Welcome to Sott.net
Mon, 08 Nov 2021
The World for People who Think

Society's Child
Map

Stock Down

Hero to zero: How Kiev won, then lost, $2.5 bln from Gazprom


Sputnik
Mon, 18 Jun 2018 22:48 UTC
OJSC GazpromMoscow
© Sputnik / Ruslan Krivobo
OJSC Gazprom head office in Moscow
The Svea Court of Appeal has suspended the Stockholm Arbitration Court's ruling allowing Ukrainian state energy company Naftogaz to seize $2.56 billion in Gazprom's European assets. Why did the court appeal the ruling, and what does it means for the Russian gas giant's European plans? Sputnik explores.

Following the Stockholm Arbitration Court's February 2018 ruling that Gazprom must pay compensation to Naftogaz for allegedly failing to supply earlier agreed-upon volumes of transit gas, the Ukrainian company rushed to appeal to European countries to immediately arrest the accounts of the Russian giant's sister companies.

Ukraine's efforts met with initial success, with Swiss authorities issuing an injunction on the assets of two firms engaged in the maintenance and construction of Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2, and their Dutch colleagues joining them two months later to freeze Gazprom shares in its Dutch subsidiaries.
      Read More...
USA

The angry Left in America is unwittingly turning me into a Trump supporter

Bethany Mandel
Forward
Tue, 12 Jun 2018 00:00 UTC
Pres Trump
During the election, the deluge of hate that came my way when I expressed my disapproval of then-candidate Donald Trump was so violent that I purchased a gun.

But these days, the vitriol is coming from the other side. Chance the Rapper, for example, was was eviscerated online for suggesting that "Black people don't have to be democrats," and eventually pressured into apologizing. His comment came after Kanye West faced a firestorm of criticism after tweeting in support of Donald Trump. Earlier this year, country singer Shania Twain, a Canadian, also felt the need to apologize for stating that, were she an American citizen with voting rights, would have voted for Trump.

Expressing anything resembling support for the Trump administration has become nothing short of a taboo. And while these backlashes are hardly the same as the tweets I would get threatening my family during the election, they do raise the question, should Americans really be publicly shamed and bullied into apologizing for stating that they support the President of the United States?

There is more than a chance that this could spectacularly backfire.
      Read More...
Sheriff

Texas deputy arrested for repeatedly raping 4yo girl, threatened mom with deportation to keep silent

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Mon, 18 Jun 2018 23:37 UTC
Jose Nunez

Bexar County Deputy, Jose Nunez
A predator cop has been arrested and charged after he was caught repeatedly raping a 4-year-old girl and using the mother's immigration status to keep it secret

As the immigration controversy continues to escalate and children are pulled from their mother's arms to be thrown in cages, psychopaths who abuse their authority are using this time to prey on the weak. One such case of this horrific abuse became evident this week in San Antonio as a police officer was caught repeatedly raping a toddler whilst threatening her undocumented mother with deportation if she spoke up about it.

Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar made an announcement this week noting that one of his deputies had been arrested for the repeated rape of a 4-year-old girl. Deputy Jose Nunez, 47, was arrested over the weekend and charged with super aggravated sexual assault.
      Read More...
Fire

Saudi Arabian soccer team plane engine 'catches fire' en-route to World Cup match


RT
Mon, 18 Jun 2018 23:12 UTC
Saudi Arabian football team
© Sputnik
Footage from aboard the Saudi team plane traveling to Rostov for their World Cup match appeared to show fire coming out of the engine. The Russian Airlines Airbus jet has landed safely at its planned destination.

"The Saudi Arabian Football Federation would like to reassure everyone that all the Saudi national team players are safe, after a technical failure in one of the airplane engines that has just landed in Rostov-on-Don airport, and now they're heading to their residence safely," said a statement from the federation's English-language Twitter feed.

Footage that appeared to be shot from a passenger seat, showing the wing of the Airbus A319-100 enguled in fire was spread on social media by Middle Eastern news outlets.

