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Brunei's law mandating stoning to death of gays & adulterers to come into force next week


RT
Thu, 28 Mar 2019 20:01 UTC
Sultan Bolkiah
© Global Look Press / Zheng HuansongSultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei Darussalam
A harsher version of penal code, which includes sharia-based punishments for things like adultery and same-sex relations, is to come into force next week in Brunei. The 'human rights defenders' in Washington, however, are silent.

Brunei, a tiny Muslim-majority absolute monarchy located in Southeastern Asia is about to put into force the last amendment to its criminal code as part of a reform initiated back in 2014. The renewed code, which is aimed at reflecting Islam's tenets of morality and punishment for those who break them, will include caning and even stoning to death of Muslims, who are found guilty of adultery, sodomy and rape.

The government wanted to roll in the new laws in stages, but put the process on pause after international public outcry over the milder phase one, which included fines and jail terms for offenders, but not corporal punishment. Last week a rights group reported that Brunei quietly announced earlier this year the date, when the harsher version of the code would come into force: April 3.

Comment: While the US and UK are notorious for their unwavering support of brutal and backward regimes (especially when there's something in it for them), are there any countries that have spoken out out in condemnation of Brunei's new laws? Because none are listed in the article. And it should be noted that Russia and China are also doing business deals with Saudi Arabia:

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Saudi coalition airstrike hits Yemeni hospital, 7 killed including 4 children


Save the Children
Tue, 26 Mar 2019 00:00 UTC
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© UnknownAn airstrike in Yemen destroyed buildings, including a pharmacy, next to the Kitaf Hospital in Yemen on March 26, 2019.
Four children were among seven people killed today when a hospital supported by Save the Children in Yemen was hit by an airstrike. Two other adults are unaccounted for.

A missile struck a gas station near the entrance to Kitaf rural hospital, about 60 miles from the city of Saada in the northwest of the country, at 9:30am local time. The hospital had been open for only half an hour and many patients and staff were arriving on a busy morning. They included a health worker who died along with their two children.

Also among the dead were two other children and a security guard. In addition to those killed and missing, an additional eight people were wounded in the attack. The missile was said to have landed less than 50 yards from the facility's main building on the fourth anniversary of the escalation of conflict in Yemen.

Save the Children, which reported earlier this week that 37 children a month had been killed or injured by foreign bombs in the last year, demanded an urgent investigation into the latest atrocity.
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Eye 2

NXIVM sex-cult trial getting more and more surreal: Michael Avenatti, pedophilia and a fainting heiress

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Thu, 28 Mar 2019 18:51 UTC
Avenatti clare bronfman NXIVM sex scandal
© Associated PressMichael Avenatti and Seagram heiress Clare Bronfman
Seagram heiress Clare Bronfman had a dramatic day in court Wednesday where the accused NXIVM sex-cult financier fainted in response to being asked if she'd secretly retained lawyer Michael Avenatti.

The 39-year-old daughter of late Seagram CEO Edgar Bronfman (whose funeral Hillary Clinton spoke at) pleaded not guilty last July to charges of racketeering, money laundering and identity theft for NXIVM - a secretive multi-level marketing company founded by Keith Raniere, who was arrested last March along with Smallville actress Allison Mack on federal charges which include sex trafficking, forced labor, wire fraud conspiracy, human trafficking and other counts.
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Megaphone

Rapper Zuby on men being allowed to compete in women's sports: Consequences are 'potential death' and serious injury


RT
Thu, 28 Mar 2019 18:54 UTC
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UK rapper Zuby, who caused ructions online by identifying as female to break the British women's deadlift record, says trans athletes competing in women's sports may result in "potential death" and could "crush" women in sport.

In February, the artist took to Twitter to give a visual presentation of the biological strength advantages men possess over women, regardless of the gender with which they believe they correlate, smashing the women's deadlift record with ease. To dispel any doubts the lift couldn't be considered legitimate, he claimed he identified as female while doing so.

Through the feat, Zuby highlighted what he called the "delusion" of those who believe a biologically male athlete should be given an instant and incontrovertible right to compete alongside biological women by simply declaring to identify as female, with any argument that their physical prowess poses an unfair advantage dismissed as "transphobia."
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Cross

Holy Russia: Jesus statue as big as Rio's planned in Vladivostok - On site previously reserved for Lenin

J-P Mauro
aleteia.org
Mon, 18 Mar 2019 18:04 UTC
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© Vyatsky Center
The plans await approval from the Russian Orthodox Church before ground can be broken.

The city of Vladivostok, the largest city in far eastern Russia, would like to erect an enormous statue of Jesus Christ atop a hill that was once set aside for a monument to the Soviet communist leader, Vladimir Lenin. Although the construction has not yet been authorized by the Russian Orthodox Church, the prospect of a large statue of Christ overlooking the Pacific Ocean has many of the Russian faithful excited.

In 1972, Soviet officials ordered the construction of a 98-ft-tall bronze statue of Lenin to be placed on the site, with a second statue of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin planned for a neighboring hill. Difficulties with the planning, however, caused the projects to be postponed repeatedly until they were ultimately scrapped around 1990. Since then the hills have been left bare.
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2 + 2 = 4

Sixth Birmingham school suspends sex ed lessons on LGBT families amid pressure from parents


RT
Thu, 28 Mar 2019 16:51 UTC
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© Reuters/Tyrone SiuFile photo:
A sixth Birmingham primary school has suspended some of its 'personal, social, health and economic' (PSHE) lessons after complaints from parents about relationships and sex education (RSE) lessons.

The City Road Primary School has suspended the lessons teaching pupils about "different types of families" following similar decisions by at least five other Birmingham primary schools who halted lessons regarding LGBT relationships following a spate of protests by parents who claim their children are too young for such material.

