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Russia: Lawmakers urge bill for journalists' protection after 3 reporters were murdered in Africa

RT
Wed, 01 Aug 2018 10:54 UTC

Russian MPs have supported the idea of a bill offering social guarantees to reporters working in "hot spots" and on other dangerous missions after three Russian journalists were killed in the Central African Republic.

The head of the Lower House Committee for Information Policy and Communications, MP Leonid Levin (Fair Russia), said in comments with RIA Novosti that he personally expected the State Duma to pass the bill during the next parliamentary session.

"The sad incident is yet another reminder about the dangers and risks that are an inseparable part of mass media's work. I expect that the bill on social guarantees to journalists who work in hot spots will be passed during the fall session," RIA Novosti quoted the lawmaker as saying on Wednesday. He also expressed his condolences to friends and relatives of the killed journalists.

Levin's comments came soon after it was confirmed that three Russian journalists: Orhan Dzhemal, Aleksandr Rastorguyev, and Kirill Radchenko had been killed in the Central African Republic in what local authorities describe as a robbery.

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Police in Wyoming looking for culprit who tore down US flag and replaced it with Nazi flag

RT
Wed, 01 Aug 2018 18:50 UTC

Police are hunting those who tore down a US flag, flying in a public park in Laramie, southwestern Wyoming, and replaced it with the flag of Nazi Germany. The authorities say they aren't used to hate crimes like this.

The flag used by the Third Reich was discovered flying in Washington Park on Monday. The US flag, originally hoisted atop of the flagpole, was found nearby, shoved into a corner of a band shell.

The Swastika banner was removed by police and taken in as evidence, local media reports.

No signs of vandalism were found at the scene, and no charges have yet been filed. The Laramie Police Department, nevertheless, is looking for the culprits and asking the residents for assistance. Locals are asked to inform the police of any suspicious activity relating to the flag incident.

South Korean cult leader arrested after confiscating passports of worshippers, also implicated in ritual beatings and brain damage

RT
Wed, 01 Aug 2018 18:28 UTC

A South Korean cult leader has been arrested after she allegedly confiscated the passports of 400 of her worshippers, subjected them to ritual beatings, and left them stranded in Fiji.

Shin Ok-ju was arrested at South Korea's Incheon International Airport, along with three other leaders of Grace Road Church, reports The Korean Times.

Shin's worshippers started following her to Fiji in 2014 because she predicted a famine on the Korean peninsula. Once they arrived, their passports were reportedly seized and a selected group of "guardians" prevented them from leaving.

North Carolina police dept. suspends multiple cops, charges them with conspiracy

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Mon, 30 Jul 2018 00:00 UTC

Blowing the one bad apple theory out of the water, an entire department in North Carolina has been suspended after the two top cops were arrested for conspiracy.

All too often those who continuously apologize for crimes committed by police officers are able to justify some of the most egregious instances of outright murder by claiming the officer was a bad apple. Almost as often, however, as TFTP has shown numerous times, the bad apple theory is exactly that - a theory - with no evidence to support it.

Illustrating the nature of the bad apple theory is the fact that another entire police department in North Carolina was suspended recently after the department's chief and lieutenant were arrested on conspiracy charges.

Tommy Robinson wins appeal overturning 'flawed' contempt of court conviction

RT
Wed, 01 Aug 2018 18:02 UTC

Tommy Robinson's conviction for contempt of court has been overturned after a court ruled that the process leading to the conviction of the former leader of the English Defence League 'was flawed.'

Lord Chief Justice Lord Burnett, along with two other judges, quashed a finding of contempt, ordering a fresh hearing of the allegation. Robinson did not attend court but witnessed his appeal hearing via videolink.

Robinson's supporters broke into applause as Lord Burnett announced the decision, prompting the judge to order "silence."

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Technically, he broke the law, but is Tommy Robinson really in prison because he drew attention to 'grooming gangs'?

Marveling at the corrupt hackery of Michael Cohen's lawyer, Lanny Davis

David Harsanyi
The Federalist
Wed, 25 Jul 2018 17:52 UTC

Lanny Davis

Davis' preternatural chutzpah puts most contemporary partisans to shame

Please don't misunderstand me: I can appreciate a a good porn-star-payoff sex scandal featuring secret recordings as much as the next guy. It's just that I was hoping our new political melodrama would feature some fresh faces. While it's going to be fascinating to watch a shyster like Michael Cohen be transformed into a hero of The Resistance, America - even with all our transgressions - simply doesn't deserve Lanny Davis. None of us do.

