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Russia celebrates Victory Day: Thousands of troops and state-of-the-art weaponry on parade


RT
Tue, 09 May 2017 14:59 UTC
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© Grigory Sisoev / Sputnik
Thousands of exemplary servicemen and women, along with the most advanced and battle-tested equipment, paraded through Red Square in a grand military exhibit that constitutes the focal point of the annual Victory Day celebrations in Russia.

More than 10,000 soldiers and officers took part in the parade marking the 72nd anniversary of victory over Nazi Germany in World War II. On show, some 100 state-of-the-art pieces of military vehicles.

Units representing all branches of Russia's military - the Ground Forces, the Aerospace Force, the Navy, the Marines, the Strategic Missile Forces, the Airborne Troops as well as the National Guard, Emergencies Ministry and the Federal Security Service forces - marched imperiously across Red Square.

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Alarm Clock

Penn State student said frat brothers ignored pleas to help classmate who died after hazing

Cleve R. Wootson Jr. and Susan Svrluga
The Washington Post
Sun, 07 May 2017 16:30 UTC
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© Patrick Carns / Associated PressTimothy Piazza, center, with his parents Evelyn Piazza, left, and James Piazza, right, during Hunterdon Central Regional High School football’s “Senior Night” at the high school’s stadium in Flemington, N.J.
At first, Cordell Davis thought his fellow pledge had just had too much to drink, he said. They were new initiates to Beta Theta Pi fraternity at Penn State and had just run the gantlet — a series of stations where they guzzled beer, wine and vodka as fast as they could.

But Tim Piazza had fallen down a flight of stairs on that morning in February and was on a couch in the frat house, unresponsive. Davis said he thought he should be at a hospital instead, and told his new frat brothers so.

"They said 'No you're overreacting. You don't know what you're talking about,' " Davis recounted in an interview on Good Morning America that aired Friday. "I said 'I do know what I'm talking about. He could have a concussion.
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Brawls break out in Fort Lauderdale airport over cancelled Spirit flights


RT
Tue, 09 May 2017 16:03 UTC
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© Still from Twitter video / @asg749d
A bizarre brawl broke out at a Florida airport resulting in a massive response from the sheriff's department Monday after Spirit Airlines cancelled 11 flights. Three people were reportedly arrested.

Irate passengers confronted Spirit employees at the ticket line in Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International after they were told their flights had been cut.

Some passengers arrived from the airplane on which they had been waiting and confronted airport staff. As the situation became heated, members of the Broward Sheriff's Office stepped in.
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Alarm Clock

Depopulation corn: Is GM corn the reason for rising infertility rates?

Tami Canal /Jon Rappoport
March Against Monsanto
Mon, 08 May 2017 15:44 UTC
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© Unknown
It's been called contraceptive corn and spermicidal corn. A San Diego company called Epicyte developed it.

Here's a brief background from The Guardian, Sept. 9, 2001; GM corn set to stop man spreading his seed, by Robin McKie:
"Scientists have created the ultimate GM crop: contraceptive corn. Waiving fields of maize may one day save the world from overpopulation.

"The pregnancy prevention plants are the handiwork of the San Diego biotechnology company Epicyte, where researchers have discovered a rare class of human antibodies that attack sperm.

"By isolating the genes that regulate the manufacture of these antibodies, and by putting them in corn plants, the company has created tiny horticultural factories that make contraceptives.

"'We have a hothouse filled with corn plants that make anti-sperm antibodies,' said Epicyte president Mitch Hein.

"...The company, which says it will not grow the maize near other crops, says it plans to launch clinical trials of the corn in a few months."
I love that last line. Gene drift from plant to plant, field to field, food product to food product? Apparently, Epicyte never heard of it. Every food scientist in the world knows about it, but not Epicyte.
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"Teenage schoolchildren thrown into war": WWII hero recounts the horrors and bravery on the Eastern Front


RT
Tue, 09 May 2017 05:21 UTC
Konstantin Fedotov Russian WW2 vet
© Типичное Одинцово / YouTube
One of the most decorated World War II veterans still alive, 91-year-old Konstantin Fedotov, talks about being drafted as a teenager, what makes a good infantry scout, and the images still seared into his mind more than 70 years after the conflict ended.

Konstantin was a 15-year-old schoolboy when Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, and he still vividly remembers the "pervasive unease" he and his classmates felt, anxious for snippets of news on radio, realizing their lives had irrevocably changed.

