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Guess who the worst doping cheaters were in 2016? Italy, France, US, Australia, Belgium - WADA


RT
Sat, 28 Apr 2018 19:38 UTC
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© Ulrik Pedersen / Global Look Press
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has published the Anti-Doping Rules Violations report for 2016 featuring 1,595 confirmed doping cases involving athletes representing 117 countries.

Out of 1595 cases indicated in the report, 1,326 offences were labeled as "positive results," while the remaining 269 violations committed by athletes and sports personnel "were derived from investigations and evidence-based intelligence."

Seventy-nine percent of the drug violations registered by WADA in 2016 were committed by male athletes, with track and field being the most doping-affected sport, where 205 cases were revealed. It is followed by bodybuilding (183), cycling (165), weightlifting (116), and football (79).

The list of the worst offenders was topped by Italy, whose athletes committed 147 violations over the course of 2016. Italy is followed by France and the US, which have 86 and 76 doping offences respectively. Australia, with 75 doping cases, and Belgium, with 73, are in fourth and fifth places in the report. Russia, which has repeatedly been accused of doping by Western countries, tied for sixth place with India, with 69 officially confirmed violations.

Comment: But... but... Russia?

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Dude, where's my tree? Twitter abuzz after oak planted by Trump & Macron 'disappears'


RT
Sun, 29 Apr 2018 14:31 UTC
Tree planting
© Reuters
The Twittersphere had just stopped trolling Donald Trump & Emmanuel Macron over their tree-planting ceremony when it went nuts again - this time after the oak planted by the leaders apparently vanished from the White House lawn.

Photos released by Reuters on Friday evening allegedly show a perfect yellow spot where the tree planted by the presidents on April 23 once stood on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. The oak sapling, which the French leader brought from a historic battlefield in Europe, seems to have vanished.

Since there has been no official statement, the reason is unclear. People on Twitter started with simple explanations, saying that the oak "might have hidden" in a nearby forest.

Others said it might have simply been a joke or that the gift from Macron was "dead."
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Bad Guys

8th-grade Spanish teacher assigned anti-Trump homework, 'bullied' child over Fox News reference

Erin Donnelly
Yahoo News
Sun, 29 Apr 2018 17:30 UTC
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An Indiana school district has issued an apology after a middle school teacher was accused of letting her disdain for President Trump and Fox News influence her teaching.

As Fox News Insider reports, Sarah Ford, an eighth-grade Spanish teacher at Blackhawk Middle School in Fort Wayne, Ind., allegedly assigned a student a report on Trump's "many lies."

The student, Jacob Hein, told his father about the homework, prompting an official complaint. According to Todd Hein, his son was given the assignment after the teacher rejected - and reportedly ridiculed - his translation of a Fox News article for class on March 20.


Comment: It's a Spanish class; is what he chose to translate really relevant at all?


Comment: What has become the liberal left in America is demonstrating an astonishing amount of fascist behaviors since Trump got elected.

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14 Protesters arrested for holding Jewish mourning ceremony for Gaza victims outside Sen. Schumer's office

Thomas Tracy
New York Daily News
Thu, 26 Apr 2018 14:19 UTC
A member of the group Jewish Voices for Peace was arrested as the group held an impromptu protest outside of Sen. Schumer’s Midtown office on Thursday.
© Marcus Santos/New York Daily News
A member of the group Jewish Voices for Peace was arrested as the group held an impromptu protest outside of Sen. Schumer’s Midtown office on Thursday.
Cops arrested 14 people during a protest outside Sen. Chuck Schumer's Midtown office Thursday.

The group Jewish Voice for Peace held the demonstration outside the New York senator's Third Ave. office near E. 49th St. about 9 a.m.

Approximately 40 people showed up holding signs and lambasting Schumer for keeping silent on the killings by Israeli forces during a month-long Palestinian protest in the Gaza Strip.


Comment: Holding any country accountable for mass murder, war crimes, apartheid, and genocide is a good thing:

Comment: Take note of who you can't criticize.

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Snakes in Suits

In 2014 France asked U.S. not to bomb Lafarge factory in ISIS-controlled part of Syria

Emmanuel Jarry
Reuters
Wed, 25 Apr 2018 17:47 UTC
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© France24
LafargeHolcim's Jalabiya cement plant in Syria, taken by factory workers.
France asked the United States in 2014 not to bomb a Lafarge cement plant in northern Syria, an area which was at the time controlled by Islamic State, emails that are part of an investigation into the company's Syria operations show.

French prosecutors last year launched a probe into the suspected "financing of a terrorist enterprise" by the cement group in Syria. The company admitted last year it had paid armed groups to keep a factory operating.

"This French investment should be protected," France's Syria envoy, Franck Gellet, who is based in Paris, said in a Sept. 19, 2014 email to senior foreign ministry officials, referring to the Lafarge plant about 87 km (54 miles) from Raqqa.

"It seems legitimate that we ask Washington not to do anything about this site without checking with us first," Gellet said in the email, that included the plant's GPS coordinates.
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Barbaric: Maine Democrats squash bill to criminalize female genital mutilation


Girls Just Wanna Have Guns
Wed, 25 Apr 2018 18:26 UTC
female genital mutilation survivor screenshot
House Democrats in Maine voted against a bill that would criminalize female genital mutilation (FGM), because they were afraid of political correctness and possible Islamophobia.

