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Russia willing to lift ban on Telegram if company gives access to its encrypted messages to FSB


RT
Tue, 28 Aug 2018 16:54 UTC
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Russia's telecom watchdog has reiterated its willingness to consider lifting a ban on popular messaging app Telegram if it agrees to follow a court order to give access to the content of its encrypted messages.

Telegram was ordered last year by a court in Russia to provide decryption keys that would allow law enforcement to read messages of suspected criminals sent through its service. It failed to comply, saying that the order is impossible to follow, since the encryption and decryption of messages is done on user devices. Roscomnadzor (RKN), the Russian telecommunication watchdog, was subsequently authorized to block the service in Russia until it changes its policy.

On Tuesday RKN reiterated its position, saying the ban - the enforcement of which was an ordeal for the office - may be lifted once Telegram gives assurances it follow court decisions.

Telegram does not appear to be changing its stance. A lawyer representing it reiterated that it can only go as far as providing limited data on its individual users, if a court orders it necessary.
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Amazon is banning revisionist history books

Michael Hoffman
The Unz Review
Sat, 25 Aug 2018 16:50 UTC
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On August 13, 2018 Amazon banned Judaism's Strange Gods: Revised and Expanded, which was published in 2011 and sold by Amazon for the past seven years. Along with the much larger study, Judaism Discovered, (sold by Amazon since 2008), it has had an international impact both as a softcover volume as well as a digital book circulating on the Amazon Kindle.

Sales to India, Japan and the Middle East were rapidly growing. The digital Kindle format is particularly important for the free circulation of books because it bypasses borders and customs and hurdles over the prohibitive cost of shipping which the US Postal Service imposed on mail to overseas destinations several years ago (eliminating economical surface mail).

Amazon has also banned The Great Holocaust Trial: The Landmark Battle for the Right to Doubt the West's Most Sacred Relic (sold by Amazon since 2010).

These volumes maintain a high standard of scholarly excellence, had a majority of favorable reviews by Amazon customers, are free of hatred and bigotry and have sold thousands of copies on Amazon. Out of the blue we were told that suddenly "Amazon KDP" discovered that the books are in violation of Amazon's "content guidelines." Asking for documentation of the charge results in no response. It is enough that the accusation has been tendered. The accused are guilty until proved innocent, although how proof of innocence is presented is anyone's guess. There is no appeals process. This is what is known as "Tech Tyranny."

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Russia plans to increase military roles available to female cadets


RT
Tue, 28 Aug 2018 16:46 UTC
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Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu has disclosed plans to expand the list of military roles that can be undertaken by female cadets and students - both in military schools and universities with military education centers.

"Every year we receive hundreds of letters and inquests, we are facing the same question over and over again: why young men can undergo military training and girls cannot? I want to say that since recently the girls also can do it. We will do everything for them to undergo military training, though, naturally, not in all military professions," Sergey Shoigu said on Tuesday as he met with the head of the Khakassia region and the heads of civilian universities in Abakan, South Siberia.

The statement came after one of Shoigu's deputies, Nikolai Pankov, said that, at the moment, a very large number of young Russian women wanted to enter military service and receive military education. He added that competition among women to enter existing military schools is "beyond all limits."
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Foolish: Siberian crime boss picks fight with soldiers and gets shot to death


RT
Tue, 28 Aug 2018 16:41 UTC
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In what may have been the worst decision in his life, a local criminal boss in a Siberian town reportedly picked a fight with soldiers from a passing railroad convoy, only to be shot to death by a guard on duty.

The bizarre incident happened on Monday night at the railway station in Petrovsk-Zabaykalsky, a town of just over 16,000 residents located about 200km southeast of Lake Baikal in Siberia - famous for being the destination of exile for 71 of the officers behind the failed 1825 coup in imperial Russia.

