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Suspect detained in Germany over killing of Bulgarian journalist


RT
Thu, 11 Oct 2018 11:15 UTC
Viktoria Marinova
© AFP / Dimitar DilkoffA portrait of slain Bulgarian journalist Viktoria Marinova
A suspect linked to the slaying of Bulgarian investigative journalist Victoria Marinova has been arrested in Germany. Preliminary investigation shows that it was a "spontaneous" rape attack, according to Chief Prosecutor.

A man in his early 20s was arrested after DNA tests and other evidence linked him to the chilling crime, according to Bulgaria's Interior Minister Mladen Marinov.

He identified the man as Severin Krasimov, who lived not far from the crime scene. The suspect managed to flee to Germany before being captured there, according to local media.

Comment: Also see: Bulgarian TV host who reported misuse of EU funds raped, murdered, belongings stolen - Attack labeled 'spontaneous' by authorities

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Arrow Down

Brave New World of Gender Equality: Iceland schools teach boys to paint finger nails, massage each other

Matt Agorist
The Free thought project
Tue, 09 Oct 2018 00:00 UTC
Some schools are taking gender equality to the extreme and having boys practice female stereotypes while girls practice male stereotypes.
Gender education in School
© TheFreeThoughtProject.com
The notion that all people deserve equal rights under their governments is evolving into all people must be forced to be equal. In the name of forcing this equality-which is a dangerously slippery slope-some are going to extremes.

Boys and girls are different. One is not supreme to the other, but on a biological scale, they are not equal. To deny the basic differences like hormone production and the fact that females can get pregnant is to deny nature itself. However, this hasn't stopped people from trying to wipe these biological differences out with controversial programs.

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Heart - Black

Syria: 1400 bodies found in the largest mass grave of Daesh victims in Raqqa


Sputnik News
Wed, 10 Oct 2018 10:00 UTC
Daesh/ISIS
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Bodies of some 1,400 people killed by the Daesh* terrorist group have been found in a mass grave in the Syrian city of Raqqa, the head of Damascus-based Syrian Human Rights Network Ahmad Kazem told Sputnik on Wednesday.

"The biggest mass grave with 1,400 bodies has been found in Panorama area in Raqqa. Daesh terrorists did it," Kazem said.

Most of the victims are those accused by Daesh militants of having ties with the Syrian government and armed forces, according to Kazem. Among them are women, children, and military personnel.

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Briefcase

The sessional curse: Universities and the exploitation of academia's 'casual work force'

Dr. Binoy Kampmark
Global Research
Wed, 10 Oct 2018 21:49 UTC
Wilfrid Laurier University

Universities have become bastions of sessional torment, feeding grounds for despair. The term "sessional" is merely a euphemised way of describing an academic employee who has no ongoing employment other than what is offered, a person ever at the mercy of the subject or course coordinator of a department. They are the toiling poor, the barrel scrapers, the trudged upon and demanded.

The problem here is loathsomely international. In 2014, CBC News noted the increasing use of contracted sessionals in the university curriculum in Canada. The case of Kimberley Ellis Hale was cited, an instructor in sociology at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, who had essentially slaved for sixteen years on a precarious contract. Despite those years of service, "she has no job security. She still needs to apply to teach her courses every semester. She gets none of the perks a full time professor gets".

As with Canada, the United Kingdom's tertiary education system sees approximately half of all academic staff employed on low-paid temporary contracts. In the United States, half-time work characterises half of faculty staff while the majority do not fall within a "tenure track" category. The doors to employment security are, for the most part, barred.

Comment: There is no time for a proper education when there's so much indoctrination to be done.

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Mr. Potato

The Times is worried RT's #ICYMI videos are 'infecting' the youth of Britain ...IT'S A JOKE!


RT
Tue, 09 Oct 2018 21:29 UTC
ICYMI RT
© ICYMI / YouTubePolly Boiko - ICMY presentor
Nothing quite prepares you for the morning you wake up and find out journalists at a national newspaper have watched the clearly satirical videos you make for the internet, and decided they're front page news.

When I told my mother-in-law I'd made the front page of The Times, she congratulated me, although I'm not sure she quite understood the context.

If I wanted to pay money for someone to talk rubbish about me I don't need the Times to do it, I have a wife at home. That is a joke, not a good one, but it's important for what you're about to read that it's clear that I make jokes.
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Pirates

Manufacturing without a license is theft: Kalashnikov maker Rostec slams US for plans to produce facsimiles of Russian weapons


RT
Wed, 10 Oct 2018 10:52 UTC
Kalashnikov
© Kalashnikov.media
Russian state corporation Rostec says the production of Russian weapons in the US without a relevant license is illegal. The firm holds the majority stake in Kalashnikov Concern, the maker of the iconic AK-47 assault rifle.

