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'Outraged' opposition mayors take control of Madrid & Barcelona


RT
Sun, 14 Jun 2015 00:18 UTC
Ada Colau's swearing-in ceremony
© REUTERS/Albert GeaPeople watch Ada Colau's swearing-in ceremony as the new mayor of Barcelona, at Sant Jaume square in Barcelona, Spain, June 13, 2015.
Left wing party coalition leaders have been sworn in as mayors of Madrid and Barcelona, assuming control of the Spain's two largest cities. This is yet another case of parts of Spain showing their opposition to the country's conservative rule.

In the Spanish capital, a 71-year-old former judge, Manuela Carmena has put an end to the 24 years of conservative mayorship. She defeated her rival, 63-year-old Esperanza Aguirre from the People's Party, in what proved to be a very close race.


The new mayor managed to claim 20 seats in the city chamber during the May 24 vote against Aguirre's 21. However, Carmena managed to forge an alliance with the main opposition Socialist Party to secure victory. She was officially elected mayor by 29 of the 57 council representatives on Saturday morning.

Carmena, a former communist and rights activist, promised to improve the living conditions for the poor, who have been struggling since the 2008 financial crisis. She also echoed the calls of the massive Indignados (Outraged) protest movement that was formed in 2011 to fight corruption, government spending cuts and evictions.

"We are at the service of the citizens of Madrid. We want to govern by listening. We want them to call us by our first names," Carmena said after being voted in.

Among her chief promises to the electorate are the development of public transport and increased support for poor families. She has promised to slash her salary by more than half to €45,000 ($51,000).
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Freight train derails on bridge in Houston, TX causing several cars to fall off overpass

Tim Wetzel, Alice Barr
KHOU.com
Fri, 12 Jun 2015 14:33 UTC
train derailment
© Air 11 / KHOU 11There were no injuries reported when several cars derailed on the bridge over Old Katy Road in Houston on Thursday.
After a day of clean up after a train derailed along Old Katy Road, officials said the road should be reopened by Friday morning.

The incident happened around 8:30 a.m. near Washington Avenue, just north of the Katy Freeway.

According to a spokesman Jeff Degraff with Union Pacific, which runs the tracks, the Kansas City Southern train traveling from Beaumont was heading west on its way to Kendleton when the derailment happened at the Eureka Junction.

A total of nine cars and a locomotive came off the tracks. Two of the cars fell off the overpass.

The spokesman said that the cars that fell contained soy bean and plastic pellets. No hazardous materials were present.
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Canada gone crazy: 23yo "ISIS supporter" guilty of no crime in custody in Winnipeg

Karen Pauls, Jill Coubrough
CBC
Sat, 13 Jun 2015 21:33 UTC
Aaron Driver
Warning: supporting U.S.-backed terrorist groups can get you arrested.
RCMP in Winnipeg have raided the rental home of an ISIS supporter known by the alias Harun Abdurahman and seized what's believed to be computer equipment.

Neighbours say undercover officers have been watching the home in the city's southwestern neighbourhood of Charleswood for months.

RCMP took out garbage bags containing what appeared to be computer towers.

It's unknown if Abdurahman has been arrested.

RCMP would only confirm officers executed a search warrant as part of an investigation.

"The large police presence, initially, was to ensure the safety of the officers involved, and the public," Sgt. Bert Paquet wrote in an email. "At this point, any further details could undermine the ongoing investigation."

Comment: From Yahoo News:
Driver has been in custody for a week and RCMP are seeking a peace bond as they fear he will participate in terrorism, but so far no charges have been laid.

But that's what concerns civil rights advocates. "It should shock every Canadian citizen that this is possible or that is being done," Corey Shefman told CBC News.
It should, but it won't.

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Dallas police HQ attack: Suspect believed killed during standoff


CNN
Sat, 13 Jun 2015 17:44 UTC
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Suspect Mug Shot from Dallas County Sheriff’s Office that matches name given to police – James Boulware.
A man unleashed a barrage of gunfire on Dallas' police headquarters and planted explosives outside the building early Saturday -- narrowly failing to wound anyone -- leading to a chase to a suburb that ended with officers shooting him in his parked van at a restaurant parking lot.

