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UK Home Office turns 'blind eye' in giving spousal visas to men forcing victims into marriage


RT
Sat, 04 Aug 2018 14:00 UTC
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A British victim of forced marriage has hit out at the government's inaction in investigating claims of unwanted spousal visas, telling RT that the scale of men coming to the UK through the practice is "massive."

Sunny Angel, twice a victim of forced marriage, described that Indian men asking her family to marry her had hoped to "use her as a ticket" to the UK by gaining a visa through marriage.

"[As] the victims, we don't want them here," she added.

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Chemical company Arkema indicted for Hurricane Harvey toxic chemical release


RT
Fri, 03 Aug 2018 13:56 UTC
Arkema plant
© Adrees Latif / ReutersA fire at the flooded Arkema plant after Tropical Storm Harvey passed in Crosby, Texas, US August 31, 2017
Top managers at French multinational Arkema could face up to five years in prison after the company was indicted for "reckless" emissions of toxic chemicals from its Houston, Texas plant during last year's Hurricane Harvey.

The Harris County court grand jury ruled that Richard Rowe, the CEO of the Paris-based company, and Leslie Comardelle, the manager of the Houston plant, were personally at fault for the emission. Arkema itself faces a fine of $1 million.

"Companies don't make decisions, people do. Responsibility for pursuing profit over the health of innocent people rests with the leadership of Arkema," Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg said in a statement.

The facility lost power after being submerged in up to six feet of water during last August's devastating storm. As a result power went out, causing organic peroxides to become unstable. Through the course of a week, the flammable materials caught fire and exploded over the plant, sending plumes of smoke into the air. This caused documented damage among a half-dozen first responders, and more general complaints elsewhere.
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Donald Trump Jr comes under fire for saying Democrat & Nazi policies 'heavily aligned'


RT
Sat, 04 Aug 2018 11:59 UTC
Donald Trump Junior
© Carlo Allegri / Reuters
Donald Trump Jr has come under fire for equating the Democrats' platform and that of the Nazi party in an attempt to dismiss the concerns of "kids in dreadlocks running around screaming about fascism" in the US.

Trump made the remarks at the premiere of Dinesh D'Souza's new film, 'Death of a Nation: Plantation Politics and the Making of the Democratic Party,' which argues Adolf Hitler was a progressive liberal.

"I've been hearing the left talking about these things ― fascism, Nazism on the right, and when you look at the actual history of how these things evolved, and when you actually look at that [Nazi] platform versus the platform of the modern left, you say, wait a minute, those two are really heavily aligned and frankly contrary to the right," Trump Jr. told One America News Network.

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

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Stirewalt to reporters: Stop going to Trump rallies, quit letting him use you as a foil

Pam Key
Breitbart
Fri, 03 Aug 2018 00:01 UTC
Chris Stirewalt
Friday on Fox News Channel's "Outnumbered," Fox News' digital politics editor Chris Stirewalt said journalists should stop going to President Donald Trump's rallies during a discussion on CNN's Jim Acosta recent back and forth over Trump's press criticisms.

Stirewalt said, "We are at a point where the White House briefs very rarely and when they do it's useless. We should stop the televised briefing, it is counterproductive, it's turned into showboat theater, no one, no questions get answered. Not no questions, but the substance of issues is not addressed. It has become a forum for personal achievement and clinical utility for the administration."

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CNN's Brian Stelter says Trump is leading a 'hate movement' against the MSM

Tony Lee
Breitbart
Wed, 01 Aug 2018 00:01 UTC
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CNN media reporter Brian Stelter on Wednesday accused President Donald Trump of leading a "hate movement" against establishment media reporters.

Discussing the Trump supporters who heckled CNN reporter Jim Acosta on Tuesday evening before Trump's rally in Tampa, Florida, Stelter told CNNI's Hala Gorani, "I think what we are increasingly seeing from the president and his aides and his allies is a hate movement against the American press."

"When you look at the behavior around Jim Acosta and some of the other reporter at these rallies, you really do see a hate movement," he insisted.

Comment: Trump's ongoing battle with the press appears to be reaching a boiling point. Trump supporters are so sick of the lies coming out of the MSM that they're starting to fight back. The worries that 'someone might get hurt' are likely valid - with tensions as tight as they are, there's no telling when, where or how this might explode.

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Diversity and harm: How identity politics is threatening fields where competence is vitally important

Walter E. Williams
walterewilliams.com
Wed, 13 Jun 2018 00:01 UTC
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In conversations with most college officials, many CEOs, many politicians and race hustlers, it's not long before the magical words "diversity" and "inclusiveness" drop from their lips. Racial minorities are the intended targets of this sociological largesse, but women are included, as well. This obsession with diversity and inclusion is in the process of leading the nation to decline in a number of areas. We're told how it's doing so in science, in an article by Heather Mac Donald, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, titled "How Identity Politics Is Harming the Sciences".

Mac Donald says that identity politics has already taken over the humanities and social sciences on American campuses. Waiting in the wings for a similar takeover are the STEM fields - science, technology, engineering and math. In the eyes of the diversity and inclusiveness czars, the STEM fields don't have a pleasing mixture of blacks, Hispanics and women. The effort to get this "pleasing mix" is doing great damage to how science is taught and evaluated, threatening innovation and American competitiveness.

