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Karma: Cecil the lion's killer and Trump honorary guest has yacht stolen and crashed


Sputnik
Thu, 21 Jul 2016 22:13 UTC
Walter Palmer
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The infamous killer of the much beloved lion received another dose of karma on Tuesday when a neighbor stole and crashed his boat while the disgraced trophy hunter schmoozed the Trumps at the Republican Convention.

A stolen boat crashed off the southern end of Marco Island in the Gulf of Mexico off of Southwest Florida on Sunday afternoon belongs to Walter Palmer, the Minnesota dentist who created a humanitarian firestorm last summer for boasting about his killing of Cecil, a popular African lion, police confirmed in a statement Thursday.

26-year-old Andrew Derwin, of Marco Island, was arrested Tuesday on a felony charge of grand theft. Police arrested Derwin after he stole and crashed Palmer's boat off Caxambas Pass.
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Attention

French prosecutor reveals accomplices spent months helping Nice truck killer prepare attack


RT
Thu, 21 Jul 2016 21:55 UTC
Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel
© Facebook / Breaking911
The man responsible for mowing down 84 people in Nice planned the attack in advance, and was aided by a tight-knit team of associates, who helped him sketch out his plan, and acquired weapons for him.

"He seems to have envisaged and developed his criminal plans several months before carrying them out," said Paris prosecutor Francois Molins, speaking in a news briefing. "The investigation since the night of July 14 has kept moving forward and allowed us not only to confirm again the premeditated nature of [killer] Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel's deadly act, but also to establish that he benefited from support and had accomplices in the preparation and carrying out of his criminal act."

Police have uncovered thousands of calls and messages between Lahouaiej Bouhlel, and five accomplices, after going through his social media accounts, laptop and phone records.

"Put 2,000 tons of metal in the truck, f**k the brakes, and I'll be watching," says one message sent to Lahouaiej Bouhlel in April.

Comment: More news about the attacker:

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People

Trump's Wall of Fame: Donald's Hollywood star fenced in


RT
Thu, 21 Jul 2016 21:07 UTC
Hollywood Walk of Fame Star awarded to Republican Presidential Nominee Donald Trump
© Sasa Brajovic / ReutersThe Hollywood Walk of Fame Star awarded to Republican Presidential Nominee Donald Trump is shown surrounded by a barb-wire wall in a piece by street artist Plastic Jesus in Hollywood, California July 19, 2016.
It's either a genius piece of vandalism, a symbolic metaphor or just a model proposal by a pushy architect, but Donald Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was briefly surrounded by a tiny cement wall this week.

Featuring barbed wire, keep out signs (written in both Spanish and English) and American flags, it would be surprising to almost no one if Trump had commissioned the wall himself.

However it seems the 15cm wall is actually the work of a street artist known as 'Plastic Jesus'.
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Snakes in Suits

Roger Ailes resigns as Fox News CEO amid sexual harassment allegations


RT
Thu, 21 Jul 2016 20:45 UTC
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© Fred Prouser / ReutersRoger Ailes, chairman and CEO of Fox News and Fox Television Stations
Fox News co-founder and CEO Roger Ailes steps down over allegations of sexual harassment and retaliation. Rupert Murdoch will take over as Chairman and Acting CEO.

The Thursday resignation comes in response to allegations from former anchor Gretchen Carlson and other female employees.

Media magnate Chairman Rupert Murdoch, executive chairman of 21st Century Fox, will become the acting CEO of Fox News and Fox Business Network in the wake of Ailes' resignation.

"Roger Ailes has made a remarkable contribution to our company and our country," Murdoch said in a statement. "Roger shared my vision of a great and independent television organization and executed it brilliantly over 20 great years."

Carlson brought a lawsuit against Fox News claiming that she was fired for refusing to sleep with Ailes and complaining about what she thought to be a discriminatory work environment. More women subsequently accused Ailes of inappropriate behavior that allegedly happened over the span of decades.

Comment: See also:

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Stop

Missouri couple rode stolen lawn mower naked in broad daylight


The Smoking Gun
Wed, 20 Jul 2016 18:25 UTC
Tanya Hopper Larry Webster
A couple is facing felony charges after they were spotted riding a stolen lawn mower in the nude at 8:30 AM on a Missouri road, records show.

According to a police report, Tanya Hopper, 40, and Larry Webster, 55, were busted last Tuesday following the bizarre incident near the city of Joplin.

Responding to a 911 call about a naked man driving an orange lawn mower with a nude woman in his lap, Jasper County Sheriff's Office deputies encountered Hopper and Webster in front of a friend's residence. The riding lawn mower was parked outside the home.

During questioning, Hopper and Webster admitted to the naked mower ride. The suspects claimed that they had been skinny dipping at nearby Turkey Creek when their clothes were stolen by a man who emerged from the adjacent woods.

Instead of walking home nude, the duo said they opted to drive away on a mower they claimed to have found in the woods.
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Propaganda

Propaganda alert: Kelvin Makenzie spewing hate and racial incitement

Kelvin Makenzie
The Sun
Mon, 18 Jul 2016 12:23 UTC
Fatima Manji
© Channel FourFatima Manji

Would C4 have used a Hindu to report on the carnage at the Golden Temple of Amritsar...of course not

Anxious to know more about the Nice lorry massacre, I did something on Friday night I try to avoid: I watched Channel Four News.

After Jon Snow had conducted a poor interview with a young man who had come perilously close to death the action switched back to the London studio, where I could hardly believe my eyes.

The presenter was not one of the regulars — Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Matt Frei or Cathy Newman — but a young lady wearing a hijab.

Comment: He fails to mention who he thinks could provide balance in these difficult times, surely he can't mean Murdoch?

