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PM Medvedev among those evacuated due to fire threat at Russia's innovation hub forum


RT
Wed, 26 Oct 2016 17:07 UTC
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Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and other participants of a forum at Russia's innovation hub at Skolkovo have been evacuated after smoke was detected and alarm systems went off, local media report.

Participants of the tech event run by Skolkovo Innovation Center were evacuated after smoke and fumes were spotted inside the building, according to TASS.

People taking part in the event, including PM Medvedev, were asked to leave the building "for safety reasons."

The fire reportedly broke out on the second floor of the building and was promptly extinguished, according to TASS.

Skolkovo's fire protection unit told the news agency that the incident was provoked by a short circuit, believed to have occurred inside a dome sitting atop the building.
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Anti-Trump violence on the rise as Election Day approaches

Matthew Vadum
Lifezette
Wed, 26 Oct 2016 16:52 UTC
violence aganist trump supporters
Media pays little attention to escalating attacks, thousands of threats against Trump supporters

While the mainstream media has been working day and night promoting Hillary Clinton's candidacy, it has largely ignored or downplayed violent attacks against supporters of Donald Trump.

But assaults on Trump supporters appear to be growing increasingly common as Election Day approaches and tensions intensify. Reports of Trump lawn signs and banners being stolen and defaced are everywhere on social media.

Making matters worse, undercover video evidence emerged showing senior Democrat operatives Robert Creamer and Scott Foval acknowledging using dirty, likely illegal tricks against the Trump campaign. Their goal was to generate negative media coverage of Trump rallies by fomenting violence at them. The media eagerly used the various fisticuffs and melees the Democrats created to attempt to discredit Trump by depicting his supporters as violent, knuckle-dragging crazies.

The videos, shot by ACORN slayer James O'Keefe's group Project Veritas Action, show Foval on camera saying his agents "infiltrate" Trump events. "It doesn't matter what the friggin' legal and ethics people say, we need to win this motherf****er." He adds, "we're starting anarchy here."

Creamer, previously convicted of felony bank fraud, has visited the Obama White House more than 300 times. In one of the videos, he says Hillary Clinton personally knows about the false flag operation. Her campaign "is fully in it," Creamer confirms. "Hillary knows through the chain of command what's going on."


Comment: See all three of the videos released by Project Veritas so far here. The Killary-bots are not happy.

Clinton Campaign, White House Squirm after Project Veritas Exposes DNC Dirty Tricks

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Drug tunnel equipped with rails, lights, ventilation discovered at US-Mexico border


RT
Wed, 26 Oct 2016 05:11 UTC
tunnel
© Jorge Duenes / Reuters
A long cross-border drug tunnel has been discovered running beneath Mexico towards the US. Starting at a house, the tunnel was well equipped for transiting loads of drugs which were allegedly bound for buyers in America.

The tunnel was found 23 feet (7 meters) underground, according to Mexican prosecutors. It measured nine feet (3 meters) wide and four feet (1.2 meters) tall, and was 1,689 feet (514 meters) long. It was equipped with ventilation and lighting, and had rails for pushing packages of drugs through the passageway.

It began at a house in Tijuana, Mexico, where prosecutors found more than "two metric tons of marijuana," AP reported. Prosecutors originally estimated that five tons of marijuana could be inside the house, but were unable to enter the premises without court permission.

Comment: See also: Mexican drug lord 'El Chapo' caught because he was attempting to make biographical film

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Evil Rays

White Helmets Fraud: Terrorist Support Group, Not Humanitarians - But West Loves Them!

Rick Sterling
Consortium News
Sun, 23 Oct 2016 16:31 UTC
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Humanitarian terrorists.
The saturation of propaganda from massive investments by Western interests in NGOs like the "White Helmets" has skewed the public's understanding of foreign crises, such as Iraq in 2003 and Syria today, writes Rick Sterling.

Across the mainstream Western media, the "White Helmets" are hailed as heroic first responders rescuing injured civilians in rebel-controlled parts of Syria. The U.K. Guardian and The Independent urged the Nobel Committee to award this year's Nobel Peace Prize to the "White Helmets." As it turned out, they didn't get that one, but they did receive the prestigious 2016 "Right Livelihood Award."


Comment: This is the same Guardian that recently quoted a terrorist in Aleppo to support the idea that there are no terrorists in Aleppo... See: Absurd! The Guardian cites terrorist leader to prove there are no terrorists in Aleppo


On the U.S. side of the Atlantic, the "White Helmets" are treated with similar uncritical acclaim. They were the subject of the Oct. 17 TIME magazine cover story. Netflix has released a special "documentary" movie about them. New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof has gushed over them for years, helping the group's one-sided depiction of events inside Syria shape the pro-rebel narrative that is pretty much all the American and European publics hear about Syria.

Comment: Vanessa Beeley puts it succinctly: "they are acting as a terrorist support group."



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UK, US lag far behind nations such as Rwanda and Philippines in gender equality


RT
Wed, 26 Oct 2016 14:35 UTC
Rwanda women MP's
© Timothy KisambiraRwanda has the highest share of women in parliament globally at 64 percent.
Britain is lagging behind countries including Rwanda, the Philippines and Nicaragua in a global ranking of gender parity, slipping to 20th place on the World Economic Forum (WEF) index.

The WEF, a not-for-profit based in Switzerland, analyzed data from 144 countries. It found the global gender gap has widened to its largest extent since 2008. It estimates economic gender parity won't be achieved for at least another 170 years.

The US and Australia are even further behind than Britain, however, at 45th and 46th place respectively.

