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A comedian has been asked to apologise for a vegetable-based joke.Swedish comedian Olaf Falafel has been asked to apologise for a joke he made at the Edinburgh Fringe.
The joke was as follows: 'I keep randomly shouting out "broccoli" and "cauliflower" - I think I might have florets.' TV channel Dave awarded it the 'Joke of the Fringe' prize.
Comment: All Dobson has done with her outrage is draw more attention to the target of her ire. She's right - it's a lame joke. It probably would have died within 24 hours (if that). But now there are articles being written about how stupid it is to be outraged about it. Well played, Dobson - you've probably elevated a mediocre comic to a household name and made your organization look like a bunch of snowflakes.
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© Claudio Cabrera| A composite image shows from left to right, Jeffrey Epstein, Bill Clinton, Adnan Khashoggi and Robert Maxwell.
On August 10th, and for several days after, speculation swirled after it was announced that Jeffrey Epstein had been found dead in his cell. His cause of death has officially been ruled suicide-by-hanging.
Epstein, the billionaire pedophile and sex trafficker with a myriad of connections to the rich and powerful in the United States and several other countries, had
told those close to him that he had feared for his life prior to his sudden "suicide," the
Washington Post reported, while
his defense lawyers claimed that he had planned to cooperate with federal authorities.Following the controversial conclusion by the New York Medical Examiner that Epstein's death was a suicide — a conclusion contested by Epstein's attorneys as well as by independent forensic pathologists, given the apparent evidence pointing towards strangulation — corporate media coverage of the Epstein case has slowed to a trickle, save for sensationalist stories about his alleged co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell and new salacious details of his past.
Gone from corporate media are any hints of the larger scandal, revolving around the admission that Epstein had "belonged to intelligence."
Comment: Superb reporting by Webb and Mint Press News. She is also brave, given what happens to people who report on 'The Octopus'. All of this, and more, still goes on today. The names of the front companies may change, and new names be be 'blooded', but it's the same series of interlocking ramified networks engaged in terrorism, drug-trafficking and pedophilia on an industrial scale.
For the most part, they either know each other, or at least recognise each other in a crowd. Lacking in any conception of the divine, of transcendence, or a higher power, they are extreme materialists, purely mechanical machines - and yet, while they lack in morals, they are endowed with preternatural levels of cunning.
The world that they create, and control, is made in their image. They are, effectively, functionally, an alien parasitic race feeding off the human race. For the most part, they have no insight into their role, programmed as they are to spend their lives in the service of maximising their fellow man's slavery to the material.
It is very unlikely that they will 'fail' in the way the author hopes. More likely, they will increase human suffering to unbearable levels, at which point the environment/climate itself will destabilize and collapse civilization. As we see from increasing weather extremes and seismic upheaval, this process is accelerating with each passing month...
Paul Joseph Watson
Sott.netFri, 23 Aug 2019 00:00 UTC
The rapid and shocking disintegration occurring in
major Western cities has been well documented by Paul Joseph Watson, and the following video about the 'city of angels' is no different. Watch it - and try not to gasp at the number of ways, and the severity in scale, that Los Angeles is failing to maintain even a semblance of order.
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Since 1990, approximately 15.8 million girls in India have been denied the right to be born because of sex-selective abortion and other forms of prenatal sex selection, according to new figures from the
Population Research Institute. In India today approximately 111 boys are born for every 100 girls, a clear indication that sex-selection is commonly practiced.
More horrifying still, a recent Indian government report shows that none of the 216 births recorded in 132 villages from a northern Indian district are girls, leading local officials to suspect female foeticide. Of those, 16 villages have not recorded a single female birth since the beginning of the year, according to the district's magistrate Ashish Chauhan.The increasing desire for smaller families is one cause of ongoing sex selection. For instance, women in India in 1970 had about 5.6 children on average, but by 2018 they were having just 2.3 children on average over their lifetimes. This has meant more women resort to sex-selective abortion to achieve their desired family composition.
The government of India has also long promoted population control policies which limit family size, and thus fuel the practice of prenatal sex selection. Six states in India currently have two-child policies that prohibit civil servants from having more than two children.
The practice of sex selection is commonly associated with poverty and countries where women do not have equal rights.
RTFri, 23 Aug 2019 23:01 UTC
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A WikiLeaks associate, who mysteriously vanished last year while on a visit to Norway, was probably the victim of a kayaking accident, Norwegian police say. The man's body remains missing, however, leaving a mystery unsolved.
In a statement on Friday, police said they believe Arjen Kamphuis - a missing cybersecurity expert and WikiLeaks affiliate who was last seen in the Norweigan town of Bodo in the summer of 2018 - was likely "lost at sea" after a kayaking trip went awry.
