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Fire

Massive blaze beneath the elevated tracks at Harlem metro

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A huge fire broke out underneath the tracks of the Metro North service in New York's East Harlem Tuesday night, leaving thousands of passengers stranded as firefighters battled the blaze.

The 'four-alarm fire' resulted in services to and through Grand Central being temporarily suspended.

Services will operate on a Saturday schedule until Friday while repairs are made, according to the latest MTA update.

Handcuffs

Turkish journalist put in jail, denied parental rights for covering MIT terror truck hearings

Arzu Yıldız
Arzu Yıldız
A Mersin court has sentenced journalist Arzu Yıldız to 20 months' imprisonment and deprived her of parental rights over posting videos on social media that show prosecutors — who currently face trial for ordering search of trucks belonging to the National Intelligence Organization (MİT) in January, 2014 — defend themselves in court.

The footages Yıldız posted on her YouTube account show prosecutors Süleyman Bağrıyanık, Özcan Şişman and Aziz Takçı defend themselves during hearings of the MİT trucks case held by Tarsus 2nd High Criminal Court in the southern province of Mersin.

The Tarsus 5th Criminal Court of First Instance sentenced Yıldız to a year and 8 months in prison, while imposing TL 12.600 suspended fine on news portal Grihat.com for featuring the videos released by Yıldız.

Comment: So the Turkish intelligence service loads some trucks up with 'humanitarian aid' in the form of weapons for terrorists in Syria, some Turkish prosecutors find out about it and order the trucks searched, Erdogan calls them treasonous spies and they're put on trial for just doing their jobs. Then the journalist exposing this travesty of justice gets thrown in jail and deprived of her children. All this from a proud NATO member. Turkey's U.S. masters must be so proud.


Heart - Black

Chicago police assault, and threaten to tase, man with baby in his arms

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A federal lawsuit claims that a Chicago police officer threatened to use a Taser on a man who was holding a baby boy in his arms, and warned him that the one-year-old would feel the electricity.

The lawsuit, filed Tuesday, claims that the entire incident was caught by a security camera, and it names the city and several police officers as defendants, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.

Cesar Carrizales said that during the October incident, he was approached by officers in an alleyway near his garage, who then demanded that he put his son down on a filthy alleyway. He told the officers that the mother of the son, Theresa Cmiel, would take his child.

Heart - Black

13 y.o. and her mother charged in the stabbing death of teen girl in neighborhood fight

DeKayla Dansberry
© ABC 7DeKayla Dansberry
A 13-year-old Chicago girl was charged with first degree murder Tuesday after allegedly stabbing a 16-year-old track star to death.

The teenager appeared before a Juvenile Court judge Tuesday afternoon, CBS Chicago station WMMB reported. Prosecutors said the girl, who is not being named because she is a juvenile, left home with the knife Saturday and stabbed DeKayla Dansberry in the chest.

According to prosecutors, the suspect returned home and washed the knife in the sink and later told two witnesses, "I killed her, I killed her."

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House

California continues its crackdown on tiny houses for the homeless

woman in tiny house
Personal liberty is under attack in so many areas of American society, and combined with a faltering economy, people are in greater need than ever of finding ways to survive economically while still maintaining basic freedoms.

The tiny house movement is one of the many creative ways in which people are out-smarting the matrix of consumerism and debt. Recently, however, we reported on the federal government's attempts through the Department of Housing and Urban Development to make owning and living in a tiny home more difficult for those who wish to do so.

It seems this is an important issue for many, and even the infamous website Snopes, in it's typical mainstream, 'nothing to see here folks,' fashion, has chimed in on this debate claiming that concern over the HUD's updated regulations are simply false, citing various interpretations of the new HUD regulatory changes to make their case.

Comment: Despicable and heartless.


Pills

TTIP is a threat to Europe's elderly: American medical care system shows why

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The most obvious approach to look at how European care for the elderly will evolve is to project technological trends and the costs of people living longer as diagnostic equipment, drug treatments and other medical science continues to improve. This kind of projection shows a rising cost to society of pensions and health care, because a rising proportion of the aging population is retiring. How will economies pay for it?

I want to point to some special problems that are looming on the political front. I assume that the reason you have invited me from America is that my country has been doing just about everything wrong in its health care. Its experience may provide an object lesson for what Europe should avoid (and indeed, has avoided up to this point).

