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Russia to double global food exports, ready to replace US agricultural products in China


RT
Fri, 07 Jun 2019 15:59 UTC
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© Reuters /Ilya Naymushin
Russian agricultural exports will continue to grow and are expected to reach $45 billion within the next five years, according to Agriculture Minister Dmitry Patrushev.

He told reporters at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF): "I think we will achieve all of our goals."

Boosting sales of agricultural products abroad is currently one of Russia's top-priority tasks. Patrushev said that this year's agricultural exports won't be less than in 2018 when they reached almost $25 billion.

Earlier, he said that Russia will soon become one of the world's 10 leading exporters of agricultural products. The country's producers managed to expand into a number of strategically important markets in 2018. The surge was reportedly due to the growth of grain, fish, and meat exports. China is set to become one of the major importers of Russian poultry and dairy products.
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Woman and girlfriend attacked on London night bus 'for refusing to kiss for gang of men'

Bonnie Christian
The Evening Standard
Fri, 07 Jun 2019 15:48 UTC
Melania Geymonat
© Melania GeymonatMelania Geymonat (r) and Chris were attacked on a night bus
A woman has described a terrifying attack on her and her girlfriend by a group of men while they were on their way home on a night bus in north London.

Melania Geymonat, a 28-year-old air hostess, and her girlfriend Chris were left bloodied and in shock after the attack on May 30 that she said started when the men asked the pair to kiss for their entertainment.

Ms Geymonat shared a photo in a Facebook post on June 5 of her and Chris on the bus, which they had been taking to Camden, with their faces and clothes covered in blood.

She labelled the attack as "chauvinist, misogynistic and homophobic violence".

"I got dizzy at the sight of my blood and fell back. I don't remember whether or not I lost consciousness."
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Sagrada Familia gets licence 137 years after building started


RT
Fri, 07 Jun 2019 14:53 UTC
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© REUTERS/Albert Gea
More than 130 years after it was begun, Barcelona's iconic Sagrada Familia has finally obtained permission from the city to legally continue construction in a bizarre example of bureaucratic purgatory.

After three years of negotiations, the mayor's office finally recognized the works, which began in 1885, as legitimate. But it will cost a hefty sum.

The Construction Board of La Sagrada Família Foundation, which is responsible for overseeing the work, will now have to pay €4.6 million ($5.2mn) to officially obtain the necessary permission and an additional €36 million ($40mn) which will cover the cost of infrastructure works both past and future to accommodate the architectural behemoth.
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Internet brings down Coca-Cola partner farm after SHOCKING animal cruelty footage surfaces online


RT
Fri, 07 Jun 2019 08:40 UTC
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© YouTube / ARM Investigations
The Coca-Cola corporation has been forced to cut its ties with a farm supplying its milk company, after animal-rights activists released horrifying footage of animal cruelty on the farm and public outcry ensued.

In what it called "the largest undercover dairy investigation in history," the Animal Recovery Mission sent undercover workers into Fair Oaks Farms in Indiana, one of the largest dairy farms in the country, which supplies milk for Coca-Cola's Fairlife brand.

Extremely graphic footage released on Wednesday shows workers punching, kicking and throwing calves, as well as beating the animals with steel rods and plastic milking bottles "on virtually a daily basis." Newborn calves are crudely branded, and given inadequate food and nutrition. Dead and dying animals are left to bake in the sun, and male calves are sold to veal farms, despite the farm's claims to the contrary.

Workers also grew and smoked marijuana at the farm, and offered the undercover team cocaine on the job.
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Diversity in PRISM: NSA obliterated on Twitter over appropriation of #PrideMonth


RT
Thu, 06 Jun 2019 21:53 UTC
NSA Pride Month
Efforts by the National Security Agency (NSA) to pose as diverse during Pride Month have attracted scorn and outrage on social media, where people have not forgotten about bulk spying on Americans and the world.

The NSA posted a photo on Twitter of its secretive Maryland headquarters in rainbow colors, praising its employees as "talented individuals of all backgrounds." June is celebrated in much of the US as LGBTQ "Pride Month."

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ISIS-couple accused of building deadly biological bomb on trial in Germany


RT
Fri, 07 Jun 2019 14:19 UTC
Bomb squad
© Reuters/Thilo SchmuelgenGerman officials raiding the home of terror plot suspect Sief Allah, June 15, 2018.
An IS-supporting husband and wife, who were allegedly caught with a deadly homemade ricin bomb, are now on trial in Dusseldorf. They were planning what could have been Germany's first bioweapon attack.

Covering their faces and refusing to speak, 30-year-old Tunisian Sief Allah and his 43-year-old German wife Yasmin began the first day of their 18 days of trial in the Dusseldorf Higher Regional Court Friday.

