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Monsanto gets a break: US judge slashes cancer victim's payout by $55 million


RT
Tue, 16 Jul 2019 17:16 UTC
monsanto roundup cancer pesticides
© Agence France-Presse/Robyn Beck
Monsanto's flagship product has been found to cause cancer
A US federal judge has reduced the $80 million punitive damages award a jury ordered Monsanto to pay to California cancer victim to $25 million.

Judge Vince Chhabria said he was required to diminish the punitive damages because it went beyond constitutional limits set by the US Supreme Court. According to him, the higher award was "constitutionally impermissible" because it was nearly 15 times the compensatory damages award.

However, he added that Monsanto "deserves to be punished." He wrote in the ruling that the "evidence presented at trial about Monsanto's behavior betrayed a lack of concern about the risk that its product might be carcinogenic."

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Bad Guys

Elite Marxist zombies lash out against Putin's announcement that 'liberalism is dead'

Phil Butler
New Eastern Outlook
Tue, 16 Jul 2019 16:43 UTC
Trump Putin
The most important announcement to come out of the recent G20 Summit was not still more economic and business voodoo. Thank God. The big message from Osaka was Russian President Vladimir Putin's declaration that "liberalism is dead." The proclamation stunned half the world and raised applause from the other half, which is a reminder that there are two sides to every story. Here's a short take on Mr. Putin's diagnosis, and a prescription for the liberal world order to swallow.

At ThinkProgress, author Casey Michel is calling anybody who hates what the liberal hegemony has done to the world "fascist." For the liberal maniacs and globalist bankster henchmen of this world, anybody who is not on their side is either a Jew-hating Anti-Semite, Pat Buchanan, or some other form of Nazi. And this sort of ludicrous name calling is a big indicator of the massive divide that grips the world today. Michel cites Financial Times writer Martin Wolf, who exemplifies the worst of ultra-liberalism with this:
"Liberalism is not a utopian project, it is a work in perpetual progress. It is an approach to living together that starts from the primacy of human agency. But that is only the starting point. Making that approach work requires constant adaptation and adjustment."
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AOC and her 'snot-nosed punk' chief-of-staff are destroying Democratic party - Rahm Emanuel

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Tue, 16 Jul 2019 16:04 UTC
ocasio-cortez Saikat Chakrabarti
© Mark Lennihan / Associated Press / REX / Shutterstock
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y) and her Chief of Staff Saikat Chakrabarti
In a recent Maureen Dowd WSJ Op-Ed, Scaling Wokeback Mountain, former Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel said that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her "snot-nosed punk" chief-of-staff Saikat Chakrabarti are essentially destroying the Democratic party and handing Republicans a win.
Chakrabarti sent shock waves through the Democratic caucus when he posted a tweet about the border bill comparing moderate and Blue Dog Democrats — some of whom are black — to Southern segregationists in the '40s. -WSJ
"What votes did you get?" said Emanuel, slamming the 33-year-old Chakrabarti. "You should only be so lucky to learn from somebody like Nancy who has shown incredible courage and who has twice returned the Democratic Party to power."

Comment: Political parties in the US have long had only the veneer of decency. However, the majority of the population never saw through it, and so the corruption grew into what we see in present times. Rahm Emanuel, for example, comes no where close to being a model of righteousness, and yet on this issue he is not wrong.

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Billionaire clothing mogul Les Wexner swears he knew nothing about Epstein's penchant for pedophilia

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Tue, 16 Jul 2019 15:23 UTC
Les Wexner Jeffrey Epstein
Billionaire and former Jeffrey Epstein associate Les Wexner told his employees Monday that he regrets ever crossing paths with the disgraced pedophile financier, according to Bloomberg.

Wexner, founder of L Brands Inc. which owns Victoria's Secret, said in an internal email that he "was NEVER aware of the illegal activity" Epstein is accused of committing. "As you can imagine, this past week I have searched my soul ... reflected ... and regretted that my path ever crossed his." said the 81-year-old mogul of Epstein.

After launching a business relationship in the 1980s, Wexner and Epstein formed 'a financial and personal bond that baffled longtime associates,' according to the New York Times.

Comment: It is Wexner who provided the majority of Epstein's wealth, or at least the image of it. It was this very image, a mask, that allowed Epstein to abuse, exploit, and traffick children. It's little wonder that high profile people who have been so close to Epstein are trying to distance themselves. But their word simply doesn't mean that much, nor is it all that believable.

As for Wexner having no clue Epstein was a serial child rapist, the man markets lingerie to teenage girls, for crying out loud.

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IDF said to be on alert as Hamas spoofs messages to troops - poses as fellow soldiers or sends dating requests using WhatsApp


Sputnik
Mon, 15 Jul 2019 14:15 UTC
israeli soldier IDF cell phone
Last year, the Israeli military reported that Hamas was using fake dating apps and Instagram profiles featuring attractive young women to try to compromise Israeli troops.

An Israel Defence Forces spokesperson has told Ynet News that Hamas cyberwarfare operatives have been contacting Israeli troops on WhatsApp, posing as fellow soldiers and trying to gather information on things like troop movements, locations, and deployment dates.

According to the outlet, a paratrooper stationed along the volatile border with Gaza recently received a text message from an unknown source requesting information about upcoming brigade-level exercises, as well as info about when troops would be rotated.
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Schiff introduces bill allowing Guantanamo detainee trials to be broadcast online

Andrew Blake
The Washington Times
Tue, 16 Jul 2019 13:43 UTC
Guantanamo Bay detainees
© U.S. Department of Defense/Petty Officer 1st class Shane T. McCoy / Handout / Reuters
Detainees sit in a holding area during their processing into the temporary detention facility, at Camp X-Ray inside Naval Base Guantanamo Bay.
Amendment to defend spending bill passed on party-line vote, fate of measure uncertain in Senate

The House of Representatives moved Friday to make military commissions held at Guantanamo Bay more transparent by paving the way for proceedings to be broadcast online.

