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Penis Pump

Workout gone wrong: Man gets penis trapped in dumbbell while pumping iron


RT
Sun, 17 Sep 2017 12:25 UTC
Broken weight
© Feuerwehr Worms / Facebook
One man's workout went bizarrely and alarmingly wrong when he somehow wound up getting his penis caught in a gym weight.

The unnamed man became trapped in the 2.5kg iron plate on Friday morning in the German city of Worms.

With the weight still attached to his manhood, he somehow managed to get himself to a local hospital.

However, it appears the medical center did not have the appropriate tools to assist, and instead turned to a fire department's grinder and hydraulic cutter to release the patient.
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Biohazard

Pools of blood mixed with embalming fluid leaks onto street outside Louisiana funeral home


RT
Sun, 17 Sep 2017 14:41 UTC
Funeral home
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In a scene reminiscent of a horror film, pools of blood have been photographed on the road outside a funeral home in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

The photos were taken by a viewer of local TV station WBRZ on Thursday afternoon. The station reports that the blood was mixed with formaldehyde, a chemical used in the embalming process. It was leaking from a valve and flowing down to the road.

The grisly mixture came from a leaking storage tank at Greenoaks Funeral Home. The funeral home declined to comment when contacted by RT.com.
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Dollar

The US leads the world in high college tuition fees

Niall McCarthy
Forbes
Tue, 12 Sep 2017 19:03 UTC
tuition fees
Average annual tuition fee charged by public institutions at bachelor level.
According to a new report, OECD countries have different approaches and methods when it comes to covering the cost of a university education. While public institutions in many countries charge hefty tuition fees, around a third of OECD countries do not charge any fee at bachelor or equivalent level. The OECD's latest Education at a Glance report names the United States as having the highest average annual tuition fees of any country worldwide at $8,200 a year in public institutions at bachelor level. As expensive as that may seem, most students do benefit from financial support in the form of loans and scholarships while costs are nearly two and a half times as high in independent private institutions.

Comment: Is a college degree worth the time and money?

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2 + 2 = 4

My experience in a postmodern PhD program

Lawrence Belluci
Aero Magazine
Sat, 09 Sep 2017 14:33 UTC
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About four years ago, I applied for a PhD program in a top university in a Brazilian city that will remain unnamed. Having spent all my life in the Brazilian educational system, I was very aware how prevalent the so called postmodernist writers were in my country's colleges and universities.

People like Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze and other French "intellectuals" are virtually worshipped as gods throughout the humanities. Personally, I have always been skeptical of the French intelligentsia, and that was part of the reason why I'd given up graduating in psychology - a field where, to my surprise, postmodernism was endemic. Eventually, I graduated in law, a subject that was comparatively free of the nonsense.
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Attention

American tourists doused with acid at the Saint Charles train station in Marseilles, France, one suspect arrested


RT
Sun, 17 Sep 2017 14:14 UTC
The Saint-Charles Station in Marseille
© Bertrand Langlois / AFPThe Saint-Charles Station in Marseille
Two American tourists are receiving hospital treatment for burns after being attacked by an unknown female at the Saint Charles train station in Marseilles, who hurled acid at the group of four young women.

The attack with hydrochloric acid occurred on Sunday shortly after 11am, the La Provence newspaper reported, while the group of four was waiting for their transit to Paris.

Comment: See also: Treating an acid attack: Doctors issue first aid advice after 400 incidents in 6 months in the UK

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X

Scrubbing history? Is YouTube correct in deleting violent Syrian war videos found to be "objectionable material"?

Kelly McEvers
Blue Ridge Public Radio
Wed, 13 Sep 2017 16:31 UTC
Syria War
NPR's Kelly McEvers talks with Sarah El Deeb of the Associated Press about YouTube's effort to get rid of extremist propaganda videos from its website. The effort has inadvertently erased thousands of videos that document the Syrian war. Human rights advocates say such documentation could have been used as evidence in future war crime trials.

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST:

The war in Syria is one of the first to be documented largely by the people who are experiencing it. Their videos posted online, usually on YouTube, let us see what's happening in Syria when it's too dangerous for journalists and other people to go in.

