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Lemon

Reality ัheck: When life gives you lemons... make up bulls*** about Russia?

Bryan MacDonald
RT
Mon, 18 Feb 2019 17:23 UTC
lemons
© Global Look Press / Creativ Studio Heinemann
Coverage of Russia in US media is frequently lazy, misinformed and inaccurate, but sometimes it dives off the deep end into bat s*** crazy absurdity.

This was a real Forbes headline: "Want To Find A Rich Person In Russia? Look For The Lemons."

Below the line, one Lizzy Saxe wrote "wealthy Russians really like to incorporate lemons into their lifestyle. It communicates to people that they have the means to be able to afford them. They call it the bling of produce."

Yup, lemons. Which, unlike actual 'bling,' literally grow on trees.

You'll notice the use of the past tense. Because this is what Forbes ran on Sunday before they quietly amended their nonsense in the dead of night "to more accurately reflect social status in Russia." Nevertheless, there was no apology, nor did the magazine outline its inaccuracies, so we can assume Saxe is none-the-wiser.
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Oscar

Nolte: Looks like Jussie Smollett chose wrong surveillance camera to capture 'attack'

John Nolte
Breitbart
Mon, 18 Feb 2019 05:12 UTC
smollett
© Monica Schipper/Getty Images for Entertainment Weekly, Inset: ABC News
Jussie Smollett appears to have picked the wrong location for his "hate crime" to be caught on video, if we compare his Good Morning America interview to the latest reports about the two Nigerian men who say the actor-singer paid them to stage an assault.

As of now, it looks as though police believe Empire star Smollett not only lied about a phony hate crime committed against him by supporters of President Trump, he also hoped to arrange for the hoax to be recorded by a surveillance camera.

According to CBS Chicago, Smollett, who is black and gay, paid $3500 to two brothers (who are also black) to stage a racist and homophobic attack on him.

If the reports are accurate, Smollett's planning was meticulous, including rehearsals and the purchase of the items used in the attack.
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Heart - Black

Texas couple arrested after body of daughter, 3, stashed in acid-filled container

Katherine Lam
Fox News
Mon, 18 Feb 2019 16:00 UTC
Monica Dominguez and Gerardo Zavala-Loredo
© Webb County Sheriff's OfficeMonica Dominguez, 37, and Gerardo Zavala-Loredo, 32, were arrested in the death of 3-year-old Rebecca Zavala.
A Texas couple was arrested and charged after their 3-year-old daughter's body was found in a container of acid stashed inside a bedroom closet, police said.

Monica Dominguez, 37, and Gerardo Zavala Loredo, 32, were arrested in connection with the death of their daughter Rebecca Zavala, whose body parts were found decomposing in a five-gallon container that appeared to be filled with acid.

The couple faces charges of evidence tampering, endangering a child and abuse of a corpse, police said in a news conference.

Police began investigating the couple's home in Laredo on Thursday after receiving a tip from a neighbor, KGNS reported. Authorities obtained a warrant and began searching the home about 5 p.m. and discovered the container in a bedroom closet.
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Arrow Up

Michigan powerlifter heroically lifts 2-ton SUV off of man pinned under wreckage

Ryan Gaydos
Fox News
Mon, 18 Feb 2019 13:51 UTC
Man saves man
A Michigan powerlifter was hailed as a hero last week after he helped a man who was pinned underneath a 2-ton SUV.

Ryan Belcher, 29, was at the end of his workday Thursday when he heard a loud crash outside. He explained to "Fox & Friends" on Monday he noticed a Jeep Cherokee flipped upside down, and he rushed outside toward the wreckage. When he got there, he found a man trapped underneath the vehicle calling out for help.

"When I first approached the vehicle, there was a good four men there, and they were all trying to move this vehicle and I seen it wasn't happening and I figured what a better time now to use what I know I can actually do," Belcher said
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Bizarro Earth

Tehran TV cancels broadcast because female referee was wearing shorts


Sputnik
Mon, 18 Feb 2019 10:56 UTC
female referee
© AP Photo/ Martin Meissner
On Friday, Iranian state broadcaster IRIB refused to broadcast a Bundesliga - professional association football league in Germany - game between German soccer teams Bayern Munich and Augsburg because a female referee, Bibiana Steinhaus, was officiating the match.

The current ruling administration in Tehran does not allow images of women showing appreciable amounts of naked skin to be broadcast on state-owned networks.

โ€‹The thirty-nine year old Steinhaus is the first woman to officiate in men's professional football matches in Germany. In 2018, she was named one of the nation's top referees.

Comment: The year is 2019, where in some countries women in shorts at sporting events is deemed unacceptable and, in other countries, men dressed as women competing as women against women is acceptable:

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USA

Coulter lashes out at Trump after he said she's 'off the reservation'


RT
Mon, 18 Feb 2019 10:38 UTC
Trump Ann Coulter
© Global Look Press / Catherine Bauknight / Chris Kleponis
Conservative firebrand Ann Coulter has put a final nail into the coffin of her long-since-cooled political romance with Donald Trump, calling him an "idiot" and an "emergency" after he said that he "hardly" knows her.

