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'Beauty' backlash: Boycott ensues, makeup brands sever ties with Kuwaiti blogger who condemned new servants right's laws

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Several beauty brands have now cut ties with with the Instagram ‘influencer’ with Max Factor Arabia announcing that it would suspend all future work with the make-up artist.
A Kuwaiti beauty blogger is facing fierce criticism over her condemnation of new laws which improve the working conditions of her Filipino maid.

Makeup artist Sondos Alqattan revealed her anger in a video shared with her 2.3 million followers on Instagram. In it, she bemoaned the fact that her "servants" will now be allowed to keep their passports, take breaks every five hours and have one day off per week.


Red Flag

Flashback Voting tech company Smartmatic used in 16 states has deep ties to Soros

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Smartmatic, a U.K.-based voting technology company with deep ties to George Soros, has provided voting technology in 16 states including battleground zones like Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Virginia. Other jurisdictions affected are California, District of Columbia, Illinois, Louisiana, Missouri, New Jersey, Oregon, Washington and Wisconsin.

Its website includes a flow-chart that describes how the company has contributed to elections in the U.S. from 2006-2015 with "57,000 voting and counting machines deployed" and "35 million voters assisted."

After this report's publication, Smartmatic updated its website to remove the flow chart and declare that "Smartmatic will not be deploying its technology in any U.S. county for the upcoming 2016 U.S. Presidential elections."

In 2005, Smartmatic bought-out California-based Sequoia Voting Systems and entered the world of U.S. elections.

Smoking

Chelsea football club to setup special smoking area to accommodate new coach Maurizio Sarri

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Chelsea football club are planning to create a special smoking area to accommodate new coach Maurizio Sarri and his tobacco habit, according to reports. The Italian is said to puff on up to 80 cigarettes a day.

Sarri took over at Stamford Bridge earlier in July, but his habit has caused something of a headache for the London club as smoking is banned in all workplaces and enclosed public spaces in the UK.

He was frequently seen puffing away on the sidelines in his old job with Napoli in Italy's Serie A, but that is not an option at Chelsea.

Comment: Sounds like Sarri made this a sticking point for his continued employment. Fans (and others) should demand the same. If accommodations can be made for him, they can be made for others as well.


Gear

Corporate media bias: News reports twist Sessions response to student's 'Lock her up' chants

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Americans don't trust the media-and with good reason, as we learned earlier today. Take just the latest bit of fake news to have been cyber-vomited onto social media: according to Politico, Attorney General Jeff Sessions "joined" a "Lock her up!" chant started by a group high schoolers he was giving a speech to.

But that isn't accurate at all. Sessions heard the chant, looked a bit confused, then bemused, and, finally, amusedly echoed-literally one time-the chant before continuing with his prepared remarks.

From the way the story was reported, however, one could be forgiven for thinking he had organized the speech purposefully so he could taunt a political rival and whip the crowd up into a frenzy to call for her arrest, all the while he's leading it-evilly.

That just isn't what happened. Seriously, they have to know this reporting (and other examples like it) is, at best, deliberately misleading and, at worst, unadulterated lying. What seems more and more evident with each passing day to more and more Americans is that they do know they are being dishonest, but they just don't care.

Comment: See: 'Lock her up!' US AG Sessions amused as students chant anti-Clinton slogan


Pumpkin

Culture wars: Captain America savages Trump in battle of the useful idiots

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Donald Trump's press conference with Vladimir Putin was portrayed as such a disaster by US media earlier this week that even superheroes went into hysterics over what was spun as Trump's betrayal of the US intelligence community.

The reason for the media uproar in the wake of the Helsinki summit was Trump's response to a reporter, in which he stated (or misstated, depending who you listen to) that he believed Putin when the Russian leader said there was no interference in the US presidential election of 2016.

On CNN, that silver-spooned, silver-haired Silver Surfer clone, Anderson Cooper immediately responded to Trump's performance by shrieking:
"You have been watching perhaps one of the most disgraceful performances by an American president at a summit in front of a Russian leader certainly that I've ever seen."

