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Italy working to find safe home in West for Pakistani Christian woman released from Jail


REF/RL
Wed, 07 Nov 2018 00:00 UTC
PAkistani protestors on Asia Bibi case
© Rizwan Tabassum(AFP)Many Pakistanis protested the acquittal of Christian woman Asia Bibi, who had been charged with blasphemy.
Italian officials say they are working to help relocate a Christian woman acquitted of blasphemy in Pakistan to a country where she and her family would be safe from death threats.

"We are working with other Western countries. We must do it discreetly and carefully," Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini told an Italian radio station on November 6.

"I want women and children whose lives are at risk to be able to have a secure future, in our country or in other Western countries, so I will do everything humanly possible to guarantee that," he said.

Comment: Pepe Escobar: Under the Pakistani Volcano

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Washington State Representative's holy war manifesto: 'Kill all non-Christian men who do not yield'

Mac Slavo
SHTFplan.com
Tue, 06 Nov 2018 00:00 UTC
Washington State Representative Matt Shea
Washington State Representative Matt Shea
A politician has created a manifesto of sorts in which he lays out the case for a "holy war" against non-believers. Washington State Representative Matt Shea, a Republican, says that the holy war would be needed to kill all non-Christian men who "do not yield."

Shea must have missed one of the cardinal rules of Christianity, thou shall not kill, but nonetheless, doesn't hide the fact that he's a violent sociopath hell-bent on killing those with whom he disagrees. The document, which Shea apparently hands out to some folks, was leaked online and on Wednesday the Republican politician took credit for it.
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Boeing's bestselling 737 MAX has system error that can make it 'abruptly dive'


RT
Wed, 07 Nov 2018 17:08 UTC
Boeing 737 MAX series
The Boeing 737 MAX series.
Following the deadly 737 MAX 8 crash in Indonesia, Boeing is preparing to alert airlines that errors in its newest aircraft series can make the plane "abruptly dive," Bloomberg revealed.

The bulletin from Boeing will say that erroneous readings from the jet's flight-monitoring system can cause the planes to "abruptly dive," the news agency reported on Wednesday, citing a person familiar fight the company's plans.

According to the report, the warning is based on the investigation of the Lion Air Flight 610 crash in Indonesia. On October 29, a Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft crashed in the sea shortly after takeoff, killing all 189 people on board.
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Bacon

'Meat tax' which would almost double price of sausages should be brought in to save lives, say 'health experts'

Sarah Knapton
Yahoo!
Tue, 06 Nov 2018 00:01 UTC
sausages
© Getty Images ContributorA £2.50 packet of sausages would rise to £4.47 under the plans
A 'meat tax' which would almost double the price of a packet of sausages should be brought in to prevent thousands of Britons dying each year, health experts have said.

Researchers at Oxford University set out to determine the level of tax needed to offset the healthcare costs of eating red and processed meat.

They calculated that increasing the cost of red meat by 14 per cent, and processed meat by 79 per cent would prevent the deaths of nearly 6,000 people each year and save the NHS nearly £1 billion annually.

Comment: What a load of BS! The inmates are in charge of the asylum! These 'health experts' are clearly a mob of ideologically possessed know-nothings who want to force everyone to change their behavior based on a fantasy of how to save the world. It would be hilarious if it weren't for the dire repercussions this would have if instituted.

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Israeli police arrest man for posing as a doctor to fondle women's breasts


Sputnik
Wed, 07 Nov 2018 02:00 UTC
Israeli police arrest man posing as doctor
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Israeli police arrested a 53-year-old man from central Israel on Monday under suspicion of posing as a doctor in order to examine women's breasts.

The man was named in an Israeli news report, but a court order put a gag on publishing his name.

The alleged perpetrator is accused of running a scheme for over a decade in which he would pretend to be a prominent breast surgeon from Canada. The man would allegedly use an empty room in his company's building to perform fake exams. Dozens of women were reportedly caught up in the scheme. Then, an investigative report by Yedioth exposed him as a writer and executive of a publishing company.

The man would pretend to be a renowned Canadian doctor traveling in Israel. One of his victims, identified only as "Karen," told Yedioth that she was having trouble nursing her newborn child, and nobody could figure out what the issue was. That's when she found a blog belonging to someone who claimed to be a top breast surgeon in Canada, and reached out.
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'The capability': Australia's vast new facial imaging system risks 'profound chilling effect' on dissent

Christopher Knaus
The Guardian
Wed, 07 Nov 2018 18:00 UTC
Facial image matching system Australia
© Dan Peled / AAPThe technology collects and pools facial imagery from sources including driver’s licences and passports. Photograph: Dan Peled/AAP
Civil rights groups have warned a vast, powerful system allowing the near real-time matching of citizens' facial images risks a "profound chilling effect" on protest and dissent.

