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Hungarian town bans mosque building, veils, burkas, muezzin readings, and LGBTQ promotion


RT
Wed, 30 Nov 2016 15:50 UTC
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© Bernadett Szabo / Reuters
A major Muslim organization in Hungary has hit out at the "increasing xenophobia and serious Islamophobia" in a town that recently banned the construction of mosques and the wearing of burkas - allegedly to prevent large-scale immigration.

Home to about 4,000 people, Asotthalom made the headlines after its right-wing mayor, Laszlo Toroczkai, filmed a cringeworthy Hollywood-style video in which he protects the southern border with Serbia from immigrants with a few trusted men by his side. This shot him to prominence in 2015, at the height of the European migrant crisis.

The current ban, on top of a 'no' to the construction of mosques, also includes readings by muezzins at prayer times, the wearing of all forms of veil - including the burkini - and the promotion of LGBTQ identities.

The mayor unveiled the new regulations in a Facebook post dated November 23. He explained the move saying this was to "protect the community and its traditions from any mass settlement from outside" as "more than 90 percent of refugees are Muslim."
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Law enforcement in North Dakota to begin blocking supplies to main camp of DAPL protesters


RT
Tue, 29 Nov 2016 23:06 UTC
oceti sakowin camp
© Stephanie Keith / Reuters
The Oceti Sakowin camp is seen in a snow storm during a protest against plans to pass the Dakota Access pipeline near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, near Cannon Ball, North Dakota, U.S. November 29, 2016
North Dakota law enforcement are about to start blocking supplies to the main camp of Dakota Access Pipeline protesters following an emergency evacuation order.

"They have deliveries, retailers that are delivering to them - we will turn around any of those services," Maxine Herr, a spokeswoman from the Morton County Sheriff's Department, has said, as cited by Reuters.

Trucks with "anything that goes to sustain living there," including food, building materials as well as propane tanks, will be turned back.

Those violating the order, both individuals and businesses ferrying supplies, can be stopped, questioned and face a fine as high as $1,000, Herr said, according to the Bismarck Tribune.

According to Emergency Services spokeswoman Cecily Fong, the measure has not been yet enforced on Tuesday and no supplies coming to the campsite have been stopped.

"They need to evacuate," Herr said, as cited by the Tribune. "The executive order is clear that it's public safety. If they ignore it, they have to live with the consequences of potentially freezing to death."
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Deranged father strangles daughter & nephew in Pakistan honor killing


RT
Wed, 30 Nov 2016 14:18 UTC
honor killing pakistan
© Athar Hussain / Reuters
Two teenage cousins have been killed in an alleged honor killing in the village of Rasool Bakhsh Wessar in Pakistan's Sindh province. The father of one of the two teens strangled both of them to death.

"A teenage girl identified as Gul Bano, 16, and her cousin Dur Muhammad, 18, son of Hakim Wessar, were killed over the pretext of honor killing by the father of the girl, Mushtaque Wessar, by beating them with baton and later strangling both to death," Sadar Station Police Officer Ayaz Pathan said.

Mushtaque Wessar suspected his daughter and her cousin had an illicit relationship, the Express Tribune reports. After seeing the two talking early Tuesday morning, he attacked them with a wooden stick before strangling them and fleeing the scene.
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For the first time since Standing Rock began, US Senator calls for investigation of DAPL oppression towards water protecters

Claire Bernish
The Free Thought Project
Tue, 29 Nov 2016 13:47 UTC
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New Jersey Senator Cory Booker is calling for the Department of Justice to 'promptly and thoroughly' investigate reports of brutal and abusive police tactics employed against peaceful water protectors opposing the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota.

In a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Deputy A.G. Vanita Gupta, Booker demanded an end to silence from the federal government in the matter, after myriad reports of injuries — some heinous — and possible abuse by jailers of those arrested.

"I write to urge your immediate attention to the ongoing situation at the Dakota Access Pipeline near the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's reservation in North Dakota, which has produced conflicting reports by law enforcement, protestors, and the media regarding the appropriate use of police tactics," the senator wrote.

Booker is the first federal politician to solicit tangible action from President Obama's administration — which has thus far remained astonishingly tight-lipped, despite alarming video footage from several brutal crackdowns on the unarmed water protectors by a nine-state coalition of law enforcement.

"I am deeply troubled by this tense situation," Booker wrote, "and particularly by reports indicating that law enforcement may be responding to peaceful protestors near Standing Rock with overly aggressive tactics. According to press reports, local police and private security agents have used disproportionate measures to suppress protestors, including firing bean bag rounds, tear gas, compression grenades, and using mace."

