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Teen girl slashes stranger's tires because she was 'triggered' by his MAGA hat inside

Elise Solé
Yahoo! News
Mon, 18 Mar 2019 09:39 UTC
MAGA hat
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A teen vandalized a stranger's car when she saw a Make America Great Again hat on the console because she "disagreed" with its message.

Recently, Nick Dugas, a security manager at Paradise Valley Mall in Phoenix, Ariz., was leaving work and saw that one of his SUV tires was flat from a three-inch cut, according to the Arizona Republic.

Dugas checked the mall parking lot's security tapes and watched a car entering a space next to his vehicle. When four women got out, two looked inside his SUV where his MAGA cap was sitting.
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Independent MEP Janice Atkinson details the ongoing migrant crisis in Calais

Janice Atkinson
Sputnik
Mon, 18 Mar 2019 09:39 UTC
Calais migrants
© REUTERS / Regis Duvignau
No politician from the EU or UK has visited Calais and northern France as much as I have. I've met the mayors, police, migrants, NGOs and have been into the various jungles. I went again two weeks ago, for the first time with security.

We are being lied to by the MSM and our politicians that the migrant crisis in Calais is over. All done, nothing to see here folks, but a few hundred desperate souls trying to make their way to the UK.

We see them bobbing up and down in the English channel, saved by the RNLI, risking their own lives, brought ashore by our brave rescuers.
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Transatlantic alliance declares more 'sanctions' on Russia as country marks 5th anniversary of democratic accession of Crimea


teleSUR
Sat, 16 Mar 2019 07:17 UTC
Simferopol Crimea anniversary
© Sergei Malgavko / TASSStudents celebrate in the Russian city of Simferopol on Friday.
A 'transatlantic alliance' continues to conspire in Crimea on its 5th anniversary of reunification with the Russian Federation.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced Friday financial sanctions against six individuals and eight Russian companies due to their alleged support of the reunification of the Crimean peninsula with the Russian Federation.

On the fifth anniversary of the referendum whereby the Crimean people decided to join the Federation, the U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin announced a joint initiative with Canada and the European Union to impose more sanctions against Russia, a collective measure which is supposedly aimed at supporting Ukraine's territorial integrity.

"The U.S. and our transatlantic partners will not allow Russia's continued aggression against Ukraine to go unchecked," Mnuchin said and added that "this joint initiative... reinforces our shared commitment to impose targeted and meaningful sanctions."

Comment: 'Sanctions', like 'tariffs', are apparently having no effect on the underlying trend towards increased Western-Russian trade, which is back up to 2014 levels.

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Petrochemical fire rages outside of Houston, shelter in place order given

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Sun, 17 Mar 2019 23:11 UTC
chemical fire
© Houston Chronicle
A petrochemical terminal is on fire at an oil storage facility in Deer Park, Texas just outside of Houston and has been raging throughout the day Sunday. City officials have warned residents to shelter in place and further advised them to close air ventilation systems in their homes and close all windows.

As of 4:30pm central local reports said the fire remains "uncontrolled" and expanded the extent of the shelter in place order.

"City of Deer Park issuing SHELTER-IN-PLACE emergency in Deer Park," the city wrote in a tweet at Sunday morning. "Please take immediate action and seek shelter," multiple warnings directed.

In a follow-up warning issued in the afternoon the city said, "Residents are asked to remain sheltered and avoid going outdoors if at all possible. Community air monitoring is being conducted and additional updates will be provided as they become available."
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Four people killed in train bomb blast in Baluchistan, Pakistan


Dhaka Tribune
Sun, 17 Mar 2019 21:40 UTC
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© ReutersA police officer and rescue workers stand near to a derailed passenger train, after a bomb went off on track in Naseerabad, Pakistan March 17, 2019
Four people were killed and 10 injured in Pakistan on Sunday when a bomb went off on a train track in the resource-rich province of Baluchistan, where separatist rebels have been fighting the security forces for years.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but ethnic Baluch separatists, fighting what they call the unfair exploitation of their province's gas and other resources, have attacked trains in the past.

"Four people - a teenage girl her mother and two others were killed in the blast," Irfan Bashir, police chief of Naseerabad district where the blast occurred, told Reuters.

The blast derailed six carriages of the Jaffar Express train, which was travelling from the northwestern city of Peshawar to the Baluchistan provincial capital of Quetta.

Comment: Pakistan is under the spotlight for its use of terrorist groups in recent decades.

But as you see here, it's more complicated than just Pakistan using these groups for political reasons.

Two powerful incentives others have for maintaining terror networks in south Asia are:

1.) Ringing Iran with troublespots, thus 'containing' it.

2.) More broadly, keeping the region 'infertile' for Chinese-led infrastructure projects.

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Build it and they will come: Sweden Democrat proposes building mosque to attract immigrants up north


The Local
Sat, 16 Mar 2019 20:33 UTC
Mark Collins
Mark Collins, 63, moved to Norrland two years ago from Skåne.
A Sweden Democrat politician from Kramfors, on Sweden's northern Baltic coast, is facing possible expulsion after proposing that his municipality build a mosque to draw more immigrants to the city.

