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At least 16 killed, 100 injured as Pakistan passenger train derails


Press TV
Tue, 17 Nov 2015 15:30 UTC
Pakistan train crash
© EPA
A view of derailed wagons of a passenger train in Bolan district of Balochistan province, Pakistan on Nov 17, 2015.
A train transporting 300 passengers has run off its railroad track, leaving at least 16 people dead and more than 100 others injured in Pakistan's southwestern province of Baluchistan.

"Four carriages of a Rawalpindi-bound train which left Quetta railway station were derailed near Abegum area of Bolan district, some 75 kilometers (46 miles) from Quetta city," Akbar Hussain Durrani, the Baluchistan home secretary, said on Tuesday.

The accident occurred near Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan Province, after the train's brakes failed as it came speeding down the side of a mountain, according to officials.

The train driver and his assistant, and two members of the railway police, are among the dead.

Train accidents frequently happen in Pakistan.

In July, at least 17 people were killed when a special military train fell into a canal after a bridge partially collapsed.
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'Waste them in the outhouse': Putin's famous rallying cry against terrorists goes viral after Paris attacks


RT
Tue, 17 Nov 2015 17:29 UTC
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French fire brigade members aid an injured individual near the Bataclan concert hall following fatal shootings in Paris, France, November 13, 2015.
In the wake of Friday's Paris attacks, French social media users have been posting and reposting a catchphrase by Vladimir Putin, who famously called for terrorists to be "wasted... in the outhouse." Some say they like this approach better than Hollande's "non-action" calls.

The phrase has become famous and dates back to 1999, when Putin was Russia's prime minister. At that time the country faced terror on a large scale as it was fighting jihadists in the Caucasus during the second Chechen campaign. He was commenting on the Russian anti-terrorist operation in the city of Grozny, the capital of the Chechen Republic, and the catchphrase became an illustration of his hardline attitude toward terrorists.

"We are going to pursue terrorists everywhere. If they are in the airport, we will pursue them in the airport. And if we capture them in the toilet, then we will waste them in the outhouse. ... The issue has been resolved once and for all," he told Russian media.

Since then the phrase has become Putin's catchphrase and has resurfaced on social media occasionally, especially after terrorist attacks. It was widely re-tweeted after the Boston Marathon bombings in April 2013 and the Charlie Hebdo attacks in January 2014, as social media users called for a tougher approach in dealing with terrorism.
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Nuke

Ugly legacies of the Vietnam War: Agent Orange, Monsanto & Dow Chemical

Dr. Gary G. Kohls
Global Research
Sun, 15 Nov 2015 16:56 UTC
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Fifty years ago this next month (December 1965), with the urging of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the rubber stamp approval of President Lyndon Johnson and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, the United States Air Force started secretly spraying the forests of Laos with a deadly herbicide that was known as Agent Orange.

Operation Ranch Hand, whose motto was "Only We Can Prevent Forests" (a shameful takeoff of Smokey the Bear's admonition), was a desperate, costly and ultimately futile effort to make it a little harder for the National Liberation Front soldiers from North Vietnam to join and supply their comrades-in-arms in the south. Both the guerilla fighters in the south and the NLF army had been fighting to liberate Vietnam from the exploitive colonial domination from foreign nations such as imperial France (that began colonizing Vietnam in 1874), then Japan (during WWII), then the United States (since France's expulsion after their huge military defeat at Dien Bien Phu in 1954) and then against its own nation's US-backed fascist/military regime in South Vietnam that was headed by the brutal and corrupt President Diem.

Comment: The legacy of Agent Orange & Monsanto - Have things changed?

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Facebook shut down Anonymous group exposing ISIS recruiters shortly before Paris attack

Jay Syrmopoulos
Free Thought Project
Sat, 14 Nov 2015 17:16 UTC
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Shortly before the massive coordinated terrorist attacks in Paris, which ISIS has claimed responsibility for, Facebook took down the primary Anonymous group responsible for unmasking and reporting thousands of social media accounts used by ISIS to spread propaganda and recruit.

The main weapon used by ISIS to spread their extremist ideology has been social media, and regardless of your stance as to how the terror group was created or who created it, Twitter and Facebook have been the major tools for the growth of the Islamic State.

In an effort to counter this massive ISIS social media presence, the Anonymous group Red Cult began an operation called #OpISIS as a means of combating the terrorist group in cyberspace.

The idea that Facebook has removed a group calling itself "Report ISIS Accounts" is disconcerting and raises serious ethical questions. The Anonymous run group was removed from Facebook only hours prior to the Paris attacks, and the administrators from the group were banned.
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Bad Guys

Coincidence or pathological persistence? Cop being sued by woman for assault, caught on video assaulting same woman AGAIN

William N. Griegg
Alternet
Tue, 17 Nov 2015 16:26 UTC
The woman was apparently targeted by the officer.

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A woman who filed a civil rights lawsuit against the Bridgeton, New Jersey Police Department was apparently targeted by the officer who is the central defendant in that suit — and the result was a replay of the incident that precipitated the lawsuit.

On March 31 of this year, Marella Lawson was dragged from her car by a scrum of Bridgeton police officers, pepper-sprayed, had her already-crippled right shoulder injured as her arms were wrenched behind her back, and thrown face-down to the pavement. Because the assailants were police officers, Lawson has been charged with two misdemeanors — resisting arrest and harassment - after initially being charged with felonies.

