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Russia's lifeline to Syria: Damascus gets grain supplies from Crimea

RT
Thu, 21 Jun 2018 15:42 UTC

Russia has begun deliveries of wheat from Crimea to Syria. The move solves the dual problems of grain overproduction in Crimea and Syria's desperate need for bread.

The shipments are coming from the Russian port of Sevastopol to the Syrian port of Tartus, where Russia has a naval base. Sevastopol officials said this month that they plan to sign an agreement with Tartus on July 29 to set up a permanent line of communications. The Syrian city will deliver fruit to Sevastopol.

Syria is facing problems with grain supplies due to Western sanctions. Crimea is also sanctioned by the West, which makes it easier for the two regions to cooperate. "We do not have any problems with a number of countries, including Syria," Crimea's Deputy Prime Minister Georgy Muradov told Reuters. "Our countries do not apply sanctions against each other, so of course they are free to work."

Jordan Peterson launches defamation suit against Wilfrid Laurier University for statements suggesting he was 'analogous to Adolf Hitler'

Antonello Artuso
Toronto Sun
Thu, 21 Jun 2018 16:27 UTC

University of Toronto Professor Jordan Peterson has launched a $1.5-million defamation suit against Wilfrid Laurier University, two of its professors and a former gender and equity manager for suggesting he was "analogous to Adolf Hitler."

The statement of claim, prepared by lawyer Howard Levitt and filed Monday, says Peterson was falsely labelled as incompetent, sexist, misogynist, dangerous and racist in a now infamous disciplinary meeting with Wilfrid Laurier University teaching assistant Lindsay Shepherd.

Shepherd was disciplined during the meeting for showing students a TV clip of Peterson discussing gender-neutral pronouns, something the university later apologized for, but Peterson told the Toronto Sun Wednesday he believes the university failed to properly respond to the incident.

"So I think this is a warning, let's say, to other careless administrators and professors who allow their ideological presuppositions to get the best of them to be a bit more careful with what they say and do," he said.

Iranian women allowed to watch World Cup in public for first time since 1979

Sputnik
Thu, 21 Jun 2018 15:38 UTC

Fans, including women, watched Iran's recent clash against Spain at Tehran's biggest stadium, Azadi, which saw a large display set up to provide better viewing for football enthusiasts.

Iranian women have been allowed to cheer on their World Cup 2018 national team from the stands for the first time since 1979, according to international media outlets, including The Washington Post and Sports Illustrated.

Roughly 10,000 football enthusiasts bought tickets to the iconic sports arena Azadi, which cost 2 euros each. Separately, a large number of female Iranian fans travelled all the way to Russia to witness the FIFA World Cup with their own eyes, with many Twitter users sharing their pictures:

Notably, women were not allowed to attend the live broadcast of the previous match against Morocco, which took place on June 15; instead, female fans had to go to the cinema to see it. In wake of the national team's triumph, fans took to the streets to celebrate, which essentially propelled the city administration to allow women to watch the subsequent match at the stadium.

Man beaten to death and another was injured by mob in India over alleged attempt to slaughter cow

RT
Thu, 21 Jun 2018 15:31 UTC

A man was beaten to death and another one injured in India by a mob who accused them of trying to slaughter a cow, video footage shows. The victims' families say the crime was 'cow-related,' but police described it as a scuffle.

The shocking incident took place in a village in Uttar Pradesh state, some 40km from New Delhi on Monday, local media report. The two men - Qasim, 45, and Samayuddin, 65 - were brutally thrashed after an argument with several men from the village.

A video released online shows a man, reportedly Qasim, lying on the ground with his clothes torn in the aftermath of the violence.

Trudeau's government locked up CANADIAN children in immigration detention facilities and separated them from their parents

Spencer Fernando
spencerfernando.com
Wed, 20 Jun 2018 15:11 UTC

Where is the outrage? Where is the #familiesbelongtogether hashtag?

