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Bacon n Eggs

Supporting the troops: Soldiers share photos of mold & maggots in army issued food


RT
Mon, 21 Mar 2016 13:29 UTC
undercooked chicken
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British soldiers have taken to social media to share shocking photos of meals allegedly prepared for them by Ministry of Defence (MoD) contractor Sodexo as they petition the government for better quality food.

Military personnel across the UK have posted pictures of revolting meals allegedly served in army mess halls.

The nauseating photographs show maggot-infested tomatoes, raw chicken, and moldy eggs covered in green spots.
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Water

Unsolved burglary where water files kept 'an inside job' says Flint police chief

Molly Young
MLive
Tue, 22 Mar 2016 20:33 UTC
City of Flint Municipal Center
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Mystery still surrounds an unsolved December break-in at an executive office inside City Hall where Flint water files were kept.

As of Friday, March 18, there were still no suspects in the case, and officials say it may never be known what -- other than a TV -- was taken.

But the city's new police chief Tim Johnson says it's too suspicious that there was a break-in where important documents were kept, just as investigations began heating up and decision makers were beginning to be held accountable.

"It was definitely an inside job. The power cord (to the TV) wasn't even taken. The average drug user knows that you'd need the power cord to be able to pawn it," Johnson said.

The office was not assigned to any city employees at the time of the break-in, city officials have said."It was somebody that had knowledge of those documents that really wanted to keep them out of the right hands, out of the hands of someone who was going to tell the real story of what's going on with Flint water," he said.

Flint Mayor Karen Weaver said documents were strewn about the room, and it is impossible to know if any of them were taken. Weaver wasn't so quick to allege it was an inside job, but did say the situation seemed odd and suspicious to her. "Well sure (it's suspicious) when they go into a room where all the water files were and they take a TV, but not the cord to make it work, yes," she said.

Comment: The crisis in Flint is about more than water

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Eye 2

It CAN happen here: the rise of fascism in the United States

Andrew J. Wood
Counterpunch
Mon, 21 Mar 2016 19:56 UTC
trump fascism
Ordinarily, I abhor political comparisons to Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich. No matter the similarities with other authority figures, however authoritarian or totalitarian, Hitler represents a particular sequence of events in world history, and this particularity is glossed over in such comparisons. The comparison of public figures to Hitler is often based on intellectually lazy equivalences of evil. Such comparisons often focus on the authoritarian tendencies in all governments in a way that avoids nuance, rigor, and specificity, and additionally haphazardly flatten differences in regime types. This simplistic comparison is especially troubling now, when it has proliferated to the point were not only politicians of all stripes are subject to it, but even professional athletes, actors, and others in celebrity culture are called fascist whenever they do or say something divisive. The critique of fascism loses much of its weight when it is ascribed to anyone and anything that we don't like.

I too am guilty of these comparisons, as a young radical critiquing the George W. Bush presidency, for the far-right, nationalistic militarism seemed to fit in nicely with a wider critique of fascism. As I studied, learned, and grew intellectually, however, I came to see these easy comparisons as dishonest and stifling to the formations of deep understanding of particular regimes and how their power might be resisted. Yet, despite my aversion to what I (and others) refer to jokingly as reductio ad Hitlerium, we seem to have arrived at a Weimer moment in United States' American politics. We are quite evidently witnessing a figure running for the highest elected office in the U.S. who is by every measure modeling himself, his movement, and his rise to power on the populist far-right rhetoric of European fascism in the mid-20th century. This person is, of course, Donald J. Trump.
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Attention

Australian organic farmer loses GM court battle - forced to pay over US$600k in costs


RT
Tue, 22 Mar 2016 19:41 UTC
monsanto lawsuit australia
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An Australian farmer who tried to sue his neighbor after claiming his organic business was ruined after genetically-modified (GM) canola blew on to his fields will now have to pay over US$600,000 in costs after a stay of order was lifted.

Steve Marsh took his neighbor and childhood friend Michael Baxter to court in February 2014 for negligence over the alleged contamination of the land that Marsh used for growing organic oat and wheat crops in Kojonup, 250km southeast of Perth, Western Australia.

Marsh said he had lost organic certification for 70 percent for crops produced at his farm because his land had become contaminated by Baxter's herbicide-resistant canola crop. Marsh had been initially seeking US$60,000 in compensation, but now he will have to pay US$610,000 in costs to his neighbor after the Western Australian Court of Appeal ruled against him.

