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Over 100 tires slashed in Orthodox Jewish community, police say

Morgan Winsor
ABC News
Mon, 12 Aug 2019 10:56 UTC
Cop car
More than 100 tires have been slashed in a predominately Orthodox Jewish community in New Jersey in recent days, according to authorities there.

All of the vehicles targeted in Lakewood Township, New Jersey, were owned or driven by Jewish people. The incidents are being investigated as bias crimes, police told ABC New York City station WABC.

The most recent tire slashings occurred outside homes over the weekend, police told WABC. The New Jersey town is home to one of the world's largest yeshivas.

Comment: Uh, maybe go house-to-house, see if anyone there knows something?...

Serial complainer about anti-Semitic graffiti left on and near his home in Paris... caught daubing cars with anti-Semitic graffiti

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Pirates

Tajik man emerges in Afghanistan as leader of IS unit of Central Asian fighters

Farangis Najibullah
RFE/RL
Mon, 12 Aug 2019 15:45 UTC
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Forces from Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security escort alleged Taliban and Islamic State fighters in Jalalabad on May 23.
A little-known, 31-year-old Tajik man who grew up in a Dushanbe suburb has emerged as a unit leader of the Islamic State (IS) affiliate in Afghanistan as the extremist group tries to expand its footprint in the war-torn country.

A recent report by the UN Security Council says Sayvaly Shafiev leads a group of approximately 200 fighters who hail from Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and other Central Asian countries.

Shafiev is also involved in recruiting Tajik fighters for IS and using online propaganda in the Tajik language, says the study by the UN Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team.

Authorities in Dushanbe believe Shafiev and his associates are training their Tajik recruits in Afghanistan and sending them back to Tajikistan to create a terrorist sleeper cell.

A Tajik law enforcement official said Shafiev has been "under the Tajik security services' radar for quite some time."

"We know that Shafiev has become a key IS figure in Afghanistan," he told RFE/RL on August 8. The official spoke on condition of anonymity as he wasn't authorized to speak to the media.

Comment: For years it was looking as if Central Asia was to be the next front in the Mossad/CIA/MI6-directed effort to spread radical Islamist ideology. That changed with the war in Syria, but it looks like the plan hasn't been abandoned entirely. Either that, or it is simply an unintended but not unwanted development simply by virtue of the fact that Central Asian IS members will naturally want to bring the revolution home with them. Either way, the IS monster unleashed by western intelligence is not dead, and will continue to create chaos. Like Frankenstein's monster, there's not much to stop it now.

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Che Guevara

Cognitive dissonance: Elites' darling Greta Thunberg poses next to masked German 'eco-extremist', prompting confusing feelings


RT
Mon, 12 Aug 2019 15:33 UTC
Greta Thunberg
© AFP / dpa / Oliver Berg
Swedish teenage climate campaigner Greta Thunberg (C) stands next to German climate activists as she visits the Hambach Forest, Germany, on August 10, 2019.
The young Swedish environmentalist, Greta Thunberg, who has found attentive audiences among Western elites and media alike, has flabbergasted a German politician and police by posing with a masked "left-wing extremist."

Thunberg, 16, who rose to fame last year after organizing school strikes against climate change and has since attended an array of high-level meetings and conferences, has unexpectedly visited Germany's ancient Hambach Forest on her way to two climate conferences in the Americas - just ahead of her journey across the Atlantic aboard a multimillion dollar racing yacht.

But it was not just another of Thunberg's eloquent speeches filled with doomsday messages that drew the attention of politicians and media. Located in western Germany, Hambach Forest is an arena of a longstanding battle between environmentalists-turned-squatters and Germany's second largest electricity producer, RWE, which operates a local open-cast coal mine.

Much to the dismay of a local politician and a police official, the now prominent climate activist seemingly sided with those whom German security services have branded extremists for quite some time. Photos taken at the scene show Thunberg posing next to a masked figure in black alongside local environmentalists. The veiled woman is one of the squatters who occupied the 12,000-year-old forest in an attempt to prevent it being razed to the ground for the sake of the mine expansion.

Comment: It's pretty sad that officials couldn't see this one coming - and pretty amusing to see the confusion as their climate angel associates with radicals who are only taking their ideology to its natural, logical conclusion.

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Handcuffs

Austrian court 'convicts' five migrants who gang raped 13-year-old


Voice of Europe
Mon, 12 Aug 2019 15:34 UTC

Comment: By the sounds of it, they might not even go to prison...


