My Russia Hot-Air Balloon

On March 26, 2019 By admin

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Wouldn’t you like to ride in my Russia hot-air balloon?
Wouldn’t you like to malign in my Russia hot-air balloon?
We’ll rig the vote with media folk together, you and I,
For we can LIE!!!
Up, up and unaware in my propaganda tool, my Russia hot-air balloon!

The world’s a surreal place in my propaganda tool balloon.
It wears a nasty woman’s face in my Russia hot-air balloon.
We’ll keep out throngs of human pawns for that darn socialist guy.
For we can LIE!!!
Up, up and unaware in my propaganda tool, my Russia hot-air balloon!

Suspended under a rightwing duopoly,
We’ll search the matrix for a deep state op to guide us.
If by some chance you find yourself jeopardized by me,
We’ll find some media clod to hide us, keep the cash beside us.

Success is hovering there in my Russia hot-air balloon.
Crushing the people’s will is fair in my propaganda tool balloon.
If you’ll hold my hand we’ll pull more scams on that Bernie guy.
For we can LIE!!!

Up, up and unaware in my propaganda tool, my Russia hot-air
ballooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooon!

Up and unaware, up, up and unaware … up, up and unaware!!!

“Trump, Inc.” Goes Beyond Collusion

On March 26, 2019 By admin

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by Andrea Bernstein, WNYC

In this “Trump, Inc.” podcast extra, we talk about what we know, what we don’t know and what we still want to know after Attorney General WIlliam Barr gave his summary of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report.

Collusion was never the only thing. For the last year and a half, we have been looking at the conflicts of interest that pervade President Donald Trump’s administration. That trail has led us from Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, to Panama, India and, yes, Russia, where we reported on how Trump’s associates appealed to the Kremlin for help at the same time the Kremlin was preparing an attack on the 2016 elections.

Listen to the episode here.

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Outrage in Vietnam over $8 fine for elevator sexual assault…

On March 26, 2019 By admin

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Outrage in Vietnam over $8 fine for elevator sexual assault

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Hanoi (AFP)

Vietnamese citizens were outraged after a man was fined $8 for forcibly kissing a woman in an elevator, a rare public outburst in a country where sexual assault is scarcely spoken about openly.

The #MeToo movement never took off in Vietnam, a conservative communist country where gender-based violence is widespread but remains a taboo topic.

Citizens took to social media this week after a man was fined 200,000 dong, or $8.61, for forcibly kissing a woman in an elevator in her Hanoi apartment building.

CCTV footage showed the man chatting to the woman before cornering her and suddenly jumping on her before she scrambles out of the elevator as he grabbed her arm.

The footage quickly went viral, stoking public anger.

“The fine… was a mockery and humiliation against the dignity of Vietnamese women,” said Facebook user Duong Dai Trieu Lam on Wednesday.

Office worker Nguyen Trang told AFP: “It’s ridiculous, I can’t accept this… I’m worried for my kids and myself”.

Unlike rape, sexual assault is not a criminal offence in Vietnam, but is considered an administrative violation falling under the category of “indecent speech and behaviour”. The maximum fine for sexual assault is $13.

An online petition calling for an amendment to the law gathered steam Wednesday.

Official data on sexual harassment is not routinely published in Vietnam, though 87 percent of women and girls experienced sexual harassment in public, according to a 2014 survey of 2,000 women by the NGO ActionAid.

The last comprehensive survey on gender violence in 2010 published by the World Health Organization and the Vietnamese government said 34 percent of women reported regular abuse by their spouses.

Many are too scared to report the abuse, said Khuat Thu Hong, director of the Institute for Social Development Studies, who welcomed the public outcry following the elevator attack.

“The reaction is a good sign, society has shown its support to those who are courageous to speak out,” Hong told AFP.

This is not the first time tales of sexual harassment in Vietnam have gone public.

In 2017 model and actress Vu Thu Phuong said she was harassed by Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, but her story failed to spark a wider #MeToo movement seen elsewhere in Asia, including in China and South Korea.

Last year an intern at a major newspaper said she had attempted suicide after she was allegedly raped by her editor, which he denied. The case was reported to the police but no charges have been laid.

? 2019 AFP