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Published time: 22 Oct, 2016 15:31Edited time: 22 Oct, 2016 16:06
The Russian Ministry of Defense says that the US-led coalition is responsible for striking mourners in the Iraqi city of Daquq on Friday, killing dozens of civilians, including women and children.
The coalition jets apparently identified the mourning procession as Islamic State terrorists, said General Igor Konashenkov, spokesperson for the Russian Defense Ministry.
"Judging by the eyewitness accounts, the mourning procession was mistaken for terrorists by the coalition aviation. Dozens of Iraqi civilians died, including women and children," Konashenkov said.
"Russian reconnaissance pinpointed two jets conducting airstrikes on Daquq, located 30 kilometers to the south of Kirkuk, where, according to our data, there are no ISIS fighters," he added.
Konashenkov noted that such incidents bear the mark of war crimes.
"These deadly attacks on civilian areas, which have all the marks of war crimes, are becoming almost a daily routine for the international coalition."
The spokesman also noted that civilians and civilian infrastructure are increasingly finding themselves in the crosshairs of the coalition bombardment.
"Too often weddings, funerals, hospitals, police stations, and humanitarian convoys are being hit by the coalition warplanes," Konashenkov said.
On Friday, Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) 'sleeper cells' launched attacks on government buildings in Kirkuk, sparking clashes with security forces.
Over 40 people, mostly from security forces, died in the fighting, medical sources said, according to AFP.
The attack on Kirkuk comes at a time when the Iraqi military is conducting a full-scale military operation to retake the country's second-largest city, Mosul from the jihadists.
The city was captured by Islamic State fighters in 2014 and became IS' main stronghold in Iraq.
"During the past 24 hours alone, the international coalition has conducted 22 sorties using tactical aviation and four unmanned flying vehicles, which launched 19 strikes on various sites on the territory of Iraq," Konashenkov said, noting that Russia is closely monitoring the developments.
In this video it is show the how and why of the creation of the American School System as we know it today as an arm of the state.
This video should be watched by everyone!
"I think this blog overstates what Warren was doing, but we need to craft the economic message for Hillary so that Warren's common inaccurate conclusions are addressed. Xoxo Lynn"
The last email is telling for a few reasons,
"Here Ms. Warren makes a potent argument that Mr. Clinton - and by association, Mrs. Clinton - had the same results for the middle class as Republican presidents. By tying the records of the Reagan, Clinton, Obama and two Bush administrations together, Ms. Warren paints herself as the outside-the-system crusader her supporters want her to be."
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A group of white students at Texas State University stormed out of anthropology class Friday after the professor explained all humans were descended from Africa.
The walkout caused heated debate with the remaining students chanting "Black lives matter" and criticizing the racist attitude of their classmates.
According to the students, Professor R. Jon McGee opened his class with a discussion on race, which then developed into an overview of the Black Lives Matter movement and the conclusion modern humans evolved in Africa.
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I left Julian after midnight. He is fit, well, sharp, and in good spirits.
WikiLeaks never reveals or comments upon its sources, but as I published
before a fortnight ago, I can tell you with 100% certainty that it is not
any Russian state actor or proxy that gave the Democratic National
Committee and Podesta materials to WikiLeaks. The claim is nonsense.
Journalists are also publishing that these were obtained by "hacking" with
no evidence that this was the method used to obtain them.
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The agency that should be a watchdog protecting the public is acting more like a PR firm trying to protect Duke Energy's reputation," Waterkeeper Alliance attorney Pete Harrison said. "This is the same agency that only a year ago stood up in court and tried to block an agreement between Waterkeeper and Duke that requires Duke to remove all the coal ash from the ash ponds that flooded.
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Disturbing and graphic footage posted to social media allegedly shows Iraqi security forces torturing and interrogating young children as they attempt to retake Mosul from the Islamic State terror group, according to Daily Star. The report says videos posted on Twitter depict Iraqi soldiers, who are working with Kurdish militias and the United States to drive the militants also known as ISIS out of one of its strongest remaining footholds, of torturing children who look "no older than eight" years old and of hitting one boy with a hammer in the knee cap before dropping a concrete block on his head.
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More recently, in mid-October, emails released by WikiLeaks involving Mrs. Clinton's campaign chairman, John D. Podesta, included several written in late 2011 by Chelsea Clinton to Mr. Podesta, in which she accuses Teneo employees of "hustling" for business at the annual Clinton Global Initiative, the annual symposium that brings together politicians, business chiefs and heads of nonprofit organizations to discuss and debate global issues. Chelsea Clinton also accused Teneo employees of using her father's name to set up meetings with London lawmakers for Teneo clients.