Police believe they killed the suspect, though they haven't confirmed his death yet. Late Saturday morning were using a robot to probe the van in the suburb of Hutchins because the suspect claimed he had rigged the vehicle with explosives, Dallas Police Chief David Brown told reporters.

"We believe this suspect meant to kill officers," Brown said. "We barely survived the intentions of this suspect."
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Better Earth

Untold stories: First-ever US Nakba Museum opens in Washington DC

Kayla Blau
Mondoweiss
Fri, 12 Jun 2015 15:19 UTC
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© Nakba Museum Project of Memory and Hope Facebook page
When Bshara Nassar arrived in Washington, DC, he strolled along the National Mall and passed myriad museums dedicated to exposing the painful history of oppressed peoples: the National Museum of the American Indian, the Holocaust Museum, Laogai Museum, the list goes on. He quickly recognized there was no "place for the Palestinian story to be told," which inspired him to launch the first-ever Nakba Museum Project of Memory and Hope.

As Nassar worked on a master's degree in conflict transformation, the thought of a space dedicated to Palestinian voices became a working reality. He was particularly interested in telling the little-known story of the "Nakba," which means "catastrophe" in Arabic. The term is used to refer to the displacement of more than 700,000 Palestinians from their homes in 1948 when the State of Israel was created. Today, nearly 5 million people, nearly all of them descendants of the original group, are registered as Palestinian refugees with the United Nations.

Comment: Some sanity in this insane world!

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SOTT Focus: The Truth Perspective: Dąbrowski's theory of positive disintegration - part 2

Sott Editors
Sott.net
Sat, 13 Jun 2015 18:00 UTC
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This is Part 2 of the Truth Perspective's discussion of Dr. Kazimierz Dabrowski's Personality-Shaping Through Positive Disintegration, published by Red Pill Press. We covered several aspects of the book and the theory, including its implications for politics, the similarities to ponerology and the work of Gurdjieff, the subject of psychopathy, and we read some key passages from the book. Part one of the discussion can be found here. The book is currently available on Amazon.com.

During the second half of the show, we talked about some important news items from the previous week, tying them into our observations on positive and negative disintegration and how that might relate to various countries and the personalities involved..

Running Time: 02:04:00

Download: MP3

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Two brothers die after inhaling sewer fumes in Dublin tragedy


Irish Examiner
Fri, 12 Jun 2015 11:10 UTC
Dublin sewer tragedy
Stephen and Alan Harris were working at a housing estate
Another man has died in a double tragedy after being overcome by fumes while working in a sewer.

Stephen Harris, 34, of Monasterboice Road in Crumlin, Dublin, lost his fight for life in Beaumont Hospital at 9am today.

He was caught up in the same suspected methane gas incident which claimed the life of his brother, Alan Harris, a father of two, on Wednesday.

The pair had been inspecting underground pipes on a housing estate in the Portmarnock area of north Dublin.

Alan Harris, in his 40s, was the owner of DrainTech, a company specialising in drainage clearance and pipe and sewer unblocking in the Dublin region for about 20 years.

The accident happened on the Drumnigh Woods estate in Portmarnock.

The brothers were beginning to assess work on pipes under the road, some of which were reported to be 20ft (6m) below the surface.

Stephen Harris, who was knocked unconscious by the noxious gases, was rescued by fire crews but lost his fight for life in hospital.

His family requested that their privacy be respected during their grief.

Investigations by the Garda and the Health and Safety Authority are continuing.

Comment: Methane is a colorless, odorless gas at room temperature and standard pressure, and as residents 'complained of a smell' prompting the sewer inspection, this tragedy could be related to inhalation of other toxic 'sewer gases'. Such as hydrogen sulfide, which does have an odor and is "heavier than air, very poisonous, corrosive, flammable, and explosive".

In India last week, three workers died after inhaling poisonous gases inside a manhole. Those working on sewer systems or living in 'low-lying areas' may be particularly susceptible to such 'heavier than air' out gassing.

Such seeps are likely to be contributing to increased manhole explosions worldwide, and to fish die offs, such as the "catastrophic" one elsewhere in Ireland recently.

