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Meet 'Whaledimir', a 'spy beluga whale' for the Russian Navy

Sputnik News
Sun, 10 Nov 2019 22:19 UTC

'Whaledimir,' the beluga whale that made headlines in Norwegian media this spring amid speculation that he may be a super-secret 'spy whale' for the Russian Navy, appears to have made it into the news again.

Footage of a beluga whale playing rugby with a group of South African sailors near the Arctic Circle went viral this week, with the video viewed over 19.5 million times on Facebook, and millions of times more on Twitter and YouTube.

The fascinating clip shows the beluga bringing a rugby ball to the hands of a man onboard the small Gemini Craft boat, who then throws it, with the whale giving chase. The beluga is then seen picking up the ball in its mouth, swimming toward the boat, and handing the ball back to the men.

The footage, filmed aboard a South African marine research vessel outside Hammerfest, northern Norway, has led to the renewal of speculation in some quarters about whether the beluga was really Whaledimir, the alleged 'Russian spy whale' named after the Russian president.

Hypocrisy alert: IDF congratulates itself on Twitter for donating wigs to cancer victims while Israel blocks Gazans from treatment

Al Jazeera
Sun, 10 Nov 2019 21:29 UTC

© Screengrab/Twitter
he Israeli army's post on soldiers donating their hair for cancer patients was described as insincere by critics

Social media users have called out the Israeli army for a Twitter post celebrating two female soldiers for cutting off their hair for a good cause.

The Israeli army said the pair donated their hair to make wigs for cancer patients, and described it as "a beautiful act of kindness". A picture of the two soldiers, identified as Noam and Inbal, shows them smiling and holding their freshly cut hair.

But critics pointed out the irony of the post, reminding the Israeli army that they regularly deny thousands of cancer patients from the Gaza Strip permission to travel for treatment.

"Nothing says kindness like forcing cancer patients to die in an open air prison in Gaza," Remi Kenazi, a Palestinian-American poet based in New York, responded on Twitter.

Comment: The only saving grace of the IDF's dismal public relations efforts on social media, is the rich fund of material it provides to mock and expose the racist Israeli regime.

British State Has Stolen Thousands of Children From Families it Deems 'Potential Risk' - Hundreds of Pregnant Women Fleeing UK Shores

The Connexion
Sun, 10 Nov 2019 18:37 UTC

Comment: This is completely outrageous.

'Punishing people for crime they have not committed is wrong', campaigner insists

A British businessman who lives in France is one of several people who regularly help women to flee the UK to give birth abroad and keep their babies.

Ian Josephs told Connexion he got involved after learning of a woman's case while he was a county councillor in Kent.

He receives several calls a day after women contact him through his website (forced-adoption.com). He gives advice and pays for the mothers to leave the UK.

They mainly travel to France or Spain. Ireland is another destination.

Mr Josephs, 87, said:

"Every woman should be given the chance to raise her child. While they are still pregnant, they can leave the country. The UK system is totally unfair: it is based on what may potentially happen in the future. In what other circumstances is someone judged for a crime they have not committed? People can't believe it if I say one reason given for a child to be removed is a potential future risk of emotional abuse. People say I may be helping people who go on to abuse a child but we are talking about predictions. The women cannot hide their birth in the new country and they enter into the system there. They don't go off the radar."

Comment: He is making this up, surely?

Comment: A SOTT commenter recently complained that we spend too much time publishing stories about 'social engineering' and its consequences in the UK.

Evidently, that country is 'further down the road' of said social engineering.

Here's the French TV documentary mentioned above:

Stolen Children of England, Part 1

Stolen Children of England, Part 2

And here's a talk about this abomination by the above-mentioned activist, Ian Josephs:

Check out Josephs' website, forced-adoption.com, where he lays out what has been happening in the UK for years, and what parents can do about it.

This madness was apparently started under the Blair regime and has now grown into a billion £ market. Ostensibly, it was done to 'protect' children from harmful family situations, but that was just the cover for something completely different. As Josephs explains in his video talk, the victims aren't necessarily the poorest - the fostering industry targets the most vulnerable.

