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Japan under fire for "research" whaling in the Northwest Pacific


Kyodo News
Tue, 12 Dec 2017 13:14 UTC
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Japan was under fire for its "research" whaling in the Northwest Pacific as a possible violation of an international treaty on endangered species, while Tokyo's ivory trading practice was also questioned.

During a five-day meeting of a standing committee on monitoring wildlife trade in Geneva through Friday, Japan drew criticism over its hunting of sei whales in the sea from anti-whaling countries, with Australia pointing out that the research whaling could be for commercial purposes.

The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, or CITES and also known as the Washington Convention, prohibits international trade of sei whales and effectively bans the catching of them in the open sea.
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Jordi Cuixart: We're in prison for defending Catalonia - Spain must free us immediately

Jordi Cuixart
The Guardian
Tue, 12 Dec 2017 13:14 UTC
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Jordi Cuixart is the president of Òmnium Cultural
Jailed Catalan political leaders are calling on the EU to stop looking the other way and to intervene to ensure that our rights are restored

I am a Catalan businessman, the son of labourers. My mother emigrated from Murcia, a Spanish province, and my father was born in Badalona, the third most populated city in Catalonia. We spoke both Catalan and Spanish at home, like the large majority of Catalans with Spanish roots. I am 41 years old, I live in Barcelona. I am married with a seven-month-old son and two other children (stepchildren) whom I love as if they were my own. I am the 10th president of Òmnium Cultural - an organisation set up to promote the Catalan language and spread the region's culture. It's a position I hold completely voluntarily. I have been in prison for 50 days now, without a trial, accused of sedition, along with Jordi Sànchez, former president of the Catalan National Assembly.

We are deprived of our freedom for having made use of our right to free expression and demonstration, for the simple act of publicly and democratically defending the right of Catalonia to decide its future as a people at the polls, like Quebec and Scotland did with the mutual agreement of the governments of Canada and the UK.
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Computer technology is overpowering us - and many do not realize what's coming... (VIDEO)

Melissa Dykes
Truthstreammedia.com
Mon, 30 Oct 2017 00:00 UTC
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Will you get lost in the Fourth Industrial Revolution? Most people I asked don't even know what that is, but it's happening all around us right now. This system is about technological evolution... evolving us.


Comment: Advances in computing technology do NOT connote human progress in moral, ethical or spiritual terms. If anything, the video below demonstrates that greater advances in "connectivity" may be likened to a runaway freight train, where we are being driven to devolve at an ever increasing speed. And that's just how some of the pathological types in positions of power want it; under their control.



Comment: See also:

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Cop macing elderly man exposes departments history of corruption & violence in LA

Matt Agorist
Free Thought Project
Mon, 11 Dec 2017 12:54 UTC
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The results of an extensive LA Times investigation recently revealed the existence of a secret list within the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department containing the names and crimes of hundreds of problem cops who are currently employed by the county. Blowing the bad apple theory completely out of the water, the list revealed over 300 deputies with histories of dishonesty, misconduct, and brutality-who all still have their jobs.

Despite the discovery of this list, however, the LA Times was unable to look at it and it remains a tight secret among the department's top brass. Not even prosecutors can access it-and this is a problem.

As the LA Times reports, amid growing public scrutiny over police misconduct, Sheriff Jim McDonnell wants to give the names on the list to prosecutors, who are required by law to tell criminal defendants about evidence that would damage the credibility of an officer called as a witness. But McDonnell's efforts have ignited a fierce legal battle with the union that represents rank-and-file deputies.
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NYC terror suspect Akayed Ullah entered US as relative of 'visa lottery' immigrant

John Binder
Breitbart
Mon, 11 Dec 2017 11:16 UTC
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The Bangladesh-born terror suspect who allegedly attempted to detonate a suicide-bomb in New York was able to enter the United States as a foreign relative of an immigrant, extended-family member who had won a visa to the U.S. under the Diversity Visa Lottery.


Comment: See: Suspect in custody after explosion at Manhattan's Port Authority bus terminal (VIDEOS) - Update: NYPD confirms attack is "terror-related"


On Monday 27-year-old Akayed Ullah, a Bangladesh national, injured three individuals when he allegedly tried to detonate a suicide bomb in New York City in a planned terrorist attack.


Comment: Trump and supporters have been attacking the idea of the 'immigration lottery' by highlighting possible links to terrorism: While people are understandably on edge due to terrorist attacks, and while immigration policy is probably in urgent need of reform, identifying immigration as the cause of terrorism might be too simplistic.

It is expected that within a large pool of immigrants some will have extremist ideologies, and out of those, some may try to carry out attacks. But if the intent is to minimize both immigration and extremism, then a revision of foreign imperialistic policy and the debt-driven global economic system is in order. Less imperial adventures and interference in the Middle East and Asia means less wars, a higher standard of living for the locals and more space for secular and moderate governments.

Syria is a good example: Europe would not have seen a mass migration inflow from that country if NATO and the Gulf States had not supported so-called 'rebels' (mercenaries and yihadists) in their fight against Assad.