Comment: The evil Monsanto juggernaut claims another victim.

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Pirates

Disgusting! Budget airline Ryanair tells Brits 'pay £6,000 to fly home from Brussels'


RT
Tue, 22 Mar 2016 19:16 UTC
Ryan air brussels attack
© Darren Staples / ReutersA Ryanair aircraft.
Ryanair told a group of Britons they would have to pay up to £6,000 if they wanted to fly home from Brussels on Tuesday evening after the city was rocked by two terror attacks, which left 34 dead and 240 injured, an MP has said.

Labour MP for Sefton Central Bill Esterson told the House of Commons: "I have been contacted by a number of my constituents who are in Brussels, who travelled there today and are trying to get home, as I'm sure many others are as well. "They have been told by the airline Ryanair that it will cost them £6,000 to be brought back to this country."

RT called the airline to get a response to Esterson's claim and received an email from Ryan Air that, while not addressing the issue directly, tried to explain the circumstances surrounding the situation.

"This group of 28 passengers were travelling from Brussels Charleroi to Manchester tomorrow (Wednesday) at a fare of £20 each," the budget airline told RT. "They arrived at the ticket desk in Brussels Charleroi this morning requesting to change their flight from Brussels Charleroi to today (Tuesday) and in common with all other passengers were offered this change at our change fee (£60) plus the upgrade to the available fare (£154) on this evening's flight. "This group declined to accept this change offer as is their right and we look forward to welcoming them on their scheduled flight from Brussels Charleroi tomorrow," the statement said. It went on to say that the upgrade fee was necessary because there were only 12 seats remaining on this evening's flight.

Comment: And there you have it: Capitalism in all its glory. The Russians would have handled it differently:

Westerners - including Americans - abandoned by their leaders to Saudi bombing of Yemen, evacuated by Russian ships and planes

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Handcuffs

Native American girls disproportionately represented in the juvenile prison system

Derrick Broze
Activist Post
Tue, 22 Mar 2016 18:23 UTC
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New statistics show that American Indian and Native Alaskan girls account for a disproportionate amount of the population in the juvenile justice system.

According to the U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, American Indian and Native Alaskan girls are nearly five times more likely than white girls to be confined to a juvenile detention facility, the highest rate of incarceration of any ethnic group. PewTrusts reports:
Native girls are 40 percent more likely than white girls to be referred to a juvenile court for delinquency; 50 percent more likely to be detained; and 20 percent more likely to be adjudicated, according to the Office of Juvenile Justice. They are also more likely to face harsher sentences for the same offenses, said Joshua Rovner of The Sentencing Project.
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Attention

Brussels bombs: What we know so far


RT
Tue, 22 Mar 2016 17:17 UTC
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© Marija Ivoninaite / AFPEmergency services take care of wounded people outside the Maalbeek metro station in Brussels on March 22, 2016 after a blast at this station located near the EU institutions
As Belgium raises its terror threat to the highest "fourth" level, and the country's prime minister confirms the attacks as acts of terrorism, RT sums up what we know so far about today's explosions in Brussels.

1. Three explosions took place in Brussels. Two blasts went off in the departure hall of Brussels' Zaventem Airport at around 8am local time, with at least one of them being a suicide bombing, according to Belgium's federal prosecutor. One bomb exploded at the Maalbeek Metro station, which is close to the European Union headquarters.


Comment: "The Maalbeek station is also near a number of important EU buildings such as Berlaymont building, which houses the EU Commission and the Council of the European Union. ... The French BFMTV station, citing police sources, says that Belgian intelligence had advanced knowledge of the terrorist attacks in the country, but did not know when and where they would take place."


Comment: Belgian police have released this CCTV capture of the suspects for the airport bombings.
brussels suspects
© BFP / AFPA picture released on March 22, 2016 by the Belgian federal police on demand of the Federal prosecutor shows a screengrab of the airport CCTV camera showing suspects of this morning's attacks at Brussels Airport, in Zaventem
It shows two men with black hair, one of them definitely bearded, wearing black jumpers. Both of them can be seen pushing airport baggage trolleys, and both have one hand gloved - possibly hiding a trigger for a bomb, DH.be reported. The third man in the image is wearing a hat. Police are now searching for him, the media said.

