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Massive prison break near Tripoli causes hundreds to flee


Sputnik
Sun, 02 Sep 2018 20:29 UTC
streets of Tripoli
© REUTERS / Ismail Zitouny
Some 400 detainees escaped after a riot on Sunday at a prison in the southern suburbs of the Libyan capital Tripoli, AFP reported.

"The detainees were able to force open the doors and leave," Libyan police said in a statement as quoted by AFP, stressing that a skirmish between rival militias raged near the prison of Ain Zara. However, the police did not specify what crimes the escapees had committed.

Starting August 26, the southern suburbs of Tripoli saw multiple clashes between the so-called Seventh Brigade from Tarhouna, also known as Kaniyat, and the Tripoli Revolutionaries Battalion (TRB), nominally affiliated with the GNA Interior Ministry. At least 40 people have been reported killed.

Libya has been in turmoil since the 2011 civil war, which resulted in the overthrow of its longtime leader Muammar Gaddafi. The eastern part of the country is governed by the House of Representatives with headquarters in the city of Tobruk. The UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA), headed by Prime Minister Fayez Sarraj, operates in the country's west and is headquartered in Tripoli.
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IBM lays off 20K older workers while seeking to import 37K foreigners as replacements

John Binder
Breitbart
Thu, 30 Aug 2018 20:13 UTC
tech workers
© PUNIT PARANJPE/AFP/Getty
Outsourcing corporation IBM laid off about 20,000 older Americans in the last five years, a new investigation reveals, while the tech multinational sought to import at least 37,000 foreign workers to take U.S. jobs.

A joint investigation by ProPublica and Mother Jones reveals that about 60 percent of the Americans that were laid off by IBM in the last five years were workers over the age of forty. This amounts to about 20,000 40-years-old and older Americans being laid off by IBM since 2014.

At the same time, IBM has attempted to import at least 37,000 foreign workers on H-1B visas since 2016.

Every year, more than 100,000 foreign workers are brought to the U.S. on the H-1B visa and are allowed to stay for up to six years. That number has ballooned to potentially hundreds of thousands each year, as universities and non-profits are exempt from the cap. With more entering the U.S. through the visa, Americans are often replaced and forced to train their foreign replacements.
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Afghanistan: Helicopter crash leaves 12 people dead


Sputnik
Sun, 02 Sep 2018 20:09 UTC
helicopter
© Sputnik / Anton Vergun
A Moldovan MI-8 MTV helicopter, belonging to the Valan International Cargo Charter carrier, crashed in the Afghan northern province of Balkh, killing two crew members and 10 passengers, the Moldovan civil aviation authorities said on Sunday.

"There were three crew members, Ukrainian nationals, and 11 passengers, Afghan nationals, on board... Two crew members and 10 passengers were killed," the authorities said in a statement.
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Artists are abandoning Israel's music festival

Nora Barrows-Friedman
The Electronic Intifada
Wed, 29 Aug 2018 00:00 UTC
Lana Del Rey
© Anthony Abbott
Lana Del Rey
More performers have dropped out of the Meteor Festival lineup as fans and human rights activists continue to urge pop singer Lana Del Rey and other slated artists not to "art-wash" Israel's crimes against Palestinians.

The festival is set to take place next week in northern Israel.

On Tuesday, New York-based DJ Volvox stated on Facebook that she decided to cancel her appearance at the festival, citing the "complex" situation.

"My heart goes out to the young Israelis and Palestinians who were looking forward to my show, I recognize that they despise this conflict as we all do and yearn to be free of it," she wrote.

Volvox's cancellation comes days after US-based DJ Python stated that after "talking with friends and some well-informed folks," he wouldn't play the festival.

"[It] would feel really phony to act like I'm super politically active/informed, but I do think about what I feel is wrong or right, and it feels like the right thing to do is not go play," he said. He added that he would be holding a fundraiser for the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement and Palestinian organizations.
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Thomas Cook holidays: British tourists in Cuba on drips after food poisoning outbreak - Just weeks after contamination killed couple in Egypt

Charlie Bayliss
Daily Mail
Sun, 02 Sep 2018 13:53 UTC
Playa Pesquero

Playa Pesquero
Guests at another Thomas Cook hotel have been put on IV drips after being hit by suspected food poisoning, just days after a couple died from the disease at another of the package holiday company's resorts.

British tourists at the
Playa Pesquero complaint
Playa Pesquero hotel restaurant in Cuba have complained of falling severely ill with diarrhoea and sickness after eating at the restaurant.

The luxury hotel in Cuba has been the site of a number of previous mass sickness outbreak in 2012, as Thomas Cook was forced to pay out £150,000 in compensation to 20 victims. There was another outbreak in 2014.

The latest outbreak in Cuba has been ongoing for the past three week, and hotel staff have allegedly been trying to bribe guests with the offer of paying their medical bills in return for them signing a disclaimer to stop them claiming compensation.

