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US professor who wished 'death & castration' to Kavanaugh defenders is sent on paid working trip

RT
Sat, 06 Oct 2018 13:35 UTC

A Georgetown University professor, suspended from Twitter over calls to murder 'entitled white men' for supporting Judge Brett Kavanaugh and to 'castrate their corpses,' is being sent to travel internationally for research.

Dr. Carol Christine Fair made headlines this week when she tweeted that "entitled white men justifying a serial rapist's arrogated entitlement" deserve "miserable deaths" and that, as a bonus, their corpses should be castrated and fed to pigs.

Twitter suspended her account over that post on Tuesday, temporarily, as it turns out, because Fair was back on the social network within a day. Meanwhile, Georgetown's School of Foreign Service, where she teaches, has decided to "punish" her by sending her on a trip abroad.

Cleveland judge refuses to send petty criminals to jail until inmates stop mysteriously dying

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Fri, 05 Oct 2018 13:37 UTC

In the last four months, six inmates inside the Cuyahoga County Jail have met an untimely demise. The suspicious nature of their deaths and the subsequent blocking of information by the jail has one Cleveland Judge taking action and refusing to send people to jail who are charged with crimes.

Cleveland Municipal Judge Michael Nelson announced this week that he will no longer be sending people to the jail unless they are accused of committing horrible crimes because inmates keep turning up dead.

Instead of locking them up, Nelson will set personal bonds for people-meaning that the judge will turn people loose on their own accord instead of making them pay bail. The judge reached out to Cleveland.com this week to tell them that he plans on reaching out to the court's administrative judge, Michelle Earley, to set up a meeting to figure out why so many inmates are dying.

"The first thing I did this morning when I saw [the cleveland.com] story is look to see if it was someone I sent to jail," Nelson said. "I'm giving personal bonds to everyone from now on unless they're the worst of the worst until things get figured out at the jail."

US man who sent 'ricin letters' to Trump & Pentagon also mailed toxins to Putin & Queen Elizabeth II

RT
Sat, 06 Oct 2018 13:26 UTC

The Utah man who staged a botched ricin poison attack against a number of top US officials, including President Trump, claimed he has also sent toxins to foreign leaders, including President Vladimir Putin, court documents show.

William Clyde Allen III, who was caught mailing a biological toxin to Donald Trump, FBI Director Christopher Wray, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Adm. John Richardson, also sent letters containing ground pieces of castor beans, from which the ricin poison is derived, to the British queen and the Russian president.

The suspect "further informed he had sent other letters with the same contents to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the Queen of England, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and the Secretary of the Air Force (whose name he did not recall)," a 10-page court document filed on Friday revealed.

Marine le Pen's daughter violently assaulted, hit in the head

Abdelhamid Kaddour
Voice of Europe
Fri, 05 Oct 2018 12:57 UTC

The National Rally leader's daughter was physically assaulted when she was out with her cousin, newspaper le Parisien reports.

One of Marine le Pen's daughters was assaulted in the early hours of Friday morning in Nanterre while out in a bowling bar in the Nelson-Mandela Place.

Comment: Marine Le Pen had this to say about the incident:

The incident provoked outrage from the former French presidential candidate who called the attack a "gratuitous aggression," and added: "there was no fight ... there was an assault, a gratuitous assault on two young people aged 18 and 19."

"But this is not inevitable. This is, I believe, the consequence of political choices that have been made for a number of years," she continued, saying her daughter was in a state of shock about the attack but that she was relieved the incident was not more serious.

Forgiveness? Forget about it

Caitlin Johnstone
caitlinjohnstone.com
Sat, 06 Oct 2018 09:11 UTC

Journalist David Sirota has just published an excellent op-ed titled "America's new aristocracy lives in an accountability-free zone", which begins with the observation that "Enron executives were among the last politically connected criminals to face any serious consequences for institutionalized fraud." Sirota goes on to remind readers how there was never any attempt by either mainstream political party to bring accountability to anyone responsible for monstrous offenses ranging from the disastrous invasion of Iraq to the ecocidal manipulations of fossil fuel plutocrats to the Wall Street plundering which led to the 2008 global financial crisis.

Sirota's argument is solid: there is an aristocratic class which has successfully neutered all the institutional mechanisms which were meant to protect the powerless from the powerful. The government is bought and owned by the plutocrats and so is the media, as the continued forgiveness of unforgivable transgressions which those institutions have been bestowing upon the aristocracy clearly reflects. This means that the only thing left protecting the populace from the powerful is the populace itself.

