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Australian family loses family in both Malaysian Airlines disasters


RT
Fri, 18 Jul 2014 11:45 UTC
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© Reuters / Maxim Zmeyev
Wreckage from the nose section of a Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777 plane which was downed on Thursday is seen near the village of Rozsypne, in the Donetsk region July 18, 2014.
An Australian family, who lost their son and daughter-in-law in the disappearance of Malaysian flight MH370, has suffered another stroke of fate, with their loved ones being aboard the Malaysian jet shot down over Ukraine.

Irene and George Burrows' son Rodney and his wife Mary vanished together with Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 this March, leaving their family in grief.

But just a few months later, the couple from Biloela in Queensland State took another blow, with their step-granddaughter, Maree Rizk, and her husband Albert being among the passengers of the crashed MH17 flight.

"It's just brought everyone, everything back," Rodney's brother Greg Burrows told AP. "It's just ... ripped our guts again."

Despite the double tragedy, Burrows stressed that he holds no grudges against the Malaysia Airlines. "Nobody could predict they were going to get shot down," he said. "That was out of their hands."

Comment: It is doubly odd that the disappearance of MH370 happened right as the situation in Ukraine was escalating, and now MH17 is shot down over Ukraine. What is the universe saying?

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Florida dad catches pedophile abusing his son and beats him black and blue

Patricio G. Balona
Daytona Beach News Journal
Fri, 18 Jul 2014 11:03 UTC
Raymond Frolander
© Volusia County Corrections
Pedophile Perp: Raymond Frolander
A Daytona Beach father who walked in on a man sexually battering his 11-year-old son Friday said he did what he had a right to do when he beat the suspect unconscious, leaving him in a puddle of blood, according to a 9-1-1 call.

"I just walked in on a grown man molesting ...," the upset father told a dispatcher. "And I got him in a bloody puddle for you officer."

The father was acting like a dad, said Daytona Beach police Chief Mike Chitwood.

Comment: It's so unfortunate that this was going on for years and even close family friends can't be trusted. Kudos, Dad, for standing up for your son in the end.

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Malaysia Airlines offers refunds on all tickets for flights this year

Kabir Chibber
Quartz
Sat, 19 Jul 2014 09:04 UTC
Malaysian airlines
© Reuters/Athit Perawongmetha
Would you ever get on a Malaysia Airlines plane again?
Following the destruction of Malaysia Airlines flight 17, which is believed to have been blown out of the sky over eastern Ukraine, shares in the airline's stock closed down 11% at the end of Friday. The airline has now said that it will offer anyone with a ticket to fly this year a refund - regardless of when it was purchased - if they call before July 24. A kind gesture for their customers, but perhaps not so good for the bottom line. Over the past five years, the airline has lost 92% of its value.

This is the second tragedy to befall the airline in the same year. In March, flight 370 went missing - and has yet to be found, with the biggest toll on the families of the victims. One family from the tiny town of Biloela, Australia, the Burrows, lost close relatives on both flights.
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Hundreds of demonstrators flood streets of Detroit over water shutdown


RT
Sat, 19 Jul 2014 11:26 UTC
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© Reuters/Rebecca Cook
People hold a banner against the mass water shut-offs to Detroit citizens behind in their payments, during a protest in downtown Detroit, Michigan July 18, 2014.
Hundreds of demonstrators paraded through Detroit, protesting the city's decision to terminate water supplies to thousands of residents with delinquent accounts.

"Fight, fight; water is a human right," the protesters chanted as they marched the city on Friday. Media estimated their number at 300-1,000 people.

The protest was organized by the group National Nurses United, which says the termination of water supplies, in the middle of summer, could turn into a public health emergency. The group's co-president, Jean Ross, called the shutoffs an "attack on the basic human right of access to safe, clean water."

"What's happening here is inhumane," Ross told WWJ news radio. "We know that you need water to sustain yourself and no one, no one should shut off the water to the people."
Detroit Must Stop Shutting Off Water To People Who Cannot Afford To Pay http://t.co/VpJP2EXKeShttp://t.co/zz66i9B0mH#DetroitWater
- AmnestyInternational (@amnesty) July 18, 2014
Between March and June, the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department suspended service to 15,200 customers, Greg Eno, a department spokesman, told the New York Times. About another 92,000 customers, who are at least 60 days late on their utility bill or more than $150 behind remain at risk of losing water supplies.
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Several thousand people attend Pro-Palestinian rally in New Zealand


RT
Sat, 19 Jul 2014 14:26 UTC
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© Photo posted by Rashed Al Shaya on Facebook.com
Several thousand people are estimated to have marched through central Auckland to protest the Israeli ground invasion of Gaza, which, along with previous airstrikes, have resulted in over 300 deaths in under two weeks' time.

Marchers with umbrellas, placards and Palestinian flags in hand took to the heart of New Zealand's most populous city to show solidarity with the people of Gaza on Saturday. Estimates range between several hundred and several thousand attendees, though footage posted by OccupyNZ indicates the latter figure is likely more accurate.
Big turnout for Free Gaza protest in central Auckland pic.twitter.com/EVKZypFXUk
- Katie Bradford (@katieabradford) July 19, 2014
Chants of "Free, free Palestine!" and "One, two three, four, we don't want your bloody war!" rang out through the streets as a large black and white banner with the phrase 'Free Palestine' headed up the procession down Queens Street.

