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Relatives fear Sergei Skripal is dead: Almost a month of silence has gone by


RT
Thu, 23 Aug 2018 14:43 UTC
Sergei Yulia Skripal
© Global Look PressSergei and Yulia Skripal
Relatives of Sergei Skripal, the former Russian double agent who was allegedly attacked with a nerve agent in Salisbury last March, fear that he may be dead, his niece has told Russian news agency RIA.

Victoria Skripal said they haven't heard from his daughter Yulia, who was also allegedly poisoned with Novichok in the Wiltshire city, since the end of July. On that occasion, she called to wish her grandmother happy birthday and had said that her father, 67-year-old Sergei, would be in touch as soon as he recovered from a tracheotomy.

When asked what made her relatives assume her uncle had died, Victoria told RIA: "Why do we think so? Because Yulia said her father would call in three days as he had great desire to...

"He loves his mother and at any convenient opportunity he would have called her," the 46-year old said.

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Swedish TV: More than half of Swedish rape convicts came from abroad


RT
Thu, 23 Aug 2018 09:44 UTC
Swedish police
© Global Look Press/ Aftonbladet
About 58% of men convicted in Sweden of rape and attempted rape over the past five years were born abroad, a Swedish broadcaster has reported.

Swedish broadcaster SVT reviewed all the 843 guilty verdicts in cases involving rape or attempted rape that occurred in the country since 2013 as part of its research.

Its journalists revealed that 58 percent of those convicted were born outside the country, while almost 40 percent were migrants from the Middle East and Africa.

Comment: Sweden has NOT been doing well with its liberal immigration policy - and they're finally coming to realize it:

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Deadly Paris knife attack by man listed on French national security threat list


RT
Thu, 23 Aug 2018 08:48 UTC
paris knife attack
© Philippe Wojazer / ReutersFrench police secure a street after a knife attack in Trappes, near Paris
Two people have been killed and one seriously injured after a man, reportedly wielding a knife, carried out an attack in a Paris suburb. Security forces have "neutralized" the attacker.

Police killed the assailant on Thursday morning after he attacked people in the street in the Trappes commune, not far from Versailles. Local media said the attacker - a man born in 1982 - was armed with a knife and barricaded inside a pavilion shouting: "Allahu akbar, if you enter I will blast you all."


Comment: Amazing how many Ally Ackbars are well-known to the deep staters in the Us, France, UK and elsewhere...

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Slavoj Zizek: Who has the right to tell the public what they do not want to hear?

Slavoj Zizek
RT
Thu, 23 Aug 2018 11:50 UTC
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When WikiLeaks exploded onto the scene a decade ago, it briefly seemed like the internet could create a truly open society. Since then, Big Brother has fought back.

Every day now, we hear complaints about the growing control of digital media, often from people who apparently believe the concept was originally an unregulated free-for-all.

However, let's remember the origin of internet. Back in the 1960s, the US Army was thinking about how to maintain communications among surviving units in the event that a global nuclear war destroyed central command. Eventually, the idea emerged of laterally connecting these dispersed units, bypassing the (destroyed) center.
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12yo fighting for her life after burning almost 50% of her body in YouTube 'Fire Challenge'


RT
Thu, 23 Aug 2018 10:05 UTC
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A 12-year-old girl from Detroit has been left with almost 50 percent of her body burnt and is in intensive care after she set herself on fire as part of a YouTube challenge.

Distraught mother Brandi Owens described how her child, Timiyah Landers, is now intensive care in hospital and attached to a ventilator after she took part in the 'Fire Challenge' YouTube craze, which sees people rubbing themselves down with flammable liquid before setting themselves on fire. Timiyah has burns on 49 percent of her body.

Her mother told Fox 2 Detroit on Friday that Landers and two of her friends were hanging out the girl's room before the ordeal happened. She explained how she had made them pancakes and had gone for a nap when she heard a loud explosion.

Comment: See also: Devolution of society: A quick list of stupid and dangerous internet challenges from recent years

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UK: Police lock down Huddersfield hospital after man stabbed in "targeted attack"


RT
Wed, 22 Aug 2018 09:44 UTC
Huddersfield BMI
Blood on the entrance doors to the Huddersfield BMI Hospital in West Yorkshire this morning
Patients have been told to stay away from a hospital in England until Thursday due to a "major incident." The police say the lockdown was sparked by a "targeted attack."

Just after midnight on Wednesday morning, West Yorkshire Police received reports of an altercation in the grounds of the BMI Huddersfield Hospital.

Detective Inspector Mark Atkinson, of Kirklees District CID, said: "Our enquiries are in their early stages but it appears that this was a targeted attack. Neighbourhood officers will be carrying out reassurance patrols in the area.

Comment: The Daily Mail reports:
A private hospital was put on lockdown by police after a bloodied man was allegedly attacked with a knife in the car park then banged on the doors screaming for help.

Blood was today seen spattered on the ground outside The Huddersfield Hospital, part of BMI Healthcare, and was also left smeared across the entrance doors.
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West Yorkshire Police received a number of reports at about midnight of an altercation in the grounds of the hospital and closed access to the site.

While officers were en route to the scene, police were made aware that a man with various injuries had arrived at NHS hospital Huddersfield Royal Infirmary.

The man, who is believed to have been stabbed with a knife, is being treated in hospital for non-life threatening hand injuries. Police said the attack was 'targeted'.

Speaking at the scene today, a man, known only as Mark, said: 'My wife was in hospital at the time. She heard a guy screaming please help.

'He was getting either stabbed or slashed. She heard some kind of noises which sounded like gunshots. Then she heard police come and shout 'armed police'.

