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Disturbing coincidence: 1000 Germanwings crash volunteers were at Stade de France, courtesy the airline

Chris Johnston
Guardian, UK
Sat, 14 Nov 2015 13:14 UTC
Tom Enders
© Toby Melville/REUTERS
Airbus chief executive Tom Enders was at the Stade de France last night.
You couldn't make this up: some 1,000 emergency workers and volunteers who responded after a Germanwings flight crashed in the Alps in March were at the Stade de France last night as a reward for their hard work during the tragedy.

They were taken to see the France v Germany friendly on a chartered train by Lufthansa, which owns Germanwings.

Airbus communications chief Rainer Ohler, who was at the stadium along with the company's chief executive Tom Enders, said:
It was supposed to be an evening of French and German celebration and appreciation after that tragic event. We heard the explosions and at first nobody thought of terrorism.

It was only when President Hollande left and people started getting phone messages that we realised what was going on.
Enders said Airbus stood united against "barbarian attacks".
Nous sommes unis! (We are united!) We are all impacted by the tragic terror attacks in Paris. Our thoughts are with the victims, their families and all the people in Paris.

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Survivors of the Paris terror attack recall the horror: 'There was blood and bodies everywhere'


RT
Sat, 14 Nov 2015 15:17 UTC
Paris attack survivors
© Christian Hartmann / Reuters
People warm up under protective thermal blankets as they prepare to board a bus to be evacuated near the Bataclan concert hall following fatal attacks in Paris, France, November 14, 2015.
As the French authorities are trying to piece together the set of events that brought about the deadliest terrorist act on home soil, Friday night's survivors are recalling the details of horrific attacks that claimed the lives of over 150 people in Paris.

The worst carnage during Paris' Friday 13 shooting spree took place at a concert hall that was hosting an American rock band. Hundreds of people were held hostage for several hours before the attackers detonated explosive belts. At least 120 people died as special forces stormed the building, killing at least three attackers.

After the dust settled, witnesses who are being questioned by the police, told French publications that the motive behind the theater attack is extremist retaliation against French involvement in the Middle East and Africa.
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Meet the newest police dog on the force — a pit bull


New York Post
Fri, 13 Nov 2015 10:45 UTC
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Police Officer Justin Bruzgul runs with Kiah on an obstacle course at K9 school in Stone Ridge, N.Y.
The new rookie at one New York police department weighs 60 pounds, has a big, lolling tongue, a soft caramel coat and a chance to fight stereotypes in addition to crime.

When she graduates Friday from K9 training school, Kiah will be one of just a few pit bulls to serve as a police dog. It's a job usually given to breeds that don't come with the pit bull's reputation — deserved or not — as a savage animal fit only for the company of criminals.

"The breed isn't important," said Brad Croft, who trains dogs for law enforcement and the military and found Kiah in a Texas animal shelter after her previous owner was arrested for animal cruelty. "It's what's inside of the dog that's important."


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Putin offers deep condolences over series of monstrous terrorist attacks in Paris


TASS Russian News Agency
Sat, 14 Nov 2015 03:44 UTC
The Russian president sent words of solidarity to French President Francois Hollande and the entire French people, his spokesman says

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© © AP Photo/Thibault Camus

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Calais 'Jungle' refugee camp set on fire as Paris rocked by deadly attacks


RT
Sat, 14 Nov 2015 02:31 UTC

A huge fire has broken out at the vast 'Jungle' refugee camp near the French port of Calais, just hours after a string of bloody attacks struck Paris, leaving over 100 dead. The Calais deputy mayor told RT that the authorities are trying to tackle the blaze.
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#PorteOuverte: Parisians advertise 'open doors' for those stranded by terror attacks


RT
Sat, 14 Nov 2015 01:35 UTC
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© © Gonazlo Fuentes / Reuters
Police control crowds leaving the Stade de France where explosions were reported to have detonated outside the stadium during the France vs German friendly match near Paris, November 13, 2015.
With emergency response to the terror attacks in Paris shutting down public transportation, Parisians are taking stranded people into their homes and advertising safe havens on social media using the hashtag #PorteOuverte ('open door').

