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70,000 Muslim clerics condemn ISIS - issue fatwa denouncing terrorism

Jay Syrmopoulos
The Free Thought Project
Thu, 10 Dec 2015 00:00 UTC
Fatwa on ISIS

In light of the ongoing demonization of Islam across much of Western society, many have asked the question; where are all the "moderate" Muslims to repudiate extremist Islamic fundamentalism? Well here they are.

While almost certain not to be reported in the corporate main stream media, nearly 70,000 Islamic clerics issued a religious fatwa condemning terrorism, from their annual meeting in Ajmer, India during the Urs festival. The festival is a yearly gathering of Muslim clerics held to commemorate the death of Moinuddin Chishti, a Sufi Islamic cleric and scholar.

Additionally, the religious leaders asked the media to stop referring to the terrorist groups as Muslim, with the idea being that true believers of Islam do not support extremist perversions of the religion.

Since the Paris attacks, the Western media and political landscape has been rife with bigotry, hate and xenophobia, with Donald Trump leading the charge by calling for a halt to all Muslim immigration into the United States, basing admittance on a religious litmus test.

Comment: See also the Sott Holocaust 2.0 series:

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Arrow Up

US: Fear of terrorism at post 9/11 levels according to poll


Press TV
Fri, 11 Dec 2015 02:25 UTC
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© AFP
US Army patrols Grand Central Terminal, New York City
The percentage of people in the United States who are concerned about terrorism has risen to the level it was in the weeks following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, according to a new poll.

Nearly 80 percent of Americans say a terrorist attack is "very or somewhat likely in the next few months," according to the New York Times/ CBS News poll released Thursday. It was 78 percent in late September 2001. Following the attacks by in Paris and in San Bernardino, California, 19 percent of registered voters view the threat of terrorism as the top issue facing the country. Forty-four percent of the public says an attack is "very" likely to happen in the next few months, the most in New York Times or CBS News polls since October 2001, just after the 9/11 attacks.

The poll also found that 70 percent of Americans now call the ISIL terrorist group a major threat to US security and believe the fight against the group is going badly. The US public has little faith in President Barack Obama's handling of terrorism and the threat from ISIL, with 55 percent of Americans disapproving of his handling of terrorism.

Comment: Regardless the low confidence vote in the US government and in Obama, the manipulative mechanics of fear suggestion has apparently (once again) moved the US population to a new level of susceptibility and, ultimately, to tighter control. Considering the 9/11 event and other false flags now occurring around the world, the reactions of the Americans are somewhat justified but should be mitigated by knowledge of the origins of perpetration, responsibility and agenda. Problem is...the "conspiracy" stigma keeps many from 1) the discovery of how today's world works, 2) the ability to formulate a truth-based reaction, and 3) the impetus to do something about it.

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Rumble in the Rada: Ukraine parliament fights it out as MP attempts to carry out PM Yatsenyuk


RT
Fri, 11 Dec 2015 13:16 UTC
Rada rumble
© Valentyn Ogirenko / Reuters
MPs of the Verkhovna Rada in Kiev launched a brawl during a speech by Ukraine's Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk. The PM later said there were "a lot of morons," so he would not comment on the incident.

The fight began between MPs from the president's Petro Poroshenko Bloc (PPB) and Yatsenyuk's People's Front (PF).

It allegedly all started when Oleg Barna (PPB) went up to the tribune while Yatsenyuk was giving a speech, presented him a bouquet of roses and then tried to carry him off the stage.
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Huge fire erupts at a factory in Moscow


RT
Thu, 10 Dec 2015 20:32 UTC
Moscow factory fire
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A huge blaze has erupted in a five-storied building on the grounds of a machinery plant in northwest Moscow, producing flames rising into sky.

The fire engulfed the area of some 15,000 square meters, the Russian Emergencies Ministry said, adding that the fire was fully extinguished shortly after 1:00 a.m. on Friday morning.

Sounds of explosions could be heard in one of the buildings engulfed in flames, Russia24 TV channel reports. An explosion of a gasoline tank on the ground floor of one of the buildings could be the cause of the blaze, Russian media report.
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People

Majority of US millennials want boots on the ground against Daesh


Russia Insider
Fri, 11 Dec 2015 05:45 UTC
military_US
© AFP 2015/ Thomas COEX
Most young Americans are in favor of sending ground troops to battle Deash, also known as ISIL/The Islamic State, but few are willing to be the ones who fight, according to a poll by Harvard University.

