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Beslan ruling: Kremlin slams ECHR's claim that more lives could have been saved

RT
Thu, 13 Apr 2017 14:27 UTC

The Strasbourg court has ordered Russia to pay almost €3 million in damages to the families of the victims of the terrorist attack in Beslan in 2004, but the Kremlin says some of the court's findings are "theoretical" and "unacceptable."

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that Russia failed to minimize the casualties among hostages during the September 2004 crisis, when a group of some three dozen terrorists armed with firearms and explosives seized a school full of students in the city of Beslan.

The majority of judges agreed that Russia's security forces "had contributed, to some extent, to the casualties among the hostages" by using heavy weapons when the three-day stand-off abruptly escalated into a bloody battle.

Two judges disagreed with the majority opinion, saying that the use of force during the Beslan siege was "absolutely necessary, and it was applied as a last resort in exceptional circumstances in order to remove the actual threat."

Mississippi cop uses Facebook Live to brag about killing dogs, beating people & breaking the law

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Thu, 13 Apr 2017 14:21 UTC

A cop in Yazoo, Mississippi, has an apparent affinity with livestreaming his dereliction of duty to Facebook. Clearly having no forethought about any chance of being caught in his unprofessional — and illegal — acts, this cop appears to love the attention he gets from bragging about his dirty police work to his Facebook fans.

The disturbing video of the two officers starts out with them bragging about killing a dog. The officer who is doing the livestreaming, Officer Facebook Live, is apparently so hungry for likes and shares that he could not care less about bragging to the public about him and his partner's puppycide.

"Man, we shot the shit outta somebody's dog," Officer Facebook Live callously says as he turns the camera to his partner for confirmation.

"Yeah, that's right," says his partner in uniform.

"It ran to him, ruff ruff ruff, pow pow pow pow pow, like damn.....'Shots fired! Shots fired!'" the cop brags.

Another mess: Chemical leak from US Steel plant closes beaches, parks near Lake Michigan

RT
Thu, 13 Apr 2017 13:33 UTC

Federal authorities say a US Steel facility in Portage, Indiana, leaked an unknown amount of a potentially carcinogenic chemical into a canal located 100 yards from Lake Michigan.

On Wednesday, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a statement that they have been conducting "intensive water sampling" of Lake Michigan after a US Steel Corporation facility discharged wastewater containing hexavalent chromium (also known as chromium-6) into Burns Waterway.

The EPA said their tests have "not detected hexavalent chromium from the spill in Lake Michigan."

US Steel says the spill was caused by a pipe failure that caused the chemical to flow into the wrong wastewater treatment plant at the complex, according to the Associated Press.

Sick world: 'Sex-for-rent' deals advertised online 'exploiting' homeless youths

RT
Thu, 13 Apr 2017 13:17 UTC

Young, vulnerable people are at risk of being sexually abused by people posting online ads offering accommodation in exchange for other "services," an investigation has found.

The deals, which are entirely legal and appear on classified ad sites such as Craigslist, have been described by charities as "exploitative."

One student, who claims a "sex-for-rent" deal was her only option, said she became "physically unwell" after repeated encounters.

"He took me into his living room, got me drinks, and then after that it was just straight upstairs and go for it," she told the BBC.

Facebook refuses to delete 'pedophilic content & extremist material'

RT
Thu, 13 Apr 2017 13:08 UTC

Social media giant Facebook could face criminal prosecution after it refused to take down alleged pedophilic content, an investigation has found.

Scores of videos and images were 'flagged up' as child pornography to the website's moderators, alongside several other images believed to be of extremist and terrorist nature, the Times reports.

Rather than remove the content, however, Facebook said the posts were not in breach of its 'community standards.'

According to the Times, offensive materials included a beheading video produced by Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL), posters supporting the recent terrorist attacks in London and Egypt, a video apparently depicting the sexual assault of a child, and violent pedophilic cartoons.

You are not mad at United Airlines; you are mad at the United States

Shane Ryan
Paste Magazine
Mon, 10 Apr 2017 12:25 UTC

There's a saying that is sometimes attributed to Karl Marx or Slavoj Zizek—apocryphally, in both cases—that tidily sums up the existential angst some Americans feel at the start of a traditional work week: You don't hate Mondays. You hate capitalism.

