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IDF continues terrorizing Palestinians, destroys Gaza tunnel with airstrikes


RT
Wed, 30 May 2018 16:11 UTC
gaza air strike
© Suhaib Salem / Reuters
The IDF has released a video claiming to show the destruction of a Gaza tunnel that stretched nearly 1km into Israeli territory. The Israeli Air Force struck more than 30 targets in Gaza in response to two rocket barrages.

Released by the Israeli military on Tuesday, the short video shows an airstrike against a "Palestinian terror tunnel that entered 900m inside Israel," according to Israeli journalist Amichai Stein.

The tunnel, located near the Kerem Shalom border crossing, extended inside Israeli and Egyptian territory and was used "for transporting weapons to the territory of Egypt," the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) claimed.


Comment: Perhaps, but the tunnel was also likely used to bring in much needed supplies to Gaza that Israel cruelly won't allow past their inspection site. Food and medical supplies are in short supply, and now Israel has cut off another way for Palestinians to live like normal humans.


The tunnel was targeted after dozens of mortars and projectiles were reportedly fired at Israel from inside Gaza on Tuesday. Israel says that most of the projectiles were intercepted by its Iron Dome missile defense system. At least one civilian and three soldiers were injured in the attacks, according to Israeli media.
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Megaphone

After pointless groping of countless Americans, the TSA keeps a secret watchlist of those who fight back

Jim Bovard
The Los Angeles Times
Mon, 28 May 2018 16:11 UTC
TSA enhanced pat-down
"I need a witness!" exclaimed the security screener at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Because I had forgotten to remove my belt before going through a scanner, he explained, I must undergo an "enhanced patdown." I told him that if he jammed his hand into my groin, I'd file a formal complaint. So he summoned his supervisor to keep an eye on the proceedings.

I thought of this exchange last week when the New York Times revealed that the Transportation Security Administration has created a secret watchlist for troublesome passengers. The TSA justified the list by saying that its screeners were assaulted 34 times last year, but did not release any details about the alleged assaults.

Naturally, the TSA's official definition of troublemaking goes well beyond punching its officers. According to a confidential memo, any behavior that is "offensive and without legal justification" can land a traveler on the list, as can any "challenges to the safe and effective completion of screening." Anyone who has ever "loitered" near a checkpoint could also make the list. So could any woman who pushes a screener's hands away from her breasts.

Comment: Chilling thought: Is the TSA a Milgram Experiment?

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Bad Guys

Fake News: "Delusional" Kiev accuses Russian intelligence of plot to murder journalist Arkady Babchenko


RT
Mon, 28 May 2018 17:40 UTC
Arkady Babchenko
© Valentyn Ogirenko / Reuters
SBU Chief Sergey Gritsak (L), Arkady Babchenko (M) and Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Yury Lutsenko (R)
The reported killing of Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko on Tuesday in Kiev was actually a ruse played by the Ukrainian law enforcement to prevent a planned hit, the Ukrainian authorities said.

Reporting on the high profile case on Wednesday, the head of the SBU, Ukraine's national security service, Sergey Gritsak said Babchenko was alive and unhurt.

He claimed that the SBU had information about a planned assassination attempt on the journalist and acted to derail the plot.

"I want to congratulate his family, all of us and the entire world, which is watching it, and congratulate Babchenko with a third birthday," Gritsak wrote on his Facebook page.

Comment: Before it was revealed that Babchenko's death was a hoax, it was reported that Russia had urged all its reporters to leave Ukraine. This is certainly a strange story with a lot probably going on behind the scenes that isn't being revealed yet.

Now that the hoax is public, Russian officials' reaction was to point out the obvious point of this ridiculous fake story - to "slander" and demonize Russia in the eyes of the public.

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Smoking

Israel expands smoking ban to include parks and government sponsored events

Hezki Baruch
Arutz Sheva
Wed, 30 May 2018 13:24 UTC
No smoking sign
© Zest Magazine
The Knesset's Labor, Welfare, and Health Committee on Wednesday morning approved the Order to Prevent Smoking in Public Places and Exposure to Smoking, which expands the list of places in which smoking is prohibited.

Likud MK Yehuda Glick's suggestions were added to the order proposed by Health Minister Yakov Litzman (UTJ). In all of these locations, smoking is prohibited except in a defined area located at least ten meters (32.8 feet) away from the building's entrances and exits.

Smoking will also be forbidden at all events organized by the Israeli government and which take place in a defined area. This includes events organized by government bodies such as courts, rabbinic courts, local councils, and religious councils.

Comment: See also:

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Propaganda

New York Times gets busted peddling fake news - media doubles down anyway

Mollie Hemingway
The Federalist
Mon, 28 May 2018 15:36 UTC
new york times
There may have been a real White House briefing with real White House officials, but The New York Times couldn't be trusted to accurately summarize what the White House official said. And it wasn't on a minor point.

On the path to the June 12 summit with North Korea, journalists claimed President Donald Trump would not be willing to walk away from the negotiating table because he was too desperate for a win.

The Washington Post's David Nakamura wrote that "critics fear that a president determined to declare victory where his predecessors failed will allow his desire for a legacy-making deal to override the substance of the negotiations." On the same day, the Washington Post's Paul Waldman mocked Trump's desire for a win, which he said was turning Trump into a fool who was getting played.

Then President Trump did what media outlets said he'd never do. He walked away from the negotiating table due to North Korea's behavior. The media outlets didn't acknowledge their previous analytical missteps so much as come up with new lines of attack on Trump.
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Biohazard

UK medics admit they treated Skripals for opioid overdose until Porton Down showed them the error of their ways


RT
Wed, 30 May 2018 15:11 UTC
skripals salisbury park
The medical team at Sainsbury Hospital were treating the Skripals for opioid overdose without any extra precautions, until UK chemical weapon experts "confirmed" nerve agent poisoning and "advised" them on treatment, BBC reports.

