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Pope Francis adviser decries Matteo Salvini's proposal to display crucifixes in all public places

Angela Giuffrida
The Guardian, UK
Thu, 26 Jul 2018 06:32 UTC
Matteo Salvini
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Italy’s far-right leader Matteo Salvini often brandishes a rosary during public speeches.
A close adviser to Pope Francis has strongly condemned a proposal by Italy's far-right League party to make it obligatory for crucifixes to be displayed in all public spaces, including ports, schools, embassies and prisons.

The bill, introduced for debate in parliament earlier this week, would include fines of up to €1,000 (£890) for failing to comply.

In a tweet that went viral on Wednesday, Reverend Antonio Spadaro, the editor of the Jesuit magazine La Civiltà Cattolica, wrote that the crucifix should never be used as a political symbol and said politicians should keep their hands off.

"The cross is a sign of protest against sin, violence, injustice and death. It is NEVER a sign of identity. It screams of love to the enemy and unconditional welcome. It is an embrace from God without defences," he said.
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US refuses to allow IOC to export sports equipment to N. Korea


RT
Fri, 27 Jul 2018 13:22 UTC
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The US has blocked a request by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to the United Nations Security Council Committee to exclude sports equipment from the list of items prohibited for export to North Korea.

"The United States was the only one to object against approving the IOC president's request by the UN Security Council Committee," TASS reported, citing sources familiar with the situation.

IOC head Thomas Bach initiated the request, asking the UN Security Council Committee to allow export of sports gear to the country, which has been under sanctions since 2006 over its nuclear program and missile tests.
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Israeli cartoonist fired for depicting Netanyahu as pig from Orwell's Animal Farm


RT
Fri, 27 Jul 2018 13:17 UTC
Benjamin Netanyahu
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An Israeli cartoonist has been fired for depicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and others as pigs from George Orwell's Animal Farm. He had worked for the magazine for three decades.

Jerusalem Report cartoonist Avi Katz drew Netanyahu and other members of the Likud party as pigs, with a quote added from Orwell's novel, "All animals are equal but some are more equal than others."

The drawing parodied a photograph of politicians taking a selfie after passing the controversial Jewish Nation-State Law, which defines Israel as a state of Jewish people, promotes illegal settlements and has been slammed by human rights organizations, described as racist and likened to an apartheid law.
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Facebook loses $119bln in market value in single biggest day loss


RT
Fri, 27 Jul 2018 13:12 UTC
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Facebook shares have fallen 19 percent, wiping $119 billion off the social media giant's value. The one-day percentage drop, the biggest ever for any US traded company, comes after it forecast months of lower profit margins.

Facebook shares closed at $176.26 on Thursday, down from $217.50 the day before.

"We expect our revenue-growth rates to decline by high-single-digit percentages from prior quarters sequentially in both Q3 and Q4," Chief Financial Officer David Wehner said on the investor conference call that sent the stock tumbling. The company's sales and user growth numbers for the second quarter fell short of analysts' projections.

Comment: Facebook is learning how the public thinks about it openly promoting liberal biased news sites and being in bed with US intelligence services in sharing its data.

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Cop charged with aggravated battery for kicking pregnant woman while off-duty


RT
Fri, 27 Jul 2018 13:08 UTC
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A North Miami Beach Police officer has been charged with aggravated battery and relieved of her duty, after an apparent revenge assault against a woman who was eight months pregnant.

On Wednesday afternoon, officers responding to street violence went on to arrest their fellow colleague, 26-year-old Ambar Pacheco. She was witnessed kicking a pregnant woman, Evoni Murray, in her stomach near Espanola Way and Washington Avenue shortly after 8:30 pm local time. Pacheco was off-duty and not in uniform when the alleged incident unfolded.

Pacheco, who joined the police force less than a year ago, did not deny the attack on a "visibly pregnant" 27-year-old woman, but said she was forced to retaliate after Murray's boyfriend, Joseph Predelus Jr., punched the police officer's sister, Mikaela, in the face. "I saw red and beat the sh**t out of her," Pacheco told the responding officers, the arrest report says.
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Knife attack by 17yo Palestinian in West Bank settlement leaves 1 dead and 2 injured


RT
Fri, 27 Jul 2018 13:04 UTC
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One person has been killed and two injured in the latest stabbing attack, this time carried out by a 17-year-old Palestinian, who entered an Israeli settlement in the West Bank for his attack and who was killed during the act.

The attack by the young Palestinian, who was later identified as Muhammad Tareq Yusuf, happened on Thursday around 9:00 pm local time. He climbed over the perimeter fence in the West Bank settlement of Adam, located between Jerusalem and Ramallah, and stabbed three people before being gunned down, local media reported.

