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Russian anti-doping agency to appeal WADA's 4-year suspension at CAS


RT
Thu, 19 Dec 2019 17:16 UTC
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© Sputnik / Anton Denisov
The Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) plans to file an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) attempting to overturn a four-year ban imposed on the country over alleged manipulations of Moscow laboratory data.

On Thursday, RUSADA Supervisory Board Chairman Alexander Ivlev said that the body's long-lasting dialogue with the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) will continue in court after the Russian side disagreed with the sanctions imposed by the anti-doping watchdog.

"I'm ready to announce a decision taken at RUSADA Supervisory Board meeting which was held today," Ivlev said. "We have discussed the recent decision to proclaim RUSADA non-compliant with WADA code and all the consequences triggered by the verdict. RUSADA Supervisory Board members have decided to disagree with the WADA's decision."

Comment: Putin responded with a very clear statement that gets to the heart of this whole WADA charade:
"It is not only unfair but it also defies common sense and international law. [...] Sadly, the decision is most likely political in nature"
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750 Billion reasons why Goldman Sachs is rooting for Greta Thunberg's success

Tyler Durden
Zerohedge
Mon, 16 Dec 2019 18:50 UTC
Greta Thunberg
Having lost much of its central banker incubation skills over the past decade, and handing over the crown of Wall Street's most profitable trading desk to Morgan Stanley, in recent years Goldman Sachs has been best known for enabling and profiting wildly from Malaysia 1MDB criminal fraud, which culminated with the arrest of former Malaysia PM Razak, but not before Goldman made billions in illicit profits from selling bonds offered by the country's sovereign wealth fund.

And while Goldman is still waiting to learn its criminal and civil fate, and more importantly, how many billions it will have to pay Malaysia/the DOJ to put its 1MDB fraud in the rearview mirror, the company - which a decade ago was hoping to make billions from aggressively entering the carbon credit/offset market as profiled delightfully in Matt Taibbi's "The Great American Bubble Machine" - is already scheming how to profit from the latest round of anti-climate change euphoria, conveniently spawned by a 16-year-old child with Asperger's Syndrome.

On Monday, Goldman Sachs said it will provide $750 billion in financing, advisory services and investments for initiatives that fight climate change, as well as those that foster economic opportunities for under-served people over the next decade. What Goldman did not say is that it will pocket a generous commission, somewhere in the 3-5% ballpark, by peddling "green" products to naive investors (including central banks) who have fallen for the whole ESG virtue signalling charade.
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92% of Americans feel their freedom is threatened

Tyler Durden
Zerohedge
Tue, 17 Dec 2019 00:00 UTC
freedom os speech


Americans are most afraid their First Amendment rights could be taken away, according to a new poll by Harris Poll/Purple Project, which surveyed 2,002 people nationwide from November 18-20, 2019. Overall, Statista's Maria Vultaggio notes that 92 percent were concerned their rights were being jeopardized, USA Today wrote, citing the poll. Americans also fear their right to bear arms and their right to equal justice are in danger.

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You will find more infographics at Statista

Comment: It's no wonder that most 'middle of the road' and/or conservative Americans feel this way. Every time one looks, another platform, website or venue is getting closed off, complained to - or shouted down by a hysterical minority that insists that any views differing from their own be labeled "hate speech", pro-Russian, or some such other nonsense. The sad irony of it is that this culture of taking offense at every differing perspective plays right in to the hands of those who would seek to keep the masses as divided and asleep as possible. And this is to say nothing of all the other rights that are, piece by piece, being taken away. But it all seems to begin with free speech.

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Police ID suspect in Washington County stabbing rampage that killed 1, hurt 3

Jim Ryan and Shane Dixon Kavanaugh
The Oregonian/OregonLive
Thu, 19 Dec 2019 00:44 UTC
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© Beth Nakamura/The Oregonian
A 20-year-old man fatally stabbed a customer at a bank in a bustling Beaverton shopping center and wounded three other people during a bloody crime spree Wednesday morning that included two carjackings, authorities said.

