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'Australia will not join countries to boycott World Cup' - Foreign Minister Julie Bishop


RT
Tue, 27 Mar 2018 12:08 UTC
World Cup
© Reuters
Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says the government will not join the countries which are diplomatically boycotting the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.

"There are a whole range of options of further actions that could be taken [against Russia]. The World Cup is one of the further actions," Bishop stated on Monday, talking about the steps Australia could take in addition to the expulsion of two Russian diplomats in response to the poisoning of former double agent Sergei Skripal in Salisbury, UK, which many Western countries blame on Moscow.

Comment: Five countries - Poland, Iceland, Denmark, Sweden, and Japan, are reportedly ready to boycott the 2018 World Cup. Let them stay home.

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'It makes your blood run cold': Passengers of Air France flight discover huge hole in plane cabin after aircraft landed


RT
Tue, 27 Mar 2018 13:24 UTC
Air France
© Panoramic / Global Look Press
A French airline has launched a major investigation after a massive hole opened up in the cabin of one of its planes during a domestic flight. The drama began halfway through Sunday's 90-minute HOP! service with a 'loud noise.'

However, the 48 passengers aboard the flight from Paris to Aurillac in the south of France only discovered the full scale of the problem once the aircraft landed at around 9.30pm local time, when the hole was actually spotted, France 3 reports.

Photographs of the short-haul regional airliner ATR 42, posted across social media, show the full extent of the damage.

"We were very scared," said passenger Lydie Ribes, a France 3 journalist. "I was on the plane with my kids. I had fallen asleep when a loud noise woke me up."
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Bad Guys

Maduro call Spain's persecution of Catalan leaders 'shameful'


teleSUR
Sun, 25 Mar 2018 13:34 UTC
Nicolas Maduro
© Reuters
Maduro called for solidarity with Catalans and their struggle for freedom.
In total 25 Catalans will be tried for rebellion, embezzlement or disobedience for their participation in the Oct.1, 2017 independence referendum.

After five Catalan pro-independence leaders were arrested Saturday, Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro slammed the Spanish authorities over persecution of the Catalan leaders and people simply for independence aspirations.

"What's happening in Spain is shameful, Catalan politicians jailed only for their ideas... whether or not you agree with these elected lawmakers' ideas, their persecution is an embarrassment," Maduro warned in a speech during an international meeting on African decendents rights in the region in Caracas Saturday.

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War Whore

Democratic Congressman wants America to 'take up arms' to resist Trump

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Tue, 27 Mar 2018 12:59 UTC
Tom Suozzi
© Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call,Inc.
New York Democratic congressman Tom Suozzi sounds just like a gun-nut wing nut in talking about the Second Amendment.
New York Congressman Tom Suozzi (D) is taking heat for suggesting that a room full of voters may need to take up arms against the Trump administration if he doesn't follow the law.

"I mean, this is where the Second Amendment comes in quite frankly, because you know, what if the president was to ignore the courts? What would you do? What would we do?" said Suozzi during a Q&A session last week with constituents on Long Island.

"It's really a matter of putting public pressure on the president," he added.

Comment: While Suozzi and his advisors deny that he's advocating armed insurrection, his campaign has doubled down on his comments:
Suozzi political adviser Kim Devlin denied the pol was "advocating for an armed insurrection."

But the Suozzi campaign at the same time seemed to double down on the comments, as they forwarded a line penned by Thomas Jefferson that called for armed resistance.

"What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance. Let them take arms," the quote said.


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200 petting zoo animals 'most likely died' in Russian shopping mall fire


TASS
Tue, 27 Mar 2018 12:59 UTC
russia shopping mall fire kemerovo
About 200 animals kept at a petting zoo in a shopping mall in Russia's Siberian city of Kemerovo that caught fire on Sunday most likely have died of smoke intoxication, Yevgeny Videman, the zoo's director, told TASS.

"I think they have died choking with smoke. I was the last to leave the premises. There were no humans in. Smoke on the third floor was heavy, people were leaving in panic. I simply closed the door: there was no physical possibility to save the animals. As a veterinarian, I think the animals have choked with smoke," he said, adding that he was receiving calls from people who offered their help. "But no one is let inside the building of the shopping mall, it is cordoned off. There was and there is no possibility to evacuate the animals," he said.

