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Russian feminist slapped with criminal charges after posting jokes about men on social media


RT
Wed, 05 Sep 2018 21:20 UTC
Vkontakte
© Natalia Seliverstova / Sputnik 1324Vkontakte social media page as seen on a computer screen
Russian investigators have launched a criminal case against a feminist from the Siberian city of Omsk on charges of inciting hatred after posting jokes about men on her page in Russia's most popular social network, Vkontakte.

"A criminal case has been started against Lubov Kalugina on suspicion of crimes described in the Article 282 of the Russian Criminal Code, the investigation is currently underway," an aide to the head of the Omsk Region branch of Russia's Investigative Committee, Larisa Boldinova, told the Gorod55 news site.

Article 282 of the Russian Criminal Code targets such crimes as publicly inciting hatred or deliberate humiliation of human dignity. The maximum punishment for such crimes is five years in prison (six years for criminals who act as an organized group or people who use their official position).
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Bullseye

Investigative journalist Abby Martin takes aim at US media hegemony, who along with tech giants are 'curating our reality'


RT
Wed, 05 Sep 2018 19:44 UTC
Abby Martin
Abby Martin
A journalist whose documentary series was shut-down by financial difficulties due to US sanctions on Venezuela, has told RT that the US along with tech giants "are curating our reality" when it comes to independent media.

Abby Martin, who until last month hosted The Empire Files on Latin American TV network teleSUR, told Mike Papantonio's America Lawyer program that recent Trump administration sanctions had "completely ceased TeleSur's ability to function."

"The latest round of sanctions," argued Martin, has resulted in all contract journalists at the company "unable to receive funds all around the world," while the ability to send and receive funds through Caracas "have also been completely halted."

"There's a reason why people like you, people like me work for outlets like RT, like TeleSur," Martin told Papantonio.

"There's very little places, virtually no places obviously in the corporate media apparatus that you can tell the truth to challenge corporate tyranny and this US imperialist narrative of constant regime change all around the world."
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Attention

Florida: Still using Kathrine Harris trick to purge black voters

Greg Palast
GregPalast.com
Wed, 29 Aug 2018 00:00 UTC
Katherine Harris Jeb Bush
© news.wjct.org/Vanity FairKatherine Harris • Jeb Bush
Florida's up to its old tricks again, using dubious lists of felons and computers that come up with criminal mismatches to rob votes from people of color. This is a prime example of how the vote heist - first mastered by Jeb Bush and Katherine Harris in 2000 - works:

In yesterday's Florida election, an African-American attorney named Thomas Joseph Brown, who lives in Tallahassee, had his vote stolen. When he showed up to his polling station in Leon County, he was told he'd been purged from the rolls. When he took the matter up with the Election Supervisors they said it was because his name "matched" that of a felon called Thomas Jerald Brown, who lived 200 miles away in Daytona. Seems the fact that the middle names, addresses, and other identifying information didn't match wasn't an impediment for the state when it came to stripping a citizen of his or her right to vote. Fortunately, as an attorney, Thomas Joseph Brown knew exactly how to steal his vote back, but most people in his position would've had their vote irrevocably snatched by the state.


Comment: See also:
Candace Owens predicts there will be a major black exit from the Democrat Party leading up to the 2020 election

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Nuke

Tokyo admits first death resulting from 2011 Fukushima radiation exposure


RT
Wed, 05 Sep 2018 15:48 UTC
Fukushima Nuke Power plant
© File Photo/Richard Atrero de Guzman/Global Look PressFukushima nuclear power plant.
The Japanese authorities have acknowledged for the first time that a man died from cancer resulting from acute radiation poisoning at the Fukushima nuclear plant that went into meltdown following an earthquake back in 2011.

A Japanese man in his 50s, who previously worked at the crippled Fukushima power plant, has recently died of a lung cancer. Japan's Health, Labour and Welfare Ministry then acknowledged that his death was in fact triggered by a radiation poisoning and recognized his family as eligible for compensation in the first such case since the disaster.

