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'Emboldening radicals': China slams move by US lawmakers to approve Hong Kong 'human rights act'

RT
Thu, 26 Sep 2019 09:16 UTC

© REUTERS/Tyrone Siu
Riot police stand guard behind a burning barricade as they disperse anti-government protesters after a march in Tuen Mun, Hong Kong, China September 21, 2019.

Beijing has slammed a move by US congressional panels to approve Hong Kong-related bills envisioning sanctions for human rights abuses and requiring the US president to assess annually if Hong Kong is sufficiently independent.

The legislation, known as the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act of 2019, passed through the House and the Senate Foreign Relations Committees on Wednesday, and is now slated for a floor vote in both chambers. The bills, sponsored by Republican Senator Marco Rubio (Florida) and Representative Chris Smith (New Jersey), have proved to be among the least contentious in Congress, which is largely divided along party lines.

The act has been championed by Hong Kong 'pro-democracy' activists themselves, who came to Washington to rally behind the legislation and testified before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China last Tuesday.

The bill would force the US president to report to Congress on Hong Kong's autonomy every year, and to determine whether Beijing is acting to limit its independence in any way. If the White House believes the territory's special status is not being respected, then the former British enclave would lose its trade privileges.

The legislation drew fire from China, incensed over Washington's attempts to meddle in its internal affairs.

Comment: Beijing has shown considerable restraint during the protests, but for how much longer? As Peter Koenig notes:

But if China gets tired of these incessant western provocations and really wants to put an end to them, the PRC could take over Hong Kong in less than 48 hours, abridge the 50 years of western capitalism and make HK a full-fledged province of China, no privileges, no special status, just a part of sovereign China. End of story.

Big Oil out of favor with millennials

Julianne Geiger
OilPrice.com
Sun, 22 Sep 2019 18:28 UTC

It sounds harsh, but it's true: millennials really do ruin everything. And the oil industry will be no exception. From talent acquisition to courting investors, to finding new end uses for petroleum, the oil industry is facing a whole new set of challenges — one that extends far beyond geopolitical risk premiums and barrel prices.

Oil companies who are quicker to adapt to this changing of the guard will have first pick of investment dollars and top talent, while those who are slow to change will get the leftovers.

Comment: One of the problems is the relationship between Big Oil and the US Deep state. There is no question it is used for control and domination all over the world. So, it's not like Big Oil is entirely innocent. That said, this really isn't an issue for today's 'progressive'. The much bigger, faux issue is man made climate change. The hysteria surrounding this is just another wing of Deep State engineering, and this has the greater influence in creating the demand for greater and greater control over people's lives. Big Oil isn't going anywhere, and neither is its opposition (both justified and unjustified).

2 million Yemeni children deprived of schooling due to Saudi bombing campaigns

Drago Bosnic
Fort Russ News
Thu, 26 Sep 2019 18:52 UTC

Two million children and teenagers are out of school in war-torn Yemen, the United Nations children's fund announced, nearly five years after Saudi Arabia and its allies had launched a devastating bombing campaign in the impoverished Middle Eastern country. The education of a further 3.7 million children is at risk as teachers' salaries have not been paid in more than two years, UNICEF said in a statement on Wednesday.

"Violence, displacement and attacks on schools are preventing many children from attending school," Sara Beysolow Nyanti, the UNICEF representative in Yemen, stated.

One in five schools in the country can no longer be used as a direct result of the conflict that has devastated Yemen's already-fragile education system, the UN agency warned.

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Atlanta activists fight to halt city's police exchange training program with Israel

Michael Arria
Mondoweiss
Thu, 26 Sep 2019 17:13 UTC

Atlanta activists are reigniting their fight against the Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange (GILEE), a program where police officers and law enforcement officials receive training from human violators such as Israel.

