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'Sometimes all you need is empathy to make a difference!': Dying woman granted final wish by compassionate paramedic


RT
Thu, 23 Nov 2017 14:59 UTC
Dying woman's wish comes true
© Queensland Ambulance Service / Facebook
A dying Australian woman was granted her final wish, when paramedics transporting her to palliative care took a detour, so she could look at the ocean one last time.

The patient's story was posted to Facebook by the Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS) who said the tale was "too good not to share." The post, which has been shared more than 13,000 times, was accompanied by a picture of paramedic Graeme Cooper holding the woman's gurney on a patch of rough ground as they both looked out to sea.

"A crew was transporting a patient to the palliative care unit of the local hospital and the patient expressed that she just wished she could be at the beach again," the post read.

"Above and beyond, the crew took a small diversion to the awesome beach at Hervey Bay to give the patient this opportunity - tears were shed and the patient felt very happy. Sometimes it is not the drugs/training/skills - sometimes all you need is empathy to make a difference!"
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Slain Baltimore detective was set to testify at trial of corrupt cops

Justin Fenton
Baltimore Sun
Wed, 22 Nov 2017 16:32 UTC
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Slain Baltimore homicide Detective Sean Suiter was scheduled to testify before a federal grand jury in the case against a squad of indicted officers on the day after he was shot, Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis said Wednesday evening.

The revelation brings together two cases that have sent shock waves through the Police Department and the city as a whole: the federal prosecutions of eight members of the department's elite gun task force, who are accused of shaking down citizens and conspiring with drug dealers, and the killing of Suiter last week in West Baltimore, the first of an on-duty officer by a suspect in 10 years.

Davis said Wednesday that federal authorities have told him "in no uncertain terms" that Suiter was not a target of their investigation into the Gun Trace Task Force. He said authorities have no reason to believe Suiter's killing was connected to his pending testimony.

"The BPD and FBI do not possess any information that this incident ... is part of any conspiracy," Davis said. He said evidence shows the shooting occurred spontaneously, as Suiter investigated a suspicious person in the Harlem Park neighborhood.

"There is no information that has been communicated to me that Detective Suiter was anything other than a stellar detective, great friend, loving husband and dedicated father," he said.

Comment: This comes after speculation online that Suiter's partner may have been involved in Suiter's death. Davis ruled this out, saying that the surveillance evidence obtained "refutes the notion that Det. Suiter's partner was anything but just that, his partner." Since they don't have a suspect, you'd think the BPD would admit that they cannot say definitively whether or not Suiter's death might be connected to his upcoming testimony.

See also: Cops hunt killer of dead Baltimore police detective

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Jordan Peterson was right about universities and Bill C-16

Sargon of Akkad
Youtube
Thu, 23 Nov 2017 16:29 UTC
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Professor Jordan Peterson at McMaster University

The leaked audio from Lindsay Shepherd from the faculty at Wilfrid Laurier University confirms our worst fears.

Comment: Well that didn't take long...and they said it wouldn't be used for this kind of thing.

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Big Brother: Twitter will monitor users behavior 'off platform'

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Sun, 19 Nov 2017 15:58 UTC
Twitter censorship
In perhaps the most intrusive move of social media platforms' efforts signal as much virtue as possible and appease their potentially-regulating government overlords, Twitter has announced that it is cracking down on what it defines at hate-speech and not just by looking at its own site.

In what amounts to a major shift in Twitter policy, Mashable's Kerry Flynn reports that the company announced on Friday that it will be monitoring user's behavior "on and off the platform" and will suspend a user's account if they affiliate with violent organizations, according to an update to Twitter's Help Center on Friday.
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'There's no evidence': FIS anti-doping expert slams disqualification of Russian athletes


RT
Thu, 23 Nov 2017 16:09 UTC
Alexander Legkov
© Alexander Legkov
Alexander Legkov
The International Ski Federation's (FIS) anti-doping expert Rasmus Damsgaards has criticized the disqualification of Russian athletes. Damsgaards is concerned as the alleged doping violations have not been confirmed by any evidence.

Danish researcher Damsgaards' anti-doping program was used for the cycling team CSC in 2006, and was later adopted by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to create a 'biological passport' system. The Dane has expressed his concerns regarding the recent imposition of lifetime bans on Russian skiers.

In his recent interview with Finnish outlet HBL, he outlined that "it's worrying" when an athlete is punished without concrete evidence of his guilt.
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Two wrongfully convicted men each get multi-million dollar settlements after decades in prison, police misconduct


RT
Thu, 23 Nov 2017 15:35 UTC
Prison
© Suhaib Salem / Reuters
Two separate juries in Los Angeles and Baltimore have awarded multi-million dollar settlements to two innocent men wrongfully convicted of murder after police were found to have withheld evidence and pressured witnesses to testify against them.

Frank O'Connell

After spending 27 years behind bars for a murder he didn't commit, Frank O'Connell was awarded a $15 million payout by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Wednesday, the largest single-plaintiff settlement in the past 10 years.

