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'If I see a drone, I remove my SIM card': Afghan villagers live in constant fear of US airstrikes


RT
Sun, 27 Aug 2017 16:39 UTC
Afghan policemen inspect a destroyed police checkpoint
© Parwiz / ReutersAfghan policemen inspect a destroyed police checkpoint, which a NATO aircraft had mistakenly attacked during a clash between Afghan special forces and a group of Taliban fighters at the checkpoint, at the Bati Kot district of Nangarhar province, August 1, 2013.
Afghanistan's Nangarhar province has been one of the hardest hit by US airstrikes, which target Islamist militants but also hit civilians. In a video by RT's Ruptly agency, locals shared what it was like to live under the constant risk of being bombed.

As a stronghold of both the Taliban and the emerging presence of the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) terrorist group, Nangarhar province saw 358 airstrikes by US forces in July alone - half of all the airstrikes in Afghanistan over the month. On August 11, the Afghan government said that at least 16 civilians, including women and children, had been killed in one bombing in the Haska Meena district, which the US military claimed was targeting militants.

In a new Ruptly video, villagers describe being in a state of constant anxiety because of the air raids.

"US jets fly over and patrol anytime, therefore civilians are living in fear and turn off their mobiles and remove their SIM cards. They break their SIM cards and buy another one," a man from the village of Basakhel said. "Now people are trying to not use their phones."

"Sometimes, if I see a drone flying over us, I become fearful and want to remove my SIM card from my mobile and put it far away from myself," said another.
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Convicted pedophile vicar living in luxury apartment paid by Church of England


RT
Sun, 27 Aug 2017 14:41 UTC
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A pedophile former vicar, and former Church of England national youth officer, is being housed in a luxury apartment paid for by the church.

Paul Battersby was convicted of sexual offences after members of his family discovered a collection of obscene files on his family computer, including a video of a girl being bound and raped by her father.

Last year Liverpool Crown Court heard that after serving jail time in 2010, the 68-year-old downloaded a further 1,730 indecent images featuring children and animals between 2014 and 2017 and also wrote a child sex abuse fantasy featuring himself.

Now, the Liverpool Echo have revealed that Battersby is now being housed in a luxury apartment paid for by the church.

The apartment is in the 29-storey Beetham Tower block, which is found next to West Tower, Liverpool's tallest building. Two-bedroom apartments in the block can cost up to £165,000, or £1,050 per month to rent, the paper reports.
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USA

Left-wing website labels Charles Barkley a 'White Supremacist' for saying blacks should stop being angry over statues

Paul Joseph Watson
InfoWars
Sun, 27 Aug 2017 16:01 UTC
Charles Barkley
According to left-wing website The Root, Charles Barkley is a "white supremacist" because he says black people should stop getting angry over old statues and instead concentrate on not killing each other and getting an education.

"Why won't Charles Barkley shut the fuck up?" asks a clearly triggered Michael Harriot, whose story is filed under the category "Stupid Negroes".

"Is there anyone who thinks that Barkley's statements about race reveal anything other than his repeated willingness to throw black people under the bus for our stupid unwillingness to assimilate into whiteness?" he rants.

Barkley's thought crime was to encourage black people to concentrate less on getting angry over historical monuments and more on getting an education, working hard and being successful. He also said black people "need to stop killing each other."
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Recently pardoned Sheriff Joe Arpaio failed to act on over 400 reported child sex crimes while in office

Rachel Blevins
The Free Thought Project
Sun, 27 Aug 2017 15:53 UTC
Sheriff Joe Arpaio
© Darryl Webb / ReutersFormer Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
President Trump issued his first official pardon on Friday, sparing former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was found guilty of criminal contempt after he violated a court order in a racial profiling case by continuing to target illegal immigrants.

While both Trump and many of his supporters have applauded Arpaio, who refers to himself as "America's toughest sheriff," there is one thing he is not always tough on-pedophiles.

In fact, according to a report from the Associated Press in December 2011, Airpaio's office failed to investigate "more than 400 sex-crimes" that were reported in Maricopa County from 2005 to 2007, "including dozens of alleged child molestations-that were inadequately investigated and in some instances were not worked at all."

The report cited current and former police officers familiar with the cases who claimed that victims of the horrific crimes were as young as 2 years old. In El Mirage, the city where Arpaio's office was providing contract police services, officials reportedly discovered at least 32 reported child molestations, and even though suspects were known in all but six cases, Arpaio "failed to follow through."
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Suspected Columbian druglord accuses the Feds of destroying evidence proving he was their informant

Jay Weaver
Miami Herald
Sun, 27 Aug 2017 15:32 UTC
Henry De Jesus Lopez Londoño
© Victor R. Caivano APIn an Oct. 31, 2012 file photo, police escort alleged Colombian drug lord Henry De Jesus Lopez Londoño, also known as “Mi Sangre” (My Blood), in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In November 2016, he was handed to U.S. authorities.
A highly prized Colombian defendant has accused U.S. law enforcement agencies of destroying Blackberry messages and withholding emails that he claims would show he was working for them as a confidential informant in the federal government's battles against South America's underworld.

