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Panel report says police op against black woman seeking justice for dead brother 'likely' motivated by racism


RT
Fri, 09 Mar 2018 16:40 UTC
Christopher Alder
© WikipediaChristopher Alder was unlawfully killed, an inquest found in 2000.
Racial discrimination against a black British woman is likely to have subjected her to a secret police surveillance operation, a report has stated. Her brother, a former soldier, was unlawfully killed while in police custody.

Christopher Adler died in 1998 at the age of 37, handcuffed and face down in a police station in Hull, after choking on his own vomit. Horrifying tape recordings picked up monkey noises being made as the Falklands veteran lay dead. There were also recordings of officers laughing and joking as he died.

An inquest found he was unlawfully killed in 2000. The court heard officers had assumed he was playing and was not in genuine distress. His sister was then placed under surveillance as she campaigned for justice over his death.

Following the death and a subsequent investigation into it, officers tailed Janet Alder and her barrister Leslie Thomas, attempting to listen in on their private conversations. A report into the treatment of the pair concluded Thomas was treated very differently to his white colleagues.
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Scurrying for safety: Footage shows terrified London commuters after 2017 tube explosion (VIDEO)


RT
Fri, 09 Mar 2018 13:49 UTC
Parsons Green tube station in London, UK
© Hannah McKay / ReutersForensic investigators search on the platform at Parsons Green tube station in London, UK, on September 15, 2017.
CCTV footage released by the Metropolitan Police of the explosion on a London tube in September 2017 has released. It comes as the trial of the teenage asylum seeker accused of launching the attack is underway.

The video shows the inside of a tube carriage at Parsons Green station. A sudden eruption of flames prompts terrified commuters to flee as quickly as they can.

It comes as suspect Ahmed Hassan, an 18-year-old asylum seeker from Iraq, faces trial for allegedly launching the attack. He has been charged with attempted murder and using the chemical compound TATP to cause an explosion which was likely to endanger lives.

Comment: See also: Explosion at London's Parsons Green station being investigated as terrorist attack [UPDATES]

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Westminster's systemic bullying culture revealed as a 'club of privilege'


RT
Fri, 09 Mar 2018 16:18 UTC
tory bullies parliament
© Reuters / Global Look Press / parliament.ukJohn Bercow, Speaker of the House of Commons (L), Mark Pritchard, conservative MP (C), Paul Farrelly, Labour Party politician and journalist (R).
The British parliament is in disarray after complaints emerged that Westminster staff were bullied and intimidated by MPs. One staffer claims she left her job with House Speaker John Bercow because she was suffering from PTSD.

Female clerks who worked with politicians told BBC's Newsnight that an entrenched "culture of fear" is rife within Westminster. Journalists for the show conducted dozens of interviews and reviewed internal parliamentary human resources documents to back up claims made by the women.

Female MPs have now lashed out at the men accused of bullying. Green Party co-leader Caroline Lucas said more needs to be done to address the "club of privilege" attitude in Westminster. Labour MP Jess Phillips has already met with clerks and other staffers to discuss the issue.

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Father murdered and family's home raided by 240 cops after trying to expose high-level gov't pedophiles in Lithuania

Matt Agorist
Free Thought Project
Thu, 08 Mar 2018 00:00 UTC
a victim's father was murdered
After trying to expose a group of high-level government pedophiles, a victim's father was murdered, the victim kidnapped by the state, and the family persecuted by government officials.

A teenage refugee from Lithuania has come forward with a White House petition and a damning testimony showing what happened after his family tried to expose a little girl's abusers. When his four-year-old cousin accused two high-level government officials-describing it in heartbreaking detail - Korolis Venckienė learned the hard way how the government protects its vilest members, up to and including using hundreds of militarized police and even murder.

As Venckienė explains in his petition on WhiteHouse.gov, this nightmare started when their family attempted to seek justice for the sick men who allegedly raped his four-year-old cousin.

"In 2008, 4-year-old Deimante Kedyte described her sexual assault by high-level Lithuanian officials. Her testimony was later verified as true by 4 separate commissions. She never had her day in court," Venckienė wrote.

When the teen's uncle, Drasius Kedys, Deimante's father pushed for the men to be prosecuted for what they did to his daughter, he was murdered.

Comment: Unfortunately, the US may not prove to be the source of refuge and safety that Venckienė hopes for - given its own scourge of pedophilia in very high places. See also:

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UK police reveal terrorism arrests hit record high but only a fraction lead to convictions


RT
Fri, 09 Mar 2018 16:22 UTC
terrorist
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Terrorism arrests skyrocketed in 2017 but only a fraction lead to convictions, startling new data from the Home Office reveal. The stats show the police in a harsh light, and there are those asking whether enough is being done.

In 2017, 412 arrests were made in the UK, but a mere 110 of those led to actual terrorism charges. The shocking statistics come as Ahmed Hassan faces trial over September's Parsons Green attack. On Wednesday, prosecutors told the court said that Hassan had told Home Office officials, 20 months before the Parsons Green attack, that he had been "trained to kill."

