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Brainwashed US athletes plan protests against Russian participants at 2020 Tokyo Games


RT
Wed, 11 Dec 2019 18:40 UTC
kneeling anthem
© AFP / Jose SOTOMAYOR
US athletes are reportedly planning to stage protests at next summer's Olympics in Japan if Russian participants, who will more than likely compete as neutrals, win medals there.

The move is apparently dictated by American athletes' disagreement with the World Anti-Doping Agency's (WADA) decision to allow clean Russian competitors to take part in major sporting events under a neutral flag.


Comment: The Americans want athletes who have never done anything wrong to not be allowed to participate in a sporting event. That's how bad Americans have been brainwashed that Russians are evil.


On Monday, WADA's executive committee unanimously voted to hand a four-year ban to Russia, prohibiting the country from taking part in and hosting international sporting events, for alleged manipulations of doping data retrieved from a Moscow laboratory.

The newly-imposed sanctions allow clean Russian athletes who have never been implicated in doping scandals to compete as neutral athletes, something that US sports figures are not satisfied with.
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Bomb plot by supporter of radical Ukrainian nationalists thwarted in Russia's major port city of Murmansk - FSB


RT
Wed, 11 Dec 2019 18:28 UTC
fsb arrest
© Ria Novosti
The Russian security service FSB said it has arrested a man, linked with radical Ukrainian nationalists, who was plotting to carry out a bomb attack near a government building in the northern Russian port of Murmansk.

The man was arrested on Tuesday as he was retrieving a powerful home-made bomb that was stashed in a cache, the FSB statement said.

The suspect was not identified by name. The FSB said he is in his mid-thirties, has Russian citizenship, and "supports" the "Right Sector," a collective of various groups of right-wing Ukrainian nationalists, which played a crucial role in the armed coup in Kiev in 2014.

Murmansk is a port on the Barents Sea located some 1,500km (932 miles) north from Moscow. In addition to being a major population and industrial center in northwestern Russia, it is also close to Severomorsk, the home base of the Russian Navy's Northern Fleet.

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NPC

Iron Man is now a black teen girl: Forced diversity is killing Marvel & DC comics but anti-SJW writers are fighting back


RT
Wed, 11 Dec 2019 18:22 UTC
hulk and iron man
© (L) Marvel Comics / Frank Cho; (R) MARVEL / JEFF DEKAL
Pushing diversity at the cost of great storytelling is wreaking havoc on the comic book industry sales and splitting the fanbase. But beware anyone who dares criticize as they risk being cast out of the industry.

Race swaps & hipster comics

In autumn 2014, readers of American Superhero comics came across something a bit different. The first issue of Marvel's The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl saw an established character strangely changed from a cute and sassy young woman into an awkwardly shaped, goofwho cracked unfunny gags about pop culture. She was, bluntly, ugly - deliberately badly proportioned and drawn in a casual "indie" fashion. The book was aimed at hipsters, not Marvel fans.

Readers didn't take to the character because it looked an ironic in-joke. It became a flagship "diversity" book for Marvel.

Marvel Comics were 'looking to be politically correct'. Other changes soon became apparent at Marvel Comics. Established characters changed race or sex; female characters became unfeminine; male characters became less heroic; and the number of gay characters increased dramatically. More and more traditional characters were changed for political reasons.
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By pretending the world is uniquely cruel to women, smug feminists only enrage men who risk & sacrifice their lives each day


RT
Wed, 11 Dec 2019 18:11 UTC
feminists
© REUTERS/Juan Medina
The activist behind the campaign to make Jane Austen the face of the £10 note has published a 432-page encyclopaedia of feminist grievances. But do women really get a bad deal in what is still a man's world?

Feminist author Caroline Criado-Perez's 'Invisible Women Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men' has won the 2019 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award.

The tome purports to demonstrate that a gender data gap exists in cars, medical devices and treatments, tax structures as "a direct consequence of them" - men - "forgetting that women exist." Men have designed modern societies for their own benefit, and women are suffering in every turn, from crash test dummies that are too big to approximate what will happen to them in a crash, to Google Home smart speakers not obeying women's voices as well as men's.

"Unassailable facts, backed by powerful stories, are what moves minds," Kevin Sneader, McKinsey's global managing partner, said as he awarded the prestigious prize.
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Arrow Up

China quietly ramps up oil production in Iran

Simon Watkins
Oilprice.com
Tue, 10 Dec 2019 17:41 UTC
iran flag
© Reuters / Raheb Homavandi
The supergiant Azadegan oil field, comprising major north and south sites, is as important to Iran's overall strategic plan to survive the current sanctions environment and to prosper when they are lifted as the flagship South Pars supergiant gas field and the added-value products of its petrochemicals sector. Last week Iran's Petroleum Engineering and Development Company (PEDEC) announced that five new development wells and an appraisal well are to be spudded in North Azadegan to maintain current production levels. OilPrice.com understands from various senior energy sources in Iran that this is only part of the picture, with much bigger plans having been agreed for rollout in the coming six months with the help of China and Russia.

