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Organ harvesting in Macedonia a fact, police is involved

Marija Nikolovska
Minna Report
Fri, 22 Feb 2019 19:19 UTC
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Several Skopje neighborhoods have started citizens patrol, some months ago, others are joining in.
Today, the neighborhood of Dame Gruev within the municipality of Gjorce Petrov have started citizens patrol after 7pm.

All of this is an effort to prevent kidnappings of individuals across the country, but particularly in Macedonia's capital - Skopje where it has reached near epidemic levels. The target appear to be citizens as young as 15, but not older than 45.

The latest case was with Daniela Pecevska, mother of three, from Dracevo who disappeared in the Skopje suburb of Aerodrom while shopping around 9pm. Her body was found 5 days later, floating in Vardar. She was missing both kidneys. Police has no comment.

Things are looking quite bad for the Government junta and the criminal police who have made zero arrests yet freed over 2,500 hardened criminals (out of which 450 were turned into policemen). People are taking matters in their own hands, and are not only not expecting anything from police rather are looking at "policemen" as doing the kidnapping.
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Bullseye

'I'm the boss': 'Petulant child' AOC slammed for 'arrogant' dismissal of Green New Deal critics


RT
Sun, 24 Feb 2019 17:23 UTC
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has, once again, raised the ire of many online. This time the freshman congresswoman is being accused of arrogance for her dismissal of critics of the Green New Deal climate initiative she is spearheading.

The ambitious climate plan has attracted numerous detractors with many saying it is unrealistic and unachievable. Speaking at a Girls Who Code event in New York on Friday the 29-year-old hit back at those who shot down the deal, saying, until they come up with a plan of their own, she's in charge.


"Like I just introduced Green New Deal two weeks ago and it's creating all of this conversation. Why? Because no one else has even tried," she said. "So people are like 'oh it's unrealistic, oh it's vague, oh it doesn't address this little, minute thing.' And I'm like 'you try! You do it. Cause you're not. Cause you're not.'"

Comment: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez exemplifies the voice of an ignorant generation

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America in decline: The 'indispensable nation' no more

Andrew J. Bacevich
The American Conservative
Fri, 22 Feb 2019 17:30 UTC
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Former Secretary of State Madeline Albright - war criminal
"Only those of us who were born under Queen Victoria," wrote Ronald Knox, "know what it feels like to assume, without questioning, that England is permanently top nation, that foreigners do not matter, and that if worst comes to the worst, Lord Salisbury will send a gunboat." Knox offered this trenchant observation, redolent with irony and perhaps tinged with regret, not as a policymaker or strategic thinker, but from the vantage point of a clergyman. From the 1920s through the 1950s, Monsignor Knox was the most famous and influential Catholic priest in all of Great Britain. As such, he entertained a distinct perspective on what actually qualifies as permanent and what merely offers the appearance.

While perhaps using different terms - our preference is for dispatching nuclear aircraft carriers rather than gunboats - Americans born after World War II came into adulthood imbued with precisely the same sentiment about their own country. From the mid-1940s onward, the primacy of the United States was assumed as a given. History had rendered a verdict: we - not the Brits and certainly not the Germans, French, or Russians - were number one, and, more importantly, were meant to be. That history's verdict might be subject to revision was literally unimaginable, especially to anyone making a living in or near Washington, D.C.
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Attention

Maria Butina's lawyers confident she will be allowed to return to Russia within days after sentencing


RT
Sun, 24 Feb 2019 14:09 UTC
Maria Butina

Maria Butina
Jailed 'Russian agent' Maria Butina has a good chance of getting home soon, her attorney told RT. She was arrested in the US in the midst of the hunt for 'Russian meddling'.

Butina's legal team is working to get a time-served sentence in coming weeks, after which the woman would be deported to Russia, her attorney Robert Driscoll told RT.

The defense will be asking for "a sentence in a zero to six month range," he said.

The attorney explained that Butina has already spent seven months in a US prison, and, if the court agrees with her team's reasoning, she won't have to do more jail time.

That verdict would automatically kick start the deportation process. Driscoll hopes that it will be done as quickly as possible, and Butina would see her homeland "in a matter of days" after the sentencing.
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USA

Hands of Venezuela: Demonstrators around the world march to prevent US-led intervention


RT
Sun, 24 Feb 2019 17:01 UTC
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© Flickr / Joe Catron
The government of Nicolas Maduro is doing far more for the people of Venezuela than the US administration by providing free services for its population, anti-war activist Sara Flounders told RT, condemning the US-led intervention.

The activists, opposing the US-led intervention, organized some 150 demonstrations around the globe on Saturday to show that ordinary people are against any form of foreign interference. Rallies have been taking place across the US, Flounders told RT after attending a 'No War on Venezuela' rally in New York City.

