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Instant karma: Man 'accidentally shoots himself dead' on London street after bullet ricochets off car

Corazon Miller
Independent
Mon, 09 Sep 2019 10:38 UTC

'You can see on the car window where the bullet bounced off it,' eyewitness says.

A man is thought to have died after he shot at a car on a southeast London street and the bullet ricocheted back, fatally wounding him.

The victim in his 20s died at the scene in Sydenham on Sunday afternoon, Scotland Yard said.

Witnesses in the area said it appeared the man had accidentally shot himself.

Racketeering lawsuit heats up wine vs. weed war in Oregon

RT
Mon, 09 Sep 2019 10:11 UTC

The rolling hills of northern Oregon produce some of the most prized wine in America. But there's rivalry from a new neighbor: Cannabis farms. With grapes and buds competing for the same soil, messy legal battles have ensued.

A number of racketeering lawsuits taken by winemakers against pot growers have languished and failed in Oregon's courts, with the grape-growers unable to prove that the pot plantations next door messed with their crops or cost them business. One such lawsuit, however, has managed to proceed, with a federal judge acknowledging an actual financial loss.

The owners of Momtazi Vineyard, in Oregon's verdant Yamhill County, pride themselves on utilizing the earth beneath them to produce a superior product. "The farm is considered a living organism," they write, and the Momtazi team avoids commercial fertilizers and pesticides, going as far as applying herbal teas "in homeopathic amounts" to their vines.

Neighbors Mary and Steven Wagner use this same soil to grow marijuana with their company Yamhill Naturals, an activity legal in Oregon since 2014.

Lower interest rates are a 'definite trend' in Russia - Major Moscow bank

Yen Nee Lee
CNBC
Thu, 05 Sep 2019 02:33 UTC

Interest rates in many economies are heading south — that's no exception in Russia where the central bank is widely expected to ease monetary policy on Friday, for the third time this year.

All but one of the 25 analysts and economists polled by Reuters expect the Russian central bank to lower its key rate by 25 basis points to 7% at Friday's meeting. The Bank of Russia previously eased in June and July, and said more cuts were likely amid slowing inflation.

"There's quite wide expectations that rate might be cut again by a quarter of a percent on Friday. We shall see, but definite trend is to lower key rate in Russia," Andrey Kostin, chairman of Moscow-based bank VTB, told CNBC's Tanvir Gill at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia.

Kostin said inflation in Russia is expected to be around 4%, but the key rate is currently 7.25% — much higher than that in major economies around the world. That means the central bank has room to ease monetary policy even more to support the economy, added Kostin.

Comment: One wonders just how economies in the West would have fared had they been under the same economic attack they're overseeing in Russia:

Trucking recession: heavy-duty truck orders collapse, production slashed, cancellation orders soar

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Sat, 07 Sep 2019 08:45 UTC

New reports from the trucking industry show the transportation recession continues to gain momentum through the end of summer, likely to continue through 2019 into 1H20.

The US trucking industry had a blockbuster year in 2018, as high demand for freight allowed transportation companies to expand fleets. But since freight demand was artificial, sparked by importers pulling forward to get ahead of tariffs, the good times were destined to end and end rather sharply.

The Institute for Supply Management's purchasing managers index plunged to 49.1 in August, the first time a contraction has been seen since 2016. Prints below 50 suggest the manufacturing economy is shrinking. Data also showed new orders dropped to a seven-year low, while the production index hit 2015 lows.

Comment: See also:

Microsoft warns that Trump's crackdown on Huawei threatens US companies

RT
Mon, 09 Sep 2019 09:06 UTC

US tech major Microsoft is unhappy with US president Donald Trump's push against China's Huawei, claiming that such unfair and "un-American" treatment may hit indigenous companies hard, and Microsoft itself will not be spared.

The tech giant's President Brad Smith has serious doubts over the grounds on which Huawei was added to the US infamous 'Entity List' effectively banning American companies from doing business with the Chinese behemoth. In an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek Smith said his company wants the Trump administration to shed more light on the matter to check if the move was not taken without "sound basis in fact, logic, and the rule of law."

However, US regulators failed to give any plausible explanation as they simply claim to know much more than they reveal to the businessmen, according to the Microsoft official. He argues that the government must open up, so firms could decide for themselves.

Embassy insider exposes lies and errors in CNN's defamatory report on Assange

Aaron Maté
The Grayzone
Fri, 06 Sep 2019 00:00 UTC

A "bombshell" CNN report claimed to show how Wikileaks founder Julian Assange published stolen Democratic Party emails in 2016 in cooperation with the Russian government from his place of refuge in Ecuador's London embassy. Ecuadorian diplomat Fidel Narváez — who served in the embassy throughout Assange's stay — says that CNN's report was error-ridden and defamatory.

"There are so many smears, speculations, and some false information in that report that somewhat somebody needs to set the record straight," Narváez says. "It is unbelievable how they twist every single thing in order to to defame Julian and Ecuador."

