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US campus protesters akin to 1930s Nazis - Netanyahu


RT
Thu, 25 Apr 2024 17:07 UTC
BenNeti
© Sean Gallup/Getty ImagesIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Pro-Palestinian protests sweeping across university campuses in the US are anti-Semitic and must be stopped, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said, claiming that mobs have been attacking Jewish students and faculty members.

His comments come after US police arrested more than 80 protesters on Wednesday in a crackdown on the pro-Palestine demonstrations taking place at some 21 universities in states like Massachusetts, California and New York, among others.

The students have been demanding that the US government cease all funding for the Israeli military and "stop giving them any more money to continue this genocide," referring to the ongoing Israeli offensive against Hamas militants in Gaza.

In a video published on his X account on Wednesday, Netanyahu said that the protests on America's college campuses are "horrific" and claimed:
"Anti-Semitic mobs have taken over leading universities and are calling for the annihilation of Israel. This is reminiscent of what happened in German universities in the 1930s. It's unconscionable. It has to be stopped. It has to be condemned and condemned unequivocally."

Comment: Which came first? 'Unjust' civilian protests or the near-complete holocaust of Gaza?...bombs or words?

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Texas tramples First Amendment rights with police crackdown of pro-Palestinian protests

Angel Eduardo
FIRE
Thu, 25 Apr 2024 00:00 UTC
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© unnknownProtestor arrested at University of Texas at Austin during a pro-Palestinian protest on April 24, 2024
More than 50 arrested after state police storm protestors at University of Texas at Austin.

Today, FIRE sent a letter to Jay Hartzell, president of the University of Texas at Austin, in response to the disturbing display of force and free speech violations that occurred on UT Austin's campus yesterday afternoon.

A group called the Palestinian Solidarity Committee of Austin planned to stage a "Popular University for Gaza" walk-out just before noon on April 24. Their plan, which the committee announced the day before, was to march to the campus' South Lawn, where teach-ins, study breaks, pizza, and an art workshop would take place along with a talk from a guest speaker.

However, at the request of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and the university, the protestors were met with a phalanx of law enforcement officers — including campus police and Texas Department of Public Safety troopers — who proceeded to order the protestors to disperse. This led to more than 50 arrests and countless violations of student and faculty free speech rights — including a photojournalist with a local Fox affiliate station whom officers tackled to the ground before imposing trespassing charges.
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Sherlock

Massive fire breaks out at Roswell Air Center, US


KOAT
Fri, 26 Apr 2024 15:09 UTC
roswell
The fire is close to burning itself out after it burned through chemicals in a building near the water tower
Crews responded to the Roswell Air Center to fight a large fire on Thursday night.

According to the Roswell Fire Department, the fire was reported Thursday afternoon on a building that was leased by a business on the east side of the Roswell Air Center near a city water tower.

Fire officials say the fire was "burning itself out" after it burned through chemicals in the building. There is no word on what chemicals were on fire.

Comment: Some information on Roswell Air Center from a government website:
Location

The Roswell Air Center is located five miles south of the central business district of the city and is the core of southeastern New Mexico's industrial activity.

History

The airport was Roswell Army International Airfield during World War II and Walker Air Force Base during the Cold War. When it closed, the 4,600 acre base was the largest of the United States Air Force Strategic Air Command. Roswell International Air Center (then RIAC) was developed after the closure of Walker Air Force Base on June 30, 1967.
[...]

ROW is also known for the Roswell UFO incident, an event that allegedly occurred on July 4, 1947. It is alleged that a "flying disk" crashed during a severe thunderstorm near RIAC at Corona, New Mexico.

The site was used for several years to launch stratospheric balloons for Air Force projects.[...]
Just 10 days ago: Explosion rocks UK's only munitions filling factory, day after US shell plant bursts into flames

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Best of the Web: The Right's future must be parallel, and counter-revolutionary

N.S. Lyon
The Upheaval
Mon, 22 Apr 2024 20:19 UTC
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© Gladden Pappin on XPolice blockading the entrance to the National Conservatism Conference in Brussels, April 16, 2024.
Last week I travelled to Brussels to attend the National Conservatism Conference. I was slated to speak on a panel on "The Future of Conservatism." Whether the panel would actually happen seemed in doubt for much of the time I was there, since the city's socialist authorities — working in tandem with their local extreme-left paramilitaries — came very close to successfully shutting down the conference. But by the second day we were still there, and it went forward. And in the end hopefully the drama served as just the right ambiance to help drive home the message on "the future" that I aimed to deliver to the mix of conservatives, classical liberals, populists, and various right-wing dissidents assembled there in the dark heart of European Values. This — in a very lightly edited transcript of my speech — is what I told them.
"What is to be done?" That seems to be the question on everyone's lips these days. Answering it is I think in fact the real purpose of this conference on National Conservatism here in Brussels.

By now most of us are well aware of the scope of the problems we face. Our societies are controlled by a transnational class of managerial elites increasingly isolated from the people they rule, and from reality. These elites, and the many institutions they control, have been captured by a revolutionary ideology that seeks to remake the world, and everyone in it, from the top down.
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Arrow Down

Dolphin found dead on beach with 'multiple' gunshot wounds

Kaycee Sloan
wfla.com
Wed, 24 Apr 2024 22:02 UTC
Dead Dolphin
© NOAA Fisheries Services
TAMPA, Fla. — The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries Services is offering a $20,000 reward for information after a dolphin was found shot to death on a beach last month.

The juvenile bottlenose dolphin was found with "multiple bullets" in its "brain, spinal cord, and heart" on West Mae's Beach in Cameron Parish, Louisiana on March 13.

