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Israel condemned for 'abusive arrests' of Palestinian kids - report details children are 'Choked, beaten & strip-searched'


RT
Tue, 21 Jul 2015 16:18 UTC

A Palestinian boy scuffles with Israeli soldiers during a protest in the West Bank @ Mussa Qawasma / Reuters

Israeli security forces have performed "abusive arrests" of Palestinian children, chocking, beating and threatening kids as young as 11, a global watchdog said in a report.

"Israeli security forces have used unnecessary force to arrest or detain Palestinian children as young as 11," a report published by the Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Monday.

According to the group Israeli security forces "have choked children, thrown stun grenades at them, beaten them in custody, threatened and interrogated them without the presence of parents or lawyers, and failed to let their parents know their whereabouts."

HRW said it interviewed several Palestinian boys and a girl aged from 11 to 15 who were arrested by Israeli security forces in the period from March to December 2014.


The children told HRW that "Israeli authorities did not inform parents of their child's arrest and interrogated the children without permitting them to speak to a parent or lawyer prior to the interrogation."

An 11-yer-old Rashid said he was attacked by a stun grenade and was put "in a chokehold" when Israeli arrested him for throwing stones in November. The boy added that officers "put a black bag over his head, threatened him with beatings, and kicked him in the shin while taking him for interrogation."

"When he got home [after being arrested] he had nightmares," Rashid's father said. "He woke up screaming for four or five nights in a row." Rashid told Human Rights Watch that he dreamed of being arrested, "over and over again," and was scared of going to school.

Comment: This is hardly a new problem. Stories and reports of Israel's reprehensible treatment of children have been filed for decades. Israel ignores them with impunity.

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Attention

Western Siberia shopping mall ablaze, witnesses report hearing explosion before the fire


RT
Tue, 21 Jul 2015 16:52 UTC
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A shopping mall has caught fire in the Tomsk Region of West Siberia. Witnesses say they heard a loud bang before the incident.

The fire broke out in the town of Seversk, which is located 15 km from the city of Tomsk and has a population of over 100,000 people.

"The fire has been localized and firefighters are working to contain the blaze," an official from the emergency services told Lifenews TV, adding that at least 10 fire brigades are working at the scene.
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Sheriff

Dashcam video of black activist Sandra Bland arrest disputes cop's claims she attacked trooper

Travis Gettys
Raw Story
Mon, 20 Jul 2015 15:50 UTC
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The Texas state trooper who stopped Sandra Bland was apparently planning to let her off with a written warning until he became angry when she refused to put out the cigarette she was smoking in her car.

The 28-year-old Bland, a civil rights activist who was on her way to begin a job at the historically black Prairie View A&M, died July 13 in a Waller County jail cell after she was arrested during a traffic stop for an improper lane change.

An attorney for her family viewed dashboard camera footage of the traffic stop, and he said the state trooper returned to Bland's car with what appeared to be a written warning, reported NBC News.

Bland, who seemed irritated that she had been pulled over, questioned why she should put out the cigarette, and the trooper became angry and ordered her out of the car, the attorney said. The trooper attempted to open Bland's car door, and she grabbed a cell phone to record the encounter.


Comment: See: Woman who decried police brutality on social media dies in police custody

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Arrow Down

MD found murdered inside Florida home - This makes 6 in 30 days, 5 still missing

Erin Elizabeth
Health Nuts News
Tue, 21 Jul 2015 14:48 UTC
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Yet another doctor was just found murdered inside his home; here on the East Coast, of Florida. This makes six doctors to be found dead in the last month; just from this region of the country, alone. Four out of the six were found dead here in Florida. We lost the wonderful, holistic Dr. Teresa Sievers, MD, who was found murdered in her Florida home just weeks ago. We've also lost the beloved Dr. Jeff Bradstreet, MD, who was found in a river with a gunshot to his chest. He'd recently moved to Georgia from Florida. We've also lost Dr. Riley, who was found in Georgia at her home; just a few hours from the Florida border. She was found with a gunshot wound to her head.

