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Duterte advises Catholics: You don't have to go to church to pay for 'idiots'


CNN Philippines
Tue, 27 Nov 2018 09:22 UTC
Duterte
© The Indian ExpressPhilippines President Rodrigo Duterte
President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday continued his tirade against bishops and other Catholic officials, saying that Filipinos do not have to go to church to pay for "idiots." During a speech in Davao City, Duterte suggested that people should instead build their own chapels at home.

"You build a chapel on your own house and pray there. You don't have to go to the church to pay for these idiots," Duterte said at the groundbreaking ceremony of the Davao City Bulk Water Supply Project.

The President added Catholic beliefs are "archaic" and that the Church's teachings do not apply in present time.

"The Catholic church, pati si Bishop David sa Caloocan (are) clinging on to a belief which was 3,000 years ago," Duterte said. "Ang mga tao noon, nomads. What do they know about the world today? Tapos pasundin mo 'yung pinapasulat niyo," he added. [Translation: The people back then were nomads. What do they know about the world today? And then you'r e going to make people follow your teachings.]

Duterte was referring to Caloocan Bishop Pablo Virgilio David, who recently slammed the President's allegations that bishops were stealing and "asking for contributions." Caloocan Bishop Pablo Virgilio David earlier said he has reason to believe the President was referring to him, since he is "the only Bishop 'David' in the CBCP (Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines)."

Comment: Aiming to wake up his people or advocating for his own less reverent comfort zone? Perhaps a bit of both in a non-conforming, semi-pragmatic, in-your-face sort of way.

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Department of Justice says Julian Assange's charges, if they exist, can't be made public

Caitlin Yilek
The Washington Examiner
Mon, 26 Nov 2018 04:10 UTC
Julian Assange
© screenshotJulian Assange
The Justice Department said Monday it is not required under the law to reveal whether WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been charged in a sealed case, even after an accidental filing in an unrelated case said he had been accused of a crime.

The argument came in response to a Nov. 16 lawsuit by the Reporters Committee for the Freedom of the Press. That group is seeking to unseal the government's possible charges against Assange that appeared to be revealed accidentally.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Gordon Kromberg said in a court filing Monday that the Justice Department will neither confirm nor deny whether such charges exist because "neither the First Amendment nor the common law require that the government provide such a confirmation or denial." Because the possible charges have not been made public, Kromberg said, Assange has either not been charged or the charges are under seal.

"In either event, the government is not required to publicly acknowledge which of those two possibilities happens to be the case with respect to any individual. Because that is precisely what the plaintiff's application seeks with respect to Julian Assange, it should be denied," the filing said.

Comment: Assange is being criminalized for acting within the parameters of Freedom of the Press - a serious development impacting constitutional rights for journalists and the public's right to information should this precedent be set.
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Three more US soldiers killed in unwinnable war against Afghanistan resistance


Business Insider
Tue, 27 Nov 2018 00:00 UTC
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Three US service members were killed and three wounded when an improvised explosive device detonated on Tuesday near the central Afghan city of Ghazni, the NATO-led Resolute Support mission said in a statement. A US civilian contractor was also wounded in the blast and was receiving treatment with the other wounded, the statement said, giving no further details. The names of the killed soldiers will be withheld until the military can contact their next of kin.

In a separate incident on November 24, another US soldier was killed while fighting Al Qaeda militants, this one by friendly fire.

Afghan police and the country's national army have also recently suffered heavy losses to Islamist militants, with 20 police and 10 troops by the Taliban on Sunday. "Since 2015, still much regrettable, but the entire loss of American forces in Afghanistan is 58 Americans. In the same period, 28,529 of our security forces have lost their lives," the Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said in mid-November, according to the New York Times.

There was no word on the circumstances of the blast but Ghazni has been one of the most heavily fought over areas of Afghanistan this year. A large Taliban force overran Ghazni earlier this year and Afghan and NATO forces took days to fight them back out of the city.

Comment: Other casualties from NATO Resolute Support:

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Al Jazeera's censored documentary on 'The Lobby': A lesson in pro-Israel fake activism

Nadia Elia
Mondoweiss
Mon, 26 Nov 2018 00:00 UTC
The Lobby
Screen shot from Al Jazeera's unaired documentary "The Lobby," leaked online in early November.
Over the long Thingstaken weekend, which I spent blissfully alone, I binge-watched "The Lobby," the multi-part Al Jazeera documentary which was censored right before its release date. The documentary follows Al Jazeera undercover reporters as they infiltrate Zionist organizations in the United Kingdom and the United States, exposing Zionist efforts to sabotage pro-Palestine activism and organizing. Despite the censorship which stopped its public airing, the documentary was leaked online earlier this month. Electronic Intifada published it, "simultaneously with France's Orient XXI and Lebanon's Al-Akhbar" (which provided French and Arabic subtitles).

Comment: See also:

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Best of the Web: Obama used tear gas at least 80 times at Mexico border

Bob price
Breitbart
Tue, 27 Nov 2018 05:04 UTC
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© GUILLERMO ARIAS/AFP/Getty Images
Under the Obama Administration, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) law enforcement officials, including Border Patrol agents, utilized tear gas against migrants at or near the border at least 80 times between FY2012 and early FY2017.

