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Elephant family of four killed after being electrocuted by low-hanging wires surrounding coffee plantation

Richard Hartley-Parkinson
Metro UK
Thu, 29 Jun 2017 15:55 UTC
dead elephants
© SWNSFour elephants died immediately when they touched the electric fence
These four elephants were electrocuted when they wandered into low-hanging wires surrounding a coffee farm.

The family - two adults and two juveniles - died instantly when they struck the tight wire near the plantation in the Kodagu district of south Indian state of Karnataka.

It comes after two other elephants died in similar circumstances earlier this month.
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Star of David

Israel's tougher travel rules for sick Gazans a crime against humanity


Sputnik
Thu, 29 Jun 2017 15:28 UTC
Gaza residents waiting to cross border
© AP Photo/ Tsafrir Abayov
Ashraf al-Qudra, a spokesman for the Health Ministry in the Gaza Strip talked to Sputnik Arabic about the deteriorating situation in Gaza after Israel toughened its travel rules for Gazans seeking medical treatment outside the coastal enclave, equating it to a declaration of war against sick Palestinians and calling it a crime against humanity.
"Since the start of the year, Israel has toughened Gaza exit regulations for medical purposes. Since April, it has been practically impossible to leave the enclave. It has already led to the deaths of 11 people," Ashraf al-Qudra told Sputnik Arabic.

The spokesman for the Health Ministry in the Gaza Strip equated it to a declaration of war against sick Palestinians. He urged the lifting of the ban, which clearly violates international laws and could be regarded as a crime against humanity.
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Project Veritas on CNN sting videos: 'If you're MSM and telling lies, we're watching you'


RT
Thu, 29 Jun 2017 09:47 UTC
Project Veritas
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Amid the scandal over two sting videos with CNN employees saying that the Russia narrative is "bull**it" and "a big nothing burger," a representative of the group that published the videos told RT any mainstream media "telling lies" could be next.

In the first video, CNN Health Supervising Producer John Bonified said, referring to the Russia stories and grounds for the accusations thrown at Moscow on daily basis, "Like, we don't have any big giant proof. I just feel like they don't really have it, but they just want to keep digging." The producer added that the channel's ratings "are incredible right now."

Project Veritas Communications Director Stephen Gordon told RT that the second video was released to force CNN to face the consequences and admit something is wrong.

Gordon emphasized that in the first video, Bonified says that the CEO of CNN wants to switch from environmental issues back to Russia, because it's "about money, ratings, that's all we cover."
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Hacker group 'Shadow Brokers' threatens to expose NSA covert ops against China


RT
Thu, 29 Jun 2017 14:58 UTC
nsa building
© Larry Downing / Reuters
The Shadow Brokers has threatened to name and shame a former NSA Equation Group member "writing ugly tweets" about the hacking group.

The hacking group levied an attack against a Twitter user it calls "doctor," whom it accuses of tweeting unjustified criticism. Information about the identity of the "doctor" is scarce, but Shadow Brokers claims the 'doctor' is a former member of the NSA's alleged cyber attack team, Equation Group.

Shadow Brokers also claims the former developer "built many tools and hacked organization[s] in China." The unknown person is allegedly a co-founder of a security group with a lot of venture capital funding, the Shadow Brokers said in a statement.

If this person doesn't subscribe to the July dump, "theshadowbrokers might be taking tweets personally and dumping data of "doctor" persons hacks of China with real id and security company name."
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Attention

Pregnant teen kills her boyfriend in horrible 'YouTube stunt' gone wrong


RT
Thu, 29 Jun 2017 14:22 UTC
Monalisa Perez Pedro Ruiz girfriend shoot boyfriend youtube
© monalisa.perez / Instagram
A 19-year-old Minnesota woman has been charged with second-degree manslaughter after she fatally shot her 22-year-old boyfriend in a YouTube stunt gone very wrong.

Monalisa Perez was charged with the killing of Pedro Ruiz III on Wednesday, two days after she shot her boyfriend in the chest at close range outside their home in northwest Minnesota.

Perez, who is heavily pregnant with the couple's second child, was released from jail on Wednesday afternoon after posting $7,000 bail, the Star Tribune reports.
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Toys

Are American child rearing norms creating an authoritarian society?

Pratik Chougule
American Conservative
Tue, 20 Jun 2017 13:39 UTC
helicopter parents child childhood
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Overprotective parenting is a threat to democracy.

