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CNN faces more accusations of political bias ahead of Democratic debate

Brian Flood
Fox News
Wed, 16 Oct 2019 16:14 UTC
Kamala Biden Tulsi
CNN's heavily promoted Democratic debate on Tuesday comes on the same day as a second batch of undercover recordings is putting an emphasis on the network's political bias.

Project Veritas, whose founder, James O'Keefe, describes himself as a "guerrilla journalist," built up the release on social media with an "#ExposeCNN" hashtag. The CNN/New York Times Democratic presidential debate is scheduled to feature 12 leading 2020 hopefuls duking it out from Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio -- but the latest batch of alleged undercover recordings could indicate which candidates are preferred by CNN brass.

Comment: See also:

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Fire

ANOTHER major fire breaks out at chemical plant, this time at a refinery in California


RT
Wed, 16 Oct 2019 00:39 UTC
Chemical plant explostion NuStar Rodeo California
© Twitter / _DavidOro
At least one storage tank appears to be completely destroyed and another is in flames in footage seen on local media.
An enormous explosion that left two tanks on fire at a NuStar fuel refinery in Rodeo, California has led local authorities to issue a hazardous materials emergency declaration urging the locals to shelter in place.

At least one storage tank appears to be completely destroyed and another is in flames in footage seen on local media. Contra Costa County health officials warned locals to "shelter in place" and close their windows.

The Rodeo refinery has 24 tanks full of extremely flammable fuels including gasoline and ethanol as well as pipeline connections to other refineries, according to KTVU.


Comment: Check out this footage of smaller fires on nearby hills, at least one of which was also located at or near what appears to be another large storage tank [begins at 1:50]:


In any event, explosions and fires at chemical facilities are becoming alarmingly common:

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Health

UNICEF: One third of world's young children undernourished or overweight and face lifelong health problems


FRN
Tue, 15 Oct 2019 00:00 UTC
unicef report children undernourished
A third of the world's nearly 700 million under-five-year-olds are undernourished or overweight and face lifelong health problems as a consequence, according to a grim United Nations assessment of childhood nutrition released on Tuesday.
"If children eat poorly, they live poorly," said UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore, as she unveiled the Fund's first State of the World's Children report since 1999 to focus on food and nutrition, AFP reported. "We are losing ground in the fight for healthy diets," she added.
Problems that once existed at opposite ends of the wealth spectrum have today converged in poor and middle-income countries, the report showed. Overall, malnutrition's cost to the global economy is estimated at $3.5 trillion every year. Despite a nearly 40 percent drop from 1990 to 2015 of stunting in poor countries, 149 million children aged four or younger are today still too short for their age, a clinical condition that impairs both brain and body development.
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Family

The Police State's Deadly Toll on America's Children

John W. Whitehead
The Rutherford Institute
Tue, 15 Oct 2019 23:44 UTC
"Mommy, am I gonna die?" — 4-year-old Ava Ellis after being inadvertently shot in the leg by a police officer who was aiming for the girl's boxer-terrier dog, Patches

"'Am I going to get shot again.'" — 2-year-old survivor of a police shooting that left his three siblings, ages 1, 4 and 5, with a bullet in the brain, a fractured skull and gun wounds to the face
US Police State
© The Sleuth Journal
Children learn what they live.

As family counselor Dorothy Law Nolte wisely observed, "If children live with criticism, they learn to condemn. If children live with hostility, they learn to fight. If children live with fear, they learn to be apprehensive."

And if children live with terror, trauma and violence — forced to watch helplessly as their loved ones are executed by police officers who shoot first and ask questions later — will they in turn learn to terrorize, traumatize and inflict violence on the world around them?

I'm not willing to risk it. Are you?

It's difficult enough raising a child in a world ravaged by war, disease, poverty and hate, but when you add the toxic stress of the police state into the mix, it becomes near impossible to protect children from the growing unease that some of the monsters of our age come dressed in government uniforms.

