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Conservative activist Lauren Southern refusing to pay security bill from Australian police - paying bill would 'enable the thugs'


RT
Mon, 27 Aug 2018 18:23 UTC
Lauren Southern
© Lauren Southern / YouTube
Lauren Southern being cautioned by police in Lakemba, Sydney, amid fears the right-wing speaker may agitate the majority Muslim community
Organizers of right-wing activist Lauren Southern's Australian tour are refusing to pay a security bill of nearly $70,000, accusing Victoria Police of "victim blaming" after violent Antifa protesters crashed her Melbourne show.

Axiomatic Events was issued with the hefty AU$68,000 (US$49,857) bill for police services after left-wing protesters linked with Antifa targeted the Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux Live event in Melbourne on July 20. Police were forced to close roads due to protests. Protesters threw rocks and charged at a bus as it arrived. Police were assaulted in the clashes as left-wing protesters linked to Antifa began throwing punches.

Axiomatic Events Director Dave Pellowe has sent Victoria Police a letter detailing why the company will not pay - despite the Herald Sun revealing that Southern and her people were warned in advance of the $68,000 security bill - despite the actual cost of police protection totalling AU$230,000.
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Video shows migrants land on Spanish beach, while tourists joke 'they're heading for an all-inclusive' hotel


RT
Mon, 27 Aug 2018 20:10 UTC
Migrants land on Spanish beach
A new video shows dozens of people landing on a Spanish beach in an inflatable boat and rushing towards the cliffs while beachgoers joke that they were eager to get some good service at a local all-inclusive hotel.

With thousands of migrants running to Europe from poverty-stricken and war-ravaged parts of Africa, Spanish beaches are becoming a frequent destination as the continents are separated by the Strait of Gibraltar. The footage of this arrival was taken on Sunday at Spain's Costa de la Luz - a popular holiday spot not far from the strait.

Witnesses watched and cheered as the dingy crew abandoned their vessel and rushed towards the cliff, which separates Barrosa Beach from hotels and tourist shops further inland. "'Look how they're running towards the Sancti Petri Melia Hotel," one is heard commenting in Spanish in the video. "They're heading for the all-inclusive Melia Sancti Petri. Look, look, look."
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Western puppet Aleksey Navalny sentenced to 30 days of civil arrest for breaking law on public protests


RT
Mon, 27 Aug 2018 17:22 UTC
Aleksey Navalny
© Eugene Odinokov / Sputnik
Aleksey Navalny
Russian anti-corruption activist-turned opposition politician Aleksey Navalny was sentenced to 30 days of civil arrest for breaching the Russian law on public protests in the course of his January 'voters' strike' event.

The sentence was handed to Navalny on Monday by the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow. Earlier, he told reporters that when he asked investigators why it took them about six months to react to the January events, they said they "could not find him." The interior ministry has not yet issued any official comments regarding Navalny's statement.

In February, Russian news agencies reported that the Tverskoy District Court twice returned the civil case against Navalny to police to correct some technical mistakes in the paperwork.
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ISA: Israeli soldiers' data hacked, leaked to third parties


Sputnik
Sun, 26 Aug 2018 21:10 UTC
Israeli IDF
© Playbuzz
Israeli Defense Forces
Personal information of hundreds of thousands recruits and their relatives has been stolen from the servers of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), according to a report by the authorities. The suspects are said to have fished out sensitive data and sold it over the course of several years.

An investigation by the Israel Securities Authority (ISA) has revealed that between 2011 and 2014 staffers from the so-called recruitment unit, accessed the files of thousands of Israeli soldiers-to-be.

According to the Israeli broadcaster Hadashot news, the four suspected perpetrators used a specially developed program to fish out personal data from these files, including the recruits' and their relatives' contacts. The perpetrators, undetected for years, allegedly sold this information to marketing companies and other third parties.
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Red Flag

Protesters fight with police in German town after local is killed in fight with immigrants


RT
Mon, 27 Aug 2018 20:46 UTC
german police
© Andreas Seidel / DPA / AFP
Police called in reinforcements as hundreds of protesters, including far-right activists, hit the streets in the German city of Chemnitz after the death of a native in a brawl. Two suspects, a Syrian and an Iraqi, were detained.

The right-wing "Kaotic Chemnitz" (Chaotic Chemnitz) football fan group is said to have called for the Sunday rally, which later turned violent.

The demo came after news broke that a 35-year-old German man was fatally stabbed during a fight involving 10 people. Two other men in their 30s, both German, were also injured during the brawl.

The altercation happened at 3:15 AM, and is said to have been caused by a verbal argument. The police had initially refused to name the nationalities of the other men involved, but later said that they were "of various nationalities."
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Recent study reveals catastrophic impact of fracking on US drinking water sources

John Vibes
The Free Thought Project
Sun, 26 Aug 2018 00:00 UTC
Fracking contaminates drinking water
According to a recent study conducted at Duke University revealed that Hydraulic fracking is having a catastrophic impact on water supplies throughout the US. The findings of the study suggest that fracking is using far much more water than before, and putting a huge dent in the amount of drinkable water available in water supplies.

