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Oscar

Actor Gary Oldman offers over-the-top apology after saying Hollywood 'run by Jews'

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© Getty ImagesGary Oldman: speaks the truth about Jews in Hollywood; apologizes to ADL; includes fact that Jews run Hollywood in his apology.
This reads like French farce. Gary Oldman gave an interview to Playboy in which he said that Mel Gibson was the victim of political correctness, because Jews "run" Hollywood - that story was reported yesterday - and as day follows night, today the British actor has reportedly offered an apology to the Anti Defamation League that praises Jews as the "chosen people," who are persecuted throughout the ages, who are first to hear the word of god, and...

First, the Telegraph reports on the Playboy interview:
Oldman said: "Mel Gibson is in a town that's run by Jews and he said the wrong thing because he's actually bitten the hand that I guess has fed him - and doesn't need to feed him anymore because he's got enough dough.

"He's like an outcast, a leper, you know?

"But some Jewish guy in his office somewhere hasn't turned and said, "That f***ing kraut" or "F*** those Germans," whatever it is? We all hide and try to be so politically correct. That's what gets me.'

Comment: Oldman is clever. Unless he was coerced into writing the apology, it looks like a subtle way of reinforcing the points he made in the Playboy interview. Yes, the "Jews own Hollywood" (see: Who runs Hollywood? C'mon), and yes, celebrities and people of influence are held to a ridiculous double standard of fawning at the feet of organizations like the ADL with obsequious apologies.


Ambulance

Florida man killed in gruesome wood chipper accident

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A policeman said he had "never seen anything like this" in 20 years of service

A man was killed by a wood chipper in the US state of Florida on Monday afternoon, in an incident which has left police officers unable to officially identify the man's body.

The deceased man and his two fellow tree service workers had been clearing debris at around 4:15pm in Davie, Broward County, when he went through the machine, Captain Dale Engle of Davie police told reporters.

Hours later at around 7:30pm, police officers were still struggling to find and identify the man's remains.

Police said on Tuesday that the death was caused by a "workplace accident," CBS News reported.

"I've been in police work 20 years. I've never seen anything like this," said Captain Dale Engle of Davie police told the broadcaster. "It was a gruesome scene."

Heart - Black

Woman caught on camera violently beating mother as toddler pleads for her to stop and onlookers stand by doing nothing

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McDonald's worker Latia Harris is accused of beating a woman.
A fast-food worker in full uniform viciously attacked a young mother in front of the victim's young son and the entire attack was caught on tape. The attack happened Tuesday in the city of Salem, New Jersey and video of the assault was later posted on Facebook.

The suspect has been identified by the Salem City Police Department as 25-year-old Latia Harris. When apprehended, Salem City Police Chief John Pelura, III says Harris faces charges of aggravated assault and two counts of terroristic threats.

In the video, a woman wearing a McDonald's uniform is shown attacking another woman. The victim falls to the ground and while on the ground, the suspect punches the victim approximately 20 times.

As the attack is going on, the victim's toddler son is seen pleading for the suspect to stop and tries to kick the suspect in an attempt to make her stop.


Card - VISA

Visa to continue servicing international payments by building its own center in Russia

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Visa has decided to build its own processing center in Russia within 2 years as the international payment systems look for a solution to stay operational in the country.

The other big international player in Russia's payment systems market - MasterCard - chose to look for a Russian partner to provide interbank processing and has already announced a tender for Russian companies

After Visa and MasterCard suspended servicing cards issued by a number of Russian banks due to US sanctions, Russia required foreign systems to pay a quarterly security deposit of 25 percent of their daily turnover.

The international credit card firms have complained the deposit would hit their businesses, with Visa even threatening to leave the Russian market.

Comment: Not surprising, as in spite of sanctions targeting Russia, corporations have no intention of losing a very lucrative business:

Following Western sanctions, Putin eyes Russian credit card system to replace Visa and Mastercard
U.S. sanctions against Russia undermine America's global domination


Arrow Down

Argentina's economy headed for default after US Supreme Court rules in favor of vulture funds

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Argentina's economy is on a collision course, and is headed for default following a US Supreme Court ruling that could send creditors demanding bond payments, Economic Minister Axel Kicillof warned UN diplomats.

By June 30, the country needs to pay out creditors for billions of dollars of bonds that were issued before its $95 billion default in 2001.

"Whichever way you look at it this ruling is forcing Argentina towards the risk of economic crisis," Reuters quotes Kicillof talking at the UN headquarters in New York on Wednesday.

"... this is going to push us into a technical default," he added.

Argentina is asking for more time to negotiate a solution with the creditors that Kicilloff refers to as "vulture funds". Argentina must pay $1.33 billion to NML Capital, a hedge fund and subsidiary of Elliot Capital Management.

The country only has $28.5 billion in foreign currency reserves, and will not be able to meet the enormous demand. If they don't pay, the US can revoke its privilege to pay bond holders through Argentina's bank in the United States, the Bank of New York Mellon. Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has called this 'extortion'.

Comment: The US support for vulture capitalism is likely behind this decision. Argentina is moving closer to an alliance with the BRICS nations, thus the US intends to push Argentina closer to financial ruin.

