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MindMatters: How Responding to Evil Can Unite Humanity

Harrison Koehli, Elan Martin, Corey Schink
Sott.net
Sun, 09 Jun 2019 00:00 UTC
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What is the fate of the average individual when psychopaths openly govern a country and pathological individuals occupy every office of importance across society? Join us today as we seek answers to these questions and continue our conversation on Chapter 5 of Andrew Lobaczewski's Political Ponerology.

In previous shows we discussed how schizoid individuals create grand ideologies, character-disturbed people weaponize them and turn them into a mass movement, and how psychopaths infiltrate these movements and, through their influence, serve as conduits for something that is as close to 'hell on earth' as we can imagine.

But today we talk about what comes after the pathocracy has firmly established itself. How do ordinary people learn to navigate a labyrinth of evil while still maintaining functioning families, economies, and society as a whole? And how is all of this relevant for the West today?


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Cat among the pigeons: Russian-made TV show on Chernobyl to suggest possible CIA involvement in nuclear accident


BBC
Fri, 07 Jun 2019 11:43 UTC
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Russian state TV is working on its own version of Chernobyl, a series based on the worst nuclear accident in history.

The NTV drama will deviate from the acclaimed HBO series - and from historical reality - by claiming that the CIA was involved in the disaster.

Director Aleksey Muradov claims it will show "what really happened back then."

HBO's miniseries, which concluded on Monday, received the highest ever score for a TV show on IMdB, as well as a 9.1 rating on Russian equivalent Kinopoisk.

But in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda, Russia's most widely-read tabloid, Mr Muradov said his version of the show "proposes an alternative view on the tragedy in Pripyat".

"There is a theory that Americans infiltrated the Chernobyl nuclear power plant," he told the paper. "Many historians do not rule out the possibility that on the day of the explosion, an agent of the enemy's intelligence services was working at the station."

Comment: Those last sentences are true, like the show's by-line about "the price of lies"... of the Anglo-American-led 'West'.

We wonder how many Westerners watching Chernobyl realised that the show - whether intended or not - is actually metaphor for the structural precipice the West currently stands on, projected back in time and 'over there'...

Russia has been on that precipice, and grown from it.

It's not at all clear that the West will too...

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Moscow named among world's top 10 most attractive tourism destinations


RT
Sun, 09 Jun 2019 06:07 UTC
St. Basil's Cathedral
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People stand in front of St. Basil's Cathedral at the Zaryadye Park off Red Square in central Moscow
A study by international consulting company BCG has found that Moscow will continue attracting more travelers; the influx of tourists to the Russian capital will grow by almost half to more than 30 million visits a year.

"The successful hosting of the World Cup tournament in summer 2018 showed that Moscow can already offer world-class tourism services, and its infrastructure could accept much more intensive tourist flows than before," the authors of the research said.

The growth in the number of tourists visiting Moscow after the World Cup (from September to December 2018) was up 117 percent from the same period a year earlier. Half of the visitors said that were ready to recommend Moscow to other travelers. Before the World Cup (from January to May) the growth of the tourist influx was less than 13 percent.
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What 'Chernobyl' TV show got right and wrong - According to Major General who oversaw clean-up


RT
Sun, 09 Jun 2019 12:33 UTC
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(L) Ralph Ineson as Nikolay Tarakanov in ‘Chernobyl’ miniseries - (R) Portrait from private archive of Nikolai Tarakanov
No one told rookie troops to shoot cows in Chernobyl and the miners there never worked naked, Major General Nikolai Tarakanov, who headed the real 'liquidators' in 1986, has told RT's documentary channel.

Tarakanov praised other aspects of the show, adding that the actor who played him in the HBO hit did a "great job."

Major General Tarakanov was one of the key participants of the events in Chernobyl in 1986, receiving a high dose of radiation while in charge of the troops working to decontaminate the ill-fated power plant.
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'Chernobyl' is a blast of a TV series - but don't call it 'authentic'

Igor Ogorodnev
RT
Sun, 02 Jun 2019 12:26 UTC
Chernobyl
© 'Chernobyl' HBO / Liam Daniel
Building film sets out of old Soviet buildings is easier than understanding the people who inhabited them - and the hit HBO show doesn't grasp either why the nuclear accident was allowed to happen, or the heroism that followed.

Authenticity is not an essential virtue even for a docudrama, but it has been one of the main selling points of Chernobyl, the five-part mini-series that is currently the highest-ever rated TV program on film database IMDB.

Now, my qualms aren't with the factual inaccuracies, the creation of Emily Watson's fictional female scientist in place of the thousands of women actually involved, or the squeezing of such a grand-scale, multi-faceted story into what is, for the most part, a disaster film with two leads.
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3 US tourists found dead under mysterious circumstances in Domninican Republic resort


Sputnik
Sat, 08 Jun 2019 18:46 UTC
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A Pennsylvania woman who was on vacation with her husband at a Dominican resort unexpectedly passed away in her room, five days before a Maryland couple died in their suite at the same resort under similar circumstances, Fox News reported.

