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Anti-Russia 'propaganda' group PropOrNot asks investigator to drop CIA arming Syrian rebels story

RT
Fri, 20 Oct 2017 03:54 UTC

A group that claims to be fighting against Russian propaganda and "fake news" is asking a reporter not to pursue information on the CIA arming Syrian rebels. PropOrNot, famous for being an ex-source for the Washington Post, says the story may fall into the wrong hands.

On Thursday, Jason Leopold, a senior investigative reporter at Buzzfeed, tweeted that he had filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the CIA for documents related to the US arming Syrian rebels.

PropOrNot beseeched him to drop its case in a tweet.

Comment: Likely because factual information regarding this would prove that PropOrNot is, in fact, supporting propaganda - and what independent media outlets have been reporting about for many months. But read on for the ridiculous reasons given...

Last year, the Washington Post published a front page article that cited PropOrNot, a group that, according to the site's description, is "volunteering time and skills to identify propaganda - particularly Russian propaganda - targeting a US audience."

The report identified more than 200 websites as "routine peddlers of Russian propaganda."

Comment: Grade-school logic and loyalties dominate PropOrNot. And just today we read about yet another juvenile-level propaganda-spinning organization: European NGO attacks RT: Labels guest commentators 'useful idiots who undermine Western democracy'

These groups have a lot of funding!

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Rapper says male musicians have to perform sex acts to make it in the music industry

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Sat, 21 Oct 2017 00:00 UTC

If you are looking for bubble gum radio music about bitches, hoes, cars, and jewelry, then RA The Rugged Man is not for you. However, if you are looking for hard-hitting beats behind even harder hitting truth-rap music guaranteed not to ever make it to the radio-but that influences far more people despite its censorship, then look no further.

Rugged Man doesn't fear the backlash from the music industry because he acts outside of it. He can say what he wants and speak truth to power because he is not tied down to the labels that want to keep people brainwashed with the same song played over and over on the radio. However, because he has worked inside the industry before with RCA's sub-label, Jive Records, and worked with many big names, Rugged Man, aka R.A. Thorburn, knows their dirty secrets.

Similar to Hollywood, aspiring artists have to pay-with their bodies-to play.

"A lot of male entertainers & rappers had to perform sex acts on Powerful executives to get ahead. I wonder if they'll start coming out soon," Tweeted the rapper.

US school officials in hot water after history lesson photo showed black child on leashes

RT
Sat, 21 Oct 2017 17:22 UTC

Massachusetts elementary school officials are in hot water after a classroom photo from a history lesson showed a smiling teacher and two white students holding their black classmate with "leading strings."

The notorious photo was taken during a lesson about the Pilgrims, early European settlers in Plymouth, Massachusetts, for third graders in Mitchell Elementary School in Bridgewater town earlier in October, local media reported.

Mitchell Elementary School in Bridgewater

Poland: Shopping mall knife attacker kills woman and wounds seven others

Ed Wight & Kelly McLaughlin
Daily Mail
Fri, 20 Oct 2017 17:17 UTC

This man, dressed in a grey sweatshirt, was detained by police outside the shopping centre.

One woman is dead and seven others are in hospital in Poland after a man attacked them with a knife at a shopping mall.

A 27-year-old man has been detained after the attack in the south-eastern city of Stalowa Wola.

The man, who police believe was mentally unwell, entered Vivo shopping centre at around 3pm local time and started stabbing people in the back.

He is a resident of Stalowa Wola believed to be named Konrad according to local reports.

Eight people, including the woman who died, were taken to hospitals in Stalowa Wola, Tarnobrzeg and Sandomierz.

Two teenagers are reported to be in a critical condition.

US regulatory agency proposes UN laptop ban on international flights

Sputnik
Fri, 20 Oct 2017 17:05 UTC

A US regulatory agency is pushing for the United Nations to implement a ban on laptops in checked bags during international flights, one day after Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Elaine Duke said "the intelligence is clear" that terrorists groups "want to have a big explosion like they did on 9/11."

The US Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) has proposed airliners ban large electronic devices from checked bags on international flights since lithium-ion batteries in many of these devices present a risk of exploding when packed next to aerosol spray cans, Gizmodo reports.

Report says Weinstein is treating treatment as a joke - still insists all encounters were "consensual"

Jodi Guglielmi
People
Sat, 21 Oct 2017 16:56 UTC

Harvey Weinstein is getting treatment but is still defiant in the face of allegations of sexual misconduct spanning decades, a source tells PEOPLE.

"He's not listening to anyone," says the source.

The source says that rather checking into a residential rehab facility, Weinstein, 65, is staying at a luxury resort in Arizona and attending outpatient sessions.

While Weinstein said in a statement that he was working with therapists and planned to "deal with this issue head-on," a second insider tells PEOPLE the movie mogul doesn't think he needs round-the-clock help.

