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Brave 15yo boy sacrifices himself while saving little cousin from bear in Russia


RT
Tue, 06 Nov 2018 16:07 UTC
bear
© Reuters / Ilya Naymushin
A courageous 15-year-old boy was practically ripped apart by a ferocious bear but still managed to rescue his little cousin as the two faced the animal alone in the middle of a forest in Russia's eastern Kamchatka Region.

Rodion, 15, and his cousin Boris, who is two years younger, lived in the tiny remote village of Lazo. On Monday, they went to take a steam bath, located at the weather station where the father of one of the boys worked.

The journey itself was long and challenging - the teenagers had to cross 14km of wilderness. Kamchatka is known for its large brown bear population. Since the area has yet to see any snow or freezing temperatures this year, animals that normally would be hibernating are out roaming around instead.

Locals say that in this state, bears become extremely dangerous. Sometimes they even approach towns and villages in search of food. They can attack humans, too. Just last August, bears killed a 23-year-old man who worked at the local nature reserve. An encounter with the fierce beast often means certain death for anyone, let alone a couple of unarmed teenagers.
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Star of David

British retired professor under attack from Jewish group for questioning official 9-11 story

Samuel Osborne
Independent
Wed, 07 Nov 2018 10:30 UTC
Professor Kees van der Pijl
Professor Kees van der Pijl, who was formerly head of the university’s international relations department, retired in 2012 and now lives in Amsterdam, ( University of Sussex )
Professor Kees van der Pijl, who was formerly head of the university's international relations department, retired in 2012 and now lives in Amsterdam, ( University of Sussex )

A Jewish group has called on the University of Sussex to strip a professor of his emeritus status after he claimed Israelis were behind the 11 September attacks.

Professor Kees van der Pijl, who was formerly head of the university's international relations department, tweeted to say: "Not Saudis, Israelis blew up Twin Towers with help from Zionists in US govt".

The professor, who retired in 2012 and now lives in Amsterdam, included a link to an article titled "9-11/Israel did it" by the conspiracy theory website WikiSpooks.

Comment: For those with any critical thinking abilities, it is a reasonable response to question the official conspiracy theory of what happened on 9/11: Also check out SOTT radio's:

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Pumpkin

Born-again Muslim Sinead O'Connor... erm, 'Shuhada Davitt', vows to 'never again spend time with disgusting white people'


RT
Wed, 07 Nov 2018 00:40 UTC
Sinead O'Conner
© Reuters / Ints Kalnins
Irish singer Sinead O'Connor has declared that she never again wants to spend time with "disgusting" white people in a series of tweets about her recent conversion to Islam.

O'Connor, who changed her name to Shuhada' Davitt and announced that she had become a Muslim in late October, wrote that "not for one moment, for any reason" does she want to spend time with white people in the future. In brackets, O'Connor made a somewhat inexplicable attempt to clarify her feelings by suggesting that 'white people' is a term for "non-Muslims."

The controversial 51-year-old singer also apologized for her apparent racism in the same tweet, acknowledging that her desire never to associate with white people was "so racist I never thought my soul could ever feel it."

Comment: Her company will surely not be missed.

What a looper.

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Pirates

Picture of Bolsanaro's sons wearing pro-IDF & Mossad shirts goes viral


RT
Tue, 06 Nov 2018 14:18 UTC
mossad shirt
© Eduardo Bolsonaro / Twitter
A photograph of Brazilian president-elect Jair Bolsonaro's sons sporting IDF and Mossad t-shirts has gone viral. RT set out to verify the image and find out the story behind it.

The photograph, showing Eduardo and Carlos Bolsonaro walking in Israel, is getting attention on social media in the wake of right-wing Bolsonaro's election win. The siblings are pictured donning t-shirts advertising Israel's intelligence service, Mossad, and the Israel Defense Forces.

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NPC

SOTT Focus: Liberals Are Betting More of The Same to Win US Midterm Elections

Nebojsa Malic
RT
Tue, 06 Nov 2018 20:40 UTC
media npc
The 2018 US midterm elections are shaping up to be not just a rematch of the 2016 presidential race but a rerun, as Democrats and the media seem determined to repeat the same mistakes that produced the presidency of Donald Trump.

Just look at the headlines, the polls, and the talking heads on television. Doesn't this remind you of 2016? Once again, celebrities and late-night show hosts are beseeching their fans to vote, while newspapers pen fawning pieces about Democrats "making history," the inevitability of the "Blue Wave," and the racist, racist, RACIST nature of every Republican ever, especially Trump.

The only thing that has changed is that most media outlets - which had overwhelmingly endorsed Hillary Clinton in 2016 - don't even bother hiding their preferences. Everything is out in the open now, stripped of all pretense and posturing. Ironically, that is one of the effects of the Trump presidency.
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Fire

Five men arrested for burning a Grenfell Tower effigy as they laughed about the tragedy


RT
Tue, 06 Nov 2018 20:17 UTC
grenfell effigy
A screengrab of the image shared on social media.
Five men have been arrested, after handing themselves in at a South London police station, over a video showing a Grenfell Tower effigy burning which emerged on social media, leading to public and political outrage.

