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France finally getting a clue? Saint Laurent ordered to remove posters 'degrading' to women


Yahoo News
Wed, 08 Mar 2017 17:54 UTC
degrading fashion poster Saint Laurent
© Eric Feferberg/Agence France-PresseFrench fashion house Yves Saint Laurent has come under for its new advertising campaign featuring painfully thin models in "degrading" poses
France's advertising regulator has ordered fashion house Saint Laurent to remove posters of extremely thin models in "degrading" poses after an outcry over their appearance around Paris.

The campaign features a reclining woman in a fur coat and fishnet tights opening her legs and another of a model in a leotard and roller skate stilettos bending over a stool.

Stephane Martin, head of advertising regulator ARPP, told AFP Tuesday that his organisation had received 120 complaints over the way the posters depicted women.

The authority bars all "degrading and humiliating" representations of people.

It has written to Saint Laurent asking them to "stop the use of these images, to withdraw them or to change them," Martin said, explaining that a more detailed assessment of the campaign would be made on Friday.
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Twitter reacts to Vault 7 CIA docs - 'So Russian hackers were CIA all along'


Sputnik
Wed, 08 Mar 2017 17:30 UTC
russian hacker bear
© Flickr/ Sunny Ripert
WikiLeaks has published part one of Vault 7 - a massive trove of documents on the CIA. As expected, the leaks' contents, including new details on the intelligence agency's shocking capabilities, and important revelations about the so-called 'Russian hack', have riled up social media. Sputnik has collected some of the most interesting reactions.

The first part of the leak, dubbed by WikiLeaks as "the largest ever publication of confidential documents on the agency," comprises over 8,700 documents and files, and reveals the scale and scope of the CIA's global hacking and tracking program.

The leak reveals that the agency has developed the means to penetrate most prominent anti-virus programs, that it has apps to turn smart televisions into recording devices, and that it has been 'looking into' ways to hijack computer systems in modern cars to carry out untraceable assassinations.

Perhaps more than anything, social media users were freaked out by the agency's seemingly Orwellian technical capabilities. Edward Snowden, former National Security Agency contractor turned whistleblower, explained just how big a deal it was that the CIA was using consumer electronics to target people.
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R2-D2

Professor Stephen Hawking calls for 'world government' to stop robot apocalypse


RT
Wed, 08 Mar 2017 17:26 UTC
robot
© www.globallookpress.com
Professor Stephen Hawking has pleaded with world leaders to keep technology under control before it destroys humanity.

In an interview with the Times, the physicist said humans need to find ways to identify threats posed by artificial intelligence before problems escalate.

"Since civilisation began, aggression has been useful inasmuch as it has definite survival advantages," the scientist said.

"It is hard-wired into our genes by Darwinian evolution. Now, however, technology has advanced at such a pace that this aggression may destroy us all by nuclear or biological war. We need to control this inherited instinct by our logic and reason."
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Attention

The Ukronazis are turning on each other

The Saker
The Saker
Wed, 08 Mar 2017 17:08 UTC
Tetiana Chornovol
This is really sweet: the Ukronazi crazies are now publicly turning on each other. Today, I want to share with you a video (pretty long, 28min, no need to watch it all) with no subtitles. I will just summarize what you will see.

A member of the Ukie Parliament, Tetiana Chornovol, decided to visit the volunteers currently blockading Novorussia to try to explain to them that if the Nazi-occupied Ukraine could not get coal from Novorussia the only option would be to purchase coal from Russia. Keep in mind that she is a rabid nationalist and that her Ukronazi credentials are impeccable: she is in the same party as Turchinov and Iats, she married an Azov death squad volunteer who was eventually killed, she has committed plenty of crazy actions and petty crimes to publicize her politics. On one occasion she was even viciously beaten by, apparently, thugs hired by her political opponents. In many ways, you could say that she is a symbol of the "Euromaidan". And yet the blockading crazies are replying to her with screams, very rude insults, plenty of explicit language and even eggs tossed in her face. Both sides are also accusing each other of working for Putin!

Frankly, there is nothing much to translate here, but if you want to get sense of the mood of these "proud Ukrainian nationalists" - just watch this video.

Enjoy!
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Pistol

UK police scrap "rules of engagement", given the go-ahead to fire at will


RT
Wed, 08 Mar 2017 15:48 UTC
UK police guns
© Luke MacGregor / Reuters
Police will no longer face immediate suspension if they fire their weapons while on duty, UK Home Secretary Amber Rudd has announced.

Rudd said police officers using firearms would only be suspended in "exceptional circumstances" and that there is no rule restricting Authorised Firearms Officers from being the first to open fire.

Rudd's comments came after Tory MP Michael Fabricant claimed officers are reluctant to discharge their weapons during operations, as they fear they will be suspended or dismissed. He described the current rules as not being "fit for purpose.

"I'm quite concerned by the fact that a number of police officers, both here at the Palace of Westminster and in Downing Street, that they as armed police officers don't feel that they are getting the freedom to act that they should have, because of the rules of engagement," Fabricant said while speaking during Home Office questions.