Comment: See also:

Dead man found tied to a bed with shot wound on road in Saudi Arabia

RT
Fri, 05 Oct 2018 21:58 UTC

A bizarre incident has occurred in Saudi Arabia, in which a dead body tied to a bed was discovered in the middle of a road. The victim, who turned out to be an illegal migrant, had been gunned down, according to local police.

Motorists made the chilling discovery 11 km away from the southern Saudi city of Abha late on Thursday. The dead body, wrapped in a blanket, was lying on a cast iron bed without mattress right in the middle of the road, footage from the scene shows.

The dead man was reportedly tied to the bed with a rope.

On Friday, the police said that the deceased man was identified as an illegal migrant in his 20s. The man had died from a rifle-caliber gunshot wound, forensic examination has shown.

Comment: Abhorrent behaviour seems to be the norm in the despotic state of Saudi Arabia:

London "Tube Pusher" pushes man towards oncoming train, another onto train tracks

Sputnik
Sat, 06 Oct 2018 08:50 UTC

In what a London transport official described as an "extremely rare" incident, a 46-year-old man pushed Sir Robert Malpas, 91, onto tracks shortly after an unsuccessful attempt on another tube passenger.

The British Transport Police has released a clip purportedly showing two murder attempts on the London Underground.

In the first incident, CCTV footage shows a man pushing a senior citizen onto the train tracks at Marble Arch station. He was hauled up to safety by a quick-thinking bystander, who suffered a head burn from the electrified track in the process.

'Women are the n-word of the world': Twitter unrelenting in takedown of Bette Midler for terrible comparison

RT
Fri, 05 Oct 2018 00:38 UTC

Actress and singer Bette Midler has been verbally flayed online after an ill-judged hot take stating: "Women are the n-word of the world."

Midler, 72, is widely known as both an environmental and civil rights activist as well as a self-declared ally of marginalized groups in society. However, her past good behavior did not spare her from the baying Twitter mob Thursday night.

Midler initially defended the tweet by drawing attention to the cause-du-jour, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, while also claiming she was invoking the sentiments of Yoko Ono, who infamously penned a song with her late husband John Lennon called 'Woman is the N***er of the world', in 1972.

It wasn't long before the tidal wave of backlash forced her into an embarrassing climbdown mere hours later in which she deleted the offending tweets and apologized.

Once again, however, backlash was immediate, intense and unrelenting. She was then accused of 'whitesplaining' as a means of damage limitation.

Interpol director missing, France launches an investigation

RT
Fri, 05 Oct 2018 00:31 UTC

Meng Hongwei, the director of Interpol, is reportedly missing. His wife last had contact with him before he went to China about a week ago.

Interpol, an organization that is supposed to be capable of locating anyone anywhere in the world, is missing its own director. Chinese politician Meng Hongwei, head of Interpol since 2016, fell off the radar in late September, and the French police have reportedly started looking for him.

Meng and his family reside in Lyon, France, the seat of Interpol headquarters. His wife reported him missing after he took a trip to China on September 29, and hasn't been heard from since.

Car drives into cafe in Berlin, injuring at least 5

RT
Fri, 05 Oct 2018 17:10 UTC

Five people have been injured after a car dove into a café in Charlottenburg in western Berlin, local media reported. The police said the driver apparently lost control of the vehicle due to health problems.

The car, an Audi, skidded off the road and ran into the café wall at high speed, according to eyewitnesses. Four pedestrians and the driver, who was trapped inside the vehicle, were injured in the incident.

It happened shortly after midday local time. Rescuers say the impact of the vehicle may have compromised the structural integrity of the building, which will have to be checked for safety.

Two of the people hurt were taken to hospital.

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Society's Child

US professor who wished 'death & castration' to Kavanaugh defenders is sent on paid working trip

Cleveland judge refuses to send petty criminals to jail until inmates stop mysteriously dying

US man who sent 'ricin letters' to Trump & Pentagon also mailed toxins to Putin & Queen Elizabeth II

Marine le Pen's daughter violently assaulted, hit in the head

Forgiveness? Forget about it

Dead man found tied to a bed with shot wound on road in Saudi Arabia

London "Tube Pusher" pushes man towards oncoming train, another onto train tracks

'Women are the n-word of the world': Twitter unrelenting in takedown of Bette Midler for terrible comparison

Interpol director missing, France launches an investigation

Car drives into cafe in Berlin, injuring at least 5

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