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Tweeters respond to Wisconsin school group picture where teens give 'Nazi salute'


RT
Tue, 13 Nov 2018 13:00 UTC
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© baraboo.k12.wi.us
A Wisconsin high school has found itself at the center of controversy - and a police investigation - after a group of students were photographed making Nazi salutes and far-right hand gestures at their prom.

The photo of some 50 young men from the Baraboo High School performing the stiff-armed 'Sieg Heil' greeting quickly went viral online. The photo was taken during the students' junior prom, but resurfaced last weekend when it was posted to Twitter with the caption: "We even got the black kid to throw it up."


Comment: The last comment is probably most on point. It is likely that the students of Baraboo High School are a reflection of the very dumbed down and ignorant US populace as opposed to true adherents of Nazi ideology.

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London crossbow attack leaves pregnant mom of 5 dead, doctors save baby


RT
Tue, 13 Nov 2018 20:48 UTC
Sana Muhammad
© FacebookSana Muhammad
An 8-month pregnant mum was shot and killed with a crossbow, Monday night. Sana Muhammad died of her wounds though doctors managed to save her baby, by emergency cesarean section, who has been named Ibrahim.

The 35-year-old, mother of five, was shot early on Monday morning as she did the washing up in her Ilford, east London, home.

Ramanodge Unmathallegadoo, 50, was arrested and charged with murder. He is to appear at Barkingside magistrates' court on Tuesday morning.

Muhammad was rushed to hospital but died three hours later. The crossbow bolt reportedly missed the unborn baby by several centimeters. After being delivered the baby was transferred to a critical care unit, where he remains.
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Medina, Ohio hospital on lockdown as police respond to reports of an active shooter


RT
Tue, 13 Nov 2018 20:42 UTC
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An Ohio hospital has been put on lockdown following a report of an active shooter. Police are searching each floor of the building for the potential suspect.

Authorities were deployed to The Cleveland Clinic - Medina Hospital in Medina, Ohio, after receiving reports that a woman was in possession of a firearm and threatening people.

Despite some reports which said there was an active shooter situation underway, police told locals news outlet ABC 5 that no shots have been fired.

The Cleveland Clinic tweeted that people are advised against traveling to the Medina campus, adding that both the hospital and the nearby office building are on lockdown.
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Corporations and kleptocrats rip off taxpayers by parking billions offshore, say economist


RT
Mon, 12 Nov 2018 22:21 UTC
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© Global Look Press / Martin Moxter
Tax havens are used as an instrument to increase the profitability of US multinationals at the expense of the public, according to investigative economist and lawyer James Henry.

He told RT that there's a tiny group of the world's elite professionals, banks, law firms, and accounting firms that make a nice living from the global tax haven industry. Multinational companies, and their shareholders to some extent, have benefitted from the fact that they were able to park US profits offshore and avoid paying US corporate income tax.

"The rest of us who have to pay for the taxes that corporations are not paying, are seeing the race to the bottom, we're seeing many countries around the world slashing corporate taxes and putting more of the costs of the government on ordinary taxpayers," said Henry, a senior advisor at the Tax Justice Network.

He explained that America's wealthy kleptocrats, tax-dodgers, and particularly multinational companies have been massively parking money offshore. By 2017, US multinationals have "accumulated about $2.6 trillion offshore while they didn't have to pay the 35 percent US corporate tax," the economist said.
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Hydrochloric acid vapor leak forces locals to shut doors and windows in Frankfurt am Main


RT
Tue, 13 Nov 2018 07:20 UTC
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© Global Look Press / Arne DedertFire engines are on the road in an industrial park in Frankfurt's Griesheim district. A truck loaded with a liquid chemical had fallen over in an accident.
Locals in Frankfurt am Main were briefly told to keep doors and windows closed after a hydrochloric acid vapor leak in the industrial area. The warning was soon lifted as no hazardous chemicals were detected in the environment.

The incident took place in Griesheim Industrial Park on Tuesday morning, according to firefighters. "Doors and windows in the area of Griesheim and [nearby] Nied are to be kept closed," the warning said.

Locals were advised to switch off air-conditioning units and ventilation. Traffic was also halted due to the incident.

The fire department asked people to turn on their radios, and released a map showing the affected area on Twitter. Warning sirens were triggered in both locations as a precaution.

Comment: Below are a few other recent industrial accidents:

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Western puppet Aleksey Navalny prevented from leaving Russia over 'surprise' debt


RT
Tue, 13 Nov 2018 12:01 UTC
Aleksey Navalny
© Sputnik/Valery MelnikovFILE PHOTO. Aleksey Navalny
Aleksey Navalny has been stopped from traveling to Strasbourg to attend a hearing at the European Court for Human Rights. He was told he was unable to leave Russia due to a debt which he says he didn't know existed.

Navalny, one of Russian opposition figures most recognized in the West, intended to travel to Strasburg on Tuesday to personally hear a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). The ECHR is expected to voice its decision on one of Navalny's complaints against Russia.

Instead, he was stopped at a Moscow airport and told he could not leave the country. The politician said he was surprised because he didn't know why he would be barred from travelling and posted a picture of himself waiting for clarification.

Comment: Good on the Russian gov. If Navalny cares so much for the well-being of Russia - let him first put his money where his mouth is!

See also:

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Bank of Israel awarded damages from convicted counterfeiters for... copyright infringement


RT
Tue, 13 Nov 2018 17:23 UTC
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© Wikimedia200 shekel note.
Two people already convicted for their roles in a counterfeit ring in Israel have been ordered by a court to also pay damages to Bank of Israel... because printing your own 200-shekel notes apparently violates copyright.

