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Social media app Telegram messenger to be registered in Russia, insists it won't share user data with anyone


RT
Wed, 28 Jun 2017 20:16 UTC
Telegram
© Dado Ruvic / Reuters
Telegram's application has provided all necessary documents to be registered in Russia after being threatened with blocking by the country's media watchdog. However, the messaging company says it won't share users' data with anyone.

"At this point, Telegram messenger has provided all the data, required by law, to be introduced into the list of information distribution organizers. The messenger will be included in the list shortly," the head of the media watchdog, Roskomnadzor, Aleksandr Zharov, told media in a statement.

This followed the app's founder Pavel Durov saying the company doesn't object to official registration in Russia and there has always been open access to all the information necessary for the procedure.
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Great exodus: Thousands of Ukrainians fleeing their country seek safe haven in Russia

Mary Elizabeth Malinkin, Liliya Nigmatullina
The National Interest
Wed, 04 Feb 2015 00:00 UTC
Ukrainians fleeing to Perm Russia

Perm may not be on the radar of most Westerners, but it has become a major hub for Ukrainians seeking a safe haven in Russia.
The fact that most of the Ukrainians who fled their country last year went to Russia may come as a surprise to some. The reasons for this are interesting and have been skillfully examined in recent articles. Where are the Ukrainian refugees going in Russia and what awaits them when they arrive? How are they being treated and what do they think of their new surroundings? We took a closer look at these questions in Perm, a city and region in the Ural Mountains, which in 2014 became one of the major hubs in Russia for Ukrainian refugees.

"Where is Perm?"

Perm may not be on the radar of most Western readers, with the exception of fans of Sergei Diaghilev or Boris Pasternak, who each lived in the Perm region for a time, or those familiar with the dissident movement. Perm-36 included some of the harshest labor camps where the Soviet government sent political prisoners during the crackdown in the 1960s and early 1970s. The last political prisoner held there was released only in the late 1980s. The thought of seeking refuge in a place with such a dark history might sound strange, but this question is not likely in the forefront of the refugees' minds. Instead, a more common thought might be "Where is Perm?" as one refugee in Donetsk asked in Andrew Roth's article last fall.
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Senators oppose new Bill: Dreams of a gender-neutral O Canada are over - for now

John Paul Tasker
CBC
Mon, 05 Jun 2017 00:00 UTC
Mauril Belanger

Mauril Belanger is the man who came up with the idea that the Canadian National Anthem should remove the word 'sons' and become gender neutral.
Canadians will not be singing a gender-neutral national anthem on Canada Day after a bill before Parliament to officially change the lyrics has stalled.

The House of Commons overwhelmingly passed a private member's bill last summer that would alter the national anthem by replacing "in all thy sons command" with "in all of us command" as part of a push to strike gendered language from O Canada.

Although the bill sailed through the House with government approval, Conservative senators opposed to the changes have scored a victory in the Red Chamber. A yearlong campaign successfully punted a vote on the bill until the fall, at the earliest, and even then the legislation faces an uncertain future.

Comment: In the long run, trying to force the rest of society to adhere to gender non-conformity politics will only harm the country and prevent healthy integration of those on the fringes who legitimately struggle with their identity. Also, what kind of backlash will occur when people start to catch on to what's happening? See also:

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The alt-right now has its own Wikipedia

Alexis Sobel Fitts
Wired
Wed, 28 Jun 2017 20:42 UTC
Wikipedia
Vox Day thinks that Wikipedia is the worst. But the things that bug him aren't the typical complaints you'll hear about the crowd-sourced encyclopedia—that it's plagued by trolls, say, or that its pages on Pokémon lore are overly comprehensive.

Day is bothered because he believes that Wikipedia is a Democratic tool, run "by the left-wing thought police who administer it," he tells me over email. Yet the millions of articles and stubs that make up the end product are used as fact. And that makes the science fiction writer and alt-right personality, who uses Vox Day as his pen name, angry.

So last fall, in the midst of a public debate about what, exactly, constitutes a fact, Day decided it was time to do something about the Wikipedia problem. He chose to launch his own version of it. He made a copy of the entire site and invited his followers to start rewriting its pages. "Wikipedia was the easiest and the most important of the social justice-converged social media giants to replace," Day told me.
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Young American Jews growing in awareness of Israel's barbaric treatment of Palestine

Jonathan Cook
Mondoweiss
Wed, 28 Jun 2017 19:44 UTC
Israeli national flag flying next to an Israeli building site of new housing units in the Jewish settlement of Shilo
© AFP 2017/ Ahmad Gharabli
Israeli national flag flying next to an Israeli building site of new housing units in the Jewish settlement of Shilo in the occupied Palestinian West Bank.
Few books on Palestinian history become bestsellers. But one, titled A History of the Palestinian People: From Ancient Times to the Modern Era, managed to rocket to the top of Amazon's charts this month.

Its author, Assaf Voll, an Israeli academic, claims to have reviewed "thousands of sources" to explain "the Palestinian people's unique contribution to the world and to humanity."

However, when Amazon realized all the book's 130 pages were blank, it hurriedly excised the title from its site. But not before hundreds of customers paid nearly $10 to enjoy the puerile joke. Speaking on Israeli radio, Voll observed: "Someone needs to tell them [the Palestinians] the truth, even if it hurts."
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Life in the USA: Cops randomly stop, assault and search an innocent man before letting him go

Jack Burns
The Free Thought Project
Wed, 28 Jun 2017 19:29 UTC
arrest picture
Dev Sanders is a veteran who lives in Maryland and works for the state. But not even serving his country could have prepared him for the treatment he says he received at the hands of the United States Park Police.