The bill would have held any doctor or mutilator, consenting parents/guardians and transporters accountable for their role in forcing a girl to undergo FGM; exacting penalties from each of these individuals.

The legislation should have passed with flying colors, however Democrats - except one - shot it down due to ad hominem cries against Republican legislator Rep. Heather Sirocki, who is one of the bill's sponsors.

Comment: Genital mutilation of both girls and boys is barbaric and should be outlawed.

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Stock Down

Analysis points to a 1929-level market crash; the only question is when

Dr. Tuomas Malinen
GnS Economics
Wed, 25 Apr 2018 08:09 UTC
brooklyn daily eagle stock market crash 1929
In the 4th of February, we published a blog entry detailing the similarities of the current stock market environment with that before the stock market crash in 1987. On February 5th, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) experienced the worst daily point decline of its history. Since then, the stock market has recovered, but are we out of the woods?

At the aforementioned entry, we also warned that the situation in the global economy actually resembles more of the time before the Great Depression than that before of the Black Monday in 1987. Worryingly, the same holds for the US equity markets. In fact, almost all of the developments that led to the Great Crash of 1929 are already visible in the US. We may thus be heading towards the worst asset market crash in 90 years.

Comment: It should be obvious at this point that the stock market, and probably almost all markets on the planet, are manipulated. The questions then are: how complete is their control over the manipulation of the markets, what happens if they lose control, and when?

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Black Magic

Chomsky falls in line with "progressives" calling for continued US military involvement in Syria

Whitney Webb
MintPress News
Thu, 26 Apr 2018 17:01 UTC
Noam Chomsky
© Andrew Rusk/Flickr
Noam Chomsky is pictured amongst others.
Since most progressive figures would never publicly call for extending a U.S.-led military occupation, this petition shows that the war propaganda in Syria - particularly as it relates to the Kurds - has been highly effective in subverting the progressive anti-war left as it relates to the Syrian conflict.

On Monday, the New York Review of Books published an open letter and petition aimed at securing Western support for putting pressure on Turkey to end its occupation of Afrin, opposing further Turkish incursions into Syria, and backing autonomy for Rojava - the region of Northern Syria that has functioned autonomously since 2012 after its administration was taken over by U.S-allied Kurdish factions. Authored by the Emergency Committee for Rojava, it has since been signed by well-known progressive figures such as Noam Chomsky and Judith Butler in its bid to organize efforts for the fulfillment of the group's demands.

Those demands are entirely focused on U.S. government policy. The petition asks the government to "impose economic and political sanctions on Turkey's leadership, . . . embargo sales and delivery of weapons from NATO countries to Turkey, . . . insist upon Rojava's representation in Syrian peace negotiations," and - most paradoxically of all - "continue military support for the SDF [Syrian Democratic Forces]," the Kurdish-majority group that has acted as a U.S. proxy and has been accused of ethnic cleansing in its bid to construct a Kurdish ethnostate in Northern Syria.
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Bizarro Earth

Societal rot: Parents outraged after 'revenge sex' and 'baby daddy' issues appear on Florida school assignment


RT
Sun, 29 Apr 2018 08:14 UTC
child student homework laptop
© Jon Nazca / Reuters
FILE PHOTO
A sexually explicit question that appeared on a practice paper handed out to Florida high school students has caused outrage for its reference to revenge sex and use of the phrase 'baby daddy.'

The bizarre innuendo was included in a question about blood types. "Ursula was devastated when her boyfriend broke up with her after having sex. To get revenge, she had sex with his best friend the next day."

"Ursula had a beautiful baby girl nine months later. Ursula has type O blood, her ex-boyfriend is type AB blood, and his best friend is type A blood. If her baby daddy is her ex-boyfriend, what could her baby's possible blood type(s) NOT be?" the question stated.


Comment: We'd say you can't make this stuff up, but apparently someone did.


Comment: Children are highly impressionable and have enough negative influences in this society. Do they really need to be handed more filth in school assignments?

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Document

Court grants Google's request to seal documents in the James Damore case

Allum Bokhari
Breitbart
Sun, 29 Apr 2018 16:00 UTC
James Demore
Google has filed a motion in court to seal documents pertaining to James Damore's class-action lawsuit against them, arguing that the documents were causing their employees to be "harassed." In response, the court has agreed to seal the records for two months. Google is also branding critics of their far-left diversity policies as "alt-right" according to Damore's attorney.

"They have sealed it for a two-month period, believe it or not." said Harmeet Dhillon, the attorney representing Damore and the other plaintiffs in the lawsuit.

The lawsuit documents, which can still be accessed via Dhillon's website, have been a source of multiple news stories about Google. Most recently, Breitbart News reported on new evidence published in the latest filing, which shows that Google cautions its managers against rewarding the values of "white-male dominant culture," including "individual achievement" and "objectivity." The documents also show that Google has failed to discipline employees who threatened their co-workers for holding differing points of view.

Now Google is trying to have this embarrassing material shut off from the public.

Comment: Google has a lot to be embarrassed about and sealing the documents will do little to scrub their image:

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