A necropsy confirmed the dolphin appeared to have died from trauma that happened "at or near the time of death," NOAA said.
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TikTok owner ByteDance reportedly would rather shut down app than sell, as it faces US ban

Shannon Thaler
New York Post
Fri, 26 Apr 2024 18:49 UTC
headquartersTikTok ByteDance
© AFP via Getty ImagesUS officials have warned that ByteDance’s confidential algorithms have allowed third parties in China to spy on American users, threatening national security.
TikTok owner ByteDance reportedly would rather shut down the popular video-sharing app than sell it if the Chinese-based company exhausts all legal options to fight a US ban - despite growing interest from American buyers for the platform.

The algorithms TikTok relies on for its operations are deemed core to ByteDance's overall operations, which would make a sale of the app with algorithms highly unlikely, sources close to the parent said.

TikTok's CEO Shou Zi Chew vowed on Wednesday that the social media company will wage a legal war after President Joe Biden signed a law forcing ByteDance to sell the app in 270 days or face a ban.

On Thursday, ByteDance shot down a report by The Information saying it was exploring scenarios for selling TikTok's US business without the algorithm.

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Big Bomb

Nation gone ballistic - The star bungled banner

Julian MacFarlane
News Forensic
Fri, 26 Apr 2024 17:41 UTC
Rocket Booster Separation
© News Forensics
The US is ballistic.

Like an old-fashioned ballistic missile, it blasted off with fire and fury, as people cheered. The first stage separated. The second stage took it beyond the atmosphere. Now momentum propels it through the ether.

People say, "how wonderful!"

No one really knows what its target is -or even if it has one — just that it has velocity and direction — a trajectory-- but when it comes down there will be a huge explosion and a lot of people will probably die!

You see, the missile will circle the globe always returning to where it started, which is most likely where it will come down.

Sad, because this missile could be nuclear.

US foreign policy is ballistic

Basically, unguided once launched.

So it is that the US is engaged in a proxy war against Russia, using Ukrainians to fight for it and does not really know where the war is going - just that hoping it will end badly in a ball of fire for the "other side".

But Russia is growing and prospering. And likely, in the end Ukraine will also do fine — since as part of Russia, it will have a bright future.

You will not be able to say the same for the US's new colonies in Europe, Oceania, the Far East and the Americas — and, when the US has exhausted their resources, the US itself.

The US is a rocket without mind or purpose or meaning.

Oh, say can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
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Bizarro Earth

Best of the Web: UK's record breaking crime wave: Shoplifting spikes 37% in just 12 months, police attend less than 40% of thefts, knife attacks up 7%

Rory Tingle
Daily Mail
Thu, 25 Apr 2024 15:40 UTC
shoplifting uk
A total of 430,104 offences were recorded by police in the year to December 2023. The figure is the highest since current records began in the year to March 2003
Shoplifting has risen to the highest level on record amid complaints the crime has been effectively 'decriminalised', new data revealed today.

A total of 430,104 offences were recorded by police in the year to December 2023, up by more than a third (37%) from 315,040 in the previous 12 months.

The figure is the highest since current records began in the year to March 2003, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

Comment: Meanwhile, over in the US, we have seen the police responding with gusto against students and professors at anti-genocide protests at universities:





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Baby rescued from murdered mother's womb in Gaza dies; 16 children killed by 2 Israeli airstrikes on family homes

Fergal Keane
BBC
Fri, 26 Apr 2024 13:48 UTC
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A baby rescued from her dying mother's womb after an Israeli air strike in southern Gaza has died, the BBC has learned.

Baby Sabreen al-Sakani was delivered by Caesarean section in a Rafah hospital shortly after midnight on Sunday.

Amid chaotic scenes doctors resuscitated the baby, using a hand pump to push air into her lungs.

However she died on Thursday and has been buried next to her mother after whom she was named.

Baby Sabreen was among 16 children killed in two air strikes in Rafah last weekend. All were killed in a bombardment targeting the housing complex where they lived.

Comment: The UN human rights chief comments on the intentional slaughter by the Israelis, and the discovery of numerous mass graves in Gaza:


Israel, as usual, excused their crimes against humanity:




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Eye 1

Eye See You! Subaru introduces EyeSight, a technology for spying on you while you drive

Eric Peters
ericpetersautos.com
Thu, 25 Apr 2024 21:05 UTC
Eye Sight
© ericpetersauto.com
It used to be that your car was a private space occupied in between home and work, where you could be by yourself - assuming no one else was with you. Now something else is always with you - keeping track of you.

Subaru calls their something EyeSight - and it is keeping its eyes on you. The eyes are electronic and you can't see them with yours. If you want to see them, use a camera to pan the dashboard area; then you'll see a pair of red blinking infrared lights. These are the pupils - if you like - of the eyes that are always on you. They are watching to see whether you are looking where the car thinks you ought to be looking - which is straight ahead and don't look left or right for too long.

If the eyes that are always watching you - they never sleep - think you're getting "drowsy" (which the programming defines as not looking where the programming of the machine intelligence behind those eyes thinks you ought to be looking) then it raps your knuckles, electronically, with corrective visual and audible prompts.

Subaru's system is just one of many and they're all fundamentally the same. I was recently test driving another make/model - a Lexus RX - that had the same eyes that are always upon you, which you can see in the video above. I kept them from seeing me by covering them over with blue painter's tape, as you can also see. I did this because it annoyed me to be watched by the car, which also insisted I "sit up" - so that it could see me better, apparently. The tape over its eyes engendered a hissy fit, which eventually subsided. A message popped up in the dash display advising me that this safety system was offline and to check the owner's manual.
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