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Cashless society: Fewer than 10% of Norwegians are using cash


RT
Tue, 01 May 2018 14:47 UTC
cashless
© Justin Sullivan / Getty Images / AFP
Fewer than 10 percent of Norwegians are still using paper currency or coins, which could completely disappear in a decade, according to the local authorities.

Jon Nicolaisen, the deputy governor of Norway's central bank, has said Norwegian society has become cashless, and that this is very much a present reality rather than a future dream.

"By approximation, I would argue that the present is cashless," he said at the City Week conference at London's Guildhall in a discussion on the future of paper currency, chaired by the Bank of England's chief cashier.
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Pirates

Disgraced Russian oligarch becomes new hero for failed Russiagate campaign

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Sat, 28 Apr 2018 14:30 UTC
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
© RIA Novosti / Andrey SteninMikhail Khodorkovsky
With the release of the House Intelligence Committee's report finding no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign, Congressional Republicans have seemingly dealt a death blow to the "Russian collusion" narrative which was already hurtling toward irrelevance. Indeed, the special counsel himself has publicly stated that he has "pivoted" toward investigating financial crimes and allegations of obstruction of justice.

But with President Trump threatening to take a more "hands on" role at the Department of Justice, Mueller has found himself in a bind. How can he continue to justify the probe if the original premise has been found to be completely invalid?

Comment: See also: NYT publishes more fake news about Russian lawyer Veselnitskaya

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Star of David

3 Palestinian demonstrators killed by Israeli soldiers in eastern Gaza


Xinhua
Sat, 28 Apr 2018 18:38 UTC
gaza injured
© Xinhua/StringerPalestinians carry an injured man during clashes with Israeli troops on the Gaza-Israel border, east of Gaza City, on April 27, 2018. Three Palestinians were killed and 350 others wounded on Friday during clashes between dozens of Palestinian demonstrators and Israeli soldiers in eastern Gaza Strip, said medics.
Three Palestinians were killed and 350 others wounded on Friday during clashes between dozens of Palestinian demonstrators and Israeli soldiers in eastern Gaza Strip, said medics.

Ashraf al-Qedra, spokesman of the Health Ministry in Gaza, told reporters that the injured include 10 members of medical staff and journalists.

He added that one of the dead protesters was identified as 29-year-old Abdul Sallam Bakker, while the identities of the other two were not immediately known.

Qedra said that among the 350 injured, 155 were treated in hospitals and 195 at medical tents.

The clash broke out on the fifth Friday rally as part of "the Great Marches of Return."

The clash erupted after demonstrators walked closer to the fence of the border between eastern Gaza Strip and Israel, where dozens of Israeli soldiers and snipers were stationed at the Israeli side.

Comment: Another source adds:
The Palestinian Health Ministry has confirmed that Israeli soldiers killed, Friday, three young Palestinian men, and injured more than 995, including at least 178 who were shot with live fire.
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No Entry

SOTT Focus: Look Where They Tell You Not to Look

Craig Murray
craigmurray.co.uk
Mon, 30 Apr 2018 09:30 UTC
At the very beginning of the of the Skripal incident, the security services blocked by D(SMA) notice any media mention of Pablo Miller and told the media not to look at Orbis and the Steele dossier on Trump, acting immediately to get out their message via trusties in the BBC and Guardian. Gordon Corera, "BBC Security Correspondent", did not name the source who told him to say this, but helpfully illustrated his tweet with a nice picture of MI6 Headquarters.

