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Sheriff

Texas cop fakes suicide, flees to Mexico


RT
Sun, 30 Apr 2017 12:32 UTC
Austin police officer Coleman Miller Martin
© Austin Police Department
Texas police searching for a missing officer in the Lone Star State now believe that he faked his own death and fled across the border to Mexico.

The mystery surrounding the disappearance of Austin police officer Coleman Miller Martin began on Tuesday when his wife made a 911 call reporting that her husband was suicidal.

Throughout the day, Martin had been sending his wife text messages saying that he was leaving for a while to clear his head, as he was depressed about family issues.
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Red Flag

Anti-fascism protestors disrupt nationalist march in Poland, police step in (VIDEO)


RT
Sun, 30 Apr 2017 01:01 UTC
Supporters of the National-Radical Camp
© Agata Grzybowska / ReutersSupporters of the National-Radical Camp (ONR) march in Warsaw, Poland April 29, 2017
Warsaw police removed a group of anti-fascist protesters, who had attempted to stage a sit-in along the route of a far-right march involving nationalists, and cordons were required throughout the Polish capital to keep apart the two groups.

Several hundred mostly male demonstrators set out across the Polish capital holding national flags, and banners of the National Radical Camp (ONR), to whose 83rd anniversary the march was dedicated.

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Sheeple

'Liberal opposition' protest in Russia was poorly attended and holds little influence

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Sat, 29 Apr 2017 00:00 UTC
Russia protest
Attempt to follow up earlier protests by calling more protests today merely highlighted lack of support for Russia's 'liberal opposition'.

A few weeks ago protests in Russia called by the Western-backed 'liberal' opposition activist and blogger Alexey Navalny attracted a disproportionate amount of attention in the Western media. This was despite the fact that the turnout in those protests - probably in the region of 15-20,000 people across the whole country (not the 60,000 people the 'liberal opposition' itself claims) - was hardly impressive.

Since then there have been two other attempts to stage more such protests.

The first was on 2nd April 2017. However the turnout was so derisory, with more police and media turning out to cover the protests than protesters, that Navalny and most of the other well-known leaders of Russia's 'liberal' opposition denied having anything to do with them.
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Fire

Fukushima authorities ask troops for a helping hand to deal with forest fires near crippled nuclear power plant


RT
Sun, 30 Apr 2017 15:07 UTC
Fukushima fire
© Aly Song / Reuters
Fukushima prefecture has asked the Japanese Self-Defense Forces for help in handling forest fires that have swept areas near the crippled Fukushima power plant, local media report. Strong winds are hindering the firefighting efforts, however.

The forest fires broke out near the town of Namie, some seven kilometers from the disabled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, on Saturday evening, Japanese NHK broadcaster reported.

Namie was evacuated following the 2011 tsunami and subsequent nuclear disaster in Fukushima.

The prefecture has deployed several helicopters to extinguish the fires, which are believed to have been caused by lightning. According to police, at least 10 hectares of forest have burned in the area.

There have been no reports of injuries or damage to buildings so far, Japanese media say.

With strong winds stoking the flames, the Fukushima Prefecture has requested help from the Self-Defense Forces, Japan's de-facto army, on Sunday.

Comment: See also: Six years after nuclear meltdown Fukushima residents to return

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Rocket

4-yo survivor of US-led coalition airstrike in Mosul still has shrapnel in her legs & face (VIDEO)


RT
Sun, 30 Apr 2017 16:31 UTC
4 year old girl
© Ruptly
A little girl who miraculously survived an airstrike in western Mosul last month has had her sight restored, but still needs more surgery to remove shrapnel from her body, the family told Ruptly at their new home in the eastern part of the Iraqi city.

Hawraa, 4, was the only person in her house who lived through the airstrikes in al-Jadida neighborhood. Scores of civilians were killed there, including the little girl's mother.

RT has been following Hawraa since first meeting her at an Iraqi Special Services hospital, where her father Alaa managed to bring her three days after digging the child out from under the rubble. They are now living in a rented house in eastern Mosul.

Alaa said that, after two surgeries, Hawraa can once again see with her right eye, which was damaged in the airstrike.

Comment:
As the air campaign intensifies, with direct decision making being delegated to generals on the battlefield with little oversight — courtesy of the Trump era — Iraqi civilians are being massacred by the thousands. In March of this year, an aerial bombardment killed well over 200 civilians in Mosul. Iraqi Vice President Osama Nujaifi called the attack a "humanitarian disaster."

