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Sexual harassment isn't just a Westminster problem it plagues local government too


RT
Tue, 31 Oct 2017 11:25 UTC
Sexual harassment isn’t just a Westminster problem... it plagues local govt too – councilor
© Global Look Press
Women at all levels of British politics have endured disgusting treatment, including sexual harassment, at the hands of their male counterparts - and it isn't just a Tory problem, one Labour councilor has revealed.

A so-called 'dirty dossier' of Conservative MPs and ministers has been compiled detailing shocking allegations of sexual advances and mistreatment of women in Parliament.

Prime Minister Theresa May has waded in and insisted anyone proven to be mistreating women will be sacked. She also asked the Cabinet Office to investigate the conduct of international trade minister Mark Garnier, who admitted calling his secretary "sugar t**s" and sending her to buy sex toys for him.


Comment: Westminster sexual harassment scandal: Tory MP had aide buy sex toys, another 'sexts' teen job applicant


Comment: Also see:

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Moscow flight to Turkey makes emergency landing in Ukraine after bomb threat suspicions


RT
Tue, 31 Oct 2017 17:28 UTC
Airbus
© Reuters
An Airbus A320 en route from Moscow's international Domodedovo airport to one of Turkey's cities has performed an emergency landing in Odessa, Ukraine. There have been reports of a possible explosive device on board.

A decision to land in the southern Ukrainian city of Odessa was prompted by a suspicious object on the plane, regional head of Ukrainian national police, Ruslan Forostyak, said on his Facebook page. The passenger plane belongs to a Turkish airline and was being operated by a Turkish crew.

"One of the passengers complained of feeling unwell and having an upset stomach in particular, and spent a while in the toilet," he wrote, adding that the crew found such actions "suspicious."
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Woman plots to kill husband, ends up fatally poisoning 15 in-laws instead


RT
Tue, 31 Oct 2017 17:16 UTC
milk
© Global Look Press
A woman in Pakistan is alleged to have fatally poisoned 15 of her in-laws in a botched effort to kill her husband and escape her arranged marriage.

The incident occurred in Daulatpur village in the Muzaffargarh area of the Punjab region on Friday, the Express Tribune reports.

Asiya Bibi was forced into an arranged marriage to Amjad in September, Muzaffargarh police said. She tried to escape from her husband but failed.
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Spreading the lie: How Google and MSM use "fact checkers" to flood us with fake claims

Leo Goldstein
WUWT
Mon, 30 Oct 2017 10:00 UTC
google
© Internet
The Left implemented a novel technique of the Big Lie that I will call a Flooding Fake here. This technique was especially widely used by climate alarmism. This is what it looks like:
  1. An important figure or organization on the Left is caught doing something wrong, saying something outrageous, or blatantly lying.
  2. The Left injects into public discourse an absolutely fake, but believable, account of this action and immediately "debunks" this account.
  3. The fake narrative is accepted by the public as truth because the public knows that something similar has happened. The immediate debunking is rejected as a cover-up attempt.
  4. Later, when people accuse the original wrongdoer they use elements of the fake narrative. This is when "fact checkers" jump on them. Fake news networks accuse honest statesmen and commentators of spreading fake news. The liberals' conviction that the conservatives are stupid and uninformed gets deeper. Google buries honest pieces far from public sight. Facebook tries to prevent their sharing. Leftist politicians cry that they lost elections because of fake news.



Comment: This describes the process very well. Think democrats losing the election despite their shady tactics and all the fake news regarding Russia hacking the election.


An example is a global cooling scare of the 70s. In 1977, Time magazine published an issue under the following cover:

Time Magazine Big Freeze
See (1) and (2).

Comment: One has only to look at the mainstream media to see other numerous examples of the Flooding Fake.

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Vanished: Ukraine's first printed book and its restoration artist


RT
Tue, 31 Oct 2017 00:36 UTC
Apostolos
© Konstantin Kokoshkin / Global Look Press
Apostolos
A copy of the Apostolos, the first book printed in modern-day Ukraine by the renowned Russian printer Ivan Fyodorov, has gone missing from a conservation center in Kiev together with the artist who worked on its restoration.

Work on the 1574 book has been underway for the last three years at Ukraine's National Conservation Center and was to be completed by the end of September. However, it was then revealed that the historic volume had gone missing, Svetlana Strelnikova, the director of the center, told Ukraine's Vesti website.

Comment: According to Wikipedia: The Apostolos (Orthodox liturgy) is a book containing texts traditionally believed to be authored by one of the twelve apostles (disciples) - various epistles and the Acts of the Apostles - from which one is selected to be read during service.

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Snakes in Suits

Spoken like a true psychopath: Defiant, unapologetic Weinstein says he is a "martyr for social change"

Ian Mohr
Page Six
Tue, 31 Oct 2017 04:09 UTC
harvey weinstein
Talk about a messiah complex.

Disgraced Harvey Weinstein's been telling what friends he has left that there's a bigger reason he's embroiled in his ever-widening sexual harassment scandal: to "change the world," sources tell Page Six.

"Harvey believes he is a savior," a Hollywood insider says.

The source adds that the pervy former Weinstein Co. and Miramax macher has been telling confidantes "that he was born to take the fall for his behavior in order to 'change the world.' He is resigned to his punishment - as a martyr for social change."

