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Andre Vltchek: Don't believe the Western propaganda - Chinese democracy is alive and well!

Andre Vltchek
Asia-Pacific Research
Sat, 03 Mar 2018 00:00 UTC
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New huge wave of 'China bashing' is once again rolling from Europe and North America. Its water is filthy and murky. It tries to smear everything about the present Chinese system: from its own and unique democratic model, to its leadership, as well as the political, economic and social system.

I am periodically reminded that every year, just before China's annual two sessions, there will be rising voices declaring that the People's Congress play the role of rubber stamps, and China's democracy can't truly represent the people.

Criticism of the Chinese system sometimes comes from within the country, but more often it arrives from abroad. Even local critics are usually deeply influenced by the foreign perceptions.

China is often 'analyzed' and judged strictly by the Western norms and rules, and that is chauvinistic and amazingly patronizing.

Comment: See the recent Sott Focus: American Energy Dominance And The Rise of The Petro-Yuan

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Kiev, a hot mess: As many as 4 injured, 100 detained in scuffles with police


RT
Sat, 03 Mar 2018 10:02 UTC
Riot police detain protesters in Kiev
© Gleb Garanich / ReutersRiot police detain protesters in Kiev, Ukraine March 3, 2018.
Clashes between police and protesters in central Kiev have left several people injured and scores detained. The demonstrators burned tires as police searched their camp, where grenades and smoke shells were found.

Four policemen were injured as unrest erupted early Saturday near the Ukrainian parliament building in central Kiev, national police said. Some 100 people were also detained during the scuffles.

Up to 10 people may have been injured in the clashes, according to local media, citing police chief Andrey Krischenko.

The demonstrators started burning tires as the police arrived at the camp. During the operation, the officers seized hand grenades, smoke shells and found Molotov cocktails.

Comment: Conned into believing the pathological Poroshenko regime and puppet of Empire would make their lives any better, Ukrainians are now stuck in an absolutely horrible political, social and economic environment. With no end in sight.

See: Storm clouds are gathering over the Ukraine

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Hate spreading: Ukrainian Neo-Nazi paramilitary groups now recruiting Brits


RT
Fri, 02 Mar 2018 09:49 UTC
Azov battalion
© Reuters/ Gleb GaranichThe Azov battalion in Ukraine is recruiting from the UK
Ukrainian Neo-Nazi groups involved in fighting in eastern Ukraine are actively seeking to recruit British far-right activists. The anti-fascist watchdog has warned that at least two Britons have recently travelled to Ukraine.

Hope not Hate (HNH), a UK based advocacy group, detailed that the Ukrainian fascist militia Azov battalion and connected groups have been recruiting Britons. The group has contacted representatives from National Action, a proscribed terror organization, and a London-based Polish fascist group.

HNH estimates extreme far right groups have around 600-700 members, a significant decrease from previous years. However, the group warned that there was an emergence of new, tech-savvy far right wingers. These elements are creating professional media campaigns to ignite hate across Europe.

The threat is evolving. As traditional British far-right groups collapse, far-right-inspired terrorism is on the rise. Replacing old-fashioned racial nationalism is anti-Muslim hatred. Today's key activists tend to be younger, operate online and have little of the obvious 'Nazi' baggage of their predecessors," HNH said in its annual State of Hate report on Friday.
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Islam and the West: An analysis of what went wrong and why

Amir Nour
The Saker
Sat, 03 Mar 2018 17:52 UTC
Taj Mahal
"The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born,
now is the time of monsters"
(Antonio Gramsci)
Introduction: Between "apparent" and "real" History

Alvin Toffler, one of the world's leading futurists, is often quoted, and with good reason, as saying that the illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.

