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Pakistan International Airlines plane crashes, 'bodies burned beyond recognition'


RT
Wed, 07 Dec 2016 19:38 UTC
Pakistan International Airlines (PIA)
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A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane with 48 people on board has crashed en route from Chitral to Islamabad. The flight came down in the village of Saddha Batolini near Havelian, which is around 75km (45 miles) northwest of Islamabad.


In a statement from the airline, PIA confirmed there were 48 people on board the ATR-42 aircraft, including 42 passengers, five crew members and one ground engineer.

"Rescue efforts are underway and we are also ascertaining the extent of damage to life of those on board the aircraft," the airline said. "PIA is doing everything possible to help the families of passengers and crew members for first hand information regarding the incident and damage."


PIA have also said that their "emergency response center has been activated" and "all resources are being mobilized." Troops and army helicopter have been dispatched to the crash site, according to Radio Pakistan.

It's not yet known what caused the crash, with early reports suggesting engine problems. The plane's black box was found later on Wednesday, reported Capital TV, with authorities hoping the data recorded will explain what happened.

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Monumental act of conscience: Vets who came to Standing Rock apologize to Native Americans for U.S. government's acts of genocide (VIDEO)

Jay Syrmopoulos
Free Thought Project
Tue, 06 Dec 2016 00:00 UTC
Vets beg forgiveness
Standing Rock, ND - In an amazing display of humanity and reconciliation, U.S. military veterans that came to Standing Rock as part of "Vets for Standing Rock" movement, led by Wes Clark Jr., stunned tribal members when they gathered and took a knee, and asked for forgiveness for the genocide and war crimes committed by the United States military against Native American tribes.

While the U.S. government has never officially apologized for the genocide it committed upon tribal nations, these courageous veterans accepted responsibility for the actions and asked the tribe for forgiveness.

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Protesters clash with military police in Rio, Brazil


RT
Wed, 07 Dec 2016 18:55 UTC
brazil protest police
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Violent clashes between Brazilian military police and unpaid civil servants erupted in front of the legislative building in Rio de Janeiro, while legislators discussed new budget cuts. Several people from both sides were reportedly injured.

A crowd of some 300 protesters, predominantly civil servants, gathered outside Rio de Janeiro's legislative assembly (ALERJ) on Tuesday, while lawmakers voted on new austerity measures to mend gaping holes in the city's budget.

Protests quickly spiralled out of control, as participants tried to push down a fence surrounding the building and erect makeshift barricades. As a result, military police arrived at the scene.

Police officers fired less lethal weaponry and used tear gas and stun grenades to disperse the crowd, while protesters threw rocks at police. Police officers reportedly entered a nearby church and fired at the crowd from inside. Local church authorities called it an "invasion" and promised to investigate the incident.

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Land of the free - It's now illegal to feed and shelter those in need in America

Michael Snyder
The Economic Collapse Blog
Tue, 06 Dec 2016 18:29 UTC
Homeless
© Department of Veterans Affairs
If you want to be a "Good Samaritan" to the homeless in your community, you might want to check and see if it is legal first. All over the country, cities are passing laws that make it illegal to feed and shelter the homeless. For example, in this article you will read about a church in Maryland that was just fined $12,000 for simply allowing homeless people to sleep outside the church at night.

This backlash against homeless people comes at a time when homelessness in America is absolutely exploding. In a previous article, I shared with my readers the fact that the number of homeless people in New York City has just set a brand new all-time high, and the homelessness crisis in California has become so severe that the L.A. City Council has formally asked Governor Jerry Brown to declare a state of emergency. Sadly, instead of opening up our hearts to the rapidly growing number of Americans without a home, way too many communities are trying to use the law to force them to go somewhere else.

For nearly two thousand years, churches have been at the forefront of helping the poor and disadvantaged, but now many communities are trying to stop this from happening. Earlier today, I was absolutely stunned when I came across an article that talked about how a church in Dundalk, Maryland has been fined $12,000 for allowing the homeless to sleep outside the church at night...
"I showed up Wednesday morning to find a citation on the door that said we're going to be fined $12,000 and have a court date because we have unhoused homeless people sleeping outside the church at night," said Reverend Katie Grover with the Patapsco United Methodist Church.

Grover added that the men and women who sleep outside their doors do so because they have nowhere else to go and because they feel safe there.

