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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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Assange reveals biggest threat to humanity in latest released recording before blackout


Sputnik
Fri, 21 Sep 2018 10:02 UTC
Julian Assange
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Before being cut from almost all means of communication with the outside world in March, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who remains in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, has shared his outlook on threats the humanity faces in connection with AI development and data protection.

One of the world's most famous whistleblowers, Julian Assange, sought by the US for leaking classified documents through his site WikiLeaks on the Iraqi war for almost a decade, has predicted a grim scenario which is "very unstable about technological civilization," claiming it "doesn't go on for long" because of very rapid competition in the wired-up world.

"It can produce very robust artificial intelligences that can be coupled with states. You can see this in the United States and China... these two forces are going to take all the market. And the rapid competition between them with the backing and support of the states behind them, exacerbation of the commercial competition through the geopolitical competition will lead to an uncontrollable desire for growth of the artificial intelligence capacity, leading to a very severe conflict or stultification. That's our biggest threat," he said in the video, recorded before his almost complete blackout and released by the organizers of the World Ethical Data Forum in Barcelona.

According to the WikiLeaks founder, "that geopolitical competition harnessed by the largest artificial intelligence companies" are poised "to ratchet up a process which human beings can no longer control."

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Fears serial killer loose after second woman stabbed to death in provincial Russian town in 24 hrs


RT
Thu, 20 Sep 2018 20:05 UTC
The first victim was found on Wednesday night, and the second on Thursday afternoon.
© VK.comThe first victim was found on Wednesday night, and the second on Thursday afternoon.
The northern Russian town of Petrozavodsk has been plunged into panic with rumors of a serial killer, after two young women were found dead less than a day apart. Police have arrested a potential suspect.

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT

20-year-old fourth-year medicine student Lyudmila Serebryakova stepped outside her halls of residence in a well-lit part of town on Wednesday night.

The attack was sudden and brutal - stab wounds to the stomach and neck. Serebryakova, described as a "popular student from a good family", who left her relatives behind in her small village to study, died before the ambulance arrived.

In the aftermath, a panic. Some eyewitnesses told locals that they saw a man in camouflage gear waiting outside the dorms.

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Salisbury hoaxers revealed to be drug dealer, 'high-class' prostitute - Shapiro claims she used to work for Mossad

Chris Hughes
UK Mirror
Thu, 20 Sep 2018 09:53 UTC
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© Daily Mail
The man at the centre of the latest Salisbury Novichok scare is a suspected pusher of cocaine, ecstasy, diazepam and ketamine.

Alex King, 42, is charged with 12 counts of possession with intent to supply class A, B and C drugs and is on bail until his trial next year.

King and Russian wife Anna Shapiro fell violently ill whilst dining in the Wiltshire town on Sunday but both have been discharged from hospital.

The glamour model told friends recently that she was a "honeytrap spy" tasked with seducing men for Israeli spy agency Mossad.

The Mirror can also reveal she is a high-class £4,000 a-night escort.

The newlyweds were rushed to hospital in separate ambulances and King was put in an induced coma.

Medics in protective biochemical suits "decontaminated" Anna and a waiter who helped her with King.

Comment: The Sun already removed their original coverage of Shapiro's claims, because she is obviously a publicity-seeker without a shred of credibility. But this latest bit of 'news' adds a whole new dimension of strangeness. A 'former' spy for Mossad? More lies for the sake of publicity? Or is there more to this story than meets the eye? Probably the former. King has a history of pulling pranks. Police are investigating whether or not their story is a hoax and have interviewed the couple. King is NOT in a medically-induced coma.

See also: Hysterical: UK Sun hypes low-profile Russian model's claim that Putin "wants her dead" after rat poison incident - UPDATE

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Twitter allows paid FGM ad to appear on platform - removed after user outrage


RT
Thu, 20 Sep 2018 09:42 UTC
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© Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP
Twitter is facing outrage after a sponsored ad promoting a form of female genital mutilation (FGM) for young girls appeared on the social media platform and was viewed more than 30,000 times.

A Muslim women's activist group called Dawoodi Bohra posted the tweet promoting "khafz" for young girls, which is a kind of female circumcision. One of the group's members, Arwa Sohangpurwala, is seen in the video saying that her own daughters have undergone the procedure. Her daughters, she says, are "growing up as perfectly as other children of their age" and that as a mother, she would "never do anything to harm them".


Comment: ...except mutilating their genitals. That's some 'women's activism'!


Twitter immediately faced backlash for allowing the practice to be promoted on its platform. The social media giant responded by taking down the promoted post, saying that it had been removed for "violation of our policies" - but the original non-promoted tweet was not removed and can still be viewed on Twitter.

