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SWAT deploys gas & arrests shooting suspect in Columbus, Ohio


10tv.com
Tue, 17 Dec 2019 18:17 UTC
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A man was found dead inside a home in northeast Columbus after an overnight standoff with Columbus police and SWAT.

According to Columbus police, the situation began as a domestic dispute inside a home in the 3500 block of Headford Court. Officers were dispatched there shortly before 5 p.m. Saturday.

After speaking to the victim who had left the residence, officers went back to the location to make contact with the suspect, who refused to come out and barricaded himself inside.

Police called in SWAT based on threats officers say the man was making.
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Boeing to suspend production of its 737 Max jets

Catherine Thorbecke
ABC
Tue, 17 Dec 2019 17:32 UTC
Boeing 737 Max
© Gary He/Reuters
Gary He/Reuters
Aerial photo showing Boeing 737 Max airplanes parked at Boeing Field in Seattle, Washington, Oct. 20, 2019.
The Wall Street Journal says the move is being considered amid concerns over when the planes will be allowed to fly again.

Boeing will suspend production of its 737 Max jets starting in January, the company announced Monday.

The company said no layoffs or furloughs are expected at this time as a result of the decision.


Comment: 'At this time'. It's highly unlikely that such a move will not result in cut backs.


The decision comes after Boeing board members met Monday to consider suspending or shutting down production of its 737 Max jets, which have been grounded for almost nine months.

Comment: Following the deadly crashes, no company in their right mind wants anything to do with Boeing's MAX 737: Paris air show: Airbus' autonomous planes, Boeing ghosted, while France, Germany & Spain agree to Euro jet fighter

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Heavily-armed soldiers, violence, sky-high prices, a Santa Claus gender war & no mention of the Nativity... Merry Christmas, Europe!

Damian Wilson
RT
Tue, 17 Dec 2019 18:04 UTC
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As the UK warns of a "very likely" terrorist attack at German markets, seasonal celebrations across Europe face further threat from bland identikit stalls, rip-off prices & a struggle to address the Christian roots of Christmas.

Ah, Christmas in Europe! Rosy-cheeked children waiting for Santa Claus and his team of reindeer to overwhelm them with gifts. A feast of mince pies, turkey and mulled wine.

Today the only place to really experience this idyll is in your dreams. Because Christmas celebrations in Europe have become a violent, bleak, homogenized, commercial disappointment.

There are plenty of reasons for this, involving all the big issues of our times: terrorism, economics, cultural shifts, diversity and even climate change.
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What's scarier than racists and Russian trolls on Instagram? Why, 'Russian-influenced racist trolls,' of course!

Helen Buyniski
RT
Tue, 17 Dec 2019 17:42 UTC
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© Reuters / Joshua Roberts
The mainstream media censors have hit a brick wall smearing their quarry as "racists" - the overused term no longer packs much of a punch. To really work up a good scare, they're calling the erstwhile racists "Russian-inspired."

The 2020 US election is just around the corner and social media is crawling with wrongthink, according to the Daily Beast. This time, it's not Russian trolls - it's worse. The Russian trolls' ideas have infected so-called "American neo-confederates" and created an unholy hybrid of racist Russian trolls who are unstoppable by the usual mass-deplatforming solutions used to wipe out entire nests of foreign-origin trolls. It's almost like they're...real people.

The Beast partnered up with the NATO-backed Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRL) - not exactly a bastion of neutral, level-headed reporting - to comb through the darker reaches of Instagram, where the platform has stubbornly refused to remove accounts that aren't violating its terms of service even as they "run some of the same racist crap" as the Internet Research Agency troll accounts of yore.

The offending memes include the Peanuts cartoon character Linus van Pelt sporting a t-shirt that reads "THE SOUTH" and hugging a Confederate flag as his blanket. A speech bubble that appears to be coming from the blanket says "Our Battle Flag Protecting Us From Tyranny Since 1861." Another meme shows the Confederate flag with a coiled snake, the caption "Don't tread on me," and another caption "HERITAGE NOT HATE." Won't someone think of the children?!?
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Ukrainian consul in Germany, who celebrated birthday with 'Mein Kampf' cake, rejoins diplomatic corps


RT
Tue, 17 Dec 2019 17:25 UTC
Vasil Marushchinets
© Facebook / Василь Марущинець
Vasil Marushchinets
Last year a Ukrainian diplomat, whose friends-only Facebook posts hailed the Nazis and invoked God's wrath on Jews, was sacked for disgracing the service. Now he is back in the ranks, after a court ruled he'd done nothing wrong.

