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Poll finds majority of Russians believe efforts to curb corruption have been successful


RT
Fri, 01 Jun 2018 14:26 UTC
russia corruption
© Iliya Pitalev / SputnikA suspect in the Federal Agency for Transport Supervision Agency (Rostransnadzor) corruption case in the Dorogomilovsky District Court of Moscow
Around 55 percent of Russians believe the authorities are waging a successful war against corruption, with 47 percent saying that arrests of senior officials for bribery are the best proof of this.

In a survey conducted by state-run VTSIOM agency in late May, 55 percent of the respondents said they have noticed the positive results of the nationwide anti-corruption campaign; 25 percent said they cannot see the results of the campaign, and 13 percent said the situation with corruption is getting worse.

When asked what the most obvious result of the anti-corruption campaign is, 42 percent mentioned the arrests of senior officials. On the other hand, 47 percent described the high-profile cases as "show trials, settling of accounts between civil servants or conflicts between competing power groups."
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Eye 1

'We are fighting for our children': Kadyrov vows to rescue 94 Russian children from prison in Iraq


RT
Fri, 01 Jun 2018 09:24 UTC
Ramzan Kadyrov
© Said Tzarnaev / SputnikZiyad Sabsabi, representative of the head of Chechnya in the Middle East and North Africa, and Sophia, a girl brought back from Iraq.
The head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov has revealed plans to return to Russia almost 100 children whose mothers had been jailed in Iraq over alleged participation with the Islamic State terrorist group.

"After a short pause connected with solving some complicated legal problems we will bring 94 children home to Russia. These are children of women who had been sentenced to lengthy prison terms by Iraqi authorities. They will be transported to Russia in two groups, the first group consists of 49 people and 25 of them will arrive to Russia already in June this year," Kadyrov wrote in his Telegram messenger-blog.

He added that all of the children in the first group had been born in Russia and thus remained Russian citizens and under Russian jurisdiction. All necessary papers for the children to cross borders have been prepared.

Comment: See also:

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Whitehall source shares post-Brexit plan to grant N. Ireland joint UK/EU status


RT
Fri, 01 Jun 2018 14:22 UTC
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© Alberto Pezzali/ Global Look Press
Northern Ireland will be granted joint UK and EU status, according to an anonymous government official, in a plan that could shatter the Conservative-Democratic Unionist Party alliance in Westminster.

According to a senior Whitehall source cited by the Sun, Brexit Secretary David Davis is reportedly planning on giving Northern Ireland joint status so it can trade freely with both the EU and the UK.

Under the plans, which are yet to be confirmed by Downing Street, a "special economic zone" sharing the same EU trade rules would be brought in along the 310-mile border.
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Snakes in Suits

Leaked emails reveal Google misled the public about size of Pentagon AI project


RT
Fri, 01 Jun 2018 14:17 UTC
google
© Alain Jocard / Reuters
Google misled the public about the size of the company's contract to develop AI for the Pentagon, and its executives chose against publicizing its participation in the project, leaked emails obtained by The Intercept show.

Diane Greene, the chief executive of the company's cloud business unit, recently told employees that revenue from Project Maven - a Pentagon program under development which aims to use artificial intelligence to help drones identify human ground targets without the assistance of human operators - was "only" for $9 million. But internal company emails from September 2017 obtained by The Intercept suggest otherwise.

One message, said to be from Aileen Black, a member of Google's defense sales team, noted that the deal would rake in $15 million over the next 18 months. The email also said that the budget for the program was expected to eventually expand to $250 million. Black's assessment appears to have merit: According to The Intercept, one month after news of the contract broke, the Pentagon allocated an additional $100 million to Project Maven.
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Criminal state: Imprisoned teen Tamimi in coma after life-threatening medical neglect by Israeli authorities

Tamara Nassar
Electronic Intifada
Fri, 01 Jun 2018 11:56 UTC
Hassan Tamimi hospital
Imprisoned Palestinian teenager Hassan Abdulkhaleq Mizher Tamimi was subjected to life-threatening medical neglect by Israeli authorities.

Tamimi, 18, has a serious medical condition in his liver and kidneys, which makes him unable to absorb proteins. He requires a strict vegetarian diet, medicines and periodic tests at the hospital.

Israeli authorities provided him with none of that since his arrest two months ago, and his medical condition deteriorated sharply.

As his situation worsened, Israeli authorities refused to transfer Tamimi to a hospital or provide necessary treatment, his relative Muhammad Tamimi told Wattan TV.

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USA

NJ cop arrested after beating a mentally ill man in wheelchair

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Fri, 01 Jun 2018 11:56 UTC
Paterson police New Jersey
The Patterson Police Department in New Jersey is making headlines this week after their fourth officer in only two months has been arrested by federal agents. Officer Roger Then, 29, was arrested on Wednesday for participating in the beating of a mentally ill man in a wheelchair - and making a video to remember it.

The person in the wheelchair was a patient at a hospital. He had committed no crime and had called authorities for help because he felt suicidal. However, once he got to the hospital, help was the last thing he received. Instead, he received a horrific beating at the hands of the two responding officers.

