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Vatican McDonald's promises to give free meals to the poor


RT
Fri, 13 Jan 2017 02:12 UTC
Vatican McDonald's
© Alessandro Bianchi / Reuters
The controversial McDonald's that opened in the Vatican at the start of the year, despite protests from locals and top clerics in Rome, has promised to give out thousands of free meals to the homeless.

The Borgo Pio branch of McDonald's, also known as McVatican, is planning to cooperate with Medicina Solidale, a charity organization providing medical care and distributing food to Vatican-based homeless people.

Lucia Ercoli, the head of Medicina Solidale, said she was "very satisfied with this agreement with McDonald's," which has "promptly" accepted their proposal, according to Crux.com.

"Providing a meal guarantees an appropriate supply of proteins and vitamins to so many men and women who live on the street," said Lucia Ercoli, director of the charity. "I am very happy with this agreement with McDonald's."

Volunteers will start distributing food next Monday. They will collect nearly 1,000 meals from the restaurant and give them to homeless people.
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Bomb

Blast in Damascus kills 10, unknown number injured


Sputnik
Thu, 12 Jan 2017 22:19 UTC
Car bombed
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A suicide bomber is suspected to have killed at least 10 people in a heavily secured district of the Syrian capital.

It is believed that the attack happened in the Kafr Sousa neighborhood where the Syrian government holds several major security installments, a local police source said. Syrian TV outlets first reported the deaths while an unknown number are injured. Eye-witnesses on the scene corroborated reports of multiple deaths. ​Its not clear what explosives were carried in the car.

Multiple individuals were "seriously wounded" among the group of victims admitted to the hospital, a source told RIA Novosti in via phone. The source added that the blast was most likely a terrorist attack. A witness told RIA Novosti in a phone call earlier in the day that the explosion occurred near a sports complex in the Kafr Sousa district.

The bombing occured near the Al Andalus Hospital, according to reports originating in Damascus. In multiple videos of the carnage, bodies lay strewn across the street.


Comment: Update: At least 15 injured and 7 killed from this explosion amid current ceasefire in Syria.

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Bad Guys

Landowners sue Dakota Access Pipeline over threats, fraud


RT
Thu, 12 Jan 2017 23:16 UTC
NoDAPL protestors
© Stephen Yang / ReutersNoDAPL protestors
A group of landowners in Morton County, North Dakota, has sued the company responsible for developing the Dakota Access Pipeline, claiming the company deceived them during negotiations for pipeline easements.

The federal lawsuit, filed Wednesday in US District Court, claims agents working as contractors for Dakota Access LLC harassed, threatened and misled residents who owned land that the company wanted in order to build the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). Landowners involved in the lawsuit own 11 separate parcels of land in Morton County, adding up to about nine miles of the pipeline's route, attorney Peter Zuger said, according to Forum News Service.

Some landowners were deceived into believing they were offered the best price for pipeline easements when, in fact, other landowners had been offered much more, the lawsuit says. Agents also told landowners they had 30 days to consider the company's offer before a 20 percent signing bonus would be rescinded.
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Eye 1

Lawmaker faces life in prison for exposing Turkey's arms aid to Syrian jihadis


Press TV
Thu, 12 Jan 2017 23:00 UTC
Ahrar al sham al Qaeda syria rebels
Ahrar (white flag) and Qaeda (black flag) palling around in Syria
A Turkish prosecutor has called for life imprisonment for an opposition lawmaker who is being tried for exposing to a newspaper a video showing weapons shipment to parts of Syria held by foreign-backed terrorists.

In an indictment released on Wednesday, Prosecutor Mehmet Yesilkaya said he sought life term for MP Enis Berberoglu of the opposition Republican People's Party, accusing him of "aiding an armed terrorist organization knowingly and intentionally without being a member."

Yesilkaya further accused the lawmaker of purportedly revealing "confidential information and documents of the state... and undertaking political or military espionage."

Comment: Further reading:

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TV

In bizarre 'takeover', RT broadcasts live on C-SPAN feed for 10 minutes

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Thu, 12 Jan 2017 22:02 UTC
Putin with sunglasses
In a strange "hostile takeover" of state TV broadcasters, not to mention a bizarre moment of startling symmetry with the current state of American politics, C-SPAN, the public affairs network that broadcasts political proceedings the United States House of Representatives and Senate, was interrupted by a live feed of Russian TV channel, RT, formerly known as Russia Today.

