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'There's no point': Russian curler Krushelnitsky decides against CAS hearing for doping case

RT
Wed, 21 Feb 2018 17:31 UTC

Russian Olympic bronze medal curler Alexander Krushelnitsky has decided against the holding of a Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) hearing regarding his doping case for meldonium.

Krushelnitsky announced in a statement, presented to TASS by the Olympic Athletes of Russia (OAR) delegation head Stanislav Pozdnyakov, that he believes a hearing would "not make sense".

"It is silly to deny it, when the presence [of a] banned substance is confirmed by two doping tests. The probes were taken during the Olympic Games, and I am prepared for the corresponding verdict, which is predictable in such situations.

'A gift from fate': Child thought dead for 7 years reunites with Russian couple thanks to bailiffs

RT
Wed, 21 Feb 2018 17:44 UTC

A Russian couple who thought their baby had died shortly after birth were reunited with their child after more than seven years, thanks to bailiffs who had come calling to ask for money for the boy's care.

The touching story with a long-postponed but happy ending began in the southwestern Russian city of Volgograd back in 2011. A couple decided to abandon their newborn as they were told that the baby would not survive for more than a week. However, the parents changed their minds just five days later, and rushed to take their child back, but it was too late as doctors told them that the boy had already died.

Almost seven years later, however, Russia's Federal Bailiffs Service was tasked with recovering money from the parents for the child's care, as the boy was alive and staying in a care home, according to a statement published on Tuesday.

An alumnus' call to Jewish students for Israeli Apartheid Week: 'I faced my Jewish racism. Will you?'

Robert Cohen
Mondoweiss
Mon, 19 Feb 2018 18:32 UTC

© Xinhua/Fadi Arouri
Palestinians wait to cross Qalandia checkpoint on their way to attend Ramadan Friday prayers in Jerusalem on Aug. 3, 2012.

We need to talk about Jewish racism.

I know what you're thinking. How dare I accuse us, a people who've suffered so greatly from prejudice, hatred and persecution, of holding racist attitudes ourselves?

But it turns out that our past experience provides no protection and our communal memories can hinder, not help us.

This particular conversation is about to become more urgent if you're a Jewish student on a campus in the U.K. or Western Europe, North America or Australia.

The 14th annual 'Israeli Apartheid Week' (IAW) takes place around the world from the end of February through mid-April. There'll be talks, film screenings, and mock West Bank security checkpoints and Separation Walls to highlight the daily indignities of Palestinian life in the Occupied Territories. Thirty years after I graduated, I've been invited back to speak to students at Manchester University in the UK. It will be a homecoming - of sorts. But I've become a very different kind of Jew to the one who left there in 1988.

Polish minister seeks "Polocaust" museum to commemorate non-Jewish victims of WWII

RT
Wed, 21 Feb 2018 18:47 UTC

Poland's Deputy Minister of Culture has endorsed the creation of a special "Polocaust" museum to commemorate the non-Jews who died in Poland during World War II.

It is estimated that around three million ethnic Poles were among the six million people who were killed in Poland during the war. Minister Jarosław Sellin said in an interview on Poland's Radio One that he regrets that Poland's suffering isn't more widely known around the world. He said it's time "this terrible fate" was acknowledged.

Sellin made the comments following last week's passing of the so-called "death camp" law, which made it a crime to suggest that Poland had any complicity in Nazi war crimes. The new law has provoked anger in Israel.

With millions of war crimes, a culture of of impunity exists in Afghanistan courtesy of US Empire

RT
Wed, 21 Feb 2018 18:42 UTC

With the extensive presence of "warlords and human-rights abusers," as well as a "culture of impunity" in Afghanistan, over a million victims of alleged war crimes may not receive ICC justice, analysts warn.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) opened up an investigation into the situation in Afghanistan last November and began collecting testimonies with the help of organizations working both in Europe and Afghanistan. Up to January 31, the ICC received 1.17 million allegations of abuses and atrocities at the hands of the Taliban, the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIL/ISIS), Afghan security forces, warlords, the US-led coalition, as well as foreign and domestic intelligence agencies.

Comment: See: Courtesy of the US Empire: Afghanis submit over a million human rights abuse claims in 3 months

"The depth of the crimes in Afghanistan is very extensive," Abdul Wadood Pedram, of the Kabul-based Human Rights and Eradication of Violence Organization, which helped to collect data for the inquiry, told RT. "Unfortunately, the Afghan law and justice organizations have not catered to these cases so far."

"The culture of impunity from law is expanding unfortunately in Afghanistan - the presence of warlords and human rights abusers is extensive right now ... and [the ICC] need to provide an answer to the demand of millions of people who are victims, and have suffered."

Shame! Repent! Facebook ad exec forced to apologize for telling the truth about Russian ads

The Last Refuge
Wed, 21 Feb 2018 18:28 UTC

Good grief, I doubt there is a more apropos example of how liberal echo-chambers generate a sketchy group-think compliance mindset.

