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25 British Airways cabin crew taken ill mid-flight, plane diverted


RT
Tue, 25 Oct 2016 18:42 UTC
British Airways Boeing
© Toby Melville / ReutersA British Airways Boeing
Cabin crew aboard a British Airways flight became so unwell their aircraft was forced to divert to Vancouver, Canada on Monday night.

Airline spokeswoman Michele Kropf confirmed 25 people were transferred to local hospitals after BA Flight 286, en route from San Francisco to London, was forced to land in western Canada.

However, she insisted smoke inhalation was not the cause of the problem, according to Reuters.
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Bomb

ISIS & Taliban group both claim responsibility for Quetta terror attack in Balochistan, Pakistan


Katehon
Tue, 25 Oct 2016 17:47 UTC
quetta
Dozens killed and more than a hundred injured - the result of a raid of terrorists on the Police Academy in Quetta, Balochistan province.

What happened

The attack took place at night from Monday to Tuesday. Initially police academy students were taken hostage. Later it became known that the terrorists committed a mass shooting. 59 people were killed and 117 wounded. It is likely that the number of victims will increase. The police and the authorities claim that it is the most massive and deadly attack in recent years.


Comment: More details:
Officials said that five or six armed men had attacked the dormitory of the Balochistan Police College on the outskirts of Quetta where cadets were resting and sleeping, provoking a counterterrorism response from the army and Frontier Corps. "Two attackers blew themselves up, while a third one was shot in the head by security men," said Sarfaraz Bugti, home minister of Balochistan. Bugti added that more than 200 of the 700 cadets at the academy were quickly rescued.

Comment: It's still not clear who exactly was responsible. Pakistani authorities blamed the Al-Alimi faction of Lashkar-e Jhangvi, who are affiliated with the Pakistani Taliban (the "Hakimullah group" mentioned above). But Islamic State also claimed responsibility, and included a photograph of three alleged attackers:
The Islamic State (IS) extremist group has claimed responsibility for an attack on a police academy in southwestern Pakistan that left at least 61 people dead.

The group's Arabic-language Amaq news agency said on October 25 that "Islamic State fighters" carried out the overnight attack in Quetta, the provincial capital of restive Balochistan Province, in which more than 100 people were also wounded.
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Heart - Black

Racist America: Emmett Till memorial pierced by gunfire, new tribute in the works


RT
Tue, 25 Oct 2016 16:07 UTC
emmett till grave
© Kevin Wilson Jr. / Facebook
More than 50 bullet holes covering a memorial of Emmett Till, a black teenager killed by a lynch mob in 1955, have inspired a fundraiser for a new tribute at the site where the 14-year-old's body was discovered.

A fundraiser to restore and improve a memorial at the location where Till's body was pulled from the Tallahatchie River in Mississippi has exceeded its goal of $15,000. It was inspired after filmmaker Kevin Wilson Jr. shared a photo of the sign riddled with over 50 bullet holes.

"I'm at the exact site where Emmett Till's body was found floating in the Tallahatchie River 61 years ago," Wilson wrote. "The site marker is filled with bullet holes. Clear evidence that we've still got a long way to go."
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Clipboard

Poll: More than two-thirds of Russians oppose ban on abortions


RT
Tue, 25 Oct 2016 10:33 UTC
Patriarch Kirill
Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church
An overwhelming majority of Russians are against an initiative by Christian pro-life activists promoting a total ban on abortions, a nationwide public opinion poll conducted soon after the plan's launch reveals. According to the results of the research conducted by state-owned VTSIOM, 72 percent of Russian citizens are currently against a total legislative ban on abortions. Only 4 percent of respondents said they considered the procedure unacceptable under any circumstances.

In addition, 70 percent of the Russian public opposes the proposal to exclude abortions from the list of operations covered by state healthcare insurance, while 21 percent said that they would support such move.

When researchers asked Russians what negative consequences could emerge from an abortion ban, respondents named a sharp rise in illegal abortions, an increase in the number of orphans, higher infant mortality rate and poverty. Among those polled, 57 percent said that they knew people who had had abortions. One in 10 women who answered the questions said that she had personally undergone the procedure. The poll was conducted in mid-October, about two weeks after the 'For Life' public movement backed by the Russian Orthodox Church claimed that its petition for a complete ban on abortions in the country had been signed by over 300,000 people.
fetus in lights
© Pavel Lisitsyn / SputnikProtest against abortion, silhouette of 12-week fetus in the womb.
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Pistol

'Extremely dangerous' murder suspect broadcasts crime spree on Facebook Live


RT
Tue, 25 Oct 2016 12:35 UTC
Oklahoma felon
© lincolncountysheriffok / Facebook
A man suspected of gunning down two family members and injuring two Oklahoma police officers broadcast part of his crime spree online using Facebook Live. Oklahoma County police are still hunting 38-year-old Michael Vance, who has been named as the chief suspect in the shooting of Ronald Everett Wilkson, 55, and his wife Valerie, 54, on Sunday evening.

