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Che Guevara

Fidel's death shook Asia to the core

Andre Vltchek
RT
Sun, 11 Dec 2016 16:34 UTC
Cuban Embassy in Hanoi, Vietnam
© Andre VltchekCuban Embassy in Hanoi, Vietnam
On November 30, I walked into the historic building housing the Cuban Embassy in Hanoi, Vietnam. Several Vietnamese guards stood silently at the entrance. Flowers were everywhere and a big black photo of Comandante Fidel was facing a busy street.

I explained who I was, and an embassy official first let me into a courtyard decorated with more flowers and images, and later into a room with a beautiful book, into which I penned several sentences of grief, but also admiration and hope.

"People come day and night," Cuban officials told me. "It is beautiful and humbling. Vietnam and Cuba stood shoulder to shoulder for decades. We went through so much. Now we are being shown what true friendship means!"
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Study finds sexual harassment common among middle school children


Phys Org
Fri, 09 Dec 2016 16:22 UTC
Dorothy Espelage
© L. Brian StaufferHomophobic bullying is the precursor to sexual harassment among US schoolchildren, according to a new study by educational psychologist Dorothy Espelage, who conducted the research while on the University of Illinois' education faculty. Co-authors on the paper were Jun Sung Hong, a professor of social work at Wayne State University; and U. of I. alumni Sarah Rinehart and Namrata Doshi.
The recent suicide of Brandy Vela, a teen in Texas City, Texas, was a potent reminder of the sometimes tragic consequences of bullying. According to Vela's parents, the teen fatally shot herself Nov. 29 following months of bullying and sexual harassment, perpetrated in part through text messages and social media.

Sexual harassment is a prevalent form of victimization that most antibullying programs ignore and teachers and school officials often fail to recognize, said bullying and youth violence expert Dorothy L. Espelage.

Espelage recently led a five-year study that examined links between bullying and sexual harassment among schoolchildren in Illinois. Nearly half - 43 percent - of middle school students surveyed for the study reported they had been the victims of verbal sexual harassment such as sexual comments, jokes or gestures during the prior year.
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Will Israeli soldier get away with the murder of Palestinian teen?

Ali Abunimah
The Electronic Intifada
Sat, 10 Dec 2016 16:10 UTC
Nadim Siam Nuwara
© FacebookNadim Siam Nuwara, 17, was shot dead by an Israeli soldier on 15 May 2014.
An Israeli soldier facing trial for the killing of an unarmed Palestinian teenager that was shown on TV screens around the world may now get away with a slap on the wrist.

Israeli Border Police combatant Ben Dery is charged with manslaughter in the slaying of 17-year-old Nadim Nuwara on 15 May 2014 - Nakba Day, when Palestinians commemorate their 1948 ethnic cleansing from much of their homeland.

But Israeli media are reporting that the manslaughter charge may now be dropped.
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Briefcase

'Clearly not over': (DAPL) saga goes to court


RT
Sat, 10 Dec 2016 15:54 UTC
DAPL protesters
The battle over the Dakota Access Pipeline has not yet finished, despite the Army Corps of Engineers revoking permission to drill below the Lake Oahe crossing. Both the builder and tribes are preparing to go to court in the new year.

Energy Transfer Partners (ETP), the company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), has no intention of giving up easily. On Friday, US District Judge James Boasberg rejected ETP's request for an expedited ruling to overturn the Army Corps' denial of a permit.

The Army Corps of Engineers and the Standing Rock Sioux tribe have until January 6 to file their opposition to ETP's claim that they have the permission and permits necessary to drill under the Lake Oahe crossing, where the tribe gets most of its drinking water.

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Bizarro Earth

The global elites' dream of a dystopian socialist paradise

Michael Snyder
The Most Important News
Sun, 11 Dec 2016 15:54 UTC
earth in hand
If you listen closely, the global elite are telling us exactly what they intend to do. If they get their way, our world is going to look vastly different than it does now in the not too distant future. These elitists share a dream of an environmentally-friendly dystopian socialist paradise in which individual freedom is severely restricted for the good of the collective. Where you live, what you do for a living, what you are allowed to eat and how many children you are permitted to have would all be determined by an all-powerful central government that nobody would question or challenge. This may sound very bizarre to you, but the global elite really do dream of these things.

A perfect example of what I am talking about is an article that recently appeared on the official website of the World Economic Forum entitled "Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better". It was authored by a member of parliament in Denmark named Ida Auken, and as you can see she is quite convinced that we can achieve this type of society by the year 2030...
Welcome to the year 2030. Welcome to my city - or should I say, "our city". I don't own anything. I don't own a car. I don't own a house. I don't own any appliances or any clothes.

