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Sott Exclusive: Grabovo builds a heartfelt monument to commemorate MH17 victims, Dutch broadcaster says 'It won't be very special'

Amari Roos
Sott.net
Tue, 21 Jul 2015 00:24 UTC
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A heartfelt monument to all who died from the MH17 crash, made by the kind and poor people of Grabovo, East-Ukraine. "In memory of the 298 citizens who died. Innocent victims of the civil war."
Mayor Vladimir Berezhnoy of the small village Grabovo in the Donetsk People's Republic hopes that MH17 relatives will find their way to the site of the crash of flight MH17. "Regardless of all the problems, we invite all family members of the victims to come here", he said Wednesday on the spot where a monument will be built in memory of the victims.

"We want to do everything we can to help them. The people here are deeply saddened by the disaster. [...] I have feelings too, just like every other man here. I've seen many dead people. I don't sleep anymore. It was awful" Berezhnoy said.

On Wednesday, the Mayor personally helped with the erection of the monument. Having arranged for the materials to be delivered to the site, he noted that the foundation for the yet to be placed granite stone was not yet leveled, so he took a shovel and helped out.

Regardless of their poor financial situation, the mayor and citizens of Grabovo managed to spend just enough money to erect this small but meaningful monument. A loving act.

Local Dutch broadcaster NOS however was not that impressed with the genuine display of sympathy. Apparently, the people of Grabovo should have done better. Coming from a propagandist broadcaster that has been spewing lies and distorting facts about the situation in Ukraine since day one of the MH17 incident, we shouldn't be surprised at such heartless cynicism.
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Over 300 injured as 2 trains collide in South Africa


RT
Fri, 17 Jul 2015 18:40 UTC
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© City of Johannesburg Emergency Management Services
More than 300 people have been injured from the collision of two trains near South Africa's Johannesburg on Friday.

One of the trains derailed as result of the collision that took place between Booysens and Crown Mines stations, according to a local paramedic service. "It is believed that two trains collided causing one to derail," ER24 spokesperson Russel Meiring told eNCA.


According to Nana Radebe, spokeswoman for Johannesburg Emergency Services, 326 people have been taken to nearby hospitals, AP reports. "For now we have removed people with minor to serious injuries, but none critical," she said.

There have been no fatalities confirmed yet. Radebe told AP that the trains were on the same track and one of them was in a stationary condition during the collision. The railway line between Johannesburg's Park station and Booysens was closed after the incident, local media reported.

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New video emerges of MH-17 minutes after crash


RT
Mon, 20 Jul 2015 18:23 UTC
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© YouTube / Billy Six
A German reporter investigating the downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine has published a new video allegedly shot by local residents in the aftermath of the Boeing's downing last year.

The footage shot from a car passing the crash site shows fires on the ground and black smoke plumes rising to the sky. According to the conversation on the clip's audio, the area of the crash site is littered with bodies of dead passengers from the ill-fated airliner.

The woman filming the crash site is evidently shocked by the scale of the disaster, as she is heard sobbing. Her male companion is heard cursing as he apparently realizes that what he sees is a civilian flight.

The independent reporter, Bill Six, who published the video on his YouTube channel, says local residents had been resentful about speaking to Western journalists after what they took as biased reporting on the MH17 tragedy. It took him weeks to win the trust of the people.

The release of the footage comes days after another MH17 video was released by News Corp Australia. It showed eastern Ukrainian rebels at the MH17 crash site minutes after the downing. According to the transcript of their conversations, there may have been a second plane - a Sukhoi fighter jet - that brought down the civilian Malaysian Airlines Boeing over the warzone.


Comment: See: One year later: All evidence still suggests MH17 shot down by a jet fighter

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Red Flag

Sexualizing our children: Norway debuts provocative sex ed show aimed at children 8-12 years old


RT
Mon, 11 May 2015 18:00 UTC
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Jansrud showing how to French kiss - with a little help from a tomato
Puberty, a new program on the Norwegian state-funded channel NRK, in which the presenter penetrates a latex vagina with a plastic penis, draws diagrams on naked people, and shows children how to French-kiss, has provoked a mixed reaction.

"We would have betrayed our series on puberty if we had not touched on topics such as sex and masturbation," Line Jansrud, the presenter, who is pregnant, and plans to be filmed giving birth as part of the program, told NRK.

