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Gadhimai: Nepal's animal sacrifice festival goes ahead despite 'ban'


BBC
Tue, 03 Dec 2019 17:37 UTC
Gadhimai
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Less than five years ago, animal charities heralded the end of animal sacrifice at a religious festival dubbed "the world's bloodiest".

But on Tuesday, the Gadhimai festival began with the killing of a goat, rat, chicken, pig and pigeon.

According to animal activists who travelled to a remote corner of Nepal for the festival, it was followed by the deaths of thousands of buffalo.

Some 200,000 animals were killed during the last festival, in 2014.

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Why are Ukrainian neo-Nazis joining the Hong Kong protests?

Morgan Artyukhina
Sputnik
Mon, 02 Dec 2019 22:47 UTC
Ukrainian neo-Nazi
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Prominent Ukrainian neo-Nazi figures have been spotted in the Hong Kong protests just weeks after hosting an "academy of street protest" in Kiev.

Leaders of far-right Ukrainian groups that rose to prominence in the 2014 coup d'etat they helped orchestrate, including the Azov Battalion and Right Sektor, have recently traveled to Hong Kong to participate in the anti-Beijing protests there. It's unclear why the groups, sporting the apparel of a far-right hooligan group called "Honor" or "Gonor," have gone to Hong Kong, but the fact that both the 2014 Ukrainian coup and the present protests in Hong Kong have enjoyed extensive support from the CIA-spawned National Endowment for Democracy may give a clue.
"Hong Kong welcomed us as relatives," Serhii Filimonov wrote on Facebook Saturday, sharing a video of himself and other Ukrainian far-right figures in the semi-autonomous Chinese city. Filimonov once headed the Kiev branch of the Azov Civilian Corps, a support group for the ultra-nationalist Azov Battalion that's thinly veiled as a civilian NGO.
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Indian man thrashed, paraded naked on streets for trying to rape 4-year-old girl


India Today
Mon, 02 Dec 2019 17:12 UTC
Maharashtra police
A 35-year-old man was paraded naked on Sunday evening by people for trying to rape a four-year-old girl at her house in Pardi area of Nagpur in Maharashtra, police said.
A 35-year-old man was paraded naked on Sunday evening by people for trying to rape a four-year-old girl at her house in Pardi area of Nagpur in Maharashtra, police said.

Local people thrashed the accused Jawahar Vaidya, tied his hands with a rope and paraded him naked on streets before handing him over to the police, an official said.

Vaidya works as a daily cash collection agent for a co-operative society bank in the city.
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France's nationwide strike starts December 5th, set to be the biggest in decades

Alex Ledsom
Forbes
Mon, 02 Dec 2019 15:32 UTC
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© AFP via Getty ImagesA hospital employee wears a blouse reading "on strike" on November 14, 2019 in Quimper, western France.
Even for a country with a reputation for strikes, France's planned walkouts on Thursday, December 5, could be the biggest the country has seen in years; many are predicting the country could come to an actual standstill. What's more, the strikes may last weeks.

Who exactly is going on strike?

According to The Connection, the strike is expected to start at 10pm on Wednesday, December 4, when workers at SNCF (France's national rail company) and RATP (Paris' regional transport authority) officially walk out. Air France air and ground crews will be on strike, making flights in and out of French airports difficult, notably because air traffic controllers will also walk out. Public travel generally will be made even more difficult by today's announcement by lorry drivers that they intend to blockade major French roads from December 7 onwards. French people, reliant on cars to get to work have started stocking up on cans of petrol to have as a fall back in case garages run dry due to issues with delivery.

Comment: Discontent with government cut backs is not limited to France, many countries within the EU, and elsewhere, are seeing a similar collapse in the overall quality of life; the difference in France seems to be that its citizens are taking the risk to push back.

It would appear that while Macron's government did manage to smear and suppress the Gilet Jaunes movement to some extent, that hasn't quelled the overall feeling that the lives of citizens are being sacrificed for government ideology: Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal #26: Globalization vs Nationalism - The Hidden Causes of The Yellow Vest Protests in France

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'5G now America-free': China's Huawei assembles latest phones without US parts


RT
Mon, 02 Dec 2019 09:03 UTC
huawei
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Chinese telecoms giant Huawei, which has been blacklisted by the US, has managed to start making devices without American parts, replacing them with components sourced elsewhere.

According to analysis by UBS and Japanese technology firm Fomalhaut Techno Solutions, seen by the Wall Street Journal, Huawei's latest phones had no US parts.

"When Huawei came out with this high-end phone - and this is its flagship - with no US content, that made a pretty big statement," Susquehanna International Group semiconductor analyst Christopher Rolland told the Journal.

Comment: As the US doles out more sanctions, countries simply find a workaround, and, increasingly, it's the US that loses out:

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Watch as Hong Kong protester nearly kills 53 year old man with drain cover as he attempts to dismantle barricade


RT
Mon, 02 Dec 2019 14:23 UTC
Hong Kong
© Reuters / Laurel ChorProtesters vandalize a store in the neighbourhood of Hung Hom in Hong Kong, China December 1, 2019.
A Hongkonger nearly lost his life when an angry protester struck him on the head with a metal drain cover as he attempted to remove one of many barricades erected during anti-government unrest in the city.

The video, filmed on Saturday night, shows several masked protesters confronting a 53-year-old man who attempts to clear a roadblock outside the Prince Edward railway station in Mong Kok. The man takes out his phone, apparently to film the assailants, when one of them suddenly strikes him on the head with the metal cover. The attacker promptly flees the scene, while the bloodied victim falls and loses consciousness for several seconds.

