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French judge issues arrest warrant for Saudi princess who told her bodyguard to kill her interior designer for taking pictures - reports

RT
Fri, 16 Mar 2018 14:22 UTC

A French judge has reportedly issued an international arrest warrant for a Saudi princess. It relates to an alleged attack by her bodyguard on a workman at her flat in Paris, Reuters reported, citing sources close to the case.

The royal, reportedly named in legal documents as Hassa bint Salman, is accused of ordering the death of her interior decorator after the man took pictures of her home on Avenue Foch in the French capital in September 2016. She is said to have accused the man of wanting to sell the images to the press, Le Point newspaper reported at the time.

After insisting that the pictures were merely part of his job, the princess allegedly told her bodyguard: "We must kill him, this dog, he does not deserve to live."

US military aircraft crashes in Iraq near Syrian border, casualties reported

RT
Fri, 16 Mar 2018 14:17 UTC

A US military aircraft has crashed in western Iraq, the military has confirmed, according to Reuters. Other reports indicate that up to seven people may have perished in the crash.

US Central Command (CENTCOM) has confirmed the fact of the crash and the presence of US military personnel on board the aircraft. "Rescue teams are responding to the scene of the downed aircraft at this time," it said in a statement, adding that no more details were available at the time.

Local sources, cited by Lebanese-based TV network Al Mayadeen, report the aircraft was a Chinook transport helicopter carrying ammunition. It crashed in western Iraq near the border of Syria. Seven crew members were reportedly killed in the crash. The helicopter is believed to have caught fire after it hit the ground, due to the volatile nature of its cargo.

'Pedophile's paradise': Swedish court softens punishment for serial child molesters

Sputnik
Fri, 16 Mar 2018 14:10 UTC

Two brothers from a township in the Sollefteå municipality, who were sentenced to 12 and 14 years in prison respectively for over a thousand cases of child rape in which the youngest victim was only three years old, have had their sentences seriously shortened after an appeal, stirring up strong reactions in the Nordic nation.

The two brothers, now aged 35 and 38, have always denied most of the crimes of which they were found guilty and appealed the verdict. The Court of Appeals found their claims reasonable enough to reduce their sentences to 7 and 9 years respectively, the national broadcaster SVT reported.

The Court of Appeals took into account the fact that many of the crimes were committed when the penalty scale was milder than today. As a mitigating circumstance, no violence was claimed to have occurred in connection with the abuse. Furthermore, the fact that the victims were not "very young" at the time when the assault occurred was also found as sufficient reason to lower their sentences.

Dorset goes into 'lockdown' over Skripal poisoning

RT
Fri, 16 Mar 2018 12:42 UTC

Army vehicles have entered a North Dorset town reportedly to remove a truck linked to the poisoning of ex-double agent Sergei Skripal. Locals described the sight as "astonishing."

A section of Hyde Road in Gillingham has been cordoned off by Dorset Police as a special army unit moves in to investigate the truck, believed to have been involved in the removal of Skripal's red BMW. The town is reportedly on lockdown, with residents being told "not to leave their homes," according to the Mirror.

Images on social media show the truck being covered with a protective sheet before being removed. The vehicle in question is thought to have been involved in the removal of the former spy's car following his poisoning. The vehicle was left at Sainsbury's car park in Salisbury at around 1.40pm on Sunday, March 4, the day he was allegedly poisoned.

Comment: Sources have linked this investigation, named 'Operation Lime,' to five potential crime scenes - Skripal's home, where he fell ill, the two places he and his daughter ate, as well as Skripal's BMW. Agents have also been whipping up a climate of hysteria by doing door to door interviews and demanding access to people's internet routers. The Guardian reports:

Neighbours of Skripal, who lives on the outskirts of Salisbury, revealed that police have been examining their computer equipment.

Resident Chelsie Croes, 21, said: "They came to our house asking to check the wi-fi. The police wanted to check our internet routers. They didn't say why they were doing it. I don't know if they wanted to find out if we had been hacked into."

