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SOTT Focus: NewsReal: What is 'Woke'? Red-pilled in a World Gone Mad


Sott.net
Mon, 13 Aug 2018 16:00 UTC
woke newsreal show
Are you 'woke'? Besides it being grammatically-incorrect, what does this term mean to you? We have to ask because in these times of raging polemic about social justice, identity politics, and cultural values, it's become apparent that what it is to be 'woke' means different things to different people...

This week on NewsReal, Joe & Niall discuss being 'awake and aware' in a world riven by ardent commitment to ideology, and consider where it'll likely all lead to.


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Over 300 'predator priests' named in redacted Philadelphia Supreme Court report

Janice Williams
Newsweek
Sun, 29 Jul 2018 11:29 UTC
Pope Francis
© REUTERS/Mary Altaffer/AP/POOLPope Francis, right, is joined by Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the Archbishop of New York, as he prays at the altar of Saint Elizabeth before the start of evening prayer service at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York, Thursday, September 24, 2015. More than 300 "predator priests" were identified in a Philadelphia Supreme Court report.
Philadelphia's Supreme Court identified more than 300 "predator priests" in a 31-page document on clergy child sexual abuse within six of the state's Roman Catholic dioceses, NBC Philadelphia reported Friday. The official grand jury report on the trial also included accusations of the clergy's attempts to cover-up instances of abuse.

But the names of priests and other members of the clergy will not be released to the public yet. The Supreme Court ruled that it would temporarily black out names of those implicated in the report-which highlighted allegations of decades of abuse and cover-up -after a number of those named argued that revealing them would unfairly dent their reputations and violate their rights to due process.

The state's Attorney General Josh Shapiro had requested that the report be released in full. He was supported by local Catholic dioceses and other members of the community who said that there was no reasonable justification for delaying public identification.

Chief Justice Thomas Saylor said in a statement to Philly.com that the "subject matter of the report is incendiary, and therefore, the stakes for the individuals reproached therein are substantially heightened." But he noted that the justices were not "of one mind".

A limited version of the document-with the redacted names-is expected to be complete by August 8, which is the same day the report is slated for public release. Scheduled legal arguments from Catholic officials who argue that the names should remain hidden from the public are planned for September.

In a separate incident Saturday, Pope Francis removed one of the most senior Catholic figures in the U.S., Cardinal Theodore McCarrick after the 88-year-old was accused of sexual abuse dating back to the 1970s.

Comment: According this article by AP, the release of the document is still pending. See also:

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'Bait truck' packed with expensive shoes parked in deprived Chicago neighborhood by cops - Video goes viral

Narjas Zatat
Independent
Sun, 12 Aug 2018 12:00 UTC
bait truck chicago
Residents of a neighbourhood in Chicago are criticising the police for setting up a 'bait truck' to lure thieves to an arrest in a poor, predominately black area.

A truck was filled with Nike Air Force 1 trainers and Christian Louboutin shoes in Englewood, Chicago.

It was a 'bait truck' parked there by Norfolk Southern Railway Police, with assistance from Chicago Police. The aim, according to a report by Vox, was to prevent cargo theft in the area by parking the massive truck in various parts of the city and catching any thieves who tried to break in.

Police arrested three people in this time, according to Norfolk Southern.

However Charles McKenzie, an anti-crime activist along with other residents have accused the truck of targeting neighbourhood young and 'creating crime.' McKenzie captured the bait truck on video and posted it on YouTube and Facebook, where it has now had nearly 700,000 views.

Comment: Do the police really have nothing better to do? Are they not just going for the easiest pickings? Are there not more serious crimes to be investigating?

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Bullseye

Need for speed: Neither US tariffs nor sanctions are gonna stop China's bullet trains


Sputnik
Sat, 11 Aug 2018 13:50 UTC
Bullet train
© AP Photo / Yang Baosen/Xinhua
In August, China has marked the 10th anniversary of its high-speed railway endeavors. Speaking to Sputnik, Tom McGregor, a Beijing-based CCTV commentator and editor, explained how the country's bullet trains are bringing the nation together and facilitating China's economic growth regardless of the US tariff spree.

"China's high-speed railways have played a pivotal role in the nation's development in the past 10 years: China Railway Corporation (CRC) has become one of the world's leaders in introducing major new high-tech advancements in the international railroads sector," said Tom McGregor, a Beijing-based political analyst and senior editor for China's national TV broadcaster CCTV.

On August 1, the People's Republic of China (PRC) marked the 10th anniversary of its high-speed railway project. Ten years ago the 118-km high-speed line between Beijing South and Tianjin became operational paving the way for the new era of China's infrastructural development. By 2017, the country had built a network of 25,000-km-long high-speed rail tracks seeking to hit 38,000 km by 2025.

"Many believe Chinese high-speed trains are now faster and more comfortable than even its main rival - Japanese railways," the Beijing-based analyst opined. "For the Chinese to surpass the Japanese and Germans in rail technology stands as a remarkable achievement and renews a spirit of patriotism for the Chinese people."

