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Yellow Vest

Homage to Catalonia: Tens of thousands are walking to Barcelona for major rally this Friday


Spain in English
Wed, 16 Oct 2019 15:15 UTC

Comment: Update 20 Oct 2019

In the end, about a million people - give or take - flooded Barcelona on Friday 18th October, the largest pro-independence rally since October 2017:




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Five 100km-long marches started early in the morning from different towns in Catalonia on Wednesday, which are expected to converge and culminate in a major rally in Barcelona on Friday.

It is the third day of protests against the imprisoned Catalan political leaders after the Supreme Court sentences were issued on Monday morning. Student unions have also called for a 3-day strike starting today.

10,000 participants set off this morning from the central Catalan city of Vic, 7,000 from Girona, 2,000 from Tàrrega, 1,000 from Tarragona, and nearly 1,000 from Berga. Several relatives of the imprisoned and exiled Catalan leaders are also taking part in the initiative.

Major disruptions and closures of several main roads in Catalonia that connect with Barcelona will occur, such as the A-2, C-16, N-340, C-31 and AP-7.

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Yellow Vest

Dutch farmers strike back with mass protests as lunatic govt attempts to 'save planet' by slashing food production in HALF


RT
Wed, 16 Oct 2019 14:43 UTC
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The Dutch military has been called up to put down the farmers' protests
Traffic on some of the busiest roads in the Netherlands ground to a halt on Wednesday as Dutch farmers ramped up protests against farming taking the rap for climate change.

"Last year you didn't hear anything about nitrogen, and now suddenly it's a mortal question," farmer Micha Bouwer of the Farmers Defence Force told state broadcaster NOS. "These are all people in the city who have two plants on their balcony and say 'nature is suffering'."


Comment: Rutte should be worried: the Yellow Vest rebellion was preceded by widespread farmers' protests in France:

Winter of Discontent in France: Protests, Endless Dark Skies, And Crazy New Laws

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People 2

Piers Morgan hits back at "snowflakes" calling for him to be sacked after rejecting '100 genders'


RT
Tue, 15 Oct 2019 16:03 UTC
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(Main) Pride In London parade Global Look Press / Dinendra Haria (Top right) TV presenter Piers Morgan Global Look Press / Keith Mayhew
British TV presenter Piers Morgan has accused "snowflakes" of hijacking a viewers' poll that showed a majority want him axed from his breakfast show after becoming embroiled in a row over gender identity issues.

The outspoken 54-year-old has been the subject of a petition calling for him to be sacked for "dehumanizing" trans people, as well as reducing LGBT+ people and their causes to a "mere joke."

Good Morning Britain, the program he co-presents with Susanna Reid, ran a poll on Tuesday morning in response to the furor with the question: "Should Piers stay or should he go?" The final results showed that only 41 percent of viewers wanted Morgan to stay, while 59 percent were desperate for him to be ditched.

Comment: Most of the British public would agree with Piers Morgan, because it's a scientific fact that there is no biological proof for '100 genders'. As noted in How genetics is proving that race is not necessarily a social construct:
For me, a natural response to the challenge is to learn from the example of the biological differences that exist between males and females. The differences between the sexes are far more profound than those that exist among human populations, reflecting more than 100 million years of evolution and adaptation. Males and females differ by huge tracts of genetic material - a Y chromosome that males have and that females don't, and a second X chromosome that females have and males don't.

Most everyone accepts that the biological differences between males and females are profound. In addition to anatomical differences, men and women exhibit average differences in size and physical strength. (There are also average differences in temperament and behavior, though there are important unresolved questions about the extent to which these differences are influenced by social expectations and upbringing.)

How do we accommodate the biological differences between men and women? I think the answer is obvious: We should both recognize that genetic differences between males and females exist and we should accord each sex the same freedoms and opportunities regardless of those differences.
See also: And check out SOTT radio's: The Truth Perspective: And Then They Came for the Psychologists: Why SJWs Can't Stand Science

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Che Guevara

Extinction Rebellion: Police ban London protests


BBC
Tue, 15 Oct 2019 00:01 UTC
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© PA MediaImage caption Police remove an Extinction Rebellion protester from Trafalgar Square in central London.
Extinction Rebellion activists say they have left London's Trafalgar Square after police issued a ban on the group's climate change protests.

In a statement issued on Monday evening, the Metropolitan Police said demonstrators protesting in the capital after 21:00 BST could be arrested.

Extinction Rebellion said it would "let Trafalgar Square go" but added that the "International Rebellion continues".

The protests, which began last Monday, have seen more than 1,400 arrests.

Comment: This should get the righteous indignation of the CJWs rancored up. It almost might lead the more impressionable to assume their corporate sponsored, government approved 'rebellion' is actually rebelling against something.

See also:

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Fire

Explosion during maintenance works at Saudi Aramco refinery kills 2


Sputnik
Tue, 15 Oct 2019 16:49 UTC
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An explosion has occurred at Saudi Aramco's 305,000 b/d joint venture company with Shell, the SASREF refinery, reports say, adding that the blaze was caused by a gas leak.

Two workers from the oil refinery have died, while two more were injured in the blast during maintenance work, Reuters reported citing the company's statement.

The statement says that the maintenance work will continue as planned.

There are contradicting reports about 18 people killed in the incident, though they have not been confirmed.