Comment: Officers of the law should be reluctant to fire their weapons! The powers that be are weaponizing police to be soldiers at war against everyday citizens. In certain circumstances, shooting a weapon could be very well be necessary, but it is a good thing to have checks in place where an officer knows that such a decision will be scrutinized. It looks like the UK is moving in the direction of the US where officers are trained to shoot first, and ask questions later.

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Che Guevara

Riot police in Athens fire tear gas at farmers protesting tax & pension reforms


RT
Wed, 08 Mar 2017 15:51 UTC
farmers protest greece
© Alkis Konstantinidis / Reuters
Greek riot police fired tear gas at farmers protesting tax and pension reforms in Athens, to prevent a crowd of over 1,000 from forcing its way into the agriculture ministry. Protesters responded by throwing stones and smashing windows.

Around 1,500 farmers arrived at the capital from the island of Crete to protest the low prices they are forced to sell their produce at, high production costs, and increases in taxes and social security contributions, the Greek Reporter said.

"The state is taking 75 percent of my income... we all need meds to endure this," one man, Manolis Bobodakis, told Reuters.

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Red Flag

Maine State Prison under fire for forcing female visitors to remove bras at all-male prison


RT
Wed, 08 Mar 2017 15:41 UTC
Manuel Zarate and his family
© Elijah Nouvelage/ReutersManuel Zarate hugs his daughter and grandson.
The Maine State Prison's screening practices are being reexamined after several women claimed that facility guards demanded they remove their bras for setting off a metal detector. That practice is not approved by the state's Department of Corrections.

Before seeing their loved ones behind bars, women first had to prove to Maine State Prison guards that there wasn't contraband behind their bras. Now the screening practices are being reexamined after several women claimed that facility guards demanded they remove their bras for setting off a metal detector. That practice is not approved by the state's Department of Corrections.

The Maine Department of Corrections (DOC) issued a promise to enforce proper security screening procedures after nearly a half-dozen women complained that they were required to remove their bras while visiting the Maine State Prison. The women claim that they set off the metal detector, possibly due to an underwire in the bra, and were made to enter the all-male facility without a bra, the Bangor Daily News reported.

DOC Commissioner Joseph Fitzpatrick did not deny the accusations, saying, "I own it," and, "It's not going to happen anymore. There's got to be a middle ground where we can be respectful and still maintain safety and security."
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UK's leading charities turning in rough sleepers to immigration authorities


RT
Wed, 08 Mar 2017 15:42 UTC
homeless people
© Brendan McDermid / Reuters
Several homelessness charities which should be working to protect rough sleepers are reportedly passing on information to the Home Office for the people's removal from the UK.

A report by Corporate Watch claims some of the UK's leading charities launched to protect homeless people are in fact helping Immigration Enforcement officers and the Greater London Authority (GLA) to deport foreign people back to their home countries.

According to The Round Up's report, outreach teams from charities such as St Mungo's, Thames Reach, and Change, Grow, Live (CGL) are helping immigration patrols carry out raids targeting homeless people.
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Sheriff

100+ officers quell 2 California prison riots - 'chemical agents' used


RT
Wed, 08 Mar 2017 15:37 UTC
Corcoran State Prison, California
© Robert Galbraith / ReutersCorcoran State Prison, California
Two separate riots broke out at the Corcoran State Prison in California, requiring over 100 staff and officers to respond with "chemical agents" and "less-than-lethal direct impact rounds."

According to a press release from the prison, around 110 officers responded to a series of violent incidents on Tuesday morning, which ultimately culminated in two large-scale riots in different parts of the prison.

The riots began after a fight broke out between two inmates during breakfast at 7:19am local time. Corcoran State Prison (COR) staff used "less-than-lethal direct impact rounds" to subdue the two inmates.
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Bizarro Earth

Son arrested in mother's stabbing said he was a werewolf

Caleb Hutton
The Bellingham Herald
Mon, 06 Mar 2017 15:25 UTC
Sheaen Emmette Smith
Sheaen Emmette Smith, appears in Whatcom Superior Court, Monday, March 6, 2017. Smith is accused of second-degree murder for the fatal stabbing of his mother Aurora E. Buol-Smith, 57, Sunday afternoon in Bellingham.
Days before he stabbed his mother to death at her home in the Fairhaven neighborhood, a Bellingham murder suspect was treated at a hospital for drug-induced psychosis,a prosecutor said in court Monday.

Sheaen Emmette Smith, 29, placed a nonsensical 911 call about werewolves and vampires around 2 p.m. Sunday from his mother's duplex in the 1500 block of McKenzie Avenue across from a Fairhaven fire station, according to the Bellingham Police Department. Officers responded to find Smith's mother, Aurora Lee Buol-Smith, dead on the ground floor.

Buol-Smith suffered multiple stab wounds, and she had defensive wounds on her hands, Bellingham police Lt. Danette Beckley said. Buol-Smith was 57.
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