American childhood has taken an authoritarian turn. An array of trends in American society are conspiring to produce unprecedented levels of supervision and control over children's lives. Tracing the effects of childrearing on broad social outcomes is an exercise in speculation. But if social scientists are correct to posit a connection between childrearing and long-term political outcomes, today's restrictive childhood norms may portend a broader regression in our country's democratic consensus.

Since the early 1980s, American childhood has been marked by a turn toward stringent adult control. Support for "free range" childhood has given way to a "flight to safety" characterized by unprecedented dictates over children's routines.

More so than any other generation, parents and educators have instilled in millennials the idea that, as Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt put it, "life is dangerous, but adults will do everything in their power to protect you from harm." Indeed, strong social pressures have so hardened against parents who believe in the value of a free, unsupervised childhood that psychologist Peter Gray likens them to past Chinese norms on foot binding.
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Eye 1

'Must have the correct attitude': Burkini banned from French leisure park


RT
Thu, 29 Jun 2017 13:07 UTC
burkini France beach French
© Fethi Belaid / AFP
The mayor of a small town in central France has reignited the burkini debate after banning the full-body swimwear from a new leisure park, despite a high court ruling the bans illegal last year.

Gerard Tardy is the mayor of Lorette, a small town south of Lyon with less than 5,000 inhabitants which on Friday opened the Les Blondières leisure park. Covering an area of nearly 4,000 square meters, it contains large gardens, fishing ponds, two artificial swimming areas, and a beach.

But if visitors want to enjoy Les Blondières, they might need to observe some controversial new rules. Article 4 of the Town Hall's decree governing the site says that swimmers must "have decent attire and a correct attitude."
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Snakes in Suits

Police chief's son pleads guilty to raping foster child, only receives 'house arrest'

Rachel Blevins
The Free Thought Project
Thu, 29 Jun 2017 13:07 UTC
Tuscon police cars
© Mike Christy/Arizona Daily Star
A 23-year-old man in Indiana pleaded guilty to molesting a 13-year-old foster child living with his family, and was sentenced to just three years of house arrest—now his family ties are being called into question.

Andrew Taylor is the son of Tim Taylor, the police chief in his hometown of Berne, Indiana. Wane.com reported that Andrew Taylor asked the young girl who had been placed with his family "to perform oral sex on him and she agreed" in October. He then told his father about what he did and turned himself in, according to court documents.

Jay County Prosecutor Wesley Schemenaur told Wane.com that he does not think Taylor was let off on such an incredibly light sentence because he is the son of the local police chief.
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Courts in UK refuse to permit parents of baby to seek outside medical treatment, rule the child should be put to death

Matt Walsh
The Blaze
Wed, 28 Jun 2017 18:09 UTC
Charlie Gard
There's a horrific case over in the U.K. that hasn't gotten a ton of attention here, but it should. If we look closely, we may see our future — and our present.

Charlie Gard is a 10-month-old baby who suffers from a rare genetic disorder called mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome. It's a horrendous condition that leads to organ malfunction, brain damage, and other symptoms. The hospital that had been treating the boy, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London, made the determination that nothing more can be done for him and he must be taken off of life support. He should "die with dignity," they said. The parents, Chris Gard and Connie Yates, disagreed.

This is the very crucial thing to understand: they are not insisting that GOSH be forced to keep Charlie on life support. Rather, they want to take him out of the hospital and to America to undergo a form of experimental therapy that a doctor here had already agreed to administer. Chris and Connie raised over $1.6 million to fund this last ditch effort to save their child's life. All they needed the British hospital to do was release their child into their care, which doesn't seem like a terribly burdensome request. They would then leave the country and try their luck with treatment here. However slim the chance of success may have been, it was better than just sitting by and watching their baby die.
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Not political: Chinese oil major stops fuel exports to North Korea


RT
Thu, 29 Jun 2017 14:04 UTC
Trucks move across the bridge linking North Korea with the Chinese border city of Dandong
© Megha RajagopalanTrucks move across the bridge linking North Korea with the Chinese border city of Dandong.
Chinese national oil corporation CNPC has ceased fuel sales to isolated North Korea, Reuters reports. Beijing is worried Pyongyang will not pay for the fuel, according to the news agency.

Reuters says it's unclear how long the suspension will last. China is North Korea's top supplier of diesel and gasoline. Relations between neighbors have deteriorated in the past few months.

When asked by the media about the suspension, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang replied: "I do not understand this situation you are talking about" and declined to elaborate.
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