Dr. Schwartz was found dead on, Sunday, July 19th, 2015 - four weeks to the day, after the death of the first physician: (Dr. Bradstreet MD) who I broke the story on a month ago. His family is still seeking answers as to what happened to him, and they're some of the kindest people I know. The latest MD, Dr. Schwartz, in the picture above, lived just north of the fit, healthy, holistic Dr. Hedendal; who was the second doctor to be found dead this past Father's Day, in Boca Raton. This was the same day that Dr. Holt died at the age of 33. Both were fathers; and again, both men died here in Florida, on June 21st, 2015.


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Fire

Stranded motorists angry over high towing fees during California freeway fire


RT
Mon, 20 Jul 2015 20:24 UTC
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© Gene Blevins / Reuters Wrightwood, California July 17, 2015.
Drivers of vehicles abandoned during a brush fire near San Bernardino, California that engulfed a section of Interstate 15 on Friday are now protesting exorbitant towing fees as high as $2,600. Authorities are investigating the claims.

Motorists were required to leave behind amid the North Fire that encapsulated the I-15 freeway in Cajon Pass. Now, owners are complaining that towing companies have charged $1,000 or more to move cars, according to The San Bernardino County Sun.

"They are charging $220 an hour to all those people that abandoned their cars at ... Cajon Pass yesterday," Michelle Sepulveda wrote on her Facebook page, accordion got The Sun. "The family my brother saved yesterday is having to pay well over $2,600 to get her car out and every hour she waits, the more it goes up."

The California Highway Patrol is investigating the allegations.

"We called in several tow companies we had on rotation," said Steve Carpia, spokesman of the Inland California Highway Patrol. "When we learned of the complaints we began to investigate, eventually resolving this issue."


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Heart - Black

Sott Exclusive: Grabovo builds a heartfelt monument to commemorate MH17 victims, Dutch broadcaster says 'It won't be very special'

Amari Roos
Sott.net
Tue, 21 Jul 2015 00:24 UTC
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A heartfelt monument to all who died from the MH17 crash, made by the kind and poor people of Grabovo, East-Ukraine. "In memory of the 298 citizens who died. Innocent victims of the civil war."
Mayor Vladimir Berezhnoy of the small village Grabovo in the Donetsk People's Republic hopes that MH17 relatives will find their way to the site of the crash of flight MH17. "Regardless of all the problems, we invite all family members of the victims to come here", he said Wednesday on the spot where a monument will be built in memory of the victims.

"We want to do everything we can to help them. The people here are deeply saddened by the disaster. [...] I have feelings too, just like every other man here. I've seen many dead people. I don't sleep anymore. It was awful" Berezhnoy said.

On Wednesday, the Mayor personally helped with the erection of the monument. Having arranged for the materials to be delivered to the site, he noted that the foundation for the yet to be placed granite stone was not yet leveled, so he took a shovel and helped out.

Regardless of their poor financial situation, the mayor and citizens of Grabovo managed to spend just enough money to erect this small but meaningful monument. A loving act.

Local Dutch broadcaster NOS however was not that impressed with the genuine display of sympathy. Apparently, the people of Grabovo should have done better. Coming from a propagandist broadcaster that has been spewing lies and distorting facts about the situation in Ukraine since day one of the MH17 incident, we shouldn't be surprised at such heartless cynicism.
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Ambulance

Over 300 injured as 2 trains collide in South Africa


RT
Fri, 17 Jul 2015 18:40 UTC
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© City of Johannesburg Emergency Management Services
More than 300 people have been injured from the collision of two trains near South Africa's Johannesburg on Friday.

One of the trains derailed as result of the collision that took place between Booysens and Crown Mines stations, according to a local paramedic service. "It is believed that two trains collided causing one to derail," ER24 spokesperson Russel Meiring told eNCA.


According to Nana Radebe, spokeswoman for Johannesburg Emergency Services, 326 people have been taken to nearby hospitals, AP reports. "For now we have removed people with minor to serious injuries, but none critical," she said.

