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British climber dies on Mount Everest - Death toll for 2019 hits 17

David Aaro
Fox News
Sat, 25 May 2019 17:34 UTC
Mount Everest
© Mt Everest Project Possible GettyA line of climbers attempt to stand at the summit of Mount Everest. A British climber, Robin Haynes died on the mountain on Saturday.
A British man has died on Mount Everest amid fears of overcrowding, as a record number of people attempt to climb the tallest mountain in the world.

Robin Fisher, 44, made it to the summit Saturday morning, but collapsed after 150 meters on the trek down. His Sherpa attempted to wake him up to change his oxygen and give him water, but was unsuccessful.

"Our guides tried to help but he died soon after," Murari Sharma of Everest Parivar Expedition told the BBC.

The high level of traffic on the mountain can be seen in the photo above, which shows climbers waiting in an area 26,200 feet above sea level, called "the Death Zone." Nepal's tourism ministry has issued a record number of permits to 381 climbers this season, one reason for the overcrowding.
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SOTT Focus: How You Can be 100% Certain That QAnon is Bullshit

Caitlin Johnstone
Medium
Sat, 25 May 2019 17:04 UTC
qullshit
President Trump has yet again advanced an evil longstanding agenda of America's depraved intelligence and defense agencies, so as usual the QAnon cult is out in force telling everyone not to worry because this is all part of the plan. Ever since WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was slammed by Trump's Justice Department with a mountain of espionage charges carrying a possible sentence of 175 years in prison, QAnon acolytes have been showing up in my social media mentions with screenshots of a new post from the mysterious 8chan anon assuring us all that Assange is actually being protected by Trump.

The post reads in the typical QAnon cryptic word salad style that its adherents often annoyingly imitate when normal people try to engage them in an adult conversation:

"Under protection.
Threat is real.
Key to DNC 'source' 'hack' '187'.
Q"

I find this subject very tedious, and my regular readers aren't generally the types to fall for this sort of toxic propaganda construct, but I'm putting this information out there anyway as a public service since many people are being deluded by it.

Comment: See also:

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Amnesty International drops the humanitarian mask - abandons Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning as "not prisoners of conscience"

Laura Tiernan
WSWS
Thu, 23 May 2019 15:48 UTC
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© Reuters/Russell Boyce /FileJulian Assange is being held at the Belmarsh Prison, London
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, a multi-award-winning investigative journalist and publisher, is locked up in HM Prison Belmarsh in London in solitary confinement. US extradition proceedings have begun. If extradited, he will face charges under the Espionage Act for publishing information that exposed US war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The charges being prepared by the US Department of Justice carry the death penalty.

Chelsea Manning, who courageously blew the whistle on US atrocities by giving information to WikiLeaks, endured seven years of torture in a military prison and was jailed again last week for refusing to testify against Assange.

But according to Amnesty International (AI), neither Assange nor Manning are "prisoners of conscience" and their defence is not being actively pursued by the human rights charity.

Comment: It can be clearly shown that it is a propaganda arm of the UK, and western interests in general.

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Man wreaks havoc aboard Russian plane, brawls with passengers & dies


RT
Fri, 24 May 2019 10:29 UTC
Airplane
© RIA Novosti / Alexander Kryazhev
A plane flying from Moscow to Crimea was forced to return after one of the passengers snapped, assaulting fellow travelers and crew. The rowdy passenger was injured in the rampage and died on the way to the hospital.

The freak incident occurred on board of Red Wings flight WZ-307, shortly after it departed Moscow's Domodedovo airport for Simferopol on Thursday. One of the passengers apparently "went mad," as the eyewitnesses put it, and caused all sorts of trouble on board.

The passenger, identified as a man in his early thirties, began to bad-mouth pilots and claim they had fallen asleep, incited panic on board, and shouted that everyone "will die." He then reportedly tried to strangle a woman and beat up another passenger with a cell phone.
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Washington D.C. man claims to have performed a DIY castration

Richard Moorhead
Big League Politics
Mon, 13 May 2019 15:34 UTC
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A 23 year-old Washington D.C male named Trent Gates claims to have pioneered a new innovation in the world of body modification.

Gates, who identifies as non-binary, claims to have personally removed his own testicles and penis, desiring to render himself what he refers to as a genitalia-free 'nullo.'

Apparently Gates isn't the first to undergo the procedure in its own right- the phrase is used in extreme subcultures to describe biological males who have chosen to remove their sex organs and nipples.

Gates claims to have received inspiration from a California nullo known as 'Gelding.'
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Activists say Netflix's 13 Reasons Why should be axed for romanticizing teen suicide


RT
Sat, 25 May 2019 15:27 UTC
13 reasons why
The popular Netflix series '13 Reasons Why' has sparked controversy in the US as some studies claim it was conducive to a spike in suicide rates, while activist groups demand the company justify airing the show.