Within weeks, entire columns of young men were marching west from his village outside Gorky, now known as Nizhny Novgorod.
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Roses

Famous holistic Lyme MD who battled the government dies in accident

Erin Elizabeth
HealthNutNews
Mon, 08 May 2017 15:09 UTC
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It is with a heavy heart that I announce the death of Dr John Greg Hoffmann, a well known Lyme MD from Wisconsin who allegedly died from injuries in a car accident as has just been announced publicly.

Here is a post from one of his verified patients on their Facebook account. I started receiving letters this morning from his patients and thus far all who wrote me are questioning the manner of his death, though for all I know it could be accidental.
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Passport

EU residents in panic, number of UK passport applications jump ahead of Brexit


RT
Tue, 09 May 2017 15:11 UTC
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© Britta Pedersen / DPA / Global Look Press
The number of EU residents applying for British citizenship has jumped by more than a third in the last year, with people seeking to retain the right to live and work in a post-Brexit Britain.

According to figures from the Passport Office, more than 13,000 people have applied for a British passport in the last year, up 35 percent from 2015.

The figures, released to the Financial Times through a Freedom of Information (FOI) request, show that France is the country where the most EU citizens have applied for British passports, with 2,369 people applying last year, a 28 percent surge from 2015.

There was also a 60 percent rise in Germany, where 2,140 applications have been submitted. The surge was particularly noticeable in the month following the EU referendum in July.
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Hearts

Grieving husband slept beside dead wife for 6 nights


RT
Tue, 09 May 2017 14:50 UTC
grieving husband Russell Davison
© Russell Davison / Facebook
A grieving man has revealed how he slept beside the body of his dead wife for six days after she died, and is encouraging other families who lose loved ones to follow his example.

Wendy Davison, 50, died at home in Derbyshire last month after losing a 10-year battle with cervical cancer. Her widower, Russell, 51, says he could not bear to see her taken away immediately, so he slept by her side for almost a week and invited relatives to visit and talk to her.

He described the experience as an "emotional decompression chamber" that gave his family, including his wife's two sons and his own two sons, more time to grieve.
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Israel sued by family of 18 month old Palestinian toddler burned alive by Israeli settlers


RT
Mon, 08 May 2017 14:57 UTC
Ali Dawabsha
© Curto DE LA Torre / AFPAli Dawabsha
Relatives of an 18-month-old Palestinian toddler who was burned alive along with his parents in an arson attack carried out by an Israeli extremists in 2015 are now suing Israel for "criminal negligence".

The attack took place in the village of Kafr Duma near the West Bank city of Nablus in July 2015. Settlers set fire to the Dawabsha family home and eighteen-month-old Ali Saad was killed almost instantly while his parents were seriously injured in the blaze and died in hospital months later.

The only surviving member of the family was Ali's 4-year-old brother, Ahmed. The boy had to undergo months of treatment for serious burns.

Relatives of the Dawabsha family filed a lawsuit against the State of Israel at the Nazareth District Court on Monday.

The decision to file the suit was not about the money, but to hold Israel accountable for the crimes against the Palestinian family, Hassan Khatib, the lawyer representing the family said. The arsonists left inscriptions on the wall, saying "Long live the Messiah" and "Revenge" on the wall of the house, alongside a Star of David.
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Class-action lawsuit alleges Mississippi county sheriff's department put black residents in 'permanent state of siege'


RT
Mon, 08 May 2017 20:38 UTC
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© Jim Young / Reuters
A class-action lawsuit against the wealthiest county in Mississippi describes racially-motivated policing by the local sheriff's department that often results in violent terrorization of black residents, placing them in a "permanent state of siege."

The federal lawsuit alleges that the Madison County Sheriff's Department (MCSD) runs unconstitutional policing operations - including an aggressive "checkpoint" regime - disproportionately directed at the black population in the highly-segregated county near the state's capital, Jackson. The suit was filed by the ACLU of Mississippi and others on Monday against the MCSD, Sheriff Randall Tucker and the county itself.

The MCSD "implements a coordinated top-down program of methodically targeting Black individuals for suspicionless searches and seizure" while in their cars, walking in their neighborhoods or while in their own homes, the complaint says. Unjustified and excessive force are routine occurrences during MCSD policing actions during these searches and seizures, the lawsuit added.

The county's population is 38 percent black - as opposed to about 60 percent white - yet 73 percent of arrests made by MCSD from May to September 2016 were of black individuals, the complaint says. It added that Tucker, who took office five years ago, has ceased keeping track of civilian complaints of his department regarding racially-motivated policing.
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