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Video shows French rappers fighting at airport, parts of terminal shut down


Sputnik
Fri, 03 Aug 2018 11:40 UTC
Booba and Kaaris,
© AFP 2018 / Dominique FAGET
Two French rappers, Booba and Kaaris, which were reportedly trading barbs in social media, started a real fight when they saw each other in Orly International Airport.

A video, circulating in social media, shows rappers Booba and his rival, Kaaris, as well as their entourages clashing in front of a shocked public. Booba, dressed in a black T-shirt and Kaaris, dressed in grey, reportedly known to hate each other, are seen exchanging punches.

The fight resulted in some flights being delayed and the closure of part of the terminal.

The artists were heading to Barcelona, where they were expected to play live at two different nightclubs located near one another. However, the fateful meeting is unlikely to let them get that far now, as both are currently under arrest and have been taken into custody.

Comment: According to Billboard:
Both of the artists had supposedly been beefing since a falling out took place in 2013 when Booba apparently became frustrated that Kaaris didn't side with him in his feud against Rohff.
Jesus wept. Kaaris is 38 years old and Booba is 41. This kind of behaviour has become common place amongst teenagers with no sense of purpose and amongst adults who have yet to grow up:

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Wright-Patterson Air Base blames 911 call for false alarm over 'active shooter incident'


RT
Fri, 03 Aug 2018 11:47 UTC
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
© WikipediaA section of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio
An errant 911 call by an "unknown" person brought out a first response team at Ohio's Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The call was made while an active shooter training scenario played out in another part of the facility.

"There was no real world active shooter incident on Wright-Patterson AFB and base personnel remain safe," the facility said through its Twitter account, two hours after the incident made headlines in media worldwide.

One firearm was discharged reportedly during the emergency operation, used to open a door inside the medical center, where the shooter was reported to be.
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Bizarro Earth

The Dangers of celebrity activists: U2's Bono and the CIA

Thomas C. Mountain
American Herald Tribune
Fri, 03 Aug 2018 11:20 UTC
Bono Vox (U2) Toronto Int. Film Festival 2011
© Marco Manna/ flickrBono Vox (U2) Toronto Int. Film Festival 2011
U2's Bono picked a Capo Grande from the US intelligence community to run his "One" NGO, choosing Gayle Smith, who as Senior Director of the US National Security Council and Special Advisor to President Barack Obama used to tell the CIA what to do, especially when it came to Africa.

Ms. Smith, also known as "Obama's Quiet Consigliere", is infamous for her heart felt eulogy based on over 30 years of friendship at the funeral for Meles Zenawi, today Ethiopia's "No.1 Most Hated Person".

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Catcallers beware: Bill to fine 'harassment' of women on streets with up to €750 gets the OK by French parliament


RT
Fri, 03 Aug 2018 09:55 UTC
lady walking
© Getty Images
Catcallers, wolf-whistlers or those who follow a woman asking for her number 20 times will soon face punishment. French MPs have approved a bill which would allow fines of up to €750 for the 'harassment' of women on the street.

"Harassment in the street has previously not been punished. From now on, it will be," France's Secretary of State for Equality Marlene Schiappa, who has been advocating the legislation, told Europe 1 radio on Thursday. On Wednesday evening the French National Assembly, the lower house of the bicameral French parliament, approved the legislation which was earlier given the backing of the Senate.

"What's key is ... that the laws of the French republic forbid insulting, intimidating, threatening and following women in public spaces," Schiappa insisted. The fines for such behavior would range from €90 up to €750.

After the legislation was approved by parliament, Twitter users started wondering if simply telling a woman that she is beautiful or glancing at her would be considered a punishable offence.

Comment: See also: France moving forward with on-the-spot fines of €90-750 for "sexual harassment" in public

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News media works to manufacture consent - don't give it to them

Caitlin Johnstone
Medium
Thu, 02 Aug 2018 08:37 UTC
mainstream news media
Plutocrat-owned news media outlets lie constantly. When I say this I don't mean that everything they say is false; many of the events reported by mass media are for the most part factual. Whenever it's convenient for the loose alliance of western plutocrats, the political establishment those plutocrats own and operate, and the secretive government agencies with which they are allied, the plutocratic media tell the truth to the extent that it advances plutocratic agendas. But only telling the truth when it suits one's agendas is the same as lying constantly.

A good liar doesn't simply say the opposite of what's true all the time; nobody does that. A good liar tells the truth enough of the time to gain a reputation as an honest and trustworthy source of information, and then, when the truth poses an obstacle to their agendas, they put the slightest spin possible on it to nullify that obstacle. They tell half-truths, they omit key pieces of information, and, with really important maneuvers like manufacturing consent for a strategic military destabilization in the Middle East or new cold war escalations against a nuclear superpower, they shift accountability for factual reporting from themselves onto secretive military and intelligence agencies. In this way they keep full control of the narrative and still ensure that the public supports agendas which do not serve the public interest.

This is evidenced by the fact that the public has continued collaborating with a system which kills the ecosystem we depend on for survival and allows people to die of poverty while spending trillions of dollars in needless wars overseas and an ever-expanding Orwellian surveillance network. Everyone besides the most powerful and their lackeys is aware on some level that the current system is not working for them, and yet the overwhelming majority of people keep playing into it by supporting mainstream parties that are fully owned and operated by wealthy oligarchs, and then shrugging and sighing when things keep getting worse.