Staff at Salisbury District Hospital say that former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, who were found unconscious on a bench in Salisbury on March 4, were initially treated for opioid overdose, a new documentary reveals.

"The evening that Yulia and Sergei were admitted, at that point we were led to believe that they have taken an overdose, so there was no mention of nerve agent poisoning," Sarah Clark, ward sister in charge of the shift on March 4, told BBC2's Newsnight in an interview broadcast on Tuesday. "They were needing their support with their breathing and support with their cardiovascular system."

Some initial reports on the Skripals indicated that emergency services suspected the powerful drug fentanyl may have been involved. The highly addictive synthetic opiate has been linked to a sharp increase in overdoses in the US and has also resulted in dozens of deaths across the UK.

The medical staff was apparently so sure of the drug overdose diagnosis that they did not even consider taking special precaution to protect themselves against potential exposure to the deadly military grade chemical agent, which they were soon convinced caused the ailment of the Skripals.

"At first, when they first came in, there was no indication of the fact that it was a nerve agent. And therefore, we take our normal protection when any patient comes in but would have not at that point taken any extra precaution in terms of protecting ourselves," Clark said.

Comment: A full two days after exposure to a weapons-grade nerve agent with no proper treatment, no symptoms of nerve agent exposure, no local tests to determine if a nerve agent was involved (only Porton Down's say-so), and a miraculous recovery. It's almost sounds as if the Salisbury doctors are getting their side of the story out so that no one can accuse them of anything shady. Instead, they place the potential blame for that on Porton Down.

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Sheriff

Investigators catch cop driving recklessly months after crashing into an elderly couple

Rachel Blevins
The Free Thought Project
Wed, 30 May 2018 14:55 UTC
police crash
The same police officer who faced no charges after he crashed his patrol car into an elderly couple while driving nearly 30 mph over the speed limit, was hired at a new department and has been caught driving recklessly once again, despite a history of dangerous driving accidents.

Officer Christopher Ferguson was called out publicly after surveillance footage was released from a car crash in which he slammed his police cruiser into another car, sending the elderly couple occupying the vehicle flying out onto the street.

James Cryer, 69, and his wife Rena, 78, miraculously survived the gruesome incident. Yet even though Ferguson was driving at least 26 mph over the legal limit, he faced no charges. An investigation conducted by the Tennessee Highway Patrol placed the blame on both drivers-claiming that while Ferguson was exceeding the speed limit, Cryer also "failed to yield" to oncoming traffic.

Even with an investigator claiming that "If the officer had been driving the posted speed limit...the collision would have been avoided," District Attorney General Bryant Dunaway told WSMV News that he had no regrets about declining to charge the officer.
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Stop

'Not a German or EU colony': EU's budget chief Oettinger slammed for telling Italians how to vote


RT
Wed, 30 May 2018 11:50 UTC
EU Budget Commissioner Oettinger
© Francois Lenoir / Reuters
EU Budget Commissioner Oettinger holds a news conference in Brusse
An outraged public has slammed Germany's European Commissioner Guenther Oettinger for telling Italians that 'markets will teach them not to vote for populists'.

"My concerns and expectations are that the coming weeks will show that markets, government bonds and Italy's economy could be so drastically impacted that they would serve as a signal to voters not to vote for populists on the right and left," Oettinger told DW in an exclusive interview.

Although the EU Commissioner was swift to apologize, saying he "did not mean to be disrespectful", his apology did not seem to quell or reassure those fuming on social media.

Thank you for telling Italians the truth about EU system," an Italian man wrote, saying he was grateful to the Commissioner for having honestly unveiled the EU agenda and their plans for Italy. "Some of us took 7 years to enlighten half the minds you and Mattarella enlightened in 5 minutes."

Many on Twitter blasted Oettinger for threatening Italian voters. They claimed they would not allow anyone, whether it's Germany or the EU to dictate who they should or should not vote for.
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Eye 1

British neo-Nazi who planned knife attack on gay pride celebration to face sentencing


RT
Wed, 30 May 2018 18:07 UTC
Ethan Stables
© Friends & Supporters of the Furness LGBT Community / Facebook
Ethan Stables
A British homophobic neo-Nazi terrorist is to face sentencing over plans for an attack on a pub's gay pride night. Ethan Stables was caught with a multitude of blades including a machete, which he planned to use in the attack.

Stables, then aged 20, was arrested by armed police as he made what prosecutors described as a final reconnaissance visit last summer to the New Empire pub in his home town of Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria.

Following his arrest on June 23, 2017, police discovered the machete, as well as an axe and knives that he kept at his home. Stables had revealed his intent on social media posts to far-right pages. He said he was "going to war" and wanted to "slaughter every single one of the gay b******s." Officers were tipped off about the impending attack by another member of one of Stable's far-right groups.
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Attention

Tesla car on autopilot crashes into parked police car


RT
Wed, 30 May 2018 14:44 UTC
Tesla car crash
© Laguna Beach Police Department / Twitter
A Tesla Model S crashed into a parked police vehicle while reportedly driving on autopilot in Laguna Beach, California, injuring the Tesla driver and badly damaging the cop car.

Laguna Beach Sergeant Jim Cota said on Twitter that the cop car was unmanned at the time of the impact, while the Tesla driver sustained minor injuries. The crash happened soon after 11am Tuesday on Laguna Canyon Road. Cota told the LA Times the "police car is totalled."

The driver told police the car was operating on autopilot at the time of the crash. Tesla's autopilot system uses sensors, cameras, and radar to study the vehicle's surroundings and carry out automatic functions which include emergency braking. The company describes it as being a "driver assistance system."
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