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Engine of the world economy: Chinese factory activity highest in over 2 years

RT
Tue, 01 Nov 2016 17:04 UTC

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A worker installs rubber onto the windows of the doors along a production line at a truck factory JAC Motors in Hefei, Anhui province, China.

A significant improvement in China's key activity surveys is reinforcing hopes of stabilization in the world's second largest economy.

Activity in China's manufacturing sector of mainly large state-owned factories, expanded at the fastest pace last month since July 2014.

The Markit/Caixin Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) survey came in at 51.2 for October, up from 50.1 the previous month. The result was much higher than analyst expectations of 50.4.

A reading above 50 indicates an expansion in activity on a monthly basis, anything below 50 means contraction.

Output expanded at the quickest rate since early 2011 as new orders rebounded, according to the survey. Stronger demand led improved domestic orders as the level of new export sales fell slightly over the month.

Comment: The money China gets from this is being spent on buying up assets all over the world. For example, last year, Chinese state-owned enterprises bought 263 million euros' worth of assets in Germany. This year they bought 10.3 BILLION euros' worth!

'Stop bombing Syria and Iraq': Audio of Orlando nightclub shooter's 911 call released

RT
Tue, 01 Nov 2016 15:29 UTC

Calls to 911 from the man who murdered 49 people at an LGBT nightclub in Orlando this summer have been released. Omar Mateen is heard telling police negotiators that the US must "stop bombing Syria and Iraq."

Circuit Judge Margaret Schreiber ordered the audio recordings of Omar Mateen's conversations with police negotiators be released on Monday after Orlando city attorney Darryl Bloodworth announced the city would halt fighting the release. While transcripts of the half-hour-long negotiations have been available since September, the City of Orlando began to slowly release audio as it was legally approved.

There are still 200 recorded 911 calls related to the shooting that have not been released, as they remain under review by Schreiber, Treasure Coast Newspapers reported. State law restricts the release of recordings of a person being killed.

Comment: More on the Mateen 911 calls: Orlando shooter Omar Mateen's 911 call transcript finally released: But timeline doesn't add up

And more on the shooting:

DAPL protestor charged with attempted murder of police officer while resisting arrest

RT
Tue, 01 Nov 2016 14:37 UTC

Red Fawn Fallis, DAPL protestor charged murder

A Colorado woman participating in the Dakota Access pipeline protests in North Dakota is being charged with attempted murder of a law enforcement officer after allegedly firing three rounds from her gun while resisting arrest.

Red Fawn Fallis, 37, was arrested Thursday at the construction site of an oil pipeline in North Dakota. On Monday, she was officially charged with attempted murder.

According to the affidavit, law enforcement attempted to arrest Fallis while clearing protesters from the construction zone, claiming she was "an instigator and acting disorderly." She allegedly resisted arrest and managed to get her left hand free to grab a handgun on the left side of her body, MTN News reported.

Comment: Given that police routinely manufacture threats and lie about the circumstances surrounding arrests, it's questionable whether the protestor was actually intending to shoot the officers. The protests have generally been non-violent until militarized police instigate unrest.

Sex acts with boys were filmed at Danish asylum center

RT
Tue, 01 Nov 2016 15:07 UTC

Denmark's Radio 24syv has disclosed harrowing details about the sex assault scandal at an asylum center for troubled children. Sexual acts were captured on video and photographed, and at least three officials reportedly knew for months what was happening.

The station reported that a female employee at the Børnecenter Tullebølle center had oral sex with at least one underage asylum seeker, as well as a full sexual intercourse with another boy. The acts were both photographed and recorded on tape, according to information obtained by the radio station, as cited by the Local.

Radio 24syv also got the police report that the local Langeland Municipality delivered to Funen Police in June. The municipality spoke about their suspicions in the letter, saying they believed a female employee at the center to be having sex with three underage boys.

Police officer terminated after accidentally shooting daughter

RT
Tue, 01 Nov 2016 14:55 UTC

A North Carolina police officer has been terminated after shooting her own daughter. She was showing off her service weapon to guests at her home when the girl was shot in the abdomen.

A Lincoln County sheriff's deputy is facing a double tragedy after accidentally shooting her daughter with her service firearm while off-duty. Misty Michelle Flowers allegedly had friends to her home Saturday night and was showing her service weapon to them when she accidentally fired.

The bullet traveled through a wall and hit her 11-year-old daughter in the abdomen, the Shelby Star reported.

The girl is expected to recover, unlike her mother's career.

As a result, Flowers has been terminated and is being investigated by the State Bureau of Investigation.

Denmark: Refugee woman and her 2 children found dead in freezer

RT
Tue, 01 Nov 2016 15:52 UTC

The bodies of a 27-year-old Syrian refugee woman and her two children have been found dead in a freezer in the south of Denmark, prompting an investigation.

Police made the gruesome discovery on Sunday night in the southern town of Aabenraa after being alerted by the woman's brother, according to local media. He said he had been unable to get in touch with her for a number of days. The man took the officers to her apartment, where together they found the bodies of the 27-year-old victim and her daughters, aged seven and nine.

Several streets were sealed off in the neighborhood with police combing through the surrounding area with forensic teams and dogs. Several witnesses reported seeing officers in riot gear.

