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Quenelle

Inequality reaches inhuman proportions as UK's richest pathocrats own one third of country's wealth


RT
Sun, 18 May 2014 15:58 UTC
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© Reuters/Darren StaplesA man walks from his Ferrari as a carriage passes during the fourth day of the Royal Ascot horse racing festival at Ascot, southern England, June 21, 2013.
Briton's wealthiest people own a third of the country's GDP, with a combined fortune of 874 billion dollars, which is an increase of 15.4 percent on last year's total, according to an annual survey.

The Sunday Times Rich List shows that the United Kingdom's richest are richer than ever before, which is in sharp contrast with many ordinary Britons who are struggling after five years of austerity.

"I've never seen such a phenomenal rise in personal wealth as the growth in the fortunes of Britain's 1,000 richest people over the past year," said Philip Beresford, who has compiled the list since 1989.

Comment: Meanwhile, austerity bites hard for the common men and women, with declining health, forced labour, and food poverty on the rise

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Why most of the western half of the U.S. is completely unsuitable for strategic relocation

Michael Snyder
endoftheamericandream.com
Mon, 12 May 2014 13:50 UTC
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If there is one thing that you cannot live without, it is fresh water. Just try it some time. Seriously - try to live for 24 hours without using a single drop of fresh water. You will quickly learn how indispensable it is. Unfortunately, a lot of people that are "strategically relocating" to another part of the United States are not taking the availability of fresh water seriously when making the decision about where to move. If you live in an area that receives very little precipitation and that is not close to a consistent source of fresh water, what would you do if something happened and the water got shut off? Without water, you cannot grow food, you cannot cook, you cannot wash your clothes, you cannot take a bath and you cannot even use the toilet. The most basic things that we do in life are totally dependent on the availability of fresh water. So why are so many "preppers" considering moving to some of the driest areas of the entire country?

Thanks to the drought that never seems to end, there are some southwestern cities that are now rapidly running out of water. Just check out what is happening right now in one city in Arizona...
In the northern Arizona city of Williams, restaurant patrons don't automatically get a glass of water anymore. Residents caught watering lawns or washing cars with potable water can be fined. Businesses are hauling water from outside town to fill swimming pools, and building permits have been put on hold because there isn't enough water to accommodate development.
And in some areas of southern Nevada, the authorities are actually paying people to remove their lawns because there is so little water.

So why would anyone that wants to become independent of the system actually move to those areas?
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Handcuffs

Juvenile injustice: Kids are being tried in kangaroo courts

Molly Knefel
Rolling Stone
Fri, 16 May 2014 11:30 UTC
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© Jean-Christophe Riou/Getty ImagesColorado recently passed a law meant to address the denial of counsel to children in juvenile court
Of all the constitutional rights afforded to Americans, the right to counsel is one of the most well known. In movies and TV shows, cops recite Miranda rights immediately upon arresting anyone, informing suspects of their right to an attorney even if they cannot afford one. This protection for indigent defendants was ensured by the Supreme Court case Gideon v. Wainwright in 1963; four years later, another case established due process rights for children. In that case, called In re Gault, the court ruled that "Under our Constitution, the condition of being a boy does not justify a kangaroo court."

But in juvenile courts across the country, children often face the full weight of the criminal justice system without the protection of a defense attorney. According to a report from the U.S. Attorney General's office, "Some systems ensure that every child in the system is represented, while others allow 80-90 percent of youth who are charged with offenses to appear without counsel." Children may be unrepresented for a variety of reasons, including lack of access to a public defender or pressure from judges or prosecutors to waive their constitutional right to an attorney.

Comment: You can tell a lot about a nation by the way it treats its children.

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Ambulance

French Fighter jet crashes into field


The Connexion
Fri, 16 May 2014 11:27 UTC
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© Javier Rodríguez
A French Air Force Mirage jet crashed in a field near Briey, in north-eastern France, yesterday.

Authorities confirmed that the pilot ejected and parachuted to the ground safely as his single-seater Mirage 2000-5F jet went down at about 4.30pm in a field near houses in the tiny village of Barroches, Meurthe-et-Moselle, about 100km north of Nancy.

No one on the ground was injured. The pilot, from the 116 air base at Luxeuil-Saint-Sauveur, was found in a tree and taken to hospital as a precaution.

An investigation into the cause of the crash is ongoing and the area around the site has been sealed. In June 2013, a Mirage 2000 jet crashed in the Haute Saone in central France.
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Nuke

Fascists from the Right Sector attempt to enter Europe's largest nuclear power plant in S.E. Ukraine


RT
Sun, 18 May 2014 10:43 UTC
Ukraine’s largest nuclear power plant
© wikipedia commonsBiggest nuclear power station in Europe; about 50 km from Zaporozhye / Ukraine. Photo from the "Nikopol" bank of the river Dnjepr
Ukrainian police stopped a group of armed men from entering Europe's largest nuclear power plant, located in southeastern Ukraine. In video footage allegedly showing the attempted break-in, the men say they are members of the Right Sector group.

The gunmen were stopped Thursday at the entrance of the city of Energodar, near Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant, the facility's press service said in a Friday statement on its website.

The power plant's authorities said the incident did not affect the station's operations. However, security at the plant and throughout Energodar has been heightened.

