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Elderly Indian couple fights off home invaders with slippers and chairs


India Today
Tue, 13 Aug 2019 16:41 UTC
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A CCTV grab of the Tamil Nadu couple fighting off robbers with chairs at their house on Sunday.
An elderly couple in Tamil Nadu bravely fought armed robbers with plastic chairs and slippers after the two miscreants entered their home last Sunday.

The incident, which took place on Sunday, was captured on CCTV cameras at the couple's home in Kalyanipuram.

In the video, which has gone viral on social media, 70-year-old Shanmugavel, sitting in the porch of his house, reaches out to pick a paper. This is when a masked man comes from behind and puts a piece of cloth around the neck of the man in an attempt to strangulate him.

An unsuspecting Shanmugavel fights off the machete-wielding man with the cloth still around his neck. As he struggles, shouts and kicks the man, his wife comes out running. This is when another intruder is seen in the CCTV footage.

And then begins the valiant fight.
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Propaganda

7 important questions about Jeffrey Epstein's death the mainstream media seems to be avoiding

Michael Snyder
The End of the American Dream
Tue, 13 Aug 2019 16:22 UTC
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Did Jeffrey Epstein commit suicide or was he murdered? This is a question that is being debated by millions of Americans right now, and without a doubt this is the biggest story of this news cycle. Unfortunately, the mainstream media is already dropping the ball. Instead of going wherever the evidence leads them, there already seems to be a tremendous effort to marginalize any explanations for his death other than "suicide". And it may turn out that "suicide" is where the evidence takes us, but while things are unclear we should not be afraid to ask the hard questions.

The following are 7 unanswered questions about Jeffrey Epstein's death that the mainstream media needs to be talking about...

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Cover story? Guards in Jeffrey Epstein's jail unit were said to be working substantial overtime shifts before his death

Louis Casiano
Fox News
Tue, 13 Aug 2019 16:10 UTC
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© Associated Press/Bebeto Matthews
New York City medical examiner personnel walking on Saturday to the Manhattan Correctional Center where financier Jeffrey Epstein died.
Correctional officers who worked in a special unit inside the New York City jail that housed Jeffrey Epstein -- before his apparent suicide -- had worked extreme overtime shifts to compensate for staffing shortages, according to reports Sunday.

The Associated Press cited an unnamed source in a Sunday report that said the Metropolitan Correctional Center's Special Housing Unit was staffed with a single guard working a fifth straight day of overtime and another who was working mandatory overtime.

Epstein, 66, was found unconscious in his cell Saturday. He later was pronounced dead from an apparent suicide, raising questions as to how the wealthy financier might have been able to kill himself under the nose of staff in the high-security facility.

The correctional center did not immediately return Fox News' requests for comment.

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No Deal has 17-point lead over 'no Brexit' as October deadline looms


Westmonster
Tue, 13 Aug 2019 10:51 UTC
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A bombshell new Opinium poll has exposed how there is massively more public support for finally leaving the European Union on 31st October without a deal than cancelling Brexit. Remoaners once again exposed as a shrinking fringe amplified by Remainstream media.

The poll, carried out days ago, asked voters: "If Boris Johnson is unable to make changes to the Withdrawal Agreement that enables it to pass the House of Commons before October 31st, which of the following should he do?"

46% want to see a No Deal Brexit delivered at the end of October, whilst only 29% would want to see the UK's EU exit cancelled. That's a 17-point lead for a WTO Brexit compared to overturning the referendum result.

Comment: It remains to be seen whether the UK will leave the EU but the majority in the establishment have made their intent to ignore the will of the people pretty clear: Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Yellow Vest Protests, Brexit Farce - Revolutionary Climate in Western Europe?

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MSM ignores massive anti-sanctions protest rallies in Venezuela


RT
Tue, 13 Aug 2019 10:51 UTC
Anti-sanctions march Caracas Venezuela
© Reuters / Manaure Quintero
Anti-sanctions march in Caracas, Venezuela. August 10, 2019.
Leading English-language news organizations have provided extensive and dramatic coverage of anti-government protests in Venezuela, but mostly ignored large-scale rallies against US sanctions, which took place over the weekend.

Tens of thousands of Venezuelans flooded the streets of the country's capital, Caracas, on Saturday to denounce the economic blockade and sanctions imposed by the US. Many were wrapped in national flags and sported red shirts, typically worn by the supporters of the government. The rallies were held under the slogan 'No More Trump'.

The mainstream media stayed largely silent on the massive anti-sanctions rallies. This is a striking contrast to the extensive and often dramatic coverage the leading English-language news organizations have provided during anti-government protests, led by opposition leader Juan Guaido.
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5 timely reminders that the media think you are an idiot...

Kit Knightly
OffGuardian
Mon, 27 Aug 2018 10:15 UTC
bernie sanders
The corporate media think we are stupid. All of us. They have as much respect for our intellect or ability to reason as they do for the truth. This is displayed, in size 20 font, on the front page of every newspaper every single day. They paint a picture of an absurd world, and expect us all to nod along with it, blithely accepting their stories as true, no matter what laws of reason - or even physics - they bend to suit their purpose.

