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'Will they promote BDSM next?' Russian PR manager sues Reebok over 'face-sitting' ad


RT
Fri, 15 Feb 2019 17:23 UTC
reebok russia ad
© YouTube / Reebok Russia
Russian PR manager Oleg Voronin has filed a lawsuit against Reebok Russia, claiming that the controversial "face-sitting" ad promotes "destructive ideas" and undermines moral principles.

Voronin who is himself the head of a PR company called Glavpiar, stressed in his lawsuit that the kind of promotion used by Reebok badly impacts the entire PR market, making customers associate "shock advertising" with something vulgar and indecent. Now he is seeking for a monetary compensation of 200,000 rubles ($3,000) for emotional distress caused by the advertisement.

Talking to RT Sport, Voronin said that there should be some limits and a moral code for PR agencies promoting various brands.

"First of all I think it's too much to use toilet humor in promotional campaigns," Voronin said. "I have been cooperating with various companies, using 'shock advertising,' but even the most provocative ad we have created is nothing in comparison with the Reebok campaign. I think there should be some limits for promotional ads."

Comment: The slow creep of Western hedonism moves into the corporate world. How anyone could sit in an advertising meeting and consider this a good idea is beyond us.

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In their own words: Nurses against circumcision

Joel Edwards
Organic Lifestyle
Fri, 15 Feb 2019 16:46 UTC
crying baby
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Childbirth is miraculous, beautiful, traumatic, and overwhelming, all at the same time, for both the baby and the mother. But for many children born today, squeezing through the birth canal is the easy part. Soon after birth, males born to North American women routinely face amputation of a fully functioning, healthy organ - the foreskin.

Circumcision is so commonplace in North America, it has long been considered the norm. The World Health Organization estimates the male circumcision rate in the U.S. to be 76% to 92%, while the rates in most of the Western European countries are less than 20%. Globally, more than 80% of the world's men are left intact. An intact penis is not rare - an intact penis is the norm.

Medical professionals tell parents that circumcision is relatively painless, just a snip and it is over. Nothing could be further from the truth. Aside from the rare but possible complications, which include mutilation of the penis or death, the practice of circumcision is painful and traumatic.

The following nurses have come forward to share their knowledge and experience, to tell the truth about this practice.
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US investor & top partners of Baring Vostok equity fund detained in Moscow on fraud allegations


RT
Fri, 15 Feb 2019 17:15 UTC
handcuffs
© Global Look Press
A Moscow district court has ordered the detention of the founder and senior partner of Baring Vostok private equity, as part of an ongoing inquiry into fraud allegations. Other employees were also taken into custody.

Michael Calvey, a US citizen, was detained in the Russian capital on Friday along with other Baring Vostok associates, Vagan Abgaryan, Philippe Delpal, and Ivan Zyuzin, the firm said in a statement. It said the arrests have nothing to do with the company's activities but relate to a dispute around Russia's Vostochny Bank.

Moscow's Basmanny court is set to consider the next legal motion soon, according to the spokesperson Yunona Tsaryova. Investigators are reportedly seeking the arrest of all the defendants in the case.
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Drone sightings disrupt flights at Dubai International Airport


Al Jazeera
Fri, 15 Feb 2019 16:47 UTC
dubai flights
© Flight RadarIn the UAE, drone owners are required to register with the General Civil Aviation Authority
Flights were briefly halted at Dubai International Airport, which handled nearly 90 million passengers last year.

Flights at Dubai International Airport, one of the busiest in the world, were disrupted on Friday after sightings of a drone flying nearby.

The airport told the AP news agency that it halted flights from 10:13am to 10:45am (local time) over "suspected drone activity".

It said flights were later resumed.

Comment: So 3 of the UK's largest airports, as well as New Jersey in the US, have now had flights disrupted due to reports of drones. And yet, curiously, no drones have been captured or even photographed by the authorities:

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Russian toddler who survived 30 dire cold hours under rubble of collapsed building comes home


RT
Thu, 14 Feb 2019 16:45 UTC
Russian baby
© Sputnik / Ramil SitdikovVanya Fokin and his mom after being released from a Moscow hospital.
The Fokins family must have a most qualified guardian angel looking after their baby boy. On New Year's Eve their home folded in on itself after a blast, and the toddler spent over 30 hours in freezing cold under rubble.

Little Vanya will be celebrating his first birthday in a new home come Saturday. He and his mom Olga were finally released from a Moscow hospital this week, after doctors confirmed that the ordeal he went through left him almost without a scratch. Many call it nothing short of a miracle.

Cradle turned into death trap

The Fokins, a family of four, lived in an apartment building in Magnitogorsk, a large city in the Russian southern Urals famous for its metal industry. On the morning of December 31, it was rocked by a powerful blast, which the authorities say was caused by a gas leak. Two 10-storey stacks of apartments came down, killing 39 people and injuring 17 others.

Vanya, his mother and three-year-old brother were sleeping in their apartment, which was located on the fourth floor over an arch. The father, Yevgeny, was working the night shift. When their entire home suddenly fell to the ground level, a dazzled Olga carried her elder son away, but the baby remained behind, trapped in his cradle.