Gordon Corera tweet
MI6's most important media conduit (after Frank Gardner) is Luke Harding of the Guardian.
luke harding tweet
A number of people replied to Harding's tweet to point out that this was demonstrably untrue, and Pablo Miller had listed his employment by Orbis Business Intelligence on his Linkedin profile. That profile had just been deleted, but a google search for "Pablo Miller" plus "Orbis Business Intelligence", without Linkedin as a search term, brought up Miller's Linkedin profile as the first result (although there are twelve other Pablo Millers on Linkedin and the search brought up none of them). Plus a 2017 forum discussed Pablo Miller's Orbis connection and it both cited and linked to his Linkedin entry.
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Snakes in Suits

Facebook will censor Conservative posts but ignore threats to murder children

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Tue, 01 May 2018 12:10 UTC
facebook death threat free thought project
Over the past month, the social media giant, Facebook, has been in countless headlines ranging from the scope of their data collection to rampant censorship of peaceful groups. The world is now finding out that the social media network they agreed to join is also in the business of mining their data, controlling the narrative, and stifling free speech.

Many have suspected that the rife censorship, removal of pages, and banning of members has long been the means by which Facebook is able to push a deliberate agenda. Even the interface of the entire platform, according to its creators, is designed to create a feedback loop in which "bad actors can manipulate large swaths of people to do anything you want."

Indeed, Chamath Palihapitiya, former vice president of user growth at Facebook recently stated at a public discussion at the Stanford Graduate School of Business,"Everybody else has to soul-search a little bit more about what you're willing to do. Because your behaviors, you don't realize it, but you are being programmed. It was unintentional, but now you gotta decide how much you're willing to give up, how much of your intellectual independence."
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Star of David

Israeli activist & her children receive death threats after she calls IDF soldiers 'terrorists'

Jonathan Ofir
Mondoweiss
Tue, 01 May 2018 12:10 UTC
Adi Shosberger
© Ronnie BarkanAdi Shosberger, protesting snipers
Israeli human rights activists who promote BDS (boycott, divestment, and sanctions) and speak harshly against Israeli policy are often subject to campaigns of exclusion and sometimes to death threats. While their stories pale in comparison to the stories of Palestinians (who are often shot dead just for protesting their rights), they need to be told and heard once in a while.

Thus I will tell the story of Adi Shosberger, the Israeli activist who called Israeli soldiers "terrorists" who are participating in a "massacre of innocent civilians", telling them they were brainwashed into joining a "terror army", as featured in a video which went viral in Israel just over two weeks ago. The incitement against her following the video release resulted in death threats, harassment and intimidation of her children, slashing of tires, garbage on the lawn etc. Adi required protection from fellow activists, as the police have taken her situation very lightly.
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Fire

Watch INSANE footage of skyscraper collapsing in fireball - São Paulo, Brazil

George Martin
Daily Mail
Tue, 01 May 2018 12:00 UTC
Photos emerging from the scene showed the gigantic blaze
Photos emerging from the scene showed the gigantic blaze engulfing the entire 26-floor structure
A residential tower block collapsed in Brazil after a huge blaze tore through the building in the middle of the night - leaving several residents trapped.

One person has been confirmed dead so far - with further fatalities expected to be announced over the coming hours.

The catastrophic collapse was caught on camera in the city of Sao Paulo as horrified onlookers filmed the unfolding carnage.

In the clip, posted on Twitter, the 26-storey building can be seen smoldering from the blaze with flames licking up the side of the structure from several windows.

The block then suddenly bursts into a bright ball of fire - before a whole side of the building comes crashing down to earth.





Comment: Let's watch that again without the annoying video ads:


NUTS!!!

Comment: RT cites Brazilian outlet Folha as reporting that:
The massive fire struck two buildings in Largo do Paissandu on Tuesday, causing one of the properties to suddenly collapse. The neighboring building is still ablaze but fire crews are on the scene.
Question: how does fire 'strike' two tall buildings simultaneously?

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Eye 1

George Washington University students who protest Israel's human rights abuses in Palestine threatened for their BDS activities

Jesse Rubin
Mondoweiss
Tue, 01 May 2018 07:56 UTC
washington university BDS
© Divest This TimeStudent arrives at George Washington University divestment vote with a member of the anti-BDS group 'Canary Mission' (right) continuing efforts to intimidate students.
After being delayed a week because of threats to their safety, the George Washington University (GW) student Senate overwhelmingly passed a resolution to divest from nine companies known to be complicit in Israel's violations of Palestinian human rights.

