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Muslim Kristallnacht: Houston mosque set ablaze in suspected arson attack


RT
Sat, 26 Dec 2015 12:41 UTC
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© UnknownFirefighters are investigating the cause of the 2-alarm fire at the Islamic Society of Greater Houston, Houston on Friday.
Houston officials are investigating a fire at a mosque southwest of the city. The blaze may have been an arson attack amid a rise of anti-Muslim sentiments in America.

The fire at the Islamic Society of Greater Houston started on Friday around 2:45pm, local media reported. About 80 firefighters took part in dousing the flame.

A spokesperson for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) confirmed that the cause of the fire appears to be suspicious as it had multiple points of origin - an indicator of arson. Law enforcement officers are studying surveillance footage for possible evidence of an attack.

The fire seriously damaged the interior of the prayer house, according to amateur footage of the scene shown by KHOU TV station. Heavy smoke also damaged nearby businesses at the shopping center, where the mosque is located.
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Dozens feared dead after massive explosion at gas plant in Nigeria


RT
Sat, 26 Dec 2015 11:18 UTC
Nigeria gas explosion
© Reuters
A massive explosion has taken place at a gas plant in the industrial town of Nnewi, Anambra state in southeastern Nigeria, local media report. There have been reports of dozens burnt to death in the blast.

Nigerian Vanguard daily puts the death toll at over 100 people.

Graphic images of the burnt bodies lying on the ground have emerged online.

The blast, followed by a huge fire, took place at Inter Corp Oil limited (liquefied petroleum gas plant), a subsidiary of Chikason Group.

The explosion reportedly occurred when a truck tried to discharge without having cooled down.

At that time there were customers around who had been refilling their gas cylinders, Vanguard reports.
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Hero security guard diffuses hostage situation only to be fatally shot by late arriving cops

William Grigg
The Free Thought Project
Fri, 25 Dec 2015 21:28 UTC
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Bobby Daniels was a peace officer by trade - a private security guard employed at CNN's headquarters in Atlanta. When he learned that his emotionally troubled 25-year-old son Bias had suffered a breakdown and was holding a fellow security guard at gunpoint in a mobile home part in Douglasville, Bobby raced to the scene. Using the skills of persuasion and patient de-escalation upon which a private peace officer must rely, Bobby persuaded his son to relinquish his handgun and place it on the hood of a car.

Just seconds later, Daniels was fatally shot - not by his mentally ill son, but by the sheriff's deputies who had arrived on the scene.

In familiar fashion, law enforcement officials insist that the victim of this police shooting - at least the 960th to occur in 2015 - was to blame, and they have provided contradictory accounts as to how it happened.

"I think that he could have been trying to help the situation instead of hurting it, but when he pointed the gun at the officers, he was shot," asserted Douglas County Sheriff Phil Miller in remarks to reports at the scene shortly after the December 21 incident.

A different official account provided by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation claims that as Bobby and Bias struggled over control of the gun, deputies attempted to incapacitate the younger man with a taser.

"As the fight continued between Bias and Bobby, the handgun was pointed at the deputies, at which point one of the deputy [sic] fired, striking and killing Bobby," according to the GBI.

"There's no doubt in my mind that my officer thought his life was in danger, and he did what he thought he had to do," insists Sheriff Miller, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

That the deputy believed himself to be at risk is a certainty, if only because police officers are incessantly catechized about the grossly exaggerated risks of their job and marinated in misinformation about a non-existent "war on police." That this was a potentially deadly situation was clear, as well. Daniels, who sought a non-lethal solution to the predicament, was willing to place himself at risk. The deputies, on the other hand, behaved in accordance with the "officer safety uber alles" mindset.
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Attention

Turkish banks and government sites under 'intense' attacks on Christmas holidays


RT
Sat, 26 Dec 2015 01:08 UTC
ATM in Turkey
© Murad Sezer / Reuters
Turkey is suffering from a wave of cyber-attacks on financial and government websites which intensified over Christmas, resulting in the temporary disruption of credit card transactions.

A video released this week and attributed to Anonymous vowed retribution for Ankara's alleged ties with ISIS.

The attacks on Turkish servers have been persistent in recent weeks, but on Christmas day Turkish banks suffered a website outage and reportedly saw sporadic disruption to credit card transactions. Isbank, Garanti and Ziraat Bank were among the targets, local media reported.
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Black Magic

Psychopathic glee: Israeli extremists celebrate Palestinian toddler's death at a wedding

Peter Beaumont
The Guardian
Thu, 24 Dec 2015 09:50 UTC
Israeli extremists
Video shows teenagers dancing with guns at wedding and stabbing a picture of Palestinian child killed in arson attack

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu immediately condemned its 'shocking images.'

Senior Israeli politicians and religious figures have condemned an incendiary video showing a hall packed full of Jewish extremist teenagers cheering the death of a Palestinian toddler murdered in an anti-Palestinian hate crime earlier this year.

The video - which shows the teenagers dancing with guns and firebombs and stabbing a picture of Ali Dawabshe, who died with his parents in an arson attack on their home this summer - was filmed at a wedding three weeks ago and obtained by an Israeli television channel. The Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, immediately condemned its "shocking images", which he said displayed "the real face of a group that poses danger to Israeli society and security".


Comment: This is naturally all bullshit from Bibi and an obvious attempt at damage control. These extremist settlers as they're called are one of his government's main sources of backing, and most of the reason why his administration inflicts so much carnage and misery on Palestinians to begin with - to make living space for just these kinds of nut jobs.


Comment: For more: The 14th Intifada is on the way and its global consequences

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Stormtrooper

Wife turns in cop husband after he brags he 'got lucky' having sex with 15-year-old girl


Counter Current News
Thu, 24 Dec 2015 19:54 UTC
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A rapist police officer in Bartow, Florida was finally taken off the streets after none other than his own wife turned him in.

Officer Randy Velez was arrested this week for having sex with a 15-year-old girl. His wife turned him in after he openly bragged about the incident - characterizing it as "getting lucky" even though the girl was very much underage.

Polk Sheriff's Office arrest documents obtained by The Ledger, cite Eloisa Velez as informing the police investigators on this case that she knew about her 27-year-old husband Officer Randy Velez, having repeatedly raped a 15-year-old girl.

Until recently, however, she was unaware that it was rape, as her husband had described the encounters as an "affair."

Once Eloisa discovered that the girl was barely in high school, she contacted investigators.

Only last week, the officer finally confessed to his wife that the girl was only 15-years-old.

Deputies had been monitoring a telephone call between Eloisa and Randy which led them to record that "he should be in jail, he is embarrassed, and he doesn't feel good that he did what he did," according to the arrest report.

Randy Velez said that he raped the 15-year-old because "he didn't like having [sex with] someone who was always arguing with him."

He said he planned on having other "affairs" but "that it takes planning" and he "just got lucky" when he raped the 15-year-old.
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Stormtrooper

"You don't have a dog anymore" psychopathic cops take turns shooting family's dog while laughing

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Fri, 25 Dec 2015 19:41 UTC
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© Unknown
Earlier this year, Christie Fry and her family rescued a 7-month old puppy with a broken leg. They named him Bear.

For several months, the family nursed Bear back to health and soon he was a normal running and jumping pup. Bear soon became a beloved member of the family. However, earlier this month, on December, 10, all that love would come to an end.

According to Fry, Bear was secured to a cable leash in his backyard when she heard him barking at the construction workers working on an abandoned house next door. Fry says that Bear was a 'barker', so this was nothing out of the ordinary. But when the barking was brought to a halt by the sound of gunfire, Fry panicked.