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Five migrants between the ages of 17 and 22 have been convicted by an Austrian court of raping a 13-year-old girl.

The attack happened in October of 2018 after the 13-year-old girl was lured to an apartment by the young men after meeting them at the central railway station in Graz. According to a report by Austria's Kronen Zeitung, once the girl was inside of the apartment, the five migrants are said to have given her alcohol and other substances before they forced her to undress.

Before this incident, two of the migrant rapists had previously been convicted on drug charges.

As the 13-year-old victim tried to resist the 5 men, the rape is said to have become progressively more violent and aggressive as each one of them took turns raping her.

One of the migrants even videotaped the entire ordeal with his mobile phone. Following their investigation and subsequent arrests of the perpetrators, the phone along with the footage were both later discovered by police.

Each one of the defendants has been handed lengthy prison sentences. However, at present, none of the sentences are final since the migrants' lawyers have filed appeals.


Comment: What is there to appeal? They don't even deserve prison. They should be put on a plane, and its doors accidentally open mid-flight.


Comment: And yet pro-migrant advocates on the left seemingly can't realize why anyone would be against open-door immigration policies. In their minds, you'd have to be racist to even be a tiny bit pro-borders. But there's nothing inherently racist about seeing the rise of rape as a bad thing, and tying it to migration. You'd think it would even be a position the feminist left would look upon favorably. But there's no common sense in this ideology. For some reason, race and religion trumps feminism in cases like this.

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Bomb

Another huge explosion set off in small Swedish city of Landskrona - 8th such this year - Mayor's office targeted

Arthur Lyons
Voice of Europe
Sat, 10 Aug 2019 00:00 UTC
Landskrona Sweden explosion Mayor office

Since December 2018, seven explosions not dissimilar to this one have occurred in Landkrona – a town of just 30,000 people, the Helsingborgs Dagblad reported.
A strong explosion has shaken up residents living in the town of Landskrona in southern Sweden, blasting the City Hall's windows and causing serious damage to a statue in front of the building.

Several buildings and structures on the property including the Mayor's office were also hit by the blast wave, which broke many windows and caused damage to structures, Sweden's Expressen reports.

Following a careful examination of the scene, explosion engineers are still uncertain as to what kind of explosives were used.

"There is a lot of intensive work going on right now, particularly that of processing witness testimonies, which were taken the previous night," explained Patric Fors, spokeswoman for the Police Department of the Southern Region.

One eyewitness reported that the blast was so powerful that the floor shook inside of her house. Luckily, no injuries were reported.

Comment: Sweden's native population has been paying a heavy price for its government's open-door policy on migration, but, in addition to that, is someone handing out explosives to the migrants??

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Road Cone

Brand new Boeing plane literally falls apart over Rome: Engine fails, breaks off and rains debris on people, homes and vehicles


RT
Mon, 12 Aug 2019 14:29 UTC

Comment: Just take your planes and go home, Boeing, you're drunk!

Seriously though, this is getting ridiculous. Boeing is a public safety hazard.


rome boeing debris
© Il Messaggero
A Norwegian Air Boeing 787 plane was forced to turn around in Rome and make an emergency landing after engine failure caused hundreds of fragments to rain down on vehicles, homes and people below.

One person, 25 vehicles and 12 houses were struck by fragments falling from the Dreamliner flight DY-7115 from Rome to Los Angeles. Pilots declared an emergency when it suffered single-engine failure at 3,000 feet shortly after takeoff on Saturday, and returned to Rome's Fiumicino Airport 23 minutes after departure with 310 passengers and crew on board. There were no reported injuries.

However, eyewitness reports of hundreds of pieces of hot debris raining down on the area surrounding the airport soon emerged. Images of smashed windscreens, damaged roofs and other objects in people's gardens were shared online. One person received mild burns from the falling pieces, according to Italian media.

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Heart - Black

3yo Philadelphia girl in critical condition after mother hacks her with machete


RT
Mon, 12 Aug 2019 08:53 UTC
Machete
© Reuters/Luc Gnago
A woman in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania has been arrested after attacking her three-year-old daughter with a machete, sending the child to an emergency room in critical condition, local media report.

The child was rushed Albert Einstein Medical Center shortly after 8pm local time with wounds to her head, shoulder and knee, following the brutal attack by her own mother inside their home.

