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© Inke Kappeler / ReutersA man walks inside Koca Sinan Camii mosque, the scene of a suspected arson attack in Berlin.
The incident occurred at the Koca Sinan Camii mosque in the German capital shortly after 2am on Sunday. Firefighters were sent to the scene after receiving a call that the building had erupted in flames, according to AFP. The blaze was under control by 3am, and no one was injured.
The fire is being treated as a suspected arson attack by authorities. "According to current findings, a politically motivated offense is assumed...," a police spokesman said, according to German tabloid BZ Berlin.
© GuardianMark Rice-Oxley, Guardian columnist and first in line to fight WWIII
For example, Mark Rice-Oxley's column in today's Guardian:
Oh, Russia! Even before we point fingers over poison and speculate about secret agents and spy swaps and pub food in Salisbury, one thing has become clear: Russia appears lost, a global menace, a moral vacuum, a far greater threat than it ever was during the cold war.Read this. It's from a respected "unbiased", liberal news outlet. It is the worst, most partisan political language I have ever heard, more heated and emotionally charged than even the most fraught moments of the Cold War. It is dangerous to the whole planet, and has no place in our media.
Comment: An excellent dissection of a propaganda persuasion article. The example should help all of us to identify the machinations of rhetorical undercurrents to undermine truth and reality in order to affect our baseline thinking processes and critical determination faculties.
© Sputnik News
"We have received information that militants plan to stage an attack between the districts of Mesraba and Beit Sawa. Tahrir al-Sham terrorists plan to sacrifice several women for this purpose and launch a disinformation campaign. The performance is thought to be scheduled for March 11," Deputy Foreign Minister, Faisal Mekdad, told journalists in Damascus.
Earlier this week, the White Helmets, a self-proclaimed civil defense group, accused the Syrian government of staging a chlorine attack that affected 30 residents of Eastern Ghouta, a militant-held suburb of Damascus wrecked by intense fighting in the past month. The government, which regards the White Helmets as a foreign-funded terrorist propaganda organization, has rejected these claims.
Comment: Chemical weapon attack: The OPCW specialists and Western countries don't have to 'believe it' to use it against the Assad government. White Helmets' faux operations are an example. 'Experts' using the excuse that the gathering of evidence as being 'too dangerous' amounts to secondary collusion. There are impervious hazmat suits and monitoring equipment - but why bother if you already 'know' the answer.
An Albuquerque police officer is suing the mother of the child he killed when he sped through town going twice the legal rate of speed because it is causing him emotional distress.
It wasn't Albuquerque Police Officer Jonathan McDonnell's first accident. It wasn't even his second or third. It was his fifth. But when his police cruiser struck the car in which Antoinette Suina and her children were riding, this time, McDonnell's actions killed a child. But instead of sending condolences, incredulously, Officer McDonnell decided to sue Ms. Suina because killing her child caused him emotional distress.
McDonnell was responding to a call when he decided to travel double the speed limit in April of 2017. When the car in which Suina and her children were riding made a left-hand turn, they were t-boned by the officer. Suina's 6-yr-old son, Joel Anthony Mumaw, suffered grave injuries and died the following day. She said of her son:
"He was in love and loved everyone. "
Comment: Cops behind the wheel seem to be as dangerous as cops with their guns and tasers.
See also:
- Cop crashes car into elderly couple while speeding, couple gets the blame (VIDEO)
- Cop loses control of patrol car and plows into mother and her two children
- Transit cop charged for hitting a man with his patrol car and dumping him across town
- Cop wrecks his patrol car into utility pole and flees the scene
- Psycho cop rams car with grandma and children in it, deletes dashcam evidence
© Aleksandr Shcherbak/TASSRussian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova daily highlights Moscow's positions on the acutest international issues, reacts to the West's threadbare accusations and comments on all possible 'fake news' stories.
The media and all those who follow the news have been accustomed to seeing her as a firm and uncompromising speaker who will get tough on detractors. However, on March 8, which is celebrated as International Women's Day, the diplomat showed her feminine, creative and romantic features. Instead of politics, the Foreign Ministry's spokeswoman spoke about something dear to her heart in an exclusive interview with TASS.
Comment: A very impressive and classy lady!
© Kevork Djansezian/Getty ImagesLos Angeles skid row tent city.
Homelessness has reached such crisis levels that a United Nations expert sent to investigate poverty and inequality in the U.S. included the criminalization of homelessness in an extensive report released last Friday. After spending two weeks meeting with communities facing some of the most dire circumstances, Philip Alston, the U.N. special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, concluded that mistreatment of people experiencing homelessness is one of the key contributors to the stark levels of inequality.
"The way to end homelessness is hardly to arrest people, keep them in prison for a time and then kick them out on the street again," Alston told HuffPost in a phone interview Friday. "That's a costly, vicious cycle. What we're doing is making it worse."Homelessness is on the rise in the U.S., an issue that's inextricably tied to a lack of affordable housing. But instead of investing in sustainable housing options and job retraining programs, which have proved to work and save taxpayer dollars, states continue to pass more laws that essentially make it impossible for people to escape the streets.
While hunting advocacy groups and members of Congress who back them are cheering the decision from the Department of Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to allow imports on a case-by-case basis, others are knocking the move.
Two conservative media hosts who pushed Trump in November to put a pause on a decision to overturn an established trophy import ban are among those urging him to hold up the Obama-era order.
© Google MapsThe plane crashed in a mountainous area near the city of Shahr-e Kord.
Iranian emergency services are searching for the wreckage of a Turkish private jet that crashed in a mountainous area in the southwest of the country while en route to Istanbul on Sunday, Reuters reports. Turkish businessman Huseyin Basaran's daughter and her seven friends were on board reports Turkish news outlet DHA.
"We can confirm that a Turkish private jet... while passing through our airspace disappeared from the radar and crashed near Shahr-e Kord," said Civil Aviation Organization spokesman, Reza Jafarizadeh, as cited by Asriran.
Comment: Some additional factors play into what's shaping up for the US and world economy: