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Water

Water crisis in Gaza: Israel's blockade could force Palestinians to drink sewage

Kit O'Connell
Mint Press News
Fri, 09 Sep 2016 21:54 UTC
kids with water bottles
In this Saturday, April 16, 2016 photo, A Palestinian boy uses a homemade wagon made from a plastic crate to wheel bottles full of drinking water in front of a water supply station in Khan Younis refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip. Poor sewage treatment is a feature of life in Gaza, a result of infrastructure damaged during Israel’s bombing campaigns and ongoing blockade.
Unreliable electricity, an ongoing blockade on building supplies, and a failing waste treatment plant have spawned a sewage crisis in Gaza that experts warn could permanently damage Palestinians' access to clean water.

The crisis is now spilling over into Israel and threatening its water supply. According to an Aug. 25 report from Middle East Eye, floods of sewage flowing into the Mediterranean Sea have caused Israel's Ashkelon desalination plant, the source of 20 percent of the country's drinking water, to shut down at least four times in recent months.

In the report, Kieran Cooke wrote: "[E]ach day an estimated 90m litres of untreated or partially treated sewage flows into the sea in Gaza — only a few kilometres south of Ashkelon."

Comment: This tragedy will continue as most of the world turns a blind eye.

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Bomb

Paris: Police detonate unattended luggage in Gare du Nord bomb scare


RT
Fri, 09 Sep 2016 21:29 UTC
Gare du Nord train station
© Yves Herman / ReutersPolice patrol the Gare du Nord train station.
Thousands of people were forced to abandon the Gare du Nord station in central Paris after police found what eyewitnesses described as an unattended piece of luggage. The bomb squad then carried out a safe controlled detonation of the object.

A video posted on Twitter showed a tightly-packed crowd being held back by train station attendants in the atrium of the station, one of the busiest in the French capital, while an explosion rang out in the background.
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Pills

Ohio police shame drug users with shocking photo of them passed out with four-year child in backseat


RT
Fri, 09 Sep 2016 20:02 UTC
drug overdose
© City of East Liverpool, Ohio / Facebook
Ohio police posted shocking images online of two parents in the middle of a heroin overdose with their four-year-old child in the back seat.

Police in the city of East Liverpool say they came across an SUV on Wednesday driving erratically before braking hard to avoid hitting a school bus.

Although the bus eventually moved on, the SUV stayed still.

When officers approached the car, they found the driver, James Acord, "bobbing" his head back and forth while his speech was "almost unintelligible," according to the police report.

The 47-year-old told police he was trying to bring his partner, Rhonda Pasek, to the hospital, who was described as being"completely unconscious and turning blue."

Acord attempted to make a getaway, but the officer reached into the vehicle and removed the keys.

It was at that point police spotted the 4-year-old child sitting in the back seat, later identified as Pasek's son.

Comment: See also: Drug prohibition and the backstory behind the recent wave of heroin overdoses

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Piggy Bank

How your clothes are DESIGNED to fall apart - Planned obsolescence in the fashion industry

Polly Dunbar
Daily Mail
Wed, 17 Aug 2016 17:48 UTC
fast fashion
We've all experienced the irritation of a much-loved dress or top shrinking in the wash, coming apart at the seams or fraying at the hem.
We've all experienced the irritation of a much-loved dress or top shrinking in the wash, coming apart at the seams or fraying at the hem. Many clothes don't seem to last for more than a few wears these days, no matter how carefully we look after them.

Yet in our throwaway society, we often accept this lack of longevity as one of those things. After all, we can just go to a High Street shop - or online - and buy a new item for the cost of a cinema ticket.

Comment: The planned obsolescence of America

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Red Flag

Porous borders: Austin, TX serial rapist was deported five times before his most recent arrest

Jennifer Kendell
Fox
Thu, 08 Sep 2016 01:51 UTC
Nicodemo Coria-Gonzales sex assault
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said a man accused of serial rape in the Austin area was deported five times before his most recent arrest in August.

Nicodemo Coria-Gonzales faces six charges including aggravated sexual assault and kidnapping.

In one case, a victim told police he poured gasoline on her and tried to set her on fire.

Police said Coria-Gonzalez admitted he had picked up prostitutes and beat them out of anger. He is currently being held without bond on an immigration detainer.

"There's bad, really bad people, who want to do us real harm who are coming at us from all different directions north, south, east and west," said Immigration specialist Thomas Esparza, Jr.

If the allegations against him are true, Nicodemo Coria-Gonzalez illegally immigrated to the United States six times and then sexually abused several women.
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Attention

French police arrest three women planning attacks on Paris railway stations


RT
Fri, 09 Sep 2016 16:13 UTC
female terrorists paris
© Khaled Abdullah / Reuters
French police have arrested three radicalized women who were reportedly planning to bomb the populous Paris Gare de Lyon railway station to avenge the death of top Islamic State leader Abu Muhammed al-Adnani, France's interior minister said.

