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Ukrainian police officer gets jail time for insulting neofascist goon


RT
Wed, 13 Feb 2019 18:00 UTC
banderites
© REUTERS / Valentyn Ogirenko
A Ukrainian court sentenced a police officer who used the name of nationalist hero and Nazi henchman Stepan Bandera as a slur while scuffling with far-right rioters in Kiev. They walked free from custody, but the officer did not.

Vasily Melnikov, the officer in question, is now set to spend the next two months in a pre-trial detention facility although he may be released on a $4,240 bail. Local reports say the trial was closely watched by members of C14, a far-right group Melnikov was dispersing in a viral video that caused quite a stir across Ukraine.

Earlier this week, C14, whose name presumably refers to the fourteen-word white supremacy slogan, approached a police station in the Ukrainian capital. Riot police had to tackle assailants armed with knives, pepper sprays and a pistol. The brawl eventually got more violent when the far-right tried to storm the building.


"Get down, Bandera!" the officer is heard as he forces one of the mobsters onto the ground.

Comment: Ukraine is officially the cultural backwater of Europe. Western leftists like to warn about the 'far right' in Hungary and Poland, but conveniently never mention that Ukraine is teeming with actual neofascists. Banderite scum were behind the Maidan revolution of 2014, they have members in the Ukrainian government, and they have been responsible for a campaign of terror, torture, and murder. Theses are the West's 'allies' in the fight against 'Russian aggression'. Kind of makes supporting Russia's position seem like the rational choice, no?

See also: Unabashed neo-fascists: Ukrainian police publicly declare their admiration for Bandera

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People

Gucci apologizes for 'blackface' sweater and pledges to enact sensitivity training

Matthew Dalton
Morningstar
Tue, 12 Feb 2019 16:32 UTC
Gucci blackface
The French billionaire who controls Gucci pledged to redouble the luxury fashion brand's cultural-sensitivity training for employees after being stung by controversy over a Gucci sweater that critics likened to blackface.


Comment: Outrage culture excited to discover Gucci balaclava 'blackface' jumper


Francois-Henri Pinault, chief executive and controlling shareholder of Gucci parent Kering SA, said the Italian fashion house didn't have teams in place to ensure that designs and marketing material don't offend the African-American community.

"We didn't understand the sensitivities of the African-American community, which is reflected in that mistake," Mr. Pinault told reporters at Kering's headquarters. "We can't be content with saying we're sorry."


Comment: Leftists won't be content with your apology anyway.


The controversy over Gucci's sweater shows how quickly a brand's missteps can be amplified on social media, harming its reputation. A wave of comments on Instagram and Twitter last week pushed Gucci to pull the item, a black sweater that covers the lower half of the face, with bright red lips surrounding a cutout of the mouth.
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Green Light

Australia to reopen Christmas Island immigration detention center


DW
Wed, 13 Feb 2019 17:30 UTC
Christmas Island
Prime Minister Scott Morrison said his job was "to ensure that the boats don't come." The announcement was made after parliament passed a bill to allow asylum seekers access to hospitals in mainland Australia.

Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced on Wednesday the reopening of the Christmas Island immigration detention center. The center, located on the Indian Ocean, held thousands of migrants and had closed down in 2018. It was the scene of violent protests, with detainees denouncing harsh conditions.

Morrison made the decision to reopen Christmas Island just prior to the passing of new legislation in Parliament to give sick asylum seekers easier access to mainland hospitals.

The prime minister based his decision on the assessment of the country's security agencies, which had warned in December that like the one approved on Wednesday would result in an increase in asylum seekers heading to Australia.
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Attention

Not your typical babushka: It took 5 cops to detain 80yo Russian woman accused of butchering a man


RT
Wed, 13 Feb 2019 10:24 UTC
Axe murderer
© Global Look Press / imagebroker/Alfred Schauhuber
An octogenarian has been detained in the Russian Far East after the entrails of her 52-year-old tenant were found in her kitchen fridge. The woman resisted arrest and is alleged to have almost overpowered five officers.

The mutilated arm of a man was first discovered by local children who saw it being chewed on by a dog. The stunned kids alerted adults who alerted the police, prompting an investigation.

After the remains were identified as belonging to Vasiliy Shlyahtich, who worked as a yard keeper nearby, searches were conducted in the apartment building where he rented a room. Stomach-churning evidence was found, and it was likely more than the officers had bargained for.

Police found the man's internal organs in the fridge as well as traces of blood.

Suspicion fell on the apartment's owner, an 80-year-old woman identified only as Sonya. When police attempted to take her into custody, she reportedly put up unexpectedly fierce resistance. It took a squad of five men to finally apprehend her, Moskovskiy Komsomolets reported, citing a security guard at a local school.

While such strength sounds unbelievable for an octogenarian, the story might have some truth to it, since Sonya was not your typical babushka. The woman used to work at a pig slaughterhouse until she retired, hence her alleged skills in wielding big knives and axes.
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Dominoes

Feminist sues Twitter after getting banned for saying 'men aren't women'


RT
Wed, 13 Feb 2019 17:02 UTC
Women's March in Toronto, Canada
© Global Look Press / Creative Touch Imaging LtdWomen's March in Toronto, Canada
Canadian feminist writer Meghan Murphy is taking Twitter to court over its policy on transgender-related speech after she was booted from the platform for questioning the prevailing gender dogma.

Murphy's suit claims Twitter has been fraudulently misrepresenting itself as a "free speech platform" and failed to notify users of changes to its Hateful Conduct Policy, which the company cited as the reason for banning her in November.

Twitter "refuses to be accountable for its ideologically-motivated efforts to quell free speech," Murphy said in a video posted on Monday - even though, she points out, Twitter executives themselves proudly boast that "we are the free speech wing of the Free Speech Party."