Update: The news has prompted Trump to re-affirm his call to end "chain migration". He issued a statement yesterday saying:
"Today's terror suspect entered our country through extended-family chain migration, which is incompatible with national security," Trump said. "America must fix its lax immigration system, which allows far too many dangerous, inadequately vetted people to access our country."

"Congress must end chain migration," the president emphasized, referring to the program whereby immigrants enter the US through the sponsorship of relatives already established in the country.

Trump also called on Congress to "act on my Administration's other proposals to enhance domestic security, including increasing the number of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers."

He stated that Congress needs to enhance "the arrest and detention authorities for immigration officers" and end the "fraud and abuse in our immigration system."


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Moscow State University has become Russia's only college represented in first national academic rating's top 50


TASS
Tue, 12 Dec 2017 11:42 UTC
Ten more Russian higher educational institutions are found beyond the 100th spot

Moscow State University
© Alexandr Sherbak/TASSMoscow State University
Moscow State University has become the only Russian university represented at the first Moscow International University Ranking the results of which TASS has at its disposal.

Moscow State University (MSU) was listed as 25th. However, the top 100 also include Saint Petersburg State University (SPBU) and the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), they rank 72nd and 73rd, correspondingly.
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Must Watch: Black Feminism Has Destroyed the Black Community

Shahrazad Ali
Youtube
Tue, 12 Dec 2017 11:37 UTC
Shahrazad Ali
© Unknown
Every once in awhile you decide to watch a video from somebody who everyone has been saying for years is bat shit crazy. You watch, and they don't sound all that crazy.

We're supposed to listen to marginalized voices, and hear what they have to say. As a black woman, Shahrazad's voice can't be much more marginalized, from any side of the political spectrum.

Comment: Whether you agree with her or not, she speaks in a voice and cadence that is difficult to ignore.

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Mr. Potato

Oops, I did it again! CNN backtracks on another false 'collusion' report

Brian Flood
Fox News
Tue, 12 Dec 2017 01:30 UTC
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CNN has gently walked back a report from earlier this year that faulted Attorney General Jeff Sessions for failing to reveal meetings he had with Russian officials when he applied for his security clearance - a disclosure he wasn't required to make.

CNN reported last May that Sessions didn't disclose meetings he had with a Russian ambassador when he was a senator. The mainstream media was all over the story and significant airtime was spent portraying Sessions as shady and dishonest. In addition to embarrassing Sessions, the storyline also fed the narrative that the Trump administration colluded with Russia during the election.

The splashy headline on CNN's website said, "First on CNN: AG Sessions did not disclose Russia meetings in security clearance form, DOJ says." CNN's story claimed the incident was "the latest example of Sessions failing to disclose contacts he had with Russian officials." Roughly six months later, the network has admitted that the entire report was essentially meaningless.

"A newly released document shows that the FBI told an aide to Attorney General Jeff Sessions that Sessions wasn't required to disclose foreign contacts that occurred in the course of carrying out his government duties when he was a senator," CNN's Evan Perez wrote on Monday.

Comment: See also:

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Windsock

Analyst: They ultimately need the financial markets to implode

Greg Hunter
USA Watchdog
Wed, 06 Dec 2017 00:00 UTC
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Market analyst Lynette Zang says even with the new tax cuts passed in Congress, the market looks like "it's running out of steam." Zang explains, "I have been noticing in the past month some pattern shifts that would indicate to me the market is struggling and breaking down. So, these tax cuts make earnings per share look a lot better and also brings back a lot of funds. . . . The CEOs are saying that money will go into share buybacks, and they need to because that is shifting. . . . Corporate buy backs are actually breaking down."

Zang says ever since the 2008 meltdown, the elite have just been buying time to set up a debt reset. Zang charges, "I am 100% certain we are in the middle of a money standard shift. Ultimately, they need the markets to implode. . . . In 2008, the debt based system broke. It died, it was done. The central banks, globally, put it on life support, and they have to create a new system. In my opinion, they want us cashless, and they want everything in digital form. They want to dematerialize wealth at least for the masses. I am 100% certain that this Bitcoin craze, and all of this, is about getting people used to digital currencies. So, when they shift us from the debt based system to the digital system, we are more comfortable with it and more familiar with it."

Comment: Who knows when it'll happen, but according to many, things are sure shaping up that way - and from numerous areas in the financial industry:

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Bakery labeled 'racist' after shopkeeper assaulted by three black students who pleaded guilty to shoplifting

Cassandra Fairbanks
The Gateway Pundit
Mon, 11 Dec 2017 23:32 UTC
Gibson's bakery
An Ohio bakery has filed a lawsuit against Oberlin College and its dean for slander, after the establishment was branded as "racist" after three black men assaulted the shopkeeper and were arrested for attempting to steal wine.

The men had claimed that they were simply trying to purchase the wine from Gibson's Bakery using fake identification cards, but pleaded guilty to attempted theft and aggravated trespassing in August. Campus Reform reports that part of their plea agreement included an admission that their actions were wrong and that the store had no racist intentions.
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