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Cannabis investors descend on Mayfair hotel to talk marijuana legalization


RT
Mon, 30 Apr 2018 16:34 UTC
Weed
© Arnd Wiegmann / Reuters
Around 200 people have gathered in central London for the Cannabis Invest Conference 2018 to discuss the financial opportunities that cannabis legalization in the UK could bring.

Investors filled the conference rooms of a Mayfair hotel to hear of the benefits legalization could bring to the UK economy. Nine states in the US have already legalized the drug, and later in the year Canada will become the first country in the G8 to completely legalize the drug.

Legal cannabis sales in North America were expected to hit $10 billion by the end of 2017 - a 33 percent increase from 2016, according to a new report released by cannabis industry analysts at Arcview Market Research.

Some are positive that decriminalization is on the horizon for the UK. Cam Battley, chief corporate officer of Aurora Inc, a Canadian cannabis supplier, said that he expects to see cannabis in the UK medical system.

Comment: See also: 'My gladiator lay down his shield': Toddler Alfie Evans dies in Britain after UK court refuses his travel for possible treatment

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Mandated transgender brainwashing: California school district forbids parents from opting children out of LGBT 'education'

Todd Starnes
ToddStarnes.com
Wed, 25 Apr 2018 00:00 UTC
Rainbow flag
Parents in Orange County, California may not opt their children out of lessons related to gender identity or sexual orientation, according to a memorandum written by the school district's general counsel.

"Parents who disagree with the instructional materials related to gender, gender identity, gender expression and sexual orientation may not excuse their children from this instruction," read the memorandum from Ronald Wenkart to the Orange County Board of Education.

A school district spokesman confirmed the authenticity of the memorandum sent to us by a parent.

"However, parents are free to advise their children that they disagree with some or all of the information presented in the instructional program and express their views on these subjects to their children," the attorney wrote.

Comment: The 'authorities' are becoming increasingly bold in their assertions that they are better qualified than parents to assess what is best for their children, setting dangerous precedents toward total control by the state:

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Man sues 'lifeguard & cops' who rescued him from drowning in pool


RT
Mon, 30 Apr 2018 16:39 UTC
Man at pool
A man who tried to drown himself in a swimming pool is reportedly suing the lifeguard and police officers who rescued him.

Mateusz Fijalkowski was assistant manager of the swimming pool in which he tried to end his life during a bipolar episode in Fairfax, Virginia, in May 2016. The incident left him with more than $100,000 in medical bills. Now he has accused the police of not doing enough to protect him from himself.

In a lawsuit filed on Friday the 23-year-old Polish man says the eight officers, from Fairfax County Police Department, who attended the scene watched the incident unfold and prevented a lifeguard from jumping in to save him, The Washington Post reports. Fijalkowski says he was left underwater for more than two minutes.

"The police allowed me to sink before their eyes," Fijalkowski told the newspaper. "I'm glad that in the end they realized that they shouldn't let me drown, but I don't thank them for letting me die, clinically, before their eyes."
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A tale of two babies: Royal Family celebrates their newest member as they remain silent over death of Alfie Evans

Derek Hunter
Townhall
Sun, 29 Apr 2018 12:01 UTC
alfie evans
One of the smartest things our Founding Fathers did was resist the urge to follow most of human history and rid this country of the concept of nobility. And thank God they did. If they hadn't, we'd be "subjects," subservient to the state and a ruling class. The eternal wisdom of the men who created the United States of America was on full display again this week thanks to the different ways two babies are being treated by our old colonizers.

The Royal Family in England welcomed a new baby this week, little Prince Louis Arthur Charles. And good for them, babies are a joy. They can be a handful, but a joy nonetheless. When you have millions of dollars and a staff, the "handful" part is likely much less, but the joy part remains.

Little Louis is being showered with attention, both by his family (and their staff) and the media. Moreover, the world is following the latest news involving the newborn who sits fifth in line for the throne.

Also in England, a 23 month of boy named Alfie Evans was not in line for any throne. He, too, was getting media attention, but not nearly as much as the newly minted Royal. The attention Alfie received was not a celebration of his life, it was waiting for this death.
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7,500 joined march in support of banned internet messenger Telegram held in Moscow


RT
Mon, 30 Apr 2018 14:36 UTC
Protest
© Grigoriy Sisoev / Sputnik
Crowds have gathered in central Moscow to join a protest in support of Telegram messenger, which has recently been banned by Russian authorities. The rally was peaceful, according to police.

Some 7,500 people joined the march and rally in support of the messaging app, which was held on Sakharov Avenue around 2:00pm local time, Moscow police said in a statement. The event, organized by a group of activists, was earlier approved by Moscow City Hall.

The demonstrators marched through the street holding placards and banners that read: "Ban is not a solution" and "For the freedom of internet!" At the end of the rally protesters launched paper planes, a symbol associated with the messaging service.