"This brings a sense of closure. It's been a long road," O'Connell said, according to KTLA. "It'll be a new beginning for me, and I can really start my life over. I can't make up for the time that was stolen from me, but I can take positive action with what's left."

O'Connell was arrested in 1984 for the fatal shooting of Jay French, the ex-husband of a woman with whom O'Connell was having an affair.
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Canadian university's contemptible conduct proof of intellectual assault underway on campuses

Barbara Kay
The National Post
Tue, 21 Nov 2017 15:57 UTC
LIndsey Shephard
© Global News
Lindsey Shephard
This contemptible episode has proven that, as one WSJ letter-writer put it, "The left is no longer able to recognize opposing political thought as thought"

The story of Wilfrid Laurier University grad student and teaching assistant Lindsay Shepherd - who was recently subjected to a creepy, but instructive, grilling by campus superiors over material she'd used for her entry-level Communication tutorials - went viral on social media last week.

A somewhat naive lament was posted by the host of TVO's The Agenda, Steve Paikin, who has been tangentially implicated in the story for having presided over the incident's contested terrain: an Agenda debate between University of Toronto professors Nicholas Matte and Jordan Peterson concerning transgender pronouns and compelled speech. Shepherd had shown the class parts of the debate to elicit discussion.

Comment: The Sun also comments:
"It was a friendly debate," she told The Waterloo Record. "I thought it went really well."

While the students may have liked it, the administration did not. Shepherd was hauled into a meeting with two professors and a diversity officer and shamed for playing the video because she presented Peterson's position "neutrally."

"This is like neutrally playing a speech by Hitler," Professor Nathan Rambukkana reportedly told Shepherd.

Rambukkana then insisted he'd have to look over Shepherd's lesson plans, sit in on her classes and further discuss the issue with colleagues. Shepherd, who recorded the meeting, now fears losing her teaching post, which helps pay her tuition.

This is hypocritical, bullying behaviour on the part of WLU, a taxpayer-supported institution.

As Mark Bonokoski writes in his column on the affair, perhaps it's Rambukkana who should be censored for violating the basic tenets of education in a free society, to say nothing of his deeply offensive invocation of Adolf Hitler.

Laurier, who embraced liberty, compromise and free expression, would, no doubt, be aghast at such censoring of expression.
The full recording of Wilfred Laurier's thought police grilling Lindsey Shepherd.



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Understanding how the enemy of your enemy is not your friend

Eric Zuesse
Strategic Culture Foundation
Thu, 23 Nov 2017 12:35 UTC
war art
In political matters, the public are taught to believe that some political Party is 'good', and that the others are "bad"; but the reality in recent times, at least in the United States, has instead been that both Parties are rotten to the core (as will be clear from the linked documentation provided here).

Belief in this myth (that the opposition between Parties is between 'good' 'friend' versus 'bad' 'enemy') is based upon the common adage that "The enemy of my enemy is my friend." One side is believed, and ones that contradict it are disbelieved - considered to be lying, distorting: bad. But, maybe, both (or all) Parties are deceiving; maybe all of them are enemies of the public, but just in different ways; maybe each of them is trying to control the country in the interests of (and so to obtain the most financial support from) the aristocracy, while all of them are actually against the public.

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Is Black Friday a thing of the past?


RT
Thu, 23 Nov 2017 14:59 UTC
Shoppers
© Brendan McDermid / Reuters
When it comes to holiday shopping sprees, the traditional Black Friday bonanza is no longer the number one event. More and more people across the US choose to sleep in instead of rising before dawn the morning after Thanksgiving.

Despite favorable economic conditions, including the lowest unemployment rate in 17 years, cheap and easy-to-get loans, the annual sales fest doesn't expect a traditional avalanche of shoppers, standing in endless lines outside stores and then shopping until they drop.

According to the latest survey by the National Retail Federation, 59 percent of consumers are planning to shop online instead of going to brick and mortar shops. That's reportedly the first year when buying online is the most popular choice for shoppers.

"The holiday season is always important, but this year is more important than ever. Department stores are struggling to prove they are still relevant," said Robert Schulz, the chief credit analyst for the retail sector for Standard & Poors, as quoted by CNN Money.

Comment: See also: American shoppers still haven't paid off their debt from last Christmas

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Gold Coins

Hong Kong company will create a cryptocurrency mining farm and AI lab on Russian island


RT
Thu, 23 Nov 2017 15:39 UTC
Ayaks Bay
© Alexander Vilf / Sputnik
Ayaks Bay on Russky Island, Russia
A Hong Kong-based company called Genesis Engineering plans to create a cryptocurrency mining farm and an artificial intelligence lab on Russky Island (Russian Island) in Vladivostok.

The Ministry for Development of the Far East, says the company is interested in the region's free plots of land and energy facilities, as well as preferential tax and customs duties. It plans to set up around 300 thousand square meters of production facilities, following a pilot project.

"We see our presence as residents of this territory," said Genesis Engineering representative John Riggins.

The free trade zone of Vladivostok covers Russky Island, so the tax preferences and the possibility of applying for a free customs zone are available to investors. Russia's Far East regions and the city of Vladivostok are expected to become an Asian hub for trade and transportation.
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