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SOTT Focus: Netflix: N-bombs, NOT OK; Sexual Exploitation of Children, OK

Doug DiPasquale
Sott.net
Thu, 28 Jun 2018 14:00 UTC
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Taking a look at the #boycottnetflix hashtag on Twitter, it seems that lots of people have reason to be pissed at the streaming service. If you sort through the people who are mad about the media giant cancelling their favourite shows, and the reactionary cancellations due to the service carrying the latest Star Wars travesty, you'll find the two biggest reasons people are calling for boycotts and cancelling their accounts are because the Netflix CEO was a little too comfortable with the N-word (for which he was fired) and that the streaming service has made a deal with Barack and Michelle Obama to create new content.

The N-word thing is kinda weird, in so much as people are boycotting the service after Netflix fired the offending... offender. The hashtag seems to be being used by anti-racists, so I'm not sure what they're trying to accomplish there. It kind of seems like they're sending the opposite message of what's intended, unless they think the company should be taught a lesson for ever having someone on staff who regularly throws around N-bombs, despite the fact that they tried to do the right thing by firing him. But no one ever accused progressives of being intelligent in their strategies.

The Obama thing - fine. I'm sure Netflix crunched the numbers and figured out how many QAnon-following MAGA conservatives they'd lose versus how many dyed-in-the-wool Obama-4eva regressive lefties they'd gain and made their choice accordingly. From a business perspective, I can't really fault them for that one. Because of the willing delusion of his scores of fans, Obama 4eva = $$$.
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Man stabbed to death in north London, 81st murder this year


RT
Thu, 28 Jun 2018 09:20 UTC
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© LNPFILE PHOTO: The Metropolitan Police said the boy remains in a critical condition, while the woman’s injuries are not life threatening
Scotland Yard has launched its 81st murder investigation this year after a 20-year-old man was stabbed to death in Edmonton, north London.

London's Metropolitan Police said officers were called, shortly after 6:30 pm on Wednesday, to reports of a brawl between baseball bat-wielding men.

The victim was found with stab wounds on Cavendish Road, despite paramedics' attempts to save him, he was pronounced dead at the scene.

"At this early stage officers retain an open mind as to motive," a police spokesman said.

Comment: Clearly the sky-rocketing rates of violent crime are a symptom of a much wider problem plaguing the UK, which include decades of 'austerity' induced poverty to the overall deterioration of western society:

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Bizarro Earth

Hundreds of maids ready to escape abusive employees in Saudi Arabia


Middle East Eye
Tue, 26 Jun 2018 10:20 UTC
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© MEE/Kaamil AhmedMore than 100 women came back to Bangladesh after facing abuse inside Saudi Arabia
At least 22 Bangladeshi women returned to their home country on Tuesday after escaping abusive employers in Saudi Arabia - as hundreds of other female workers remain in immigration centres inside the country awaiting repatriation.

The returnees told aid workers that Saudi bosses inflicted physical and sexual abuse, which drove them all to run away.

Many of the women coming back to Bangladesh have returned home with the help of NGO BRAC's migration programme and waited months to go back. The organisation helps Bangladeshi female and male overseas workers escape their abusive employers.

"Several women we spoke to said the abuse began after demanding unpaid wages," Noyon al-Amin, a caseworker for BRAC, told Middle East Eye.

Comment: The way a society treats the less fortunate amongst them is very telling. And these kinds of stories of slave labour and sickening violence are a common occurrence from those who've worked in Saudi Arabia:

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Airplane

5 people dead as government plane crashes in Mumbai


Sputnik
Thu, 28 Jun 2018 11:00 UTC
The plane crashed while landing at the Mumbai Airport
The plane crashed while landing at the Mumbai Airport
Indian police say a chartered plane belonging to a state government has crashed in a busy district of Mumbai, the country's financial and entertainment capital.

It is unclear how many people were on board the aircraft, five people have been found dead, the police said.

"Five people have succumbed to their injuries after the chartered plane crashed, including one pilot, three co-passengers and a pedestrian," a Mumbai police spokesman said.
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Attention

White Helmets are helping Syrian militants prepare 'false flag' chemical attack, warn Idlib residents


RT
Thu, 28 Jun 2018 08:16 UTC
White Helmets
© Hosam Katan / Reuters
The notorious White Helmets have brought chemicals, protective gear and cameras to militant-controlled Idlib in Syria, in an apparent preparation of yet another false-flag attack, locals told the Russian Reconciliation Center.

A convoy of six vehicles, bearing the emblems of the White Helmets, reportedly arrived in the capital of Idlib province over the weekend, the head of the Russian Reconciliation Center, major general Aleksey Tsygankov, told journalists on Wednesday.