The simple thesis here is that there's nothing intrinsic to "Monday," which is just a word we've invented to delineate every seventh day, that makes your average 9-5 worker miserable. The despair comes from the system, which invests "Monday" with meaning—this is the day you return to the cycle of repetitive, unsatisfying labor that fills you with loathing and anxiety.

This system is the thing you should rage against; this is the thing you should change. "Monday" is a metonym, but a deceptively harmful one—a metonym in camouflage—because it has a way of diverting a person's attention from the boot heel that is grinding her soul into dust. Instead, she takes the oppressive system as a given, and transfers her negative emotions to an inanimate, meaningless symbol—"Monday"—that is both immutable and impervious, since it is, very basically, nothing more than a day of the week. You may as well get mad at a rock. The dual effect of this transference is to deny the person any chance at changing his circumstances—since blaming Mondays instead of capitalism turns potential activism into fatalism—and to shield the system from criticism and reform.

Syrian Catholic Bishop: 'Without the Syrian & Russian Armed Forces, we'd all be dead'

Fort Russ
Thu, 13 Apr 2017 11:23 UTC

The Berlin-based Syrian artist and political activist Hanin Elias has conducted an exclusive interview for Syriana Analysis portal with His Excellency, Jano Battah.

The Bishop of the Syriac Catholic Church spoke about the situation in Syria, the reality of the events and the plight of the Christians.

Fairytales for kids under fire in Respectful Relationships guide

Monique Hore and James Dowling
Herald Sun
Thu, 13 Apr 2017 01:14 UTC

FAIRYTALES could be at risk in public schools from moves to degrade the much-loved stories for gender bias.

Preschool books and toys could also be audited to determine whether they promote gender stereotypes, under a Victorian government plan to address family violence.

A teaching aid in the Respectful Relationship program wants pupils to analyse men and women in classics like Cinderella, Snow White and Rapunzel and compare them to modern stories challenging gender norms.

Mass-murder obsessed woman admits plot for 2015 Valentine's Day mall massacre in Canada

RT
Wed, 12 Apr 2017 21:00 UTC

A Canadian court has heard how a mass-murder obsessed US woman plotted with her online lover to carry out a massacre at a shopping mall. The pair shared an interest in the 1999 Columbine High School attack.

The plot involved using rifles and gas bombs to kill shoppers at a food court at a shopping mall in Halifax, Nova Scotia, according to the BBC.

Lindsay Souvannarath surprised the court on Wednesday by pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit murder.

Chris Hansen, a spokeswoman with the Nova Scotia Public Prosecution Service, said the American's plea on Tuesday in Nova Scotia's Supreme Court "was unexpected". Souvannarath was scheduled to go to trial in May.

3 bodies thrown out of plane in suspected Mexican cartel turf war

RT
Thu, 13 Apr 2017 02:09 UTC

At least three people have been thrown out from a plane allegedly belonging to Mexico's infamous Sinaloa drug cartel, once run by Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman, local media reported. One of the bodies landed on the roof of a hospital.

According to local police, the bodies were dumped at dawn on Wednesday morning from a single engine plane in the Sinaloa State of Mexico. One of the bodies landed on the roof of the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) hospital in the town of Eldorado at around 7:30 am. The half-naked man had signs of torture on his body with his head covered with a sack.

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Society's Child

Beslan ruling: Kremlin slams ECHR's claim that more lives could have been saved

Mississippi cop uses Facebook Live to brag about killing dogs, beating people & breaking the law

Another mess: Chemical leak from US Steel plant closes beaches, parks near Lake Michigan

Sick world: 'Sex-for-rent' deals advertised online 'exploiting' homeless youths

Facebook refuses to delete 'pedophilic content & extremist material'

You are not mad at United Airlines; you are mad at the United States

Syrian Catholic Bishop: 'Without the Syrian & Russian Armed Forces, we'd all be dead'

Fairytales for kids under fire in Respectful Relationships guide

Mass-murder obsessed woman admits plot for 2015 Valentine's Day mall massacre in Canada

3 bodies thrown out of plane in suspected Mexican cartel turf war

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