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Israel claims praying Palestinians attacked them in latest battle and lock down at Al-Aqsa mosque


RT
Fri, 27 Jul 2018 13:35 UTC
al-aqsa closed July 2018
© Ahmad Gharabli / AFP
The Israeli security forces prevent access to Palestinian pedestrians as they close down a street in the Old City of Jerusalem, July 27, 2018
Israeli police have reportedly closed the gates to the third-holiest site in the Muslim world, Al-Aqsa Mosque, after clashes with Palestinian worshippers. Some "suspects" are barricaded in the mosque, according to police.

Protests erupted on the Temple Mount, the location of Jerusalem's most important mosque, on Friday. Israel police say that clashes started after someone attacked them with stones and fireworks, prompting the security forces to respond with grenades and stun grenades, Haaretz reports.

Blasts can be seen on footage that purportedly shows the clashes, while "Allahu Akbar" can be heard in the background.

Comment: It's unclear how this all started but it doesn't really make sense that during prayer Palestinians would start a fight with Israeli forces. Israel is illegally occupying the area and terrorize the worshipers as a matter of routine so it's reasonable to assume they are responsible:

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Pirates

Police can no longer handle lawless 'urban jungle' after dark in Amsterdam - City ombudsman


RT
Sat, 28 Jul 2018 14:08 UTC
Overturned car
© Cris Toala Olivares / Reuters
As dark descends on Amsterdam, the Dutch tourist hotspot turns into an "urban jungle" where the police are powerless to handle crime, violence and drug trade, Arre Zuurmond, the city's ombudsman, warned.

"The city center becomes an urban jungle at night," Zuurmond told Dutch paper,Trouw. "Criminal money flourishes, there is no authority and the police can no longer handle the situation."

Drugs are being sold openly in the streets, pedestrian areas are used for car and bike races, there's widespread theft and other offenses, the ombudsman said, using the world "mayhem" to describe what's happening in the city.

Comment: How's that liberalism working out for you, Amsterdam?

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Pistol

Shooting at Texas nursing home leaves 5 dead


RT
Sat, 28 Jul 2018 14:29 UTC
police officer
© Rick Wilking / Reuters
Five people have been reported dead in Robstown, Texas on Friday in two apparently connected shootings, one of them at a nursing home.

The police were alerted to the killing spree after a report of gunshots at the Retama Manor Nursing facility. Officers responding to the call found two men and a woman dead at the scene, Robstown Secretary Herman Rodriguez said, as cited by WLWT channel, including the perpetrator.

During a subsequent check at the home of one of the nursing home victims, where shots were reportedly fired as well, the police found two more dead men.
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Arrow Down

Journalist working with RT caught in drone tear gas attack amid deadly Gaza protests


RT
Sat, 28 Jul 2018 12:41 UTC
Journalist
A journalist working with RT was caught in a tear gas attack as she covered the clashes along the Gaza border. Three Palestinians were reportedly killed and dozens injured, mostly by Israeli ammunition during the protests.

A 17-year-old Palestinian died of his wounds on Saturday after being shot by Israeli forces near the Gaza security fence, where protests have been ongoing since March. He became the third fatality of Friday's violence, bringing the total death toll of the Great March of Return to 155, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.

Friday's demonstration left around 80 participants injured, mostly in the upper part of their body, Gaza-based Hind Khoudari reported standing in the crowds of protesters.

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Attention

ICE arrests illegal alien sex offender after NC county releases him from jail ignoring protocol

Katherine Rodriguez
Breitbart
Wed, 25 Jul 2018 12:29 UTC
ICE ARREST
© NC State Bureau of Investigation
Officials with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency arrested an illegal alien, a registered sex offender, on Monday. Orange County, North Carolina, authorities had released him from custody in June without telling ICE.

ICE officials arrested Mexican national Udiel Aguilar-Castellanos, 42, on Monday at his residence in Carrboro one month after Orange County officials released him from prison, ICE officials announced Wednesday.

Aguilar-Castellanos agreed to plead guilty to two counts of sexual battery on June 27 for sexually abusing an 11-year-old girl. He had to register as a sex offender as part of his plea deal to avoid prison.

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House

The American society should've collapsed by now, you know that, right?

Lee Camp
Truthdig
Wed, 25 Jul 2018 13:29 UTC
Cartoon working to the bone
© studiostoks / Shutterstock
No society should function with this level of inequality (with the possible exception of one of those prison planets in a Star Wars movie). Sixty-three percent of Americans can't afford a $500 emergency. Yet Amazon head Jeff Bezos is now worth a record $141 billion. He could literally end world hunger for multiple years and still have more money left over than he could ever spend on himself.