The women were detained in the Boussy-Saint-Antoine commune of the Essonne department in northern France on Thursday, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said at a press conference.

The commune is located some 20 kilometers from the French capital.

"These young women, aged 39, 23 and 19, [are] radicalized fanatics, presumably preparing new violent and imminent actions [in France]," Cazeneuve said.

Comment: Terrorists in Paris attacks were known to French intelligence beforehand

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Target

Shades of Joseph Goebbels! French writer predicts French army will eliminate Muslims from France as Israel did in Gaza


RT
Fri, 09 Sep 2016 09:28 UTC
Zemmour
© www.bfmtv.comEric Zemmour
Social media is furious after controversial French writer and TV personality Eric Zemmour said that the French Army will reconquer its metropolitan areas and suburbs and clear them from Muslims as Israel did in Gaza. Zemmour was talking to the French RTL news channel about his latest essay A five-year term for nothing, published Wednesday. "French people have become foreigners in their own land," he said.

Zemmour said that in all metropolitan areas "there are no French people, but there are only Muslims. When a woman is totally veiled [wears a Muslim veil], when a man wears clothes resembling the ones of the prophet of the 7th century, when they [Muslims] call a young girl "a whore" for wearing a mini-skirt, when they look [with disapproval] at people drinking alcohol, then it's not France."

Zemmour criticized the French policy of integrating Islam into society. "We build mosques, we organize 'Islam for France' [movements]. This is the worst solution to solve the problem," he said, adding that French society should be "de-Islamized."

One of the extracts of his book speaks about a possible operation against Muslims led by France with the help of Israeli military consultants. "The General Staff of the [French] army knows that a day will come when he will regain the lands [in France] which have become foreign in our own soil.The plan has already been developed, it is called 'Operation Ronces,'" the writer says.

Comment: Islam is a religion, as is Judaism. Bold, brash statements from someone who is part of a relatively recent (1950s) immigrant family of Algerian Jews. Is he willing to listen to himself and leave France as well?

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Laptop

'Look up' experiment highlights kids' disturbing technology addiction

Melissa Dykes
The Daily Sheeple
Fri, 09 Sep 2016 17:36 UTC
girls with iPad
Wow. This says a lot about the Brave New World we are steadily marching into these days.

This "experiment" is an ad for the yet-to-be-released Dolmio Pepper Hacker, a sneaky gadget that looks like a harmless pepper grinder but actually cuts the WIFI signals at the dinner table so parents can bring their tech addicted children back to reality.

In the video below, they set up several tuned out elementary age kids obliviously playing games on their iPads and other devices at the dinner table by changing up the room's decor around them and finally, swapping out their own parents and siblings with completely different people dressed similarly... all without the children noticing what was happening around them.

Comment: Though the above advert treated the situation as a joke, the truth is technology addiction is like digital heroin.
Many parents intuitively understand that ubiquitous glowing screens are having a negative effect on kids. We see the aggressive temper tantrums when the devices are taken away and the wandering attention spans when children are not perpetually stimulated by their hyper-arousing devices. Worse, we see children who become bored, apathetic, uninteresting and uninterested when not plugged in.


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Handcuffs

Machete-wielding man attacks Serbian police officers


RT
Fri, 09 Sep 2016 17:24 UTC
Serbian police
© Ivan Milutinovic / Reuters
A man was arrested in southwestern Serbia after he tried to assault police officers with a machete while shouting Allahu Akbar, Serbian media report, referring to the man as self-proclaimed Salafist.

A man, identified only as B.N., tried to attack police officers who had come to summon him for questioning. He first tried to barricade himself inside the house, but then ran out wielding a machete and shouting "Allahu Akbar." However, when one of the officers fired a warning shot into the air, the man ran away, only to rush at the officers again.

During his second attempt, the man was shot in the leg, after which he was taken to hospital and eventually arrested. The attack occurred in the Serbian town of Raska located not far from Serbia's border with Kosovo, according to some media, while other news outlets say it took place in the neighboring Roma settlement of Kucevski Lug.


Comment: In the US, the assailant would have been shot dead.

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Sheriff

Four cops fired in fallout of Oakland PD underaged sex scandal


RT
Fri, 09 Sep 2016 17:08 UTC
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf
© Noah Berger / ReutersOakland Mayor Libby Schaaf
The investigation of Oakland's Police Department is winding down as a dozen officers face repercussions for having sexual contact with a teenage sex worker. Four will be terminated, seven suspended without pay and one will undergo counseling.

Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf and City Administrator Sabrina Landreth have announced the conclusion of their investigation into the sex scandal that rocked the Oakland Police Department (OPD).

The four officers that have been fired are accused of attempted sexual assault, assisting in the crime of prostitution, being untruthful to investigators, evading arrest for the crime of prostitution, accessing law enforcement databases for personal gain, and failing to report a violation of law by not reporting a minor having sexual conduct with police officers.

They are also accused of "bringing disrepute" to the Oakland PD, KRON reported.

Comment: See also:

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