Posts Tagged ‘Fire’

At least one dead, seven trapped in Thailand as beach resort hotel collapses

     A two-story hotel at a beach resort on Thailand’s Ko Chang island partly collapsed on Saturday morning, burying several families, including a two-year-old child, local police said. At least one foreign tourist has died and seven remain trapped. The Siam Beach Hotel is a popular destination for tourists on an island located in Trat […]

Baghdad’s envoy demands Turkish troops out as Iraqi forces vow to free Fallujah ‘in a week’

“We have recently had our ambassador, new ambassador, sent to Ankara about last week, so we have given another sign to Turkey that we are serious about discussions and dialogue,” Ambassador Faily said. The move comes as Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov described the Turkish troops’ presence in Iraq as unacceptable. Lavrov: Russia demands that […]

EgyptAir MS804: US Navy Drill Cover-Up Underway

Egyptair Flight MS804 flew directly through a US Navy training exercise just moments before it crashed, and the US military are now attempting to cover it up.  The US Navy have removed references to their Phoenix training exercise from their website. American Everyman reports: Here’s a screenshot of their search page. You can see the […]

Futuristic US railgun too expensive to use, similar projects in Russia – senator

Klintsevich, first deputy chairman of Russia’s Senate committee for defense and security, has accused Washington of trying to impose a new Cold War-style arms race while saying the “supergun,” dubbed a potential game-changer by the Pentagon, is not yet an effective technological breakthrough. “The newspaper’s message didn’t come to us as a total surprise. Similar […]

The Empire of Chaos: Target Russia. Target China. Target Iran

     Not a day goes by without US Think Tankland doing what it does best; pushing all sorts of scenarios for cold – and hot – war with Russia, plus myriad confrontations with China and Iran. That fits into the Pentagon’s Top Five existential threats to the US, where Russia and China sit at the […]

Mainstream Media Says Microchipping Kids Coming Soon, Will be ‘As Commonplace as the Barcode’

‘As commonplace as the barcode,’ claims a new report from NBC News, discussing the microchipping of children — and potentially adults, as well — as an inevitable technology in our future. by Claire Bernish NBC’s report seems innocuous enough, capitalizing on ‘every parent’s worst nightmare’ scenario — their child suddenly is nowhere to be found […]

Stop Consuming Culture and Create Your Own

Stephen Parato, ContributorWaking Times Are you creating the life you want? Or are you just absorbing a version of reality that has been projected upon you? Are you living life on your own terms? Or are you letting your hopes and dreams become the desires of someone else? Are you maximizing your own state of […]

Venezuela Negotiates “Historic” Deals with Trinidad & Tobago

Rachel Boothroyd-Rojas (VA) : Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has struck a set of “historic” bilateral deals with his Trinidadian counterpart, including the creation of a joint energy project geared towards natural gas exportation.  Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and Trinidadian Prime Minister Keith Rowley shake hands Monday after agreeing a series of bilateral deals (EFE). Both […]

Israeli colonialism signed in UK, sealed in USA

Clive Hambidge Considering the British Mandate of Palestine “carved out of Ottoman Southern Syria” and its favourable view of a Zionist drive for the colonisation of historical Palestine, is to seek, somewhere, an honourable historical discourse in a dishonourable colonialist fulcrum.  The British Mandate was to last from 1920 to 1948. The ideological democratisation of […]

Republican Senator Tom Cotton declares US is ‘under-incarcerated’ and should lock more people up

     Despite having the world’s biggest inmate population and second-highest incarceration ratio, the US should send more offenders to jail, Republican Senator Tom Cotton has said, adding that freeing inmates would make the US like Iraq. In an attack on proposed criminal justice reforms, Cotton criticized bipartisan efforts to address America’s overpopulation of prisons by […]

‘EU is in process of collapsing on itself’ – Marine Le Pen to RT (EXCLUSIVE)

READ MORE: Brexit poll: Almost half of Europeans want own vote on leaving EU “The two pillars on which it’s founded – Schengen and the euro – are in the process of crumbling,” Le Pen told Marie De Douhet of RT France in an exclusive interview. “So they’re in a sort of mad downward spiral in […]

Instead of Saving Woman from Hostage Situation, Cops Shoot Her to Death and Cover it Up: Lawsuit

Nick DiVito | Courthouse News Service BROOKLYN (CN) — The family of a Long Island woman fatally shot in the head by a policeman during a hostage situation fired back with a lawsuit against the Nassau County Police Department, claiming it tried to cover up its officers’ constitutional violations. […]

ISIS Execute 25 In Mosul Using Nitric Acid

ISIS have tortured and executed 25 people using nitric acid in Mosul, northern Iraq. The terrorists are also forcing civilians to execute hostages from the Iraqi security forces. The executions are taking place in public to frighten other people AlAlam reports: The Arabic-language al-Sumaria news website quoted an informed source as saying that the terrorists […]

China thousands

WENZHOU — Tens of thousands of enraged Chinese citizens crowded the streets after a horrific act of police abuse. The citizens killed four police officers, and troops were called to minimize the rebellion. According to reports, it began when the police were seen beating a woman in public. Crowds […]

Burgerville Workers Aim To Take Fight For $15 To Next Level

Print Friendly Above Photo: Dressed in his work uniform, Jordan Vaandering looked like any other fast food employee heading into another long shift. But that day, April 26, was far from ordinary for the 25-year-old Burgerville employee. Since Vaandering makes under $10 per hour working at the drive-through, he had decided to come forward as a […]