Guest: Fidel Narváez, former Ecuadorian diplomat who served in Ecuador's London embassy for six of the seven years that Julian Assange lived there under asylum.

Comment: See also SOTT's article from Caitlin Johnstone:
CNN's new Assange smear piece is amazingly dishonest - even for CNN!

Jewish critics, deemed an existential threat to Israel, are labeled 'bad Jews'

Philip Weiss
Mondoweiss
Fri, 06 Sep 2019 00:00 UTC

Lately we've seen a great deal of institutional effort being expended to show that American Jews are all for Israel, except the lunatics.

-The American Jewish Committee says the Jewish group, IfNotNow, is a "radical fringe."

-The Jewish Federations in Seattle actually blocked a $1000 gift to IfNotNow from a family fund it advises because it would damage the goal of building "a cohesive Jewish community" and undermine Israel as a Jewish state.

IfNotNow are young Jews generally with strong communal upbringing who are demanding an end to Palestinian occupation after 52 years.

-Next week Bari Weiss's book comes out saying that all good Jews celebrate the rebirth of Jewish sovereignty in Israel, except for a handful of enemies within: "a very small but very vocal group of Jews seems as deeply opposed to Jewish interests as many of our community's enemies." Anti-Zionist Jews, she says, are anti-Semitic.

Polygamy debate returns to Utah capital, as lawmaker looks to reduce penalties

Andrew O'Reilly
Fox News
Sun, 08 Sep 2019 17:59 UTC

Legal scholars, however, are skeptical that reducing the penalties for polygamy will encourage more people in abusive situations to come forward to report the crimes.

"I'm not sure that redoing the law to make polygamy less of an offense will have the intended effect they hope for," Casey Faucon, an assistant professor at the University of Alabama Law School, told Fox News. "It takes more than just changing a law to get people to come forward and report abusive situations."

While Henderson did not respond to Fox News' request for comment, other proponents of the bill have suggested it would not just lower the general penalty for polygamy from a felony to misdemeanor but strengthen the ability to prosecute polygamists found to have committed crimes such as abuse, human smuggling or fraud.

Along with the other changes to the law in 2017, legislators had added penalties of up to 15 years in prison for polygamists found guilty of those crimes. Connor Boyack, president of the libertarian-leaning Libertas Institute, said the new legislation would make it so prosecutors don't have to prove polygamy and a secondary crime in order to file charges, just that polygamy was a factor in the other crime.

Collateral damage: The targets of Mueller's 'scorched earth' investigation suffer health problems, ruined relationships, insurmountable legal costs

Paul Sperry
RealClearPolitics
Thu, 06 Jun 2019 17:55 UTC

Home surveillance video captures Mueller agents raiding Roger Stone's home at 6 am, January 25, 2019

Veteran journalist Art Moore was editing a story on the Trump-Russia probe last October when he heard a knock at the door. He saw a couple of men in suits on the front porch of his suburban Seattle home and thought they were Jehovah's Witnesses making the rounds. But they weren't missionaries there to convert him; they were FBI agents there to interrogate him, sent by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

The G-men wanted to talk about WikiLeaks, specifically whether the Trump campaign had any connection to the hacktivist group's release of thousands of emails stolen from Hillary Clinton's campaign during the 2016 election.

Cargo ship 'listing heavily' in Georgia port, 4 crew members missing, Coast Guard says

Travis Fedschun
Fox News
Sun, 08 Sep 2019 15:22 UTC

Four crew members are unaccounted for after a large cargo ship overturned and caught fire near a major port in Georgia early Sunday, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.

The Coast Guard's Seventh District said on Twitter that it was joined by local agencies with "multiple rescue assets" on the scene after the Golden Ray cargo vessel was "listing heavily" near St. Simons Sound in Brunswick, Ga.

The Coast Guard said there were 23 crew members and one pilot on board. All but four crew members have been safely evacuated from the ship, a 656-foot vehicle carrier.

The ship was leaving Brunswick when it drastically leaned to its side early Sunday. The Coast Guard said it was notified by a 911 call at about 2 a.m. of a capsized vessel in the sound.

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Society's Child

Instant karma: Man 'accidentally shoots himself dead' on London street after bullet ricochets off car

Racketeering lawsuit heats up wine vs. weed war in Oregon

Lower interest rates are a 'definite trend' in Russia - Major Moscow bank

Trucking recession: heavy-duty truck orders collapse, production slashed, cancellation orders soar

Microsoft warns that Trump's crackdown on Huawei threatens US companies

Embassy insider exposes lies and errors in CNN's defamatory report on Assange

Jewish critics, deemed an existential threat to Israel, are labeled 'bad Jews'

Polygamy debate returns to Utah capital, as lawmaker looks to reduce penalties

Collateral damage: The targets of Mueller's 'scorched earth' investigation suffer health problems, ruined relationships, insurmountable legal costs

Cargo ship 'listing heavily' in Georgia port, 4 crew members missing, Coast Guard says

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