"The police have concluded that Mr Kamphuis most likely suffered an accident on the evening of August 20, 2018, while kayaking in ... northern Norway, and was subsequently lost at sea," the police statement said. "His body has still not been recovered."Kamphuis's disappearance has generated conspiracy theories, particularly due to his connection to WikiLeaks and suspicions were stoked further last year when a phone belonging to Kamphuis was briefly activated in a location nearly 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) from Bodo.
© Brigitte Stelzer
Former
Vanity Fair editor-in-chief Graydon Carter made a disturbing discovery on his front lawn — the severed head of a cat — just after a reporter started digging into Jeffrey Epstein's alleged sexual misconduct, according to a new report.
Back in 2006, as the feds compiled accusations against the money manager in Palm Beach, Florida, John Connolly, a contributing editor for the magazine, headed out there in search of a story,
NPR reported.
But as Connolly, a stringer, sat down with women who had worked for Epstein, his editor, Carter, called him to report the gruesome cat head in the front yard of his Connecticut home."It was done to intimidate," Connolly told NPR. "No question about it."Connolly said he decided to stop reporting on Epstein and later penned a nonfiction book about the disgraced financier with bestselling crime novelist James Patterson.
But Carter told NPR that the magazine never ceased its Epstein-related reporting because of any perceived threat.
RTFri, 23 Aug 2019 09:33 UTC
© Sputnik/Pavel LvovThe Akademik Lomonosov, August 13, 2019
designed and built by Russia, is set to start its trip across the Arctic to its 'workplace' in the Chukotka Region and will provide Russia's remote areas with heat and energy.
During a special ceremony on Friday the unique vessel, called
the Akademik Lomonosov, will leave the city of Murmansk to float thousands of kilometers, all the way to the small far-eastern port of Pevek, which sits on the Arctic coast of Chukotka. Two tug boats and one reserve vessel will tow the floating nuclear power plant.
"There are no analogues to it in the world," said Dmitry Alekseenko, a branch deputy director of Rosenergoatom, the builder of the floating nuclear power plant.
The
Akademik Lomonosov and its assisting vessels are scheduled to reach their destination by the end of September, their exact arrival time depending on weather conditions. The facility is set to become operational by the end of the year.
Tyler Durden
ZeroHedgeFri, 23 Aug 2019 18:52 UTC
© South China Morning PostAndrew McCabe
Another Ex-Obama official has joined the ranks of anti-Trump cable news punditry, this time
disgraced FBI #2 Andrew McCabe, who was fired for leaking information to the media - then lying about it at least four times, including under oath.
Now, McCabe - who is
suing the DOJ and FBI over what he claims was a "politically motivated" firing
just days before he was set to retire with full benefits," will join former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper
at CNN.
Comment: So it is in the topsy-turvy world of US politics and media today. An upright actor such as Michael Flynn is crippled with legal fees defending his innocence but his corrupt persecutor gets a fat television contract. McCabe will fit right in with America's premiere propaganda outlet.
Enjoll Francis, Aaron Katersky & Stephanie Fuerte
ABC NewsFri, 23 Aug 2019 04:35 UTC
© FDNY/TwitterNew York Fire Department members investigate an incident with an elevator in an apartment building in New York city.
A 30-year-old man was killed in a freak accident when the
elevator he was exiting in his
New York City apartment building suddenly
plummeted,
crushing him in the process.
The man, identified as Samuel Charles Waisbren, was a resident of the building at 344 Third Avenue in the Kips Bay neighborhood of New York City, police said.
Waisbren was exiting the
elevator in the building's lobby after two other passengers had already left the elevator just before 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, according to New York ABC station
WABC.
When the doors began to close, the elevator unexpectedly malfunctioned and dropped to the basement. Waisbren became trapped between the elevator and the shaft wall, and was pronounced dead at the scene.
© The OregonianTyrone Lamont Allen's mugshot, on left. The police Photoshop-altered photo of Allen, on right.
There's no mistaking the elaborate tattoos that cover Tyrone Lamont Allen's forehead and right cheek.
But when Portland police suspected Allen was involved in four bank and credit union heists, and none of the tellers reported seeing tattoos on the face of the man who robbed them, police digitally altered Allen's mugshot.
They covered up every one of his tattoos using Photoshop.
"I basically painted over the tattoos,'' police forensic criminalist Mark Weber testified. "Almost like applying electronic makeup.''
Police then presented the altered image of Allen with photos of five similar-looking men to the tellers for identification. They didn't tell anyone that they'd changed Allen's photo.
Comment: All Dobson has done with her outrage is draw more attention to the target of her ire. She's right - it's a lame joke. It probably would have died within 24 hours (if that). But now there are articles being written about how stupid it is to be outraged about it. Well played, Dobson - you've probably elevated a mediocre comic to a household name and made your organization look like a bunch of snowflakes.
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