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Children more likely to be abused in homes of returning war veterans


RT
Fri, 13 Nov 2015 23:36 UTC
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© © Lucas Jackson / Reuters
Young children of US soldiers returning from deployment face a heightened risk of abuse and neglect in the first six months after a parent returns, according to a new study.

Researchers from the PolicyLab at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) performed one of the largest studies analyzing child abuse in military families. Its findings were published Friday in the American Journal of Public Health.

"This study is the first to reveal an increased risk when soldiers with young children return home from deployment," David Rubin, co-director of PolicyLab and the report's senior author, said in a statement. "This really demonstrates that elevated stress when a soldier returns home can have real and potentially devastating consequences for some military families."

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Utah judge rescinds order that lesbian couple can't keep foster child

Ana Cabrera, Greg Botelho & Chandrika Narayan
CNN
Fri, 13 Nov 2015 21:04 UTC
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© CNN
A Utah judge who initially decided to take a baby away from her same-sex foster parents and place her in a home with heterosexual parents has changed his mind, after widespread criticism.

Juvenile Court Judge Scott Johansen rescinded his order, according to court documents obtained by CNN on Friday.

He amended Tuesday's first ruling, crossing out the line in the order that read, "The Court orders the Division to place the child with a duly married, heterosexual foster-adoptive couple within one week."

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More Americans turn to squatting as the economy tanks

Mac Slavo
SHTFplan.com
Thu, 12 Nov 2015 21:17 UTC
squatting
There have always been squatters, but the trend may be rising.

And the growing clash of squatters and abandoned properties suggests a boom-bust housing disaster for the economy.

The phenomenon was notable after the 2006 housing bubble popped, and has resurfaced in strikingly similar circumstances for many struggling Americans.

News8 in Tampa reported on the caustic reaction by law enforcement to squatters it believes may be using a manual that has been published and sold on Amazon on strategies about how to squat, for those "willing to take the risk":
Crooks find empty houses all over Tampa Bay and make themselves at home. And now, 8 On Your Side uncovered training manuals on the internet. They teach how to get away with squatting.

The handbooks are brazen. A pamphlet for sale on Amazon for $61.20. An entry on Wiki-How entices tells squatters how to "take a whole house from someone if you're willing to take the risk."

It points out the best areas to squat and even advises to spruce up the home to throw off suspicious neighbors.

Comment: If your only choice is to be exposed to the elements or take shelter in a perfectly intact home, which would you choose? Expect to see more of this as the American economy goes further down the toilet.

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Report cites significant threat of explosive crude oil 'bomb trains' traveling across neglected US railways

Candice Bernd
Truthout
Fri, 13 Nov 2015 13:48 UTC
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Flames and smoke can be seen at the site of an oil train's derailment near Galena, Illinois
With the White House's recent rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline, oil and gas energy analysts are already projecting a modest boost for the crude-by-rail business, despite the fact that US State Department officials indicated on November 6 that the extent to which railways may become a major form of transport for Canadian tar sands crude oil into the United States still "remains uncertain."

But according to a new report out this week from Waterkeeper Alliance, ForestEthics and Riverkeeper, since 2008, oil train traffic has increased more than 5,000 percent along routes "leading from oil fields in central Canada, the Great Plains and the Rockies to refineries and crude oil hubs along our nation's coasts." The environmental advocacy groups' report describes the significant threat posed by explosive crude oil "bomb trains" traveling across aging and neglected US rail infrastructure.

Comment: While the US infrastructure has been crumbling for decades, there may be something rather suspicious linking a few of the recent oil train derailments that bears further consideration:

Another Buffett-owned oil tanker train derails in Wisconsin one day after Obama kills Keystone XL pipeline

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