There have been no fatalities confirmed yet. Radebe told AP that the trains were on the same track and one of them was in a stationary condition during the collision. The railway line between Johannesburg's Park station and Booysens was closed after the incident, local media reported.

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Camcorder

New video emerges of MH-17 minutes after crash


RT
Mon, 20 Jul 2015 18:23 UTC
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© YouTube / Billy Six
A German reporter investigating the downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine has published a new video allegedly shot by local residents in the aftermath of the Boeing's downing last year.

The footage shot from a car passing the crash site shows fires on the ground and black smoke plumes rising to the sky. According to the conversation on the clip's audio, the area of the crash site is littered with bodies of dead passengers from the ill-fated airliner.

The woman filming the crash site is evidently shocked by the scale of the disaster, as she is heard sobbing. Her male companion is heard cursing as he apparently realizes that what he sees is a civilian flight.

The independent reporter, Bill Six, who published the video on his YouTube channel, says local residents had been resentful about speaking to Western journalists after what they took as biased reporting on the MH17 tragedy. It took him weeks to win the trust of the people.

The release of the footage comes days after another MH17 video was released by News Corp Australia. It showed eastern Ukrainian rebels at the MH17 crash site minutes after the downing. According to the transcript of their conversations, there may have been a second plane - a Sukhoi fighter jet - that brought down the civilian Malaysian Airlines Boeing over the warzone.


Comment: See: One year later: All evidence still suggests MH17 shot down by a jet fighter

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Red Flag

Flashback Sexualizing our children: Norway debuts provocative sex ed show aimed at children 8-12 years old


RT
Mon, 11 May 2015 18:00 UTC
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Jansrud showing how to French kiss - with a little help from a tomato
Puberty, a new program on the Norwegian state-funded channel NRK, in which the presenter penetrates a latex vagina with a plastic penis, draws diagrams on naked people, and shows children how to French-kiss, has provoked a mixed reaction.

"We would have betrayed our series on puberty if we had not touched on topics such as sex and masturbation," Line Jansrud, the presenter, who is pregnant, and plans to be filmed giving birth as part of the program, told NRK.

As the weekly episodes of the educational program, named Newton, chronicle the changes of the human anatomy through the teenage years, the hands-on presented never misses a chance to illustrate her point. The light-hearted, low-budget feel of the show is reminiscent of old-fashioned children's television, and is based on The Body, a Norwegian series broadcast in the early 1980s, which explored similar themes - without quite going this far.

In the episode on the penis, Janstrud holds one as she talks about pubic hair and foreskin, before studying a sperm sample. In the one on the vagina, she pulls back the labia of a filmed participant in a close-up shot, to illustrate the location of the clitoris, before describing the pleasurable sensations that can result from stimulating it.
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BC cops kill masked activist, Anonymous vows revenge


RT
Mon, 20 Jul 2015 17:39 UTC
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© Marko Djurica / Reuters
Anonymous group hacktivists are mounting a campaign to avenge a man "in a Guy Fawkes mask" shot dead by Canadian police in British Columbia on Thursday after being mistaken for a suspect. Cyber-attacks have already hit national police websites.

Anonymous said in a video message that they are willing to use "vengeance if necessary" to obtain justice for the shooting of one of their own outside the Fixx restaurant in Dawson Creek, northeastern British Columbia, on Thursday.

The statement described the masked man as being "mercilessly shot and killed ... without provocation or cause" while protesting. According to the hacktivists, the man was wearing a Guy Fawkes mask, which is often associated with the group.

Anonymous launched operation #AnonDown in their video statement. Its goal is to uncover the name of the police officer who killed the Dawson Creek activist - "because the world has the right to know every detail about killer cops."


Comment: How long until we see something like the following?


Then, how long before some ill-advised 'revolutionaries' interpret Anonymous' call for revenge as a call for violent uprising? If they do, they'll be playing right into the hands of those who want nothing more than an excuse to kill even more activists and protestors?

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