Magen David Adom, 31, who was critically injured in the altercation, later succumbed to his wounds at the Jerusalem Hadassah Medical Center. Another victim, a 58-year-old man, remains in serious condition. The third man, who shot the attacker, suffered light injuries and was treated at the Shaare Zedek Medical Center.
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DNA-testing company 23andMe partners with GlaxoSmithKline, giving Big Pharma access to its over 5mln users' genetic data


RT
Fri, 27 Jul 2018 13:00 UTC
23andme
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A major DNA-testing Silicon Valley company is partnering with a British pharmaceutical giant, saying its database of over five million hereditary material samples will help develop new medical treatments.

The $300 million four-year collaboration project between GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and 23andMe genomics company will allow the London-based pharmaceutical to use over five million DNA samples from the genetic-phenotypic database of the Mountain View firm.

"The goal of the collaboration is to gather insights and discover novel drug targets driving disease progression and develop therapies for serious unmet medical needs based on those discoveries," 23andMe said in a statement.

Noting "commercialization expertise of GSK," as well as the company's capabilities to research and develop new drugs, 23andMe expressed hope that their database will be used "across a broad range of diseases and modalities, including small molecule, biopharmaceuticals and cell and gene therapies."
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North Korea hands over remains of US service members in symbolic gesture


RT
Fri, 27 Jul 2018 12:56 UTC
c-17 transport plane
© Murad Sezer / Reuters
On the 65th anniversary of the Korean War, Pyongyang has handed over the remains of dozens of US soldiers who died during the three-year-long conflict. President Trump has expressed his personal thanks to Kim Jong-un for the move.

A US Air Force C-17 transport plane picked up the remains of American servicemen in Wonsan, North Korea on Friday morning, before delivering them to the Osan Air Base in South Korea, a White House statement reported.

While the number of corpses has not been disclosed, earlier reports indicated that Pyongyang was going to hand over the remains of roughly 55 persons. Before a formal repatriation ceremony on August 1, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency will check the remains, before sending samples for forensic identification.
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MSNBC fails to cover war in Yemen for over a year, instead reports on Stormy Daniels 455 times

Adam Johnson
FAIR
Mon, 23 Jul 2018 11:26 UTC
rubble Yemen
As FAIR has noted before (1/8/18, 3/20/18), to MSNBC, the carnage and destruction the US and its Gulf Monarchy allies are leveling against the poorest country in the Arab world is simply a non-issue.

On July 2, a year had passed since the cable network's last segment mentioning US participation in the war on Yemen, which has killed in excess of 15,000 people and resulted in over a million cases of cholera. The US is backing a Saudi-led bombing campaign with intelligence, refueling, political cover, military hardware and, as of March, ground troops. None of this matters at all to what Adweek (4/3/18) calls "the network of the Resistance," which has since its last mention of the US's role in the destruction of Yemen found time to run over a dozen segments highlighting war crimes committed by the Syrian and Russian governments in Syria.

By way of contrast, as MSNBC was marking a year without mentioning the US role in Yemen, the PBS NewsHour was running a three-part series on the war, with the second part (7/3/18) headlined, "American-Made Bombs in Yemen Are Killing Civilians, Destroying Infrastructure and Fueling Anger at the US." The NewsHour's Jane Ferguson reported:
The aerial bombing campaign has not managed to dislodge the rebels, but has hit weddings, hospitals and homes. The US military supports the Saudi coalition with logistics and intelligence. The United States it also sells the Saudis and coalition partners many of the bombs they drop on Yemen.

Comment: See also: Media fail! Only 23% of Americans think Stormy Daniels is relevant

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Dutch Intolerance: For 10 Years, CPS Tried Taking Away my Kids Because I Homeschooled Them

Leanne Rojik
Sott.net
Thu, 26 Jul 2018 06:17 UTC
National Socialist Movement kids razzia

State terror: What do you do if you want to punish parents for their political beliefs? You go after their kids. Children of national socialists in the Netherlands are being rounded up only days after the end of World War II. They were thrown into concentration camps under deplorable conditions
During the second day of the 22nd International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam on July 24th, South-African actress Charlize Theron praised the Netherlands for its "inclusion, multiculturalism and freedom of expression," claiming that the Dutch capital "was a beacon of openness and acceptance."

When it comes to serving the Left's culture war agenda, the Dutch are certainly very 'tolerant'. In early June, the city of Amsterdam permitted illegal immigrants to go on the rampage, breaking into at least 30 vacant buildings, and even into buildings that were occupied. The temporary mayor of Amsterdam Jozias van Aartsen didn't seem too bothered and even had his photograph taken with the spokesperson of this movement (called We Are Here). Squatting is actually illegal in the Netherlands.

In the Netherlands, "freedom of expression" of course also applies to pedophiles, just as the Dutch trade in child pornography is included in this big happy tolerance party.

The Dutch government sings a different tune, however, when dealing with people who hold beliefs that oppose the government stronghold.
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