The rally was peaceful with no breaches of public order, according to local police. "The police officers together with the National Guard provided security as well as maintained law and order," law enforcement said, adding that no violations were registered.

Comment: See also: Russia's move to block Telegram created wider access problems for Russian Internet users

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Bad Guys

Kanye-Trump love-fest just demonstrates everything wrong about America?

Michael McCaffrey
RT
Sat, 28 Apr 2018 16:29 UTC
Kanye West
Sometimes a story comes along that perfectly encapsulates the flaming disaster area that is American culture and politics. This is that story.

"I don't even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in." - Kanye West

I must confess that I am one of those strange people who likes my music to be made by musicians who can actually play instruments and/or sing, and who prefers the artistry of cinema to the banality of reality television, and admires the mastery of the acting craft over the insipid vanity of celebrity. It is because of these feelings that I was so instinctively repulsed by a story that dominated the news this past week... and yet, to my great shame, could not turn away from it.

The story in question came into being when the rancid concoction of a self-proclaimed rap messiah, his celebrity queen wife, and a reality TV president, were all mixed together to create a supernova of self-promotion so powerfully vacuous and vapid that it may cause the universe to collapse in upon itself.

The rap messiah is none other than Kanye West, also known as Yeezy, Yeezus, and KanYeezy. The celebrity queen is his wife Kim Kardashian, and the reality TV President is Donald Trump.
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Bad Guys

Leaked video shows Austria's UN peacekeepers withholding information from Syrian police resulting in their deaths moments later in ambush


RT
Sun, 29 Apr 2018 11:45 UTC
FILE PHOTO: UN peacekeepers patrol Mount Bental in the Golan Heights on October 23, 2017.
© Amir Cohen / Reuters
FILE PHOTO: UN peacekeepers patrol Mount Bental in the Golan Heights on October 23, 2017.
Austria probes reports that its peacekeepers knowingly allowed Syrian police to enter a deadly trap in the Golan Heights in 2012. Austrian media was told by an ex-peacekeeper that troops in general had orders to not interfere.

The probe was opened after a video of the incident was published by the Austrian weekly Der Falter. The outlet says it received the video along with photos from "a whistleblower."

The footage is said to show Syrian smugglers setting up an ambush behind rocks. One hour later, officers from what is described by the outlet as Syrian "secret police" arrive and the UN peacekeepers have a chat with them.

Comment: The UN, like many Western NGOs, is proving to be a haven for deviants and psychopaths:

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Citizens 'arrest': Pedophiles on run from police doused in paint and tied to a bench in Northern Ireland

Kate Buck
Metro.co.uk
Sun, 29 Apr 2018 15:34 UTC
convicted pedophiles doused paint argh northern ireland
© Photopress
Angry locals decided to take justice into their own hands

Two sex offenders who were on the run from police were doused in blue paint and tied to a bench in a citizen's arrest.

James White, 48, and Jason Lydiard, 26, also known as Alexis Guesto, were spotted in south Armagh, Northern Ireland, by people who recognised them from police appeals.

White and Lydiard, both convicted paedophiles, were spotted in footage shared on social media with their hands tied behind their backs, having been covered in paint.
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'It's standard practice': Twitter sold massive data to Global Science Research, company involved in Cambridge Analytica scandal


Sputnik
Mon, 30 Apr 2018 15:41 UTC
twitter
© AP Photo / Matt Rourke, File
Another social media tycoon has been reported to profit from obtaining users' data with a Cambridge Analytica-affiliated man. For one day, the researcher, who got the personal info of millions of Facebook users, was granted massive public data from Twitter. It's said to be standard practice.

A link between Twitter and Cambridge Analytica has been brought to light after it was revealed that the corporation sold massive data access to a man behind selling info of 87 million Facebook users to a political consulting firm.

In 2015, Aleksandr Kogan's commercial firm Global Science Research (GSR) bought access to data from Twitter for one day. Kogan later became notorious for creating a quiz to obtain private information from Facebook for Cambridge Analytica. The Silicon Valley company admitted the fact. But according to Twitter, which conducted an internal probe, Kogan's firm didn't leak any private data. The sold information was based on tweets made from December 2014 to April 2015.

Comment: No surprise there. If anything, we're just seeing the tip of the iceberg. See also:

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25 people killed in two Daesh suicide blasts in Kabul, including 8 journalists (VIDEO)


Sputnik
Mon, 30 Apr 2018 16:18 UTC
Afghanistan ambulance
© AP Photo / Musadeq Sadeq
Journalists gathered to cover an explosion that had struck the Afghan capital earlier, when another deadly blast occurred.

A spokesperson for the health ministry confirmed that 8 journalists, including an AFP photographer, are among 25 people killed in double suicide blasts in the Afghan capital. The injured toll from the Kabul attack stands at 45, according to city's police spokesman.


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