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Germany at risk of mass unrest - security official


RT
Fri, 12 Aug 2022 10:24 UTC
Riot police
© APF/Henrik Josef BoergerGerman riot police during clashes with radicals in Hamburg
Germany could be facing mass unrest this autumn and protests over the energy crisis could be hijacked by extremists, a regional head of the country's domestic security agency has said.

Stephan Kramer, who heads the BfV in the state of Thuringia, said Germany must be prepared for the possibility that "legitimate" protests over energy and economic crises could be "infiltrated by extremists."

He told ZDF broadcaster on Wednesday that demonstrations could be expected over
"gas shortages, energy problems, supply difficulties, possible recession, unemployment, but also the growing poverty right up to the middle class.

"'Extremists' who could hijack the protests include the so-called 'lateral thinkers' who rallied against coronavirus restrictions during the pandemic, and right-wing activists who have already been stirring the mood on social media in recent months."
If such scenarios materialize, "we're likely to be confronted with mass protests and riots," the official warned.


Comment: Hypothetical suggestions precondition the public's mindset. Evolving definitions change the rules.


Comment: Pick your protest - a plethora of choices.

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Brick Wall

Arizona governor closes gaps in border wall

Bob Price
Breitbart
Sat, 13 Aug 2022 00:00 UTC
DuceyScott
© Howard Fischer/Capitol Media ServicesArizona Governor Doug Ducey • Florida Republican Senator Rick Scott
Arizona Governor Doug Ducey began a construction project designed to close some of the gaps in federal border walls. The move follows similar actions taken by Texas Governor Greg Abbott in response to the changes in immigration and border security policies by the Biden Administration.

In a tweet on Friday, Governor Ducey announced the beginning of construction projects to place physical barriers in gaps of the border wall along the Arizona-Mexico border. Workers began placing welded-shut shipping containers.

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Star of David

Israel heads further right: 30-40 percent of young support fascistic Jewish party

Philip Weiss
Mondoweiss
Wed, 10 Aug 2022 00:00 UTC
israel
© JERIES BSSIER (C) APA IMAGESIsraeli far-right lawmaker Itamar Ben Gvir takes part in a march in Jerusalem, on April 20, 2022. police prevented hundreds of ultra-nationalist Israelis from marching around predominantly Palestinian areas of Jerusalem’s old city.
Israel's unprovoked attack on Gaza last week that resulted in yet more childrens' death and trauma, widely related on social media, is sure to further damage Israel's reputation among Democrats. The last time Israel attacked Gaza, in May 2021, even traditional friends got wobbly, The New York Times put the faces of 60+ dead Palestinian children on the front page, and a subsequent poll revealed that 38 percent of American Jews under 40 believe Israel is an apartheid state.

Today more U.S. politicians are daring not to support Israel's latest attack; and one young American Jewish group damned the attack as a political stunt by Israel's prime minister Yair Lapid to stay in power, facing an election November 1.

But Israeli politics could not be more different. Jewish Israelis saw the attack as a great success. All Israel is "united" in support of the Gaza attack, says Israel advocate Daniel Gordis, who describes "wall-to-wall agreement in Israel (except, as expected and even understandably, from the Arab parties)."
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Stock Down

Report says UK faces steepest drop in real wages in a century


RT
Sat, 13 Aug 2022 13:32 UTC
unemployment britain wages drop inflation
Living standards in Britain are projected to plunge by a staggering 7.75% by the end of this year

Pay rises in Britain could fall behind inflation by almost 8% later this year, which will be the biggest fall in real wages for 100 years, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) said in a report published on Thursday.

According to the report, living standards in the country are expected to fall by an unprecedented 7.75%, given the central bank's prediction that inflation would jump to 13% in the fourth quarter of 2022 while wages were to increase by just 5.25%.

The TUC pointed out that workers had not suffered such a severe and prolonged decline in wages relative to inflation since the 1920s. "This isn't a wage-price spiral, it's a real pay disaster," the union congress warned.

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Evil Rays

Sir Salman Rushdie stabbed 15 times onstage at New York state event - UPDATE: Rushdie on ventilator, likely to lose an eye

Ed Pilkington
The Guardian
Fri, 12 Aug 2022 22:38 UTC
Salman Rushdie stabbed
People rushed to assist the author after the attack, with the attacker being restrained by witnesses. The motive for the stabbing is currently unknown
Sir Salman Rushdie was attacked onstage at an event in western New York state and stabbed in the neck on Friday morning, police have confirmed.

Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked on Friday morning as he was about to give a lecture in western New York.

He was taken into surgery on Friday afternoon. Andrew Wylie, a spokesperson for Rushdie, said in an emailed statement: "Salman is in surgery," but did not have further details to share.

Comment: Footage of the incident from Twitter:




UPDATE 13/08/2022: Breitbart reports:
The 75-year-old author, who was born in India and has British and American citizenship, was stabbed repeatedly by an assailant named as Hadi Matar while giving an interview before a live audience at the Chautauqua Institution on Friday.

