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Israel mulls hiring foreign medical staff to force-feed Palestinians hunger strikers


RT
Fri, 05 May 2017 10:56 UTC
Palestinian prisoners
© Mussa Qawasma / ReutersPalestinians take part in a protest in support of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem May 4, 2017.
Israel is considering hiring foreign medical staff to force-feed Palestinian inmates who went on mass hunger strike over what they say are poor prison conditions, local media report. Israeli doctors refuse to participate in force-feeding on ethical grounds.

The controversial plan is being considered by the Health Ministry, and medical staff would be hired abroad, Channel 2 reported, as cited by the Times of Israel and Haaretz.

It is reported that force-feeding is being considered as the courts may direct the prison authorities to release the hunger strikers due to health concerns. On Monday, Assaf Librati, spokesman for the Israel Prison Service, said 870 prisoners are still refusing food.

Initially, some 1,300 Palestinian prisoners, mostly members of the Fatah movement, began a massive hunger strike on April 17 to demand improved conditions, including visits, medical treatment, and education.

The action also marked the annual 'Palestinian Prisoners' Day' in support of people jailed by Israel's security authorities.

Comment: See also: March in solidarity with Palestinian hunger strikers turns violent after IDF fires steel-coated rubber bullets on protesters

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Speeding stop gets mom assaulted & arrested as her children watch in horror

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Fri, 05 May 2017 15:58 UTC
Winston-Salem police
A video uploaded to Facebook has gone viral as it shows a dramatic confrontation between a young woman and a Winston-Salem police officer during a traffic stop. The woman, 24-year-old Takara Williams was pulled over for speeding and ended up in handcuffs with officer J.C. Carter on top of her. All the while, her kids watched in horror from the backseat of the car.

As the video begins, we see a struggle ensue between officer Carter and Ms. Williams. When the woman filming asks what is going on Williams explains she is being assaulted by Carter for not handing over her keys.

Officer Carter noted that Williams had more violations he found after targeting her for speeding and he needed the keys to her vehicle. Williams tried to explain to the officer that she wanted to wait for her grandfather to get there before giving him the keys, as it was apparently his vehicle.

As the video progresses, so does the altercation as Williams becomes increasingly more distressed. Williams appeared to panic as the officer brought her to the ground.

"I am trying to go to work!" Williams screams as the officer climbs on top of her back. "I am trying to bring my kids to daycare."
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ISIS magazine advice to would-be jihadists: Use fake apartment, job, Craigslist ads to lure hostage, murder victims

Bridget Johnson
PJ Media
Thu, 04 May 2017 15:54 UTC
apartment rental sign
A screen grab from ISIS' Rumiyah magazine
The Islamic State magazine that has published tutorials on vehicle, knife and arson attacks as a tool of lone jihad is now encouraging terrorists to acquire guns at shows and shops and take hostages not for ransom but "to create as much carnage and terror as one possibly can."

The latest issue of Rumiyah magazine, distributed online in 10 languages including English, offers another installment of the "Just Terror Tactics" series, praising lone jihadists including U.S. terrorists who have "set heroic examples with their operations."

The objective of taking hostages, would-be jihadists are told, is "not to hold large numbers of the kuffar hostage in order to negotiate one's demands," but to sow terror with "the language of force, the language of killing, stabbing and slitting throats, chopping off heads, flattening them under trucks, and burning them alive, until they give the jizyah [tax] while they are in a state of humiliation."
"The scenario for such an attack is that one assaults a busy, public, and enclosed location and rounds up the kuffar [disbelievers] who are present. Having gained control over the victims, one should then proceed to slaughter as many of them as he possibly can before the initial police response, as was outstandingly demonstrated by the mujahidin who carried out the Bataclan theatre massacre during the course of the blessed Paris raid," the article instructs.

Orlando nightclub shooter Omar Mateen "superbly demonstrated this scenario" of taking hostages simply to delay police while killing them "when, having armed himself with an assault rifle and a handgun, he single-handedly slaughtered 49 sodomites."

Comment: Notice that important online articles regarding political and corporate malfeasance or articles detailing alternatives to the dangers of allopathic medicine are routinely censored, but this sort of inflammatory posting is allowed to go on. One might think there is an agenda in play.

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Flights leaving Heathrow suspended over a suspicious package 'security issue'


RT
Fri, 05 May 2017 09:52 UTC
Heathrow
© Stefan Wermuth / ReutersHeathrow International Airport, London, UK
All flights from Heathrow Terminal 3 on Friday morning were suspended following a "security issue," an airport spokesperson said.

