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Star of David

How Israel wages war on Palestinian history

Before/After Jenin
© UnknownCity of Jenin, West Bank
When the Palestinian actor Mohammed Bakri made a documentary about Jenin in 2002 - filming immediately after the Israeli army had completed rampaging through the West Bank city, leaving death and destruction in its wake - he chose an unusual narrator for the opening scene: a mute Palestinian youth.

Jenin had been sealed off from the world for nearly three weeks as the Israeli army razed the neighbouring refugee camp and terrorised its population.

Bakri's film Jenin, Jenin shows the young man hurrying silently between wrecked buildings, using his nervous body to illustrate where Israeli soldiers shot Palestinians and where bulldozers collapsed homes, sometimes on their inhabitants.

It was not hard to infer Bakri's larger meaning: when it comes to their own story, Palestinians are denied a voice. They are silent witnesses to their own and their people's suffering and abuse.

Bullseye

Homeland Security Secretary confirms Antifa meets standards of domestic terrorism

Antifa/Chad Wolf
© UnknownAntifa members • Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf
Chad Wolf, the current Secretary of Homeland Security made a public statement yesterday clarifying that Antifa "absolutely" meets the standards to be classified as domestic terrorists:
"The issue with Antifa - it's not just one singular group. It's a loosely knit organization that's very hard to define, very hard to define who's a part of it. I think what we see with them individually targeting law enforcement, individually targeting certain officials for certain reasons, that is the definition of domestic terrorism."
There is a growing public concern regarding Antifa and its recurring involvement in violent incidents all over the US, and indeed, in Canada and in many other places in the world. Recently, even top brass at Facebook finally realized that Antifa were promoting violence, and shut down many of their accounts and groups.

The backdrop to all this is the continuing civil disturbances in many American cities, especially those on the west coast. Wolf also mentioned in his statement that the FBI is presently conducting several concurrent investigations into the group and its many semi-formal branches.

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Star of David

'This is how armed gangs operate': Israel admits its troops planted IEDs in Palestine town

Israeli soldiers
© Majdi Mohammed/APIsraeli soldiers in Yabad near the West Bank city of Jenin, May 12, 2020.
A seven-year-old Palestinian boy was walking with his mother just outside the West Bank village of Kafr Qaddum a few miles to west of the city of Nablus. Seeing a strange orange and black package held down with some rocks, the boy approached, thinking it was a toy. His mother quickly stopped him, summoning a relative to investigate. Foolishly, the man shook the package and it exploded, injuring his face and hands.

Along the popular path they found another device, this time photographing it and throwing stones at it until it too exploded.

That device was housed in a metal box used by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) to store grenades, Israeli outlet Haaretz reports. That evening, after the images had caused outrage on social media, Israeli military units came and neutralized a third IED they had left on the path.

Laptop

Kenosha shooting spurs social media surveillance

Police/car stopped
© David Goldman/APPolice stop a car near where protesters gather for a fourth night to demonstrate against the police violence in Kenosha, Wisconsin
The Atlantic Council, an independent policy think tank that focuses on international affairs and is notorious for selling influence to foreign countries, has a sister organization dedicated to promoting "objective truth as a foundation of government" by identifying disinformation and "building digital resilience" to teach people how to expose "attempts to pollute the information space."

The Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab) counts on a team of "digital sherlocks"; a group of 32 researchers, analysts and editors who prepare reports on various news narratives which the Western media establishment dislikes, such as the liberation of Aleppo, Syria, relying on sources like the White Helmets who have been thoroughly exposed by MintPress contributor, Vanessa Beeley.

The DFRLab, which has attacked MintPress and Beeley in its publications as "anti-Israeli, anti-Saudi, and anti-Western," has turned its propagandistic sights to Kenosha, Wisconsin, where 29-year old, Jacob Blake, was shot seven times in the back by police while his children watched sparking mass civil unrest, which resulted in the death of two people and another wounded at the hands of a 17-year old who, yesterday, was charged of first degree murder by Wisconsin state prosecutors.

