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Fire

April Fools' Day prank sends 26 students to hospital


RT
Sat, 02 Apr 2016 16:00 UTC
pepper spray
© Hannibal Hanschke / Reuters
Emergency vehicles were called to an Iowa high school after a can of pepper spray exploded in the cafeteria. The April Fools' Day prank hospitalized 26 students. Parents are demanding tougher security measures.

At around 12:20pm, the last lunch period of the day at Williams Intermediate School, 60 students were sitting in the cafeteria when Lealia Stentz, 13, eating her lunch, thought she heard poppers. She told the Quad-City Times, "someone put pepper spray in those."

District spokesperson Dawn Saul confirmed that 26 students were sent to area hospitals and told KWQC, "some of the students who were in the cafeteria did experience reactions and any student who had known breathing difficulties were examined right away."

Comment: The above reaction -- a demand for protection -- is exactly what feeds the police state. School resource officers often end up terrorizing the students they are meant to protect.

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Evil Rays

Daesh leader al-Baghdadi's ex-wife says he was "normal person", university lecturer

Kassem Hamade
Expressen
Fri, 01 Apr 2016 15:29 UTC
baghdadi wife daughter
She was married to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, head of ISIS, the terrorist organisation responsible for the violent attacks in Paris and Brussels. They have a daughter together. In this world exclusive interview with Expressen's Middle East correspondent Kassem Hamadé, Saga al-Dulaimi talks for the first time about life with the most hunted man in the world.

"He has a mysterious personality and I dared not have discussions with him," says Saga.

We meet in a secret location somewhere near the border between Lebanon and Syria. It's springtime outside. There's a scent of lemon blossom in the air. It's been four months since 28-year-old Saga al-Dulaimi and her four children were released from a Lebanese prison in an exchange with Syrian terrorist organisation the al-Nusra Front. Since then, international broadcasters and news agencies have been trying to get her to talk about her life with hunted terrorist leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

Now that she has finally decided to tell her side of the story, she is doing so without demanding anything in return. We have simply promised to follow the strict security criteria: no telephone contact beforehand and the meeting must be held in a location that is far away from the family's home.
Watch the video of the interview here.

Comment: Is Saga telling the truth? If so, was Baghdadi just putting up a good mask of sanity for the 3 months they were together? Is it another case of stolen identity? Or something else?

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Blackbox

Officials: Loud bang, flashes of light in Belfast, Ireland not an explosion; investigation underway

Claire Williamson
Belfast Telegraph
Fri, 01 Apr 2016 15:31 UTC
Power station on Suffolk Rd.
© Kevin Scott/PresseyePower station on the Suffolk Road in West Belfast on March 30, 2016 Belfast, Northern Ireland.
A loud bang heard across west Belfast and flashing lights seen in the sky was not caused by an explosion, NIE have said.

Social media was ablaze with reports of lights flashing in the sky and power outages on Friday night. Many theories suggested there had been an explosion.

The incident happened at the power station on the Suffolk Road but, there were reports of it heard further afield. There were no reports of any injuries as a result of the incident.

The Northern Ireland Fire Service attended along with Northern Ireland Electricity but they have yet been unable to confirm what had exactly happened. The incident resulted in brief power outages in many across Northern Ireland. The NIE insisted that there was no indication of anything sinister.

In a statement NIE said: "NIE Networks confirmed that due to an equipment fault, several thousands of homes and businesses would have seen a dip in power for a number of seconds on Friday night. "Network protection systems operated correctly to ensure that power supplies were not lost." Engineers from NIE Networks and SONI, the System Operator Northern Ireland, are investigating the cause.

Sinn Fein MP Paul Maskey said online that he thought it was caused by a lightning strike.

Residents in the area described their rooms filling with flashing lights of many colours and their power cutting out. One eyewitness said their feet were stuck to the ground due to the power of the bang. He told the Belfast Telegraph: "There were lights flashing blue, red and everything. "I came out of my house and there was a thick black smoke and a horrible smell came with it."
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Quenelle

Nanny state strikes again: Mother charged with neglect for making her kids walk to school

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Sat, 02 Apr 2016 15:27 UTC
girl walking
Last month, Lisa Marie Palmer, upset that her children had missed the bus, again, decided that it would be a good learning experience for them if they walked to school.