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Arrow Up

State of Virginia officially ended veteran homelessness

Amanda Froelich
Activist Post
Mon, 16 Nov 2015 00:00 UTC
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While Connecticut was the first state to end chronic veteran homelessness, Virginia is officially now the first US state to end all veteran homelessness, a monumental achievement, indeed.

As of Wednesday, the state of Virginia has officially ended veteran homelessness, stated Governor Terry McAuliffe. According to the Huffington Post, the milestone declaration means that every veteran in the state has housing, except for those who were offered shelter, but declined.

The state press release shares that by streamlining resources and having the Department of Veterans Affairs, public housing groups, local utility companies and other key partners collaborate on the conundrum, Virginia has been able to house 1,432 veterans since October 2014.

Comment: This is an encouraging step and hopefully more U.S. states will follow suit because the federal government's treatment of military veterans has been absolutely disgraceful.

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Anonymous takes down 5,500 Islamic State Twitter accounts


RT
Tue, 17 Nov 2015 14:01 UTC
Anonymous
© Peter Nicholls / Reuters
Hacktivist group Anonymous has reported that more than 5,500 Twitter accounts belonging to Islamic State have been taken down. It comes after the collective declared a "total war" on the militant group following the Paris attacks.

Tweeting from its #OpParis account, Anonymous stated: "We report that more than 5500 Twitter account (sic) of #ISIS are now #down! #OpParis #Anonymous #ExpectUS."


Comment: That is one way to disrupt Islamic State activities.

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Syria UN ambassador reports 1 million Syrians return home since launch of Russian anti-Islamic State operations


RT
Tue, 17 Nov 2015 13:26 UTC
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Syrians carry their belongings as they cross back into Syria at the Syrian-Turkish border crossing of Bab al-Hawa in Idlib province, Syria September 23, 2015.
Around 1 million Syrians have returned to their home cities liberated by the Syrian military with Russian air support, Syria's UN ambassador said Monday, adding that Damascus is determined to work with any state that takes combating terrorism seriously.

Syria's ambassador to the United Nations, Bashar Jaafari, said that "this is precisely what happens when it comes to Syrian-Russian collaborative military action against terrorists and exchange of intelligence between Syria, Iraq, Iran and Russia. This has practically resulted in terrorist groups' retreat from [their positions in] many areas, which allowed 1 million internally displaced persons to return safely to their homes."

The Syrian ambassador, who took part in a UN Security Council meeting on Monday, confirmed that the Syrian government was ready to cooperate "with any state which has a serious approach to combating terrorism," TASS reported.

Jaafari also said that the anti-ISIS campaign by the Syrian military has had a positive impact on security worldwide and in Europe.

Comment: Amazing how that works out but the US and NATO probably don't want the refugees returning to their homes.

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Penis Pump

Couldn't catch a cold: TSA fails to detect loaded gun at Atlanta airport, gets through 'security'


RT
Mon, 16 Nov 2015 20:41 UTC
just caught terrorist said no tsa agent ever meme
A traveler who flew from Atlanta, Georgia to Chicago, Illinois says he accidentally carried a loaded semi-automatic handgun onto his plane in his backpack. The Transportation Security Administration did not find the gun during pre-flight screening.

Blake Alford said over the weekend that he discovered the gun after he had landed in Chicago on a Southwest Airlines flight from Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on November 5.

Alford, a retired truck driver, said it was an innocent mistake, and that he wanted to speak out to ensure such a security breach does not happen again.

"People need to know TSA needs to tighten up," Alford told WGCL. "If they'll take toothpaste. They'll make people get out of wheelchairs. They'll make me take off my belt buckle and my shoes. How did my gun go through?"

Comment: TSA's so-called security practices are a total joke. The entire operation is security theater, designed to provide the illusion of security (while conditioning the populace for obedience and compliance), instead of being actually secure.

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Light Sabers

Police kill young black man under questionable circumstances, Minneapolis has its 'Ferguson moment'

Sarah Kaplan
Washington Post
Mon, 16 Nov 2015 22:28 UTC
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© (Mark Vancleave/Star Tribune via AP)
Protesters marched down Plymouth Avenue North to the Minneapolis 4th Precinct. Neighbors and community members gathered at the scene where a man was shot and wounded by a Minneapolis Police officer early Nov. 15.
A young black man was shot by a police officer in Minneapolis early Sunday morning. On that much, police and the protesters who marched through the streets of Minneapolis Sunday agree. But on other, crucial points — Was the man handcuffed when he was shot? Is he even still alive? — there is little consensus or clarity.

Minneapolis Deputy Police Chief Bruce Folkens said at a news conference that police were called to the scene of an assault around 12:45 a.m. Sunday. En route, they learned that a man was interfering with paramedics' efforts to treat his alleged victim. When officers arrived, they got into a "physical altercation" with the man, who was not in handcuffs. One officer fired his weapon at some point during the struggle; the man, whom they have not named, was hit and taken to a local hospital.

Activists and witnesses at the scene tell a different story.

Comment: Unfortunately, this is just another in a long line of police killings. People of color are especially vulnerable, and it's clear that we have a systemic problem.

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