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UK rapper blasted for brandishing fake severed head of BoJo at awards ceremony


RT
Fri, 20 Sep 2019 07:46 UTC
slowthai
© Instagram / slowthai
A British rapper's 'tasteless' publicity stunt has been lambasted on social media, after he waved a fake severed head of Prime Minister Boris Johnson during an award show.

The 24-year-old rapper slowthai, whose real name is Tyron Frampton, ended his performance at the Mercury Prize ceremony in London on Thursday night by pulling out a mock-up decapitated head of PM Johnson.

"F**k Boris Johnson! F**k everything!" he shouted on stage while waving the head. The rapper also screamed: "And there ain't nothing great about Britain," referring to the name of his debut album, 'Nothing Great About Britain.' He did all this while wearing a "F**k Boris" T-shirt - an item he sells through his online store.

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Bizarro Earth

America's legacy: Bodies of dead Iraqi kids radioactive from US depleted uranium


RT
Fri, 20 Sep 2019 23:24 UTC
iraq bullet
© AFP 2019 / STAN HONDA
By examining bodies of dead Iraqi children who had congenital birth defects, researchers have proven their conditions were directly related to US bombardment of the country with depleted uranium rounds early in the Iraq War and stores at US bases during the subsequent occupation.

A new study has drawn direct links between the US military's use of depleted uranium in the Iraq War and congenital birth defects suffered by Iraqi children. Researchers examined the hair and baby teeth of dead Iraqi children near areas of heavy fighting as well as US military bases and found the radioactive element thorium - a telltale sign of uranium of the type used to make depleted uranium rounds.

Depleted uranium is a byproduct of the industrial process used to refine uranium-238 into U-235, which is more suitable for fuel in nuclear power plants. Composed of U-238 that cannot have further U-235 extracted from it, the matter is extremely dense - twice as dense as lead - and when fused with other metals, it makes for a very potent bullet. The US military loves to use "DU" for piercing armor, but also for extra-powerful armor.

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Star of David

Doesn't get more heartless: Israeli court approves use of Palestinian bodies as bargaining chips

Maureen Clare Murphy
The Electric Intifada
Thu, 19 Sep 2019 00:00 UTC
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© Mosab Shawer/APA imagesFamilies of Palestinians slain by Israel protest to demand the return of their bodies in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron on 27 August.
A Palestinian family in the Jerusalem-area village of al-Eizariya has been unable to bury their 14-year-old son, who was killed by Israeli police last month.

Nassim Abu Rumi's family has petitioned Israel's high court to order the release of his body, which will be reportedly transferred on Friday. Israel will also be transferring the remains of Omar Younis, who died in an Israeli hospital in April after being shot by occupation forces at a West Bank checkpoint.

Israel is holding the remains of more than a dozen Palestinians recently killed during alleged and actual attacks on occupation forces and civilians.

This month, following a petition by several families whose relatives' remains are being held by Israel, the country's highest court rubber-stamped its approval of the policy.

The court ruled that Israel's military has "the legal right to hold on to the bodies of slain terrorists for use as leverage in future negotiations with Palestinians," as The Times of Israel reported.
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Yemen: Saudi-led coalition begins operation on 'military targets'


Sputnik
Fri, 20 Sep 2019 01:25 UTC
port of Hodeidah
© Reuters/Abduljabbar ZeyadFILE: Soldier patrols the port of Hodeidah, Yemen
The Saudi-led coalition announced that it has begun military operations north of the Yemeni city of Hodeidah against "legitimate military targets," according to Saudi state TV.

Arabic news channel Ekhbariya TV reports that civilians have been asked to avoid sites targeted by the coalition's military operation.

Prior to the early Friday morning announcement, Houthi militants allegedly "launched a fierce attack on the joint forces' positions east of Hodeidah," according to a statement obtained by Reuters. The translated statement says the group's strike "was accompanied by mortar shelling and targeted medium weapons caliber 12.7 and 14.5 mm, in addition to snipers."

The Sunni Muslim coalition first intervened in Yemeni affairs in March 2015, following the ousting of the country's government in 2014 by Houthi militants.

Comment: From Sputnik, 20/9/2019 Yemen: 5 dead, 20 injured in bus explosion
At least five people were killed and 20 were injured in a bus explosion in the province of Hadhramaut in eastern Yemen, the Houthi-controlled SABA news agency reported on Thursday, citing a local source.

According to the agency, an explosive device was laid on a highway in the northern part of the province, and the bus exploded after hitting it.

Some of those injured are in serious condition.


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Star of David

Double standards: Bill Maher gets to make anti-Semitic jokes with Bari Weiss, but Ilhan Omar can't say a word about Israel?

