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'Dogs eating bodies': Witnesses recall the horrors of US-led liberation of Raqqa, Syria


RT
Fri, 21 Jul 2017 07:29 UTC
Raqqa, Syria
© Nour Fourat / ReutersRaqqa, Syria
The city of Raqqa, Syria and its countryside are being completely destroyed by the ongoing US-led coalition airstrikes as Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) engage Islamic State fighters for control of the self-proclaimed jihadist capital.

While Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) militants continue to resist the SDF advance, engaging in fierce urban warfare, the carnage from the battle is getting so grim that corpses are decaying in plain sight.

"The streets are full of dead bodies. The schools were targeted, the bridges, and mosques. The [dead] people are lying on the streets, some people were dragged by cars," a refugee who escaped the city told RT's Ruptly video agency.

Comment: See also: Kurdish fighters report heavily-armed US vehicles flowing into Syria

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Smiley

RT brilliantly trolls with new airport ad campaign - "Missed a plane? Lost an election? Blame it on us!"


RT
Thu, 20 Jul 2017 15:39 UTC
rt airport ads
RT's latest provocative ad campaign is sending social media into meltdown with satirical messages trolling some of the baseless suggestions made against the news organisation.

The network's ad campaign reads: "Missed a plane? Lost an election? Blame it on us!"

The ads appear in Russian airports and feature other controversial slogans, such as: "the longer you watch, the more upset Hillary Clinton becomes," and "Beware, a propaganda bullhorn is at work here," referring to then-Secretary of State John Kerry's 2014 claims about RT.

"Come closer and find out who we're planning to hack next," says another, in reference to allegations of Russian interference in the US and even French elections. "The CIA calls us a 'propaganda machine' find out what we call the CIA," says another.
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Red Flag

Teenagers representing Burundi at DC robotics challenge go missing after competition


RT
Fri, 21 Jul 2017 15:34 UTC
burundi robotics team
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Six teenagers that represented Burundi at the First Global robotics challenge in Washington, DC went missing after the competition. Two have been spotted entering Canada, according to police, who say there is no indication of foul play.

Organizers of the competition noticed the disappearance of four boys and two girls Tuesday evening and notified the authorities. The missing students were identified as Don Ingabire, 16, Kevin Sabumukiza, 17, Nice Munezero, 17, Audrey Mwamikazi, 17, Richard Irakoze, 18, and Aristide Irambona, 18.

All students in the competition were supposed to be "under close supervision of their adult mentor" at all times and not to leave the facilities at Trinity Washington University unsupervised, First Global said. But the Burundians found a way to do just that.

Two of the missing teenagers were seen crossing the border into Canada, Washington Metropolitan Police spokeswoman Aquita Brown told reporters Thursday. She identified the two as Ingabire and Mwamikazi. The whereabouts of the other four remain unknown.
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Magnify

Victims of sexual assault accuse Air Force Academy of using mental health diagnoses to cover up sex crimes


RT
Fri, 21 Jul 2017 15:29 UTC
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© US Air Force Academy (Official) / Facebook
Survivors of sexual assault have accused the US Air Force Academy of using mental health diagnoses to cover up sex crimes and as a way to force cadets out of the military university.

Current and former cadets said once they are labeled with a serious mental illness, they can be expelled and even forced to reimburse the academy for their education, according to victims who spoke to the Colorado Springs Independent (CSIndy).

Among them was Kristen, an alias, who entered the academy in 2005. She was encouraged to visit an on-campus counseling office run by the school and that her record would remain confidential. Personnel kept pushing her to take psychotropic drugs. She eventually weaned herself off the drugs. During her junior year she was sexually assaulted in her dorm room at night.

She revisited the counselor but didn't reveal the assault, but she did report the incident to the academy's Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (SAPR) office.

"I did this because I've seen how victims of sexual assault are treated at the academy," Kristen told CSIndy, stating that victims were ostracized and looked down upon.
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Heart - Black

Inmates at St. Louis prison with no air conditioning begging for help with temps soaring


RT
Fri, 21 Jul 2017 15:20 UTC
st. louis prison
© Derk Brown / Facebook
With temperatures soaring to 100F (37C), inmates at a jail in St. Louis, Missouri have been begging for help because of a lack of air conditioning.

In a video shot by KTVI reporter Elliott Davis outside the medium security jail, inmates can be heard screaming for help. The reporter was later asked to leave the property.

The reporter requested a tour of the facility to inspect conditions within and possibly talk to inmates. That request was denied.

A copy of the video titled "What can we do to fix this?" was posted by Derk Brown on his Facebook page. By Thursday the footage had garnered over 468,000 views, 2,800 shares, and 1,300 comments.