For those of you who didn't experience the rollicking '90s, Davis can be properly described as a personification of the cliché, "everything that's wrong with Washington." Cringingly slavish to those in power, a consigliere, fundraiser, surrogate, and cheerful liar, Davis was a perpetual presence on cable TV during the Clinton scandals. Few men in history have ever been able to summon his kind of loyalty in the pursuit of shameless, transparent deceit and corruption.

Air Force destroys ballistic missile during test launch due to 'anomaly'

RT
Wed, 01 Aug 2018 17:53 UTC

A Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile test ended in failure when the projectile was ordered to self-destruct due to an "anomaly" that developed during the flight, the US Air Force has confirmed.

The test missile, minus the nuclear warhead, was launched early Tuesday morning from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The self-destruct signal was sent at 0442 Pacific time (1142 GMT).

No details were made available as to what exactly happened to warrant the self-destruct signal.

"An anomaly is any unexpected event during the test," the Air Force's Global Strike Command said in a statement. "Since anomalies may arise from many factors relating to the operational platform itself, or the test equipment, careful analysis is needed to identify the cause."

The wisdom Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi learned in colonial Israeli prison

Juan Cole
TruthDig
Wed, 01 Aug 2018 17:42 UTC

Ahed Tamimi and her mother were given petty and mean-spirited sentences of eight months by a colonial Israeli military judge presiding over stateless, occupied people who are intensively patrolled by the Israeli jackboot while their land, water, and well-being are gradually stolen from them by the judge's cousins. Tamimi as a 17-year-old girl slapped a couple of Israel Occupation personnel attempting to barge into her home. She and others had participated in a demonstration against Israelis squatting nearby on Palestinian land and encroaching on her hometown, during which there was some stone throwing at the Israeli troops who came to stop people from protesting. Those troops shot her cousin in the head with a rubber bullet. That was when Ahed went out and slapped them.

Amazingly, Tamimi used the experience of being jailed, as many colonial subjects in imperial detention cells have - including Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi - to her advantage. Kuwait's KUNA news service reported:

Video shows Russian Su-34 fighter jet destroying ship with supersonic missile in naval drill

RT
Wed, 01 Aug 2018 17:45 UTC

A video has surfaced capturing a Russian Su-34 fighter jet destroying a target vessel with a supersonic missile during a naval drill in the Caspian Sea.

The Russian warplane can be seen launching a Kh-31 missile (NATO name: AS-17 Krypton), which hits a drifting target ship. The vessel immediately explodes, and the jet is filmed landing at an airbase later.

The action was filmed last week during a massive drill in the Caspian Sea. The exercise was reported to include the forces from the Caspian Sea Flotilla, and involved around 40 aircraft. Apart from the pictured Su-34 jet, bombers Su-23 and fighter jets Su-25 also conducted maneuvers and practiced hitting targets.

Lawyer for Maria Butina reminds the world that client isn't charged with spying

RT
Wed, 01 Aug 2018 17:27 UTC

Media reports that portray Maria Butina as a spy misrepresent the actual charges leveled against her, and no evidence has been produced to back allegations that the Russian activist was a "honey trap," Butina's lawyer told RT.

Sensational reports about Butina's alleged activities in Washington read like a spy novel, but the US government's case against the 29-year-old Russian student and gun activist is far more mundane, Robert Driscoll, Butina's lawyer, told RT in an exclusive interview.

"If you read the indictment of the case, she is alleged to be an agent of Russia who failed to register with the attorney general. Essentially, that means that they have not charged her with espionage and if you read the allegations against her, none of the allegations have anything spy-like about it. Essentially, the government is conceding that even under their own theory, if she had filed a piece of paper with the attorney general's office at the beginning of her trip to America, everything she did was legal."

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These days in America, there are non stop false flags, hoaxes, psyops, and staged deceptions--that's literally all we get.

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Society's Child

Russia: Lawmakers urge bill for journalists' protection after 3 reporters were murdered in Africa

Police in Wyoming looking for culprit who tore down US flag and replaced it with Nazi flag

South Korean cult leader arrested after confiscating passports of worshippers, also implicated in ritual beatings and brain damage

North Carolina police dept. suspends multiple cops, charges them with conspiracy

Tommy Robinson wins appeal overturning 'flawed' contempt of court conviction

Marveling at the corrupt hackery of Michael Cohen's lawyer, Lanny Davis

Air Force destroys ballistic missile during test launch due to 'anomaly'

The wisdom Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi learned in colonial Israeli prison

Video shows Russian Su-34 fighter jet destroying ship with supersonic missile in naval drill

Lawyer for Maria Butina reminds the world that client isn't charged with spying

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