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To make this tofu, start by burning toxic plastic: What really happens to America's plastic waste

Richard C. Paddock
The New York Times
Thu, 14 Nov 2019 04:56 UTC
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© Ulet Ifansasti for The New York TimesA commercial tofu kitchen in Tropodo, Indonesia. The tofu is processed in boilers fueled by burning plastic.
Black smoke billows from smokestacks towering above the village. The smell of burning plastic fills the air. Patches of black ash cover the ground. It's another day of making tofu.

More than 30 commercial kitchens in Tropodo, a village on the eastern side of Indonesia's main island, Java, fuel their tofu production by burning a mix of paper and plastic waste, some of it shipped from the United States after Americans dumped it in their recycling bins.

The backyard kitchens produce much of the area's tofu, an inexpensive and high-protein food made from soy that is an important part of the local diet. But the smoke and ash produced by the burning plastic has far-reaching and toxic consequences.
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Pathocracy: When people with personality disorders gain power

Steve Taylor Ph.D.
Psychology Today
Wed, 31 Jul 2019 00:01 UTC
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The Polish psychologist Andrew Lobaczewski spent his early life suffering under the Nazi occupation of Poland, closely followed by the brutality of Soviet occupation after the war. His experience of these horrors led Lobaczewski to develop the concept of "pathocracy." This is when individuals with personality disorders (particularly psychopathy) occupy positions of power. (1)

Lobaczewski devoted his life to studying human evil, a field which he called "ponerology." He wanted to understand why 'evil' people seem to prosper, while so many good and moral people struggle to succeed. He wanted to understand why people with psychological disorders so easily rise to positions of power and take over the governments of countries. Since he was living under a "pathocratic" regime himself, he took great risks studying this topic. He was arrested and tortured by the Polish authorities, and was unable to publish his life's work, the book Political Ponerology, until he escaped to the United States during the 1980s.

Comment: Perhaps it's a sign of the western world's descent into pathocracy that the average person is convinced that those leaders who actually try to make beneficial changes for the people are tarred as pathological. The entire system, including the media, are so pathologized at this point that the people can't tell which way is up.

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San Francisco's new district attorney says city will no longer prosecute public urination or prostitution

Peter Hasson
Daily Caller
Mon, 11 Nov 2019 19:41 UTC
Chesa Boudin
© Video screenshot/YouTube/Democracy Now!San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin, whose parents were members of the Weather Underground domestic terrorist group, wants to end mass incarceration and cash bail, earning Soros’ campaign dollars.
San Francisco's pee problem could soon get worse.

Chesa Boudin, the urine-and-feces-plagued city's incoming district attorney, pledged during the campaign not to prosecute public urination and other quality-of-life crimes if he was elected. Boudin declared victory Saturday night after results showed him winning a plurality of votes in the DA race.

"We will not prosecute cases involving quality-of-life crimes. Crimes such as public camping, offering or soliciting sex, public urination, blocking a sidewalk, etc., should not and will not be prosecuted," Boudin vowed in response to an American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) questionnaire during the campaign.

"Many of these crimes are still being prosecuted, we have a long way to go to decriminalize poverty and homelessness," he lamented.
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How American Orthodox Christians can save the Orthodox church from Western designs on destroying it

Seraphim Hanisch
The Duran
Wed, 13 Nov 2019 00:00 UTC
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Orthodox unity has its best chance in the United States because so many different Orthodox jurisdictions exist together there.

As some of our readers already know, there is a crisis in the Eastern Orthodox Church that has not been seen since the Great Schism of 1054. It started in 2018 when the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew I, did a policy about-face and started a process that legitimized two schismatic church structures in Ukraine, one of which was headed by a schismatic hierarch who was not only excommunicated from the canonical Orthodox Church, but was anathematized, which is the Church's equivalent of what happens to a sex offender - they are marked for everyone to know to stay away from. The impetus behind Patriarch Bartholomew's stunning move, which led to restoration of these two bodies to communion with Constantinople, and then their amalgamation into a single (still schismatic) church structure named the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, appears to have been money. American money. Not only that, but also American power in play as some very dark-minded people seek to carry out an old semi-mythical plan to destroy Russia, and the entire Orthodox Church.

However, there is an amazing kernel of truth. Americans are seeking to break and destroy the Orthodox Church, but it may be that it is the American Orthodox community that has the best chance of preventing this, more than anyone else in the world. Before we examine this, let's look at the stunning thought that many of our readers may not know about - the Dulles Plan.

Myth or Reality? Both.

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German police bust underground ISIS cell set to shoot & bomb 'infidels' in massive raid


Thelocal.de
Tue, 12 Nov 2019 13:02 UTC
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© DPAArchive photo shows Hesse police in May.
Three alleged supporters of the terror group Isis have been arrested in the western German state of Hesse for reportedly planning a deadly attack in the Rhine-Main region.

Searches and seizures of materials belonging to the suspects took place on Tuesday at three apartments in Offenbach, according to the public prosecutor's office in Frankfurt am Main.

The men between the ages of 21 and 24 are alleged to have made preparations for an attack involving explosives or firearms.

