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17 dead, scores injured in football match stampede in Angola


RT
Sat, 11 Feb 2017 15:27 UTC
76 people got trampled Angola
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Some 76 people got trampled, 17 of them to death, as hundreds of fans stormed stadium gates to try and get to a football match in Angola. People had to walk over one another and got suffocated as the crowd surged, hospital officials say.

The stampede occurred seven minutes into the game between Santa Rita de Cássia and Recreativo de Libolo at the January 4th stadium in the northern Angolan town of Uíge on Friday evening, DeportoAOMinuto reports.

"There had been a push that led to the suffocation of people. Some people had to walk on the top of other people. There were 76 casualties, of whom 17 died," Ernesto Luis, director general of the local hospital said, as cited by Reuters.
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Flashback Christians join forces with Muslim group Hezbollah to fight ISIS in Lebanon

Vincent Funaro
Christian Post
Mon, 11 May 2015 14:36 UTC
Hezbollah fighters
© ReutersHezbollah fighters
The Iran-backed Shiite Muslim militant group Hezbollah, classified for many years by U.S. Intelligence as a terrorist organization, is training Christians to fight ISIS in Lebanon and the Middle Eastern believers say their new and unlikely allies "accept us as we are."

Citing Lebanese sources, Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin says Christian villages in the Bekaa Valley area of Lebanon are forming militias to join Hezbollah fighters already engaging ISIS and the al-Qaeda-affiliated Jabhat al-Nursa Front in the Syrian Qalamoun mountains opposite villages in central and eastern Bekaa.

Rifit Nasrallah, a Catholic businessman who is part of the militias fighting ISIS in Ras Baalbek, discussed the alliance with Hezbollah in an International Business Times report last month.

"We're in a very dangerous situation," he said. "The only people who are protecting us are the resistance of Hezbollah. The only one standing with the army is Hezbollah. Let's not hide it anymore."
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Army drone vanishes during flight in Arizona, found in Colorado


RT
Sat, 11 Feb 2017 14:48 UTC
shadow drone us military
© defense.govRQ-7B Shadow drone
A short-range Army drone vanished during a training flight in southern Arizona, only to reappear nine days ‒ and 600 miles (965 km) ‒ later in the suburbs of Denver, Colorado. The $1.5 million military equipment was stuck in a tree.

The 14th Brigade Engineer Battalion from Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington was participating in a training mission at Fort Huachuca in Arizona when the Shadow RQ-7Bv2 unmanned aircraft "lost connectivity" with the ground station at on January 31.

The Army post is about an hour and 15 minutes southeast of Tucson, and equally far northeast of the US-Mexico border crossing in Nogales.
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Star of David

Israeli settlers caught threatening to kill Palestinians: 'We go to heaven, you go to hell'

Allison Deger
Mondoweiss
Sat, 11 Feb 2017 14:10 UTC
Israeli flag
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A group of Israeli settlers rode a red ATV into a densely populated Palestinian area in the West Bank city of Hebron yesterday to taunt and threaten locals. The incident was recorded by Hebron 90.4 FM's correspondent Musab Shaawer and shared online by Palestinian media.

"Where are all the Arabs? They left you and joined us," an Israeli settler yells in the video to Palestinians nearby while a group of young women accompanying him look on and laugh. "We go to heaven, you go to hell," he adds.

And in a final ominous warning the settler says: "If war breaks out the Jews will come here and evict and kill you all."

Comment: Further reading: Terrorism: How the Israeli state was won

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Michael Bennett explains why he refuses to go to Israel as 'an ambassador of good will'

Alysha Tsuji
USA Today
Sat, 11 Feb 2017 14:18 UTC
Michael Bennett
Seahawks defensive end Michael Bennett will not be going to Israel on a trip with other NFL players sponsored by the Israeli government.

He sent out a tweet simply stating he wasn't going to go on Thursday, and then on Friday, he shared a letter he wrote to "the world" that explains his full reasoning for backing out of the trip.
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Collective punishment: Delivery of anesthesia gas to Gaza hospitals banned by Israel


Middle East Monitor
Wed, 08 Feb 2017 11:55 UTC
Gaza surgeons
© Eyad Al Baba / ApaImagesFile photo of Palestinian doctors performing a surgery at the Abu Yousef Al Najjar hospital in Rafah city, Gaza Strip, on April,15, 2012
Israel has banned anaesthetic gas from entering the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Ministry of Health revealed yesterday.