Vasil Marushchinets was recalled from his position as Ukrainian consul in Hamburg, Germany, and fired in May 2018. The incident occurred shortly after a popular Ukrainian video blogger posted a damning report exposing the diplomat's friends-only posts on Facebook.

If they were public, the posts would definitely breach the law of the host country, since Marushchinets wrote about how it was "an honor to be a fascist", how "the Jews declared war" on Hitler-ruled Germany, and how the Holocaust was a hoax. He even shared images from his 60th birthday, which featured a celebration cake fashioned to feature the Nazi leader's book 'Mein Kampf' as the centerpiece.
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French police fire TEAR GAS at pension reform protesters in Nantes


RT
Tue, 17 Dec 2019 17:21 UTC
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© REUTERS/Stephane Mahe 25
French police in Nantes have fired tear gas at protesters taking part in continuing demonstrations against President Emmanuel Macron's proposed pension reforms.

Unions have refused to back down in their opposition to the reforms, which were unveiled by Prime Minister Édouard Philippe last week. The crippling protests and workers' strikes have brought transport chaos to French cities since they kicked off on December 5.

Footage from Nantes, shared on social media, shows tear gas and water cannons being deployed against protesters, while some protesters managed to kick the gas canisters back towards riot cops.

On Monday, the French official overseeing the pension reform project resigned amid the ongoing disruption and in the wake of media reports that he had failed to disclose outside earnings while serving in Macron's cabinet.

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Ilhan Omar, AOC, Pelosi districts ranked 'worst sanctuary cities' by Immigration Reform Law Institute

John Binder
Breitbart
Tue, 24 Dec 2019 00:00 UTC
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© 1776 Again
Among the top ten worst sanctuary cities in the United States — that is, jurisdictions that shield criminal illegal aliens from arrest and deportation by federal immigration officials — Pelosi's home city of San Francisco, California, ranks as the most hostile to enforcement of national immigration law.

Before California became a sanctuary state, the San Francisco Sheriff's Department released more than 530 criminal illegal aliens back onto the streets, hundreds of which had allegedly committed violent crimes, according to IRLI analysis.

The most famous case involved the death of Kate Steinle, who was killed when five-time deported illegal alien Jose Inez Garcia-Zarate fired a gun and wounded her. Garcia-Zarate was found not guilty of murdering Steinle, meaning the jury believed the illegal alien accidentally shot the firearm and the bullet accidentally hit and killed Steinle. Most recently, Garcia-Zarate escaped the only guilty verdict, illegal gun possession, he faced.

Comment: A sticker-face to goad a civil war? America destroyed from within? The fox is taking residence in the hen house and repercussions are on the rise.

Wilcox's full interview:



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Chinese mines: At least 14 dead in latest disaster


BBC
Tue, 17 Dec 2019 10:51 UTC
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An explosion at a coal mine in south-west China has killed at least 14 people - the latest in a string of deadly mining accidents.

The local authorities said two people were still trapped underground at the mine in Guizhou province.

At least 37 people have died in five separate mining accidents in China since October.

The accidents are often due to poorly-enforced safety regulations.

The explosion at the Guanglong mine in Guizhou province happened in the early hours of Tuesday. Seven workers were lifted to safety.

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Protests and violence continue over Citizenship Amendment Act: Indian PM calls for calm


RT
Tue, 17 Dec 2019 00:10 UTC
Anti-CAA protestors in Delhi
© Reuters / Adnan Abidi
Demonstrators shout slogans during a protest against a new citizenship law, in New Delhi, India, December 15, 2019.
New Delhi police have released all those unfairly detained in a raid on Jamia Millia Islamia campus, where officers had rounded up a violent mob that had torched vehicles and pelted stones at a march over a new citizenship law.

An agitated crowd of protesters gathered outside a police station in the capital New Delhi on Sunday night, demanding that authorities immediately release students of the Muslim university, who had been detained earlier in the day. By roughly 3:30am local time, the crowd had gradually dispersed after police said they had released everyone who wasn't charged.


