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Two explosions reported at Istanbul's Ataturk airport, 28 killed, more than 60 wounded


RT
Tue, 28 Jun 2016 20:03 UTC
Ataturk airport
© Murad Sezer/ReutersFILE: Ataturk airport in Istanbul, Turkey. Israeli media are claiming that Turkish authorities informed the Foreign Ministry that the plane would be permitted to refuel, but this did not happen.
At least 28 people have been killed and 60 more injured in two blasts that rocked Istanbul's Ataturk airport, according to Turkish officials. The explosions were reportedly suicide bomb attacks.

The blasts occurred in the airport's International Arrivals Terminal. A Turkish official confirmed to Reuters that two explosions have hit the airport. According to some Turkish media, the blasts were terrorist attacks targeting two separate locations in the airport.

Twenty-eight people have lost their lives in the blasts that hit the airport, Istanbul Governor Vasip Sahin said, Turkey's NTV channel reported. More than 60 people have been injured, six of them seriously, in explosions at Ataturk Airport in Istanbul, according to the Turkish state Anadolu news agency.

Many people caught in the blasts and near the airport posted photos and videos from the scene, showing the destruction caused by the explosions as well as people hiding in various places in search of safety.

Gunfire was heard from the car park near the airport, CNN Turk reports, citing the witnesses. Four armed men were reportedly seen running away from the terminal building after the explosions, according to Turkey's NTV channel.


Comment: Interesting timing of this alleged terror attack. Footage of one of the explosions was caught on CCTV:

Witnesses have reportedly told NBC that they saw 3 attacks, one of whom was wrestled to the floor before his explosives were detonated.

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Alarm Clock

The uncomfortable but undeniable truth: Global inequality is robbing millions of children of 'what it is to be a child'

Deirdre Fulton
Common Dreams
Tue, 28 Jun 2016 18:14 UTC
child poverty
© UNICEFLunchtime at Kotingli Basic School, Northern Region, Ghana.
'Before they draw their first breath, the life chances of poor and excluded children are often being shaped by inequities,' says UNICEF

Global inequality—"a vicious cycle of disadvantage"—threatens the lives and futures of tens of millions of children around the world, according to a new report from UNICEF.

The annual State of the World's Children report, released Tuesday, warns that unless serious steps are taken to narrow the gap between the rich and poor, 69 million children under five will die from mostly preventable causes, 167 million children will live in poverty, and 750 million women will have been married as children by 2030.

Comment: More uncomfortable and undeniable truths about the suffering of children around the world:
  • Courtesy of the West: UNICEF reports 87 million children under 7 have spent entire lives in conflict
An alarming 87 million children around the world have reached the age of 7 without a day of peace in their lives. Life in conflict zones has serious implications for mental health and brain development, traumatizing the children from infancy, UNICEF said in a report.

UNICEF statistics also reveal that one in 11 children before the age of six spend their most critical developmental period under the specter of constant violence.
UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and Africa, Peter Salama, states: "The scale of the crisis for children is growing all the time, which is why there are now such fears that Syria is losing a whole generation of its youth".

There are around four million Syrian children aged between five and seventeen years who need education assistance, among these being 2.1 million children inside Syria who cannot attend school because of the destabilization caused by gangs of terrorists aided, funded and abetted from outside the country and a further 700,000 children living as refugees in Iraq, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey.


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Handcuffs

'It was absolutely consensual': Depraved cop assaults teen girl in police cadet program

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Tue, 28 Jun 2016 17:38 UTC
Chief John LaRoche
Former Canterbury Police Chief John Laroche
Police sexual misconduct is so common that more than 1,000 officers have had their licenses revoked in just the last six years for it — nearly half of them involve underage victims.

The Law Enforcement Exploring program offers children and young adults, ages 14-21, who are interested in pursuing a job in law enforcement, 'practical experiences and other activities.' All too often, however, these practical experiences turn into nightmares for the teenagers involved in the program.

The trial for one of these nightmares is taking place this week inside a Concord, New Hampshire court. Former Canterbury Police Chief John Laroche is charged with sexually assaulting a former member of the Boscawen Police Explorers. His alleged victim was a 16-year-old girl.
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Nuke

Obvious pollution coming from Indian Point nuclear plant

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Tue, 28 Jun 2016 17:08 UTC
indian point leak
US Coast Gaurd officials have cordoned off a portion of Lake Ontario this week, after aerial spotters found a visible "sheen" that is coming from a nuclear power plant in upstate New York.

The Coast Guard Auxiliary aircrew first noticed the sheen on Sunday. Shortly after, a boat crew from the Oswego station tested the sheen and a "temporary safety zone" was put in place.

The Free Thought Project spoke to the Coast Guard Sector Buffalo Command Center on Tuesday and confirmed that the zone was still closed off, and there is no information as to when it will reopen.

The oil sheen is said to be coming from the vent for the hydrogen seal system of the Fitzpatrick plant is in Scriba, New York, approximately 10 miles northeast of Oswego.