The state-funded Russian news network, which was accused by the US intelligence community of spreading "fake news" and directly influencing the US elections, took over the online feed of C-SPAN1, which had been broadcasting a discussion in Congress regarding the Securities and Exchange Commission Regulatory Accountability Act, for about ten minutes at 2:30 pm ET.

As California Democrat Maxine Waters was speaking, the feed suddenly cut from the House floor to a broadcast of RT. The feed cut in with a commercial break before returning to the RT news desk, where an anchor spoke of a suicide bombing. As the IBT noted, multiple C-SPAN watchers (although hardly too many, as C-SPAN's Nielsen Ratings are even lower than those of CNBC) made mention of the sudden change on Twitter, including Deadspin editor Timothy Burke, who captured the moment the C-SPAN feed switched to RT.
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Info

National police survey reveals heightened fears of attack & greater racial tensions


CBS
Thu, 12 Jan 2017 22:02 UTC
police tape
© Thomas Cristofoletti / Getty Images
The Pew Research Center released results from the National Police Research Platform survey of 8,000 police officers and sheriff's deputies.

They were offered questions about attitudes and experiences of their work environment.

"Do we feel we're targeted right now? Yes," said a 12-year veteran of the Dallas Police Department after a question about police safety. The question was posed after the release of the national survey.

In one segment of questioning, 93 percent of polled officers surveyed said they were more concerned about their safety today than in the past.

Comment: Further reading: Blowback: Police homicides and public backlash making many cops reluctant to carry out their duties

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Info

WikiLeaks announces Assange will agree to US extradition in exchange for Manning 'clemency'


RT
Thu, 12 Jan 2017 21:53 UTC
Chelsea Manning and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
© Reuters
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange would leave his Ecuadorian embassy refuge and accept extradition to the US if whistleblower Chelsea Manning was granted clemency, the media organization has suggested.

Former US Army intelligence analyst Manning is currently serving a 35-year sentence at the military base in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas for passing on battlefield reports and diplomatic cables from the US Department of State to WikiLeaks.
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Reporter caught sneaking photos of Rex Tillerson's notes at Senate hearing

Jim Hoft
Gateway Pundit
Wed, 11 Jan 2017 20:32 UTC
Unknown reporter capturing Tillerson's notes
The Liberal Media Becomes More Unhinged by the Day.

A reporter was caught on film sneaking photos of Secretary of State nominee Rex Tillerson's personal notes at his hearing today before the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee today in Washington DC.

The reporter obviously forgot about the cameras running on Tillerson's seat during the break.

Now the entire world knows she's a thief. What an idiot.

The Washington Post says the reporter is not Doris Truong, their homepage editor.
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USA

'Farewell, O Captain my Captain!' Clueless celebrities lament Obama's departure

Melissa Dykes
The Daily Sheeple
Wed, 11 Jan 2017 13:58 UTC
obama medal of honor
"My fellow Americans, it has been the honor of my life to serve you."~ Obama's farewell address
Well. It's really happening. Obama is leaving.

In just a little over a week, he and Michelle and Valerie and the gang will all be headed out of the White House. (Of course, they'll just be jaunting over to the rich neighborhood just a couple of miles away, but hey, at least they'll be out of the actual White House right?)
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Attention

Deputy director of the Syrian Emergency Task Force is on soft prostitution website


GotNews.com
Tue, 10 Jan 2017 20:13 UTC
Evan McCarthy Barrett, the deputy director of the Syrian Emergency Task Force
© FacebookEvan McCarthy Barrett, the deputy director of the Syrian Emergency Task Force
Evan McCarthy Barrett, the deputy director of the Syrian Emergency Task Force— a top organization lobbying for U.S. military intervention in the bloody civil war in Syria — was found on the soft prostitution website Seeking Arrangement.

Seeking Arrangement styles itself as a "sugar daddy dating" website, but is clearly intended to allow young women, particularly college students in debt, to trade sexual favors for money from wealthy men — the very definition of "prostitution."

GotNews obtained screenshots of Barrett's profile on Seeking Arrangement, where he uses the name "Rousseaubly":
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