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Another Pakistani sentenced to death for being convicted of blasphemy

RFE/RL Radio Mashal
Sat, 21 Dec 2019 11:14 UTC

Pakistani police officers stand guard outside Multan jail after a court's decision for a professor facing blasphemy case, in Multan, Pakistan, Saturday, Dec. 21, 2019.

A Muslim professor in Pakistan has been sentenced to death after being convicted of blasphemy.

A court in Multan on December 21 found Junaid Hafeez guilty of spreading anti-Islamic ideas.

Pakistan's controversial blasphemy law carries an automatic death penalty for anyone accused of insulting God, Islam, or religious figures.

Defense attorney Shahbaz Gormani said he would appeal the verdict, stating his client had been wrongly convicted.

Hafeez was also fined half a million Pakistani rupees (over $3,200) on December 21.

Police arrested Hafeez in 2013 for allegedly displaying blasphemous content while a visiting professor at Bahauddin Zakariya University in the city of Multan, which is located in central Punjab Province.

Moscow slams Western bias and double standards for ruining TWO UNSC resolutions on humanitarian aid for Syria

RT
Sat, 21 Dec 2019 19:47 UTC

As the mainstream media pounds Moscow for "vetoing aid for Syria," Russia's UN mission says there was no winner in the latest UN battle during which its own draft resolution was defeated by "bias and double standards."

The Russian mission to the UN has offered their take on two rival resolutions on Syria which the Security Council rejected during a contentious Friday vote.

One, drafted by Belgium, Germany, and Kuwait, sought to extend the shipping of aid into Syria through three checkpoints - two in Turkey and one in Iraq - for the next year. But the scheme, adopted five years ago without Damascus' consent, became irrelevant by 2019, the Russian delegation argued.

Delivering aid from Turkey and Iraq was justifiable, although legally questionable, back then because many Syrians civilians lived in hard-to-reach areas controlled by terrorists, Vassily Nebenzia, the Russian ambassador to the UN, explained later.

Now, Damascus is robust enough to distribute supplies on their own - and bypassing government checkpoints would be a sign of disrespect for the country's sovereignty as "we live in 2019, not in 2014."

Comment: No surprise here - the US has been spitefully hindering aid to Syrian citizens for years, while Russia somehow manages to insure needed assistance is delivered - over and over again!

Ex-FBI official Mark Tolson gets mere 7 days jail for hacking emails of anti-Mueller activist

Josh Gerstein
Politico
Fri, 20 Dec 2019 21:13 UTC

A former FBI analyst was sentenced to seven days in jail and a $500 fine Friday for illegally accessing a neighbor's email account in a bid to head off an apparent smear campaign against special counsel Robert Mueller.

Mark Tolson, 60, pleaded guilty in September to a single misdemeanor charge of computer fraud and abuse for his unusual effort last fall to derail eccentric Washington lobbyist Jack Burkman's attempt to obtain information to be used in sexual misconduct allegations against Mueller.

Tolson admitted he unlawfully accessed Burkman's emails in October 2018, after the conspiracy-minded lobbyist announced plans to hold a news conference to air sexual harassment allegations against Mueller.

After snooping through Burkman's account, Tolson sent screenshots of the messages and offered the password to an unspecified journalist, court filings say.

Comment: One wonders how much sympathy and how lenient sentencing would have been had Tolson been working against Mueller?

Brazil spiritual healer sentenced to 19 years for four rapes

David Biller
ABC News
Thu, 19 Dec 2019 03:43 UTC

A spiritual healer in Brazil known as João de Deus, or John of God, received his first prison sentence on Thursday following a deluge of sex abuse allegations since late last year.

A judge in Goias state issued a sentence of 19 years and four months for four rapes of different women, according to a statement from the court. Lawyers for the 77-year-old João de Deus said in a statement that they will appeal the decision.

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US court sentences Israeli CEO for scamming Americans, media ignore it

Alison Weir
If Americans Knew
Fri, 20 Dec 2019 12:53 UTC

Israeli media (not US newspapers) report that an Israeli CEO has been sentenced in a US court for defrauding Americans out of millions of dollars. The company specifically targeted the elderly and the vulnerable, one of over 100 Israeli companies perpetrating a scam called "binary options"... Israel permitted the scam for a decade...

Ramat Gan diamond center in Tel Aviv, where many binary options companies were based.

The Times of Israel reports that Lee Elbaz, an Israeli CEO, was sentenced to 22 years in prison by a Maryland court on Thursday. US media have largely failed to report on the conviction, despite the fact that American taxpayers give Israel over $10 million per day. The pro-Israel lobby has long been deeply influential in US Mideast policies.

Elbaz was the CEO of an Israeli company called Yukom Communications Ltd., which perpetrated an international financial scam called "binary options." More than a hundred binary options companies operated in Israel between the years 2008-2018, scamming people around the world out of hundreds of millions of dollars. For years Israel allowed the scammers to operate unhindered.

TOI reports that the US judge said that Elbaz and others "specifically targeted vulnerable people, including the elderly, and tried to get people addicted to trading like in a casino. He said that Elbaz would suggest that clients use their retirement funds for investments."

Comment: In Israel, psychopathic politics and psychopathic businesses are a way of life.

China's Fudan University students in flash mob for freedom of thought goes viral, is then censored

Mimi Lau
South China Morning Post
Wed, 18 Dec 2019 09:02 UTC

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A screengrab of the censored video clip showing dozens of students taking part in a flash mob demonstration against changes to Fudan University’s charter.

