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US Air Force refuses to reimburse Colorado communities after contaminating water supplies with PFC's


RT
Mon, 31 Jul 2017 17:21 UTC
US AF C-130 lands Peterson AFB Colorado
© Christian Murdock / Global Look PressUS Air Force C-130 on a firefighting mission lands at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado.
Colorado communities whose drinking water supply was contaminated by chemicals used at the Peterson Air Force Base are frustrated as the military is refusing to reimburse their cleanup costs and promising aid only after years of environmental studies.

Firefighting foam containing perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) has seeped into the Widefield Aquifer over the decades, making well water in southern El Paso County unsafe to drink, according to a recent US Air Force study.

The chemicals were detected at 88,000 parts per trillion near the fire training area at Peterson AFB, which is 1,257 times higher than the advisory level set by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

So far, the water districts of Security, Widefield and the city of Fountain have spent $6 million dealing with the contamination, and the costs are expected to rise to $12.7 million by the end of 2018, according to the Colorado Springs Gazette.

Comment: Another one of the US military's toxic 'gifts' to mankind: US military's toxic legacy - DoD produces more toxic waste than five largest chemical companies combined
U.S. military bases, both domestic and foreign, consistently rank among some of the most polluted places in the world, as perchlorate and other components of jet and rocket fuel contaminate sources of drinking water, aquifers, and soil. Hundreds of military bases can be found on the Environmental Protection Agency's list of Superfund sites, which qualify for clean-up grants from the government.

Almost 900 of the nearly 1,200 Superfund sites in the U.S. are abandoned military facilities or sites that otherwise support military needs, not counting the military bases themselves.
See also: Pentagon: The largest environmental polluter is legally poisoning Americans across the US

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Yazidi activist Ali Husein al-Khansuri about Daesh slavery business: Over 1,700 Yazidis bought from terrorists' captivity


Sputnik
Mon, 31 Jul 2017 19:15 UTC
Boy and grandmother
© REUTERS/ Muhammad Hamed/File photoAyman, a boy from a minority Yazidi community, who sold by Islamic State militants to a Muslim couple in Mosul, hugs his grandmother after he was returned to his Yazidi family, in Duhok, Iraq, January 31, 2017

Ali Husein al-Khansuri, a Yazidi activist from Iraq who is helping Iraq's Yazidi minority search for loved ones who were enslaved by Daesh terrorists, told Sputnik that they have been able to buy back 1,700 Yazidis, mostly women and children, who have been held in captivity since 2014.

Ali Husein al Khansuri told Sputnik that Daesh terrorists have now moved their slave markets to Syria's Raqqa. Buying back of Iraqi Yazidis, mostly women and children, who have been held in captivity since 2014, has become the most widespread deal there.

Special agents are helping Iraq's Yazidi ethnic minority search for loved ones who were enslaved by Daesh terrorists.

An activist
© AP PHOTO/ MAYA ALLERUZZOAn activist looks at an Islamic State group marketplace on the encrypted app Telegram, advertising a 12-year-old Yazidi girl as a slave for the price of $12,500, in a photo taken in northern Iraq on May 22, 2016
Faiza, he said, was bought back for $17,000. The necessary sum was gathered with the help of activists and the Organization for the Rescue of Yazidi captives. After she was bought back on June 21, she was transferred to the refugee camp in Iraqi Kurdistan. Her relatives hardly recognized her, as her face looks differently after three years she spent in captivity, where she was working as a servant.
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Americans are often too drugged out to work

Steve LeVine
Axios
Sun, 30 Jul 2017 16:54 UTC
drug chart
© Jed Kolko / Indeed, CPS data; Chart: Chris Canipe / Axios
A slew of reports finds a fresh reason for the chronic inability of American companies to fill skilled jobs: not a lack of skills, and hence a training-and-education crisis, but a surfeit of drug abuse. Simply put, prime-working age Americans without a college diploma are often too drugged-out to get the best jobs. Opioids remain at high levels, but the surge in drug use is now heroin and the powerful contaminant fentanyl.

The reports suggest a circularity to the crisis in America's rust and manufacturing belts: the loss of jobs and wage stagnation has led to widespread disaffection, alienation and drug abuse; and drug abuse has led to joblessness, hopelessness and disaffection.

But the numbers are all over the map. Some employers and economists say up to half of job applicants do not clear drug tests; others say it is 25%. In the chart above, Indeed economist Jed Kolko, using data from the U.S. Current Population Survey, found that 5.6% to 5.7% of working-age adults didn't work last year because of illness or disability, an unknown percentage of which were because of drug use.

What was evident, Kolko told Axios: A "clear, steady upward trend in illness/disability as reason for not working among prime-age adults. And even more striking, the level and trend are very similar for men and women, even though most of the attention on this issue is going to men."

Comment: Fed chief Yellen: Opioid epidemic, not banking system, to blame for falling US labor participation

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Two-time European junior wrestling champ stabbed to death by group of attackers in Russia


RT
Mon, 31 Jul 2017 16:00 UTC
Yuri Vlasko
© vlasko_ura / InstagramYuri Vlasko
European junior freestyle wrestling champion Yury Vlasko, 20, who was found dead with stab wounds on Saturday morning outside the city of Ulan-Ude in Russia's Republic of Buryatia, was buried on Monday.