The statement comes amid media reports that the US military wants to encourage domestic gunmakers to manufacture facsimiles of Russian weapons. Sanctions against Moscow prohibit their purchase from Russia. The weapons will reportedly be supplied to various militant groups in unstable regions around the world.

"The idea itself raises questions. If someone wants to do this work legally, in compliance with all the rules, they should discuss it with Rosoboronexport. Otherwise, it is an illegal copying of Russian products. In other words, it is a theft," Rostec's press service said.

Comment: Imagine the media firestorm had Russia suggested producing facsimiles of US weaponry - although that is highly unlikely given the sorry state of US made military hardware.

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Sherlock

Saudi Arabia grants Turkey permission to search for missing journalist within Saudi consulate - UPDATE


Sputnik
Tue, 09 Oct 2018 15:15 UTC
istanbul
© AP Photo / Emrah Gurel
On Friday, Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman announced that he was ready to grant Turkish authorities permission to search for the missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi within the diplomatic facility.

According to the Turkish Foreign Ministry, Riyadh has given official permission to search its Consulate General in Istanbul in order to investigate the disappearance of Khashoggi.

Addressing the case, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged Saudi Arabia to provide evidence that the journalist had exited the diplomatic facility, adding that he was personally overseeing the investigation.

Comment: Previously: Update October 10: Turkish media has released a surveillance video of 15 Saudis landing at Ataturk Airport, claiming the men were members of an elite Saudi "assassination squad," sent to kill Khashoggi. A Turkish official has said that one member of the team was an "autopsy expert." The video did not offer definitive proof about Khashoggi's fate, yet Turkish officials have said that they fear the team killed him.



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Eye 2

Psychopathic stepfather faces 22 years in jail for 'hundreds' of rapes of daughters


RT
Wed, 10 Oct 2018 19:04 UTC
scared girl
© Getty / Josie Elias
A man who sexually harassed and raped his adopted underage daughters will spend 22 years in jail, a Russian court ruled. The "monster" father reportedly abused the girls more than 900 times before one told her stepmom.

The five girls have apparently lived a family hell for at least five years after they were taken from an orphanage to in the Far Eastern city of Komsomolsk-na-Amure. As reported by Komsomolskaya Pravda, the family had a reputation for being a decent and happy unit. But behind this façade, the 38-year-old stepfather was raping, abusing and threatening the children, who in turn feared to lose the only family they had, a prosecutor revealed to the paper.

The family reportedly had the total of eight adopted children - five daughters and three sons - and received financial help from the government. The couple also reportedly has three kids of their own.
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Heart - Black

Bulgarian TV host who reported misuse of EU funds raped, murdered, belongings stolen - Attack labeled 'spontaneous' by authorities


Sputnik
Mon, 08 Oct 2018 09:24 UTC
Viktoria Marinova
© REUTERS / TVN.bgViktoria Marinova
According to local officials, her death was caused by blows to the head and suffocation. The country's interior minister has insisted that there were no signs that Marinova's death was related to her work at a local TV station.

Viktoria Marinova, a 30-year old journalist who reported on the alleged misuse of EU funds, was found brutally murdered in the northern Bulgarian town of Ruse, local TV station Nova reported on Sunday.

Her body was found on Saturday in a park near the River Danube, according to Ruse regional prosecutor Georgy Georgiev. Marinova was allegedly raped, hit repeatedly in the head, and strangled to death.

Comment: It's not yet clear whether this was a hit or just a reflection of the sorry state of society. But what is clear is that honest journalism is a rarity nowadays, and those who do expose the corruption in the upper echelons of power become targets: Update (Oct. 10): Authorities are now claiming that the brutal rape and murder of the investigative journalist was not connected to her reporting on the theft of money from EU-funded projects in Bulgaria. That seems very premature of a conclusion to make, which is ironic because the Chief Prosecutor is urging people not to "jump to conclusions". It would be very convenient for authorities if her death was a random act of violence. The attack has been compared to the recent killings of Maltese and Slovak journalists, who were investigating secret government dealings and fraud.

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Hammer

#MeToo sweeps into India: Media industry faces 'sexual predation' investigations


RT
Wed, 10 Oct 2018 14:52 UTC
#metoo
© FMT
At the start they only plagued the West, but sexual harassment claims prompted by #MeToo have now swept into India, so much so that an investigation into "sexual predation" within the media industry has been called for.

Inspired by the mass campaign movement, journalists and writers took to social media platforms Twitter and Facebook to level accusations of misconduct against figures in the entertainment industry and politics, but journalists themselves have also been accused.

The Editors Guild of India has responded to the allegations by calling on all media organizations to conduct "unbiased" investigations into reported incidences of sexual harassment against staff.

The association said in a statement on Tuesday it "extends its total support to all women journalists, who suffered a disadvantage in their careers, physical or mental trauma, as a result of any sexual predation," Reuters reports.

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