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'No Arabs please': Job rejection sparks racial controversy in Germany


RT
Thu, 16 Jan 2020 16:53 UTC
Germany's Federal Labour Office
© Reuters / Michael DalderGermany's Federal Labour Office in Holzkirchen
Modern Germany is a byword for racial tolerance, yet one architecture firm's blunt response to an Egyptian job applicant has ignited a storm of controversy on social media.

Egyptian-born architect Yassen Gabr recently applied for a vacancy at GKK+ Architekten, a prestigious Berlin-based firm whose website boasts of its ethnically diverse workforce. He posted a screenshot of the rejection letter he received on Wednesday, which simply read "no Arabs please."

Gabr's post quickly gained traction on social media. "He should sue them," one commenter wrote. "And, why not publish the name of the office so that we can all see who this racist is?"
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Mainstream media launches investigation into another phony 'White Power' controversy

Graham Dockery
RT
Thu, 16 Jan 2020 18:09 UTC
okay sign
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CBS news has blown the lid off the hate crime of the century: a crew of firefighters making the upside-down "okay" hand gesture in a group photo. Yet again, a reputable media outlet fell for a well-worn 4chan prank.

According to CBS affiliate WUSA-TV, a group of recruits with the District of Columbia Fire and Emergency Medical Services posed for a team photo back in March 2019. The network sounded the alarm on Wednesday when it noticed several of them were making the thumb-and-index finger "okay" hand gesture - a gesture CBS pointed out is "a possible 'white power'" symbol.

Accroding to WUSA, the "gesture in the photo might be seen as 'WP,' for 'white power,' since extending three fingers is a possible 'W' and the 'circle' coming off an arm is a possible 'P' — 'WP.'" Seemingly, the news site was unaware that the "WP" meaning was conjured up by 4chan trolls several years ago to see just how ridiculous a hoax they could make mainstream media outlets fall for.

And it's worked like a charm again, just like it did at last month's Army-Navy football game. And the time before that. And the time before that.

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Houston: School shooting suspect found hiding behind dumpster after killing classmate

Chloe Alexander, Cory McCord & Larry Seward
KHOU
Tue, 14 Jan 2020 17:57 UTC
Bellaire High School
A 19-year-old student was killed Tuesday in a shooting at Bellaire High School. The senior's teenage classmate was later arrested in connection with the incident.

The first 911 call came in about 4 p.m. The caller said one student was shot and the shooter ran from the scene.

According to sources, the victim was shot in the chest. He was taken to an area hospital where he was later pronounced dead.

"I extend my deepest condolences to the young man's loved ones and to all students, teachers and staff at Bellaire High school," Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said in a statement.

The 16-year-old shooting suspect and another suspect were taken into custody around 7:40 p.m. Tuesday. According to officials, one of the suspects was found hiding behind a dumpster at a grocery store on Chimney Rock Road.
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Jerusalem Rabbi accused of keeping 50 women and children in slave-like cult masquerading as a 'women's seminar'


Sputnik
Thu, 16 Jan 2020 17:48 UTC
hands behind sheet
© CCO
In 2015, the rabbi was arrested over allegations similar to those he was detained for now, but was released when members of the suspected cult sided with him.

A 60-year old rabbi named Aharon Ramati was arrested in Jerusalem due to allegedly being the head of a cult involved in exploiting women and young children, The Times of Israel reports.

According to the media outlet, the arrest took place as cops raided a residential complex in the city, which operated "under the guise of a women's seminar" and where the authorities found some 50 women living "in a state of overcrowding, deprivation and poor sanitation", along with about ten children aged one to five "who were held in seclusion within the compound on a regular basis".

Ramati, who has been ordered to remain in prison for a week, is believed to have "controlled the women's lives with absolute authority", with women being kept isolated from their families and working jobs approved by the rabbi, with a portion of their wages going directly to him.
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Knife and other weapons crimes on the rise in England and Wales -- government vows action

JamieGrierson
The Guardian
Thu, 16 Jan 2020 17:37 UTC
knife crime protest
© Hollie Adams/Getty ImagesA sign at an anti-knives march in London in December organised by the Tashan Daniel Campaign. Daniel, 20, was fatally stabbed at a tube station in September.
The number of knife or offensive weapon offences receiving cautions or convictions in England and Wales has hit a 10-year-high.

In the year ending September 2019, the criminal justice system dealt with 22,286 knife and offensive weapon offences, a 3% increase on the previous year and the highest number since 2009 when 26,364 were recorded.

The increase was driven by a rise in the number of cautions or convictions for offences involving possession of an article with a blade or point.

Offenders are now more likely to receive an immediate custodial sentence for a knife and offensive weapon offence, and sentences are getting longer, according to the Ministry of Justice data.
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Swedes vote climate policy biggest waste of tax payer money in 2019

Chris Tomlinson
Breitbart
Sat, 11 Jan 2020 00:01 UTC
Greta Thunberg
© AP Photo/Jason DeCrow
The Swedish public has voted that climate change spending has been the biggest waste of taxpayer money in 2019, according to a poll by the Swedish Taxpayers' Association.