In the same vein, in an interview given in 2014, Noam Chomsky was invited to comment on his book "Masters of Mankind"[1]-- a collection of essays and lectures written between 1969 and 2013. Pointing out that the world has changed a great deal during that period, his interviewer asked him whether his understanding of the world had changed over time, and if so, what have been the most catalytic events in altering his perspective about politics. Chomsky -- who was voted the world's top public intellectual in 2005 -- offered the following answer "My understanding of the world has changed over time and I've learned a lot more about the past, and ongoing events regularly add new critical materials. I can't really identify single events or people. It's cumulative, a constant process of rethinking in the light of new information and more consideration of what I didn't properly understand. However, hierarchical and arbitrary power remains at the core of politics in our world and the source of all evils".
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Ed Butowsky: Seth Rich's father confirmed his son was the Wikileaks leaker

Cassandra Fairbanks
Gateway Pundit
Thu, 01 Mar 2018 18:06 UTC
Seth Rich
Ed Butowsky, the man who offered to assist the family of Seth Rich with the cost of hiring a private investigator, has told the Gateway Pundit that during a December 2016 conversation with the father of the slain staffer he confirmed that he "knew what his sons did."

Butowsky further stated that the family was deeply concerned with their son being remembered for helping to get President Donald Trump elected.

Speaking to Butowsky by phone on Thursday evening, he told the Gateway Pundit that during a conversation with Joel Rich on December 17, 2016 at 3:17 p.m., the father stated "we know what our sons did, but we just want to find Seth's killer."

"They know - we all know," Butowksy said.

In an audio recording that I previously obtained, private investigator Rod Wheeler explained that Seth's brother, Aaron Rich, had tried to block Wheeler from looking at Seth's computer - even though there could be evidence on it.

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Flashback Rape is 'impossible' in marriage, says UK Muslim cleric

Mark Hughes and Jerome Taylor
Independent
Wed, 13 Oct 2010 17:33 UTC
muslim woman
© Yasser Chalid/ Getty
A senior Muslim cleric who runs the country's largest network of sharia courts has sparked controversy by claiming that there is no such thing as rape within marriage.

Sheikh Maulana Abu Sayeed, president of the Islamic Sharia Council in Britain, said that men who rape their wives should not be prosecuted because "sex is part of marriage". And he claimed that many married women who alleged rape were lying.

His comments have angered senior police officers, who say that such statements undermine the work they do to encourage women to report rape, a notoriously under-reported crime.

Sheikh Sayeed made the comments in an interview with the blog The Samosa, before reiterating them later when contacted by The Independent.

He told the website: "Clearly there cannot be any rape within the marriage. Maybe aggression, maybe indecent activity... Because when they got married, the understanding was that sexual intercourse was part of the marriage, so there cannot be anything against sex in marriage. Of course, if it happened without her desire, that is no good, that is not desirable."

Comment: Islam is in dire need of revising its 'laws'.

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Liberal leaning Twitter purging followers from conservative accounts because they could be Russian bots

Mary Magaline
New Right Network
Fri, 02 Mar 2018 17:32 UTC
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What is Happening on Social Media

It is a day just like any other day; I am humming along on my Twitter beat, cruising for 2,700 followers and feeling pretty good about myself. Out of nowhere, Twitter deals me a massive blow. My followers start dropping by the hundreds. I frantically check to assure myself I had not lost Roseanne Barr to the purge. Unfortunately, this seems to be a common occurrence lately on Twitter. However, on February 20, 2018, it appeared that there was a 'Purge' of sorts happening.

Was Twitter Trying to "Purge" its Platform?

Twitter timelines suddenly filled with hashtags like #TwitterPurge and #TwitterCensorship. Twitter users were outraged at what appeared to be a massacre of hundreds of (mostly conservative) accounts. Decimation of hundreds (and sometimes thousands) of followers, gone in a blink, as one Twitter user said. There were about as many theories to explain what happened as there were lost followers.

