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Four-year-old girl swept from her parents in Boxing Day tsunami is reunited with her family 10 years later

Kate Lyons
Daily Mail, UK
Fri, 08 Aug 2014 19:38 UTC
  • Parents who lost their two children in the 2004 tsunami claim to have found their daughter 10 years later
  • Raudhatul Jannah was given up for dead by her family
  • Mother says her brother spotted a girl who looked like the long-lost girl
  • Jannah was rescued by a fisherman and raised by the fisherman's mother, who called her Wenni
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Raudhatul Jannah (centre) is embraced by her mother Jamaliah (left) and grandmother (right) after being reunited in Meulaboh, Indonesia 10 years after they were separated.
An Indonesian girl has been reunited with her family 10 years after she was swept away by the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, her mother claims.

Four-year-old Raudhatul Jannah and her seven-year-old brother were separated from their parents while holding onto a floating piece of wood in the tsunami waters, when it hit her West Aceh home on December 26, 2004, reported DPA.

Jannah's mother Jamaliah, 42, and her husband survived and searched for their children, but stopped after one month, assuming the children had died in the devastating tsunami. In June, Jamaliah's brother spotted a girl who bore a resemblance to Jannah walking home from school and made inquiries about her.
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New Jersey cop resigns after video of him denouncing the Constitution goes viral

Sergio Bichao
myCentralJersey.com
Thu, 07 Aug 2014 19:36 UTC
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© YouTubeA still photo of the YouTube video showing Helmetta Special Police Officer Richard Recine talking about the U.S. Constitution.
Richard Recine's 36-year career as a police officer came crashing down this week after he was caught on camera saying police do not have to follow the Constitution because President Barack Obama doesn't either.

On Thursday, Recine - who had retired from the Franklin police force in 2006 and was working part time here as a special police officer - submitted his resignation.

"I don't want to give a black eye to law enforcement," Recine, 59, said Thursday in an exclusive interview with MyCentralJersey.com. "People are saying some really nasty stuff about cops. I don't want all officers painted with the same brush."

Borough Administrator Herbert Massa said the resignation was accepted by Police Director Robert Manney, who had called Recine's comments an "embarrassment."
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Stock Up

Latin America will be huge beneficiary of Russia's import ban


RT
Thu, 07 Aug 2014 19:23 UTC
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© Reuters / Amr Abdallah Dalsh
Russia's 1-year ban on food products from the EU, US, Canada, and Norway will force Russia to increase food imports from Latin America, specifically Ecuador, Brazil, Chile, and Argentina.

Russia will ban meat, dairy, fruit, and vegetable imports from countries that have imposed sanctions on Russia over the Ukraine conflict, which opens the door to Russia's partners on the other side of the world.

Russia will have to fill an 8 percent gap in its total agricultural imports that it sources from the EU, USA, Canada, Australia, and Norway. The Netherlands, Germany, and Poland are currently Russia's biggest food suppliers in the EU.

Meat and dairy products from Ecuador, Chile and Uruguay may appear on Russian supermarket shelves as early as September, said Julia Trofimova, a at Rosselkhoznadzor, Russia's consumer watchdog.
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Jewish expedition of 'Mitzvah tanks' will visit Crimea during trip across Russia to promote Judaism


RT
Fri, 08 Aug 2014 19:16 UTC
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A still from Ruptly video
Rabbis and students of Jewish religious schools from the US, Europe, and Israel have set off on a journey across Russia in special vehicles known as "Mitzvah tanks." As part of the trip, the expedition will visit Crimea to promote Judaism there.

The Mitzvah tanks began their journey on Thursday, with plans to visit nearly 70 cities across Russia - including Volgograd, Omsk, Novosibirsk, Chelyabinsk, Krasnodar, Sochi, Yekaterinburg, Kazan, Orenburg, Vladimir, Simferopol, Yalta, and Sevastopol.

For the first time in history, Crimea was in included on the itinerary.
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Arrow Up

Naomi Klein: 'Our economic model is at war with life on Earth'

Jon Queally
Common Dreams
Fri, 08 Aug 2014 16:19 UTC
This Changes Everything
© Amazon.comThe new book by author and activist Naomi Klein will explore how our current "economic model is at war with life on Earth."
The book's title is not elusive: This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate.

Due for release in September, the anticipated new work by Canadian journalist, activist and public intellectual Naomi Klein has now been previewed in a video trailer that appears to lay out its main themes and central argument.

"In December of 2012, a complex systems scientists walked up to the podium at the American Geophysics Union to present a paper," the narrator of the video - Klein herself - says as footage begins of urban high rise developments and burnt out croplands.

And the voice-over continues:
The paper was titled, "Is the Earth Fucked?" His answer was: "Yeah. Pretty much."

That's where the road we're on is taking us, but that has less to do with carbon than with capitalism.

Our economic model is at war with life on Earth.

We can't change the laws of nature, but we can change our broken economy.

And that's why climate change isn't just a disaster. It's also our best chance to demand - and build - a better world.