But it's not a humanitarian disaster — it's a blatant war crime.
See also: Odd how the US has killed 70K ISIS fighters - twice as many as it says exists...and other amazing statistics

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Attention

Turkey bans TV dating shows with a decree made possible by the country's state of emergency


RT
Sun, 30 Apr 2017 07:26 UTC
Turkey dating shows
© Amir Cohen / Reuters
Turkey has banned radio and TV dating programs with a decree made possible by the country's state of emergency. A new clause has been added to the article on protecting children in the country's media law.

"In radio and television broadcasting services, such programs in which people are introduced with the purpose of finding a friend or searching for a spouse... cannot be permitted,"says a statement in Turkey's Official Gazette, which publishes new legislation.

Reports that Turkey may ban matchmaking reality shows emerged this year in March, when Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said that "there are some strange programs that would scrap the institution of family, take away its nobility and sanctity."

"We are working on this and we are coming to the end of it. God willing, in the near future, we will most likely remedy this with an emergency decree," Kurtulmus said, adding "God willing, we will meet these societal demands."

In 2016, Turkey's Radio and Television Supreme Council, a state agency that monitors and sanctions programs, said that it had received some 10,691 complaints about dating programs.
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Attention

Japanese take to streets to protest US base construction in Okinawa, one year after woman murdered by US marine


RT
Sat, 29 Apr 2017 21:18 UTC
Japan protests Okinawa
© Ruptly
Hundreds of people took to the streets of Tokyo to pay tribute to the memory of a young Japanese woman killed by a US marine a year ago and to protest the relocation of the US base in Okinawa. A separate rally was held in Okinawa prefecture.

The demonstrators in Tokyo marched through the streets holding banners including ones reading, "No base in Okinawa!" The father of the murdered woman also issued a message calling for the removal of the US military bases from the island prefecture, local media report.

"Those incidents occur because Okinawa hosts US military bases. I want the bases to be removed without further delay, which is the wish of many Okinawa residents as well," the man said in his statement.

Comment: The beleaguered Japanese aren't likely to acquiesce to the US military presence without a continuing struggle:

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Eye 2

China deports US businesswoman convicted of espionage involving "state secrets."


RT
Sat, 29 Apr 2017 22:41 UTC
Business woman
© SaveSandyP / Facebook
Sandy Phan-Gillis, a Houston, Texas, businesswoman sentenced to three and a half years in prison on espionage charges in China, has returned to the US after a deportation order was issued this week.

Phan-Gillis's husband, Jeff Gillis, confirmed that she had returned to the US on Friday, more than two years after she was first detained in China on suspicion of conducting a spy mission.

The deportation removes a source of friction between the US and China at a time of improving relations between the two countries.
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Health

Syria and Yemen in dire need of anesthetists, resuscitators


Sputnik
Sun, 30 Apr 2017 14:11 UTC
Assad hospital in Deir ez-Zor
© Sputnik/ Mikhail VoskresenskiyAssad hospital in Deir ez-Zor
In addition to the lack of necessary medication, there are very few anesthetists and resuscitators left in Syria. Due to the war many specialists have fled the country. Sputnik Arabic spoke to Secretary of the Medical Association of Syria, Asif al Shahir, about the dire need for doctors in the country.

"Syria has an acute shortage of anesthesiologists. They are not enough for all of the public and private clinics. During a surgery this [anesthesiologist] doctor should be with the patient until it is completed. He takes care of the patient until he is fully recovered. In case of an error he is brought to trial. At the same time, our doctors receive a very small salary," Shahir said.

He further said that in total there are 499 anesthetists in the country at the moment. About 210 of them work in the metropolitan area. Due to low salaries these doctors are struggling to make ends meet.
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Clipboard

Liberals narrow-minded as conservatives study finds - 'just as averse to listening to opposing viewpoints'


RT
Sun, 30 Apr 2017 13:11 UTC
Bernie Sanders supporters
© Lucy Nicholson / Reuters
New scientific research has revealed that liberals - like conservatives - are just as likely to avoid opinions they dislike.

Research has exploded the popularly held view that people with a liberal stance on political issues are more rational than their conservative counterparts. Two new studies have revealed that bias is one of the few issues that gets bipartisan support.

The snappily titled paper, Liberals and conservatives are similarly motivated to avoid exposure to one another's opinions',published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, found that liberals were just as averse to listening to opposing viewpoints on controversial issues as their conservative counterparts.

The aversion applied to issues such as same-sex marriage, elections, marijuana, climate change, guns and abortion.
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