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Heroic air traffic controller dies helping last plane escape after 7.7 earthquake on Indonesia's Sulawesi island


RT
Sat, 29 Sep 2018 19:19 UTC
damaged control tower Sulawesi earthquake spet 2018
© KompasA damaged air traffic control tower at the Mutiara Sis Al Jufri Airport in Palu, Central Sulawesi on Friday. The tower was about to collapse as a result of a 7.4-magnitude earthquake that rocked the province. The airport also suffered damages to its navigation system as well as 500 meters of its 2,500-m-long runway.
A young Indonesian air traffic controller stayed on duty as the earthquake shook the building, to make sure one last aircraft escaped Friday's deadly disaster. He was fatally injured fleeing afterwards.

Anthonius Gunawan Agung was the last person remaining in the air traffic control tower at Mutiara Sis Al Jufri Airport in Palu when the 7.7 quake hit the city on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.

While his colleagues ran for their lives as the tower swayed violently from the shocks, Agung, 21, remained steadfast to ensure that Batik Air Flight 6321 got off the ground, as deep fissures and cracks began to appear on the runway.

When the plane took off to safety, further trembling hit the tower. Fearing that he would be trapped beneath the rubble, Agung jumped the four stories off the tower, landing on the ground where he sustained a broken leg and internal injuries.

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Paint and Batons: Riot police face off with pro-independence protesters in Barcelona


RT
Sat, 29 Sep 2018 14:38 UTC
Catalan regional police clash protesters Barcelona sept 2018
© Pau Barrena / AFPCatalan regional police clash with protesters
Security forces have clashed with pro-independence demonstrators in one of the main squares of Barcelona, Sant Jaume. The officers were seen beating the protesters with batons.

Crowds took to the streets on Saturday to stage a counter-protest against a demonstration in support of the Spanish national police (Policia Nacional) and Civil Guard (Guardia Civil) in Barcelona. The latter two were involved in a violent crackdown during last year's independence referendum in Catalonia.

Dramatic pictures from Saturday's rally show officers in riot gear facing off with pro-independence protesters before unleashing batons on them.


Comment: Catalonians aren't ready to give up the fight for independence as evidenced by the massive turnout at the protest in early September marking the 1-year anniversary of the referendum. Meanwhile, the opposition hoping to undermine the bid for independence by supporting 'antidote to populism' former French PM Manual Valls in his bid for mayor of Barcelona.

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Patriarch of Alexandria pledges support to Ukrainian Churches, urges Orthodox unity


RT
Sat, 29 Sep 2018 16:13 UTC
Patriarch Theodore II
© eparhiya.od.uaPatriarch Theodore II of Alexandria meets people in Odessa, Ukraine.
Patriarch Theodore II of Alexandria has shown support for the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which is part of the Moscow Patriarchate. It comes amid a rift between the Russian Orthodox Church and Constantinople Patriarchate.

Theodore II arrived in the southern Ukrainian city of Odessa on Thursday, meeting high church representatives and the Orthodox faithful. The Patriarch of Alexandria is one of the most respected hierarchs of the Orthodoxy, second only to the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.

"I have come here to tell you: Stay with the Orthodox faith and with the canonical church," Patriarch Theodore II said in his address.

Ahead of the visit to Odessa, he met with the head of the Polish Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Savva, who backed the canonical Ukrainian church as well. The two also called for conflicts stemming from giving autocephality to the Ukrainian church to be avoided.

Comment: Russian Patriarch Kirill recently commented that the "Russian Church is completely free from any political influence", and one wonders, can those in Ukraine honestly say the same?

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Facebook hack leaves 50 million accounts compromised; linked 3rd party apps affected too


RT
Sat, 29 Sep 2018 18:29 UTC
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© Jon Nazca / Reuters
A Facebook hack which left the accounts of more than 50 million users compromised may have also affected third-party apps such as Tinder, Spotify and Instagram, if people used their Facebook account to register for the services.

The added repercussions of the massive security breach were confirmed by the company later Friday, during a follow-up conference call with reporters. Facebook acknowledged that not only had hackers obtained the ability to access Facebook accounts of affected users, they could also access any other service in which a Facebook account was used for registration.

Thousands of websites and apps including Tinder, Spotify, Airbnb and Instagram allow you to register and sign in using Facebook. This saves users having to create various passwords and usernames for each site.
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Four US Navy officers accused of sex and making pornography with a minor


RT
Sat, 29 Sep 2018 03:49 UTC
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© FILE PHOTO Joshua Roberts / Reuters
A group of petty officers assigned to a US submarine base have been charged with engaging in group sex with a girl younger than 16 and filming it. A criminal investigation was launched after an anonymous tip-off.

The incident, reported by the Navy Times on Friday, allegedly took place on September 17, 2017, and had not been made public up until now. According to the charge sheets, obtained by the publication, the four officers engaged in sexual acts with the girl in barracks at the Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor in Washington state. It's unclear how the girl, said to be between 12 and 16 years old, was sneaked into the military base.