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Caesar

Bobby Kennedy Jr. speaks in Germany at massive international event dedicated to protecting children from dangerous vaccines

Bobby Kennedy Jr. in Berlin
Bobby Kennedy Jr. joined members of the global community today in Berlin in an effort to raise awareness about the dangers our children face due to the vaccine lobby.

Bobby Kennedy is the son of the former US Attorney General and the nephew of the US President who famously said, "I am a Berliner." Bobby was in Berlin today to join forces with citizens around the globe who are concerned about our children's health as a result of damaging vaccines.

vaccine responsibility
The group Children's Health Defense got together in Berlin with the younger Kennedy in an effort to bring attention to corrupt individuals and institutions in the globalmedical community pushing dangerous medicines on our children.

Bizarro Earth

YouTube censors interview of mother who lost daughter to transgender cult

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Kellie-jay Keen's appeal to restore the removed interview, deemed to 'violate community standards', has been rejected by YouTube.

Yesterday, the multi-billion-dollar US based company YouTube rejected an appeal by British women's rights campaigner Kellie-Jay Keen, to have her video entitled 'I lost my daughter to this cult' re-instated. In the hour-long interview an unnamed mother describes the pain of seeing her daughter retreat into online transgender forums as a teenager, before identifying as a gay man and cutting herself off from her family at the age of twenty. To the platform moderators at YouTube, testimony from an anonymous, grieving woman ranks alongside the beheading videos from Islamic State and extreme pornography; it was deemed to violate community guidelines and removed.

Few people believe in absolute freedom of speech, and it seems fair that the technology companies which hold a monopoly on our time online take steps to remove content that actively promotes harm. But the interview to which YouTube objected contained nothing more than one woman's anguish; her experience of having a family ripped apart by transgender ideology. Keen, who runs the campaign group Standing for Women, considers the removal of the video an 'insidious attempt to stifle debate', and shortly after being notified of the decision she said:

Bizarro Earth

"We don't have this under control": Riot erupts in Sweden's Malmo after anti-Islam event

Malmo riots
© TT News Agency/ReutersSmoke billows from the burning tyres, pallets and fireworks during a riot in the Rosengard neighbourhood of Malmo, Sweden, on 28 August 2020.
A riot erupted as at least 300 people protested against anti-Islam activities in the Swedish city of Malmo on Friday, police said.

Protesters threw objects at police officers and set car tyres on fire, with violence intensifying as the evening wore on, a police spokesperson said.

The police said the protests were linked to an incident earlier in the day in which right-wing extremists burned a copy of the Quran, the Islamic holy book.

"We don't have this under control, but we are working actively to take control," police spokesman Rickard Lundqvis said.

Comment: RT reports:
Clashes erupted between protesters and law enforcement in Malmo's Rosengard district, seeing stones, paving bricks and fireworks hurled at officers and emergency response vehicles.






Chants of "Allahu akbar" ("God is great" in Arabic) could be heard in footage that circulated online, which also showed tires and other debris burned in the street and a billowing column of black smoke rising into the night sky. A major fire was also reported in an underground parking garage in Rosengard, about 1km away from the main area of unrest.


The activists filmed the burning of the holy book, which was done in a public park.


Elsewhere in Malmo, three Stram Kurs members were reportedly arrested for incitement against an ethnic group after torching another Koran in public.

A court argued that while "the freedom of assembly and demonstration are constitutionally protected rights," the government may prohibit a gathering "for reasons of order and safety."
A similar event occurred on the same day in Oslo, Norway:
Anti-Islam protest in Oslo ends with Koran-tearing and scuffles between anti-protesters & police

The rally outside the parliament building in Oslo was organized by a group called Stop Islamisation of Norway, or SIAN. Some of their past rallies have ended with clashes between group members and their political opponents. The police had a heavy presence at the scene in advance of Saturday's event.

The protest escalated into violence when a female activist held up a copy of the Koran and tore pages from the Islamic holy book. Angry counter-protesters then launched an attack, and the police rushed to intervene. One person was reportedly injured, and several others were arrested.