Comment: The importance of competence in fields that are life and death, or even fields where innovation and progress should be valued over equity, is something we as a society ignore at our own peril. The idea that skin color or gender are more important than actually being qualified or capable of performing, never mind excelling at, a job is utter insanity.

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SOTT Focus: Americans Are Living in a World of Lies

Paul Craig Roberts
Institute for Political Economy
Fri, 03 Aug 2018 08:54 UTC
News Lies
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The US government and the presstitutes that serve it continue to lie to us about everything. Today the Bureau of Labor Statistics told us that the unemployment rate was 3.9%. How can this be when the BLS also reports that the labor force participation rate has declined for a decade throughout the length of the alleged economic recovery and there is no upward pressure on wages from full employment. When jobs are plentiful, people enter the labor force to take advantage of the work opportunities. This raises the labor force participation rate. When employment is full - which is what a 3.9% unemlpoyment rate means - wages are bid up as employers compete for scarce labor. Full employment with no wage pressure and no rise in the labor force participation rate is impossible.

The 3.9% unemployment rate is not due to employment. It results from not counting discouraged workers who have ceased to search for jobs because there are no jobs to be had. If an unemployed person is not actively searching for a job, he is not counted as being in the labor force. The way the unemployment rate is measured makes it a hoax.

The government tells us that there is essentially no inflation despite the fact that prices have been rising strongly - the price of food, the price of home repairs, the price of drugs, the price of almost everything. Two years ago the American Association of Retired People's Public Policy Institute reported that the average retail drug price has been increasing "at a worrying pace of 10 percent a year, and about 20 drugs have astoundingly had their prices quadruple since just December. Sixty drugs doubled over the same period. Turing Pharmaceuticals, headed by Martin Shkreli, is one of the most pronounced examples of this kind of behavior. The company bought a lifesaving cancer medication only to increase its price from $13.50 to $750 per pill."

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Yemen Health Ministry says US 'bears full responsibility' for deadly airstrikes in Hodeida


RT
Sat, 04 Aug 2018 09:27 UTC
Bodies outside a hospital morge after an air strike hit a fish market in Hodeida
© Abduljabbar Zeyad / ReutersBodies outside a hospital morge after an air strike hit a fish market in Hodeida, Yemen August 2, 2018
The United States should be held accountable for Saudi-led airstrikes that hit a hospital and fish market, killing at least two dozen civilians in the Yemeni port, Health Ministry said as thousands protested the attack.

A spokesman for the Houthi-affiliated health ministry said on Friday that "the United States bears full responsibility" for the deadly attack, adding that "the United Nations, its organizations and the international community have remained silent in the face of the aggression" from the US-backed, Saudi-led coalition that invaded Yemen in 2015.


Comment: See also: Clueless idiot Nikki Haley concerned Yemeni civilians are STARTING to be at risk after 3-year war leaves 8 million starving

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18 people killed in helicopter crash in Krasnoyarsk, Russia


RT
Sat, 04 Aug 2018 07:39 UTC
A Mi-8 helicopter
© russianhelicopters. aero / Global Look PressA Mi-8 helicopter
A Mi-8 helicopter with passengers on board has crashed in Krasnoyarsk Region, Siberia. Eighteen people have died in the crash.

The helicopter, reportedly operated by Utair airline, was carrying 15 passengers and three crew members, all of whom have been confirmed dead. The helicopter was reportedly taking workers to an oil well.

The crash took place shortly after take-off, with the helicopter's fuel tanks full. The resulting fire is believed to have completely incinerated the aircraft.

Comment: "The Transportation Prosecutor's Office for Western Siberia has opened an investigation into a possible violation of air transport safety regulations," a spokesperson for the agency said.
Two "black boxes" have been pulled from the wreckage of the crashed helicopter that came down near a remote Siberian village on Saturday, a source told Sputnik.

"A cockpit voice recorder and a flight data recorder were found at the site of the Mi-8 helicopter crash," the source in the regional emergency services said, adding their condition was unknown.


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SOTT Focus: How Identity Politics Divides The Left And Has Caused it to Lose Sight of Its Collective Identity And Purpose in The West

Tomasz Pierscionek
RT
Thu, 02 Aug 2018 12:36 UTC
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© Stefan Wermuth / Reuters
The identity politics phenomenon sweeping across the Western world is a divide and conquer strategy that prevents the emergence of a genuine resistance to the elites.

A core principle of socialism is the idea of an overarching supra-national solidarity that unites the international working class and overrides any factor that might divide it, such as nation, race, or gender. Workers of all nations are partners, having equal worth and responsibility in a struggle against those who profit from their brain and muscle.

Capitalism, especially in its most evolved, exploitative and heartless form - imperialism - has wronged certain groups of people more than others. Colonial empires tended to reserve their greatest brutality for subjugated peoples whilst the working class of these imperialist nations fared better in comparison, being closer to the crumbs that fell from the table of empire. The international class struggle aims to liberate all people everywhere from the drudgery of capitalism regardless of their past or present degree of oppression. The phrase 'an injury to one is an injury to all' encapsulates this mindset and conflicts with the idea of prioritising the interests of one faction of the working class over the entire collective.
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