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Israeli military industry uses Gaza as a lab and showroom for new weapons and tech it plans to sell

RT
Thu, 05 Jul 2018 20:15 UTC

Human rights campaigners claim that the Israeli army and defense corporations exploit the deadly Gaza protests to test and advertise hardware like drones, sniper rifles and 'smart' fences.

"The Israeli military industry exploits the occupation of Palestine, and specifically the siege on Gaza, as an arena to battle-test, invest in, and innovate military technology to later be marketed to the international community based on their effectiveness on Palestinian civilians," says the recent report penned by the 'Hamushim' human rights group, which campaigns against the occupation of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. The NGO is run by the Coalition of Women for Peace, an Israel-based group partnering with the Nobel Peace Prize-winning American Friends Service Committee.

The Israeli defense industry has a history of marketing its products after violent clashes with the Palestinians, the report says, noting that the bloody 2014 Israeli-Gaza conflict helped the companies to sell Hermes 900 Kochav drones, next-generation Hatzav tank shells and MPR500 'smart bombs.'

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Rachel Dolezal, white activist who 'self-identified as black,' charged with welfare fraud & perjury

Warner Todd Huston
Breitbart
Tue, 03 Jul 2018 00:00 UTC

Rachel Dolezal, the white woman who became infamous for posing as a black woman for a decade, was arrested and charged with welfare fraud and other offenses on Monday.

Dolezal, who was so successful at pretending to be black that she ended up as president of the NAACP in Spokane, pleaded not guilty to charges of welfare fraud, second-degree perjury, and making false statements during her appearance before a judge, Fox News reported.

Now going under the name Nkechi Diallo, the suspect is accused of illicitly taking nearly $9,000 in food and childcare assistance between 2016 and 2017.

Government officials began looking into her income status after she published her book, In Full Color, the income of which she did not report to welfare officials. Dolezal had been reporting less than $500 a month income, but government officials discovered she deposited $84,000 into her accounts after the book deal.

Comment: Classic liberal fail: White 'trans-black' activist Rachel Dolezal faces 15 years in prison for welfare fraud

NBC, Amazon Studios writer says 'white extinction' can't happen soon enough

Liberty Headlines
Thu, 05 Jul 2018 17:04 UTC

Taylor Cox, a writer for NBC, Amazon Videos, Cartoon Network, and DreamWorksTV, wishes all white people were dead, saying "white extinction" can't happen fast enough.

Cox made the racist remarks on Twitter, where she cooed: "the only anxiety i have about white extinction is that it's not happening faster."

Amid backlash, Cox changed her bio to read: "TV writer."

Loss of a legend: RT America announces passing of veteran radio and television broadcaster Ed Schultz

RT
Thu, 05 Jul 2018 17:55 UTC

Ed Schultz, host of 'News with Ed' on RT America, passed away on July 5 at his home in Washington, DC. The veteran radio and television broadcaster was 64.

"We at RT America are sad to announce the passing of Edward Andrew Schultz. Ed Schultz passed quietly early morning on July 5 at his home in Washington, D.C. This announcement comes as a shock to all of us here at RT America," said the channel's official statement.

Schultz worked for decades as a prominent sports and political radio broadcaster in the upper Midwest. From 2009 to 2015, he hosted a show on MSNBC. He joined RT America in January 2016.

"The News with Ed Schultz" aired weeknights from Monday - Thursday at 8 PM Eastern Time. It was the flagship show at RT America and according to comScore was rated number one across the network throughout the first half of 2018.

We are devastated by the news of the sudden death of our brilliant anchor, one of the best TV-Journalists in America, Ed Schultz," said RT Editor in Chief Margarita Simonyan.

Comment: Our sincere condolences to his family and colleagues.

Cops accuse PhD student of stealing his own car and then beat and arrest him

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Wed, 04 Jul 2018 17:56 UTC

All too often, those who blindly support authority without question will say, 'If you don't want to get beat up by police, don't break the law.' However, time after time after time, they are proven wrong - often in the worst way. Lawrence Crosby is proof that not breaking the law is not protection against getting hurt by police as he was beaten and arrested by cops who thought he'd stolen his own car.

