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US sanctions keep on giving: Russian agriculture thrives amid restrictions


Sputnik
Thu, 20 Apr 2017 13:04 UTC
farming sunflowers
© Sputnik/ Alexandr Kryazhev
Russia's agricultural boom continues to pick up steam. The government has committed 13.7 billion rubles in new subsidies to farmers, which will help them with the purchase over 21,000 new pieces of equipment, including tractors and seeders. The agricultural sector has only seen benefits from the three year sanctions war between Russia and the West.

The Russian government expects the 13.7 billion rubles in new assistance to help not only farmers, but the domestic agricultural machinery sector as well. In the first six months of 2016, Russia produced 35% more tractors and harvesters than it did in the same period in 2015, with farmers ever-hungry for new equipment. The Cabinet seems to be hoping to continue that trend.

Russia has enjoyed an agricultural boom since 2014, with the trend setting to enter its third straight year. In 2014, in response to a series of sanctions by the US and Europe on Russian companies and individuals, Moscow slapped a ban on the import of some agricultural products from the countries which introduced the anti-Russian restrictions.

Comment: See also: Western sanctions allows Russia to take another economic victory lap

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Missing hunter eaten by crocodiles in Zimbabwe


RT
Thu, 20 Apr 2017 12:58 UTC
crocodiles
© Jon Nazca / Reuters
The weeks-long search for a missing professional hunter has been called off after rescuers found what they believe to be his remains inside two crocodiles.

South African Scott van Zyl, 44, disappeared on April 7 while on a hunting trip in Zimbabwe with his dogs and a tracker.

Zyl, who runs a safari and hunting for tourists in South Africa, and the tracker reportedly left their pickup truck and took off into the bush in separate directions in search of game animals.

Comment: See also: Four people killed by crocodiles within a month in Zimbabwe

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Best of the Web: Revelations from a former international financier: "I was training to become a psychopath, and I failed"

Irma Schiffers & Ad Broere
De Vrije Media
Tue, 04 Apr 2017 00:00 UTC
Ronald Bernard
© DVM-TVRonald Bernard, a former high-powered financier who reveals the hellish world and behavior of those involved in the business of Big Money.
In this time of sudden disclosures and unexpected blatant truths, where 'news' is barely distinguishable from 'fake news', it takes the utmost courage for an 'insider' to come out with the truth based on real facts.

Ronald Bernard, one of the founders of 'B of Joy', is one of these courageous people who dared to tell his story in front of (DVM-TV), De Vrije Media's camera. He unfolds a life story in which he got progressively deeper into the world of the big money, in which he - as he stated himself - had been warned up front that he had to be able to put his conscience in the proverbial freezer, and keep it there at all times.

Eventually this ended in his personal complete breakdown. Ronald does his story candidly and is forthright with his emotions to explain all that had preceded this breaking point. He clarifies the distorted way the world works, in which a small group of elites, numbering between 8000 to 8500 people, who rule the entire world and discloses their 'religious incentives' for doing so. "If only people really knew the ins and outs of the matter and realized what is really going on". When you have seen this interview, you will know. Then automatically the question arises: 'how are we going to fix this, when we no longer look away, but bundle our powers?'

Irma Schiffers,
co-founder De Vrije Media. DVM-TV

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Dollars

Far worse than United Airlines abuse - The banking industry

Simon Black
Sovereign Man
Mon, 17 Apr 2017 01:08 UTC
Global Banking & Finance
© Global Banking & Finance
Last week the Internet was ablaze with disgust after a man was physically dragged off a United Airlines flight.

What's amazing, though, is that there are countless cases of another industry abusing its customers in far, far worse ways than the airlines.

I'm talking, of course, about the banking industry.

1. Banks treat you like criminal suspects too.

Sure, United had a man dragged away like he was a rape suspect being hauled off to jail.

But banks treat their customers like criminal suspects on a daily basis.

If you think I'm exaggerating, try walking into your bank and asking to withdraw $20,000 in cash.

See how quickly they start acting like police investigators, demanding to know what you intend to do with your own savings.

Thanks to a law called the Bank Secrecy Act, banks are legally required to fill out "Suspicious Activity Reports" on their customers and send them to the government.

Banks filed nearly 1 million suspicious activity reports in 2016 alone.

Think about that; United treated one passenger like a criminal suspect. Banks treated 1 million customers like criminal suspects last year.
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More than 50,000 people sent to emergency rooms in US every year because of police inflicted injuries

Lily Dane
The Daily Sheeple
Wed, 19 Apr 2017 00:00 UTC
police violence

A new study published by JAMA Surgery found that from 2006 to 2012, there were approximately 51,000 emergency department visits per year for patients injured by law enforcement in the United States, with this number stable over this time period.

From the press release:
During this time period, there were 355,677 ED visits for injuries by law enforcement, and frequencies did not increase over time. Of these visits, 0.3 percent (n = 1,202) resulted in death. More than 80 percent of patients were men, and the average age of patients was 32 years. Most lived in zip codes with median household income less than the national average, and 81 percent lived in urban areas. Injuries by law enforcement were more common in the South and West and less common in the Northeast and Midwest. Most injuries by law enforcement resulted from being struck, with gunshot and stab wounds accounting for fewer than seven percent. Most injuries were minor. Medically identified substance abuse was common in patients injured by police, as was mental illness.
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Police search for Atlanta, Georgia man who ripped hijab off Muslim girl's head while yelling 'terrorist'


RT
Wed, 19 Apr 2017 19:33 UTC
Hijab
© Morteza Nikoubazl / Reuters
Police are searching for a man accused of ripping a headscarf off a Muslim teenager while yelling "terrorist" at a mall in a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia. Authorities are calling the incident an assault and have vowed to conduct a "thorough investigation."

