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Colombia is the real 'Venezuela': Day after mass protests against targeted killings of 700+ civil society leaders, ANOTHER leading activist is murdered by the state

teleSUR
Mon, 29 Jul 2019 07:51 UTC

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Protesters arrived at Bogota's main public square, Plaza Bolivar, calling for an end to state killings

Colombian social leader Yisella Trujillo and her husband were shot dead less than 24 hours after an international march calling for an end to murders of social activist in the country.

Yisella Trujillo, a social leader from Colombia was murdered Saturday, less than 24 hours after a march took place against the mass murders of Colombian social and community leaders including members of the People's Alternative Revolutionary Force of Colombia (FARC).

Trujillo and her husband were shot at in Puerto Rico, Caqueta Saturday. She died at the spot and her husband died while the first respondents tried to save his life.

Puerto Rico's ombudsman Herner Carreño told local media that Trujillo and her family reported death threats for trying to reclaim their dispossessed land back from where they fled during the armed conflict.

Mayor Hernan Bravo said, "we hope that with the accompaniment of all the institutions we will be able to clarify this regrettable incident that we reject and repudiate."

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LGB vs. T: How the transgender issue is dividing a movement

Robby Soave
College Fix
Mon, 29 Jul 2019 23:55 UTC

Today there are tensions between a second-wave feminism that is worried about people who were born men co-opting their movement and a younger feminism that embraces all people who self-identify as women. The new view has largely won that fight, and this victory has influenced how the broader public discusses trans issues.

Consider what happened to filmmaker Kimberly Peirce at Reed College in 2016. She had been invited to Reed College in the fall of 2016 for a screening of her landmark 1999 film Boys Don't Cry. The movie tells the true story of a transgender man who was murdered. Peirce herself has identified as a lesbian and genderqueer, and her movie contains a message of acceptance.

To say that Peirce was not well received at Reed would be a considerable understatement. Students hung profane posters near the podium; one read "You don't fucking get it." Waiting at the podium itself was a "Fuck you" poster, and students screamed other expletives at Peirce, bringing the event to an early close.

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Fascism victorious as Greek MPs finally submit to globalists' anti-smoking regime

Helena Smith
The Guardian
Mon, 29 Jul 2019 22:14 UTC

The former EU Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, Vytenis Andrikaitis, himself Greek, earlier this year 'shamed' Greece's deputy health minister Pavlos Polakis for smoking in public, saying "He knows nothing of health!"

Until not so very long ago Greek MPs thought nothing of lighting up in the august halls of the Athens parliament.

So common was the habit that a thick fog of cigarette smoke often hovered over the building's cafe, a few metres from the legislative chamber where deputies had once voted to ban smoking in all public spaces, including the 300-seat House.

Nine years, 10 months and 26 days after that ban came into effect, lawmakers are finally being forced to abide by it too.

"There's definitely been a change," said Dimitris Tarantsas, who has waited on MPs from behind the cafe's bench-top bar for the past 18 years. "The law, for the first time, is being upheld."

Comment: Good effort, Greece. You held out well. But there was only ever going to be one winner.

Onwards into the Glorious Clean Future!

52 killed as prison gangs riot & decapitate 16 rivals in Brazil - UPDATE

RT
Mon, 29 Jul 2019 17:15 UTC

More than 50 people have been killed after intense, hours-long violence broke out in a prison in Para, Brazil. Officials say 16 of the dead were decapitated as rival prison gangs fought.

Extremely graphic footage shared online purportedly filmed inside the prison shows men kicking and tossing several severed heads around as bodies lie prone nearby. Other footage shows part of the prison in flames.

Fighting broke out in the Altamira Regional Recovery Center around 7am local time when the members of one gang invaded an area occupied by a rival group, an official from the Para state government's penitentiary department said.

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UPDATE 30/07/2019: Spurnik further reports:

A total of 57 prisoners were killed as a result of a riot in a jail in Brazil's northern state of Para, Reuters reported. During the riot, 16 people were reportedly beheaded, while some other prisoners suffocated to death after a fire broke out in the building.

Riots at prison in Brazil leaves over 50 dead.
The incident was reportedly provoked by two crime gangs, which were in conflict with each other. The riot reportedly began at 7:00 a.m. local time (10:00 GMT) and ended at noon on Monday.

"It was a targeted act [...] The aim was to show that it was a settling of accounts between the two gangs", state prison director Jarbas Vasconcelos said in the statement, adding there was no prior intelligence that suggested an attack would take place, according to Reuters.

According to the organization, many prisoners awaiting trial are held next to those who have already been convicted, which is against human rights principles, while harsh laws on drug possession lead to people being jailed for minor offenses and thus becoming vulnerable to recruitment by gangs.

Death toll rises to 20 with 50 injured in attack on Afghan president's deputy office in Kabul

Sputnik
Mon, 29 Jul 2019 07:08 UTC

A spokesman for the Afghan Interior Ministry earlier said that two out of four terrorists who attacked the electoral office have been gunned down by the police.

At least 20 were killed and 50 injured in attack on the electoral office of Afghan President Ashraf Ghani's election running mate Amrullah Saleh in Kabul on Sunday, the government said in a statement on Monday.

"The attack started at around 04:30 Sunday afternoon on Afghanistan Green Trend Office with a car bombing which was followed by armed men attack. The attack killed 20 people and wounded 50 more," the statement said.

On Sunday, at least two people were reported killed and 25 more wounded as a result of the bombing that occurred near Saleh's electoral office. Militants detonated an explosive laden vehicle at about 05:00 p.m. local time (12:30 GMT). The country's Interior Ministry said later in the day that the group of four militants stormed Saleh's office following the explosion.

