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US cops mow down murder suspect with police cruiser after chase and exchange of fire


Sputnik
Mon, 01 Oct 2018 06:52 UTC
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Michigan officers sent a murder suspect flying into the air last week by striking him with a police cruiser as he attempted to flee the scene on foot, video footage obtained by bystanders inside a nearby building shows.

The incident, which unfolded on Thursday, was filmed by workers inside an office building that overlooks the S-curve portion of US highway 131 in Grand Rapids. The police chase stemmed from a homicide investigation in which the suspect, 33-year-old Adam Kenneth Nolin, was believed to have fatally shot his girlfriend, 27-year-old Tia Randall, at their home in Wyoming, Michigan.

Footage of the encounter captures the moments officers zeroed in on Nolin on US 131 after the suspect had already crashed his vehicle and exchanged fired with officers. Officials on the scene were from the Grand Rapids Police Department and the Wyoming Police Department.


​"I looked up and I see the truck sideways and I hear the crash," Karin Kapteyn, one of three employees who witnessed the sudden use of force from the fourth floor of the nearby building, told local news outlet MLive.

"I see the guy get out of the truck, and I'm thinking, 'OK, he's surrendering, he's turning himself in,' and then it turned into a movie."
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UK trans parent heads to court to force govt to recognize her as male - child could be first to have no legal mother


UK Metro
Mon, 01 Oct 2018 06:45 UTC
trans lives matter
© Joel Goodman / Global Look Press
''Protect Trans lives '' placard, Leeds, West Yorkshire. August 5, 2018.
The most senior Family Court judge in England and Wales is set to rule on a case involving a transgender man whose baby is at the centre of a historic human rights fight. Lawyers say the baby could become the first person born in England or Wales who will not legally have a mother. The baby is the child of a single parent who was born a woman but now lives as a man after undergoing surgery.

Judges have heard that the man had been biologically able to get pregnant and give birth but had legally become male when the child was born. He wants to be identified as the child's 'father' or 'parent' on a birth certificate but a registrar has told him that the law requires people who give birth to be registered as mothers.

Sir Andrew McFarlane, President of the Family Division of the High Court, is due to decide whether only either 'father' or 'parent' can be listed on the child's birth certificate following a trial scheduled to take place at the High Court in London in February. The man has taken legal action after complaining of discrimination. He says forcing him to register as the child's 'mother' breaches his human right to respect for privacy and family life.


Comment: Your gender is no more private than the sound of your voice, the color of your eyes, or the strength of your character.

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Stock market crash in Italy, Argentina raises interest rates to 65 percent in panic

Michael Snyder
The Economic Collapse
Mon, 01 Oct 2018 00:00 UTC
Italy stock market
In the 9th largest economy in the world, the financial markets are crashing, and in the 21st largest economy in the world the central bank just raised interest rates to 65 percent to support a currency that is completely imploding. While the mainstream media in the United States continues to be obsessed with all things Kavanaugh, an international financial crisis threatens to spiral out of control. Stock prices are falling and currencies are collapsing all over the planet, but because the U.S. has been largely unaffected so far the mainstream media is mostly choosing to ignore what is happening. But the truth is that this is serious. The financial crisis in Italy threatens to literally tear the EU apart, and South America has become an economic horror show. The situation in Brazil continues to get worse, the central bank of Argentina has just raised interest rates to 65 percent, and in Venezuela starving people are literally eating cats and dogs in order to survive. How bad do things have to get before people will start paying attention?


Comment: "Eating cats and dogs in order to survive" sounds a lot like propaganda designed to justify US-led "intervention"...


On Friday, Italian stocks had their worst day in more than two years, and it was the big financial stocks that were on the cutting edge of the carnage...
Shares in Italian banks .FTIT8300, whose big sovereign bond portfolios makes them sensitive to political risk, bore the brunt of selling pressure, sinking 7.3 percent as government bonds sold off and the focus turned to rating agencies.

Along with the main Italian stock index .FTMIB, the banks had their worst day since the June 2016 Brexit vote triggered a selloff across markets.
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Former Miss Iraq receives death threats days after model shot dead in Baghdad


Sputnik News
Mon, 01 Oct 2018 00:00 UTC
Miss Iraq Shimaa Qasim
© Shimaa Qasim/ Instagram
The model's warning follows the deaths of other Iraqi social media stars and women's rights activists, as the mysterious string of murders continues with authorities unable to identify suspects or suggest a motive.

A model who was crowned Miss Iraq in 2015 and has almost 3 million followers on Instagram has warned she fears for her life after receiving multiple death threats online.

In a live broadcast on social media, Shimaa Qasim tearfully told her fans she had been threatened, with one person telling her "you are next", following the death of another Iraqi model.
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Russian MP calls for nationwide campaign, blames internet for encouraging teenage masturbation


RT
Mon, 01 Oct 2018 14:09 UTC
Gennady Onishchenko
© Valeriy Melnikov / Sputnik
Gennady Onishchenko, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Education and Science
A senior MP in charge of education and science has apparently started an anti-masturbation crusade as he alleged the practice to be extremely harmful to health and called for special classes in schools to deal with the issue.

