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UK: More than 14 million people living in poverty, major report finds

May Bulman
Independent
Mon, 17 Sep 2018 12:00 UTC

More than 14 million people are living in poverty in the UK, according to a major report proposing a new measure of financial hardship which considers the impact of "inescapable" costs such as childcare and disability.

Comment: British parents struggling to afford more than 1 child

The research by the Social Metrics Commission (SMC) found that 14.2 million people were living in poverty under the new measure, of which 4.5 million were children and 1.4 million were people of pension age.

Of that total figure, 7.7 million people were found to be living in "persistent poverty", meaning they had spent all or most of the last four years or more in poverty, while 6.9 million were living in families with a disabled person.

Comment: See also:

Social contagion? Fears of copycat spread in wake of multiple accounts of strawberries contaminated with needles in Australia

RT
Mon, 17 Sep 2018 09:08 UTC

Australian police are continuing their manhunt for the country's infamous strawberry saboteur as needle-contamination fears spread across the country, bringing the fruit industry to its knees.

Police in Western Australia confirmed on Monday that they are investigating the first reported case of suspected needle contamination in the state. Previously, almost a dozen incidents were reported in six brands of strawberries across six states and territories.

The crisis has spiraled since a man was hospitalized after swallowing a needle that was hidden inside a strawberry in Queensland over a week ago.

Fears of a copycat fruit saboteur emerged on Monday after police reported that a woman was caught inserting a needle into a banana in a Queensland supermarket. However, police confirmed that the woman had mental health issues and said they were treating the act as an isolated incident, with no connection to any other food contamination investigations.

It comes as New Zealand food distributors removed Australian strawberries from their shelves as a precaution, further adding to the devastation caused by the unidentified culprit.

"State of Emergency" called for North Carolina's Brunswick Nuclear Plant

Daisy Luther
The Organic Prepper
Mon, 17 Sep 2018 00:00 UTC

A "state of emergency" has been declared by the staff at Brunswick Nuclear Plant in Southport, North Carolina. Few details are available at the moment, but the emergency is currently classified as "an unusual event" due to flooding from Hurricane Florence. If it's any comfort, the classification of "unusual event" is the lowest emergency classification in the nuke world.

Update #2: Sept. 17, 2018; 6:17 pm

The official filing with the NRC states:

"A hazardous event has resulted in on site conditions sufficient to prohibit the plant staff from accessing the site via personal vehicles due to flooding of local roads by Tropical Storm Florence."

Anne Hathaway goes for the virtue signalling high score by denouncing 'white privilege' at star-studded gala dinner

RT
Mon, 17 Sep 2018 20:29 UTC

Hollywood actress Anne Hathaway took to the stage to bash white, straight, cisgender privilege, at an awards ceremony attended by a who's-who of Democrats, celebrities, and activists.

Hathaway, who is white, married (to a man) with a son, and among the world's highest-paid actresses, told the audience at the Human Rights Campaign's National Dinner on Saturday night that she is "scared" of anti-LGBT "bigots," and that her own privilege is part of a "damaging and widely accepted myth."

"It is important to acknowledge with the exception of being a cisgender male, everything about how I was born has put me at the current center of a damaging and widely accepted myth," she said.

Then, after addressing the crowd as "ladies, gentlemen, and geltlethem," Hathaway expounded on her beliefs, seemingly gleaned from plucking pages from random social sciences tomes and mainlining the Huffington Post daily.

Ukrainian nationalists hit reporter in face & throw eggs while police do nothing

RT
Mon, 17 Sep 2018 18:27 UTC

© Serg Glovny / Global Look Press
Ukrainian policemen stand guard during a protest in front the General Prosecutor's Office in Kiev, Ukraine, on 17 September 2018.

A reporter with Ukraine's NewsOne was viciously attacked by nationalists during a live report in Kiev. It happened during protests against the extradition of a Russian wanted over alleged involvement with terrorists in Syria.

The incident occurred on Monday during a nationalist rally in front of the General Prosecutor's Office building in Ukraine's capital. The journalist, Darina Bilera, was trying to do a live report from the scene when several people attacked her.

She was first pelted with eggs and other projectiles, before a woman hit Bilera in the face, forcing the NewsOne crew to retreat from the scene. The protesters accused the crew of being "pro-Russian," which can be heard on footage that has been uploaded online. Numerous riot police officers that were present near the prosecutor's office did not intervene in the incident.

Sean Penn says he's 'very suspicious' of #MeToo movement that is 'meant to divide men and women'

Jon San
Yahoo News
Mon, 17 Sep 2018 13:50 UTC

Sean Penn shared his thoughts on the #MeToo movement this morning on the Today show.

#MeToo gained steam in October when Harvey Weinstein was accused of numerous incidents of sexual misconduct. From there, the movement brought to light allegations against other male celebrities, among them Matt Lauer, Charlie Rose, and Kevin Spacey.