"We feel we here as a church that it's scriptural mandate that's it an imperative to care for the least, the last, the lost, the poor, the hungry," she said.
The authorities in Dundalk say that the church is running a "non-permitted rooming and boarding house", and the severity of this fine is likely to put the church in significant financial difficulty if it is forced to pay it. You can watch a local news report discussing this story on YouTube right here...
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Russian govt seeks prison sentences for creators of dangerous hacking software


RT
Wed, 07 Dec 2016 18:17 UTC
Backlit keyboard in the dark
© Silas Stein / DPA / Global Look Press
The Russian government has drafted a bill introducing prison sentences as punishment for those who create software used in targeting critical national infrastructure, even if they have no part in actual attacks.

The bill, published on the government's website on Wednesday proposes to amend the Criminal Code with a new article titled 'Illegal influence upon the critical informational infrastructure of the Russian Federation'. An explanatory note attached with the bill elaborates that it would introduce criminal responsibility for creating any software that is deliberately made for attacks on the national data grid and its critical parts.

When such hacking causes little or no harm culprits can be fined between 500,000 and 1 million rubles (about $7,700 to $15,400) or in the amount of their income for between one and three years' time, ordered to conduct compulsory work for up to five years, or put behind bars for the same term.
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Trans-Pecos Pipeline protesters arrested in early morning incident

John Daniel Garcia
Big Bend Now
Tue, 06 Dec 2016 17:36 UTC
Big Bend protest
© John Daniel GarciaBrewster County Deputies cut a chain around Defend Big Bend Organizer Lori Glover’s neck before her arrest Tuesday morning.
Two Big Bend Defense Coalition protesters were arrested by Brewster County Sheriff's Office deputies in the early hours Tuesday morning on misdemeanor trespass charges for chaining themselves to the gates at the Trans-Pecos Pipeline Pumpco yard in Alpine, barring Pumpco workers from entering the premises.

Big Bend Defense Coalition organizer Lori Glover and 80-year-old retiree and veteran Roger Siglin were taken into custody between 6:30-7am. Brewster County deputies attempted to negotiate with the protestors, both of whom decided to keep their chains on and face arrest.

A third protester, former oil field worker Arah Joe Battista, took his own chains off after hearing of Siglin's arrest and that the gate had been opened to Pumpco trucks.

Arago Battista sits chained against a Pumpco gate. Battista was the only one of three protesters who had chained themselves to the gates to not be arrested at Tuesday's protest.

The protests marks the third major acts of civil disobedience by the group, which splintered from Defend Big Bend, against the pipeline. The first two were protest marches in Alpine and east of Marfa where the pipeline crosses US 67/90.

The group has been escalating their tactics with each passing protest, with the first Alpine protest ending with no incident and the second march outside of Marfa ending with the breach of a fence and a run-in with Presidio County Sheriff's Office deputies, though no arrests were made.

"The best hope for us is to let the public know just how the deck is stacked against us and that the gas industry is allowed to do whatever they want," Siglin told the Marfa Big Bend Sentinel and Presidio International as the chains were still wrapped around his torso. "The public has no say in where the pipelines go as they do public entities like power lines."

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Comment: "With the magic of Facebook and other forms of social media I thought you should hear something from me. I have been fighting the pipeline located on the edge of Alpine for the last two years. Our protests to date have had no influence on the pipeline construction in large part because in Texas, Iowa, and many other states the oil and gas industry owns most politicians. Although most of my local friends concentrate their anger on the pipeline in their backyard I use every opportunity I can to mention that our crazy national policy is to exhaust our oil and gas resources as quickly as possible.

The reasons our country is doing this is because of the immediate profits to be made and the widespread belief that renewable, non-polluting energy will solve all of our problems. My point is that we need to use our energy resources as slowly and efficiently as possible for the benefit of future generations.

I ended up being one of three people volunteering to be arrested and did so because I am old, retired, and in general have less to lose than most of my friends. In doing so I got the chance to talk to many reporters which was the primary reason to conduct the protest. Whether the publicity we and others like those in other states generate will change anything remains to be seen but without it nothing will change.

I have been surprised and pleased by the reaction of many of my friends most of whom wholeheartedly support my actions. I anticipate a court date early next year and hopefully a small fine. My time in jail was very short and our actions were even supported by the police and we were well treated."

Roger Siglin


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Whitewash: IOC extends anti-Russian sanctions over alleged doping "until further notice"


Sputnik
Wed, 07 Dec 2016 16:49 UTC
ioc headquarters lausanne
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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has decided to extend the restrictions imposed on Russia "until further notice," the IOC's press service said in a statement on Wednesday.

