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After the US elections: World exit!

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Only citizens can vote in the US Presidential elections, yet the impact is global.

The world is suddenly in disarray, in panic. A man notorious for his bigoted rhetoric, a man who believes in American exceptionalism, who wants to build the walls and to 'restore order', has been elected the 45th President of the mightiest nation on Earth. His nation is doubtlessly in decline; it is indebted and some would even argue, hopelessly bankrupt, but it is still the Empire, the sole one to this day.

Below the surface, Mr. Trump may not be any viler than the Democratic candidate Mrs. Clinton and her clan has been for years. The establishment with which she has been inseparably intertwined for years and decades has been murdering millions all over the world, looting entire continents, and brutally guaranteeing that the Western world would always stay firmly in control of the entire Planet.

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At least 44 killed and over 100 injured in horrifying train collision in Iran

damaged trains following an accident in the Semnan province
© HO / Tasnim News / AFPA handout picture released on November 25, 2016 by the Tasnim news agency shows damaged trains following an accident in the Semnan province, some 250 kms east of the Iranian capital Tehran.
Technical problems and cold weather may have caused a devastating train collision and subsequent massive fire in northern Iran which claimed at least 44 lives and left more than 100 people injured.

The two train collided early Friday in the vicinity of Haft-Khan station in the province of Semnan, 250 kilometers east of Tehran. One train rear-ended another that had stopped near the station, reportedly as the result of a technical failure.

Four carriages derailed and two caught fire. At least 44 people were killed. Many of the bodies were badly burned and are hard to identify, according Ali Yahyaei, a provincial rescue and relief official, cited by the Tehran Times. The number of casualties is expected to rise, the official added. Some 100 injured people were transported to local medical facilities.

Rescue teams struggled to arrive on time on account of harsh weather conditions. Firefighter crews eventually managed to put the blaze out. Several Red Crescent helicopters arrived at the scene.

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Putin: Fidel's 'memory will forever remain within hearts of Russian citizens'

Fidel Castro meets cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin
© Wikipedia/Linux_RocksFidel Castro meets cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin
Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed his condolences to the people and government of Cuba in connection with the death of Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, the Kremlin's press service said on Saturday.

Fidel Castro died on Friday, at the age of 90 years old, as announced by his brother, incumbent Cuban President Raul Castro, on state television earlier in the day.

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'Insane' WaPo Russian propaganda story slammed by Greenwald & others as disgusting smear

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© Jonathan Ernst / Reuters
Glenn Greenwald, along with other journalists, has unleashed a torrent of criticism at The Washington Post over a piece about Russia leading a "fake news" campaign during the US election, calling it a "disgusting" smear and "supremely shitty" garbage.

The Washington publication, at one time hailed for its role in exposing the Watergate Scandal, has now been rounded on by a number of well-known figures from the media industry for publishing the article.

Award-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald, significant in bringing Edward Snowden's US security revelations to the public, labeled the story "total journalistic garbage".


Comment: Further reading:Washington Post blasted online for article accusing Russia of 'sophisticated' US election propaganda, claim on CNN that Russia funded Brexit


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May he rest in peace - Cuban President Fidel Castro has died aged 90

Fidel Castro
© Flickr/Las Razones de Cuba
Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro has died, local media reported on Saturday.

The former Cuban president died at the age of 90 and his body will be cremated under his own will, the Prensa Latina news agency reported, citing incumbent Cuban President Raul Castro, Fidel Castro's brother.


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Jordan Peterson - a real professor who is standing up for free speech

Jordan Peterson
Professor Peterson is at the center of freedom-of-speech battle at the University of Toronto
By now most of the country is familiar with the story of one professor, Jordan Peterson, at the University of Toronto, who has expressed strong and vivid dissent over the university's attempt to force him to use certain words — ersatz pronouns, a batch of neologisms (ze, zim, zer, and a raft of others, in place of he or she) coined by progressive groups, intended to apply to students who "self-identify" as other than the archaic and obsolete designations of man and woman.