"It appears as though the parent was under the influence of something," police told local media, without stating whether anyone else was present at home at the time of the attack.
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Sherlock

The rise and fall of ISIS

Ghassan Kadi
The Saker
Sat, 10 Aug 2019 12:00 UTC
ISIS promotional buttons
© Associated Press / Emrah Gurel
Daesh pins are on display at an Islamic bookstore where books about Islam, militant Islamic leaders and Islamic flags are displayed in the Fatih district of Istanbul, Monday, Oct. 13, 2014
A year or two ago, I would have never imagined that I would be writing an article with this title, at least not this soon; but things change.

If anything, my previous articles about ISIS which I wrote back between 2014 and 2017 were very alarming and predicted the worst, but again, things change, and back then there were many reasons to feel alarmed.

I have reiterated in that era of the past that the ISIS ideology had deep roots in fundamentalist Islam, and I still have this view. I have professed many times that this fundamentalist doctrine had been in place long before Christopher Columbus set a foot on American soil and that we cannot blame the CIA, Israel, the UK, or the West in general for the creation of this ideology, and I am not retracting. I have also said that those fundamentalist views do not represent real Islam, and there is no change in heart on this aspect either. So what has changed?

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Fireball

Democratic Socialists of America is doomed - UPDATE

Archie Carter
Quillette
Thu, 08 Aug 2019 00:01 UTC

Comment: The following article is apparently fictional. The pseudonymous author claims he wrote it and submitted it to Quillette as 'bait'...
On Thursday, August 8, right-wing media outlet Quillette published a hit piece on the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) that was allegedly written by a construction worker in Queens named Archie Carter, who expressed deep frustration with the "hipster comics and neurotic office workers" of the DSA. Carter's exposé , which played up the right-wing notion that the left is badly out of touch with blue-collar workers, quickly went viral. Problem: the article was a hoax and a fabrication. "Archie Carter" (described as a "Marxist-Leninist-Alinskyite" in the article, which ran with the headline "DSA Is Doomed") was a fictional character, and the 24-year-old Illinois resident who wrote it had deceived Quillette — which took the bait and was humiliated badly.

In an interview with Jacobin Magazine, "Carter" discusses his hoax and his reasons for baiting and brutally deceiving Quillette. "Carter," who describes himself as a "left-populist," set out to prove how gullible right-wing media outlets can be — and Quillette fell right into his trap by not even bothering to fact-check the article or verify that "Archie" (who claimed to be a New York Mets fan) was a real-life construction worker from Queens.
What these clever cats fail to realize, however, is that the video of the Democratic Socialists of America's convention speaks for itself...



democratic socialists of america
I am working class and a Marxist-Leninist. I believe in a revolution of the proletariat, and the usurpation of the ruling class. As I looked around the political landscape after Donald Trump's election win, I noticed the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). Curious, and hoping for a radical and viable alternative to the two establishment parties, I took myself along to a meeting. While DSA do not perfectly align with my politics, I became a dues-paying member all the same, attracted by the party's subversive potential. I attended meetings of the Brooklyn DSA chapter, and participated in many NYC-DSA actions — sit-ins, marches, labor protests — because of my steadfast belief in the transformative power of solidarity. I would approach political activity with this maxim in mind: what would Alinsky do?

It soon became clear that I had not found a political home here. This was not the party of the working class I had expected — at least, that was my experience of the New York DSA and its various sub-chapters. Instead, its members and leadership seemed to be mostly NYU grad students, hipster comics, and neurotic office-workers. I became uncomfortable, then disenchanted, and then I just stopped going to DSA meetings altogether.
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Attention

'Pollution incident' turns River Frome tributary blue, follows mass fish die off week before

Andy Gregory
The Independent
Mon, 12 Aug 2019 10:27 UTC
River Frome
© Environment Agency
A tributary of the River Frome has turned bright blue.
The government is monitoring a river in Somerset after it turned a bright, electric blue.

The Environment Agency said the drastic colour change affecting a tributary of the River Frome was a "pollution incident".

There are no reports of wildlife in distress or dead, a spokesperson for the agency's southwest contingent said on Friday.

Government experts will continue to monitor the stream over the weekend and samples have been taken for testing.

Comment: As with the 'mystery chemical incident' at Worthing Pier that sent 2 people to hospital just a few days ago in the UK, the cause behind the incident has yet to be explained by authorities.

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