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Pedophile doctor Larry Nassar seeks re-sentencing and wants judge disqualified


RT
Wed, 25 Jul 2018 18:06 UTC
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© Rebecca Cook / Reuters
Attorneys for disgraced former US Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar are seeking re-sentencing over sexual assault charges and want the judge in the first of the major molestation cases he faced to be disqualified.

Nassar is serving a 60-year federal sentence for possession child pornography and has also been handed a jail term of up to 175 years for molesting young athletes - which he will serve if he survives the federal sentence.

He filed two motions on Tuesday through his attorneys with Ingham County Circuit Court, where he was sentenced by Judge Rosemarie Aquilina back in January after testimony from more than 150 women.

One of the motions filed on behalf of Nassar seeks a re-sentencing to change what is claimed to be an invalid sentence, according to the Lansing State Journal.

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Bad Guys

Federal prosecutors want to classify evidence against 'Russian agent' Maria Butina


RT
Wed, 25 Jul 2018 17:23 UTC
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US federal prosecutors want to seal evidence in their case against Maria Butina, the Russian national who has been charged with conspiracy against the United States and failure to register as a foreign agent.

During a hearing at the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Wednesday, prosecutors said they wanted the protective order because they were worried about Butina's lawyers potentially leaking material to the media. They argued that the protective order would "facilitate the protection of the investigation."

Prosecutors said they had up to 12 terabytes of data to be provided on the case, with "four to six" terabytes - about 1.5 million files - ready to hand over to the defense "as soon as possible". The remaining four to six terabytes would be ready "in about two weeks," they said.

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Attention

Viva la resistance! Stormy Daniels' husband files for divorce and restraining order

Nate Church
Breirtbart
Tue, 24 Jul 2018 03:30 UTC
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© The Associated Press
Stormy Daniels' husband and fellow adult film star Glendon Crain has filed for divorce in Texas, as well as a restraining order.

Crain's filing said that his marriage to the controversial pornographic actress "has become insupportable because of discord or conflict of personalities" and claimed that Daniels was putting his daughter "in imminent threat of serious and immediate physical or emotional harm" by taking her along on her nationwide strip club tour.

Daniels' lawyer Michael Avenatti said that the accuracy of the divorce claim is "vehemently disputed" and that Daniels' daughter "remains her number one priority." He also said that she "kindly asks for privacy" during the process "for the sake of her family."

For her part, Daniels responded a little differently: "I don't need or want privacy," she tweeted soon after Avenatti. "I want truth. And it will come out. I'm not afraid."

Crain has requested child support from Daniels and the sharing of their property assets. While the restraining order is in effect, Daniels' unsupervised access to their daughter will be restricted. Daniels is currently touring America's strip clubs.
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Snowflake

Fruitcake Maxine Waters claims she is on a mission from God to bring down Trump


RT
Wed, 25 Jul 2018 17:05 UTC
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© Lucy Nicholson / Reuters
California Democrat Maxine Waters claims she's on a mission from God against President Donald Trump, telling congregants at a Los Angeles megachurch: "When God sends you to do something, you just do it!"

"We never dreamed we'd have someone in the White House who was divisive, who could not tell the truth, and who was intent on not making America great again, but taking America down," she told the cheering congregation on Sunday.

After unloading on Trump for his alleged plans to lift US sanctions on Russia, Waters claimed that God sent her on her political mission against the president.

"I'm going back to Washington tomorrow morning, I'm going to tell them pastor told me to come here and just do it!" she said.
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Red Flag

Study finds correlation between temperature spikes and suicide rates


RT
Wed, 25 Jul 2018 16:52 UTC
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© Mike Hutchings / Reuters
A new study has drawn a link between hotter-than-average weather and a rise in suicide rates. Experts believe the findings are particularly alarming, as climate change threatens even more extreme weather events in the future.

The study, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, looked at rates of suicide across the US and Mexico over several decades and found that a temperature spike of just one degree Celsius led to as much as a two percent increase in suicides in some places. The findings are said to be the same whether the region had a hot or cold climate.

"Climate change in terms of suicide is not going to generate winners and losers, it's just going to generate losers," author Marshall Burke, a professor of Earth system science at Stanford, told Stanford News. "Everyone, as far as we can tell - no matter whether you live in a cold place or live in a hot place - everyone is going to be harmed in terms of suicide risk when we increase the temperature."
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Gold Coins

Detoxing from the dollar: Russian gold reserves nearing 2,000 tons, approaching record Soviet-era levels


RT
Wed, 25 Jul 2018 16:44 UTC
gold
© Ilya Naymushin / Reuters
Russia's gold holdings are approaching the Soviet era record after the central bank added another 106 tons of bullion in the first half of the year. It's part of a plan to diversify national reserves away from the US dollar.

The entire gold reserve of the Russian Federation is nearing 2,000 tons with the share of the precious metal in the country's foreign-exchange portfolio reaching a record 18 percent in June. At the same time, the Central Bank of Russia (CBR) launched a massive sell-off of US Treasury bonds, having dumped nearly all of the country's holdings.

The latest data from the US Treasury showed that Russia reduced its holdings from $96.1 billion in March to just $14.9 billion in May, having dropped out of the list of the 33 largest foreign holders of US sovereign bonds. The decrease reportedly occurred after the financial, economic, and geopolitical assessment by the CBR. The step helps Russia to diversify its reserves, according to the head of the regulator Elvira Nabiullina.

The current gold holdings of 2,000 tons are approaching the Soviet maximum of 2,800 tons reached in 1941. At the moment, Russia's gold and foreign currency holdings total $460 billion with the central bank aiming to increase that figure to $500 billion. Over the last decade, the share of gold in reserves has soared tenfold.