"Salman will likely lose one eye; the nerves in his arm were severed; and his liver was stabbed and damaged," his agent, Andrew Wylie, has said in a statement quoted by the BBC, adding that he is currently on a ventilator and unable to speak.

While a motive for the attack has yet to be disclosed by the authorities, who have said Rushdie was stabbed at least once in the neck and once in the abdomen, radical Muslims have been baying for the author's blood since the publication of his book The Satanic Verses in the 1980s, which included fictionalised interpretations of the life of the Islamic prophet regarded as blasphemous.

Indeed, the Ayatollah Khomeini, then-Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, issued an Islamic fatwa calling for the murder of Rushdie and his publishers in 1989 and put a bounty on his head, which has been raised several times over the years and is now worth millions of dollars.




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Holly

Chinese medical platform censored after questioning efficacy of government-backed herbal Covid-19 treatment


Hong Kong Free Press
Thu, 11 Aug 2022 00:00 UTC
Lianhua Qinwen
© ManningsLianhua Qinwen capsules sold in Hong Kong.
DXY, which counts tech giant Tencent among its investors and runs a host of health-related services, previously questioned the value of Lianhua Qingwen, a herbal remedy marketed for fever and sore throats, as a Covid-19 treatment.

A popular Chinese medical information site has been censored by authorities for "violation of relevant laws and regulations", months after its criticism of a government-backed herbal Covid-19 treatment sent shares in a pharmaceutical giant tumbling.

DXY, which counts tech giant Tencent among its investors and runs a host of health-related services, previously questioned the value of Lianhua Qingwen, a herbal remedy marketed for fever and sore throats, as a Covid-19 treatment.

Comment: There's been a glut of articles about possible natural remedies for Covid, even though it's quite likely there are many possible ones out there. Herbalism, homeopathy, high-dose vitamin therapy - all of these and more, in the hands of properly trained practitioners, will undoubtedly have solutions to Covid infection, and they won't negatively impact your DNA!

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Info

Italian fighter in Ukraine faces probe at home


RT
Thu, 11 Aug 2022 19:55 UTC
ukrainian soldier
© John Moore/Getty ImagesA Ukrainian army soldier stands guard at the war-damaged Irpinsky Lipky residential complex following the visit of United Nations secretary general, António Guterres, in Irpin, Ukraine.
Prosecutors have reportedly opened a case against a Genoa resident who said he went to Ukraine to "stop denazification."

Italy has opened a criminal investigation into the case of an alleged neo-fascist sympathizer who said he traveled to Ukraine to fight Russia and prevent the nation's "denazification."

Kevin Chiappalone, 19, is accused of mercenary activities and has become the first Italian to face prosecution in the country for fighting on the Ukrainian side in the ongoing conflict between Moscow and Kiev.
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House

Deputy coroner: House explosion in southern Indiana kills 3


Associated Press
Thu, 11 Aug 2022 14:21 UTC
house explosion
© Denny Simmons/Evansville Courier & Press via APEvansville Fire Department personnel examine the scene after a house explosion at 1010 N. Weinbach Avenue in Evansville, Ind., Wednesday afternoon, Aug. 10, 2022
Three people were killed Wednesday when a house exploded in the southern Indiana city of Evansville, authorities said.

David Anson, chief deputy coroner for Vanderburgh County, told The Associated Press that the identities of the people who died would not be released until the next of kin has been notified.

Evansville Police Department spokeswoman Sgt. Anna Gray said at least one other injury was reported and that victim was taken to a local hospital for treatment.
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Books

UK institute apologizes for discriminating against Russian


RT
Fri, 12 Aug 2022 12:07 UTC
beaston institute for cancer research
© WikipediaThe Beatson Institute for Cancer Research building in Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
Summary A cancer research facility overturned its rejection of a Russian PhD applicant.

A UK cancer research facility has apologized for telling a student that her PhD application had been rejected because she is Russian.

The controversy erupted when student Alisa Iakupova tweeted on Tuesday that her friend had been denied a PhD place at the Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, which is based in Glasgow, Scotland.

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Bizarro Earth

11 killed as man goes on shooting rampage over 'family dispute' in Montenegro


RT
Fri, 12 Aug 2022 22:38 UTC
Montenegro
State prosecutor Andrijana Nastic talks to the forensic team at the house where a gunman started a mass shooting in Cetinje, Montenegro August 12, 2022.
A resident of Cetinje, Montenegro shot and killed eleven people - including two children - and injured six more on Friday, before he was shot and killed by police, according to local media reports.

Witnesses said the man pulled a pistol in what was termed a family dispute, killed his family, and then proceeded to fire into random bystanders.

Cetinje police are still investigating the scene and very little information has been released officially.

Montenegro state TV initially reported that more than ten people may have been shot, including a police officer, citing local residents. The toll was later raised to 11 dead and six wounded.

Comment:

See also: Knife attacker kills six and injures 14 in Chinese city, THIRD incident this month (June 2022)

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