Many Twitter Users were Panicked

Some people found themselves locked out of their accounts, forced to verify who they were only to come back to see their follower count had gone down drastically. So naturally, Conserva-Twitter decided it was a targeting of conservative accounts under the guise of ridding the Twittersphere of Russian bots. Not all believe that, but most have decided it was censorship, like Republican Representative from Georgia's 15th district Steven Smith:

Comment: As the fellows at Project Veritas have shown, Twitter is heavily vested in promoting their alt-left agenda at any cost. See also:

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Former Gov. Mike Huckabee driven off country music board for LGBT stance

Cindy Watts and Dave Paulson
The Tennessean
Thu, 01 Mar 2018 17:38 UTC
Mike Huckabee
© CBS News
Less than one day after his appointment was announced, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee resigned Thursday from the CMA Foundation board of directors after criticism from multiple members of the country music industry.

"I genuinely regret that some in the industry were so outraged by my appointment that they bullied the CMA and the Foundation with economic threats and vowed to withhold support for the programs for students if I remained," Huckabee wrote in his letter of resignation. "I'm somewhat flattered to be of such consequence when all I thought I was doing was voluntarily serving on a non-profit board without pay in order to (continue) my decades of advocacy for the arts and especially music."

The announcement follows pointed criticism from members of the country music industry, as well as fans - much of it stemming from Huckabee's stance on LGBT issues.

Jason Owen, co-president of Monument Records and owner at Sandbox Entertainment, called the appointment a "grossly offensive decision" in an email to the association's CEO Sarah Trahern and CMA Foundation executive Tiffany Kerns.

Comment: We guess country music, or at least the people behind the scenes, are not so conservative anymore.

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What Washington and Ankara really want in Northern Syria

Patrick Henningsen
RT
Sat, 03 Mar 2018 15:23 UTC
Soldiers in Afrin
© Ozan Kose / AFP
The Kurdish region of Afrin in northern Syria has become a new geopolitical pivot point in the conflict. With so many actors' interests overlapping, whose positions will be weakened and whose solidified if hostilities escalate?

With so many different agendas now converging along the borderlands, many fear that Turkey's latest military masterplan and march towards Afrin threatens to open up a dangerous new front in the Syrian War, but it also has the potential to incite a brand new wave of extremist factions pouring into the area - posing new risks for Syria.

On January 20, Ankara launched Operation Olive Branch (ostensibly Operation Euphrates Shield part two), which includes air and ground operations into northern Syria designed to "cleanse" Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) fighters from the area, whom it considers a grave security threat. As a result, Kurdish militias and Afrin residents are under threat of bombardments from an encroaching Turkish-led coalition that includes many of the same extremist factions previously driven from places East Aleppo and Homs, including the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and others.

All the signals coming from Ankara are that it is escalating in Afrin, including a recent announcement of a deployment of Turkish Special Forces into the region.
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YouTube accused of discriminating against white and Asian men, claims new lawsuit

Kirsten Grind and Douglas MacMillan
Wall Street Journal
Thu, 01 Mar 2018 17:24 UTC
Discrimination
YouTube last year stopped hiring white and Asian males for technical positions because they didn't help the world's largest video site achieve its goals for improving diversity, according to a civil lawsuit filed by a former employee.

The lawsuit, filed by Arne Wilberg, a white male who worked at Google for nine years, including four years as a recruiter at YouTube, alleges the division of Alphabet Inc.'s Google set quotas for hiring minorities. Last spring, YouTube recruiters were allegedly instructed to cancel interviews with applicants who weren't female, black or Hispanic, and to "purge entirely" the applications of people who didn't fit those categories, the lawsuit claims.

A Google spokeswoman said the company will vigorously defend itself in the lawsuit. "We have a clear policy to hire candidates based on their merit, not their identity," she said in a statement. "At the same time, we unapologetically try to find a diverse pool of qualified candidates for open roles, as this helps us hire the best people, improve our culture, and build better products."

People familiar with YouTube's and Google's hiring practices in interviews corroborated some of the lawsuit's allegations, including the hiring freeze of white and Asian technical employees, and YouTube's use of quotas.

Mr. Wilberg's lawsuit, filed in January in California's San Mateo County Superior Court, alleges that Google discriminated against him for his sex and race, retaliated by firing him when he complained, and in the process violated antidiscrimination laws. Mr. Wilberg declined to comment through his attorney.
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