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Stunning cultural center to open in Russia's Black Sea city of Sevastopol

RT
Mon, 04 Feb 2019 14:51 UTC

A new education and leisure center is expected to open in Crimea's largest city, Sevastopol by 2023. It will cover a territory of 18.3 hectares on Cape Crystal between Karantinnaya and Artillery bays.

Planning includes an opera and ballet theater, an arts academy, a residential complex for employees, a cinema and concert hall, as well as a park and museum devoted to the defenders of Sevastopol during World War II.

Traditionally, Sevastopol had significant intellectual and cultural potential, according to the deputy chairwoman of the Russian government, Olga Golodets.

NewsReal #26: Globalization vs Nationalism - The Hidden Causes of The Yellow Vest Protests in France

Sott.net
Mon, 04 Feb 2019 12:19 UTC

Now into its FOURTH month, the Yellow Vest protest movement in France shows no signs of going away. Despite some financial concessions from Macron's government to French workers, the popular cry remains On ne lache rien! ("We're not letting go"). This weekend, French security forces were again directed by the government to violently suppress the protests in Paris and other major cities.

On this episode of NewsReal, French SOTT editor Pierre Lescaudron joins us to discuss the deeper historical, economic and cultural reasons behind the persistence of this movement, and why the French establishment is so vehemently opposed to it.

Running Time: 01:17:05

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5 dead after small plane crashes into California neighborhood

RT
Sun, 03 Feb 2019 21:21 UTC

A Cessna two-engine plane crashed in the Yorba Linda area in California's Orange County, setting a house on fire. Five people were killed in the incident, local fire authorities reported.

Footage from the scene showed a blaze engulfing one of the houses in the suburban area with people shouting to keep away from the building.

The aircraft involved was a Cessna 414A Chancellor, an 8-seat twin-engine plane. According to records, it is owned by a private individual from Oregon.

Comment: Aircraft accidents and crashes are in the news with an increasing frequency these days, and one wonders whether there's any connection:

Illegal immigrant sentenced to 60 Years for impregnating 11-year-old girl

Bob Price
Breitbart
Mon, 04 Feb 2019 10:44 UTC

A North Texas court sentenced an illegal alien to 60 years in prison without the possibility of parole following his conviction for continuous sexual abuse of a child under the age of 14. The man impregnated an 11-year-old girl.

The victim of the crimes faced her abuser in a Collin County, Texas, court during the trial, officials stated. The case began when hospital officials treated the 11-year-old girl as she was 19-weeks pregnant, Star Local Media reported.

"This innocent child showed remarkable courage by naming the monster who assaulted her; he will never harm another child again," Collin County District Attorney Greg Willis told the local news outlet.

Court briefs detail how El Chapo drugged, raped 13-year-old girls

Ildefonso Ortiz & Brandon Darby
Breitbart
Mon, 04 Feb 2019 10:44 UTC

Mexico's most famous drug lord, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera, regularly paid $5,000 to have girls as young as 13-years-old drugged and brought to him for sexual intercourse, court records allege.

Officials disclosed the accusations in a series of documents that were unsealed late this week under orders of U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan as prosecutors in the case sought to limit the type of questions that could be asked of witnesses during Guzman's trial. El Chapo is currently being tried on multiple drug trafficking and money laundering conspiracies that could lead to several life sentences.

One of the newly unsealed court briefs dealt with the testimony of Alex Cifuentes, a close associate of El Chapo and one of the prosecutions main witnesses. The document was first discovered by Alan Feuer from the New York Times.

Roadside bomb targets pilgrim bus in Balad, Iraq

Sputnik
Sun, 03 Feb 2019 21:13 UTC

A bus carrying pilgrims exploded after triggering a land mine south of the Iraqi city of Balad, resulting in several casualties, the Iraqi al-Sumaria broadcaster reported citing a source in the Security Service.

"An explosive device placed close to the roadside south of the city of Balad blasted as a bus with pilgrims passed by. This led to the deaths of several passengers, and some were injured," the source stated.

According to the broadcaster, the pilgrims were en route towards the Shiite shrine of Mohammed bin Ali al-Hadi.

Comment: The Iraqi paramilitary PMF blamed the attack on ISIS:

"This evening, IS [DAESH] militants carried out an attack on a bus, which carrying pilgrims from Iran, near Balad. As a result, seven Iranian pilgrims were injured, along with one Iraqi pilgrim", the paramilitary forces said in a statement, published on their official website late on Sunday.

The 43rd brigade of the paramilitary forces is carrying out raids in areas neighboring Balad in a bid to seize the Daesh militants who fled the site of the incident promptly after the attack.

Maui-bound flight returns to Los Angeles three times for three separate issues

Cydney Henderson
USA Today
Sun, 03 Feb 2019 01:24 UTC

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A Maui-bound Hawaiian Airlines flight attempted to depart Los Angeles International Airport three times on Saturday before being canceled.

Apparently, the third time is not a charm.