The new Harvard Institute of Politics survey of people aged 18 to 29 found that some 60% of respondents either "strongly" or "somewhat" supported sending ground troops to combat Daesh militants.

Interestingly, that same question was asked before and after the November 13 terror attacks in Paris. Before the attacks in Paris, 47% of the people surveyed supported the use of ground troops. After the attacks, that jumped up 13% points, to 60% of adults under 30 years old.

The next question in the survey asked: "If the United States needed additional troops to combat the Islamic State, how likely would you be to serve?" To that question, 85% of respondents said they would "probably" or "definitely" not join the military.

In other words, at least 45% of adults under the age of 30 would like to send troops to fight Daesh but would not personally be willing to go.

The poll of 2,011 people aged 18 to 29 was conducted prior to the attack by a married couple who were inspired by Daesh and killed 14 people in San Bernardino, California.

Comment: Oh dear! How will the U.S. inspire more cannon fodder?

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Oklahoma mother, boyfriend arrested for rape and murder of her four-year-old daughter

Brendan Kelly
Opposing Views
Thu, 10 Dec 2015 01:37 UTC
Jayden Hansche

4-year-old Jayden Hansche
An Oklahoma mother and her boyfriend have been arrested for the rape and murder of her four-year-old daughter.

According to the Washington County Sheriff's Office, Courtney Hansche, 26, and Michael Nordbye, 27, were arrested and booked into the Washington County Jail on the night of December 8. Both the mother and the boyfriend have been charged with first degree murder, first degree rape, and child abuse.

Hansche's four-year-old daughter Jaydenn was taken to St. John hospital in Owasso, Oklahoma, on November 15. The child was unresponsive when the couple brought her to the hospital and was later pronounced dead, KJRH reports.

An investigation was conducted by the Washington County Sheriff's Office with help from the state Department of Human Services and the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, which ultimately resulted in Hansche and Nordbye being arrested in connection with the rape and murder of the child.

Sources: KJRH, Tulsa World, Daily Mail

Comment: There was a time when this sort of offense would have resulted in the perpetrator being pushed off a rocky cliff.

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Report: Mentally ill are 16 times more likely to be killed by police


RT
Thu, 10 Dec 2015 23:33 UTC
Homeless man
© Mark Makela
As officer-involved shootings continue to dominate the headlines, a new report found that those with mental illness are 16 times more likely to be killed in encounters with law enforcement than other civilians.

Conducted by the Treatment Advocacy Center, a non-profit committed to removing barriers to timely and effective treatment for severe mental illness (SMI), the report estimated that 7.9 million Americans suffer from SMI that impairs their thinking. Worryingly, half of the population (about 4 million people) do not receive treatment for their condition, a result of various institutional and policy failures.

This untreated population is increasingly likely to find itself involved in deadly encounters with police. Those with untreated illness comprise 25 percent of all fatal police encounters, TAC found. "At this rate, the risk of being killed during a police incident is 16 times greater for individuals with untreated mental illness than for other civilians approached or stopped by officers," the report stated.

Additionally, those with untreated SMI make up 20 percent of all people in jail and prison, while accounting for about 10-20 percent of all law enforcement response calls in general.

"It should horrify but not surprise us that people with untreated mental illness are overrepresented in deadly encounters with law enforcement," said John Snook, TAC executive director and a co-author of the study, in a statement. "Individuals with untreated mental illness are vastly overrepresented in every corner of the criminal justice system. Until we reform the public policies that have abandoned them there, these tragic outcomes will continue."

The report acknowledged that hard statistics are difficult to come by since the government does not provide reliable data on officer-involved shootings. Instead, TAC used its own database as well as analysis by The Washington Post and the Guardian to generate its findings.

Comment: What is even more disturbing is that recent research has shown: See also:

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Red Flag

Empire of chaos alert: Native Americans warn Native Hawaiians of the dangers of federal recognition

Imani Altemus-Williams
Intercontinental Cry
Mon, 07 Dec 2015 21:32 UTC
de occupy hawaii
In 2001, the late Russell Means of the Oglala Sioux nation visited Hawaiʻi where he shared his grandfather's words regarding the impact federal recognition has had on indigenous peoples.
"Grandson, all of this land someday will not be yours. That's the reality of federal recognition. Someday, none of this will be yours. Welcome to America."
His prophetic words particularly ring true today.

