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FSB commandos descend on Islamist cells plotting COUP in Russia's largest cities


RT
Fri, 22 Nov 2019 18:46 UTC
fsb raid
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From Moscow to Tatarstan and Siberia, a shady Islamist network recruited followers and stored supplies in a bid to establish a caliphate - until the FSB got them in their crosshairs. The anti-terrorism raids were caught on film.

The FSB's elite counter-terrorism teams breached flats across Moscow, Tatarstan and the Tyumen region of Siberia, targeting members of Hizb ut-Tahrir, a radical Islamist organization designated as terrorists in Russia.

A video released by the security agency shows heavily armed officers gaining entry through the doors and ordering the suspects onto the ground.
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'Delete WhatsApp unless you're OK with surveillance,' founder of rival Telegram messenger warns


RT
Fri, 22 Nov 2019 18:33 UTC
Telegram founder Pavel Durov
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Telegram founder Pavel Durov
WhatsApp is a "Trojan horse" exploited to snoop on millions of users naive enough to believe that the Facebook-owned messenger differs from its parent company, long beset by privacy scandals, Telegram founder Pavel Durov said.

In a lengthy post on his Telegram channel on Wednesday, Durov took aim at one of his brainchild's biggest rivals - WhatsApp, the world's leading messaging app, which became a Facebook subsidiary in 2014 and boasts some 1.5 billion monthly active users.
"Regardless of the underlying intentions of WhatsApp's parent company, the advice for their end-users is the same: Unless you are cool with all your photos and messages becoming public one day, you should delete WhatsApp from your phone."
The Russian-born entrepreneur pulled no punches, citing a long record of privacy-related violations by Facebook to back up his case.
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Karoshi: The misery of Japanese workplaces shows few signs of lifting

Leo Lewis
Financial Times
Fri, 22 Nov 2019 17:58 UTC
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Japan's labor force is dangerously exhausted
Curbing death by overwork in Japan

By noon on October 12, Japan was preparing for the arrival of Hagibis, the most powerful typhoon to hit the country in decades. Public transport had been halted and commercial flights grounded, while evacuation orders blared from mobile phones as the risk of floods, landslides and deadly winds mounted.

As the danger grew, social media catalogued the complaints of workers who had been forced by their employers to brave nature's fury and turn up for work. Many of the businesses identified — coffee shops, estate agents, sushi restaurants — were not essential services.

But the testimonies rang true. Two weeks earlier, the government had published a white paper on Japan's overwork crisis that suggested progress on eliminating one of the country's most notorious workplace problems was slow.

Comment:

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Yellow Vest

Police fire tear gas & water cannon as mass anti-govt protests in Colombia's capital turn violent


RT
Fri, 22 Nov 2019 17:55 UTC
bogota protests
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Hundreds of thousands took to the streets in cities across Colombia in a mass strike against the government of President Ivan Duque. While largely peaceful, clashes with riot police broke out as some of the protests dispersed.

Sparked by general dissatisfaction with government policies, including a recent proposal to cut pensions, some 207,000 Colombians joined the massive demonstrations on Thursday, according to Interior Minister Nancy Patricia Gutierrez.

With protesters chanting anti-Duque slogans and carrying bright banners and national flags, the marches mostly took place without incident. However, as the event in Bogota came to a close, people described as "hooligans" by some witnesses initiated confrontations with police, prompting them to respond with tear gas, water cannon and billy clubs. Some of the clashes were captured on video.

A demonstration in the city of Cali that drew over 20,000 protesters also ended in minor clashes near a local university, after which the city government declared a temporary curfew.
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NPC

'Tell Me Why': Microsoft's inclusivity initiative is a lazy marketing gimmick

Sophia Narwitz
RT
Fri, 22 Nov 2019 17:34 UTC
Tell Me Why

Screenshot from 'Tell Me Why' official announcement trailer
As part of its 'Gaming is for Everyone' initiative, Microsoft and Dontnod announced 'Tell Me Why,' boasting that it is the 1st game from a major studio to ever feature a trans lead. This is due to its female-to-male protagonist.

Both companies are marketing it as hard as they can to a woke crowd that will suck it up because 'gender benders' are currently en vogue. Websites such as Mashable are already touting it as a "significant step forward" for representation. Never mind the fact that we don't yet know how well the character will be written and no gameplay has been shown.

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Pirates

Ukraine detains suspected ISIS leader - second one in a week


RFE/RL
Thu, 21 Nov 2019 17:39 UTC
ISIS
An elite Ukrainian police unit has apprehended a suspected 30-year-old member of the Islamic State (IS) extremist group in the Zhytomyr region west of Kyiv.

