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Most ludicrous apologies forced from those who didn't toe media line on Kavanaugh


RT
Sat, 06 Oct 2018 13:17 UTC
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Are they ready to accept your apologies?
RT looks at those who have been caught in the cross-fire of the campaign against the Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, and forced to pay a price.

Joe Kaplan, a Facebook executive who has been friends with Kavanaugh for decades, had the gall to attend his Senate hearing last week. Kaplan was forced to say sorry for the "deeply painful moment," while the social media network released a message saying its leadership had "made mistakes."
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Tens of thousands of Scots turn out in capital demanding second independence vote


RT
Sat, 06 Oct 2018 15:32 UTC
edinburgh protests
© Russell Cheyne/Reuters
Edinburgh's streets turned blue on Saturday as tens of thousands of Scots marched to demand independence. The high attendance is in defiance of London's insistence that there is no "appetite" for independence in Scotland.

Marching under the slogan of 'All Under One Banner,' the campaign hopes to unite Scots of different political stripes to advocate for a second referendum on independence, after a 2014 vote went narrowly in favor of remaining part of the United Kingdom.

Estimates from the campaign suggest that at least 100,000 people have turned out to voice their support for a second vote on Scottish independence.

The weather too seemingly turned out in support of the marchers, with blue skies overhead matching that of the sea of Scottish flags below. Others waved flags in solidarity with the Catalonian independence movement, a united Ireland, and the EU.
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The erasure of Palestine, one village at a time

Mariam Barghouti
Al Jazeera
Tue, 10 Jul 2018 14:02 UTC
palestinian woman arrested
© Reuters/Mohamad Torokman
Israeli policemen detain a Palestinian girl in the Palestinian Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar near Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank on July 4, 2018
Israel wants the village of Khan al-Ahmar razed to the ground to cut off Jerusalem from the West Bank.

It was a bit ironic to see a small group of Israeli settlers enter the large solidarity tent stationed at the entrance of Khan al-Ahmar last Wednesday. They had come, they said, to show "solidarity" with the Palestinian Bedouins protesting a demolition order.

Since 2017, the whole Bedouin village has been threatened with demolition by the Israeli authorities. Earlier that day, Israeli soldiers attacked villagers and activists who had staged a protest, injuring 35.

Khan al-Ahmar, a village of 180 people, is about 15km northeast of Jerusalem and falls within what is known as Area C of the occupied West Bank, as defined by the Oslo Accords. The area has been inundated with more than 300,000 Israelis living in 125 illegal settlements and is under Israeli administrative control. Under the Oslo Accords, the Palestinian Authorities was supposed to take over administering the area, but, of course, Israel never let that happen.

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Antifa leader, Yvette Felarca, fails in her efforts to block the release of records documenting her terrorist activities


Judicial Watch
Fri, 05 Oct 2018 13:55 UTC
Yvette Felarca

Yvette Felarca
A California teacher's case to block Judicial Watch from obtaining public records about her violent Antifa activism is "entirely frivolous," a federal judge said during a hearing this week in San Francisco. The Berkeley Unified School District (BUSD) middle school teacher, Yvette Felarca, is a national organizer for a radical leftist group and last year Judicial Watch filed a California Public Records Act (CPRA) request to get information about her violent Antifa activism. Claiming to be the victim of a political witch hunt, Felarca sued the district in federal court to keep it from fulfilling its legal obligation to provide Judicial Watch with the records.

In Judicial Watch's 24-year history of submitting thousands of public records requests and litigating hundreds of public records lawsuits in state and federal courts nationwide, a third party has never sued to stop a government agency from responding to one of its requests. Additionally, Judicial Watch has never been required to litigate a state public records act lawsuit in a federal court. At this week's hearing Judge Vince Chhabria, an Obama appointee at the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, found the controversial teacher's argument to be "entirely frivolous" and declined to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over her state law claims. A written order will follow, representing a huge victory for the public's right to information about government and the taxpayer-funded officials that operate it.

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12yo Russian 'cannibal' & her 22yo lover kill, dismember landlord out of 'hunger and curiosity' - unconfirmed reports [Update]


RT
Fri, 05 Oct 2018 08:42 UTC
russia cannibal crime scene
© Russia's Investigative Committee
A story that appears to come straight from a horror movie has unraveled in Russia's Leningrad region, where a 22-year-old man and his 12-year-old 'lover' reportedly killed, dismembered and partially ate their landlord.

While authorities have yet to confirm the grisliest details of the bone-chilling crime, what they've officially revealed so far is already frightening enough. On Wednesday, the dismembered body of a young man was found at his home in a small village near St. Petersburg. Two suspects were soon caught - a man in his early 20s and his 12-year-old companion, who "took part in the assault", according to the police statement.

The pair lived in the house with the owner's permission, but sometime on Tuesday night or Wednesday morning the tenants and the 21-year-old landlord got into a quarrel, which ended with him being stabbed to death, the police believe. The victim's body was later mutilated, with the investigators currently "checking information that fragments of the killed person's body had been used as food."

Comment: Another cannibal case was in the news last week: Russian cannibal serial killer couple wife faces 15 years for role in murder of final victim - confessed to killing and eating at least 30 victims

Update: More details released on the 12-year-old girl, referred to as Valeria by the media:
Valeria from russia
Valeria was reported missing after leaving Sochi for Leningrad region (photo from vk.com)

Conversations with people who knew Valeria seem to show a few troubling alarm bells - but nothing to predict the horrifying atrocity she would be complicit in.