The technology - known in shorthand as "the capability" - collects and pools facial imagery from various state and federal government sources, including driver's licences, passports and visas.

The biometric information can then rapidly - almost in real time - be compared with other sources, such as CCTV footage, to match identities.

The system, chiefly controlled by the federal Department of Home Affairs, is designed to give intelligence and security agencies a powerful tool to deter identity crime, and quickly identify terror and crime suspects.

But it has prompted serious concern among academics, human rights groups and privacy experts. The system sweeps up and processes citizens' sensitive biometric information regardless of whether they have committed or are suspected of an offence.

Comment: Facecrime: Facial recognition technology ushers in an Orwellian future
The justification for using this technology against a public who is never given the opportunity to consent or to op-out is, as always, public safety, as police and government agencies claim the technology is needed to spot criminal elements, gang members and other threats to the public. Here, a quote from George Orwell offers a glimpse of what the inevitable outcome of this is:
"It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself-anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face (to look incredulous when a victory was announced, for example) was itself a punishable offence. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: FACECRIME, it was called." - 1984, George Orwell


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Khalida Jarrar - The Palestinian attorney that Israel fears

Ramzy Baroud
Dissident Voice
Wed, 07 Nov 2018 00:00 UTC
Khalida Jarrar
Khalida Jarrar
When Israeli troops stormed the house of Palestinian parliamentarian and lawyer, Khalida Jarrar, on April 2, 2015, she was engrossed in her research. For months, Jarrar had been leading a Palestinian effort to take Israel to the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Her research on that very evening was directly related to the kind of behavior that allows a group of soldiers to handcuff a respected Palestinian intellectual, throwing her in jail with no trial and with no accountability for their action.

Jarrar was released after spending over one year in jail in June 2016, only to be arrested once more, on July 2, 2017. She remains in an Israeli prison.

On October 28 of this year, her 'administrative detention' was renewed for the fourth time.

There are thousands of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, most of them held outside the militarily Occupied Palestinian Territories, in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention.
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House

Massive explosion of Pennsylvania home heard, felt 20 miles away in New Jersey

Frank Miles
Fox29
Mon, 05 Nov 2018 18:40 UTC
Pennsylvania home explosion
© NBC News
A house exploded in Pennsylvania Sunday night, causing shock a state away, according to multiple reports.

The 9,000-square-foot home exploded in the community of Gladwyne, in Lower Merion Township, because of a gas leak, right before 8 p.m., the reports said.

"The explosion could be heard township wide," Lower Merion Police Department wrote on Facebook.

WPVI reported the blast was felt as far away as 20 miles away in South Jersey, with residents reporting a large boom and shaken houses.

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Yoda

Russian security services thwarted terrorist attack plot during FIFA World Cup


RT
Wed, 07 Nov 2018 17:20 UTC
FIFA World Cup
© Sputnik / Vladimir Pesnya
Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) operatives foiled several terror plots involving drone attacks and plans to target foreign fans during the FIFA World Cup in Russia.

Secret services took "all necessary measures to identify and prevent the terrorists' attempts to use UAVs," FSB head Aleksandr Bortnikov said at a law enforcement and security meeting on Wednesday.

The nation's top domestic security agency chief added that the operatives managed to bust seven terror groups which were specifically planning to target foreign football fans. He said that terror plots involving drones are becoming more frequent and extremists have also planned to deploy UAVs at other major sports tournaments, as well as various politics-related events.
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UK Royal Mint scrapped Roald Dahl coin over concerns he was anti-Semitic


RT
Wed, 07 Nov 2018 17:20 UTC
Roald Dahl
© Wikimedia CommonsRoald Dahl
The UK's Royal Mint rejected plans to mark the centenary of the birth of hugely popular children's author Roald Dahl over his anti-Semitic views, it has been revealed.

The minutes from a Royal Mint committee meeting held in 2014, obtained by The Guardian via a freedom of information request, showed that the proposal to issue a commemorative coin were axed as Dahl was "associated with antisemitism and not regarded as an author of the highest reputation."

Beatrix Potter, herself an author of children's literature among other work, and master playwright and poet William Shakespeare were chosen for commemorative coins instead.

Comment: My how the times have changed in just a few years! Here's Steven Spielberg's more rational take on the man:
"I began asking questions of people who knew Dahl, they told me he liked to say things he didn't mean just to get a reaction. And that a lot of the anti-Semitic comments he made weren't things that he fervidly believed, because everybody in his life, basically, his whole support team, was Jewish. [...] I just admire "The BFG" and I admire his values in that and it's hard even for me to even believe that somebody who could write something like that could say the terrible things that had been reported."


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