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China's richest man Jack Ma to step down from Alibaba for philanthropy and education - report


RT
Sat, 08 Sep 2018 00:00 UTC
Jack Ma
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Jack Ma
Jack Ma has announced his plans to retire from his brainchild company, China's e-commerce giant Alibaba, the New York Times reports. The tycoon may switch to education and philanthropy instead.

China's richest man is going step down as executive chairman of the $420-billion Alibaba Group on Monday when he turns 54, he said in an interview with the NYT. However, he will remain on Alibaba's board of directors and mentor the company's management.

Ma said the move will be "the beginning of an era" and revealed that he may now focus on education, which he "loves." It is symbolically significant that his reported retirement coincides with Teachers' Day in China, and Ma used to teach English before becoming a business magnate.
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Gaza Freedom Flotilla 2018: Though Israel stole our boat and imprisoned us, we spoke up for Palestine

Richard Sudan
RT
Thu, 06 Sep 2018 10:48 UTC
Freedom flotilla
© Antonio Melita/Global Look Press
Freedom Flotilla prior to departure towards Gaza, July 19, 2018, Palermo, Italy.
Piracy, theft and kidnapping is the only clear way to summarize the eventual conclusion of a humanitarian mission, embarked on by myself and some other political activists just a few weeks ago.

The aim was simply to break the illegal blockade of the Gaza Strip by sea, using two boats made up of international activists carrying medical aid with the aim of donating the boats to Palestine's fishing community.

Each activist ultimately, however, ended up in prison in Israel, with the two boats impounded in the Israeli port of Ashdod (joining many other small, regular Palestinian fishing vessels), with the medical aid on board confiscated. Any semblance of international law had been well and truly violated by Israel in international water. This is what happened:

Comment: For the brutal and harrowing story on the seizure of the Al Awda:

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Rabbi exposes rampant child sex abuse in the Ultra-orthodox Jewish community

Jack Burns
The Free Thought Project
Sat, 08 Sep 2018 18:02 UTC
Jewish Rabbi
The Netflix documentary, One of Us, released in 2017 exposed what whistleblowers have been saying for years. Just as the Catholic Church maintained, protected, and allowed a pedophile ring of hundreds if not thousands of Catholic priests to rape and abuse children for decades, so too, has the Ultra-orthodox Jewish community in NY been accused of allowing 1 out of every 5 ultra-orthodox Jews to be abused without informing police.

Rabbi Nuchem Rosenberg, 68, has been blowing the whistle for decades in what may have seemed to some as a futile attempt to bring awareness to sexual abuses taking place in New York's Jewsish community. In a 2013 interview with Vice, Rosenberg stated he witnessed firsthand the rape of a boy he believed to be around 7 years old when he visited an Orthodox Jewish ceremonial bath house (schvitz) in Israel. He described what he saw in 2005 with his own eyes. The following account is extremely graphic and the account may be a trigger for victims of child sexual abuse.
I opened a door that entered into a schvitz...and I see an old man, my age, long white beard, a holy-looking man, sitting in the vapors. On his lap, facing away from him, is a boy, maybe seven years old. And the old man is having anal sex with this boy...This boy was speared on the man like an animal, like a pig, and the boy was saying nothing. But on his face-fear. The old man [looked at me] without any fear, as if this was common practice. He didn't stop. I was so angry, I confronted him. He removed the boy from his penis, and I took the boy aside. I told this man, 'It's a sin before God, a mishkovzucher. What are you doing to this boy's soul? You're destroying this boy!' He had a sponge on a stick to clean his back, and he hit me across the face with it. 'How dare you interrupt me!' he said. I had heard of these things for a long time, but now I had seen.

Comment: See also:

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Assaults on ICE, Border Patrol surge as illegal immigrants become more violent

Stephen Dinan
The Washington Examiner
Sat, 08 Sep 2018 20:39 UTC
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A pair of U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents look at tracks in the sand along the floating fence that makes up the international border with Mexico, Wednesday, July 18, 2018 in Imperial County, Calif. 126-miles of border cuts through the Yuma Sector where thousands of families and unaccompanied children are continuing to cross into Arizona and California even after learning of the government's family separation policy upon apprehension.
Assaults on ICE agents reached a decade high in 2017, and assaults on Border Patrol agents have also surged in recent years, according to new government numbers that seem to back up agents' claims that illegal immigrants are increasingly looking to fight rather than flee.

The new numbers, reported by Homeland Security's inspector general, could even be underselling the problem, investigators said, because the government doesn't do a good job of tracking incidents, and agents and officers don't always report them properly.

But the report does signal renewed danger particularly on the southwest border, where agents say a surge in illegal immigration in recent years generally correlates with growing violence.