Russia's Rossiya Airlines has dismissed reports that a fire had broken out on the plane as it was about to touch down in Rostov-on-Don.
      Read More...
Black Magic

Horrendous! American children systematically terrorized by Child Protective Services

Megan Fox
PJ Media
Sat, 16 Jun 2018 00:00 UTC
supervised CPS visit
© Michael Chambers
Belle crying to go home with her father during a supervised visit.
Americans are in an uproar about illegal immigrant parents and children separated at the border. The level of hysteria surrounding this topic has reached a fever pitch with senators like Chuck Schumer mugging distraught for the cameras at every opportunity. While the shrill voices shriek loudly about the rights of Mexicans and other assorted border jumpers, American parental rights are being stripped from them, unconstitutionally, every single day. (Chuck Schumer has yet to freak out about it on national television.) American parents have lost their due process and Fourth Amendment rights, and most of them don't even know it. Most anyone who has been visited by Child Protective Services can testify to the absolute terror that the state can inflict on a family for very little or no reason at all.

Right now in the state of Mississippi, Michael Chambers is missing his little girl, Belle. When Belle was around two years old her mother abandoned her in the care of her grandmother. Chambers took custody of her after that. Lacking resources and the ability to track down his ex to serve her with custody papers, Chambers just took care of his daughter like a father should. Like many single parents, personal disputes often result in one parent harassing the other through any means possible. Belle's mother would occasionally call Chambers and shortly after the calls CPS would show up knocking on his door. The social workers where he lived understood the nature of the calls but when he moved to Warren county, things changed.

Comment: The list of CPS-directed horror stories are now legion in the US. And it seems we have yet another nightmare to thank the Clintons for!

      Read More...
Quenelle - Golden

Seymour Hersh: The fearless investigative journalist who has told America many "important and unwanted truths"

Russell Leadbetter
the Herald
Sun, 17 Jun 2018 20:39 UTC
Seymour Hersh
© Brad Barket/Getty Images
Seymour Hersh accepts the LennonOno Grant for Peace at the Second Biennial Awards at the UN in New York in October, 2004.
ON November 24, 1983, the then Vanity Fair editor Tina Brown attended a lunch in London, thrown by Henry Kissinger and his wife Nancy. "I feel Henry is in a lot of pain from Seymour Hersh's devastating book, The Price of Power," she confided to her diary. "He looks tormented."

Less than two months later, Brown was at a dinner in New York, and the conversation turned to Kissinger - specifically, this time, to his reported reaction to Hersh publishing a confidential report of Kissinger's in the New York Times. "Henry," she wrote, "drove straight back to the city [from Connecticut] in a murderous rage."

Kissinger's grief and outrage typify the reactions that many in the US political, military and intelligence establishments have experienced over the decades at the hands of Hersh, an investigative journalist par excellence. By doggedly pursuing leads, sources, witnesses and documents, by calling on his unrivalled wealth of contacts, and by getting people to talk to him, he has been responsible for an astonishing list of exposes in magazines and newspapers, from the My Lai massacre by US soldiers in South Vietnam in 1968 to the grotesque abuses meted out to detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq in 2003

Comment: 'Game of cards': Seymour Hersh on conflicting US policy in Syria

      Read More...
Attention

Hundreds killed, thousands flee as Saudi forces bomb Hodeidah to 'liberate it'


RT
Sun, 17 Jun 2018 23:58 UTC
Hodeidah, Yemen
© Abduljabbar Zeyad/Reuters
Hodeidah, Yemen
Civilians are fleeing Hodeidah after hundreds were killed in the Saudi-led coalition's bomb campaign to take the strategic Yemeni port from Houthi rebels. The death toll and the disruption of vital supply lines has alarmed the UN.

Over 4,000 families have fled the city since June 1, according to the latest report by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs that describes people losing their entire livelihood after airstrikes destroyed their farms.

"The air attacks were extremely heavy and violent back there, hitting humans, trees and houses - everything," one of the displaced Yemenis told RT's Ruptly video agency.

"A lot of people died - children and seniors" in the shelling of Hodeidah by the Saudi-led forces, another civilian added.

On Friday, AP reported that the number of casualties from the first three days of the operation stood at more than 280 people. But the death toll is feared to have grown as the coalition, which is seeking to reinstall the ousted government, continued to bomb Hodeidah on Saturday and Sunday, despite initial pledges to limit their bombing to the airport area, in what they call a "military and humanitarian operation" to "liberate the port of Hodeidah in western Yemen".



Comment: Again the UN is ineffective, opposition non-existent, rescue imaginary and consequences for deadly and diabolical behavior meted to the innocent.