Comment: See also:

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Sheriff

FBI now investigating sudden dismissal of 16-count felony indictment in Smollett hate-crime hoax - UPDATES


ZeroHedge
Wed, 27 Mar 2019 16:11 UTC
Jussie Smollett, Kim Foxx
Jussie Smollett (L) Soros-funded Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx (R)
The outpouring of anger, disbelief, and frustration over Jussie Smollett's release debacle has brought many sides of the political spectrum together in questioning just WTF happened and how does a 16-count felony indictment get resolved with the lightest of wrist slaps? Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel fumed:


With all eyes focused on State's Attorney Kim Foxx:


Chicago police are dumbfounded and furious...

Comment: The disposal of Jussie Smollet's case has produced a general outrage at the clear hypocrisy of 'liberal privilege".

From Fox News:
On Fox & Friends Tuesday, [former Chicago police officer Dimitri] Roberts took issue with that statement, quipping that the only thing Smollett has been consistent about throughout this process is lying.

He suggested that the investigation should have been turned over to the FBI, because an alleged hate crime was involved and because Smollett has been "proven to lie over and over again."

He added that he disagrees with many things Mayor Emanuel says, but he believes the phrase "whitewash of justice" is appropriate.
RT reports:
The FBI is reportedly reviewing the surprise dismissal of 16 felony charges against 'Empire' actor Jussie Smollett stemming from the hate-crime hoax he staged in January, after his near-exoneration outraged local authorities.

The agency opened an inquiry into "circumstances surrounding dismissal of criminal charges" against Smollett after Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the city's police department demanded answers regarding the slap on the wrist the fraudster received for perpetrating the elaborate hoax, according to ABC Chicago, which specified that the FBI was doing a "review" or "inquiry" rather than a full-scale "investigation."

State's Attorney Kim Foxx, facing a massive public backlash for allowing Smollett to skate on 16 felonies, claimed her office didn't ask for his file to be sealed, but couldn't explain how it had happened, stating it must have been done "inadvertently" and was "probably" in the process of being unsealed. Chicago PD delivered a trove of documentation on the case to reporters in response to an FOIA request before the record was sealed, though an additional gag order has reportedly kept an "eight-inch thick" investigative file back from that document dump.


Magats' predecessor Eric Sussman, however, joined Emanuel in condemning the decision as a "whitewash," adding, "It makes you think there's some evidence or something that they don't want out."
President Trump has his say:




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Arrow Down

'Nobody is panicking!' Rachel Maddow sheds 500,000 viewers in post-Mueller slump


RT
Thu, 28 Mar 2019 16:00 UTC
Rachel Maddow
© Global Look Press / mb2Rachel Maddow
After putting all its eggs in the Russiagate conspiracy-theory 'basket' only to be let down by the contents (or lack thereof) of the Mueller report, MSNBC - and its top attraction, Rachel Maddow - are hemorrhaging viewers.

Russian-collusion high priestess Rachel Maddow's nightly news show has slipped from number one in cable news to number six since Special Counsel Robert Mueller turned in his report on Friday, hemorrhaging half a million viewers in the space of a week. An MSNBC insider spilled the beans to the Daily Beast, assuring them that no one at the network was panicking.

"It was obviously a big couple of nights for Fox," they said. MSNBC's second-top-rated program, 'The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell,' was also down half a million pairs of eyes.

Comment: Here's a little bit more on the numbers from the New York Post:
Rachel Maddow's audience plummeted 19 percent since the Justice Department announced the special counsel investigation turned up no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

The MSNBC host drew an audience of 2.5 million viewers on Monday, the day after Attorney General William Barr's announcement - down 19 percent from her average this year.

On Tuesday, her audience dwindled further to 2.3 million, the Nielsen company said.


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Bad Guys

Massachusetts AG issues 'Rollins Memo': Freezes out ICE, confirms no-prosecution list

Joe Dwinell
The Boston Herald
Mon, 25 Mar 2019 15:16 UTC
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© The Boston Herald
Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins is ordering her staff to be on the lookout for federal ICE agents in or around courthouses, telling them to "immediately notify" her if the feds are looking for illegal immigrants in court.

It's part of "The Rollins Memo" - a 65-page policy blueprint released Monday to staffers that also doubles down on her controversial no-prosecute list and details how she wants suspects, victims, cops and federal agents to be treated. Jail, she states throughout the memo, should not be the first option in many cases - not prosecuting certain crimes, she said, is a "default" position.

"I don't believe accountability has to equal incarceration. There are many ways we can hold people accountable without putting them in jail," Rollins writes, according to the policy paper obtained by the Herald and later made public by the DA Monday.

Comment: "Collateral consequences"? Isn't that what's supposed to kick in when breaking society's norms? Granted the unjustly accused should not suffer them, though they often do. Shielding a sex offender from being registered, or an offender from losing a job, or scholarship, does neither them nor society any good. But then these are the days of Jussie Smollett.

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Fire

Footage shows multiple explosions rock city in Ukraine


Zero Hedge
Wed, 27 Mar 2019 16:54 UTC
ukraine explosion
At about 8pm Wednesday night local time a massive blast shook the central Ukrainian city of Kropivnitsky in what is being initially described as a mystery explosion.

Conflicting Ukrainian social media accounts include city residents citing anywhere between four and up to nine blasts, with initial reports of an electrical blackout in the city.

Among the locations where explosions and a fire were observed in Kropivnitsky, which is the administrative center of the Kirovohrad Oblast, was at a local gas station which may have held fuel storage tanks.

Comment: The cause of these explosions remains to be seen but there are certainly a number of possible perpetrators given the instability and corruption plaguing Ukraine these days:

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