What began as a reported robbery quickly turned deadly when the suspect slashed two women inside the Wells Fargo branch at the Murrayhill Marketplace, police said.

He then tried to make a getaway by stealing two cars, attacking the drivers inside each, police said.

His rampage ended several miles away when he ditched the second car and led officers on a foot chase through Tigard before police caught him.

Salvador Martinez-Romero was arrested and booked into jail on suspicion of murder, attempted murder and first-degree robbery, Beaverton police said.

Hours later, investigators were working to piece together the horrific episode that occurred a week before Christmas.
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42 acts of vandalism in 1.5 years: Jewish cemeteries are being systematically desecrated in Alsace, France, but not a SINGLE arrest has been made

Saskya Vandoorne & Melissa Bell
CNN
Sat, 14 Dec 2019 22:07 UTC

Comment: This one's from CNN, so we've commented heavily on it, BUT we are at least grateful that they have reported on the phenomenon at all...


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French Interior Minister Castaner visiting one of dozens of Jewish cemeteries desecrated in northeastern France in the last 18 months
Westhoffen, France - Guillaume Debré didn't know how to break it to his young daughters and has yet to show them a photograph of the swastika. "They are markings on sacred stones, that spell out hate and in this country, we understand what that means and what it can lead to," he says.

"To my daughters it's just a peaceful area where their family comes from. It's difficult for them to understand that their family, that their grave has become a target of hate."

But in early December, that is exactly what happened in the small village of Westhoffen in the Bas-Rhin region of Alsace, in eastern France. No one knows exactly when swastikas and anti-Semitic graffiti were spray-painted onto 107 tombstones in the village's ancient Jewish cemetery -- the 42nd anti-Semitic attack in the region in just 18 months.

French authorities are taking the matter extremely seriously. France's Interior Minister Christophe Castaner visited Westhoffen the day after the swastikas were discovered and French President Emmanuel Macron paid his respects at the cemetery of Quatzenheim after it was desecrated earlier this year. And yet, no one has been caught.


Comment: That is bizarre. We're not exactly talking about complex detective work here. When something has occurred 42 times in one small area over 1.5 years - that's an average of one incident every fortnight - and it's so important for the authorities that they send the president to the aftermath of several of them, then surely they'd have caught at least some of the culprits by now??


Comment: An international white supremacy movement that can send agents into a tight-knit locality in rural northeastern France, commit hundreds of acts of terror - undetected - on a weekly basis systematically for years under the noses of extra-vigilant locals and extra-well-funded state security forces??

If you believe that, you'll believe anything.

See also: Scapegoating Yellow Vests? Macron Moves to Outlaw Criticism of 'Zionism' as 'Anti-Semitism Wave' Hits France

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'Dark patterns': How travel and online retail sites influence your spending decisions

Chris Baraniuk
BBC
Thu, 12 Dec 2019 20:29 UTC
airport holiday travel
If you've wondered whether there were actually 30 people trying to book the same flight as you, you're not alone. The numbers may not be all they seem.

Ophir Harpaz just wanted to get a good deal on a flight to London. She was on travel website OneTravel, scouring various options for her trip. As she browsed, she noticed a seemingly helpful prompt: "38 people are looking at this flight". A nudge that implied the flight might soon get booked up, or perhaps that the price of a seat would rise as they became scarcer.

Except it wasn't a true statement. As Harpaz looked at that number, "38 people", she began to feel sceptical. Were 38 people really looking at that budget flight to London at the same exact moment?
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Red Flag

Security engineer says Google fired her for trying to notify co-workers of right to organize

April Glaser
NBC News
Tue, 17 Dec 2019 20:31 UTC
google
© David Paul Morris / Bloomberg via Getty Images
Google has fired a security engineer who updated a company tool to notify co-workers of their right to organize, spurring a labor complaint and adding to recent scrutiny of how the company has handled unionization efforts.

