The driver of the car, a VW Polo, died in the accident.
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The driver of the car, a VW Polo, died in the accident.
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The satellite data - which compares Syria's night landscape in 2011 to that of 2014, from 800 kilometers above earth - reflects a grim picture of the situation on the ground in Syria, according to researchers from China's Wuhan University.
"These satellite images help us understand the suffering and fear experienced by ordinary Syrians as their country is destroyed around them," the lead researcher on the project, Dr. Xi Li, said in a statement.
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Police officers armed and relishing the idea of combat during a protest outside the Ferguson Police Department on March 11th, 2015.
Police officers armed and relishing the idea of combat during a protest outside the Ferguson Police Department on March 11th, 2015.
Comment: When the police are killed it's an 'ambush', but what would you call killing a 7 year-old while she slept?
The shootings were a chilling low point in the nonstop protests in the city since a Ferguson police officer shot and killed 18-year-old Michael Brown in August. The demonstrators were out again late Wednesday -- in response to the announcement hours earlier of Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson's resignation -- when shots rang out from a hill about 125 yards from where the protesters had gathered, according to witnesses.
Comment: Seems as if the author's are trying to blame the protesters, does it not?
St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar said the shootings were an ambush intended "for whatever nefarious reason" to inflict harm on the officers. The officers -- one shot in the face, the other in the shoulder -- have been released from the hospital.
Comment: That's how you paint a whole group of people as 'bad guys'. Suddenly, peaceful protesters are associated with violent whackjobs and anyone who isn't paying close attention, or only gets their news from mainstream sources, thinks the protesters are to blame.
A police officer keeps watch over protesters, armed with a sniper rifle. It'd be interesting to know what kind of rifle was responsible for shooting those officers.
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Firefighters extinguish a fire at a shopping mall in Kazan, 720 kilometers (450 miles) east of Moscow, Russia
Officials said on Thursday that the toll of missing at the Admiral centre is based on reports from relatives and workers in the shopping center, 450 miles east of Moscow.
Forty people were injured in the blaze.
The cause of the fire that began Wednesday has not been determined
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Azov battalion soldiers take an oath of allegiance to Ukraine in Kiev's Sophia Square before being sent to the Donbass region
Azov battalion soldiers take an oath of allegiance to Ukraine in Kiev's Sophia Square before being sent to the Donbass region
Comment: "It's all right, guys, seriously. No more than 20% are Nazis! What's the big deal?"
USA Today visited the Azov Battalion stationed in the southern Ukrainian city of Mariupol and spoke to a number of servicemen of the unit, which is sponsored by Ukrainian oligarch Igor Kolomoysky.
Comment: What the heck is a Jewish businessman doing sponsoring Nazis? Maybe someone should let him know...
A drill sergeant who identified himself as Alex told the newspaper that he supports Nazi-style strong leadership for Ukraine but does not share Nazis' genocide agenda against Jews, as long as minorities "don't demand special privileges."
Alex insisted that once the war is over, he and others from the Azov Battalion will go back to Kiev to oust the corrupt government and nationalize the property of wealthy oligarchs.
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"The threat of terrorist attack against our country remains high. The head of state has decided to maintain the level of the army on the national territory at 10,000 troops in support of security forces from the Interior Ministry," Hollande's office said in a statement after a meeting of senior ministers, AFP reported.
Comment: How exactly do they determine these terrorist threat levels? Examining dead chicken livers? Examining the flight pattern of pigeons? Or is it high just because they say it's high?
A total of 7,000 troops will be monitoring and protecting religious buildings that are "particularly threatened," the statement added.
Among other sites that are being patrolled by the troops are stations, media buildings and various other possible targets for terrorists.
The move comes almost two months after deadly attacks on the Charlie Hebdo magazine's headquarters and a kosher shop in Paris left 17 people dead.
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It is my contention that the official "unemployment rate" has become so politicized and so manipulated that it is essentially meaningless at this point. The following are 10 reasons why...
#1 Since February 2008, the size of the U.S. population has grown by 16.8 million people, but the number of full-time jobs has actually decreased by 140,000.
#2 The percentage of working age Americans that have a job right now is still about the same as it was during the depths of the last recession. Posted below is a chart that shows how the employment-population ratio has changed since the beginning of the decade. Does this look like a full-blown "employment recovery" to you?...
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Heather Hironimus
Heather Hironimus
A judge signed an arrest warrant for Heather Hironimus after she failed to turn over the boy Tuesday and appear in court.
"I will allow her to avoid incarceration or get out of jail if she signs the consent to the procedure," said Palm Beach County Circuit Judge Jeffrey Dana Gillen.
Hironimus' attorney said her son is "terrified" to undergo the procedure, and she and the boy checked into a domestic violence shelter on Feb. 23 after her ex-husband won a court battle to have their son circumcised.
Dennis Nebus is not Jewish, but he testified that circumcision is "just the normal thing to do."
He decided two years ago the boy should be circumcised after he noticed he was urinating on his leg due to a condition that prevents retraction of the foreskin, which Hironimus disputes.
Nebus claims his ex-wife had filled their son with fear about circumcision, which the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends and a judge found was "very, very safe."
"My son has mentioned things to me that he's scared to have his penis cut off," Nebus testified.
Comment: It's stunning the lengths that parents have to go to in our society to protect their children from what is a traumatic, unnecessary mutilation.
More on the story here: Mom faces prison sentence for blocking son's circumcision
See also: Circumcision - Conditioning the Adult by Torturing the Child
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Jacqui Myers says another mother with a child at Winter Park's Brookshire Elementary School called her after she arrived at the school to opt her fifth-grade daughter out of standardized testing related to the Common Core national standards initiative.
"They're not giving me my child, can you help?" the mother told Myers.
Myers, the mother of a first grader, is active in a group working to opt children out of state tests and was at the school counseling parents.
She called 911 to report that the school wouldn't release the child.
The school told the mother they did not want to release the child because she was in the middle of testing. But when police arrived, the school relented and turned her over.
Myers tells the Orlando Sentinel that emails from school administrators stated that "releasing students during testing would be disruptive and not be allowed."
But after the incident, a school spokesman denied such a policy existed.
"We do not hold children if parents come to pick them up," Shari Bobinski says, according to the paper.
Comment: Sometimes mothers do know best:
Comment: Such a terrible and tragic display of what humans can do to other humans.