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Russian regions start undeclared moratorium on abortions - report


RT
Mon, 06 Aug 2018 00:00 UTC
Save a Life rally in moscow
© Mikhail Voskresenskiy / SputnikSave a Life, a rally to protect the lives of children before birth, outside the Church of Venerable Sergius of Radonezh in the Vysoko-Petrovsky Monastery, Moscow
Maternity homes and Health Ministry branches in several Russian regions have declared a temporary moratorium on artificial abortions as part of a nationwide campaign, a popular daily reports.

On Monday popular Russian newspaper Kommersant released an article in which it quoted the chief gynecologist and obstetrician of the Far East region of Primorye, Yevgeniya Shutka, as saying that all local medical institutions were taking part in the nationwide campaign called "Give Me Life" conducted by the "Foundation of Socio-Cultural Initiatives" NGO chaired by Svetlana Medvedeva, the wife of Russian PM Dmitry Medvedev. The doctor told reporters that the Primorye Region participates in the campaign for the fifth time and added that similar temporary moratoriums on abortions had been earlier announced in many other regions of the country.

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Putin's Russia plan: Halve poverty, join world's five largest economies, increase life expectancy
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Ensuring 'steady population growth'

Russia's population has rebounded from its 2009 low of fewer than 142 million to nearly 147 million last year, partly thanks to the addition of 2 million Crimean residents.

The target will involve boosting the birth rate to 1.7 - a number exceeded just two years ago - through financial incentives for new parents, better health provision, and better employment prospects for working mothers.

As with the previous aim, the other part of this objective will come through reducing mortality, not least through encouraging Russians to live a healthier, more active lifestyle.


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Child care worker charged with sexually assaulting eight children at Southwest Key immigration shelter


Propublica
Thu, 02 Aug 2018 21:23 UTC
Southwest key
© Joseph Flaherty
This story includes graphic details of alleged sexual violence against minors.

A youth care worker for Southwest Key has been charged with 11 sex offenses after authorities accused him of molesting at least eight unaccompanied immigrant boys over nearly a year at one of the company's shelters in Mesa, Arizona, federal court records show.

The allegations against Levian D. Pacheco, who is HIV-positive, include that he performed oral sex on two of the teenagers and tried to force one of them to penetrate him anally. The other six teens - all between 15 and 17 - said Pacheco had groped them through their clothing. All of the incidents are alleged to have taken place between August 2016 and July 2017, according to a court filing last week that laid out the government's case.

The case, initially investigated by local police, is now proceeding through U.S. District Court in Phoenix. Pacheco had worked at Southwest Key's Casa Kokopelli shelter, one of eight the company runs in Arizona, since May 2016.
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Bizarro Earth

The new racism: How 'Race and Ethnic Studies' made color blindness a bad thing

James G. Martin
James G. Martin
Mon, 06 Aug 2018 22:55 UTC
racial protest
Like most Americans, I have always assumed that color blindness is our ideal. Not any more: color blindness is now become the new racism. So much for a 70-year struggle to fulfill Martin Luther King Jr.'s wish that his children be "judged not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." So much for the noble aim to treat people as individuals rather than as representatives of an identity group.

How is color blindness not a virtue? Is it really racist now? Where on earth does such an idea come from? The answer seems to be "race and ethnic studies," a mushrooming specialization which pops up in in several traditional academic disciplines such as cultural anthropology, political science, social psychology, and sociology. The problems I will describe infect all, but I focus on sociology, where MLK's idea of color blindness has been turned on its head.

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Life Preserver

Is it time for a #HeToo movement to 'save the males'?

Celia Walden
The Age
Mon, 06 Aug 2018 20:47 UTC
Harry Crouch
San Diego: Harry Crouch's San Diego office is a study in male outrage. The shelves are stacked with books with titles such as Making Monsters: False Memories Psychotherapy and Sexual Hysteria, Legalising Misandry and Hotsy Totsy FemiNazi.