Kathryn Spiers, who worked as a security engineer, updated an internal Chrome browser extension so that each time Google employees visited the website of IRI Consultants — the Troy, Michigan, firm that Google hired this year amid a groundswell of labor activism at the company — they would see a pop-up message that read: "Googlers have the right to participate in protected concerted activities."

Spiers was placed on administrative leave the week of Thanksgiving, the same week the company fired four other employees who claim Google has been engaged in illegal efforts to discourage workers engaged in organizing employees. She was fired Friday.

"We dismissed an employee who abused privileged access to modify an internal security tool," a Google spokeswoman said in a statement, adding that it was "a serious violation."
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Stormtrooper

UN peacekeepers fathered 'hundreds' of children while serving in Haiti - including with children who sold sex for food, report finds

Chris Dyer
Daily Mail
Tue, 17 Dec 2019 22:28 UTC
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A soldier of the MINUSTAH (United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti) peacekeeping contingent walking past a pig while patrolling in the Cite Soleil slum of Port-au-Prince in 2014 in a file image
  • UN peacekeepers fathered hundreds of babies with Haitian women, a report said
  • A study by the University of Birmingham found girls as young as 11 were 'traded'
  • After their children were born, the young mothers were 'left to a life of poverty'
  • Academic said it was impossible to know exactly how many wereimpregnated
Peacekeepers of the United Nations had 'hundreds' of babies with women in Haiti before abandoning the young mothers, a new report has claimed.

The study into the UN mission in the disaster-hit Caribbean country said girls as young as 11 were left pregnant after being sexually abused.

Some of the girls were traded for 'a few coins' in order to get food and would have sex with the peacekeepers so they could survive, the British academic-led study found.

After their children were born, the young mothers were left to a life of poverty, according to the Times.

Comment: Peacekeepers? More like predators.

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Snakes in Suits

Whistleblower claims that LDS Church stockpiled $100 billion in charitable donations, dodged taxes

Paul Glader
Religion Unplugged
Mon, 16 Dec 2019 17:40 UTC
Temple Square
© Temple Square in Salt Lake City
A whistleblower complaint filed at the Internal Revenue Service in November by a knowledgeable church member alleges that a non-profit supporting organization controlled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints used member tithes to amass more than $100 billion in a set of investment funds and the Church misled members about uses of the money.

The complaint may be the most important look at LDS finances in decades, a window into one of the wealthiest religious organizations in the United States and the world. Details of the IRS filing reveal financial assets largely hidden from the church's membership (often known as "Mormons") and the public view.

The 74-page document filed with the IRS and obtained by Religion Unplugged shows that Ensign Peak Advisors, Inc. (EPA) owned assets under management grew to more than $100 billion from $10 billion in the past 22 years, fueled by a mix of investment strategy and tithe money from church members.
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Bizarro Earth

Mother says dressing like her six-year-old daughter makes her feel young

Jo Tweedy
Daily Mail
Wed, 11 Dec 2019 19:05 UTC
mother dresses like daughter
A mother has revealed how she dresses herself and her daughter in identical clothes when they go out together - because she says it makes her feel young again.Mother-of-one Melissa Hardy, from Southport, Merseyside, explains that she grew envious of her daughter Elizabeth's colourful wardrobe a couple of years ago and decided to try and emulate the youngster's style. What began as buying a few outfits that were similar to ones her daughter owned has now escalated into the duo going 'matchy matchy' whenever they can.

The business owner said that while she never imagined it would turn into a regular thing, little Elizabeth loved it so much that the mum-and-daughter duo rarely step out with differenc now 'twin' together all the time.

Comment: It wasn't all that long ago that children aspired to emulate adults. This is natural and fundamental to growing up. In these backward times, however, we see this repeating pattern of adults emulating children and looking to children for direction.

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