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Founder of Chinese smartphone company banned from travel for failing to comply with company court rulings


Reuters
Sun, 03 Nov 2019 18:01 UTC
Luo Yonghao
The founder of China's smartphone maker Smartisan Technology has been barred from taking flights and high-speed railway trains due to the company's failure to comply with court rulings from a contractual dispute, a local court document showed.

Smartisan is a niche player in China's smartphone sector and is best known for its flamboyant founder Luo Yonghao, who made headlines in recent years with bold statements including a claim that he was planning to acquire Apple.

Luo is also barred from spending at higher quality hotels, night clubs and golf clubs, buying properties and high-premium insurance and sending his children to expensive private schools, under an order issued by the court of Danyang in eastern China.

The order was issued after the court found the company failed to comply with previous court rulings from a contractual dispute with a local electronic firm, the document said.

Smartisan's smartphone sales in China lag behind players like Huawei, Xiaomi and Oppo. Chinese social media firm ByteDance earlier this year said it was developing a phone with Smartisan after acquiring a set of patents from it.

Comment: Too bad it's not Dorsey, Zuckerberg, Wojcicki, Pichai, etc!

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Social Credit: Chinese smartphone maker banned from trains and planes for failing to comply with court ruling

Stella Qiu and Brenda Goh
WSAU
Sun, 03 Nov 2019 16:39 UTC
Luo Yonghao

Luo Yonghao, CEO and founder of Chinese smartphone startup Smartisan, introduces a new instant messaging app Bullet Messenger.
The founder of China's smartphone maker Smartisan Technology has been barred from taking flights and high-speed railway trains due to the company's failure to comply with court rulings from a contractual dispute, a local court document showed.

Smartisan is a niche player in China's smartphone sector and is best known for its flamboyant founder Luo Yonghao, who made headlines in recent years with bold statements including a claim that he was planning to acquire Apple.

Luo is also barred from spending at higher quality hotels, night clubs and golf clubs, buying properties and high-premium insurance and sending his children to expensive private schools, under an order issued by the court of Danyang in eastern China.

The order was issued after the court found the company failed to comply with previous court rulings from a contractual dispute with a local electronic firm, the document said.

Comment: More on China's Social Credit System:

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IDF stops joint Jewish-Palestinian olive harvest because threat of 'settler' violence


Source
Sun, 03 Nov 2019 17:06 UTC
idf burin
© STANDING TOGETHER
IDF and Border Police officers declaring a 'closed military zone' in Burin, October 25 2019.
Approximately 100 activists from the NGO Rabbis for Human Rights (RHR) and the Israeli grassroots movement Standing Together gathered on Friday to participate in the season's 17th joint olive harvest in the West Bank, but were subsequently driven out by the IDF and Border Police forces, according to new footage.

The harvest is taking place in several locations across the northern West Bank, according to Standing Together, in the Palestinian villages Yusuf, Burin and Atara and "done in solidarity with Palestinian farmers who live in the West Bank."

The organization's director Roula Daud, who took part in organizing the event, said that the activists "will not surrender to government-supported settler violence. We will stand together, Jews and Arabs, with the residents of the West Bank."

That is, following a recent incident where, according to Rabbis for Human Rights, five RHR volunteers and Palestinian farmers were attacked by settlers from the Yitzhar area two weeks ago, while participating in the annual harvest in the villages Burin and Hawareh. The NGO said that the attackers cut the olive trees following the alleged assault.


Comment: Theft, assault, destruction of property: typical 'settler' values.


80-year-old Rabbi Moshe Yehudai, alongside four other volunteers, was reportedly attacked by a group of over 30 settlers armed with crowbars. Yehudai was evacuated by a Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance with a broken arm. A resident of Yitzhar was arrested for allegedly participating in the attack, but was released from custody. The suspect claimed that he was "attacked" by an officer during his interrogation.


Comment: What a typical 'settler' reaction: violently assault an elderly man, then cry like baby when arrested, then get away with it.

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Russian schools teach students to handle an AK-47 to mark 100th birthday of Mikhail Kalashnikov

Sophie Tanno
Daily Mail
Thu, 31 Oct 2019 15:36 UTC
Mikhail Kalashnikov
© Getty Images
Russian weapon designer Mikhail Kalashnikov pictured in 2007.
Schools across Russia have been told to teach pupils how to strip and assemble an AK-47 to mark the 100th birthday of Mikhail Kalashnikov.

The Russian Ministry of Education published the guidelines, that called for the nationwide school lessons, today.

Russian general Kalashnikov was born on November 10, 1919 and is known for developing the AK-47 assault rifle. He is revered as a public figure in Russia and passed away in December 2013, at the age of 93.

A publication by the education ministry said the special lessons would take place on the anniversary date of November 10 and will teach students more about their country's history and culture.

The guidelines included several different suggestions for how schools can engage in patriotism and foster cultural identity among the students on the anniversary date.

Comment: Meanwhile in America...

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Trans woman has child porn ruling overturned because she "struggled with her identity"

Ethan Huff
Natural News
Fri, 01 Nov 2019 14:41 UTC
gender confusion
A 22-year-old man who thinks he's a "woman" has been given a free pass after being caught with graphic child pornography on his mobile phone, which a judge decided is not that big of a deal after all since the man belongs to the Cult of LGBTQP.