"Twitter repeatedly promised and represented that it would uphold the free speech rights of its users and not engage in viewpoint-based censorship in its advertising, Rules, public statements and Terms of Service," Murphy says in the lawsuit. "These promises and representations were material to the decision of millions of users, like Murphy, to join. Without these promises, Twitter would not have been able to attract a critical mass of users to its platform."
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Heart - Black

Texan pays record $110,000 to kill Pakistan's RARE national animal


RT
Wed, 13 Feb 2019 16:54 UTC
Astore Markhor
© Wikimedia Commons
A Texas trophy hunter sparked outrage in Pakistan after he was photographed with a dead Astore Markhor, the country's official animal. However, as more details emerged about the hunt, it appears the anger was misplaced.

Bryan Kinsel Harlan, an entrepreneur from Dallas, Texas, paid a record US$110,000 to shoot the animal in Pakistan's northern Himalayan region of Gilgit-Baltistan. A photograph of Harlan sitting proudly with his kill, showing the majestic markhor with its symmetrical spiralling horns (which can grow to a length of 1.5m in some cases) angered many.

"It was an easy and close shot. I am pleased to take this trophy," Harlan said after, as cited by the Washington Post.

"I'm from America, there are not many people from the United States of America that would come over here as a tourist. They think it's dangerous. The problem is what the media is portraying. It's not dangerous. Mexico is more dangerous than Pakistan," Harlan added speaking at an impromptu press conference following the successful hunt.
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Cult

Explosive new book claims 80% of clerics in Catholic Church are gay

Christopher Lamb
The Tablet
Tue, 12 Feb 2019 16:38 UTC
Cardinals and Bishops
© ABACA/ABACA/PA ImagesCardinals and Bishops attend an Ordinary Public Consistory at St Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, 2016
On the day that Pope Francis' sex abuse summit is due to start, a potentially explosive book will be published claiming to lift the lid on gay priests in the Vatican and the double lives of senior officials.

The book, "In the Closet of the Vatican", written by French sociologist and journalist Frederic Martel, reports that around 80 per cent of clerics working in the Roman Curia are gay - although not necessarily sexually active - and details how they adhere to an unspoken code of the "closet".

After four years of gathering material which took him across the world Martel, a non-believer who is openly gay, spent around a week a month in Rome, sometimes staying in residences inside the Vatican or on Holy See property. He claims to have completed 1,500 interviews with 41 cardinals, 52 bishops and monsignors, 45 papal ambassadors or diplomatic officials, 11 Swiss guards and more than 200 priests and seminarians. The book is due to be published on 21 February simultaneously in 8 languages across 20 countries and will hit stores as bishops from across the world gather to discuss how to respond to clerical sexual abuse.
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Attention

20 members of Revolutionary Guards dead in suicide attack in S Iran


Sputnik
Wed, 13 Feb 2019 16:26 UTC
suicide attack iran 2019
© @Mahdiibakhtiari/TwitterThe first photo of the bus attack.
20 personnel died in a suicide attack targeting an Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC) bus, the local news agency IRNA reported citing its source on Wednesday.

The deadly attack took place in the Chanali area of the Khash-Zahedan road, between the cities of Zahedan and Khash - an area not far from the border with Pakistan, where drug smuggling and military activities are quite frequent.

Comment: The death toll appears to be rising:



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Syringe

Congo: Ebola vaccine being offered in exchange for sex, says taskforce

Kate Holt & Rebecca Ratcliffe
The Guardian
Tue, 12 Feb 2019 16:17 UTC
health worker
© Olivia Acland/ReutersA health worker prepares to administer Ebola vaccine outside a house in the village of Mangina, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s North Kivu province.
An unparalleled Ebola vaccination programme in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has become engulfed in allegations of impropriety, amid claims that women are being asked for sexual favours in exchange for treatment.

Research by several NGOs has revealed that a deep mistrust of health workers is rife in DRC and gender-based violence is believed to have increased since the start of the Ebola outbreak in August.

The research, presented at a national taskforce meeting in Beni, follows calls by international health experts urging the World Health Organization to consider issuing a global alert in relation to the outbreak. The experimental vaccine has been described by the WHO as "highly, highly efficacious" and hopes have been pinned on it controlling the outbreak.

The meeting was told that multiple respondents in one study had raised concerns over individuals offering Ebola-related services, such as vaccinations, in exchange for sexual favours.

The risk of exploitation by frontline Ebola workers was also mentioned by several focus groups.

Comment: What we know about the latest Ebola outbreak and the experimental vaccine

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Dollar Gold

Unsustainable: The national debt now tops $22 trillion

Michael Collins
USA Today
Tue, 12 Feb 2019 16:05 UTC
US debt
The national debt surpassed $22 trillion for the first time on Tuesday, a milestone that experts warned is further proof the country is on an unsustainable financial path that could jeopardize the economic security of every American.

The Treasury Department reported the debt hit $22.012 trillion, a jump of more than $30 billion in just this month.

The national debt has been rising at a faster rate following the passage of President Donald Trump's $1.5 trillion tax-cut package a little more than a year ago and as the result of congressional efforts to increase spending on domestic and military programs. The nation has added more than $1 trillion in debt in the last 11 months alone.

"Reaching this unfortunate milestone so rapidly is the latest sign that our fiscal situation is not only unsustainable but accelerating," said Michael A. Peterson, chief executive officer of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, a nonpartisan organization working to address the country's long-term fiscal challenges.

For Americans, the growing debt should be a concern, experts said, because over time it can push up interest rates for consumers and businesses. The higher rates can ripple through the economy, nudging up rates for mortgages, corporate bonds and other types of consumer and business loans.

Comment: The US is rapidly going broke

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