"In Venezuela today, there is more than six million families who are provided every single week a basic basket of essential supplies. It far exceeds any kind of food distribution program in the United States," Flounders said.
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Child abuse: Gay & trans sex education to be taught to five year old children in UK - opting out is ILLEGAL


RT
Sun, 24 Feb 2019 14:02 UTC
UK gender indoctrination children

The lessons on homosexuality and transgenderism will be taught to pupils from the age of five, and it will be illegal for parents to take their children out of the classroom for the lessons in secondary school.
The UK Conservative government is set to announce plans for the introduction of lessons on homosexuality and transgenderism for primary school students, despite an official petition against the move, signed by over 100,000.

The Sunday Times reports that the new curriculum has been finalized after a six-month consultation with the Department of Education, and will be rolled out across UK schools starting from the 2020-21 educational year.

It will be taught to pupils from the age of five, and it will be illegal for parents to take their children out of the classroom for the lessons in secondary school, meaning that at least a term's worth of sex education classes - and likely far more - will be attended by each student.

A popular petition to parliament demanding that the opt-out be retained for the length of the child's school education will be debated in the House of Commons on Monday, though it is not expected to affect the schedule for the implementation of the legislation.

Comment: As sp!ked journalist Brendan O'Neill remarked, "there is no escaping the uncomfortable fact that trans activists, and their many supporters in the establishment, are leading children astray and could well have a detrimental impact on the lives and futures of the new generation."

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Facebook allows advertisers to directly target consumers even if they're Nazi sympathizers

Sam Dean
Los Angeles Times
Thu, 21 Feb 2019 15:59 UTC
Mark Zuckerberg
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Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg speaks to press and advertising partners in 2007.
Facebook makes money by charging advertisers to reach just the right audience for their message - even when that audience is made up of people interested in the perpetrators of the Holocaust or explicitly neo-Nazi music.

Despite promises of greater oversight following past advertising scandals, a Times review shows that Facebook has continued to allow advertisers to target hundreds of thousands of users the social media firm believes are curious about topics such as "Joseph Goebbels," "Josef Mengele," "Heinrich Himmler," the neo-nazi punk band Skrewdriver and Benito Mussolini's long-defunct National Fascist Party.

Experts say that this practice runs counter to the company's stated principles and can help fuel radicalization online.

"What you're describing, where a clear hateful idea or narrative can be amplified to reach more people, is exactly what they said they don't want to do and what they need to be held accountable for," said Oren Segal, director of the Anti-Defamation League's center on extremism.

Comment: See also:

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Bad Guys

'Cannibal' arrested for chopping mother into 'thousands of pieces' and sharing with dog


RT
Sun, 24 Feb 2019 15:32 UTC
Cannibal arrested
© Facebook / Policía Nacional
A 26-year-old man has been arrested by Spanish police after confessing to killing his mother and chopping up her body into more than 1,000 pieces before eating some of her remains.

Alberto Sanchez Gomez confessed to the brutal slaying of his 66-year-old mother, Maria Soledad Gomez, after detectives came to his Madrid apartment enquiring about the woman who had been missing for a month, reports Spanish newspaper El Mundo.

Sanchez reportedly confessed to killing and dismembering his mother, cooking parts of her body and disposing of her organs in the bin. The horrifying confession led police to the grim discovery of the woman's partial remains in six large tupperware boxes.
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Airplane

Pilot dies, family avoids disaster as plane crashes into home in Florida

Anthony Rivas, Jason M. Volack, Christine Theodorou
ABC News
Sun, 24 Feb 2019 12:32 UTC
Plane hits home
© WFTS
A small aircraft with two people onboard crashed into a home in Winter Haven, Fla, Feb. 23, 2019.
A nightmare came true for one family in Florida when a plane fell from the sky and crashed through the roof of a home.

The pilot of the flight was killed, but a trainee pilot and eight people inside the home all walked away with minor injuries.

"It was the day of miracles," said Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd during a press conference, referring to the fact that everyone inside the house survived.

The twin-engine aircraft fell into the house in Winter Haven, Florida, at around 1 p.m. while its pilot, James Wagner, 64, and his trainee, Timothy Sheehy, were practicing simulated engine failure training, Judd said.
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Bullseye

California city to pay $21 million settlement to man who spent 39 years in prison for crime he didn't commit

Mark Osborne
ABC News
Sun, 24 Feb 2019 02:55 UTC
Craig Coley
© AP
Craig Coley, who spent 39 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit, talks with reporters Thursday, Feb. 15, 2018, in Sacramento, Calif.
A wrongfully convicted man has agreed to a $21 million settlement with a California city after he spent 39 years in prison for a murder he did not commit.

Craig Coley was convicted of murdering Rhonda Wicht and her 4-year-old son, Donald, in 1978 and spent the better part of four decades in jail. He was released in November 2017 after receiving a pardon from then-Gov. Jerry Brown. He was 70 years old at the time of his release.

Now he's collecting a massive payout from the city that convicted him of the crime he did not commit.

Simi Valley, California, released a statement Saturday afternoon saying it had come to an agreement with Coley to pay him $21 million.
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