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South Korea may ban dog meat consumption amid debate over animal rights


South China Morning Post
Mon, 27 Sep 2021 18:56 UTC
dog meat korea protest
© APActivists wearing dog masks stage a rally in Seoul in 2020 opposing South Korea's culture of eating dog meat.
South Korea's President Moon Jae-in on Monday said there might be a need to prohibit dog meat consumption amid debate over the controversial practice and growing awareness of animal rights.

While no longer as common as before, dog meat is eaten mainly by older people and is served in some restaurants and can be bought at specific markets.

Moon made the remarks after being briefed by Prime Minister Kim Boo-kyum on efforts to improve the handling of abandoned animals and a mandatory registration system for dogs.

"After the briefing, he said time has come to carefully consider imposing a dog meat ban," Moon's spokeswoman Park Kyung-mee said in a statement.

It was the first time that Moon raised a ban, which is likely to give fresh momentum to debate over whether to curtail the practice.

To boost their popularity, several presidential hopefuls have pledged to ban dog meat in recent weeks, especially as dogs have become popular as pets and advocacy groups have urged South Korea to close down restaurants and markets selling dog meat.
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Totalitarian nutjobs: Taliban prohibits barbers from shaving, trimming beards in Helmand province

Tala Michel Issa
Al Arabiya
Mon, 27 Sep 2021 18:46 UTC
afghan barber
© ReutersAn Afghan man gets his beard trimmed at a street barber shop in Kabul, Afghanistan October 11, 2017.
The Taliban have prohibited barbers in Afghanistan's Helmand province from shaving or trimming beards, saying it breaches their interpretation of Islamic law and anyone who does not adhere to the rule will be punished, the BBC reported on Monday.

Some barbers in Kabul have also received similar orders, which included banning them from playing music in their shops, according to CNN.

The rules suggest a return to the strict control of the extremist group, similar to that of its past tenure in power, despite their promises to exercise a milder form of government.

"You are urgently informed that from today, shaving beards and playing music in barbershops and public baths are strictly prohibited. If any barbershop or public bath is found to have shaved anyone's beard or played music, they will be dealt with according to the Sharia principles and they will not have the right to complain," the local authorities said in a statement issued on Sunday.

"The fighters keep coming and ordering us to stop trimming beards," a Kabul-based barber told the BBC.

"One of them told me they can send undercover inspectors to catch us."
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Biden tacitly admits he's never letting US return to pre-Covid normal

Shawn Fleetwood
The Federalist
Tue, 28 Sep 2021 17:21 UTC
Joe Biden
© AP Photo/Andrew HarnikPresident Joe Biden speaks in the State Dining Room at the White House, Thursday, Sept. 9, 2021, in Washington. Biden is announcing sweeping new federal vaccine requirements affecting as many as 100 million Americans in an all-out effort to increase COVID-19 vaccinations and curb the surging delta variant.



Comment: But we knew that a long time ago.


President Joe Biden indicated that it will take 97 to 98 percent of Americans receiving the COVID-19 jab before he lets the nation move on from the pandemic. The moment came during a White House event on Monday, where the president was receiving his COVID-19 booster shot.

"I think we get the vast majority ... 97 percent, 98 percent. I think we'll get awful close," he said. "But I'm not the scientist. I think one thing is for certain. A quarter of the country can't go unvaccinated and us not continue to have a problem."

Comment: But 'the science' . . . . .

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Russia scrambles fighter jets as US bomber crosses Pacific Ocean & approaches country's border

Jonny Tickle
RT
Mon, 27 Sep 2021 15:00 UTC
Pacific Ocean airspace
The bomber was allegedly entering Russian air space over the Pacific Ocean
Russia's Ministry of Defense has released a video of three Su-35S fighter planes escorting a US Air Force B-52H bomber over the waters of the Pacific Ocean on Sunday after it was spotted heading toward the country's airspace.

According to the Ministry of Defense, the scrambled aircraft guided the US bomber away from the Russian border.