The men, aged 19, 46, 55 and two 49-year-olds, were arrested on the suspicion of a public order offence, which covers intentional "harassment, alarm or distress" caused via the use of "threatening, abusive or insulting" words or signs.

Scotland Yard launched an investigation following public and political outcry over the video showing a group of people laughing as they burn an effigy of Grenfell Tower. In total, 72 people died in the blaze at the West London tower block in June last year.

Prime Minister Theresa May tweeted that the video was "utterly unacceptable," while Home Secretary Sajid Javid dubbed it "disgusting, shameful, behaviour."

Comment: Was anyone responsible for the actual building of Grenfell Tower ever arrested? UPDATE 9 November

The men behind this are members of Croydon Conservative club.

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Sheriff

Indiana mayor's cop son looks on as his coworkers beat a handcuffed suspect


RT
Tue, 06 Nov 2018 20:09 UTC
police beating
© YouTube / ProPublicaOfficers Cory Newland and Joshua Titus have been charged with criminal battery.
The mayor of Elkhart, Indiana has admitted that "in hindsight" the officers who were caught on CCTV beating a handcuffed suspect should have been given a harsher punishment by the police chief.

Earlier this year, a man was arrested by Elkhart police for felony domestic battery in front of a child as well as battery on a police officer, public intoxication, disorderly conduct, and resisting law enforcement.

CCTV footage from the police station shows the suspect spitting at officer Cory Newland before he and another cop, Joshua Titus, repeatedly punch the handcuffed man in front of two other officers - including the mayor's son. The man was subsequently wheeled out of the station on a stretcher.

Speaking about the January 12, 2018 incident, Mayor Tim Neese told ProPublica that on reflection, Police Chief Ed Windbigler should have been tougher on the cops involved.
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Eye 1

White South Africans barred from government employment initiative


RT
Tue, 06 Nov 2018 17:45 UTC
Job seekers South Africa
© Reuters / Mike HutchingsJob seekers wait for employers seeking casual labor on the streets of Cape Town
A registration process on a government partnered youth employment initiative has appeared to exclude white South Africans, sparking criticism from the country's trade union.

The YES (Youth Employment Service) government jobs website aims at helping unemployed young South Africans who have been jobless for longer than six months. The program is endorsed by the National Development Plan 2030, which intends to eliminate poverty and reduce inequality within the next 12 years.

The registration criteria on the site require the applicants to be black, in accordance with the BEE definition (Black Economic Empowerment), between the ages of 18 - 34, and South African citizens.

Comment: 'Equality' is pretty racist these days. This is as Orwellian as it gets.

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Star of David

Thanks to Israel: Nowhere to go, nowhere to live

Annelies Verbeek
The Electronic Intifada
Mon, 05 Nov 2018 00:00 UTC
Omar Arif Bisharat
© Annelies VerbeekOmar Arif Bisharat stands in front of the rubble of his home in al-Hadidiya.
With attention focused on the planned demolition of Khan al-Ahmar village, other areas of the Jordan Valley have fallen off the radar.

Out of sight, however, Israeli consolidation over the Jordan Valley is continuing apace. Last month, the Israeli army demolished several Palestinian structures in the communities of al-Hadidiya and the al-Musafa area east of Jiftlik village.

In al-Hadidiya, in the northern Jordan Valley, the bulldozers arrived on the morning of 11 October leaving Omar Arif Bisharat and eight relatives, including five children, homeless. Doles of doves soared over the rubble of his home. He raised his hands, struggling to convey the calamity of what had happened to him. In addition to his home, the army demolished six other structures, including several animal pens.

The doves, Bisharat explained, had been raised by his family. Their pen - with baby doves inside it - had been demolished along with the other structures and the birds were now circling their old home. The family's sheep, too, were homeless.

"I had no idea they were coming," Bisharat told The Electronic Intifada. "When I saw the military jeep, I thought they were coming for my neighbor's house," he added, saying that while he had received a demolition order, he thought the case was pending and he never received notice when his home was going to be demolished.
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USA

USA Gymnastics Olympic governing status revoked over mishandling of Nassar scandal


RT
Tue, 06 Nov 2018 17:27 UTC
US Olympic gymnast
© Reuters/Brian Snyder
The US Olympic Committee is ousting USA Gymnastics from its representation of the sport at the Olympic level, leaving over 150,000 athletes with no leadership as the body fails to recover from the Nassar molestation scandal.

USA Gymnastics has failed to rebuild its organization in the wake of the revelations that team doctor Larry Nassar had abused many of the girls in his care. There is no other organization available to take on the Olympic and elite athletes managed by the group.

USOC CEO Sarah Hirshland opted to strip USA Gymnastics of their title just a few days after the US team won nine medals at the World Championships, the first major competition in the runup to 2020's Tokyo Games.
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