A native of the village of Osa, Vlasko performed at the international wrestling tournament in Ulan-Ude last week in the under 96kg weight class, where he won a gold medal.

Following the victory, he reportedly invited his friends, visiting from other Russian regions, to visit the famous Lake Baikal
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UK government now giving sex change hormones to children as young as 10

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Mon, 31 Jul 2017 16:03 UTC
girl gets medicated
There is a complex set of factors for determining if a person is transgender. While science hasn't nailed down the exact physiological and neurological markers to determine what makes a person have gender distress, there is no doubt that it exists. If individuals identify with a different gender than they were born, it is no one's right to prevent them from remedying it. That being said, should young children who feel they may be in gender distress be given sex change drugs - by the government?

Regardless of how you feel in regard to the question above, the fact is that it is happening. More than 800 children in the United Kingdom - some as young as 10 - are now being given these controversial sex change drugs.

Britain's National Health Service is prescribing children powerful hormone injections which halt the development of sex organs, breasts, and body hair. These drugs are meant to keep children in a prepubescent state so they can be easier to operate on when they become adults.

It is safe to assume that children can know that they identify with a different sex than they were born. However, it is also safe to assume that some children may be mistaking these feelings for something else and could change their minds several times before becoming a physical adult.

Comment: Feminist Camille Paglia: 'Transgender mania is a symptom of West's cultural collapse'

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Penis enlargement surgery claims life of man in Sweden, in world first


RT
Mon, 31 Jul 2017 15:36 UTC
Surgery
© Giuseppe Graziano / Global Look Press
The first reported death from a penis enlargement surgery has occurred in Sweden.

The relatively healthy 30-year-old patient underwent the surgery, which entails transferring fat from the stomach to the penis to increase its overall girth and length, at a private plastic surgery clinic in Stockholm.
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Morocco seeks to enhance trade and economic cooperation with Russia


Sputnik
Mon, 31 Jul 2017 15:31 UTC
Rabat, Morocco
© CC BY-SA 3.0 / Pline / Rabat
Morocco is looking into an opportunity to boost trade and economic cooperation to "expand it to the level of the political relations between the two countries."

Morocco hopes to enhance the trade and economic cooperation with Russia to the same high level of political relations shared by both countries, Moroccan Ambassador to Moscow Abdelkader Lecheheb said Monday.

"We are going to develop our economic exchange in order to expand it to the level of the political relations between the two countries," the ambassador said at a press conference organized by the Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency.
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Cop gives wasted politician a free pass on DUI - politician gets drunk again and into head-on collision only days later

Matt Agorist
Free Thought Project
Sun, 30 Jul 2017 00:00 UTC
DUI let go
In America, there are two sets of laws - one for the government class of police, politicians and well-connected elite - and one for everybody else. This corrupt system punishes the citizens for crimes the elite commit with impunity. The recent DUI stop of City Councilman Benjamin Vincent in Tom Bean, Texas, illustrates this corruption and shows how it can be detrimental to the safety and well-being of citizens.

Last Sunday, Vincent was pulled over by Whitewright police officer Andrew LeFevre after he was seen swerving all over the road, driving into oncoming traffic, and sliding through intersections.

When the officer initiated conversation with Vincent, it was obvious from the start that he was highly intoxicated. He thought it was October and couldn't complete a sentence or answer any of the questions without blurting out utter slurred nonsense.

After the city councilman admitted to drinking and was seen breaking numerous laws, the officers decided to let him go.
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Two injured in Dresden brawl involving persons from apparent 'North African/Arab' region


RT
Mon, 31 Jul 2017 07:32 UTC
German Police line
© Ina Fassbender / Reuters
At least two people, a Syrian teenager among them, were injured in a brawl involving about 70 troublemakers in Dresden, Germany, according to reports, citing police.

Most of those involved in the incident "apparently come from the North African/Arab region," police said, as quoted by DPA.

Local residents reportedly called police after 8pm, shooting videos on their phones of the violent scenes at the Alaunplatz.

A knife and a broken beer bottle were among the weapons used, police said.

The two injured, a 15-year-old Syrian and a 20-year-old Iraqi, were treated for cuts at the hospital.
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Nazi Germany redux: Video shows US cops put teen in restraint chair, torture him repeatedly with taser

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Sun, 30 Jul 2017 14:24 UTC
teen_tasered
© The Free Thought Project
"I'll keep doing that until I run out of batteries." Deputies seen torturing a teenager with a taser - over and over again - who is restrained in a chair.

A horrifying video was just released as part of a lawsuit on behalf of an 18-year-old man who was tasered over and over again while strapped in a restraining chair. The video looks like something out of horror movie.

The nightmare for Jordan Norris began last year, in November, when a SWAT team raided his home because he was allegedly selling drugs. Selling willing people a substance they want to voluntarily ingest, however, in no way justified the treatment Norris would receive.

After Norris was arrested, he had somewhat of a mental breakdown and began banging his head against the cell door. So, police dragged him out of his cell and strapped him in a restraint chair.
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