According to the ministry, the diseased worked mainly at the Fukushima plant, which was hit by an earthquake and tsunami in 2011 as well as at some other nuclear power station for more than 28 years until 2015. Notably, he was in charge of measuring radiation levels at the plant and its premises immediately after the incident, the Japanese media report.

It is said he was exposed to a total radiation dose of some 195 millisieverts - a dose that is about 4 times higher than the one that leads to a serious risk of developing cancer.

So far, the ministry also admitted that a total of four Fukushima plant workers developed various types of cancer, including leukemia and thyroid cancer, triggered by radiation poisoning. However, this was the first case involving death.
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Stock Down

South Africa now in economic recession amid failing government reforms


RT
Tue, 04 Sep 2018 15:09 UTC
Rand coins
© The Nerve AfricaThe African Rand
Massive declines in the agricultural, transport and retail sectors have dragged the South African economy into recession after nearly a decade of growth. It is a huge blow to President Ramaphosa's controversial reforms.

GDP in the second quarter contracted by 0.7 percent compared to the first three months of the current year. South African national currency, the rand, extended declines against the US dollar to more than two percent as government bonds fell after the released data.

"We are in a recession," Statistician-General Risenga Maluleke said, commenting on the reports that reflect two consecutive quarters of contraction.

According to Statistics South Africa, agricultural production declined by 29.2 percent, while the transport, communication and storage sector dropped 4.9 percent. At the same time, mining output grew by 4.9 percent and finance by 1.9 percent.
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Bad Guys

Deranged man intentionally rams truck into FOX 4 studios

Patrick Poole
PJ Media
Wed, 05 Sep 2018 18:17 UTC
man truck Fox building
© Denton County Sheriff's Office/FOX 4Michael Chadwick Fry, 34, was arrested after ramming his truck into the FOX 4 building on Wednesday.
A man rammed his truck into the studios of Dallas Fox affiliate KDFW earlier this morning, just two days after Meet the Press host Chuck Todd published an article calling on his media colleagues to "start fighting back" against Fox News.


KDFW reports on the incident targeting their offices:
A man was arrested Wednesday morning after crashing a truck into the side of the FOX4 building in downtown Dallas.

The man, after repeatedly crashing his vehicle into a side of the building with floor to ceiling windows, got out of his vehicle and began ranting.

FOX4 photojournalists were able to film him placing numerous boxes next to a sidedoor filled with stacks of paper. The papers were also strewn across the sidewalk and street adjacent to the building.

The man ranted about "high treason" and also mentioned a sheriff's department.

Comment: Fox News provides a bit more of the story. The man, it appears, was mentally unstable. While pundits like Chuck Todd contribute to the social hysteria sweeping across the United States and the Western world, it's more likely that there is a larger influence at play that effects both the mentally and character disturbed. And no, we're not talking about HAARP. Something much bigger is going on.
Webb said that Fry appeared to be upset about an officer-involved shooting elsewhere and left numerous flyers that were "mostly rambling."


Photojournalists from the station filmed Fry placing numerous boxes next to the side of the building "filled with stacks of paper." The papers were then strewn along the sidewalk and adjacent to the building.


FOX4 reporter Brandon Todd said that Fry stood outside the building saying something about "high treason," ranted about a sheriff's department and then held up papers against windows. Webb had no further details about the man's motivation, other than other than they don't believe he was targeting the media.


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Yoda

SOTT Focus: Interview With Jordan Peterson: On Trump, the Radical Left and Why Toxic Masculinity is Nonsense

Derek Robertson
Politico
Wed, 05 Sep 2018 18:16 UTC
jordan peterson
© Carlos Osorio/Toronto Star/Getty Images
What's a Canadian psychologist doing on the list of 50 people reshaping America? Jordan Peterson insists he is less a political thought leader than a personal and philosophical guide, one whose best-selling book offers tough-love advice to a population of restless young men who feel boxed out by modern gender politics.

