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Private US citizen reports mystery illness after trip to China


CNBC
Fri, 06 Jul 2018 13:30 UTC
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© REUTERS/Sue-Lin Wong
A U.S. private citizen who visited China has reported symptoms like those of U.S. diplomats afflicted with a mysterious illness in Havana and Guangzhou, a U.S. State Department official said on Thursday.

The person, who was not named by the department official, is the first non-official American known to have experienced the symptoms following a trip to China. Nineteen private U.S. citizens have reported similar symptoms after traveling to Cuba.

Twenty-five U.S. officials in Havana and at least one working at the U.S. consulate in Guangzhou have been sent back to the United States after exhibiting symptoms consistent with a concussion or mild traumatic brain injury.

Many of them reported the mystery illness, whose cause is unknown, following an experience of abnormal sounds or pressure.

Comment: See also:

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Blue Planet

The Two "Fatal Flaws Lurking in American Leftist Politics"

Izzy Kalman
Psychology Today
Fri, 06 Jul 2018 13:10 UTC
left Vs right
Dear Prof. Peterson:

I have had the pleasure of following you prior to your meteoric rise to fame, and I applaud your courageous battle to free society from the excesses of political correctness. This is my humble attempt to help you in your mission.

In your recent Big Think talk titled, "The fatal flaw lurking in American Leftist Politics," and in the subsequent Munk Debate on the issue, "What you call political correctness, I call progress," you challenged the mainstream left to identify the red line that fellow leftists shouldn't cross, and for which they must be called out if they do.
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31 people dead in Indonesian ferry accident


The Guardian
Wed, 04 Jul 2018 13:15 UTC
ferry accident

Passengers cling to side of stricken ferry in Indonesia.
At least 31 people have died and three more are missing and believed drowned inside the vessel after a ferry sank in Indonesia.

Many of the passengers who had been trapped overnight on the stricken ferry off the island of Sulawesi were rescued early on Wednesday, officials said.

The latest in a succession of boat tragedies in Indonesia began on the same day that officials called off a search for 164 people presumed drowned when a wooden ferry sank on 18 June in a deep volcanic crater lake on the island of Sumatra.

The Sulawesi ferry, with 139 passengers on its manifest, began sinking on Tuesday afternoon in rough seas. In a desperate bid to save lives, the captain steered the vessel toward land, grounding it between 200-300 metres from shore.
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'Trump's July 4th gift to Netanyahu': Israel demolishes homes outside Jerusalem

Allison Deger
Mondoweiss
Fri, 06 Jul 2018 12:03 UTC
West Bank Israel home demolition
© Shadi Hatem/APA Images
Israeli policemen scuffle with Palestinian demonstrators in the Bedouin village of al-Khan al-Ahmar east of Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank on July 4, 2018.
Israel forces arrived this morning to two Palestinian-Bedouin villages and began razing buildings in preparation for taking over the land, alarming human rights groups who say such a move would effectively cut the West Bank into two.

The villages Khan al-Ahmar, and Abu Nuwar are home to just around 2,000 Bedouins, but the impact of their removal would be lasting, making a Palestinian state no longer possible, advocates of the two-state solution warned.

Today, bulldozers demolished nine homes and three farm buildings in Abu Nuwar and clashed with Bedouin residents in Khan al-Ahmar. According to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society Israeli police injured 35, of whom 4 were hospitalized. Founder of Rabbis for Human Rights, Rabbi Arik Ascherman posted a video of the encounter on social media, writing, "You can see some of the violence at the end of this video. My battery died, and I didn't get the worst of it. The police were swinging wildly and kicking viciously, until their commanding officer got a hold of them."
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Mr. Potato

D'oh Scarborough: 'I firmly believe' Putin has something on Trump

William Steakin
IJR
Tue, 03 Jul 2018 22:55 UTC
Joe Scarborough
"Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough said Tuesday that he "firmly" believes Russian President Vladimir Putin "has something" on President Donald Trump that is causing the president to be hesitant to criticize the Kremlin leader.

"There's been a concern that [Trump] would never criticize Vladimir Putin. There's been a concern, obviously through this investigation, that Vladimir Putin must have something on Donald Trump," the MSNBC host said. "I firmly believe he does have something on Donald Trump, and that's why he's never criticized Putin."

The MSNBC host then went after the president for using his first term to make moves that would seemingly benefit Putin by "attacking NATO allies, trying to withdraw troops - talking about withdrawing troops from Europe, talking about withdrawing our commitment to NATO, talking secretly to Vladimir Putin at the G20 last year - I mean, the list is endless."

"If there is a conspiracy, this conspiracy seems to be in plain sight," he added.