Comment: See also:

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Bug

Mom and son contract 'rat lungworm' after eating raw centipedes at market

Madeline Farber
Fox News
Thu, 02 Aug 2018 08:40 UTC
centipede
© iStockA centipede was likely the cause of the rat lungworm parasite found in the mother and son.
A woman and her grown son contracted "rat lungworm" after eating raw centipedes they bought at a market in China, researchers said.

Scientists with the Southern Medical University in Guangzhou, China recently wrote in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene that the A. cantonensis parasite - often known as "rat lungworm" - was "transmitted through an intermediate centipede host," MedPage Today reported.

Rat lungworm is a parasite that's found in rodents. The infected rodents then pass the parasite's larvae through their feces, later infecting snails and slugs, among other creatures, when they ingest the larvae. Humans who eat raw or undercooked snails or slugs that contain the parasite can be infected, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports.

The parasite is typically found in China and Southeast Asia, though it has also been reported in the U.S.


Comment: Hawaii confirms nine cases of rat lungworm infections; researchers call it 'epidemic'


The newly reported research is significant because it suggests the parasite can be found in centipedes as well.
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MIB

Russian employee at US embassy in Moscow targeted in propaganda war


RT
Thu, 02 Aug 2018 23:58 UTC
U.S. embassy Moscow
© Tatyana Makeyeva / ReutersA general view shows the U.S. embassy in Moscow, Russia.
The Secret Service has dismissed the report that a Russian employee at the US Moscow embassy, who was reportedly fired after her contacts with the Russian intelligence came to light, had access to secret data.

The woman was reportedly dismissed from her job last summer over the allegations of her ties to the Russian intelligence, according to the Guardian citing an unnamed US intelligence source.

The newspaper has not revealed the capacity in which the woman was working at the embassy, nor the responsibilities she had, noting only that the supposed Russian spy was working "at the heart of the American embassy for more than a decade."

The woman did not come on the radar of the US Department of State's Regional Security Office (RSO) until 2016, the year of the US presidential elections that spawned a wide-ranging hunt for "Russian interference" by the media and intelligence circles amid claims Moscow attempted to "sow discord" in the American society and sway the vote in favor of Donald Trump.

Comment: The initial response was lackluster because there was nothing to it, as the Secret Service has confirmed. This is just another 'nothing burger' presented to the public to maintain the anti-Russian hysteria.

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Sharia law recognized in landmark British divorce ruling


RT
Thu, 02 Aug 2018 23:58 UTC
Central London Mosque
© Stephen Chung / Global Look PressCentral London Mosque near Regent's Park.
A British court recognized Sharia law for the first time after a judge made a landmark ruling on a divorce case, which could have far reaching effects on Islamic marriage in the UK.

In the case of the estranged couple Nasreen Akhtar and Mohammed Shabaz Khan, the High Court ruled that their Islamic faith marriage, nikah, is recognised by British matrimonial law despite their being no legal precedent for it to recognised as such.

Akhtar will subsequently be able to bring her case before the divorce court, where she can claim a share of assets from her marriage to Khan. She would have been unable to do so without the High Court ruling.
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Russia builds railroad to bypass Ukraine with the aid of Canada


RT
Thu, 02 Aug 2018 20:32 UTC
railroad
© Aleksandr Kryazhev / Sputnik
Canada's aerospace and transportation giant Bombardier was one of the contractors building a Russian railroad link that bypasses the war-torn territories of Ukraine, reports Globe and Mail.

The railroad stretch links the Voronezh and Rostov regions near the Ukrainian border and bypasses Ukraine's Lugansk region. The construction of the rail link between the towns of Zhuravka and Millerovo began in 2014, after the deterioration of relations between Russia and Ukraine, and was completed last year. The railroad that was used before has 26 kilometers which pass through the war-torn Lugansk region in Ukraine. The new stretch is 137 kilometers.

Bombardier, which is heavily reliant on Canadian taxpayers' money and the government projects, has confirmed it was among the contractors involved in the Russian project. The company had won an $8-million contract to install its rail-control systems along the route.
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Bullseye

Chechen leader Kadyrov wants media to stop blaming Islam for attacks on Russian journalists in CAR


RT
Thu, 02 Aug 2018 20:24 UTC
Ramzan Kadyrov
© Alexei Druzhinin / SputnikHead of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov during a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin
Head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, has blasted reports linking Islam to the fatal attacks on Russian journalists in the Central African Republic (CAR), saying that criminals remain criminals regardless of religion.

"Certain mass media write that the attack was allegedly perpetrated by the Seleka rebel group and attach the adjective 'Muslim' to this name. But the Russian reporters were shot dead not by Muslims and not by Christians, but by criminals and bandits regardless of the organization of agency that they represent," Kadyrov wrote on Wednesday in his blog on Russia's leading social network Vkontakte.

"When in the USA some young guy organizes a shooting in a school no one in mass media would specify this man's religion," Kadyrov added.
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