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Student charged for allegedly making fake anti-LGBT threats against herself

Zachary Petrizzo
Campus Reform
Wed, 10 Oct 2018 13:39 UTC
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A member of student government at Ohio University has been charged with a misdemeanor after she allegedly made false statements to police about receiving threatening messages.

Anna Ayers, who is a member of the OU student senate, was arrested Monday and charged by the Ohio University Police Department with three separate counts of "making false alarms." It is alleged that Ayers falsely reported multiple threatening messages, including a "death threat," which she claims was because of her being a member of the LGBTQ community.

But an OU police department investigation revealed that Ayers' claims were false. The probe further uncovered that Ayers had "placed the messages herself, prior to reporting them," according to an OU police statement.
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Israeli reporter for NYT praises AIPAC: 'You've got our backs, it's such a great feeling'

Philip Weiss
Mondoweiss
Thu, 11 Oct 2018 11:25 UTC
Ronen Bergman
Ronen Bergman at the Fifth Avenue Barnes and Noble in February 2018. Photo from Instagram.
Ronen Bergman, a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, gave a talk to the Israel lobby group AIPAC in White Plains Monday night and lavished praise on AIPAC for its support of Israel.
"You know, I've been all over the U.S. with AIPAC and it's always a great pleasure, as an Israeli. I always tell AIPAC, you do so much in the U.S., and I know that Israel is not the spirit of where you work, but you need to do a little more to explain to Israelis how much they owe AIPAC. Israelis are not aware. I am aware... I know that you've got our backs. It's such a great feeling."
AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, is famous for its work to prevent any "daylight" between the U.S. government and the Israeli government on policy and maintain support for Israel in the U.S. Congress. It has been the subject of numerous investigations- generally not in the US mainstream press, and certainly not the New York Times.

Comment: Also see: The biggest meddler in American democracy is not Russia, it is Israel via foreign agent AIPAC

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Better Earth

Russia's Crimea boasts record number of tourists in post-Soviet era


RT
Wed, 10 Oct 2018 13:05 UTC
Crimean Bridge
© Sputnik / Aleksandr PolegenkoThe Crimean Bridge across the Kerch Strait
Crimea has seen the biggest surge in tourism this year since the collapse of the Soviet Union, regional authorities say.

"By October 9, we have 6,164,000 tourists. This is 29 percent more than in the same period last year. To date, the number of tourists has reached record levels for the entire post-Soviet period," said an official for Crimea's tourism ministry Vadim Volchenko.

The official noted an increase in tourists from Ukraine after Crimea's reunification with Russia. "About one million of the total tourist flow arrived across the border from Ukraine, which is 17 percent more than in the whole 2017," he said.

The rise in the number of visitors to the Crimea comes despite Western sanctions targeting the peninsula. In July, Booking.com stopped working with Crimean hotels in compliance with US and European sanctions against the republic.

Comment: Meanwhile Ukraine is collapsing under the weight of its own corruption following the US-backed coup: See also:

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Sherlock

UK Army opens investigation into Tommy Robinson's photo op with troops


RT
Thu, 11 Oct 2018 11:15 UTC
Tommy Robinson
The British army is investigating after soldiers were filmed with far-right figure Tommy Robinson, chanting his name and posing for pictures with the self-styled journalist.

The English Defence League (EDL) founder shared images of himself with a group of young men in military fatigues. In the footage, posted on Facebook, the men cheer and chant Robinson's name. The post's caption reads: "A moment like this makes it all worthwhile. Today I met real British heroes."

An army spokesperson said that they were "investigating" after becoming aware of the footage. "Far-right ideology is completely at odds with the values and ethos of the armed forces. The armed forces have robust measures in place to ensure those exhibiting extremist views are neither tolerated nor permitted to serve," the spokesperson added.
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Handcuffs

Suspect detained in Germany over killing of Bulgarian journalist


RT
Thu, 11 Oct 2018 11:15 UTC
Viktoria Marinova
© AFP / Dimitar DilkoffA portrait of slain Bulgarian journalist Viktoria Marinova
A suspect linked to the slaying of Bulgarian investigative journalist Victoria Marinova has been arrested in Germany. Preliminary investigation shows that it was a "spontaneous" rape attack, according to Chief Prosecutor.

A man in his early 20s was arrested after DNA tests and other evidence linked him to the chilling crime, according to Bulgaria's Interior Minister Mladen Marinov.

He identified the man as Severin Krasimov, who lived not far from the crime scene. The suspect managed to flee to Germany before being captured there, according to local media.