The official military report on the matter is brief and is lacking in details. It simply states that an armed guard of a military convoy lawfully discharged his service firearm when engaging trespassers who ignored his warning shot and attacked the patrol, and that it resulted in one fatality among the attacking party.
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Protestors and police officers injured as violence flares again over fatal stabbing of German man by migrants


RT
Tue, 28 Aug 2018 14:10 UTC
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Some 20 people, including two police officers, have been injured in fresh unrest between far-right protesters and leftists in the Germany city of Chemnitz. It follows Sunday's mayhem sparked by the fatal stabbing of a German man.

Police announced new data on the wounded at a news conference on Tuesday, as they briefed the press on the Monday evening unrest. Earlier, they said that people were hurt due to fireworks and other objects being thrown around. Around 600 security forces were deployed to the streets, struggling to keep the estimated 6,000-strong far-right rally separate from the group of 1,500 anti-fascist demonstrators.

Some 43 cases were launched for alleged assaults, use of banned organizations' symbols, and misconduct on Monday, according to police.

The clashes were a follow-up to a mass protest on Sunday which saw far-right protesters and anti-Nazi counter-protesters hitting the streets of the eastern German city. The anger and frustration were sparked by the death of a 35-year-old German in a brawl that involved around 10 people from "various nationalities."

Comment: See also: Protesters fight with police in German town after local is killed in fight with immigrants

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Terrorist manual found at New Mexico jihadist compound - FBI was reportedly keeping tabs on the group

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Sun, 26 Aug 2018 15:00 UTC
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A handwritten document titled "Phases of a Terrorist Attack" was found at a New Mexico encampment where the son of a famous New York Imam allegedly murdered his three-year-old son and trained several children to commit acts of terrorism, reports CNN.
The handwritten document contained "instructions for 'The one-time terrorist,' instructions on the use of a 'choke point,' a location 'called the ideal attack site,' the 'ability to defend the safe haven,' the 'ability to escape-perimeter rings,' and 'sniper position detection procedure,'" according to the court filing.

Some of the children at the compound told police that Morten allegedly "stated he wished to die in Jihad, as a martyr," prosecutors said in the motion.

"At times, Jany Leveille would laugh and joke about dying in Jihad as would Subhanna Wahhaj," according to the court document. -CNN
Prosecutors have asked judge Sarah Backus to reconsider an order granting bond to five adults arrested at the compound - citing "not only the death of three-year-old Abdul Ghani Wahhaj at the remote site, but also plans by the defendants to attack law enforcement and "specific targets such as teachers, schools, banks and other "corrupt" institutions."

The defense, meanwhile, has asked Backus to dismiss the charges.

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'We feel like foreigners': German mother on son's alien daycare environment where only 2 in 25 speak German


RT
Tue, 28 Aug 2018 11:45 UTC
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© Facebook / Leen Kroetsch"I'm scared, I'm scared for my son's future and I do not know what to expect next. My son and I feel here like foreigners. Was that intended?" she said, adding that she might be "forced to immigrate someday" herself.
In a polarizing viral video with almost 2 million views, the mother of a 3-year-old boy complains that her son cannot socialize with other kids in a public nursery, as only two out of 25 can speak German.

In a Facebook video post filmed on August 15, the mother, Leen Kroetsch, takes aim at German politicians for what she claims is a botched immigration policy which is forcing her 3-year-old, who has no immigrant background, to adjust to an alien environment in the daycare center.

Kroetsch claims that out of 25 children, her son's group consists of only two without an immigrant background and who can speak German fluently, while the other 23 are unable to understand German at all. At the same time, these other children, according to Kroetsch, can easily communicate with each other while speaking in their mother tongues, which her son obviously does not speak.


Comment: Most politicians are so out of touch with the realities on the ground that they aren't fully cognizant how swiftly they are facilitating the rise of anti-immigrationists.

