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150kg of 'diamond' cocaine washes up on French beaches, locals urged against 'treasure hunting'


RT
Sun, 10 Nov 2019 09:55 UTC
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© Global Look Press / Bildverlag Bahnmüller
Beach and coast at Plage des Chênes Lièges, Département Landes, Atlantic Coast, Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region, France, Europe
Dozens of cocaine-containing packets labelled 'diamante' have washed ashore on beaches along France's Atlantic coastline, and more are likely to come, with police now warning residents against helping themselves.

Small one-pound packages wrapped in several layers of black plastic and cellophane have become a regular sight on the French Atlantic coast since late October. The 'bricks' sport 'diamante' or 'brilliante' labels, but while their contents are precious, they are not filled with gemstones - rather, with 80-90 percent pure cocaine, as several tests have shown.

The first package was discovered in Saint-Jean-de-Monts on October 18. Since then, things have escalated, with Le Parisien reporting Saturday, citing police sources, that new packages with the drug are now being discovered almost every hour.

In total, nearly 150kg (330 pounds) worth millions of dollars have been recovered on the beaches so far, including 36kg found scattered on a stretch of 10km in just one day, a find with an estimated street value of €3mn.
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TV viewer prompts host to check her thyroid over suspect lump and 'saves' her career


RT.com
Fri, 08 Nov 2019 07:19 UTC
Antoinette Lattouf

The journalist, Antoinette Lattouf, discovered that she had a huge cyst that needed urgent surgery after a viewer spotted a lump on her neck during a TV appearance and emailed the station
An Australian reporter is full of praise for a viewer whose message of concern prompted her to seek medical attention, after the journalist appeared on TV with what looked like a large lump protruding from her throat.

"Has Antoinette Lattouf had her thyroid checked? I am not being smart or trolling just concerned with what I saw on TV today," a viewer called Wendy McCoy wrote on Facebook to the 10 daily show.

Lattouf said she was initially taken aback when her editor passed on the message, particularly when it transpired McCoy isn't a doctor but was simply reminded of something a friend had suffered when she saw Lattouf on-screen. However, the journalist decided to err on the side of caution and watch back over the clip - and what she saw left her "shocked."
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Groupthink and Safe Spaces hinder the growth of consciousness.

Suzanne Venker
Washington Examiner
Mon, 04 Nov 2019 15:08 UTC
No Safe Spaces
© No Safe Spaces
"No Safe Spaces" exposes the madness of Groupthink.

In 2015, I was invited by a student-led organization at Williams College to speak on behalf of its "Uncomfortable Learning" program. I remember thinking at the time what a perfect fit it seemed. If there's one thing my work could be described as in the 21st century, it's "uncomfortable."

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Assange's father faces bitter truth that his son may die in jail for revealing the truth

James Gant
Daily Mail
Sat, 09 Nov 2019 15:04 UTC
Richard Assange

John Shipton: "Julian may die in jail over a nine-year persecution for revealing the truth of war crimes. It is beyond obscene."
The father of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has said he is worried his son will die in prison after nine years of 'persecution' for daring to reveal US 'war crimes'.

John Shipton told reporters in Geneva he visited his son in a British prison two days ago and needed to 'face the bitter truth' that he 'may die in jail'.

He said: 'This is not the bitter disappointment of a father, this is simply fact.'

Assange used WikiLeaks to publish classified military and diplomatic files in 2010 about US bombing campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq that proved embarrassing to the US government.

Since then, he has been entangled in a web of judicial proceeding and is currently fighting a US bid to extradite him from Britain on charges filed under the Espionage Act that could land him a sentence of up to 175 years in a US prison.

The 48-year-old whistleblower is being held at a top-security British prison, after police dragged him out of the Ecuadoran embassy in London in April.

He had been holed up in the embassy since 2012 to avoid an extradition order to Sweden - where he was wanted for questioning over accusations of sexual assault, which he has denied.

Mr Shipton said: 'Julian may die in jail over a nine-year persecution for revealing the truth of war crimes.

'It is beyond obscene.'

Comment: John Shipton has been warning the entire world about his son's dire condition since September: Is anyone listening?

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Bug

Paul Joseph Watson: I'm NOT eating bugs

Paul Joseph Watson
Sott.net
Sun, 10 Nov 2019 03:11 UTC
eating bugs
Is it true? Is there actually a push from certain quarters to make the eating of insects more palatable to Westerners? And if so, why?

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People

Women and children ordered 'like pizza' — Human trafficking in Orange County

Scott Ringwelski
The Epoch Times
Fri, 08 Nov 2019 13:54 UTC
trafficking
Orange County, Calif., which boasts a median household income of $86,000, is often viewed as a relatively safe, wealthy, and conservative region. Most people do not do not equate the area with human trafficking. However, researchers reveal the county to be a destination spot for traffickers.

The official Orange County Human Trafficking Task Force (OCHTTF), set up to fight real time sex and labor slavery in the county, released their latest victim report in 2019. Approximately 80 percent of both victims and traffickers in Orange County travel to the area from other parts of the region, the state, and the entire nation.

