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Girl Scouts sue Boy Scouts for cutting into their client base by being too gender-inclusive


RT
Wed, 07 Nov 2018 14:26 UTC
Girl Scouts
© Reuters / Greg SavoyGirls from a Virginia Cub Scout unit made up of girls who are on their way to becoming the first female Scouts in the Boy Scouts of America.
The Girl Scouts are suing the new gender-inclusive version of the Boy Scouts, claiming the 107-year-old youth group's rebranding is confusing potential members and cutting into its market share.

Using the marketing tagline 'Scout Me In', the Boy Scouts announced in October 2017 they would start letting girls join in 2019 under the organization's new name, Scouts BSA. The Girls are crying foul, claiming the campaign makes it sound like the Boy Scouts now have sole purview over all scouting-related activities.

The Girl Scouts have no problem with the Boys opening their doors to a wider range of people, but they don't want them poaching in their territory, according to the suit, which alleges trademark infringement, unfair competition, and dilution. The 'scouts' branding is at issue - where it concerns boys, the Boy Scouts can do what they like with it, but where it concerns girls, Boys Keep Out!

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Ukranian-made Auschwitz death camp video game has Poland up in arms


RT
Wed, 07 Nov 2018 14:14 UTC
Cost of Freedom
© YouTube screenshotCost of Freedom
An unfinished Ukrainian video game set in Auschwitz has sparked outrage in Poland and forced the game studio to make major changes. The original game had players take on the role of inmates or SS guards in the Nazi death camp.

"Cost of Freedom" is not your casual entertainment to kill an hour or two after work. The creation of an amateur game developer team, the horror shooter set in the Auschwitz concentration camp seeks to explore themes like uncontrolled power pushing humans to evil and how big a cost one would pay to survive. At least that's what Dmitry Dybin, the public face of the team at Aliens Games (and, some suspect, its only member) has been saying in interviews lately. Players may choose the role of prisoners in the death camp trying to escape or take revenge on their tormentors, or the guards who apparently can do whatever they want with the inmates.

Although the concept of the game is insensitive by itself, it faced outrage only when its first promotional video was creatively edited by a YouTube user Pierro Cocco. He or she took the original gameplay footage and added a song highly offensive to Poles as soundtrack. In a country that criminalized the words "Polish death camps" because that is seen as blaming the Poles for Nazi crimes, the provocation blew right up.
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'Triggered' Finnish students demand cancellation of equality debate featuring The Red Pill


Sputnik
Wed, 07 Nov 2018 12:23 UTC
Red Pill Feminism
The event focusing on equality from the male point of view featuring Swedish producer and former Army of Lovers celebrity turned political activist Alexander Bard will be held despite the controversy. The US documentary "The Red Pill" will also be aired.

Turku Academy, one of Finland's leading universities, has stopped a panel discussion on gender equality after researchers and students alike felt offended by its angle, citing everyone's "equal value," national broadcaster Yle reported.

The decision to call off the debate themed "Gender equality from men's point of view - a provocative matter of course " was announced by Turku Academy rector Mikko Hupa, who stressed that many at the academy "felt insulted" by how the debate was formulated.

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Racially charged fights break out between MPs at South African parliamentary meeting


RT
Wed, 07 Nov 2018 12:23 UTC
South Africa brawl fight Parliament
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A national assembly meeting of South Africa's parliament resembled a late night bar on Tuesday as it descended into two violent brawls between opposing MPs.

Two separate fights broke out during President Cyril Ramaphosa's question-and-answer session on Tuesday. The first tussle was between Democratic Alliance (DA) and Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party members who clashed after a heated name-calling exchange in which they called each other "looters" and "racists."
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Six far-right suspects held over allegedly planning an attack on Macron


The Guardian
Wed, 07 Nov 2018 12:23 UTC
Macron
© AP
Six people linked to the far right have been detained in connection with a "violent" plot against the French president, Emmanuel Macron, officials said.

The six, who were not identified, were picked up by anti-terrorism units in the eastern French regions of Moselle and Isère and the north-west region of Ille-et-Vilaine, officials added.

A source close to the investigation said the arrests came after reports of a possible plot involving "violent action" aimed at the president. Prosecutors have launched an investigation into a "criminal terrorist association", a judicial source said.

Comment: Also see: NewsReal: Is War on ('Islamic') Terror Morphing Into War on 'White Nationalism'?

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Ukrainian journalist working for TV channel owned by President Poroshenko photographed making Nazi salute


RT
Wed, 07 Nov 2018 07:58 UTC
Natalia Kotskovitch
© Twitter / anatoliishariiNatalia Kotskovitch
A journalist working with a TV channel owned by Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko has been caught making the Nazi salute. It's only the tip of the iceberg, since she is actually a veteran of far-right militant group Azov.

The photo of Natalia Kotskovitch was featured over the weekend by Anatoly Shariy, a popular Ukrainian video blogger and journalist, who lives in the EU under political asylum after fleeing Ukraine back in 2012.

