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NY judge approves deposition of Saudi officials in lawsuit by 9/11 victims' families, despite ongoing Justice Dept opposition


RT
Sat, 12 Sep 2020 18:22 UTC
9/11 memorial firefighters
© Reuters / Carlos Allegri9/11 memorial in NYC
The Saudi government must make 24 current and former officials available to testify on their knowledge of the 9/11 attacks, a US judge has ruled, in a victory for victims' families despite opposition from the Attorney General.

Riyadh was ordered to make the officials - including a prince and his chief of staff - available for deposition in a judgment made public on Thursday, just a day before the 19th anniversary of the worst terror attack ever to take place on US soil.

Manhattan federal Judge Sarah Netburn ruled the victims' families have the right to question Saudi officials about their alleged roles in providing support to the 9/11 terrorists inside the US.

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Fire

Explosion in Tehran province kills one, injures others, damages buildings


Sputnik
Fri, 11 Sep 2020 18:31 UTC
tehran ambulance
© AP
The cause of the explosion is being investigated.

An explosion hit the town of Nasimshahr in Iran's Tehran province on Friday, killing one person, injuring several others and damaging dozens of cars and buildings, local media reports say.

"An explosion on Tohid Street, south of Nasimshahr, took place in a battery shop. One person was killed and at least 10 people were injured. Ten cars and 30 buildings were badly damaged as well," state TV reported, according to Reuters.

Videos and photos from the scene of the explosion have been shared online.

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Syringe

Almost half of Russians say they don't want to be vaccinated against Covid-19 & 43% believe dangers of coronavirus are exaggerated


RT
Fri, 11 Sep 2020 17:43 UTC
russian vaccine
© Sputnik / Press service AFK "Sistema"
Just under half (45.6 percent) of surveyed Russians don't want to be vaccinated against coronavirus, regardless of where the vaccine comes from, according to a new study by Moscow's Higher School of Economics (HSE).

The research revealed that just 13.2 percent of those questioned want to get vaccinated as soon as possible, with a further 4.6 percent wishing to wait a few months. Of those who refuse to be immunized, almost a quarter (24.6 percent) still intend to monitor the results of mass vaccination, with another quarter (25 percent) saying they're entirely opposed to all vaccines.

Part of the country's lack of enthusiasm for a vaccine may be explained by the belief that Covid-19 isn't so serious. 43.4 percent of respondents believe that the danger of the epidemic is exaggerated or invented by "interested parties." This is a considerable rise from a similar survey taken in May, which discovered that just a third (32.8 percent) of the country were coronavirus skeptics.

The data revealed that the lowest percentage of non-believers is in Moscow (34.7 percent), with almost one in three Muscovites believing the capital is already "at the beginning of the second wave."

Speaking to Russian daily newspaper RBK, Moscow International Medical Cluster (MIMC) CEO Yaroslav Ashikhin explained that Russians now perceive Covid-19 as "a less dangerous threat."

"Scientists can't yet clearly explain to people why there was no coronavirus explosion after the opening of the borders," he said. "There are also no overcrowded clinics, so skepticism has increased."
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Some lives are more equal than others: An Israeli soldier murdered their son, and got three months of community service

Yumna Patel
Mondoweiss
Fri, 11 Sep 2020 18:13 UTC
Ahmad Manasra palestinian killed
© Social mediaAhmad Manasra, 23, was killed while attempting to help victims of a car crash.
Jamal Manasra's son, Ahmad, was someone he could always count on. When Jamal needed him, Ahmad was there, always ready to help — it was, and still is something that Jamal prides himself on to this day.

In March 2019, 23-year-old Ahmad Manasra was doing just that, helping someone in need after a car accident, when he was shot and killed by an Israeli soldier at an intersection south of Bethlehem city, near the village of al-Khader in the southern occupied West Bank.

Now, one and a half years after his death, the Israeli soldier responsible for killing Ahmad, who was completely innocent of any crimes or violations when he was shot, has been sentenced by an Israeli court to three months of community service on charges of "negligent homicide."
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Black Magic

Trans footballer's 'CIS folks challenge' is a hackneyed step-by-step guide to woke indoctrination, policing pronouns & SJW propaganda

Danny Armstrong
RT
Sat, 12 Sep 2020 17:57 UTC
Rebecca Quinn
© Rebecca Quinn / Instagram; Getty Images / MB Media; Instagram / Alok Vaid-MenonRebecca Quinn and Instagrammer Alok Vaid-Menon
Footballer Rebecca Quinn's recent 'challenge to CIS folks' upon coming out as transgender is merely a thinly-veiled, step-by-step guide to woke indoctrination through policing pronouns and pushing toxic SJW narratives.

When Candian Women's National Team player Rebecca Quinn came out publicly as a transgender male on Wednesday, the reaction was one of the usual admiration and adulation for an athlete in a professional arena which segregates by gender making the brave step to announce to the world their identity.

