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Red Flag

New Yorker magazine revokes invitation to Steve Bannon after boycott threat from snowflake liberals


RT
Tue, 04 Sep 2018 18:00 UTC
Steve Bannon
© Pascal Rossignol / ReutersSteve Bannon attends a National Front party convention in Lille, France, March 10, 2018
The New Yorker magazine invited nationalism ideologue and former Trump campaign figure Steve Bannon to its festival to confront him in a live interview, but changed its mind after other guests threatened to boycott.

Bannon, a former strategist for Donald Trump's 2016 election run and an ex-chairman of Breitbart News, is among the most reviled people in the liberal political camp in the US. Critics call him an open white nationalist, anti-Semite, and xenophobe.

The New Yorker invited him to be a feature guest at the magazine's October festival. Pulitzer Prize winning journalist David Remnick told the New York Times he intended to confront the man with tough questions and expected that the hostile audience would help put pressure on the guest.

That rationale, however, didn't seem to go over well with some of the other people on the guest list and on the magazine's own staff.
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Dollar

Keiser Report: China's actual gold reserves mighty enough to kill the US dollar


RT
Tue, 04 Sep 2018 17:33 UTC
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RT's Keiser Report looks into the post-US dollar world as more and more countries are opting to use their national currencies as they fall victim to relentless US tariffs and sanctions.

Max Keiser discusses the issue of the US weaponizing its currency with the head of research for GoldMoney.com, Alasdair Macleod, who points out that the US knows the global financial system doesn't have an alternative to the greenback yet, and uses it to its advantage.

"The US is giving a message to every other nation which relies on the dollar for its cross-border trade, that this is actually something not very safe to do," Macleod tells Keiser. "You need to have an alternative."


The analyst mentions China, which will inevitably turn to yuan for trading at least inside the Asia region. According to Macleod, China has been accumulating gold for a long time to have the opportunity to back its national currency.

Macleod says that China has a lot more gold than the 1,842 tons the government officially admits to holding in its reserves. According to him, Beijing has been diversifying from the US dollar since 1983 and could have accumulated more than 20,000 tons of gold. He adds that if China begins to back the yuan with its gold reserves, it could kill the US dollar.
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Road Cone

Chilling footage shows London Tube train travelling with doors wide open


RT
Tue, 04 Sep 2018 17:37 UTC
London Underground
© Global Look Press/ Dinendra Haria
Transport for London has apologized after footage emerged of one of its Jubilee line trains travelling with its doors wide open over the weekend.

Footage taken by passenger Rory Brown shows the train travelling on Saturday morning between Finchley Road and West Hampstead stations, in north London, with the automatic doors apart.

Brown, in his 20s, saw the funny side of things as he took to Twitter: "@TFL new way to keep tubes cool in the summer - leaving the doors open" but added: "pretty bloody sketchy! #whatishealthandsafety?"
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Pistol

Outrage after Russian governor filmed shooting hibernating bear in the head


RT
Tue, 04 Sep 2018 17:16 UTC
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Footage showing a Siberian governor shooting a bear, as it was hibernating in its den, at nearly point-blank range has sparked outrage and a formal complaint from a Duma deputy.

The footage, which dates from November 2016 but was just recently leaked to the public, shows Sergey Levchenko, governor of the Irkutsk Region, taking part in a rather unsportsmanlike hunting party. According to reports, Levchenko shot the bear in the head at close range, while it was sleeping in its winter quarters. The video shows Levchenko and a group of smiling men congratulating each other as they pull the bloodied, dead bear from its den.
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Handcuffs

Egyptian police arrest man attempting to detonate explosive device outside US Embassy in Cairo


RT
Tue, 04 Sep 2018 17:10 UTC
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A man attempting to detonate an explosive device outside the US Embassy in Cairo has been taken into police custody, according to reports. The embassy has warned US citizens not to visit due to security concerns.

The suspect was also carrying a firearm, and a second explosive device was reportedly found nearby. The male was swiftly arrested by police, Reuters reported, citing security officials. The embassy has a number of security measures, including a wall protecting the diplomatic compound and armed guards.

Photos have emerged on Twitter purporting to show the improvised explosive device used by the suspect.

The embassy said in a statement posted to its official Facebook account that US citizens should "avoid the area," adding that it was aware of reports that local transportation had been disrupted due to the incident.

Hours after the incident, the embassy tweeted that it was open for business again.

