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Radical anti-Putin stars, once beloved by the West, now face prison in Europe


RT
Fri, 21 Sep 2018 17:07 UTC
Russian opposition activists
Russian opposition stars were once hailed by the Western media and beloved by Europe - but not so much now that they live there! The countries they fled to are now investigating them for criminal activities.

Oleg Vorotnikov - founder of the controversial Voina (War) art band, and wanted in Russia for assaulting police officers in 2011 at an unsanctioned rally - has now been charged with illegal weapons possession and trafficking in Austria, the group itself reported. There has so far been no independent confirmation that the artist is facing arrest.

Vorotnikov, also nicknamed 'Vor' (the Russian word for 'thief'), rose to prominence along with his wife, fellow 'actionist' Natalia Sokol.

The couple engaged in a series of bizarre stunts, including drawing a giant penis outside the security service building in St. Petersburg, and gatecrashing a biology museum to perform group sex in public.

Pussy Riot, which gained notoriety in 2012 after bursting into Moscow's main cathedral during mass and performing a profanity-laden punk song, are a splinter group from Vorotnikov's movement.
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Why is it everyone notices when a single Israeli settler is killed, but not when hundreds of Palestinians are murdered?

Jonathan Ofir
Mondoweiss
Fri, 21 Sep 2018 15:32 UTC
Ari Fuld
© Ari Fuld / FacebookAri Fuld
On Sunday, the Israeli settler Ari Fuld was stabbed by a Palestinian child of 17, Khalil Jabarin, at the entrance to a mall near the West Bank's Gush Etzion Junction. Fuld was armed with a pistol, ran after Jabarin, and managed to shoot him. Jabarin was reportedly shot by others as well yet survived. Fuld succumbed to his wounds shortly after.

Fuld was a prominent right-wing pundit (here he is on Israeli News Talk Radio, hailing the detention at Ben Gurion airport of Peter Beinart and advocating that all leftists should be detained), and his American background helped him in reaching out to many Americans and other English speakers.

This piece could have been about so many other deaths in Palestine or Israel. It could have been about the six Palestinians who were murdered by Israeli forces a couple of days later, which PLO Executive Committee official Dr. Hana Ashrawi strongly condemned:
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Swedish professor of neuroscience may lose job for transgressing on transgender ideology

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Thu, 20 Sep 2018 20:10 UTC
Germund Hesslow
Germund Hesslow, is a professor in the Department of Experimental Medical Science
Neuroscience Section, at Lund University
A university professor in Sweden is under investigation for "anti-feminism" and "transphobia" after he said that there are fundamental differences between men and women which are "biologically founded" and that genders cannot be regarded as "social constructs alone," reports Academic Rights Watch.

For his transgression, Germund Hesslow - a professor of neuroscience at Lund University - who holds dual PhDs in philosophy and neurophysiology, may lose his job - telling RT that a "full investigation" has been ordered, and that there "have been discussions about trying to stop the lecture or get rid of me, or have someone else give the lecture or not give the lecture at all."

"If you answer such a question you are under severe time pressure, you have to be extremely brief - and I used wording which I think was completely innocuous, and that apparently the student didn't," Hesslow said.

Hesslow was ordered to attend a meeting by Christer Larsson, chairman of the program board for medical education, after a female student complained that Hesslow had a "personal anti-feminist agenda." He was asked to distance himself from two specific comments; that gay women have a "male sexual orientation" and that the sexual orientation of transsexuals is "a matter of definition."

Comment: Anyone who dares to challenge transgender ideology (even with scientifically accurate facts), risks being subjected to a virulent backlash from trans-activist mobs.

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US Olympic women's volleyball star indicted for first-degree murder, child abuse in Puerto Rico


RT
Fri, 21 Sep 2018 13:23 UTC
Kim Willoughby
© PEDRO UGARTE / AFP
Former US Olympic volleyball player Kim Willoughby has been indicted for first-degree murder and child abuse as part of an investigation into the death of a toddler in Puerto Rico, according to reports.

Willoughby, who was part of the US team that won silver at the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008, was indicted over the 2016 death of a three-year-old girl whom she was reportedly seeking to adopt.

The former athlete, 37, had previously argued that the toddler had died in her care after slipping and hitting her head in the shower, according to Fox News.

However, prosecutors presented new evidence in the case which is said to suggest that the girl's injuries were not consistent with the former athlete's account of events.
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Former Southwest Airline employee sues company over 'whites only' break room & home-made 'noose'


RT
Fri, 21 Sep 2018 10:08 UTC
Southwest Airlines
© Jason Redmond / Reuters
Southwest Airlines is being sued over racial discrimination claims, with a former employee stating that there was a 'whites only' staff break room at Houston's airport, and that black staff once found a noose made of bungee cords.

In the federal lawsuit, plaintiff Jamel Parker claims that his co-workers established a 'whites only' break room at William P. Hobby Airport, and that the segregation persisted for years.

He says he became aware of the "WB" -short for "white break room"- after joining the airline in 2013. His supervisor was allegedly aware of the situation but did nothing about it, and the break room was only removed due to renovations which converted it into an office in 2016 or 2017.