Jonathan Ofir
Mondweiss
Fri, 20 Sep 2019 18:27 UTC
Bill Maher Bari Weiss
© HOBBill Maher and Bari Weiss trade anti-semitic witticisms
New York Times staff editor Bari Weiss is on a hell of a roll these days, having just published a book called How to Fight anti-Semitism. Weiss's own paper, the New York Times, judges the book to be "a brave book", because Weiss is ostensibly walking into perilous intellectual territory:
Should she have to fear ostracism or damage to her journalistic reputation for pointing out that anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism, while theoretically distinguishable, have long merged into a single ugly phenomenon?
Presenting Zionist apologists like Weiss as being in danger is laughable. She is representing a privileged mainstream view, one that is applied by the conservative left as well as the right in attempt to moderate voices that are starting to challenge Zionism. That's the voice of those who try to silence Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, that's the voice of those who try to discredit Jeremy Corbyn in UK. The new voices who break through the orthodoxy are currently in the minority, but Weiss is now trying to portray herself as a representative of an oppressed and persecuted minority:
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Eye 1

Walmart to stop selling electronic cigarettes at its stores

Anne D'Innocenzio
ABC News
Fri, 20 Sep 2019 01:52 UTC
Walmart
Walmart says it will stop selling electronic cigarettes at its namesake stores and Sam's Clubs following a string illnesses and deaths related to vaping.

The nation's largest retailer said Friday that it will complete its exit from e-cigarettes after selling through current inventory. It cited growing federal, state and local regulatory complexity regarding vaping products.
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Snakes in Suits

Jeffrey Epstein 'ran a $500M Ponzi scheme fueled by insider trading and fake stock buys'

Chris Spargo
The Daily Mail
Fri, 20 Sep 2019 18:11 UTC
Epstein
© Rick Friedman/Corbis/GettyJeffrey Epstein
Jeffrey Epstein is being accused of running a $500 million Ponzi scheme for decades in a class action lawsuit that was filed in US District Court for the Southern District of New York.

He was able to keep the scheme running for as long as he did by adopting a few highly illegal practices according to the complaint, including the execution of fake stock buys to manipulate the market and trading on insider information.

Then, when the money ran out, Epstein came up with a new plan according to the complaint.

In 1988, Epstein began pushing 'promissory notes ... that resulted in the sale of approximately $272 million throughout the United States.'
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Dominoes

'Why does YouTube do dumb things?': Checkmark overhaul leaves creators FURIOUS


RT
Fri, 20 Sep 2019 18:06 UTC
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YouTube has stripped all of its channels of automatic verification. From now on the platform will decide who to verify with a checkmark - and who to ignore. The move has content creators livid.

Unlike Twitter's policy of assigning the coveted blue checkmark to users who prove their identity, YouTube has automatically verified any channel passing 100,000 subscribers, until now. The company - a subsidiary of Google - announced an overhaul on Thursday.

Starting in October, YouTube's team will decide who to verify based on a few outlined criteria. Those include a channel's popularity, its presence outside YouTube, and whether similarly-named channels exist that could confuse users.

There is more: all channels verified under the old rules have been stripped of that status and, crucially, "there is no process to request channel verification."
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Actor jailed for resisting arrest during Moscow protest released on parole as sentence appealed


RT
Fri, 20 Sep 2019 16:52 UTC
Pavel Ustinov
© Pavel UstinovPavel Ustinov during a court hearing.
Pavel Ustinov, an actor who was jailed for assaulting a policeman during a protest in Moscow, has been released on parole. His sentence, which he appealed, was slated as miscarriage of justice by many in Russia.

A Moscow city court on Tuesday ruled that Ustinov, 23, should be released from pre-trial detention on the condition that he does not leave the city until his appeal has been heard. The decision was taken at the request of the prosecution and supported by his defense team. The appeal itself will be deliberated on further by the court next week.

The young man was previously sentenced to three years and six months in jail for injuring an arresting police officer during an unsanctioned protest rally in early August. The ruling triggered a public outcry in Russia and some other nations, with many public figures calling it unjust. The court failed to review footage of Ustinov's arrest, which his numerous supporters insist proves his innocence.
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Eye 1

Ohio child sex trafficking sting nabs more than 100, including church leader, ER doctor: report

Danielle Wallace
Fox News
Fri, 20 Sep 2019 11:17 UTC
Men arrested
More than 100 people, including a medical doctor and a church youth director, were arrested as part of a massive human trafficking and child sex sting operation based in central Ohio, according to a report.

Those arrested included 24 men caught when they showed up at an undisclosed location with the intention of meeting a child for sex, Maj. Steven Tucker of the Franklin County Sheriff's Office said.

"They show up with sex toys, they show up with lubrication," Tucker said. "They show up with things that clearly somebody isn't going to show up to a house with, unless they intended to engage in sexual activity."

The 24 suspects were charged with attempted unlawful sexual conduct with a minor and importuning, Columbus' WBNS-TV reported.
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