Facebook Live footage purportedly filmed during the spree has since emerged online showing Vance talking about stealing a car, showing off a gun and telling his sister to watch the local news channel. Vance is alleged to have shot two Lincoln County officers during his escape before stealing a police truck and then carjacking at least two other vehicles, according to investigators. "This is more intense than what I thought it was going to be, to say the least," the convicted felon can be heard to say in the Facebook footage. "This truck is about dead. I need it to get out of the road, which I hope it does because I'm about to steal another car, like right now. This sh*t gonna be intense."


Comment: Convicted felon? Why is he on the loose?


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USA

OSCE to send more election observers to U.S. amid claims of vote fraud

Fred Lucas
Fox News
Tue, 25 Oct 2016 17:26 UTC
vote fraud
Amid claims from both presidential campaigns of election interference, an international agency is planning to dramatically expand the number of observers deployed to U.S. polling locations - though they've had to scale back their original game plan since some states won't allow the foreign poll watchers.

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, or OSCE, originally announced it would send 100 long-term election observers "to follow the electoral process countrywide" and 400 short-term observers "to follow election day proceedings." The 500 observers would mark a tenfold increase from 2012, when the group had just 44 observers in the United States. The OSCE is better known for sending observers into countries where democracy seems shaky, such as Ukraine.

The move comes as Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has warned about a "rigged" election, and called for his supporters to act as citizen election observers as well. Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, and Obama administration officials, have said the Russian government is attempting to influence the U.S. election.

Comment: Grab your popcorn, because November 8 and its aftermath will be a show worth watching! There are already signs of vote switching in early voting stations, and guess who it benefits:



But there's nothing to worry about. This is just the result of Russian hackers making it look like Killary is stealing the election...

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Robot

Tech takes over the economy: Workers will simply try to survive, rather than thrive

Satyajit Das
Market Watch
Mon, 24 Oct 2016 16:08 UTC
Robots
© Getty images
An assumption was that new jobs in new industries would take up displaced workers — but that hasn't happened

For most people, a secure, well-paid job is the difference between a reasonable life and penury. Today, changes in the structure of the work force driven by globalization and technology make this objective increasingly elusive.

Technology has exacerbated declines in employment and incomes by eliminating tasks and "de-skilling" many jobs.

Robotics and complex computerized equipment has successfully replaced skilled labor. Computer software is now replacing journalists, synthesizing news items electronically by crawling the internet. Even traders in financial markets are being replaced by automated algorithms.

Comment: Read more about how 'Robotics and complex computerized equipment has successfully replaced skilled labor' : Automation, economic collapse, basic income slavery: Our dystopic future?

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Cult

Study finds Ku Klux Klan underground cells currently active in Germany


RT
Tue, 25 Oct 2016 15:41 UTC
Members of the Ku Klux Klan
© Rainier Ehrhardt / ReutersMembers of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
The KKK has four clandestine cells currently active in Germany, according to local media, citing a parliamentary inquiry. Despite being "marginal," the white supremacist group's influence on German far-right groups is not to be downplayed, an MP warned.

Klan members burn crosses, display swastika flags and sing "anti-constitutional songs," according to the government response to the Left Party's parliamentary inquiry seen by Sueddeutsche Zeitung.

The four secretive cells have "a very small number of members" and remain marginal within Germany's right-wing extremist scene, the government said in its response. Martina Renner, a Left Party MP, however, told the newspaper that the KKK's influence on the German far-right should not be underestimated.

"A small number of members cannot downplay the threat that emanates from such organizations," she said.
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Stop

Mississippi NAACP urges federal probe of alleged racial attack on black student


RT
Tue, 25 Oct 2016 14:55 UTC
Mississippi Confederate flag
© Reuters
A black high school student claims he was attacked by white students who put a noose around his neck in Wiggins, Mississippi. No students were expelled and law enforcement was not notified, prompting the Mississippi NAACP to demand a federal probe.

The student claims that as many as four white students attacked him near a locker room on October 13 at Stone County High School during a break from football practice, Mississippi NAACP President Derrick Johnson told reporters on Monday.

Johnson said the white students "yanked backward" on the noose after wrapping it around the black sophomore.

The NAACP president further noted that the accused students, whose names were not released, "earlier this year came to school brandishing Confederate flags in their vehicles." The student's parents, Hollis and Stacey Payton, were present at the news conference but did not speak.
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Attention

Head-on train collision in South Africa kills 1, injures over 240 passengers


RT
Mon, 24 Oct 2016 23:37 UTC
train collision south africa
© Africa Junkies / YouTube
A human error may have caused a horrifying head-on crash of two commuter trains northeast of Johannesburg, which resulted in one fatality and left more than 200 people injured.

Two Metrorail trains collided on Monday afternoon, on the track split between Tembisa and Kaalfontein.

"Both trains were travelling in the opposite directions on one lane," William Ntladi, a disaster and emergency management spokesman for the municipality of Ekurhuleni, told local media. Ntladi said it was unclear how this could have happened.
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