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Hillary Clinton slammed for unfairly using female journalist's work to promote equal pay

RT
Fri, 29 Mar 2019 16:42 UTC

Hillary Clinton is being called out for promoting equal pay on Twitter while simultaneously using a female journalist's graphic design work without credit or payment.

The former presidential candidate used an illustration by British data journalist, Mona Chalabi, to highlight the pay discrepancies between people based on their race and gender.

The former senator's tweet aimed to celebrate the Paycheck Fairness Act, a bill which the House of Representatives finally passed on Wednesday (22 years after it was first introduced) in a bid to close the gender pay gap.

Boy fatally injured while protecting mom from ex-con posthumously awarded Order of Courage

RT
Fri, 29 Mar 2019 15:56 UTC

Heroic teenager, Ivan Krapivin, who received horrific head injuries trying to protect his mom from a violent, drunk neighbor and later died in hospital after over a year in coma, has been awarded the Order of Courage.

A decree on the posthumous award was signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday.

The horrific incident occurred in Severodvinsk, northern Russian, in May 2017. Back then, 14-year-old Ivan's mom, Vanya, was involved in an argument with neighbor and ex-convict Roman Pronin.

Pronin attacked her with a dumbbell and a knife, stabbing and hitting Vanya several times.

Nigerian brothers paid to beat up Jussie Smollett 'might have worn WHITEFACE,' lawyer says

RT
Fri, 29 Mar 2019 11:06 UTC

Jussie Smollett's lawyer has explained the holes in the actor's account of the "hate crime" he's accused of staging by claiming his attackers - two Nigerian men who Smollett insisted were white - could have worn white makeup.

Smollett lawyer Tina Glandian has gone to impressive lengths defending her client in a Thursday interview on the Today Show. Claiming the disgraced Empire actor had "been victimized much more by what's happened afterwards than what happened that night" when he was supposedly beaten up, draped with a noose, and doused in bleach, Glandian attempted to explain away her client's absolute certainty that the dark-skinned, bodybuilding Osundairo brothers had been white.

"I was looking up the brothers and one of the first videos that showed up was one of the brothers in whiteface doing a Joker monologue with white makeup on," Glandian said, adding that "it took me all of five minutes to Google" and complaining Chicago police had done "minimal investigation."

Two black candidates for Savannah's mayor attend meeting that bars white reporters

Eric Curl
Savannah Morning News
Wed, 27 Mar 2019 14:18 UTC

© Eric Curl/Savannahnow.com
These signs proclaiming “Black press only” were on the doors of Bolton Street Baptist Church during a meeting coordinated to garner support for one black candidate in Savannah’s mayoral race.

Race was front and center on Wednesday night during a meeting coordinated to garner support for just one black candidate in Savannah's mayoral election.

With signs stating "Black press only" on the doors of the church where the meeting was held, white reporters were barred from entry, while black reporters for at least two television stations were permitted inside.

The event was coordinated by the Rev. Clarence Teddy Williams, owner of the consulting firm, The Trigon Group, who declined to discuss the entry policy.

Former Savannah Mayor Edna Jackson declined to comment before going inside, as did Chatham County Commissioner Chester Ellis.

"This is not my idea," Ellis said.

Chicago PD wants $130K from Jussie Smollett to cover hate crime probe

Gabrielle Fonrouge and Aaron Feis
Page Six
Thu, 28 Mar 2019 13:59 UTC

The City of Chicago has sent Jussie Smollett's legal team a letter demanding $130,000 to defray the cost of cops' probe into the "Empire" actor's allegedly bogus hate-crime attack, officials said Thursday.

"The city feels that is a reasonable and legally justifiable amount to collect to help offset the cost of the investigation," said Bill McCaffrey, a spokesman for the city's Department of Law. "The next step is for Mr. Smollett to immediately make arrangements to reimburse the city and taxpayers for the cost."

"The City of Chicago and the Chicago Police Department take seriously those who make false statements to the police, thereby diverting resources from other investigations and undermining the criminal justice system," reads the letter, which was obtained by The Post.

Comment: Previous articles on the Smollett case:

High school indoctrination: History class teaches that electoral college 'must be abolished'

Jennifer Kabbany
The College Fix
Fri, 29 Mar 2019 10:57 UTC

During my son's junior year of high school, he was taught by his U.S. history teacher that the electoral college is unfair and should be abolished.

How do I know? My husband and I had made a habit out of asking him what he learned in school each day over dinner.