Officers Keyes and Easter (Sanders claims) pulled him over on I-295 near the National Security Agency and told him he was stopped because he was following the car in front of him too closely. We at The Free Thought Project have published many stories indicating it's one of many excuses police will use to unlawfully stop someone, mostly in an attempt to see what's inside a car or fish for anything to use to extract revenue from a citizen or deprive them of freedom.

Sanders disputed their claims that he was following too closely, and cooperated with police up until the point that they wanted him to exit his vehicle so they could search it. He told them they had no probable cause to search his car and was not willing to allow them to do so. That didn't sit well with the Park Police who reported called him a "smartass."
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Millions of Ukrainian migrants set to drain Ukraine, flood Europe under visa-free deal

Eduard Popov - translated by J. Arnoldski
Fort Russ
Wed, 28 Jun 2017 15:05 UTC
Ekraine EU flags
On June 11th, Ukraine triumphantly and pompously celebrated the introduction of visa-free travel to European Union countries. This event was presented by the Kiev government as, without exaggeration, the opening of a new historic era in the country's history and a "farewell" to the Soviet legacy. Is this really so? And what will visa-free travel give the ordinary citizen of Ukraine?

Let us briefly review the content of the document in question. The visa-free regime allows Ukrainian citizens to stay in EU member states (excluding the UK and Ireland) for up to 90 days within a 180-day period. In order to stay in the EU for a longer period of time, Ukrainians still need to apply for visas. Moreover, the visa-free regime does not entail the right to reside or be employed in the European Union. Upon entering the Schengen Area, Ukrainian citizens need to have documents indicating the purposes of their trip, their place of residence, sufficient financial resources for the period of stay, and a proven intention to return to their place of permanent residence (i.e., a return ticket). Also necessary is a medical insurance policy.

The first few days of "visa-free" have already demonstrated the attractiveness of this opportunity in the eyes of ordinary Ukrainian citizens, the greatest demand being in the direction of Poland. Ukrainian media have published the statistics of the Polish border guard service, according to which around 10,000 Ukrainian citizens had entered Poland within only a few days of "visa-free". As is becoming well known, Poland is the single most attractive destination for Ukrainian migrant workers in the EU, so these numbers should be no surprise. One can confidently predict that the number of Ukrainian migrant workers coming to Poland, and subsequently other EU countries, will only rise.

Comment: The Ukraine is proving to be a fine example of 'be careful what you wish for'.

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Trump calls emergency meeting with GOP senators as vote is delayed on Obamacare repeal


RT
Tue, 27 Jun 2017 18:46 UTC
Mitch McC
© Aaron Bernstein / Reuters
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Republican Senators
President Donald Trump summoned all GOP senators to the White House for an emergency meeting, as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell delayed a vote to replace Obamacare over too many defections within his own party. Trump started the meeting on Tuesday afternoon by calling Obamacare "a total disaster."
"We have really no choice but to solve this situation," Trump said, according to the White House. "So, we're going to talk and we're going to see what we can do. We're getting very close. But for the country, we have to have healthcare. And it can't be Obamacare, which is melting down."
The president quickly asked the press to leave, after saying that he thought the Senate bill "is going to be great." After the meeting, Trump tweeted that the senators were "working hard" and would "get it right, unlike OCare!"

Speaking outside the White House, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) called the meeting with Trump "very helpful."
"The president got an opportunity to hear from the various members who have concerns about market reforms and the Medicaid," McConnell said. "The one thing I would say is that I think everybody around the table is interested in getting to yes." McConnell said that the bill will not be put to a vote until "a couple of weeks after this week."



Comment: The nation has never had official 'health' care; it has care for the unhealthy. As long as the population is blindly ignorant of what makes it sick and compromised, and doesn't demand knowledge and reform in what it is exposed to and imbibes, health issues will continue to mount and costs explode. Over-regulated doctors and dedicated professionals aside, healthcare is, after all, an exploitable business at the increasing expense of all Americans, an easy sell of programmed dependency.

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USA

Land of the "free": Americans' satisfaction with their freedom is dropping


RT
Wed, 28 Jun 2017 16:40 UTC
rip american dream
© Shannon Stapleton / Reuters
America is often referred to as the "Land of the Free," but as citizens prepare to celebrate the Fourth of July, their satisfaction with the country's freedom is significantly lower than it was a decade ago, according to a newly released Gallup poll.

The survey found that although 91 percent of Americans were satisfied with the freedom in their lives in 2006, only 75 percent feel the same way today.

Furthermore, while the US ranked 11th worldwide (out of 118 countries) in the 2006 Gallup poll, it came in 71st (among 139 countries) in the current poll.

"This puts the US in the bottom half of all countries measured," Gallup managing partner Jon Clifton wrote on the organization's blog.

The US decline is unique, as such results are not happening in other wealthy democracies.
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War Whore

FBI Agent Indicted for Lying About the Killing of Lavoy Finicum

Matt Agorist
Free Thought Project
Wed, 28 Jun 2017 16:25 UTC
FBI Robert “LaVoy” Finicum
© Free Thought Project
An FBI agent has been indicted and now stands accused of deliberately covering up the truth about the killing of Lavoy Finicum.

Late Tuesday evening, it was announced that an unnamed FBI agent involved in the killing of Robert "LaVoy" Finicum has been indicted. The agent is accused of lying about shooting at Finicum in 2016 when officers arrested the leaders of an occupation of a federal wildlife refuge in rural Oregon.

In March of 2016, it was announced that multiple FBI agents were under investigation for their role in the death of Finicum. For over a year, Finicum's family has waited for answers, and on Tuesday night, they received a glimpse into the corruption surrounding the death of their beloved father and husband.

An FBI agent now faces allegations of making false statements with the intent of obstructing justice. According to reports, he is to be named on Wednesday.

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