This article reportedly received 1,400 complaints, as of today The Sun has decided not to comment. Fatima replied to his comments here, and excerpts are quoted below.
"It's dangerous to regard Mr MacKenzie and those who echo his Islamophobic sentiments as mere pantomime villains. Their soapbox allows them to spread their ill-informed, irresponsible and malevolent invective to millions of readers. Racist and Islamophobic rhetoric has real consequences - lives have been lost and shattered in our own country."
"[He] has attempted to smear 1.6 billion Muslims in suggesting they are inherently violent. He has attempted to smear half of them further by suggesting they are helpless slaves. And he has attempted to smear me by suggesting I would sympathise with a terrorist."


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Bacon

Meat terrorism: Italian mayor wants to launch the country's first vegetarian city

Stephanie Kirchgaessner
The Guardian
Thu, 21 Jul 2016 17:47 UTC
hanging sausages
© AlamyItaly may be famous for its salami, but citizens of Turin will be encouraged to turn to vegetarian and vegan diets.
From vitello tonnato - veal with tuna sauce - to beef braised in the Piedmont region's most famous red wine, brasato al Barolo, meat dishes have been central to the food tradition of northern Italy for centuries.

But Chiara Appendino, the new mayor of Turin and a force in the populist Five Star Movement (M5S), could be about to change all that with her pledge this week to promote vegetarian and vegan diets as a "priority" in her administration.

According to M5S's 62-page manifesto - which also called for better urban planning and the protection of public land - Turin's new mayor said the endorsement of meat-free and even dairy-free living was fundamental to the protection of the environment, health, and the wellbeing of animals.

Comment: It is meat terrorism. The WHO labeled meats as carcinogenic but this has been thoroughly debunked. If the mayor wants to see her consitituents have a poorer quality of life then pushing them into vegetarianism is certainly the way to go. With any luck, and a whole lot of common sense, this scheme will fail miserably. The mayor will likely carry on with her crazy agenda until she's sacked because you can't argue with these rabid vegetarians. Their brains don't work properly.

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Attention

The Chinese boycott EU tourism over terror fears

Alix Culbertson, Monika Pallenberg
Express
Thu, 21 Jul 2016 04:33 UTC
2 chinese tourists
© www.scmp.comTracy Yau Hiu-tung and Edmund Au Yeung, injured in the German train attack.
The continent is now bottom of the list for many Chinese who previously saw the continent as a dream destination with its fascinating mix of culture, cuisine, shopping and history. The most recent attacks in Germany and France are only adding to the fear anyone in Europe could be the next victim.

Monday's axe attack on a train in Wuerzburg, Germany, has meant the continent is now officially a no-go area for many Chinese after four Hong Kong people were among those seriously injured by 17 year old Afghan refugee.

An unnamed married couple, their 26 year old daughter, Tracy Yau Hiu-tung and her 31 year old boyfriend, Edmund Au Yeung were all injured by the teenager who was shot dead by German police as he fled the scene on Monday. The 63 year old father and Mr Au Yeung are fighting for their lives at the University Hospital of Wuerzburg, with one of the men sustaining a severe head injury and the other serious injuries to his abdomen, Dr Georg Ertl, hospital director, said.

The two women were also injured while the older couple's 17 year old son managed to escape the attack on the train they had boarded as part of a visit to Germany following a trip to England for a wedding.

Since the incident, many Chinese people have taken to the internet to discuss whether it is safe to travel to Europe.

Comment: The ramp up of fear and uncertainty around the world is having its calculated effect. It is one of the screws being tightened in order to program, and thereby control, the mindset and behavior of the people. The decline in tourism to Europe will be a swift and significant blow to the financial stability of the continent and blamed on the refugees.

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Stock Up

Tourism helps Iceland rise from the ashes of 2008 financial meltdown


RT
Thu, 21 Jul 2016 12:23 UTC
Northern Lights
© Lucas Jackson / ReutersFile photo of the Northern Lights as seen above the ash plume of Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano in the evening
The country worst affected by the global financial crisis eight years ago has made a miraculous turnaround. Iceland saw an unexpected GDP surge of 4.2 percent in the first three months of the year.

The growth is explained by a significant rise in tourism.

Tourism has been steadily growing since the beginning of the decade, and is currently a larger source of revenue than exports of fish and aluminum. The number of visitors in 2016 may beat last year's record of 1.3 million, according to June data.

Foreign travelers have flocked to the country partly thanks to the popularity of the fantasy TV drama Game of Thrones. Some episodes of the show were filmed in Iceland. Local travel agencies are currently offering tours to the locations featuring the series' legendary landmarks.

Spending data confirms the Icelandic economy is on an upswing. Tourists have spent 26 billion krone ($212 million) in the country this year using credit and debit cards.

Comment: Of course it also helps that Iceland's people have taken their fate into their own hands in other ways:

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Cell Phone

'The Detailed Interview' - Smartphone app lets users play refugee interrogator


RT
Thu, 21 Jul 2016 15:56 UTC
the detailed interview smart phone app
© Giorgos Moutafis / Reuters
With Europe in the midst of a refugee crisis, two Dutch journalists have set out to change people's perceptions. They are doing so with a smartphone app that lets users talk to actors portraying refugees, and ask them tough questions.

The app is meant to do several things, the main being to alter perceptions of refugees, another to explain that it's not easy becoming a refugee in the Netherlands - particularly important, seeing as misperceptions about the ease of the process fan the flames of far-right movements in the Netherlands and EU as a whole.

'The Detailed Interview', as the app is called, lets users select tough questions from make-believe refugees from Syria and Guinea, who in turn explain why and how they fled their homelands, and what motivates them in their lives.
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