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Bomb explosion rocks protest rally in Lahore, Pakistan

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© AFP 2016/Ali Jan
Police in Pakistan say a large bomb has exploded at a protest rally in the city of Lahore, with early reports suggesting at least two people had died.

The blast struck outside the Punjab Assembly, injuring several people, including police officers and journalists covering the march.

Vehicles on Lahore's Mall Road, a major thoroughfare that passers through the centre of the city, were also destroyed.

No group has yet claimed responsibility for the blast, which appeared to come from a parked car.

Quenelle

Elephant at Thai resort launches 'elephant-lover' tourist into the air - Upset woman cancels plan to get elephant tattoo (VIDEO)

ELEPHANT WASH
Some resorts in Thailand offer tourists the opportunity to learn the ropes of being a mahout, an elephant handler in Asia that works with, rides on and tends to elephants.

In some cases, tourists are allowed to bath the elephants in a river, and while that sounds like it might be fun, one woman discovered the downside of doing so:


The video was posted Friday on LiveLeak, and though it's hard to say how recent the incident occurred, it nevertheless offers a reminder that elephants are still wild animals, even captive ones.

In this instance, the woman unfortunately did something that the elephant did not like.

As she wiped down the top of the elephant's trunk with a sponge, the elephant suddenly swept its head forward and with its tusks, bound together at the tips, tossed the woman into the air, sending her and her sunglasses and headband flying.

Airplane

Passengers flee United Flight after 'unstable' pilot goes off on bizarre Trump, Clinton rant

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© JAY JANNER / AMERICAN-STATESMANA United Airlines pilot was removed from an Austin flight Saturday evening, a spokesman for United Airlines confirmed.
Nearly half the passengers reportedly fled a United Airlines flight before it could take off on Saturday evening after a seemingly disturbed pilot went on a bizarre political and personal rant over the intercom.

As passenger Randy Reiss wrote on Twitter, the pilot dressed in a ball cap and casual shirt remarked on her appearance after she boarded the flight at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in the late afternoon, "Then she says 'sorry, I'm going through [a] divorce,'" Reiss wrote. "Ummmm uh oh."


Reiss told BuzzFeed that other passengers even sympathized with her at first. The sympathy quickly changed to dread as her speech veered from her personal life into a string of non sequiturs, at which point the mood aboard the San Francisco-bound jet turned from cozy to uncomfortable, to worse.

Bug

Kiev continues to be a beacon of light and distinguish itself as a mecca of tolerance and Western values

Art lovers
Chanting "Jews out!" and destroying art exhibits. Is this what Merkel was talking about when she referred to Europe's enlightened "community of values"?

The third anniversary of the "Revolution of Dignity" is just a few short days away. By now of course Ukraine is a full member in the EU and enjoys a standard of living that even Scrooge McDuck would envy.

Corruption is non-existent and Ukrainians are able to take evening strolls without being accosted by torch-wielding mobs chanting "Jews out!"

In other words: Maidan was awesome, and if you don't think so, real Ukrainian patriots have ways of making you to think so.

And so, in accordance with Merkel's "community of values", a group of tolerant Kiev liberals visited an art exhibit that explored the "unrest that led to the 2014 Ukrainian Revolution." Explored? Not praised? We can't allow that:

Binoculars

Belgian national crisis center: Spread of Saudi-backed Wahhabism cause for concern

Belgium Brussels airport
© AFPMembers of the civil protection walk outside the damaged front of Brussels Airport in Zaventem on March 23, 2016, one day after a series of bomb attacks in the country.
Belgium has voiced concerns over the spread of Saudi-backed Wahhabism throughout the country and the rest of Europe.

According to a Wednesday report by De Standaard, the country's OCAM national crisis center stressed that Wahhabism is being preached in an increasing number of the country's mosques receiving financial support from Saudi Arabia.

"We believe that a growing number of mosques and Islamic centers in Belgium, like the rest of Europe, are under the influence of Wahhabism," said the OCAM.

Wahhabism is the radical ideology dominating Saudi Arabia, freely preached by government-backed clerics there, and inspiring terrorists worldwide. Daesh and other Takfiri terror groups use the ideology to declare people of other faiths as "infidels" and then kill them.

"We also note that the imams of these mosques are regularly being 'salafized' or are already 'salafized'," added the center.

Comment: But never mind, keeping sending the Saudis weapons so they can keep spreading radical Islam to Europe and America and giving them medals for "fighting terrorism":



MIB

'Sexual assault, violence, rape far too common' at France's Dunkirk refugee camp

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© Pascal Rossignol / ReutersFILE PHOTO A woman in a refugee camp in Grande-Synthe, near Dunkirk, northern France
Children and women are assaulted and raped by traffickers inside a refugee camp in northern France, where unaccompanied individuals are viewed as easy prey, according to volunteers, medics, refugees, and security officials interviewed by the Observer.

