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Ex-commando colonel claims moral collapse in killer marine's unit. Apocalypse now?


RT
Thu, 16 Mar 2017 15:17 UTC
Royal marines
© James Vellacot / Reuters
The former commander of Royal Marine Alexander Blackman, whose battlefield murder conviction was quashed Wednesday, has claimed the jailed soldier's unit fell apart due to command failures.

Colonel Oliver Lee, the youngest marine colonel since WWII who resigned over the Blackman case, told the Guardian how command failures caused J Company, 42 Commando Royal Marines, to descend into chaos.

Blackman, who killed an unarmed, wounded Afghan insurgent on camera in 2011, had his murder conviction reduced to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility at his second appeal hearing.
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Attention

Emissiongate 2.0: Renault accused of fitting vehicles with software allowing them to evade pollution limits


RT
Thu, 16 Mar 2017 07:39 UTC
Renault emissions scandal
© Benoit Tessier / Reuters Renault is accused of systematically using fraudulent measures to get around emission laws for over 25 years.
Renault shares plunged 3.2 percent on Wednesday amid allegations that the French car manufacturer fitted its vehicles with software allowing them to skirt legal emission limits, despite the company's assurances that it did not breach any European or national regulations.

On Tuesday, the French daily Liberation claimed to have obtained a report from the fraud department of the country's economic ministry. The document allegedly found that two Renault car models - the Captur and the Clio IV - were producing emissions over 300 percent above the legal limit. The Renault Captur was running at 377 percent over the limit, while the Clio was at 305 percent.
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Snakes in Suits

Navy's 'Fat Leonard' sex and bribery scandal claims admiral, 7 others

Tom Vanden Brook
USA Today
Tue, 14 Mar 2017 19:33 UTC
bruceloveless
© APThis undated image released by the U.S. Navy and provided by The San Diego Union-Tribune shows Rear Adm. Bruce Loveless, who is accused of accepting the services of prostitutes, lavish meals and fancy trips from Leonard Francis in exchange for helping his company, Glenn Defense Marine Asia.
The Navy's "Fat Leonard" sex-and-bribery scandal broadened Tuesday with the indictment in federal court of a retired two-star admiral and seven other high-ranking officials that included "a raging multi-day party, with a rotating carousel of prostitutes."

Retired Rear Adm. Bruce Loveless was among those charged with accepting luxury travel, pricey dinners and prostitutes from military contractor "Fat Leonard" Francis, the former chief of Glenn Defense Marine Asia. In exchange, the sailors provided him with classified information he then used to gouge the Navy for servicing ships.
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Bullseye

RT meets survivors of Mosul siege: 'All of us were ISIS human shields'


RT
Thu, 16 Mar 2017 14:48 UTC
mosul human sheilds
The battle for Mosul has taken a heavy toll on civilians struggling to escape the crossfire between ISIS and the Iraqi army, survivors have told RT's Murad Gazdiev. US and Iraqi officials, however, cannot evaluate the casualties, citing a lack of "visibility" on the situation.

A hospital in Erbil has received as many as 120 wounded every day since the beginning of the operation to retake western Mosul from Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) terrorists. Injured civilians, who managed to escape the ongoing bloodshed are being treated in the hospital, but many others have died trying to do so. The RT crew visited the busy facility and heard the chilling tales of survival and daring escapes from the city.

Civilians are suffering at the hands of the both warring sides — as IS terrorists deliberately hide among them in order to attract US-backed coalition strikes and thus inflict as many casualties as possible among the population.

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Ambulance

IDF shoot 16yo Palestinian girl after an alleged car ramming attempt (VIDEOS)


RT
Thu, 16 Mar 2017 14:28 UTC
car crash West Bank
© Ronen Zvulun / ReutersGush Etzion Junction, West Bank March 15, 2017.
A 16-year-old Palestinian girl was shot by Israeli forces in the West Bank after reportedly attempting a car ramming attack on Israeli soldiers. The teen remains in a critical condition.

The incident took place at the Gush Etzion junction Wednesday in the occupied West Bank, near Bethlehem.