One commentator wrote: "The purpose of the building is to punish people for committing crimes. It isn't designed for purpose of making comfortable!"
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Cult

Disgraced Buddhist monk charged with child rape, money laundering and fraud in Thai court after extradition from US


RT
Fri, 21 Jul 2017 21:40 UTC
Buddhist monk
© Department of Special Investigation / AFPBuddhist monk Wiraphon Sukphon speaking to DSI officials in Bangkok.
A former Buddhist monk has been charged with the rape of an underage girl, money laundering and fraud by a Thai court following his extradition from the US to Thailand.

The so-called 'jet-set monk,' Wiraphon Sukphon, 37, faces a total of five charges including the rape of a minor under 15 years of age, which is punishable by up to 20 years in prison.

He allegedly fathered a child with the girl almost a decade ago reports Channel News Asia.

"The Attorney-General will indict Sukphon on Thursday and advise the court to oppose bail because he poses a flight risk,"Somuk Siengkong, the Attorney-General spokesman told reporters as cited by The New Straits Times.
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Arrow Down

Crazed MSNBC "liberal feminist": Ivanka Trump's clothes are patriarchal, sending message women are property

Robert Laurie
Herman Cain
Thu, 20 Jul 2017 00:00 UTC
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Peak MSNBC
Over the years, we've seen a lot of crazy things on MSNBC. We've seen tampon earrings, claims that your children belong to the collective, Joe Scarborough pretending to be a Republican, Keith Olbermann's career implosion, and calls for people to replace their private in-home elevators with staircases. If there's something crazy to be said, there's someone on MSNBC crazy enough to say it.

However, we may only now have achieved peak MSNBC. Joan Walsh, an MSNBC Political analyst and self-proclaimed "liberal feminist" has decided it's time to say something about Ivanka Trump's clothes. It seems they're too "girlie," and her "ornamentation" sends the message that women are property.

...But don't worry, she prefaced her incredibly sexist remarks by saying that she didn't "mean to sound sexist," so I guess it's OK.
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Health

Is a single-payer healthcare system the only real alternative to Obamacare?

Dana Pico
RedState
Thu, 20 Jul 2017 14:43 UTC
healthcare protestors
© Nicholas Kamm / AFP
William Teach of The Pirate's Cove concluded, in an article entitled CNN Poll: Fewer Want GOP To Repeal And Replace Obamacare:
The time to kill Obamacare was the 2012 election. With a President Romney, he could have slowed or even stopped the implementation of Obamacare, even without control of the Senate. All the rules and regulations could have been spiked. Once it was implemented, though, getting rid of it would be damned difficult. How many Big Big Big Government programs have been killed off? A handful at best? Instead, most become institutionalized, and, even when they are failing, even with miserable performance, they still stick around.
Of course they do: even the worst government program has some beneficiaries, people for whom maintaining the program is far more important to their economic well-being than the waste of money is to taxpayers in general.

Comment: Plan C: Senate GOP turns to Obamacare repeal only as revised healthcare bill draft falls apart again

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Attention

Pennsylvania parents who "gifted" their daughters to abuser sentenced to 7yrs in prison


RT
Fri, 21 Jul 2017 07:45 UTC
Lee Kaplan
© Lower Southampton Police DepartmentLee Kaplan
A Pennsylvania judge has sentenced a married couple to up to seven years in prison each for "gifting" their daughter, then nine years old, to Lee Kaplan to be his wife. Kaplan was convicted for sexually assaulting the girl and her five younger sisters.

Daniel and Savilla Stoltzfus "gifted" their daughter to Lee Donald Kaplan, 52, in 2009 because he helped them out financially after the family broke away from the Amish community, authorities said. The girl, now 18, has two children with Kaplan. She was 14 when she had her first child.

The couple had also sent their other daughters to live with Kaplan.

In June, jurors in Pennsylvania's Bucks County convicted the 52-year-old Kaplan of sexually assaulting the six sisters.

Comment: See also: Twelve girls found in home of Pennsylvania man -- the oldest sold by her parents

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Pistol

Palestinian teen shot dead as protests rage in Jerusalem


RT
Fri, 21 Jul 2017 13:37 UTC
Palestinians clash with Israeli security forces outside Jerusalem's Old city
© Ronen Zvulun / ReutersPalestinians clash with Israeli security forces outside Jerusalem's Old city July 21, 2017.
A Palestinian teenager has been shot dead by an Israeli settler amid mass protests, according to the Palestinian Maan agency and the Israeli Haaretz media outlet.

Hundreds more people were injured in the clashes.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society has said that 18-year-old Muhammad Sharaf was shot in the neck, Haaretz reported. The incident took place in the Ras al-Amud neighborhood in East Jerusalem, Maan and Haaretz reported.

Comment: More on the latest uprising:

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