The two unappreciated artists, Roi Bar-Eitan and Jacob Mursiano, were busted last year along with five other people involved in a counterfeiting ring in the city of Ashkelon, according to Israeli media. They were successfully prosecuted and convicted for faking IDs, driver's licenses, bank checks, and bank notes.
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Rabbi tells Israel to prepare for Biblical end-of-days war 'at any time'


Sputnik
Tue, 13 Nov 2018 17:46 UTC
Pinchas Winston
Rabbi Pinchas Winston, an acclaimed author and doomsayer, has warned that renewed clashes in the Gaza Strip or ongoing tensions between Israel and Iran over Syria may trigger the next major conflict, which, in turn, may see biblical end-times prophecy come true.

Rabbi Pinchas Winston, whose works over the past two decades have dealt extensively with "The End of Days", has suggested that the IDF should be ready for a biblical war that may arrive "at any moment without any warning".

He made a reference to a prophecy of the War of Gog and Magog from the Hebrew Bible, which precipitates the Messianic Redemption. According to the Jewish interpretation, Gog and Magog may be individuals, peoples or lands, and are viewed as Israel's enemies who will be defeated by the Messiah.

"Any student of history knows that hindsight is 20-20 but in the moment, you never know what can set off a war. The First World War was set off by the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand. The 2014 War in Gaza was set off by the murder of three young boys. The same is true for the War of Gog and Magog but even more so," Winston told Breaking Israel News.

Comment: There's a world of difference between those who prophesy war and do everything they can to prevent it, and those who can't wait for the bloodshed to usher in God's kingdom. That said, it's unclear from the article where the rabbi stands, but he should read up on his history. WWI wasn't set off by the assassination of Ferdinand: James Corbett's "The WWI Conspiracy": To Start A War. And the three abducted Israeli teens were only the pretext for war in 2014, not the cause. The Israeli government knew the teens had been murdered and that Hamas's leadership wasn't responsible, but they wanted war, so they pretended the teens were still alive, launched a bogus 'rescue' mission and attacked Gaza anyway.

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Serbian Church 'doesn't recognize' Ukrainian church leaders' attempt to split from Russian Orthodox Church


RFE/RL
Tue, 13 Nov 2018 17:29 UTC
Filaret and Petro Poroshenko.
© SputnikFilaret and Petro Poroshenko.
The Serbian Orthodox Church says it will not recognize a decision by the leadership of Orthodox Christianity to rehabilitate the leaders of two Ukrainian Orthodox churches breaking away from Moscow.

The Serbian church's Holy Assembly of Bishops "does not recognize" Patriarch Filaret and Metropolitan Makariy or "their followers," a statement said on November 12.

Ukraine has three Orthodox churches: the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate led by Patriarch Filaret; and the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Metropolitan Makariy.

The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople last month agreed to recognize the autocephaly, or independence, of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.


Comment: Something that is not in Constantinople's power to do, at least not traditionally. That requires unanimity among the churches. As the Saker recently wrote when describing the situation:
Second, crucial decisions, decisions which affect the entire Church, are only taken by a Council of the entire Church, not unilaterally by any one man or any one Church. These are really the basics of what could be called "traditional Christian ecclesiology 101" and the blatant violation of this key ecclesiological dogma by the Papacy in 1054 was as much a cause for the historical schism between East and West (really, between Rome and the rest of Christian world) as was the innovation of the filioque itself.

It also lifted excommunications imposed on Filaret and Makariy, who have been instrumental in pushing for an independent Ukrainian church.

Comment: The Ukrainian churches supporting this move have made a deal with the devil, putting politics above religion. They should reread their Apostle Paul, or Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos (quoted in the Saker article above):
Saint Maximos the Confessor says that, while Christians are divided into categories according to age and race, nationalities, languages, places and ways of life, studies and characteristics, and are "distinct from one another and vastly different, all being born into the Church and reborn and recreated through it in the Spirit" nevertheless "it bestows equally on all the gift of one divine form and designation, to be Christ's and to bear His Name. And Saint Basil the Great, referring to the unity of the Church says characteristically: "The Church of Christ is one, even tough He is called upon from different places". These passages, and especially the life of the Church, do away with every nationalistic tendency. It is not, of course, nations and homelands that are abolished, but nationalism, which is a heresy and a great danger to the Church of Christ.


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Victims of US sanctions: Iranian cancer patients struggling to obtain life-saving medication, equipment


RT
Tue, 13 Nov 2018 15:53 UTC
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© Screenshot / RuptlyMarjan Shirazi, whose husband suffers from cancer, said that the drugs that used to be available before sanctions have now become “more expensive and rarer.” US assurance that the restrictions are meant to hurt the Iranian government is “an absolute lie”.
US sanctions are driving up the cost of cancer treatment in Iran, patients and doctors say - as restrictions reimposed on Tehran by Washington make it harder to buy life-saving medication and equipment.

Ali Shokri, a Tehran resident battling cancer, had his second round of chemotherapy after the US sanctions kicked in. The cost of each session jumped from 10 million Rial ($240) to 20 million ($475), Ali told Ruptly video agency on Monday, adding that the price hike isn't the only problem cancer patients now face.

"The drugs can't be found easily like before, and we have to look for them several times in different pharmacies."

Comment: Sanctions disproportionately injure civilians but most governments (Russia aside) haven't a whit of conscience or concern over their fates:

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