As the weekly episodes of the educational program, named Newton, chronicle the changes of the human anatomy through the teenage years, the hands-on presented never misses a chance to illustrate her point. The light-hearted, low-budget feel of the show is reminiscent of old-fashioned children's television, and is based on The Body, a Norwegian series broadcast in the early 1980s, which explored similar themes - without quite going this far.

In the episode on the penis, Janstrud holds one as she talks about pubic hair and foreskin, before studying a sperm sample. In the one on the vagina, she pulls back the labia of a filmed participant in a close-up shot, to illustrate the location of the clitoris, before describing the pleasurable sensations that can result from stimulating it.
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BC cops kill masked activist, Anonymous vows revenge


RT
Mon, 20 Jul 2015 17:39 UTC
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© Marko Djurica / Reuters
Anonymous group hacktivists are mounting a campaign to avenge a man "in a Guy Fawkes mask" shot dead by Canadian police in British Columbia on Thursday after being mistaken for a suspect. Cyber-attacks have already hit national police websites.

Anonymous said in a video message that they are willing to use "vengeance if necessary" to obtain justice for the shooting of one of their own outside the Fixx restaurant in Dawson Creek, northeastern British Columbia, on Thursday.

The statement described the masked man as being "mercilessly shot and killed ... without provocation or cause" while protesting. According to the hacktivists, the man was wearing a Guy Fawkes mask, which is often associated with the group.

Anonymous launched operation #AnonDown in their video statement. Its goal is to uncover the name of the police officer who killed the Dawson Creek activist - "because the world has the right to know every detail about killer cops."


Comment: How long until we see something like the following?


Then, how long before some ill-advised 'revolutionaries' interpret Anonymous' call for revenge as a call for violent uprising? If they do, they'll be playing right into the hands of those who want nothing more than an excuse to kill even more activists and protestors?

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Light Saber

'You're not a reporter. Fox News is not real news.' - San Francisco city official 'burns' Fox

David Ferguson
Rawstory
Tue, 14 Jul 2015 15:57 UTC
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San Francisco City Supervisor Scott Wiener (Screen capture)
San Francisco's city officials have no time for Fox News' latest attempt to gin up anti-immigrant hysteria over the alleged murder of a white American woman by an undocumented immigrant.

Bill O'Reilly sent one of his employees to ambush different members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, accusing them of enabling the murder of Kate Steinle by declaring the city a "sanctuary city" where undocumented workers can access health care, police and fire assistance and other public services without fear of deportation or other forms of government reprisal.

City Supervisor and human rights attorney Jane Kim told the Fox representative that the issue at play in Kate Steinle's death isn't immigration, but gun control, and how to keep weapons out of the hands of felons and the mentally ill.

Comment: Scott Wiener gave the only possible response to the bottom-feeder that is Faux News.

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Red Flag

Cheating website Ashley Madison hacked, 37 million users affected


RT
Mon, 20 Jul 2015 17:36 UTC
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Screenshot from www.ashleymadison.com
The Ashley Madison cheating website has been hacked by "an unauthorized party," the company said. The Impact Team hackers reportedly then posted large amounts of data from the hookup site online, potentially affecting about 37 million unfaithful partners.

"We were recently made aware of an attempt by an unauthorized party to gain access to our systems," AVID LIFE media Inc., which owns the site, said in a statement.

The company added that they have been able "to secure our sites, and close the unauthorized access points."

"We are working with law enforcement agencies, which are investigating this criminal act. Any and all parties responsible for this act of cyber - terrorism will be held responsible."

The hack was first announced by KrebsOnSecurity blog, which cited ALM Chief Executive Noel Biderman who said that the company was "working diligently and feverishly" to take down ALM's intellectual property.

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Light Saber

Rutherford Institute sues US Transportation Security Administration over virtual strip searches and whole body imagers at airports

John W. Whitehead
The Rutherford Institute
Thu, 16 Jul 2015 00:00 UTC
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The Rutherford Institute has filed a lawsuit against the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) over its unregulated use of whole body scanners, which have been likened to virtual strip searches, in the nation's airports. The TSA implemented Whole Body Imagers (WBI) (also referred to as Advanced Imaging Technology) in 2009 as a primary security screening tool in airports. However, the agency did not notify the public of its decision to deploy the scanners, nor did it ask for public comments on use of the use of WBI technology as required by federal law.