The incident occurred at around 9:40pm local time on Tuesday, when the 14-year-old was walking with a group in the parking lot of Perimeter Mall in Dunwoody, Georgia.

A man approached the girl and ripped the hijab off her head while yelling "terrorist," according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC). He then ran off with the headscarf.

"He kept tugging and tugging, and she realized he was tugging on her hijab," the girl's mother told local NBC affiliate WXIA-TV. She added that her daughter thought the man appeared to be drunk, but "wasn't sure."

Police are calling the incident an assault, and Dunwoody police chief Billy Grogan says a "thorough investigation" will be conducted.
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UPDATE: New York judge with 'unshakable moral compass' found dead in Hudson River


RT
Thu, 13 Apr 2017 03:40 UTC
Judge Sheila Abdus-Salaam
© NYPDSheila Abdus-Salaam
The first Muslim female judge in US history was found dead on the banks of the Hudson River in New York under mysterious circumstances. The case comes days after another judge in Chicago was shot dead outside his own home.

The body of former New York State Supreme Court Judge Sheila Abdus-Salaam, 65, was found floating in the Hudson River off Manhattan Island on Wednesday, the New York Post reported.

The New York Police Department Harbor Unit responded after witnesses spotted Abdus-Salaam's fully-clothed body floating in the Hudson River near 132nd Street and Hudson Parkway.

Abdus-Salaam had been reported missing from her home in Harlem earlier in the day. Her husband later identified her body to police.

Comment: Further reading: Attorney suing elite pedophile ring shot dead

Update: Based on their current investigation, the New York Police department is now calling the judge's death 'suspicious', shifting from a 'likely suicide':
"We have a middle-aged woman deceased in the water with all her clothes on with no signs of homicide or suicide," NYPD Sergeant Brendan Ryan told ABC News.

"When a body is found floating in a river, it is deemed suspicious in nature. Absent any clear signs of criminality, the cause of death is determined by the Medical Examiner," he added.

An autopsy conducted Thursday was inconclusive and required further study, a spokeswoman for the city's medical examiner told AP.

Water was found in her lungs, suggesting Abdus-Salaam was alive when she went into the Hudson, sources told the New York Post. She also had some slight bruising on her neck, but her eyes didn't show signs of strangulation.

Abdus-Salaam may have been depressed. She began taking medication for a depressive episode a few weeks before her death, an anonymous "well-placed" court source told the New York Daily News, adding that police had found those drugs.

The publicity and lack of concrete evidence of a suicide is worrying the NYPD higher-ups, which is why they are now reaching out to Harlem residents, a source told the New York Post.
After obtaining video footage of the judge's last movements, the NYPD has distributed flyers to Harlem residents for any information on her death. Their investigation continues.

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Doctor who cut off child's penis in botched circumcision acquitted by Swiss court


RT
Wed, 19 Apr 2017 16:50 UTC
circumcision
© Dasril Roszandi / Global Look Press
A Swiss doctor who cut off a young boy's penis during a circumcision operation has been acquitted of causing bodily harm through negligence.

In the Tuesday ruling, a court in Geneva said the factors involved in the incident had made the accident "unforeseeable," Le Temps newspaper reported.

That remark is in reference to the fact that the four-year-old boy's father was taking photos during the July 2014 operation.

At one point, the boy turned to look at his father as he prepared to take a picture. In doing so, the boy moved his pelvis, causing the surgeon to sever the penis, which fell to the floor.

Comment: Circumcision is a brutal practice which in a sane society would never be legal:
Circumcision - Conditioning the Adult by Torturing the Child

We act out the world view of psychopaths by brutalizing our children as soon as they enter this world. The pain that their body experiences at such a formative stage is likely encoded in them for the rest of their lives, controlling them through fear and suffering. We cripple children when all they reach out for is affection. They ask for love and we give them the blade.


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People

'Mother of all marches': Venezuelans march in massive anti-Maduro rally


RT
Wed, 19 Apr 2017 19:31 UTC
anti-Maduro rally in Caracas
© Marco Bello / ReutersAnti-Maduro rally held in Caracas
The 'mother of all marches' is underway in Venezuela's capital, Caracas, to protest President Nicolas Maduro, as demonstrators call for his resignation amid the country's ongoing economic crisis. One person has reportedly been killed in the protests.

The massive rally is the culmination of weeks of violent demonstrations that left five people dead and resulted in clashes between anti-government demonstrators and security forces.

Political turmoil in Venezuela reached the boiling point at the end of last month after the supreme court ruled it would take on the functions of the opposition-led National Assembly. Critics decried the decision as an attempt to install a dictatorship. The measure was later reversed following international outcry. Authorities, however, banned top opposition leader Henrique Capriles from public office for 15 years.
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Snakes in Suits

About time: Bill O'Reilly sacked from Fox amid sexual harassment accusations


RT
Wed, 19 Apr 2017 19:13 UTC
Bill O'Reilly
© Brendan McDermid / Reuters
Fox News Channel has confirmed that its hugely popular political commentator Bill O'Reilly will not be returning to the network. The announcement comes after fresh allegations of sexual harassment were leveled against the TV host.

"After a thorough and careful review of the allegations, the Company and Bill O'Reilly have agreed that Bill O'Reilly will not be returning to the Fox News Channel," a statement from parent company 21st Century Fox said Wednesday, according to Variety.

Detailing the latest accusation, attorney Lisa Bloom, who is representing women allegedly harassed by O'Reilly, said the 67-year-old conservative commentator used to leer at an African-American clerical worker and call her "hot chocolate".
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