According to the lawsuit, in another sign of racial intimidation black employees found a noose made of bungee cords at a gate controlled by Southwest in 2017. "Nooses are an obvious reference to the history of lynching blacks and are hung for the purpose of intimidation and discrimination," reads the lawsuit, which was published online by the Houston Chronicle.
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Multiple deaths reported in shooting in Harford County, Maryland - Shooter was disgruntled female employee


RT
Thu, 20 Sep 2018 17:00 UTC
harford county shooting
© Google MapsThe business park where the shooting reportedly took place
Three people have been killed and at least two injured in a shooting in Harford County, Maryland. The local Sheriff's Office says that the situation is "secure"

The shooting took place in a business park in Perryman, a small town less than 30 miles northeast of Baltimore.

Deputies were dispatched to the scene shortly after 9am Thursday morning, and the FBI and ATF responded to assist with the "active shooter situation" shortly afterwards.

It is still unknown whether the suspect has been captured or killed, but law enforcement says the situation is "secure."

Comment: Further details on the shooting reveal that a temporary employee at a drug distribution center was the attacker. She shot people outside her job and on the warehouse floor before shooting herself fatally in the head.

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Montana restaurant slammed online for canceling rally hosted by Trump Jr.


RT
Fri, 21 Sep 2018 13:04 UTC
stop sign
The Republican Party is scrambling after a restaurant cancelled a booking for a rally hosted by Donald Trump Jr. The venue says it wants to stay out of politics, but some angry Trump supporters have slammed the move online.

The president's son and ex-Fox News personality Kimberly Guilfoyle are scheduled to campaign in Bozeman, Montana next week for Republican Senate candidate Matt Rosendale. They had planned to host a large dinner where Trump and Guilfoyle intended to speak to more than 200 people who had reportedly reserved tickets - but Bozeman's Midtown Tavern had other plans.

Manager of the restaurant Jeff Wilcox told the Bozeman Daily Chronicle that he won' host the rally as the venue does not "want to take political sides."Wilcox told the paper that the announcement that the Midtown Tavern would host the rally was a miscommunication, as that is "just not who we are. We just try to stay politically neutral."
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'We still get replaced by a man': Afghan women on failed US gender equality program


RT
Fri, 21 Sep 2018 12:43 UTC
afghani women
© Parwiz / Reuters
The ambitious, $216 million US program for female empowerment has failed Afghan women, a new report said. Speaking to RT, women in the crisis-stricken country said that they hadn't seen any changes.

Announced in 2013, the Promoting Gender Equity in National Priority Programs were aimed at improving the status of more than 75,000 young Afghan women, at the cost of around $216 million.

Five years into the program, a report from Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) says that USAID has failed to make much headway on just about any of its objectives, despite $89.7 million spent as of April 2018.

Many lives would have been changed for the better had the US spent the money properly, Nazia, head of a sewing center in Nangarhar Province, told RT.
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More than half of Detroit schools test positive for high levels of lead & copper in drinking water


RT
Fri, 21 Sep 2018 12:05 UTC
water contaminants
© Guillermo Granja
More than half of Detroit public schools have tested positive for high levels of lead and copper after their drinking water was inspected over safety concerns.

Elevated levels of lead and copper were detected in the water of 57 schools, according to the Detroit Public Schools Community District (DPSCD). The body is still awaiting results for 27 more schools.

Michigan's largest school district initiated the widespread tests after a previous examination last year uncovered high elevations of lead and/or copper in 16 of 24 schools. Drinking water was turned off in the affected schools and water coolers and bottled water was supplied.

Comment: With toxic levels of lead comes toxic levels of violence and neurological disorders:
[L]ead is a double whammy: It impairs specific parts of the brain responsible for executive functions and it impairs the communication channels between these parts of the brain. For children like the ones in the Cincinnati study, who were mostly inner-city kids with plenty of strikes against them already, lead exposure was, in Cecil's words, an "additional kick in the gut." And one more thing: Although both sexes are affected by lead, the neurological impact turns out to be greater among boys than girls.

Other recent studies link even minuscule blood lead levels with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Even at concentrations well below those usually considered safe - levels still common today - lead increases the odds of kids developing ADHD.
Children ingesting even the tiniest amounts of lead at school are being set up for failure. And, according to recent reports, this problem is only growing across the United States. Studies of 34 states suggest that at least 3,810 neighborhoods have lead levels double those in Flint, Michigan, while half of those sites have levels four times as high.

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Germany sees sharp rise in violent attacks against journalists in 2018


RT
Thu, 20 Sep 2018 17:56 UTC
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© Jason Cairnduff / Reuters
Germany has seen a rise in the number of journalists being attacked while merely doing their jobs, according to a report from the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF). Most of the perpetrators lean to the far-right.

A total of 28 journalists have suffered 22 verified physical assaults so far in 2018, according to the report. That number is a significant increase from last year, when there were only five registered attacks against members of the media.

The report found that most of the journalists were attacked while they were photographing, filming, or holding cameras during demonstrations or events. The perpetrators often targeted them because they believed they were being filmed against their will.

"The readiness to commit violent acts especially at gatherings has grown, and also the readiness of some 'angry citizens' to tolerate and legitimate violence against journalists is remarkable," the ECPMF said.

Comment: Across the planet we're seeing a rise in violence committed by protestors on both extremes of the political spectrum. Also check out SOTT radio's:

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