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Russia sets standards for organic produce production


RT
Mon, 06 Aug 2018 13:01 UTC
Organic apples
© David Chapman / Global Look Press
President Vladimir Putin has signed a new law regulating production, storing and transportation of organic produce in Russia. The decree bans agrochemicals, pesticides, antibiotics growth stimulators and hormones.

The new law, previously approved by both chambers of the Russian Parliament, will enter force on January 1, 2020. The regulation introduces references to "organic produce,""manufacturer of organic produce" and "organic agriculture," as well as sets control over producing, storing, labeling, selling and transporting goods of the kind.

Comment: See also: How Putin Made Russia Great Again

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Pamela Anderson opens up about 'romantic connection' with WikiLeaks founder


RT
Mon, 06 Aug 2018 11:29 UTC
Pamela Anderson, Assange
© ReutersPamela Anderson opened up about her close relationship with the Wikileaks editor.
Playboy model-turned-activist Pamela Anderson has described her relationship with Julian Assange as having a "romantic" element, and explained how she bonded with the WikiLeaks founder over vegan food.

Anderson, who garnered global attention in the '90s through her modeling career and role in the TV series 'Baywatch,' has been a vocal supporter of the WikiLeaks editor. She previously suggested that Assange's exile in London's Ecuadorian embassy was tantamount to authorities "trying to kill him."

Appearing on Fox News OBJECTified, the star lionized Assange as "one of the most important people living," and praised the Australian for "exposing people to the truth."

"I brought him some vegan food and now it's a tradition that I bring him vegan food every time I see him. I see him a lot. I just saw him last week," she explained.

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Attention

Chicago bloodbath: 2 people killed and 28 wounded in 3 hours


RT
Mon, 06 Aug 2018 13:44 UTC
chicago police investigation
© Joshua Lott/Getty / AFPChicago Police officers and detectives investigate a mass shooting scene.
Gun violence swept Chicago over the weekend, as two people were shot dead on Sunday and another 28 were wounded during three hours in the early morning that saw the city being rocked by five mass shootings.

Chicago, ranked among the list of America's most dangerous cities due to its high homicide rate, has been experiencing a spike in violence that is startling even by its own grim standards.

Some 25 people were victims in five mass shootings that rocked the city early on Sunday. A teenage girl was killed in Chicago's Lawndale neighborhood on Sunday morning in a shooting that resulted in another five people being injured, including an 11-year-old boy.

The girl was shot in the face and died at the scene, police said. A 26-year-old man also suffered gunshot wounds to his abdomen and ankle as a gunman fired from a moving vehicle. The man succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced dead in hospital.

In another mass shooting that took place in a courtyard, eight people, including children, were injured.

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Far-right protesters ransack socialist bookstore in London

Jamie Grierson
The Guardian
Mon, 06 Aug 2018 11:03 UTC
socialist bookshop
© Dave GilchristBookmarks on Bloomsbury Street in central London is the UK’s largest socialist bookshop.


Owners of Bookmarks say masked attackers wrecked displays and tore up books

The owners of Britain's largest socialist bookshop, Bookmarks, have said the store was attacked by far-right protesters wearing masks who wrecked displays and ripped up books and magazines.

Posting on Facebook and Twitter, Bookmarks said staff were closing the shop on Bloomsbury Street in central London on Saturday evening when about a dozen people descended on it.

A Met spokesman said: "Police were called at approximately 18:35hrs on Saturday, 4 August to reports of a protest inside a shop on Bloomsbury Street, WC1.

Comment: Freedom of speech, indeed. It's unlikely the right-wing mob really knows what the term means - standing up for free speech as long as it's the 'right kind of speech'.

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Pistol

Reports: 'Love triangle' led NYPD cop to shoot man & plant a gun on him


RT
Mon, 06 Aug 2018 12:12 UTC
New York Police department NYPD
© Mike Segar/Reuters
Footage showing an off-duty New York City cop planting an object next to a man he shot has cast doubt over his story that he was being threatened at the time. Reports suggest the men were involved in a love triangle.

Surveillance footage of the incident first released by NBC New York shows Ritchard Blake, 40, a police sergeant from the 109th Precinct in Queens, shoot 21-year-old Thavone Santana, after the two are seen briefly arguing on the sidewalk. Blake was off-duty and wearing civilian clothes at the time of the incident on Thursday night.

While Santana is lying on the ground, Blake is then seen standing over the victim, before planting an object on the ground beside Santana. After that he's seen walking around, picking it up and putting it into his pocket. It is believed the object was a knife or blade, police sources told the New York Post.

Comment: Further reading: Cop shoots man in the face, plants weapon on him and gets to keep his job

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New York Times bigot Sarah Jeong trashed the New York Times, repeatedly

Allum Bokhari
Breitbart
Fri, 03 Aug 2018 10:16 UTC
Sarah Jeong
© Spencer Platt/Getty Images, Twitter/@sarahjeong
The New York Times went out on a limb to defend its new hire, Sarah Jeong, after the far-left writer's long history of racist tweets drew public attention. Since then, more posts have surfaced showing Jeong's history of trashing the very newspaper that now defends her.