The Russian citizen was detained based on an Interpol notice related to murder and was hiding in Ukraine to evade arrest, the National Police said in a statement on November 21.

The unnamed suspect was born in the easternmost Ukrainian region of Luhansk but had lived in Russia for an extended period.

"According to reports, the detainee is a member of the terrorist radical organization Islamic State and even the leader of one of its groups," the police said.

"By ethnicity, he is Daghestani, but was born in the Luhansk region of Ukraine. He lived in Russia for a long time. He was hiding in the territory of our country in order to avoid responsibility for murder."

Comment: See our comment in this article on the guy arrested last week: What RFE/RL doesn't - and never will - say is that there's a reason ISIS has a foothold in Ukraine. They are partners of sorts with the neo-Nazis there in their war against Russia. For just a peak into this relationship, see: The rank-and-file losers in ISIS and the Bandera-inspired nazi groups may not realize it, but they have the same masters.

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Bullseye

Caitlin Johnstone: Bitter, joyless told-you-sos - notes from the edge of the narrative matrix

Caitlin Johnstone
Medium
Thu, 21 Nov 2019 03:09 UTC
assange arrest

Julian Assange
Real change won't come until people rise up. People won't rise up as long as they're successfully propagandized. People will remain successfully propagandized until they evolve minds which can't be manipulated. Our world will change when our relationship with narrative changes.

It only takes a rudimentary understanding of human psychology to manipulate someone. Bernays was recruited by the US government to study the science of modern propaganda in 1917. This science has been in research and development for over a century. Don't underestimate its power.

The "Epstein didn't kill himself" thing is an interesting example of a grassroots, populist narrative control campaign. By that I mean that people wanted it to remain a high-profile feature in the news, and they knew the mass media wouldn't do that for them, so they've collectively forced it into mainstream attention and held it there by sheer collaborative force of will.
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Smoking

New York City set to ban flavored e-cigarettes

Erin Schumaker
ABC News
Fri, 22 Nov 2019 11:50 UTC
Packages of Juul mint flavored e-cigarettes
© Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
Packages of Juul mint flavored e-cigarettes are displayed at San Rafael Smokeshop on Nov. 7, 2019, in San Rafael, Calif.
The New York City Council is expected to approve a ban on flavored e-cigarettes when it votes on the issue next Tuesday.

The impending ban, which 30 of the council's 51 members have signed onto as co-sponsors, would prohibit sales of flavored e-cigarettes, including mint and menthol.

It's the latest move in a series of steps that cities and states have taken to crack down on flavored vaping products. San Francisco voters passed a referendum last year to ban flavored products, and on Wednesday, Massachusetts legislatures voted to ban flavors in the state. If that bill is signed into law, Massachusetts will become the first state to prohibit all flavored e-cigarette products.

State attorney generals have also taken aim at the e-cigarette company Juul, which dominates the e-cigarette market, controlling nearly three-quarters of market sales.
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Handcuffs

Hidden camera found in boy's bathroom at elementary school, food worker arrested

Jon Haworth
ABC News
Thu, 21 Nov 2019 04:15 UTC
A food worker at a Texas elementary school has been arrested after allegedly placing a small hidden camera inside a boy's bathroom.

Scott Gelardi
A food worker at a Texas elementary school has been arrested after allegedly placing a small hidden camera inside a boy's bathroom.

Scott Gelardi, a 42-year-old contract Aramark food worker at Northside Elementary School in El Campo, Texas, was arrested as he arrived to work on Tuesday morning after a police investigation using school video surveillance footage identified Gelardi as the suspect.

The El Campo Independent School District said that maintenance workers found the hidden camera while carrying out routine maintenance to the building and, according to ABC News' Houston station KTRK, the camera allegedly contained video and photos of unknown students in the bathroom.
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Cow

A taste of fascism: New York City public schools ban all processed meat


Green Growing
Fri, 15 Nov 2019 03:31 UTC
kids eating hotdogs
© Air Force Medical Service
While most children love hot dogs and bologna sandwiches, they won't be getting them if they attend public schools in New York City, Tree Hugger reports:
New York City council is taking students' health seriously. Earlier this year, mayor Bill de Blasio announced the introduction of Meatless Mondays, when all meals served in 1,700 schools would be vegetarian in an effort to improve nutrition and curb emissions. Now, the city has gone one step further and passed a law banning processed meats from schools, although the start date has yet to be determined.

Comment: Indeed, the journey toward tyranny undoubtedly starts with small steps, like banning meat. But if you think these bureaucrats will stop there, you've got another thing coming. The bottom line is that these people are idiots, making decisions that are nothing more than virtue signalling that directly effect the health of children. Social engineering based on propaganda and political correctness can only ever lead to disaster. One weeps for these children's future.

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