The man later managed to regain his senses as he was being treated for injuries. He was admitted to a hospital and discharged. Police said his phone was stolen and reiterated that they "absolutely do not tolerate anyone who uses violence to achieve any goals."

Comment: The violence exhibited by some of the Hong Kong protesters is unprecedented - not to mention horrifying - and the evidence of the meddling by foreign governments, such as the US, is damning:

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Sweden's sexualized LGBT church altar is not 'inclusive,' it's driving people away from modern Christianity

Damian Wilson
RT
Mon, 02 Dec 2019 10:18 UTC
St. John's Church of Malmö, Sweden.
St. John's Church of Malmö, Sweden.
The obsession of many Western Christian leaders with "inclusivity" has brought sexual politics and its activists into the church, turning off many seeking a simple solution to their faith, not depictions of gay sex on the altar.

The decline in membership of the Church of Sweden should accelerate this Advent thanks to one place of worship in Malmo deciding it needed to enhance its woke credentials despite the risk of upsetting Christians elsewhere.

On the first day of the Christmas season, and try not to simply raise your eyebrows yet, it chose to unveil its new altarpiece, a homoerotic painting depicting black and white gays and lesbians cavorting naked. Oh, and the work is by Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin, herself a lesbian in case there was any doubt about her allegiances.

Of course the Church of Sweden thinks this is brilliant. Maybe that partly explains why in 1972 around 95 percent of Swedes belonged to the church, while only 57 per cent identified with it last year.

Church leaders extoll the virtues of the new altarpiece as a sign of inclusion, allowing more people to identify their position within this particular branch of Christianity.

Comment: Church of Sweden unveils altarpiece of paradise featuring gay couples and transgender serpent
The Church of Sweden, the state Church of the Scandinavian country until 2000 and still by far its largest denomination, prides itself on embracing a laundry list of woke agendas. Despite this, Swedes have been leaving the Church in record numbers lately, according to surveys.

Judging by some comments on social media, the new altarpiece won't help much with stopping the exodus. "The politization has gone too far," one member commented on the news as she announced leaving the Church. Another one said that while there were plenty of enlightened priests in the Church of Sweden, radicals from a "PC-pack" have turned it into their own arena.


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Claim: Climate change causes premature births

Eric Worrall
Watts Up With That?
Tue, 03 Dec 2019 07:47 UTC
drooling baby
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A new study suggests climate change causes more women to go into premature labor, though the effect is diminished in warmer climates.
How Rising Temperatures Due to Climate Change are Shortening Pregnancies

BY JEFFREY KLUGER 11:00 AM EST

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To study this effect, Alan Barreca, an associate professor at UCLA's Institute of Environmental Sustainability, and economist Jessamyn Schaller of Claremont McKenna College, analyzed daily temperature and county-by-county birth rates across the U.S. in a two-decade window from 1969 to 1988. That is an admittedly old dataset, but the researchers had little choice.

"In 1989, the vital statistics system started to be more cautious about information it allowed out publicly in order to make it hard to identify individuals precisely by place or date of birth," says Barreca. "They even began masking some counties. So 1969 to 1988 gave us the most thorough information."

Comment: What spin! What's essentially an data analysis about how warmer weather can cause premature births gets spun by the researchers, and the compliant 'journalists' at Time Magazine, into 'Climate Change is Shortening Pregnancies!!!' The researchers know where the money comes from - relate your analysis back to climate change or remain unfunded. 'Temperature Affects Premature Births' doesn't sell clicks.

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Andy Ngo responds: Twitter punishes you for telling the truth

Andy Ngo
The Post Millennial
Tue, 03 Dec 2019 09:07 UTC
Andy Ngo
On "Trans Day of Remembrance" this year, numerous politicians and celebrities used the occasion to virtue signal on social media. They repeated the claim-turned-mantra from LBGT activist groups that there is an "epidemic" of trans homicides motivated by transphobia and racism in the U.S.

Chelsea Clinton, doing what the Clintons do best, weighed in vapidly on Nov. 20: "Since 2013, more than 150 trans people have been murdered in the U.S., the majority Black transgender women. On #TDoR2019, we remember and honor the lives lost, hold their loved ones in our hearts and must commit to doing all we can to end this epidemic of violence and hate."

Though the sentiment is valid, the claim she repeats is not. There is no "epidemic" of violent homicides against trans people in the U.S. How do I know? From data released by the Human Rights Campaign and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Comment: Facts are inconvenient, and largely irrelevant, to the ideologically possessed. It's unfortunate that a massive social media platform like Twitter has aligned itself with the crazy ideologues. When objective facts are deemed 'hateful', the fall of society isn't far behind.

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ISIS bride Lisa Smith arrested immediately after landing in Ireland with daughter

Michael McHughAmber Hicks
The Mirror
Sun, 01 Dec 2019 00:42 UTC
isis bride return UK
© RollingNews.ieMs Smith seen covered by a pink blanket as she disembarks from the plane
Lisa Smith, 38, originally from Dundalk in Co Louth, Ireland, was arrested as she landed with her two-year-old daughter at Dublin Airport - four years after she became radicalised and went to live in Syria

ISIS bride Lisa Smith has been arrested on suspicion of terror offences - minutes after she arrived in Ireland. The 38-year-old was detained by police after landing at Dublin Airport this morning.

Ms Smith, originally from Dundalk in Co Louth, Ireland, and her two-year-old daughter, disembarked from the aircraft at around 10.30am, where police were waiting.

Her daughter is being cared for by her family in Ireland while Ms Smith is questioned at a Dublin police station.

The mum was deported from Turkey early on Sunday and put on the first scheduled Turkish Airlines flight to to the Irish capital.

Comment: More on Ms. Smith and other 'ISIS brides'

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