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Flashback In Kiev protests, young Jews are helping ultranationalists and anti-semites 'revolutionize' Ukraine into EU

Talia Lavin
Jewish Telegraph Agency
Sun, 08 Dec 2013 09:09 UTC
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On the last evening in November, at least 31 protesters were taken into custody and dozens treated for injuries following a violent confrontation with Ukrainian police in Kiev's Independence Square.

But that wasn't enough to intimidate the crowds who have occupied the main square of the capital since Nov. 21. Thousands showed up the following morning, including a young woman carrying a 10-liter pot of fresh borscht to help the crowd through another cold day on the square.

It was "like a carnival," said Dmitri Gerasimov, 32, a Jewish klezmer musician who has taken part in the protests. "I didn't feel any aggression in the crowd. It was like a public holiday."

The ongoing protests - known widely as EuroMaidan, after the Ukrainian name for the square in which they have taken place - were sparked initially by anger over President Viktor Yanukovych's refusal to sign an agreement that would have deepened ties between Ukraine and the European Union.
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Horrific road rage attack caught on CCTV as police search for driver who mowed down man

Mikey Smith
The Mirror
Sat, 22 Feb 2014 09:32 UTC
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© YouTube/LasVegasPoliceThe elderly man is knocked down on the forecourt
Las Vegas police are appealing for information after a man was hospitalised in a hit-and-run attack on a petrol station forecourt

Horrific surveillance footage captured the moment a man was mown down in an apparent road rage attack on a crowded petrol station forecourt.

The shocking footage, released by Las Vegas police in the hope it will help to identify the driver, shows a grey Honda Accord speed up to the victim, only just stopping short of knocking him down.

When the man looks round at the driver, he speeds off, apparently dragging the victim under the car.

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Ex tribal leader kills four people and critically wounds two in shooting rampage

Rebecca Pocklington
The Mirror
Sat, 22 Feb 2014 09:19 UTC
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Shooting: Four people killed at Cedarville Rancheria tribal office
Sherie Lash, 44, was facing eviction from her home and allegedly opened fire at the hearing - even pulling out a knife when she ran out of bullets.

A former tribal leader went on a rampage and shot dead four people after she found out she was facing eviction from her home, police have said.

Native American Sherie Lash, 44, allegedly chased another person with a large kitchen knife after running out of bullets at a meeting at Oregon's Cedarville Rancheria tribal office in Alturas, California.

Another two people suffered knife wounds and were critically injured as they tried to escape.

Lash, former tribal leader of the Northern Paiute, has been charged with the murders of two women, 19 and 45, and two men, 30 and 50, as well as two attempted murders.
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Light Sabers

Civil war next for Ukraine? Russian-speaking eastern regions strike back


RT
Sat, 22 Feb 2014 07:38 UTC
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The public gathering of deputies from local councils of southeastern Ukraine have declared they are taking responsibility for constitutional order in the country, as thousands of people have assembled in the city of Kharkov.

"We, the local authorities of all levels, the Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Sevastopol region decided to take responsibility for ensuring the constitutional order and the rights of citizens on their territory," their resolution said.

The Kharkov public gathering has announced a number of measures local authorities should take in response to the developments in Kiev. They should take full responsibility for all decision in respective regions with no regard to authorities in Kiev until the constitutional order in Ukraine is restored, a resolution of the gathering says.

They authorities should take measures to protect arms depots and prevent their take-over and looting by radical opposition activists.
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Crimetracker: Woman confesses on camera to stabbing her own mother


Loca8now.com
Sat, 22 Feb 2014 06:37 UTC
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According to the warrants, Nichols stuffed a sock in her mother's mouth and tried tying her up. The warrants say she strangled her until she lost consciousness, and then stabbed her mother in the neck, chest and stomach using scissors and two knives. Nichols has no prior criminal history in Knox County.
A woman who lives at Sunchase Apartments and is close friends with the 61-year-old woman who was stabbed a few doors down early Tuesday morning didn't want to be identified, but said the woman's daughter - Katie Nichols - is to blame.

"She's not emotionally stable and does the best she can, but needs quite a bit of help," she said.

The woman said after the stabbing, Nichols took off with her young daughter.

"I almost kind of hope that she does come back through here so we can get the authorities to get her," she said.

Not five minutes later, it happened - Nichols walked up to our camera.
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Light Sabers

Final death toll from Kiev's day of mayhem: 77 (Videos + Images)


RT
Sat, 22 Feb 2014 04:18 UTC
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© FP Photo / Sergei SupinskyKiev, February 20, 2014
The number of those killed in the Ukrainian violence has risen to 77, the country's Health Ministry has said. Doctors working on Kiev's Independence Square, however, claimed that as many as 70 people were killed on the rioters' side alone on Thursday.

The death toll in the most violent wave of clashes between the rioters and the police in Kiev is likely to increase, as there are conflicting figures coming from the Health Department, city officials and the opposition.

As many as 570 people have been injured, according to official estimates.

The surge in the number of victims comes as both armed rioters and the police are now using live ammunition in clashes. Many of the protesters and police officers killed or injured since Tuesday sustained gunshot wounds. Police have officially been allowed to use firearms in accordance with the law by an order of the Ukrainian Interior Minister.
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Cache of files show Golden Dawn party members posing with weapons and giving Nazi salutes: Are Greece's fascists gearing up for bloody mayhem?