The Su-35, first completed in 2008, is a derivative of the Soviet Su-27, a supermaneuverable fighter aircraft designed by Sukhoi in the 1970s. Designed for intercepting and destroying all classes of aerial targets and air superiority, the Su-35 is commonly scrambled when foreign planes come near Russian airspace. It has also seen action in Syria.

Comment: See also:

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Pirates

"Evil intentions": China condemns UK warship's sail through Taiwan Strait


ABC.net.au
Mon, 27 Sep 2021 09:07 UTC
British frigate
© UK Ministry of Defence/File photoChina says its navy warned off a British frigate from the sensitive Taiwan Strait.
China bristled on Monday over Britain's decision to send a Royal Navy warship sailing through the sensitive Taiwan Strait, saying the act "harbored evil intentions." China claims democratically-ruled Taiwan as its own territory, and has increased pressure on the small island in recent years to accept Beijing as its capital.

The Royal Navy announced that the HMS Richmond, a frigate deployed as part of a U.K. aircraft carrier strike group, was sailing through the Taiwan Strait on Monday in a move that challenges Beijing's claim to the sensitive waterway.

"After a busy period working with partners and allies in the East China Sea, we are now en route through the Taiwan Strait to visit Vietnam and the Vietnam People's Navy," read a tweet from the official account for HMS Richmond.

Comment: The West has made it perfectly clear that it intends to 'contain' China, but, since it can't take China (nor Russia) head on, it has to resort to rather feeble actions such as that we see above:

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'Unelectable!' 'Woke' Labour condemned by Britons as conference delegates told too many white men putting their hands up to speak


RT
Mon, 27 Sep 2021 09:48 UTC
labour party conference audience
© REUTERS/Hannah McKayAudience members hold up their hands during Britain's Labour Party annual conference, in Brighton, Britain, September 26, 2021.
Delegates at the Labour Party conference have been told that too many white men were putting their hands up to make contributions during a debate on housing and transport, leading some to question the direction of the party.

On Sunday, white men were told not to "dominate" the conversation during a session on housing and transport at the Labour Party's annual conference in Brighton. Mark Ferguson, a member of Labour's National Executive Committee and chairman of the session, noted his concern that people putting their hands up to speak were predominantly white men and urged them to let others speak.

"I am afraid, and I am not speaking from a position of particular strength here, there are too many white men putting their hands up," Ferguson told delegates, adding that he wasn't "anti-white men" and that some of his favourite people, including his dad, were white men.

Comment: The stunning stupidity of politician's alienating their base in favor of ideology. 'Unelectable' is exactly right.

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'Blatant Big Tech interference, US cyberattacks' during recent Russian elections, ex-President Medvedev tells RT


RT
Mon, 27 Sep 2021 18:32 UTC
Dmitry Medvedev
© Global Look Press / Dmitry MedvedevFILE PHOTO: Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev
There was widespread and blatant interference in the recent Russian election, ranging from targeted recommendations and censorship by Silicon Valley to overt cyberattacks on servers coming from the US, Dmitry Medvedev has told RT.

The former president and prime minister of Russia is now the deputy chairman of the Security Council, serving directly under President Vladimir Putin.

In an exclusive interview airing Tuesday, Medvedev has told RT that during the September 17-19 vote, Central Election Commission servers "were under constant attack," and about half of the attacks came from the US, according to the ministry of digital development.

"That's reason enough for a fight, right?" he said.

Comment: Indeed. Russian officials lodged a complaint with the US, and evidence of vote rigging, and even an NGO giving a class on how to sabotage the election process, were shared online:




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Pirates

Australian gov't wants SECRECY protections for Covid cabinet meetings


RT
Mon, 27 Sep 2021 17:10 UTC
Scott Morrison
© REUTERS/Evelyn HocksteiAustralia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been accused of being "addicted to secrecy" as the country's parliament debated a controversial proposed law that would exempt the workings of its National Cabinet from public scrutiny.