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Indian reporter burned to death by police for reporting on local corruption

Suhasini Raj
New York Times
Thu, 11 Jun 2015 02:38 UTC
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Jagendra Singh
They came in the heat of the late afternoon, two cars jammed with enforcers and police officers allied with a local dairy minister. They charged into the reporter's house and reminded him that he had been warned many times that "he should not write anything against the minister."

At least that's what the reporter, Jagendra Singh, told a police official on his deathbed, with 60 percent of his body covered with burns after, he said, the men doused him with gasoline and set him on fire.

It was payback, he said, for his many posts on social media linking Ram Murti Verma, the minister of dairy development in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, to illegal sand mining and taking possession of unoccupied land, two underground activities rampant in the state.

"They warned him that they will not leave his fingers in such a state that they would be able to write anything against the minister," said Mr. Singh's son, Rahul, in a telephone interview on Thursday.

The police in Uttar Pradesh said Thursday that they were investigating the accusations against Mr. Verma and his associates. Amitabh Thakur, a senior police official, went to check on Mr. Singh in his hospital bed in Lucknow, the state capital, before he died on Monday evening, a week after he was burned in the dusty town of Shahjahanpur on June 1.

The Committee to Protect Journalists called this week for an independent inquiry into Mr. Singh's death.

"Given the allegations of police participation, and India's poor track record of solving crimes in connection with reporting on local corruption, the involvement of an independent authority is essential," Sumit Galhotra, a research associate for the group's Asia branch, said in a statement.

Comment: Hopefully his death will not have been in vain, and the guilty parties will be held responsible.

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Good citizen invites police into his home to help them, they shoot his dog four times

Jean Strong
FilmingCops.com
Sat, 13 Jun 2015 02:16 UTC
cop shoots dog
© KWES NewsWest 9
Yet another family pet has been ruthlessly brutalized by the cops.

In Odessa, Texas, U.S. Marshals shot Spot, a 15 year old dog, multiple times while attempting to serve an arrest warrant.

CBS 7 News says that the cops were swarming a neighborhood looking for Austin Dawson, who had "violated his parole."

Homeowner Anthony McDowell allowed police to search his property. "I said you can come in the house and look. I'm giving you permission", said McDowell.

The cops were warned that there was a dog in the back yard.

Despite the warning, they shot Spot multiple times, claiming that he "came towards them in an aggressive manner."

Spot is fighting for his life at a vet clinic in Odessa. Although the vet believes he will survive, he will never walk again.

"That's the reason he said hey he ain't here, why didn't we just leave? But he made it his business to let us know that he's serious come back here and kill our dog. He put two slugs into my dog for no apparent reason and we asked him why and he couldn't give us no justification. He didn't run charging barking or nothing. My dog was scared of the police officers," said a distraught McDowell.

This man tried to be a good citizen.

He gave the cops permission to search his place and they rewarded his honesty and cooperation by tearing his house apart and trying to kill his dog.

They knew there was a dog present, there was absolutely no excuse for such an action.

The homeowner was present; all they had to do was have him secure the dog.

As usual, the lame old "I felt threatened" excuse was trotted out.

It appears that by simply existing, dogs threaten law enforcement.
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Mr. Potato

Woman accused of locking child in hot car arrives at court, leaves kids in parked vehicle again...


RT
Thu, 11 Jun 2015 16:21 UTC
child locked in car
© Reuters/Francois Lenoir
A Virginia woman going to court to turn herself in and face charges for leaving a child in a hot car locked her kids in a vehicle outside the courthouse. She picked up an additional charge, has been arrested and denied bail.

Laquanda Newby, 25, was slapped with three counts of contributing to the delinquency or abuse of a child after police said she left her kids in a vehicle, outside the Henrico County Courthouse on June 8, as well as for a previous incident.

Following a tip off, police found the woman's children outside the court, in a car with the windows shut.

"Their shirts were wet, sweat rolling off their brows," Henrico Sheriff's Capt. David Kinkle told WTVR. "They seemed to be OK, but it was very hot."

The temperatures were reportedly in the 90's, and officials were not able to say how long the children had been left in the car, but surveillance footage showed they had been there for more than an hour.

"Had a citizen not alerted us to this, it's a situation that would've turned out much differently," Henrico Sheriff's Capt. David Kinkle said.

Officers gave the children, aged six and one, water and snacks until their father came and picked them up.
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