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Civil war next for Ukraine? Russian-speaking eastern regions strike back


RT
Sat, 22 Feb 2014 07:38 UTC
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The public gathering of deputies from local councils of southeastern Ukraine have declared they are taking responsibility for constitutional order in the country, as thousands of people have assembled in the city of Kharkov.

"We, the local authorities of all levels, the Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Sevastopol region decided to take responsibility for ensuring the constitutional order and the rights of citizens on their territory," their resolution said.

The Kharkov public gathering has announced a number of measures local authorities should take in response to the developments in Kiev. They should take full responsibility for all decision in respective regions with no regard to authorities in Kiev until the constitutional order in Ukraine is restored, a resolution of the gathering says.

They authorities should take measures to protect arms depots and prevent their take-over and looting by radical opposition activists.
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Crimetracker: Woman confesses on camera to stabbing her own mother


Loca8now.com
Sat, 22 Feb 2014 06:37 UTC
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According to the warrants, Nichols stuffed a sock in her mother's mouth and tried tying her up. The warrants say she strangled her until she lost consciousness, and then stabbed her mother in the neck, chest and stomach using scissors and two knives. Nichols has no prior criminal history in Knox County.
A woman who lives at Sunchase Apartments and is close friends with the 61-year-old woman who was stabbed a few doors down early Tuesday morning didn't want to be identified, but said the woman's daughter - Katie Nichols - is to blame.

"She's not emotionally stable and does the best she can, but needs quite a bit of help," she said.

The woman said after the stabbing, Nichols took off with her young daughter.

"I almost kind of hope that she does come back through here so we can get the authorities to get her," she said.

Not five minutes later, it happened - Nichols walked up to our camera.
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Final death toll from Kiev's day of mayhem: 77 (Videos + Images)


RT
Sat, 22 Feb 2014 04:18 UTC
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Kiev, February 20, 2014
The number of those killed in the Ukrainian violence has risen to 77, the country's Health Ministry has said. Doctors working on Kiev's Independence Square, however, claimed that as many as 70 people were killed on the rioters' side alone on Thursday.

The death toll in the most violent wave of clashes between the rioters and the police in Kiev is likely to increase, as there are conflicting figures coming from the Health Department, city officials and the opposition.

As many as 570 people have been injured, according to official estimates.

The surge in the number of victims comes as both armed rioters and the police are now using live ammunition in clashes. Many of the protesters and police officers killed or injured since Tuesday sustained gunshot wounds. Police have officially been allowed to use firearms in accordance with the law by an order of the Ukrainian Interior Minister.
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Cache of files show Golden Dawn party members posing with weapons and giving Nazi salutes: Are Greece's fascists gearing up for bloody mayhem?

Helena Smith
The Guardian
Mon, 17 Feb 2014 06:31 UTC
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The cache of photographs has been handed by police to a Greek public prosecutor investigating Golden Dawn's alleged illegal activities
Thousands of pictures and video clips allegedly show party members posing with weapons and giving Nazi salutes

Greek authorities are studying what is being described as a cache of "highly incriminating" photographic material in which members of the far-right Golden Dawn party are allegedly depicted participating in mock executions, posing with weaponry and giving Nazi salutes.

The hoard of almost 14,000 pictures and 900 video clips - discovered in computers and mobiles phones confiscated from two MPs and a man who headed one of the group's local branches - has been handed by police to a public prosecutor investigating the extremists' alleged illegal activities.

"What this confirms, without a shadow of doubt, is that Golden Dawn is not only a Nazi group but a criminal organisation that operated as a paramilitary structure," said Dimitris Psarras, the country's leading authority on the party.

"We are literally talking about thousands of pictures," he told the Guardian. "And many are highly incriminating, portraying well known members receiving armed training in summer camps."
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Dollars

Britain's bank bosses to be awarded £millions in 'extra bonuses' as nearly a million ordinary people rely on food banks to survive

Jill Traenor
The Guardian
Fri, 21 Feb 2014 20:00 UTC
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Barclays' Antony Jenkins is likely to receive parcels of shares alongside his salary in the coming months, as are the chief executives of Lloyds Banking Group, HSBC and Royal Bank of Scotland

The bosses of Britain's biggest banks are on course to be awarded millions of pounds in share payments to circumvent a Brussels-imposed bonus cap - a move that risks inflaming the toxic row over City pay deals.

The new payments would be in addition to bank leaders' basic pay because the EU is limiting bonuses to 100% of salaries - or 200% if shareholders approve larger payments.

The big-four high street banks are consulting shareholders about bonuses for chief executives that hit the 200% limit, alongside discussions on additional share payments so that none of the elite boardroom-level bankers would be worse off as a result of the cap.

The initiative threatens to bring further political and public scorn on an industry that suffered yet another reputational blow this month when Barclays increased its bonuses to staff by 10% to £2.4bn, despite reporting a 32% fall in profits.

The attempt to outflank pay limits comes as thousands of bank employees face the threat of redundancy.
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Gear

In plundering the Earth with rash excess, the Oligarchy has dug the World's largest mass grave

Mark Karlin
Truth Out
Thu, 20 Feb 2014 08:15 UTC
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Is the human species next on the list?
There was a popular bumper sticker you'd see on luxury cars awhile back, "The person who dies with the most toys wins."

Sometimes, when I saw an automobile with such a message, my first thought was how tacky to put such a cheap plastic boast of wealth on a vehicle that cost tens of thousands of dollars. But then I realized that, to paraphrase Marshall McCluhan, "the medium is the message." This is what this person is all about; "my greed makes me who I am, and I'm better and more valuable than you are in your cheap Ford."

