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Freed Russian journalist Golunov grateful to supporters but regrets ensuing wave of publicity

RT
Sun, 16 Jun 2019 13:07 UTC

Ivan Golunov, the investigative journalist detained by Moscow in a suspected set-up that triggered a wave of public discontent, has told RT that he's shocked his story has received so much attention. He said he didn't expect the massive outpouring of support at home and abroad. Speaking in an exclusive interview with RT, the journalist said he was grateful to his supporters.

Golunov, who specializes in investigating corruption among Moscow officials, was snatched from the street in central Moscow on Thursday last week and accused by the police of being a drug dealer. The police offered sketchy evidence to support their allegation, while the journalist claimed that he had been framed by corrupt officers.

The news resulted in several days of demonstrations in Moscow and other cities, and an unprecedented wave of pressure on the government. Journalists and public figures also demanded a thorough inquiry into the alleged abuse of power by the police. Three leading newspapers printed nearly identical front pages on Monday, running a joint statement in support of Golunov.

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Yellow Vests protests continue for 31st straight weekend: Tear gas in Toulouse, Paris

RT
Sun, 16 Jun 2019 15:38 UTC

Police in Toulouse, France, deployed tear gas and charged demonstrators, as Yellow Vests protesters took to the streets for the 31st consecutive weekend. It comes as the Elysee Palace pushes for a controversial reform package.

Saturday saw crowds of protesters turn out all over France. The demonstrations in Toulouse were among the largest, with more than 1,000 showing up, and police responded by firing tear gas to disperse the activists. The crack of police weaponry could be heard as the streets filled with the choking gas.

Comment: Matters appear to have settled in to an endurance contest between French citizens and Macron's government. Who will blink first?

Glen Greenwald threatened with expulsion from Brazil following exposé of conspiracy against former President Lula de Silva

RT
Sat, 15 Jun 2019 08:34 UTC

After publishing a series of exposés revealing that Brazilian prosecutors conspired against former President Lula de Silva's election bid last year, the Intercept's Glenn Greenwald has been threatened with deportation from Brazil.

Parliamentarian and member of the ruling Social Liberal (PSL) party Carlos Jordy tweeted out the thinly-veiled threat on Thursday in a string of messages.

"You can not confront our institutions and authorities, committing crimes against national security and not imagine that [you] can be criminally punished and DEPORTED," the lawmaker said, adding "your case is already being investigated."

Comment: Now that Assange's arrest has set a precedent, politicians will be much more aggressive in punishing those who dare to bring their crimes to light. First they came for Assange.

More on 'Operation Car Wash' and Brazil's scandal plagued government:

Crimes in concrete: Modernist architecture 'a visual hell that scours the eyes'

Theodore Dalrymple
First Things
Sun, 16 Jun 2019 10:51 UTC

In a recent debate in Prospect magazine on the question of whether modern architecture has ruined British towns and cities, Professor James Stevens Curl, one of Britain's most distinguished architectural historians, wrote as his opening salvo:

Visitors to these islands who have eyes to see will observe that there is hardly a town or city that has not had its streets - and skyline - wrecked by insensitive, crude, post-1945 additions which ignore established geometries, urban grain, scale, materials, and emphases.

This is so self-evidently true that I find it hard to understand how anyone could deny it, but modern architects and hangers-on such as architectural journalists do deny it, like war criminals who, for obvious reasons, continue to deny their crimes in the face of overwhelming evidence.

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Vodafone launches first 5G network in Spain in cooperation with Huawei

Mu Xuequan
Xinhua
Sun, 16 Jun 2019 22:32 UTC

In cooperation with Chinese telecom giant Huawei, Vodafone Espana on Saturday rolled out the first commercial 5G mobile services in Spain, making it one of the first European countries with the ultrafast mobile network in Europe.