Hydraulic fracturing is a natural gas extraction method that has become extremely controversial for its environmental impacts. Fracking is the process of drilling down into the earth before a high-pressure water mixture is directed at the rock to release the gas inside. Water, sand, and chemicals are injected into the rock at high pressure, which allows the gas to flow out to the head of the well. Wastewater produced from this process is highly toxic and filled with a variety of chemicals.

In many cases, people who live near fracking sites have been able to set fire to the water and air that comes through their pipes. It has also been found to contaminate drinking water. Unfortunately, fracking is still somewhat popular publicly because people know very little about it and it is also popular politically because all of the politicians have a hand in it.

Due to an increased prevalence of seismic activity in the vicinity of fracking areas, many activists have pointed out that this process may cause earthquakes as well.

Comment: Without clean water we die. Water literally is life. Much of the drinking water in the US is contaminated with chemicals ranging from pesticides to pharmaceutical drugs, yet this fact is generally ignored until some major crisis (like Flint) bursts into the headlines:

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Is the collapse of the career politician nigh?

Erick Erickson
Real Clear Politics
Mon, 27 Aug 2018 16:23 UTC
olklahoma politician
© Stephen Pingry/Tulsa World via Associated Press
Kevin Stitt talks to supporters at his watch party for Oklahoma Governor candidate Kevin Stitt
The prevailing consensus among political analysts in the United States about Donald Trump's victory in 2016 centers on the idea that career politicians in America have, over time, become divorced from the realities of day to day existence in America. Washington politicians seem less able to relate to individuals while relating to policies those individuals do not think are helping them.

This is playing out across the country with upstart candidates who have never been in politics convincing voters that they have a better understanding of what to do than career politicians who have dedicated their lives to public service. One of these races is happening in Oklahoma where political newcomer Kevin Stitt is in a runoff against long time Mayor of Oklahoma City, Mick Cornett.
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Saudi-led coalition's bombing and blockade of Yemen prevents cancer patients from receiving vital medicine


RT
Mon, 27 Aug 2018 15:19 UTC
cancer ward Yemen

Civilians are paying a high price in the country’s war, but those who are seriously ill are even more affected. Around 35,000 people have cancer in Yemen, with 11,000 cases diagnosed each year, according to the World Health Organization.
As the Saudi-led coalition continues to bomb and blockade Yemen with no signs of stopping, patients with cancer are being prevented from receiving medicine that could potentially save their lives.

Civilians are paying a high price in the country's war, but those who are seriously ill are even more affected. RT's Ruptly agency spoke to Dr. Anwar Al-Rajawi, head of the oncology department at the National Oncology Center in Sanaa.

"Here in the oncology unit, we suffer from a severe lack of chemotherapy [drugs]. If a child is diagnosed with a malignant tumor, we cannot provide the treatment in a timely manner. We cannot do anything due to the lack of drugs in the protocol," he said.

Comment: The 'world's moral authority' sheds crocodile tears over civilian deaths that can be blamed (whether true or no) on non-allies while ignoring the devastation wrought by their own policies:

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Attention

Two tons of cocaine with United Russia Party logo seized in Belgium


RT
Mon, 27 Aug 2018 15:21 UTC
Russian drugs
© Screenshot / vrt.be
Belgian police have busted a massive cocaine shipment in Ghent, marked with a bear symbol, identical to United Russia Party logo. Party officials took the news lightheartedly.

Nearly two tons of cocaine was uncovered on Tuesday. The drugs were stashed in three containers, arriving at the port city of Ghent from Brazil. Cocaine was packaged into more than 1,900 separate bricks, some of which were branded with a logo depicting a polar bear under the Russian tricolor. The image is practically identical to the official logo of Russia's ruling Party.

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Books

Reading isn't fundamental: Police attempt to make family remove mailbox library

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Mon, 27 Aug 2018 15:14 UTC
mailbox library
We can now add giving away free books as a reason police will show up to your home and threaten you with fines. Earlier this month, that is exactly what happened to a New Jersey family when they built a "Mailbox Library" in their front yard to encourage the neighborhood children to read.

The Hagemeyer family had just finished construction of their new library - which was already being used by children in the neighborhood - when police showed up at their door telling them it needed to be removed.

"We're still shaking our heads over the whole thing," Grace Hagemeyer told Patch.

As Patch reports,
After getting the call and talking to the family, the police initially said there was nothing they can do about it, according to the family, even though thousands of "mailbox libraries" have been popping up all over the country.

Grace said she and her husband, Peter, put one up on their property and had a grand opening on July 29 at their Hardenbergh Avenue home. That same day, they had a visit from police. The next day, they were contacted by code enforcement officers.

The Hagemeyers then were told they had 10 days to take the structure down off their property. The family was initially told that such libraries are not allowed because they're not mentioned in the land-use ordinance.
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