The orgy took place "with the door open, and with open recording of the group sex using photography and video equipment," the charge sheets state. The crime was not carried out on the spur of the moment, with investigators saying that the four discussed it in a smoking area before heading for the barracks.

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NY nanny sues couple over firing after receiving 'racist' text


RT
Sat, 29 Sep 2018 15:46 UTC
Mary Poppins
© FilmStills.net/Global Look PressStill from the 1964 movie Mary Poppins, a tale of a magical nanny
A New York nanny is suing a couple for discriminatory firing after receiving a misdirected text from the mother complaining that she was "another black person." The couple deny they are racist, likening the suit to "extortion."

Lynsey Plasco-Flaxman, a mother of two, expressed dismay when finding out that the new child care provider, Giselle Maurice, was black upon arriving for her first day of work in 2016.

"NOOOOOOOOOOO ANOTHER BLACK PERSON," wrote Mrs Plasco-Flaxman to her husband in a text. However, instead of sending it to her husband, she sent it to Ms. Maurice, twice.

After realizing her gaffe, an "uncomfortable" Plasco-Flaxman fired Ms. Maurice, stating that their outgoing nanny, who was African-American, had done a bad job and that she was instead expecting a Filipino, according to the New York Post.
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The enemy of humanity will never, ever look like this again

Caitlin Johnstone
caitlinjohnstone.com
Sat, 29 Sep 2018 00:01 UTC
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There will never, ever be another Adolf Hitler.

History doesn't repeat itself. Human behavior patterns repeat themselves, because humans are deeply conditioned animals, but history doesn't repeat itself. Anyone who says it does is confused about how time works.

Consumers of mainstream culture have been trained to watch out for the next Hitler the way evangelical Christians are trained to watch for the second coming of Jesus. References to Hitler are ubiquitous in movies, television, literature, and of course in political discourse, and understandably so; he is the clearest, purest example of evil in living memory. A genocidal dictator leading humanity into world war with the explicit agenda of totalitarian global domination is indeed as stark an example of an evil human being as you could possibly imagine, and serves as a philosophically unassailable "NOT THIS WAY" sign for our species. The saturation of our culture with that sign is why Godwin's law ("As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Hitler approaches 1") is a thing; any time you want to tell a stranger that their ideas could lead in an undesirable direction, it becomes increasingly tempting to throw up the "NOT THIS WAY" symbol that Adolf Hitler has come to represent.

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Reddit 'quarantines' users who question the official story of 9/11

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Fri, 28 Sep 2018 15:15 UTC
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A highly popular subreddit devoted to posting information which proposed information outside the official narrative to 9/11 has been "Quarantined" by the Reddit Administrators. The community has effectively been cut off from the rest of the platform and anyone who wishes to view its contents are forced to go through a checkpoint while being redirected to a government website.

On Thursday, the subreddit r/911truth was placed under a Reddit Quarantine. The Reddit Administrators claimed that the subreddit posts misinformation and then directed people seeking information on 9/11 to the official government website.
It may contain a high degree of misinformation. If you are seeking historic information about the September 11 attacks, please visit the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (https://www.9-11commission.gov/).
According to Reddit, communities are placed under quarantine to prevent others from accidentally stumbling upon this information. Reddit, like most other social media platforms has begun to control the flow of information and crowning themselves the arbiters of truth.
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Western civilisation "not welcome here": Social justice infects the study of history

Bella d'Abrera
Quillette
Thu, 27 Sep 2018 00:01 UTC
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© Cristina Gottardi
In 2017, following the wishes of the late Paul Ramsay, a businessman and philanthropist who made his fortune in the healthcare industry, the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation was set up in Australia. Paul Ramsay was deeply concerned that Australians are not being taught about Western Civilisation either at school or university. So he left part of his $3.4 billion fortune so that something would be done about it. As the Director of the Foundations of Western Civilisation Program at the Institute of Public Affairs, I have been keeping a close watch on developments.

The Ramsay Centre has devised a Bachelor of Arts in Western Civilisation based on great books and works of art, to be taught in partnership with universities. Since its launch however, the Ramsay Centre has encountered almost nothing but open hostility and resentment from potential university partners.

Comment: The social justice infection continues to spread, with Universities and academia being the most virulent propagators. When the study of history is reduced to the lens of identity politics, we are truly doomed. If you don't know your past, then you don't know the present or the future.

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Controlled explosion reduces 5,000 foot bridge to rubble within seconds in east China


RT
Sat, 29 Sep 2018 13:15 UTC
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© Mats Andren/EyeEm / Getty Images
Mind-blowing footage shows the moment a 5,000 foot bridge was reduced to rubble in a matter of seconds during a controlled explosion in east China.

The 23 year-old multi-lane Ji'an Ganjiang bridge which spanned across the Gan river in the Jiangxi province was blown up Friday in spectacular fashion to make way for a new structure.
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