A Maui-bound Hawaiian Airlines flight had to return to Los Angeles International Airport three different times over the weekend before finally getting canceled, in what was surely not the"Aloha"more than 200 paradise-seeking passengers were expecting.

Spokesman Alex Da Silva told The Associated Press that Flight 33 took off for Maui's Kahului Airport twice Saturday before turning back and landing at LAX. The aircraft prepared to depart from the gate a third time before coming back.

The US is a lawless government

Paul Craig Roberts
Institute for Political Economy
Sun, 03 Feb 2019 18:43 UTC

I remember when a suspect was regarded as innocent until proven guilty in a fair trial. Today prosecutors convict their victims in the media in order to make an unbiased jury impossible and thereby coerce a plea bargain that saves the prosecutor from having to prove his case. In the United States law is no longer a shield of the people. Law is a weapon in the hands of prosecutors. (See Roberts & Stratton, The Tyranny of Good Intentions.)

Formerly, if a prosecutor staged an arrest for publicity purposes, as Mueller did by placing a CNN presstitute on the scene and sending a couple of dozen heavily armed men in a pre-dawn raid to arrest a well known political consultant for allegedly "lying to Congress" when the appropriate procedure is for Mueller to inform Stone's lawyer to present his client for indictment, the judge would throw out the case on the grounds that the prosecutor's unethical action had biased the juror pool and made a fair trial impossible. The judge might also have thrown out the case on the grounds of selective prosecution. James Clapper while serving as Director of National Intelligence lied to Congress under oath and suffered no consequences, and Hillary Clinton has clearly broken the law and lied about it.

'The Book Community' and the return of book-burning

Tim Dawson
Spiked
Fri, 01 Feb 2019 00:00 UTC

The Book Community has jumped the shark. Who are the 'Book Community'? Well, they're the nebulous group of super-woke flakes who bullied young-adult (YA) fantasy author Amelie Wen Zhao into pulling the publication of her debut novel, Blood Heir. While it wasn't slated for release until June, some review copies had been sent out. Apparently the book has already shaken some readers - and some people who obviously haven't read it - to the core. Zhao's depiction of slavery in one scene has been deemed problematic. Reverse racism, lack of genderqueer representation, and a central antagonist with a limp are some of the other criticisms leveled against it, and Twitter is fuming. Zhao has issued an apology and agreed with her publishers to cancel publication.

The novel is probably terrible. I'm not particularly into sword and sorcery stuff - though the fact that it has upset so many flakes has naturally piqued my interest. But you don't need to like, or even read, a book to defend its right to be published. Of course, Amelie Wen Zhao halted publication herself. You could argue that she has 'listened to feedback' and acted accordingly. But the line between listening to feedback and being bullied by very angry zealots is a thin one, and this incident seems to have crossed it. Zhao relies on these people for her income and is scared. That's understandable. And really, really bad.

Comment: More from Vulture, 1/31/2019

"The issues around Affinite indenturement in the story represent a specific critique of the epidemic of indentured labor and human trafficking prevalent in many industries across Asia, including in my own home country," Zhao wrote. "The narrative and history of slavery in the United States is not something I can, would, or intended to write, but I recognize that I am not writing in merely my own cultural context." The statement continued: "I don't wish to clarify, defend, or have anyone defend me. This is not that; this is an apology."
© Blood Heir
Unsurprisingly, the response was wide-ranging and intense. Some (including Ellen Oh) lauded Zhao for her bravery, others derided her for cowardice, and many wondered aloud if the author had self-censored voluntarily out of fear of a mob that would hound her until publication and beyond.

Brexit chicken: 1-2 years of pain now or permanent idiocy?

Mish
Mishtalk
Sun, 03 Feb 2019 18:32 UTC

The UK is at a crossroads. Fearmongering of "crashing" out of the EU is in play. The EU is playing "chicken".

In the classic game of Chicken, the first person to blink loses.

The name "chicken" has its origins in a game in which two drivers drive towards each other on a collision course: one must swerve, or both may die in the crash, but if one driver swerves and the other does not, the one who swerved will be called a "chicken", meaning a coward.

That's essentially the game the EU is playing with Theresa May and the UK.

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Biden the child-killer. Think of the children, vaxxers, think of the children.

hobnyeba

Thanks, all, for great comments and links. Lots to think about.

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Society's Child

Stunning cultural center to open in Russia's Black Sea city of Sevastopol

NewsReal #26: Globalization vs Nationalism - The Hidden Causes of The Yellow Vest Protests in France

5 dead after small plane crashes into California neighborhood

Illegal immigrant sentenced to 60 Years for impregnating 11-year-old girl

Court briefs detail how El Chapo drugged, raped 13-year-old girls

Roadside bomb targets pilgrim bus in Balad, Iraq

Maui-bound flight returns to Los Angeles three times for three separate issues

The US is a lawless government

'The Book Community' and the return of book-burning

Brexit chicken: 1-2 years of pain now or permanent idiocy?

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