The UK's 2016 rankings - which take into account key areas such as the economy, politics, education and health - mark a slide from ninth position in 2006.
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Despite Western economic sanctions and political pressures, vast majority of Russians have no desire to leave the country


RT
Wed, 26 Oct 2016 10:06 UTC
Russia emigration
© Igor Russak / Sputnik
The proportion of Russians who want to leave their country for other nations has unchanged over the past five years according to a recent research, despite economic sanctions and political pressure applied from abroad.

The state-run VTSIOM public opinion research center reports that that the poll conducted in early October this year showed that a total of 11 percent of Russians confessed a desire to emigrate. Of those, only 7 percent said they wanted to leave Russia in the nearest future, 13 percent said they would prefer to do so in three to five years' time, 18 percent said they didn't know when they would be able to take the step, while 51 percent said their desire was not connected with any particular plans.

Besides, 63 percent of those who wanted to move to other countries told researchers that they were not taking any steps for making their dream a reality. Of those doing something to achieve the goal of emigrating, 16 percent said that they were learning a foreign language, 15 percent were accumulating funds and 8 percent said they were searching for a job or an education program in another country.

Eighty-six percent of respondents said that they did not want to leave Russia and 75 percent said that in their opinion it would be best if their children spent their lives in Russia as well. At the same time, 20 percent of those polled said that they personally knew some people who had emigrated from Russia over the past five years.

Comment: Despite the economic and political onslaught brought by Western nations, Russia is successfully countering these pressures and confirming its status of global power in a new multipolar world system.

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Hong Kong court hears British banker 'filmed torture and murder of victim on iPhone' (Update)


RT
Mon, 24 Oct 2016 13:23 UTC
Rurik George Caton Jutting
© Bobby Yip / Reuters
A British banker filmed himself torturing and killing one of his sex worker victims on his iPhone before stuffing her body into a suitcase, a Hong Kong court heard on Monday.

Rurik Jutting, 31, is charged with the murders of Seneng Mujiasih and Sumarti Ningsih, whose bodies were found in his high-rise luxury apartment near Hong Kong's Wan Chai red-light district in November 2014 after he called police.

Jutting, a Cambridge graduate who worked for Bank of America Merrill Lynch in the city, pleaded not guilty to two murder charges after prosecutors rejected his attempt to plead guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter.

A third charge was also read out - unlawful burial of Ningsih's body - to which he pleaded guilty.

Comment: UPDATE October 26: Trial ongoing: Jutting, formerly a banker at Bank of America Merrill Lynch who studied at the University of Cambridge, has denied murder but admitted to manslaughter. Medical experts told the court that Jutting appeared to have built up a huge tolerance to cocaine and existed on a daily dose of wine, cocaine and Red Bull. He also revealed his plans to return to the UK and abduct schoolgirls from an expensive boarding school in Buckinghamshire. "They would be, say, 15 years old and I would basically turn these three girls into my sex slaves, it would be good to psychologically play them off against each other," he told police. The trial continues.

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Teenage psychopathy: Russian teen arrested, faces prison for animal torture/snuff films


Sputnik
Mon, 24 Oct 2016 15:26 UTC
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© Christina Konoplya/vk.com
A 17-year-old girl has been arrested after allegedly abusing animals and posting pictures of her acts of cruelty on social networks, Russian media has reported.

A teenager in the city of Khabarovsk, in Russia's Far East, has been arrested for her shocking cruelty to animals, Russia's Life News reported on Thursday. A police source said that one teenager is a suspect and another is a witness in the case, which came to light when one 17-year-old and one 16-year-old girl posted photographs of animal cruelty online and published messages about the crimes. Users of social networks who saw the photographs and conversations reported that the girls claimed to have answered local adverts seeking homes for unwanted animals.

They allegedly told volunteers that they were picking up a dog in order to take it to an elderly woman. After that, they abused it and posted the photos online.


Comment: Warning: the article contains photos which, while blurred, are still highly disturbing.

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And yet, they vote anyway: 61% of Americans don't feel represented by either Republicans or Democrats


RT
Wed, 26 Oct 2016 11:34 UTC
US Democrats and Republicans
© Carlos Barria/Reuters
Despite the current US electoral landscape, which again sees a Democrat and a Republican leading the face off in the finals, more than six in 10 Americans who put them there do not feel represented by either party, a survey found.

The presidential election in 2016 has the entire country and world on the edge of their seats, as any hope of a third party candidate is all but gone. But according to the 2016 American Values Survey by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI), dissatisfaction with both parties has plummeted sharply since 1990.

And it's not just parties: Americans don't trust the electoral process as a whole, with only 43 percent believing their vote will be counted accurately. One in five people has shown a complete lack of confidence.

"Pessimism about the direction of the country is considerably higher today (74 percent) than it was at this time during the 2012 presidential race, when 57 percent of the public said the country was off on the wrong track," the authors, who have tested 2,010 adults across 50 states, write.
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Respect for police among Americans surges to highs not seen since late '60s


RT
Wed, 26 Oct 2016 14:31 UTC
US police
© Lucas Jackson / Reuters
Americans' respect for police has reached its highest since the late 1960s, a new poll has shown. Despite racial tensions and police brutality in black communities, respect for law enforcement is almost equally high among both whites and non-whites.

"The percentage who say they respect the police is significantly higher now than in any measurement taken since the 1990s and is just one point below the high of 77 percent recorded in 1967," Gallup said, referring to the results of its most recent poll held earlier in October.

Respect for police officers appeared to grow as the number of on-duty officers shot and killed rose as well, the survey revealed.

Three in four Americans, or 76 percent, said they have "a great deal" of respect for police in their areas - a 12 percent jump from last year. Another 17 percent said they have "some" respect for their local police officers, and only seven percent confessed they had "hardly any" respect.
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