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Russian hunter skis for 10 hours through taiga at night to get help for injured comrade


RT
Wed, 21 Feb 2018 11:47 UTC
Hunter
© Vasily Fedosenko / ReutersA man taking aim during a winter hunt.
A hunt in taiga forest turned into a quest for survival for two Russian hunters after one was badly injured in a snowmobile accident. To get help for the man, his friend skied for 10 hours to reach the nearest village.

After setting out to hunt in a remote forest in the Perm region of Central Russia, the two hunters eventually found themselves struggling for their own lives. One of the men crashed his snowmobile, sustaining serious injuries to his head and legs, leaving him unable to move.

With no mobile-phone signal and no provisions, the other man had no choice but to travel through the taiga at night to seek help for his friend. After carrying the injured party inside an abandoned house for shelter, the hunter set off on a dangerous journey through thick forest in darkness. It took him 10 hours to reach the village of Lel on skis.
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Russian Communist Party seek property confiscation as punishment for serious crime


RT
Wed, 21 Feb 2018 14:33 UTC
Items seized from criminals arrested
© Oleg Lastochkin / SputnikItems seized from criminals arrested by the Russian Interior Ministry's Drug Enforcement Unit.
Russian Communist Party MPs are seeking the reintroduction of Soviet-era laws under which personal property can be confiscated as a separate punishment and not as a way to compensate damages inflicted by convicts.

In the explanatory note attached with the bill drafted by Communist MPs, the lawmakers said that confiscation of property was applied as a separate punishment under the Soviet Criminal Code and also under the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation until late 2003. After this, confiscation was removed from the law and in 2006 it was brought back, not as a punishment, but as "another measure under criminal law" that can be applied on a limited scale, usually to seize the property acquired by convicts through illegal means and use it to compensate the damages to the aggrieved party.

The new bill allows the confiscation of any personal property of convicts, including items that are not related to crimes that caused the convictions. At the same time, the draft specifies that all norms ordering confiscation of property received through criminal methods must remain in place.
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Internationally influential evangelist Billy Graham, dies at 99

Rachel Zoll
SF Gate
Wed, 21 Feb 2018 14:49 UTC
Billy Graham
© Gerry Broome, Associated PressIn this May 31, 2007 file photo, Billy Graham speaks as his son Franklin Graham, right, listens during a dedication ceremony for the Billy Graham Library in Charlotte, N.C..
The Rev. Billy Graham, who transformed American religious life through his preaching and activism, becoming a counselor to presidents and the most widely heard Christian evangelist in history, died Wednesday. He was 99.

Graham, who long suffered from cancer, pneumonia and other ailments, died at his home in North Carolina, spokesman Mark DeMoss told The Associated Press.

More than anyone else, Graham built evangelicalism into a force that rivaled liberal Protestantism and Roman Catholicism in the United States. His leadership summits and crusades in more than 185 countries and territories forged powerful global links among conservative Christians, and threw a lifeline to believers in the communist-controlled Eastern bloc. Dubbed "America's pastor," he was a confidant to U.S. presidents from Gen. Dwight Eisenhower to George W. Bush.
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Will Russians be allowed to fly the national flag at PyeongChang Games closing ceremony?


RT
Wed, 21 Feb 2018 14:00 UTC
Flag
© Kim Kyung-Hoon / Reuters
Russian hopes of marching under the national flag at the PyeongChang Games closing ceremony have been revived after International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach met with a senior representative from the country.

The vice-president of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC), Igor Levitin, paid a courtesy visit to Bach, with whom he discussed the possibility of reinstating the country's Olympic body which had been suspended by the IOC for alleged systematic manipulations with doping, Inside The Games reports.

Following the IOC's ruling to disqualify Russia as a team from the 2018 Games, national athletes with clean doping records were allowed to participate as neutrals under the name Olympic Athletes from Russia (OAR).

Comment: See also: There's no way Alex Krushelnitsky willingly took Meldonium to enhance his curling game

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The irony: How CNN and MSNBC 'colluded' with Russian trolls (VIDEO)

Chris Black
Investment Watch Blog
Tue, 20 Feb 2018 14:21 UTC
anti-Trump rally march
Here's another angle of a story that's slowly becoming more outlandish and bizarre by the day, and I am referring to the Democrat lapdog left wing establishment media's talking point, which has been beaten to death over the last year: Trump colluded with Russia, even if one year into Mueller's probe there's not a scintilla of evidence in this regard. Well, according to the indictments issued by Robert Mueller via the last batch of the 13 Russian nationals and 3 Russian "entities" (media companies) that is, the claim is that there was a factory of basically internet trolls who allegedly spent 2 million bucks (a drop in the bucket compared to what both Hillary and Trump campaign spent) to allegedly meddle in our elections. Mueller in particular in his indictment stated that the goals of those pesky Russians were to sow distrust and discord against the American political system.

In other words, to make Americans to view their leaders as illegitimate, as this would create chaos, division, and a civil war like atmosphere in America. This was the main goal of the Russian disinformation campaign, again, according to Mueller's own words: to destabilize the US. He further had to admit that Russians were bankrolling not only pro Trump rallies, but also anti Trump rallies. This fact already blows the whole Trump-Russia collusion narrative to smithereens, but let that go, as it's now clear the Russians played both sides. We also learned that almost nobody participated in Russian-organized/sponsored rallies, as they had little to no attendance, but listen to this: there was one rally that actually did get a lot of attendance and attention, but, oh, the irony, it was an anti Trump rally, which took place after the Donald won the election.

Comment: This latest episode of Russiagate has resulted in much absurdity because the indictments are absurd in the first place.

