(2020-10-01). 'This Is Fascism': Trump Riles Up Minnesota Supporters With Racist Attack on Somali Refugees. commondreams.org "This is the overlap between white supremacy, the climate emergency, misogyny, and human rights abuses." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/donald_trump_refugees.jpg …
(2020-10-01). American & United axing 32,000 jobs as government cannot agree on airline bailout. rt.com 
US airlines are preparing to lay off tens of thousands of employees unless they get additional federal aid. The industry has been struggling to stay afloat amid an unprecedented collapse in air travel due to the Covid pandemic. | American Airlines CEO Doug Parker said late Wednesday that the carrier has no choice but to cut 19,000 jobs after attempts to get more federal money failed. The CEO of United Airlines, Scott Kirby, said the decision to cut 13,000 jobs marked "a very sad day for all of us here at United." | Earlier in the day, Parker told CNN he still hoped that the job cuts might be avoided if the air…
(2020-10-01). Tokyo Stock Exchange halts trading for entire day due to major glitch 'not related to hacking'. rt.com 
Japan's Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) has shut down all trading for a full day due to a systemwide technical error. Though the exchange says the glitch is unrelated to hacking, it has yet to say when trading will resume. | The TSE said it would halt trading for all of Thursday as it works to resolve the system failure, which was detected some two hours before markets were set to open, adding that it "sincerely apologizes for any inconvenience caused to investors." | A spokesperson for the exchange's operator, the Japan Exchange Group, says the error was not caused by a hack, but offered few other details, declini…
(2020-10-01). Queen of England's property portfolio like any other 'offshore type of arrangement,' so she can't lose — Keiser Report. rt.com 
The hosts of RT's Keiser Report, Max and Stacy, look at the commercial real estate catastrophe roiling property markets in the United Kingdom and United States. | Apparently, according to the Sovereign Grand Act 2011, the overall amount of money given to the Queen each year in order to fund her official duties is never allowed to fall, regardless of what is happening in the broader economy. | "No matter what, the Queen's income doesn't go down. She can't fail," Stacy says. | Max agrees that "she can't lose," explaining: "If the value of property drops, she is reimbursed, and if it goes up, she keeps the procee…
(2020-10-01). Saudi Arabia's economy hit hard by oil price crash. rt.com 
Saudi Arabia's economy shrank by 7 percent, with the unemployment rate hitting a record high in the second quarter as the combined effect of the oil price crash and the Covid pandemic hit the world's largest oil exporter hard. | Saudi Arabia's gross domestic product (GDP) slumped by 7.0 percent year over year in Q2, the Kingdom's General Authority for Statistics said on Wednesday. The oil sector contracted by 5.3 percent, while the non-oil sector shrank by 8.2 percent due to the restrictions and lockdowns to curb the pandemic. | In Q2, the value of exports of goods and services plunged by 55.8 percent from a y…
(2020-10-01). Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny tells Germany's 'Der Spiegel' he believes Kremlin was behind his alleged poisoning. rt.com 
Russian anti-corruption campaigner Alexey Navalny has accused President Vladimir Putin of organizing his alleged poisoning in August, which led to the activist being hospitalized in Siberia, before being airlifted to Germany. | Speaking to Berlin's Der Spiegel, the Moscow protest leader said he believed there was no other possible cause of his illness. Navalny first became sick on a flight from Tomsk to Moscow in August, which led to an emergency landing in Omsk. | After two days, he was transferred to the German capital at the request of his family and associates. Last month, officials there declared that he…
(2020-10-01). 'With a performance like that, I would think I was on steroids too!' Israel Adesanya denies PED allegations after UFC 253. rt.com 
UFC champion Israel Adesanya has denied that he is using steroids after fans noticed an unusual swelling on his right pectoral during his UFC 253 win over Paulo Costa. | Adesanya's "painful" pectoral swelling was the source of much speculation when it was noticed on the broadcast in advance of his middleweight title defense against Costa last Saturday night. | Almost immediately, several internet sleuths falsely determined that the swelling was a result of gynecomastia, which is an increase in the amount of breast gland tissue in men often caused by an imbalance of the estrogen and testosterone hormones and is…