Worldwide, one in 10 people only make $2 a day. Do you know how long it would take one of those people to make the same amount as Jeff Bezos has? 193 million years. (If they only buy single-ply toilet paper.) Put simply, you cannot comprehend the level of inequality in our current world or even just our nation.

So ... shouldn't there be riots in the streets every day? Shouldn't it all be collapsing? Look outside. The streets aren't on fire. No one is running naked and screaming (usually). Does it look like everyone's going to work at gunpoint? No. We're all choosing to continue on like this.

Why?
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Cupcake Pink

Pranksters place Putin's portrait in Colorado Capitol (where Trump's should be)


RT
Sat, 28 Jul 2018 12:52 UTC
Putin
© Steve Fenberg / Twitter
Trump's portrait is not on display in the Colorado Capitol building because of a failure to raise funds... but Vladimir Putin's one apparently briefly was. The blank space was used for a photobomb by unknown culprit.

While official paintings of George W. Bush and Barack Obama occupy their respective slots, there is still a blank space on the Colorado Capitol's wall of presidential portraits. Yet, a portrait of Vladimir Putin briefly made appearance right next to the part of the wall where Donald Trump's official painting should be.

Colorado State Senator Steve Fenberg (D-Boulder) published the stunning picture showing Putin's mug on an easel. A Fenberg aide said the image was authentic and was not a Photoshop setup, according to local media.

Comment: Tres drole, liberal dilettantes, tres drole.

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Eggs Fried

Humpty Dumpty deserved to fall: Standing up to compelled speech and 'velvet' totalitarianism

Barbara Kay
C2C Journal
Thu, 26 Jul 2018 00:01 UTC
Humpty Dumpty Alice
The fat, pompous egg sat precariously on the wall talking down to Alice and said, in a voice dripping with malign contempt: "When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less." Alice, a precocious girl who was not easily bullied, replied: "The question is whether you can make words mean so many different things." Dismissing her objection, the egg countered: "The question is which is to be master - that's all."

This of course is the famous scene from Lewis Carroll's 1872 fantasy Through the Looking Glass. The conversation ended with Humpty Dumpty falling off the wall. Happily all the king's horses and all the king's men were unable to put him together again.

Until now.

Comment: The creeping encroachment of 'velvet totalitarianism' seems to be increasing exponentially, and like it or not Canadians, Canada seems to be ground zero. Only by standing up to these bullies can this insidious culture be halted in its tracks.

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Palette

A millennium of Christianity: What makes the Russian Orthodoxy unique?


RT
Sat, 28 Jul 2018 13:07 UTC
A service commemorating the baptism of Rus' in St. Vladimir Cathedral in Kiev
© Evgeny Kotenko / Sputnik
A service commemorating the baptism of Rus' in St. Vladimir Cathedral in Kiev
The faithful in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus are marking 1030 years since their ancestors adopted Christianity - the faith that would ultimately become Orthodoxy, made unique by ten centuries of divergence from Western branches.

Switching an entire nation's religion was obviously not a single day's business - Kievan Rus', the enormous nation that incorporated parts of modern-day Belarus, Ukraine and Russia, did not simply go to sleep as pagan one day and wake up as Christian the next. 988 was the year that the process started. July 28th was chosen as a commemoration date because it's the anniversary of St. Vladimir, or Vladimir the Great, the prince who came to power over disparate Slavic tribes and eventually brought them together under the Eastern Christian faith.

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People 2

Trolling the system: Alberta man changes gender on government IDs for cheaper car insurance rates

Reid Southwick
CBC News
Fri, 20 Jul 2018 13:24 UTC
sex change documents

Redacted birth certificates of an Alberta man who changed his gender for cheaper car insurance. The circles in red show that the certificate on the left reads 'male' while the newer one on the right reads 'female.'
He wanted a brand new car - a Chevrolet Cruze with all the trimmings.

As a man in his early 20s, he knew his insurance costs would be high.

So he became a woman, though only on paper.

"I have taken advantage of a loophole," said the man - we're calling him David - who spoke on the condition that his identity be kept confidential because of the potential repercussions.

Comment: More power to him. If someone finds a way to troll ridiculous new regulations in Canada to play the system to their advantage, so be it. If Canada doesn't like it, maybe they should reconsider their gender-fluid insanity.

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