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Fascist France become first country in world to ban pro-Palestine demonstrations

Peter Allen
Daily Mail, UK
Fri, 18 Jul 2014 07:52 UTC
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Pro-Palestinian demonstrators take to the streets of Paris on Sunday. France's socialist government has sparked uproar after it banned protests against Israeli action in Palestine


* Move follows violence at protests in Paris last weekend

* Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said there was a 'threat to public order'

* Thousands across France were set to march again this weekend

* Anyone who breaks the ban faces a year in prison and a 15,000 euro fine.

* If they hide their faces the sentence can be increased to three years jail, and a 45,000 euro fine

France's Socialist government provoked outrage today by becoming the first in the world to ban protests against Israeli action in Palestine.

In what is viewed as an outrageous attack on democracy, Socialist Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said mass demonstrations planned for the weekend should be halted.

Mr Cazeneuve said there was a 'threat to public order', while opponents said he was 'criminalising' popular support of the Palestinian people.

Thousands were set to march against the ongoing slaughter in Gaza, calling for an immediate end to hostilities in which civilians including many children have been killed.
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Israel bombs el-Wafa hospital to rubble as staff evacuates all patients

Allison Deger
Mondoweis
Thu, 17 Jul 2014 20:57 UTC
gaza hospital bombed

el Wafa Hospital, struck by missile on July 11
The Israeli military has destroyed el-Wafa rehabilitation hospital in the Gaza Strip, after first targeting the facility with five missiles on July 11, 2014. The Israeli military began striking the building around 8:00 pm this evening [July 17] and within two hours all hospital staff and patients had evacuated the only rehabilitation center in the Gaza Strip. As they departed what remained intact from the medical center burned to the ground.

"It's already destroyed," said Basman Alashi, director of el-Wafa, continuing, "I don't know how much is left of it, but we have evacuated all of our patients. We lost power, there was a fire in the building."

Alashi spoke to me via telephone from his house in Gaza, unable to cross the Israeli shelling to reach the hospital. "I left the hospital at seven and within two hours they had bombed the hospital." Shells hit every floor of the building, and a fire spread throughout.

After the Israeli army began striking the hospital, Alashi and el-Wafa's 25 nurses made desperate arrangements to relocate the last 17 patients. Many of those in el-Wafa's care are paralyzed and are connected to oxygen support. Some of the nurses left the building to seek help, braving Israeli fire on the streets in order to track down an ambulance with an oxygen tank.

Comment: But only the 'terrorists' are targets right?

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Newspaper

Fire contained at Canada Green Giant vegetable plant

Eric Lam
Bloomberg.com
Fri, 18 Jul 2014 19:04 UTC
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© Katia Augustin/CBC News
A fire that ripped through a Bonduelle S.C.A. (BON) food-processing plant in southern Ontario containing thousands of pounds of ammonia has been contained and an evacuation order lifted, a town official said.

"The fire is active but under control," Tony Haddad, chief administration officer for Tecumseh, a town of about 25,000 people 21 kilometers (13 miles) east of Detroit, said by phone. "Things are looking better."
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Piggy Bank

Continuing rot in the US economy

Eric Sprott
Sprott Asset Management
Fri, 18 Jul 2014 00:00 UTC
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Eric Sprott
While most have been conveniently blaming the tepid first quarter -2.9% GDP growth figure on the weather, we believe that it is just another symptom of a much deeper malaise. As we have argued many times before (see, for example, the March 2014 Markets at a Glance), the U.S. economy has been on life support, graciously provided by Central Planners. However hard they try, they will soon realize that no amount of money printing can cleanse the rot of the U.S. economy.

Most tellingly, in a recent interview with Reuters, Bill Simon, Wal-Mart's Chief Executive Officer for the U.S., said that "We've reached a point where it's not getting any better but it's not getting any worse - at least for the middle (class) and down."1

Comment: Smoke & mirrors and the lies of the media presstitutes can only work for so long ...

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Family

Father of six dies after New York police place him in chokehold for selling untaxed cigarettes

Tom Boggioni
Rawstory.com
Fri, 18 Jul 2014 20:01 UTC
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© RawStory
A Staten Island man died Thursday after police placed him in a chokehold as they attempted to arrest him for selling untaxed cigarettes.

According to authorities, Eric Garner, 43, went into cardiac arrest and died at Richmond University Medical Center following the arrest that was filmed by several witnesses, the New York Daily News reported.

In the video, Garner can be seen telling police that he had not been selling cigarettes, repeatedly saying, " I didn't sell anything," before insisting, "I'm minding my own business, please leave me alone."

After a standoff, five officers tackled the 400-pound Garner - with one placing him in a chokehold - and wrestled him to the ground as they attempted to put handcuffs on him.

As Garner lay on the ground, with one officer pushing his head into the pavement, he can be heard saying, "I can't breath. I can't breath," over and over.

As the video ends, Garner appears to be unconscious as police clear onlookers while waiting awaiting paramedics.

Comment: See also:
  • NYPD Twitter campaign backfires, flooded with photos of police abuse
  • US is the Worst Police State in the World - By the Numbers

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