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Denmark to American leftists: We're not socialist

Ben Johnson
Acton Institute
Wed, 16 Jan 2019 19:13 UTC

Democratic socialists have presented Denmark as the elusive nation where socialism has been successful and thus a model for the policies they would implement in the United States. Bernie Sanders regularly invoked Denmark during the 2016 presidential campaign, and Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez reassured 60 Minutes viewers that her version of democratic socialism would veer more toward Denmark than Venezuela.

Just weeks ago, a free-market think tank in Denmark, the Center for Political Studies (CEPOS), issued a 20-page report telling Americans that 1) Denmark is not a socialist nation, and 2) statist policies have still caused significant economic harm.

Kuril islands handover negotiations brings out Russian protestors

Digital Journal/Agence France-Presse
Mon, 21 Jan 2019 19:08 UTC

© Alexander NEMENOV, AFP
The protestors was organised by several Russian nationalist politicians opposed to any concessions to Japan over the Kuril Islands.

Hundreds of Russians protested against a feared giveaway of strategic islands to Japan on Sunday, two days before a key summit between the countries' leaders in Moscow.

Between 300 and 500 people gathered on Suvorovskaya Square, just outside Moscow city centre, for an authorised rally called by several nationalist politicians, opposed to any move to cede any of the four islands claimed by Tokyo.

The Soviet army claimed four islands, the so-called south Kurils, in the closing days of World War II.

The dispute over their sovereignty prevented the two countries from signing a peace treaty, a situation President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sought to rectify last year.

The hypocritical elite: Billionaire tycoon tells the plebes to be vegan while Instagramming his gorging on a 20,000 calorie bacon burger

Mirror
Sun, 20 Jan 2019 20:39 UTC

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Stordalen is seen with an Octuple Bypass Burger – a stack of eight individual beef patties and 20 rashers of bacon.

Norwegian hotel mogul Petter Stordalen spent £3million funding a diet urging people to eat more plant-based food to save the planet.

The billionaire who helped pay for a campaign urging people to eat less meat to save the planet has tucked into a 19,900-calorie burger.

Norwegian hotel mogul Petter Stordalen is seen with an Octuple Bypass Burger - a stack of eight individual beef patties and 20 rashers of bacon.

Comment: This illustrates perfectly the mind-set of the elite - guilt all the plebes into eating a vegan diet while gorging on meat themselves. That they would put money towards the dietary propaganda piece, masked as science, the EAT-Lancet study yet clearly have no regards for their recommendations says it all. They don't care about your health, they only care about their own.

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Apartment block demolished following deadly NYE blast in Magnitogorsk, 39 people died in the tragedy

RT
Mon, 21 Jan 2019 14:10 UTC

A section of a house that was badly damaged by a blast on New Year's Eve in the Ural city of Magnitogorsk was demolished on Monday morning.

Footage posted online shows the final stage of the demolition process, in which a voice can be heard giving commands that clear the way for the explosion. The video captures a loud clatter as a block of the high-rise building collapses, producing thick clouds of dust.

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Twenty-six of the world's richest billionaires earn the same amount as 3.8 billion of the world's poorest

Ben Glaze & Toby Meyjes
The Mirror
Mon, 21 Jan 2019 18:08 UTC

The world's richest 26 people own the same amount as half the global population, a shocking new report has revealed.

The startling gap between the rich and poor was highlighted in Oxfam's Public Good or Private Wealth? study.

It showed that billionaires saw their wealth rocket by £700bn in 2018 while 3.8 billion people were forced to survive on less £4.27 a day each.

The world's richest man, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, could fund Ethiopia's health budget with 1% of his estimated £108.7billion fortune.

The increased fortunes of the wealthy is underlined by the fact in 2017 the world's richest 43 earned the same amount as the poorest half - it is now just 26.

In the UK the study added that the poorest 10% of people in Britain now pay a higher proportion of their income in tax than the richest 10%.

China says doctor behind gene-edited babies acted on his own

Associated Press
Mon, 21 Jan 2019 17:45 UTC

Chinese investigators have determined that the doctor behind the reported birth of two babies whose genes had been edited in hopes of making them resistant to the AIDS virus acted on his own and will be punished for any violations of the law, a state media report said Monday.

Investigators in the southern province of Guangdong determined Dr. He Jiankui organized and handled funding for the experiment without outside assistance in violation of national guidelines, the Xinhua News Agency said.

