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Fact-checking Trump's dog tweet shows once again MSM journalists don't understand memes

Sophia Narwitz
RT
Thu, 31 Oct 2019 17:00 UTC
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© Twitter / realDonaldTrump
Content with not maintaining any credibility whatsoever, MSM decided to completely tarnish the last smidgen of integrity by losing it over a meme of US president Donald Trump giving a medal to a dog that helped kill ISIS leader.

It all began when President Donald Trump tweeted out a meme created by the Daily Wire. The image depicted him giving a medal to the brave dog that helped corner the recently deceased Islamic State leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The picture is clearly fake and is just Trump having some fun celebrating a successful military raid.

The media, missing the humor - or just wanting to manufacture yet even more outrage as that seems to be all they run on these days - jumped in to express disbelief over the photoshopped image.


Steve Herman, the White House bureau chief for the Voice of America, thought it necessary to contact the president's homestead and ask if the photo was photoshopped, even going so far as to confirm that there "was no such canine event" on the POTUS' schedule. Meanwhile, Shirish Date, the White House correspondent at the Huffington Post, boldly stated the president was "disseminating a doctored image created by a right-wing propaganda site."

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Hungarian PM Orban: Russia brings much needed stability to Middle East amid migrant influx


RT
Thu, 31 Oct 2019 16:43 UTC
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© Sputnik / Alexey Nikolsky
Hungarian PM Viktor Orban has hailed Russia's role as a stabilizing force in the Middle East, adding that the European nation is very interested in peace in Syria in view of the infamous migrant crisis.

"Russia plays an important role in terms of ... creating stability" in the Middle East and Syria in particular, Orban said at a joint press conference with the Russian President Vladimir Putin, whom the prime minister hosted in Budapest on Wednesday.

Moscow's role in the region, Orban noted, is not limited to military or political dimensions, adding that the two nations discussed humanitarian aid. "We are going to talk about how we can together ... provide food security and restore villages ... where migrants and refugees could come back from Europe. They need somewhere to go back to. That is our motto - we should provide assistance, we should not add to the trouble."
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That's chutzpah: Israeli businessman refuses to give Holocaust letter to family of victim, saying it would cause him "irreparable financial harm"

Marcy Oster
Jerusalem Post
Thu, 31 Oct 2019 16:38 UTC
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© REUTERS
SERBIA’S PRESIDENT Tomislav Nikolic looks at pictures of Jews killed in the Holocaust during a visit to Yad Vashem in Jerusalem.
A court in Israel has blocked the sale of a letter written by an 11-year-old Polish girl who was killed in the Holocaust following a protest by family members.

Five letters, including the one by Rachel Mintz, were to be auctioned Tuesday at the Dynasty Auction House in Jerusalem. They were written by children in Poland to counterparts in prestate Israel before the outbreak of World War II.

The injunction from the Tel Aviv District Court halted the sale of all the letters.

Rachel's letter described life in Poland in 1937 and talked about her desire to immigrate to Israel, according to The Times of Israel.

The seller is identified as Israeli businessman Dudi Zilbershlag, Haaretz reported. Zilbershlag, who said he bought the letters at the Jaffa Flea Market, is a member of the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum council. He had declined a request to give Rachel's letter to her family or the Yad Vashem archive, saying it would cause him "irreparable" financial harm, The Times of Israel reported.

The starting bid for the letters was set at $400, according to Haaretz, and the auction house had offered to sell the letter to the family for $10,000, according to The Times of Israel.

"It is morally unacceptable and highly distasteful that anyone should trade in personal items, artifacts or documents of Holocaust victims or from the Holocaust era," Yad Vashem said in a statement.
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'Fight terror without double standards': Russia-India counter-terrorism group vows 'credible action' against 'safe havens'


RT
Thu, 31 Oct 2019 16:41 UTC
Russian and Indian army servicemen
© Sputnik / Vitaliy Ankov
Russian and Indian army servicemen
Moscow and New Delhi will boost cooperation in the fight against terrorism and destroy militant "safe havens" around the world, the two countries' counter-terror working group said in a joint statement.

Meeting in India's capital on Wednesday, the working group condemned "terrorism in all its forms and manifestations," and called for deeper ties on counter-terror issues, including through "intensifying exchange of information" and "regular meetings at [the] experts level."

The two parties also stressed the need for "credible, irreversible ... action against terrorists" and terrorist "safe havens" - particularly in the South Asia region - "without double standards." Drug trafficking and other avenues of funding for militant groups, as well as countering extremism on the internet, were also touched upon.

The Russian delegation, headed by Deputy Foreign Minister Oleg Syromolotov, was received by Indian External Affairs Secretary (East) Vijay Thakur Singh. The working group will convene its next meeting in Russia at a date to be determined.
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IDF soldier sentenced to ONE MONTH in prison for 'disobeying' order and murdering teenage Palestinian protester


RT
Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:28 UTC
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© AFP / Said Khatib
An Israeli soldier was sentenced to one month in prison after fatally shooting an unarmed Palestinian protester without his commander's permission during the unrest along the Israeli-Gazan border.

A military court ruled on Monday that an IDF service member broke the rules of engagement when he fired at a Palestinian protester, who attempted to climb the Gaza border fence during a protest along the border on July 13, 2018.

