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Asylum seeker accused of attempted arson after smashing alcohol bottles in German store & trying to ignite them


RT
Sun, 24 Nov 2019 16:05 UTC
Man breaking bottles
© Ulf Maahs / Facebook
An asylum seeker who ransacked the alcohol aisle of a German supermarket, causing €1,000 ($1,100) worth of damage, is being investigated for attempted arson after allegedly trying to set the flammable spillage alight.

The 24-year-old Afghan "rioted" in a supermarket in Nordhausen, central Germany on Thursday, local police said, sweeping scores of wine and spirit bottles off a shelf. According to Nordhauser Kriminalpolizei investigators, he then tried to ignite the alcohol.
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Students at Washington and Lee University want portraits of college namesakes removed from diplomas

Breck Dumas
The Blaze
Fri, 22 Nov 2019 00:00 UTC
george washington and robert e lee
Law students at Washington and Lee University are circulating a petition asking for the option to have portraits of the school's namesakes — George Washington and Robert E. Lee — removed from diplomas, so alumni can be "proud to prominently display" their sheepskin without the images that "some may find controversial or offensive."

What are the details?

The petition is not asking for a mandatory removal of the portraits, but requests that students be allowed to opt out. It argues, "Given the aftermath of the 2017 Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville and the heightened awareness of making Washington & Lee an inclusive and compassionate environment to all students, we believe this request provides alumni the ability to honor their alma mater without the presence of the portraits that some may find controversial or offensive."

Hundreds of past and future graduates have signed the petition endorsed by several student groups and addressed to the school's administration and president. Some faculty members have also signed on.

Comment: What hypocrites! If these students with such high morals find the school namesakes so offensive, why have they elected to attend the university and partake of the generous endowment?

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Pakistani govt. says all is fine while smog and pollution make Lahore look like 'the apocalypse'

Daniyal Umer
SAMAA
Thu, 21 Nov 2019 00:00 UTC
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Pakistan may have a very different way of looking at air quality than the rest of the world—it revised its air quality standards to say levels that the rest of the world considers dangerous are just moderate—but that doesn’t mean Pakistani lungs can survive this.
All schools in Lahore will be closed tomorrow (Friday) because of "dense smog".

This includes both private and public schools. Schools in Gujranwala and Faisalabad will also remain shut.

The Punjab School Education Department has issued the notification for the closure and blamed it on the smog.

Air quality levels across the city are rising every day. People are filing petitions in the Lahore High Court and organising protests but the government says everything is fine. Pakistan may have a very different way of looking at air quality than the rest of the world — it revised its air quality standards to say levels that the rest of the world considers dangerous are just moderate — but that doesn't mean Pakistani lungs can survive this.

AirVisual.com and aqicn.org, two websites that measure air quality, have both declared that the air in Lahore is very unhealthy.

According to Pakistan's revised air quality standards, an index of 200-300 is 'moderately polluted', while the rest of the world considers this 'very unhealthy'.

Comment: See also: 'Collective death sentence': Toxic haze envelops New Delhi as air pollution rockets

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Germany again deports Lebanese crime gang leader


Detusch Welle
Sun, 24 Nov 2019 13:54 UTC
Ibrahim Miri
Lebanese gangster Ibrahim Miri landed in Beirut on Saturday morning. The criminal mastermind was deported just months before, but he thwarted a travel ban and reappeared in Bremen, where he registered an asylum claim.

Miri's flight landed at 10 a.m. German time (0900 UTC) in Beirut, where the German police handed him over to Lebanese authorities.

The deportation marked the second time in a matter of months that 46-year-old Miri has been deported. He reappeared in the German city of Bremen just months after he was flown back to his home country in June, following years in prison.

German security authorities believe him to be the chief of a criminal family network, active in Bremen.

Interior Minister Horst Seehofer confirmed that Miri had arrived and thanked all those involved in the operation that "the deportation of Miri was so swiftly carried out."

He added: "This deportation case proved what can be achieved when there is good cooperation between Germany and other countries."

Comment: See also:

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Propaganda

NPR censors their podcast to cover up for US govt censorship


Spy Culture
Sat, 23 Nov 2019 20:54 UTC
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Yesterday, NPR's podcast Marketplace released a new episode titled How Chinese censorship changed "Top Gun" (and the rest of Hollywood). It is the latest in the never-ending stream of mainstream media output complaining about Chinese government censorship of Hollywood.

The episode's segment focused on Top Gun: Maverick, and the removal of a patch on the back of Maverick's leather jacket featuring a Taiwanese flag. The change was presumably made to pre-empt the Chinese government censors, for whom the notion of Taiwan being an independent state is a no-no. This caused a controversy when sharp-eyed Top Gun fans noticed the change in the trailer for the film.

At the time I criticised the US media for failing to place this apparent act of self-censorship in the proper context: namely, of both Top Gun films having been through the stringent censorship process operated by the US military. Not a single article thought to draw that parallel. Every single one was written from the perspective of 'look at what these dirty foreigners are doing to OUR movies'.

Comment: See also:

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Animal rights activist stabs woman inside Ohio church for wearing fur


Cleveland.com
Thu, 21 Nov 2019 00:00 UTC
meredith lowell, knife attack animal rights
Cleveland Heights police believe that a woman stabbed another woman inside a Fairmount Boulevard Church because the woman was wearing fur boots.

