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Daughter of Pakistan's ex-PM Nawaz arrested amid corruption probe


RT
Thu, 08 Aug 2019 11:07 UTC
Maryam Nawaz Sharif
© Global Look Press/ZUMAPRESS/PPIMaryam Nawaz Sharif
Pakistan opposition leader Maryam Nawaz, the daughter of convicted ex-Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, was arrested by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) while visiting her father in prison.

A spokesman for Nawaz's Pakistan Muslim League (PML) told Reuters that the politician had been detained in Lahore, but that the authorities have yet to explain the grounds of her arrest.

Nawaz was asked to appear on Thursday before the NAB to answer questions regarding a corruption probe. Her family is accused of embezzling millions of dollars from the government project. According to local reports, she ignored the request and was arrested while visiting her father, former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, in jail. Sharif is currently serving a 10-year prison sentence for corruption. Nawaz herself was also convicted in a related corruption case, but her sentence was suspended.

Her arrest was sharply criticized by opposition figures.
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Rosatom: Blast that killed 5 Russian scientists through workers off a sea platform


RT
Sat, 10 Aug 2019 15:41 UTC
Rosatom
© Reuters
The explosion of a secretive isotope-powered missile engine was so powerful that it blew the device into pieces and threw workers off a sea platform, Russian nuclear agency Rosatom said. Searches for the missing went on all day. Dramatic details of the tragedy that rocked the Arkhangelsk region this week, and that fueled western tabloids with rumors of a new Chernobyl-like disaster, were shared by the state atomic energy corporation on Saturday.

It revealed that the blast, which killed five employees and seriously injured three others, took place on a sea platform and followed a series of trials.

The test of the classified "liquid-propellant engine" went smoothly at first, but then the device caught fire and blew up, Rosatom said.

The blast threw several employees into the sea, giving some hope of finding them alive.

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Rosatom: Engine blast from experimental 'isotope and liquid-propellant' research kills 5 Russian nuclear experts, 3 injured

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Woman who saved 10-year-old boy from drowning learned later his siblings had died

Angeline Jane Bernabe
ABC News
Fri, 09 Aug 2019 06:23 UTC
Sylvan Beach Fishing Pier in La Porte, Texas.
© STOCK PHOTO/ShutterstockSylvan Beach Fishing Pier in La Porte, Texas.
The woman who saved the life of a drowning ten-year-old boy only learned afterwards that the child's three siblings died in the tragic incident.

Veronika Alvarez, 23, was with her dog at Sylvan Beach in Texas on Thursday afternoon when she saw two adults go under water.

The adults ultimately survived.

"I saw the mom and dad go under," she told KTRK in an interview.
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'Bring migrants home with you to Hollywood': Salvini mocks Richard Gere for Med virtue-signalling


RT
Sat, 10 Aug 2019 16:32 UTC
Matteo Salvini (left), Richard Gere (right)
© Global Look PressMatteo Salvini (left) said he hopes Richard Gere (right) got a tan during his trip to a migrant ship.
In a stinging rebuke, Italy's Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini has mockingly suggested that Richard Gere should house migrants in his Hollywood villas after the actor involved himself in the Mediterranean migrant crisis.

The Pretty Woman star felt the wrath of the Italian interior minister after visiting the 'Open Arms' ship, which has been stranded in the Mediterranean since it collected over 120 migrants from rafts eight days ago.

The 69-year-old urged the Italian government to "stop demonizing people" and compared the situation to the policy approach taken by US President Donald Trump regarding migrants traveling to the US from Central America.
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Carey Gillam: I'm a journalist. Monsanto built a step-by-step strategy to destroy my reputation

Carey Gillam
The Guardian
Fri, 09 Aug 2019 06:00 UTC
Carey Gillam interviews Dewayne ‘Lee’ Johnson
© Araceli JohnsonCarey Gillam interviews Dewayne ‘Lee’ Johnson, the first cancer patient to beat Monsanto in court.
Company records show an action plan that includes promoting certain search results and targeting book reviews

As a journalist who has covered corporate America for more than 30 years, very little shocks me about the propaganda tactics companies often deploy. I know the pressure companies can and do bring to bear when trying to effect positive coverage and limit reporting they deem negative about their business practices and products.

But when I recently received close to 50 pages of internal Monsanto communications about the company's plans to target me and my reputation, I was shocked.

I knew the company did not like the fact that in my 21 years of reporting on the agrochemical industry - mostly for Reuters - I wrote stories that quoted skeptics as well as fans of Monsanto's genetically engineered seeds. I knew the company didn't like me reporting about growing unease in the scientific community regarding research that connected Monsanto herbicides to human and environmental health problems. And I knew the company did not welcome the 2017 release of my book, Whitewash - The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer and the Corruption of Science, which revealed the company's actions to suppress and manipulate the science surrounding its herbicide business.

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Best of the Web: The diversity paradox of ultra-liberalism: Katie Hopkins investigates Muslim parents' protests against LGBT ideology in UK schools

Ranjit Dhillon
iambirmingham.co.uk
Tue, 04 Jun 2019 14:08 UTC
Katie Hopkins muslims
© Twitter/KTHopkinsKatie Hopkins joins Shakeel Afsar and Amir Ahmed in Birmingham for Eid celebrations
Controversial social commentator Katie Hopkins has joined forces with leaders of the Birmingham school protests against LGBT education equality, in a move which has angered many of their supporters.