Before being hired to serve on the paper's editorial board, Jeong made a hobby of publicly trashing the New York Times and its columnists. As Jeong said in 2013:


Jeong's ham-fisted excuse for her racist tweets, which include multiple tweets comparing white people to dogs and another expressing "joy" in being "cruel to old white men," was that she was "imitating the rhetoric" of trolls who attacked her. The New York Times uncritically repeated that excuse in its statement defending Jeong. It's unclear how her attacks on the paper follow the same logic, unless there's some hitherto unknown pro-Times sentiment among the web's trolling communities.


Comment: Good point. Perhaps her being a 'female minority' helps them to fill their 'diversity and equity' quotas. NYT claims they 'reviewed her social media history' so her stance wouldn't be unknown to them. Why isn't this an issue?


As recently as last year, Jeong was making flippant, celebratory comments about a lawsuit against her future employer.


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WWII-era plane crash kills all 20 aboard in Swiss Alps


RT
Sun, 05 Aug 2018 12:05 UTC
swiss plane crash alps
© FILE PHOTO Credit: JU Air
Twenty people have died in a crash involving an old-time German-built Ju-52 plane, operated by a company offering panoramic flights over the Swiss Alpine resort of Flims, local police confirmed.

A turboprop Junkers Ju-52 transport plane - capable of seating 17 passengers as well as two pilots and one flight attendant - went down over the Swiss Alps on Saturday.

Earlier, local media reported that the adventure flight was fully booked. Ju-Air, a company which offers observation tours in the retro planes, said on Saturday that one of its aircraft was involved in an accident.

Comment: It seems like there are a lot of aircraft crashes lately - the links below are just some of the stories from 2018 - but is that really the case or is just because we're more likely to hear about them? If there has been an increase in crashes, is it because something is changing in our atmosphere making them more vulnerable?

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Pistol

NRA facing a financial crisis, it states, in lawsuit against New York State officials

Shannon Van Sant and Brian Mann
NPR
Wed, 01 Aug 2018 13:12 UTC
NRA advertisement
© Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesThe National Rifle Association, which held its annual meeting in Dallas in May, has filed a lawsuit against New York state officials claiming they are pressuring financial institutions to stop doing business with the organization.
The National Rifle Association says it could soon face a financial crisis that will force it to shut down some of its operations, including broadcasts by its NRA TV division. The gun rights group blames a campaign by Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo aimed at discouraging insurance companies and other financial institutions from doing business with the NRA.

The organization has filed a lawsuit against Cuomo and the New York State Department of Financial Services in federal court, alleging that Cuomo and state regulators seek to "deprive the NRA and its constituents of their First Amendment rights to speak freely about gun-related issues and defend the Second Amendment."

Brian Mann, who reports for NPR and North Country Public Radio, says the suit claims Cuomo's actions could "deprive the NRA" of banking, insurance and other financial services that are "essential to the NRA's corporate existence."

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Anti-Marxist and Leftist rally groups scuffle at Berkeley park - several arrests made


RT
Sun, 05 Aug 2018 23:41 UTC
antifa scuffle berkeley
© Ruptly
Berkeley police have arrested several people as scuffles broke out during two opposing rallies in downtown Berkeley, California. One demo is against Marxism in America, the other group is counter protesters.

Seventeen people were arrested in connection with Sunday protests, Berkeley police said, posting the offenders' mugshots on its Twitter page. Most were detained for possessing banned weapons, battery, vandalism and working with others to commit a crime.

The epicenter of the protest was Civic Center Park where several scuffles broke out.
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Attention

Guardians of the Magnitsky myth wield the hammer of censorship

Robert Parry
Consortium News
Sat, 28 Oct 2017 23:02 UTC
browder
© ReutersBill Browder in the US Senate
In pursuit of Russia-gate, U.S. mainstream media embraces any attack on Russia and works to ensure Americans don't hear the other side of the story, as with the Magnitsky myth, reported Robert Parry on Oct. 28, 2017.

As Russia-gate becomes the go-to excuse to marginalize and suppress independent and dissident media in the United States, a warning of what the future holds is the blacklisting of a documentary that debunks the so-called Magnitsky case.

The emerging outlines of the broader suppression are now apparent in moves by major technology companies - under intense political pressure - to unleash algorithms that will hunt down what major media outlets and mainstream "fact-checkers" (with their own checkered histories of getting facts wrong) deem to be "false" and then stigmatize that information with pop-up "warnings" or simply make finding it difficult for readers using major search engines.

Comment: Browder is a greedy, lying weasel who happens to have enough money to be able shut down most of his critics. Truth will out in the end.

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