At least 6 killed, 200 trapped as blasts and fire hit oil tanker in Pakistan

RT
Tue, 01 Nov 2016 09:38 UTC

At least six workers have been killed in a series of explosions triggered by a blaze at the Gadani shipbreaking yard in Pakistan. Some 200 others are reportedly trapped inside the yard, with the fire still raging.

"Over 200 workers are trapped inside the shipbreaking yard engulfed by flames," Deputy General Secretary of the National Trade Union Federation Nasir Mansoor said, as cited by the Tribune newspaper.

Indian billionaire gives employees cars and apartments as Diwali gifts

Firstpost
Tue, 01 Nov 2016 03:49 UTC

nown for his benevolent Diwali gifts to his employees, Surat-based billionaire diamond merchant Savji Dholakia has this year too kept over a thousand cars and 400 flats to his well-performing staffers with the company bearing part of the monthly installments.

Dholakia, who owns the Hare Krishna Exports, has gifted 400 flats and 1,260 cars as Diwali bonuses to his employees. However, the company will bear a part, Rs 5,000, of the loan installments on the flats and the cars for five years.

"We have selected 1,716 employees as the best performers this year. We are arranging for houses for those who already own cars, while those who don't have a four-wheeler will get one," Dholakia told IANS.

He said the 400 flats each of 1,100 square feet would be allotted in a housing scheme of the company itself. "The flats would come dirt cheap at Rs 15 lakh and the monthly installment, which the employee will start paying after five years will be Rs 11,000," he said. The bonus, which were announced at an informal meeting of employees, on Tuesday have been an annual ritual at Hare Krishna Exports.

Last year, Dholakia's company similarly gave 491 cars and 200 flats to its employees. The year before that, it spent Rs 50 crore on performance incentives, Dholakia said.

The diamond merchant, who hails from Dudhala village in Amreli district in Saurashtra region, established and nurtured his business using a loan from his uncle. He had sent his son Dravya to eke out a job in Kerala to learn the ropes.

Manufactured anti-Semitism and the dark side of Jewish consciousness

Lillian Rosengarten
Mondoweiss
Sat, 29 Oct 2016 00:00 UTC

Hajo Meyer

I dedicate this essay to Hajo Meyer (1924-2014) anti-Zionist, political activist, Auschwitz survivor and hero in the struggle for Palestinian freedom. His words continue to inform me and his actions comfort my sorrow.

"An anti-Semite used to be a person who disliked Jews. I am not anti-Jew. I am anti-Zionist"
"Zionism has nothing to do with Judaism. "

Zionism has always equated any criticism with anti-Semitism, delegitimization or worse. It serves as propaganda to maintain the illusion of Jews as "victims." Ultra Nationalists who believe in their moral superiority create political terror in order to silence and deny.

Who could imagine in 1945 following the defeat of Nazi Germany, there would be within a few short years a bizarre escalation, a toxic spread of anti-Semitism inflamed in part by a country with two faces. One face claims to be "the only Democracy in the Middle East" while the other face engages in an agenda embracing a genocidal occupation that spans across three generations of Palestinian children born in captivity. This is the face of Zionism with its dream of a Jewish State for Jews only, "Palestinians not allowed." There is an alter ego where truth breaks through all forms of denial. A painful truth that many are still unable to accept as a viable reality. It is the agenda of Israeli Zionism that inflicts the horrors of disenfranchisement and genocide onto an entire population of Palestinians, unwanted, hated and considered "inferior."

Teenage Russian boy arrested for decapitating man over dispute about a girl

The Siberian Times
Fri, 28 Oct 2016 21:56 UTC

The beheaded body of Artyom Shustov, 19, was found early today in bushes in Komsomolsk-on-Amur in the Russian Far East. His head was severed with a kitchen knife, according to police.

Police have arrested 16 year old Nikita Rasskazov on suspicion of killing his love rival Shustov, said a source in the Investigative Committee, equivalent of the FBI.

The detained youth confessed to first killing the man, then using a kitchen knife to sever his head, which he threw in the Amur River.

'We detained an acquaintance of the victim who said that he first killed and then beheaded the victim because of jealousy', a police source told Life.ru

The girl over whom the pair was allegedly in dispute was not named.

The body was found in Zheleznodorozhnikov (Railway Workers) Park, around 100 metres from the entrance. 'It was dragged for about ten metres to be hidden into the bushes, the trace is quite visible,' said a witness.

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Society's Child

Engine of the world economy: Chinese factory activity highest in over 2 years

'Stop bombing Syria and Iraq': Audio of Orlando nightclub shooter's 911 call released

DAPL protestor charged with attempted murder of police officer while resisting arrest

Sex acts with boys were filmed at Danish asylum center

Police officer terminated after accidentally shooting daughter

Denmark: Refugee woman and her 2 children found dead in freezer

At least 6 killed, 200 trapped as blasts and fire hit oil tanker in Pakistan

Indian billionaire gives employees cars and apartments as Diwali gifts

Manufactured anti-Semitism and the dark side of Jewish consciousness

Teenage Russian boy arrested for decapitating man over dispute about a girl

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