Earlier, citing police sources, Belgian newspaper Het Nieuwsblad reported that a third man who tried to blow himself up at the airport is still on the run. ... An undetonated suicide belt has been found at the airport, Flemish TV channel VTM reported, adding that authorities believe it may have belonged to the third terrorist who managed to flee the scene.

Two blasts went off in the departure hall of Brussels' Zaventem Airport at around 8am local time, with at least one of them being a suicide bombing, according to Belgium's federal prosecutor. Another bomb detonated at the airport might have been a suitcase bomb, a US official told AP on condition of anonymity. At least one of the bombs used at the airport contained nails, Belgian media reported, citing a hospital source.


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Dollar Gold

Trump: Israel will reimburse the US when he's president

Fred Lucas
The Blaze
Mon, 21 Mar 2016 05:22 UTC
trumpy
© Al Drago/CQ Roll CallTrump speaks at a news conference at the site for Trump International Hotel in Washington, DC., the new alternate White House.
Ahead of speaking to a pro-Israel conference in Washington, Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said that the nation of Israel should reimburse the U.S. for military assistance.

"I want them to pay us some money," Trump said during a press conference Monday at the site of Trump International Hotel, Washington, D.C., which is set to open later this year. "I think Israel can afford to pay us. There are many countries who can pay."

Trump was scheduled to speak Monday evening at the AIPAC Policy Conference, an annual pro-Israel gathering in Washington.

Trump was not singling out Israel, which is widely seen as a critical United States ally in the Middle East. He has made it part of his foreign policy proposal to make any wealthy country getting military assistance reimburse the U.S.

"I order thousands of television sets a year from South Korea. They are a behemoth," Trump said. "Every time North Korea raises its head, they do anything, they sneeze, we send South Korea huge sums of money and everything else. We don't get proper reimbursement for that. Now, I like South Korea. I have property in South Korea. I have a lot of friends in South Korea. They can't believe they get away with it."

Trump went on to name other countries. "Germany can't believe it. You know who really can't believe it?," Trump continued. "Saudi Arabia. You have Saudi Arabia, the richest country no matter how you cut it."

Comment: Mr. Trump, you just don't get it. Our investment in Israel is really their infest-ment in the US. But hey, Donald...go for it! Time someone balanced the books, eh? About that Israeli payback...it's in the mail (stamped and addressed to you in Mossad's Israel's official stationery response envelope).

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Ambulance

People overcome by breathing problems, nausea and dizziness at Colorado pool from suspected chemical leak

Gillian Mohney
ABC News
Mon, 21 Mar 2016 16:44 UTC
mystery illness colorado pool
22 Sickened With Mystery Illness at Colorado Pool
At least 22 people, most of them children, reported symptoms such as nausea, dizziness and vomiting from an unknown cause at a Colorado recreation center this weekend, according to a local fire chief.

Lafayette Fire Chief David Friedel, in Lafayette, Colorado, told ABC News today that the cause remained undetermined.

"Thought it might have been chlorine" leak, Friedel said. "Hazmat crews couldn't detect anything like that."

Friedel said 22 people came down with nausea, dizziness and vomiting after entering a pool at the Bob L. Burger Recreation Center on Saturday.

Comment: The pool has since been reopened and investigations are continuing into the cause, which is suspected to have been a chlorine leak.

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Heart - Black

Army recruits 'forced to rape each other' in hazing ritual that was recorded and shared with the rest of their unit


RT
Mon, 21 Mar 2016 14:08 UTC
soldier shoes
© Phil Noble / Reuters
Two army recruits were allegedly forced to rape each other as part of an initiation ceremony in the Household Division regiment of the Welsh Guards.

The incident reportedly took place at Pirbright Barracks in Surrey and involved the men being forced to perform sexual acts on each other.

One of the soldiers involved has reportedly been discharged as a result of the distress caused by the "hazing ritual."

A source told the Sun on Sunday the "initiation" was caught on video and passed around the unit via WhatsApp and SnapChat.

"We can confirm an incident did take place and details were referred to the Royal Military Police for an initial investigation.

"No allegations of coercive or criminal behavior were made.

"However this behavior is unacceptable and administrative action was taken against those present, with disciplinary measures taken against one individual."
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