On September 17, a town hall forum was held at Atlanta University to Center educate citizens on GILEE's relationship with the city. It was attended by over 120 people and sponsored by a number of local activist including Project South. Project South Legal & Advocacy Director Azadeh Shahshahani told Mondoweiss the event was inspired by a non-response from Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms. In March, dozens of organizations, activists, faith leaders, and scholars signed a letter calling on Bottoms to end the program. It reminds Bottoms she agreed to pause GILEE if elected and meet with community members to discuss their specific concerns. "We sent this letter a number of months ago and there's been no response," said Shahshahani, "So we have moved to engage in public education and relaunch this campaign."

Comment: The effect on police behavior due to the techniques the Israelis teach them is undeniable. Forces are far more likely to shoot a suspect first, rather than attempt to defuse a hazardous situation, or use a less-lethal means of apprehension.

Imperial Brands tobacco company takes hit as US cracks down on vaping

Lina Saigol
MarketWatch
Thu, 26 Sep 2019 17:49 UTC

Shares in Imperial Brands dived to their lowest level in a decade on Thursday after the British tobacco group warned over a hit to annual sales amid a regulatory crackdown against Vaping in the U.S.

The U.K. maker IMB, -12.94% of Blu e-cigarettes said profits per share will be flat this year compared with last year. It now expects revenue growth of just 2% for the year ending September 30, well short of its previous guidance of up to 4%.

The profit warning dragged shares in Imperial down by almost 10% in London on Thursday to £18.67 a share. Shares in rival British American Tobacco BATS, +0.34% fell almost 2%.

ISIS allegedly preparing crusade to free fighters from prison camps in Iraq and Syria

Sputnik
Thu, 26 Sep 2019 17:15 UTC

Daesh, a terrorist organisation which became infamous when it captured large swaths of Iraq in 2014, has since been mostly driven out of its previously-held territory by Kurdish forces and the military forces of Syria and Iraq, with thousands of its former fighters detained in prisons and displacements camps in the territory of the two countries.

Daesh is preparing to free its fighters and followers currently held at prisons and displacements camps across Syria and Iraq, a report published by the Institute for the Study of War says.

On 16 September, the leader of the terrorist organisation, Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, released a 30-minute recording titled "Do Deeds", whose authenticity has yet to be verified, where he reportedly signalled the start of the new campaign by calling upon the members of the group "to resist and lead the fight for five years" in order to liberate prisoners and women detained and currently held in jails.

"Daily operations are underway on different fronts," Al-Baghdadi allegedly said in a tape, by potentially referring to several regions such as Mali and the Levant without specific details being given.

"How can a Muslim enjoy life?" the Daesh leader then added, asking how his followers could "accept to live while Muslim women are suffering in the camps of diaspora and the prisons of humiliation under the power of the Crusaders?"

"As for the worst and most important matter, the prisons, the prisons, oh soldiers of the caliphate. Your brothers and sisters, do your utmost to free them and tear down the walls restricting them," the recording read.

Comment: The U.S. must have read Baghdadi's mind:

Russian Security Agency accuses US special services of transferring ISIS militants to Afghanistan

Privacy be damned! Amazon touts new products that listen to users everywhere

Sputnik
Thu, 26 Sep 2019 16:58 UTC

Amazon has launched a range of wearable 'digital assistants', to ensure Alexa accompanies users everywhere they go and whatever they're doing.

Unveiled at an event in Seattle 26th September, Amazon's Echo Frames smart glasses, Echo Loop ring and Echo Buds will connect Alexa with wearers' face, hands and ears.

The US$179.99 Echo Frames are equipped with directional speakers and microphones for Alexa, meaning emails, texts and other information can be read out to users, removing the need for them to do so themselves.

Comment: Why would anyone ever want to put these demonic devices in their home, let alone wear one? That goes for the entire 'internet of things'. Has humanity become that lazy and dependent?