"He agreed to treatment, but he doesn't think he needs rehab," says the insider.

However, a Weinstein source counters that the executive has acknowledged that he needs help.

"His team set him up at a secure place to get him the help he needs - he knows and wants help," says the source. "Specialists and at least one doctor are coming to him and he's taking the therapy seriously. He's not taking this lightly. This has been something he's actually been working on for a while."

Comment: From Page Six:

The movie mogul, who volunteered to go to rehab after a wave of allegations of sexual harassment and rape against him from women in Hollywood, isn't exactly in his element in therapy, falling asleep in sessions or talking on his phone, a source tells Page Six.

Court orders Mandalay Bay shooting suite must be preserved, along with relevant evidence

RT
Fri, 20 Oct 2017 16:46 UTC

Paddock's suite room doors at the end of 'hallway 100' in the Mandalay Bay

A court has ruled that the luxury suite used by the Las Vegas gunman who carried out the October 1 attack is to be preserved, along with photos, surveillance video, gambling records and anything else pertaining to the atrocity.

Stephen Paddock used modified semi-automatic weapons to kill 58 people and injure 546 others before turning the gun on himself.

Clark County District Court Judge Mark Denton approved a temporary restraining order against MGM Resorts International on Thursday, Las Vegas Now reports, forcing the company to preserve information relating to the room, the hotel and the festival grounds where the shooting took place.

The order was sought by lawyers on behalf of Rachel Sheppard, a 27-year-old woman from Tehachapi, California, who was shot three times at the Route 91 Harvest Festival on October 1. She is still recovering from the attack.

Comment: That's assuming evidence hasn't already been destroyed and/or tampered with. There's also the question as to whether any of this evidence will ever be made public. See:

Polar bears have invaded a Russian village forcing locals to take shelter indoors

Will Stewart and Rod Ardehali
Daily Mail
Thu, 19 Oct 2017 13:27 UTC

Aggressive polar bears are holding locals from the Russian village of Ryrkaypiy hostage after forcing hundreds of frightened local walruses to jump off 125ft cliffs to their deaths

Aggressive polar bears are holding locals in a Russian village hostage after being drawn to a nearby walrus rookery, leaving residents unable to venture outdoors.

The one tonne predators are thought to have forced hundreds of frightened walruses to jump off 125ft cliffs to their deaths before feasting on the carcasses.

Around 20 of the fearsome bears have surrounded the coastal area of Ryrkaypiy, population of 601, with one cub even trying to enter a house through the window.

The polar bears were attracted by a walrus rookery in a special protection zone in the Russian far eastern region of Chukotka.

Gulf Coast oil spill may be twice as big as initially reported

Susan Roesgen
WGNO
Thu, 19 Oct 2017 16:34 UTC

An oil spill in the Gulf, first reported by the Coast Guard on Saturday (Oct. 14), is now believed to be at least two times bigger than the original estimate.

According to the Coast Guard, the oil company, LLOG, initially said that a crack in a pipeline sent about 340,000 gallons of oil (between 7 and 9 thousand barrels) into the Gulf about 40 miles southeast of Venice.

Body cameras don't change police conduct: Washington, DC study

RT
Sat, 21 Oct 2017 11:00 UTC

The adoption of body cameras by Metropolitan Police Department officers in Washington, DC had no discernible effect on reducing citizen complaints or use of force by the officers, according to the latest study by the MPD.

"We found essentially that we could not detect any statistically significant effect of the body-worn cameras," says Anita Ravishankar, a researcher with the Metropolitan Police Department and member of a policy research group working for the city government Lab @ DC.

The study ran for a year and half, from June 2015 through December 2016, and had a control group and a treatment group of over 1,000 officers each. Researchers looked at police use of force based on officers' self-reported incidents, civilian complaints, policing activity and judicial outcomes.

"Across each of the four outcome categories, our analysis consistently point to a null result," the report said. "We are unable to reject the null hypotheses that the BWCs [body-worn cameras] have no effect on police use... because our study has a large enough sample size to detect small effect sizes."

What an evil person. Pure lies, sticking to the script so she doesn't incur the wrath of her minders. It is time for the human race to stand up.

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Society's Child

Anti-Russia 'propaganda' group PropOrNot asks investigator to drop CIA arming Syrian rebels story

Rapper says male musicians have to perform sex acts to make it in the music industry

US school officials in hot water after history lesson photo showed black child on leashes

Poland: Shopping mall knife attacker kills woman and wounds seven others

US regulatory agency proposes UN laptop ban on international flights

Report says Weinstein is treating treatment as a joke - still insists all encounters were "consensual"

Court orders Mandalay Bay shooting suite must be preserved, along with relevant evidence

Polar bears have invaded a Russian village forcing locals to take shelter indoors

Gulf Coast oil spill may be twice as big as initially reported

Body cameras don't change police conduct: Washington, DC study

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