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Actions speak louder than words: Russia to supply four generators to Cuba


RT
Mon, 19 Oct 2015 15:05 UTC
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The Russian government has ratified an agreement to provide generators at the Maximo Gomes and Este Habana power plants in Cuba.

According to the Russian government website, the Maximo Gomes power plant in Mariel municipality will be equipped with a 200 MW unit, while Este Habana in Santa Cruz del Norte municipality will have three 200 MW generators installed.

Inter RAO - Export, a subsidiary of Russian energy producer Inter RAO will team up with Energoimport, which is a part of Union Electrica of Cuba. Union Electrica is a Cuban state energy company with a total capacity of 3.7 GW specializing in the generation of electricity from thermal and hydro power and the country's renewable sources of energy, and also the transmission and distribution of electricity.

The financial details of the deal will be disclosed in a further contract.

Comment: So here we go again with Russia and Cuba working together to improve the lives of the people with action. In contrast to the US just opening an embassy in Cuba as a gesture with no real action plan.

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Evil Rays

Bad idea: UK town to pilot WiFi 'smart pavement' and street furniture

Kevin Samson
Activist Post
Sun, 18 Oct 2015 14:01 UTC
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Awareness continues to increase surrounding the health dangers of Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs) emanating from our daily gadgets, as well as from the rise of the Smart Grid. For example, a prominent neuroscientist went on record in a lecture to the medical community itself where he exposed the many health risks as well as an industry-wide attempt by telecom to cover up the negative consequences. A world-renown biochemist is seeking to abolish WiFi in schools. And a British ER physician has made it her mission to educate people about what steps they can take to minimize exposure and damage to WiFi. A slew of peer-review scientific studies support the warnings of these experts.

So what happens when your entire city becomes one giant WiFi signal?

Telecom giant Virgin Media has been given the green light to begin doing just that. Coverage will be enabled by "discreet street furniture" and the "UK's first Smart Pavement."

The pilot will begin with a focus on the center of the town of Chesham, UK where all 21,000 residents and businesses can use the network. The Chiltern District Council has joined forces and is touting the increased connectivity at massively increased speeds up to 166Mbps - 7X the average in the UK.

Comment: For more on why this is an incredibly awful idea see:

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Pistol

Detroit: Pastor kills brick-wielding man during church service

George Hunter and James David Dickson
The Detroit News
Mon, 19 Oct 2015 14:42 UTC
City of God Church
© facebookCity of God ministries storefront church on Grand River in Detroit.
Violence marred a church service Sunday when a man with a brick attacked the pastor, who whipped out his Glock handgun and fired several shots, killing the man, Detroit police said.

The incident happened about 15 minutes into the 1:30 p.m. service at the City of God ministries storefront church on Grand River near Lahser, Assistant Chief Steve Dolunt said.

"The pastor had had issues with the man before," Dolunt said. "He had been threatening him to do bodily harm. He walked into the service and went after the pastor with a brick. The pastor pulled out his Glock and fired several shots. I think he hit him four or five times, and the man died."

The victim was identified as Deante Smith, Dolunt said. The pastor remains in police custody.

After questioning the pastor, police will submit a warrant request to prosecutors, who will then decide whether the shooting was justified.
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Heart

Fiancé calls off wedding, so bride-to-be treats Sacramento's homeless to a free four star reception


RT
Mon, 19 Oct 2015 12:49 UTC
homeless man eating at wedding banquet
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After one California groom-to-be cancelled his $35,000 wedding at the last minute, the bride-to-be's family decided not to surrender to despair and turn the already paid-for banquet into a dream come true for some unlikely guests - Sacramento's homeless.

The bride's mother, Kari Duane, said she couldn't believe her ears when her 27-year-old daughter Quinn called her to say that the wedding just wasn't going to happen because her fiancé had called it off.

But the deposits for the reception were already paid, and instead of calling it off, the local homeless were invited for a weekend meal at one of the city's finest venues, the Citizen Hotel. An elderly woman who lives in a shelter, unable to afford rent, was the first to arrive, half an hour early.

"I was thinking at that moment, if she's the only person that comes tonight, this was worth it," the bride's mother told KCRA-TV.

But then more homeless people started to turn in - individuals, as well as families with grandparents and even newborns.

"When you're going through a hard time and a struggle for you to get out to do something different and with your family, it was really a blessing," Rashad Abdullah, who arrived with his spouse and their five children, told the broadcaster.
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Take 2

Empire files: The United States' Unofficial Religion - The War on an Idea

Abby Martin
YouTube
Fri, 16 Oct 2015 00:22 UTC
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The Empire has a range of weapons to maintain its power: from its courts to its military. But it also has effective ideological weapons.

Everyone in the United States knows that "socialist" or "communist" is considered a bad word. How did things get that way? Abby Martin explores the history of anti-communism in the US, and the heavy repression of an idea that became an unofficial religion.
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Pistol

Hospital shooting: Minnesota deputy killed by patient


Sputnik
Sun, 18 Oct 2015 12:18 UTC
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A sheriff's deputy in the Midwest US state of Minnesota has been fatally shot by an inmate receiving treatment at a local hospital, local authorities said Sunday.

Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension Superintendent Drew Evans said Sandberg, 60, was shot when his firearm was seized during a struggle at the St. Cloud Hospital early Sunday.

"I would hope that everyone would keep Investigator [Steven] Sandberg's wife and daughter in their thoughts and prayers," Aitkin County Sheriff Scott Turner said at a press conference.
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Attention

Zombie attack? Young man goes nuts on flight from Portugal to Ireland, bites passenger then drops dead


RT
Mon, 19 Oct 2015 12:32 UTC
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© Cathal McNaughton / Reuters
In a bizarre and terrifying incident, a 24-year-old man has died on a Dublin-bound flight after "running amok," and biting another passenger. The crew described him as being, "extremely violent."

The Aer Lingus flight took off from Lisbon, Portugal and was en route to Dublin, Ireland.

All of a sudden a man "ran amok" across the cabin, bit a fellow passenger and had to be restrained by the crew. He injured "one or two passengers."

The crew had to broadcast an emergency 'Pan Pan' message three times and told air traffic controllers about the incident, before making an unscheduled landing at Cork airport.

Comment: This incident joins our list of 'zombie attacks' in recent years. People are starting to literally consume each other... It's curious that the man on the Dublin-bound flight went berserk just before dying, as if whatever had taken control of his mind - a parasite, virus, or whatever - dictated this last effort from him, perhaps to replicate itself before its host died...

While there may end being a more mundane explanation for this man's behavior and death, we note that this is yet another weird air travel incident in a year when aircraft accidents and mishaps are piling up high... UPDATE: The man in question, "John Kennedy Santos Gurjao", was allegedly carrying 800 grams of cocaine in his stomach. One of the pellets burst in his stomach, causing him to suffer a violent seizure.

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Fireball 5

Bogota, Columbia: Plane crash kills 5 in residential area


RT
Mon, 19 Oct 2015 03:34 UTC
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Five people have been killed after a plane crashed into a residential area in Colombia's capital, local media reported citing authorities. Seven people have been injured, according to Bogota fire officials.

The Beechcraft 60 twin-engined plane crashed around 4:20pm local time (9:20pm GMT) in western Bogota, indicated the Civil Aeronautics Agency on its Facebook page.

It crashed with four people on board including the captain, Juan Pablo Angulo Reyes, the aviation authority said in a statement.

The plane crashed into Villa Luz bakery and affected three nearby houses, according to fire officials.

Comment: This year has seen numerous incidences of aircraft accidents and mishaps:

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Megaphone

'US strike on Afghan hospital no mistake' - Doctors Without Borders demands more than an apology


RT
Mon, 19 Oct 2015 11:06 UTC
Doctors without Borders San Frontieres
© Mohammad Ismail / ReutersWounded Afghan men, who survived a U.S. air strike on a Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) hospital in Kunduz, receive treatment at the Emergency Hospital in Kabul October 8, 2015.
The head of an international medical charity, whose hospital in northern Afghanistan was razed to the ground by a United States airstrike earlier this month, has claimed it may have been deliberate rather than accidental.

"The hospital was repeatedly hit both at the front and the rear and extensively destroyed and damaged, even though we have provided all the coordinates and all the right information to all the parties in the conflict," Christopher Stokes, general director of Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres, MSF) told AP.

"The extensive, quite precise destruction of this hospital ... doesn't indicate a mistake. The hospital was repeatedly hit," he pointed out. The attack, in which the American Lockheed AC-130 gunship repeatedly bombed the hospital, lasted for over an hour despite calls to Afghan, US and NATO to stop it, MSF earlier said.

Comment: Also see:

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Light Sabers

Unknown 'man' attacks Israeli soldier, steals his assault rifle and attacks crowd


PressTV
Sun, 18 Oct 2015 03:45 UTC
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© AFPAn Israeli woman is comforted as others react at the main bus station in Beersheba in southern Israel on October 18, 2018.
An Israeli soldier has been killed and nearly a dozen others sustained injuries in an attack amid ongoing tensions in the region. The incident took place in the Israeli city of Beersheba (Bi'r as-Sab) at a bus station on Sunday evening.

An unidentified man, shot dead later, entered the place, stabbed a soldier, took his weapon and started firing at the crowd, injuring 11 people, including at least four other soldiers. Some other reports, however, said that the man fired with his own pistol.

A bystander of Eritrean origin, not involved in the attack, was also killed by Israeli police who mistook him for a second gunman. The soldier succumbed to his wounds later in a nearby hospital with reports saying that two of the wounded were in critical condition.

The identity of the man was not immediately known while there was no claim of responsibility for the attack.

Comment: It seems odd that some accounts say he stabbed the man and took his gun while others suggest he shot him with another gun first. Also the shooter is not described at all, other than being a man. The implication is that he is of Palestinian origin, given all the 'stabbing' hoopla they're bandying about in the media. The timing is certainly suspect. This is from Israel's UN ambassador two days ago.
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"Palestinian leaders have established an incubator to raise children as terrorists," said Israel's UN ambassador Danny Danon.


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