In 2015, RT UK picked up the scent and published the following documentary, which tells the stories of many families' efforts - some successful, the vast majority not - to get their children back from the state and whichever strangers it sold them off to...

The Berlin Wall is a reminder of what happens after we 'smash capitalism'

Ryan McMaken
Mises Institute
Fri, 08 Nov 2019 00:00 UTC

This week marks the thirtieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Decades later, the wall remains a symbol of the violence employed by socialist states, and a reminder that the egalitarian workers' paradise of East Germany was so hated by its residents that the state had to build a wall to keep residents in.

It is ironic, then, that only a generation later, Americans are becoming increasingly enamored with socialism. According to a recent Gallup poll, 43 percent of Americans say socialism is a "good thing." It's unclear how many of those respondents can actually define socialism. Some believe socialism to simply be policies that promote equality. Others define it using the more historically orthodox view: government ownership of the means of production.

There is no doubt, however, that a vocal and not-insignificant minority — of the sort represented by Jacobin magazine, for example — advocates for the total destruction of capitalism.

When American democratic socialists who want to "smash capitalism" say they like "socialism," of course, they are likely to add that they don't want the sort of socialism they had in East Germany. They want kindly, happy, well-lit socialism. Not the gray, dour, socialism of the Eastern Bloc.

Videos: Morales condemns 'military dictatorship style' attack on TV, radio stations endangering journalists

RT
Sun, 10 Nov 2019 02:50 UTC

Bolivian leader Evo Morales slammed attacks on state media that saw rioters forcing journalists to leave their offices unless they want them to be trashed. In a separate incident, a radio chief was tied to a tree.

Bolivia TV (BTV) and Patria Nueva (RPN) radio stations were forced to cut off their broadcasts after a rowdy crowd of 300 protesters descended on their HQ in La Paz, effectively placing it under siege on Saturday.

The demonstrators, reportedly enraged over the way the protests that have gripped the nation since mid-October are being portrayed by state media, demanded journalists vacate the premises if they do not want their offices to be raided. Forty employees of both BTV and RPN eventually caved in to the demands and left the building as they were heckled by chanting protesters.

Baghdad protests: 4 killed, 100 injured as fresh clashes with security forces intensify

RT
Sat, 09 Nov 2019 17:24 UTC

At least four protesters were killed and scores injured in clashes with security forces in the capital as demonstrations over government corruption and failure to provide better living conditions for Iraqis seriously escalated.

The number of dead and injured on Saturday was reported by medical and security officials who spoke to journalists on condition of anonymity. Three of the dead were shot, and the fourth died after being struck on the head with a tear gas canister.

Earlier Saturday, security forces using live ammunition cleared demonstrators from three of the main bridges over the Tigris, pushing protesters further back from the Green Zone which has been a focal point of the unrest since it kicked off a month ago. Some demonstrators reportedly threw molotov cocktails during the clashes.

Comment: See also:

Hong Kong police and firefighters turn against each other under the stress of the protests

RT
Sun, 10 Nov 2019 19:47 UTC

Months of disruptive protests are taking their toll on Hong Kong's public services, pitting those who are supposed to serve and protect against each other, as two incidents in the span of less than a week highlight.

The city's senior police and firefighter officials had to come up, twice lately, with joint statements on how their men should communicate better and not clash with each other.

The employees in both departments experience "tremendous stress upon working under such chaotic conditions," the latter of the statements read. It referred to the ongoing violent protests in Hong Kong which kicked off in the summer.

One of the incidents happened Saturday last week as Hong Kong police dispersed protesters on Connaught Road in Central district, according to local media. A tear gas canister fired by the officers accidentally hit a fire truck, which was called to the scene to douse fires that protesters often start with petrol bombs.

Woman who was raped by Somali migrant shares her anguish that he remains in the UK a year after his deportation was blocked by a plane mutiny

Mark Hookham
Daily Mail
Sat, 09 Nov 2019 19:35 UTC

Ahmed's botched deportation in 2018 revived horrific memories of her rape 12 years ago when she was just a teenager, and led to a collapse in her mental health.