An amendment potentially broadening the public's access to the proceedings was included in the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act considered on Capitol Hill.

Offered by Rep. Adam Schiff, California Democrat, the measure authorizes military judges at Guantanamo Bay "to order arrangements for remote public viewing of the proceedings via internet."

Comment: After years of quashing media reporting on the conditions at Gitmo, why the movement to transparency? Until the Wikileaks revelations, the Empire had its torture center well under wraps. And why Adam Schiff, of all people? His motives quoted above and in his press release seem pure, but any student of the Empire will know there's another hidden, self-serving reason. It appears to be another attempt to hamstring the Trump administration.

Pentagon prisons revealed: WikiLeaks publishes terror detainee manuals

Just as notable is the the complete radio silence of the mainstream media. Not one major outlet (sorry Washington Times) has run a piece on the vote. Not even Fox News. Kudos to the Times for bringing the story out.

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Kamala Harris blasts, and takes money from, Epstein's law firm

Brian Slodysko
MSN
Tue, 16 Jul 2019 08:23 UTC
Kamala Harris
© AP Photo/ Cheryl Senter
Supporters applaud as Democratic presidential candidate, U.S Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., greets supporters after speaking at a house party in Gilford, N.H., Sunday, July 14, 2019.
Kamala Harris bemoaned the influence of the powerful and connected elite last Tuesday when she called on top Justice Department officials to recuse themselves from any matter related to Jeffrey Epstein. She said their former law firm's work on behalf of the financier accused of sexual abuse "calls into question the integrity of our legal system."

Yet the same day, Harris' husband headlined a Chicago fundraiser for her presidential campaign that was hosted by six partners of that firm — Kirkland and Ellis, according to an invitation obtained by The Associated Press.

Harris, a California senator and Democratic presidential candidate, was one of several White House hopefuls to blast the handling of Epstein's case in Florida a decade ago, when his lawyers negotiated a deal with federal prosecutors that allowed him to avoid the possibility of years in prison. But her decision to move ahead with the fundraiser hosted by Kirkland and Ellis partners while criticizing the firm underscores the tension that can arise when a politician's rhetoric collides with his or her need to raise money to sustain a presidential campaign.


Comment: Otherwise known as a complete and total lack of integrity.


Comment: 'Politician Caught Being Hypocrite". News at 11.

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ICYMI: Britain's diplomatic leak shows honesty and international relations don't mix


RT
Fri, 12 Jul 2019 11:31 UTC
kim darroch
© ICYMI
Britain's former ambassador to Washington is looking for work, after an unfortunate leak made his honest opinions about the US president public.

Sir Kim Darroch described Donald Trump and his administration as, among other things, inept and clumsy. The public disclosure left it extremely hard to do his job of buttering up Trump and pretending the special relationship between the US and the UK is a real thing.

ICYMI concludes that truth and honesty have no place in global politics.

Comment: As noted in Our man in America: UK ambassador Darroch's secret cables to Downing Street the incident was likely a hit job, and the only real problem was that these comments were made public:
The leaking of the diplomatic cables was "a political hit job" on the British envoy Kim Darroch, financier and former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci told RT's Afshin Rattansi on his show, Going Underground.
The transition is going to happen in the UK government, and somebody wanted to embarrass him and knock him out of that post.
[...]

As damaging as the leaks may be to relations between Britain and the US, professional diplomats are expected to stay blunt and not mince words in their internal correspondence, Scaramucci noted.
This was an embarrassment. [But] ambassadors all over the world [operate in a way that] if they got their internal confidential assessment memos leaked, there would be a lot of embarrassing conversations. It's not a big deal.
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Eye 1

Norwegian intelligence shares 'highly sensitive' data with US ahead of own authorities


Sputnik
Tue, 16 Jul 2019 10:18 UTC
Norway submarine
© Sputnik / Yuriy Kaver
The Norwegian Intelligence Service was allegedly the first to learn of the disaster involving the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk, yet chose to share the highly sensitive data with the US first.

E-tjenesten, Norway's Intelligence Service, shared its written report on the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk sinking with the US National Security Agency (NSA) on 12 August 2000, the same day the disaster happened, according to a document from the Snowden archive.

According to the Snowden archive, the Norwegian Intelligence Service was the first and the only intelligence agency to learn the fate of the Kursk before the Russians did, having collected data from sonobuoys and the reconnaissance ship Marjata.
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Other important countries need S-400 defence systems, not only Turkey - Russian Official


Sputnik
Sat, 13 Jul 2019 23:06 UTC
s-400
© Screenshot / Russian Defence Ministry
Earlier on Saturday, Turkey received the second batch of Russian S-400 air defence system components as part of a loan deal signed in 2017.

Russia will deliver its S-400 missile systems not only to Turkey but to other countries of the region in the near future, chairman of the Russian State Duma's foreign affairs committee Leonid Slutsky said in an interview with RT channel.

"Turkey is a forerunner of this cooperation. The region will certainly have S-400s and other more advanced defence systems from Russia. We will cooperate closely, and the scale of this cooperation is quite big. I am sure that we should intensify this cooperation by all means. There are very important countries that say they also need such defence systems, and their needs will be satisfied", Mr Slutsky said.

Comment: 13 countries and counting: Why 13 countries prefer purchase of S-400 despite threat of US sanctions

See also: Erdogan: S-400 deal with Russia among 'most important agreements in modern Turkish history

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