Comment: Further reading: 53 dead, dozens of children missing after tragic mall blaze in Kemerovo, Russia - conflicting reports

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Coffee

French waiter in Vancouver claims he was fired for his 'direct, honest' personality

Maryse Zeidler
CBC News
Sat, 24 Mar 2018 13:24 UTC
waiter
© ESB Professional/Shutterstock
A former waiter at a Milestone's Restaurant has filed a complaint with the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal against the company.
A waiter in Vancouver who was fired for being aggressive with his colleagues says he's not rude - he's just French.

Guillaume Rey has filed a complaint at the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal against Milestones Restaurant and its parent company, Cara Operations, where he worked as a waiter from October 2015 to August 2016.

Cara and Milestones applied to dismiss the complaint, but tribunal member Devyn Cousineau denied their application earlier this month, paving the way for the complaint to be heard.

In her decision, Cousineau said the restaurant maintains that Rey was terminated for his "aggressive tone and nature" with colleagues, which violates its code of conduct.

But Rey says his co-workers misinterpreted his "direct, honest and professional" French personality.
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Delusional pastor starved toddler to death to exorcise demon gets 99 years in prison

Tasha Tsiaperas
Dallas Daily News
Sat, 24 Mar 2018 12:15 UTC
Aracely Meza
© Dallas County Jail
Aracely Meza ordered a 2-year-old boy to fast because she believed he was possessed by a demon.
Aracely Meza cradles the limp body of a 2-year-old boy, praying for God to bring the starved toddler back to life.

The moment was captured on videos that a Dallas County jury watched this week before finding the Balch Springs pastor guilty Friday of felony injury to a child causing serious bodily injury.

The 52-year-old will serve 99 years in prison for Benjamin Aparicio's starvation death, one month before his third birthday. Jurors also ordered Meza to pay a $10,000 fine.
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Pistol

Police policy: Cop pulls gun, shoots family dog in front of kids, lies about it

Rachel Blevins
Free Thought Project
Sun, 25 Mar 2018 12:05 UTC
Chillicothe cop shots family dog
A police department has determined that its officer acted within policy when he opened fire on a dog in front of two children and then proceeded to fire a stray bullet into a neighboring house.

The department has determined that Officer Traevon Williams should face no consequences for his actions and has simply recommended that he take an online course to learn how to deal with animals after he opened fire in a residential neighborhood and endangered the lives of several innocent people.

The incident occurred on March 8 when Williams was visiting a house for a follow-up investigation. The footage from his body camera shows him walking up to the front porch where two young girls are standing, and asking them if their parents are home.
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Stormtrooper

Cop beating innocent man was so disturbing, he was actually charged

Matt Agorist
Free Thought Project
Sun, 25 Mar 2018 11:53 UTC
Ft Worth cops attack Henry Newson
The body camera video showing a Fort Worth police officer viciously attack and then falsely arrest an innocent man has just been released. However, many are now asking why it took more than a year to indict this cop knowing that investigators had video evidence of the attack the entire time.

The victim in this incident was then-20-year-old Henry Newson who'd just been released from the hospital. As he was waiting for his mom to come pick him up, officer Jon Preston Romer, 38, who was working as security at the hospital, walked up to Newson and began to attack him for no reason.

The subsequent attack led to a lawsuit by Newson and a criminal investigation into Romer.
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Handcuffs

Russia's FSB detains nine members of terrorist cell in Siberia


TASS
Tue, 27 Mar 2018 10:35 UTC
Russian FSB
© Vitaliy Nevar/TASS
Russian law enforcement officials have thwarted the activities of the so-called Krasnoyarsk Jamaat, a terrorist cell linked to international terror groups, the press service of the Federal Security Service (the FSB) in the Krasnoyarsk Region reported on Tuesday.

"Three organizers and six terrorist cell members have been taken into custody. The Investigative Department of the FSB's Directorate in the Krasnoyarsk Region has filed a criminal investigation against them under Part 1 of Section 205.4 of Russia's Criminal Code (organizing a terrorist network) and Part 2 of Section 205.4 of Russia's Criminal Code (participating in a terrorist network)," the press service said.
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