The building, located just south of Tahrir Square in Egypt's capital, is in a district which houses a number of other diplomatic missions, as well as five-star hotels and tourist attractions.
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Arrow Up

New police figures reveal number of Germans killed by foreigners highest in years


RT
Tue, 04 Sep 2018 17:03 UTC
German police
© Raplh Orlowski / Reuters
Number of murders of Germans by foreigners is on the rise, new police figures of closed murder cases reveal amid anti-immigrant protests and counter-rallies in Chemnitz.

A total of 731 homicides were registered in Germany last year. In at least 83 of the cases where the victim was German, law enforcement identified at least one non-German suspect, the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) revealed to Welt am Sonntag. While the BKA's numbers fail to specify the nationality of the suspects, the new figures show that cases involving a "non-German" suspect rose significantly in 2017, compared to 62 cases registred in the previous year.

The figure was at its lowest point in 2015 with 52 cases. The numbers, however, could not be tracked down earlier than 2013, when police began counting these stats, Welt reports.
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Red Flag

Ukraine facing potential labor 'catastrophe' as millions of citizens flee country


RT
Tue, 04 Sep 2018 16:39 UTC
Central Railway Station in Kiev
© SputnikCentral Railway Station in Kiev
Nearly a million Ukrainians are leaving the country every year, according to Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavel Klimkin, warning the country will face severe labor shortages in the years to come.

"We are really in a catastrophic situation with a million Ukrainians leaving every year," the minister said in an interview with Ukrainian ICTV.

Klimkin said that Poland alone has received around 1.4 million Ukrainians recently, and that nearly 30 percent of the population of the western Polish city of Wroclaw now speaks Ukrainian.

According to Ukraine's foreign ministry, about three million Ukrainian migrants currently live in Russia, and up to two million in Poland.
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Snowflake

Israel broadcaster apologizes for daring to play music from Wagner, Hitler's favorite composer


RT
Tue, 04 Sep 2018 15:11 UTC
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© Global Look Press/ Jodi & Jake
Israel's public broadcaster has apologized for "erring" in its decision to broadcast a piece by Hitler's favorite classical music composer and known anti-Semite Richard Wagner.

Kan broadcasting corporation came under fire from disgruntled listeners on Friday after it aired parts of Wagner's opera Gotterdammerung, or 'Twilight of the Gods', according to Israeli news site Haaretz.

While there is no law in Israel preventing the airing of Wagner's compositions, TV and radio stations have refrained from doing so amid concern it could offend the public given the 19th century composer's anti-Semitic views.

A spokeswoman for Kan apologized to its listeners in a statement on Sunday and stressed its decision to not air Wagner has not changed.

Comment: Just because someone listens and enjoys Wagner's music doesn't exactly make them a Nazi.

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Attention

South African bank says farmers should repay debt for property even if the government expropriates it


RT
Tue, 04 Sep 2018 16:05 UTC
farm field south africa
© Siphiwe Sibeko / Reuters
White farmers in South Africa will have to pay back their loan for property that could be expropriated under the land reform proposal that is currently being pushed by the ruling African National Congress (ANC).

The controversial bill, allowing the government to confiscate lands from white farmers without compensation and redistribute them to the black citizens, is currently pending further study after the Portfolio Committee on Public Works withdrew the draft.

An email from Nedbank, which emerged on social media last week, made it clear that expropriation without compensation is not going to be deemed as a legitimate reason for borrowers to default on their payments. Nedbank is among the country's ten largest lenders.

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Heart - Black

Nevada woman dies in jail after callously being denied medical help, DA finds no wrongdoing


RT
Tue, 04 Sep 2018 15:41 UTC
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Unpaid traffic tickets saw a Nevada woman in jail, where she began to suffer drug withdrawals and seizures. Days later she was dead, after being denied medical care.

A report by state investigators, published this week and revealed by the Reno Gazette Journal, found that staff at Mineral County Jail violated multiple policies by denying 21-year-old Kelly Coltrain medical help, even after she informed them she was dependent on heroin and would suffer seizures without the drug.

In a days-long ordeal caught on her jail cell's CCTV camera, Coltrain vomited and shook as her condition worsened. Officers rejected her pleas for medical help, instead handing her a mop and bucket to clean up her own vomit.

Coltrain died in her cell, and her body lay motionless for six hours before her jailers realized what had happened. Officers made no attempt to resuscitate her, and did not call for medical assistance until the following morning.

Comment: Kelly Coltrain's death is a tragedy, but mostly for her family and friends. And yet over a similar death, that of Sergie Magnitsky, Bill Browder turned the world upside down.

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