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Don't drink the water! Kansas residents drank contaminated water for over six years - while the state kept silent about chemical tests


RT
Mon, 27 Aug 2018 18:56 UTC
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The state of Kansas failed to act on tests showing that groundwater in a Wichita suburb had been contaminated, allowing hundreds of residents to use tainted water wells for more than six years, before taking action.

The state discovered chemicals in the groundwater on a property that formerly housed a dry-cleaning service in Haysville, outside of Wichita, in 2011. But the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) waited six years before investigating the troubling findings, an in-depth report published by The Wichita Eagle has revealed.

Incredibly, the department did not even bother to test nearby private wells or inform locals that their water could be contaminated. The chemical found in the groundwater, tetrachloroethylene, also known as perchloroethylene or PCE, can have adverse effects on the kidney, liver and immune system, with long-term exposure known to cause changes in mood, memory, attention and vision. The chemical, which is used in dry cleaning, has also been linked to several types of cancer. The chemicals are believed to have been runoff from the former dry-cleaning business.

Comment: The US has been behaving like a third world nation when it comes to supplying it's citizens with clean water:

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Cop who panicked & killed 'zombie' on PCP comes under fire for training other cops

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Tue, 28 Aug 2018 12:44 UTC
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Tulsa police officer Betty Shelby never spent a day in prison for killing 40-year-old Terence Crutcher. In fact, last year, Shelby was allowed to return to her job on the police force but the public was reassured that this trigger happy cop would not be allowed to patrol Tulsa's streets. Fast forward to March, and the killer cop was put back on patrol. Now, she will be teaching other cops how to do act when they are presented with unarmed fathers who put their hands in the air.

Community leaders have scheduled a protest for Monday after it was announced that the Tulsa County Sherriff's Office will be holding a training session for other cops, entitled "Surviving a Critical Incident", and it will be taught by Officer Betty Shelby.

"The stresses you may go through, the potential for facing charges for doing your job, things of that nature," TCSO Spokesperson Justin Green said. "This class is not about that particular incident.'

Comment: Hard to say that Terence Crutcher was just an 'unarmed father' and a blameless victim. Sure - he was unarmed and he was a father. However, he was also a man with a violent history who was on PCP and who had abandoned his vehicle in the middle of the road while running around screaming about a bomb:
"Somebody left their vehicle running in the middle of the street with the doors wide open," the woman says. "The doors are open, the vehicle is still running. It's an SUV. It's like in the middle of the street, it's blocking traffic. ... There was a guy running from it, saying it was going to blow up. But I think he's smoking something. I got out and was like 'do you need help?' And he was like, 'come here, come here I think it's going to blow up.'"
Contrast that to how activists portray the incident:
In September of 2016, Officer Better Shelby shot and killed Terence Crutcher, during a routine traffic stop. Mr. Crutcher was unarmed and had his hands raised in the air when she discharged her weapon.
There was nothing routine about that 'traffic stop'. Clearly the officer messed up by panicking and killing the man. However, best to present all the information rather than substitute and select data that predisposes others to hysterical over-reactions.

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Swedish TV national broadcaster report finds 58 percent of convicted or attempted rape suspects were born abroad

Raheem Kassam
The Daily Caller
Tue, 28 Aug 2018 12:44 UTC
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© Johan Nilsson/TTRefugees arriving in Malmö in 2015.
Critics and observers argue back and forth about whether Sweden is, in fact, the "rape capital of Europe" due to mass migration into the country. While new information released this week seems to put that debate to bed, the government's spokesmen have resorted to blaming poverty, toxic masculinity, and even homosexuality for the rise in violent rape and assaults.

Sweden has undergone a transformation from socialist "paradise" to multicultural hellhole, though some of us would argue that one was always bound to lead to the other.

This has caused consternation as figures ranging from academics to the President of the United States have used the nation as an example of what not to do with mass migration and cultural relativism.

Comment: Also see: Is There a Hidden Hand Behind The 'Clash of Civilizations' in Europe?

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