This destructive confusion of one's worth as a human being with one's financial worth arose in my mind again yesterday when writing a commentary, "Five Reasons the 1% Do Not Want Unemployment to Decrease." After discussing a recent news kerfuffle over multi-millionaire Tom Perkins' assertion that the wealthiest are the most deserving -- in essence an Ayn Randian perspective on human value -- I noted:
There's a theory that the wealthy do believe that they are anointed. This speculation about their world view is not that different from the monarchies that democracies revolted against. It presupposes that the people of the world are set in sort of a pre-determined caste system. In this world view, those who inherit wealth (which is a high percentage of the super rich -- just look at the Walton and Koch heirs) are inherently more deserving of their billions. Those persons who ruthlessly claw their way to the top -- with money appearing to be their ultimate criteria for the value of their lives -- have been chosen to acquire fortunes because of their basic worthiness, this theory argues.

Comment: Psychopaths in Power and the Imminent Collapse of Global Society (It's all your fault!)

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Rampant hysteria! UK EasyJet flight grounded for two hours 'because schoolboy reported another passenger was writing something in Arabic'

Lizzie Parry
Daily Mail
Thu, 20 Feb 2014 17:15 UTC
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Hysteria: An easyJet flight from Amsterdam to Newcastle was delayed for two hours after a group of school children reported seeing another passenger writing in what appeared to be Arabic script
An easyJet flight was grounded for two hours after a security alert was sparked when schoolchildren reported seeing a man writing Arabic in a notebook.

The students, who were aged 15 and 16, alerted cabin crew after spotting the man writing in what appeared to be Arabic script, while waiting for take off.

The flight from Amsterdam to Newcastle was delayed to allow for 16 of the 45-strong group of students, believed to be from a school in Northumberland, to get off the aircraft.

Technical support worker Adam Robson, 21, who was sat next to the man, said he first became aware of the issue when he felt kicking and banging on the back of his seat as one of the student's suffered a panic attack.

He said: 'The guy had a notebook and people were looking over at it as it had both Arabic writing and English words.

'One of the students called a flight attendant over and pointed it out,' said Mr Robson, from Newcastle's West End, who had been on a romantic weekend away with his girlfriend Lauren.
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Compass

Putin shows how it's done - Defeats terrorism by investing billions in Chechnya

Jonathan Steele
The Guardian
Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:00 UTC
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Kadyrov (left) with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in Grozny in October 2008
Chechnya is being rebuilt with Russian oil cash and its leader obeys Moscow. Separatist ideas are on ice

No corkscrew. That's the first surprise about Chechnya. Unlike in Baghdad today or Kabul during the Soviet occupation, planes don't arrive high above the airfield and then dip one wing in a steep and terrifying spiral so as to reduce the risk of ground fire as they land. In Grozny they glide in over woods and villages, apparently confident there are no resistance fighters lurking in wait.

Surprise number two is the amount of reconstruction in the Chechen capital. Five years ago when I last visited Grozny it still looked like the ruins of Dresden or Hiroshima, street after devastated street. Now new nine-storey blocks of flats, shops, and cafes flank the main streets. In the central square workers are laying the last paving stones outside what is described as Europe's largest mosque, a concrete replica of Istanbul's Blue Mosque, financed and largely built with Turkish aid and Turkish engineers.
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Pills

Teenager's face melts after she suffers acute reaction to deadly Big Pharma 'heartburn pills'

Richard Hartley-Parkinson
Mirror
Thu, 20 Feb 2014 12:24 UTC
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A teenager's face MELTED when she suffered an extreme reaction to a heartburn pill.

Leanne Howes, 17, has survived despite doctors saying there was a low likelihood that she would pull through.

She took over-the-counter Zantac tablets but within days she had a one-in-a-million allergic reaction and her skin started to fall off her entire body.

The trainee hairdresser from Hoveton, Norwich, was in hospital for several weeks after what started out as an itchy rash in September 2013 quickly developed into blisters the size of tennis balls.

She said: "I thought I was going to die. I couldn't move and my face was so swollen that my eyes had fused shut.

"Everywhere was itching and my skin was weeping a thick yellow pus."
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Stormtrooper

Young female woman jogger with headphones knocked to the floor, arrested by Austin police thugs because she didn't hear when they tried to ticket her for jaywalking

Snejana Farberov
Daily Mail, UK
Fri, 21 Feb 2014 18:29 UTC
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Busted: Amanda Jo Stephen, 24, is seen handcuffed and in tears following Thursday's arrest for a traffic violation in Austin
  • Amanda Jo Stephen, 24, charged with failure to identify and traffic signal violation in Austin, Texas
  • Eyewitness said Stephen was jogging with headphones on and didn't hear police officer tell her to stop
  • Police were in the area giving tickets to pedestrians for crossing street on red light
A female jogger out for a run in Austin, Texas, Thursday was arrested, handcuffed and hauled into a police cruiser screaming and in tears for allegedly failing to identify herself.

The entire incident was caught on video recorded by Chris Quintero, a student at University of Texas who was sitting in a cafe across the street and witnessed the woman being taken into custody.

The arrest took place just before 11am outside a fast-food eatery near the intersection of 24th Street and San Antonio Street in Austin.

Caught on camera: Chris Quintero took pictures and video of the jogger's arrest; the college student said the 24-year-old crossed the street without waiting to the light to switch and was ordered to stop by police

Sporting a black crop top, shorts and toe sneakers, 24-year-old Amanda Jo Stephen was running across the street when an officer yelled for her to stop.

According to Quintero, who saw the arrest play out from a nearby Starbucks, the jogger got caught in a police operation targeting jaywalkers, University of Texas' student newspaper The Daily Texan reported.

Since Stephen had her headphones on, she allegedly didn't hear the officer and continued on her way.
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