Peterson's work has found fertile ground in the seemingly endless debate over "political correctness" and cultural reform writ large-and the professor hasn't shied away from the wider political arguments, either. He has dipped his toe into the argument over climate change, rhetorically mused over the fate of South African farmers in a seeming endorsement of Tucker Carlson's controversial segment on land expropriation, and appeared on "Fox & Friends" to warn parents against the dangers of liberal indoctrination on campus.

In the conflict between left and right, Peterson is clear about which side he blames more for the ills of the modern world. In a wide-ranging interview with Politico Magazine in July, Peterson sounded off on the dangers of university speech codes, the plight of young men and what critics get wrong about Donald Trump.

This interview has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity.
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Bizarro Earth

Saudi Arabia hands death sentence to Sunni cleric who criticized government on Twitter


Sputnik
Wed, 05 Sep 2018 01:05 UTC
Sheikh Salman al-Odah
Sheikh Salman al-Odah
A state prosecutor in Saudi Arabia has reportedly sought the death penalty for Salman al-Odah, a prominent Sunni scholar facing accusations of terrorism stemming from tweets deemed dangerous to the Saudi state.

On August 17, Abdullah al-Odah, the cleric's US-based son, wrote on Twitter that his father was being moved suddenly from a prison in the coastal city of Jeddah to the capital city, Riyadh. Abdullah indicated that a source in the prison had informed him of his father's impending secret trial.

Saudi state media announced Tuesday that "a person affiliated with a terrorist organisation" had been sentenced to death, but did not name Odah, Middle East Eye reported. His identity was confirmed to the publication by Saudi human rights activists.

Odah, 61, faces 37 charges, including "leading a terrorist group" and "inciting public opinion against the ruler," charges reportedly not declared at the beginning of the trial.

Comment: See also:

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Bad Guys

'Activist leader' unseats 20-year incumbent in Massachusetts primary

Gideon Resnick
The Daily Beast
Tue, 04 Sep 2018 17:03 UTC
Ayanna Pressley
© Scott Eisen/Getty
Ayanna Pressley is the second progressive woman of color to defeat a long-term male white incumbent this cycle.

Another major upset of a Democratic congressman took place in Massachusetts on Tuesday night. And it wasn't even close.

Ayanna Pressley, the 44-year-old Boston City Councilor, triumphed over 20-year incumbent Rep. Michael Capuano (D-MA) by a double-digit margin. It was the primary season's second stunning ousting of a long-term lawmaker by a female progressive challenger and another indicator that the liberal base is hungering for something new in their representation.

Massachusetts' 7th District, the only majority-minority district in the liberal state, once sent President John F. Kennedy to Congress and was viewed prior to Tuesday's contest as the kind of area that was ripe for a shakeup. Coupled with Pressley's compelling candidacy, a late primary the day after Labor Day, and district lines that were redrawn in 2011, Capuano was clearly vulnerable.

Comment: People now want a victim, or at least someone who flaunts being a victim as the most sensible choice for wielding power. How shameful. People who champion the victim mantle are dangerous. They should not be allowed near power since they obviously have not dealt with the disastrous results of victim-hood. Of course another side of this is that it is literally fashionable to be a SJW these days. Even Nike has gotten in on the act.

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Russian Flag

Donbass, Russia, and mainstream media lies

Anatoly Karlin
Unz Review
Sat, 01 Sep 2018 12:00 UTC
Donbass is the heart of Russia. 1921 poster.
Donbass is the heart of Russia. 1921 poster.
Putin Needs to Sacrifice the Donbass to Survive. (Not Really).

Or so some people seem to believe and hope.

So let's tally up these reasons:

The Russian economy is getting increasingly desperate.

Two percent GDP growth isn't anything to write home about, but neither is it particularly catastrophic. The budget is balanced, inflation is at record lows, Russia has $450 billion worth of foreign exchange reserves.

Short of major new sanctions or a sharp collapse in oil prices, growth should continue to pick up in the next few years.

Comment: See also: And check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Donbass Leader Assassinated as Russia Exposes Chemical Plot in Syria

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