Case in point: in Hugo, Oklahoma, plain clothes police officers opened fire on a pickup truck parked in front of a food bank, heedless of the damage such a hail of bullets — 26 shots were fired — could have on those in the vicinity. Three of the four children inside the parked vehicle were shot: a 4-year-old girl was shot in the head and ended up with a bullet in the brain; a 5-year-old boy received a skull fracture; and a 1-year-old girl had deep cuts on her face from gunfire or shattered window glass. Only the 2-year-old was spared any physical harm, although the terror will likely linger for a long time. "They are terrified to go anywhere or hear anything," the family attorney said. "The two-year-old keeps asking about 'Am I going to get shot again.'"

The reason for the use of such excessive force?

Police were searching for a suspect in a weeks-old robbery of a pizza parlor that netted $400.
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Yellow Vest

Protesters shut down key Catalonian transport routes, face off police at Gov building


RT
Tue, 15 Oct 2019 11:48 UTC
Catalunya
© REUTERS / Vincent Kessler
File photo
Following a night of violence across Catalonia in response to the sentencing of the failed secession movement's leadership, more protests have taken place across the region on Tuesday, targeting transport infrastructure.

There were widespread violent clashes across Barcelona on Monday evening with the city's El Prat airport a major flashpoint after nine leaders of the pro-independence movement were handed prison sentences totalling almost 100 years for their role in a failed secession bid in 2017.

So far on Tuesday, at least 45 flights have been canceled. Meanwhile, multiple highways including the C-17 and C-25 in Gurb, as well as the C-65 near Cassa de Selva, have been blocked off by protesters, while other major transport infrastructure in the region has also been affected.

Comment: More from RT:
WATCH LIVE: Catalans face off with police near Spanish govt building in Barcelona

Sporadic clashes ensued on Tuesday evening after protesters gathered at Barcelona's central Carrer de Mallorca street, where a Spanish government building is located.

Live video feed from the city centre shows large groups of protesters attacking police vans as repeated loud explosions are heard in the background and fires can be seen raging on the streets. Riot police charged protesters who threw flares, bottles and attempted to ram down barricades surrounding government buildings.

At least three people who were in the vicinity of the government building have been detained, according to local police.

The Supreme Court declared on Monday that the jailed separatists were involved in "undeniable" acts of violence during Catalonia's attempt to gain independence from Madrid in 2017. Former Catalan premier Carlos Puigdemont, who led the movement for independence, tweeted from exile in Belgium, calling the verdict an "atrocity." Spain, on its part, renewed its bid to get hands on the rogue politician and issued a new European arrest warrant for Puigdemont himself.

With the prison sentences for separatist leaders providing new impetus for the movement, pro-independence figures have promised to continue their push for a new referendum.



One protester lost his eye in clashes between separatists and police at Barcelona airport on Monday night as tensions erupted over the court ruling.
See also: Spain's suppression of independence movement backfires as Catalan leaders pledge new referendum - Protests rage in Barcelona for second night

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Bullseye

Media hypocrisy is destroying America, but MEMES are the problem? Give me a break!

Nebojsa Malic
RT
Tue, 15 Oct 2019 19:29 UTC
trump video meme
© YouTube/screenshot
A still from 'Trumpman: The MAGA Service' meme video that generated media outrage.
Mainstream media are outraged over a meme video depicting President Donald Trump shooting his critics - but they absolutely loved the movie it was based on, and think nothing of actual violence committed against Trump supporters.

All of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again, as the media mob pursues rage clickbait. This time, the hand-wringing and pearl-clutching is over a meme - excuse me, "fake" and "doctored" - video shown during the American Priority Conference at Trump Doral in Florida this weekend.

Reactions to the video go way beyond what cartoonist Scott Adams has described as seeing "two movies on the same screen." One liberal comedian - entirely seriously - zeroed in on Trump "killing powerful black people" to lament the "cancer that is Trumpism."
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Yellow Vest

Spain's suppression of independence movement backfires as Catalan leaders pledge new referendum - Protests rage in Barcelona for second night

James Badcock
The Telegraph
Tue, 15 Oct 2019 20:14 UTC
barcelona protests

Catalans blockade streets by setting dumpsters alight to prevent riot police forces loyal to Madrid from navigating Barcelona and other cities.
Catalan political leaders said on Tuesday that the long prison terms handed to nine politicians for their role in the 2017 independence referendum had strengthened their determination to force the region's secession from Spain.