Several cars full of men who introduced themselves as members of the notorious neo-Nazi group Right Sector were stopped at a checkpoint near Energodar, Ukraine's Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper reported. The men were wearing masks, had guns, and said that they were headed to "protect the nuclear power plant and the city from possible seizures," according to the paper.

"We moved out to protect the city, but we were stopped and circled by police," a Right Sector member told RBK Ukraine.

Local police said they confiscated the men's weapons and launched a criminal investigation.

Footage posted on Svoboda TV's YouTube account on Thursday - allegedly shot during the attempted break-in - shows a group of masked men preparing to enter Energodar.

Comment: The EU should think twice about supporting headless fascists in Ukraine, whose mindless actions are an endangerment to not only democracy, but also to the human species.

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Quenelle

East Ukraine's Kharkov region to hold independence referendum - according to peoples movement "Southeast"


ITAR-TASS
Sun, 18 May 2014 10:24 UTC
Kharkov rallies
© ITAR-TASS/ Sergei Kozlov Kharkov rallies for referendum
East Ukraine's Kharkov region will hold a regional independence referendum following south-eastern Ukrainian cities of Donetsk and Lugansk, member of the coordinating council of movement "Southeast" Yuri Apukhtin said at a rally near the monument to Soviet leader Lenin on the Square of Freedom in this Ukrainian city on Sunday.

"Kharkov region will hold a referendum on independence following Donetsk and Lugansk. Our task is not to participate in Ukrainian presidential elections in any case. We should meet on this square on May 25. We do not recognise these elections," he stated.

Meanwhile, Apukhtin criticised the second all-Ukraine national unity roundtable meeting in the city of Kharkov on Saturday. In his words, he refused to participate in this meeting, though he was invited to attend it.

Representatives from movements "Southeast", "Borba" (Struggle) and the Ukrainian Communist Party are participating in the rally on the Square of Freedom. Many demonstrators came with Russian national flags.
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Life Preserver

No popular support! Anger rising in Ukrainian army over Kiev policies


Voice of Russia
Sun, 18 May 2014 10:16 UTC
Ukrainian soldier
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There have been signs of brewing anger in the Ukrainian Armed Forces as many servicemen are increasingly displeased with Kiev's policies.

On Saturday, a group of self-defense fighters held talks with servicemen deployed at an airfield near Kramatorsk.

"They say they don't want war, they don't want to shoot or kill anyone. Many come from our region. But they refuse to surrender - they have orders to obey," a spokesman for the self-defense forces told reporters.

Discontent among the servicemen has been fueled by worsening food supplies, the spokesman said.

Also stationed at the airport are about 70 representatives of some unknown organizations, probably Right Sector radicals.

"They wear black uniforms without any insignia and don't communicate with the military," the spokesman said.
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USA

Kentucky sues feds over right to grow hemp


Russia Today
Sun, 18 May 2014 08:33 UTC
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© Reuters / Baz RatnerHemp, the non-psychoactive variant of marijuana
Attorneys for the state of Kentucky are in federal court Friday afternoon attempting to have the United States government release hemp seeds imported from abroad that were intended to be used in pilot growing projects.

It became lawful to use industrial hemp in Kentucky starting in 2013, and a farm bill signed by US President Barack Obama earlier this year paved the way for states to grow the crop for research. The US Drug Enforcement Agency nevertheless seized around 250 pounds of hemp seeds shipped from Italy to the University of Kentucky earlier this month, prompting state officials to turn around and sue that agency and others.

Comment: Hemp is a huge potential source of new income for farmers in the US. It can be used to make rope, clothing, and a host of other useful products. With the US economy in shambles, it's a wonder why any government agency would interfere with discovering new sources of income.

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Attention

Turkish police fire water, gas at protesters in mining disaster town


Russia Today
Fri, 16 May 2014 00:00 UTC
Turkish riot police use tear gas against protesters in Ankara on May 14, 2014.
© AFP Photo / Adem Altan Turkish riot police use tear gas against protesters in Ankara on May 14, 2014.

Police have fired water cannons and used tear gas to disperse several thousand demonstrators in the Turkish town of Soma, which became the scene of the country's worst mining disaster earlier this week.

People scattered into side streets as the police were dispatched onto one of Soma's main commercial thoroughfares, where the offices of the local government and labor union are situated, an eyewitness told Reuters.
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Bad Guys

Murdering the Opposition: UN Ukraine report shows double standards in attempt to whitewash Kiev's actions


Russia Today
Fri, 16 May 2014 00:00 UTC
Training in hand combat among opposition fighters
© RIA Novosti / Andrey SteninTraining in hand combat among opposition fighters from the nationalist organization "Right sector" in a camp on Independence Square in Kiev.

Moscow has accused a UN report on violence in Ukraine's Odessa of being purposefully blind to hard facts and simply "carrying out a political order to whitewash" the actions of the coup-appointed government in Kiev.

The Russian foreign ministry believes that the report presented by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights is marked by a systematic and routine ignorance of any Kiev involvement in sparking the Odessa carnage, while placing all the blame unequivocally with the pro-Russian self-defense forces. The ministry statement remarks that not a single word was said about neo-Nazi elements who engaged in setting buildings on fire with people inside, shooting dead anyone who opposed them and finishing off the wounded in plain sight.
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