While many Hollywood names have embraced the movement, Penn is more cautious - and even called it a "receptacle of the salacious."

"This is a movement that was largely shouldered by a kind of receptacle of the salacious," he told Natalie Morales. Penn explained the term, saying, "Well, we don't know what's a fact in many of the cases. Salacious is as soon as you call something a movement that is really a series of many individual accusers, victims, accusations, some of which are unfounded."

Comment: Finally a little common sense from someone in Hollywood! See: The war on men in the #MeToo era

Wikileaks denies claims Assange sought Russian visa in 2010 - Says source is paid FBI informant and fraudster Sigurdur Thordarson

RT
Mon, 17 Sep 2018 18:11 UTC

WikiLeaks has denied claims that its founder Julian Assange sought a Russian visa in 2010 amid sexual misconduct allegations.

A report, published by Associated Press (AP) as an exclusive based on leaked WikiLeaks documents, alleges that Assange wrote to the Russian consulate in London to give an associate of his permission to facilitate the visa process for him.

"I, Julian Assange, hereby grant full authority to my friend, Israel Shamir, to both drop off and collect my passport, in order to get a visa," the letter stated, according to AP.

AP says the letter is part of a trove of WikiLeaks emails, chat logs, financial records, secretly recorded footage and other documents that has been leaked to it.

WikiLeaks has vehemently denied the claims, however, stating that Assange did not write the document or apply for such a visa at any stage.

Comment: Since the US has (so far) been unable to oust Assange from the Ecuadorian Embassy, all forms of character assassination to diminish his credibility will have to do.

Of course, if Assange had applied for a Russian visa back then, he wouldn't be imprisoned in a tower in London.

Anniversary Lehman's collapse: 'Toxic' banks were treated with soap and smoke

RT
Sun, 16 Sep 2018 01:12 UTC

© Boris Roessler/AFP
Activists rally in Frankfurt am Main to mark 10th anniversary of the collapse of US bank Lehman Brothers, September 15, 2018.

A French anti-globalist group has covered the walls of the country's most prominent banks with black soap, lightning orange smoke bombs, and green slime to decry the "toxic" finance industry.

Hundreds of activists from Attac France staged a series of protests across the country on Saturday to mark the anniversary of the global financial crisis, which was triggered by the bankruptcy of Wall Street titan Lehman Brothers on September 15, 2008.

Comment: Millions paid the price for the banking cabal's entitlements, schemes and criminal activity. Is anything better today? They deserve much more than soap and smoke!

Report: Saudi-led coalition airstrike on a Yemeni radio station leaves 4 dead

Sputnik
Sun, 16 Sep 2018 19:41 UTC

Four people were killed in the Yemeni port city of Al Hodeidah on Sunday as a result of the Saudi-led coalition's airstrike on a local radio station, Houthi-run Al Masirah TV channel reported.

According to the Al Masirah TV, the attack on the radio station located in the Al-Marawah district claimed the lives of three guards and one of the radio employees.

The Yemeni Media Union has already denounced the strike as a "war crime" and urged international and local organizations to demonstrate solidarity with the station.

The situation in war-torn Yemen has deteriorated sharply since June, when the government forces led by President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi and the Saudi-led coalition, which have been supporting Hadi since 2015, launched an offensive to seize Al Hodeidah, a key port city for humanitarian aid, from Houthi insurgents.

Radical Antifa website details how to injure cops, hold up banks & more

Brock Simmons
The Gateway Pundit
Mon, 17 Sep 2018 17:07 UTC

Ever wonder how you can injure multiple police officers during a protest and get away with it without anyone ever knowing it was you? How 'bout elaborate schemes to deny banks service to their customers? How 'bout providing an assist to countless illegal aliens who want to sneak across the border?

Of course you haven't, because most Gateway Pundit readers are sane and not prone to criminality.

But a website called Destructables provides far left protesters and other law breakers with step-by-step guides on exactly how to accomplish such.

Comment: Also see: Liberal Fascism: Why Fascism Has Always Been a Leftist Movement, And How to Recognize Its Flavor

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Society's Child

UK: More than 14 million people living in poverty, major report finds

Social contagion? Fears of copycat spread in wake of multiple accounts of strawberries contaminated with needles in Australia

"State of Emergency" called for North Carolina's Brunswick Nuclear Plant

Anne Hathaway goes for the virtue signalling high score by denouncing 'white privilege' at star-studded gala dinner

Ukrainian nationalists hit reporter in face & throw eggs while police do nothing

Sean Penn says he's 'very suspicious' of #MeToo movement that is 'meant to divide men and women'

Wikileaks denies claims Assange sought Russian visa in 2010 - Says source is paid FBI informant and fraudster Sigurdur Thordarson

Anniversary Lehman's collapse: 'Toxic' banks were treated with soap and smoke

Report: Saudi-led coalition airstrike on a Yemeni radio station leaves 4 dead

Radical Antifa website details how to injure cops, hold up banks & more

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