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Russian transport aircraft crashes at Khmeimim Airbase in Syria - All 39 onboard killed


RT
Tue, 06 Mar 2018 15:13 UTC
russian military transport crash lands syria
© Sergey Pivovarov / SputnikA technical malfunction may have caused the accident.
A Russian military transport airplane has crashed during landing at Khmeimim Airbase in Syria, the Russian Defense Ministry has said. Six crew members as well as 26 passengers were killed in the crash, it added.

According to preliminary information, the incident could have been caused by a technical malfunction, the ministry said.

"Around 15:00 (Moscow time, 12:00 GMT), a Russian An-26 transport aircraft crashed while coming in for landing at the Khmeimim airbase," the statement issued by the ministry said. "All those on board died [in the incident]," it added.

The airplane hit the ground some 500 meters from the runway. It did not come under fire before the incident, the Russian military said.
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Media and government ignore system failures behind Florida school shooting


RT
Tue, 06 Mar 2018 09:29 UTC
Nikolas Cruz
© Mike Stocker/Pool / ReutersNikolas Cruz is facing 17 charges of premeditated murder in the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida
Following the Parkland, Florida school shooting, the media focused on new gun control laws, while ignoring the failures of law enforcement and the government program encouraging schools and police to look the other way.

The Valentine's Day shooting at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Broward County, Florida left 17 students and faculty dead and 14 more wounded. The gunman was identified as Nikolas Cruz, 19, a former student with a history of behavioral problems.

As it unfortunately happens after each shooting in the US, calls for gun control dominated the aftermath of the tragedy at Stoneman Douglas. Several students have since become celebrity gun control advocates, denouncing the National Rifle Association (NRA) and calling for tougher gun control laws, and their emotional outbursts have been amplified by the media such as CNN.

There is absolutely a question of how Cruz was able to legally get his hands on AR-15 semi-automatic rifle. There are also questions surrounding why the local police and the FBI ignored several warning signs and reports they received about Cruz.

A new investigative report by conservative journalist Paul Sperry points to one possible reason why the school district and the Broward County Sheriff's Office might have looked the other way: a 2013 program implemented by the Obama administration to end the so-called "school to prison pipeline."

Comment: There are many factors that led up the shooting, but the media and your government only want to focus on gun control where many are divided and easily exploited to further distract the public from the real issues surrounding it. See also:

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Indonesia blocks Tumblr for providing access to pornography

Andrew Griffin
Independent
Tue, 06 Mar 2018 13:45 UTC
Tumblr
© Rob Kim/Getty Images for Tumblr


The site has long had a relatively liberal approach to adult pictures and videos

Tumblr has been banned in Indonesia for providing people with access to pornographic content.

The communications ministry said the block - which means nobody in the country can access the blogging platform - came after complaints about hundreds of accounts that provided pornography.

The country has stepped up efforts to police the kind of content available online. It has been trying to stem a rise in hoax stories and hate speech, and anti-pornography laws pushed by Islamic parties in the country have led tens of thousands of adult websites to be taken offline.
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Privilege: a term that has lost its usefulness

Genevieve Weynerowski
Quillette
Tue, 06 Mar 2018 12:26 UTC
pen and journal
Earlier this year, Twitter was on fire with claims that Margaret Atwood was "abusing her privilege". She had written an op-ed in the Globe and Mail ("Am I a bad feminist?") in which she compared the immoderate zeal of the Me Too movement to the purity campaigns following other tectonic social revolutions. The movement wasn't ready for uncharitable comparisons. How dare she equate Me Too's calls for rough justice with Stalin's purges? In the Globe and Mail piece Atwood explained why, unlike several other Canadian authors who had buckled under pressure from their detractors, she had declined to remove her signature from an open letter to UBC. Steven Galloway, formerly the Chair of UBC's creative writing program, had been fired, without severance pay, following a series of complaints of sexual misconduct, despite having been exonerated. Atwood and her fellow writers had protested the opaque process by which Galloway was tried and found wanting by the university.
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CNN pressures YouTube to ban InfoWars, sending advertisers running


RT
Tue, 06 Mar 2018 09:33 UTC
Alex Jones Info Wars
© InfoWars / YouTube
Advertisers are quickly abandoning Alex Jones' InfoWars channels on YouTube after they discovered their ads were displayed on the controversial channels, courtesy of CNN.

CNN claims that big companies like Nike, Acer, Mozilla, Alibaba, Expedia, ClassPass, 20th Century Fox, and others have discovered they had ads playing on the Alex Jones Channel. Now, a number of brands are "blacklisting" InfoWars from future ad spending, the report said.

It is often the case that when companies purchase ads from various agencies, they are unaware of exactly where those ads will be displayed. It is possible, however, for them to use filters to prevent them from showing up on certain websites and channels. YouTube allows brands to opt into a "sensitive subject exclusion" to ensure their ads don't run alongside offensive content, which InfoWars often is.