Quim Torra, the president of Catalonia, said: "We will never give up on the right to self-determination."

"The intention is to prevent us from doing it again, but we will do it again because holding a referendum is not a crime," he declared.

His defiance came as demonstrators blocked a train station and several motorways in Catalonia on Tuesday, a second day of protests over Monday's jailing of nine separatists by the supreme court over their role in the failed secession bid.

Police intervened to remove the protesters, while a rally in central Barcelona closed a main thoroughfare to traffic and pro-independence leaders vowed to keep pushing for a new referendum.

Comment: But when it's Hong Kong on fire, it's very much the EU's business! And when it comes to taxation and anti-austerity measures, it's definitely the EU's business! Useless jobsworths...

As for the 'internal' Spanish govt; what the hell did they think would happen if they jailed the organizers of the 2017 referendum??

The footage coming out of Barcelona this evening is even more intense than yesterday's:







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Bizarro Earth

'It's an assembly line': De-transitioned man says parents encouraging kids to become transgender are guilty of 'child abuse'


RT
Tue, 15 Oct 2019 18:49 UTC
LGBTQ propaganda kids
© Reuters / Tyrone Siu
A man who lived for eight years as a trans woman before de-transitioning has called out the "child abuse" from adults who encourage transgenderism in kids, saying it's an "abhorrent" interference in their natural development.

Born male, Walt Heyer began transitioning to female at 42 years-old. He lived that way for eight years before realizing he had been a victim of childhood abuse and began the process of returning to his birth-assigned gender.

In an explosive interview with controversial conservative host Candace Owens, Heyer re-told the story of his troubled childhood; how his grandmother sparked gender confusion by encouraging him to wear a purple dress at the age of four - and how he suffered sexual abuse at the hands of an uncle as a direct result.

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Handcuffs

Freed Russian journalist recounts ordeal in Iranian jail


RFE/RL
Tue, 15 Oct 2019 18:52 UTC
Yulia Yuzik

Yulia Yuzik, who had previously lived and worked as a journalist in Iran, was stopped when she arrived in Tehran for a private visit.
Russian journalist and author Yulia Yuzik, who was detained in Tehran for more than a week, says Iranian interrogators accused her of working for Israel and "destroyed me psychologically" before her surprise release.

"They were sure that Yuzik was a Jewish surname, there was no doubt that I was Jewish and worked as an analyst for the Israeli secret services," she told RFE/RL's Russian Service in an interview published on October 12.

Yuzik, who had previously lived and worked as a journalist in Iran, was stopped on September 29 when she arrived in Tehran for a private visit.

Her passport was seized at Imam Khomeini Airport. On October 2, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) officers detained her at her hotel.

Comment: It remains a possibility that this woman could have been an Israeli spy, but with the limited data available it is difficult to tell. Iran can and does over-react from time to time against potential 'outside' threats. That's likely because it regularly faces frequent genuine threats. The fact that this women (as well as her ex) is talking to established US propaganda outlets does however lend some suggestion that there could be more to the story.

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Attention

Islamabad is accused of brainwashing as student body film describes how 'Hind will become Pakistan'


RT
Tue, 15 Oct 2019 07:19 UTC
Students
© Reuters/Mohsin Raza
Students of a madressa in Lahore.
An Islamist students' organization has made quite a stir in India with a video clip, in which teenagers speak about their dreams, including one pledging to avenge every Muslim death at the hands of Indian troops.

The controversial video was produced by Islamiс Jamiat-e-Talaba Pakistan, a large student organization with the goal of promoting Islam and opposing secularism in the country, ahead of an upcoming event in Karachi. In the clip, several teens outline their aspirations for the future, which range from personal to quite political and belligerent.

"We will employ the Indian Army to clean the streets," one student says, while another one threatens the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the paramilitary wing of India's ruling party, and pledges to "avenge the death of every single Muslim" at their hands.

The event that was promoted by the video was dedicated to Kashmir, and India's move to strip decades-old autonomy from the part of the disputed region it currently controls. Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba seems to have big plans for a future conquest in response to the move, since the slogan of the convention, which was held last Saturday, was "When Hind will become Pakistan."
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