Comment: It's not just holiday operators who have been responsible for mass food poisonings and contaminated produce of late:

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Travesty of justice: Young mother with felony history faces prison for using a gun to kill a home intruder

Jack Burns
The Free Thought Project
Sat, 01 Sep 2018 15:23 UTC
Krissy Noble
Do convicted felons have the constitutional right to defend themselves with a firearm? The answer to the question, in most U.S. states is a resounding no. Those who do, like Arkansas native Krissy Noble, face years in prison, all for choosing to protect their lives and the lives of their loved ones with a firearm.

Noble was cleared of all wrongdoing in the Dec. 7th shooting death of Dylan Stancoff, who attacked her in her own home. Noble was pregnant at the time of the shooting when Stancoff, calling himself Cameron White, stopped by her home and asked to speak to Noble's husband who was not home at the time. Saying he was a friend from the military, Stancoff left but returned later, pushed himself into Noble's home, attempted to cover her mouth to prevent her from screaming, and began to struggle with the mother-to-be.

Noble escaped briefly and retrieved a .40 caliber handgun, fired three shots, and killed her attacker. But because Noble pleaded guilty (before the shooting in 2017) to felony possession of marijuana, she now faces six years in prison, all for the crime of using her husband's handgun, a gun she successfully used to defend herself and the life of her unborn baby.

The case against Noble will likely be an open and shut one. After all, she pleaded guilty to drug possession and knew she was prevented by law from owning a weapon, a crime which the state takes seriously. The guns belonged to her husband who is not a convicted felon.
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'The city is orphaned': 120,000 mourners bid farewell to assassinated Donbass leader in Donetsk


RT
Sun, 02 Sep 2018 12:22 UTC
Funeral
© Sputnik
People wait in line to pay their last respects to Alexandr Zakharchenko in Donetsk, Ukraine.
At least 120,000 people have attended the funeral of Aleksandr Zakharchenko, the leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, who was killed by an explosion in a cafe in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on Friday.

Zakharchenko's remains were placed on display in the lobby of the State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre in the center of Donetsk. It is not far from Cafe Separ, where the leader of the self-proclaimed DPR was murdered.

Over 120,000 people came to bid farewell to the assassinated leader, a spokesperson for the city council confirmed to reporters.
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Dollar

Australian public servant accidentally overpaid by almost AU$500,000


RT
Sun, 02 Sep 2018 09:11 UTC
Australian money
© Daniel Munoz / Reuters
A public servant in Australia has been paid more than 100 times his normal salary as a result of a misplaced decimal point. He was meant to get a salary of $3,582 but found $360,700 in his account.

The mistake was revealed by the Northern Territory's (NT) auditor-general, who put it down to human error.

"The cause of the overpayment was a combination of two different human errors, those being the erroneous initial data entry and a subsequent failure to adequately address [a system-generated alert]," the auditor-general's report said.

The worker, who was based in a remote area of the Northern Territory, returned the money four weeks later.
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Venezuela's top prosecutor receives numerous complaints of economic crimes following implementation of Maduro's recovery plan


teleSUR
Thu, 30 Aug 2018 00:00 UTC
Venezuelan Attorney General Tarek William Saab
© Reuters
Venezuelan Attorney General Tarek William Saab
The complaints report crimes of price speculation, hoarding, and economic destabilization.

Attorney General of Venezuela Tarek William Saab reported on Thursday that his office has received numerous complaints this week in reporting price speculation, hoarding, and economic destabilization, following the implementation of the Economic Recovery Plan implemented by the government of President Nicolas Maduro.

"In a week we have received 140 cases of which 111 were caught red-handed with a total of 131 people arrested, 92 were detained, 29 with precautionary measures of imprisonment and 10 still free," said Saab.

Among the prisoners are several managers of large commercial chains, who speculated and hoarded basic basket products which causes damage to the population.

These people have been indicted for the crimes of resale, speculation, hoarding, boycott and economic destabilization.

Comment: Further reading:

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Attention

Polish lawmaker: Islamists should not demand more rights in Europe than Europeans have in Saudi Arabia

Jack Montgomery
Breitbart
Sat, 28 Jul 2018 00:00 UTC
Dominik Tarczyński, burqua ban poland

“If you don’t like Christian Europe, go to Saudi Arabia, and deal with those who treat you in the way you expect.”
Polish lawmaker Dominik Tarczyński has waded into the European burqa debate, saying it should be banned partly for security reasons, and partly to make it clear to Islamic radicals that they cannot demand more rights in Europe than Europeans have in Saudi Arabia.

Mr Tarczyński, a member of Poland's ruling Law and Justice Party, made waves in Britain after clashing with left-liberal journalist Cathy Newman over illegal immigration.

Speaking exclusively to Breitbart London shortly after ex-foreign secretary Boris Johnson's run-in with the establishment over his criticism of the burqa, the Polish law graduate insisted that Islamic face veils "should be banned in the same way the Christian cross is banned in Saudi Arabia".

He suggested the relationship between the West and the Islamic world was currently unbalanced, citing a mosque which Saudi Arabia's theocratic regime wants to construct in the Polish capital of Warsaw as an example.

"We're happy to have it once they agree for Poland to build a cathedral in Saudi Arabia," he said.
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