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Bad Guys

US bomb pieces found at Yemen bus strike site as Pentagon says 'impossible to tell' who supplied it


RT
Mon, 13 Aug 2018 08:55 UTC
MK-82 bomb
© Leila Gorchev / AFPMK-82 bomb
A Raytheon Mark 82 general-purpose free-fall bomb was likely used by the Saudi-led coalition to strike a bus full of children in Yemen on Thursday, a local journalist claims, after bomb fragments from the scene were recovered.

The Saudi-led coalition struck a school bus in the Dahyan area of the Houthi-controlled Saada province last Thursday, leaving 51 dead, most of them children, and injuring at least 79 others. Just as the dust was settling at the scene of the strike with charred bodies being recovered, locals found fragments of the bomb used in the strike.

Harrowing images from the site, shared by journalist Nasser Arrabyee, show fragments that appear to be from the 500-pound MK-82 bomb, which the US continues to sell to Saudi Arabia.

Comment: See also: Yemeni children stage protest against Saudi-led aggression after school bus airstrike massacre

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Yemeni children stage protest against Saudi-led aggression after school bus airstrike massacre


RT
Sun, 12 Aug 2018 21:26 UTC
Yemeni children
© Ruptly
Dozens of children took to the streets of Yemen's capital Sanaa to protest the deadly Saudi-led bombing campaign in the country. They carried pictures of the kids slain in an airstrike that hit a school bus earlier this week.

The young protesters of various ages chanted anti-Saudi slogans and carried banners in both Arabic and English. "Who allowed you to shed the blood of the children of Yemen?" one of the signs, addressed to Riyadh, read.

Some of the children held the postmortem photos of the schoolkids, who died in a Saudi-led airstrike that hit a packed school bus in the town of Dahyan in the northern Saada Province on Thursday. 51 people, including 40 children between 10 and 13 years of age, were killed and 79 others injured in the attack, according to Taha al-Mutawakil, the health minister for the Houthi authorities in Yemen.

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VA GOP Senate Candidate Corey Stewart tells Al Sharpton 'You've been a race hustler your entire career'

Pam Key
Breitbart
Sun, 12 Aug 2018 23:51 UTC
Corey Stewart and Al Sharpton
Sunday on MSNBC's "PoliticsNation," Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Virginia Corey Stewart got into a heated debate with the host.

Sharpton asked, "Do you consider yourself a candidate - the candidate for white nationalists in the state of Virginia?"

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Cookies

Snitching Society: Three neighbors complain about a 10 y.o. girl selling homemade cookies

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Sun, 12 Aug 2018 20:03 UTC
Savannah Watters
As the Free Thought Project reported last month, 2018 is turning out to be the summer of the snitches as neighbors turn in fellow neighbors to authorities for selling water, lemonade, or for simply being black at your own apartment complex pool. This see something say something society is the wet dream of the authoritarian and as a recent case of a girl selling cookies out of Iowa illustrates, it is showing no signs of slowing.

One would think that in the ostensible land of the free, a little girl selling cookies to raise money over the summer would never be an issue over which people would call the police. However, one would be wrong.

Savannah Watters, a 10-year-old girl selling homemade cookies on her street became the subject of not one neighbor calling the police, not even two. In total, three of this little girl's neighbors called armed men in bullet proof vests to report that a 10-year-old selling cookies is disrupting to their neighborhood.

"It was going really well," said Savannah, until the cops showed up that is.

Neighbors claim the girl's cookie stand was disrupting traffic, so they had no other option but to resort to the force of the state to solve this problem.
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Baltimore cop suspended after delivering a vicious beat down to a man on the street


RT
Sun, 12 Aug 2018 17:46 UTC
Baltimore apartments
© Eli Pousson / FlickrMonument Street, Baltimore
Shocking footage of a Baltimore City police officer repeatedly punching a man in the head has whipped up outrage and resulted in the officer being swiftly suspended.

The punch up took place on Monument Street in east Baltimore on Saturday and video of the incident was shared on Instagram. It shows officer Arthur Williams and a man, Dashawn McGrier, shouting before the officer punches him in the head as onlookers can be heard reacting in shock.

A second officer makes a half-hearted attempt to separate his colleague and the victim, who falls on a set of steps as the officer continues to throw punches. Williams then pins McGrier to the ground, and blood is seen on the pavement.
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'Stupid Spooks': Soros-backed DisinfoLab lists former French presidential candidate as 'Russian Bot'


RT
Sat, 11 Aug 2018 00:00 UTC
Arc de Triomphe
Once a leader in philosophy and fashion, France has now been reduced to falling for tricks recycled from US con artists by Brussels-based grifters, with a little help from Twitter's 'mea culpa' cash and even Uncle George Soros.

It all began when EU DisinfoLab, a non-governmental organization based in Belgium, published a report on Wednesday about how some 55,000 "hyperactive" twitter accounts spread the news of the Benalla affair, and accused a portion of those accounts of being "Russophiles."

Within a day, French media were printing headlines screaming about "Russian bots," prompting the NGO to issue a "clarification" of their findings. Not all of the accounts were "Russophiles," the outfit said, and the report said nothing about "bots" - but the French public was already outraged.

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