Comment: Modi has had great success in peacefully resolving complex problems, like the abrogation of Kashmir's special status and peacefully resolving the centuries-old Babri Masjid issue.

However, he appears to have been caught unprepared in the case of this Citizenship Amendment Act, which has triggered long-standing insecurities in India's northeastern states over the fear of immigrant Bengalis dominating the local culture and administration.

The Modi government was able to control the violence in Assam after a week of protests through a curfew, social media control and other measures.

But the protests have since spread to the neighboring state of West Bengal, where some railway stations were vandalized and burned by a mob.

West Bengal is due for assembly elections in 2021, along with the northeastern state of Assam. West Bengal's ruling party, Trinamool Congress (TMC), is locked in fierce battle with Modi's BJP over electoral fortunes in those coming assembly elections. As many as 150 lives were lost in West Bengal during the May 2019 Parliamentary elections.

Meanwhile, the protests have spread to several high-profile Muslim universities, like Jamia Milia Usmania in New Delhi. Delhi police and student leaders have blamed outsiders for the burning of buses there. The student protests have now spread to other campuses in solidarity with Jamia students.

India Today reports:
In Hyderabad's Maulana Azad Urdu University, students held a protest march post midnight in solidarity with the Jamia students and demanded that their exams be postponed.

There were angry demonstrations at the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) in Varanasi and at the Jadavpur University in Kolkata with demands that the government take action against police "hooliganism".

Students from the Mumbai University and the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) protested on the streets shouting slogans such as "Shame on Delhi Police".

Students at Central University of Kerala, Kasargod and Pondicherry University boycotted classes. Students from Patiala's Punjab University, Patna University and Chennai's Loyola College also joined in the protest that has created ripples in the country.
West Bengal's Chief Minister, Mamata Benejee, and opposition leaders have joined the protesters. The BJP has blamed the violence on the opposition parties. Modi has expressed distress over the protests in an effort to reassure citizens:


Identity politics and societal polarization is nothing new to India - it has been pervasive since India first won independence from Britain. Here is Indian analyst Shekhar Gupta with more in-depth information about this new citizenship law:




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Snakes in Suits

Scandal reopens? Court papers on Democrat IT aide Imran Awan make new revelation

Ryan Saavedra
DailyWire.com
Mon, 16 Dec 2019 23:55 UTC
Imran Awan Wasserman Schultz
© Reuters
Imran Awan, the former IT aide to congressional Democrats including Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz
The Department of Justice said this month that it could not release records on Democrat technology aide Imran Awan due to "technical difficulties," but later admitted in court documents that it could not release records on him because there is a secret ongoing case related to the matter.

"Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit Nov. 7, 2018, for 7,000 pages of Capitol Police records related to the cybersecurity investigation, and Aug. 2, the DOJ agreed to begin producing records by Nov. 5," Daily Caller News Foundation investigative reporter Luke Rosiak reported. "That deadline came and went with no records being produced; on a Nov. 13 phone call, the DOJ said 'technical difficulties' had resulted in a delay, Judicial Watch stated in a court filing."

In a newly released court filing, the Department of Justice wrote:
Pursuant to an Order issued by the Honorable Tanya S. Chutkan, who is presiding over a related sealed criminal matter the Government is prohibited from disclosing certain information pursuant to formal and informal information request in this matter. The Government advised Judge Chutkan of the instant FOIA matter and sought clarification from Judge Chutkan concerning the Government's permissible response in light of her Order in the sealed matter. Defendant received the clarification December 5, 2019, the date of this filing, that permitted Defendant to say the following: The Government is prohibited from disclosing any information pursuant to an Order issued by the Honorable Tanya S. Chutkan. ...

...The "difficulties" in providing responsive material was due to the unexpected and unique set of facts described above that was out of the control of the Defendant. Defendant's only motivation was to maintain the integrity of the sealed matter as much as possible, until the issuing Court provided guidance.
The DCNF noted that the DOJ had said it closed the investigation into Awan in 2018 in which Awan entered a plea deal where he pleaded guilty to one count of bank fraud.

Comment: Nice to see one of the sideshows to the Servergate/Russiagate/Spygate circus finally coming back into the spotlight. Awan's dealings with DNC, as well as his privileged position as an IT aide to many in Congress have the scent of espionage and blackmail around it. Wasserman Schultz certainly went out of her way in an attempt to recover his handiwork, even threatening the investigators:



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