As part of the inquiry - codenamed Operation Lime - officers have been going door to door asking people if they knew the Skripals and when they last saw them.

Reality Check: Ben Swann on the social media purge of dissenting voices

Ben Swann
Truth in Media
Thu, 08 Mar 2018 00:01 UTC

Is there an Internet purge of conservative voices or voices of dissension online? Some say yes, and that the purge is being pushed by YouTube (owned by Google) and Facebook and Twitter. We've heard about censorship before, but is what is happening now an all-out purge? Let's give it a Reality Check you won't get anywhere else.

You might be a fan, you might be disgusted by him. But there is no doubt that InfoWars founder and radio host Alex Jones is a lightning rod. His YouTube channel has over 2.2 million subscribers and more than 33,000 videos.

Just days ago, Jones claimed that YouTube had begun a process of taking his channel down.

On March 3, CBS reported, "Jones tweeted that he had 'set up a new channel' that the 'SPLC,' or the Southern Poverty Law Center, wanted censored. In one of the videos on the channel called 'InfoWars Censored,' Jones said, 'We're live on Facebook, on Twitter, on Periscope, but we cannot go live on the Alex Jones channel - it's been frozen for the third time in one week.'"

Comment: Another great segment from Ben Swann.

Trans people labelled "parasites" & obstacle to feminism during Parliament event

RT
Thu, 15 Mar 2018 18:34 UTC

Transgender women in the UK "invade" women's spaces and threaten gender equality, it was claimed. An event in Parliament heard heavy criticism of the trans community.

Speakers at the 'Transgenderism and the War on Women' event in Parliament hit out at transgender people, attacking them for "parasitically" invading women's spaces and threatening their liberation. The meeting was held by the group 'We Need to Talk UK' and sponsored by Conservative MP David Davies.

Author Sheila Jeffreys, who opened the event in the House of Commons on Thursday, didn't hold back. A Pink News journalist reported her opening line was: "Men can't become women, what's so difficult about that?"

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Dissent in the Western alliance: Irish Times - "Unlikely that Putin behind Skripals' poisoning"

Séamus Martin
The Irish Times
Wed, 14 Mar 2018 21:41 UTC

Attack would have been counterproductive for Russia and jeopardise future spy swaps

British prime minister Theresa May put two scenarios to parliament on Monday. The attack on former British-Russian spy Sergei Skripal may have been planned directly by the Kremlin or that through lax scrutiny Russia allowed the nerve agent to fall into the wrong hands. The situation is more complicated than that.

The nerve agent called Novichok is a very deadly substance, eight times more powerful than its western equivalent known as VX. There are also indications that it could have been smuggled out of the former Soviet Union as far back as 1993.

In September of 1993 as The Irish Times Moscow correspondent I obtained a list of chemical and biological weapons, including Novichok, that were being produced by Russia as the successor state to the Soviet Union. I brought these documents to the recognised expert at the time Dr Thomas Stock of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).

Cops caught attempting to run over raccoon—slowly torturing it to death (VIDEO)

Rachel Blevins
The Free Thought Project
Tue, 13 Mar 2018 16:03 UTC

Multiple police officers are being criticized after a video was posted on Facebook that showed two squad cars racing across an open parking lot and attempting to run over a raccoon.

The video was posted by Bryanna Catucci, and in the caption, she wrote, "Leaving the grocery store to find 2 cops charging at a raccoon in a car for 15 minutes until dead. You would think if it had rabies they would shoot him instead of torturing. Sad day."

The Coeymans Police Department also took to social media to confirm they had received multiple calls about a raccoon, and that the suspects seen in the video were officers from the department. The statement claimed that by racing across a parking lot and appearing to make a competition out of running over a scared raccoon, the officers were handling the situation "as quickly and humanely as possible."