The controversial image, in which Kotskovitch makes the Nazi salute while on a trip to Vienna, Austria was posted on her Facebook page. She is currently working as "journalist" for Poroshenko's Channel 5, according to her profile, which also says she used to be a "correspondent" for the same channel.

Although the photo was publicly available on Kotskovich's social media, she reacted angrily to Shariy bringing it into the spotlight. She brushed off the vlogger, branding him a "Kremlin scribbler" and urging her friends to tell anyone writing "Kotskovitch is a "fascist" to "f*** off."

Comment: In the 'new' Ukraine, only journalists affiliated with the neo-Nazi infested bureaucracy are safe: See also:

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All over US, polling places freeze when faced with the unexpected: voters


RT
Wed, 07 Nov 2018 11:21 UTC
midterm elections
© Reuters / Elizabeth Frantz
American midterm elections are normally sleepy affairs, but 2018's hyper-partisan atmosphere has voters turning out in record numbers. Polling places were unprepared for the onslaught and machines broke down all over the country.

In New York City, broken and jammed machines thwarted thousands of voters from Brooklyn to the Upper East Side and the Bronx, leaving voters lined up waiting in the rain - where they made matters worse by getting the ballots wet, according to Board of Elections rep Michael Ryan. Poll watchers were shocked at the dysfunction and NYC Council Speaker Corey Johnson demanded Ryan's resignation, calling the mess "unacceptable and unfair to voters."

This is not the first election New York has flubbed. Thousands of names went missing from voter rolls during the 2016 primaries, a phenomenon which was repeated to a lesser extent during this year's primaries.

North Carolina voters had their own issues, with machines failing to read the new, larger ballots. Wake County Board of Elections Director Gary Sims blamed the humidity and instructed frustrated voters to place their ballots in "emergency bins," where they would be counted later.
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German police come upon sex act in park, migrant arrested on rape accusations


RT
Wed, 07 Nov 2018 11:18 UTC
german police
© Reuters / Michaela Rehle
As Germans fume over the recent gang rape of a teen in Freiburg, police in Stuttgart have arrested a migrant caught performing sex acts with a 17-year-old girl in a park. It's unclear, however, if there was consent.

Stuttgart police arrested a 23-year-old African migrant on Saturday afternoon, after being tipped off about sexual acts taking place in a local park. The suspect was reportedly caught "red handed," but did not attempt to flee. The young woman told police that the sex acts had been carried out against her will.

According to local media reports, police officers "observed a part of the incident" before approaching the pair. It's not clear whether they witnessed the victim resist or call for help, but German media have hinted that the rape accusation could be a "protective claim."While the 23-year-old remains in custody, police say that they are hoping that witnesses will come forward.
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Brave 15yo boy sacrifices himself while saving little cousin from bear in Russia


RT
Tue, 06 Nov 2018 16:07 UTC
bear
© Reuters / Ilya Naymushin
A courageous 15-year-old boy was practically ripped apart by a ferocious bear but still managed to rescue his little cousin as the two faced the animal alone in the middle of a forest in Russia's eastern Kamchatka Region.

Rodion, 15, and his cousin Boris, who is two years younger, lived in the tiny remote village of Lazo. On Monday, they went to take a steam bath, located at the weather station where the father of one of the boys worked.

The journey itself was long and challenging - the teenagers had to cross 14km of wilderness. Kamchatka is known for its large brown bear population. Since the area has yet to see any snow or freezing temperatures this year, animals that normally would be hibernating are out roaming around instead.

Locals say that in this state, bears become extremely dangerous. Sometimes they even approach towns and villages in search of food. They can attack humans, too. Just last August, bears killed a 23-year-old man who worked at the local nature reserve. An encounter with the fierce beast often means certain death for anyone, let alone a couple of unarmed teenagers.
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British retired professor under attack from Jewish group for questioning official 9-11 story

Samuel Osborne
Independent
Wed, 07 Nov 2018 10:30 UTC
Professor Kees van der Pijl
Professor Kees van der Pijl, who was formerly head of the university’s international relations department, retired in 2012 and now lives in Amsterdam, ( University of Sussex )
Professor Kees van der Pijl, who was formerly head of the university's international relations department, retired in 2012 and now lives in Amsterdam, ( University of Sussex )

A Jewish group has called on the University of Sussex to strip a professor of his emeritus status after he claimed Israelis were behind the 11 September attacks.

Professor Kees van der Pijl, who was formerly head of the university's international relations department, tweeted to say: "Not Saudis, Israelis blew up Twin Towers with help from Zionists in US govt".

The professor, who retired in 2012 and now lives in Amsterdam, included a link to an article titled "9-11/Israel did it" by the conspiracy theory website WikiSpooks.

Comment: For those with any critical thinking abilities, it is a reasonable response to question the official conspiracy theory of what happened on 9/11: Also check out SOTT radio's:

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