Although this scenario unfolded on October 10, 2015, the infuriating and brutal dashcam video wasn't released until later and now, Crosby is speaking out in an Op-Ed in the Washington Post. What this situation shows is nothing short of incompetence, brutality, and the viciousness of more than a half-dozen of Evanston's finest.

"This isn't the story that I expected to be telling at this point in my life, having just received my doctorate from one of the top schools in the country. The bigger story of my life is growing up without knowing my father, losing my mother to illness when I was 8 and becoming a ward of the state," Crosby aptly noted in his piece.

Crosby is not a criminal. In fact, he's an upstanding citizen and accomplished engineering student who was on his way to night school to complete his doctorate at Northwestern University that night. However, in today's see something, say something society, not even innocent doctoral candidates are safe from police abuse.

Liberal insanity: Anti-ICE activist scales Statue of Liberty, prompting island evacuation and rescue

RT
Thu, 05 Jul 2018 10:38 UTC

Visitors had to be evacuated from the Statue of Liberty on Independence Day after a group of activists protesting against the US government's immigration enforcement agency caused a disruption.

Several people hung a banner from the statue's pedestal calling for the abolition of ICE. After they were arrested, another person managed to climb the monument's base and stay there for over three hours.

The woman stopped at the bottom of the statue itself, laying and sitting under Lady Liberty's half-raised right foot, some 100 feet (30m) above ground level. Police used ladders to climb up to the ledge and, after trying to talk her into coming down, proceeded to approach her and put a climbing harness on her to help her down.

Comment: Such stunts aren't likely to win the hearts and minds of the majority of Americans: 73% of swing voters oppose Democrats' plan to abolish ICE

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Canadian fishermen claim US border patrol chasing illegal immigrants in Canadian waters

Yahoo News
Wed, 04 Jul 2018 00:00 UTC

A US border patrol boat strayed into Canadian territorial waters while chasing "illegal immigrants" off the coast of Maine and Nova Scotia, Canadian fishermen said Wednesday.

Laurence Cook, chair of the Grand Manan Fishermen's Association, said on Facebook that a US border patrol launch out of Maine attempted to stop a Canadian fishing vessel in Canadian waters.

Grand Manan is a Canadian island in the Gulf of Maine, right off the coast that hosts the border between the United States and Canada.

Cook said the incident took place on June 24 near Machias Seal Island, a tiny and rocky outcrop a dozen miles (kilometers) south of Grand Manan with rich lobster grounds, and whose sovereignty is disputed by Washington, although the Canadian Coast Guard maintains a lighthouse there.

According to Cook, the Canadian fishing captain, Nick Brown, informed the US vessel that "he was a Canadian vessel legally fishing in Canadian waters."

Comment: CTV News adds:

In the past two weeks, at least 10 Canadian fishing boats from New Brunswick have been intercepted by U.S. Border Patrol agents while fishing in the disputed waters around Machias Seal Island, a spokesman for the fishermen says.

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Machias Seal Island, which is about 19 kilometres southwest of Grand Manan Island and east of Maine, is in a disputed area known as the Grey Zone, where lobster fishermen from both Canada and the United States have long fished side by side.

The small island is a flat, treeless piece of rock, which includes a large colony of puffins and a lighthouse that is manned by two Canadian lightkeepers year-round.

However, both Canada and the United States claim sovereign jurisdiction over the island and the surrounding waters at the mouth of the Bay of Fundy.

"Neither country accepts that there is a Grey Zone," said Stephen Kelly, a research scholar at Duke University in Durham, N.C., and a former American diplomat who served in Canada. "That's created more tension in the area over the last decade."

Kelly said both countries have done very little to assert their claims.

