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North and South Korea agree to form unified women's hockey team for upcoming Winter Olympics


RT
Wed, 17 Jan 2018 15:39 UTC
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© Claro Cortes / ReutersNorth Korea's gymnast and South Korea's listen to the national anthem as the North Korean flag rises
North and South Korea have agreed to form a unified women's hockey team for the upcoming Winter Olympics, and will march under a unified flag at the opening ceremony, according to a joint statement.

North Korea is due to send a delegation which will consist of around 550 members including 230 cheerleaders, 140 artists and 30 Taekwondo fighters, to South Korea on January 25.

The agreement on Wednesday means this will be the first time a joint Korean sports team has been put together in 27 years, since the 1991 World Table Tennis Championships and FIFA World Youth Championship, and the first ever in Olympics history.

"Athletes from both Koreas marched together at international sports events about nine times so far," South Korean Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Do Jong-whan said on Monday, as quoted by the Chosun Ilbo. "Peace on the Korean Peninsula through sports is a value that the Olympics are pursuing."

Despite the agreement between Pyongyang and Seoul, the final decision about the team rests with the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which will hold a meeting on in Switzerland on Saturday to discuss the possible joint Korean team and other matters relating to North Korea.
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Shady vet puts woman's cat for sale on Facebook


RT
Wed, 17 Jan 2018 15:15 UTC
Casper the cat
© Dmitry Golubovich
A woman has been left reeling after she discovered that her cat, handed over to the vet after being told the feline would require highly expensive long-term care, had been put on sale online for a meager £50.

Kelly Samuels, from Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, said she took Casper the cat to Vetsavers last Tuesday, believing her pet was suffering from an abscess.

When the cat's health deteriorated on Thursday, despite being treated with a course of antibiotics and painkillers, she took Casper back to the vet where he spent the night.

The next day the vet had still not removed the abscess, leading Samuels to believe the cat had a far more serious condition.
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China says no to Western trash while the EU bumps up its recycling efforts


RT
Wed, 17 Jan 2018 15:04 UTC
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© China Daily CDIC / Reuters
The European Union (EU) has announced its first-ever Europe-wide strategy on plastics recycling. It followed China's ban on imports of waste from Western countries.

All plastic packaging in the European market will be recyclable by 2030, said the EU Commission in a press release. The consumption of single-use plastics will be reduced and the intentional use of microplastics will be restricted, it added.

An additional fund of €100 million ($122.4 million) has been committed to finance efficient recycling technology, and to boost innovation in plastic recycling.

Global production of plastics has increased twentyfold since the 1960s, according to the EU. It estimated that every year Europeans generate 25 million tons of plastic waste, of which less than 30 percent is collected for recycling.
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Tory MP forced to apologize for saying 'unemployed wasters' should get vasectomies


RT
Wed, 17 Jan 2018 14:54 UTC
Benjamin David Bradley
© FacebookBenjamin David Bradley
Tory MP Ben Bradley has been forced to apologize after saying men on benefits should get vasectomies. Britain would "drown in a vast sea of unemployed wasters" if poor families had too many children, he said.

Bradley, 28, who was promoted to Tory vice-chairman for youth by Prime Minister Theresa May last week, made the comments in a blog post in 2012.

He made the comments in support of former Tory Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith's introduction of benefit caps.

Bradley claims he has "matured" since writing the now deleted remarks.

The controversial blog post read: "Sorry but how many children you have is a choice; if you can't afford them, stop having them! Vasectomies are free.

"People have to take responsibility for their own lives, and if they are struggling but working hard to help themselves then they should get help. But if they choose to have 10 kids they should take responsibility for that choice and look after them, not expect everyone else to foot the bill!
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Two teens jailed for killing homeless man with meat cleaver 'because it was funny'


RT
Wed, 17 Jan 2018 14:26 UTC
Charlie White, sentenced to a minimum of 16 years
© Kent PoliceCharlie White, sentenced to a minimum of 16 years.
Two teens who bludgeoned a homeless man to death with a meat cleaver and a fence post "because it was funny" have been jailed for life. CCTV shows they burnt his clothes to hide the evidence.

Razvan Sirbu, 21, from Romania, was found dead near his tent with fractures all over his body after Charlie White and Alex Macdonald, both 19 from Kent, launched the vicious attack on him. They had denied the murder, but were found guilty.
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DOJ report shows vast majority of convicted terrorists in America were born abroad

Katie Pavlich
Townhall
Tue, 16 Jan 2018 12:47 UTC
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© The Free Thought Project
A new report released by the Department of Homeland Security Tuesday shows 75-percent of convicted terrorists in America were born abroad. From the data:
According to a list maintained by DOJ's National Security Division, at least 549 individuals were convicted of international terrorism-related charges in U.S. federal courts between September 11, 2001, and December 31, 2016. An analysis conducted by DHS determined that approximately 73 percent (402 of these 549 individuals) were foreign-born. Breaking down the 549 individuals by citizenship status at the time of their respective convictions reveals that:

-254 were not U.S. citizens;
-148 were foreign-born, naturalized and received U.S. citizenship and,
-147 were U.S. citizens by birth.

Comment: Terrorists come from 'over there' - except when they are created 'over here' by the FBI, that is:

The Boston bombings in context: How the FBI fosters, funds and equips American terrorists

In another article we read:
[FBI informant Craig] Monteilh was involved in one of the most controversial tactics: the use of "confidential informants" in so-called entrapment cases. This is when suspects carry out or plot fake terrorist "attacks" at the request or under the close supervision of an FBI undercover operation using secret informants. Often those informants have serious criminal records or are supplied with a financial motivation to net suspects.

