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Pakistani cleric leads anti-govt protest in Pakistan, demanding immediate resignation of PM Khan


RT
Sat, 02 Nov 2019 05:03 UTC
Pakistan protest
© Reuters/Akhtar Soomro
Supporters of religious and political party Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazal participate in the Azadi March (Freedom March) to protest the government of Prime Minister Imran Khan in Islamabad, Pakistan November 1, 2019.
Hardline Islamist cleric Maulana Fazlur Rehman has presented Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan with a two-day ultimatum, demanding his resignation and threatening continued demonstrations against the Khan government.

Addressing a crowd of anti-government protesters in Islamabad on Friday - many from the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Party - Rehman stated "the Gorbachev of Pakistan must go," calling Khran a traitor and a puppet.

"We give him two days to resign, otherwise, we will decide about the future."

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Attention

New Epstein autopsy photo reveals broken neck bones

Tamar Lapin
New York Post
Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:00 UTC
Epstein fractures
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Newly released photo shows three fractures in Epstein's neck.
A never-before-seen photo from Jeffrey Epstein's autopsy shows the late pedophile suffered three fractures to his neck — injuries a forensic pathologist hired by his family claims are more consistent with homicide than suicide.

Epstein, 66, had two breaks on each side of his thyroid cartilage, near the Adam's apple, and one above it on the left side of his hyoid bone, according to the image provided to Law&Crime Wednesday by Dr. Michael Baden.

"Those three fractures are extremely unusual in suicidal hangings and could occur much more commonly in homicidal strangulation," said Baden. "I've not seen in 50 years where that occurred in a suicidal hanging case."

In suicidal hangings, the binding "usually goes up under the mandible — the jaw bone — which is a tough bone. It doesn't fracture," Baden explained. "In manual strangulation, or ligature strangulation, fractures can occur."

Baden, the host of HBO's Autopsy, was hired by the pervert's brother, Mark Epstein, to observe his autopsy after he was found hanged Aug. 10 in his Manhattan lockup, while awaiting trial on child sex-trafficking charges.

Comment: See also:

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Question

Gutsy Trevor Noah asks Hillary how she killed Jeffrey Epstein

Yaron Steinbuch
New York Post
Fri, 01 Nov 2019 11:27 UTC
Noah/Clinton
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"The Daily Show" host Trevor Noah • Former US Sec. of State Hillary Clinton
A "vast right-wing conspiracy" still hounds Hillary Clinton, who was jokingly asked by The Daily Show host Trevor Noah how she managed to kill pedophile Jeffrey Epstein in a Manhattan jail cell.

"I have to ask you a question that has been plaguing me for a while: How did you kill Jeffrey Epstein?" Noah asked, drawing laughter from Clinton, 71, and the New York studio audience on Thursday.

"Because you're not in power, but you have all the power. I really need to understand how you do what you do, because you seem to be behind everything nefarious, and yet you do not use it to become president," he continued.

"Honestly, what does it feel like being the boogeyman to the right?" the host asked the former presidential candidate and ex-secretary of state.

"Well, it's a constant surprise to me," responded a chuckling Clinton, who was appearing alongside her daughter, Chelsea, 39, to promote their new joint project, The Book of Gutsy Women. "Because the things they say, and now, of course, it's on steroids with being online, are so ridiculous, beyond any imagination that I could have," she said.

"And yet they are so persistent in putting forth these crazy ideas and theories. Honestly, I don't know what I ever did to get them so upset."
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Bomb

Bomb kills 13 civilians, 20 injured in Syria border town divided with Turkey


RT
Sat, 02 Nov 2019 16:39 UTC
Tal Abyad
© Reuters/Kemal Aslan
Syrian town of Tal Abyad seen from Turkish border town of Akcakale.
A car bomb detonated at a busy marketplace in the Syrian border town of Tal Abyad, the Turkish Defense Ministry said. There are dozens of casualties and injuries, Ankara claims.

