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Australia mother accused of starving baby for monetary donations; baby unlikely to survive

Ben Murphy
Yahoo! News
Fri, 11 Nov 2016 19:06 UTC
Brisbane mother starves baby
© The Courier Mail
The baby, who cannot be identified, was so malnourished she needed resuscitation “on multiple occasions” in hospital and had even been put on a “palliative care standing” as she was considered unlikely to survive.
A mother-of-four accused of starving her baby and fundraising online for donations for the child's recovery has faced court.

The 27-year-old woman had raised almost $16,000 from more than 100 donors.

The money was raised through a donation site that stated: "Every single doctor and specialist ran various tests to find out what's wrong, but still to this day no one has found an answer."

That is except for the police, who did find an answer to the mystery illness, charging the mother with torture, fraud and grievous bodily harm after the infant had repeatedly presented to the Lady Cilento Hospital.

"Hope this helps guys... such a strong family," one man wrote on the donation site.
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Arrow Up

Victory: DAPL project to be shelved until further review to address concerns of all parties

Claire Bernish
The Free Thought Project
Tue, 15 Nov 2016 00:00 UTC
No DAPL
In perhaps one of the most telling victories yet, the Army Corps of Engineers declared Monday that the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline must be shelved until further review. This review includes consultation with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe so it can be thoroughly evaluated to address the concerns of all parties.

Energy Transfer Partners applied for permission to route the pipeline under the Missouri River's Lake Oahe reservoir under a law known as Nationwide Permit 12 (NWP), which limits the Army Corps' assessment of environmental impact to waterways, wetlands, and federally-owned property.

Vehement but largely peaceful opposition began with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, whose government-allotted reservation draws drinking water from Lake Oahe. Although the focus of reports largely surrounds tribal rights and government exploitation, the potential for the Dakota Access Pipeline to spill or leak into the Missouri River would affect no less than 18 million people downstream.
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Fire

Mother, five children died in fire in central Russia


RT
Tue, 15 Nov 2016 17:56 UTC
Fire
© Noah Berger / Reuters
A family of six in a central Russian village, including a 30-year old woman and her five children - four boys and a girl - have died in a blaze in Tver region, local emergency services told Interfax news agency.

"The information about a fire in a residential building came at 2:59am Moscow time on Tuesday (11:59pm GMT on Monday).According to preliminary data, a woman and five children have died," the authorities said.

A man was also injured in the fire. He is currently at a hospital in a state of shock with moderate to severe burns, local emergency services told TASS.
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Heart - Black

Chili's removes Cedar Hill manager who took away man's free Veterans Day meal despite being shown military I.D. and discharge papers

Julieta Chiquillo
The Dallas Morning News
Tue, 15 Nov 2016 16:11 UTC
Ernest Walker, veteran with service dog
For his free meal on Veterans Day, Ernest Walker picked the Chili's Grill & Bar in Cedar Hill. The 47-year-old sat at a table and ordered a burger while his service dog, Barack, waited by his side.

Chili's is apologizing for what happened next.

As Walker tells it, an elderly white man wearing a Donald Trump shirt approached him and said that he was in Germany and that blacks weren't allowed to serve there. Walker, who is black, says he was wearing his old Army uniform.

The man walked to the back of the restaurant, Walker says, and a waitress came to pack his leftovers. Then a manager showed up.

In a widely shared Facebook post, Walker wrote that the manager claimed another guest said Walker was not "a real soldier" because he was wearing his hat indoors. Walker said he provided a military ID at the manager's request, along with his discharge papers.

"The guest also said your dog is not a service dog," Walker says the manager told him.

That's when Walker says he turned his cellphone camera on.

"Barack had his red service vest on, and his certified service tags," Walker wrote. "I was sitting for 35 minutes prior with Barack beforehand. At this point I was grossly offended, embarrassed dehumanized and started recording."

The video shows Walker arguing with the manager about whether he has seen Walker's military information. The manager grabs his leftovers as Walker talks over him.

"You have a great day," the manager says before walking away with the to-go box.

"Yes, I did just provide documents for you, and they saw you," Walker replies.
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Arrow Down

Bernini's Elephant and Obelisk, one of Rome's most famous sculptures vandalized

Chiara Palazzo
The Telegraph
Tue, 15 Nov 2016 14:33 UTC
vandalized statue Bernini Elephant and Obelisk
© ANSA via EPA
Damaged Bernini's Elephant and Obelisk in Piazza della Minerva.
Police in Rome are examining CCTV footage in efforts to discover who damaged one of the city's most famous sculptures, Bernini's Elephant and Obelisk.

The landmark work, tucked away in Piazza della Minerva, a little square near the Pantheon, features an elephant carrying the obelisk on its back and was first placed there in the 17th century.