Comment: See also: Apartment block demolished following deadly NYE blast in Magnitogorsk, 39 people died in the tragedy

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Former Chicago cop Jason Van Dyke beaten in Connecticut prison

Michael Sneed
Chicago Sun Times
Fri, 15 Feb 2019 11:28 UTC
Jason Van Dyke
© AFP file photoFormer Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke, left, and his attorney Daniel Herbert listen to proceedings during Van Dyke's sentencing hearing at the Leighton Criminal Court Building on January 18.
Former Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke, who last month received a 6-year, 9-month prison sentence for the murder of teenager Laquan McDonald, has been assaulted by prison inmates in his cell in Connecticut, his wife said Wednesday.

Van Dyke was transferred earlier this month to a federal prison in Connecticut. Hours after his arrival, he was placed in the general population before being assaulted in his cell. His wife, Tiffany, is planning to hold a news conference, tentatively scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Thursday, to protest the attack on her husband.

"We are all petrified and in fear for Jason's life," Tiffany Van Dyke told the Sun-Times. "Jason just wants to serve his sentence. He does not want any trouble. I hope prison officials will take steps to rectify this right away. He never should have been in the general population."
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Florida man accused of being 'fake doctor' after claiming to cure diabetes


Fox 13 News
Fri, 15 Feb 2019 11:28 UTC
Onelio Hipolit-Gonzalez
Onelio Hipolit-Gonzalez and some of the equipment he was found with at the time
Investigators say Hipolit-Gonzalez has never had a medical license of any kind in the state of Florida.

Deputies say Hipolit-Gonzalez arranged to meet a patient at a home on February 7 and, when the patient arrived, he was asked to fill out papers and pay $160.

Deputies say Hipolit-Gonzalez then checked the patient's blood pressure and then put a band around his head and asked him to hold a metal rod connected to a machine on a table that began making beeping noises once it was turned on.
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Ethnic cleansing: Israel cuts water supply off to 17 Palestinian communities in West Bank


Sputnik
Thu, 14 Feb 2019 03:40 UTC
water fountain
© Flickr/ Martina Yach
Israeli forces this week opted to cut off water supply lines feeding into more than a dozen communities in the West Bank city of Hebron, according to the Palestine News Network.

In total, the changes will affect 17 Mafasir Yatta communities, where an estimated 1,500 Palestinians reside.

The Wednesday move has been largely criticized by locals as yet another Israeli measure to force Palestinians away from their home in order to expand settlements, PNN reported.

A 2009 Amnesty International report on Palestinian access to water supplies notes that "Palestinian consumption in the [Occupied Palestinian Territories] is about 70 litres a day per person - well below the 100 litres per capita daily recommended by the World Health Organization - whereas Israeli daily per capita consumption, at about 300 litres, is about four times as much."

Comment: This isn't the first time Israel has barbarically cut off one of the most essential of human needs to Palestinians:

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Best of the Web: Is there really such a thing as the "Judeo-Christian tradition"?

Philip C. Almond
ABC
Thu, 14 Feb 2019 23:17 UTC
Ten commandments movie film drive-in
© J. R. Eyerman/Life Magazine/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty ImagesCharlton Heston as Moses in The Ten Commandments, in 1958.
The notion of a "Judeo-Christian tradition" conceals the Western history of anti-Judaism, even when seeming to extol the virtue of Jewish identity.

These days, the term "the Judeo-Christian tradition" is most often meant to evoke "those religious, ethical, or cultural values or beliefs regarded as being common to both Judaism and Christianity." Obvious enough, perhaps. But then, when asked to specify what these religious, ethical, or cultural values or beliefs really are, we quickly find ourselves struggling.

So before asking what the term "Judeo-Christian tradition" means or what its particular "values or beliefs" are, we first need to ask what work the term "Judeo-Christian" is doing in the modern West?

It may come as a surprise to many that it has a very short history. In its current dominant meaning, it is virtually unknown before the Second World War, only really coming into vogue in the mid-1940s. If we look at the peaks and troughs of the usage of "Judeo-Christian" on Google Ngram ― which is useful here simply as a heuristic device ― we can see that from 1800 to 1935 the term is virtually non-existent. Then, we note two surges in its usage, from 1935 to 1951 and then again from 1962 to 2000, with peaks in 1942 and 1992. From 2000, its usage begins to climb again.
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New Zealand publication gets it right: Jordan Peterson is the 'most misreported person of modern era'


Sputnik
Thu, 14 Feb 2019 11:09 UTC
Jordan Peterson
© CC BY-SA 2.0 / Gage Skidmore / Jordan Peterson
The brilliant Canadian polemicist, YouTube sage, and self-described "classical British liberal" has been called "one of the front line warriors in the culture war against wokeness, social justice and the perpetually outraged".

In anticipation of psychology professor and free speech advocate Jordan Peterson's upcoming tour across New Zealand, Sean Plunket, a local broadcast celebrity, stressed that the embattled thinker enjoys "massive mainstream support" in his country, something that the "woke left" needs to reckon with, he claimed.

Plunket, the host of Magic Talk's afternoon show and a long-time fixture in New Zealand broadcast journalism, told the AM Show that professor Peterson's stance against political correctness resonates well with his compatriots.

This follows and interview between Plunket and Auckland Peace Action activist Iris Krzyzosiak, in which the latter denounced Peterson as "homophobic, misogynistic, and racist".

Comment: If only the reactionary lefty would listen a little more to Peterson - and a little less to what their colleagues think Peterson is saying.

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