The town is located right on the border and is part of a divided city, continuing into Turkey where the injured were taken to hospitals. A total of 20 people were wounded, while at least 13 were killed in the blast.
The Defense Ministry accused the Syrian-Kurdish militia group known as the People's Protection Units (YPG), of planting the bomb in the car. No group claimed responsibility for the blast at the time of writing.

Comment: Sputnik, 2/11/2019: Turkey says YPG behind the blast
The injured were taken to a hospital in the Turkish town of Akçakale. The Turkish armed forces have strengthened security on the border with Syria following the explosion. According to our correspondent, women and children are among the dead, and 23 people were injured. The explosion occurred in Suluk - a town within the Tell Abyad District of the Raqqa Governorate in Syria.





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Cow

Animals are not people: Disentangling animal rights vs. animal welfare

Wesley J. Smith
Evolution News
Sat, 02 Nov 2019 18:35 UTC
ELEPHANTS
"Animal rights" activists are determined to "break the species barrier" and create legal standing for animals to sue in court. Of course, the animals would be oblivious to these actions. "Animal standing," as the issue is known, is really a Trojan horse to allow animal rights extremists to seek court rulings enforcing their own ideology.

The Nonhuman Rights Project is leading this charge. Having failed to win personhood for chimpanzees — alarmingly, the idea gained support from one high court judge — it is now pursuing a case in New York to determine whether "Happy," an elephant at the Bronx Zoo, should be granted a writ of habeas corpus. (Ponder the surreality of those words!) From The Guardian story:
Lawyers representing an elephant have argued in a New York City court that their trunked client be considered a person, in a fresh attempt to upend human dominance over this designation.

Happy the elephant is, contrary to her sunny name, being detained by the Bronx Zoo "illegally", due to her personhood, and must be released, according to the pachyderm's self-appointed legal team.

The case's instigator, an animal rights group, hopes it will cause a legal breakthrough that will elevate the status of elephants, which the group calls "extraordinarily complex creatures" similar to humans that should have the fundamental right to liberty.

Comment: Animals do not - and cannot - have rights. Groups like PETA are trying to piggyback a radical ideology on the very real and valid concern for animal welfare. But consider what they actually want. If animals have rights - like humans - then anyone who kills an animal for food could be charged with murder. Anyone who eats meat could be charged with the equivalent of cannibalism. Pet ownership and animal husbandry would be the equivalent of slavery, and calling someone a damn dirty dog would be hate speech. Training dogs to sniff out drugs and diseases would also be questionable: did the dogs choose to be trained in such professions?

The ideology is absurd and dangerous, but as with so many other facets of the hyper-liberal agenda, speaking out against it makes you an easy target, as if by denying animal rights you are arguing in favor of torturing animals and mistreating them in various ways. Just as countering far-left talking points can leave you vulnerable to accusations of sexism, racism, transphobia, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, etc.

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Pirates

Jihadists kill at least 53 soldiers and 1 civilian in Mali attack

Jason Burke
The Guardian
Sat, 02 Nov 2019 18:30 UTC
mali soldiers
© Jérôme Delay/AP
Malian soldiers on patrol in the capital Bamoko.
Islamic militants in Mali have killed dozens of soldiers in one of the deadliest strikes against the west African country's military in recent memory.

At least 53 soldiers and one civilian died in the attack on an isolated military base in the north-east of the country, the government said.

The authorities first reported the attack in Indelimane, in Menaka region, on Friday, but gave a lower provisional death toll.

"Heavily armed unidentified men attacked around noon. The attack started with shellfire ... Then they retreated toward Niger," the government spokesman Yaya Sangare said.

Sangare said the death toll was unclear because the bodies were still being identified, and that the army was undertaking a combing operation on the ground with support from international forces, including French troops and UN peacekeepers.