Palmer then got in her car and drove in front of her two daughters as they walked the 3-mile route to school.

While some may think that having kids walk to school is a harsh punishment, it is far better than beating them. That being said, when Marion County sheriff's deputy Chris Ladd spotted the two girls walking behind their mother's car, he just had to stop it.

In his report, Ladd said it appeared Palmer was driving ahead of her children and allowing them to catch up to her car until the kids reached the school.

Comment: This is madness.

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Pistol

'I thought you were a bad guy!': Undercover cop who shot fellow officer now being sued

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Fri, 01 Apr 2016 14:37 UTC
Officer Jacob Grant
Officer Jacob Grant
The city of Albuquerque has paid out a settlement in the amount of $6.5 million this week, to one of their own officers who was repeatedly shot by a fellow cop.

As we previously reported, Officer Jacob Grant was critically wounded after being shot multiple times by Lieutenant Greg Brachle during an undercover drug bust. Both officers were undercover at the time of the shooting.

According to the criminal complaint, Grant and his partner Holly Garcia met a suspect to buy $60 worth of "shards," another term for meth. The suspects got into Garcia's car, and she drove them to an Econo Lodge Motel. One of the suspects went into a room and returned to Garcia's vehicle with the meth.

Garcia then went to a McDonald's parking lot and gave the signal to begin the bust, the shooting took place shortly after.
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Gear

Objective reality: U.S. media considers ISIL terror in Europe 1,200 percent more newsworthy than similar attacks in Middle East

Adam Johnson
AlterNet
Thu, 31 Mar 2016 00:00 UTC
Terrorism coverage media

A comparison of media mentions draws a stark contrast in coverage.

Since the back-to-back ISIL attacks in Beirut and Paris last in November of last year, many in media have noted the disparity in the outpouring of grief and coverage when ISIL attacks happen in Europe versus the Middle East. Recent attacks in Brussels have led others, including Salon's Ben Norton and The Intercept's Glenn Greenwald to note a similar phenomenon: The U.S. media simply values European lives over those in the Middle East. And because neither Brussels or France are English-speaking nations or are in the greater United States, this can only lead to one conclusion: race is an essential factor when U.S. media determine what terror attacks to cover. Predominantly white countries simply matter more.

This racism is heavily informed by the U.S.' ongoing wars in the Middle East. Since President Obama has taken office, he has launched seven bombing campaigns of Muslim-majority countries. This decades-long war positioning against the "other" has helped normalized deaths in the Middle East even beyond that of routine racism. But how wide is this disparity? I have attempted to quantify the gap in coverage using two comparable examples from Europe and the Middle East in the past six months.

Comment: Just one of the many ways in which Western media distorts and perpetuates a myopic view of terror. Its a bias that ultimately serves the narrative of a 'war of civilizations' - as though the victims of Middle Eastern terror do not have a culture, a civilization, and are not themselves, in the end, the saddest and most victimized of terror attacks.

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Blue Planet

Iran's scientific diplomacy: Can the world unite to explore the Universe for the sake of science or is it just a dream?

Timothy Alexander Guzman
Silent Crow News
Sun, 13 Mar 2016 17:50 UTC
Earth rise
© unknown
Since the West (the P5 +1) and Iran agreed to a nuclear deal, there has been criticisms from Israeli hardliners like Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have been relentless. Netanyahu called it a "very bad deal" fearing that Iran can develop a nuclear weapon capable of reaching Israel or even the U.S. despite the fact that they signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Time and time again, Iran has maintained that their agenda is for peaceful purposes. Sixteen U.S. intelligence agencies had confirmed that Iran had "abandoned its nuclear weapons program years earlier" according to a 2012 New York Times report. Despite all of the negative publicity the Iran Nuclear Deal had received from both Western and Israeli hardliners, there is a positive aspect to Iran's growing science and technological industry currently taking place.