For starters, privatization is much more expensive than European-style Single Payer public health care. Monopoly prices also are higher. And of course, fraud is a problem.

America's Obamacare and health insurance laws have been written by political lobbyists for special interests. So has the TTIP: Transatlantische Handelsabwollen. Since George W. Bush, the U.S. Government has been prohibited from bargaining for low bulk prices from the pharmaceutical companies. Most Americans think that Health Management Organizations (HMOs) are rife with corruption and billing fraud. The insurance sector has made a killing by spending a great deal of money on bureaucratic techniques to reject patients who seem likely to require expensive health care. Doctors need to hire specialists working full time just to fill out the paperwork. Error is constant, and any visit to the doctor, even for a simple annual checkup, requires many hours by most patients on the phone with their insurance company to correct over-billing.

Fire

Alaskan citizens help police free man from car wreck moments before it bursts into flames (VIDEO)

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Dramatic dashcam footage has emerged online showing several Alaskan citizens helping a police officer free a man trapped in a burning car, despite the clear risk to their own safety.

Anchorage police officer Mitchell Veenstra attended the scene of the crash on Sunday and found an overturned car, engulfed in flames, and the trapped driver, whose arm was trapped underneath the door.

Megaphone

Pope Francis criticizes West for forcing "democracy" on Iraq and Libya

Pope Francis
© REUTERS/TONY GENTILEPope Francis
Pope Francis criticized Western powers for trying to export their own brand of democracy to countries such as Iraq and Libya without respecting indigenous political cultures, according to an interview published on Monday.

Speaking to France's Roman Catholic newspaper, La Croix, Francis also said Europe should better integrate migrants and praised the election of the new Muslim mayor of London as an example of where this had been successful.

"Faced with current Islamist terrorism, we should question the way a model of democracy that was too Western was exported to countries where there was a strong power, as in Iraq, or Libya, where there was a tribal structure," he said.

"We cannot advance without taking these cultures into account," the pope said.

"As a Libyan said recently, 'We used to have one Gaddafi, now we have fifty", Francis said in reference to former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi who was deposed and killed in 2011.

Comment: The reality is that what the West terms as "spreading democracy" is really just a euphemism for taking a nation that doesn't follow the Empire's orders and turning it into a subservient client state. The elites don't care about destroying governments that were good for the people like in Libya and the ensuing cultural destruction caused by proxy terrorists like ISIS taking over. They just demand more money and power and everything that achieves that is a means to an end, just collateral damage that the elites could care less about.


V

Cast and crew of Brazilian film stage red carpet protest of Brazilian coup at Cannes Film Festival

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© ReutersDirector Kleber Mendonca Filho and cast members hold placards to protest against the impeachment of suspended Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on the red carpet as they arrive for the screening of the film "Aquarius" in competition at the 69th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, May 17,2016
The cast and crew of the Brazilian film Aquarius have staged an improvised protest on the red carpet of the Cannes competition in the south of France to show support for unseated President Dilma Rousseff, denouncing her suspension as a 'coup d'état.'

Kleber Mendonca Filho, the film's writer and director, Sonia Braga the lead actress, and a number of other members of the cast and crew unveiled a selection of printed banners on the steps of Palais des Festivals ahead of their film's Tuesday premiere.

The crew decried the impeachment of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff with banners reading "A coup took place in Brazil," "The world cannot accept this illegitimate government," among other slogans, while another claimed that more than 54 million votes of the Brazilian people had been "set on fire."

Evil Rays

Video captures chaotic road rage incident in Houston

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© KTRK-TVAn unidentified Texas man rams his truck into another man's car after a roadside argument
A Texas man and his daughter captured a roadside argument on video that culminated in both a physical attack and an intentional crash, KTRK-TV reported.

"I was thinking this is going to be bad," said the witness, David Dao, whose daughter recorded the incident on her cell phone on Saturday. "At that time, I knew because there's physical damage now."

The incident involved two men in a white car and a man and a woman in a truck at the intersection of Farm to Market Road 1960 (FM 1960) and U.S. Highway 290. The woman is seen arguing with the car's passenger before the drivers intervene. However, when the woman approaches the car again, one of the men throws a drink at her.