Located around 80 kilometres west of Ahvaz, close to the Iraqi border, the entire 900 square kilometre Azadegan field is the third-largest hydrocarbon reserve in the world after the Ghawar oil field in Saudi Arabia and the Burgan oil field in Kuwait. Its total reserves are estimated at about 42 billion barrels of oil, with around 7 billion barrels currently deemed recoverable. The first exploration well was drilled in 1976 but, despite its potential, a long lead time across the four main layers - Sarvak, Kazhdomi, Godvan, and Fahilan - of the site has meant that the pace of production has been slower than at many neighbouring fields, especially those over the border in Iraq.
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Elderly, wheelchair-bound woman alleges TSA agents groped her upper and lower body without warning


The Rutherford Institute
Thu, 05 Dec 2019 00:00 UTC
TSA groping woman
The Rutherford Institute has come to the aid of an elderly Delaware woman who has alleged that Transportation Security Administration (TSA) screeners groped her upper and lower body, including feeling inside the waistband of her pants, during a security screening at Philadelphia's International Airport (PHL) earlier this year.

In a request under Pennsylvania's Right to Know Law, Rutherford Institute attorneys have demanded copies of any video surveillance footage of the incident, which if confirmed, could support a Fourth Amendment-style lawsuit under a recent federal court ruling authorizing citizens to sue for torturous conduct committed by TSA agents. Institute attorneys point to numerous incidents in which poorly trained TSA agents have subjected elderly travelers to inappropriate touching, excessive searches and aggressive pat downs. For example, TSA employees reportedly ordered a 95-year-old leukemia patient in a wheelchair to remove her adult diaper so that agents could search her. Ninety-year-old Marian Peterson, also confined to a wheelchair, was pulled out of line for a random security check and according to her son, Joe, TSA agents "groped her. All of her body: her crotch, her breasts and everything else."

Comment: Away with the sick, authoritarian, bloated and ineffective TSA already!

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USA

Thousands pack Pennsylvania stadium for Trump rally, while overflow crowd watches event on big screen


pennlive.com
Wed, 11 Dec 2019 12:04 UTC
Trump Pence Pennsylvania rally
© Cameron Clark/York Daily RecordTrump and Pence during the rally at Giant Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania, December 10, 2019.
The Giant Center is filled to capacity for President Trump's rally tonight.

Hundreds weren't able to get in for the president's speech in Hershey. The bridge connecting the Giant Center to the Hersheypark lot was jammed pack with hundreds and hundreds of Trump supporters decked out in red hats and some in red, white and blue apparel.


Some seemed to be disappointed that they could not get in. Others were just as festive as they were when they arrived earlier this afternoon.


Comment: Trump touted his NAFTA replacement trade victory at the rally, while bashing the Democrats' formal commencement of impeachment proceedings as "impeachment light."

In fact, Trump claims the Democrats supported him on the US-Mexico-Canada trade deal because:
"It's a huge deal and it plays down the whole impeachment because they're embarrassed by the impeachment. Our poll numbers have gone through the roof because of her [Pelosi's] stupid impeachment."


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160 Iranian lawyers call for probe into deadly crackdown on protests


RFE/RL
Tue, 10 Dec 2019 19:21 UTC
Iran protests
© RFE/RLScreenshot
A total of 160 Iranian lawyers have called for an investigation into a deadly crackdown against protests that hit some 100 cities and towns last month.

The lawyers made the plea in an open letter to President Hassan Rohani that was published on the opposition news site Kalameh on December 9.

Calling for the accountability and transparency of the state, the letter said the perpetrators of the crackdown should be dismissed from their positions and punished.

Iranian authorities have yet to publish any definitive official death toll for the several days of unrest triggered by a sharp hike in gas prices.

Comment: It's possible, and likely, that these protests were both organic and involved outside interference:

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Attention

Suicide bomb attack hits outside largest US base in Afghanistan, Bagram


RT
Wed, 11 Dec 2019 10:55 UTC
Afghan National Army
© Reuters / Omar SobhaniFILE PHOTO: Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers keep watch outside the Bagram Airfield entrance gate, north of Kabul, Afghanistan.
A powerful blast ripped through a medical facility outside Bagram Air Base, the largest US military installation in Afghanistan, killing one civilian and wounding dozens more.

The attack took place north of Kabul, just outside Bagram, and targeted an under-construction medical base being built for civilians, according to the NATO-led mission in Afghanistan.

A local woman was killed by the blast, TOLOnews said, citing officials. There were different reports on how many civilians were injured. The latest estimate is 62 wounded.

There were no US or coalition casualties, Resolute Support said in a statement.

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Sherlock

Nearly 175 Saudi aviation students grounded after Pensacola base shooting


RT
Tue, 10 Dec 2019 20:16 UTC
Saudi Arabia Defense Attache
© Reuters / FBI Jacksonville / HandoutSaudi Arabia Defense Attache, Major General Fawaz Al Fawaz, arrives to meet with grounded Saudi students at NAS Pensacola on December 9, 2019.
Some 175 Saudi Arabian military aviation students have been grounded in a "safety stand-down," just days after Saudi Air Force lieutenant Mohammed Alshamrani shot and killed three sailors at Pensacola Naval Air Station.

"A safety stand-down and operational pause commenced Monday for Saudi Arabian aviation students," Navy spokeswoman Lieutenant Andriana Genualdi told Reuters on Tuesday, explaining that the grounding covered Naval Air Station Whiting Field and Naval Air Station Mayport in addition to Naval Air Station Pensacola.

Alshamrani, one of several hundred foreign aviation trainees at the Pensacola base, was killed in a shootout with Escambia County Sheriff's deputies on Friday morning. Police were called to the facility at around 7am local time as the Saudi soldier killed three classmates with a handgun and wounded five more; two deputies were also hit in the shootout.

Comment: See: 4 dead in shooting incident at Pensacola naval base; suspect was Saudi national, officials say - UPDATES

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