According to an Israeli army spokesperson, Fatima Jibrin Taqatqa attempted to drive into a group of soldiers at a bus stop at a junction where civilians were also standing. No Israelis were injured, but a pregnant woman was taken to hospital after she experienced a panic attack, the Magen David Adom ambulance service said.
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Attention

Three people injured in school shooting in France; armed 17 y.o. student arrested in Grasse


RT
Thu, 16 Mar 2017 14:26 UTC
Lycée Alexis de Tocqueville, french school shooting
© Google MapsLycée Alexis de Tocqueville.
Three people have been injured in a shooting at a school in Grasse, southern France, according to interior ministry, while the authorities confirm the incident is not terrorism-related. A 17 year old student, carrying a rifle, two handguns and two grenades has reportedly been arrested over the incident.

"The [arrested] individual does not seem to be known by police," a police source told Reuters.

Another police source said that two students had opened fire on the headmaster. The second suspect is still on the run.

"One of the two was arrested and the second fled. There was panic and the students took refuge in the [neighboring] supermarket," the source said.
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Paranoid schizophrenic killed young woman with screwdriver & 'chewed' her face


RT
Thu, 16 Mar 2017 13:38 UTC
Cerys Yemm.
© FacebookCerys Yemm.
A paranoid schizophrenic man accused of "chewing" a young woman's face after brutally murdering her was released from prison just two weeks earlier without medication or supervision, an inquest has heard.

Matthew Williams, 34, killed Cerys Yemm, 22, after attacking her with a screwdriver in his room at Sirhowy Arms Hotel Argoed, South Wales.

Williams himself subsequently died after being tasered by police.

Day two of an inquest into the deaths in November heard that the hostel landlady barged into Williams' room after hearing screams, and found the woman covered in blood and Williams lying on top of her, "eating" her and "chewing her face."

The inquest heard the 999 emergency call the hostel proprietor Mandy Miles made once she discovered the attack.
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Stock Down

Collapsing pensions: "About to bring hell to America"

Mac Slavo
SHTF
Wed, 15 Mar 2017 13:20 UTC
economy gernade
The toxic dollar is bringing hell in a handbasket.
Along with the student loan debt bubble and other major financial factors, the looming pensions crisis is bound to be the death of us all.

Because it's based on a future promise to pay, it has long been a benefit dangled to solve strikes and union disputes - because, in the end, it is just more debt, whether private or public.

With tens of trillions in unfunded liabilities, the weight of an avalanche remains dangling over our heads. An aging population is cashing in on needed retirement benefits while the younger generations must support multiples that are unsustainable financially.
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Arrow Down

Pro-Trump radio host Michael Savage attacked after having dinner

Michael Bodley
SFGate
Thu, 16 Mar 2017 13:08 UTC
Michael Savage
A conservative radio host whom President Donald Trump has credited with being instrumental to his upset victory claims he was assaulted outside a California restaurant Tuesday night.

Michael Savage, the 74-year-old host of the nationally syndicated talk radio show Savage Nation, was dining solo at Servino Ristorante in Tiburon, with his toy poodle, Teddy, keeping him company, when another patron allegedly began taunting him by saying, 'weener, weener.'

The heckler was apparently referring to Savage's legal name, Michael Alan Weiner.

As Savage was heading out the door, the verbal abuse allegedly turned physical when the jeerer knocked the septuagenarian to the ground, according to the talk show host's attorney, Daniel Horowitz.

When another diner tried to step in between the brawlers, he was punched in the face, Horowitz told the Mercury News.
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Snakes in Suits

Disturbing trend: Sexual misconduct up 'across the board' at military academies

Lolita C Baldor
AP
Thu, 16 Mar 2017 12:49 UTC
United States Naval Academy
Reports of sexual assaults increased at two of the three military academies last year and an anonymous survey suggests sexual misconduct rose across the board at the schools, The Associated Press has learned.

The new data underscore the challenge in stemming bad behavior by young people at the military college campuses, despite a slew of programs designed to prevent assaults, help victims and encourage them to come forward. The difficulties in some ways mirror those the larger military is struggling with amid revelations about Marines and other service members sharing nude photos on websites.

Assault reports rose at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, while dropping at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado. The Air Force decline was sharp, going to 32 last year from 49 in 2015, contributing to an overall decrease in the overall number of reported assaults at the academies. The total reported cases fell to 86 from 91 in 2015, according to details obtained by The Associated Press.

Comment: The discovery of a 30,000-strong Marine Corps Facebook group that shared nude photos, videos, and degrading insults is evidence of a deeply embedded rape culture. 'Talking about sexual assault' to these men and women like they're in elementary school won't solve much of anything. Consequences, on the other hand, can have an effect.

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