Comment: It's pretty remarkable that in our 'modern civilization', adults are still seemingly obsessed with slicing off pieces of their children's genitals - female AND male. What's even more remarkable is that for all the westerners outraged at the practice of FGM, most of them have no problem with MGM (i.e., male genital mutilation, aka circumcision). Barbarism dies slowly.

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Social contagion: Australian fruit-needle scare spreads to bananas, mangos


RT
Thu, 20 Sep 2018 09:24 UTC
Strawberries
Australia's controversial fruit scandal has spread to mangos, after a customer found a needle embedded in the fruit after purchasing it at a supermarket.

The customer claims to have bought the compromised mango at a Coles supermarket in New South Wales on Monday, and reported the disturbing find to local police when they noticed the item in it two days later.

"Police have seized the needle for forensic examination. No persons were injured," said Chief Inspector Nigel Webber to the Central Coast Gosford Express Advocate. Coles also said they were investigating the tampering and advised people to cut their fruit before they consume it.


Comment: Thoughts, emotions and behaviors are contagious, often remarkably so, and dangerously. For the low-down, see Lee Daniel Kravetz's Strange Contagion: Inside the Surprising Science of Infectious Behaviors and Viral Emotions and What They Tell Us About Ourselves.

See also: Social contagion? Fears of copycat spread in wake of multiple accounts of strawberries contaminated with needles in Australia

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How non-Russian pro-Russians turned on Russia because it didn't attack Israel in response to plane downing tragedy

Andrew Korybko
Eurasia Future
Wed, 19 Sep 2018 00:00 UTC
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Observing the frenzy of hateful attacks that were directed against Russia yesterday by some of those on social media who earlier claimed to be its "supporters", it's safe to say that many "Non-Russian Pro-Russians" never really cared for the country in and of itself but were misled by Alt-Media dogma into thinking that it was an "anti-Zionist crusader state" dedicated to "Israel's" destruction, hence the fury with which they responded when none other than President Putin ruined their political dreams and triggered their verbally violent reactions.

A lot of what transpired yesterday in the Alt-Media Community was beyond shameful and will go down as one of the most infamous moments ever in that sphere, and that's because many "Non-Russian Pro-Russians" (NRPR) who earlier claimed to "support" the country rabidly reacted with the most neocon-like Russophobia against the former object of what could rightly be called their "obsession" after President Putin refused to blame "Israel" for Monday night's tragic event and didn't order the hoped-for kinetic response (ideally, as they wished, a nuclear one) against it in retaliation. The comments section under countless articles about the "crisis"-that-never-was were swamped by people who previously professed the utmost love for Russia but suddenly turned against it after its leader attributed the shooting down of its plane to a "chain of tragic circumstances" and noticeably didn't blame "Israel" for what happened.
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Two teens arrested in Kent, UK on suspicion of plotting terrorist attacks


RT
Thu, 20 Sep 2018 12:48 UTC
UK police
© Olivia Harris / Reuters
Two 15-year-old boys have been arrested by counter-terrorism officers on suspicion of preparing to carry out far-right terrorist acts. The teenagers were arrested in Kent, south-east England.

The duo are currently being questioned on suspicion of offences under the Terrorism Act after being arrested at addresses in the seaside town of Ramsgate. The arrests took place after "pre-planned and intelligence-led raids" on their properties.

The South East Counter Terrorism Unit confirmed the alleged offences were related to far-right ideology.
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Nearly half of people living in major US cities don't speak English at home


RT
Thu, 20 Sep 2018 17:05 UTC
Sacramento city sign
© Robert Galbraith / ReutersChinatown in San Francisco
More than 66 million people in the US speak a 'foreign' language at home, the Center For Immigration Studies has discovered, and almost half of the residents in its five largest cities don't speak English with their families.

American heterogeneous society has failed to become more homogeneous over the last three decades, with more people opting to speak their native tongue at home. Data from 1980 shows that only 11 percent of people living in the US didn't speak English with their relatives; by 2017, that number had risen to 21.8 percent, the Washington-based immigration think tank discovered, after examining Census Bureau data for 2017. That is 66.6 million legal and illegal residents in a country with over 325 million citizens.
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Mosul: Between War and Peace - Year after ISIS' defeat, RT Documentary sees a city festering with hatred & revenge


RT
Thu, 20 Sep 2018 19:01 UTC
Mosul
© RTMosul
Mosul - Iraq's second-largest city and the former Islamic State capital - is still reeling a year after the terrorists were driven out. Bad blood and a thirst for revenge still divide people there.

Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) captured Mosul in June 2014 in mere days, sending soldiers and security troops on the run. Many local residents welcomed the jihadists, who promised protection from corruption, plus jobs and security. Later, the promises of prosperity proved false, with rigid rules, intimidation, rape, and public executions a daily routine.

But thousands of people in Mosul still pledged allegiance to IS - some driven by their propaganda, others by hunger or simply fear.

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