Badges like "California is Sexist & Hateful Against Men" adorn the walls, and a bumper sticker on the back of the door reads: "Don't be THAT girl: embarrassed about a hook-up? Angry at a boyfriend? Willing to destroy a life?"
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Star of David

Riveting eyewitness account of Israel's hateful acts of piracy against Norwegian boat on a mercy mission - it will sicken you

Stuart Littlewood, Dr. Swee Ang
Redress Information & Analysis
Sat, 04 Aug 2018 00:00 UTC
Swee Ang
© theindependent.sgDr. Swee Ang
Malaysian-born Swee Ang is the first female Orthopaedic Consultant appointed to St Bartholomew ('Barts') and the Royal London Hospitals.

In the 1980s and 1990s she worked as trauma and orthopaedics consultant in the refugee camps of Lebanon and later for the United Nations in Gaza, and the World Health Organisation in the West Bank and Gaza. She is Founder and Patron of the British charity Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP).

She also treated the victims of the Pakistan (Kashmir) earthquake, and as consultant trauma and orthopaedic surgeon operated on and looked after the victims of the 7 July 2005 suicide bombs in the Royal London Hospital.

Dr Ang is the co-author of War Surgery and Acute Care of the War Wounded, and also wrote From Beirut to Jerusalem documenting her experience in the Palestinian Refugee Camps in Lebanon and Gaza.

She was aboard the Al-Awda sailing for Gaza with urgently needed medical supplies when the vessel was violently assaulted and hijacked in international waters a week ago and taken to an Israeli port. Passengers and crew were roughed up (some seriously injured) and abused, thrown in an Israeli jail and had their possessions and money stolen.

This is Dr Swee's account, word for word:

Comment: Dr. Ang has been an advocate of Palestinian causes in the past, drawing criticism from Israeli press... She is a target.

From The Independent:
In 1982, Dr Ang answered the Christian call to give medical aid to Palestinians. She resigned from St Thomas Hospital and left for Beirut. There she rendered medical aid to injured Palestinians and witnessed the massacres at the nearby refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila. She testified at the Israeli inquiry into the massacres in Jerusalem. She spoke up for the Palestinians as soon as she returned to London. And she has continued speak up for the Palestinians and to render medical aid to the them since that time. She set up Medical Aid for Palestinians and ran the charity until recently. She is now its patron. In 1989, she published From Beirut to Jerusalem, her eyewitness account of the massacres in Sabra and Shatila.
See also:
Interview on Israeli's brutal seizure of Gaza-bound boat: 'No wish that their criminal acts be seen'

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Alarm Clock

SOTT Focus: Terrorism, Immigration and Racism in Canada: The Backlash has Begun

Timothy C. Trepanier
Sott.net
Mon, 06 Aug 2018 21:41 UTC
Chinese Canadian Protest
© The National PostChinese Canadians in Markham Ontario demonstrate against illegal border crossings.
There's a strange confluence happening in Canada that is likely to alter the fate of all citizens across the country and leave an indelible mark upon the psyche of what was once considered a peaceful and friendly nation. A perfect storm is brewing of seemingly unrelated, but loosely connected events, that have transpired to increase tension and foment division between formerly amicable citizens in a profound and significant way.

Uncontrolled illegal mass immigration, along with the spectre of potential Islamic terrorism, combined with the forcible imposition of absurd and counter-productive neo-Marxist, social-justice inspired government policies, has resulted in a very public backlash recently, which has at times taken the form of several highly publicized incidents deemed as racially motivated "hate crimes" by Canada's progressive liberal media.

Contrary to all appearances, this confluence may not be merely an accidental and independent series of events, but is arguably a direct result of a deliberate and conscious plan by those in power to weaken national sovereignty and sow discord, mistrust and hostility between different groups of people. The signs are all there. It's time to put the pieces together...

Comment: For a short but comprehensive understanding of the ideology that drives the progressive policies of governments like Justin Truedeau's, this video on cultural Marxism serves as an excellent primer...



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Family

One year later: 2 young sisters of IS fighters struggle to adapt to peace after Iraq


RT
Mon, 06 Aug 2018 17:50 UTC
Fatima and her grandfather Anwar in Russia's Makhachkala.
© RTFatima and her grandfather Anwar in Russia's Makhachkala.
Returning to normal life hasn't been easy for the two sisters orphaned in Iraq after their parents were killed fighting for Islamic State. RT visits the girls one year since they arrived to their grandparents in Russia's Dagestan.