Henry De Jesus Lopez Londoño, who was extradited to Miami on a cocaine-trafficking conspiracy charge last year, says the missing text messages and emails would reveal that federal agents authorized him to infiltrate dangerous criminal organizations with specific assignments - and that he wasn't committing crimes on his own.

His lawyers claim he was an "undercover asset" for three federal investigative agencies from the fall of 2008 until the end of 2011, before his arrest the following year in Argentina. Prosecutors counter that the agents' text messages to and from the informant were lost because their Blackberry phones were replaced and cannot be found. They also say there were no emails exchanged between the agents and informant.

Among the smorgasbord of illicit groups that the defendant says he was asked to penetrate: a drug cartel headed by one-time Mexican fugitive Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, members of the al-Qaida terrorist network in Colombia and the Russian mob's ties to the Venezuelan military.
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Investors have pulled billions from the US stock market in the last 10 weeks

Evelyn Cheng
CNBC
Fri, 25 Aug 2017 14:29 UTC
NYSE floor
Investors are fleeing U.S. stocks in a way they haven't since 2004.

For 10 straight weeks a total of $30 billion has left U.S. stocks, marking the longest streak of outflows since 2004, Bank of America Merrill Lynch said in a Thursday report, citing EPFR Global data.

Investors turned instead to emerging markets and European and Japanese stocks, which saw $36 billion in inflows over the last 10 weeks, the report said.

BofAML's breakdown of last week's fund flows pointed to more aversion to risk among investors, and could add to some analysts' worries about deteriorating market internals.
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USA

CNN's dirty deeds: Fake news network has no defense for labeling 63 million Americans 'white supremacists by default'

Jack Crowe
Daily Caller
Thu, 24 Aug 2017 14:06 UTC
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CNN has made no attempt to retract or modify a Wednesday report that calls all supporters of President Donald Trump "white supremacists by default."

The report stakes its weighty claims about the moral character of Trump supporters on the word of "activists, historians and victims of extremism," who argue that "ordinary people" have empowered white supremacists. (RELATED:CNN: Everyone Who Voted For Trump Is A 'White Supremacist By Default')

"It's easy to focus on the angry white men in paramilitary gear who looked like they were mobilizing for a race war in the Virginia college town," the report reads. "But it's the ordinary people - the voters who elected a reality TV star with a record of making racially insensitive comments, the people who move out of the neighborhood when people of color move in, the family members who ignore a relative's anti-Semitism - who give these type of men room to operate."

The Daily Caller News Foundation received no response after contacting multiple CNN public relations employees, politics editors and the writer who authored the report, to inquire as to whether the network stands by the story.
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Libyans who opposed and fought against Gaddafi express remorse for US-led regime change disaster

Darius Shahtahmasebi
The Antimedia
Thu, 22 Sep 2016 04:55 UTC
Gaddafi
Who actually benefits from American-led wars across the globe? The aftermath of American-led conflicts shows it is not the common people, though the military and politicians vow they are liberating and protecting them.

The Sunday Mail, Zimbabwe's "leading family newspaper," has published accounts of a number of Libyans who expressed regret over Muammar Gaddafi's overthrow in 2011, despite the fact some of them even took up arms against him. As one said:
"'I joined the revolution in the first days and fought against Gaddafi,' former revolutionary fighter Mohammed, 31, said from the southern city of Murzuq. 'Before 2011, I hated Gaddafi more than anyone. But now, life is much, much harder, and I have become his biggest fan.'"
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Councilman says LA's response to homeless encampments 'isn't working,'

Donna Littlejohn,Donna Littlejohn,
Los Angeles Daily News
Wed, 23 Aug 2017 12:40 UTC
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Amid rising homelessness and mounting outcry from residents and business owners, a Los Angeles city councilman said Wednesday he wants to take a hard look at the way the city responds to the increasing presence of encampments and recreational vehicles.

"What we have isn't working," Councilman Mitchell Englander said.

In recent months, the issue of homelessness has become inescapable, with residents encountering more homelessness in their neighborhoods, according to the councilman, who represents the northwest San Fernando Valley.

"There's not a conversation I have - whether it's fixing a street, trimming a tree, walking to school or going to a grocery store - where we don't talk about homelessness," he said.
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One statistics professor was just banned by Google: Here is his story

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Tue, 22 Aug 2017 13:15 UTC
Evil google logo
Statistics professor Salil Mehta, adjunct professor at Columbia and Georgetown who teaches probability and data science and whose work has appeared on this website on numerous prior occasions, was banned by Google on Friday.

What did Salil do to provoke Google? It is not entirely clear, however what is clear is that his repeated attempts at restoring his email, blog and other Google-linked accounts have so far been rejected with a blanket and uniform statement from the search giant.

Here is what happened, in Salil Mehta's own words.

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