"The dispatched reinforcements found 54 bodies including one civilian, 10 survivors and considerable material damage," Sangare said on Twitter earlier on Saturday.
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Gold Coins

UK's wealthiest one-percenters preparing to leave 'within minutes' if Labour wins election

Rupert Neate
The Guardian
Sat, 02 Nov 2019 16:54 UTC
wealth one percent ferrari status symbol
© Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
Taxi for the super-rich? Lawyers and accountants with wealthy clients report a flood in calls for advice on what to do should Labour win the election.
The super-rich are preparing to immediately leave the UK if Jeremy Corbyn becomes prime minister, fearing they will lose billions of pounds if the Labour leader does "go after" the wealthy elite with new taxes, possible capital controls and a clampdown on private schools.

Lawyers and accountants for the UK's richest families said they had been deluged with calls from millionaire and billionaire clients asking for help and advice on moving countries, shifting their fortunes offshore and making early gifts to their children to avoid the Labour leader's threat to tax all inheritances above £125,000.

The advisers said a Corbyn-led government was viewed as a far greater threat to the wealth and quality of life of the richest 1% than a hard Brexit.

Comment: Perhaps looking to Russia may provide answers. Putin has made it clear he has no problem with entrepreneurs making money, so long as it is made in and benefits Russia and its people. He put an end to capital flight by making it more painful to take money out of the country, than to invest it at home. Russia is now reaping the benefits of that policy

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Propaganda

Jane Fonda spends night in jail after latest climate change protest

Bobby Gehlen
ABC News
Sat, 02 Nov 2019 02:39 UTC
Jane Fonda
Academy Award-winning actress Jane Fonda has been arrested for a fourth time protesting climate change on Capitol Hill and is spending the night in jail.

It's the first time U.S. Capitol Police have kept her in custody for more than a matter of hours.

Fonda is expected to appear before the U.S. District Court Saturday morning, according to a spokesperson from her organization, Fire Drill Fridays.

Actresses Rosanna Arquette and Catherine Keener also were arrested along with dozens of other climate activists inside the Senate's Hart Building.

Comment: See also: Match made in heaven: Leonardo DiCaprio and Greta Thunberg team up to stop the climate crisis

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Stop

Fracking halted in England due to earthquakes and 'unacceptable impacts on local community'

Jillian Ambrose
The Guardian
Fri, 01 Nov 2019 20:01 UTC
Fracking Cuadrilla Lancashire
© Cuadrilla/PA
Fracking at Cuadrilla’s site in Lancashire was out on hold after a major earth tremor.
The government has halted fracking in England with immediate effect in a watershed moment for environmentalists and community activists.

Ministers also warned shale gas companies it would not support future fracking projects, in a crushing blow to companies that had been hoping to capitalise on one of the new frontiers of growth in the fossil fuel industry.

The decision draws a line under years of bitter opposition to the controversial extraction process in a major victory for green groups and local communities.

The decision was taken after a new scientific study warned it was not possible to rule out "unacceptable" consequences for those living near fracking sites.

The report, undertaken by the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA), also warned it was not possible to predict the magnitude of earthquakes fracking might trigger.

Comment: Throwing a crumb to the environmentalists could also be a ploy to placate the public's growing hostility over the Brexit debacle. That said, there is merit to the ban on fracking, considering the evidence of harm to nearby residents.

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Fire

3 killed in mystery explosion on empty Russian crude oil tanker off Far East


RT
Sat, 02 Nov 2019 15:36 UTC

Comment: Hmmm, more sabotage against Russia?

We realize we suggest that angle a lot, but the 'bankers' and the 'reality-creators' and the 'chosen ones' really hate Russia that much.


Port Nakhodka
© Sputnik / Igor Onuchin
Port Nakhodka.
A powerful blast aboard an oil tanker off the Russian coast killed three people on Saturday. The explosion popped the upper deck open like a stomped milk carton, sending sailors flying into the sea.

The deadly incident affected the Zaliv Amerika, an Aframax-size oil tanker, off the port of Nakhodka in Russia's Far East. Preliminary reports indicate there was a flash fire that produced a blast inside its midsection.
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