"Sometimes doing nothing is better," he said. "But in this case, just because it looks like it's not broken can be very deceiving -- especially with our new president in the United States. The last thing Canada wants is for Donald Trump to seize on this as an example of U.S. sovereignty being challenged."

The suggestion that the border agents were looking for illegal immigrants seems improbable, he said.

"That's possible, but ... the Gulf of Maine is not a major route for illegal immigrants sneaking into the United States," Kelly said. "If anything, people are sneaking the other way. They're trying to get out of the U.S. and into Canada to claim asylum."

He said drug smuggling is a more relevant concern.

Team boosters: 10% of Iceland's total population came to World Cup - Russian hearts and minds won

Russia Insider
Mon, 02 Jul 2018 16:45 UTC

The number of positive stories coming out of the World Cup is extraordinary

Feeding the Israeli monster

Philip Giraldi
The Unz Review
Tue, 03 Jul 2018 15:14 UTC

© Agence France-Presse
A Palestinian woman whose house has been occupied by illegal Jewish squatters arguing with Israelis who came to taunt her on Jerusalem Day in front of her disputed house in East Jerusalem, May 2010. AFP

Washington's spinelessness enables Israeli brutality

I have just spent a couple of days in New York City. Returning to Virginia on Wednesday morning, I had a somewhat strange experience. I cleared through my emails before leaving the hotel and also read through a number of the featured news articles. One, in particular, caught my eye. It described how the Democratic Party primary in Queens New York had returned a startling result. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won over mainstream incumbent Joe Crowley, signaling that not everyone in the Democratic Party is buying into the Clinton model of good governance by big donors and powerful interest groups. Many want change and even a radical departure from the political game whereby media savvy pressure groups and narrow constituencies are pandered to to create a governing majority.

One paragraph in particular in the article I read was highly suggestive, the claim that Ocasio-Cortez had been strongly opposed to the Israelis' routine slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza, which has by now become of such little import that it is not even reported any more in the U.S. media. She is also allegedly a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanction movement (BDS), which pressures Israel to end its theft and occupation of Palestinian land. The article expressed some surprise that anyone in New York City would dare to say anything unpleasant about Israel and still expect to get elected.

Republican senators under fire on Twitter for spending July 4 in Moscow

RT
Thu, 05 Jul 2018 16:18 UTC

A group of Republican senators have been accused of treason after spending July 4 in Moscow. Real patriots spend Independence Day eating potato salad on US soil, according to astute Twitter users.

The Republican congressional delegation, headed by Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama, arrived in Russia on June 30 for high-level talks ahead of a planned summit between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki. However, the fact that the working visit extended into July 4 has led many American pundits to conclude that the seven senators (and one congresswoman) are not lawmakers doing their job, but actually brazen traitors. It's Twitter, after all:

Ehret an idiot beyond belief

smertzasmert

.. .. are wheel barrel sales are up too?

Jibrish

I doubt any pureblood would object to the "vaccinated" being masked, but if they (the "vaccinated") still feel unsafe then maybe their problem is...

HashAttack2

I said this would happen...now they are looking to mandate companies with less that 100 employees...shits getting real, people[Link]

Bezel Bub

it's all a lie ! :O

cracker

Society's Child

Israeli military industry uses Gaza as a lab and showroom for new weapons and tech it plans to sell

Rachel Dolezal, white activist who 'self-identified as black,' charged with welfare fraud & perjury

NBC, Amazon Studios writer says 'white extinction' can't happen soon enough

Loss of a legend: RT America announces passing of veteran radio and television broadcaster Ed Schultz

Cops accuse PhD student of stealing his own car and then beat and arrest him

Liberal insanity: Anti-ICE activist scales Statue of Liberty, prompting island evacuation and rescue

Canadian fishermen claim US border patrol chasing illegal immigrants in Canadian waters

Team boosters: 10% of Iceland's total population came to World Cup - Russian hearts and minds won

Feeding the Israeli monster

Republican senators under fire on Twitter for spending July 4 in Moscow

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