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US fines Brazil's oil giant Petrobras $853mn for bribery


RT
Thu, 27 Sep 2018 15:49 UTC
oil refinery
© Pilar Olivares / Reuters
The US Justice Department said on Thursday that Brazilian oil company Petrobras has been fined millions of dollars for paying bribes to Brazilian politicians and political parties.

Assistant Attorney General Brian Benczkowski said in a statement that Petrobras executives at "the highest levels," including board members, orchestrated hundreds of millions in bribes "and then cooked the books to conceal the bribe payments from investors and regulators."

The payment includes a tentative deal to pay $682.6 million to a Brazil fund, and an additional $170.6 million equally split between the US Justice Department and the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Fire

Kuwait skyscraper inferno: 2,500 workers escape building fire without injury


RT
Thu, 27 Sep 2018 15:09 UTC
National Bank of Kuwait
© ReutersSmoke rises from the construction site of the headquarters of the National Bank of Kuwait.
An under-construction skyscraper in Kuwait, set to become the headquarters of the National Bank, has seen 2,500 workers scurry to flee the flames and black smoke that engulfed the tower.

Social media videos show flames licking at the lower levels of the skyscraper, as plumes of thick, black smoke are seen billowing into the sky. The Bank of Kuwait called the blaze a "partial fire in the new NBK headquarters construction site." It released a statement saying that the 2,500 workers were "evacuated from the site in a record time without any injuries."
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Mr. Potato

Pussy Riot founder claims he was target of Russian-govt ordered poisoning


RT
Thu, 27 Sep 2018 14:43 UTC
Pyotr Verzilov
© Ramil Sitdikov / SputnikPyotr Verzilov at a rally on Trubnaya Square in Moscow to support the election of opposition's coordinating council
German doctors cannot determine the substance used in the alleged poisoning of the Russian artist who was sent abroad by his fellow art group members, apparently in hopes of confirming the theory of government involvement.

The artist in question is Pyotr Verzilov - one of the founders of the notorious Voina Art Group, and the mastermind behind the 'performance art' of self-styled 'punk band' Pussy Riot. Verzilov recently began working for the Mediazona news site, which specializes in the rights of inmates in Russian prisons and criminal suspects and convicts in general.

Comment: The traction these degenerates get in the Western media is sickening.

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Hammer

Leftist indoctrination: Tulane University mandates new students take 'race and inclusion' course

Toni Airaksinen
Campus Reform
Fri, 21 Sep 2018 15:25 UTC
college indoctrination Tulane university
Students have mixed reactions to the requirement, mostly falling along ideological and political party lines.
Tulane University now requires all incoming students to enroll in a "Race and Inclusion" course, a new addition to the curriculum that has been condemned by some students for its lack of acknowledgment of viewpoint diversity.

In a recent press release, Tulane announced that all new enrollees will be mandated to enroll in a course that focuses at least 60 percent of it content on "race and inclusion" to help students understand the "increasingly diverse society" they live in.

Courses such as "Dear White People," "Critical Race Theory," "Introduction to Fiction: Race and Inclusion," and "Difference and Inequality" all fit the "Race and Inclusion" course requirement.

Professor Michael Cunningham, who advocated for the new requirement but won't be teaching any of the classes, told Campus Reform that the new requirement was partially prompted by students' disappointment with the lack of diversity engagement on campus.

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Stock Down

Ford reports $1bn in lost profits thanks to Trump's trade wars


RT
Thu, 27 Sep 2018 11:21 UTC
Ford US flag
© Larry Downing / Reuters
US President Donald Trump's tariffs are intended to help America's iconic companies. However, Ford's boss is not that happy about Washington's trade duties.

"From Ford's perspective the metals tariffs took about $1 billion in profit from us," CEO James Hackett told a Bloomberg conference in New York. "The irony of which is we source most of that in the US today anyway. If it goes on any longer, it will do more damage."

Hackett was referring to Trump's steel and aluminum tariffs against America's largest trading partners including China, Canada and Europe. Ford's CEO didn't specify the period of the losses incurred, but a spokesman for the company said he was referring to internal forecasts for higher tariff-related costs in 2018 and 2019.

Comment: Also see: Please God, no: Trade tensions between US and China could drag on for decades

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War Whore

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Celebrity scientist - and salesman for the military-industrial-complex

T.J. Coles
Counterpunch
Fri, 14 Sep 2018 00:00 UTC
Neil deGrasse Tyson
© ricia McKinney | CC BY 2.0
The idea for this article came from one of those annoying "Recommended for you" thumbnails on YouTube. The title was: "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Trump's Space Force Is Not a Crazy Idea." Having written about and researched space weapons for over a decade, I was intrigued as to why a seemingly intelligent man (Tyson) would want to help promote an agenda that will literally imperil us all, namely the weaponization of space: the end-game of which is global domination in the interests of economic neoliberalism. So I clicked. Tyson was talking to host Stephen Colbert about the wonders of space militarization (by the US, of course, not its enemies).