"The IOC Executive Board has further decided to extend the provisional measures taken on 19 July 2016 against Russia until further notice," the statement said.

On July 19, the IOC's executive board asked all International Olympic Winter Sports Federations to freeze preparations for major sporting events in Russia and look for alternative organizers. The decision was made against the backdrop of the report made by Canadian law professor Richard McLaren, which accused Russia of having run a state-sponsored doping program.

Comment: It's worth noting that former WADA vice president Arne Ljungqvis admitted in a documentary aired in Russia that well-known athletes "legally" used banned substances after receiving permission for their use to treat Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). One athlete involved in that treatment, Danish cyclist Michael Rasmussen, admitted to doping from 1998-2001. He revealed that in many instances where diagnoses are made that give athletes permission to take banned substances, the doctors' decisions are bogus:
"I didn't have any injuries or illnesses that could warrant a TUE, but I don't think I am the only one who doped, otherwise I would have always been first. Everything is done quite easily: you write to them saying you have an injury, what medication you need, including a seal of approval by the doctor of the diagnosis, which is forged. In five minutes you can get permission to use banned substances," he said, TASS reported.

"They let me know about TUEs the moment I signed a contract with a top team. We all planned in advance, the doctor said, when we needed to take the substance glucocorticosteroid when you succumbed to fatigue, I could lose weight, but nevertheless not feel weakness in my muscles or any weariness," he added.
It should be clear now to anyone with two firing neurons that doping is a widespread behavior. The IOC is completely bought and paid for by Western governments, a tool of the elites to demonize Russia:

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Swedish prosecutors charge 5 teenage refugees with beating, gang-raping Afghan boy for over an hour


RT
Wed, 07 Dec 2016 16:54 UTC
Refugees walk to camp winter Sweden
© Ints Kalnins / Reuters FILE PHOTO: Refugees walk to their camp at a hotel touted as the world's most northerly ski resort in Riksgransen, Sweden
Five asylum seekers, who arrived in Sweden as unaccompanied minors, have been charged with anally raping a young Afghan male teen at gunpoint in a premeditated assault in Uppsala, a city outside Stockholm.

Swedish state prosecutor John Stromback told AP and local media outlets that two of the alleged perpetrators, who are all aged 16 or 17, were "annoyed with the victim," who they knew socially. Four of the defendants are Afghans, while a fifth has requested a Farsi interpreter for legal proceedings.

On one evening in October, the gang surrounded and began hitting the victim, who was younger than 15 years of age, in the head and body, before putting a gun to his mouth and dragging him off to a nearby woodland.

The group spat on and taunted the victim, as each took turns anally raping the boy, with the described ordeal lasting "for more than an hour."

As the assailants took turns, the onlookers filmed the anal penetration, threatening to post the video on social media, if he complained to the police.
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Chairman of Standing Rock Sioux tribe asks protesters to go home, but many are determined to stay until pipeline project is dead


RT
Wed, 07 Dec 2016 02:21 UTC
Standing Rock DAPL protest winter camp
© Stephanie Keith / Reuters People line up in their cars as they leave Oceti Sakowin camp as "water protectors" continue to demonstrate against plans to pass the Dakota Access pipeline near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, near Cannon Ball, North Dakota, U.S. December 6, 2016
Following the Army Corps of Engineers' decision to pause construction of the Dakotas Access Pipeline, the Standing Rock Sioux chairman is telling demonstrators to go home. But protesters are prepared to weather the winter and have no intention of leaving.

As North Dakota's harsh winter approaches the camps at Standing Rock, chairman Dave Archambault II told the remaining "water protectors" in a video that "it's time to go home."


Comment: Is Archambault really that naive? See: Energy Transfer Partners and Sunoco Logistics Partners respond to statement from Department of the Army: "Committed to finish and not reroute Dakota Access Pipeline"

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Apple iPhone supplier Foxconn plans expansion in U.S.

Eva Dou
Wall Street Journal
Wed, 07 Dec 2016 15:28 UTC
Foxconn has been investing in diverse high-tech sectors. Shown, the production line at a Foxconn demonstration plant.
© Getty ImagesFoxconn has been investing in diverse high-tech sectors. Shown, the production line at a Foxconn demonstration plant.
Foxconn Technology Group, which manufactures Apple Inc.'s iPhone and other products, said it is in talks to expand in the U.S. The statement comes amid President-elect Donald Trump's push for a return of manufacturing to the U.S.

Foxconn said the size and scope of its potential U.S. investment hasn't been determined.
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