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ISIS troops reportedly redeployed to Afghanistan & Pakistan


Sputnik
Wed, 21 Feb 2018 13:19 UTC
ISIS Daesh
© AFP 2018/ NOORULLAH SHIRZADA
Daesh is gaining a new foothold for its troops' deployment in Afghanistan and Pakistan instead of the territories lost in Syria and Iraq, Col. Gen. Andrey Novikov, the head of the Commonwealth of Independent States Anti-Terrorism Center (CIS ATC), said Tuesday.

"After the elimination of a great part of the IS [Daesh] combat core, its 'fragments' have been evacuated to other regions... In Afghanistan and Pakistan, a new base for IS [Daesh] deployment is now being formed to replace the ones lost in Syria and Iraq," Novikov said at the meeting of the CIS member states' anti-terrorist centers heads.

The US has been accused numerous times of providing various forms of support to Daesh and other terrorist groups, operating in the region.

Comment: Further reading: In-depth analysis: US protecting ISIS to weaken rivals, justify and expand indefinite US occupation of Syria

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Illegal immigrant arrested after raping 7-year-old girl and her mother

Bob Price
Breitbart
Wed, 21 Feb 2018 13:19 UTC
illegal immigrant Daniel Hernandez Del Angel
© Bossier Parish Sheriff’s Office
Officials in Louisiana charged an illegal immigrant from Mexico with raping a 7-year-old girl over a period of six months. Less than three weeks later, prosecutors charged the man with molesting the child's mother in 2003 when she was only 11-years-old.

The 43-year-old Mexican national, Daniel Hernandez Del Angel, has been illegally living in the country for the last 22 years, reported WGNO in Metairie, Louisiana.

Officers with the Bossier Parish Sheriff's Office started to investigate Del Angel in early 2017 when the allegations about raping the 7-year-old girl surfaced.
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More gender equality leads to less women in STEM fields, not more

Olga Khazan
The Atlantic
Sun, 18 Feb 2018 13:04 UTC
Artist Tjaasa Gusfors
© TT News AgencyArtist Tjaasa Gusfors poses next to her Jesus Christ ice statue near Stockholm in 2011.
Though their numbers are growing, only 27 percent of all students taking the AP Computer Science exam in the United States are female. The gender gap only grows worse from there: Just 18 percent of American computer-science college degrees go to women. This is in the United States, where many college men proudly describe themselves as "male feminists" and girls are taught they can be anything they want to be.

Meanwhile, in Algeria, 41 percent of college graduates in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math-or "STEM," as its known-are female. There, employment discrimination against women is rife and women are often pressured to make amends with their abusive husbands.

According to a report I covered a few years ago, Jordan, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates were the only three countries in which boys are significantly less likely to feel comfortable working on math problems than girls are. In all of the other nations surveyed, girls were more likely to say they feel "helpless while performing a math problem."

So what explains the tendency for nations that have traditionally less gender equality to have more women in science and technology than their gender-progressive counterparts do?

Comment: Which is what James Damore was saying all along in his memo. Funny enough, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki also admits the same thing after claiming the memo was 'discrimination'.

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War on terror expanded: The war on dissent and the specter of divisiveness

CJ Hopkins
Counterpunch
Fri, 26 Jan 2018 12:30 UTC
Trump Putin puppet doll
© Photo by Mike Maguire | CC BY 2.0
Just when you thought the corporatocracy couldn't possibly get more creepily Orwellian, the Twitter Corporation starts sending out emails advising that they "have reason to believe" we have "followed, retweeted," or "liked the content of" an account "connected to a propaganda effort by a Russia government-linked organization known as the Internet Research Agency." While it's not as dramatic as the Thought Police watching you on your telescreen, or posters reminding you "Big Brother Is Watching," the effect is more or less the same.

And if that's not creepily Orwellian enough for you, Facebook has established a Ministry of Counterspeech, manned by "a dedicated counterterrorism team" of "former intelligence and law-enforcement officials," to "disrupt ideologies underlying extremism" (see Chris Hedges' recent essay for details). The Google Corporation is systematically disappearing, deranking, and maliciously misrepresenting non-corporate news and opinion sources, and the "thought criminals" who contribute to them. Meanwhile, the corporate media continues to pump out Russia paranoia propaganda like this Maddow segment on MSNBC about "the remarkable number of Russian financiers who'll be rubbing elbows with the Trump team in Davos."

These are just the latest salvos in the corporate establishment's War on Dissent, an expanded version of the War on Terror, which they've been relentlessly waging for over a year now. As you may have noticed, the ruling classes have been using virtually every propaganda organ at their disposal to whip up mass hysteria over a host of extremely dubious threats to "the future of democracy" and "democratic values," Russia being foremost among them, followed closely by white supremacy, then a laundry list of other "threats," from Julian Assange to Bernie Bros to other, lesser "sowers of division."

Comment: The masses of silent dissenters are indeed a 'significant threat' to the version of 'global capitalist ideology' the author describes - but it is not the only one. Russia and China are leading the world into a multipolar order, and that implies a geopolitical threat, not only a social one. It is not impossible that the confrontation leads to an actual major war.

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Professor Jordan B. Peterson: A hero for our times?

Patricia Casey
Irish Times
Wed, 21 Feb 2018 12:17 UTC
Jordan Peterson
© Toronto Star via Getty Images
To those of you familiar with his name, Jordan B. Peterson is an inspirational phenomenon or an alt-right bigot, depending on your perspective. To those who have never heard of him - he is worth getting to know.

Peterson is Canadian and Professor of Psychology at Toronto University. I vaguely heard of him a few months ago when my attention was drawn to a YouTube clip of him being challenged by a number of transgender students for refusing to use their preferred pronouns. You might ask, what's so remarkable about this? Well, for transgender people this is now mandated by the Canadian Government's Bill C-16 and Peterson sees this as an assault on free speech.
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