Poetic justice: Brave young man takes on gender inequality at USC by wielding Title IX

Barbara Kay
The Post Millennial
Sat, 21 Sep 2019 16:32 UTC

Kursat Christoff Pekgoz

Misandry — the hatred of men — has been a staple of my polemical writing for more than fifteen years. I felt a special obligation to hammer away at gender myths such as intimate partner violence (women are about as likely as men to initiate violence against their partners as men), false sexual allegations (a disturbing percentage of such allegations) and demonstrable bias against fathers in family court, because male journalists who dared to write sympathetically about men and/or critically about women put their careers in jeopardy (no exaggeration), and most had learned to keep shtumm in this domain.

That situation has been changing slowly but steadily. Some men have decided they aren't going to spend their lives in rhetorical purdah on the subject of their own cultural dhimmitude, and have been stepping up to the plate, whatever the personal cost. The university campus is home to the feminist commissariat — and it's a brave man who dares to stick his head above that formidable parapet. Because the cost of doing so can be high.

This is the story of one such activist who paid a price, which only fueled his resistance efforts, and which in turn inspired others, in reversing a decades-long erosion of men's rights on campus.

Comment: Title IX, whatever its benign initial intentions, has been wielded as a bludgeon by radical feminists for years. It's heartening to see that same weapon being turned on them.

Who is pulling Greta's puppet strings?

Jon Gaunt
Sputnik
Thu, 26 Sep 2019 16:03 UTC

© Reuters/Carlo Allegri
16-year-old Swedish Climate activist Greta Thunberg speaks at the 2019 United Nations Climate Action Summit at U.N. headquarters in New York City, New York, U.S., September 23, 2019

Is it just me or is Greta Thunberg getting on your nerves too? Why is this young woman getting so much attention and why are people taking her seriously? All kids worry about the end of the world then they grow up or am I being too harsh?

I posed this question on Twitter a few days ago and the overwhelming response was that instead of being too harsh I was in fact being too gentle to the 'Eco Messiah'.

Did you see her speech at the UN? It was incredible and frightening in equal measure. Not her doom-laden prediction that the world was going to end but the manner in which she delivered it. The trembling lip, the stare, the accusations and of course the tears.

It only confirmed my long-held belief that this young girl is being used and abused by the environmental 'nut jobs' who are seem to be drafting her scripts.

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Gallup poll: Just 13% of Americans trust the media 'a great deal'

Megan Brenan
Gallup News
Thu, 26 Sep 2019 15:49 UTC

Americans remain largely mistrustful of the mass media as 41% currently have "a great deal" or "fair amount" of trust in newspapers, television and radio to report the news "fully, accurately and fairly." This latest reading represents a four-percentage-point dip since last year and marks the end of improvements in back-to-back years after hitting an all-time low.

Although trust in the media has edged down this year, it is well above the record low of 32% in 2016 when Republicans' trust dropped precipitously and drove the overall trust reading down during the divisive presidential campaign. Republicans' trust is still at a very low level and a wide gap in views of the media among partisans persists as 69% of Democrats say they have trust and confidence in it, while 15% of Republicans and 36% of independents agree.

Trust in the Mass Media Remains Low

After hitting the low point three years ago, U.S. adults' trust in the accuracy of the mass media appeared to be rebounding -- increasing 13 points over two years. Yet, the latest reading from a Sept. 3-15 Gallup poll found levels matching those in 2017.

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Society's Child

'Emboldening radicals': China slams move by US lawmakers to approve Hong Kong 'human rights act'

Big Oil out of favor with millennials

2 million Yemeni children deprived of schooling due to Saudi bombing campaigns

Atlanta activists fight to halt city's police exchange training program with Israel

Imperial Brands tobacco company takes hit as US cracks down on vaping

ISIS allegedly preparing crusade to free fighters from prison camps in Iraq and Syria

Privacy be damned! Amazon touts new products that listen to users everywhere

Poetic justice: Brave young man takes on gender inequality at USC by wielding Title IX

Who is pulling Greta's puppet strings?

Gallup poll: Just 13% of Americans trust the media 'a great deal'

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