Prosecutors, meanwhile, often refuse to bring charges or win cases against the perpetrators, the audit found.
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RT France reporter: "Rebels" in Idlib? No. Al Qaida. And a false flag won't work this time

Tom Winter
Fort Russ News
Sat, 08 Sep 2018 21:18 UTC
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Al Qaida is behind the new names as well as behind the masks.
"Rebels" know a chemical attack no longer leads to western retaliation

Via RT France:

While a major offensive seems to be readying in northern Syria, war reporter Pierre Piccinin recalls that the Syrian "rebels" are in fact a conglomerate of fighters led by Fatah al-Sham, alias the al-Nusra Front.

Tension are rising in Idlib as an offensive by government forces seems to be readying against the jihadists entrenched in the city. Pierre Piccinin, war reporter and writer, reported to RT France about fears of a chemical attack.
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Forget retiring: 10 US cities where residents pay over a third of their income in rent


RT
Sat, 08 Sep 2018 17:21 UTC
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Property prices in the US have been growing much more rapidly than Americans' incomes with increasing mortgage rates constantly making the housing market more expensive.

The median US rent currently takes 28.4 percent of the median income, up from the historic average of 25.8 percent, according to online real estate database company Zillow Group. Low-income renters have to bear the worst financial burden. Price of renting in Los Angeles makes up more than 100 percent of average income for the lowest-earning residents.

"That leaves few options to realistically afford rent and other expenses on a typical income, outside of a housing subsidy, doubling up with roommates or taking on a second or even a third job to help make ends meet," Zillow said in its report.

Here's the list of top ten US cities, where the share of income exceeds the overall national level of 28.40 percent. The ranking is based on Zillow's data for the second quarter of 2018.
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Protect WikiLeaks founder Assange from US extradition, Amnesty International tells UK


RT
Sat, 08 Sep 2018 16:47 UTC
Free Assange banner
© Brais G. Rouco/Global Look Press
Pro-Assange protestors outside the Ecuadorian embassy in London, July 31, 2018.
Amnesty International has backed calls to not extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States, arguing that this would put his human rights at serious risk of abuse.

The statement, issued Friday by the group's Australian branch, backed Assange's lawyers and supporters' claim that if he is sent to the US, "he would face a real risk of serious human rights violations due to his work with WikiLeaks."

Amnesty said that Assange could face several human rights violations in the event that he is extradited to the US, including: violation of his right to freedom of expression; right to liberty; right to life if the death penalty were sought; and being held in conditions that would violate his right to humane treatment.

While Amnesty said it took "no position" on Ecuador's decision to grant, and then withdraw, Assange's diplomatic asylum, it did call on the UK government to recognize the "need for international protection vis-a-vis the USA" in relation to the whistleblower's case.

Comment: See also: Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's health rapidly degrading while confined in Ecuadorian Embassy

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Fmr London mayor: Skripal saga aimed at stirring up anti-Russia, Cold War sentiment


RT
Sat, 08 Sep 2018 17:44 UTC
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Salisbury NHS Trust hospital
The UK has stirred up the Skripal saga for the sake of waging a broader campaign to kowtow to the anti-Russian rhetoric inside the British government, ex-London mayor Ken Livingstone has told RT.

The latest smoking gun of allegations against Russia fired by London, with the British Prime Minister Theresa May claiming that Russian "military intelligence agents" attempted to murder former spy Sergei Skripal, leaves too many questions and doubts, Livingstone believes.

"What struck me over last couple of years seem to me ratcheting up of anti-Russian sentiment almost trying to recreate a Cold War," the former mayor told RT. He stressed that London's turning its back to Moscow's constant readiness to cooperate and failure to present to the public a shred of evidence - if there is any - might be a sign of "a hidden political agenda here as part of broader anti-Russian campaign" inside the British government.
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Satellite photos shows results of Israel's illegal air strikes on Syria's Hama province


Sputnik
Sat, 08 Sep 2018 16:31 UTC
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© Sputnik / Khaled Al-Khateb
Aftermath of Israeli air strike on Hama, Syria
Earlier this week, the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported about missile strikes on the country's Hama and Tartus provinces, allegedly carried out by the Israeli Air Force. At least one person was killed and twelve others were injured in the attacks.

A spate of satellite images of a destroyed site in Syria, south of the city of Masyaf, has been released by the Israeli satellite imaging company ImageSat; the site apparently corresponds with the location of Tuesday's reported strike on the Syrian province of Hama by the Israeli military, according to Haaretz, an Israeli media outlet.

The images were released after Israeli Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz said that the Jewish state's military had conducted hundreds of strikes against Syria over the past two years.

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Storm-swept pontoon crane crashes into Crimean bridge


Sputnik
Sat, 08 Sep 2018 16:32 UTC
Kerch Strait
© Sputnik / Grigori Sisoyev
The crane only damaged part of the protective fence of the bridge, the press service for Taman Road Service stated, adding that no serious injuries were sustained as a result of the incident.

A storm on Saturday over the Kerch Strait broke the mooring of a pontoon crane, causing the crew to lose control over the vehicle and pushing it towards the Crimean Bridge.
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