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Man sues 'lifeguard & cops' who rescued him from drowning in pool


RT
Mon, 30 Apr 2018 16:39 UTC
Man at pool
A man who tried to drown himself in a swimming pool is reportedly suing the lifeguard and police officers who rescued him.

Mateusz Fijalkowski was assistant manager of the swimming pool in which he tried to end his life during a bipolar episode in Fairfax, Virginia, in May 2016. The incident left him with more than $100,000 in medical bills. Now he has accused the police of not doing enough to protect him from himself.

In a lawsuit filed on Friday the 23-year-old Polish man says the eight officers, from Fairfax County Police Department, who attended the scene watched the incident unfold and prevented a lifeguard from jumping in to save him, The Washington Post reports. Fijalkowski says he was left underwater for more than two minutes.

"The police allowed me to sink before their eyes," Fijalkowski told the newspaper. "I'm glad that in the end they realized that they shouldn't let me drown, but I don't thank them for letting me die, clinically, before their eyes."
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A tale of two babies: Royal Family celebrates their newest member as they remain silent over death of Alfie Evans

Derek Hunter
Townhall
Sun, 29 Apr 2018 12:01 UTC
alfie evans
One of the smartest things our Founding Fathers did was resist the urge to follow most of human history and rid this country of the concept of nobility. And thank God they did. If they hadn't, we'd be "subjects," subservient to the state and a ruling class. The eternal wisdom of the men who created the United States of America was on full display again this week thanks to the different ways two babies are being treated by our old colonizers.

The Royal Family in England welcomed a new baby this week, little Prince Louis Arthur Charles. And good for them, babies are a joy. They can be a handful, but a joy nonetheless. When you have millions of dollars and a staff, the "handful" part is likely much less, but the joy part remains.

Little Louis is being showered with attention, both by his family (and their staff) and the media. Moreover, the world is following the latest news involving the newborn who sits fifth in line for the throne.

Also in England, a 23 month of boy named Alfie Evans was not in line for any throne. He, too, was getting media attention, but not nearly as much as the newly minted Royal. The attention Alfie received was not a celebration of his life, it was waiting for this death.
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7,500 joined march in support of banned internet messenger Telegram held in Moscow


RT
Mon, 30 Apr 2018 14:36 UTC
Protest
© Grigoriy Sisoev / Sputnik
Crowds have gathered in central Moscow to join a protest in support of Telegram messenger, which has recently been banned by Russian authorities. The rally was peaceful, according to police.

Some 7,500 people joined the march and rally in support of the messaging app, which was held on Sakharov Avenue around 2:00pm local time, Moscow police said in a statement. The event, organized by a group of activists, was earlier approved by Moscow City Hall.

The demonstrators marched through the street holding placards and banners that read: "Ban is not a solution" and "For the freedom of internet!" At the end of the rally protesters launched paper planes, a symbol associated with the messaging service.

The rally was peaceful with no breaches of public order, according to local police. "The police officers together with the National Guard provided security as well as maintained law and order," law enforcement said, adding that no violations were registered.

Comment: See also: Russia's move to block Telegram created wider access problems for Russian Internet users

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Bad Guys

Kanye-Trump love-fest just demonstrates everything wrong about America?

Michael McCaffrey
RT
Sat, 28 Apr 2018 16:29 UTC
Kanye West
Sometimes a story comes along that perfectly encapsulates the flaming disaster area that is American culture and politics. This is that story.

"I don't even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in." - Kanye West

I must confess that I am one of those strange people who likes my music to be made by musicians who can actually play instruments and/or sing, and who prefers the artistry of cinema to the banality of reality television, and admires the mastery of the acting craft over the insipid vanity of celebrity. It is because of these feelings that I was so instinctively repulsed by a story that dominated the news this past week... and yet, to my great shame, could not turn away from it.

The story in question came into being when the rancid concoction of a self-proclaimed rap messiah, his celebrity queen wife, and a reality TV president, were all mixed together to create a supernova of self-promotion so powerfully vacuous and vapid that it may cause the universe to collapse in upon itself.

The rap messiah is none other than Kanye West, also known as Yeezy, Yeezus, and KanYeezy. The celebrity queen is his wife Kim Kardashian, and the reality TV President is Donald Trump.
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Bad Guys

Leaked video shows Austria's UN peacekeepers withholding information from Syrian police resulting in their deaths moments later in ambush


RT
Sun, 29 Apr 2018 11:45 UTC
FILE PHOTO: UN peacekeepers patrol Mount Bental in the Golan Heights on October 23, 2017.
© Amir Cohen / Reuters
FILE PHOTO: UN peacekeepers patrol Mount Bental in the Golan Heights on October 23, 2017.
Austria probes reports that its peacekeepers knowingly allowed Syrian police to enter a deadly trap in the Golan Heights in 2012. Austrian media was told by an ex-peacekeeper that troops in general had orders to not interfere.

The probe was opened after a video of the incident was published by the Austrian weekly Der Falter. The outlet says it received the video along with photos from "a whistleblower."