Comment: More on the Indian Point disaster:

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Mars

Always wanted to work on Mars? Here's your chance

righteous
We Are Anonymous
Mon, 27 Jun 2016 16:44 UTC
NASA recruitment
The word is out and people are already talking about the new NASA program designed to recruit people to move to Mars and build a new society. According to reports, NASA is looking for "farmers, teachers, technicians, surveyors and explorers". Anyone handy enough, healthy enough and physically capable enough to participate in building a sustainable habitat for humans of the future. It should be noted that none of the experiments are set to launch until after 2030.

Despite the fact that humanity has not even been back to the moon since 1969, scientists have been planning theoretical trips to Mars like this for decades. Remember that time Newt Gingrich said if he was elected President in 2012 "that there would be a space colony on the moon by 2020"? Didn't work out so well for good ole Newt, but it looks like his pioneer spirit didn't die.

Mad scientists, I mean geniuses like Elon Musk, who just happens to want to drop thermo-nuclear bombs on the ice caps of Mars to stimulate water flow therefor life, warns that inevitably the first trips to Mars will most likely result in large causalities. I do not think it takes a true genius to understand why.
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USA

Texit: Nationalist group wants Texas to break away from the US

Amando Flavio
We Are Anonymous
Mon, 27 Jun 2016 16:34 UTC
united states of texas
Britain has voted to exit the European Union. This has been abbreviated simply as Brexit. Since the vote, many things have happened. The pound is falling against the dollar. There have been reports of some businesses wanting to move from the country. The stock market has been affected. The country seems to be in a state of confusion. Currently, some people are backing an online petition for a second vote.

But as the chaos is going on in Britain; in the United States, some citizens of a particular state in the country are determined to also test the waters in order to break away just like Britain has done.

In the state of Texas, the pro-secessionist movement, known as the Texas Nationalist Movement (TNM), has asked state governor Greg Abbott to answer an appeal. The appeal will ensure that the state goes to the ballot box in 2018, to determine whether to break away from the rest of the United States, or not.
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Snakes in Suits

Selective empathy: Stanford rape judge hands down far harsher sentence to immigrant for similar offense


RT
Tue, 28 Jun 2016 02:27 UTC
protests stanford rape judge, aaron perskey protests
© Stephen Lam / Reuters Activists hold signs calling for the removal of Judge Aaron Persky from the bench after his controversial sentencing in the Stanford rape case, in San Francisco, California, U.S. June 10, 2016.
The California judge who sentenced Brock Turner to just six months' jail time for sexual assault is about to hand down a far harsher sentence of three years to an El Salvadorian immigrant for a similar offense.

The case involves Raul Ramirez, who pleaded guilty in March to felony sexual penetration by force when he penetrated his female roommate with his fingers for five to 10 minutes in November 2014, only stopping when the woman broke down crying.

Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky is about to hand down a three-year prison sentence to Ramirez, according to documents obtained by The Guardian.

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Fire

Stephen Hawking: Greed, stupidity, AI, world population - all rising out of control


RT
Mon, 27 Jun 2016 23:40 UTC
Larry King Stephen Hawking
© www.youtube.comInterview with Stephen Hawking on Larry King NOW
Global warming, mass shootings, global instability and overpopulation are all concerns humanity faces, but what is the greatest risk to all of us? Larry King asked scientific genius Stephen Hawking, who explained that there is a lot to be worried about.

King last spoke to Hawking six years ago, when Hawking said: "Mankind is in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity." On Monday, King checked in with him to see what has changed in the past six years."We have certainly not become less greedy or less stupid," Hawking replied.

Hawking gave a quick recap of what the world looks like in 2016, saying: "Six years ago, I was warning about pollution and overcrowding, they have gotten worse since then. The population has grown by half a billion since our last interview, with no end in sight. At this rate, it will be eleven billion by 2100. Air pollution has increased by 8 percent over the past five years. More than 80 percent of inhabitants of urban areas are exposed to unsafe levels of air pollution," he said.


Comment: No one has the big picture, just points of observation. On these topics, Hawking offers a perspective not necessarily more or less informed.

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Extinguisher

Mississippi gas plant explodes, vibrations from blast felt up to 10 miles away


RT
Tue, 28 Jun 2016 06:18 UTC
explosion amoco gas plant mississippi
© Briauna Brown / Facebook
An explosion has occurred at the Amoco BP Gas Plant in Jackson County, Mississippi, local News5 channel reports. Witnesses say the blast occurred around 11:40 pm local time and reported a large plume of fire rising from the area around the plant.

There have been no reports of casualties so far. The blaze has since been brought under control. Police say that an evacuation has not been ordered.

Fire crews reported feeling vibrations from the strong blast as far away as 10 miles from their base.
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Airplane

Singapore Airlines plane catches fire after emergency landing

Clara Lindh
CNN
Mon, 27 Jun 2016 00:00 UTC
A Singapore Airlines plane burst into flames Monday after an emergency landing at the city-state's Changi Airport.


Images posted to social media show flames leaping from the plane's wing."We were so close to death!! I am still in the plane with all passengers. But I think we are safe for now..." passenger Lee Bee Yee posted on Facebook.From her seat, Yee could see the fire from inside the plane, and the aftermath as firefighters doused it with foam.
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