Comment: Psychopaths are callous, deceptive, promiscuous, and egocentric - they never apologize or take responsibility for their actions, because they can never feel guilt. Weinstein is only endeavoring to save his own skin; changing the world has nothing to do with this posturing. This is how committed he is to change: Report says Weinstein is treating treatment as a joke - still insists all encounters were "consensual"

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Federal judge blocks Trump's transgender troop ban citing tweet


RT
Tue, 31 Oct 2017 11:34 UTC
Transgender troop ban
© Jonathan Ernst / Reuters
A federal judge blasted President Donald Trump for officially announcing via Twitter a ban on transgender people in the military in her decision to block the administration from enforcing parts of the policy.

On Monday, US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly issued a preliminary injunction that blocks the Trump administration from kicking active-duty transgender service members out of the military or from allowing them to enlist starting in January 2018.

Kollar-Kotelly blasted Trump for making the announcement on Twitter, "without any of the formality or deliberative processes that generally accompany the development and announcement of major policy changes that will gravely affect the lives of many Americans."

The ruling states that Trump's tweets provide support for the plaintiffs' claims that the decision was "not driven by genuine concerns regarding military efficacy."
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Attention

Corey Feldman vows to release every name of those in Hollywood who engage in predatory pedophilia


Grabien News
Mon, 30 Oct 2017 00:00 UTC
Corey Feldman
© NBC
Corey Feldman appeared Monday on NBC's "The TODAY Show," where he vowed to name names in Hollywood who engage, or have engaged, in predatory pedophilia. Here's an excerpt from his interview:

LAUER: "Why are you talking to me? Why aren't you talking to the police right now?"

FELDMAN: "I told the police. In fact if anyone wants to go back to 1993, when I was interviewed by the Santa Barbara Police Department. I sat there and gave them the names. They are on record. They have all of this information, but they were scanning Michael Jackson. All they cared about was trying about to find something on Michael Jackson."

LAUER: "Who you said, by the way, did not abuse you."

FELDMAN: "Who Michael was innocent. And that was what the interview was about with the police in 1993. I told them, he is not that guy. And they said, maybe you don't understand your friend. And I said, no, I know the difference between pedophiles and somebody that is not a pedophile because I have been molested. Here's the names, go investigate. And let me push this forward, there are thousands of people in Hollywood that have the same information. Why is it all on me? Why is it, if I don't release the names in the next two months, six months or a year, I'm the bad guy. I'm the victim here. I'm the one who has been abused. I'm the one who is trying to come forward and do something about it."

Comment: Post-Weinstein, will people start taking Corey Feldman seriously about pedophilia in Hollywood?

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Coincidence? Three people who survived Las Vegas shooting have died of mysterious causes since the attack

Rachel Blevins
The Free Thought Project
Mon, 30 Oct 2017 00:00 UTC
kymberly suchomel, dennis and lorraine carver
Nearly one month after the Las Vegas shooting, three of the individuals who attended the Route 91 Harvest music festival have lost their lives-but the circumstances that led up their deaths had nothing to do with injuries they sustained during the shooting.

According to a report, 28-year-old Kymberley Suchomel died at her home in Apple Valley, California, just one week after the massacre. While the official cause of her death was not immediately released, her grandmother told the Victorville Daily Press that she appeared to have died in her sleep.

"Kymberley had epilepsy and she's always been prone to seizures - she told her friend that she recently had three focal seizures," Julie Norton said. "I believe the stress from the shooting took her life."

Comment: For a thorough analysis of the many unanswered questions in the official stories surrounding the Las Vegas shooting, see:

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Arrow Down

Almost forgotten: The devastation that is Puerto Rico

Vijay Prashad
Frontline
Thu, 05 Oct 2017 00:00 UTC
Puerto Rico hurricane Maria

Three weeks after Hurricane Maria struck, Puerto Ricans continue to lead perilous lives, without access to water or electricity, and relief packages have only exacerbated the country's serious debt problem.

On September 20, Hurricane Maria swept through the United States territory of Puerto Rico and devastated the island ("A tale of two islands"). The death toll is not yet confirmed. It is hard to know what is happening since the roads in the interior of the island remain impassable and communications networks are down.

Three weeks after Hurricane Maria left the island, the 3.4 million Puerto Ricans remain in the dark. It is estimated that 85 per cent of the population will not get power for at least six months and that 40 per cent of the islanders will not have access to drinking water. Waterborne diseases threaten the people, whose health has been further endangered by the threadbare hospitals.

The government of the island and U.S. President Donald Trump have been exaggerating the situation in the island. For instance, Puerto Rico's Governor, Ricardo Rossello, said that 63 of the island's 69 hospitals were fully operational. The Centre for Investigative Journalism (Puerto Rico) suggested that this was impossible. A week before Governor Rossello made these comments, 56 hospitals were closed. When the staff from the centre called many of the hospitals that were said to be operational, they found them not in any state to receive patients. The government suggests that the death toll was somewhere in the vicinity of 45. But Representatives Nydia Velasquez (Democrat of New York) and Bennie Thompson (Democrat of Mississippi) wrote to the Department of Homeland Security suggesting that the death toll was being "woefully underreported". They say that at least 450 people might have died in this calamity.
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