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Wednesday, 29 April 2015

'Rape and sodomy': Leaked UN report details French soldiers' abuse against African boys

© Reuters / Goran Tomasevic A military plane lands next to a camp for internally displaced people (IDPs), located at Bangui International Airport.      A damning UN report about how French soldiers raped and sodomized starving and homeless boys in the Central African Republic, some as young as nine, has been leaked to the Guardian, and the UN official who blew the whistle is facing dismissal. French peacekeeping troops were...

"Purge" Night 3: Protests Spread To NYC - Live Feed

Is the so-called "purge" spreading? Hundreds have now gathered in Union Square in New York in a show of solidarity with the protesters in Baltimore who have demanded justice for the death of Freddie Gray. More from NBC:  Organizers had urged various activist groups to rally at Union Square "to show the people of Baltimore that we stand in solidarity with them and with their resistance because their resistance is for justice and their justice...

Why I killed Jeffrey Dahmer

© Getty Images Jeffrey Dahmer and Christopher Scarver      Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was done in by his uncontrollable lust for human flesh, the man who whacked him in prison 20 years ago told , revealing for the first time why the cannibal had to die. Christopher Scarver — who fatally beat the serial killer and another inmate in 1994 — said he grew to despise Dahmer because he would fashion severed limbs out of prison food...

The case that blew the lid off the World Bank's secret courts

With two historic global trade deals almost complete, here's how Bolivian protesters and global activists exposed the dark side of global trade pacts and paved the way for the battles to come. It's time we end the corporate power play against our basic democracy.      There's an international awakening afoot about a radical expansion of corporate power — one that sits at the center of two historic global trade deals nearing...

SOTT FOCUS: EMF pollution - What is EMF?

© (Richard Box’s ‘FIELD’ February 2004 Photo: Stuart Bunce, www.richardbox.com) [With permission – Henshaw 1] Fluorescent tubes lit by overhead power line      This article is part of a series of articles that will start with some background, proceed through a detailed description of man-made sources of EMF, discuss past study results, and finish with what you can do to measure your EMF exposure, and what steps you can take...

Small conscience: Israel evacuates surrogate babies from Nepal, leaves their mothers

© Jack Guez—AFP/Getty Images An Israeli gay man carries his baby born to a surrogate mother in Nepal as he is cheered by relatives at Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv on April 28, 2015, following his repatriation from the quake-hit Himalayan nation.      An Israeli Boeing-747 returned from Nepal to Israel's Ben Gurion International Airport on Tuesday afternoon, and among its 229 passengers were 15 Israeli babies, all born within...

Mysterious X-rays could mark stellar graveyard

© NASA      Astronomers are baffled by the discovery of a mysterious fog of high energy X-rays blasting out of the centre of our galaxy. The discovery, reported in the journal , challenges our understanding of the physics taking place in the galactic centre. The astronomers speculate the mysterious cloud could be generated by a vast graveyard of thousands of stellar remnants clustered in the shadow of the supermassive black...

DPR: Kiev planning Victory Day provocations, OSCE confirms violations

     The OSCE data confirms that Kiev is preparing for provocations on Victory Day The Ministry of Defense of the Donetsk People's Republic continues to receive confirmation that Ukrainian security forces are planning a provocation on Victory Day, said the deputy commander of the Ministry of Defense Corps Edward Basurin, earlier today. "Once again, we have evidence of the preparations for a large-scale provocation by the Ukrainian...

Smoke from forest fires in Chernobyl could spread dangerous radiation far and wide

     Smoke from burning forests in the Chernobyl exclusion zone is capable of spreading contaminants across great distances, even after the fire has been stopped, ecology experts told RT. The forest fire near the crippled Chernobyl nuclear power plant started on Tuesday and triggered an emergency alert, with police and National Guard mobilized to bring the flames under control. By Wednesday, the country's Emergency Ministry,...

Baltimore protests: Violent demonstrations or demonstrations against injustice and violence?

© Reuters/Shannon Stapleton Demonstrators run by a damaged Baltimore police vehicle during clashes in Baltimore, Maryland April 27, 2015      Successive US governments have tried to refashion the world in America's image. Meanwhile, they've ignored the domestic race issue, which has now exploded again. I know what the anti-RT brigade in the corporate media are expecting here. They imagine I'll take great satisfaction from current...

The War on Cash Escalates: Chase Cracks Down on Cash... Is Your Bank Next?

The Federal Reserve bank and its owners, the largest banks on Wall Street, want badly to be able to charge you interest for the privilege of depositing your funds. The problem is getting you to stand for it. Depositors already complain vigorously about zero percent returns on checking and savings accounts. If they must start actually paying the bank to hold funds on deposit, many will opt to simply withdraw the cash and stuff it under their mattress...

The difference between a mature relationship and an immature relationship

     Mature couples don't "fall in love," they step into it. Love isn't something you fall for; it's something you rise for. Falling denotes lowering oneself, dropping down and being stuck somewhere lower than where you started. You have to get up from falling. Love isn't like that — at least not with people who are doing it right. Immature couples fall; mature couples coast. Because love is either a passing game, or it's forever....

Lapita colonised Tonga within two generations

© Dave Burley Lapita pottery was decorated with these characteristic dentate stamped patterns.      It only took a generation or two for the first settlers of Polynesia to spread from their original colonisation site in Tonga, a new study has found. The rapid spread could have been driven by resource depletion and sibling rivalry, says archaeologist Professor Marshall Weisler of the University of Queensland. "We now have a precise...

Putin vows to support state and independent media

     At the Truth and Justice Second Media Forum of Independent Local and Regional Media on Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin pledged his support for both government-owned and private media. Russia's president also went a step further to challenge all media to reach toward high credibility standards. His message is timely, given the western mainstream media's apparent lack of credibility recently. The president made...

Saudi royal reshuffle likely to ensure kingdom’s US loyalty for decades

In a move that is likely to solidify ties with the US for decades to come, King Salman of Saudi Arabia has undertaken a major reshuffle, appointing Mohammed bin Nayef as his new successor and his son Mohammed bin Salman as second in line to the throne. The decision by King Salman, who succeeded his late brother King Abdullah, who died on January 23, replaces his half-brother Prince Muqrin with Mohammed bin Nayef as crown prince and heir to the...

US nation just hoping next President can prevent country's decline from being totally humiliating

Over 90 percent of registered voters say the next administration’s top priority should be minimizing the country’s collective embarrassment as the U.S. backslides into mediocrity.      WASHINGTON—As momentum builds toward the 2016 election, citizens across the nation told reporters this week they simply hope the next president of the United States can prevent the country's decline from being an utterly humiliating experience...
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