Three American tourists have passed away under mysterious circumstances in the Dominican Republic since May, with the country's police still investigating their deaths.

The 41-year old woman, identified as Miranda Schaup-Werner, collapsed on 25 May after having a drink from the mini-bar at Bahia Principe Bouganville, Fox News reported, citing a relative of hers.

The hotel chain shared a statement via its official Twitter account clarifying that Schaup-Werner had died of a heart attack, with her husband confirming that she had a history of heart conditions.
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Yellow Vests 'Act 30': Tensions & tear gas fly high in southern France


RT
Sat, 08 Jun 2019 09:59 UTC
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© AFP / Pascal Guyot
France's Yellow Vests took to the streets to protest government policies for the 30th weekend in a row. Tensions were particularly high in Montpellier, where clashes between demonstrators and police erupted.

Some 2,000 protesters gathered in the southern French city, considered to be one of the main strongholds of the whole Yellow Vests movement, according to police figures. The demonstration promptly escalated into clashes with police, at least 6 people were reportedly detained.

Police said the protesters pelted them with various projectiles. Law enforcement responded with tear gas that engulfed the narrow streets of the city's center.

Comment: With protests in their 30th week - nearly 9 months - and the barbarism shown by the authorities towards protestors, it's understandable numbers have dwindled, but that doesn't mean the issues which sparked the demonstrations have been resolved, because they certainly haven't. Recent EU parliament election results reflect just how unhappy citizens are, throughout Europe, with their lot: European Parliament Elections 2019: Big Wins For Nationalist Parties in The UK, France, And Italy

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Insane American hunter in viral photo of slain giraffe is 'proud to hunt' for conservation


CBS News
Fri, 07 Jun 2019 00:41 UTC
Tess Tompson
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Images of hunters celebrating their trophies often draw widespread support and widespread condemnation - something Tess Talley knows first hand. In 2017, she killed a giraffe in South Africa. In 2018, her photo of the kill went viral and prompted worldwide outrage.

Talley joined "CBS This Morning" Friday to say that she's "absolutely" still going hunting.

"It's a hobby, it's something that I love to do," she said. Talley said that the controversial kill was part of a conservation hunt, designed to manage the amount of wildlife in a given area.

"I am proud to hunt," she said. "And I am proud of that giraffe."

In an interview with CBS News' Adam Yamaguchi, Talley said that she's made decorative pillows and a gun case out of the slain giraffe, which she described as "delicious."

"You say it's about conservation, but the smile [...] it seems like there's a lot of pleasure in it, too, a lot of joy," said "CBS This Morning" co-host Tony Dokoupil.

"You do what you love to do. It's joy," she responded. "If you don't love what you do, you're not gonna continue to do it."


Comment: What a disgusting excuse for a human being.

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US Homeland Security reports 'egregious' violations at four ICE detainment facilities

Daniel Uria
UPI
Thu, 06 Jun 2019 22:43 UTC
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The Department of Homeland Security said it observed "egregious" violations at four facilities for housing Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees.

In the general report released on Thursday, DHS said it observed overly restrictive segregation, inadequate medical care, unreported security risks and food safety issues, among other violations at facilities in Adelanto, Calif., Essex County, N.J., LaSalle, La., and Aurora, Colo., that were subject to unannounced visits.

"In response to concerns raised by immigrant rights groups and complaints to the Office of Inspector General Hotline about conditions for detainees held in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, we conducted unannounced inspections at four detention facilities to evaluate their compliance with ICE detention standards," DHS said.

The report stated that DHS inspectors found expired food at all four facilities and segregation practices that infringed on detainee rights and violated standards at three facilities.

Two facilities failed to provide recreation outside housing units and two had dilapidated and moldy bathrooms.
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Glenn Greenwald Rips Liberals Begging For Censorship After YouTube 'Adpocalypse'


RT
Fri, 07 Jun 2019 16:34 UTC
Glenn Greenwald speaks to Tucker Carlson
© YouTube / Fox News
Glenn Greenwald speaks to Tucker Carlson
Journalist Glenn Greenwald blasted 'liberal' reporters who push for deplatforming and censorship of political opponents. "Imagine going into journalism and begging corporations to silence people," he told Fox News' Tucker Carlson.

Speaking to Carlson on Thursday, after YouTube demonetized hundreds of accounts for posting content even remotely linked to controversial topics, Greenwald excoriated Vox journalist Carlos Maza, whose clamoring against conservative shock-jock Steven Crowder triggered the crackdown.


"YouTube caved in defense of the powerful," Greenwald claimed. "That's what they will always do. Defend the mob and the powerful at the expense of those who are marginalized."

"It would never occur to me to run to social media companies to beg for censorship," he said. "In part, it comes with the territory of being a public figure. I don't want to live in a world where our discourse is policed and determined by overlords who run Silicon Valley companies and will always cater to the most powerful faction."

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