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Another tourist disappears in Dyatlov Pass, where 9 hikers mysteriously died in 1959


RT
Thu, 01 Mar 2018 10:26 UTC
A group of tourists conducts an expedition to the Ural Mountains
© Nikolay Gyngazov / Global Look PressA group of tourists conducts an expedition to the Ural Mountains
A tourist has disappeared without a trace at the Dyatlov Pass in Russia's Ural Mountains. The area, which is shrouded in mystery, is notorious for the unexplained death of a group of hikers back in 1959.

A man from the Russian city of Ekaterinburg, identified as Aleksandr Andreev, has been reported lost in the pass, after venturing on an individual journey to this remote region, Russian media cite local police sources as saying. According to the reports, the tourist has not checked in for about three weeks.

The tourist was expected to return from his hiking trip on February 27, but never did. A group of local volunteers have launched a rescue mission in an attempt to find the missing man. So far, the group has only found a message from him dated February 17, in which he said that "everything was going well," Moskovsky Komsomolets daily reports.

Andreev also failed to register with the local search and rescue service before setting out for his trip, the media report, adding that the route of his trip is unknown. The search and rescue team became aware he was missing only after his relatives sought assistance.

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Belorussian 'sex coaches' arrested in Thailand claim they are 'missing link' in Russian meddling story - Desperately seeking US asylum


RT
Wed, 28 Feb 2018 15:38 UTC
nastya_rybka.ru / Instagram
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A young woman from Belarus and her coach in the art of seduction have pleaded with the US to rescue them from a Thai jail and grant them political asylum. They're offering dirty secrets on 'the Russian elite' in return.

"Thai police have caught us and now they plan to extradite us to Russia. We ask you to give us political asylum and protect us as soon as possible because we have information very important for the USA and risk our lives," a letter sent to the American embassy in Thailand, which was obtained by RT, says.

Comment: Since there was no Russian meddling in the US election, there's no 'evidence' to give: Also check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: Olympic Politics, Aleppo 2.0, and Russiagate to Nowhere

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Italy first! 50,000 demonstrators turn out to support anti-Islamisation candidate Matteo Salvini


Voice of Europe
Sun, 25 Feb 2018 21:43 UTC
Italian election demonstration
© Matteo Salvini / Facebook
Italy's elections are in a week and campaigns in the country are running on full speed. The leader of Italy's right-wing Lega party, Matteo Salvini, organised a successful rally in Milan yesterday.

At least 50,000 Italians were present at Milan's Piazza del Duomo (Cathedral Square), Salvini said on Facebook. He thanked the people who came to support him and the thousands who were watching his live stream.

Salvini's Lega party has a good chance to win the elections. Together with Berlusconi's Forza Italia, the party formed a right-wing bloc to keep the left out.

Polls show the parties have at least 37% of the electorate and are only between two to four percentage points apart within their alliance.

If Salvini and Berlusconi's bloc wins the elections, the biggest party of the right-wing alliance can choose the Prime Minister.

The elections are next week, on Sunday, the 4th of March.

Comment: Salvini seems to be answering the same need as Trump for the Italian populace, only much more blunt about it.

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"Layoffs imminent": Newsweek couldn't pay its rent on time and faced eviction


The Daily Beast
Tue, 27 Feb 2018 04:26 UTC
newsweek rent
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Looming investigations into Newsweek Media Group's finances have demoralized the legacy magazine's staff and left a cloud of doubt over the company's long-term future. But now the company faces another more immediate issue: Whether it can stay in its New York headquarters.

Guardian Life Insurance, the sub-landlord for the company's downtown Manhattan office, informed International Business Times Inc. in late November that it owed several hundred thousand dollars representing "unpaid, delinquent rent and additional rent."

According an affidavit filed in New York County court in mid February, Guardian claims IBT currently owes the landlord $303,466 in rent.

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Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel embodies everything wrong with American authority

Rich Lowry
The National Review
Tue, 27 Feb 2018 21:28 UTC
Israel Parkland shootings
© Thom Baur/ReutersBroward County Sheriff Scott Israel speaks at a press conference outside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.February 15, 2018
Sheriff Scott Israel's performance has been disgraceful.

The sheriff is an outsized figure in the American imagination. He is Wyatt Earp, shooting it out with outlaws at the O.K. Corral. He is John Wayne, a lonely instrument of frontier justice. He is Rick Grimes, the resourceful survivor of a zombie apocalypse in The Walking Dead.

Now, along comes Scott Israel to remind us, despite the legend, how a sheriff can be a hack politician whose primary concern is protecting his own political reputation and little fief.

The Broward County sheriff, whose disgraceful performance in the Stoneman Douglas shooting has been a master class in evasion of responsibility, is the latest entry in why we don't trust our public institutions.

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Mohammad Tamimi on his detention: 'They beat me into confessing'

Jaclynn Ashly
Mondoweiss
Wed, 28 Feb 2018 20:34 UTC
Mohammad Tamimi
© Bilal TamimiMohammad Tamimi
Mohammad Tamimi, 15, was shot point-blank in the face with a rubber-coated steel bullet following a protest in the village of Nabi Saleh in the occupied West Bank in December.

