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Attention

Polish loggers beat TV operator & damage equipment in Bialowieza Forest at center of EU-Poland row

Logger
© Wojtek Radwanski / AFPForest workers in Bialowieza Forest.
An operator of a Polish news channel filming in the Bialowieza Forest - currently at the center of Warsaw's row with the EU - was attacked by two loggers who knocked him over, smashed his camera, and stole memory sticks. Two suspects have been detained.

Wojtkowi Zdanowicz, operator of a Polsat News TV crew, required hospital treatment following an encounter with two loggers in Europe's last primeval forest on Saturday afternoon.

Zdanowicz said the attackers at first attempted to run him over with a car. As he tried to hide among the trees, the men chased him down, with one hitting him on the head and another taking his camera.

Comment: See also: Poland approves logging Europe's last primeval forest


Cardboard Box

2-year-old hospitalized with hypothermia as migrants found in UK-bound refrigerated truck in France

Migrants
© Vincent Kessler / Reuters
A 2-year-old child was hospitalized with hypothermia after a group of 26 migrants was found aboard a refrigerated truck bound for the UK at a ferry terminal in northern France, according to local media citing rescue services.

Around 7am Saturday, the security services at the Loon-Plage terminal near Dunkirk contacted the regional fire and rescue department after finding 26 migrants, including a toddler, in a refrigerated truck, Europe 1 reports, quoting a statement from the authorities.

The 2-year-old, accompanied by his mother of Iraqi descent, was taken to a hospital in Dunkirk with mild hypothermia.

"The ferry terminal security service contacted emergency services after the discovery of a group of 26 migrants in a refrigerated lorry," the regional rescue services authority said, as cited by The Local.

Comment: See also: Human Rights Watch: French police 'routinely' pepper spray innocent migrants, including children, in Calais


Sheriff

President Trump thinks we need cops to be more violent

Trump
© ShutterstockDonald Trump speaks at Edison New Jersey Hindu Indian-American rally.
President Donald Trump delivered a speech Friday in Long Island to law enforcement officials to discuss efforts to combat gang violence.

The president encouraged law enforcement officers to be rougher with criminal suspects - and feel free to slam suspects' head into their vehicles.

"When you see these towns and when you see these thugs being thrown into the back of a paddy wagon, you just see them thrown in, rough, I said, please don't be too nice," Trump remarked at Suffolk County Community College.

"Like when you guys put somebody in the car and you're protecting their head, you know, the way you put their hand over, like, don't hit their head and they've just killed somebody - don't hit their head. I said, you can take the hand away, okay?"

The crowd of officers erupted in cheers.

Comment: Cops are not there to protect us folks!


People

'Substitution of nations': Witnessing the 'biological extinction' of Europeans

African migrants
© AP Photo/ Emilio Morenatti
Some European countries, namely Italy, Germany, France and the UK, are facing the so-called "substitution of nations," where the national ethnical majority is disappearing physically and biologically, and is being substituted by migrants, according to a recent report. Sputnik Italy discussed the issue with Daniele Scalea, the author of the report.

The recent report of the Italian-based Machiavelli Center of Political and Strategic Studies (Centro studi politici e strategici Machiavelli), "How immigration is changing Italian demographics" has revealed that a number of European countries are facing the "biological and physical extinction" of their national ethnicities.

Ethnic majorities in such countries as Italy, Germany, France and the UK, are gradually turning into ethnic minorities, while being "substituted" by incoming migrants.

Sputnik Italy discussed the issue with Daniele Scalea, an analyst at the center and the author of the report.

Cell Phone

'Smartphone zombies' in Hawaii face fines of up to $99 for texting while crossing the street

Smartphone zombie
© David Gray / Reuters
Hawaii's capital city Honolulu has banned pedestrians from looking at their phones while crossing the road in an effort to tackle deaths and injuries from "distracted walking."

Honolulu is the first major city in the US to implement such a ban which targets "smartphone zombies" for their own protection.