"Thank god the kids were at school," Fry said in an interview with PuppycideDB.com

When Fry got up to see what was going on, she heard more shots. Fry recalls those frightening moments:

I hear 2 gunshots. As I'm getting up I hear the third. As soon as I'm standing, I can see out my side window. Police. Fourth shot. I look at what they're doing & see my dog on the ground. My dog starts screaming. I scream. More shots. Five, six, seven, eight. There's 2 cops taking turns shooting him with smiles on their faces. I run out yelling "What the hell!!!!!" They said "Is this your dog?" "Yes!!" I replied. "What happened??!!" The officer said (& I quote!!) "Well you don't have a dog anymore. He's done now!" & laughed in my face.

My 1yr old puppy that I did everything in my power to save was laying there dead. They shot my dog like he was a human coming at them with a gun.
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Eye 1

Report: Violent military crackdown and curfews force 200,000 civilians to flee Kurdish southeast


RT
Thu, 24 Dec 2015 23:40 UTC
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© Sertac Kayar/ReutersRiot police use a water cannon to disperse Kurdish demonstrators during a protest against the curfew in Sur district, in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir, Turkey, December 22, 2015.
Escalating violence, ongoing clashes, curfews and brutal crackdowns on Kurdish nationals have squeezed hundreds of thousands of people out of Turkey's southeast after Ankara launched a military offensive against the Kurdistan Workers' Party.

Some 200,000 people have been forced to leave the areas of settlement in Turkey's south as a result of a special operation which Ankara launched against the outlawed PKK after uneasy ceasefire collapsed in July, Turkish daily Today's Zaman reports.

The region is undergoing its second largest migration wave since the 1990s, the publication writes. In the Diyarbakir Province's Sur district alone "tens of thousands" were forced to flee their homes since Ankara imposed the latest strict curfew early December, CNN Turk reported, citing the opposition Republican Peoples Party (CHP).
The latest footage from #Cizre the Kurdish city where Turkish army continues to shell neighbourhoods with tanks pic.twitter.com/8AsROFjz0U

— Hârun Ercan (@haarunercan) December 24, 2015
The area of the Turkish military operation resembles a warzone, local citizens are telling media outlets, while photos and videos posted online show homes, mosques, stores and other buildings badly damaged by clashes. People are saying there is neither water nor electricity supply anymore. Schools are closed and even finding food has become a problem.

Comment: Protests and violence erupts in Turkey after prominent lawyer is assassinated on live TV

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Wreath

Despite the doom and gloom: Vigilant Citizen's 2015 holiday message

VC
The Vigilant Citizen
Fri, 25 Dec 2015 17:30 UTC
2015 sunset
The sun is setting on 2015 and, the least we can say, is that it was a bumpy ride. This year again, I attempted to provide a different perspective on things, one that bypasses the usual media hype and propaganda to highlight the wider agenda. Here at Vigilant Citizen, it is never about being alarmist or pushing fear mongering, it is about taking a step back, taking a deep breath and understanding the bigger picture.

Through analysis of popular culture, I look to draw attention to a clear and obvious pattern of messages and symbols that permeates all levels of mass media. Understanding this pattern is paramount because it means understanding the true mindset of those in power - and where they want to world to head.
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'Brain dead' man enjoys Christmas after armed father refuses to let medics end his life


RT
Fri, 25 Dec 2015 13:04 UTC
Pickerings
© Screenshot via RT
The Pickering family from Texas is celebrating a miracle this Christmas, which so nearly did not happen. With doctors about to turn off a life support machine keeping George Pickering's son alive, a desperate and armed George intervened, determined his son would live.

This year has been an eventful one for George Pickering II and his son George Pickering III. George Jr. has made a full recovery after being in a coma. With doctors set to turn off his life support machine, his savior proved to be his own father.

Upon hearing that doctors had given up hope, a drunk and armed George Sr. marched towards the Tomball Regional Medical Center in Houston, Texas, determined to make sure his son was given more time to make a recovery, even if it meant he would spend time in jail. George Sr. barricaded himself inside with his 27-year-old son as he managed to hold off police, before something amazing happened.


Comment: May they have a wonderful holiday together.

Medical deaths and the corruption of healthcare

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