Dozens of students at a prestigious university in Shanghai, eastern China, took part in a singing flash mob demonstration on Wednesday against changes to its charter that have replaced commitments to "free thinking" and "democratic management" with long-winded ideological jargon.

About a dozen students started singing the first verse of the Fudan University school song - which celebrates the pursuit of academic independence and free thinking without political and ideological influence - accompanied by a harmonica as campus security and teaching staff looked on.

The flash mob lasted just under 20 minutes on the first and second floors of the Danyuan cafeteria in Guanghua Building on campus. More students joined the action, which concluded with the participants dispersing. No slogans were shouted or banners displayed, according to a Fudan student who requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.

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5 New Jersey officials and political candidates indicted for taking massive bribes

Morgan Phillips
Fox News
Fri, 20 Dec 2019 14:54 UTC

Five current and former New Jersey public officials are facing charges of accepting bribes following a major corruption investigation, the state's attorney general announced.

The five defendants are charged with taking thousands of dollars in bribes from one cooperating witness in the form of campaign contributions, Attorney General Gurbir Grewal said. In return, the officials promised the cooperating witness, who is a tax attorney, they would vote or use their office of influence to hire or continue to hire his law firm for lucrative government legal work.

The defendants include Sudhan Thomas, incumbent Jersey City school board president, and former State Assemblyman Jason O'Donnell, who ran an unsuccessful campaign to be mayor of Bayonne in 2018.

Comment: As above so below:

UK fishermen enraged as EU cuts quota by 50% causing huge hit to earnings

Simon Osborne
Express
Wed, 18 Dec 2019 10:53 UTC

Industry chiefs were dismayed by the decision and have criticised Brussels for failing to agree to a more gradual reduction to the legal catch. Quotas for 2020 were agreed at this year's annual EU fisheries negotiations, which concluded in the early hours of this morning. Cod quotas will be cut by 50 percent in the North Sea, while limited quotas were agreed for cod in the Celtic Sea, Irish Sea and West of Scotland - just enough to allow the landing of accidental catch.

This was the last December Council attended by the UK before it becomes an independent coastal state after once it has left the EU.

Comment: More like if it leaves the EU.

June Mummery, Brexit Party MEP for East of England and founder of Renaissance of the East Anglian Fisheries (REAF), said: "The cuts in the cod quota are disappointing but hopefully this is the last time the UK will have a quota agreed on its behalf by the EU.

"We need a system where fishermen's voices count."

Comment: Those providing a valuable service to society are increasingly suffering the pressure of the rapid changes occurring on our planet and the issue is being confused by out of touch, ideologically driven bureaucrats:

Study: Half of US adults will be obese by 2030

New York Post
Thu, 19 Dec 2019 14:49 UTC

There's no way to sugarcoat this news: Nearly half of American adults will be obese within a decade and one-quarter will be severely so, a new report predicts.

It corrects for a weakness in previous estimates that may have made the problem seem not as big as it really is. Those estimates often relied on national health surveys and people tend to understate their weight in those.

The new work used a decades-long federal study in which weight was measured to get a more accurate picture of trends and to project into the future.

"It's alarming," said a nutrition expert with no role in the study, Dr. Lawrence Appel of Johns Hopkins University. "We're going to have some pretty awful problems" medically and financially because so many people weigh too much, he said.

The New England Journal of Medicine published the study Wednesday. It was led by scientists at Harvard and George Washington universities.

Obesity raises the risk of heart disease, stroke, diabetes, cancer and other health problems. It's gauged by body mass index, or BMI, a measure of weight relative to height. Underweight or normal is a BMI under 25; overweight is 25 to 30, moderately obese is 30 to 35 and severely obese is 35 or over.

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Transgender clinics prey on autistic children because they're easy to manipulate, disturbing new research finds

Ethan Huff
Natural News
Fri, 20 Dec 2019 07:16 UTC

Only a very small handful of media outlets - and none that are considered "mainstream" - are addressing the fact that children on the autism spectrum are being disproportionately targeted by the transgender lobby for "transition therapy" because of their abnormal mental states.

A group of experts who used to work in the field recently came forward with a stark warning to the public about how autistic children have basically become the LGBTQ mafia's prey of choice because of how easily these little ones buy into transgender propaganda.

As many as one in four transgenders, believe it or not, now registers on the autism spectrum. According to a paper published in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, this figure is "higher than the general population," and the reason is because autistic children are more easily swayed to "go trans" when pressured by adults to do so.

A study out of the United States involving nearly 300,000 child participants also found that those diagnosed on the autism spectrum are more than four times likelier than their non-autistic counterparts to be diagnosed with gender dysphoria. This suggests that autistic children are the "target market," so to speak, for transgender drugging and surgery.

Comment: It's refreshing to see an authoritative body (the ACP in this case) that hasn't fallen prey to gender bender ideology... at least not yet. See also:

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Society's Child

Another Pakistani sentenced to death for being convicted of blasphemy

Moscow slams Western bias and double standards for ruining TWO UNSC resolutions on humanitarian aid for Syria

Ex-FBI official Mark Tolson gets mere 7 days jail for hacking emails of anti-Mueller activist

Brazil spiritual healer sentenced to 19 years for four rapes

US court sentences Israeli CEO for scamming Americans, media ignore it

China's Fudan University students in flash mob for freedom of thought goes viral, is then censored

5 New Jersey officials and political candidates indicted for taking massive bribes

UK fishermen enraged as EU cuts quota by 50% causing huge hit to earnings

Study: Half of US adults will be obese by 2030

Transgender clinics prey on autistic children because they're easy to manipulate, disturbing new research finds

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