In a radio interview, 67-year old Gennadiy Onishenko said masturbation was an acute problem and that it was especially spread among the younger generation. Then he alleged that the main reason behind this situation was the universal reach and availability of the internet. He said that the web had a "particular specialization" on masturbation and that even that it "encouraged" kids into playing with themselves.
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Attention

Media exaggerations: No criminal cases launched because of internet 'likes' - Russian prosecutors


RT
Mon, 01 Oct 2018 15:37 UTC
Detention center Moscow
© Sergey Pyatakov / Sputnik
Staff at Pre-trial Detention Center No.2 of the Federal Penitentiary Service's Moscow Directorate
Not a single criminal case into extremism has been launched in Russia because of an internet "like" and reports about such cases were exaggerations, a senior spokesman for the Prosecutor General's Office said.

The official, Aleksandr Kurennoy, blamed the media for creating a problem that did not exist. He said that journalists were simply using the formula of "probes launched into likes and reposts" when describing the recent anti-extremism campaign, while the reality was very different from the painted picture.

The spokesman urged reporters and the general public to distinguish between "likes" and "reposts" because only the latter could be seen as actual spreading of extremist information, the action that is forbidden and duly prosecuted by the law.
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Attention

Tommy Robinson threatens Sky News with legal action for editing interview to imply he 'wouldn't care about inciting fear of Muslims'


RT
Mon, 01 Oct 2018 14:50 UTC
Tommy Robinson sky news interview
EDL founder Tommy Robinson has accused Sky News of editing their interview with him to make it seem like he said he didn't mind inciting fear of Muslims, a sentiment which was reported in the press, including by RT.

The far-right activist turned self-styled journalist, Robinson was interviewed by Sky News Home Editor Jason Farrell. In the nine-minute edit of the video, which was seen by RT UK, Robinson appears to say that he wouldn't care if his activism incited fear of Muslims.

The point was reiterated by an accompanying article that was headlined: "Tommy Robinson: I don't care if I incite fear of Muslims."

In a response video titled: "Exposing Sky News lies and propaganda - I will take them to court for this," Robinson states: "[The] headline that's gone all around the world says that Tommy Robinson says he doesn't care if he - as in me - incites fear against Muslims."

As detailed in a video published on his YouTube channel, the excerpt was edited with a voice-over from Farrell coming before Robinson's answer, which changed the context of the question.

Comment: See: 'I don't care if I incite fear of Muslims, as long as it prevents children from being raped' - Tommy Robinson in heated interview

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Wolf

Hard sciences targeted by SJW madness: Scientist faces backlash after 'highly offensive' talk on gender bias


RT
Mon, 01 Oct 2018 20:34 UTC
women scientists
© Universal Images Group / Getty Images
A senior scientist at Pisa University has sparked anger following a talk he gave on the role of women in physics at Cern, the European nuclear research centre, in which he said that physics was "invented and built by men".

Responding to the backlash, Cern released a statement which said the talk given by Prof Alessandro Strumia had been "highly offensive" to women in science.

During the talk, Strumia said that male scientists were being discriminated against and that men were being passed over for jobs in favor of women based on "ideology rather than merit".

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Bizarro Earth

Brave New World Revisited, Again

Dan Glazebrook
RT
Fri, 28 Sep 2018 20:10 UTC
las vegas strip

Las Vegas, heaven and hell, simultaneously
60 years ago this year, Aldous Huxley published Brave New World Revisited, which concluded that the real world was moving towards the future predicted in his classic dystopian novel much more quickly than he had first imagined.

Brave New World, published almost three decades earlier, foresaw a future in which social control had been perfected through a mixture of cultural dumbing down, genetic engineering and the prodigious use of recreational drugs and no-strings sex. Unlike that other classic of dystopian fiction (George Orwell's 1984), Brave New World proved prophetic in its description of a world in which acquiescence to authority would be purchased through mindless consumerism, rather than imposed with bludgeon and baton. As he wrote in Revisited: "It has become clear that control through the punishment of undesirable behaviour is less effective, in the long run, that control through the reinforcement of desirable behaviour by rewards, and that government through terror works on the whole less well than government through the nonviolent manipulation of the environment and of the thoughts and feelings of the individual men, women and children." In the world of his fable, he noted, "punishment is infrequent and generally mild," adding that "It now looks like the odds are more in favour of something like Brave New World than of something like 1984" emerging.
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Quenelle

National strike empties streets: Palestinians unite against Israel's nation-state law


Middle East Eye
Mon, 01 Oct 2018 20:02 UTC
ramallah empty streets
© Alaa Daraghmeh
The usually busy streets of Ramallah were empty on Monday
Widespread strike brings Palestinians together against controversial law, but also serves as a platform for existing grievances

In a rare show of unity since 1948, Palestinians across the occupied territories staged a large-scale strike on Monday denouncing Israel's nation-state law, but also expressed widespread grievances against the 'deal of the century' and the imminent demolition of Khan al-Amar.

From factories to small village shops, schools to offices, Palestinians in Israel, East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza from a variety of political factions emptied workplaces, stopped shopping and brought busy streets to a standstill.
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