Comment: It's okay Joe, you're not the only one suffering from delusions: US Senate: Russia meddled in 2016 election because we don't care about facts

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Crime wave in Sweden: Government's immigration policy blamed for gang shootings, rapes and no-go zones


RT
Fri, 06 Jul 2018 10:34 UTC
Sweden crime
© File photo: Fredrik Sandberg / Reuters
Firemen in the suburb of Rinkeby
Swedish authorities held an emergency meeting this week to discuss the recent spate of gang shootings that have plagued Sweden's cities and made crime a major issue ahead of elections in September.

The centre-left government in Stockholm has been facing a backlash over the recent crime wave - and the elephant in the room is migration.

1. Gang violence on the rise

A record-high number of people (43) were killed in shootings in Sweden in 2017 - up massively from just eight in 2006. Sweden's Justice Minister Morgan Johansson acknowledged to news agency TT that there had been "a lot of shootings and deaths in a short time."

Comment: A country can take immigration as long as immigrants integrate well enough to their host culture. However, even then there is a limit. It was extremely naïve - at best, criminal at worst - to think that a quarter-million people - mostly Muslim - could simply walk into the country and there would be social harmony. For an enlightening take on the immigration issue in Europe, see:

The Scourge of Modern 'Liberalism' in France

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Vasily Livanov MBE: An open letter to the people of Britain

Vasily Livanov
Off Guardian
Fri, 06 Jul 2018 10:46 UTC
This open letter, from iconic Russsian actor Vasily Livanov MBE, was first sent to The Guardian. They declined to publish it, we did not.
Vasily Livanov
As with many of my compatriots, there are many things about Britain and the British people that I admire. As someone whose whole life has been linked with literature, cinema and theatre, I have the greatest appreciation for English literature and the arts, for its writers and playwrights, actors and directors. As someone who had the good fortune to have played the iconic Englishman Sherlock Holmes in a very successful Soviet film series, I was honoured to have been awarded an MBE by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. I am grateful for a chance to have been part of the mutually enriching cultural kinship and synergy of our two countries. As someone who has lived a long life, I vividly remember the years of WWII when the Soviet Union and Britain were staunch and proud allies in the fight against Nazism.
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Rose

French architects list the top 5 most beautiful Moscow Metro stations


RT
Thu, 05 Jul 2018 15:41 UTC
Moscow Metro
© Grigory Dukor / Reuters
People walk inside Komsomolskaya metro station in Moscow
Widely considered one the of the world's most beautiful underground networks, the Moscow Metro has become one of the major tourist attractions, and even inspired a group of French architects, the city authorities revealed.

Urban designers coming from France to support their team at the 2018 World Cup told Moscow authorities that they were so impressed by the aesthetic of the Russian capital's ornate metro system they made their own urban architecture guide of the network, with a list of the five most beautiful stations.

Comment: Stark contrast to San Francisco's metro... so take your pick - junkies or yoga?



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2 + 2 = 4

The illusion of Ocasio-Cortez: New faces won't mend a corrupt political system

Teodrose Fikre
The Ghion Journal
Fri, 06 Jul 2018 10:23 UTC
Ocasio-Cortez
I'll admit, for a minute I fell for it again. Watching a young, telegenic woman take on and defeat an entrenched politician produced a temporary moment of euphoria mixed with schadenfreude. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's unbelievable knockout of Democratic party boss Joe Crowley almost made me believe that these two equally bankrupt political parties can be fixed from within. The feeling proved to be short-lived; no person is more powerful than the institution they are desperate to join.

I am no longer the naive loyalist who believed that a little known Senator from Illinois would deliver the change we have been waiting for. As much as I want to root for Alexandria, I know that in the end she too will be co-opted by the DNC and party leaders. The problem in DC are not the candidates but the system as a whole. A government hijacked by two mafia parties will not allow true change agents to survive let alone prosper. In this paradigm, even the most well-intentioned of people will end up conforming to the norm and have zero chance of transforming our broken state of politics.

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Pistol

Kalashnikov legal team proposes 10 shotguns and rifles per citizen limit in new Russian Law on Weapons


RT
Thu, 05 Jul 2018 10:21 UTC
Kalashnikov
© Reuters
Alexey Krivoruchko, CEO of Kalashnikov Group, poses for a photograph during an interview with Reuters in Abu Dhabi
Lawyers for Russian firearms producer Kalashnikov have prepared amendments to the national legislation liberalizing the purchase and ownership of firearms and introducing rules regulating gunsmithing, according to reports.

Kommersant newspaper reported on Thursday that it had managed to acquire and study the reworked draft of the Law on Weapons prepared by Kalashnikov's legal team. The changes include an increase in the maximum quantity of guns of one type (shotguns and rifles) allowed for possession by one person from current five to ten.
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