Mark Collins, 63, who represents the normally anti-immigration party on Kramfors municipal council, said he believed attracting enterprising immigrants was the only way to stop his city's decline.

"My idea is that if you have a mosque and a cultural centre, then you empower the Muslims to be responsible for our town and the area up here," the told The Local. "Hopefully we will get a lot of them to come up and stay."

The city, he said, was losing 100 people a year, whereas Västernorrland as a whole was losing as many as 500 citizens a year.

Even the refugees housed in the municipality following the 2015 crisis had moved south as soon as they were able to, he complained.
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Occupied West Bank: At least 1 Israeli dead, 2 wounded in Palestinian attack


RT
Sun, 17 Mar 2019 09:35 UTC
IDF guards
© Reuters/Ammar AwadIsraeli forces stand guard near the scene of Palestinian shooting attack near the Jewish settlement of Ariel, in the occupied West Bank March 17, 2019.
A shooting carried out by a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank has left at least one Israeli dead and two others wounded. The suspect is currently on the run from the IDF.

The attack began when a Palestinian grabbed a gun from an Israeli near a Jewish settlement in the West Bank and then shot him. The Palestinian then reportedly shot another man, stole his car, and fled the scene. He later opened fire at a bus stop, wounding a third person.

The IDF said in a statement that they were searching for the gunman.

The incident comes after two Israeli soldiers stationed in the West Bank were injured in a car ramming attack in early March. Two of the suspects were shot and killed by Israeli forces, and a third was wounded, according the military.

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Fined €400, cold sober US soldiers disrespectfully urinated on Latvia's Freedom Monument


RT
Sat, 16 Mar 2019 20:25 UTC
Freedom Monument Latvia
© The Freedom Monument in Riga, Latvia. Sputnik/Sergey MelkonovThe Freedom Monument in Riga, Latvia.
Some US troops who come to Latvia for drills don't seem to have too much respect for their hosts, as two of them were caught peeing on the landmark Freedom Monument in Riga. They were stone-cold sober while doing so.

The surveillance center of the Riga Municipal Police noticed two men urinating on the Freedom Monument in the center on the city on March 8. Patrolling officers were immediately sent on site and detained the perpetrators.

When their papers were checked it turned out that those responsible for the bizarre act were American troops, who arrived in the country for wargames. Latvia had been hosting NATO's Dynamic Front exercises between March 2 and 9.

Their motivation for using a 42-meter-tall monument as a toilet is yet unclear. But Riga police spokesman, Toms Sadovskis , told LETA news agency that the US servicemen were sober during the act. However, the wrongdoers didn't escape punishment as each of them was slapped with a fine of a whole €400 (around $454) before being let go.

Understanding that the Latvian public may find the penalty insufficient, Defense Ministry spokesman Kaspars Galkins promised that the soldiers will also face sanctions from the US Army, which "will probably be much harsher." However, there has been no confirmation to that so far.
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US citizen sentenced to 10 years in Iran for insulting Khamenei, posting image with girlfriend online


RT
Sun, 17 Mar 2019 19:29 UTC
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
© Reuters/ TIMA/ Nazanin Tabatabaee YazdiA portrait of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran
A US citizen has been sentenced to 10 years behind bars after a trial in Iran, his lawyer said. The former Navy serviceman violated a lèse-majesté law and a private information law that do not apply in the US.

Michael White, who used to serve in the aviation maintenance administration in the Navy before his retirement, was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Monday, the American's lawyer, Mark Zaid, told media. White was arrested in July in the town of Mashhad, the Los Angeles Times reported, citing his family.

Few details are known about the charges he faced and was convicted of. Zaid said that White was facing two separate charges, one of which was insulting Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. It's unclear how and under what circumstances White committed the offense.

Another charge was linked to posting private information online, which is punishable in Iran. The 'private information', according to Zaid, is an Instagram photo of White with his girlfriend who lives in Iran.

White is now planning to appeal the sentence, which he can do within 22 days.
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New Zealand shooter's worldwide trips investigated


RT
Sat, 16 Mar 2019 19:22 UTC
Brenton Tarrant
© AFP/ TRT WorldA CCTV video still of Brenton Tarrant at a Turkish airport in 2016 made available by TRT World.
The Australian accused of the deadly shooting at two mosques in New Zealand traveled around the globe, including Eastern Europe, Turkey, Pakistan and probably North Korea. Authorities in several countries are probing his trips.

Before his shooting spree left 50 worshipers dead and 40 people injured in Christchurch on Friday, Brenton Harrison Tarrant published a manifesto where the 28-year-old mentioned visiting Pakistan, North Korea, Turkey, France, Poland, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Iceland, Argentina and many other countries. Now, some of these states are investigating what he might have done there and whether he picked up his radical ideas during his travels.

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One of those countries is the UK, as the gunman called for the murder of London mayor Sadiq Khan. Tarrant accused Khan of working to "replace" the majority-white British people with Muslims. MI5 is now looking into Tarrant's possible links to far-right radicals in Britain that he might have established during his European visits.

The bodybuilder and personal trainer from a small Aussie town wrote that he was able to fund his many travels after successfully investing in cryptocurrency.

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