Comment: The censorship of voices of dissent is a disturbing trend that seems to be accelerating. While InfoWars is certainly not an outlet one would go to for accurate information, the idea that they should be silenced is clearly antithetical to platforms that supposedly promote freedom of speech and expression. By bowing to pressure from mainstream outlets, social media platforms like YouTube turn themselves into ideological bubbles, where no alternative voices are welcome.

See also:

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84 year old survivor of Holocaust abused by TSA, sees ominous mirroring of her time in Auschwitz

Matt Agorist
Free Thought Project
Mon, 05 Mar 2018 00:00 UTC
Eva Mozes Kor
An 84-year-old grandmother and holocaust survivor says her treatment by the TSA was so bad that even though she survived Auschwitz, she barely survived the TSA.

The TSA is, without a doubt, one of America's most corrupt and incompetent agencies whose ostensible job is fighting terrorism. However, last year, they became apparently so unsatisfied with the mere ability to strip search babies, remove colostomy bags, beat up blind cancer patients, and fondle your genitalia, that they announced a more invasive physical pat-downs. The pat-downs, which TSA warned would probably prompt assault complaints with the police department because of their invasive nature, have been implemented and an 84-year-old holocaust survivor has become the TSA's latest victim.

Eva Mozes Kor exposed her abuse by TSA in a Tweet on Sunday, explaining how she was forced to undergo a "very demeaning body search" just to board a plane. In her Tweet, she drew a parallel with the TSA and Auschwitz.
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Russian Presidential Candidate, Zhirinovsky: Movements like #MeToo may lead to "humans disappearing as species"


Sputnik
Tue, 06 Mar 2018 00:52 UTC
Vladimir Zhirinovsky
© Sputnik/ Iliya Pitalev
Vladimir Zhirinovsky, leader of Russia's Liberal-Democratic Party (LDPR) and a presidential candidate, has referred to spreading accusations of sexual harassment against men as an "epidemic," claiming that if the trend doesn't stop, the whole human race risks disappearing.

The 71-year-old politician, a five-time presidential candidate now on his sixth campaign, took to his Telegram account on Monday to caution followers that if the sexual harassment accusation "epidemic" continues, "men and women will turn from loving each other to hating each other" and that it might lead to "humans disappearing as species."
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Liberal diversity in action: No professional mixers for straight, white males at Comic Con

Megan Fox
PJ Media
Fri, 02 Mar 2018 00:00 UTC
Comic Con at Washington State
© Mat Hayward/Getty ImagesAll gender restroom sign during Emerald City Comic Con at Washington State Convention Center on March 3, 2017 in Seattle, Washington.
The comics industry seems to be doubling down on their policy of completely excluding anyone who is straight, white, male, or conservative. This year's Emerald City Comic Con released its schedule of events on its app recently. Anyone who is male, white and identifies as heterosexual found himself excluded from industry mixers and professional mixers.
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Comment: How the heck did we get here?

See this recent Sott Focus:

Too Far Left: How Liberals Transformed Into Illiberal Social Justice Warriors

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Stop blaming everything on 'Russian bots' already!

Miriam Elder & Charlie Warzel
Buzzfeed
Wed, 28 Feb 2018 14:05 UTC
Russian bots
By now you know the drill: massive news event happens, journalists scramble to figure out what's going on, and within a couple hours the culprit is found - Russian bots.

Russian bots were blamed for driving attention to the Nunes memo, a Republican-authored document on the Trump-Russia probe. They were blamed for pushing for Roy Moore to win in Alabama's special election. And here they are wading into the gun debate following the Parkland shooting. "[T]he messages from these automated accounts, or bots, were designed to widen the divide and make compromise even more difficult," wrote the New York Times in a story following the shooting, citing little more than "Twitter accounts suspected of having links to Russia."

This is, not to mince words, total bullshit.
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Former Russian spy critically ill in England after exposure to unknown substance


RT
Mon, 05 Mar 2018 21:28 UTC
Ambulance
© Joel Goodman / Global Look Press
Two people have been treated for "suspected exposure to an unknown substance" in the city of Salisbury, England, according to police. One of them is reportedly a former Russian double agent.

Sources close to the investigation told BBC and Reuters that one of those affected was Sergey Skripal, part of a "spy swap" between the US and Russia in 2010. The Russian worked as a double agent for the UK intelligence agency MI6 and was jailed in Russia in 2006 for spying for Britain, having passed on the names of undercover Russian intelligence agents. Russia released four prisoners in exchange for 10 US spies.

Police declared a "major incident" after a man and woman were reported to be in distress at a shopping center in Salisbury, in Wiltshire in southern England on Sunday. They "were taken to Salisbury District Hospital and are being treated for suspected exposure to an unknown substance. They are currently in a critical condition," Wiltshire Police said in a statement on Monday.

"At this stage it is not yet clear if a crime has been committed and a multi-agency response has been co-ordinated. Police are carrying out a full investigation and working with partner agencies, to clarify the exact circumstances," police said, adding that at this stage they don't believe there is any risk to the wider public.
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