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Armed man with knife attacks passengers on Swiss train, injuries reported


Sputnik
Sat, 13 Aug 2016 16:53 UTC
Swiss police at train platform
© AP Photo/ Keystone, Dominic Favre
According to AFP, an armed man has attacked Swiss train passengers, injuring at least seven people.

At least seven passengers were injured on a train in Switzerland after a man attacked them with a knife, AFP reports citing police sources.

A man reportedly set a train carriage on fire and then stabbed several passengers, police say. Swiss media report that a six year old child might be among those injured during the attack.

Comment: Update, with more details from RT:
The attack happened at 2:20 p.m. local time as the train was traveling between the towns of Buchs and Sennwald, located in northeast Switzerland. According to Radio FM1, the perpetrator spilled the flammable liquid on a female passenger and then set it on fire.

"Apart from a large presence of St. Gallen canton police, fire brigades, three helicopters and two emergency doctors," have been dispatched to the site of the attack, police said.

Authorities have opened a criminal investigation into the case and are looking into possible motives for the attack.

"We do not know where the man entered the train and whether he knew some of the passengers," Krüsi said. Law enforcers were not able to talk to the train driver in the immediate aftermath of the assault since the person "was in shock and could not provide any details."

"A crime of passion" is one of the possibilities the Swiss police is currently investigating, Reuters reports. The outlet adds that, according to the police spokesperson, "a terrorism background still seems very, very far-fetched."


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Bend the bars: US inmates organizing nationwide strike in protest of prison slavery

Derrick Broze
Activist Post
Sat, 13 Aug 2016 16:20 UTC
prison cell black fist
As prisoners prepare for a nationwide prison strike, activists and supporters are descending on Columbus, Ohio for the Bend The Bars conference.

On September 9, prisoners across the United States will participate in coordinated work stoppage and hunger strikes in an attempt to what they view as prison slavery. The nationwide action is the result of years of frustration and organizing by prisoners and their support networks outside of the prison bars.
To every prisoner in every state and federal institution across this land, we call on you to stop being a slave, to let the crops rot in the plantation fields, to go on strike and cease reproducing the institutions of your confinement.

This is a call for a nationwide prisoner work stoppage to end prison slavery, starting on Sept. 9, 2016. They cannot run these facilities without us.

Comment: The prisoners certainly have legitimate grievances. A non-violent, organized protest may lead to some reforms on the inside but it seems that the entire (in)justice system is so broken and corrupt only a complete overhaul will bring any lasting change.

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Texas woman issued a warrant for selling homemade tamales to her neighbors

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Sat, 13 Aug 2016 16:06 UTC
tamales
In modern day police state, USA, exchanging goods and services is a crime unless the state gets their cut. So, even though a Carrollton mother was "stunned" to find a warrant issued for her arrest for selling tamales to her neighbors — it was to be expected.

This week, Dennise Cruz was shocked to receive a yellow postcard from the City of Carrollton stating that if she doesn't immediately submit to their extortion demands, then she would be kidnapped and locked in a cage.

"That has to be wrong. I don't have any tickets under my name. That's just my first reaction. Never would have I thought, tamales," said Cruz in an interview with CBS DFW. "To know that somebody can be arrested over that, that to me is unbelievable.".

The yellow ticket was a "warrant arrest notice" stemming from Cruz' illegal activity a few months prior. Cruz, obviously a hardened criminal worthy of police action, decided to make her famous tamales and post them on the app Nextdoor for sale. Her neighbors loved them.
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Mississippi removes children from home for 'doing too much homework' and because '8-year-old knows how to use microwave'


RT
Sat, 13 Aug 2016 15:42 UTC
child homework
© Reuters
A Mississippi couple lost custody of their five children for making them do "excessive" homework and having too short "punishment" haircuts, among other unproven accusations. It took them months of legal battles with the state to get their children back. Details of this social services horror story would have stayed inside the family of Jennifer and Scott Berry, had it not been uncovered by the Biloxi-based Sun Herald.

Over two years after winning a case against Mississippi Department of Human Services, the couple and their children are still struggling to get back to life as usual. "All I could do was replay their leaving in my mind and see their crying faces and hear their voices, confused and afraid," Jennifer Berry said. The Berrys' five children - one mutual son and four kids from their previous relationships - were taken away and split up between foster families in March of 2014, for what the state officials called was "isolation or mental maltreatment".

The DHS started making visits to the Berrys after receiving an anonymous report. Social workers said they had to investigate it to prove that children were not victims of child abuse or neglect. "They never actually said what the actual accusation was," Scott Berry told the newspaper. The Berrys later learned that someone complained that the family had no food at home and made their minor children cook their own meals.

Having conducted a thorough search of the house, the DHS workers interviewed children one by one - all of whom are minors - behind closed doors, without parents' consent and supervision. Though the DHS had given the family positive recommendations in an adoption case just months prior, following that visit, the agency was now ordering the Berrys to hand over their six-year old daughter to a relative.

Comment: The average family has little to no recourse against the "isolation or mental maltreatment" done by the state to children like these. These abusive tactics have become all too common and states' child welfare officials are rarely, if ever, held accountable.

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Guccifer 2.0 hacks again: Releases Democrat passwords, phone numbers, claims responsibility for previous hacks


RT
Sat, 13 Aug 2016 15:09 UTC
democrats
© Mike Segar / ReutersDemon-crats unite!
The hacker calling himself 'Guccifer 2.0' says he broke into the computers of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, making public their password lists, cell phone numbers, and many campaign documents.