Change or be changed. But make no mistake... this changes everything.
Watch:
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Pirates

Iraq's horror: Hundreds of Yazidi women taken captive by ISIS after US carries out limited airstrikes


RT News
Fri, 08 Aug 2014 16:08 UTC
ISIS
© ReutersFighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
Hundreds of Yazidi sect women have been captured by militants from the Islamic State group, formerly known as ISIS, according to media reports citing Iraqi officials.

Kamil Amin, a spokesman from Iraq's Human Rights Ministry, says hundreds of women from the Yazidi religious minority have been taken captive. He said that the women are under 35 years old and are being held at a school in Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, which is now under IS control.

The ministry learned of the situation from the victims' families, AP reports.

It comes after the US carried out limited airstrikes against Islamic State (IS) artillery, which had been targeting the Kurdish capital Erbil. An end date for the strikes has not yet been established, the White House said in statement on Friday.

Comment: Another western-created monster takes a life of its own. It rapes and plunders a country already destroyed by the forceful imposition of western 'democracy'. And now the west makes a half-hearted attempt to put the monster back in its cage?

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Snowden warned by Assange to be 'extremely cautious' if he travels outside Russia


RT
Fri, 08 Aug 2014 15:27 UTC
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© Reuters / Tobias Schwarz
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has warned former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden that leaving Russia could be dangerous, even with his new residence permit.

Speaking via videoconference to an audience at a freedom of speech convention in Mexico City, Assange said that Snowden could face threats to his physical well-being if he decides to leave Russia.

"Of course our advice is that he be extremely cautious in doing so for his physical security," the WikiLeaks founder said, according to AFP.

As RT reported, Snowden was officially granted a residence permit from Russia earlier on Thursday. Effective August 1, the permit will last for three years and allows Snowden to travel anywhere within Russia, as well as beyond the country's borders for up to three months.
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New Jersey cop: 'Obama decimated the Constitution, we don't have to' follow it


RT
Thu, 07 Aug 2014 14:28 UTC
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© Screenshot from YouTube user Paul Rasmussen
Police officers in New Jersey swear to uphold the United States Constitution as part of their oath of office. But one cop has decided that, because ‒ in his eyes ‒ President Barack Obama doesn't follow the document, he doesn't have to either.

Special Police Officer Richard Recine, a part-time employee of the Borough of Helmetta Police Department, was caught on video saying, "Obama has decimated the friggin' Constitution, so I don't give a damn. Because if he doesn't follow the Constitution we don't have to."

The statement was made in response to resident Steve Wronko, who was at the municipal building to serve an Open Public Records Act (OPRA) request after being kicked out of the Helmetta Regional Animal Shelter earlier in the week, and to complain about recent health code violations there and nepotism stemming from Mayor Nancy Martin.

In 2011, Martin made her son, Brandon Metz, the head of the Helmetta Regional Animal Shelter. She also appointed him to Animal Cruelty Investigator, Borough Laborer, Water Meter Reader, and Certified Recycling Coordinator, according to the town website. A Facebook page called Reform Helmetta Regional Animal Shelter claims that there are recurring inhumane practices and state health code violations
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Headphones

Voice recordings from cockpit of crashed Air Algerie flight AH5017 'unusable'


Frane24
Fri, 08 Aug 2014 14:13 UTC
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© AP Photo/ECPAD
Voice recordings taken from the cockpit of Air Algérie flight AH5017, which crashed in Mali killing 116 people last month, are "unusable", French investigators attempting to determine the cause of the crash said Thursday.

"The tape was a little bit damaged," Rémi Jouty, the head of France's BEA air safety agency, told journalists.

"The BEA laboratory was able to restore the tape. Unfortunately the recordings are so far unusable."

Flight AH5017, a McDonnell Douglas 83 jet that had taken off on July 24 from Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso bound for Algiers, crashed in the Mali desert after asking to turn back as bad weather struck.

France bore the brunt of the tragedy, with nearly half of the victims. Other passengers came from Burkina Faso, Lebanon, Algeria, Spain, Canada, Germany and Luxembourg.

Comment: Maybe it really was vaporized, as first reported when they said it was struck by lightning?

But can lightning do that?

Well, last month lightning started striking people inside their homes, so apparently lightning these days is capable of previously unheard of things!

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Russia's import bans on food a 'nightmare' for French farmers


France24
Fri, 08 Aug 2014 20:36 UTC
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French food trader Jean Selverro will lose €200 thousand a month because of Russia's import bans on food from the European Union, announced this week. Normally, 90 percent of his apples and pears are exported to Russia.

"I'm shocked," he told FRANCE 24. "I think it's a nightmare I need to wake up from. It's just not possible. I have to tell my employees, some who have been with me for nine years. Tomorrow or the day after, it's over."

A truck loaded with 22 tonnes of Selverro's fruit now has to be emptied.

President Xavier Beulin of a French farm union said the Russian import ban could seriously affect France's fruit and vegetable industry. "Russia is a significant market for us and one that grows by about 10 percent each year. It's not trivial," he told a European television network.

But it is not just fruit and vegetables. At the Rungis food market outside of Paris, cheese exporter Sabah Quartau was working the phones trying to determine the fate of her company's next shipment. She has been told that trucks transporting food are likely to be stopped at the border.
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