Fatima and Khadija were brought back to their grandparents last August who had had little hope that they survived in the fighting. Despite still dealing with the post-war trauma, the little sisters feel safe in their home on the outskirts of Makhachkala in the southern Russian republic of Dagestan.

"The girls look and behave like any other child of their age, despite the traumatic experience they went through," Madina Kochenova reported from Dagestan's capital. Elder sister Khadija is open and active, while Fatima, who is two years younger, is quiet and introverted, often seeking the company of her grandfather, Anwar.

"She doesn't let me go anywhere. She says her dad also left in the morning and never came back in the evening. She tells me how the gas station where he worked was bombed. Tells me how the planes arrived, dropped their bombs and left,"the grandfather said.

Comment: See also: 7yo girl helps track down two missing sisters in Iraqi orphanage shown in RT coverage

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Marijuana

US: 80-year-old woman jailed for smoking with an expired medical marijuana card

Jordan Smith
fox8live
Sun, 05 Aug 2018 11:58 UTC
Delores Saltzman
© Pixabay/WXMI/CNNSeven pipes, four joints, a grinder and a purple jar with cannabis were confiscated.
A deputy in Clare County, MI, went to 80-year-old Delores Saltzman's home in June trying to return a lost phone and ID to her granddaughter.

When the deputy left, she had Saltzman in handcuffs in the back seat of her patrol car.

According to WXMI, the deputy smelled marijuana from the front porch of Saltzman's home. When the deputy asked Saltzman who it belonged to, she confessed it was hers.

Ordinarily, that wouldn't have been an issue. Saltzman lives with arthritis, diverticulitis, muscle and bone aches, so she uses the substance to manage pain.

Comment: The police officer could have used discretion but instead chose to waste resources on a harmless 80 year old woman for an irrelevant amount of cannabis, all because she had forgotten to renew her medical marijuana card: Also check out SOTT radio's: The Health & Wellness Show: The Highs and Lows of Cannabis as Medicine

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Gold Coins

Gold prices hitting record levels in Iran as citizens seek to protect assets against pending US sanctions


RT
Mon, 06 Aug 2018 11:19 UTC
Gold prices Iran Aug 2018, US sanctions Iran Aug 2018
© Morteza Nikoubazl / Global Look PressThe price for a 8.13-gram gold coin reportedly hit 36 million rials ($820) on Sunday, more than double its price in January. Last week, gold set a record of 45 million rials ($1,025) per coin.
Gold prices in Iran are hitting record levels daily as Iranians seek to protect their savings against pending US sanctions that are dragging down the national currency.

The White House is on the verge of reinstating sanctions against the Islamic Republic that were lifted following the historic nuclear deal sealed between Tehran and world powers in 2015. President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew the US from the agreement on May 8.

The first round of renewed US sanctions will take effect on Tuesday with the harshest penalties expected in early November. The US will impose a ban on the country's automotive sector and metals trading, while further sanctions will target oil and shipping industries.

The imminent ban has tripled year-on-year demand for the precious metal, including bars and coins, to about 15 metric tons, according to the latest report by the World Gold Council. To meet the surging demand Iran's central bank had to mint hundreds of thousands of coins, reportedly totaling over 60 tons of gold.

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Pumpkin

Fact check fail: MSNBC's top 'Russia expert' thinks Putin was KGB director - he wasn't


RT
Mon, 06 Aug 2018 17:28 UTC
Putin humerous
© Grigory Dukor / ReutersRussian President Vladimir Putin
MSNBC's resident 'Russia expert' has demonstrated the depth of his knowledge by falsely referring to Russian President Vladimir Putin as "a former director of the KGB."

Speaking to host Bill Maher on Friday, Malcolm Nance unleashed a host of wacky 'Russiagate' conspiracy theories - President Trump was convinced to run for president by Russia's top oligarchs; Trump and Putin have a plan to steal the 2020 election "already hashed out;" and the terrible twosome used their recent Helsinki summit to plot the division of the Western world between them.

Nance, a 20-year Navy veteran cryptologist and private intelligence consultant, went on to call Vladimir Putin "a former director of the KGB."
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