In the case of the Newburgh Four - where four men were convicted for a fake terror attack on Jewish targets in the Bronx - a confidential informant offered $250,000, a free holiday and a car to one suspect for help with the attack.

In the case of the Fort Dix Five, which involved a fake plan to attack a New Jersey military base, one informant's criminal past included attempted murder, while another admitted in court at least two of the suspects later jailed for life had not known of any plot.

Such actions have led Muslim civil rights groups to wonder if their communities are being unfairly targeted in a spying game that is rigged against them. Monteilh says that is exactly what happens. "The way the FBI conducts their operations, it is all about entrapment ... I know the game, I know the dynamics of it. It's such a joke, a real joke. There is no real hunt. It's fixed," he said.
By the way, it was the FBI that informed in September that it was investigating an equal number of foreign terrorists as domestic violent extremists affiliated with white supremacists, anti-government and other groups.

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Silence: Liberal Zionists can't talk about the shooting of Mohammed Tamimi

James North and Philip Weiss
Mondoweiss
Sat, 13 Jan 2018 16:12 UTC
Mohammed Tamimi
As everyone knows, 16-year-old Ahed Tamimi slapped a heavily-armed Israeli soldier occupying her property in Nabi Saleh on December 15, and was arrested a few days later. She has now spent over three weeks in prison.

What many people do not know is that the young woman's confrontation followed within hours the shooting by an Israeli soldier of her 15-year-old cousin, Mohammed Tamimi, during a demonstration. A rubber bullet entered his head under his nose and got lodged in his skull; a family member told Al Jazeera blood poured from his head "like a fountain."

Last week Haaretz posted a moving video, below, of an interview with Mohammed in which he states that he was going to a protest of Trump's Jerusalem announcement on his village's lands when he was shot by a soldier he did not see; that he underwent a six-hour operation and spent a week in a (medically-induced) coma; and that he cannot go out of the house for the next few months because he now lacks bone in part of his skull.

Comment: More on the Tamimi's struggle against military occupation:

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Rapper Vic Mensa publishes powerful piece in 'Time' on Israeli oppression but is prefaced with disclaimer on anti-Semitism

Philip Weis
Mondoweiss
Sun, 14 Jan 2018 12:27 UTC
Rapper Vic Mensa
Rapper Vic Mensa has published a wrenching piece in Time Magazine about "oppression and abuse" in Palestine. He saw elderly women being "punched in the face" by Israeli soldiers, saw hundreds of children being harassed and detained, and felt a solemn obligation to bear witness. But check out two of the opening sentences in the article:
I am not anti-Semitic, and the views expressed in this essay are in no way an attack on people of the Jewish faith. My words are a reflection of my experiences on my trip, and my criticism lies with the treatment of Palestinian civilians by the state of Israel, no more and no less.
Those words are an insult to the essay itself. They were obviously stapled in by Mensa's minders, the editors. I say this as someone who has been in the editorial business forever (i.e., I don't know it for a fact); but the article has nothing to do with Jewishness.

Comment: When it comes to Palestine, the corporate media are afraid of calling a spade a spade out of fear of hurting Jewish feelings. Meanwhile, the brutal ethnic cleansing of Palestine continues.

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Cops forced to delete Facebook page after they shamed couple who sold shrimp without license

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Sun, 14 Jan 2018 12:01 UTC
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In the land of the free, if you try to raise some extra money by selling a willing customer a product - you can and will be charged and arrested - if you don't pay the state for permission beforehand. A married couple in Key West just learned the hard way that entrepreneurial spirit - the very fabric of America - will not only be crushed by armed agents of the state, but they will also brag about it on social media.

Last week, the Monroe County Sherrif's office was so proud that they protected the citizens..ahem..their paychecks, that they took to Facebook to gloat in the fact that they detained and extorted a couple for selling shrimp.

"Couple charged with illegal shrimp sale," read the start of the post dedicated to publicly shaming a couple for trying to make an honest buck.

According to City-Data.com, when compared to the rest of the country Key West, Fl has 78.6 percent more crime. This higher crime rate makes perfect sense given the fact that the sheriff's department brags about arresting innocent people who merely forgot or felt it not necessary to pay the state for the privilege to sell another person a 5lb bag of shrimp.

Comment: Yep, good ol' US of A where selling things like lemonade or water unlicensed can get you arrested or fined. Oh, you'd rather be a good Samaritan and help the homeless? Well too bad - feeding the homeless is also a crime.

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Americans are in an abusive relationship with the oligarchy cult

Caitlin Johnstone
Medium
Wed, 17 Jan 2018 12:15 UTC
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I write a lot of incendiary things in this gig, but one of the things I regularly say which gets pushed back on most angrily is my insistence that the American people are, generally speaking and at their core, good. And that backlash is virtually always coming from Americans.

I encounter this anger even when speaking broadly about American political dynamics. Whenever I write about the exploitative Orwellian oligarchy that is loosely centralized behind the official United States government, I always get a bunch of bitter, annoyed Americans making well-intentioned comments about how stupid their countrymen are for continuing to support such a pervasively evil establishment.

Comment: Looking for a savior in a President is slave mentality

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