The Taxpayers' Association released the results of their annual wasteful spending poll earlier this week, declaring that climate policy had been the biggest waste of money, largely due to the fact that despite the spending, emissions in Sweden had actually slightly increased.

In 2014, the Swedish national government spent 5.2 billion Swedish krona (£419 million/$547 million), a number that has more than doubled to 12.6 billion krona (£1 billion/$1.3 billion) for the planned 2020 budget.
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Peter Schiff: Americans are in for a rude awakening


SchiffGold
Wed, 15 Jan 2020 00:01 UTC
Peter Sciff on RT
On Jan. 13, Peter Schiff appeared on RT Boom Bust with Bubba Horwitz to talk about the yuan, the dollar, the stock market and the US economy. Peter said the dollar is eventually going to collapse and it's going to be a rude awakening for Americans.

The Chinese yuan has been gaining strength against the dollar in recent weeks, in part because of optimism that there will eventually be a resolution to the trade war. But the Chinese currency is still over 17% lower than it was when the US imposed its first tariffs. Does this mean the markets are cautiously positioning for a deal, or is there still skepticism about the phase 1 deal? Peter focused on the bigger picture.

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CNN, Warren's sexism jibe against Sanders backfires as #CNNisTrash trends on Twitter

Alan Macleod
Mint Press News
Wed, 15 Jan 2020 00:01 UTC
Bernie Sanders
© Patrick Semansky | APDemocratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., answers a question, Jan. 14, 2020, during a Democratic presidential primary debate hosted by CNN and the Des Moines Register in Des Moines, Iowa.
The top three trends on Twitter Wednesday morning across the United States were #CNNisTrash, #NeverWarren, and #WarrenIsaSnake.

CNN has been widely criticized for its perceived bias in moderating yesterday's Democratic presidential debate in Iowa. With just three weeks before the first primaries, six leading candidates descended upon Des Moines last night to take part. But, as with previous debates, much of the public discussion centered on the organization, framing and bias of the organizers and moderators.

CNN asked Bernie Sanders, the most left-leaning of the candidates, if he thought he "owed voters an explanation" on how much his health plan would cost them and demanded to know "how will he avoid bankrupting the country" when implementing Medicare for All. Meanwhile, on trade, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren was questioned about a new deal with Canada and Mexico and asked "why is Sanders' opposition to it wrong," giving her a puff question with which to undermine Sanders.

Comment: That such a desperate move from the Warren camp backfired so spectacularly is hardly surprising. However, Sanders seems to have bigger problems than slander at the moment, as Project Veritas has released undercover video of one of his campaigners calling for violence and 're-education' of Trump supporters in Gulags. This has the real potential to take Bernie down, as the mainstream American public are sure to be upset by the idea that one of the Presidential candidates is associated with far-left radicals. See: Project Veritas - Bernie campaigner dreams of slaying MSNBC hosts: 'Liberals get the f***ing wall first'

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Best of the Web: Tyranny averted, for now: Bill to end religious exemptions for vaccinations collapses in NJ

Tracey Tully
The New York Times
Mon, 13 Jan 2020 00:01 UTC
vaccine protesters
© Michelle Gustafson for The New York TimesProtesters who are against ending a religious exemption for school vaccinations demonstrated on Monday outside the State House in Trenton, N.J.
The proposal had been one of the nation's broadest, but it came under intense criticism from vaccine skeptics.

It began as one of the nation's broadest proposed bans on religious exemptions to childhood vaccines.

But after weeks of sustained and boisterous protests by vaccine skeptics, as well as a last-minute effort to amend the proposed bill to win the support of key lawmakers, the effort collapsed on Monday in the New Jersey State Senate.

The Senate president, Stephen M. Sweeney, maintained that science, not protesters, would eventually emerge victorious.

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Martin Luther King's 91st birthday: A reminder of an existential choice still undecided

Matthew Ehret
The Duran
Wed, 15 Jan 2020 08:13 UTC
martin luther king
Martin Luther King Jr. day has been celebrated every January 18 since it was a made a national holiday through the tireless efforts of Martin’s widow Coretta in 1983.
The world marches forward into the new year with a mix of hope and trepidation. The words of Martin Luther King who warned in his final days the universal truth that either we commit to "nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation" ring as true today as they did when they were spoken in 1968. In that speech, King stated prophetically that "this may well be mankind's last chance to choose between chaos and community".

Had Martin Luther King not been gunned down on the balcony of the Loraine Motel just at the very moment when he was leading a transformation of the civil rights movement into a global movement for economic justice and also resisting the Vietnam War (which today's Middle East wars are but an extension), the world might have become a very different place.

Unfortunately, a government conspiracy run by the same forces that had already killed Malcolm X and JFK earlier (and soon would also murder Bobby Kennedy) did snuff out the life of King. His spirit, however, has proven to be more resilient than his enemies ever could have dreamed. In spite of decades of effort to destroy the better soul of America that Martin died to defend, the structures of the deep state which overtook America after 1968 stand increasingly weak, insecure and exposed as ever... but not less dangerous, as witnessed by the current efforts to impose a new regime change in Iran and nuclear war with both Russia and China.

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