Along with the birth of the twins, another embryo yet to be born reportedly resulted from He's experiment. All three will remain under medical observation with regular visits supervised by government health departments, Xinhua said.

It didn't say which laws He might have violated but said he had fabricated an ethical review by others.

Actress Jameela Jamil eviscerates Avon for body-shaming women

RT
Sun, 20 Jan 2019 11:53 UTC

Actor and body positivity activist Jameela Jamil has taken cosmetics brand Avon to task over its apparent tone-deaf advertising campaign for cellulite cream, which she argues is tantamount to bullying.

The Good Place actor blasted the company for "shaming women about age, gravity, and cellulite. They're inevitable, completely normal things."

The 32-year-old TV presenter-turned-actress decried Avon's apparent hijacking of the so-called 'body positivity' movement with a call to arms addressing women directly, saying: "You are constantly being manipulated to self-hate."

Not so lucky charms: Buddhist 'monk' slashes vendor's throat to prove his protective amulets are fake

RT
Mon, 21 Jan 2019 16:54 UTC

A man, thought to be a Buddhist monk, has been arrested over a horrific slashing attack on a street vendor in Bangkok. He reportedly attacked the seller to prove that his wares - lucky necklaces - were no protection from danger.

The Chinatown street vendor told the 'monk' that the necklaces were lucky amulets to protect the wearer from harm when the latter suddenly pulled a huge knife from his robes and stabbed him, according to witnesses.

A fast-acting passerby who witnessed the horrific January 18 attack rushed to the street seller's aid and helped to stem the flow of blood from his gruesome injuries. The tourist who jumped into action to assist the wounded man stayed by his side until paramedics arrived.

Another bomb attack strikes Kurdish-US convoy in Syria - potential fatalities

RT
Mon, 21 Jan 2019 17:07 UTC

A car bomb detonated close to a militia checkpoint in the Kurd-held city of Al-Shaddadah in northwestern Syria as a US-Kurdish convoy was passing by. At least five people may have been killed.

According to the Kurdish Hawar News Agency, the explosives were hidden in a Hyundai car, which detonated at a checkpoint set at the entrance to the town near a bridge over the Khabur River.

The explosion was set off by a suicide driver, who was told to stop by the militia fighters manning the checkpoint.

There are conflicting reports on whether the attack resulted in causalities. The Kurdish agency says it did not, but some Turkish sources state as many as five people were killed by the explosion. Some reports say the checkpoint was attacked while a joint US-Kurdish patrol was passing by and that some US service members may have been hurt.

Comment: The US Coalition confirmed its convoy was involved in the blast, but stressed that no US troops were injured, contrary to the Turkish report.

Israeli city 'erasing women' from public eye, censoring them from billboard ad

RT
Mon, 21 Jan 2019 15:00 UTC

An ultra-orthodox municipality just east of Tel Aviv has edited a female politician out of a billboard ad, and not for the first time, some saying the practice is meant to "erase Israeli women," altogether.

Tzipi Livni, a leader in the liberal opposition party Hatnua, was edited out of a billboard in densely populated Bnei Brak, while her male-colleagues remained. Livni posted a video of her standing in front of the sign to her Twitter account Saturday, offering criticism and worry.

"You understand, it's not my face they want to remove, but the faces of you the women of Israel, over 50% of the population," she told her online audience.

A local Israeli news station reported on the situation last Thursday, pointing out that another ad had been selectively edited to remove Knesset member Tamar Zandberg. Municipal authorities have refused comment so far.

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Society's Child

Denmark to American leftists: We're not socialist

Kuril islands handover negotiations brings out Russian protestors

The hypocritical elite: Billionaire tycoon tells the plebes to be vegan while Instagramming his gorging on a 20,000 calorie bacon burger

Apartment block demolished following deadly NYE blast in Magnitogorsk, 39 people died in the tragedy

Twenty-six of the world's richest billionaires earn the same amount as 3.8 billion of the world's poorest

China says doctor behind gene-edited babies acted on his own

Actress Jameela Jamil eviscerates Avon for body-shaming women

Not so lucky charms: Buddhist 'monk' slashes vendor's throat to prove his protective amulets are fake

Another bomb attack strikes Kurdish-US convoy in Syria - potential fatalities

Israeli city 'erasing women' from public eye, censoring them from billboard ad

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