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Thirteen civilians killed in Afghan Air Force strikes targeting Taliban


RT
Tue, 29 Aug 2017 20:37 UTC
Injured Afghans in hospital
© Ruptly
Thirteen civilians have been killed in airstrikes in the Herat province of Afghanistan, the regional governor's spokesman has confirmed.

The air raids, which were conducted by the Afghan Air Force, struck targets in the Shindand district of Herat Province Monday night.

"A big base of the Taliban was targeted by an airstrike. At least 20 Taliban were killed and wounded, and also 13 civilians were killed in the incident, while 19 people who were prisoners of the Taliban were freed," Jilani Farhad, spokesman for the Herat governor's office, told RT's Ruptly agency Tuesday.
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France: Police search for a 9 y.o. girl who mysteriously disappeared during family wedding

Ellie Flynn
The Sun
Tue, 29 Aug 2017 20:28 UTC
Maëlys De Araujo
© AFPMaëlys De Araujo
Fears are growing for a young girl who is feared to have been kidnapped from a wedding in France on Sunday.

Maëlys De Araujo, nine, has not been seen since around 3am local time, when she was in a kids' room at the family wedding.

Cops launched a kidnapping investigation and have carried out extensive searches around the venue using police dogs and a helicopter.

All 180 guests of the wedding in Pont-de-Beauvoisin, Isere, have been quizzed.

Police are now interviewing family members of Maëlys' who were not at the ceremony.

An urgent appeal for witnesses has also been issued after police revealed she may have been snatched.
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Attention

Patrols increased after Muslims threatened with acid attacks in Bradford, UK


RT
Tue, 29 Aug 2017 20:19 UTC
muslim woman burka
© Anas Siddique / Getty Images
Police have launched a hate crime investigation and scaled up the number of patrols in Bradford after letters containing threats of acid attacks were sent to Muslim homes.

West Yorkshire police said they were taking the threats "extremely seriously" and had increased surveillance in Hanover Square, a predominantly Muslim area in Manningham, an inner-city area where at least two residents were targeted last week.

One of the letters bears the image of a sword and St. George's flag, and reads: "Kill scum Muslim." It then goes on to question the reason behind Islamic women wearing the full-body veils, saying: "We are now going to do acid attacks on anyone who wears the funny black masks around your square & Bradford & other places."

The letter then alleged "three of ur [sic] male pigs" groomed four white girls, before stating: "We know who the three male pigs are they are walking dead pigs."
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Berkeley mayor member of 'anti-fascist' social media group that helped organize city riots

Tom Ciccotta
Breitbart
Tue, 29 Aug 2017 20:01 UTC
Berkeley Mayor anti-fascist group BAMN
Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguin is a member of the anti-fascist Facebook group, By Any Means Necessary, which orchestrated the riots that occurred ahead of a scheduled lecture by Milo Yiannopoulos.

Berkley Mayor Jesse Arreguin was revealed to be a member of the anti-fascist group, By Any Means Necessary (BAMN), on Facebook. BAMN orchestrated the violence that shut down a scheduled lecture at UC Berkeley featuring Milo Yiannopoulos in early 2017. Arreguin is allegedly also friends with BAMN leader, Yvette Felarca, on Facebook.

They were also involved in the violent clashes earlier this month.
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Tampa U prof says Texas deserved Harvey because they voted Trump - gets fired

Katie Pavlich
Townhall
Mon, 28 Aug 2017 19:51 UTC
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By now you've seen the horrific images out of Texas showing the utter devastation left behind by Hurricane Harvey. The impact is ongoing and thousands of people were rescued over the weekend as their homes filled with water.

One University of Tampa sociology professor thinks Texans deserve the devastation and explained why on Sunday as the worst of the storm continued to bear down on Houston.

"I don't believe in instant Karma but this kind of feels like it for Texas. Hopefully this will help them realize GOP doesn't care about them," Professor Ken Storey tweeted and then deleted. "Those who voted for him [Trump] here deserve it as well."

Comment: Storey has since been fired. Swift karma?
University spokesman Eric Cardenas said in a statement that Kenneth Storey was fired after the school weathered an outpouring of online outrage over the comments.

Officials said other faculty in the sociology department would take over Storey's classes.

"We condemn the comments and the sentiment behind them, and understand the pain this irresponsible act has caused," the school said in a statement to The University of Tampa community. "As Floridians, we are well aware of the destruction and suffering associated with tropical weather. Our thoughts and prayers are with all impacted by Hurricane Harvey."
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After the tweet started to make waves on social media, the professor tweeted Monday afternoon: "I deeply regret a statement I posted yesterday. I never meant to wish ill will upon any group. I hope all affected by Harvey recover quickly."