Family

Over 850 refugees returning to Syria from Lebanon

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© Al Masdar NewsRefugees returning to West Qalamoun, Syria
Over 850 refugees are scheduled to return to Syria from Lebanon this week, Al-Mayadeen TV reported on Monday.

According to the Al-Mayadeen report, the 850+ refugees will leave Lebanon through the 'Arsal District and travel to Syria's Qalamoun region in western Damascus. See video here.

Bad Guys

EU pushes social conflict as it offers to pay countries €6,000 for every migrant they accept

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© Johan Nilsson / ReutersA line of refugees arriving from Denmark at the Hyllie train station outside Malmo, Sweden, November 19, 2015.
After a number of European governments refused to ratify a controversial and notoriously ambiguous EU migrant deal struck behind close doors in late June which Deutsche Welle referred to as a "heavily-coded text, in which each phrase has a specific meaning for the individual parties," the European Commission on Tuesday announced a surprise proposal to pay European governments €6,000 (or about $7,000) for each migrant they take in.

The proposal also comes as the migrant crisis has hit a peak for Europe's Mediterranean nations, and has become politically disastrous for others like Germany, causing Italy's new government to make the dire move in June of closing the country's ports to rescue vessels.

Newspaper

NY Daily News announces massive layoffs, cutting editorial team in half

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The New York Daily News announced massive layoffs to its editorial team on Monday, with the paper's parent company Tronc ordering 50 percent cuts for a new focus on breaking news. Among the departed were editor-in-chief Jim Rich and managing editor Kristen Lee - both of whom had already updated their Twitter accounts Monday to reflect the change in status.

Staffers at the iconic New York tabloid were informed of the decision in an email, obtained by TheWrap.

"We are reducing today the size of the editorial team by approximately 50 percent and re-focusing much of our talent on breaking news - especially in areas of crime, civil justice and public responsibility," said Tronc. "We are fundamentally restructuring the Daily News."

Bad Guys

US media goes to war for the US military complex and truth is their primary target

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What is wrong with the US media that it cannot produce a second competent journalist as company for Tucker Carlson? Why are America's remaining good journalists, such as Chris Hedges, now in the alternate media?

All I can say, and Putin probably already knows it, is that there is more going on than presstitutes holding the relationship between Russia and the US hostage to an internal political struggle between the Democratic Party and President Trump. It is not just that the corrupt US media is serving as propagandists for the Democratic Party against President Trump. The presstitutes are serving the interest of the military/security complex, which has ownership interests in the highly concentrated US media, to keep Russia positioned as the enemy that justifies the huge $1,000 billion budget of the military/security complex. Without the "Russian enemy," what is the justification for such a waste of money when so many real needs go underfunded and unfunded?

In other words, the American media are not only stupid, they are corrupt beyond all measure.

Comment: War is already here but in different terms than PCR implies. The arms industry, and the driving forces behind them, clearly do not need a hot war when the media is so complicit in fighting their battles for them.


Handcuffs

Former Ukrainian Defense Minister charged with inciting terrorism after urging supporters to bomb Russian trains

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© Natalia Seliverstova / SputnikElectric train "Lastochka" on Luzhniki-Ploshchad Gagarina stage of the Moscow Central Circle
Russian investigators have charged former Ukrainian Defense Minister Anatoly Gritsenko with inciting terrorist activities after he urged his supporters to bomb Russian trains during a televised interview in 2014.

The press service of the Russian Investigative Committee - the federal agency dealing with especially important crime - reported on Wednesday that a new criminal case had been launched.

Under Russian law publicly calling for acts of terrorism to be carried out is punishable by prison terms of between two and five years, as well as significant fines.

Comment: It's hard to take the American left seriously when all they can talk about is how Trump is the next Hitler, yet there's nary a peep about the actual efforts toward ethnic cleansing from neo-Nazis in Ukraine.