In a petition for a writ of mandamus filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, The Rutherford Institute, joined by other civil liberties advocates, argues that the TSA has flouted federal law and court orders in order to shield the agency's WBI scanning practices from public input and judicial review. The Rutherford Institute is joined as co-petitioners by the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) and The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) in asking the court to compel the TSA to issue formal rules regulating the use of WBI subject those standards to public examination and judicial review.

Comment: So suing governmental organizations, like the TSA, in order to compel them to follow - and enforce - the rule of law (while we still have laws on the books anyway) is what it has come to. Kudos to The Rutherford Institute for taking the long-needed stand against the trauma-inducing, DNA-destroying, ineffective and law-breaking security state boondoggle that is the TSA and all of its friggin' Dr. Evil gadgetry.

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Black Cat

Colorado Springs cop slams 18-year old girl to ground, knocks her teeth out


RT
Sat, 18 Jul 2015 09:27 UTC
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© truthandaction.org
A newly-published video shows a Colorado Springs police officer going to extremes during a November 2013 arrest, slamming a handcuffed 18-year-old woman face-down into the ground, knocking out her teeth while she was in hospital.

The shocking video will be part of a lawsuit that is being prepared on behalf of Alexis Acker against the department. The footage was obtained by the Colorado Springs Independent daily.

"This is a very violent attack on someone who is in handcuffs, who is partially restrained and tiny, and there's just no need for it," Acker's criminal attorney Cindy Hyatt told the paper.

"You can't have something like this, whether it happens 100 times, 10 times or one time. It's unacceptable. It cannot be tolerated. As a patrol officer in particular, that's part of the job, dealing with that without planting someone's face in the floor," she added.

The video shows Colorado Springs officer Tyler Walker, 29 at the time, clearly shoving the handcuffed woman into a chair by hitting her in the stomach. He then grabs Acker out of her seat and slams her on to the hospital floor. Aside from having two teeth knocked out, she suffered "trauma to the face, head, teeth and jaw; migraine headaches, concussion, closed head injuries, memory and cognitive function problems, as well as post-traumatic stress disorder."

Meanwhile, conflicting police reports state that Walker either "escorted her to the floor" or that he "rolled her ... to the floor."


Comment: Psychopathic corporate capitalism in the U.S. is the foundation of police brutality and the prison state

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Arrow Up

Bill Cosby-- Predatory psychopath? What we can learn

Rob Kall
Opednews
Sun, 19 Jul 2015 11:06 UTC
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First, over 30 women have come out reporting very similar experiences with Bill Cosby-- going on a date, getting drugged, waking up having been sexually assaulted without their consent.

Finally-- I mean, enough is enough-- the New York Times has published Excerpts From Bill Cosby's Deposition , which starts out saying:
"Over the course of four days in 2005 and 2006, Bill Cosby answered questions posed to him by a lawyer for a woman, Andrea Constand, who said Mr. Cosby had drugged and molested her. In the questioning, conducted by Ms. Constand's lawyer, Dolores M. Troiani, Mr. Cosby denied that he had sexually assaulted Ms. Constand or other women who surfaced during that case with their own accounts of being preyed upon by Mr. Cosby.

But he did acknowledge that he had used powerful sedatives to lure women for sex and employed multiple strategies to keep his wife, Camille, from finding out.
With such a history it is hard for me to not conclude that Cosby has lived much of his life as a serial, predatory psychopath. There are some lessons here-- most important that people who seem like really nice guys are not always what they seem.

First, Cosby developed a reputation, persona, mask of being a kindhearted, paternal, gentle person. It's pretty clear to me that he was a rapacious, deceptive, exploitive creature. I wouldn't use the word animal because animals, even carnivorous predators don't act that way.

The deposition reveals that Cosby went to a doctor to obtain Qualude prescriptions, though he had no intention to use them on himself. I think that's a crime-- misleading a doctor to distribute drugs to others. Psychopaths do crimes like this often and the smart ones rarely get caught. I think it is reasonable to speculate that wealthy, famous and powerful psychopaths routinely cross the lines of legality. The deposition reveals that Cosby bought the silence of some of his victims, using his agent at the William Morris Agency to funnel the money, so his wife would not know about it.
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