Officer Then and his partner, known only as Police Officer 1 in the complaint, proceeded to beat their wheelchair-bound victim so horrifically that he required surgery to save his eyeball.
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Arrow Down

Evergreen State's "Independent" report whitewashes campus meltdown, claims professor

Adam Sabes
Campus Reform
Thu, 31 May 2018 15:06 UTC
Evergreen State College
Riot police face off against Antifa protesters at the height of the disruptions at Evergreen State.
Evergreen State College released a 38-page "Independent" report on the protests and riots of last spring that is far from "independent," claims a former administrator at the college.

Last spring, Evergreen State was engulfed in riots after a Bret Weinstein, a former professor, sent an email questioning the school's "day of absence," which called for white students to leave campus for a day of diversity workshops while students of color stayed on campus to participate in a different form of diversity programming.

"If Evergreen's looming financial crisis becomes fatal, we now have a historical document placing blame not on Bridges, but on [Weinstein]."

After accosting Weinstein in class and verbally berating him to the point that the campus police chief suggested he leave campus for his own safety, the student protesters then held several high-ranking administrators hostage until they agreed to comply with a list of demands.

The report was commissioned to review the situation and provide feedback on how the college could prevent and control a recurrence of similar disruptions.

President George Bridges nominated people to conduct the "Independent" review, which was then followed by vetting and approval of the nominees by the Board of Trustees.

Multiple faculty members and a former high-ranking administrator, however, claim that the report is far from "Independent."

Comment: No amount of whitewashing is going to erase the mark of what happens when leftist ideology is taken to the extreme. See also:

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Stock Down

The Eurozone is structurally imbalanced and the Euro is doomed


charleshughsmith.blogspot.com
Tue, 29 May 2018 12:00 UTC
EU flag
Papering over the structural imbalances in the Eurozone with endless bailouts will not resolve the fundamental asymmetries. Beneath the permanent whatever it takes "rescue" by the European Central Bank (ECB) lie fundamental asymmetries that doom the euro, the joint currency that has been the centerpiece of European unity since its introduction in 1999.

The key imbalance is between export powerhouse Germany, which generates huge trade surpluses, and its trading partners, which run large trade and budget deficits, particularly Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain.

Those outside of Europe may be surprised to learn that Germany's exports are roughly equal to those of China ($1.2 trillion), even though Germany's population of 82 million is a mere 6% of China's 1.3 billion. Germany and China are the world's top exporters, while the U.S. trails as a distant third.

Germany's emphasis on exports places it in the so-called mercantilist camp, countries that depend heavily on exports for their growth and profits. Other (nonoil-exporting) nations that routinely generate large trade surpluses include China, Japan, Germany, Taiwan and the Netherlands.

Comment: A backlash is building and, given the vote, many in the Eurozone would choose to leave, or at least radically renegotiate the terms of membership:

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Eye 1

Netanyahu's wife attempts to physically assault top PM official for refusing to illegally finance renovation of private home


Sputnik
Thu, 31 May 2018 22:18 UTC
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's wife sara
© AP Photo/ Gali Tibbon
According to anonymous sources cited by the Israeli media, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's wife attempted to physically assault the director general of the Prime Minister's Office, although both denied it.

Sources close to the incident stated that tensions have existed since Eli Groner was appointed as director of the Prime Minister's Office in 2015. The dispute that led to the alleged physical incident in January was about who should pay the bills at the Netanyahus' private home in Caesarea, Haaretz reported.

On January 13, Sara Netanyahu presumably sought financing for their Caesarea home renovation, but Groner refused, saying he would not "go to prison for her." When she arrived at the Prime Minister's Office in person, a senior office took her to Groner, and the altercation occurred.

Comment: There could be no family more befitting the genocidal state of Israel The Netanyahu's are plagued by endless allegations of wrong doing from bribery to fraud, with Sara Netanyahu's documented narcissistic rage, and then their progeny divulging the family's corruption while touring strip clubs. So it comes as no surprise that Sara Netanyahu would attempt to assault a top politician for non-compliance in her crimes: Also check out SOTT radio's:

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Trump-praising, Tory-supporting blowhard Jewish leader Arkush labels Corbyn an anti-Semite

Omar Baggili
RT
Thu, 31 May 2018 20:33 UTC
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© Tom Nicholson / Global Look Press
Jonathan Arkush, the outgoing president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, has said that Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn "has views which are anti-Semitic and problematic" in an interview for The Telegraph.

The Jewish leader and barrister of more than 30 years has been an outspoken critic of Corbyn since he became president of the board in 2015. In the interview he asks the Labour leader to offer "some clarity on his real views about Israel."

He cites Corbyn's association with the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) group as being problematic, because "If you look at its [PSC] logo and language, it's quite clear its world picture has no room for Israel." He adds: "Delegitimizing the State of Israel is anti-Semitic. He was a chairman of Stop the War, which is responsible for some of the worst anti-Israel discourse."


Comment: No, it isn't. Judaism is a religion. Semites are people who are indigenous to the Middle East. Zionist Israel is a neo-colonial, criminal state that has been sanctioned multiple times by the UN for breaking international law. Big difference.

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