According to Vodafone Espana, the 5G mobile network covers 15 major Spanish cities including Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia and Seville. Around half of the residents in these cities will able to enjoy the cutting-edge high-speed network service, which will be expanded in the future.

With 5G mobile phones, 5G customers in Spain will experience download speeds of up to 1Gbps at launch and up to 2Gbps by the end of the year, which means it could be 10 times faster than that of the 4G network, said Vodafone.

Comment: Despite sabotage attempts by the US it seems 5G is making headway into Europe, which is a win for international business relations, but a serious threat to the health of citizens:

Also check out SOTT radio's: Objective:Health #15 - The Dangers of 5G & WiFi - With Scott Ogrin of Scottie's Tech.Info

YouTube removes journalist Tim Pool's video about Pinterest's censorship of Christian, pro-life content—without explanation

Aaron Colen
The BlazeThe Blaze
Fri, 14 Jun 2019 00:01 UTC

The battle for freedom of speech online continues to escalate, with the latest development being YouTube censoring a journalist's video about Pinterest's censorship of Christian and pro-life content.

Earlier this week, Pinterest placed the pro-life organization Live Action on a list of blocked pornography sites. Later, Live Action was blocked from the platform altogether.

A representative for Live Action said Pinterest notified the organization that they had been "permanently suspended because its content went against our policies on misinformation." In a statement to Fortune, Pinterest cited misinformation and health-related conspiracies as the reason.

Comment: Tim Pool on his video being censored:

So not only is Pinterest censoring right/Christian content, YouTube is also censoring people who are talking about that censorship, despite the fact that multiple mainstream news sites are reporting on the same thing. It doesn't get more Orwellian than this.

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5 die in UK listeria outbreak linked to hospital food

ABC News
Sat, 15 Jun 2019 05:42 UTC

The British government has ordered a review of hospital food after five patients died in a listeria outbreak linked to sandwiches and salads.

Health Secretary Matt Hancock said Saturday he wants "a radical new approach" to the food served in hospitals.

Officials have linked the outbreak to food from the Good Food Chain, which supplies dozens of U.K. hospitals, and to a meat supplier for the company.

Radical feminism overtakes UK advertising industry, bans 'harmful gender stereotypes' in ads

RT
Sat, 15 Jun 2019 08:38 UTC

The UK has officially banned "harmful gender stereotypes" in advertising over concerns it could contribute to societal inequality. But is this political correctness run amok, or long-overdue reform?

The UK Advertising Standards Authority has banned "harmful gender stereotypes" likely to cause "serious or widespread offense" from all ads in a ruling that takes effect Friday. The rule springs from a 2017 review that found absorbing gender stereotypes through advertising could limit people's potential and play a part in "unequal gender outcomes."

Comment: These terms are so vague as to be essentially meaningless, in particular with regards to the law, where things need to be clearly and precisely defined so people can understand them and, thus, both obey and enforce the law. What is a 'harmful gender stereotype', exactly? Is there a way to measure how 'serious' or 'widespread' the offense would have to be for the advertisement to be against the law?

Complaints will be dealt with on a case-by case basis, examining the "content and context" to assess whether the rule had been broken, as using non-offensive gender stereotypes - such as women shopping, or men doing work around the house - is still OK under the new rules, as is using stereotypes to subvert expectations.

Comment: Who's going to be examining these ads, exactly, and how are they going to determine if the 'rule' has been broken? Will it be a jury, or an un-elected committee? If it's a committee, who will be on it, what will their biases and agendas be, and who will be selecting the members of the committee?

Comment: Laws like this set very dangerous precedents: that we need to legislate to prevent people from being offended, that the rule of law can be so vague that no one can be clear on when they're breaking it, and that we essentially need thought police to tell us how to think. It opens the gate to anyone with an agenda being able to charge others with crimes, simply because they don't like what they're doing, and further expands the government into the private sphere, eroding the balance of power between the government and private life.