Palestinian officials identified the protester as 15-year-old Othman Helles and said he died from a gunshot wound to the chest. A video from the scene showed Helles placing both feet on the fence before immediately collapsing on the ground and being quickly carried away by other protesters. The army claimed that the teenager tried to infiltrate Israeli territory but the Palestinians denied it.

Comment: The IDF's hypocrisy is clear. The soldier was sentenced not for killing an unarmed protester, but for not waiting for the order to kill an unarmed protester.

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Pentagon releases partial video of raid on alleged Baghdadi compound in Syria


RT
Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:10 UTC
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© Andrew Harnik / AP
General Kenneth "Frank" McKenzie, head of U.S. Central Command, said that Baghdadi's remains were buried at sea within 24 hours of his death.
The Department of Defense has published drone footage of the US special forces raid that allegedly killed the leader the Islamic State terrorist group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, as well as additional details of the mission.

Central Command chief General Frank McKenzie described the operation at a Pentagon press briefing on Wednesday, issuing a brief black and white video clip which appears to show US forces closing in on Baghdadi's compound.

The special ops raid opened with a helicopter assault, eventually surrounding the compound with ground forces and engaging those inside. One video clip shows an airstrike on a group of fighters gathered outside the facility who fired on US aircraft.


Comment: Daesh's PR wing has reportedly confirmed that Baghdadi is dead by officially announcing his successor as Abi Ibrahim al-Hashemi al-Qurashi. They also confirmed the death of its spokesman, Abu al-Hassan al-Muhajir, whom the Americans claimed to have killed in a raid conducted just after the one on Baghdadi.

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WhatsApp sues Israel's NSO for allegedly helping spies hack phones around the world

Raphael Satter and Elizabeth Culliford
Reuters
Thu, 31 Oct 2019 16:08 UTC
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WhatsApp sued Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group on Tuesday, accusing it of helping government spies break into the phones of roughly 1,400 users across four continents in a hacking spree whose targets included diplomats, political dissidents, journalists and senior government officials.

In a lawsuit filed in federal court in San Francisco, messaging service WhatsApp, which is owned by Facebook Inc (FB.O), accused NSO of facilitating government hacking sprees in 20 countries. Mexico, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain were the only countries identified.

WhatsApp said in a statement that 100 civil society members had been targeted, and called it "an unmistakable pattern of abuse."
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Woker than woke? Obama CANCELS 'call out' culture, tells Americans 'good people have flaws'


RT
Thu, 31 Oct 2019 15:47 UTC
obama
© Getty Images North America / AFP / Scott Olson
Cancel culture and "woke" political correctness has found a new and surprising critic in former US president Barack Obama, who warned American liberals about the folly of demanding ideological "purity" from everyone around them.

Speaking at his annual Obama Foundation summit on Tuesday, the former president blasted the current liberal trend toward 'calling out' and 'cancelling' anyone who says or does something which is not considered 'woke' enough for the modern age.
This idea of purity... and you're never compromised and you're always politically woke and all that stuff, you should get over that quickly.
"The world is messy. There are ambiguities. People who do really good stuff have flaws," he told attendees at the Chicago event.

Comment: Obama better be careful. He keeps it up, he'll be labeled alt-right by the Woke Left.

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You have been warned: 'Woke lefties are the militant wing of neoliberalism'


Sp!ked Online
Sat, 26 Oct 2019 15:33 UTC
Brendan O’Neill
© Sp!ked Online
Brendan O’Neill, editor of Spiked Online
Great work man!

The business class's desire for open borders is simple to understand; they want the cheapest labour possible, from wherever. Social solidarity is irrelevant. Capital has no roots, and no inherent sense of morality. Some call these people Anywheres - I call them Nowheres. 21st century capital is really no improvement on the 19th century Atlantic slave trade, in terms of its ultimate motivation. It is rather ironic then, that opposition to open borders and mass legal & illegal immigration is regularly referred to as racist.

Comment: Brendan O'Neill is one of the growing number of voices calling out 'woke' culture for the trojan horse it is. The sad part is, through at least two generations of dumbing-down through indoctrination passed off as "education", the vociferous hordes have no idea they are being weaponized to destroy all the rights they think they are fighting for.

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Disastrous tumble off stage leaves German economy minister hospitalized


RT
Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:56 UTC
Altmaier
© Global Look Press
Helpers shield the view to the stage with a blanket after Economics Minister Peter Altmaier fell heavily on Tuesday.
A sure-footed captain with a steady hand at the wheel is seen as ideal to run a country's economy, so Germany's economy minister Peter Altmaier may struggle to pick himself up after his disastrous tumble from a stage on Tuesday.

Altmaier, who is Federal Minister for Economic Affairs, was rendered unconscious after he fell from the stage at a conference in Dortmund. The politician then regained consciousness and was chatting after his impromptu dive into the front row, but the full extent of the damage to his reputation has yet to be assessed.

The minister's unfortunate stumble came after concluding his remarks on a proposal for cloud-based data storage. He has thanked medics from the event who treated him and he is now recovering in hospital.

Comment: What's going on with politicians? We've seen Angela Merkel repeatedly shaking, the EU's Juncker is often stumbling around, seemingly drunk, meanwhile over in the US Hillary Clinton's health has been evidently deteriorating in multiple ways, and more recently we've had Joe Biden talking as though his brain is scrambled.

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