In the summer of 2014, the U.S. Department of the Interior or DOI held a series of 15 public hearings throughout the Hawaiian islands to discuss the reestablishment of a "formal government-to-government relationship between the United States and the Native Hawaiian community." By and large, the U.S. government is persuading the Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiians) to accept a process by which they will be federally recognized as Indigenous Peoples in the U.S.

Comment: The Empire of Chaos will stop at nothing to get what it wants, look at what they've done to the Hawaiian and Native cultures around the planet. It's all about smashing the human spirit.

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Eye 1

War on People, not Drugs: Report details how law enforcement coerces young people busted for marijuana to be informants

Justin Gardner
Free Thought Project
Tue, 08 Dec 2015 21:09 UTC
kids busted pot
A report has just been published which exposes perhaps the most depraved use of state power in the immoral War on Drugs.

60 Minutes aired the program on Dec. 7, describing how law enforcement across the country coerces young people, just starting their adult lives, into becoming confidential informants in the drug war. This sickening practice, largely kept secret, turns good people into liars and puts them in deadly danger.

The report profiled two victims of different state governments, Florida and North Dakota. Both states still have draconian drug laws, even as marijuana legalization is sweeping the nation.

Rachel Hoffman, 23, was a Florida State graduate who got busted with marijuana and a few pills of Ecstasy. Cops at the Tallahassee Police Department told Rachel she faces four years in prison, or she could help them carry out their biggest drug bust in recent history. Rachel, the girl who just liked to get high, was given $13,000 to buy 1,500 Ecstasy pills, 1.5 ounces of cocaine and a gun.

The cops undoubtedly assured Rachel that she would be safe as they had staged a 20-man team at the site. But when the dealers changed the location and got in her car, likely knowing that cops use informants, the cops lost her. The dealers found the wire in her purse and shot Rachel five times, leaving her body in a ditch and stealing her car and credit card.
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Eye 1

Refugee crisis: Former EU Chief says 'selfishness' has led to Europe's current state of panic


Sputnik
Wed, 09 Dec 2015 13:26 UTC
Refugee crowd Germany
© www.dailymail.co.uk
Refugees queue at the compound outside the Berlin Office of Health and Social Affairs as they wait for their registration in Berlin.
Emma Bonino, a former Italian minister of foreign affairs, minister of international trade, and EU commissioner, has admitted that "selfishness" has led to panic within Europe over the current refugee crisis in which fewer than 200 people have been relocated.

EU states have failed to reach agreement over plans to relocate 160,000 people in clear need of international protection. EU sources have admitted that fewer than 200 of them have so far been relocated and that even 160,000 is a drop in the ocean compared with the numbers flooding in to Europe.

Comment: Is Bonino correct when she says 'selfishness' created this problem? First, a little perspective:

When the people fleeing NATO's wars in Africa and the Middle East began entering Europe, the EU panicked. After all, for the past decade and a half the West had been inundated with horror stories about those 'Muslim extremists' and their 'evil dictators' - that was, after all, NATO's excuse for waging a war of genocide against some of them. That was their rationale for erasing their cultures and turning their countries into wastelands.

Years of failed economic policies, bailouts, ridiculous anti-Russian sanctions, a mushroom cloud of debt, and thievery at the highest levels has left the West in dire economic straits. As the EU is currently configured, it could not possibly handle such a huge influx of people. But they had to do something, and so they began herding the refugees into camps. Still, fueled by decades of xenophobic propaganda, Europeans began voting en masse for Neo-Nazi 'Far Right' politicians to 'solve' this apparently insoluble problem. To be honest, to the clueless public the refugee crisis must have looked like an invasion. So they were sitting ducks for 'Far Right' propaganda. Those with a humanitarian spirit still stuck to the 'official narrative,' and so they were no match for the mass fear that spread along with the official narrative of lies and racism.

So, the honorable EU Chief calls this 'selfish'. Well, not sharing the last cookie in the kitchen is selfish. So is being inconsiderate of others' feelings. But destroying a people's culture and homeland, funding terrorists who ransack their towns, and then corralling them into pens while simultaneously voting for violent Nazi 'Far Right' parties that promise to 'take care of the problem'? This is is a level of evil that hasn't been witnessed since World War 2, and it shows no signs of easing up.

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