The cabinet, comprised of the PM, state premiers and territory leaders, was formed in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. The government claims that body's decisions should be afforded the same protections from disclosure requests as the federal cabinet.

The issue came to the fore when the government refused a Freedom of Information (FOI) application by South Australian Independent Senator Rex Patrick relating to a May 2020 National Cabinet meeting, arguing they were "an official record of the cabinet."

Comment: Evidently the cabinet has somethings it wants to hide: Also check out SOTT radio's:


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Best of the Web: Military leaders saw pandemic as 'unique opportunity' to test propaganda techniques on Canadians, Forces report says

David Pugliese
Ottawa Citizen
Mon, 27 Sep 2021 21:24 UTC
Rouleau
© ADRIAN WYLD /The Canadian PressLt.-Gen. Mike Rouleau
Canadian military leaders saw the pandemic as a unique opportunity to test out propaganda techniques on an unsuspecting public, a newly released Canadian Forces report concludes.

The federal government never asked for the so-called information operations campaign, nor did cabinet authorize the initiative developed during the COVID-19 pandemic by the Canadian Joint Operations Command, then headed by Lt.-Gen. Mike Rouleau.

But military commanders believed they didn't need to get approval from higher authorities to develop and proceed with their plan, retired Maj.-Gen. Daniel Gosselin, who was brought in to investigate the scheme, concluded in his report.

The propaganda plan was developed and put in place in April 2020 even though the Canadian Forces had already acknowledged that "information operations and targeting policies and doctrines are aimed at adversaries and have a limited application in a domestic concept."

A copy of the Dec. 2, 2020, Gosselin investigation, as well as other related documents, was obtained by this newspaper using the Access to Information law.

The plan devised by the Canadian Joint Operations Command, also known as CJOC, relied on propaganda techniques similar to those employed during the Afghanistan war. The campaign called for "shaping" and "exploiting" information. CJOC claimed the information operations scheme was needed to head off civil disobedience by Canadians during the coronavirus pandemic and to bolster government messages about the pandemic.


Comment: Canada is a tyranny and they know it. The operation appears to have worked, because aside from a few, Canadians seem to have jumped on the tyranny train.

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With Clinton lawyer charged, the Russiagate scam is now under indictment

Aaron Mate
The Grayzone
Mon, 27 Sep 2021 20:46 UTC
trump clinton
In accusing Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann of lying to the FBI, Special Counsel John Durham offers new evidence of the fabrications behind the Trump-Russia conspiracy theory.

The indictment of Hillary Clinton attorney Michael Sussmann offers new evidence that the Trump-Russia conspiracy theory that engulfed Trump's term in office was itself the product of fabrications involving Clinton's 2016 campaign.

Although Sussmann faces just one count on a false statement charge, the 27-page charging document offers an expansive window into how the Russiagate scam began, and how Democratic operatives, intelligence officials, and establishment media figures dishonestly fed it to the public.

Inventing a Trump-Russia "narrative" to "please" Democratic "VIPs"

Sussmann, until recently an attorney with Clinton campaign law firm Perkins Coie, is the second person to be charged by John Durham, the Special Counsel scrutinizing the Russia investigation.

Sussmann is accused of lying to the FBI during a September 2016 meeting in which he tried to raise alarm about "secret communications" between the Trump Organization and Russia's Alfa Bank. Sussmann gave then-FBI attorney Jim Baker documents and data purporting to show that computer servers associated with Trump and Alfa Bank were in regular contact.

This was evidence, Sussmann argued, of a possible covert back channel. According to Durham, Sussmann told Baker that he was not working "for any client," and was simply passing on information that had been provided to him by "multiple cyber experts" who had come across the suspicious web traffic.

But according to the detailed indictment, Sussmann was in fact cooking up a politically motivated scam.

Comment: Every so often it's easy to forget what shameless liars people like Hillary Clinton and the political/media class really are. Let this article serve as a reminder.

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