The series centered around a teen suicide, which has already ran for two seasons, has attracted a significant audience but also generated controversy over its portrayal of self-harm and suicide, which, according to some activists, encouraged people to take their own lives.

Meanwhile, the third season of the show is poised for release later in 2019. RT reached out to Julio Rivera, an editorial director for the Reactionary Times and Mark Rutherford, a licensed psychotherapist to discuss the issue.

Comment: Online search for 'suicide' soars after Netflix TV series "13 reasons why" airs - research

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Dead woman found in Melbourne park, police issue an indictment on 'men's behavior'


RT
Sat, 25 May 2019 15:15 UTC
Aussie police
© Reuters / Edgar Su
A senior police officer in Australia has said that violence against women "is absolutely about men's behavior" after dog-walkers discovered a woman's body in Melbourne.

Victoria Police Assistant Commissioner Luke Cornelius made the comments after the fourth killing of a women in public in Melbourne in less than a year.

The officer said he couldn't get into specifics about the current homicide investigation, but spoke more generally about violent attacks by men on women, saying, "the key point I'd make about that is this is about men's behavior, it's not about women's behavior."

Comment: Are Aussie police trying to be 'woke'? This is not a male issue that requires some kind of special familial and communal dialogue. The vast majority of men do not murder women. The individual who committed this act should be found and punished accordingly without turning this incident into a feminist screed on so-called toxic masculinity.

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Buffalo police conspired with Catholic Church to shield priests from sexual abuse charges


The Buffalo News
Mon, 20 May 2019 14:32 UTC
Buffalo police
Attorney General Letitia James needs to include in her investigation of the Catholic Church how Buffalo police came to conspire with the church to cover up up crimes by priests.
It was a conspiracy and someone should pay. Attorney General Letitia James is the one to make sure it happens.

As disturbing as it is to know that Buffalo police and the Catholic Church were engaged in a depraved and illegal policy to shield priests from criminal prosecution, it doesn't really come as a surprise. That had been standard practice elsewhere in the country, with the church and law enforcement conniving to shield priests at the expense of the children they molested. All in the name of religion.

That was among the conclusions of last year's explosive report by the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office - one that the church had tried to suppress. The report, which looked at six of the state's dioceses, concluded that the church persuaded families not to report sexual abuses and police not to investigate them.

It's one thing to pressure a family not to report a hideous crime - as revolting as that is - but another entirely to collude with police to turn a blind eye to the law at precisely the moment that its enforcement is needed the most.

"Priests were raping little boys and girls, and the men of God who were responsible for them not only did nothing; they hid it all," according to the report of the Pennsylvania grand jury. And police went along.

Comment: More on the situation in Buffalo: Catholic bishop facing calls for resignation after allegedly shielding pedophile priests from public

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Border Patrol seizes aircraft loaded with meth, fentanyl after it flies into US

Mark Osborne
ABC News
Sat, 25 May 2019 05:55 UTC
Aircraft
An ultralight aircraft carrying half a million dollars worth of methamphetamine and fentanyl across the southern border was nabbed by Border Patrol agents late Thursday, according to the agency, but the pilot managed to make an escape.

The single-person aircraft was tracked flying across the U.S.-Mexico border by agents in the Nogales and Tucson, Arizona, stations at about 11 p.m. The ultralight craft was tracked to a landing site on a dirt road south of Tucson, Customs and Border Protection said in a press release.

The drugs were found, but the pilot was not.

"An [Air and Marine Operations] helicopter crew and Border Patrol agents conducted an exhaustive search of the area, but did not find the presumed pilot," CBP said in a statement.
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Pope Francis weighs in on US abortion battle: 'Is it licit to hire a hitman to resolve a problem?'


CBS News
Sat, 25 May 2019 14:25 UTC
Pope Francis
© Andrew Medichini / APPope Francis speaks with prelates at the Vatican on Saturday, May 25, 2019.
Pope Francis on Saturday said abortion can never be condoned, even when the fetus is gravely sick or malformed. He is urging doctors and priests to support families to carry such pregnancies to term.

During an audience with participants of a Vatican-sponsored anti-abortion conference, Francis said opposition to abortion isn't a religious issue but a human one: "Is it licit to throw away a life to resolve a problem? Is it licit to hire a hitman to resolve a problem?"

Francis denounced decisions to abort based on prenatal testing, saying a human being is "never incompatible with life." The pope has spoken out strongly against abortion, though he has also expressed sympathy for women who have had them and made it easier for them to be forgiven.

Comment: Alabama's state senate passes bill banning nearly all abortions

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