It might seem odd to you, but it makes perfect sense for us in this city. Everything you considered a product, has now become a service. We have access to transportation, accommodation, food and all the things we need in our daily lives. One by one all these things became free, so it ended up not making sense for us to own much.
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Bomb

At least 29 killed, dozens injured in Al Shabaab bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia


RT
Sun, 11 Dec 2016 09:40 UTC
Trailers are seen parked outside a police cordon after a suicide car bomb went off at the entrance of Somalia's biggest port in its capital Mogadishu December 11, 2016
© Feisal Omar / ReutersTrailers are seen parked outside a police cordon after a suicide car bomb went off at the entrance of Somalia's biggest port in its capital Mogadishu December 11, 2016
At least 29 people have been killed, and dozens more injured in a suicide blast that has hit the port area of Somali capital Mogadishu, Reuters reports citing police. Al-Shabaab, an Al-Qaeda-linked militant group, has claimed responsibility.

The attack hit near the entrance to the busy port. "The bomber targeted a civilian area, there were porters and other small scale traders in the area when the blast occurred," according to senior police officer Ibrahim Mohamed, as cited by AFP.
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Two 'ISIS-inspired' teens arrested in Germany, planning public institutions attack


RT
Sun, 11 Dec 2016 09:17 UTC
Arrested person
© Rüdiger Gaertner / YouTube
Authorities in the southern German state of Baden-Wurttemberg have detained two teenagers aged 15 and 17 who allegedly plotted to stage Islamic State-inspired attacks on "public institutions."

The arrests of the teenagers took place during raids on Thursday near Aschaffenburg and Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, all in the vicinity of Frankfurt.

Both teens "were planning an Islamist-motivated attack on a public institution in the district of Aschaffenburg, for which they wanted to procure firearms," Karlsruhe prosecutor's office announced on Friday.

While the identities of the arrested teenagers have not been disclosed, the prosecutors did point out that at least one of those detained had displayed "indications" of mental illness.
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Bomb

Massive Istanbul explosions kill 29, injure 166


Sputnik
Sun, 11 Dec 2016 04:33 UTC
Istanbul blasts explosions
© AP Photo/ DHA
Some 29 people, including 27 police officers, have been killed and 166 other injured in a car bomb and a suicide bombing that shook Istanbul on December 10, the country's Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu announced. Soylu announced that ten suspects in the deadly attacks have been taken into custody.

Earlier authorities reported about 15 deaths and 38 injuries. ​Two massive explosions rocked Turkey's largest city after a football match at Vodafone arena. The target was a van full of police leaving the stadium after having provided security, Soylu said.

Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Nurman Kurtulmus said the attack comprised a car bomb outside the stadium in the city's Besiktas district, followed 45 seconds later by a suicide bomber nearby.

Soylu called the attacks "a cruel plot" and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in a statement after tragedy that it had been designed to "maximize" casualties.
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Hourglass

Does the recent decline in the prepper community mean people have too much faith in what Trump may be able to do?

Michael Snyder
The Economic Collapse
Wed, 07 Dec 2016 00:00 UTC
nuclear war family
Is the prepper movement in the United States dying? At one time it was estimated that there were 3 million preppers in the United States, but in late 2016 interest in prepping has hit a multi-year low. The big reason for this, of course, is that the election of Donald Trump has fueled a tremendous wave of optimism among those that consider themselves to be conservatives, patriots and evangelical Christians. Not since the election of Ronald Reagan has the mood on the right shifted in such a positive direction so suddenly. But now that everyone is feeling so good about things, very few people still seem interested in prepping for hard times ahead. In fact, it is like a nuclear bomb went off in the prepping community.

As the publisher of The Economic Collapse Blog, I am in contact with a lot of people that serve the prepping community. And I can tell you that sales of emergency food and supplies have been crashing since Donald Trump's surprise election victory. Firms that help people relocate outside of the United States have seen business really dry up, and I know of one high profile individual that has actually decided to move back to the country after Trump's victory. It is almost as if the apocalypse has been canceled and the future history of the U.S. has been rewritten with a much happier ending.

Personally, I am quite alarmed that so many people are suddenly letting their guard down, but it is difficult to convince people to be vigilant when things seem to be going so well. Just consider some of the things that have been happening in recent weeks...
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Arrow Up

Venezuela seizes almost 4mn toys to distribute among poor children at Christmas


RT
Sat, 10 Dec 2016 19:50 UTC
Members of the Venezuelan national guard stand next to boxes full of confiscated toys in a warehouse in Caracas on December 9, 2016
© Federico Parra / AFPMembers of the Venezuelan national guard stand next to boxes full of confiscated toys in a warehouse in Caracas on December 9, 2016
Venezuelan authorities seized 3.8 million toys from one of the country's main distributors, accusing it of hoarding and hiking prices. They promised that the seized goods would be distributed among poor children.

Venezuela's country fair pricing watchdog Sundde seized toys that distributor Kreisel kept in three warehouses located in Caracas and Guarenas on Friday, local media reported.
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