The world in the newspaper and on the television is not real in any true sense of the word. Merely a crazy fun-house mirror reflection of the truth. Important features shrunk to nothing, tiny flaws blown up out of proportion. Apparently solid shapes that - on inspection - are nothing but strange plays of light and shadow.

With that in mind, let's remind ourselves of the kind of completely bonkers things we're all expected to believe.

1. The Inherent silliness of "ISIS"

This was section was going to be more specific, but as I looked back over recent history, there was no single absurdity that highlighted how stupid the ISIS story was.

ISIS was, and is, silly. A few bullet points to demonstrate this - and a reminder that these are not exaggerated in any way. These are, supposedly, facts:

Comment: See also: Mainstream media's sloppy, inaccurate reporting is driving people to alternative news sources

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Male model accuses Katy Perry of pulling down his pants, exposing his penis to her friends

Nate Church
Breitbart
Mon, 12 Aug 2019 09:45 UTC
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Model and actor Josh Kloss alleges that pop megastar Katy Perry publicly pulled down his pants at costume designer Johnny Wujek's birthday party in 2012.

"I just say this now because our culture is set on proving men of power are perverse. But females with power are just as disgusting," Kloss said on Instagram. Kloss has accused the pop princess of assaulting him at Wujek's birthday party:
This one time I brought a friend who was dying to meet her. It was Johnny Wujek's birthday party at moonlight roller way. And when I saw her, we hugged and she was still my crush. But as I turned to introduce my friend, she pulled my Adidas sweats and underwear out as far as she could to show a couple of her guy friends and the crowd around us, my penis.
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Unhinged or insightful? McAfee gives latest advice for coming US civil war: "Arm yourselves to the f*****g teeth"

Tyler Durden
Zerohedge
Thu, 08 Aug 2019 17:25 UTC
John McAfee
The always rogue and occasionally imprisoned John McAfee has been dispensing free advice to all who will listen; from his "Mixology 101" series on bartending, to his Central America travel guide, to offering advice for young men, (which includes "stay out of jail as much as possible") - the 73-year-old gun-toting cybersecurity pioneer who parties harder than most 23-year-olds has some advice for surviving the upcoming civil war.

"Arm yourself to the fucking teeth"

Pointing to a political map of the United States ("This is the layout, assuming we're having war"), McAfee suggests that blue states "arm yourselves to the fucking teeth" with 'vastly superior Israeli weaponry.'

To the blue states of Colorado and New Mexico; "I'm sorry, you're surrounded. See if Mexico won't annex you."

To the central-north states, "you're too damn cold, noone wants you," and the Northeast should "just tell them you're part of Canada and they won't know the fucking difference."

Comment: Amidst the bluster that is McAfee's "advice" is acknowledgment of one sad and horrible truth; there is a whole segment of the US population that - Trump or no Trump - sees what the advances in the police state and other tyrannical political changes are leading towards - and these Americans are preparing to fight it come what may.

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Libtards continue to eat their own: Sarah Silverman now upset over 'cancel culture' after losing movie role over old blackface photo

Lexy Perez
The Hollywood Reporter
Sun, 11 Aug 2019 01:32 UTC
Sarah Silverman

Sarah Silverman
Sarah Silverman may be known for her hard-hitting, controversial comedy, but she is aware that her past sketches may prove to still haunt her years later — even her career.

During a recent discussion on The Bill Simmons Podcast, the comedian and actress admitted that a particular scene from a 2007 episode of The Sarah Silverman Program in which she sports blackface caused her to lose a role in an upcoming film.

"I recently was going to do a movie, a sweet part, then at 11 p.m. the night before they fired me because they saw a picture of me in blackface from that episode. I didn't fight it," Silverman shared with Simmons. She said that though she understood, she's not that person anymore: "They hired someone else who is wonderful but who has never stuck their neck out. It was so disheartening. It just made me real real sad, because I really kind of devoted my life to making it right."
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Epstein's death may be a "turning point in the public's willingness to accept official bullshit"

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Mon, 12 Aug 2019 23:50 UTC
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Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com,

He Did What??!!...

The only trouble with the conspiracy theory that hundreds of prominent and powerful people wanted Jeffrey Epstein dead is that Jeffrey Epstein might have wanted Jeffrey Epstein dead even more than they did. But that's mere conjecture. His mind is beyond being read. Of course, the evidence of his alleged crimes didn't die — the "meticulous" records he kept live on, along with the names of Mr. Epstein's patrons, clients, marks, however you might classify the celebs drawn into the pulsating estrogenic bubble of his life, humming that old tune "Thank Heaven for Little Girls...."

I'm a little surprised that Attorney General William Barr didn't have a heart attack upon learning the news. With Mr. Barr already fully engaged cleaning up the mighty mess in the Department of Justice, the FBI, and elsewhere — considerably aggravated by Robert Mueller's bungled operations — another stink bomb leaves federal law enforcement beskunked, bothered, and bewildered. And now the FBI is being sent into investigate? That's rich. America's Deep State looks like a re-make of that marvelous 2018 movie The Death of Stalin, a fabulous burlesque of people in high places acting like dishonorable idiots.
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