The victim of rapist Yaqub Ahmed last night spoke of her anger and pain that he has still not been kicked out of Britain more than a year after plane passengers blocked his removal.

Ahmed's botched deportation in 2018 revived horrific memories of her rape 12 years ago when she was just a teenager, and led to a collapse in her mental health.

Comment: Somali deportee removed from plane by cheering do-gooders was convicted gang-rapist

Her anguish has continued as Ahmed has launched a fresh legal challenge to avoid being deported to Somalia. 'This can't be allowed to go on,' she told The Mail on Sunday.

'I am struggling to move on. I was in such a good place last year. I was working, I was studying. And then this [the failed deportation] happened and my life has not been the same again. All I want to do is just get on with my life and not constantly worry about this. The time I've spent sat up at night crying my eyes out - it's exhausting and draining.'

Goldman Sachs under investigation for sexism in determining Apple card credit limits

Jon Fingas
engadget
Sat, 09 Nov 2019 19:20 UTC

The bank behind Apple Card is facing legal scrutiny over accusations of inequality. New York's Department of Financial Services has launched an investigation into Goldman Sachs' practices after Basecamp founder David Heinemeier Hansson accused Apple (and really, Goldman) of sexism when determining credit limits. He received a limit 20 times higher than his wife despite her higher credit score, and received no help from customer service apart from murmurs of a "formal internal complaint." She eventually got a "VIP bump" to match his credit limit, but that appeared to have been a reaction to the public outcry. Hansson didn't believe Apple or Goldman set out to be discriminatory, but that the outcome was sexist nonetheless.

The department told Bloomberg that the investigation will both look into any legal wrongdoing as well guarantee that every customer is treated equally. Any algorithmic bias (including unintentional bias) "violates New York law," department superintendent Linda Lacewell said.

Goldman maintained in a statement that credit decisions were based solely on "creditworthiness" and not qualities like gender or ethnicity, although it didn't explain why a woman with a stronger credit score received a much lower limit.

Behold the glorious 'Epstein Didn't Kill Himself' memes

Kurt Schlichter
Townhall
Sun, 10 Nov 2019 18:21 UTC

© New York State Division of Criminal Justice
An undated handout photo made available by New York State Division of Criminal Justice showing Jeffrey Epstein, issued 25 July 2019.

Now, did Jeffrey Epstein actually wack himself? Maybe, maybe not. On the self-off side, it's not like the guy had a huge incentive to - pardon the expression - keep hanging around. But on the "Epstein didn't kill himself" tip, there's pretty compelling evidence. A noted pathologist thinks he was wacked. So do people who think that it's super convenient that a dude with the 411 on the pervo peccadillos of so many mostly Democratic poohbahs just happened to check out before he could start talking. And it's really weird the cameras went off just before he got perma-cancelled.

Plus, what about the guards? Are we supposed to believe government flunkies were utterly unable to perform their most basic task of making sure that their suicidally-inclined inmate didn't stretch his neck on their watch? Well, I totally believe it. Let's add "incompetence of federal workers" to the ledger in the "He Did Himself" column.

Comment: Mainstream media's corruption has unleashed a torrent of creativity from a population tired of being lied to. This story is not going away any time soon:

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Society's Child

Meet 'Whaledimir', a 'spy beluga whale' for the Russian Navy

Hypocrisy alert: IDF congratulates itself on Twitter for donating wigs to cancer victims while Israel blocks Gazans from treatment

British State Has Stolen Thousands of Children From Families it Deems 'Potential Risk' - Hundreds of Pregnant Women Fleeing UK Shores

The Berlin Wall is a reminder of what happens after we 'smash capitalism'

Videos: Morales condemns 'military dictatorship style' attack on TV, radio stations endangering journalists

Baghdad protests: 4 killed, 100 injured as fresh clashes with security forces intensify

Hong Kong police and firefighters turn against each other under the stress of the protests

Woman who was raped by Somali migrant shares her anguish that he remains in the UK a year after his deportation was blocked by a plane mutiny

Goldman Sachs under investigation for sexism in determining Apple card credit limits

Behold the glorious 'Epstein Didn't Kill Himself' memes

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