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Disturbing list of K-Pop star deaths leaves many wondering what's behind them

Sputnik
Mon, 25 Nov 2019 10:11 UTC

The K-pop industry has a radiant façade, but there's a dark side to it as well. South Korean pop music is spreading fast across the continents, but its increasing popularity comes with intense pressure being exerted on the young performers.

Goo Hara

The demise of Goo Hara has become the latest in a troubling string of incidents that have put the K-pop scene under additional scrutiny.

Police are now investigating the cause of her death, which came roughly six months after she was found unresponsive at her home, following an apparent suicide attempt.

Norwegian child protection agency under investigation for removing children from parents without good reason

K.V. Turley
Life Site
Wed, 17 Oct 2018 12:03 UTC

The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg will hear today the case of Strand Lobben v. Norway.

The case is one of a number where Norwegian authorities have removed children from their parents seemingly without any proper justification.

In Strand Lobben, a three-week-old child was removed from his mother in 2008. The justification was simply based on doubts about the mother's "parenting abilities." Subsequently, the child was placed in foster care. The mother was to be allowed to see her child for only twelve hours each year. Ultimately, however, in this case, all visitation rights were refused. The mother's parental rights were ended. The child was taken away and put up for adoption.

In April 2018, in a landmark decision, the Grand Chamber panel of five judges in the ECHR decided to refer the case to the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights. This followed an earlier December 2017 ECHR judgment stating no human rights had been violated. This judgment was hailed as a validation for the Norwegian system of intervention with families.

Thousands of Chilean children stolen from their mothers and illegally adopted in the US, UK and Sweden

Sara Malm
Daily Mail
Wed, 02 Jan 2019 11:49 UTC

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Crimes against humanity: Judge Mario Carroza, pictured with Ms Diemar earlier this year, is investigating thousands of potential illegal adoptions in Chile carried out.

Up to 8,000 children were stolen from their mothers to be adopted by foreign couples during Chile's military dictatorship years, investigators claim.

Some 20,000 Chilean children were adopted to Western nations such as the U.S., the UK and Sweden, in the 1970s and 80s, of which the government believe a majority were illegally removed from their biological families.

A government investigation launched earlier this year has so far found that more than 3,205 babies and young children are likely to have been stolen, but this is expected to multiply as it continues.

In October this year, Justice Minister Hernán Larraín told parliament the news that children may have been illegally adopted from had made him 'feel a great shame for my country'.

'The criminal investigation cannot currently state that all cases where children have been sent abroad for adoption are illegal, but a very large part are,' the Santiago Court of Appeals said in a statement, adding that they fear it would be at least 8,000 suspicious cases.

Dear young progressives: The white-supremacist anti-immigration anti-political-correctness free-speech fascists are your friends

Denis Rancourt
Dissident Voice
Thu, 21 Nov 2019 00:01 UTC

Yup. The ruling elite are doing everything they can to divide you. They are doing everything they can to promote hate between you.

In this article, I argue that the real enemy is the ruling elite, which manipulates us all. I explain that the Western USA-based ruling elite is desperate these days, and exceptionally adversarial, which is driven by the successful rise of Eurasia (economically led by China, and supported by Russia), and by increased global abundance of extractable energy reserves. We allow ourselves to be collateral idiots and pawns in this saga.

The ruling elite and the captured media want you to be convinced that their oppression of everyone comes from either a tsunami of irrational "socialism" or spontaneous upsurges of "fascism"; that fascist cells are nucleating and growing at an unprecedented rate, and that you and all your immigrant, brown, black, LGBTQ compatriots will be deported or imprisoned or deprived of medical attention, if the said cells are not deplatformed, censored, run out of town, punched in the face, and exterminated.

Comment: See also:

More than 60 doctors warn that Julian Assange 'could die in prison', needs urgent transfer to medical facility

Oleg Burunov
Sputnik
Mon, 25 Nov 2019 11:02 UTC

© REUTERS / Peter Nicholls
Julian Assange has been is custody he was removed from the Ecuadorian embassy in London in April.

Late last week, Australian John Shipton, father of Julian Assange, said in an interview with a Norwegian news outlet that the WikiLeaks founder's extradition to the US would mean the death of his son.

In a letter to UK Home Secretary Priti Patel, a group of medics expressed "serious concerns" about Julian Assange's health, casting doubt on his fitness to stand trial at a US extradition hearing slated for February.

The letter was signed by more than 60 doctors, including those from the UK, Australia, Europe and Sri Lanka, who insisted that Assange, who is now being held in London's Belmarsh prison, requires "an urgent expert medical assessment of both his physical and psychological state of health".

"Any medical treatment indicated should be administered in a properly equipped and expertly staffed university teaching hospital (tertiary care)," they pointed out, warning that otherwise, the 48-year-old WikiLeaks founder "could die in prison".

"The medical situation is thereby urgent. There is no time to lose", the medics underscored.

Comment: Assange is serving overtime - and fading away - in a high-security prison in the UK awaiting extradition to the US because he dared expose war crimes, the instigators of which never saw a day in court. Neither those in the US nor the UK.