Comment: That's it, Mr. Tyson - keep normalizing the development of tools for technological destruction and dominance because of all the kewl science that can be derived from it.

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2 + 2 = 4

Dumbing down America: Teacher dismissed from job for not giving her students 'partial credit' for no work done

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Wed, 26 Sep 2018 00:00 UTC
teacher's message
A teacher in Port St. Lucie, Florida is now speaking out about how she was fired for refusing to give students partial credit for work that they never turned in. That's right, for giving students a zero for completing zero percent of their work, Diane Tirado says she was fired. School policy dictates that she was supposed to give them at least 50 percent-for nothing.

"I got fired. I was packing my stuff, and I was not going to see the kids," former teacher, Diane Tirado said.

Because she wasn't allowed to say goodbye to her students, Tirado wrote the following message on her whiteboard, explaining what happened. The words are profound and expose a major problem with "education" in America today.
"Bye kids, Mrs. Tirado loves you and wishes you the best in life! I have been fired for refusing to give you a 50% for not handing anything in. [heart] Mrs. Tirado."

Comment: This story reflects a much larger problem in the US: The cult of ignorance in the United States: Anti-intellectualism and the "dumbing down" of America

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Cardboard Box

What do 'Zombie Apocalypse' movies actually tell us?

Janet Phelan
Activist Post
Sat, 22 Sep 2018 00:00 UTC
Zombie film
The "Zombie Apocalypse" movies present a scenario in which part of the human race has morphed into flesh-consuming predators. It falls upon the unaltered, those still ostensibly human and non-predator, to restore the world and its people back to "normality," back to a situation wherein predatory and altered humans are either extinguished or changed back to humans.

Often the genesis of alteration from human to flesh-eating zombie is ascribed to an act of science-gone-wrong, as in the case of the film, I Am Legend. At the outset of this 2007 film, we see a clip of an interview with a well-intentioned scientist, whose efforts at genetic manipulation, intending to cure cancer, end up causing the zombie outbreak.

Besides providing fast-paced entertainment and an adrenaline rush, what do the Zombie Apocalypse movies actually reveal? They present us with a world where the human population has been divided in two-predator and prey-and prey must find a way both to survive and to return the world back to a semblance of normality.

Comment: To answer the author's excellent question: Understanding psychopathy - and the myriad of forces that strengthen its propagation - would seem to be a good start.

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Black rapper's 'hang white people' video triggers outrage in France


RT
Thu, 27 Sep 2018 09:36 UTC
Nick Conrad french rapper
© Nick Conrad / YouTubeStill from the now-deleted video.
A young French rapper has made it into the headlines with a graphic music video calling for white people to be killed. And while he's shot to fame, with it has come widespread outrage and an investigation into his "art".

The video features violent scenes of the rapper, Nick Conrad, and another black man torturing and killing a white male. The duo give the man a chance to escape, telling him to run fast - "as the blacks do" - then shoot him in the back for being too slow. Conrad then forces the white man to bite a kerbstone and stomps on his head, in an apparent reference to the movie American History X. The victim is then seen hanged from a post behind the rapper and his sidekicks.

The graphic footage is accompanied by equally shocking lyrics, with Conrad rapping "I go to nurseries and kill white babies" while hanging their parents "to entertain black kids of all ages."

The video, uploaded to Youtube on September 17, gained several thousand views before being removed on Wednesday. Clips from the video, however, are still available on some Youtube accounts and other sites.

Comment: One wonders; had this happened in the US, where 'social justice' and 'white guilt' have become what seems like the norm, would there have been any condemnation by the media or government? Or would he have gotten a job at the New York Times, like Sarah Jeong?

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Pirates

Even Ukraine's own newspapers report bribery problem worse now than in 2015

Oksana Grytsenko
Kyiv Post
Tue, 25 Sep 2018 18:14 UTC
bribe
Despite government promises to tackle corruption, Ukrainians say they encounter bribery even more frequently in 2018 than they did in 2015, according to a study published on Sept. 25.

A joint study by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology and Pact, an international non-profit, found that the index on demanding bribes rose from 20.9 points in a similar study performed in 2015, to 25.4 points in the 2018 study. The index tracking the giving of bribes also rose, from 6.6 points in 2015 to 7.8 points in 2018.

Almost 37 percent of those polled claimed they had been asked to give bribes, and almost 15 percent said they had offered bribes in 2018, according to the poll.

The study was conducted in July and August, with more than 10,000 people polled nationally. Similar studies have been conducted every four years since 2007.

Comment: Ukraine only has itself and its US masters to thank for the dire situation they find themselves in: Also check out SOTT radio's:

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