According to the public prosecutor's office, a 24-year-old German of North Macedonian (formerly Macedonia) origin is the main suspect.

Comment: Just last month: Terror attack in Germany: Syrian man with 'terror links' goes on truck rampage in Limburg, nine injured

See also: Migrant arrivals in Europe surged in 2019 with 456,000 new applications

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Child prison & death in a blaze: Mother commits suicide after kids she kept in lockup for 10 years escape


RT
Wed, 13 Nov 2019 21:20 UTC
Dina Azizova
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No school, no IDs and constant CCTV surveillance. Nobody in town knew that they existed. Three kids were locked up behind the fence of a private home for a decade, as their mother tried to protect them from the 'cruel world.'

A week ago, a phone rang at the police station in the town of Ust-Katav in the industrial Chelyabinsk Region in Russia's Urals. A panicked woman was calling, claiming that her three children - two girls aged 20 and 11, and 15 year-old-boy - were kidnapped.

The police acted fast and found the trio only a few hours later, but they opted against returning them home, as the story the kids told stunned even the experienced operatives. The shaken children revealed that there was no abduction and that they themselves escaped from their mother, who kept them under hatches for a whopping 10 years. They did nothing wrong, but were basically forced to serve a prison term that could be handed for a murder in Russia.
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Protestant Church of Germany reports 770 sexual abuse cases

Drago Bosnic
Fort Russ
Wed, 13 Nov 2019 21:15 UTC
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The Protestant Church in Germany (EKD) identified around 770 victims of sexual abuse in the year since it launched a process to review the crimes. Many of the victims were orphaned or abandoned children cared for in church facilities, but assaults also took place in parishes, Bishop Kirsten Fehrs said on Tuesday at the EKD annual meeting in the city of Dresden, DPA reported.

To expand the participation of victims in the process, the church will set up an advisory council for those affected. Fehrs also announced that the 1.3 million euros (1.4 million dollars) already set aside for the next year to prevent and come to terms with sexual abuse will be topped up with another 1 million euros.
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'Evo, I hope your exile is short': Roger Waters sends message of support to Bolivia's Morales


RT
Wed, 13 Nov 2019 16:03 UTC
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© (L) REUTERS/Manuel Claure; (R) Reuters / Piroschka van de Wouw
Bolivian President Evo Morales was "ripped away from his people by greed," former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters said in a message of support to the exiled leader, ousted in a coup and forced to seek asylum in Mexico.

"Evo Morales, if you see this, more power to you. I hope your exile is short, your people need you. They need a leader like you," Waters said in the video posted online, adding that the socialist leader had done a "great job" as the country's first indigenous leader.

"You've pulled so many of your people out of poverty and gave them a sense of dignity," the rock 'n' roll legend said.

"You have right and history on your side and the sooner you are able to come home to your beloved Bolivia, the better it would be for the people and for you... but also for the rest of us."

Comment: For more on the situation in Bolivia, see: Bolivia Coup Led by Christian Fascist Paramilitary Leader And Millionaire - With Foreign Support

And for more from Roger Waters - one of the few musicians in the public eye that knows and that dares speak the truth:

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Footprints

Guaido followers invade Venezuelan embassy in Brazil; announce 'new ambassador'


RT
Wed, 13 Nov 2019 13:47 UTC
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© Reuters/Sergio MoraesGuaido supporters in Brazil
Supporters of Venezuelan opposition figure Juan Guaido have seized Venezuela's embassy in Brazil. While embassy officials said they were "invaded by force," Guaido's "envoy" to the country has declared herself the new ambassador.

About 20 Guaido supporters jumped the embassy wall and occupied the facility, according to local reports. Videos posted on social media show police lined up outside the embassy while others stand around the building.

Reporting on the invasion, Venezuelan Charge d'Affaires, Freddy Efrain Meregote, has requested help from all political parties and social movements to resolve the crisis.

Meregote has dismissed claims that some embassy officials helped the occupiers get in the embassy, saying that "all officials recognize Nicolás Maduro as the legitimate president of Venezuela."

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What sanctions? Russia has best-performing stock market in the world


RT
Wed, 13 Nov 2019 13:52 UTC
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© Pexels.comMoscow City Business Center
The Russian stock market has delivered the biggest returns to investors around the world this year. Global rate cuts and increased dividend payouts have been driving investor interest in Russia.

The MSCI Russia Index which tracks the 23 largest Russian publicly-listed companies has surged 44 percent since the start of the year, according to Sberbank analyst Cole Akeson.

That is almost four times the returns of the MSCI Emerging Markets Index which includes Russian stocks and companies listed in 23 other developing economies such as China, Brazil, Mexico and India, the analyst told business news outlet RBC.

Last year, the MSCI Russia Index grew by just 0.51 percent over the entire year amid fears of a US-China trade war and general poor performance globally for equities.The stock market's current surge has been driven by higher global risk appetite and a search for higher-paying assets amid interest rate cuts, said Mikhail Ganelin, senior analyst at Aton. He explained that it has benefited Russian stocks, which are seen as riskier and have lower levels of liquidity.
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