The new data raises the question: are our anti-terrorism police as effective as they should be? An assessment made by David Anderson QC found that three of the six terrorists involved in the Manchester Arena attacks were on already the security services' radar. Manchester suicide bomber Salman Abedi had twice been a "subject of interest" in MI5 investigations in the years before the May 2017 attack. Those investigations were later closed, and interest in Abedi downgraded.
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From Russia with Love: #MakeHerSmile campaign celebrates women across the globe with flowers (VIDEOS)


RT
Fri, 09 Mar 2018 02:49 UTC
International Women's Day
Women across the globe were presented with flowers as part of the #MakeHerSmile campaign, which celebrates International Women's Day, an event that takes place every March 8th.

The fairer sex across the globe have been smothered with flowers, gifts, and an avalanche of kind words by random strangers, who chose to spend their Thursday afternoon making her smile on International Women's Day.

From Moscow to London and across to Beijing, men took time off from their busy schedules to let women know their grand appreciation for their work, love, care and devotion that women of all ages continuously exhibit towards their partners.

Comment: From The Moscow Times :

Vladimir Putin congratulated Russian women on International Women's Day Thursday by reciting a Soviet-era poem and saying "Woman is the kind and serene figure in every man's life."

Women's Day is a national holiday in Russia and one of the most important public holidays inherited from the Soviet period.

"Only women can create a welcoming atmosphere at work and at home, take care of our homes and children every day and be a moral example to them," the president said according to a Kremlin statement.

"We are happy to have such a wonderful occasion to express again our deep respect for you, our enchantment with your beauty and tenderness."

In a video posted on his official Twitter account, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev thanked women "for always being by our side."

"We want you to be tired less, and smile more," he said.

See full speech:



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Major London landlord to offer women-only viewings after housing charity report revealed large numbers of sex for rent cases


RT
Fri, 09 Mar 2018 15:35 UTC
doctor patient
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A major London landlord is offering women-only viewings amid an increasing number of 'sex-for-rent' cases. Up to 250,000 women have been offered free or low rent in exchange for sex in the past five years, figures show.

Build-to-rent developer UNCLE will be offering women the chance to look around flats with female agents. The plan aims to protect potential tenants from increasing instances of being "inappropriately approached" by landlords seeking sexual favors.

The move comes as a report by housing charity Shelter revealed that some 250,000 women had been offered free or discounted rent since 2013 on condition that they consented to some form of physical encounter with their landlord. Ryan Prince, founder and chief executive of UNCLE, said he was shocked at the extent to which the practice by "people in a position of power and influence" has spread.
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Good, old fashioned discipline: Father receives praise for making his bullying son run a mile to school

Janita Kan
Epoch Times
Tue, 06 Mar 2018 15:51 UTC
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A father from Virginia has earned praised for his parenting tactics after he punished his son by making him run a mile to school for bullying other children on the bus.

Bryan Thornhill shared a live video of his 10-year-old son running outside in the rain while he followed closely behind in his car on March 1.


Comment: More on the importance of fathers:

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Russian farmers are now feeding half the world as grain harvest sets new record


RT
Fri, 09 Mar 2018 09:21 UTC
russian grain production
© Nicola Zingarelli / Global Look PressA bumper wheat harvest cropped by Russian farmers in the current agricultural season is projected to push the US from the position of the world’s top grain exporter.
This season's grain production in Russia has beaten last year's bumper crop and the record harvest set by the USSR in 1978, according to new data revealed by the statistics agency Rosstat.

Russia has harvested around 135.393 million tons of grain, including 85.9 million tons of wheat, during the current growing season. This is a million tons more than the previous record. Russia's agriculture ministry revised its projections for exports, with 50 million tons of grain now expected to be shipped abroad.

Comment: 'Largest harvest in Russian history': Russia will export 50 million surplus tons of grain

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Palestinian girl kidnapped by Israeli soldiers after being aggressively beaten by illegal settler


The Palestinian Information Center
Fri, 09 Mar 2018 15:47 UTC
Pastestinian girl kidnapped
Israeli soldiers on Wednesday evening kidnapped a Palestinian girl after she was violently beaten by an Israeli settler in al-Khalil's southern town of Yatta, in the southern occupied West Bank.

Coordinator for the Popular Anti-Settlement Committee, Rateb al-Jabour, said the Israeli occupation forces kidnapped 13-year-old Jamalat Abu Kbeita shortly after an Israeli settler assaulted her.

The girl was accused of attempting to carry out an anti-occupation stabbing attack.

Eye-witnesses refuted the Israeli allegations, saying the girl was on her father's land when she was attacked.

The settler reportedly beat the girl moments after her father headed to the local authorities to file a complaint against Israeli settlers who misappropriated six dunums of his private land lot and grazed their livestock in his cultivated ranches.
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