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Crusader

Moral bankruptcy: Putin's shawl chivalry gets blanket coverage from Western media


Comment: Putin certainly drives the world crazy. Any innocent gesture is interpreted as if it's of planetary importance. There's a reason Forbes picked him as the most powerful person on the planet...


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© Reuters/StringerRussia's President Vladimir Putin (R) helps put a blanket on Peng Liyuan (2nd R), wife of China's President Xi Jinping at National Aquatics Center, or Water Cube, in Beijing, November 10, 2014.
An apparently innocuous gesture from Vladimir Putin, who put a shawl around the shoulders of China's First Lady Peng Liyuan during a fireworks display, has attracted accusations of being Russia's "Don-Juan-in-Chief" from Western media.

The Russian president followed his country's cold-weather etiquette, when he offered what appeared to be a shawl or blanket to Chinese Premier Xi Jinping's wife during a chilly outdoor fireworks display at the APEC summit in Beijing. The camera caught the former renowned folk singer courteously accepting the offer, before exchanging the shawl for a coat handed to her by an assistant. Meanwhile, Xi sat a few meters away, talking animatedly to Barack Obama.

Monday's momentary humanizing episode might have passed without mention, but the image proved a boon for journalists possibly bored with the intricacies of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation.


Comment: Even if there will be hard times in Russia economically, the only people that will continue to whine will be the paid "5th column". That's what the West and its psychopaths fail to understand - that the key point of Putin's politics is giving people meaning. That's why he talks about love and makes sure to give an example of thoughtful and appropriate behavior. And that's why he created the new Unity Day holiday.

It's because Russians are at their best during hard times, especially if there is a higher meaning behind them. Just look at WWII. That's why the '90s were so devastating: it was a time of total moral bankruptcy. And that's why despite all the foreign hooplah, Putin is going to succeed, simply because while Europe is promoting nihilism and various filth like giant green butt plugs, and while the U.S. has Miley Cyrus and her pornographic 'musical' performances to offer, Putin talks about mutual respect, friendship and love of motherland. And it doesn't matter if many Russians cannot afford to buy blue cheese, as long as they have something higher to believe in, something sorely lacking in the West.


Light Saber

Wounded U.S. veterans sue banks, claim they should pay for Iraq attacks

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Wounded U.S. veterans and family members of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq sued five European banks on Monday, seeking to hold them responsible for shootings and roadside bombings because they allegedly processed Iranian money that paid for the attacks.

The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, New York, named Barclays Plc, Credit Suisse Group AG, HSBC Holdings Plc, Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc and Standard Chartered.

Barclays, Credit Suisse, RBS and Standard Chartered declined to comment. HSBC did not respond to requests for comment.

The lawsuit was brought under the U.S. Anti-Terrorism Act, a 1992 law that permits victims to bring private suits against alleged financiers of militant operations.

The lawsuit alleges the banks conspired with Iranian banks to mask wire transactions in order to evade U.S. sanctions. The Iranian banks then funneled more than $100 million to militant groups that operated in Iraq at Iran's direction, according to the suit.

The militant groups included a Shi'ite militia in Iraq, Kataib Hezbollah, as well as Quds Force, the overseas arm of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the suit says.


Comment: A creative use of the law, and right on point.


Comment: The big American banks should be included too. They provide the funding for the U.S war machine that chews up and spits out its hapless citizens by creating the societal conditions that make the military the only economic option available to most young men.


Stormtrooper

Canadian cops beat up mother: Big Brother USA couldn't be prouder

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© Reuters/Christinne MuschiModern police, striving to project that "we're scary, look like stormtroopers, and can hurt you" image - and succeeding!
A Canadian woman says a police officer beat her with a baton and smashed her face against a table, while the woman's nine-year-old son watched the incident.

Lara Sinclair from Winnipeg filed a report with Canada's Law Enforcement Review Agency (LERA), hoping that it could prevent this happening to someone else.

Sinclair told CBS that police came to her house on the night of Halloween, after reports of a disturbance. Two policemen entered and one of them went to check on the son, while the other talked to the mother.

"He came up to me and poked me," Sinclair said. "I was sitting on a chair in the kitchen and I jumped up and said you don't need to touch me."