Meredith Lowell, 35, of Cleveland Heights, is charged with attempted murder and felonious assault in the stabbing that happened about 5:15 p.m. Wednesday at Fairmount Presbyterian Church, according to a Cleveland Heights police report and Police Chief Anne Mecklenburg.

Police believe based on a prior arrest for a similar incident in 2012 that Lowell, an animal-rights activist, stabbed the woman because she was wearing fur, Mecklenburg said.

The victim's current condition was not immediately available, but police said Thursday morning that she was taken to University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries. Police report that she was stabbed twice in the arm and once in the abdomen.

Comment: Another local news source adds that the activist's previous arrest was for hiring a hitman to kill a person wearing fur. In this instance the woman she attacked was wearing faux fur boots! It appears the animal rights movement has been co-opted because many of its current member's antics seem designed more to inspire fury and disgust than to actually help abused animals.

Animals are not people: Disentangling animal rights vs. animal welfare

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1.2 Billion people's data - including social media profiles and contact info - found on unsecured Google Cloud server


RT
Fri, 22 Nov 2019 22:23 UTC
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A massive four-terabyte trove of sensitive personal data belonging to over a billion profiles has been found on an unsecured Google Cloud server - its owner still a mystery - in one of the largest single-source data leaks ever.

The mountain of data, including phone numbers, email addresses, and social media profiles, was sitting unprotected on an anonymous server hosted on the Google Cloud when security researchers Vinny Troia and Bob Diachenko found it while scanning for vulnerabilities last month. After they reported the massive exposure to the FBI, it disappeared within hours. It's not clear who accessed it before Troia and Diachenko, and what they did with the data, but the sheer enormity of the leak, with 1.2 billion unique data profiles potentially slurped up by malicious actors, is enough to cause alarm.

Comment: It's rather interesting that as soon as the FBI were notified, the data disappeared. It's almost as if someone got tipped off.

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Tony Robbins: Who is watching the watchdogs?

Tony Robbins
Medium
Fri, 22 Nov 2019 00:01 UTC
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The story BuzzFeed doesn't want you to read

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter said, "Without a free press, there can be no free society."

Freedom of the press is central to the democratic experiment and our last, best line of defense against those in power who threaten the rule of law. But in recent years we have drifted a long way from those days when that press played an integral role in the battle for freedom.

Today, when anyone can spread gossip and false information without consequence, and online and entertainment media companies disguise themselves as "news organizations", we must ask a fundamental question: Who is watching the watchdogs?

Comment: Buzzfeed is total trash, but they're not markedly worse than any number of mainstream media outlets. Once all these tabloids are left with a readership of zero, they may finally understand that it doesn't pay to use journalism as a propaganda tool. More and more people are demanding facts.

See also:

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Massacre at Moscow's top university averted thanks to vigilant students & brave lecturer


RT
Fri, 22 Nov 2019 18:59 UTC
Moscow
© Sputnik / Maksim BlinovMoscow State University building.
Moscow State University almost became the scene of a school massacre when a man brought a knife and a gun to class, but the students and their professor worked together and stopped a possible tragedy from occurring.

There are almost 300 freshmen attending the Faculty of Journalism at MSU, Russia's main university - and having an eye for detail is a paramount quality for any good reporter. So, some students noticed an unfamiliar face among them, even before classes began on a Friday morning.

A strange student

The man was older than the rest of the group and was acting suspiciously, closely studying everyone around him.

Comment: There have been a number of similar incidents in Russia: See also: And check out SOTT radio's:

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Snakes in Suits

Former Bill Clinton pilot charged with aggravated child molestation, sodomy and statutory rape

Shane Trejo
Big Leauge Politics
Thu, 21 Nov 2019 23:03 UTC
Steven Robert Setzer_Bill Clinton
The rabbit hole goes deep.

Steven Robert Setzer, a former U.S. Marine Corps pilot who once escorted former President Bill Clinton on the crew of the Marine One, is facing years in prison after being hit with child sex charges.

Setzer was put behind bars in May with sexual exploitation of a minor, sodomy, enticing a child for indecent purposes, statutory rape, and aggravated child molestation. He has been forced to shut down his aircraft charter company, Strategic Moves, due to loss of clients after his incarceration.

On Thursday, WBTV in Rowan County, NC broke the news of Setzer's arrest and associated charges. This report was only revealed due to the shuttering of Setzer's company, an entire six months after Setzer was accused of the heinous victimization of minors.

Strategic Moves made the announcement that they were shuttering on their website: "Thank you for your patronage and loyalty over the last 15 years as clients of Strategic Moves. Strategic Moves has discontinued operations as of 10/31/2019. Many of our clients have transitioned to Davinci Jets who are capable and excited to provide an excellent level of service."

According to Setzer's biography, he learned quite a bit while helping Clinton jetset throughout the world. Setzer claimed that he learned precise attention to detail, which assisted him in being able to achieve excellence for the VIPs who obtained his services. One can only wonder what details Slick Willy wanted Setzer to handle while they were aboard the Marine One.
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