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Uncle pleads not guilty to kidnapping, raping & murdering teenage niece before stuffing her into a freezer - UPDATE: Court hears man became fixated on her

RT
Fri, 13 Oct 2017 20:00 UTC

A man accused of kidnapping and raping a teenage girl before slitting her throat and stuffing her body in a freezer in south London has denied murder.

Mujahid Arshid, 33, pleaded not guilty at the Old Bailey via videolink after Celine Dookhran, 19, was found dead in July, in what prosecutors have described as a gruesome "honor killing."

Her body was discovered in a freezer in a £1.5-million ($2-million) house in Kingston.

Arshid, of no fixed address, appeared in court charged with murder, rape and kidnap.

He is also charged with the sexual assault, rape, kidnap and attempted murder of a second woman, who cannot be identified for legal reasons. She managed to escape and sound the alarm.

Comment: Update (Jan.17): The murder trial is underway and even more disturbing details are being revealed about this heinous act. The uncle was apparently so obsessed with his niece that he decided that if he couldn't have her, no one could. This was not, as first reported, an "honor killing" over the teen's relationship with an Libyan Muslim. Instead, it was about a man who let his imagination take over and due to his "criminal mind" it led him to brutally murdering a family member.

'Smart cities' to unleash data collection that far surpasses anything seen today

Matthew Braga
CBC News
Tue, 16 Jan 2018 18:15 UTC

© Dominique Boutin/TASS via Getty Images
It's already hard enough to get people to read the terms of service for the apps they use, and experts are skeptical we could expect any better of someone crossing into the boundary of a smart city neighbourhood, where sensors and data collection abound.

The L-shaped parcel of land on Toronto's eastern waterfront known as Quayside isn't much to look at. There's a sprawling parking lot for dry-docked boats opposite aging post-industrial space, where Parliament Street becomes Queens Quay. To its south is one of the saddest stretches of the Martin Goodman trail, an otherwise pleasant running and biking route that spans the city east to west.

But before long, Quayside may be one of the most sensor-laden neighbourhoods in North America, thanks to Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs, which has been working on a plan to redevelop the area from the ground up into a test bed for smart city technology.

It's being imagined as the sort of place where garbage cans and recycling bins can keep track of when and how often they're used, environmental probes can measure noise and pollution over time and cameras can collect data to model and improve the flow of cars, people, buses and bikes throughout the day.

Far-right 'Reich Citizens' in Germany building own army, preparing for a 'Day X'

RT
Wed, 17 Jan 2018 12:38 UTC

Germany's far-right Reichsbuerger movement has grown to almost 16,000 members, while some of them are eying their own armed wing and are preparing for 'Day X', Focus magazine reports, citing intelligence sources.

The stunning revelation came into the spotlight earlier this week after Germany's Focus magazine published a report citing an assessment of the domestic intelligence agency, the BfV.

Responding to Focus' request for comment, the BfV, the agency in charge of monitoring extremist groups threatening constitutional order, said the number of Reichsbuerger (Citizens of the Reich in German) members had grown to 15,600 as of January - with the figure marking a dramatic increase of more than 50 percent within one year.

Britain's Mail on Sunday smears entire Russian football team with single third-hand quote

Simon Rite
RT
Wed, 17 Jan 2018 18:02 UTC

The Mail on Sunday has unleashed another exhaustively researched story to make extra sure that nations competing in Russia's 2018 World Cup really come together in the spirit of hate for the host nation.

This time it rehashes second-hand evidence that Moscow was intending to drug its footballers. The newspaper continues to pioneer its own brand of highly efficient journalism, which allows for provocative and defamatory accusations to be made, without the need for an actual source or evidence.

The claims, nonchalantly tossed into the public domain, are that "Russia doped all its international football teams," and that the host country "planned to swap urine samples at the 2018 World Cup so that its footballers could take drugs with impunity."

Apparently, those allegations come from everyone's favorite mustachioed Russian whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov. Although not exactly from him, because he's currently hidden away by the US witness protection program, presumably sharing pasta recipes with Italian Americans.

Swiss billionaire speed fiend fined with $320,000 ticket

RT
Wed, 17 Jan 2018 18:05 UTC

Swiss pharmaceutical tycoon Ernesto Bertarelli has been fined 310,000 Swiss francs (US$320,000), after being caught driving 88km per hour in a 50 zone, local media report.

While a speeding ticket in the US might set you back a few hundred or perhaps even a few thousand dollars at most, that's not always the case on the other side of the Atlantic.

On December 6, 2016, Ernesto Bertarelli was caught doing 88km per hour in Crans-près-Céligny, just north of Geneva, Switzerland. Bertarelli was fined 10,000 francs, plus a daily penalty of 3,000 francs for a hundred days, 20 Minutes reported on Monday.

Russian interest in domestic films grow as "honest" movies provide competition with Hollywood

TASS
Tue, 16 Jan 2018 17:48 UTC

Russian film industry has found its trump card to compete with foreign movies, Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky said in his column on the TASS website.

According to him, "moviegoers aren't surprised anymore to see Russian titles on movie posters, still dominated by Hollywood flicks, they have grown used to them and are anticipating to watch 'our' pictures." Medinsky added that the audience would like to watch "honest" movies "about themselves and their country, their problems, responsibilities and triumphs." The minister pointed out that it was "our trump card in competing with movies about the adventures of good-looking foreign guys living in the fantasy land of Marvel (Comics) and Spider-Man."