This is the third time that the occupation has prevented Nitrous Oxide (nitrox) gas, which is used for patients during surgery, from entering the besieged enclave, the ministry's spokesman, Ashraf Al-Qidra, said. The ban means a number of urgent medical procedures have now been halted, he explained.
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Japan arrests six over child pornography, at least 168 boys abused

Minami Funakoshi & Robert Birsel
Reuters
Fri, 10 Feb 2017 21:07 UTC
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Japanese police have arrested six men on charges of child pornography involving the abuse of at least 168 boys, Japanese media reported on Friday.

The arrests come as Japan tries to clean up its image ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. In 2014, responding to criticism that it was lax in protecting minors from sexual exploitation, Japan revised the law to ban possession of child pornography.
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Putting the Chill on Free Speech: Universities are encouraging students to report 'offensive' speech to Bias Response Teams


Foundation for Individual Response in Education
Fri, 10 Feb 2017 00:00 UTC
Mouth taped shut - No free speech
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Executive Summary

Over the past several years, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) has received an increasing number of reports that colleges and universities are inviting students to anonymously report offensive, yet constitutionally protected, speech to administrators and law enforcement through so-called "Bias Response Teams." These teams monitor and investigate student and faculty speech, directing the attention of law enforcement and student conduct administrators towards the expression of students and faculty members.

To better understand this phenomenon, FIRE gathered data throughout 2016 on every bias reporting system we could locate. FIRE sought to determine who reviews the reports, what categories of bias they are charged with addressing, and whether the institution acknowledges that the system generates a tension with free speech and academic freedom.

FIRE discovered and surveyed 232 Bias Response Teams at public and private institutions during 2016. The expression of at least 2.84 million American students is subject to review by Bias Response Teams. While most students in higher education do not yet appear to be subject to bias reporting systems, we believe that the number of Bias Response Teams is growing rapidly.

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Student walkouts in New York City protest Trump policies


Press TV
Wed, 08 Feb 2017 05:14 UTC
New York Students protest
© ReutersNew York City high school students demonstrate against President Donald Trump's immigration and education policies after walking out of classes in lower Manhattan, New York.
Hundreds of high school and college students in New York City have walked out of their classes and rallied to protest against US President Donald Trump's immigration and education policies. At a rally at Manhattan's Foley Square, the protesters condemned Trump's travel ban against seven mostly Muslim countries, as well as his nominee for education secretary, Betsy DeVos, who was confirmed by the Senate on Tuesday.

DeVos, a billionaire from the state of Michigan, had faced vociferous opposition from lawmakers for having little experience with public schools and advocating the use of tax dollars to finance private Christian schools. "Betsy DeVos was confirmed today despite her shameful inexperience and complete lack of understanding for the very job she seeks," one student speaker shouted into a loudspeaker, according to local news media.

The students also decried Trump's immigration policies, which they said promote "bigotry, hatred and prejudice."

Comment: Note the signage in the picture above. It will likely achieve what it warns against. A herd mentality assures the next generation is robbed of its critical thinking processes cultivated by propaganda machines that convolute truth while reinforcing every nuance of persuasion. Are they priming America's youth for revolution?

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2016: Record number of Americans renounce US citizenship


Sputnik
Thu, 09 Feb 2017 22:01 UTC
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The numbers are in, and according to the Internal Revenue Service, a record number of Americans expatriated in 2016.

According to a report published Thursday on the Federal Register, 5,411 Americans renounced their citizenship or expatriated. Overall, this is 26 percent higher than the 4,279 reported in 2015, and 58 percent higher than the 3,415 in 2015.

Interestingly, over 2,300 people renounced their citizenship during the last quarter of the year, coinciding with the election of Donald Trump to the US Presidency. This is nearly double the amount of people who expatriated during the same period in 2015.

Part of the reason for this, besides the implied Trump link, is that citizens living abroad must still pay taxes to the US, unless they give up that citizenship. While most other nations tax based on physical residency, the US taxes based on citizenship, and anyone born in the nation is automatically a citizen. This leaves many having to pay taxes to both the US and their nation of residency, unless they remove themselves from the system entirely.

This was made more of an issue after the 2010 Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, which legislated to impose heavy fines and penalties on Americans living abroad who evade paying their US taxes.

Comment: While there is a record amount of Americans expatriating, applications for US citizenship are reportedly skyrocketing. According to this report, 5,411 in 2016 renounced, while, from October 2015 to January 2016, 249,609 immigrants applied for naturalization.

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