The minister of science, research and technology since 2014, Dr. Mohammad Farhadi wrote an article for the Tehran Times on Iran's science and technology industry and what it offers to the world:
"Iran is now a nation of 78 million people, with about 4.5 million university students, 2500 higher education institutions, 36 science and technology parks, 400 nongovernmental scientific associations, more than 800 research centers, and 1000 scientific journals. Our scientists publish about 30,000 international scientific papers annually, a growth of at least 20-fold since 1979. These achievements could not have been reached without the intensive participation of individual scientists and scientific societies and government support. This participation sprang from a model of development for post revolutionary Iran that respects the rights of all Iranians to have access to higher education. It is this philosophy that has helped the country weather internal and external disturbances. Sanctions on Iran, for example, pushed its science, industry, and service sectors to cooperate in new and fruitful ways and also forced scientists to work more creatively and promote a knowledge-based economy for the first time in Iran's history. This environment further spurred science-driven political discourse in the country. A prominent example is the role of the scientific community in the recent negotiations on Iran's nuclear program. This could not have materialized without the participation of scientists to provide technical expertise and to clarify scientific."
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Airplane

United Airlines boots American family from flight because of 'how they looked'

Rachael Revesz
The Independent, UK
Fri, 01 Apr 2016 10:50 UTC
muslim family flight
© Eaman-Amy Saad Shebley / Facebook Beard? Check. Headscarf? Check.

American Muslim family booted from flight for 'looking Muslim'
A United Airlines pilot asked a Muslim family of five to leave a plane before it took off, citing "safety" issues.

Eaman-Amy Saad Shebley, her husband and three young children were about to take off on a flight bound for Washington at a Chicago airport when the pilot asked them to get off the aircraft.

The family had enquired earlier whether the air stewardess could provide five-point harness safety seats for their children.

Two videos filmed by Ms Shebley show the air stewardess and then the pilot asking the family to leave.

Ms Shebley asked the pilot whether it was a "discriminatory" decision. The pilot replied it was a "flight safety issue" but were not given any details.

Comment: Concern about the child's harness was, of course, just an excuse for booting this family off because they were Muslim.

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Bad Guys

98 Central African Republic girls report horrific abuse by UN peacekeepers; 'forced sex with dog'


RT
Fri, 01 Apr 2016 14:42 UTC
Bereaved girl
© Siegfried Modola/Reuters
An advocacy group has released horrifying details of how at least 98 Central African Republic (CAR) girls were allegedly sexually abused by international peacekeepers.

The report was released by AIDS-Free World, an international advocacy organization, on Wednesday. The group said that MINUSCA, the UN's peacekeeping mission in CAR, met with local leaders and victims "who reported that troops from France and Gabon have sexually abused several girls in their province."

The group cited three CAR girls who said that they, along with a fourth girl, were raped by UN peacekeepers.The girls said they "were tied up and undressed inside a camp by a military commander from the Sangaris force (the French military intervention in CAR) and forced to have sex with a dog," the group wrote. After the rape, each girl was reportedly given 5,000 Central African Francs ($9).

"The three girls interviewed sought basic medical treatment. The fourth girl later died of an unknown disease. One of the survivors said that she was called 'the Sangaris' dog' by people in the community." According to the group, the alleged perpetrators "left CAR, returning home in 2015."

Also the organization mentions one more case of a 16-year-old girl who was allegedly raped by a Congolese UN peacekeeper. The girl's mother told police that the peacekeeper "raped her daughter in a hotel room at 4pm on Monday, March 28, 2016."

Comment: The United Nations 'peacekeeping' mission looks to be just a cover for sexual predation. The UN also seems to have little interest in stopping such behavior.

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Heart - Black

Sadistic judge orders 50,000 volt shock to peaceful courtroom defendant

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Fri, 01 Apr 2016 20:42 UTC
Judge Robert Nalley
© WUSA9Judge Robert Nalley (right).
A man representing himself in a Maryland court was shocked with 50,000 volts of electricity by the judge because he continued to speak when the judge ordered him to stop.

Judge Robert Nalley pleaded guilty in February to depriving the defendant of his civil rights and video of the horrific incident was released this week.

Nalley was facing up to one year in jail and a fine of up to $100,000 after pleading guilty. However, since he is subject to a different set of rules because he is a judge, he won't see a single day in jail, and he will only pay a $5,000 fine.

The charge against Nalley was also weak, as he did not simply deprive a man of his civil rights, but he tortured him. Under any other circumstances, Nalley's actions would have been considered torture, but since he did it under the sanction of his place in government, he was given a pass.

Comment: Charging the defendant with contempt of court wasn't good enough? The judge who ordered the shock and the cop who delivered it should be charged with torture.

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