Around 1 a.m early Tuesday morning, by a vote of 18 to 6 with 6 abstentions, resolution SR-S18-21: The Protection of Palestinian Human Rights Act passed, making George Washington the second university in just a week to pass a divestment resolution. Barnard College's student body voted in favor of a similar resolution by a record breaking margin in a campus-wide referendum on April 18.

The GW resolution, sponsored by student Senator Josh Gomez, along with Eden Vitoff, Jessica Martinez and Shaheera Jalil Albasit, calls on the university to divest from the following companies: Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Elbit Systems Ltd., Caterpillar Inc., CEMEX, General Electric, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon and Motorola Solutions, Inc.

Comment: The BDS movement is a clear threat to the genocidal campaign being waged by Israel against the Palestinians, and Israel has a lot to lose were more Americans to become wise to their actions at home and their corrupting influence in the US: Also check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: Western Order Break-Up? New Middle East? New Korea?

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Bizarro Earth

Video shows US cop taser distressed ER nurse knowing he had heart condition and his mother was a patient in the hospital, witnesses refute police version of events


Sputnik
Mon, 30 Apr 2018 22:00 UTC
police tase ER nurse mother treated
© Facebook/Ethan Raymond
Tennessee police used a taser stun gun on a nurse at Erlanger Hospital in Chattanooga on Thursday after he refused to leave the emergency room where his mother was being treated. Officers charged the nurse with two counts of assault, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct.


Comment: What US police consider assault these days would barely get you detention in kindergarten.


According to reports, 42-year-old Roger W Davis, a nurse at the hospital, was arguing loudly with the hospital's staff in the lobby on Thursday. Davis' mother was reportedly being treated in the hospital's emergency room at the time, though it is unclear what Davis and the staffers were arguing about and whether it involved Davis' mother.

​Davis allegedly refused to leave the hospital after officers arrived at the scene and asked him to exit the building. The video footage shows Davis' father, who was also in the hospital, urging Davis to comply with the police officers' orders.

Comment: Understandably the man was distressed but he is not violent; the response of the US police demonstrates just how cowardly and psychopathic they really are, and as evidenced by the witnesses, US citizens are all too aware of it:


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Bad Guys

Massacres in Brazil have doubled since arrival of military in slums


teleSUR
Tue, 01 May 2018 07:56 UTC
Security forces search residents of the Manguinhos favela complex.
© ReutersSecurity forces search residents of the Manguinhos favela complex.
While the motives of the massacre are unknown, investigators have not discarded the possibility of a milita group carrying out the murders.

Five people were killed, along with a military police officer, in the Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area Saturday. The massacre occurred in Vila Operaria neighborhood, while the police officer was killed in Jacarepagua neighborhood.

The investigation, conducted by the Baixada Fluminense Homicide Precinct, indicates that hooded gunmen fired in the direction of the five victims in Vila Operaria, killing three men and two women. The victims were identified as Marlon de Souza (19); Rosangela de Souza Ribeiro (49); Douglas Carneiro (35); Carla Gomes Maria (37); and Felix Fonseca da Silva (46).

Comment: Unsurprisingly, the chaos overtaking Brazil is the signature of US interference: Brazil, the Assassination of Justice; a Coup in a Coup
The judge who persecuted Dilma and Lula, Sergio Moro is one of the many judges or judicial employees co-opted by Washington, which in fact now maintains a kind of School of the Americas for police forces in El Salvador. Moro's conviction of Lula is a legal monstrosity, since - as in the Dilma case - there is no evidence in the case for which he was convicted, which makes him a political hostage, not only from Brazil, but from Washington which favored the former informant for the Southern Command, the current president; Michel Temer.
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