"Sexual assault, violence and rape are all far too common," one volunteer female coordinator told the Observer, speaking on condition of anonymity.

"Minors are assaulted and women are raped and forced to pay for smuggling with their bodies," she said.

Comment: Preventing these already marginalized people from being further abused by predators is not an unsolvable problem, so it looks like those in charge of this refugee camp are, at best, completely inept at doing their job.

Or perhaps human trafficking was the goal all along:


Heart - Black

Four cops beat, tase and arrest man for dancing at a bus stop

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In today's 'See Something, Say Something' society, doing the 'pee pee dance' while waiting for a bus is grounds for police action โ€” at least that's what a woman in Austin thought when she called the cops on a dancing man. Unfortunately, for the dancing man, police would also perceive his harmless behavior as a threat and move to neutralize it.

This latest instance of ridiculous police brutality was captured on video Tuesday outside of an Austin restaurant. As the video begins, a nicely dressed man was standing at a bus stop doing a bit of a sidestep dance in place. The officer responding to the fearful woman's 911 call perceived this dance as a potentially dangerous act.

The dancing man appeared to have a mental imbalance and may have flipped the bird at someone driving by. According to witnesses at the scene, the man may have had "some kind of disorder" and a "mental imbalance of some kind." However, this was not grounds for what happened next.

In the video, we see the man doing nothing other than dancing when the officer approaches him as if he's holding a child hostage. Within just a few moments the officer has his taser drawn, aiming it at the man's head.

When the bus shows up, the man attempts to get on it, as it appears that was his intention the entire time. However, the cop would not have it. As the man attempted to walk toward the bus, the cop waved it on.

Sheriff

Cop exchanges booze for sex with underaged teen; charges against him are dropped

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In America, it has become quite clear over the years that there are two very different justice systems โ€” one for the political and ruling class, and one for everyone else. Politicians, government employees, and police officers are, all too often, given special treatment because of their connection to the ruling class โ€” allowing them to escape accountability for even the most heinous of crimes. A Livermore cop is the latest example of this flawed system of 'justice' in America.

Last week, an officer who admitted to multiple crimes, including paying for sex with a teenager, was given one of these special deals and will now have all of his charges simply vanish.

According to SF Gate,
Daniel Black agreed to plead no contest to one misdemeanor count of lewd conduct in public. Prosecutors said that while off duty as a police officer in April, Black and a teenager engaged in sexual acts in his motor home on two occasions and that he paid for her dinners and gave her alcohol in exchange.

Five other misdemeanor charges against Black โ€” including lewd conduct, engaging in prostitution and giving alcohol to a minor โ€” were dismissed with the deal.

Comment: See also:


Dollars

Corrupt prison industrial complex: Mississippi sues 25 defendants for $800 million in prison bribery scandal

Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood
© Imani Khayyam.Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood is suing 25 individuals and companies associated with a prison bribery scheme, saying they should have to repay more than $800 million in revenue they received from the state.
Mississippi sued 10 people and 15 corporations this week to recoup more than $800 million in state money lost in a seven-year prison bribery scandal.

Defendants in the 11 lawsuits included former Mississippi Department of Corrections Commissioner Chris Epps, and former Republican state House Member Cecil McCrory, the key figures in the conspiracy. They and four other people pleaded guilty to their involvement in the conspiracy.

Attorney General Jim Hood says in the lawsuits that multiple corporations, including prominent private prison contractors, paid millions of dollars in bogus "consulting fees" to people who used the money to pay bribes and kickbacks to Epps.

Epps then steered approximately $800 million in public contracts to those private prison contractors.

Comment: The prison industrial complex is rotten to the core:


Newspaper

Turkish media reports police foil 'sensational' ISIS terror plot targeting Europe

Turkish police
© Murad Sezer / Reuters
Turkish police have thwarted an Islamic State terror plot by arresting two EU citizens that allegedly aimed to carry out a "sensational" attack in Europe, a Turkish news agency reported, citing a judicial source.

Mahamad Laban, 45, a Lebanon-born Danish citizen, and Mohammed Tofik Saleh, 34, an Iraqi-born Swiss citizen, were detained in the Turkish city of Adana earlier this month, according to the source, who spoke to Anadolu agency on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on speaking to the media.

The suspects were brought before an Adana court on Friday following ten days of interrogation and have been returned to custody to await the results of an investigation looking into their activities, Anadolu reported.