"This is due in part to Orange County's tourist attractions, sports venues, beach cities and affluent population," states the report (pdf). "Traffickers bring their victims expecting to have an abundance of customers and higher profits."

There were 415 human trafficking victims rescued in the county in the past two years, compared to 509 in 2015-2016 and 371 in 2013-2014. According to the OCHTTF report, a full 73 percent were new victims in 2017 or 2018. Of that total, 87 percent were trafficked in the sex trade while 12 percent were in forced labor.
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'Hey Boston! Thanks for the guns!' Guerrilla bus station ads oppose U.S. aid to Israel


Mondoweiss
Sat, 09 Nov 2019 19:28 UTC
BDS Palestine protest posters bus stops Boston
© Palestine Advocacy Project
Ad placed in Boston bus kiosk, by group calling itself Center for Accurate Reporting on Palestine.
Yesterday a Palestinian solidarity group in Boston posted photographs of ads opposing US military aid to Israel that were put up in Boston bus kiosks. Richard Colbath-Hess, who has placed Palestinian solidarity ads in Boston in the past, says that the group doing this action is anonymous because such ads are banned, and these ads were placed in kiosks in guerrilla manner, swapped out for existing ads. "The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority took down our ads twice over about a year," he says of his own efforts. "The first time we got the ACLU to get the ad back up then they banned political ads entirely. The governor got involved. Most subways in the country have followed suit."

Colbath-Hess is in touch with the organizers of the latest ad, and he sent along this press release from a group calling itself the "Center for Accurate Reporting on Palestine." -Editor.

This week, members of the Center for Accurate Reporting on Palestine opened many bus station kiosks in and around Boston, Massachusetts, and replaced advertisements for commercial products with posters explaining that the good people of Boston lose out on social programming, education, and clean energy because $11 million of this city's taxes go towards buying guns for Israel every single year.
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Question

Ayodhya dilemma: Historic verdict that could redefine Hindu, Muslim relations in India - UPDATE: Court rules in favor of Rama temple

Ashish Shukla
RT
Fri, 08 Nov 2019 00:00 UTC
Muslims pray in Ayodhya
© REUTERS/Amit Dave
Muslims pray for peace ahead of verdict on a disputed religious site in Ayodhya
India will be on edge for days after the country's Supreme Court announces its verdict on Ayodhya temple, which could lead to a violent backlash between contesting Hindus and Muslims.

India's Supreme Court would make a call if over a billion Hindus could have a temple for Lord Rama over lands in Ayodhya. It's disputed by millions of Muslims. Though the dispute has lasted for over a century, it turned combustible in 1992 when a clutch of Hindus brought down a mosque, Babri Masjid, they believed was built in the 16th century over the site where Lord Rama was born.

India witnessed its worst communal riots in the wake of that incident, which left over 2,000 people killed.

So high ran the emotions on either side that when a lower court equally divided the land among the Hindu and Muslim litigants in 2010, they promptly went to the apex Supreme Court claiming complete, and not partial, control over the land.

Comment: Update 9 Nov 2019

India's Supreme Court has ruled in favor of a Hindu temple being built on the site, with Muslims granted a nearby alternative site on which to rebuild their mosque. No surprise there.

Calling for nationwide unity and civility, Modi today noted that this ruling on a centuries-old religious fracture point and the opening of the 'Kartarpur Corridor' come on the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989.

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Pistol

Mexican police officer who arrested drug lord El Chapo's son is shot 150 TIMES in brutal broad daylight revenge execution

Ariel Zilber
Daily Mail
Fri, 08 Nov 2019 15:27 UTC
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At least two men armed with semiautomatic rifles fired 155 bullets into a white Nissan parked near a shopping center in the Sinaloa city of Culiacan
The Mexican police officer involved in the arrest of the son of reputed drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman has been assassinated in a parking lot.

Closed circuit television cameras captured the horrifying moment on Wednesday morning when at least two armed men with semiautomatic rifles climbed out of a red car and opened fire at a white Nissan four-door sedan.

The ambush took less than 30 seconds as the gunmen fired at least 150 bullets into the white vehicle.

The red car had followed the white car into the parking lot of a shopping center in Culiacán, the capital of Sinaloa state, Infobae.com reported.

The authorities identified the dead officer as Eduardo 'N,' 32.

Comment: See also: Mexican security forces flee after cartel gunmen launch WAR to release El Chapo's son at drug lord's bastion Culiacan

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Fire

University in Santiago on fire as anti-government rage continues in Chile


RT
Sat, 09 Nov 2019 09:07 UTC
University fire
© Flames rise over a private university in the latest mass protest against Chile's President Pinera AFP/Martin Bernetti
Flames rise over a private university in the latest mass protest against Chile's President Pinera.
A university in central Santiago was damaged by fire on Friday as thousands of protesters gathered nearby for their latest demonstration against the austerity policies of Chilean President Sebastian Pinera.

As the protest at Plaza Italia in the capital of Chile was underway, a blaze broke out at the nearby Pedro de Valdivia University. Nineteen crews of firefighters were dispatched to deal with the conflagration. Three people were reported arrested, with police saying they were responsible for the fire and were caught looting the place.


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