Comment: It's notable that this explosion has occurred not long after the attack on the Saudi oil refinery, although explosions at high risk sites are occurring with an increasing frequency: ANOTHER major fire breaks out at chemical plant, this time at a refinery in California

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Dollar

Corporate subservience to China exposes the hypocrisy of woke capitalism

Zaid Jilani
Quillette
Tue, 15 Oct 2019 00:01 UTC
LeBron James
LeBron James, of the Los Angeles Lakers, can be seen on the promotional tour “More than an athlete.” Berlin, Germany. 2nd Sep, 2018.
China's suppression of political dissent within its borders is old news. But more recently, the Chinese government has managed to project its power across the world — and even into the heart of an iconic American business sector: professional basketball.

The saga began when Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey — a well-known figure within the National Basketball Association (NBA) — Tweeted support for ongoing pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong. The Chinese consulate in Houston signaled its displeasure, with a statement indicating that it had "lodged representations and expressed strong dissatisfaction with the Houston Rockets, and urged the latter to correct the error and take immediate concrete measures to eliminate the adverse impact."

Morey seemed to receive the message. He hastily deleted his Tweet. But the NBA — which is the most popular sports league in China — paid a price anyway. A series of NBA events in China were abruptly canceled, and a number of firms suspended co-operation with the Rockets.
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TV

CNN faces more accusations of political bias ahead of Democratic debate

Brian Flood
Fox News
Wed, 16 Oct 2019 16:14 UTC
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CNN's heavily promoted Democratic debate on Tuesday comes on the same day as a second batch of undercover recordings is putting an emphasis on the network's political bias.

Project Veritas, whose founder, James O'Keefe, describes himself as a "guerrilla journalist," built up the release on social media with an "#ExposeCNN" hashtag. The CNN/New York Times Democratic presidential debate is scheduled to feature 12 leading 2020 hopefuls duking it out from Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio -- but the latest batch of alleged undercover recordings could indicate which candidates are preferred by CNN brass.

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Fire

ANOTHER major fire breaks out at chemical plant, this time at a refinery in California


RT
Wed, 16 Oct 2019 00:39 UTC
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© Twitter / _DavidOroAt least one storage tank appears to be completely destroyed and another is in flames in footage seen on local media.
An enormous explosion that left two tanks on fire at a NuStar fuel refinery in Rodeo, California has led local authorities to issue a hazardous materials emergency declaration urging the locals to shelter in place.

At least one storage tank appears to be completely destroyed and another is in flames in footage seen on local media. Contra Costa County health officials warned locals to "shelter in place" and close their windows.

The Rodeo refinery has 24 tanks full of extremely flammable fuels including gasoline and ethanol as well as pipeline connections to other refineries, according to KTVU.


Comment: Check out this footage of smaller fires on nearby hills, at least one of which was also located at or near what appears to be another large storage tank [begins at 1:50]:


In any event, explosions and fires at chemical facilities are becoming alarmingly common:

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Health

UNICEF: One third of world's young children undernourished or overweight and face lifelong health problems


FRN
Tue, 15 Oct 2019 00:00 UTC
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A third of the world's nearly 700 million under-five-year-olds are undernourished or overweight and face lifelong health problems as a consequence, according to a grim United Nations assessment of childhood nutrition released on Tuesday.
"If children eat poorly, they live poorly," said UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore, as she unveiled the Fund's first State of the World's Children report since 1999 to focus on food and nutrition, AFP reported. "We are losing ground in the fight for healthy diets," she added.
Problems that once existed at opposite ends of the wealth spectrum have today converged in poor and middle-income countries, the report showed. Overall, malnutrition's cost to the global economy is estimated at $3.5 trillion every year. Despite a nearly 40 percent drop from 1990 to 2015 of stunting in poor countries, 149 million children aged four or younger are today still too short for their age, a clinical condition that impairs both brain and body development.
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Family

SOTT Focus: The Police State's Deadly Toll on America's Children

John W. Whitehead
The Rutherford Institute
Tue, 15 Oct 2019 23:44 UTC
"Mommy, am I gonna die?" — 4-year-old Ava Ellis after being inadvertently shot in the leg by a police officer who was aiming for the girl's boxer-terrier dog, Patches

"'Am I going to get shot again.'" — 2-year-old survivor of a police shooting that left his three siblings, ages 1, 4 and 5, with a bullet in the brain, a fractured skull and gun wounds to the face
US Police State
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Children learn what they live.

As family counselor Dorothy Law Nolte wisely observed, "If children live with criticism, they learn to condemn. If children live with hostility, they learn to fight. If children live with fear, they learn to be apprehensive."

And if children live with terror, trauma and violence — forced to watch helplessly as their loved ones are executed by police officers who shoot first and ask questions later — will they in turn learn to terrorize, traumatize and inflict violence on the world around them?

I'm not willing to risk it. Are you?

It's difficult enough raising a child in a world ravaged by war, disease, poverty and hate, but when you add the toxic stress of the police state into the mix, it becomes near impossible to protect children from the growing unease that some of the monsters of our age come dressed in government uniforms.

Case in point: in Hugo, Oklahoma, plain clothes police officers opened fire on a pickup truck parked in front of a food bank, heedless of the damage such a hail of bullets — 26 shots were fired — could have on those in the vicinity. Three of the four children inside the parked vehicle were shot: a 4-year-old girl was shot in the head and ended up with a bullet in the brain; a 5-year-old boy received a skull fracture; and a 1-year-old girl had deep cuts on her face from gunfire or shattered window glass. Only the 2-year-old was spared any physical harm, although the terror will likely linger for a long time. "They are terrified to go anywhere or hear anything," the family attorney said. "The two-year-old keeps asking about 'Am I going to get shot again.'"

The reason for the use of such excessive force?

Police were searching for a suspect in a weeks-old robbery of a pizza parlor that netted $400.
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