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Grand Theft Auto no longer a game, as Russian MP proposes stricter penalties

RT
Mon, 26 Mar 2018 14:14 UTC

A Russian lawmaker has proposed the abolition of grand theft auto as a separate criminal offence, saying that it maintains a legal loophole that allows offenders to avoid severe penalties.

The proposal has been drafted by MP Oleg Nilov (Fair Russia) and seeks to address a longstanding legislative controversy, which imposes a lighter punishment on motor-vehicle theft than the theft of any other property.

The maximum punishment for vehicle theft is a five-year prison sentence, while the theft of other property worth more than 1 million rubles (as most cars worth stealing are) carries a maximum sentence of 10 years.

Yorkshire Ripper needs assistance to get around jail after botched op leaves him blind

RT
Mon, 26 Mar 2018 12:18 UTC

The Yorkshire Ripper is now completely blind after an operation to restore his eyesight went drastically wrong. The murderer, real name Peter Sutcliffe, now requires assistance getting around jail.

The 71-year-old, who is serving 20 life sentences for murdering 13 women and attempting to kill another seven, has been left in need of a white cane for assistance after an injection which was supposed to improve the sight in his right eye ended up blinding him completely. Sutcliffe had already lost the sight in his left eye in 1997, due to an altercation with a fellow inmate.

The Ripper told a friend: "They have f***** up my eyesight. They bodged it and I can't see at all. I can't watch the TV or read letters and emails. I made a cuppa but missed the cup with the milk - it's awful," the Sun reports. A "buddy" is now supposedly pushing the serial killer's wheelchair around Frankland Prison, County Durham.

Mother accused of injecting children with meth, letting men sexually assault them

WGN 9
Thu, 22 Mar 2018 13:31 UTC

A Wisconsin mother allegedly let men abuse two young children for years in exchange for drugs and money, according to WEAU.

Michelle Mayer, 39, of Eau Claire, has been charged with two counts of repeated sexual assault of a child, party to a crime.

The abuse apparently started years ago when Mayer allowed different men into her mother's house, according to WTMJ. The men allegedly gave Mayer meth, cocaine and money, and, in return, she allowed them to sexually and physically assault two children she was trafficking, ages 6 and 9, according to a criminal complaint.

West ignores Serbia's commemoration of NATO bombing victims

RT
Mon, 26 Mar 2018 12:29 UTC

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Serb civilians and reporters walk around a residential area damaged during a NATO attack on a neighboring army compound (300 kilometers south of Belgrade), Wednesday, April 28, 1999.

Thousands of Serbs honored the victims of the 1999 NATO bombings with a commemoration on Saturday, attended by Serbian president and many officials, including the Russian envoy, but with a glaring absence of Western diplomats.

The main commemorative event, held under the slogan "We will forgive, if we can, we will not forget while alive," took place in the Southern town of Aleksinac which suffered heavily in the 1999 US-led NATO campaign.

Darkness and silence fell over the entire city center as the ceremony, attended by President Aleksandar Vucic and his cabinet ministers, opened with deafening sounds of air alarm sirens. At least 3,000 people gathered in front of the stage and the ruins of a building destroyed in NATO bombing, according to Sputnik's correspondent.

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1 killed, several injured after Houthi rebels fire 7 missiles into Saudi Arabia

RT
Mon, 26 Mar 2018 12:29 UTC

At least seven missiles have been fired from Yemen into Saudi Arabia and, despite air defences engaging and intercepting some of the projectiles, one person was killed and two more injured in Riyadh, state media report.

One Egyptian national has been killed and two other Egyptians injured by "falling debris" inside their residence in the Saudi capital, the state news agency SPA reported, citing coalition spokesman Colonel Turki al-Malki.

Several witnesses, including Reuters journalists, reported hearing several loud booms and bright flashes in the sky shortly before midnight in the Saudi capital. As-yet unverified footage, which has emerged online, shows an alleged mid-air explosion of the interceptor from several angles.

Comment: Al Jazeera reports from the Houthi side:

Earlier on Sunday, Abdul Malik al-Houthi, the leader of Yemen's Houthi rebels, vowed to "use long-range weaponry" and "recruit more fighters" in the conflict with his northern neighbour.

"In the fourth year of the war, we will use more developed and more diverse missile systems which will overcome all American and non-American air defence systems to target Saudi Arabia," al-Houthi said in a lengthy televised speech.

"We'll use our Badr [short-range ballistic missiles] and Burkan missiles, long-range drones which have excellent military capabilities. We will activate military institutions in an unprecedented way and open up more opportunities to recruit the children and men of our people to fight."

