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Pope Francis: Fears of mass migration are legitimate, migrants should respect the laws and culture of host countries

Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D
Breitbart
Sun, 14 Jan 2018 00:00 UTC
Pope Francis World Day Migrants
In a nuanced address Sunday for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees, Pope Francis seemed to walk back earlier statements denouncing "xenophobia," acknowledging instead that fears associated with mass migration are logical and justifiable.

"Local communities are sometimes afraid that the newly arrived will disturb the established order, will 'steal' something they have long laboured to build up," Francis said in a Mass celebrated with migrants and refugees living in Rome Sunday. "These fears are legitimate, based on doubts that are fully comprehensible from a human point of view."

Whereas it is normal to experience these fears, the Pope said in his homily, it may be wrong to let them control our actions.

"Having doubts and fears is not a sin," he said. "The sin is to allow these fears to determine our responses, to limit our choices, to compromise respect and generosity, to feed hostility and rejection. The sin is to refuse to encounter the other, the different, the neighbour, when this is in fact a privileged opportunity to encounter the Lord."
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Israeli "ethicist" says Ahed Tamimi should stay in prison because she might slap again

Jonathan Ofir
Mondoweiss
Mon, 15 Jan 2018 17:21 UTC
Prof. Asa Kasher

Prof. Asa Kasher
One month after she slapped a soldier in occupied Nabi Saleh, 16-year-old Ahed Tamimi faces a final bail hearing today at court.

Tamimi has been imprisoned since December 19 for the December 15 incident. The Israeli prosecution is trying to make Ahed Tamimi a terrorist.

And now Israel's greatest ethical authority (not by me though), Professor Asa Kasher, has come to join the chorus.

Yesterday, Kasher appeared as a commentator on Ahed's case. In news coverage for the Dutch NOS Journaal, he is seen viewing a video of her slap (see link from 7:47).
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Haiti School Massacre: UN-Backed Police Force killings have been entirely ignored

Jake Johnston
Intercept
Wed, 10 Jan 2018 00:00 UTC
Haiti Police
© Hector Retamal/AFP/Getty Images
Police watch as demonstrators march to protest against the government of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse in Port-au-Prince on Oct. 24, 2017.
At 5 o'clock on the morning of November 13, more than 200 Haitian police officers raided the Grand Ravine area of Port-au-Prince. There was a series of loud explosions, followed by gunfire. For the next six hours, the commotion didn't stop. The neighborhood was under siege.

What had started as an anti-gang operation in a poor and largely forgotten neighborhood - in a poor and largely forgotten country - ended in the summary execution of innocent civilians on a school campus.

The police officers were working with the United Nations Mission for Justice Support in Haiti. It was launched in October, a reboot of a previous mission that had begun in 2004, when thousands of U.N. troops were sent to Haiti following a coup d'etat, tasked in part with restoring stability and reinforcing national police capacities.

Comment: The accusations against the US peace keeping forces include killing and raping innocent civilians and being tools of political establishment.



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Qatari fighter jets have intercepted a civilian aircraft for the second time claims UAE


RT
Mon, 15 Jan 2018 16:01 UTC
Mirage 2000-5 fighter jet
© Reuters
A Qatar Emiri Air Force Dassault Mirage 2000-5 fighter jet.
Authorities in the UAE have claimed that Qatari fighter jets intercepted a second civilian passenger plane Monday, despite vehement denials of the initial incident by a spokesperson for Qatar's Foreign Ministry.

The claims pertained to an Emirati civilian plane en route to Bahrain, with the UAE alleging it was in direct contravention of international law. Several hours later, allegations of a second incident near Manama airport were made in the Emirati media, citing the UAE's General Civil Aviation Authority.


The UAE's Civil Aviation Authority described the second incident as "a renewed breach of international laws and conventions, and a flagrant and serious threat to the safety of civil aviation" reports news agency BNA.

The UAE's two major airlines have so far declined to comment on the alleged incidents AP reports.

Comment: There's no love lost between Qatar and its neighbors. See also:

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Russian FM Lavrov: US-made missile system deployed in Japan could be used offensively and controlled by Washington


RT
Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:12 UTC
American Aegis Combat System
© US Navy / AFP
The US-made Aegis missile-defense system deployed in Japan could be used for offensive purposes and fall under full control of Washington, the Russian foreign minister warns.

The deployment of the American Aegis Combat System, designed to provide defense against short to intermediate-range ballistic missiles, casts a shadow over Russia-Japan relations, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said during his annual Q&A on Monday. Moscow has serious concerns over its purpose and who will be behind the operational control of the missile system in Japan. Despite Tokyo's assertions, Moscow remains unconvinced.

"We have data that the system that will be deployed in Japan is based on universal launchers, which can use assault weapons," the foreign minister stated. He added that Washington has never given control over its weapons to the country of deployment and this time will be no exception.

Comment: Russia is well aware of US duplicity and knows fully what is intended by deployment of these systems. Throwing a spanner into the relationship between Tokyo and Moscow is simply a bonus.