'She then said there were police everywhere. She was in a room above the foyer. She heard banging on the door but could not get out of bed because she had had an operation.'

It is understood the hospital doors are locked after visiting hours and in-patients often stay overnight.

Today, two PCSOs stood guard at the entrance while a police van and more officers stood inside the grounds of the hospital, surrounded by trees and next to a cricket pitch.[...]

One local resident claimed she heard people screaming 'they've got a gun' shortly before the incident. She said: '(It) started at around 11.55pm last night.

'Two cars crashed. One man got shot and (was) screaming 'they have a gun and they want to kill me'. He was screaming for help. Awful.'

Meanwhile another local resident, who lives half a mile away from the hospital, had claimed to have heard 'shotgun noises' last night at about 7.15pm.

He said: 'I heard shotgun noises last night. We were sat out in the garden, and there were two or three shots which were different to any fireworks I've ever seen.'

However, West Yorkshire Police said there was no indication of any firearms being involved, and officers were called shortly after the incident at around midnight.

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Police said anyone with information about the incident should call Kirklees District CID via 101, quoting crime reference 13180417259, or use the 101 Live Chat facility on the West Yorkshire Police website.

Anyone wishing to give information anonymously can do so by calling the independent charity Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
Violent attacks in the UK appear to be on the increase:

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Italy's city councils demand military embargo against Israel


Palestinian Information Centre
Wed, 29 Aug 2018 11:41 UTC
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The City Councils of Naples, Turin, Bologna, Florence and Pisa have all demanded their respective state governments and the international community to impose military embargo against Israel and to hold it accountable for its repeated crimes against Palestinians.

The cities called for this action in compliance with the European Union Code of Conduct on arms exports as Italy is considered one of the main arms exporters to Israel.

The BDS group in Italy urged all Italian City Councils to join the military embargo campaign and to the take real actions to guarantee respect for Italian as well as international humanitarian laws.

Comment: Italy's vote against the genocidal Israeli regime is just the latest in an increasingly worldwide movement which includes councils in Spain and Ireland, as well by universities and politicians in Sweden, Australia and South Africa. Meanwhile US and UK governments reveal their allegiance to Israel, and its crimes against humanity, in their attempts to corrupt the democratic process by blocking the growing BDS movements in their respective countries.

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Rejecting progress, because 'cultural appropriation'

Neema Parvini
Quillette
Wed, 22 Aug 2018 00:01 UTC
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Another week, another set of manufactured outrages. New absurdities have been discovered recently in the UK as the Labour politician, Dawn Butler, has criticised the TV chef, and self-appointed guardian of the nation's sugar levels, Jamie Oliver, for 'cultural appropriation.' His crime? Launching a product called 'Punchy Jerk Rice,' which, according to Butler, is 'appropriation from Jamaica' and 'needs to stop.'


Comment: What's amazing is that an ideology that supposedly places diversity above such values as merit would react completely against anyone taking influence from other cultures. Diversity is good, but diversity of thought and influence is bad, apparently. It's hypocrisy at its finest.

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According to US television networks, American audiences don't care about Palestinian lives

CJ Werleman
Mint Press News
Mon, 20 Aug 2018 00:00 UTC
bombing Gaza
© AP Photo/Hatem Moussa, FileIn this Nov. 17, 2012 file photo, smoke rises during an explosion from an Israeli strike in Gaza City. Israel bombarded the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip with nearly 200 airstrikes widening a blistering assault on Gaza rocket operations by militants to include the prime minister's headquarters, a police compound and a vast network of smuggling tunnels. 2012 was a year of storms, of raging winds and rising waters, but also broader turbulence that strained our moorings. Old enmities and grievances resurfaced in the Middle East, clouding the legacy of the 2011 Arab spring. And Israeli and Palestinian civilians suffered through another escalation of the conflict in Gaza.
Not a single mainstream television network in the United States carried any mention of Israel's barrage of 140 bombs and missiles directed at Gaza on Wednesday.

On Wednesday, Israel carried out a 24-hour, round-the-clock military assault on Gaza, one of the most densely populated places on earth, killing at least three Palestinians, including a 23-year-old pregnant mother and her 18-month-old daughter.

Images of the young family's blood splattered home trickled out onto the Internet, but that's pretty much where much of the media's reporting of Israel's latest effort to ramp up its most recent and ongoing siege of the embattled Palestinian enclave started and ended.

Not a single mainstream television network in the United States carried any mention of Israel's barrage of 140 bombs and missiles directed at Gaza on Wednesday, which came on the back of a sustained Israeli effort to break the will of Palestinian resistance since the Great Return March began more than four months ago.
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It's time to consider how localism, decentralization and community-building can help serve us

Michael Krieger
Libertyblitzkrieg
Tue, 21 Aug 2018 12:26 UTC
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Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don't have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don't have to know Einstein's "Theory of Relativity" to serve. You don't have to know the Second Theory of Thermal Dynamics in Physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love.

- From "The Drum Major Instinct", a sermon by Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., 1968.
The following piece is based on a vision for the U.S., but I suspect the concepts apply equally to most nation-states encompassing large land masses and populations over a few million. Most of us have been conditioned to believe human life is best organized at scale. In other words, we've been convinced it's best to have as many people as possible operating under a single overarching centralized government structure in charge of micromanaging society from the top down. I consider this paradigm outdated, unnatural and increasingly dangerous.

In the Western world, we tend to justify centralized superstates because they're ostensibly based on democracy, but this doesn't hold water for a variety of reasons. First, you'd have to be living under a rock to look at U.S. policy during the 21st century and think it reflects the "will of the people."
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