Ruptly found the girl's distressed mother, Nadezhda, who refused to say much, only mentioning that Valeria liked anime. Indeed, her purported page on VKontake (the top Russian social network) has pictures in the Japanese cartoon style all over it, some of a lewd nature.

"In class, she behaved like a normal student," Yuliya Myakisheva, Valeria's teacher, recalls. Studying was "hard for her," especially math, she sometimes "misbehaved during breaks" and wasn't very keen on school overall. Myakisheva remembers talking to Valeria's mother, who said it was "hard to deal" with the would-be cannibal.

Valeria once triggered a police search when she went missing during school holidays, the teacher said. And according to the family's neighbor Georgy, she would sometimes "go out at night, come back home late at night, or not at all." The 12-year-old "went out with boys," he believes.


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US professor who wished 'death & castration' to Kavanaugh defenders is sent on paid working trip


RT
Sat, 06 Oct 2018 13:35 UTC
Kavanaugh appointment protest
© Stephen Yang / Reuters
Protest against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh in New York, October 4, 2018
A Georgetown University professor, suspended from Twitter over calls to murder 'entitled white men' for supporting Judge Brett Kavanaugh and to 'castrate their corpses,' is being sent to travel internationally for research.

Dr. Carol Christine Fair made headlines this week when she tweeted that "entitled white men justifying a serial rapist's arrogated entitlement" deserve "miserable deaths" and that, as a bonus, their corpses should be castrated and fed to pigs.

Twitter suspended her account over that post on Tuesday, temporarily, as it turns out, because Fair was back on the social network within a day. Meanwhile, Georgetown's School of Foreign Service, where she teaches, has decided to "punish" her by sending her on a trip abroad.
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Cleveland judge refuses to send petty criminals to jail until inmates stop mysteriously dying

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Fri, 05 Oct 2018 13:37 UTC
Cleveland judge
In the last four months, six inmates inside the Cuyahoga County Jail have met an untimely demise. The suspicious nature of their deaths and the subsequent blocking of information by the jail has one Cleveland Judge taking action and refusing to send people to jail who are charged with crimes.

Cleveland Municipal Judge Michael Nelson announced this week that he will no longer be sending people to the jail unless they are accused of committing horrible crimes because inmates keep turning up dead.

Instead of locking them up, Nelson will set personal bonds for people-meaning that the judge will turn people loose on their own accord instead of making them pay bail. The judge reached out to Cleveland.com this week to tell them that he plans on reaching out to the court's administrative judge, Michelle Earley, to set up a meeting to figure out why so many inmates are dying.

"The first thing I did this morning when I saw [the cleveland.com] story is look to see if it was someone I sent to jail," Nelson said. "I'm giving personal bonds to everyone from now on unless they're the worst of the worst until things get figured out at the jail."
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US man who sent 'ricin letters' to Trump & Pentagon also mailed toxins to Putin & Queen Elizabeth II


RT
Sat, 06 Oct 2018 13:26 UTC
William Clyde Allen III
© Davis County Sheriffs Department/Handout via / Reuters
William Clyde Allen III
The Utah man who staged a botched ricin poison attack against a number of top US officials, including President Trump, claimed he has also sent toxins to foreign leaders, including President Vladimir Putin, court documents show.

William Clyde Allen III, who was caught mailing a biological toxin to Donald Trump, FBI Director Christopher Wray, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Adm. John Richardson, also sent letters containing ground pieces of castor beans, from which the ricin poison is derived, to the British queen and the Russian president.

The suspect "further informed he had sent other letters with the same contents to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the Queen of England, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and the Secretary of the Air Force (whose name he did not recall)," a 10-page court document filed on Friday revealed.
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Marine le Pen's daughter violently assaulted, hit in the head

Abdelhamid Kaddour
Voice of Europe
Fri, 05 Oct 2018 12:57 UTC
Marine Le Pen
© Frederic Legrand - COMEO / shutterstock.com
The National Rally leader's daughter was physically assaulted when she was out with her cousin, newspaper le Parisien reports.

One of Marine le Pen's daughters was assaulted in the early hours of Friday morning in Nanterre while out in a bowling bar in the Nelson-Mandela Place.

Comment: Marine Le Pen had this to say about the incident:
The incident provoked outrage from the former French presidential candidate who called the attack a "gratuitous aggression," and added: "there was no fight ... there was an assault, a gratuitous assault on two young people aged 18 and 19."

"But this is not inevitable. This is, I believe, the consequence of political choices that have been made for a number of years," she continued, saying her daughter was in a state of shock about the attack but that she was relieved the incident was not more serious.


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Forgiveness? Forget about it

Caitlin Johnstone
caitlinjohnstone.com
Sat, 06 Oct 2018 09:11 UTC
pope carries baby
Journalist David Sirota has just published an excellent op-ed titled "America's new aristocracy lives in an accountability-free zone", which begins with the observation that "Enron executives were among the last politically connected criminals to face any serious consequences for institutionalized fraud." Sirota goes on to remind readers how there was never any attempt by either mainstream political party to bring accountability to anyone responsible for monstrous offenses ranging from the disastrous invasion of Iraq to the ecocidal manipulations of fossil fuel plutocrats to the Wall Street plundering which led to the 2008 global financial crisis.

Sirota's argument is solid: there is an aristocratic class which has successfully neutered all the institutional mechanisms which were meant to protect the powerless from the powerful. The government is bought and owned by the plutocrats and so is the media, as the continued forgiveness of unforgivable transgressions which those institutions have been bestowing upon the aristocracy clearly reflects. This means that the only thing left protecting the populace from the powerful is the populace itself.


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