While Justin Trudeau pathetically tries to score virtue-signalling points by joining the hypocritical chorus of condemnation regarding US child detention policies, it turns out that Canada has a child detention problem far closer to home.

In fact, it turns out that both past and present Canadian governments have locked up CANADIAN children in detention centers meant for illegal immigrants.

Immigrant children forced to take psychotropic drugs under Obama & Trump, according to lawsuit

Jay Syrmopoulos
The Free Thought Project
Thu, 21 Jun 2018 14:47 UTC

A federal lawsuit filing on April 23 in an ongoing class-action lawsuit revealed that immigrant children separated from their parents-during both the Obama and Trump administrations-were allegedly held down and forcibly injected with powerful psychiatric drugs while being held at the Shiloh Treatment Center, a government contractor south of Houston that houses undocumented immigrant minors.

The children, in sworn affidavits, described how they were told the drugs were vitamins, and that they would not be allowed to see their parents or leave the facility unless they complied and took the medications.

One child recalled being forced to take pills, which they were told were vitamins, in the morning, at noon and night, stating: "the staff told me that some of the pills are vitamins because they think I need to gain weight. The vitamins changed about two times, and each time I feel different."

An investigation by Reveal, for the Center for Investigative Reporting, found that "one child was prescribed 10 different shots and pills including the antipsychotic drugs Latuda, Geodon and Olanzapine, the Parkinson's medication Benztropin, the seizure medications Clonazepam and Divalproex, the nerve pain medication and antidepressant Duloxetine, and the cognition enhancer Guanfacine."

Comment: All of the recent outrage about children being separated from their parents is disingenuous virtue signalling. This has been going on for much longer than Trump's been in office, but the bleeding hearts didn't care until Trump made illegally crossing the border a criminal offense. Thus we see that the problem for these virtue signalers isn't that separating children from their parents is wrong, it's that Trump is the one doing it.

Texas billboard urging liberals to leave the state will be taken down after causing social media uproar

RT
Thu, 21 Jun 2018 09:15 UTC

© Kyle McCallie / Facebook
“While this billboard is hilarious, I wish it was not directing people to Oklahoma. It needs to direct them west to California!”

A cheeky Texas billboard encouraging liberal motorists to keep driving until they've left the state will be taken down after photos of the roadside 'advertisement' sparked a social media uproar.

Located outside the small panhandle town of Vega, the billboard greeted eastbound drivers on Interstate 40 with: "Liberals - Please continue on I-40 until you have left our GREAT STATE OF TEXAS."

An amused driver took a photo of the billboard on Tuesday and posted it to Facebook. The photo has sparked thousands of social media shares and comments, prompting local and national media coverage.

English World Cup fans caught on video singing Nazi song in Volgograd (aka Stalingrad)

RT
Wed, 20 Jun 2018 14:16 UTC

A video showing a group of England fans giving sickening salutes and singing Nazi songs in the World Cup host city of Volgograd, in which nearly 2 million people died during WWII, has appeared online.

In the footage, which was reportedly taken after England beat Tunisia 2-1 at Volgograd Arena on Monday, the fans are seen performing Nazi salutes while shouting "Sieg Heil". They also sang songs which glorify the Third Reich.

The bar in the video has been identified as 'Galereya Pub' in Volgograd. RT's Ruptly video agency, which was on site to report on World Cup games, went to the bar to investigate the video.

Comment: English fans were generally well-behaved in Volgograd. In fact, they earned a lot of respect from locals for doing this:

England fans on best behavior in Russia - Ahead of World Cup game, they pay respects to WW2 dead in Battle of Stalingrad

What's interesting isn't the fact a few drunken ones gave Nazi salutes; it's that The Guardian's resident Russia reporter, Shaun Walker, who churns out non-stop fake news from Russia for the paper's hipster readership back home, reported observing Russians singing Nazi songs and doing the Sieg Heil while reporting from a bar in Volgograd...

