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Freezing Smog Chokes Europe


Yahoo! News
Tue, 24 Jan 2017 00:56 UTC
Heavy pollution in Paris, France
© AFP/Philippe DesmazesSpeed limits have been reduced in many parts of France to combat heavy pollution.
Heavy pollution enveloping much of Europe prompted emergency measures across the continent on Tuesday.

A toxic cocktail of extreme cold, no wind and heavy burning of coal and wood for heating has left many regions shrouded in smog. In many countries, including Britain, France and Brussels, officials have cautioned against physical exertion for children and the elderly, and for people with respiratory problems.

Officials in Paris have ordered older, more polluting vehicles off the road since Monday, and cut the price of public transport. Speed limits have also been reduced in many parts of France.

In London, a cloud of freezing smog forced the cancellation of around 100 out of 1,300 flights at Heathrow airport for the second day in a row, while Met Office forecasters had a "severe" warning in place for all of England.
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Pills

'Pharma Bro', Shkreli fires off drug industry list of scandals


RT
Tue, 24 Jan 2017 21:39 UTC
Martin Shkreli
© Drew Angerer / Getty Images / AFPEx-pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli.
Martin Shkreli, aka Pharma Bro, showed the industry he's not the guys to mess with after a pharma trade company launched an ad campaign which takes a pot shot at him. Shkreli has fired back with a website listing drug companies' scandals.

"I'm pretty p***** off," opens Shkreli on his YouTube post introducing this tell-all website, pharmaskeletons.com. "This lobby group, PhRMA, thinks it's a good idea to come after me for the industry's problems. So I made a website called Pharmaskeletons.com, and you can see the industry has quite a history of problems."

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Snakes in Suits

EPA nominee Pruitt attacked for 'encouraging debate' in climate science

Michael Bastasch
Watts Up With That
Tue, 24 Jan 2017 21:27 UTC
Scott Pruitt
© Joshua Roberts / ReutersOklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt
Talk about chutzpah!!!

"He believes debate should be encouraged about the truth of climate science..."

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Sheriff

Denying Blue Privilege: Florida sheriff demands to be given a ticket for speeding

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Tue, 24 Jan 2017 21:51 UTC
Mike Chitwood
© Volusia County Sheriff's OfficeMike Chitwood
In case after infuriating case, the Free Thought Project has reported on cops who abuse their authority to break the law or do things that would get normal citizens ticketed or arrested. So, when we see a cop who doesn't pretend to be above the law they enforce, we think it is a good idea to report on it — to set the bar for police across America. A Florida sheriff has done just that and demanded he be given a ticket for speeding.

Known as blue privilege, there is an unwritten law among police officers: when they catch their fellow cop, or even their fellow cop's family member, breaking the law, they are let go without consequence.

Just two months ago, dashcam video was released showing preferential treatment of an Arkansas police chief who was let off — without so much as a warning — after speeding to an off-duty job as a referee at a football game.

The examples are unlimited.

In one case, in particular, an entire caravan of cops was given a pass for needless and dangerously speeding through town. An audio tape and video were published online of a conversation between a Washington State Patrol aircraft and a patrol car on the ground.

The aircraft kept identifying speeders while the ground unit would let them all go by since they were LEOs.
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Handcuffs

St. Paul cop charged with assault for punching a 14 y.o. girl in the face -- twice

Mara H. Gottfried
Twin Cities
Mon, 23 Jan 2017 21:38 UTC
Officer Michael Philip Soucheray
© facebookOfficer Michael Philip Soucheray
Prosecutors charged a St. Paul officer with assault Monday, saying he punched a 14-year-old girl twice in the face when she was handcuffed in the back of a squad car.

The teen had spit in Officer Michael Philip Soucheray II's face, according to the criminal complaint charging him with a misdemeanor.

Officers were trying to get the girl from an emergency shelter to a hospital because she was reported to be suicidal but was refusing to go, the complaint said. After Soucheray struck the teen with a closed fist, causing her pain, he grabbed the girl "by the jaw and/or face/neck area," the complaint said. He then called her a "(expletive) bitch," the court document continued.

Police Chief Todd Axtell placed Soucheray, 38, on paid administrative leave Monday. A police spokesman said they can't discuss the reason due to state law.

An internal affairs investigation was opened the day after the incident, and the police department asked the Dakota County sheriff's office to conduct a criminal investigation.
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Road Cone

Limo torched at Trump inauguration riot belongs to Muslim immigrant

Siraj Hashmi
Red Alert Politics
Tue, 24 Jan 2017 21:20 UTC
limo trump inauguration
© Muhammad AshrafProtesters set fire to limousine in Washington, DC, destroying the livelihood of a Muslim immigrant.
The inauguration of Donald Trump had fireworks, but for people going about their daily lives, there was just fire and chaos from protesters. A limo driver was injured while the stretch limousine he drove was torched and destroyed by protesters near the intersection of 12th and K Streets NW in Washington, DC.

Muhammad Ashraf, the owner of the company, Nationwide Chauffeured Services, is now speaking out against the protesters for what they did.

