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Teen arrested for attempted murder after boy is thrown 5 stories off Tate Modern viewing platform

Alice Chambers
ABC News
Mon, 05 Aug 2019 10:52 UTC

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A police officer looks out from the viewing platform at the Tate Modern art gallery in London after a six-year-old boy was thrown from the tenth floor viewing platform, Aug. 4, 2019.

A 6-year-old boy is in a critical but stable condition after being thrown five stories from the Tate Modern in London, the U.K.'s most popular tourist attraction.

The boy was visiting the modern art gallery's 10th floor viewing platform with his mother Sunday when he was taken from her arms and thrown over the railing, according to the Daily Mail. He landed on the roof of a five-story building below.

Police were called at around 2:40 p.m. local time and were accompanied by the London Ambulance Service and London's Air Ambulance. The boy was treated at the scene and then taken to the hospital by air ambulance.

A witness told the BBC that they heard a "loud bang" after the child was thrown.

Convicted drug trafficker 'dolls up' to pass for his daughter in daring prison break

RT
Mon, 05 Aug 2019 08:44 UTC

A seasoned criminal serving a 73-year sentence in a Brazilian jail donned his teenage daughter's clothes, a long wig, and a silicon mask in a startling makeover, which, however, failed to fool the guards into letting him out.

Clauvino da Silva, 42, was stopped by the guards of Gericino Penitentiary Complex in western Rio de Janeiro as he was about to leave the facility through the front door dressed as a woman. The inspectors almost fell for the trick, but grew suspicious of the "girl" who was acting nervously at the last moment.

They were in for a bigger surprise when they discovered that the supposed girl, dressed in a pair of blue jeans, a pink T-shirt, a grey blazer, and white sandals, was not a girl at all, but her gangster father.

Mercola bails: 3 reasons to leave Facebook immediately!

Dr. Joseph Mercola
Mercola.com
Mon, 05 Aug 2019 13:02 UTC

Are you one of over two billion people that use Facebook, the world's largest social media site?

Facebook has become so deeply ingrained in people's lives that it has now become the norm to give it access to personal data without much thought, as if this is but a small price to pay for Facebook's "free" service. But nothing could be further from the truth.

These traceable and sellable data now give Facebook the power to manipulate what we do, how we feel, what we buy and what we believe. The consequences of giving Facebook this much power is only becoming apparent, with mounting lawsuits against their security breaches and lousy privacy settings.

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Chinese exceptionalism: Morality, not law, is sacrosanct

George Yeo
South China Morning Post
Sun, 04 Aug 2019 13:25 UTC

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Two thousand years ago, with only loose translations available, it was difficult to employ the rule of law.

The following is an edited excerpt from a speech given by Yeo to a school in Singapore

Rudyard Kipling said in his famous ballad: "East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet." Whether we like it or not, the twain are meeting again, and creating and opening a new chapter in history. When we read about the trade war and Huawei, and we read about the anti-China - and increasingly anti-Chinese - sentiment in the United States, one recalls Kipling's famous line. But for him the East was not China. For him East was South Asia, where he spent many years of his life.

For my address this morning, I would like to confine the East to the realm of the "chopsticks people". There is a reason for this. There is a coherence to the culture of the chopsticks people.

It is not possible to understand the history of Vietnam, Korea or Japan without reference to the great drama on the Chinese mainland. Japan was the first to peel off from the Asian mainland to address the challenge of Western imperialism. By the time of the second opium war, any Japanese ship landing on the Asian mainland would be inspected by the Europeans, probably a Briton, and Japan knew it was only a matter of time before she would suffer the same humiliation.

Comment: You get a sense of the longevity and cohesiveness of China when you consider that the modern designation of 'Han Chinese' as the dominant ethnic sub-group is in fact a 2,000-year-old political designation. 'Han' is not an ethnicity, just as someone resident in the EU today is not an 'EUan'. 'Han' can refer to any number of the many ethnicities who were united under the Han dynasty - and have substantially remained united ever since.

China is really a two-millennia-old 'United States of East Asia'.

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Hello! Chelsea Manning is still in jail for 'crimes against the deep state'

Harron Walker
Out
Tue, 30 Jul 2019 16:10 UTC

Here's your depressingly evergreen reminder that Chelsea Manning is still in jail.

The whistleblower-turned-activist was jailed on May 17 as punishment for refusing to cooperate with a grand jury's investigation into WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. As part of her sentence, she receives daily fines, which support network Chelsea Resists estimates have reached $30,000.

Manning, who served seven years in prison for leaking hundreds of thousands of U.S. government documents to WikiLeaks in 2010, was similarly jailed earlier this year for refusing to answer a grand jury's questions about WikiLeaks and Assange. She was incarcerated for over 60 days, about half of which she spent in solitary confinement — conditions that the United Nations would likely deem torturous.

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Fake news fails again: CNN's parent company sued for $50mn by Chinese billionaire claiming defamation

Ashley Cullins
Hollywood Reporter
Mon, 05 Aug 2019 09:33 UTC

A Chinese billionaire and Mar-a-Lago member is suing WarnerMedia over a CNN segment that he claims falsely implies he committed espionage and was on the verge of being deported.