Comment: Also see: Bulgarian TV host who reported misuse of EU funds raped, murdered, belongings stolen - Attack labeled 'spontaneous' by authorities

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Brave New World of Gender Equality: Iceland schools teach boys to paint finger nails, massage each other

Matt Agorist
The Free thought project
Tue, 09 Oct 2018 00:00 UTC
Some schools are taking gender equality to the extreme and having boys practice female stereotypes while girls practice male stereotypes.
Gender education in School
© TheFreeThoughtProject.com
The notion that all people deserve equal rights under their governments is evolving into all people must be forced to be equal. In the name of forcing this equality-which is a dangerously slippery slope-some are going to extremes.

Boys and girls are different. One is not supreme to the other, but on a biological scale, they are not equal. To deny the basic differences like hormone production and the fact that females can get pregnant is to deny nature itself. However, this hasn't stopped people from trying to wipe these biological differences out with controversial programs.

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Syria: 1400 bodies found in the largest mass grave of Daesh victims in Raqqa


Sputnik News
Wed, 10 Oct 2018 10:00 UTC
Daesh/ISIS
© AP Photo
Bodies of some 1,400 people killed by the Daesh* terrorist group have been found in a mass grave in the Syrian city of Raqqa, the head of Damascus-based Syrian Human Rights Network Ahmad Kazem told Sputnik on Wednesday.

"The biggest mass grave with 1,400 bodies has been found in Panorama area in Raqqa. Daesh terrorists did it," Kazem said.

Most of the victims are those accused by Daesh militants of having ties with the Syrian government and armed forces, according to Kazem. Among them are women, children, and military personnel.

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Briefcase

The sessional curse: Universities and the exploitation of academia's 'casual work force'

Dr. Binoy Kampmark
Global Research
Wed, 10 Oct 2018 21:49 UTC
Wilfrid Laurier University

Universities have become bastions of sessional torment, feeding grounds for despair. The term "sessional" is merely a euphemised way of describing an academic employee who has no ongoing employment other than what is offered, a person ever at the mercy of the subject or course coordinator of a department. They are the toiling poor, the barrel scrapers, the trudged upon and demanded.

The problem here is loathsomely international. In 2014, CBC News noted the increasing use of contracted sessionals in the university curriculum in Canada. The case of Kimberley Ellis Hale was cited, an instructor in sociology at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, who had essentially slaved for sixteen years on a precarious contract. Despite those years of service, "she has no job security. She still needs to apply to teach her courses every semester. She gets none of the perks a full time professor gets".

As with Canada, the United Kingdom's tertiary education system sees approximately half of all academic staff employed on low-paid temporary contracts. In the United States, half-time work characterises half of faculty staff while the majority do not fall within a "tenure track" category. The doors to employment security are, for the most part, barred.

Comment: There is no time for a proper education when there's so much indoctrination to be done.

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The Times is worried RT's #ICYMI videos are 'infecting' the youth of Britain ...IT'S A JOKE!


RT
Tue, 09 Oct 2018 21:29 UTC
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© ICYMI / YouTubePolly Boiko - ICMY presentor
Nothing quite prepares you for the morning you wake up and find out journalists at a national newspaper have watched the clearly satirical videos you make for the internet, and decided they're front page news.

When I told my mother-in-law I'd made the front page of The Times, she congratulated me, although I'm not sure she quite understood the context.

If I wanted to pay money for someone to talk rubbish about me I don't need the Times to do it, I have a wife at home. That is a joke, not a good one, but it's important for what you're about to read that it's clear that I make jokes.
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Pirates

Manufacturing without a license is theft: Kalashnikov maker Rostec slams US for plans to produce facsimiles of Russian weapons


RT
Wed, 10 Oct 2018 10:52 UTC
Kalashnikov
© Kalashnikov.media
Russian state corporation Rostec says the production of Russian weapons in the US without a relevant license is illegal. The firm holds the majority stake in Kalashnikov Concern, the maker of the iconic AK-47 assault rifle.

The statement comes amid media reports that the US military wants to encourage domestic gunmakers to manufacture facsimiles of Russian weapons. Sanctions against Moscow prohibit their purchase from Russia. The weapons will reportedly be supplied to various militant groups in unstable regions around the world.

"The idea itself raises questions. If someone wants to do this work legally, in compliance with all the rules, they should discuss it with Rosoboronexport. Otherwise, it is an illegal copying of Russian products. In other words, it is a theft," Rostec's press service said.

Comment: Imagine the media firestorm had Russia suggested producing facsimiles of US weaponry - although that is highly unlikely given the sorry state of US made military hardware.

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