At that time, Chelsea Clinton and Mr. Podesta were involved in an effort to formalize the relationships between Mr. Clinton's personal office, the Clinton Foundation and other initiatives to, among other things, avoid any perceptions of conflict of interest.
In the email chain, Mr. Band responds to Mr. Podesta denying any connection between Teneo and the Clintons. In one note, he writes that Chelsea Clinton is "acting like a spoiled brat kid who has nothing else to do but create issues."
smkngman3 comments:
WOW!
The NYT resorts to using "Russian" leaks for their story!
EDITORIAL NOTE: If the NYT pay-wall blocks you, use a web search to find it to get a link that will work for you.
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During the same time Bill Clinton's foreign policy adviser emailed Obama's chief of staff following the conversation with Clinton about Tsipras, and in that conversation the Clinton team assures they will have the support of Angela Merkel.
Greeks rejected the austerity reforms demanded by European lenders in a referendum back in 2015, but Tsipras signed it anyway as the prime minister agreed to taxes increases and public sector cuts.
Since then a total of 15 reforms requested by the international lenders - the European Commission, the European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund - have been imposed in the debt-ridden country including privatization plans, so as to unblock much needed bailout funds.
, RTIII
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Could millions of connected cameras, thermostats and kids' toys bring the internet to its knees? It's beginning to look that way.
On Friday, epic cyberattacks crippled a major internet firm, repeatedly disrupting the availability of popular websites across the United States. The hacker group claiming responsibility says that the day's antics were just a dry run and that it has its sights set on a much bigger target. And the attackers now have a secret weapon in the increasing array of internet-enabled household devices they can subvert and use to wreak havoc.
Manchester, New Hampshire-based Dyn Inc. said its server infrastructure was hit by distributed denial-of-service, or DDoS, attacks. These work by overwhelming targeted machines with junk data traffic - sort of like knocking someone over by blasting them with a fire hose. The attack temporarily blocked some access to popular websites from across America and Europe such as Twitter, Netflix and PayPal.
I was talking with another techie friend of mine about what's happened with our computers and networks today and he said:
"Yes, there have been Distributed DNS attacks," as I described down thread some 75 to 100 comments ago," but also there have been BGR attacks."
BGR attacks are attacks on the "Boundary Gateway Routers." These are the computers that sit at the boundary between networks and which talk to other BGRs about what routes they can support. There's something called BGP - the Boundary Gateway Protocol - which they use to talk to one another, and if they're sent bad data, they can do the wrong things!
Here's an article which describes how this attack works.
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In this video, Julian Assange briefly speaks about the recent raid on the Ecuadoran Embassy in London by British forces. In his comments he cites various other whistle blowers and speaks to the terrible situation the world is in today regarding repressive regeims, most notably the USA.
Following this, a grey haired MC speaks, didn't catch his name, but he eloquently addresses the crowd, then calls upon various speakers to make short statements. He then follows up with closing comments and opens a question / answer phase. Following this, they break - the video ends - due to the need to wait an additional 15 minutes for Julian to speak again.
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This must be one of the most uplifting videos I've seen in a VERY long time. It speaks truth to power and makes real, sensible demands that can well be met and which would make the world a much better place. It is very well worth watching.
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An Indigenous leader accused "provocateurs" of inciting violence in a Yaqui community in the northern Mexican state of Sonora that is at the heart of a conflict over the construction of a hydrocarbon pipeline that will cross their territory.
Teodulo Gonzalez, commissioner for the defense of land, water and human rights of the Yaqui tribe, said a group of people descended on a site where land defenders have set up a camp to prevent the construction of the pipeline and started a physical confrontation.
The clash reportedly lasted three hours and ultimately left one dead and eight injured. AP reported the man was killed as a result of gunfire.
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A man approaches a bicycle, handheld electric saw at the ready. He powers it on, starts to drill, and is shot in the face with a noxious spray that makes him vomit uncontrollably. This is the dream of the inventors of SkunkLock.
"Basically we were fed up with thefts," said Daniel Idzkowski from San Francisco, one of the inventors of SkunkLock. "The real last straw was we had a friend park his very expensive electric bike outside a Whole Foods, and then went to have lunch and chat. We went out and his bike was gone."
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Renowned academic David Harvey said that the left and right have been blurred in the U.S. presidential elections, in an exclusive interview with teleSUR.
The candidacies of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders both attacked how the "main structures of economic and political power" have and will govern the country, including neoliberal trade deals, which partly explains their unexpected popularity.
"I think that the left and the right distinction is not very clear in that area," said Harvey, "and of course (Hillary) Clinton wants to govern in the name of the right from the center-so that's what her politics is about, and everybody knows that, and I think that people don't want that."
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