Sara Netanyahu finally indicted on fraud charges for ordering $100k worth of meals from gourmet restaurants while cook was on staff

Revital Hovel
Haaretz
Thu, 21 Jun 2018 12:03 UTC

Sara Netanyahu, the wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was indicted on Thursday for alleged "systematic fraud" involving hundreds of thousands of shekels in connection with meal expenses incurred at the Prime Minister's Residence.

Sara Netanyahu was charged along with Ezra Saidoff, a former deputy director general of the Prime Minister's Office. The two are charged in an indictment filed at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court with aggravated fraudulent receiving of an item or items, fraud and breach of trust. Saidoff was also charged with falsification by a public servant.

According to the indictment, the prime minister's wife instructed staff at the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem to order meals consumed at the residence worth a total of 350,000 shekels ($96,000) from gourmet restaurants between 2010 and 2013 in violation of rules barring the residence from ordering meals from the outside during periods when there was a cook on its staff.

Investigators in the case gathered evidence that purportedly shows that the prime minister's wife ordered that the employment of the cook be concealed and also showed that she was aware that ordering meals from the outside for the residence when it employed a cook was a violation of the rules.

Comment: Both her and Bibi are made for each other - two of the most reprehensible people in the sphere of politics one could ever know. To get an idea of what she's like see here. See also: Fraud indictment pending for wife of Netanyahu, may also directly implicate Israeli prime minister

CrossFit vs. Big Soda: The fight to get America's soda industry out of nutrition and fitness research

Murray Carpenter
The Washington Post
Mon, 04 Jun 2018 00:01 UTC

On a bright November morning, Congressman Scott Taylor is meeting with a visitor at his Capitol Hill office. Even in his dark suit and striped tie, the steely eyed, fit Republican from eastern Virginia looks every bit the Navy SEAL he once was. His visitor - Greg Glassman, founder and sole owner of CrossFit, a fitness company famous for its brutal full-body workouts - is older and dressed informally. He wears a ball cap over unruly ginger and gray locks, plus a three-day stubble, a flannel shirt, faded jeans and sneakers.

Taylor tells Glassman that his first CrossFit workout, way back in the early days, was in the garage of a fellow SEAL who is now a top CrossFit staffer. Taylor wants to talk about other friends he has in common with Glassman, other SEALs who are CrossFitters.

Glassman, however, has a different conversation in mind. He wants to discuss Department of Defense money - specifically why a group called the National Strength and Conditioning Association should not receive Pentagon contracts. "We've watched these guys for years, knowing that their science was bulls---. We knew they fell asleep at the switch. While everyone was doing lateral raises and curls, and eating high-carb, the nation got profoundly ill," Glassman tells Taylor. "CrossFit was born out of our realization of how f---ed up it was."

Comment: Say what you will about CrossFit, fighting corruption in science by working to get Big Soda funding out of scientific research is a worthy goal and we applaud Glassman in his efforts.

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Society's Child

Russia's lifeline to Syria: Damascus gets grain supplies from Crimea

Jordan Peterson launches defamation suit against Wilfrid Laurier University for statements suggesting he was 'analogous to Adolf Hitler'

Iranian women allowed to watch World Cup in public for first time since 1979

Man beaten to death and another was injured by mob in India over alleged attempt to slaughter cow

Trudeau's government locked up CANADIAN children in immigration detention facilities and separated them from their parents

Immigrant children forced to take psychotropic drugs under Obama & Trump, according to lawsuit

Texas billboard urging liberals to leave the state will be taken down after causing social media uproar

English World Cup fans caught on video singing Nazi song in Volgograd (aka Stalingrad)

Sara Netanyahu finally indicted on fraud charges for ordering $100k worth of meals from gourmet restaurants while cook was on staff

CrossFit vs. Big Soda: The fight to get America's soda industry out of nutrition and fitness research

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