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Best of the Web: Yellow Vest spokesman hints at next stage: 'Paramilitaries are ready to overthrow the government'


Sputnik
Fri, 15 Feb 2019 18:29 UTC
Christophe Chalençon
Unofficial Yellow Vest spokesman Christophe Chalençon
The so-called Yellow Vest protests have been raging across France since mid-November, with the movement calling for the resignation of French President Emmanuel Macron over his government's policies.

The official Twitter account of an Italian political show, Piazzapulita, released a video of an interview with a man they claim is Christophe Chalençon, one of the leaders of the yellow vests movement.

While the footage, apparently filmed on a hidden camera, shows only the legs of a man, he can be heard speaking about the ongoing unrest in France.

The man, who is alleged to be Chalençon, is heard saying that if anything happens to him, French President Emmanuel Macron would end up on the guillotine.

Comment: Correction: ...which are rapidly turned violent by the police, on Macron's orders. And no, the demonstrators are not "no longer reflecting the group's early demands." The demonstrators are 'the group', which are supported by an overwhelming majority of French people, this crooked poll notwithstanding. France really is that close to a reckoning, and the Italian government is wise to prepare for it.

Assuming that that is Chalençon making those statements, then he is by no means the first to voice similar. Macron's palace guard have had a helicopter on stand-by to airlift him out of the Elysée if necessary! Hundreds of former and current police and military personnel have posted videos online since early December 2018 discussing armed intervention of some kind or another. A dozen retired generals published a letter late last year demanding that Macron get control of the situation, or else...

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How Israel's extremist rabbis are fuelling a holy war in Israel

Jonathan Cook
Middle East Eye
Wed, 13 Feb 2019 18:26 UTC
rabbis
© AFPA Jewish man walks past a stall selling portraits of rabbis in the Israeli town of Netivot in 2016
In which country did a senior, state-salaried cleric urge his followers last week to become "warriors", emulating a group of young men who had murdered a woman of another faith?

The cleric did so with impunity. In fact, he was only echoing other highly placed colleagues who have endorsed a book - again without penalty - urging their disciples to murder babies belonging to other religions.

Where can the head of the clergy call black people "monkeys" and urge the expulsion of other religious communities?

Where does a clerical elite wield so much power that they alone decide who can marry or get divorced - and are backed by a law that can jail someone who tries to wed without their approval? They can even shut down the national railway system without notice.

Where are these holy men so feared that women are scrubbed from billboards, college campuses introduce gender segregation to appease them, and women find themselves literally pushed to the back of the bus?

Is the country Saudi Arabia? Or Myanmar? Or perhaps, Iran?

No. It is Israel, the world's only self-declared Jewish state.

Comment: 'Shared values', indeed. The worldview of the extremist rabbis has more in common with Salafi-Jihadism. But good luck getting anyone in the west to admit it, let alone even comment on it. It's one of Israel's best kept secrets.

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The new censorship: Amazon under fire for selling 'gay cure' books


RT
Fri, 15 Feb 2019 17:40 UTC
LGBT flag
LGBTQ advocates are incensed following revelations this week that multinational e-commerce giant Amazon is selling gay conversion therapy books, "promoting hatred, abuse, and self-harm," in the process.

Award-winning author and LGBTQ rights activist Damian Barr raised the issue online, accusing Amazon of taking sides by allowing people to profit by pushing harmful, pseudoscientific 'treatments.'


Comment: If they were truly taking sides, they wouldn't be selling pro-LGBT books, which they are, in spades.


Among the contentious titles available on Amazon's website are 'A Parent's Guide To Preventing Homosexuality,' 'Healing Homosexuality, Reparative Therapy of Male Homosexuality,' and 'How a Gay Boy Became a Straight Man.'


Comment: People like Barr and the twitter commentariat don't seem to realize how books work, or intellectual history for that matter. They just reveal themselves as the totalitarians they are. Do they realize how many countless books have been written over the centuries with which they would undoubtedly disagree? Obviously not, or they would realize how ridiculous their position is. But that's how book-burnings start.

No worry, though, because Amazon is actually no better. They regularly ban books for political reasons, e.g., Alex Krainer's Grand Deception.

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Magnet

'Symbol of oppression': Swedish swimming chief steps down after criticizing Muslim headscarf


RT
Fri, 15 Feb 2019 17:28 UTC
Hijabs
© REUTERS/Andrew KellyHijabs for sale sit on mannequin heads
The head of Swedish Swimming Federation Ulla Gustavsson has been dismissed from the role after taking a swipe at the traditional Muslim headscarf, calling it a "symbol of oppression, child marriage and genital mutilation."

Gustavsson's criticism of the headwear was prompted by a local ad that showed a boy and a Muslim girl participating in shooting competitions.

The boy was dressed in a white T-shirt and blue jeans, and was next to a girl who was wearing a hijab. Both were holding air guns in their hands. The advert provoked a bitter reaction from Gustavsson, who considered it inappropriate for Swedish society.

The ad, which was aimed at promoting an inclusive environment in Swedish sport, was lambasted by the swimming chairwoman. She said that the air gun in conjunction with the headdress reflected the wrong values, which went against gender equality.
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FBI opens inquiry into Ryan Adams' relationship with 14yo fan after N.Y. Times exposé

Katie Kilkenny
The Hollywood Reporter
Thu, 14 Feb 2019 04:13 UTC
Ryan Adams
© Jason LaVeris/FilmMagicRyan Adams
One day after the New York Times published a bombshell exposé of Ryan Adams alleging he had exchanged explicit messages with a minor, the FBI has opened an inquiry into the singer-songwriter's communications with the younger fan, theTimes reported Thursday.