In an exclusive interview with Red Alert Politics, Ashraf said he wasn't a supporter of Donald Trump during his campaign, but Friday's protests were completely counter-productive.
"I have a different point of view," Ashraf told Red Alert. "I did not agree with many of the things he said, but that still does not give me the right to go and affect someone's livelihood."
Ashraf noted that the Women's March on Washington and in other cities around the country was a model for how to peacefully protest.
"I really don't think we need to take this [violent] route."
Ashraf's employee, Luis Villarroel, 58, was dropping a client off at their destination when things turned ugly. Protesters smashed doors and windows in the vicinity, but then turned their attention to Villarroel and the limo. People began pounding on the car and started throwing stones and bricks in his direction. The driver ended up going to the hospital for cuts on his hands and arms from glass being shattered by thrown projectiles.

Ashraf provided a few photos from the incident (Disclaimer - there is blood):

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Heart - Black

Florida man repeatedly stabs crated dog for barking too much

Brian Ballou
South Florida Sun Sentinel
Mon, 23 Jan 2017 17:31 UTC
Michael O'Brien
© Broward County Sheriff's OfficeMichael O'Brien
A frustrated with his dog's barking, a man in Sunrise stabbed the animal with a kitchen knife while it was held in a cage, police said.

Michael O'Brien took the heavily bleeding Husky to an animal hospital in Cooper City after a witness insisted, but he told the veterinarian that the dog had run into a glass door, according to a police report. Nala, stabbed in a front leg, needed two blood transfusions and was resuscitated through CPR.

The veterinarian at the LeadER Animal Specialty Hospital was dubious of O'Brien's account when he brought the dog in on Nov. 8, and police said they launched an investigation after an anonymous caller contacted them five days later. O'Brien was arrested Friday.

Police interviewed a man on Jan. 5 who was in O'Brien's Sunrise apartment when the alleged incident occurred. That witness, Nicholas Richards, told police that O'Brien became enraged by his dog's barking and used a kitchen knife to repeatedly jab at the dog, who was inside a crate in the living room, the arrest report said.
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Bad Guys

A divided people: Are Americans racists?

Paul Craig Roberts
Institute for Political Economy
Mon, 23 Jan 2017 19:35 UTC
racism
"Racist" is the favorite epithet of the left. Every white person (except leftists) is a racist by definition. As we are defined as racists based on our skin color, I am puzzled why we are called racists a second, third, and fourth time due to specific acts, such as favoring the enforcement of immigration laws. For example, President Donald Trump says he is going to enforce the immigration laws. For the left this is proof that Trump has put on the White Sheet and joined the KKK.

The left doesn't say what a president is who does not enforce the laws on the books. But let's look at this from the standpoint of the immigration laws themselves. In 1965 a bill passed by the "racist" Congress and signed by the "racist" President Lyndon Johnson completely changed the racial composition of US legal immigration.

In 1960 75% of US legal immigration was European, 5% was Asian, and 19% was from Americas (Mexico, Central and South America and Caribbean Islands).

In 2013 10% of legal immigrants were European, 30% were Asian, 55% were from Americas, and 5% from Africa.

The 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act is a very strange law for racists to have enacted. Would racists pass a law, which has been on the books for 52 years, that fundamentally transformed the racial profile of the US by limiting white immigration, thereby ultimately consigning whites to minority status?

We could say the racists did not know what they were doing, or thought they were doing something else. However, the results have been obvious at least since 1980, and the law is still on the books.
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Network

Massive networks of fake accounts found on Twitter


BBC
Tue, 24 Jan 2017 19:46 UTC
tweet graphic
© PashaIgnatov
Massive collections of fake accounts are lying dormant on Twitter, suggests research.

The largest network ties together more than 350,000 accounts and further work suggests others may be even bigger.

UK researchers accidentally uncovered the lurking networks while probing Twitter to see how people use it.

Some of the accounts have been used to fake follower numbers, send spam and boost interest in trending topics.
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Cult

Madonna: Another self-serving, hypocritical tantrum of a snowflake entertainer

Michael McCaffrey
RT
Tue, 24 Jan 2017 18:36 UTC
Madonna at Woman's March in DC
© Shannon Stapleton/ReutersMadonna performs at the Women's March in Washington U.S., January 21, 2017.
At the Women's March on Washington this past Saturday, Madonna tried to cut President Trump down to size with an impassioned speech, but she ended up helping her opponents and hurting her cause.

Let me say right up front that I am not one of those people who thinks celebrities should never talk about politics. I feel that all Americans, celebrities included, should share their thoughts as they see fit. Of course, I also believe that people, celebrities most especially due to the size of their audience, should be held to account for what they say. Which brings us to Madonna and the Women's March on Washington inauguration weekend.

At the anti-Trump/pro-woman event this past weekend, Madonna gave a profanity-laced speech where she said, in part, "Yes, I am angry. Yes, I am outraged. Yes, I've thought about blowing up the White House." No doubt the Secret Service are drawing straws right now to see who gets stuck with the miserable assignment of interviewing the erstwhile Material Girl. While most people will chalk up Madonna's statement as just a bit of emotionalist nonsense, the Secret Service, sadly for them, don't have that luxury.

While the 58-year-old, former pop princess isn't entirely culturally irrelevant, she can certainly see irrelevance from her backyard. Madonna's artistic insignificance aside, her diatribe at the rally this past weekend will no doubt bring her some much-desired attention, but it will also most certainly undermine the anti-Trump cause for which she alleges to be speaking.

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