The footage is said to show Syrian smugglers setting up an ambush behind rocks. One hour later, officers from what is described by the outlet as Syrian "secret police" arrive and the UN peacekeepers have a chat with them.

Comment: The UN, like many Western NGOs, is proving to be a haven for deviants and psychopaths:

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Citizens 'arrest': Pedophiles on run from police doused in paint and tied to a bench in Northern Ireland

Kate Buck
Metro.co.uk
Sun, 29 Apr 2018 15:34 UTC
convicted pedophiles doused paint argh northern ireland
© Photopress
Angry locals decided to take justice into their own hands

Two sex offenders who were on the run from police were doused in blue paint and tied to a bench in a citizen's arrest.

James White, 48, and Jason Lydiard, 26, also known as Alexis Guesto, were spotted in south Armagh, Northern Ireland, by people who recognised them from police appeals.

White and Lydiard, both convicted paedophiles, were spotted in footage shared on social media with their hands tied behind their backs, having been covered in paint.
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Dollars

'It's standard practice': Twitter sold massive data to Global Science Research, company involved in Cambridge Analytica scandal


Sputnik
Mon, 30 Apr 2018 15:41 UTC
twitter
© AP Photo / Matt Rourke, File
Another social media tycoon has been reported to profit from obtaining users' data with a Cambridge Analytica-affiliated man. For one day, the researcher, who got the personal info of millions of Facebook users, was granted massive public data from Twitter. It's said to be standard practice.

A link between Twitter and Cambridge Analytica has been brought to light after it was revealed that the corporation sold massive data access to a man behind selling info of 87 million Facebook users to a political consulting firm.

In 2015, Aleksandr Kogan's commercial firm Global Science Research (GSR) bought access to data from Twitter for one day. Kogan later became notorious for creating a quiz to obtain private information from Facebook for Cambridge Analytica. The Silicon Valley company admitted the fact. But according to Twitter, which conducted an internal probe, Kogan's firm didn't leak any private data. The sold information was based on tweets made from December 2014 to April 2015.

Comment: No surprise there. If anything, we're just seeing the tip of the iceberg. See also:

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25 people killed in two Daesh suicide blasts in Kabul, including 8 journalists (VIDEO)


Sputnik
Mon, 30 Apr 2018 16:18 UTC
Afghanistan ambulance
© AP Photo / Musadeq Sadeq
Journalists gathered to cover an explosion that had struck the Afghan capital earlier, when another deadly blast occurred.

A spokesperson for the health ministry confirmed that 8 journalists, including an AFP photographer, are among 25 people killed in double suicide blasts in the Afghan capital. The injured toll from the Kabul attack stands at 45, according to city's police spokesman.


Comment: Remember these items?

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RT employees remember war hero relatives ahead of Russian Victory Day (VIDEOS)


RT
Mon, 30 Apr 2018 16:15 UTC
immortal regiment march Moscow Victory Day
© Sputnik
The Immortal Regiment march in Moscow last year.
The march of the Immortal Regiment, a procession in which each person celebrates a relative who fought in WWII by carrying their photo, is one of the most prominent Victory Day rituals. RT employees are also sharing their stories.

The vast majority of Russians had a relative that fought - or died - in the war against Nazi Germany, and these are just a few examples. Cameraman Mikhail Kondakov's great-grandfather was a flying ace who died in the Battle of Kursk in 1943, RT host Anna Knishenko's grandfather was wounded multiple times before dying in Leningrad in 1942, while the great-grandfather of Maria Alekseeva, the head of the news production team, made it through the war and reached Berlin.

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Israel doesn't represent the "West" in its aggression against Palestine - Gaza proves it

Zeev Sternhell
Haaretz
Fri, 27 Apr 2018 14:45 UTC
Netanyahu
© timesofIsrael.com
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Benjamin Netanyahu, Anshel Pfeffer reminded us, doesn't see the Israeli-Arab conflict as a problem in itself, but as an inseparable part of the clash of civilizations between Islam and the Western world ("The Netanyahu vision, in 467 pages," April 18). Israel to him is the West's spearhead in a 1,500-year-long struggle.

When his book "A Place Among the Nations" was published, I saw it as nothing more than propaganda, intended to invent an ideological cover for perpetuating the occupation sponsored by American neoconservatism in its most simplistic form. It's too bad that good people still fall into that trap.

Netanyahu has long understood the Palestinians are incapable of resisting the occupation by force, so the occupation won't end in the foreseeable future. But since no reality can remain for long without an ideological cover, and the biblical narrative doesn't sell well in the United States outside evangelical circles, he cast his lot, in the spirit of the neoconservative trend of the late 20th century, with protecting Western culture.

However, for more than 300 years Western culture has presented two approaches: the liberal approach from which democracy and human rights developed from the French and British Enlightenments, and the approach that subordinates the individual to an ethnic community and seeks legitimacy for politics in history. This branch began sprouting already at the end of the 19th century the various nationalist and racist rightist movements, including those that developed into fascism and Nazism.


Comment: Precisely. If Israel is representing "the West" in its aggression against Palestine, it is the West characterized by extreme identity politics and concentration camps, not the West characterized by individual rights, due process, and democracy.

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