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Informed tweeters decimate arms giant Lockheed Martin's tribute to John McCain


RT
Sun, 26 Aug 2018 21:15 UTC
John McCain
© YouTube
John McCain inspecting a Lockheed Martin-made F-35 jet.
It's rare for a military contractor to go out of its way to highlight ties to elected officials, but US defense manufacturer Lockheed Martin wrote a most heartfelt eulogy to the late John McCain. Its sentiment was not appreciated.

On Sunday, a day after the American politician's death, the Maryland-based company took to its Twitter to call the long-serving Arizona senator "an exceptionally courageous leader and a true patriot."

But, with the combination of McCain's reputation as a fierce advocate of US foreign intervention and Lockheed's line of work, this was never likely to attract the say-something-nice-or-nothing-at-all crowd.

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Gov't employee arrested after harassing NYC teen who was raped by cops

Jack Burns
The Free Thought Project
Sun, 26 Aug 2018 20:59 UTC
A NYC teen who accused two undercover NYPD officers of raping her while handcuffed is facing continual harassment for fighting her case.
Anna Chambers & Corey Guskin
© The Free Thought Project
A process server has been arrested for "impersonating an officer" after he served a subpoena to Anna Chambers, the alleged rape victim who says she was sexually assaulted when two undercover NYPD officers took her away from her friends in an NYPD van in September 2017.

Corey Guskin, 59, was caught on camera insulting Chambers apparently harassing her by not leaving her door steps after serving her with the legal documents. The video, which has now gone viral, shows Guskin recording Chambers as she insists he leave. He calls the alleged rape victim a "stupid bitch."

Chambers gained national attention to her case when she accused NYPD Detectives Richard Hall and Eddie Martins of raping her after they arrested her for marijuana possession on Coney Island Sept. 15th of 2017. As TFTP reported, Chambers used social media to voice her outcry for justice. She stated she was never actually arrested, just dropped off near the police station after she says Hall and Martins had their way with her, both men raping her while she was still in handcuffs.
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Ontario Premier denies issuing directive to stop staff using the term 'climate change'


RT
Fri, 24 Aug 2018 00:00 UTC
Ontario Premier Doug Ford
© Carlo Allegri / Reuters
Ontario Premier Doug Ford.
Leaked emails asking civil servants to stop using the term "climate change" on social media have landed Doug Ford in hot water as Ontario reels from a spike in forest fires. The premier's office calls the emails "false."

Emails published on the Toronto-based blogTO show messages sent by Ontario Parks Social Media Coordinator Anne MacLachlan and Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry's Director of Communications Services Lisa Sarracini. The two emails appear to be directing staffers that, as "per Premier's Office direction, we are not allowed to mention climate change in social media content at this time."

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Trash bags with human flesh found in NYC's Bronx


RT
Fri, 24 Aug 2018 00:00 UTC
Police line Do not cross
© Sergio Flores / Reuters
Two bags containing human remains have been discovered in the Bronx, New York City, triggering a massive police response. The gender of the victim remains unknown.

Police have set up a large crime scene investigation in Crotona Park South and Franklin Street on Friday afternoon, after a local park employee discovered two suspicious bags by a sidewalk.

The employee immediately called his boss who rushed to the scene where the park officials discovered flesh and hair inside the bags, and called the police. Upon their arrival at the scene, officers confirmed that there was a body in the bags, ABC 7 New York reports.
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Absurd Political Correctness: Conor Daly loses Lilly Diabetes sponsorship over remark his father made over 30 years ago


rtv6
Fri, 24 Aug 2018 00:00 UTC
Conor Daly
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Lilly Diabetes has pulled its sponsorship of Conor Daly's No. 6 car in the NASCAR Xfinity race at Road America, citing a racially insensitive remark made by the driver's father in the 1980s that surfaced this week.

Lilly said in a statement Friday that its sponsorship was intended to raise awareness for treatment options and resources for people living with diabetes.

"Unfortunately, the comments that surfaced this week by Derek Daly distract from this focus, so we have made the decision that Lilly Diabetes will no longer run the No. 6 at Road America this weekend," Lilly said.

Primarily an IndyCar driver, Conor Daly is making his NASCAR debut at the rural Wisconsin road course Saturday with Roush Fenway Racing. Messages left for a team spokesman seeking comment were not immediately returned on Friday night.