Comment: The Russians may be onto something. Hollywood is eating dirt in the United States:

Intersectional infighting as the left cannibalises itself: LGBTQ group leaders step down after Facebook post mentions minorities

Daniel Payne
The College Fix
Wed, 17 Jan 2018 18:01 UTC

Online criticism was 'an act of erasure,' president of group claims

A shakeup at a George Washington University LGBT group came after the vice president of the group claimed in a Facebook post that minority LGBT members rarely attend the organization's meetings.

The president, public relations chair and events chair of George Washington University's Association of Queer Women and Allies' executive board stepped down shortly after vice president Juliana Kogan "said in a Facebook group for LGBTQ women at GW last month that people of color don't attend AQWA events," according to The GW Hatchet.

Former 'Today' host Ann Curry: Verbal sexual harassment at NBC was "pervasive"

Jessica Sager
Page Six
Wed, 17 Jan 2018 17:47 UTC

Ann Curry took only the most subtle shots at Matt Lauer in her first TV interview since leaving NBC News and "Today" when discussing the "pervasive" sexual harassment at the network.

"I'm trying to do no harm in these conversations. I can tell you that I am not surprised by the allegations," Curry, 61, told "CBS This Morning" on Wednesday. "See, now I'm walking down that road - I'm trying not to hurt people. I know what it's like to be publicly humiliated. I never did anything wrong to be publicly humiliated, and I don't want to cause that kind of pain to somebody else," she said, likely referencing when she was infamously and unceremoniously dismissed on air from the morning show in 2012 after just over a year, reportedly at the behest of Lauer, 60, and left NBC in 2015.

"But I can say, because you're asking me a direct question, I would be surprised if many women did not understand that there was a climate of verbal harassment that existed," she said. "I think it would be surprising if someone said they didn't see that. Verbal sexual harassment was pervasive ... It was, period."

'You've got me': Feminist Cathy Newman crumbles in Channel 4 interview with 'controversial' Prof. Jordan Peterson

Douglas Murray
Breitbart
Wed, 17 Jan 2018 12:01 UTC

Repeated attempts to skewer clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson fell flat in a remarkable interview with Britain's Channel 4 news, reports the Spectator.

Americans love Oprah, but not that much: Majority say she shouldn't run for president

AutSteven Shepard
Politico
Wed, 17 Jan 2018 17:17 UTC

Americans love Oprah Winfrey. But they aren't exactly clamoring for the media mogul and former talk-show host to challenge President Donald Trump in 2020.

A majority of voters across several polls don't think Winfrey should run for the White House, according to polls conducted since Winfrey's much-heralded speech at a Hollywood awards show launched a round of presidential speculation. Even among Democratic voters, more say she shouldn't run for president than should.

Still, there's enough evidence to continue fueling speculation about her political prospects. Winfrey performs well on polling ballot tests, tying or leading Trump in a number of surveys. The POLITICO/Morning Consult poll shows Democratic voters prefer her to a host of other potential candidates - except former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)

Comment: More on the poll results from Morning Consult:

"If you were watching cable news the Monday after the Golden Globes, you would have thought the numbers would say 99 percent of Americans want her to run," said Robert Thompson, director of the Bleier Center for Television & Popular Culture at Syracuse University, in a Tuesday interview. "Certainly polls have their limitations, but these numbers don't quite indicate that degree of enthusiasm."

Doug Heye, a former spokesman for the Republican National Committee who is now a CNN contributor, said Winfrey successfully seized the moment at the Golden Globes with a speech about important contemporary issues that was not blatantly political. Asked about the voters who said Winfrey should not run for president, he ascribed that to political fatigue.

"People like Oprah because they've watched her do amazing things for 30 years now. Yeah, she supported candidates in the past, but being a candidate yourself opens you up to all kinds of political attacks," he said in a Tuesday interview.

Sixty-two percent of those surveyed described Winfrey as liberal, 39 percent of whom described her as "very liberal." Six in 10 Republicans described Winfrey as "very liberal," compared with 28 percent of Democrats who described her as such. A 33-percent plurality of Democrats described Winfrey as "somewhat" liberal.

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Society's Child

Uncle pleads not guilty to kidnapping, raping & murdering teenage niece before stuffing her into a freezer - UPDATE: Court hears man became fixated on her

'Smart cities' to unleash data collection that far surpasses anything seen today

Far-right 'Reich Citizens' in Germany building own army, preparing for a 'Day X'

Britain's Mail on Sunday smears entire Russian football team with single third-hand quote

Swiss billionaire speed fiend fined with $320,000 ticket

Russian interest in domestic films grow as "honest" movies provide competition with Hollywood

Intersectional infighting as the left cannibalises itself: LGBTQ group leaders step down after Facebook post mentions minorities

Former 'Today' host Ann Curry: Verbal sexual harassment at NBC was "pervasive"

'You've got me': Feminist Cathy Newman crumbles in Channel 4 interview with 'controversial' Prof. Jordan Peterson

Americans love Oprah, but not that much: Majority say she shouldn't run for president

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