The bullet, considered by Israel as a "non-lethal weapon" in the West Bank, entered his face below his nose and lodged into the back of his skull.

He was placed under a medically-induced coma and woke up 72 hours later after a series of surgeries.

Doctors were forced to remove a portion of his skull owing to inflammation in his brain. His head is now deformed and a part of his brain is left unprotected.

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In 2017, the US government 'lost' $2.2 million every minute

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Wed, 28 Feb 2018 20:51 UTC
Burning dollar
Illustrating the gluttonous nature and disturbing spending habits of the empire that is the United States, the US Treasury released its financial report from 2017 showing that the government lost $1.2 TRILLION dollars in 2017.

Yes, that is TRILLION, with a 't'.

The Goldman Sachs insider who was appointed as the Secretary of the Treasury, Steven Mnuchin celebrated the report, noting that he was "pleased to present the Financial Report of the United State Government," which showed a loss of $1.2 trillion.

After the opening message celebrating their utter incompetence in managing a budget, the report goes on to note how the US government spent a trillion more dollars than they had. This loss of money will ensure that future generations will be forever burdened with the impossible task of paying back the debt to the Federal Reserve.
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Ray McGovern: 'My first day as CIA Director'

Ray McGovern
Consortiumnews
Thu, 22 Feb 2018 00:00 UTC
Ray McGovern
© YouTubeRay McGovern
Former CIA analyst and founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity Ray McGovern, in this tongue-in-cheek article, outlines steps he would take on Day One as CIA Director to get to the bottom of Russiagate.

Now that I have been nominated again - this time by author Paul Craig Roberts - to be CIA director, I am preparing to hit the ground running.

Last time my name was offered in nomination for the position - by The Nation publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel - I did not hold my breath waiting for a call from the White House. Her nomination came in the afterglow of my fortuitous, four-minute debate with then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, when I confronted him on his lies about the attack on Iraq, on May 4, 2006 on national TV. Since it was abundantly clear that Rumsfeld and I would not get along, I felt confident I had royally disqualified myself.

This time around, on the off-chance I do get the nod, I have taken the time to prepare the agenda for my first few days as CIA director.

Comment: "Hired." What a difference that day would make.

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Best of the Web: Eva Bartlett: UN feigns outrage over Ghouta while terrorist rockets continue to rain down on Damascus

Eva Bartlett
Mint Press News
Mon, 26 Feb 2018 00:00 UTC
Rocket devastation
© Bassam Khabieh/ReutersEastern Ghouta neighborhood
On February 20, from Amman, Jordan, UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa, Geert Cappelaere, issued a statement of "outrage" titled: "The war on children in Syria: Reports of mass casualties among children in Eastern Ghouta and Damascus."

The "statement" - consisting of blank lines with the preface "No words will do justice to the children killed, their mothers, their fathers and their loved ones" - dovetails with corporate media's increasingly hysterical rhetoric on the Damascus suburb of Ghouta, which has been plagued with chemical weapons attacks for over four years, perpetrated by U.S.-backed proxies allied with the Nusra Front attempting to frame the Syrian government with war crimes.

UNICEF further wrote: "We no longer have the words to describe children's suffering and our outrage. Do those inflicting the suffering still have words to justify their barbaric acts?"

Where was UNICEF's dramatic blank-lined protest when 200 civilians, including 116 children, were slaughtered by terrorist factions while in convoy from Kafraya and Foua in April 2017? These factions included Ahrar al-Sham (supported by Turkey and Saudi Arabia), al-Nusra (al-Qaeda), and factions of the Free Syrian Army. The Free Syrian Army was armed by the U.S. And, according to the words of former Qatari Prime Minister Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber al-Thani, Qatar - with the support and coordination of Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and the U.S. - was from the beginning supporting armed groups, even al-Qaeda, in Syria.

This seemingly outraged UN statement has made the rounds in corporate media reports on eastern Ghouta, most of which cite the U.K.-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), run from his home by a sole person, Osama Suleiman, who uses the pseudonym Rami Abdul Rahman. In its recent Ghouta reports, SOHR itself does not provide sources.

Comment: Thank you Eva Bartlett for calling out the UN, UNICEF, OCHA, SOHR, NYT, USAID, MSF and a variety of dishonest reporters who disregard the facts, malign honest representatives, misrepresent the humanitarian toll, discount atrocities and knowingly misplace and exploit blame to support false narratives in the ongoing tragedy of Syria.

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Supreme Court ruling: Immigrants can be detained indefinitely

John Bowden
The Hill
Tue, 27 Feb 2018 11:20 UTC
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Immigrants can be held by U.S. immigration officials indefinitely without receiving bond hearings, even if they have permanent legal status or are seeking asylum, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.

In a 5-3 ruling Tuesday, with Justice Elena Kagan recusing, the court ruled that immigrants do not have the right to periodic bond hearings.

The ruling is a defeat for immigration advocates, who argued that immigrants should not be held for more than six months at a time without such a hearing.

The Supreme Court ruling follows a Trump administration appeal of a ruling by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals last year that imposed a rule requiring immigrants held in custody be given a bond hearing every six months, as long as they aren't considered a flight risk or a danger to national security.
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