Pentagon Confirms US Ground Troops In Yemen

Print Friendly Above Photo: From news.antiwar.com Troops Were Deployed Two Weeks Ago, Officials Say Hot on the heels of yesterday‘s admission that the US has become militarily involved in a second war inside Yemen, this time between the pro-Saudi faction and al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), Pentagon officials are also admitting that US ground troops have been […]

Pentagon Confirms US Ground Troops In Yemen

Print Friendly Above Photo: From news.antiwar.com Troops Were Deployed Two Weeks Ago, Officials Say Hot on the heels of yesterday‘s admission that the US has become militarily involved in a second war inside Yemen, this time between the pro-Saudi faction and al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), Pentagon officials are also admitting that US ground troops have been […]

Former U.S. Diplomats Decry U.S.-Backed Saudi War In Yemen

Print Friendly Above Photo: Mohammed Hawais/AFP/Getty Images) SAUDI ARABIA AND the other Arab states that form the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have been brutally bombing Yemen for more than a year, hoping to drive Houthi rebels out of the capital they overran in 2014 and restore Saudi-backed President Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi. The United States has forcefully […]

Former U.S. Diplomats Decry U.S.-Backed Saudi War In Yemen

Print Friendly Above Photo: Mohammed Hawais/AFP/Getty Images) SAUDI ARABIA AND the other Arab states that form the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have been brutally bombing Yemen for more than a year, hoping to drive Houthi rebels out of the capital they overran in 2014 and restore Saudi-backed President Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi. The United States has forcefully […]

Former U.S. Diplomats Decry U.S.-Backed Saudi War In Yemen

Print Friendly Above Photo: Mohammed Hawais/AFP/Getty Images) SAUDI ARABIA AND the other Arab states that form the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have been brutally bombing Yemen for more than a year, hoping to drive Houthi rebels out of the capital they overran in 2014 and restore Saudi-backed President Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi. The United States has forcefully […]

‘Children of War’: Heart-rending WWII diaries of Soviet children published in English

“In adults’ diaries, the author is still trying to build some sort of drama, while children have been sincerely writing about what they saw and felt, and that’s the main value of these documents. They haven’t been edited by anyone, they’ve been written honestly, with no censorship or self-censorship applied,” the book’s editor, Tatyana Kuznetsova, […]

Iran sees no limits to holding military drills: Dehqan

Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan says the Islamic Republic sees no limits to holding military maneuvers in its territorial waters in the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman. “The Islamic Republic of Iran makes no claims on any grounds in coastal, regional and trans-boundary waters beyond international demarcation lines,” Dehqan said on Saturday. He added […]

Court Clears Algerian Man Of Sex Assault Charges In Cologne

An Algerian man accused of sexual assault against a woman during New Year’s Eve celebrations in Cologne had his case thrown out by a German court on Friday after the victim failed to identify him. The Local reports: The panel said it had no evidence that the 26-year-old was part of a group of about ten […]

Cop Puts 6-Year-old Child in ‘Arm Bar’ Submission, Assaults 2 Other Children

Claire Bernish | The Free Thought Project Abilene, TX — A new lawsuit alleges an out-of-control Texas school resource officer ‘roughed up’ a six-year-old student, then twisting the child’s arms behind his back to lift him off the ground and carry him back to class. Officer Barry Bond, the […]

4 dead in Mecca suburb after Saudi police raid ISIS cell

READ MORE: Russia pays tribute to Palmyra hero who called in anti-ISIS artillery strike on his own position “The terrorists fired upon security forces requiring them to respond in kind to neutralize the threat, leading to the killing of two and the death of two others who blew themselves up with explosive belts,” said a […]

Israel cuts electricity, water supplies for prisoners

Days of Palestine, West Bank -Israeli occupation authorities cut on Monday electricity, water supplies for Palestinian prisoners in Nafha Prison located in Al-Naqab Desert. In a statement, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Committee (PPC) said: “A state of tension was prevailing across the whole prison.” The Committee also expected that the prisoners would clash with the prison […]

Turkish Parliamentarians end up in massive brawl over lifting lawmakers’ immunity from prosecution

     A debate in the Turkish parliament over lifting lawmakers’ immunity from prosecution ended in a massive punch-up, on Monday; the previous meeting on the issue on Thursday was also postponed because of a scuffle. The video circulating in the Internet caught the parliamentarians of Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and oppositional Peoples’ […]

Australia to spend over $11mn to eradicate carps by releasing herpes virus into rivers

As much as 15 million Australian dollars will be spent on funding the clearing of the Murray-Darling Basin from the country’s worst freshwater feral pest. This will be included into Tuesday’s federal budget, Australian authorities said on Sunday. Interestingly enough, the war on fish is to be waged by an unusual means – the water […]

‘Holiest day of the year’: Orthodox Christians celebrate Easter worldwide

Thousands of people have been queuing outside Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Savior, eager to attend the sacred service, RT’s Emily Siu reports. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev were among the visitors. The magnificent service led by Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, […]

Is Tzipi Livni Smelly?

Tzipi Livni, a former Israeli minister as well as a war criminal, spoke at Harvard Law School last week. During the Q&A session, a student got up and asked Livni ‘how is it that you are so smelly?’ Some Jews were offended and interpreted the comments as being anti-Semitic. The student, a third-year male law student […]

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