"We hold the unfortunate distinction of being a major city with more pedestrians being hit in crosswalks, particularly our seniors, than almost any other city in the county," Honolulu mayor Kirk Caldwell said Thursday, Reuters reports.

First time offenders will receive a fine ranging from $15-35, while repeat offenders will face fines of $99.

Comment: See also: The Health & Wellness Show: Digital 'pharmakeia': Glow kids, screen addiction, gaming and the hijacking of children's brains


Pocket Knife

Firefighters behead snake that wrapped itself around woman's neck and was biting her face

Snake
© Juan Carlos Ulate / Reuters
An Ohio woman was forced to place a 911 call after a boa constrictor she rescued turned on her, wrapped itself around her neck, and began biting her face.

Firefighters raced to the woman's house in the small Ohio town of Sheffield Lake on Thursday and cut the 5 1/2-foot-long serpent's head off with a pocket knife.

The drama began when the unnamed woman placed a frantic 911 call to emergency services about 2pm local time.

Bomb

'Huge' car bomb explosion kills at least six in Somalia's capital of Mogadishu

explosion in Mogadishu, Somalia
© Feisal Omar / ReutersVehicles burn at the scene of an explosion in Mogadishu, Somalia, July 30, 2017
At least 6 people have been killed and around 13 wounded in a car bomb blast in Somalia's capital of Mogadishu on Sunday. The explosion was described by Reuters as "huge."

RT spoke to a local journalist, Yahye Young from Mogadishu's Mustaqbal Radio, who said he witnessed first-hand eight dead people strewn across the area where the bomb detonated.

Police have said, however, that the number of casualties is likely to rise.

Photographs and videos shared on social media show the immediate aftermath of the blast, with a burning car visible on the street. One dramatic video shows people carrying the injured away from the scene of the blast.

Dollar

Tradition of child marriages lingers in Afghanistan - children 'sold like cattle'

child marriage Afghanistan
© AP Photo/ Fraidoon Pooyaa
Since 2009, child marriage has been prohibited at the legislative level in Afghanistan and according to the civil code of the country girls can marry from the age of 16. However, forced marriages are still happening at a much earlier age. Sputnik takes a look at some of the reasons behind this issue.

Recently a heart wrenching video appeared online in which an Afghan man in a rural setting was trying to marry off his daughter by force.

The little girl in front of everyone started screaming that she does not want to get married while her mother, who was also against the marriage was weeping and trying to hold on to her child as the men were dragging the girl away by force.

Arrow Down

'Incredible shrinking airline seat': Court orders FAA review of seats on US flights

airline seating
© Bernard Jaubert / Global Look Press
A US court has ordered the Federal Aviation Authority to review seat sizes after an advocacy group alleged that passengers' lives were at risk due to cost and space-saving initiatives on board commercial flights.

"This is the case of the incredible shrinking airline seat," Judge Patricia Millett wrote in her ruling. "As many have no doubt noticed, aircraft seats and the spacing between them have been getting smaller and smaller, while American passengers have been growing in size."

The seat pitch, or the distance between the back of a seat and the back of the seat in front of an average airline seat in economy class in the US has decreased from 89 cm (35 inches) in the '70s to 79cm (31 inches).

Meanwhile, the average width of an airline seat has narrowed from 46cm (18 inches) to 42 cm (16.5 inches) over the last decade.

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SOTT Focus: The Truth Perspective: Explaining Postmodernism - Interview with Stephen Hicks

Explaining postmodernism
This week we're interviewing Professor Stephen Hicks. Stephen is a Canadian-American philosopher who teaches at Rockford University, where he also directs the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship. He is the author of two books: Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault argues that postmodernism is best understood as a rhetorical strategy of intellectuals and academics on the far left of the political spectrum developed in reaction to the failure of socialism and communism and Nietzsche and the Nazis, an examination of the ideological and philosophical roots of National Socialism, particularly how Nietzsche's ideas were used, and in some cases misused, by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis to justify their beliefs and practices.

Stephen maintains a personal website at stephenhicks.org

Join us live from 12pm EST (6pm CEST) for what promises to be a very interesting discussion.

Running Time: 01:36:59

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