One of the trucks was loaded with missiles and canisters containing unknown substances, as well as protective gear and filming equipment. Local residents reported seeing four persons, wearing hazmat protection gear, filling the warheads with this liquid and some unknown powder. The convoy then reportedly left for the small town of Maarat al-Numaan, south of the city of Idlib.

Comment: See also:

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Veteran lights himself on fire in front of Georgia Capitol to protest horrific treatment by Department of Veterans Affairs

Rachel Blevins
The Free Thought Project
Wed, 27 Jun 2018 00:00 UTC
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A veteran protesting the VA, burned 90 percent of his body when he strapped homemade incendiary devices to himself and covered himself in flammable liquid.

In a horrific scene that was meant to raise awareness about the cruel treatment he endured from the Department of Veterans Affairs, an Air Force Veteran used a combination of fireworks and gasoline to set himself on fire.

John Michael Watts, 58, approached the Georgia Capitol in downtown Atlanta around 10:45 a.m. on Tuesday and within minutes, he was engulfed in flames that burned 90 percent of his body.
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Question

Where does one draw the line in today's crazed and politicized America?

Michael Krieger
Liberty Blitzkrieg
Tue, 26 Jun 2018 10:41 UTC
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If you vote for Trump, then you the voter, you, not Donald Trump, are standing at the border like Nazis going 'you here, you here'.
- Donny Deutsch on MSNBC last week
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. - Friedrich Nietzsche
With each passing day, Trump's hardcore supporters and detractors become more deeply entrenched in their respective corners and grow more hysterical. With every turn of the news cycle, we see two groups increasingly and equally convinced that only they and their allies can save the nation from total ruin. As someone who isn't a cheerleader for any politician or political party, it's fascinating to watch. It's also made me consider where to draw the line when it comes to political action or commentary.

First off, we need to understand that an increasingly centralized, corrupt and unaccountable government making decisions for 325 million people will be inherently and systemically abusive toward the citizenry. To confront this reality we need resistance, but it can't be the superficial, purely partisan kind.
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Straight couple win the right to marry like gay couples do


RT
Wed, 27 Jun 2018 20:58 UTC
Rebecca Steinfeld and Charles Keidan
© Rob Pinney/Global Look PressRebecca Steinfeld and Charles Keidan arrive at the Supreme Court ahead of Wednesday's ruling
A heterosexual couple, who want to show their everlasting commitment to each other without entering into the patriarchal contract that is marriage, have won a legal battle to enter a civil partnership instead.

Rebecca Steinfeld, 37, and Charles Keidan, 41, from west London, won their case in the Supreme Court after it was unanimously decided by five justices that the Civil Partnership Act 2004 was incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights.
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Oil Well

Protests in Iran due to state of economy as Rouhani blames US


Times of India
Tue, 26 Jun 2018 19:59 UTC
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© APIranian protesters attend the annual anti-Israeli Al-Quds Day rally in Tehran, Iran
Angry protesters in Iran's capital held a third day of demonstrations on Tuesday over the country's anaemic economy as President Hassan Rouhani told the nation that it faces an "economic war" with the United States following America's pullout from the nuclear deal.

While online videos showed demonstrators again confronting police on Tehran's streets and alleyways, the protests looked far smaller than those on Monday, when security forces fired tear gas on crowds in front of parliament.

Earlier on Monday, demonstrators forced the temporary closure of Tehran's Grand Bazaar and on Sunday, protests forced two major shopping centers for mobile phones and electronics to close in Tehran.

Rage persists over the plunging of the Iranian rial to 90,000 to the dollar -- double the government rate of 42,000 rials to $1 -- as people watch their savings dwindle and shopkeepers hold onto some goods, uncertain of their true value.

Part of the economic uncertainty comes from President Donald Trump's decision to pull America out of the nuclear deal and re-impose sanctions on Iran, even though other world powers have pledged to stand by the accord.

Comment: Get ready to hear the hysterical cries coming from the West about Iran repressing its own people and the need for regime change.

See also: Iran Protests Through the Prism of Geopolitics

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Fire

Clarion call and the rise of the mob

Ben Shapiro
Townhall
Wed, 27 Jun 2018 20:10 UTC
Maxine Waters
This week, Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., issued a clarion call to Democrats outraged at the policies of the Trump administration: It's time for mob action. In the wake of mobs targeting Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen and Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, Waters explained: "God is on our side! On the side of the children ... Let's make sure we show up wherever we have to show up. And if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them and you tell them they're not welcome anymore, anywhere."

Waters has always been a fan of mob action. She infamously touted the violent and brutal 1992 Los Angeles riots, which did approximately $1 billion in property damage and ended with 63 people dead. Waters called the events a "rebellion," labeling them a "spontaneous reaction to a lot of injustice and a lot of alienation and frustration." And yet Waters has been affectionately nicknamed "Auntie Maxine" thanks to her rabid attacks against the Trump administration.

Comment:
"Skin in the Game": New political treatise for liberty that upends the golden rule

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