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Celebrating Western culture: Belgian city opts for converting abandoned hangar into mega-brothel over museum


RT
Fri, 22 Jun 2018 09:23 UTC
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The harbour in Ostend. The municipality plans to turn a hangar with protected architectural status into a mega-brothel to be known as Hangar d’amour.
Officials in the Belgian city of Ostend faced a pretty stark choice: turn an abandoned hangar into a museum to honour the town's maritime industry, or refurbish the site in favour of a new mega-brothel. They chose the latter.

Under the plan approved by the local council, Ostend's red light district is set to be cleared and moved to the hangar - a building with protected architectural status. This means that the exterior of the premises cannot be changed, but the interior can be renovated in whatever way is seen fit.
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British Transport Police: Man detained after bomb scare at London's Charing Cross rail station


RT
Fri, 22 Jun 2018 09:30 UTC
Charing Cross railway station
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Charing Cross railway station
Charing Cross rail terminal in London was evacuated after reports of a man on the tracks who claimed to have an explosive device, the British Transport Police said. The suspect was swiftly detained by officers.

"A man claiming to have a bomb at #CharingCross station has now been arrested," British Transport Police said. "We are now working to reopen the station as soon as possible."

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Chanting activists confront DHS secretary during dinner at Mexican restaurant in Washington, D.C.

Avery Anapol
The Hill
Tue, 19 Jun 2018 00:00 UTC
Kirstjen Michele Nielsen

United States Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Michele Nielsen
Activists disrupted Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen's dinner at a Mexican restaurant in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday night amid growing outcry over the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" immigration policy.

The D.C. chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America shared video on Facebook of activists booing and yelling at Nielsen and calling on her to "abolish" U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

"We're in downtown DC disrupting DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen's dinner at MXDC," the group wrote in the post. "The irony isn't lost on us that this is a Mexican restaurant."
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Tesla severance packages set to "Chill valid employee complaints" about safety issues

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Mon, 18 Jun 2018 00:00 UTC
Tesla model 3 assembly line
Tesla is trying to silence former employees from speaking out about workplace safety issues, it appears from language being included in new severance packages.

Bloomberg reported today that Tesla is trying to curb former employees from speaking out about safety issues that they may have incurred on the job, and it is doing so by including new language in severance packages that it is issuing to 9% of its employee workforce that it is laying off.

Those employees who are accepting severance packages are being asked to give up certain rights as it relates to speaking publicly about workplace safety issues. The Bloomberg article noted:

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Security guard claims the Las Vegas shooter shot him in the thigh with a pellet gun

Rachel Blevins
The Free Thought Project
Thu, 21 Jun 2018 20:00 UTC
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New body camera footage has been released from the first officers on the scene of the Las Vegas shooting in October 2017, and it reveals that the security guard who was reportedly suspect Stephen Paddock's first victim, believed he was shot by a pellet gun and did not have any visible wounds.

Jesus Campos, a security guard at Mandalay Bay, made headlines initially because he was reportedly the only witness who saw Paddock open the door of his hotel room on the 32nd floor and shoot at least 200 rounds out into the hall.

Days after the shooting, International Union President David Hickey claimed that Campos was "shot in the right thigh when he approached Paddock's room on the 32nd floor during the Las Vegas mass shooting," and a GoFundMe page claimed that Campos "was shot through the door while on random patrol as a Security Officer."

The story changed a number of times, and Campos went from being a random casualty, to the first victim of the shooting, who was reportedly shot once in the leg once when Paddock opened the door to his room and fired at least 200 rounds into the hall in his direction.

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Modern monetary policies gut working class incomes