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'We don't shoot women' says Israeli lieutenant, but Kristin Foss is shot for second time in a week in Palestine

Jonathan Ofir
Mondoweiss
Sat, 25 Aug 2018 20:20 UTC
Kristin Foss

Kristin Foss
"We don't shoot women", a Lieutenant in the Israeli army said yesterday, when asked why they shot a Norwegian activist in Kafr Qaddum Saturday last week, shortly before shooting her again.
Israeli activist Matan Cohen posted this exchange and occurrence yesterday on his Facebook with photos from the scene.

This time Kristin was not shot in the abdomen, but in the foot, by a rubber-coated steel bullet. I was alerted to Kristin's injury by her Facebook update from the clinic:
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Iranian F-5 fighter jet crashes at air base, pilot killed


RT
Sun, 26 Aug 2018 19:45 UTC
Iranian F-5 fighter jet
© Ebrahim Norouzi / Fars News / AFP
Iranian F-5 fighter jet
An Iranian Air Force F-5 fighter jet crashed on a training mission in the southwestern Khuzestan Province. The pilot was killed, while the co-pilot survived and was hospitalized.

The jet was flying a training mission when it crashed while trying to land on a runway at Dezful Air Base in the southwestern Khuzestan Province on Sunday, Iranian media reports.

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Public reacts with fury after Gingrich encourages Republicans to politicize woman murdered by illegal immigrant


RT
Sat, 25 Aug 2018 17:32 UTC
Mollie Tibbetts
© Reuters
Mollie Tibbetts
The Republican Party could score big in the midterms if Mollie Tibbetts, a woman thought to have been murdered by an illegal immigrant, becomes a "household name," Newt Gingrich has mused, inciting fury on social media.

The longtime GOP sage and former Republican Speaker of the House and presidential candidate contacted Axios to make sure that the outlet was covering the murder of Iowa college student Mollie Tibbetts. A Mexican citizen living in the US under a false name was charged with her killing, and president Donald Trump and other Republicans have seized on the tragedy to push for tougher immigration laws - while framing the Democrats' stance on illegal immigration as dangerous.

"If Mollie Tibbetts is a household name by October, Democrats will be in deep trouble," Gingrich noted. "If we can be blocked by Manafort-Cohen, etc., then GOP could lose [the House] badly."
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Syrian Army trolls jihadists in Idlib with latest spy video

Leith Aboufadel
Al Masdar News
Sat, 25 Aug 2018 17:24 UTC
Sarmada
© Syrian Arab Army
Still of Sarmada video
The Syrian Arab Army continued their trolling campaign in the Idlib Governorate, Friday, as their Tiger Forces released another spy video from behind enemy lines.

The official media wing for the Tiger Forces released footage from the jihadist stronghold of Sarmada this week, as one of their spies roamed around the town without being caught by Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham or the Free Syrian Army (FSA).
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American claiming to be a general for Saudi Arabia accused of war crimes In Yemen

Aram Roston
Buzzfeed News
Mon, 07 May 2018 16:30 UTC
Stephen Toumajan Yemen
© Martin B. Cherry for BuzzFeed News/dvidshub.net
Stephen Toumajan
"We would call him 'Little Napoleon.'"

Stephen Toumajan spent most of his professional life as an officer in the US Army - but these days the country he serves is not the US but the United Arab Emirates. He is a major general for the Emirati military, according to his own statements and a UAE government website.

He commands the UAE's military helicopter branch at a time when that country's forces are fighting one of the world's deadliest conflicts: the brutal war in Yemen, which has left over a million people with cholera, 8 million people at risk of starvation, and 5,000 children dead or wounded. The UAE and its partners in the war have been accused of atrocities. Toumajan says he is not involved in that war.

To be a UAE general is a step up for Toumajan, who left the US Army as a lieutenant colonel and once had a side gig running a women's bust-enhancement business in Tennessee called Breast Wishes.

More importantly, it represents a marked escalation of the role US private military contractors play in foreign conflicts. While military contractors have become deeply entwined in warfare all over the world, they traditionally have stuck to strict limits: advising, training, and supplying foreign armies - but not actually serving in them. It's the distinction between being a contractor and a mercenary. Toumajan's role blurs that distinction.
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