No militant group has claimed responsibility for the bombing so far.

The attack came after electoral campaigns for the upcoming presidential election started earlier in the day. The vote is set to take place on September 28.

Near Old City's Jaffa Gate, a final showdown looms for Jerusalem's historic hotel

Sarah Helm
Guardian
Sun, 21 Jul 2019 04:00 UTC

Standing on a balcony at the New Imperial Hotel, overlooking Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, 75-year-old Walid Dajani last week declared a one-man war on Jewish settlers.

Officials from Israel's supreme court had served an eviction notice against Dajani following a ruling last month that the disputed 2005 sale of the historic 40-room hotel to a radical settler group was valid. The Jewish settlers' organisation Ateret Cohanim immediately branded him "a squatter" and threatened to seize the building. Such a move would establish a strategically valuable settler presence just inside Jaffa Gate, the main entrance to the ancient city's Christian Quarter.

According to Dajani, the settlers - who seek to create a Jewish majority throughout the Old City which, along with East Jerusalem, was annexed by Israel in the Arab-Israeli war of 1967 - are enacting "the rape of Jaffa Gate". His family has owned land on nearby Mount Zion for 800 years, and has run the New Imperial since 1949. "From this moment I am embarking on the fight of my life," he said, calling on Christians, Muslims, Jews and world leaders to fall in behind him. "On my back, they will take me out."

Oh, baby! 36 nurses in Kansas City hospital NICU due to give birth this year

Kate Roush via GMA
ABC News
Mon, 29 Jul 2019 12:29 UTC

How many pregnant nurses does it take to save the lives of babies in need?

At this one intensive care nursery, 36 to be exact.

The Neonatal Intensive Care Nursery (NICU) at Children's Mercy in Kansas City, Missouri, had an impressive number of 36 pregnant nurses due in 2019.

Allison Ronco, 32, a critical care education coordinator and nurse, was the first of three dozen to give birth, to a beautiful baby boy named Henry, on January 7.

Silicon Pravda: YouTube exec says 'new rules and laws' needed to tackle platform's 'bad actors'

RT
Mon, 29 Jul 2019 16:44 UTC

YouTube has grown so much that it needs new rules to handle "bad actors," its chief product officer claims. The company recently announced it would block racist content and disinformation amid accusations of biased censorship.

Comment: In practice, this means it will block anything critical of the Israeli state, and any alternative news that may happen to correlate with news provided by Russians - among other things.

"YouTube has now grown to a big city. More bad actors have come into place. And just like in any big city, you need a new set of rules and laws and kind of regulatory regime," Neal Mohan told AFP.

Comment: Not when you're imagining crimes where none exist.

The video platform and other tech companies are facing scrutiny and calls for regulation for their apparent failure to shut down content promoting hate speech, disinformation and the exploitation of minors. They are also accused of biased censorship which silences free speech, and of failing to enforce their own rules.

"We want to make sure that YouTube remains an open platform because that's where a lot of the magic comes from, even though there may be some opinions and voices on the platform that I don't agree with, that you don't agree with," Mohan said.

The company has faced a series of recent controversies, including an "Adpocalypse" (when major advertisers pull their ads) when it was revealed that an algorithm was directing users to videos of children which pedophiles were using to express their sexual thoughts in the comments and to share links to child porn. Many of the videos were monetized.

Comment: Ironically, with these policies - many of which are already in practice - YouTube is becoming more like the propaganda wing of a totalitarian fascist or communist regime.

NYPD in the grip of a mental health crisis; 5 suicides in two months

Doha Madani
NBC News
Sun, 28 Jul 2019 16:22 UTC

Another New York City police officer died by suicide amid what officials have declared a "mental health crisis."

The Sergeants Benevolent Association said on social media Saturday that the late officer was a sergeant, but neither the union nor the NYPD have identified the officer. Commissioner James O'Neill pleaded with his police force to seek help for any mental health issues that they may be facing.

"To every member of the NYPD, please know this: it is okay to feel vulnerable," O'Neill said in a statement Saturday. "It is okay if you are facing struggles. And it is okay to seek help from others. You may not know this, and it may be hard to imagine, but you are not out there all by yourself."

African migrant in Frankfurt, Germany pushes mother and child in front of high-speed train, killing 8-year-old boy

Sputnik
Mon, 29 Jul 2019 18:25 UTC

According to Deutsche Welle, the suspect was arrested by the police after he had tried to flee the scene after reportedly trying to push other people onto the tracks.

An eight-year-old boy was killed after he was pushed in front of an oncoming train by a man at Frankfurt's main train station on Monday, media reports say.

According to Reuters, the man also pushed the boy's mother but she survived.

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Society's Child

Colombia is the real 'Venezuela': Day after mass protests against targeted killings of 700+ civil society leaders, ANOTHER leading activist is murdered by the state

LGB vs. T: How the transgender issue is dividing a movement

Fascism victorious as Greek MPs finally submit to globalists' anti-smoking regime

52 killed as prison gangs riot & decapitate 16 rivals in Brazil - UPDATE

Death toll rises to 20 with 50 injured in attack on Afghan president's deputy office in Kabul

Near Old City's Jaffa Gate, a final showdown looms for Jerusalem's historic hotel

Oh, baby! 36 nurses in Kansas City hospital NICU due to give birth this year

Silicon Pravda: YouTube exec says 'new rules and laws' needed to tackle platform's 'bad actors'

NYPD in the grip of a mental health crisis; 5 suicides in two months

African migrant in Frankfurt, Germany pushes mother and child in front of high-speed train, killing 8-year-old boy

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