Argentina risk sovereign default as US courts support vulture capitalist
Down by Law: Vulture Funds Feeding on the Dispossessed


Cult

Egyptian man who 'liked' Knights on the Cross Facebook page sentenced to 6 years in prison

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An Egyptian man was convicted and sentenced Tuesday to six years in prison along with a fine of $840 dollars for violating Egypt's blasphemy laws, which make illegal any criticism of the Islamic religion.

The International Christian Concern (ICC) reported that Kerolos Shawky, a Christian man living in southern Egypt, was initially accused of violating the Islamic blasphemy laws in article 98 of the Egyptian penal code, which prohibits "ridiculing or insulting heavenly religions or inciting sectarian strife", but as the ICC notes, the law is almost always used to go after religious minorities.

Kerolos' lawyer said, "Kerolos didn't intend to insult the Islamic religion, only he made a like on the page of Knights of the Cross on Facebook. He doesn't have much experience in the internet plus he suffers from poor eyesight. So there was not any intention for the contempt or blasphemy of Islam."

Light Saber

Bullies force Russian girl to drink puddle water - entire school turns against them

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Vlada Kholod, 13, was forced to drink filthy water from a puddle - but her tormentors did not expect the response they got from her classmates

Bullies forced a pretty schoolgirl to drink filthy water from a puddle - because of her good looks. But brave Vlada Kholod, 13, had the last laugh on her tormentors when the entire school turned against them. The gang which abused her ended up humiliated and forced to apologise to their victim. The incident happened at a school in the town of Korkino in Russia's Ural Mountains' when a group of bullying girls became jealous of Vlada's good looks.

They held a kangaroo court, claiming she had said something bad about their parents. Olga Guseva, 16, Lyubov Goloborodko, 14, Sasha Rattsova, 15 and Ekatirina Streltsova, 15 - held a mock "trial" for their victim and made her drink dirty water from a puddle whilst being filmed by two boys. She was beaten as she resisted.

Ambulance

Mother arrested for refusing to hospitalize dehydrated infant because of her staunch veganism

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Sarah Anne Markham arrested on charge of child neglect

A Casselberry mother was arrested on allegations of refusing to take her newborn, diagnosed by a doctor as dehydrated, to a hospital because of her staunch vegan stance.

Sarah Anne Markham was arrested Tuesday on a charge of child neglect.

According to Casselberry police, a pediatrician told Markham that her baby needed to be admitted to Florida Hospital South for treatment because the child was dehydrated and was losing weight.

Markham, however, went home and would not answer when officers knocked at her door.

Police used a locksmith to enter the apartment and interviewed Markham, who said she wanted to get a second opinion about her child, according to a police report.

Comment: It is unfortunate that veganism and vegetarianism have been promoted endlessly in the media as being healthy. Vegan diets, in particular, are almost completely devoid of certain nutrients that are crucial for physiological function. Several studies have shown that both vegetarians and vegans are prone to deficiencies in B12, calcium, iron, zinc, the long-chain fatty acids EPA & DHA, and fat-soluble vitamins like A & D. Children are particularly vulnerable to these diets due to the effects of B12 deficiency. Studies have shown that kids raised until age 6 on a vegan diet are still B12 deficient years after adding at least some animal products to their diet. Researchers have found a significant association between B12 status and performance on tests measuring fluid intelligence, spatial ability and short-term memory with formerly vegan kids scoring lower than omnivorous kids in each case.

The deficit in fluid intelligence is particularly troubling, because it involves reasoning, the capacity to solve complex problems, abstract thinking ability and the ability to learn. Any defect in this area may have far-reaching consequences for individual functioning. A common myth amongst vegetarians and vegans is that it's possible to get B12 from plant sources. But plant foods said to contain B12 actually contain B12 analogs called cobamides that block the intake of, and increase the need for, true B12.

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Clock

Potential for social unrest rises as more Americans go into debt for food and gas

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Nowhere has the unequal nature of the post-banking-crisis recovery raised more concerns for the long-term sustainability of the U.S. economy than in the clear rise of non-discretionary consumer credit.

While the "haves" have fully returned to their pre-crisis behavior of paying for everything from higher education, cars and luxury homes with cash, and fully leveraging their investment portfolios, the rest of the consumer sector has changed dramatically over the past six years.

Upper-middle class "aspirational wealthy" families who were overexposed to the housing bubble continue to see debt of all kinds as a negative. Rather than using lower interest rates to purchase larger homes, if not vacation homes, they have instead opted to convert their 30-year mortgages to 10- and 15-year loans with essentially equal monthly payments terms. Lower interest rates have translated into faster loan amortization rather than economic growth. Well into the recovery, the focus of the upper-middle class remains on less, rather than more, credit, and - thanks to demographics - less, rather than more, home, too.

Comment: "The cashless society is already here. The question now is how far will society allow it to penetrate and completely control each and every aspect of their day to day lives."

The cashless society is almost here - and with some very sinister implications



Stock Down

U.S. labor statistics compare how 820 jobs pay in one massive chart

Wondering how your earnings stack up against everyone else in the 820 different professional categories tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics?

Using BLS data, Reddit user Dan Ling compiled the chart you've been waiting for.

Medical professionals, denoted in hot pink, dominate the upper reaches of the chart, with the top-earning anesthesiologists raking in average annual wages of $235,100.

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Comment: Unemployment soars worldwide, with youth the most vulnerable