Thought Project
Thu, 13 Jul 2017 20:02 UTC
Tatyana Hargrove
Tatyana Hargrove
Tatyana Hargrove, 19, was recently assaulted by police because she was mistaken for a large man who was seen carrying a machete. Hargrove in no way matched the description of the criminal that the police were after, but they singled her out anyway, as she made her way home from a local store.

According to Hargrove, on June 18th she had walked to the nearby Wooden Nickel Trading Company on Ming Avenue to buy her father a present for father's day. However, she found that the store was closed when she arrived. Hargrove decided to go back home but on her way, she stopped for a drink from her water bottle since it was a very hot day.

That was when police swarmed around her with guns drawn, asking her what was in her bag. When she asked them why they wanted to search her and demanded a warrant, they became aggressive and threatened her with a dog. She handed over the bag, which had nothing illegal in it, and yet the police punched her in the mouth, allowed the police dog to bite her, and then arrested her.

Hargrove told reporters, "He put his other knee on my head, and I told him, 'I can't breathe, I can't breathe' and I started yelling out 'Somebody help me, somebody help me, they're going to kill me.'"
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USA

Revenge porn leak reveals Marines shared photo of unconscious nude woman

RORY LAVERTY and JAMES LAPORTA
The Daily Beast
Wed, 12 Jul 2017 18:10 UTC
soldiers
© THE DAILY BEAST
Five months after the Marines United nude-photo scandal broke, there is a new group of victims, including an unconscious woman who was photographed naked.

Explicit videos and photos of female servicemembers were posted last week in a Dropbox drive called "Girls of MU" and were shared in a closed Facebook group called Mike Uniform. ("Mike Uniform" is the U.S. military's phonetic alphabet for M.U., the abbreviation for "Marines United.")

Previous caches contained few videos, unlike the Mike Uniform cache, which indicates there are new victims. The shared drive contains 3,863 photos and videos, ranging from professional pornography to homemade videos and selfies. Some are screenshots of temporary Snapchat stories, and others are photos of a woman in a U.S. Marine Corps uniform engaging in oral sex and posing afterward.

The photo of the unconscious woman, like most of the videos in the new drive, was not posted in the original shared drives on the nude-photo-sharing Facebook page Marines United, nor on its descendant groups.The woman was photographed by a man whose reflection is visible in a mirror, though his face is unclear.
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