Helena Smith
The Guardian
Mon, 17 Feb 2014 06:31 UTC
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The cache of photographs has been handed by police to a Greek public prosecutor investigating Golden Dawn's alleged illegal activities
Thousands of pictures and video clips allegedly show party members posing with weapons and giving Nazi salutes

Greek authorities are studying what is being described as a cache of "highly incriminating" photographic material in which members of the far-right Golden Dawn party are allegedly depicted participating in mock executions, posing with weaponry and giving Nazi salutes.

The hoard of almost 14,000 pictures and 900 video clips - discovered in computers and mobiles phones confiscated from two MPs and a man who headed one of the group's local branches - has been handed by police to a public prosecutor investigating the extremists' alleged illegal activities.

"What this confirms, without a shadow of doubt, is that Golden Dawn is not only a Nazi group but a criminal organisation that operated as a paramilitary structure," said Dimitris Psarras, the country's leading authority on the party.

"We are literally talking about thousands of pictures," he told the Guardian. "And many are highly incriminating, portraying well known members receiving armed training in summer camps."
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Dollars

Britain's bank bosses to be awarded £millions in 'extra bonuses' as nearly a million ordinary people rely on food banks to survive

Jill Traenor
The Guardian
Fri, 21 Feb 2014 20:00 UTC
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© Kirsty Wigglesworth/APBarclays' Antony Jenkins is likely to receive parcels of shares alongside his salary in the coming months, as are the chief executives of Lloyds Banking Group, HSBC and Royal Bank of Scotland

The bosses of Britain's biggest banks are on course to be awarded millions of pounds in share payments to circumvent a Brussels-imposed bonus cap - a move that risks inflaming the toxic row over City pay deals.

The new payments would be in addition to bank leaders' basic pay because the EU is limiting bonuses to 100% of salaries - or 200% if shareholders approve larger payments.

The big-four high street banks are consulting shareholders about bonuses for chief executives that hit the 200% limit, alongside discussions on additional share payments so that none of the elite boardroom-level bankers would be worse off as a result of the cap.

The initiative threatens to bring further political and public scorn on an industry that suffered yet another reputational blow this month when Barclays increased its bonuses to staff by 10% to £2.4bn, despite reporting a 32% fall in profits.

The attempt to outflank pay limits comes as thousands of bank employees face the threat of redundancy.
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Gear

In plundering the Earth with rash excess, the Oligarchy has dug the World's largest mass grave

Mark Karlin
Truth Out
Thu, 20 Feb 2014 08:15 UTC
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© tbone samdwichIs the human species next on the list?
There was a popular bumper sticker you'd see on luxury cars awhile back, "The person who dies with the most toys wins."

Sometimes, when I saw an automobile with such a message, my first thought was how tacky to put such a cheap plastic boast of wealth on a vehicle that cost tens of thousands of dollars. But then I realized that, to paraphrase Marshall McCluhan, "the medium is the message." This is what this person is all about; "my greed makes me who I am, and I'm better and more valuable than you are in your cheap Ford."

This destructive confusion of one's worth as a human being with one's financial worth arose in my mind again yesterday when writing a commentary, "Five Reasons the 1% Do Not Want Unemployment to Decrease." After discussing a recent news kerfuffle over multi-millionaire Tom Perkins' assertion that the wealthiest are the most deserving -- in essence an Ayn Randian perspective on human value -- I noted:
There's a theory that the wealthy do believe that they are anointed. This speculation about their world view is not that different from the monarchies that democracies revolted against. It presupposes that the people of the world are set in sort of a pre-determined caste system. In this world view, those who inherit wealth (which is a high percentage of the super rich -- just look at the Walton and Koch heirs) are inherently more deserving of their billions. Those persons who ruthlessly claw their way to the top -- with money appearing to be their ultimate criteria for the value of their lives -- have been chosen to acquire fortunes because of their basic worthiness, this theory argues.

Comment: Psychopaths in Power and the Imminent Collapse of Global Society (It's all your fault!)

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Rampant hysteria! UK EasyJet flight grounded for two hours 'because schoolboy reported another passenger was writing something in Arabic'

Lizzie Parry
Daily Mail
Thu, 20 Feb 2014 17:15 UTC
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© PAHysteria: An easyJet flight from Amsterdam to Newcastle was delayed for two hours after a group of school children reported seeing another passenger writing in what appeared to be Arabic script
An easyJet flight was grounded for two hours after a security alert was sparked when schoolchildren reported seeing a man writing Arabic in a notebook.

The students, who were aged 15 and 16, alerted cabin crew after spotting the man writing in what appeared to be Arabic script, while waiting for take off.

The flight from Amsterdam to Newcastle was delayed to allow for 16 of the 45-strong group of students, believed to be from a school in Northumberland, to get off the aircraft.

Technical support worker Adam Robson, 21, who was sat next to the man, said he first became aware of the issue when he felt kicking and banging on the back of his seat as one of the student's suffered a panic attack.

He said: 'The guy had a notebook and people were looking over at it as it had both Arabic writing and English words.

'One of the students called a flight attendant over and pointed it out,' said Mr Robson, from Newcastle's West End, who had been on a romantic weekend away with his girlfriend Lauren.
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