Then the officer took out his police baton and began beating her while she tried to defend herself.

"And he hit me and then I fell on the floor," she said.

Comment: All pathocracies need a strong police force with which to enforce their coercive 'authority'. And that's the function cops serve in North America (and elsewhere), whether they know it or not. They exist to traumatize the public and keep them in a state of fear - to make them feel powerless to express their own will. Similar to how the torture porn photos from places like Abu Ghraib served such a purpose: you're either with us or against us, and this is what we can do to you if you're not with us.


Heart - Black

Money for war but none for the elderly and vulnerable as UK councils scrap meal services

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© Reuters / Radu SighetiUK councils scrap meals on wheels to elderly and vunerable
A third of all UK councils have scrapped 'meals on wheels' services to their elderly and vulnerable residents due government to spending cuts, putting senior citizens at risk of malnutrition and social isolation, research showed.

Over half expect further service reductions in the year ahead. A study by the British Association for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition claims more than one million older people in the UK are malnourished.

The total number of meals provided by UK meals on wheels services and lunch clubs has dropped from 40 million to 19 million meals over the past ten years.

Half of all local authorities in the UK expect even further service reductions in the year ahead because social care budgets are being tightened and funding is being slashed, according to the National Association of Care Catering.

Comment: Britain is falling apart because the psychopathic warmongers in charge are more concerned with funding the global wars of terror than taking care of UK citizens.

Broke due to wars! UK wars cost British taxpayers £30 billion


Light Sabers

Warsaw nationalist march ends in clashes, flares, water cannon - over 200 arrests

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© Reuters/Kacper PempelFar-right protesters throw flares in front of the National Stadium during the annual far-right rally, which coincides with Poland's National Independence Day in Warsaw November 11, 2014.
At least 276 people were arrested and just under 50 injured after clashes broke out in Warsaw. Polish nationalists took to the streets to mark the nation's National Independence Day, throwing flares and stones at officers, who responded with water cannon.

Tens of thousands marched through the Polish capital Tuesday with many carrying the national flag, while flares and firecrackers were also let off. The march was attended by extremist nationalist groups, such as the Radical Camp and the All-Polish Youth.


Marches through the city's capital have taken place every year since 2008 and have often led to clashes between rival political organizations.

For the fourth consecutive year the procession turned violent, with a group breaking away as they crossed a bridge over the Vistula river and reached the eastern bank, near the Polish national football stadium.
Video: #Poland's Independence Day and "happy" celebrations in Warsaw. Unrest turns into riots http://t.co/fqfi93NZfe pic.twitter.com/7vxCXjNc1f
- Anna Zamejc (@stell7) November 11, 2014
According to Reuters, they tore up paving slabs and benches from a nearby bus station and started to throw them at police, who were dressed in riot gear.

Law enforcement officers responded by approaching the rioters and using a water cannon truck to push the marches back onto the bridge in the direction they had come. Some outlets report rubber bullets and tear gas was deployed.

Arrow Up

Smart move: EU moves to allow nations to ban GMO crops without negotiating with biotech industry

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© Reuters/Thierry RogeEvil corn.
EU politicians on Tuesday backed a plan to allow nations to ban genetically modified crops on their soil even if they are given approval to be grown in the European Union, raising the chance their use will remain limited on the continent.

Widely grown in the Americas and Asia, GM crops in Europe have divided opinion, with opposition in many countries including France and Germany, while Britain favors them.

A previous compromise endorsed this year by EU ministers would have required negotiation with the relevant companies if a nation wanted to ban a GM crop in the event it had been approved for EU-wide use.

The plan voted through parliament on Tuesday would leave out that stage and allows member states to ban GM crops on environmental grounds. It drew praise from GM opponents.

Comment: It will be interesting to see if this takes root, you can bet the biotech giants won't go down without a fight.


Heart - Black

Georgia city bans abortions, even in cases of rape and incest, because clueless mayor sez town 'doesn't need the drama'

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© Dan Henry /Chattanooga Times Free PressHi, I'm Mayor Teddy Harris and I'm a candidate for a lobotomy
The city of Rossville, Georgia has banned abortions - even in the case of rape and incest - because Mayor Teddy Harris said that the town did not need any "drama."

