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US govt regulator 'complicit' in radioactive leak at S. Carolina plant

RT
Tue, 30 Jul 2019 17:20 UTC

A leak at a Westinghouse nuclear fuel site is partly the result of inaction by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), which is tasked with protecting the public from radioactive waste, an analyst told RT.

"I think the NRC is complicit with companies like Westinghouse. They do minimal inspections. They miss things," he noted, adding that such incidents illustrate how the nuclear power industry "is wasting the American people's money left and right."

Recently, a rusty shipping container full of uranium-tainted trash was found to be seeping radioactive sludge into the soil at a Westinghouse fuel rod factory in South Carolina, contaminating the groundwater beneath the facility.

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'Compelled worship'? Lawsuit over Christian prayer in UK school sparks DEBATE

RT
Tue, 30 Jul 2019 17:14 UTC

A lawsuit targeting a UK primary school for holding prayer sessions and biblical re-enactments has divided public opinion. RT panelists sparred over the heated issue of religion's place in education.

"We must make sure that our people have access to the culture, the history - including the Bible - of our civilization," Chris McGovern, chairman of Campaign for Real Education, argued.

Others took issue with Christianity being taught in schools. Describing the case as an example of "compelled worship," Luke Gittos, a lawyer and legal editor of Spiked Online, said that the state was imposing its religious beliefs on young Britons.

An atheist couple brought the issue to light, as they are taking their children's primary school to the High Court, claiming that Christian-themed activities during assembly are unlawful. Believed to be the first of its kind in Britain, the suit argues that all children have the right to receive an education "free from religious interference."

British teen reportedly fabricated rape charges against Israelis, who plan to sue

Sputnik
Tue, 30 Jul 2019 17:03 UTC

Ayia Napa in Cyprus is one of the most popular summer holiday destinations for young British people seeking sun, sea and in many cases sex. The resort is close to the British military base at Dhekelia, which is home to thousands of UK troops.

Several Israeli tourists who were falsely accused of rape by a 19-year-old British woman in the holiday resort of Ayia Napa in Cyprus have threatened to sue her for millions of pounds.

One of the men, Yona Golub, told the Times of Israel: "We will sue her for the anguish caused and for libel. I am walking in the street and people are calling me a rapist."

An Israeli lawyer, based in Cyprus, Yaniv Habari told AFP his clients would "pursue legal action against the person behind the false accusations that led to them being unjustly detained. We will claim damages for the suffering of our clients."

Claiming Baltimore is not a mess just because 'racist' Trump said it will lose Democrats votes

Igor Ogorodnev
RT
Tue, 30 Jul 2019 16:52 UTC

Baltimore is one of the most deprived cities in the US. President Trump knows it. Bernie knows it. Most importantly, the voters know it. Answering Trump's criticism by shouting "racist!" is both bad politics and bad for the city.

Maryland's largest city has the second-highest murder rate in the nation, behind St. Louis, Missouri. In a city of 600,000, over 300 people will have been shot by the end of the year for the fifth year running. If it were a country, it would be one of the three deadliest in the world.

More than a fifth of its citizens live in poverty, its trash problem has been covered in hundreds of local articles dating back decades, while the rat infestation received its own recent documentary on PBS - which, incidentally used it as a metaphor for general urban decay.

Thus, when President Donald Trump called it a "rodent infested mess" that "ranks last in almost every major category" he is on strong ground - while the Democrats who have run the city since 1967, and Congressman Elijah Cummings, who has been in his post for 23 years and 12 elections, are vulnerable.

Russia squeezes out Saudi Arabia in race for Asia's oil market share

Simon Watkins
Oilprice.com
Mon, 29 Jul 2019 16:46 UTC

Saudi Arabia is struggling in its key economic and geopolitical ambition to position itself as the key substitute in Asia in general and China in particular for lost Iranian barrels due to re-imposed sanctions by the US.

The opportunity is huge as, a senior source who works closely with Iran's Petroleum Ministry exclusively told OilPrice.com last week, Iran as of last week was exporting just 266,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil compared to the 2.5 million bpd exported just before the US withdrew from the nuclear deal last May. Although some of the headline figures appear to offer some scope for Saudi optimism, a look beneath the surface shows the situation is far from rosy, with threats from both US and Russian supplies. Indeed, with the recent scare over contaminated barrels now apparently behind it, Russia is also ramping up its threat against increased US supplies as well, signalling a broader burgeoning relationship with the Asian powerhouse of China.

100mn+ people's data exposed in Capital One bank hack, thousands of SSNs & accounts leaked

RT
Tue, 30 Jul 2019 10:05 UTC

Over 100 million Capital One customers have had their personal data hacked in a massive breach that exposed social security numbers, linked bank accounts, birth dates, phone numbers, and even transaction histories.

Personally-identifying information from the credit card applications of about 100 million Americans and 6 million Canadians has been stolen in one of the largest-ever bank hacks in the US, Capital One has acknowledged in a press release on Monday. The bank launched into damage control mode almost immediately, pinning the breach on one "highly sophisticated individual" who penetrated the bank's defenses, but emphasizing that "no other instances" of the specific "configuration vulnerability" were found. Also, it took a third-party bug-hunter to bring the vulnerability to Capital One's notice earlier this month, and they still took two days to find the breach.