United States pursues greatest armament buildup encircling Russia since Cold War

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Sweden to reissue 1940s 'war guide' - updated to address threats of terrorism & climate change


RT
Mon, 15 Jan 2018 17:08 UTC
udpated sweeden war guide
© Kungliga Inrikesdepartementet / Wikipedia
Sweden is set to release a modern version of a 1940s guide on how to cope with war, with the creators citing the threats of climate change and terrorist attacks, according to local media.

The government originally distributed the Om kriget kommer (If War Comes) booklet to Swedes at the height of World War II in 1943, advising them what to do if the country became involved in the conflict. A subsequent version dealt with the Cold War. Another, revised in the 1980s, was used internally by the Swedish government.

It's now being revived once again, this time dealing with modern concerns. "Back then the [booklet's] focus was only on war. Today society looks completely different," Christina Andersson of the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB), which Stockholm commissioned to produce the new version, told Aftonbladet.

Comment: On one hand this move seems to be in response to citizens' concerns. On a more subtle level is it a way to ramp up more fear among the population?

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Lavrov states it plainly: Trump administration fears competition in the international arena


RT
Mon, 15 Jan 2018 08:58 UTC
Whitehouse
© Joshua Roberts / Reuters
The current administration is afraid of competition in the international arena in a number of directions, and behaves tougher than the Obama administration, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Monday.

"It seems to me that despite President Trump's line during the election campaign, this legacy, unfortunately, has been preserved in the actions of the current US administration, becoming even more saturated, more assertive in some ways, and there is a fear of fair competition in a number of areas: energy, gas supplies to Europe," Lavrov said.

Comment: No doubt when Lavrov speaks of the Trump administration, he is really speaking about all the forces imposed upon the Trump administration that, as President Putin said not too long,'don't permit him to work. And by working, Putin meant doing business that had far less to do with waging war and chaos on the world than in making actual business deals and pursuing cooperation and detente with Russia.

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Newsbud sources: Gulen network planning false-flag attacks in China

Sibel Edmonds
Newsbud
Sun, 14 Jan 2018 17:11 UTC
Gulen
© Charles Mostoller / Reuters
US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen
This is an urgent news announcement by Newsbud, based on information received from carefully vetted sources both inside and outside the United States.

Radical Cleric Gulen's Network, CIA's long-term proxy for Gladio B false flag terror operations, has issued an action order to its top operatives (aka senior lieutenants) in Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Latvia. These operatives are to act as agent provocateurs - to create violence and terror incidents to be blamed on Uyghurs, an ethnic minority in China's Xinjiang region, and by doing so, incite the Chinese government to respond with force.

As a leading independent media organization Newsbud is releasing and disseminating this urgent announcement now in an attempt to help prevent further terror incidents and carnage. Please do your share and help us disseminate this information.

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Say what? MSNBC host Chris Matthews makes bizarre joke about Hillary Clinton

Carlos Garcia
The Blaze
Fri, 12 Jan 2018 17:02 UTC
chris matthews
© YouTube
MSNBC host Chris Matthews apologized after a clip came to light of his making a joke about Hillary Clinton before interviewing her for his show.

Here's the video of his bizarre joke:


Here's what he said:

"Can I have some of the queen's waters? Precious waters?" he asked his staffers as they prepared for her interview in Iowa during the 2016 Democratic primary.

"Where's that Bill Cosby pill I brought with me?" he says, laughing at his own joke.

Bill Cosby was accused by dozens of women of sexual assault, many of whom said he drugged them and sexually assaulted them when they were unconscious or barely conscious. Matthews hinted that he wanted a "Bill Cosby pill" to drug Clinton.

Comment: He made a slightly off-color joke. Big deal. What's really disturbing is the hint that this was Chris Matthews' awkward way of saying he wanted to sleep with the "queen" Hillary. If that's the case, you really have to question his brain functioning.

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There is no "Free Syrian Army", there is only Al-Qaeda - an overview

William Van Wagenen
The Libertarian Institute
Wed, 27 Dec 2017 16:41 UTC
jihadist

"Are we supporting al Qaeda in Syria?"
A brief overview of collaboration between the US-backed Free Syrian Army and al-Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front.

Among Syria commentators in the West, both left and mainstream, it is commonly claimed that the Syrian government led by Bashar al-Assad has attempted to crush the supposedly moderate, secular rebels of the Western-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA), while at the same time deliberately supporting extremist rebel groups in order to "Islamize" the Syrian rebellion and to convince the West the Syrian government is really fighting terrorism. It is argued that if Assad could claim his government was fighting al-Qaeda terrorists, rather than secular freedom fighters struggling for democracy, this would force the US and other Western powers to end their support for the Syrian rebels trying to topple the Syrian government, and to instead embrace Assad as a partner with the West in the so-called War on Terror.

A closer review of events in Syria shows the opposite, however, namely that it is the US-backed FSA-branded Syrian rebel groups that have consistently collaborated with and fought alongside al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, the Nusra Front, as well as alongside other Salafi-Jihadi rebel groups, namely Ahrar al-Sham and Jaish al-Islam, and at times even alongside the Islamic State (ISIS).
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