The Saudi coalition: Egypt, Morocco, Jordan, Sudan, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar (suspended), Bahrain, and Academi mercenaries. Djibouti, Eritrea, Somalia offer airspace, territorial waters and military bases to the coalition. The US provides intel, logistic support, aerial refueling, search-and-rescue and sale of weapons. US and Britain deploy military personnel in the command and control centre responsible for Saudi-led air strikes on Yemen, having access to lists of targets. Britain supplies ammunition to the Saudis, such as cluster bombs.

      Read More...
Bomb

Minimum 18 dead as second blast shatters holiday truce between Afghan govt forces and the Taliban


RT
Sun, 17 Jun 2018 22:02 UTC
Jalalabad, Afghanistan
© Aifurahman Safi/Global Look Press
At least 18 people have been killed in an explosion in a crowded area in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad. It is the second such incident, after an unprecedented ceasefire for the Muslim Eid holiday had been agreed.

The deadly blast rocked an area outside of the governor's compound in the capital of the Afghan Nangarhar Province as Taliban militants, government officials and civilians mingled together while exiting the government building following an Eid celebration. The explosion claimed the lives of at least 18 people, according to the head of the provincial public health department.

The explosion also left 45 people injured, Afghan officials report. The attack, allegedly carried out by a suicide bomber who blew himself in a crowd of people, came in the last hours of the ceasefire between the Taliban insurgents and the government forces. Despite that, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani extended a unilateral ceasefire for ten more days.

No group has claimed responsibility for the blast so far. The Sunday explosion has become the second incident that hit the province in a few days. On Saturday, 26 people were killed in another blast at a meeting of Taliban and Afghan security forces. The Saturday incident was later claimed by Islamic State (IS, former ISIS).

Comment: Who doesn't want the fighting to cease, after decades of uprising, death and destruction...
See also:

      Read More...
X

Tiny West Bank village to be demolished - how international law could be used to intervene


The Conversation
Thu, 14 Jun 2018 05:09 UTC
Bedouin students
© The Times of Israel
Bedouin students school at Khan al-Ahmar
The village of Al Khan al Ahmar is home to 180 people on the West Bank of Palestine. It has 40 houses, a mosque and a school built from old tyres and mud. But its residents don't know if their village will still exist tomorrow - after Israel confirmed plans to demolish the Bedouin settlement.

If the demolition does go ahead, it could amount to a violation of international humanitarian law. Forcible transfer of civilians living under occupation, demolition of Palestinian homes, and the expansion of settlements all violate the Fourth Geneva Convention.

According to some human rights organisations, destroying the village might also be considered a war crime under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court - something which the rest of the world has a responsibility to prevent.

Comment: Besides thumbing its nose at international laws, Israel is a master at picking off critics one-by-one. The West needs to give up its 'Israel myth' worship and overcome its mesmerize.

See also: Israel ready to destroy Palestinian village - will Britain intervene?

      Read More...
Attention

What the bleeding-hearts would like you to forget: Thousands of illegal aliens granted DACA protections had prior arrests for violent crimes

Matt Vespa
Townhall
Mon, 18 Jun 2018 13:45 UTC
obama DACA
Well, we're back to this issue again: Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. DACA drama is back. The constitutionally questionable program initiated by the Obama White House is the reason immigration became a primary action item. The Trump administration announced last year that they were going to wind down the program, citing White House lawyers' inability to defend the shaky law. Also, the White House was facing a lawsuit from a group of GOP state attorneys general if they allowed DACA to continue. A six-month enforcement delay was instituted, affording Congress enough time to pass a DACA fix. There was only one problem: The Democratic Party. They're not going to play ball with the GOP on much, especially with their base in resistance mode. Nevertheless, that doesn't mean DACA just goes away. So, before we get into how many violent criminal illegals were granted protections, let's break down this program (via LA Times):
On June 15, 2012, the Obama administration implemented DACA. Under the program, people who came to the United States as children and met several key guidelines would not face deportation for two years, and could then apply to renew their status as a DACA recipient. Immigrants who were approved would also be eligible for work authorization. Nearly 800,000 DACA recipients have received approval to go to school and work legally in the United States.

[...]

When DACA became a reality in 2012, it gave a specific group of people protections against deportation. To receive those protections an individual had to have come to the United States prior to turning 16, but be younger than 31 years old. The individual also had to be in or have completed school, and could not have a criminal record.

Comment:

      Read More...
Amazon Smile
Revolt! T-shirts