The precious metal has historically proved itself as an effective hedge against financial shocks and fiscal meltdowns. According to mining and financial experts, the world could run out of mineable gold in the next two decades. If this happens, the prices for bullion could soar to $3,000 per ounce or higher.
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Biohazard

Charlie Rowley describes finding novichok perfume bottle, contaminating himself in first interview after recovery


ITV News
Tue, 24 Jul 2018 16:22 UTC
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© ITV News
Charlie Rowley
Novichok poisoning victim Charlie Rowley has revealed a sealed box of perfume which he found and later gave to his girlfriend contained a deadly nerve agent which killed her.

In an exclusive interview with ITV News, the 45-year-old explained how his partner Dawn Sturgess fell ill moments after spraying the liquid on her wrists.

He said: "Within 15 minutes, I believe Dawn said she felt she had a headache and asked me if I had any headache tablets. I had a look around the flat and within that time she said she felt peculiar and needed to lie down in the bath, which at the time I thought was a bit strange.

"I went into the bathroom and found her in the bath, fully clothed, in a very ill state."

Mr Rowley later fell critically ill himself. Dawn died eight days later.

Comment: Assuming Rowley is telling the truth as much as he is able to do so, how this fits into the official narrative of the Salisbury attacks is not at all clear. A "sealed" bottle? Maybe Rowley wasn't clear and the bottle wasn't fully sealed, just still in the previously opened cellophane. Because if this was the same novichok used on the Skripals - as the British authorities are claiming - how could it still be sealed? Was it another, 'back-up' bottle? Was it planted after the fact, in which case it was not connected to the Skripal poisoning?

The novichok was first used in gel form, according to authorities. Now it's liquid? Did the assassins use the perfume bottle to spray gel-turned-into-liquid novichok on Skripal's door handle? See: Evil Russian Novichok: The odorless nerve agent that just so happens to also stink to high heaven

As for Rowley's statements, on the one hand he says he could've sworn it was perfume; on the other he says that it was oily and didn't smell like perfume. It's also odd that he remembers "finding" the bottle, but not where, only that it probably wasn't in the park, as has been reported by other news outlets. Whatever the truth of the whole story, it still doesn't add any clarity to the Skripal poisonings...

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Heart - Black

Alleged rapist yelled out 'grab her by the p***y' before assaulting woman


RT
Wed, 25 Jul 2018 16:34 UTC
Lincoln Crown Court
© Google Maps
Lincoln Crown Court
A University of Lincoln student allegedly raped two women and quoted US President Donald Trump's infamous "grab her by the p***y" comment before assaulting one of them, a court heard. The complainant said he thought it "funny."

Hugo Penfold, 21, who denies both counts of rape, was said to have made the comment to one of the complainants before grabbing her crotch on top of her clothes.

The woman, a fellow student of Penfolds who was 18 at the time, claims she was raped at her flat in March 2017. She told Lincoln Crown Court the defendant, of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, had used Trump's words before he "grabbed my vagina. He touched me on the outside of my clothes.
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Crusader

UK politicians back renewing medieval treason law so terrorists can be punished more severely


RT
Wed, 25 Jul 2018 16:21 UTC
Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheik
© Reuters
Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheik
A 14th century treason law should be renewed to allow so that terrorists could face life behind bars, a report by a right-leaning think tank claims. It was backed by MPs and a former counter-terrorism chief.

The report by Policy Exchange was authored by cross-party MPs including Conservative MP Tom Tugendhat. It comes amid furore over the Home Secretary's refusal to seek 'assurances from the US that two ex-British citizens who are alleged to have fought with Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) will not be executed if tried under their jurisdiction.

In a leaked letter, Home Secretary Sajid Javid told US Attorney General Jeff Sessions that the US "currently has additional charges for terrorism offences which are not available under UK criminal law, and those offences carry long sentences."

The report, however, argues UK law would be sufficient should the 1351 Treason Act be implemented, the centuries old legislation contains offence which "marked out treasonous acts" and allowed the courts to impose "justifiably severe punishment".
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Bomb

ISIS launches suicide bombings in SW Syria, kills 90+, in lead-up to final battle with Syrian Army


RT
Wed, 25 Jul 2018 16:16 UTC
Sweida
© Sana/Handout via REUTERS
Damages after a suicide bomb attack are seen in Sweida, Syria July 25, 2018.
More than 90 people were killed and 80 injured in a string of attacks, including suicide bombings, that hit southwestern Syria on Wednesday, a local health official told AP.

A suicide bomber blew himself up in the market area in the city of Sweida, Sana state news agency said. Law enforcement reportedly killed two more suicide attackers before they could blow themselves up. The villages of al-Matouneh, Douma, Tima, al-Shabaki, and Rami to the northeast of Sweida were struck by simultaneous attacks.

The bombings and subsequent fighting between pro-government forces and militants claimed the lives of over 90 people and injured 80 more, according to local health official Hassan Omar. It remains unclear whether the figures include casualties among the attackers.

Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) has claimed responsibility for the carnage. Syrian army units allegedly confronted the fighters and killed a large number of terrorists, according to the state media.

Condemning the attack, the Russian Foreign Ministry said the terrorists "desperately resort to mass violence against civilians,"as they feel "the inevitability of their defeat."

Comment: The last ISIS pocket in southwestern Syria is no surrounded by the Syrian Army. With only the Israelis to their rear (who are unlikely to offer much support this late in the game), they know their fate. None will survive. And since there is no reconciliation offer on the table, they will go down fighting. But once they're all dead, the Syrian Army will move on to Idlib.

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