Gian Lorenzo Bernini, the leading sculptor of his age, oversaw the sculpture of the elephant, which had the tip of its left trunk broken off in the incident on Sunday night.
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World bank study: Natural disasters drive 26 million into poverty annually, toll underestimated by 60%


RT
Mon, 14 Nov 2016 14:58 UTC
Typhoon Haiyan survivor
© Erik De Castro/Reuters
A housewife does laundry outside her bunkhouse at a transitional shelter for Typhoon Haiyan survivors in Tacloban city, Philippines.
A new study by the World Bank suggests the impact of natural disasters on the poor is more devastating than previously thought, with 26 million people pushed into poverty every year.

The poor are twice as likely to live in fragile housing in vulnerable areas and work in sectors (such as agriculture) highly susceptible to extreme weather events, the report found. They also receive much less government and community support for recovery.

The human and economic costs of disasters, caused by extreme weather and earthquakes, are underestimated by up to 60 percent, according to the study, with annual consumption losses of $520 billion. The discrepancy was explained by the ignorance of the high cost on consumption and the related well-being of the poor.

"Poor people need social and financial protection from disasters that cannot be avoided. With risk policies in place that we know to be effective, we have the opportunity to prevent millions of people from falling into poverty," said Stephane Hallegatte, the author of the report and a lead economist at Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery.
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Smoking

Man hospitalized for back surgery is furious to find hospital photo used as cigarette pack warning


RT
Tue, 15 Nov 2016 14:33 UTC
Cigarette
© Andrea Comas / Reuters
A Spanish man is taking the hospital where he had spinal surgery to court after he discovered pre-operation images of his face were being used to advertise the dangers of smoking on cigarette packs.

"Smoking can cause embolisms and disability," the caption under the photo said.

The man, identified only by the initials FJTA, was recognized by neighbors, who pointed out that he looked like the image on the packet.

Comment: See also:

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Family

Survey of children in developing countries show one-third miss school to work


RT
Tue, 15 Nov 2016 15:58 UTC
child labor
© Mohammad Ismail / Reuters
One-third of children in developing countries are forced to miss school in order to work, including most kids in Afghanistan, according to a new survey. Thirty-two percent also said their schools were not always safe.

The 'Small Voices, Big Dreams' survey, conducted by the ChildFund Alliance, interviewed 6,226 children between the ages of 10 and 12 who live in 41 countries - 31 of which are developing nations across Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Of the students surveyed, 3,658 were from developing nations.

While 98 percent of those surveyed said that education is important, the research identified several hurdles that stand between children and their access to safe, quality education.

When asked whether they have missed school to go to work, 31 percent of children in developing countries said they had done so - compared to just 8 percent of children in developed nations.

Comment: Compare this to the precious snowflakes that hold cry-ins and ask teachers to cancel exams over a Presidential election not going the way they wanted.

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Megaphone

More than half of those arrested at anti-Trump protests in Portland either didn't vote or weren't registered to vote in Oregon

Kyle Iboshi
KGW Portland
Mon, 14 Nov 2016 15:43 UTC
Portland anti-Trump protests
© ANKUR DHOLAKIA/AFP/Getty Images
More than half of the anti-Trump protesters arrested in Portland didn't vote in Oregon, according to state election records.

At least sixty-nine demonstrators either didn't turn in a ballot or weren't registered to vote in the state.

KGW compiled a list of the 112 people arrested by the Portland Police Bureau during recent protests. Those names and ages, provided by police, were then compared to state voter logs by Multnomah County Elections officials.

Records show 34 of the protesters arrested didn't return a ballot for the November 8 election. Thirty-five of the demonstrators taken into custody weren't registered to vote in Oregon.

Twenty-five protesters who were arrested did vote.

KGW is still working to verify voting records for the remaining 17 protesters who were arrested.

This article originally stated that 35 people were registered to vote and did not. One woman who was arrested told KGW she recently moved to Washington and did vote in Washington. She was also registered to vote in Oregon.
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Propaganda

Let's be real: Fascism exists in Ukraine, not in America

Adam Garrie
The Duran
Mon, 14 Nov 2016 13:43 UTC
Ukraine fascists
The mainstream media refuse to recognize the fascist regime in Ukraine as such, let alone associate Wahhabist terrorism with fascism. Yet the term is batted about in very unusual places.

In a recent interview, I was asked if the term fascism is batted around too much. I responded by saying it is used too little. Certainly this is the case when there are actual fascists on Europe's doorstep whose crimes are being ignored.

For those who have little or no knowledge of the Great Patriotic War, The Holocaust or the struggles of European partisans against German, Italian, Spanish and allied puppet fascist regimes, the term fascism has sadly become a kind of de rigueur insult for anything broadly disliked or deemed to be outside of the realm of mainstream, polite emasculated western culture.

But in reality, fascism is different. It is real and it lives. It is evil and it is dangerous.
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