Coulter, an early and once-fervent supporter of Donald Trump's presidency, has ramped up her criticism of the commander-in-chief in the weeks following the shutdown as it became clear that Trump would be unable to negotiate a border wall deal with House Democrats.

Coulter, along with another conservative host, Rush Limbaugh, was blamed by some in the liberal media for goading Trump into the shutdown in the first place. She has accused Trump of chickening out of the fight for his key campaign promise by agreeing to sign a spending bill that provided only $1.3 billion for a barrier along the US-Mexico border instead of the requested $5.7 billion, calling it a "Yellow New Deal."
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Handcuffs

Moscow court orders US investor detained over $37mn fraud allegations


RT
Mon, 18 Feb 2019 10:38 UTC
Michael Calvey
© Sputnik / Ramil SitdikovMichael Calvey seen at court on February 15, 2019.
The founder and senior partner of Baring Vostok private equity fund, Michael Calvey, will be detained in Moscow for two months after his bail got rejected. The US citizen is accused of a large-scale fraud involving a Russian bank.

The investor was put in pre-trial custody by a Moscow court on Saturday. The court rejected the request of Calvey's defense to release him on 5 million rubles ($75.5 thousand) bail. The prosecution, on its part, insisted that the detention was an absolute necessity, as the US citizen might try and flee the country.

Calvey's defense has already vowed to challenge the detention order.
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Wall Street

Zombie economics & the collapse of global revenue growth

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Mon, 18 Feb 2019 10:38 UTC
Federal Reserve
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We have previously discussed extensively (here, here and here) how a decade of ultra low rates ushered in by central banks has spawned a generation of "zombie companies": corporations which under any other conditions would not survive due to their massive debt load and subpar cash creation, yet which continue to thrive thanks to ZIRP and NIRP, which make their interest expense sustainable preventing inevitable defaults, which in turn lead to subpar productivity and a general contraction in economic and corporate output.

And while we won't spend more time on a topic that has been extensively dissected here in the past, we'll point out several observations from a recent presentation by Goldman which details the creeping zombification of the world, as increasingly manifest in both economic and market indicators, starting with the collapse in long-term real global GDP growth, which is now at a "historical low." Whereas much of investor focus in recent months has been on cyclical growth risks, spurred by concerns over rising interest rates, a slowing US fiscal boost, QT and US/China trade relations, Goldman's Peter Oppenheimer points out that we are already in if not growth hell, then certainly purgatory, as "there is a more important structural story on growth that is likely to have a meaningful impact on equity and asset market pricing over the medium term: trend growth has slowed."
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NPC

No imaginary transgression is too small for the mob of virtue-signalling SJWs on Instagram

Kathrine Jebsen Moore
Quillette
Mon, 18 Feb 2019 00:20 UTC
whte yarn knitting needles
"Knitting is just so white. Let's hope it gets better." I overheard this puzzling remark in my local yarn store in Edinburgh, Scotland, last week. The store is in the affluent area of Marchmont, just outside the city centre. Its Edwardian and Victorian tenement flats, adjacent to huge green spaces, are popular with students and families alike. Two customers were chatting to the store owner: "It's about time we had the conversation," one of them offered. Her companion nodded in solemn agreement.

Knitting, which helps lower the blood pressure and keep the mind busy, has enjoyed an upsurge in popularity in recent years. The Internet has allowed for the proliferation of new platforms from which to buy yarn and patterns, and has helped connect artisans and hobbyists worldwide. Usually, it's a calming and creative pastime focussed on aesthetics rather than politics. However, a short browse through the knitting posts on Instagram steered me in the direction of the source of the exchange I had overhead and the "conversation" it had produced.

Comment: What could be a more clear sign that society is losing its collective mind?

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Handcuffs

6 illegal immigrants linked to Mexican cartel arrested in NC for massive drug trafficking operation, officials say

Frank Miles
Fox News
Sun, 17 Feb 2019 22:48 UTC
Drug gang
A massive drug operation with ties to a Mexican drug cartel resulted in the arrest of six immigrants in the country illegally. From left to right, upper row: Oscar Rangel-Gutierrez, Raul Rangel-Gutierrez, Regulo Rangel Gutierrez; lower row ( L to R) Rodolfo Martinez, Rigoberto Rangel-Gutierrez and Francisco Garcia-Martinez.
Six illegal immigrants with ties to a Mexican drug cartel - a rival of the powerful Sinaloa cartel, whose notorious leader Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was convicted last week- were arrested in an elaborate drug trafficking operation in North Carolina, according to reports.

The massive drug operation included transporting large amounts of cocaine and methamphetamine across state lines - for instance, from Texas to Georgia and North Carolina, WSOC reported.

The feds identified the suspects as Oscar Rangel-Gutierrez, Regulo Rangel-Gutierrez, Francisco Garcia-Martinez, Rodolfo Martinez, Raul Rangel-Gutierrez and Rigoberto Rangel-Gutierrez.

"Members of the investigative team believe - based on wire intercepts, surveillance and other facts discovered from the investigation - that Oscar and Regulo transport illicit proceeds, derived from the sales of narcotics, when they travel from Myrtle Beach to Charlotte," according to federal court documents, as WMBF reported.

Comment: See also: Drug lord El Chapo found guilty on all counts at trial

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