Before the scuffle, the rally had been mostly peaceful for around two hours, with demonstrators chanting, singing, and listening to SIAN leader Lars Thorsen as he delivered a speech in which he denounced Islam's Prophet Mohammed as a "false prophet".


A security barrier had been erected beforehand to separate the rival sides and keep order. As the situation became more tense and volatile, law enforcement agents used pepper spray on several occasions and pushed back counter-protesters who tried to cross the line.


Shortly after the Koran-tearing incident, the protest ended. SIAN activists were escorted away by the police, while the counter-protesters were allowed to remain at the scene.

The serious problems created by mass migration in Sweden aren't going to be solved by burning the Quran, in effect they merely serve to further the divide and conquer games that benefit the establishment that pushed these policies onto Sweden in the first place: Also check out SOTT radio's: The Truth Perspective: Weapons of Mass Migration: Interview with Michael Springmann on Europe's Migrant Crisis


NPC

Georgia pastor refers to black RNC speakers as 'slaves'

Rev. Jamal Bryant
© CSPANRev. Jamal Bryant
A Georgia pastor referred to black speakers at the Republican National Convention as "slaves" during a Friday speech at the 57th anniversary of the March on Washington.

Rev. Jamal Bryant, the senior pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Georgia and former leader of Northwest Baltimore's Empowerment Temple Church, condemned President Donald Trump's black supporters as he discussed Underground Railroad hero Harriet Tubman and her legacy at the Washington, D.C. march, video shows.

The pastor inaccurately attributed the quote "I freed thousands of slaves, but I would have freed hundreds more had they known they were slaves," to Tubman before saying: "I only thought about that when I saw the slaves on TV this week endorsing Donald Trump. I said, 'If only they knew they were slaves, they could have been rendered free.'"

Bryant formerly called black Trump supporters "prostitutes" who are seeking "their 15 minutes of fame" in 2015, according to the NY Daily News.

Comment: The irony of Bryant's statements is apparently lost on him and everyone in the crowd that cheered at his stunning display of ignorance.


Heart - Black

'Lynch-mob brutally raped Russian man with iron rod & battered him to death after children 'joked' that he touched them

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© Getty Images / South_agencyFILE PHOTO.
In central Russia, a lynch mob violently killed a man in revenge for the alleged sexual abuse of two underage girls. But he was likely targeted by mistake. The incident happened in Ural mountain region, last weekend.

A woman left two girls, the youngest of them her daughter, at the house of her ex-husband's aunt while she went to a party in the small town of Verkhnyaya Pyshma, close to the regional capital, Yekaterinburg, on August 23.

The children, who were three and 10 years old, later told her that a male acquaintance there had "touched them" inappropriately.

The next day, the woman, her partner and three male friends went to the house. They raped a 48-year-old man with an iron rod and then proceeded to smash his skull with it, according to investigators, cited by local media.

Police then promptly arrested the woman and two of her accomplices. They are awaiting trial on charges of "murder committed by a group with particular cruelty." Two other suspects remain at large. They all may face life in prison if convicted.

Comment: This goes to show why mob justice is inherently flawed, because there is no investigation and no dispassionate evaluation of evidence. There is only the emotional reaction and tragic consequences.


Bizarro Earth

Outcry in Iran at nine-year sentence for man who beheaded daughter

Romina
© TwitterRomina Ashrafi, the victim of the so-called 'honour' killing.
An Iranian man who beheaded his 14-year-old daughter has been sentenced to only nine years in jail, in a case that has sparked outrage at the way Iranian law appears to enshrine supposed male rights over women's lives.

Rana Dashti, the mother of 14-year-old Romina Ashrafi, expressed fury at the lenient sentence in an interview with the Iranian Labor news agency (Ilna) on Friday and said the court's ruling had "caused fear and panic for me and my family".

Romina was murdered by her father after she ran off with a man aged 28. Dashti said she would appeal against the decision, and that after 15 years she had no interest in continuing to live with her husband.