In a tweet posted earlier today, anti-Islam activist Hopkins shared a photo of her in the home of Shakeel Afsar and alongside Amir Ahmed, who have both voraciously led protests challenging LGBT equality education at Anderton Park Primary School in the city.


Comment: Voraciously?? What, they devoured people?! Perhaps the word sought by the author was vociferously...


Writer and broadcaster Hopkins, who once stated "Islam disgusts me" but defended her views as "entirely rational", thanked Afsar for inviting her into his home for "Eid celebrations" and to "discuss the issues with LGBT teaching at Anderton Park Primary School".

It appears the 44-year-old media personality - who in 2017 was reported to the Metropolitan police for a tweet in which she called for a "final solution" as part of a longer anti-Muslim tirade - was in the Sparkhill and Balsall Heath area to report on the recent protest ban, as she earlier tweeted a photo of herself standing outside the school.


A temporary council injunction has currently been placed around the school banning protests, but the protesters have vowed to continue.

Comment: Indeed they are, and it's simultaneously being rolled out through the education system in every Western country.

The extremely divisive social issues it brings up is why Russia legislated against allowing such propaganda against minors back in 2013.

Watch Katie Hopkins's report from the Anderton Primary School in Birmingham, England:



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UMass violated due process by punishing accused student with no hearing, appeals court rules

Alexander Pease
The College Fix
Fri, 09 Aug 2019 12:03 UTC
umass university
Public colleges in New England were put on notice this week: They are not allowed to severely punish students based solely on unvetted allegations.

The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the University of Massachusetts-Amherst for immediately suspending a student accused of assaulting his girlfriend.

James Haidak remained suspended for five months without a formal hearing, violating his constitutional right to due process, according to the three-judge panel.

The opinion by Judge William Kayatta concluded that public colleges must formally grant accused students the opportunity to be heard before punishment, absent some documented "exigency."

But the 1st Circuit stopped far short of the due-process requirements set over the past two years by the 6th Circuit, which has jurisdiction over Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee.
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Lawsuit: US Figure Skating allowed abusive coach to continue to work with kids

Pete Madden and Cho Park
ABC News
Fri, 09 Aug 2019 12:22 UTC
David Raith
© Matthew Stockman/Getty Images,U.S. Figure Skating Executive Director David Raith fields questions from the media during a press conference at the 2018 Prudential U.S. Figure Skating Championships, January 3, 2018, in San Jose, Calif.
A former competitive figure skater says that he was sexually abused by once-celebrated Olympic coach Richard Callaghan in the years after the sport's national governing body dismissed complaints of sexual misconduct against him, according to a lawsuit filed this week.

Adam Schmidt, formerly Baadani, now 34, filed a lawsuit in San Diego Superior Court against U.S. Figure Skating, Onyx Ice Arena, and Callaghan — identified as Doe 1, Doe 2 and Doe 3 in the complaint, per California law — and others, alleging that he suffered "numerous sexual assaults" by Callaghan while training under him as a teenager in Michigan from about 1999 to 2001 and one specific instance of abuse at the 2001 Masters of Figure Skating competition in California after leaving Callaghan's stable of skaters.

Craig Maurizi, another former skater turned Olympic coach, had accused Callaghan of sexually abusing him when he was a young skater from about 1977 to 1986 in a grievance filed with the federation in 1999 that included statements from several other people who had either allegedly suffered or witnessed sexual misconduct by Callaghan.
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Judges sign letter accusing American Bar Association of hiding controversy on campus sex rules

Greg Piper
The College Fix
Fri, 09 Aug 2019 12:03 UTC
More than 100 legal professionals sign letter
judgement
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The American Bar Association is voting on a resolution this week to recommend the addition of "affirmative consent" to the criminal code. The sexual-consent standard, which flips the burden of proof to the accused, is common in college Title IX policies.

But the ABA is facing blowback from 100 members of the American Law Institute, an elite organization composed of professors, attorneys, judges and other legal professionals.

The authors of Resolution 114 and its accompanying report falsely portrayed the ALI's own vote on affirmative consent three years ago, according to a letter from ALI members to ABA President Robert Carlson.

Even more noteworthy, nine signatories are current or retired judges - eight of them at the appellate level. A few more are affiliated with organizations that represent judges.
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Propaganda

Report: Monsanto paid Google to bury unfavorable news

Dan Robitzski
Futurism
Thu, 08 Aug 2019 00:01 UTC
roundup google
© Monsanto/Victor Tangermann
Monsanto, the agrochemical company that's attained notoriety for its agricultural pesticides and genetically modified organisms, reportedly worked overtime to discredit investigative journalists criticizing the company — and even paid the search giant Google to suppress the findings.

Carey Gillam, a journalist with Reuters, was reporting on the health effects of Monsanto's products a few years back. As part of a massive damage-control campaign, the company worked to discredit her work as much as possible, according to an investigation by The Guardian. Perhaps most troubling: the company reportedly paid Google to promote search results that questioned Gillam's findings — a disturbing look into how readily the flow of online information can be manipulated.

Comment: It's not surprising that Monsanto would take steps like these for damage control. Neither is it surprising that Google's search results are open to the highest bidder. What's surprising is that people don't really seem to care.

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