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French police arrest 81 people amid mass rally against labor bill


Sputnik
Tue, 28 Jun 2016 21:36 UTC
French protesters
© AFP 2016/ THOMAS SAMSON
French police have arrested 81 people amid Tuesday's mass demonstration against a labor reform bill, local media reported Tuesday.

Earlier in the day, a mass rally took place at 14:00 p.m. local time (15:00 GMT), with hundreds of thousands protesters marching from Bastille to Place d'Italie.

Between 64,000 and 200,000 people took part in the demonstration, Europe 1 media outlet said citing its sources in police. Some 2,500 police officers have been deployed to keep order.
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Heart - Black

'No more baby. Taken care of': Ohio student gets life in prison for tossing newborn in dumpster

Tom Boggioni
Raw Story
Tue, 28 Jun 2016 21:09 UTC
Emile Weaver
© Muskingum County Sheriff's officeEmile Weaver
Ohio sorority sister was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole after a jury found her guilty of giving birth to a baby girl and then throwing her away in a dumpster, reports the Washington Post.

The most damning evidence? The Muskingum University student texted the man she assumed was the father after the deed, writing: "No more baby. Taken care of."

Emile Weaver, 20, was found guilty of aggravated murder, abuse of a corpse and tampering with evidence by an Ohio jury in May.

According to police reports, Weaver gave birth to the child in the bathroom of the Delta Gamma Theta house in April of 2015. When word got out about the bloody mess discovered by another sorority member, two other students checked the dumpster where they discovered a trash bag.
"We kept shaking the bag,"explained Madison Bates in court testimony "And I saw a baby's foot."

According to several members of the sorority, Weaver had long been suspected of hiding her pregnancy. Prosecutors stated that Weaver had attempted to hide pregnancy for nine months, while trying to kill the baby, identified in court records as "Addison." They state that the young woman drank alcohol, smoked marijuana, consumed labor-inducing supplements and even played dodge-ball in the hopes of inducing a miscarriage.
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Rolling Stone wins dismissal of defamation lawsuit by three UVA students over rape article

Jonathan Stempel
Reuters
Tue, 28 Jun 2016 20:59 UTC
Rape on Campus
© Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone magazine on Tuesday won the dismissal of a lawsuit by three former University of Virginia fraternity members who claimed that they were defamed in a now-debunked article it published about a campus gang rape.

U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel in Manhattan said details in the November 2014 article about the alleged attackers were "too vague and remote" from the plaintiffs, George Elias IV, Ross Fowler and Stephen Hadford, to be "of and concerning" them.

The plaintiffs were not named in the article and had no connection to the alleged rape described in it, Castel said.
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French police deploy tear gas, up to 40 arrested at anti-labor reform rally in Paris


RT
Tue, 28 Jun 2016 18:10 UTC
French riot police
© Stephanie Mahe/ReutersFrench riot police take position during clashes at a demonstration against plans to reform French labour laws in Paris, France, June 28, 2016.
Police have deployed tear gas against a stone throwing mob in Paris as thousands came to vent their frustration with proposed labor reform, media reported. The confrontation has resulted in at least 39 arrests.

The demonstration in the French capital attracted at least 55,000 participants, according to the organizers. Police, however, put the number of demonstrators at between 14,000 and 15,000.


The uproar was reported near Boulevard de l'Hôpital, which prompted police to cordon off the area. More than 2,500 officers were deployed, according to police, who later reported that 39 protesters had been arrested.

Battles broke out when at least 200 hooded and masked men started throwing stones at police, who in turn deployed tear gas against the protesters.


Comment: See also: Mass protests across France: Resistance against the global Orwellian nightmare

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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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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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'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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