Although the couple refuses to cooperate, the state believes it has already gathered enough evidence to convict them by the end of August. They face up to 15 years in prison.
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Catholic Church spent $10.6 million to lobby against laws that would benefit victims of child sex abuse

Christina Capatides
CBS News
Wed, 05 Jun 2019 19:52 UTC
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A new report released Tuesday reveals that, over the past eight years, the Catholic Church has spent $10.6 million in the northeastern United States to fight legislation that would help victims of clergy sexual abuse seek justice.

"At the most basic level, we were inspired by frustration," says attorney Gerald Williams, a partner at Williams Cedar, one of four law firms that jointly commissioned the report. "We represent hundreds of people, who have truly been victimized by clergymen in the Catholic Church. We've heard a lot about the church's desire to be accountable and turn over a new leaf. But when we turn to the form where we can most help people and where we can get the most justice - the courts of justice - the church has been there blocking their efforts."

In New York, for example, the Catholic Church spent $2,912,772 lobbying against the Child Victims Act, which Governor Andrew Cuomo ultimately signed into law on February 14, 2019. The act gives survivors more time to seek justice against their abusers, increasing the age at which victims are able to sue from 23 to 55.

Comment: See also:

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Concept creep: How a Canadian inquiry strips the word "genocide" of meaning

Jonathan Kay
Quilette
Mon, 03 Jun 2019 12:00 UTC
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Featured image: Steel engraving of a sketch depicting the speech of Calgacus before the Caledonians at the Battle of Mons Graupius, from the 1859 book, The Pictorial History of Scotland: from the Roman Invasion to the close of the Jacobite Rebellion. A.D. 79-1646.
In 208 AD, the Roman warrior emperor Septimus Severus arrived in Britain with 40,000 soldiers, intent on subduing the tribes inhabiting the northern part of the island. These tribes were part of the Caledonian confederacy, which occupied modern Scotland. But to the Romans, most everyone who lived outside the empire was a barbarian, full stop. So when Severus became frustrated by the Caledonians' (sensible) refusal to submit to pitched battle, the emperor settled on another strategy, which we would now call genocide. In 210, he assigned the job of extermination to his son Caracalla, a mass-murdering lunatic who would later assassinate his own brother Geta in front of their mother. It likely was only Severus' death in 211 that cut the operation short and saved Scotland from a complete holocaust.

Comment: Meanwhile Canada is actively supporting actual genocide: Canada's trade agreement with Israel violates international law - UN Rapporteur

See also: And check out SOTT radio's: The Truth Perspective: Does Racism, Sexism, Homophobia etc. Actually Exist?

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Bizarre explosion occurs in Linkoping, Sweden - 25 injured, but source unknown

Chris Baynes
Independent
Fri, 07 Jun 2019 09:46 UTC
sweden explosion
Police launch criminal investigation after 'very powerful' blast injures dozens
A "very powerful" explosion ripped through two blocks of flats in the southern Swedish city of Linkoping, injuring dozens of people.


Comment: Actually, the explosion did not 'rip through the buildings' because the explosion did not take place in the building(s) - it occurred outside them...
"We do not know what it is that detonated, but it is clearly some sort of explosive device. The preliminary location is outside the building, not in the building," Magnus Skoglund, the head of the police investigation, told reporters at a news conference.

At least 25 people suffered minor injuries in the blast at 7am local time (5am GMT), police said.

Detectives have launched a criminal investigation and a bomb squad was deployed as a precaution following the explosion, which blew out dozens of windows and destroyed balconies.

The cause of the blast is not yet known but police spokesman Bjorn Oberg said: "As for now, we don't have any information to believe this is terror-related."


Comment: According to some reports, noted in the tweets below, a gas explosion can be ruled out because none was used in the buildings. This is apparently why police suspect the explosion was a criminal act...

As can be seen from video and photos of the scene, most of the damage is to windows and balconies, consistent with the explosion having come from outside:


In fact, windows were smashed in buildings up several streets away, while it could be felt up to 10kms away.

The local authorities are now floating the idea that a local 'motorcycle gang' called 'Bandidos' might have pre-placed explosives outside the building, but are offering no reason as to why on Earth they would have wanted to do so.

This could have been a natural event. Perhaps the shockwave from an airburst caused by a meteor?

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'It's a national disgrace': Woman arrested for bursting baby Trump blimp in London

Christina Laila
The Gateway Pundit
Tue, 04 Jun 2019 00:00 UTC
Trump baby blimp punctured
A woman was arrested on Tuesday after she stuck a sharp object in the baby Trump blimp in London.

Before President Trump arrived to the UK this week, classless London Mayor went on television and called him a fascist, posted videos online attacking the US president and Khan's city hall approved the Baby Trump blimp to fly over London.

This is during the anniversary week of D-Day.

Well, one British woman wasn't having it and popped the Trump baby blimp.

"I'm going in..I'm going," the woman says as she walked up to the baby Trump blimp.

The woman then stabbed the blimp with a pen and a small popping sound is heard followed by gasps from onlookers.

The woman screamed "It's a national a disgrace! The President of the United States is the best President ever! Shame on you!" after she popped the balloon.

Comment: More on Trump's London visit:

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