FBI agents from the Crime Against Children Squad in the bureau's New York office began the steps of opening a criminal investigation on Thursday, the newspaper reported. Those steps include interviewing the woman that the Times reported on, who is no longer a minor, and gathering evidence of the correspondence. If corroborating evidence is found to substantiate the Times' original account, the agents could take further steps to gather evidence, including subpoenaing phone records.

Adams has not been contacted by any member of a law enforcement agency, including the FBI, Adams' lawyer, Andrew Brettler, told The Hollywood Reporter.
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'Will they promote BDSM next?' Russian PR manager sues Reebok over 'face-sitting' ad


RT
Fri, 15 Feb 2019 17:23 UTC
reebok russia ad
© YouTube / Reebok Russia
Russian PR manager Oleg Voronin has filed a lawsuit against Reebok Russia, claiming that the controversial "face-sitting" ad promotes "destructive ideas" and undermines moral principles.

Voronin who is himself the head of a PR company called Glavpiar, stressed in his lawsuit that the kind of promotion used by Reebok badly impacts the entire PR market, making customers associate "shock advertising" with something vulgar and indecent. Now he is seeking for a monetary compensation of 200,000 rubles ($3,000) for emotional distress caused by the advertisement.

Talking to RT Sport, Voronin said that there should be some limits and a moral code for PR agencies promoting various brands.

"First of all I think it's too much to use toilet humor in promotional campaigns," Voronin said. "I have been cooperating with various companies, using 'shock advertising,' but even the most provocative ad we have created is nothing in comparison with the Reebok campaign. I think there should be some limits for promotional ads."

Comment: The slow creep of Western hedonism moves into the corporate world. How anyone could sit in an advertising meeting and consider this a good idea is beyond us.

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In their own words: Nurses against circumcision

Joel Edwards
Organic Lifestyle
Fri, 15 Feb 2019 16:46 UTC
crying baby
© Getty Images
Childbirth is miraculous, beautiful, traumatic, and overwhelming, all at the same time, for both the baby and the mother. But for many children born today, squeezing through the birth canal is the easy part. Soon after birth, males born to North American women routinely face amputation of a fully functioning, healthy organ - the foreskin.

Circumcision is so commonplace in North America, it has long been considered the norm. The World Health Organization estimates the male circumcision rate in the U.S. to be 76% to 92%, while the rates in most of the Western European countries are less than 20%. Globally, more than 80% of the world's men are left intact. An intact penis is not rare - an intact penis is the norm.

Medical professionals tell parents that circumcision is relatively painless, just a snip and it is over. Nothing could be further from the truth. Aside from the rare but possible complications, which include mutilation of the penis or death, the practice of circumcision is painful and traumatic.

The following nurses have come forward to share their knowledge and experience, to tell the truth about this practice.
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US investor & top partners of Baring Vostok equity fund detained in Moscow on fraud allegations


RT
Fri, 15 Feb 2019 17:15 UTC
handcuffs
© Global Look Press
A Moscow district court has ordered the detention of the founder and senior partner of Baring Vostok private equity, as part of an ongoing inquiry into fraud allegations. Other employees were also taken into custody.

Michael Calvey, a US citizen, was detained in the Russian capital on Friday along with other Baring Vostok associates, Vagan Abgaryan, Philippe Delpal, and Ivan Zyuzin, the firm said in a statement. It said the arrests have nothing to do with the company's activities but relate to a dispute around Russia's Vostochny Bank.

Moscow's Basmanny court is set to consider the next legal motion soon, according to the spokesperson Yunona Tsaryova. Investigators are reportedly seeking the arrest of all the defendants in the case.
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Drone sightings disrupt flights at Dubai International Airport


Al Jazeera
Fri, 15 Feb 2019 16:47 UTC
dubai flights
© Flight RadarIn the UAE, drone owners are required to register with the General Civil Aviation Authority
Flights were briefly halted at Dubai International Airport, which handled nearly 90 million passengers last year.

Flights at Dubai International Airport, one of the busiest in the world, were disrupted on Friday after sightings of a drone flying nearby.

The airport told the AP news agency that it halted flights from 10:13am to 10:45am (local time) over "suspected drone activity".

It said flights were later resumed.

Comment: So 3 of the UK's largest airports, as well as New Jersey in the US, have now had flights disrupted due to reports of drones. And yet, curiously, no drones have been captured or even photographed by the authorities:

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Russian toddler who survived 30 dire cold hours under rubble of collapsed building comes home


RT
Thu, 14 Feb 2019 16:45 UTC
Russian baby
© Sputnik / Ramil SitdikovVanya Fokin and his mom after being released from a Moscow hospital.
The Fokins family must have a most qualified guardian angel looking after their baby boy. On New Year's Eve their home folded in on itself after a blast, and the toddler spent over 30 hours in freezing cold under rubble.

Little Vanya will be celebrating his first birthday in a new home come Saturday. He and his mom Olga were finally released from a Moscow hospital this week, after doctors confirmed that the ordeal he went through left him almost without a scratch. Many call it nothing short of a miracle.

Cradle turned into death trap

The Fokins, a family of four, lived in an apartment building in Magnitogorsk, a large city in the Russian southern Urals famous for its metal industry. On the morning of December 31, it was rocked by a powerful blast, which the authorities say was caused by a gas leak. Two 10-storey stacks of apartments came down, killing 39 people and injuring 17 others.

Vanya, his mother and three-year-old brother were sleeping in their apartment, which was located on the fourth floor over an arch. The father, Yevgeny, was working the night shift. When their entire home suddenly fell to the ground level, a dazzled Olga carried her elder son away, but the baby remained behind, trapped in his cradle.

Comment: See also: Apartment block demolished following deadly NYE blast in Magnitogorsk, 39 people died in the tragedy

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