"Vetea" Joseph Bunton, who was 18 at the time when child rape and other horrific sexual images were discovered on "her" phone, had previously plead guilt to this crime. "She" was then convicted of illegally possessing child porn, and subsequently slated for an appropriate sentence - that is until Bunton and "her" lawyer decided to play the LGBTQP get-out-of-jail-free card.

Bunton's lawyer actually tried to argue that his client does "not present as a person who is a risk to children," claiming that "she" was simply acting "in the context of low self-esteem and lack of confidence due to teenage sexual adjustment issues" when "she" decided to download child porn on "her" phone. The judge ultimately reversed the decision.

Bunton "herself" then tried to argue that "she" only downloaded child porn "out of curiosity and at a time when she was struggling with issues concerning her transgender identity and sexual identity." In other words, it's everyone else's fault that Bunton chose to download child porn because they didn't openly accept and applaud Bunton for suffering from gender dysphoria.
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Whistleblower Zach Vorhies speaks out on why Google snuffed natural health sites

Dr. Joseph Mercola
Mercola.com
Sat, 02 Nov 2019 00:01 UTC
Zach Vorhies
In mid-September 2019, Maryam Henein published a video interview with Google whistleblower Zach Vorhies.1 The interview is broken into four parts, all of which have been included in a playlist further below.

In the featured video above, Vorhies and Maryam Henein, a journalist and functional medicine consultant, discuss Google's suppression of natural health information from holistic health sites such as Mercola.com with Sayer Ji, founder of Greenmedinfo.com — another victim of Google's censorship.

I also recently interviewed Vorhies for nearly two hours and will release that incredibly detailed video in the near future. In it, he discusses the tactics Google used to intimidate him into submission after they learned he had turned into a whistleblower.

Comment: See also:

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Trans athlete Rachel McKinnon is a cheat and a bully

Madeleine Kearns
National Review
Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:27 UTC
Rachel McKinnon trans athlete
© Screengrab via YouTube
Rachel McKinnon interviewed on Sky News, October 18, 2019.
So why are we humoring him?

Rachel McKinnon — the so-called defending "world champion" of women's track cycling — is a man. I'll repeat that so my meaning cannot be misconstrued. He is a man.

Maybe my kind-hearted reader is offended by this blunt phrasing. Why am I calling McKinnon a man — when, perhaps for complicated reasons, he would rather be called a woman? Why don't I compromise and call him a "trans woman," as others do? Or be polite and address him by "she/her" pronouns, like everyone else in the media?

Comment: See also:

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Woman found dead in house with 140 snakes seemingly strangled by python in Oxford, Indiana

Mike Wehner
BRG
Sat, 02 Nov 2019 10:58 UTC
Python
A 36-year-old woman in Oxford, Indiana, was recently found dead in a makeshift "snake sanctuary" that was home to 140 snakes. The victim, Laura Hurst, was found lifeless on the floor of the home with a reticulated python around her neck. It's a bizarre story from top to bottom, and it starts with the home's owner, who happens to be the local sheriff.

As the Journal & Courier reports, Benton County Sheriff Don Munson owns the home but doesn't actually live there. He's apparently a snake enthusiast and was (or perhaps still is) a snake breeder who sells the animals. Hurst is reported to have owned some of the snakes in the house, and Munson lives right next door.
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Help Mother Nature: Don't drive electric cars, ignore paper bags & forget about organic food


RT
Sat, 02 Nov 2019 23:56 UTC
small farm greenhouse
© Global Look / Jens Büttner
Eco-consciousness has become a winning marketing strategy, but products sold as eco-friendly often aren't. From solar panels to paper straws, many of our supposed environmental saviors are making the problem worse.

The fight against climate change is poised to make a lot of people very, very rich. The world is expected to invest some $90 trillion in new infrastructure to stave off climate doom over the next ten to 15 years, according to a report from the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate, and manufacturers of consumer products want a piece of the action, with study after study revealing customers will pay more for "sustainable" and earth-friendly products. A third of consumers buy based on a brand's environmental impact, according to Unilever, with a fifth explicitly favoring green messaging.

Not all products sold as sustainable, however, actually are. In fact, some are worse for the environment than the products they've replaced. But there is a reluctance to tear away from the warm fuzzy feeling that comes with doing good for the planet, even when the virtue one is signaling is wholly imaginary.

Comment: What a mixed bag of information. But the author(s) are right to point out the futileness and/or hypocrisy of most "green" purchases. The problems are real, but way more complicated than the tiny, feel-good suggestions being marketed to the average customer. One of the most practical ways to address all the problems above, if even a small way, is to buy from local farmers and small businesses.

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Attacker threatens teen girl with knife, 'yells Allahu Akbar' inside police station on Reunion Island


RT
Sat, 02 Nov 2019 21:09 UTC
police on Reunion Island
© Richard BOUHET / AFP
File photo of police on Reunion Island
A man armed with a knife threatened a 16-year-old girl in the hallway of a police station on Reunion Island, a French overseas department in the Indian Ocean. The attacker also shouted 'Allahu Akbar', according to local reports.

Police managed to disarm the man and arrested him at the scene. Fortunately, the teenager was not injured by the attacker, but was reportedly taken to hospital to be treated for shock.
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