At a meeting on Monday, Council members asked Harris what had prompted him to call for a vote on two ordinances, one that banned abortion clinics and another that banned so-called "pill mills."

Harris said that a resident had questioned the legality of a methadone clinic, which made him think about what other businesses he would like to keep out of the town, according to the Chattanooga Times Free Press.

The mayor explained that abortion clinics could spark "drama" in the city.

"We want to be a peaceful city," Harris insisted. "We don't want to have any protesters."

None of the 19 Georgia abortion clinics are currently located in Rossville, and it wasn't clear that the ordinance would stand up to legal scrutiny if one tried to open there.

The measure did allow licensed physicians to perform abortions at a hospital if the life of the mother was at risk, and if doctors could certify that the fetus would not survive outside the womb.

In the end, the City Council passed the abortion ban, and an ordinance forbidding "pill mill" businesses which often provide pain medication to addicts without a prescription. However, pill mills had already been banned by state and federal laws.

MIB

8-year old boy watches Winnipeg police officer beat mother with baton, smash her face on table

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A Winnipeg woman said this week that she had filed a complaint after an officer beat her in her own home as her 8-year-old son watched.

Lana Sinclair told CBC that Winnipeg police officers showed up on Halloween night to investigate reports of "yelling." One officer spoke to her son, while another officer talked to her.

"He came up to me and poked me," Sinclair recalled. "I was sitting on a chair in the kitchen and I jumped up and said you don't need to touch me."

The officer pulled out a baton, and beat her with it, she explained to CTV. She said he then smashed her face into a work table, and into the floor.

"He had my arm behind me and he smashed my face right here," Sinclair said, pointing to her sewing table.

She said the officer handcuffed her, stood her up, and then kicked her feet out from under her. Sinclair hit the floor face first.

To make matters worse, she said her 8-year-old son watched then entire incident.

"We [my son and I] were both traumatized," Sinclair noted. "I just hug him and kiss him and tell him it's okay."

Comment: Police officers are out of control, psychopathic bullies! Listen to SOTT Talk Radio's commentary on the growing U.S. police state below. The same draconian principles apply in Canada.

Para-military Police State: U.S. cops out of control?


Pistol

Hysteria: Massachusetts school will introduce shooter detection system

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A Massachusetts school will become the first in the United States to introduce a security system designed to alert authorities to the presence of a shooter in the building, officials said.

The technology, already deployed by the U.S. military in war zones, is being marketed to schools and other public spaces across the country after a spate of deadly mass shootings.


Comment: So basically, Massachusetts authorities are treating schools as if they were war zones.


Authorities in Methuen, about 30 miles north of Boston, will demonstrate the Guardian Active Shooter Detection System at the school on Tuesday afternoon. Massachusetts Democratic representative Niki Tsongas and police chiefs from across New England will attend, John Guilfoil said in a statement on behalf of the city.

"There will be a simulated active shooter in the building, with a police response, which will demonstrate the effectiveness of a 'smoke-alarm-sized' detection system, which will tell police, in real time, where the shooter is," he said.

The city asked that the school's name be kept confidential, he said.

Stormtrooper

British police pepper spray children aged four and five during school's botched 'mock' demonstration

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© Reuters / Karoly Arvai
Gwent Police accidentally sprayed a class of four and five year olds with pepper spray at a school in Wales during a botched weapons demonstration.

The weapons were accidentally deployed during a visit from officers to Ysgol Gymraeg Gilfach Fargoed, in Bargoed, Caerphilly, while giving a lesson on police equipment.

The officers were reportedly intending to demonstrate the use of pepper spray using a mock PAVA spray, but accidentally discharged a real canister.

Eight pupils aged four and five were hit with the spray, which causes the eyes to close and is extremely painful.

None of the children required hospital treatment, but parents were urged to seek medical assistance if they had concerns about their children's welfare.

Comment: Yet another symptom of how living in a ponerized world compromises the ability to think. What possible reasonable explanation could there be to 'demonstrate' even a mock pepper spray on children?!