Issues like this are largely self regulating in a very simple way: if people don't like the advertising, they won't buy the products and the company will either change its tactics, or fail. If you were an advertiser in the UK, how would you respond and what would you do if you could be held criminally or financially liable for offending people with 'harmful gender stereotypes'?

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Oberlin College to pay bakery the now-massive sum of $44M over racism dispute

Fox News
Fri, 14 Jun 2019 00:00 UTC

© AP
A jury has awarded $33.2 million in punitive damages to Gibson’s Bakery, whose owners claimed Ohio’s Oberlin College and an administrator hurt their business and libeled them during a dispute that triggered protests and allegations of racism following a shoplifting incident.

A jury has awarded $33.2 million in punitive damages to Gibson's Bakery, whose owners claimed Ohio's Oberlin College and an administrator hurt their business and libeled them during a dispute over a shoplifting episode that triggered protests and allegations of racism.

The Chronicle-Telegram reported the same jury awarded Gibson's business and family members more than $11 million in actual or compensatory damages, bringing the total award to more than $44 million.

The Lorain County jury Friday awarded David Gibson $5.8 million, son Allyn Gibson $3 million and Gibson's Bakery $2.2 million.

The protests occurred after Allyson Gibson, who is white, confronted a black student who'd shoplifted a bottle of wine. Two other black students joined in and assaulted Gibson.

A man is suing a Scottsdale cryonics company for $1M — and the return of his dad's frozen head

Karl Puckett
Az Central
Wed, 12 Jun 2019 01:17 UTC

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Kurt Pilgeram of Dutton, Mont., is in a legal battle with a cryonics company that he claims mishandled his father's remains. He would like his father's head returned after the company seperated it from and creamated his father's body, which Pilgeram says is a violation of the agreement between the company and his father.

Laurence Pilgeram, who grew up on a farm south of Great Falls, agreed to pay Alcor Life Extension Foundation $120,000 to preserve his body indefinitely at a temperature of minus 196 degrees Celsius, in the outside hope that some future technology would restore his life.

It's called cryonics.

In April 2015, about a month after Pilgeram died in California, a box containing his ashes arrived at the home of his son, Kurt Pilgeram, 1,300 miles away, outside of Dutton, Montana, population 300.

It contained Pilgeram's body from the shoulders down, but his head had been separated and placed in a vat of liquid nitrogen in Arizona, where it presumably will remain forever, or at least until Mr. Pilgeram is restored.

"They chopped his head off, burned his body, put it in a box and sent it to my house," Kurt Pilgeram said recently at his Dutton-area home, where the Rocky Mountains were visible in the distance, and a tractor seeding spring wheat in a field kicked up dust.

Ehret an idiot beyond belief

smertzasmert

.. .. are wheel barrel sales are up too?

Jibrish

I doubt any pureblood would object to the "vaccinated" being masked, but if they (the "vaccinated") still feel unsafe then maybe their problem is...

HashAttack2

I said this would happen...now they are looking to mandate companies with less that 100 employees...shits getting real, people[Link]

Bezel Bub

it's all a lie ! :O

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Society's Child

Freed Russian journalist Golunov grateful to supporters but regrets ensuing wave of publicity

Yellow Vests protests continue for 31st straight weekend: Tear gas in Toulouse, Paris

Glen Greenwald threatened with expulsion from Brazil following exposé of conspiracy against former President Lula de Silva

Crimes in concrete: Modernist architecture 'a visual hell that scours the eyes'

Vodafone launches first 5G network in Spain in cooperation with Huawei

YouTube removes journalist Tim Pool's video about Pinterest's censorship of Christian, pro-life content—without explanation

5 die in UK listeria outbreak linked to hospital food

Radical feminism overtakes UK advertising industry, bans 'harmful gender stereotypes' in ads

Oberlin College to pay bakery the now-massive sum of $44M over racism dispute

A man is suing a Scottsdale cryonics company for $1M — and the return of his dad's frozen head

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