The Nazi pug and online hate speech

Matthew Mott
Quillette
Mon, 26 Mar 2018 10:46 UTC

In 1941, the German embassy in Helsinki interrogated a Finnish man accused of training his dog to raise its paw in response to the word "Hitler." This act was considered disrespectful to the Third Reich but, fortunately for him, no witnesses were prepared to come forward and the prosecution was dropped. A Scottish court has now succeeded where the Nazis - on this count, anyway - failed, and convicted a man over a Hitler-saluting dog. Markus Meechan, aka "Count Dankula," is the self described "internet comedian and shitposter" recently convicted under the Communications Act for publishing a short video of his girlfriend's pug to lifting its paw in response to the command "Sieg Heil!" Meechan uploaded the clip (now disabled) to YouTube in April 2016 under the category "Comedy." He explained:

Comment: Scottish comedian who made hilarious video of pet pug giving Nazi salutes convicted of 'hate crime' (UPDATE)

Lab mistakenly breeds 180,000 mice, conducts unauthorised experiments

RT
Mon, 26 Mar 2018 10:33 UTC

A British laboratory has bred almost 180,000 mice by mistake. It also performed unauthorised experiments on the creatures, according to a Home Office report, which highlights dozens of shocking non-compliance cases in UK labs.

The unidentified animal testing facility bred a surplus of 179,546 mice more than its permitted quota of 127,600, and carried out experiments without approval from the Animals in Science Regulation Unit (ASRU).

According to the annual government report, the overuse of mice at the laboratory first occurred in 2014 but was not discovered until January 2016. Scientists claimed that the error was a result of mice being recorded on different databases.

53 dead, dozens of children missing after tragic mall blaze in Kemerovo, Russia - conflicting reports

RT
Mon, 26 Mar 2018 08:35 UTC

Massive fire in a trade center in Russian city of Kemerovo

As rescuers continue to search the burned-out shopping mall in the city of Kemerovo, many have been frantically trying to reach their relatives, including children who were in the mall's cinema or play area when the fire started.

The death toll of the deadly blaze in Kemerovo shopping mall has risen to 53 people, Russia's Investigative committee said.

"Five more bodies have been recovered from the movie theater. The overall death toll now stands at 53 people," a crisis center representative told Russia's Tass news agency.

At least eleven children are reportedly among the victims.

Zuckerberg scrambling to calm panicky Facebook staff

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Sat, 24 Mar 2018 22:01 UTC

Following a horrendous week of damage control through a choreographed game of MSM softball, Mark Zuckerberg is now trying to calm down Facebook employees in the wake of a massive data harvesting scandal.

A March 18 exposé by The Guardian detailing how 28-year-old programmer Christopher Wylie "made Steve Bannon's psychological warfare tool" missed its intended Trump-linked target and landed squarely on Facebook's doorstep, after revelations that Facebook's Orwellian data collection combined with sloppy oversight of what apps and their creators do with your data has resulted in disturbing violations of privacy.

What's more - Facebook was helping the Obama Campaign target voters using harvested data, similar to what Cambridge Analytica was doing. Obama's former campaign director admitted over Twitter that Facebook not only knew of the campaign's data harvesting to "suck out the whole social graph," but that they "didn't stop us once they realized that was what we were doing."

Comment: What can be said? Edward Snowden and Julian Assange have been warning of this for years.

Tolerance cuts both ways: Freedom of speech means freedom for people to say the things we hate to hear

John W. Whitehead
The Rutherford Institute
Tue, 20 Mar 2018 00:00 UTC

"Those who created this country chose freedom. With all of its dangers. And do you know the riskiest part of that choice they made? They actually believed that we could be trusted to make up our own minds in the whirl of differing ideas. That we could be trusted to remain free, even when there were very, very seductive voices - taking advantage of our freedom of speech - who were trying to turn this country into the kind of place where the government could tell you what you can and cannot do." - Nat Hentoff

Tolerance cuts both ways.

This isn't an easy pill to swallow, I know, but that's the way free speech works, especially when it comes to tolerating speech that we hate.

The most controversial issues of our day -gay rights, abortion, race, religion, sexuality, political correctness, police brutality, et al. - have become battlegrounds for those who claim to believe in freedom of speech but only when it favors the views and positions they support.

"Free speech for me but not for thee" is how my good friend and free speech purist Nat Hentoff used to sum up this double standard.

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Society's Child

Grand Theft Auto no longer a game, as Russian MP proposes stricter penalties

Yorkshire Ripper needs assistance to get around jail after botched op leaves him blind

Mother accused of injecting children with meth, letting men sexually assault them

West ignores Serbia's commemoration of NATO bombing victims

1 killed, several injured after Houthi rebels fire 7 missiles into Saudi Arabia

The Nazi pug and online hate speech

Lab mistakenly breeds 180,000 mice, conducts unauthorised experiments

53 dead, dozens of children missing after tragic mall blaze in Kemerovo, Russia - conflicting reports

Zuckerberg scrambling to calm panicky Facebook staff

Tolerance cuts both ways: Freedom of speech means freedom for people to say the things we hate to hear

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