Mohammad Al Abdallah is executive director of the Syria Justice & Accountability Center. It's a nonprofit supported by the State Department and a handful of European governments. And he has a database of videos from Syria. Ninety-five percent of them come from YouTube. He says some of them could be used one day as evidence during a trial against war criminals. And he says these videos are important for intelligence gathering.

MOHAMMAD AL ABDALLAH : For example, the execution of the U.S. journalist James Foley was filmed, recorded and uploaded on YouTube by ISIS. Quickly the U.S. captured the video - the law enforcement. They did analysis of the video. The guy is basically British accent, left-handed. They kept the analysis from the video, shared it with the U.K., who said, yes, we have a suspect who - in our extremist database - who his family said he left the country to join the war in Syria. And we expect that's the guy. And that was Jihadi John, who was assassinated later by a drone attack carried out by the U.S.
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Shopping Bag

Working class people are being 'left behind' by God and the free market

Slavoj Žižek
RT
Sat, 16 Sep 2017 12:55 UTC
left behind
© Joe Raedle / Getty Images
The automatization of production creates a challenge for humanity: what to do with those "left behind" by progress? And this superfluousness also has broader implications across society.

One unexpected topic has emerged from popular fiction in recent decades, from the lowest trash (Tim la Haye and his fellow travelers) to TV serials, like Leftovers, and it's the subject of those "left behind."

Typically, in this scenario, Armageddon is approaching, and God has brought the privileged ones to himself in order to save them from the forthcoming horrors. But what if we attempt a vulgar reading of the popular appeal of this topic, from an economist's perspective?

As is often the case, it seems that God Himself has listened to the voice of capital, so that the topic of the leftovers should be related to our economic predicament in global capitalism. Is it not the case that only those who were unable to join the flow of refugees, and had to remain stuck in their homelands in disarray, are our "left behind"?
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Penis Pump

How low can you go? New Chinese app allows you to 'rent' pre-used sex dolls


RT
Sat, 16 Sep 2017 11:56 UTC
china used sex dolls
© Touch 他趣
China's famous sharing economy plumbed unchartered new depths this week with the launch of a service that allows you to share sex dolls with strangers for around $45.

The booming sharing economy has generated increasing media attention recently, with everything from bicycles to basketballs getting their own sharing app.

Exploiting a potential gap in the market many consumers would not have thought existed, an app called Touch (他趣) has created a new "share his girlfirend" service where you can rent sex dolls.

In a post on its Sina Weibo microblogging account, Touch revealed that it has launched a pilot service in Beijing.

Comment: Just how low will humanity fall?

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Sheriff

Entire city police force fired in Philippines after murder claims


The Guardian
Fri, 15 Sep 2017 11:46 UTC
Trainee officers being briefed outside Caloocan city police
© Aaron Favila/APTrainee officers being briefed outside Caloocan city police station on Friday.
An entire city police force in the Philippines has been sacked after some of its members were suspected in the killings of three teenagers, with others seen on surveillance cameras robbing a house.

The 1,200-strong Caloocan city police force will be relieved in batches and replaced, said Manila's metropolitan police chief, Oscar Albayalde. The officers will do 45 days of retraining, after which those facing no charges can be reassigned to other stations.

The justice department has started an investigation based on a murder and torture allegation against four Caloocan police officers allegedly linked to the killing of the 17-year-old student Kian delos Santos during an anti-drug raid last month.
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Bullseye

WADA head blasts national anti-doping agencies who called for Russia to be banned from 2018 Winter Olympics


RT
Fri, 15 Sep 2017 17:26 UTC
Olympics
President of the World Anti-Doping Agency Craig Reedie has criticized more than a dozen national anti-doping agencies who demanded that Russia be banned from 2018 Winter Olympics.

"The comment that has been made by a group of NADOs [National Anti-Doping Organizations] omits entirely all the work that has been done to develop a proper [anti-]doping system in Russia," Reedie said in a statement.

According to the WADA chief, these comments show that the agencies are looking "backwards" instead of "forwards."

"I want to make it quite clear that most what they say in a press release is not the policy of WADA, and what they say in my view is not helpful," he added.
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