Peter Schmidt
SchiffGOLD
Thu, 14 Jun 2018 00:00 UTC
Federal Reserve
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Federal Reserve
When currency was backed by gold, a central bank's main function was to maintain the value of the issued currency in terms of gold. For example, if a central bank created too much money against the gold reserves in the banking system, an increasing number of people would begin to exchange their currency for gold. To combat this, a central bank would be forced to raise interest rates and decrease the money supply. The higher interest rates would incentivize people to exchange gold for larger savings on deposit that earn interest. Banking reserves - gold - would return to the banking system and the economy would return to balance. The prime reason for insisting on defining currency in terms of a precious metal was to provide a self-correcting braking mechanism to the creation of money. As expressed by the great Wilhelm Röpke:
If in the production of goods the most important pedal is the accelerator, in the production of money it is the brake. To insure that this brake works automatically and independently of the whims of government and the pressure of parties and groups seeking "easy money" has been one of the main functions of the gold standard. That the liberal should prefer the automatic brake of gold to the whims of government in its role of trustee of a managed currency is understandable."[1]
The US dollar was backed by gold as recently as 1971. Any central bank in the world could present the Federal Reserve $35 and receive 1-ounce of gold in exchange. However, on August 15, 1971 - blaming it on the "gnomes of Zurich" - President Nixon "temporarily" broke the dollar's last link with gold. Nixon closed the "gold window" and reneged on the promise to exchange an ounce of gold for $35. Since then, the system of credit in the US has been under the Fed's complete control.
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DHS House Chair McCaul: Daesh seeks to take down planes, using chemical weapons


Sputnik
Thu, 21 Jun 2018 18:40 UTC
Daesh weapons
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Daesh weapons warehouse
The Daesh terror group is targeting airplanes around the world with both conventional and chemical weapons, US Chairman of the House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee Michael McCaul said on Thursday.

McCaul spoke about aviation threats during a conversation with Homeland Security Secretary Kristjen Nielsen at the 2018 Capitol Hill National Security Forum.
"They're still intent on taking down airplanes. It's the crown jewel, if you will, for them. They'd love nothing more than to blow up an airline inbound from say Istanbul to JFK [John Fitzgerald Kennedy] airport and we know that they have bomb makers," McCaul said.
McCaul went on saying that Daesh terrorists are also making chemical gases that could be used on airplanes to kill everyone on board within minutes.

Nielsen confirmed that the militants' publications and intelligence, looked through by the Department of Homeland Security, show Daesh desire to take down airplanes.

Comment: Terrorist scare or heads-up beware? Bonafide threat or leaked for control?

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UK Home Office employee confronted by 'pedophile-hunters' for allegedly grooming 12-year-old girl

Jack Wallis Simons
Daily Mail
Thu, 21 Jun 2018 15:02 UTC
Gary Hodgkiss

Gary Hodgkiss, 48, pictured, is a Home Office official who works as an IT consultant for Border Force who was confronted by paedophile hunters after allegedly trying to meet a 12-year-old
A Home Office IT consultant has been arrested after being confronted by a group of vigilante 'pedophile hunters' who accused him of attempting to meet up with a 12-year-old girl.

The confrontation with the married father was recorded on Wednesday evening at an undisclosed location in Manchester. It was streamed live on Facebook, garnering more than 42,000 views in just half an hour.

The man was told by the group - known as Dark Light - that they had evidence he had communicated with three underage girls.

Comment: This story comes on the heels of: Two former Tory mayors found guilty of multiple counts of child rape in just 48 hours

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Greyhound finds itself in the middle of illegal immigration uproar

Rachel Siegel
The Washington Post
Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:59 UTC
greyhound immigration
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He was a 12-year Miami resident originally from Trinidad, taken off a Greyhound bus in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, by U.S. Border Patrol agents in January.

She was a 60-something Jamaican national who had just met her granddaughter for the first time, whose Greyhound was stopped by Border Patrol. She was arrested and turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

And on the other side of the country, they were an undocumented father and son riding a Greyhound from Seattle to Montana when agents came aboard and asked, "Are you illegal?" "Do you have your documents?" The son, a DACA recipient traveling without his papers, was held for a few hours. The father was sent to a detention center.
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US midterm elections have unprecedented focus on sitting president

David Lauter
Tribune Washington Bureau
Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:43 UTC
Washington DC flags
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A new survey highlights how much the national, partisan contest now outweighs local issues in voters' choice for Congress...

With about 4 1/2 months to go until a midterm election that will determine whether Democrats gain power to check President Donald Trump, voter interest in the contest has reached historic highs, with far more intense focus than usual on one subject: the president.

Midterm elections often act as a referendum on whoever occupies the White House, but in most election years, many voters don't view their ballot that way. This year, they do: Some 60 percent say they view their midterm vote as a ballot essentially against (34 percent) or for (26 percent) Trump, according to a newly released survey from the nonpartisan Pew Research Center. That makes Trump a bigger factor in the midterm than any president since Pew first asked the question during President Ronald Reagan's first term.
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