Departures from the mainly long-haul terminal were stopped "for a short time."
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2 dead after cargo plane crashes at West Virginia Yeager Airport


RT
Fri, 05 May 2017 15:06 UTC
West Virginia plan crash
© AP / YouTube
The pilot and co-pilot are reported dead after a cargo plane, contracted by UPS, crashed at a West Virginia airport, running off the runway and down a hill.

The plane went off the runway at Yeager Airport on Friday morning.

Yeager Airport spokesman Mike Plante said the cargo plane had departed from Louisville, Kentucky and was trying to land at 5:33 am when it went off the runway.

The crash occurred when the left wing of the cargo propeller struck the runway, according to federal and local officials.
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China closer to creating world's biggest agrochemical firm after receiving takeover approval from Syngenta shareholders


RT
Fri, 05 May 2017 15:32 UTC
chemchina syngenta merger
Chinese state-owned agriculture firm ChemChina has received approval from Syngenta shareholders to secure the $43 billion dollar takeover of the Swiss pesticides and seeds group. The biggest overseas acquisition by China will turn it into a biotech titan.

According to ChemChina, the first payment settlement is scheduled for May 18, when it will take over control of Syngenta.

The companies said in a joint statement that based on preliminary numbers, around 80.7 percent of Syngenta shares have been tendered, above the minimum threshold of 67 percent support. The agreed offer is for $465 per share.

Comment: Grave error: China plans to become GMO giant

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Huge blaze engulfed a building in central Moscow, not far from Kremlin


RT
Fri, 05 May 2017 12:45 UTC
Fire
© Iliya Pitalev / Sputnik
A large fire has engulfed a building in central Moscow, not far from the Kremlin and the iconic Red Square, emergency services say. Photos and videos on social media show huge plumes of smoke rising from the building.

The blaze started in the historic part of the city between the Lubyanka and Kitay Gorod metro stations on Friday morning, the city's emergencies services said.

"The area of the blaze is about 500 square meters," the statement said, adding that burning trash prompted the fire.
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US immigrant population has reached all-time high with the majority arriving from India and other Asian countries


RT
Fri, 05 May 2017 12:40 UTC
US immigration
© Robert Galbraith / Reuters
A new study finds that the immigrant population in the US has reached an all-time high, with more immigrants arriving from Asian countries than anywhere else. If the trend continues, Asians will make up a majority of immigrants in the US.

On Wednesday, the Pew Research Center released a study that used data from their previous statistical portraits of the immigrant population in the US from 1960 through 2015 in order to answer some questions about the current state of the immigrant population.

The data showed that while there were a record 43.2 million immigrants living in the US in 2015, there was a greater concentration of immigrants in the country in 1890, when 9.2 million immigrants comprised 14.8 percent of the total population.
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US corporations hoard trillions offshore led by Microsoft


RT
Fri, 05 May 2017 10:56 UTC
Trillions offshore
© Guadalupe Pardo / AFP
US corporations stashed $2.4 trillion outside the country last year according to fourth-quarter company filings compiled by the Swiss bank UBS.

With $124 billion, Microsoft hoarded the most money offshore among America's biggest 500 companies. Apple was second in the UBS ranking with nearly $110 billion kept abroad.

According to UBS, pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has the third-biggest cash pile at $86 billion, while General Electric amassed $82 billion outside the US, but $22 billion less than during a previous check. IBM rounded up the top five with over $71 offshore billions.

The UBS ranking also includes other big corporations like Johnson & Johnson, Alphabet, Exxon Mobil, Intel, PepsiCo, and Oracle.

US companies avoid repatriating their profits mainly because of the current domestic corporate tax rate of about 35 percent - the highest in the world.
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"Chicago is a war zone": Suicide rate of police surges to 60% above national average

Tyler Durden
Zerohedge
Fri, 05 May 2017 02:25 UTC
Scott Tracz, chicago police suicides
During his early days on the force, 30-year-old, rookie Chicago police officer, Scott Tracz, was described by colleagues as an "upbeat" cop who had always dreamed of becoming a police officer to help people in his city. That is, until he sat in a black sports car outside his girlfriend's suburban house late last year, put his gun to his head and took his own life. Per Reuters:
Tracz had long dreamed of becoming a police officer to help others. But working in the violence-stricken Chicago Lawn district, he came face to face with the city's violent crime. The area accounted for 58 of the city's more than 760 murders last year, as well as 228 shootings.

"He would say, 'You can never imagine what the human race is capable of doing,' then he would just put his head down," said his cousin Maciaszek, 46.
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