Can a female sex offender ever work again? A convicted Australian pedophile teacher gives her sob story

Denise Cullen
The New Daily
Mon, 25 Nov 2019 06:20 UTC

It began innocently enough. He asked her for help with his maths homework.

Some stolen glances followed. The casual brush of skin on skin.

Before long, Australian high school teacher Natalie* was sleeping with her teenage student.

The sex took place several times over two months - in his home, hers, at the school.

Comment: Bettina Arndt: "Look at this soft treatment of a female sex offender, making excuses for the female pedophiles' actions in a way that would never be condoned if it was a male offender. And they choose not to name her, while male offenders receive maximum publicity."

It seems these incidents involving female teachers having sexual relationships with their students is becoming more and more common. Arndt is correct in pointing out the disparity between how male and female sex offenders are treated, both by the law and the press. These women are pedophiles and should receive the same punishment their male counterparts are subject to.

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The long road to reversible sterilization? India fights back against overpopulation

Ashish Shukla
RT
Sat, 23 Nov 2019 00:00 UTC

Many view India's ballooning population - set to overtake China's by the next decade - as a ticking time-bomb, but a solution is now at hand that, nevertheless, has taken four long decades to see the light of day.

India had only 540 million on its population chart in 1979 when a slight professor in his 40s, Dr Sujoy Kumar Guha, published his first scientific paper on Risug, a molecular drug he had developed as a reversible contraceptive for men.

Comment: Population control is a controversial subject in India. It was looked at through the lens of religion by political parties until Narendra Modi's government decided to tackle it. During his 2019 Independence Day address, Modi compared small families to patriotism. Despite the mutual suspicion between Hindus and Muslims, birth rates have fallen during recent decades.

Indian population across years by religion

Here is a population comparison of Indian states with other countries.

Indian State population comparison with countries

Global economy will remain fragile in 2020 - Moody's

Live Mint
Tue, 19 Nov 2019 16:25 UTC

© Mint
At the sector level, spillover effects from trade frictions will drive shifts in global supply chains and weigh on investment decisions, Moody's noted

Global credit conditions in 2020 will weaken as a result of growing risks of an economic downturn, trade policy uncertainty and the effects of an unpredictable political and geo-political environment, Moody's Investors Service said on Tuesday.

Although Moody's does not expect a recession in 2020, recession risks are building, the report said.

Comment: Few people predicted the banking crash of 2007/8, it's unlikely they know when the next will occur.

The global economy has witnessed the lowest global growth in 2019 since the 2009 recession.

Risks will be centred around US-China trade disputes, Brexit-related uncertainty and the escalation of other bilateral disputes. At the sector level, spillover effects from trade frictions will drive shifts in global supply chains and weigh on investment decisions, Moody's noted.

Comment: What is clear is that the global economic situation is only getting worse:

Poll indicates sharp swing against impeachment of Trump among independent voters

Jonathan Easley
The Hill
Thu, 21 Nov 2019 02:43 UTC

A new national survey finds independent voters leading a sharp swing in opposition to impeachment, the second major poll to produce those findings this week.

The latest national poll from Emerson College finds 45 percent oppose impeaching President Trump, against 43 percent who support it. That's a 6-point swing in support from October, when 48 percent of voters supported impeachment and only 44 percent opposed.

More importantly, the poll shows more independents now oppose impeachment than support it, a significant change from Emerson's polling in October. The new poll found 49 percent oppose impeachment compared to 34 percent who support it. In October, 48 percent of independents polled supported impeachment, against 39 percent who opposed.

Since October, Emerson has found Trump's job approval rating jump by 5 points, from 43 percent to 48 percent.

Unleash the horde! Watch thousands of deer block Siberian road during migration

RT
Sat, 23 Nov 2019 14:37 UTC

Screen grab from a Yamal-Region TV video

Indigenous deer herders in Siberia caused a rare congestion on a road when they had thousands of their animals cross it for about 20 minutes. Amused drivers seized the chance to film the unexpected procession.

The footage, obtained by RT's Ruptly was taken by a local journalist, who was returning from a fishing trip. It shows a huge herd of deer running by as the reporter sits stuck in his car. So many animals were passing by that the clip had to be sped up considerably to show them all in under three minutes.

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Society's Child

Disturbing list of K-Pop star deaths leaves many wondering what's behind them

Norwegian child protection agency under investigation for removing children from parents without good reason

Thousands of Chilean children stolen from their mothers and illegally adopted in the US, UK and Sweden

Dear young progressives: The white-supremacist anti-immigration anti-political-correctness free-speech fascists are your friends

More than 60 doctors warn that Julian Assange 'could die in prison', needs urgent transfer to medical facility

Can a female sex offender ever work again? A convicted Australian pedophile teacher gives her sob story

The long road to reversible sterilization? India fights back against overpopulation

Global economy will remain fragile in 2020 - Moody's

Poll indicates sharp swing against impeachment of Trump among independent voters

Unleash the horde! Watch thousands of deer block Siberian road during migration

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