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School cop lauded for his bullying prevention work caught on tape bullying an autistic boy

Jack Burns
The Free Thought Project
Tue, 29 Aug 2017 19:51 UTC
Ural Darling
Ural Darling
As TFTP has reported, it is extremely difficult to fire a police officer. Officers not only get paid time off when they're being investigated for departmental infractions or illegal behavior, but, are more times than not, given their jobs back when the investigation is complete. However, one Florida police officer's actions were so terrible that he was fired after he was caught on audio threatening and taunting an autistic student.

A Pinellas County school resource officer, serving in Osceola Middle School, was caught on audio recordings abusing a student who suffers from autism. Ironically, the officer, Ural Darling, had been celebrated as one of Florida's top school resource officers for his work in preventing bullying. All that has since changed now that Darling has been found to be the bully, caught by the student's mother verbally torturing the child.

Megan Dowdy, the student's mother, said her son had been having night terrors. She suspected something wrong was happening at school, so she placed a recording device in her son's pocket. Her child, who's 13-years-old, has the cognitive skills of a first-grader and the communication capacity of a kindergartener. She said his behavior at night led her to believe something terrible was happening at school. She said, "He kept getting up during the night having night terrors, screaming, having meltdowns for no reason."

Comment: The disturbing history of police in schools: More than a few rogue cops

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The tiny house fad hits Detroit as low-income earners get a chance at home ownership

Kathleen Elkins
DNBC
Tue, 29 Aug 2017 19:42 UTC
detroit
© NurPhoto | Getty ImagesArt is placed on the front of the majority of the abandoned houses in Detroit neighborhoods.
Demand for tiny homes has been sweeping the nation, spurred in part by the high cost of owning and the desire to live simpler, with less.

In Detroit, the fad is serving a different purpose: An opportunity for low-income residents to become homeowners, reports Jeffrey Brown of PBS NewsHour.

Led by Cass Community Social Services, the local project is one of many efforts to help rebuild the metro area after it became the largest U.S. city to file for bankruptcy in 2013. The non-profit bought 25 vacant lots from the city for $15,000, total, and intends to spend $40,000 to $50,000 building a tiny home on each, with the help of a volunteer workforce.

The homes will range from 250-square-feet to 400-square-feet. But the cramped quarters don't appear to be a turn off. Hundreds of low-income earners have already applied to live in the seven tiny homes that are fully built.

Comment: Hopefully, the government won't shut the project down.

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Road raging cop holds unarmed man at gunpoint while illegally searching him (VIDEO)

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Tue, 29 Aug 2017 19:09 UTC
Seattle detective road rage
Alex Randall was on his way to work earlier this month on his motorcycle when he was assaulted with a deadly weapon by a King County Sheriff's Department detective. The detective was in the midst of a seeming power trip mixed with road rage when he held an innocent man at gunpoint and no one would've have known about it had Randall not been filming.

The stop, which happened on August 16, was just brought to the attention of King County Sheriff John Urquhart. As soon as Urquhart saw the video, he immediately put the detective on administrative leave and called Randall personally to apologize.

The Free Thought Project has reported on many videos of many cops needlessly assaulting people with firearms. However, this incident exposes one of the most brazenly ridiculous and dangerous cops we've ever seen.

"This video shows the boldness of the King County Sheriffs Deputies and lack of fear of repercussions in threatening and intimidating an unarmed citizen with excessive use of force,"Randall wrote on YouTube.
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Red Flag

Where was the liberal outrage when Obama pardoned a convicted crack dealer who murdered 3 people upon release?

Amy Moreno
Truthfeed
Sat, 26 Aug 2017 00:00 UTC
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Liberals are up in arms over President Trump pardoning a patriotic "law and order" sheriff, claiming it's "unconstitutional" and "RACIST."

Meanwhile, Obama pardoned more actual criminals and CONVICTED TERRORISTS than any other president in our nation's history.

And many returned to a life of crime.

Take for instance the crack dealer Obama pardoned, who upon his release, murdered a woman and two children.

Where was the liberal outrage?

Crickets.

But they're throwing a fit over a sherriff's pardon!?
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Bacon

Court in France overrules ban on non-pork school meals citing 'children's interests'


RT
Tue, 29 Aug 2017 19:02 UTC
student lunches
© Jeff Pachoud / AFP
32A French court has repealed the decision of the mayor of a Burgundy town to scrap an alternative menu for schoolchildren who don't eat pork. The ruling followed a nearly two-year-long legal battle between the authorities and a Muslim association.

On Monday, an administrative court in Dijon decided in favour of the Muslim Legal Defense League (LDJM), fighting for re-introduction of non-pork meals in Chalon-sur-Saône schools. The judgment said the ban "had not given primary attention, within the spirit of the International Convention on the Rights of the Child, to the interests of children."

In March, 2015, Gilles Platret from the right-wing party Les Republicains, came up with the ban on providing substitute dishes for Muslim and Jewish children at schools, saying he promoted the French notion of secularism, separating religious affairs and the state. Later, though, the French national consultative committee on human rights branded it an "erroneous interpretation of the principles of secularism and equality" in 2016.
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