(2020-10-01). Alexander Emelianenko's former promoter jailed for 10 YEARS for drug trafficking offenses. rt.com 
Oleg Raevsky, the former promoter of Russian MMA fighter Alexander Emelianenko, has been jailed for 10 years, 1 month after being found guilty of drug trafficking offenses in St. Petersburg, according to the city prosecutor. | A statement from the city prosecutor's office said, "Raevsky was found by the court guilty of committing crimes under paragraph 'g' of part 4 of Art. 228.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and part 2 of Art. 228 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (illegal sale and storage of narcotic drugs on a large scale). | "He was (sentenced) to the form of 10 years 1 month…
(2020-10-01). Atlantic fuels 'white supremacist' fears with claim Oath Keepers militia packed with cops & vets are plotting civil war. rt.com 
A militia group called the Oath Keepers that includes cops, soldiers and veterans is spoiling for war — or so an alarmist profile portraying its members as trigger-happy white supremacists claims, raising pre-election fear porn. | Capitalizing on a wave of sensationalist stories about "white supremacists" and militias menacing America, The Atlantic has shone a spotlight on the Oath Keepers — a decade-old group with members in every US state, some two-thirds of whom hail from law enforcement or the military, which vows to defend the country from "all enemies foreign and domestic." Armed and dangerous…
(2020-10-01). US federal judge refuses to lift restrictions on religious events in Colorado as critics shred hypocrisy in allowing protests. rt.com 
A federal judge has rejected a request to repeal statewide restrictions on religious gatherings in Colorado, insisting the coronavirus still poses too great a risk to residents. The move was scorched by civil liberties advocates. | US District Judge Christine Arguello ruled this week that allowing such gatherings would "present a high risk of harm to the state of Colorado as well as the public in general," declining to overturn a 175-person limit on religious events imposed by Governor Jared Polis. | "Numerous courts have considered, and persuasively rejected, nearly identical arguments," Arguello wrote in her…
(2020-10-01). Portland mayor was happy to weaponize federal charges against Proud Boys but now is STUCK with police deputized by feds. rt.com 
Federal law enforcement officials have refused Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler's demand to revoke their deputization of city police to help quell violent protests, saying local authorities have failed to deter attacks on officers. | "Officers have been repeatedly assaulted with bottles, bats, sledgehammers, lasers, rocks and other weapons of convenience," US Attorney Billy Williams and US Marshal Russ Burger said Wednesday in a
(2020-10-01). WATCH: Portland BLM 'security' tackles man to the ground, puts him in chokehold. rt.com As protesters gathered in Portland at a vigil for a black man killed by police two years ago, BLM security at the event were filmed tackling a man and placing him in a chokehold, which police are forbidden from using. | Hundreds of Black Lives Matter protesters attended the event held at Southwest Fourth Avenue and Harvey Milk Street, the scene of the fatal police shooting of 27-year-old Patrick Kimmons in 2018. | At one point, a young white man was seen moving quickly through the crowd before being unceremoniously steamrolled to the ground by 'security' at the event before being placed in a chokehold. | "Shut…
(2020-10-01). 'You Mean Women Are Rape-Bound to Sexual Urges of Jobless Men?' Indians Slam Ex-Supreme Court Judge. sputniknews.com Massive protests erupted across northern Indian states after another gruesome gang rape was reported in Hathras, which is around 200 km away from Delhi. The victim succumbed to her injuries two weeks later, and her corpse was forcibly cremated by police officers in an Uttar Pradesh village, as her family was denied to take her body home to Delhi.
(2020-10-01). Bolivia: Amid new crisis, coup government seeks to divide spoils, impunity. greenleft.org.au …
(2020-10-01). Human rights activists demand free and fair elections in Bolivia. greenleft.org.au …
(2020-10-01). Justice for some, not for all: Ruth Bader Ginsburg and indigenous rights in the United States. greenleft.org.au …
(2020-10-01). New report released on 2019 West Papuan Uprising. greenleft.org.au …
(2020-10-01). UK Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee hears report on Greek school occupations. wsws.org The meeting heard how the Greek government was following the same "herd-immunity" policy of allowing the virus to rip through the population as others worldwide.