CBP officials reported the use of tear gas and pepper spray to push back "assaultive" caravan migrants attempting to enter the U.S. illegally on Sunday. The agency began using these particular sprays during the Obama administration in 2010.

Comment: Democrats would be wise to refrain from mentioning 'Jews fleeing the Holocaust'...

Flashback 6 June 1939: Ship full of Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany turned away by US

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SOTT Focus: Art of The Narrative: How Viral Photos of Suffering Kids Shape (& Silence) The Immigration Debate

Nebojsa Malic
RT
Tue, 27 Nov 2018 19:00 UTC
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© Reuters / Kim Kyung-Hoon
You've seen it by now: Two women and two little children, barefoot and in diapers, fleeing teargas on the US-Mexico border. The powerful image has gone viral, and it's not the first time. But to what end?

Taken on Sunday by Reuters photographer Kim Kyung-Hoon, the photo soon appeared on the front pages and splashed across the screens of every single US mainstream media outlet. It quickly spread via social media, eclipsing every other image from the incident - in which a group of migrants from the Central American "caravans" tried to storm the US border as San Ysidro.

Comment: Playing to people's emotions is the only way the elites can corrupt the understanding shared by most that an unregulated flood of foreign populations into their society is dangerous for everyone involved.

The MSM doesn't have total control of its own narrative though. Check out what happened today when MSNBC went to their on-the-scene reporter:


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Rocket

Missile developed for Russian Su-57 jet 'has twice the range' of older projectile


RT
Tue, 27 Nov 2018 00:00 UTC
Su-57
© Sputnik / Vladimir SergeevSu-57 flyby during a military parade in Moscow.
Russia's fifth-generation fighter jet Su-57 will have a long-range air-to-surface missile with a greatly extended range, the head of a leading Russian arms producer said.

The Sukhoi Su-57 multipurpose jet may receive a new weapon system meant to hit targets on the ground from well outside the range of anti-aircraft defenses of the enemy. At least that's the implication of what Boris Obnosov, the head of Tactical Missiles Corporation (KTRV), told Zvezda, the TV channel of the Russian defense ministry.

In an interview about the Su-57 for an upcoming documentary, Obnosov said a "new product has a range that is twice what we had."

Comment: Russian deputy prime minister announces plans for Armed Forces to introduce 6 unrivaled weapons

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Star of David

Israeli publicist claims PM Netanyahu as '99.99% chance' to win snap vote despite missteps

Ekaterina Blinova
Sputnik
Tue, 27 Nov 2018 17:43 UTC
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem August 12, 2018
© Jim Hollander /Pool via Reuters/File PhotoPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem August 12, 2018.
Israeli snap elections will take place unless Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demonstrates some significant progress in his politics, Israeli political commentator Avigdor Eskin told Sputnik, sharing his views on the incumbent prime minister's chances to win.

There is a very high probability that incumbent Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will win snap elections, opines Israeli political commentator and publicist Avigdor Eskin.

"His chances look today 99.99 per cent," the publicist told Sputnik. "He comes to the elections casting with very impressive results in every field possible."
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Bad Guys

Honduran president's brother indicted in US on 'large-scale drug trafficking' charges

Samuel Chamberlain
Fox News
Mon, 26 Nov 2018 17:19 UTC
Juan Antonio Hernandez Alvarado
© Facebook: Tony Hernandez DiputadoJuan Antonio Hernandez Alvarado
A brother of Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez was charged by federal prosecutors Monday with conspiring to import tons of cocaine to the United States, as well as weapons offenses and lying to federal agents.

Juan Antonio Hernandez Alvarado, aka Tony Hernandez, was arrested Friday in Miami and was due to appear in federal court there on Monday.

Federal prosecutors in New York described the suspect, a former Honduran congressman, as "a large-scale drug trafficker" who worked for more than a decade with compatriots as well as traffickers based in Mexico, Colombia and other countries to receive, process and distribute cocaine making its way through Honduras en route to the United States. Hernandez used cocaine laboratories in Honduras and Colombia, where some drug packages were stamped with the initials "TH," according to investigators.

Prosecutors also said Hernandez coordinated and occasionally provided security for drug shipments within Honduras, even using members of the country's national police force for the job.
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Bad Guys

Blindside? Trump says Brexit deal could hurt plans for US-UK trade pact amidst May scramble for votes

Justin Sink, Shawn Donnan, and Tim Ross
Bloomberg
Tue, 27 Nov 2018 17:23 UTC
Trump Brexit
President Donald Trump dropped a rhetorical bomb on U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May's efforts to get a Brexit agreement through parliament, warning the deal she reached with the EU could jeopardize Britain's ability to strike a trade pact with the U.S.

"Right now as the deal stands she may not -- they may not -- be able to trade with the U.S. and I don't think they want that at all, that would be a very big negative for the deal," Trump said Monday as he departed the White House for campaign rallies in Mississippi.

Comment: Brexit was a "deal" never meant to succeed. As Paul Joseph Watson details below, the Brexit "vote" is being overturned in slow motion, just as other "votes" like the Lisbon Treaty was. The elites at the top of the EU will never honor the will of the British people.


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