And so over a plate of chicken enchiladas, our then-16-year-old son told us about how his public school teacher had bemoaned and decried the electoral college as an outdated and unjust system that subverts the will of the people.

Independent sleuth reveals new facts about MH370's Satcom prior to fatal turn

Sputnik
Fri, 29 Mar 2019 10:57 UTC

Five years after Flight MH370's disappearance, plane hunters continue to come up with new theories about what could have happened to the missing Boeing, while Malaysian officials have already abandoned attempts to locate the plane.

Jeff Wise, a plane detective and author of the book The Plane That Wasn't There, has revealed in an interview with the Express newspaper that MH370's satellite communication system (Satcom) was switched off when it went off the radars, but was 30 minutes later switched back on again.

According to him, the satellite that had unsuccessfully been trying to reach the plane for 30 minutes suddenly received a log-on request from it at 18:35, meaning that someone on board had switched the system back on. At the same time, it's unclear for what reason this was done, as the plane hadn't been using its Satcom during the flight.

IDF teargases civilians, enters border area to bulldoze land

Palestine Information Center
Fri, 29 Mar 2019 10:57 UTC

The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Thursday morning fired tear gas grenades at Palestinian workmen in the southeast of the besieged Gaza Strip as military bulldozers infiltrated into the area.

According to local sources, six armored bulldozers came from a military post behind the border fence in the east of Rafah and entered a border area inside Gaza to level raised plots of land.

During the incursion, Israeli soldiers launched a teargas attack on Gazan workmen collecting aggregate in the east of Rafah, particularly near the Israeli military post of Sofa.

The way white people eat is killing the environment, according to study

Hannah Sparks
New York Post
Thu, 28 Mar 2019 10:52 UTC

White people are already accused of hogging the majority of jobs, film roles, and housing - and now they're getting blamed for eating up Earth's natural resources, too.

Caucasian populations are disproportionately contributing to climate change through their eating habits, which uses up more food - and emits more greenhouse gases - than the typical diets of black and Latinx communities, according to a new report published in the Journal of Industrial Ecology.

Researchers tracked information from multiple databases to identify foods considered "environmentally intense" by requiring more precious resources such as water, land and energy to produce - and, as a result, releasing more greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide through production and distribution.

Potatoes, beef, apples and milk are some of the worst offenders.

Comment: Note that in the study they only used estimates to determine food consumption. Those estimates come from "two non-consecutive days of 24-hour dietary recall data." Food consumption surveys are notorious for being inaccurate (people often don't remember everything they ate or lie to make it look like they are eating better than they are) and don't necessarily reflect how people are really eating. See also:

Brunei's law mandating stoning to death of gays & adulterers to come into force next week

RT
Thu, 28 Mar 2019 20:01 UTC

A harsher version of penal code, which includes sharia-based punishments for things like adultery and same-sex relations, is to come into force next week in Brunei. The 'human rights defenders' in Washington, however, are silent.

Brunei, a tiny Muslim-majority absolute monarchy located in Southeastern Asia is about to put into force the last amendment to its criminal code as part of a reform initiated back in 2014. The renewed code, which is aimed at reflecting Islam's tenets of morality and punishment for those who break them, will include caning and even stoning to death of Muslims, who are found guilty of adultery, sodomy and rape.

The government wanted to roll in the new laws in stages, but put the process on pause after international public outcry over the milder phase one, which included fines and jail terms for offenders, but not corporal punishment. Last week a rights group reported that Brunei quietly announced earlier this year the date, when the harsher version of the code would come into force: April 3.

Comment: While the US and UK are notorious for their unwavering support of brutal and backward regimes (especially when there's something in it for them), are there any countries that have spoken out out in condemnation of Brunei's new laws? Because none are listed in the article. And it should be noted that Russia and China are also doing business deals with Saudi Arabia:

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Society's Child

Hillary Clinton slammed for unfairly using female journalist's work to promote equal pay

Boy fatally injured while protecting mom from ex-con posthumously awarded Order of Courage

Nigerian brothers paid to beat up Jussie Smollett 'might have worn WHITEFACE,' lawyer says

Two black candidates for Savannah's mayor attend meeting that bars white reporters

Chicago PD wants $130K from Jussie Smollett to cover hate crime probe

High school indoctrination: History class teaches that electoral college 'must be abolished'

Independent sleuth reveals new facts about MH370's Satcom prior to fatal turn

IDF teargases civilians, enters border area to bulldoze land

The way white people eat is killing the environment, according to study

Brunei's law mandating stoning to death of gays & adulterers to come into force next week

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