"Coming out is HARD (and kinda bs). I know for me it's something I'll be doing over again for the rest of my life," the 25-year-old wrote on Instagram. "As I've lived as an openly trans person with the people I love most for many years, I did always wonder when I'd come out publicly.
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Bad Guys

Slavery is not America's original sin

Graham Daseler
The American Conservative
Sat, 12 Sep 2020 16:53 UTC
african slaves africa engraving
© Everett Collection/ShutterstockAfrican slaves driven by African slavers, 1859 wood engraving.
Despite what the New York Times will try to tell you, American slavery was just one small part of a long, horrible history

You've probably heard it said that slavery is America's "original sin." Perhaps you've said it yourself. I know I have. In a sense, it's plainly true. The bondage of millions of dark-skinned people — first Amerindians and then Africans — was a practice that was not only blessed by the American Constitution but one that, as The New York Times notes in their Pulitzer Prize-winning series on the legacy of slavery, the 1619 Project, predated the birth of the nation itself, stretching back to the first European settlements on the North American continent.

"The extremity of the violence was a symptom of the psychological mechanism necessary to absolve white Americans of their country's original sin," Nikole Hannah-Jones writes in the Project's lead essay. Even in our highly secular age, we often still reach for religious language when we put our moral concerns into words. You don't have to be a skeptic of climate science to notice how frequently environmentalists annex religious motifs to make points about the destruction of the natural world, talking about the earth as though it were a paradise despoiled by man, and prognosticating a coming apocalypse, complete with famines, flames, and boiling seas.
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Best of the Web: Russian Union of Journalists awards its Solidarity prize to Julian Assange


TASS
Tue, 08 Sep 2020 19:07 UTC
Assange
© ReutersFounder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange
Assange decided to donate the monetary part of the prize to families of killed journalists

The Russian Union of Journalists awarded WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with its Solidarity prize, the union's head Vladimir Solovyev told TASS on Tuesday.
"The International Day of Journalists' Solidarity is marked worldwide on September 8. The second phase of Julian Assange's extradition trial began in London. Our colleague, a journalist, sacrificed his whole life to fight for truth and freedom of speech. Because of that, he is suffering and is being kept in prison. Moreover, in case he is handed over to the United States, his extradition might be equal to life imprisonment or death penalty.

"We had no doubts about who should receive this prize. We decided that it should go to Julian Assange, a true fighter for the freedom of speech."
In his words, Assange has already been informed about the award. He made the decision to donate the monetary part of his prize to families of killed journalists.

The Solidarity award is bestowed on journalists who demonstrated courage and devotion to their profession while defending the freedom of speech.
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A farewell letter from an independent restaurant owner

Heather Lalley
RestaurantBusinessOnline.com
Fri, 11 Sep 2020 00:01 UTC
the Mermaid Inn
© Photo courtesy of the Mermaid Inn Instagram page
As Danny Abrams and Cindy Smith shutter their original location of The Mermaid Inn, they reflect on the pandemic's impact on neighborhood restaurants and hope for better days in the future.

Danny Abrams opened a restaurant six blocks from the World Trade Center site six weeks after 9/11.

Even during that difficult time, the restaurant was welcomed by the city with more than 100 covers a night for the first year.

"But this is very different," Abrams said. "It's hard to compare."

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TV

Many mainstream film critics have come out in defense of 'Cuties.' Here's why their arguments are wrong

Matt Walsh
The Daily Wire
Fri, 11 Sep 2020 00:01 UTC
Netflix
© Manuel Romano/NurPhoto via Getty Images
The child-sexualizing "Cuties" on Netflix has prompted enormous backlash from the public, but the media and mainstream critics have circled their wagons around the film. The enormous chasm between the audience and critic reviews on Rotten Tomatoes — 3% vs. 88% fresh, respectively — highlights this severe clash of perspectives.

I already covered some of the rather desperate excuses and rationalizations being offered for the film's sake. But the most common pro-"Cuties" talking point, put forward most stridently by Washington Post critic Alyssa Rosenburg, warrants a more thorough response. Saying that the "freak out" over the movie "bothers" and "deeply disturbs" her, Rosenburg chided the film's detractors for not having taken the time to actually watch it. According to Rosenburg and many other mainstream media defenders of the film, the hypersexualized content involving pubescent children is appropriate and morally sound because it all leads to a positive message. In her piece titled "The people freaking out about 'Cuties' should try it. They might find a lot to like," Rosenburg argues:

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Network

Search autocomplete rejigged by Google for political queries, as tech giants become the election meddlers they claim to fight

Helen Buyniski
RT
Fri, 11 Sep 2020 16:49 UTC
hey google billboard
© AFP / Robyn Beck'Hey Google, who do you want me to vote for?'
Google is tightening its autocomplete feature on searches, vowing to remove predictions that support or oppose any political party, and any voting info - even if true. If anyone else did this, it would be called election meddling.

The tech behemoth is clamping down on election-related searches, announcing in a blog post on Thursday it will remove all autocomplete entries that "could be interpreted as claims for or against any candidate or political party." Statements about "voting methods, requirements, or the status of voting locations" will also be axed - even if they're 100 percent accurate.

Appearing to grow weary of its self-appointed role as reality's fact-checker, Google explained that "predictions like 'you can vote by phone' as well as 'you can't vote by phone,' or a prediction that says 'donate to' any party or candidate," will not appear in autocomplete at all - regardless of their veracity.

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