Guo Wengui, who is known as Miles Kwok in the U.S., on Friday filed a $50 million lawsuit against WarnerMedia and CNN anchor Erin Burnett for defamation. According to the complaint, Guo is an "outspoken and vitriolic critic" of the Chinese Communist Party who is seeking asylum in the U.S. because his public statements about the Chinese government led to the arrest of his family members and the freezing of his assets.

Since he fled in 2014, Guo claims the Chinese government has gone to "extensive lengths" to have him extradited, including asking CEOs of large companies and venture capitalist Elliot Broidy to put pressure on President Donald Trump. He maintains the Chinese government is actively working to discredit him and he has sued multiple people for defamation alleging they falsely labeled him a spy, a fraud, a swindler and a rapist.

Woeful misgovernance: Train from Manchester to London can cost more than flights to New York

Helen Coffey
Independent
Fri, 02 Aug 2019 00:01 UTC

Virgin Trains return tickets between Stockport and London can cost £350

The exorbitant cost of UK rail travel has been highlighted again after a passenger shared a picture of his return rail journey from Stockport to London, costing £287.10.

Editor and writer Ben Hoare posted a snap of the Virgin Trains ticket on Twitter with the caption: "Given how much my Stockport-Euston day return (booked a week ago) cost, is it any wonder this Virgin Train is half empty? Something's v wrong with our railways."

He added: "I think this shows trains are way too expensive and ticketing too complicated. The sad thing is, we invented railways."

Comment: With travel costs at such a ridiculously high level, people are obviously discouraged from traveling. One wonders if this is the intent.

More likely though, it's just a consequence of the rapidly-worsening incompetence of the British 'elite', who have droned on for centuries about how they're needed around the world because no one else knows how to effectively rule...

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Americans should be very skeptical of calls for new "terrorism" laws

Caitlin Johnstone
caitlinjohnstone.com
Mon, 05 Aug 2019 00:01 UTC

Two mass shootings have rocked the United States in less than 24 hours, leaving dozens dead and many more wounded. The first in El Paso, Texas was allegedly perpetrated by a white supremacist whose racist motives are outlined in a rambling "manifesto", the second allegedly by a self-described "leftist" whose motives, like the 2017 Las Vegas shooter, are presently unknown. These incidents occurred a week after another mass shooting in Gilroy, California.

All the usual US gun control debates have of course reignited, which is understandable. Alongside this debate, however, we are seeing another, far more pernicious agenda being raised that I would like to address here

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Massacre at Walmart in El Paso, Texas: Eyewitnesses Report Multiple Shooters - 'Lone Gunman' Narrative Inconsistencies

Sott.net
Sat, 03 Aug 2019 19:58 UTC

It looks like another organized mass shooting is taking place in the USA, this time in El Paso on the US-Mexico border - a location obviously ripe for provocation given Trump's border wall mandate and Democrats' 'holy grail' of gun control.

Details are still coming in, but we fully expect the initial reports of multiple gunmen to be whittled down in the official narrative to another 'lone gunman'...

No word yet on the number of dead, but dozens have been injured.

Here's RT:

At least 18 people have been shot at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, local media reports. Police are searching for possibly multiple shooters, while footage of victims and shocking accounts of witnesses have emerged.

One suspect has been placed in custody, El Paso police told local TV, adding that the search of the crime scene and its surroundings continues. Police confirmed "multiple" people have been killed but have so far refused to reveal the exact number or the victims' identities.

Several extremely graphic videos, purportedly taken at the scene, have emerged online. One shows at least three bodies lying outside the Walmart and in its parking lot. In another one, people are seen fleeing the store past a person lying on the floor in a large blood puddle.

Meanwhile a short clip of a man hiding under furniture while multiple shots are heard in the background has been making the rounds in the media.

French farmers dump manure outside politician's office protesting EU's trade deal with Canada

Barry Cassidy
Farmers Journal
Sat, 03 Aug 2019 12:00 UTC

French farmers protesting against the signing of a trade deal with Canada have dumped manure outside the offices of a member of the French National Assembly.

France's parliament recently approved the CETA trade deal between the EU and Canada.

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Society's Child

Teen arrested for attempted murder after boy is thrown 5 stories off Tate Modern viewing platform

Convicted drug trafficker 'dolls up' to pass for his daughter in daring prison break

Mercola bails: 3 reasons to leave Facebook immediately!

Chinese exceptionalism: Morality, not law, is sacrosanct

Hello! Chelsea Manning is still in jail for 'crimes against the deep state'

Fake news fails again: CNN's parent company sued for $50mn by Chinese billionaire claiming defamation

Woeful misgovernance: Train from Manchester to London can cost more than flights to New York

Americans should be very skeptical of calls for new "terrorism" laws

Massacre at Walmart in El Paso, Texas: Eyewitnesses Report Multiple Shooters - 'Lone Gunman' Narrative Inconsistencies

French farmers dump manure outside politician's office protesting EU's trade deal with Canada

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