Prof. Peterson will not use these new cant words. He will not be ordered by the university, or pressured by activists, to take their words and put them in his mouth. He goes further and insists that it is an abandonment of academic freedom, and freedom of speech more generally, for the university or others to insist or attempt to mandate such a practice. He has made three videos arguing his case. He points out the ideological forces, the "political agenda" behind "language politics," and correctly argues and identifies that there is far more at stake in this instance than some local gripe about grammatical commonplaces on a single campus.

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Hacker who helped expose Ohio high school football team rape faces longer prison sentence than the rapists

 KYAnonymous, hacker exposes Steubenville rapists
© KYAnonymous / Facebook KYAnonymous
A Kentucky man who, in 2012, hacked into an online account for followers of a Ohio high school's football team to expose a gang rape of a teenage girl has pleaded guilty to charges associated with the hack. He is facing a longer term than the rapists.

Earlier this week, Deric Lostutter, 29, known online as "KYAnonymous," pleaded guilty in federal court in Kentucky to one count of conspiracy and one count of making false statements to law enforcement agents for his hack of the Steubenville (Ohio) High School football fan website Roll Red Roll in December 2012.

Lostutter has said he hacked into the site to expose information about the gang rape of an unconscious teenage girl from West Virginia by members of the football team. Two of those team members, Trent Mays and Malik Richmond, were eventually sentenced to serve time — two years and one year, respectively — in a juvenile detention center for rape and kidnap.

Comment: More evidence of the depth of ponerization in Western society where those who commit vicious crimes are routinely protected, while the victims are blamed and anyone who dares to expose such crimes often pays a heavy price for their conscientiousness.


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Liberals: Seek out silent Trump voters like me, says female millennial Trump supporter

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© PoliticoTrump supporters
I am an urban, millennial woman, and I voted for Trump. Now, I'm afraid to explain my reasoning to an angry, vitriolic left that will not listen to me.

I'm a graduate-educated, millennial generation, urban-dwelling white woman. Not just that, I'm also a women's health nurse practitioner and I've cared for women of many different religions, races, ethnicities, and sexual orientations.

I'm also a silent Donald Trump supporter.

I admit, I have enjoyed indulging in some schadenfreude as I watched the aftermath of the presidential election implode on social media. But that wore off quickly. Now, the fearmongering and widespread terror plaguing my Facebook news feed just makes me sad.

I haven't posted a thing on social media. For that matter, I don't intend on disclosing my vote to others anytime soon—first and foremost because I think it might jeopardize my career, and I sincerely fear people would not listen or seek to understand my rationale. I hope I'm proven wrong.

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'When he kills you, we'll come and inspect your corpse': Police tells woman before she's beaten to death

Woman killed in a domestic violence incident in Oryol, Russia
© vk.comA woman, whose name has not officially been released, was killed in a domestic violence incident in Oryol, Russia.
A police officer in a central Russian town faces trial after she refused to accept a complaint from a domestic violence victim who was being abused and bullied by a former lover.

The police said they would arrive only after she was killed in order to file an autopsy report. The woman died 40 minutes later.

The gruesome incident took place in the Central Russian city of Oryol last week. The 37-year-old man had a fight with his 36-year-old ex-girlfriend, allegedly due to a dispute over the couple's common belongings. After the heated quarrel, during which the woman demanded that her former lover take his things and leave, he followed her to the car, violently kicked her, and then left, investigators say in a statement.

The woman eventually died of head injuries in hospital.

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The old is dying, the new is struggling to be born

George Galloway
George Galloway
Thugs will not silence me

Many of you will have read about an unpleasant and, at the time, distressing experience I had at the University of Aberdeen earlier this week, which was widely reported in the national news. Someone, who claimed responsibility on Twitter, calling themselves "trans" and an "anarchist", led a five person attack on me as I began my speech, with no intervention from university security, and threw a then unknown substance into my face from point blank range. We had warned the university of a planned protest, which we suspected would be violent, and provided them with the names and faces of the expected aggressors - who did in fact turn out to be the aggressors - yet nothing was done to prevent it.

As someone who has recently been violently attacked a number of times in public, including in broad daylight, this was alarming. I continued as normal, while my pregnant wife bravely tried to detain and then chased after the attackers.