After President Trump re-tweeted a discussion thread from Facebook VP of Ads Rob Goldman, which cited analysis done last year of Russian ad purchases/engagement, the liberal hive instantly attacked the executive.

According to Wired.Com Rob Goldman quickly began apologizing for expressing "uncleared thoughts", where those thoughts are actually based on facts - but run counter to the necessary liberal narrative - so they must be repelled at all costs.

This you have to read:

Comment: The next time you speak, be sure to clear your thoughts with the nearest liberal Russia-hater first. You wouldn't want to say something verboten.

Syrian refugee living on benefits with 2 wives, 6 kids in Germany thanks 'Mama Merkel'

RT
Wed, 21 Feb 2018 17:56 UTC

A documentary about a Syrian refugee in Germany, who happily lives on state handouts with his two wives and six kids, has angered many in the country where polygamy is against the law.

The Spiegel TV film was aired over the weekend, telling the story of 32-year-old Ahmad A. who fled the fighting in Syria's Aleppo back in 2015 with his large family, and found a safe haven in Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany.

The man lives in a two-story house provided by the community with two wives and six children. Despite polygamy being illegal in Germany, Ahmad was allowed to bring his second wife into the country as she is the mother of four of his kids.

Comment: No wonder the native German population is turning against 'Mama Merkel'.

US raises security status at its bases across Iraq, after warning by popular forces

FARS
Wed, 21 Feb 2018 19:14 UTC

© FNA
Washington has heightened security at its military bases across Iraq because of what an official claimed to be concerns about threats by Hashd al-Shaabi (Iraqi Popular Forces) against the US continued deployment in the Arab country

"The US army has intensified security measures around its bases in Iraq and prevents presence of forces affiliated to Hashd al-Shaabi in a radius of, at least, 20km," Iraqi officials were quoted as saying by the Arabic-language al-Arabi al-Jadid newspaper on Wednesday.

The officials added that the responsibility to protect the US bases, including Ain al-Assad in al-Anbar province and Balad in Salahuddin province, has been rendered to the Iraqi army and police forces as well as the US forces themselves.

An official at the Secretariat of the Iraqi Government was quoted by the daily as saying that the US army has taken the threats by Hashd al-Shaabi against the presence of its forces in Iraq much seriously.

The report came after spokesman and a senior commander of Iraq's Kata'ib Hezbollah (Hezbollah Battalions) popular forces Jafar al-Hosseini warned that the chances are more than ever that clashes break out between them and the US military men deployed in the Arab country.

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NCA detectives raise official count of child sexual abuse victims in Rotherham to over 1,500

Josh Halliday
The Guardian
Tue, 20 Feb 2018 23:20 UTC

The number of children believed to have been sexually exploited in Rotherham has been raised to 1,510, in the first official increase in the figure since the scandal erupted four years ago.

The National Crime Agency (NCA) detectives revealed the updated figure on Tuesday in a briefing on Operation Stovewood, the investigation into child sexual exploitation over a 16-year period in the South Yorkshire town. Prof Alexis Jay's report in 2014 identified 1,400 victims.

The NCA inquiry, the biggest of its kind in the UK, has identified 110 suspects, of whom 80% are of Pakistani heritage, officers said.

Of the 110, 38 have been arrested, 18 have been charged, two cautioned and four have been convicted and handed prison sentences totalling over 30 years.

Thirty-four investigations are continuing under the Operation Stovewood umbrella, officers said, with six trials to take place later this year.

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Student from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School condemns media for politicizing school shooting to push gun control agenda

Sarah Taylor
The Blaze
Mon, 19 Feb 2018 18:03 UTC

A high school student from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School - the school where Nikolas Cruz allegedly killed 17 people and injured many more - has openly condemned the media for politicizing the tragedy in the days after the Wednesday shooting.

What are the details?

Speaking with The Daily Wire's Ryan Saavedra, high school student Brandon Minoff accused the media of taking the focus off of those killed in the mass shooting and using the massacre for an opportunity to push for gun control.

"I think it's the media," Minoff told Saavedra, pointing to the media, who the outlet reports Minoff believes is pushing gun control as a response to the shooting. "They exploit everything to make it political. They're more concerned about gun control at this moment rather than the fact that there were 17 people that were killed."

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Society's Child

'There's no point': Russian curler Krushelnitsky decides against CAS hearing for doping case

'A gift from fate': Child thought dead for 7 years reunites with Russian couple thanks to bailiffs

An alumnus' call to Jewish students for Israeli Apartheid Week: 'I faced my Jewish racism. Will you?'

Polish minister seeks "Polocaust" museum to commemorate non-Jewish victims of WWII

With millions of war crimes, a culture of of impunity exists in Afghanistan courtesy of US Empire

Shame! Repent! Facebook ad exec forced to apologize for telling the truth about Russian ads

Syrian refugee living on benefits with 2 wives, 6 kids in Germany thanks 'Mama Merkel'

US raises security status at its bases across Iraq, after warning by popular forces

NCA detectives raise official count of child sexual abuse victims in Rotherham to over 1,500

Student from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School condemns media for politicizing school shooting to push gun control agenda

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