"As you see the U.S. presidential elections are becoming a farce, a big political performance where the voters are far from playing the leading role. Everything is being settled behind the scenes as it was with Bernie Sanders," the hacker wrote on his blog. "I wonder what happened to the true democracy, to the equal opportunities, the things we love the United States for."

"The [mainstream media] are producing tons of propaganda hiding the real stuff behind it. But I do believe that people have right to know what's going on inside the election process in fact," the hacker wrote. "To make a long story short, here are some DCCC docs from their server. Make use of them."
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What would Jesus do? Pope visits 20 former prostitutes on 'Friday of Mercy'


RT
Sat, 13 Aug 2016 14:57 UTC
pope francis
© Filippo Monteforte / ReutersAnti-pimp daddy of the church.
Pope Francis has visited 20 former prostitutes at a safe house in Rome where they had managed to find refuge from their pimps. The 79-year-old pontiff spent over an hour talking to the women, most of whom had been trafficked from Africa and eastern Europe.

The women are being provided with protection and shelter at a flat in Rome that is occupied by a Catholic charity called the Pope John XXIII Community.

Among the former prostitutes were seven Nigerians, six Romanians, and four Albanians, as well as women from Italy, Tunisia, and Ukraine, all of whom are about 30 years old.

The Pope listened to them as they shared their stories, the Vatican said in a statement.
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Manbij celebrates liberation from ISIS: Women burn burqas, men cut beards, children play soccer


RT
Sat, 13 Aug 2016 14:19 UTC
Liberation of Manbij
© Rodi Said / Reuters A Syria Democratic Forces (SDF) fighter helps civilians who were evacuated by the SDF from an Islamic State-controlled neighbourhood of Manbij, in Aleppo Governorate, Syria, August 12, 2016.
Manbij women have been ripping off their burqas and burning them, smoking cigarettes, while men cut off their beards, all while rejoicing at their newly obtained freedom after the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) drove jihadists from the Syrian city. Mass jubilation engulfed the northern Syrian city of Manbij after months of battles and grief. Both residents who had stayed in the city and those who only just returned after hearing the news have been openly expressing joy at getting their homes and freedom back.

Embraces and kisses, happy smiles, and even more happy tears have been seen on Manbij's streets, as this video and these pictures show, with whole-hearted laughter and words of gratitude heard on every corner. Children, as children do, played football and enjoyed themselves, albeit in apocalyptic-looking surroundings.

Comment: A liberated Manbij will join the autonomous federation of N. Syria. See also:

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Private prisons save money at the expense of being more dangerous


RT
Sat, 13 Aug 2016 13:42 UTC
Texas prison
© Adrees Latif / Reuters
Migrants convicted of immigration offenses may have hoped for the American Dream, but got the American nightmare that is privatized prisons. The Department of Justice found that private prisons are more punitive and unsafe than other federal prisons.

There are 14 prisons that are privately operated but belong to the federal system. Those are exclusively used to incarcerate low-risk criminals convicted of immigration offenses. Despite the low-risk offenders, the Department of Justice (DOJ) released findings that these private prisons are more dangerous than ones operated by the federal government with comparable inmate populations.

The report found: "With the exception of fewer incidents of positive drug tests and sexual misconduct, the contract prisons had more incidents per capita than the BOP [Federal Bureau of Prisons] institutions in all of the other categories of data we examined."
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Italian court deports Tunisian man in alleged plot to attack the Leaning Tower of Pisa


RT
Sat, 13 Aug 2016 13:36 UTC
leaning tower of pisa
© Clarissa Cavalheiro / Reuters
An Italian court has ordered the expulsion of a Tunisian national suspected of planning an attack on the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italian media reported. He was also accused of praising militants that had carried out terrorist attacks in Western Europe.

Bilel Chiahoui was arrested on Thursday in a wooded area between the cities of Pisa and Livorno after an 8-hour-long search in which 100 police officers took part, La Stampa reported.

The police operation was prompted by a Facebook post in Arabic, which listed the names of "martyr" jihadists and ended with Chiahoui's name, date of birth (February 12, 1990), and supposed date of death (August 11, 2016), while noting that he had died in Pisa, La Stampa reported. The post was said to be from Chiahoui's Facebook account, which was registered under the false name "Rafael van der Vaart" - the same as the famous Dutch soccer player's.
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Still at it: Charlie Hebdo receives death threats for another offensive anti-Muslim cartoon


RT
Fri, 12 Aug 2016 13:26 UTC
charlie hebdo
© Regis Duvignau / Reuters
The controversial satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which has previously been the target of Islamist terrorists, has reportedly received threats warning of new attacks since publishing a cartoon of naked Muslims on its cover.

Charlie Hebdo's latest issue, which was released on Wednesday, features the image of a man and a woman on a beach with exposed genitals. The woman is depicted wearing a shoulder-length veil, while the man has a long beard. The caption reads "The reform of Islam. Muslims, loosen up" ("Musulmans de-coin-cez-vous").

After the issue was released, the magazine's staff received a written message saying "You will die," Le Parisien reported. Charlie Hebdo's co-shareholder, Eric Portheault, told the French newspaper that a complaint has been filed with Paris police, while stressing that his magazine has been receiving death threats since the beginning of summer, and "it does not stop."

Comment: Charlie Hebdo attacks bear all the markings of a false flag operation

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