"On March 12 we received numerous calls about a rabid raccoon in faith plaza. The raccoon had attempted to get into the establishment at one point. Our officer's [sic] did find the raccoon, but it was not in an area that was safe to discharge a firearm due to the proximity of pedestrians and residences. They dispatched the raccoon as quickly and humanely as possible."

The video clips posted by Catucci received more than 50,000 shares in less than 24 hours, and the Facebook users who responded to it were horrified by the scene. But the most scathing comments came from users who were responding to the department's support of the incident.

Heroic 13yo boy stabbed 32 times while confronting attacker to save his mother

Jorge Millian
Palm Beach Post
Wed, 14 Mar 2018 00:07 UTC

Dane Bancroft, Palm Beach Florida stabbing victim

Dane, a student at Watson B. Duncan Middle School in Palm Beach Gardens, interrupted a knife attack that left another boy dead and Dane’s mother, Elaine M. Simon, hospitalized with stab wounds.

Dane Bancroft may only be 13 years old, but his father says the boy is a "hero."

Dane, a student at Watson B. Duncan Middle School in Palm Beach Gardens, interrupted a knife attack at his home at BallenIsles Country Club early Monday that left another boy dead and Dane's mother, Elaine M. Simon, hospitalized with stab wounds.

Dane was also left seriously wounded after being stabbed 32 times during the attack, according to Palm Beach Gardens police.

Lucas Bancroft, Dane's father, said his son had a kidney removed, sustained liver damage and has undergone two surgeries since he was taken to St. Mary's Medical Center, but is expected to recover.

"He's a hero," Bancroft said during a phone interview. "He saved his mom."

Corey Johnson, 17, is being held in juvenile detention while a grand jury decides whether to charge him as an adult on one count of first-degree murder and two counts of attempted first degree murder.

One-time Ukrainian hero Savchenko facing arrest after claiming top official 'led snipers to central Kiev'

RT
Thu, 15 Mar 2018 21:03 UTC

Ukrainian MP Nadezhda Savchenko, who was lauded as a hero for her role in the Donbass military campaign and her prosecution in Russia, is now accused of plotting to blow up the national parliament in Kiev.

The General Prosecutor's Office in Kiev has requested that the parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, strip Savchenko of legal immunity and allow her arrest. MPs in Ukraine normally enjoy protection from prosecution. However, General Prosecutor Yury Lutsenko filed the request on Thursday after Savchenko failed to show up for a scheduled questioning.

Lutsenko threatened he would do so earlier this week while Savchenko was on a visit to Europe in her capacity as MP. Savchenko responded by accusing Lutsenko of covering up the involvement in the deadly 2014 Maidan shooting, which escalated mass protest into an armed coup and ultimately brought the current Ukrainian government into power.

"Lutsenko called to go on offensive from the podium. He promised weapons. I saw armed people arriving in a blue van. Those people are now in the parliament," she said, adding that she saw "[current Rada Speaker Andriy] Parubiy leading the snipers to the hotel 'Ukraine'," from which shots were later fired.

Comment: So Savchenko points out the truth of what some Ukrainian officials are guilty of during the 2014 Maidan massacre, and now she is supposed to be part of a plot to blow up the national parliament in Kiev? How convenient.

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Society's Child

French judge issues arrest warrant for Saudi princess who told her bodyguard to kill her interior designer for taking pictures - reports

US military aircraft crashes in Iraq near Syrian border, casualties reported

'Pedophile's paradise': Swedish court softens punishment for serial child molesters

Dorset goes into 'lockdown' over Skripal poisoning

Reality Check: Ben Swann on the social media purge of dissenting voices

Trans people labelled "parasites" & obstacle to feminism during Parliament event

Dissent in the Western alliance: Irish Times - "Unlikely that Putin behind Skripals' poisoning"

Cops caught attempting to run over raccoon—slowly torturing it to death (VIDEO)

Heroic 13yo boy stabbed 32 times while confronting attacker to save his mother

One-time Ukrainian hero Savchenko facing arrest after claiming top official 'led snipers to central Kiev'

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