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Publications on Russian propaganda list consider suing anonymous 'experts'

Steven Nelson
US News
Tue, 29 Nov 2016 13:38 UTC
Washington Post fake news graphic
Several American news outlets are considering legal action against the anonymous person or group that last week published a widely distributed list of alleged Russian propaganda outlets and "bona-fide 'useful idiots'" of the Kremlin.

Online publications including the influential news-aggregating Drudge Report, the primary-source publisher WikiLeaks and news outlets of various leanings made "the list" hosted on the website PropOrNot.com.

The Washington Post leaned heavily on the anonymous group's claims last week in an article reporting that "two teams of independent researchers" - including the Foreign Policy Research Institute and PropOrNot - had found a "Russian propaganda effort helped spread 'fake news'" ahead of the recent presidential election.
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The Washington Post 'blacklist' story is shameful and disgusting

Matt Taibbi
Rolling Stone
Mon, 28 Nov 2016 03:00 UTC
Washington Post offices
© Raedle / Getty
Last week, a technology reporter for the Washington Post named Craig Timberg ran an incredible story. It has no analog that I can think of in modern times. Headlined "Russian propaganda effort helped spread 'fake news' during election, experts say," the piece promotes the work of a shadowy group that smears some 200 alternative news outlets as either knowing or unwitting agents of a foreign power, including popular sites like Truthdig and Naked Capitalism.
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Modi demonetizes 90% of the value of cash, Indians cheer

James Crabtree
Foreign Policy
Mon, 28 Nov 2016 00:00 UTC
Indians at ATM Machines
© CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP/Getty Images
Prime Minister Narendra Modi projects a stern, unbending public image. But the strain of leading the most dramatic and disruptive political change introduced in India for a generation seems to be getting even to him.

"I know that forces are up against me," he said, his voice cracking with emotion, in the aftermath of his sudden move on November 8th to junk India's two largest denomination rupee bills overnight, launching shock therapy for the country's cash-driven shadow economy. "They may not let me live, they may ruin me," he added darkly, "because their loot of 70 years is in trouble."

That sounds dramatic, but the scale of Modi's gamble invites hyperbole. The sudden scrapping of the Rs500 and Rs1000 notes — worth roughly $7 and $15 respectively, and accounting for nearly 90 percent of the value of cash in circulation — has plunged India's economy into chaos. For two weeks, newspaper front pages have pictured long lines snaking around banks, as rich and poor alike queue up to exchange old notes for new. 80 billion dollars has been deposited so far. The final total will be much higher.
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Much ado about animal fat: Vegetarians in uproar after Bank of England confirms bank notes contain tallow

Harley Tamplin
Metro
Mon, 28 Nov 2016 10:29 UTC
UK bank notes animal fat
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Bad news, vegans and vegetarians.
The new £5 notes contain animal fat, the Bank of England has confirmed.

Vegans and vegetarians have been left disgusted by the revelations about the note, that has been in circulation for three months.

It contains tallow, a substance made from animal fat that is often used in the manufacturing of candles and soap.
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Miss Minnesota Contestant Wears Muslim Headpiece, Burkini

Cristina Silva
International Business Times
Mon, 28 Nov 2016 00:00 UTC
A -19-year-old Somali-American beauty queen became the first woman to wear a burkini and hijab during the Miss Minnesota pageant over the weekend. Halima Aden wore the burkini during the swimsuit portion of the event and the traditional Muslim headpiece during the entire competition.

Aden, a student at St. Cloud State University, was born in a Kenyan refugee camp, and moved to the U.S. when she was six years old. She said an uptick in Islamophobia across the U.S. in recent years has sparked concern in her community. "The people that are doing bad things, they don't represent an entire group," Aden said. "I feel like I'm here to bust those misconceptions and stereotypes of Muslim women."

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Genetics researcher gifts Russia with cloned sniffer dogs

Will Stewart
The Mirror
Tue, 29 Nov 2016 01:35 UTC
cloned sniffer dogs
© Barcrot
Three Belgian Malinois - each valued at £80,000 - have been gifted to Russia
They are the first cloned service dogs in Russia and will be assigned to police and the FSB secret service in the coldest inhabited region in the world

Special "designer dogs" which have been cloned for sniffing explosives and drugs are being used by police and security services in Russia.

The three Belgian Malinois - each valued at £80,000 - were cloned by a South Korean professor who also aims one day to restore extinct woolly mammoths to the vast and frigid Russian province of Siberia.

They are the first cloned service dogs in Russia and they will be assigned to police and the FSB secret service in Yakutia, the coldest inhabited region in the world.
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