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Muslims worldwide calling for boycott of Hajj pilgrimage to protest Saudi war crimes in Yemen

Jarni Blakkarly
SBS
Sun, 28 Jul 2019 12:00 UTC

Next month more than two million Muslims from around the world are expected to descend on the cities of Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia for the annual Hajj pilgrimage.

But a growing number of Muslims, including some in Australia, are turning their backs on what is one of the central pillars of Islam, and calling for a boycott of the event.

Sydney-based aspiring filmmaker Faraaz Rahman says he believes going to Hajj at the present time is not morally responsible.

"Going for Hajj would financially contribute to the Saudi regime, which currently is carrying out mass atrocities in Yemen against fellow Muslims. This is not what the Hajj is meant to be about," the 31-year-old told SBS News.

Comment: Saudi Arabia's crimes against humanity are only possible thanks to the West and Israel, and so, while this boycott is unlikely to have any immediate nor resounding impact on the death eating hydra plaguing the Middle East, it's nevertheless an admirable and worthy cause:

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Colombia is the real 'Venezuela': Day after mass protests against targeted killings of 700+ civil society leaders, ANOTHER leading activist is murdered by the state

teleSUR
Mon, 29 Jul 2019 07:51 UTC

© Steven Grattan/ Al Jazeera
Protesters arrived at Bogota's main public square, Plaza Bolivar, calling for an end to state killings

Colombian social leader Yisella Trujillo and her husband were shot dead less than 24 hours after an international march calling for an end to murders of social activist in the country.

Yisella Trujillo, a social leader from Colombia was murdered Saturday, less than 24 hours after a march took place against the mass murders of Colombian social and community leaders including members of the People's Alternative Revolutionary Force of Colombia (FARC).

Trujillo and her husband were shot at in Puerto Rico, Caqueta Saturday. She died at the spot and her husband died while the first respondents tried to save his life.

Puerto Rico's ombudsman Herner Carreño told local media that Trujillo and her family reported death threats for trying to reclaim their dispossessed land back from where they fled during the armed conflict.

Mayor Hernan Bravo said, "we hope that with the accompaniment of all the institutions we will be able to clarify this regrettable incident that we reject and repudiate."

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LGB vs. T: How the transgender issue is dividing a movement

Robby Soave
College Fix
Mon, 29 Jul 2019 23:55 UTC

Today there are tensions between a second-wave feminism that is worried about people who were born men co-opting their movement and a younger feminism that embraces all people who self-identify as women. The new view has largely won that fight, and this victory has influenced how the broader public discusses trans issues.

Consider what happened to filmmaker Kimberly Peirce at Reed College in 2016. She had been invited to Reed College in the fall of 2016 for a screening of her landmark 1999 film Boys Don't Cry. The movie tells the true story of a transgender man who was murdered. Peirce herself has identified as a lesbian and genderqueer, and her movie contains a message of acceptance.

To say that Peirce was not well received at Reed would be a considerable understatement. Students hung profane posters near the podium; one read "You don't fucking get it." Waiting at the podium itself was a "Fuck you" poster, and students screamed other expletives at Peirce, bringing the event to an early close.

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Fascism victorious as Greek MPs finally submit to globalists' anti-smoking regime

Helena Smith
The Guardian
Mon, 29 Jul 2019 22:14 UTC

The former EU Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, Vytenis Andrikaitis, himself Greek, earlier this year 'shamed' Greece's deputy health minister Pavlos Polakis for smoking in public, saying "He knows nothing of health!"

Until not so very long ago Greek MPs thought nothing of lighting up in the august halls of the Athens parliament.

So common was the habit that a thick fog of cigarette smoke often hovered over the building's cafe, a few metres from the legislative chamber where deputies had once voted to ban smoking in all public spaces, including the 300-seat House.

Nine years, 10 months and 26 days after that ban came into effect, lawmakers are finally being forced to abide by it too.

"There's definitely been a change," said Dimitris Tarantsas, who has waited on MPs from behind the cafe's bench-top bar for the past 18 years. "The law, for the first time, is being upheld."

Comment: Good effort, Greece. You held out well. But there was only ever going to be one winner.

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Society's Child

US govt regulator 'complicit' in radioactive leak at S. Carolina plant

'Compelled worship'? Lawsuit over Christian prayer in UK school sparks DEBATE

British teen reportedly fabricated rape charges against Israelis, who plan to sue

Claiming Baltimore is not a mess just because 'racist' Trump said it will lose Democrats votes

Russia squeezes out Saudi Arabia in race for Asia's oil market share

100mn+ people's data exposed in Capital One bank hack, thousands of SSNs & accounts leaked

Muslims worldwide calling for boycott of Hajj pilgrimage to protest Saudi war crimes in Yemen

Colombia is the real 'Venezuela': Day after mass protests against targeted killings of 700+ civil society leaders, ANOTHER leading activist is murdered by the state

LGB vs. T: How the transgender issue is dividing a movement

Fascism victorious as Greek MPs finally submit to globalists' anti-smoking regime

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