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Star of David

The US should cut ties with war criminal Israel - a special relationship born in hell

Philip Giraldi
The Unz Review
Tue, 03 Apr 2018 00:00 UTC
Gaza Strip gassing
© UnknownIsrael gassing Palestinians and children, Gaza
If you want to understand what the "special relationship" between Israel and the United States really means consider the fact that Israeli Army snipers shot dead seventeen unarmed and largely peaceful Gazan demonstrators on Good Friday without a squeak coming out of the White House or State Department. Some of the protesters were shot in the back while running away, while another 1,000 Palestinians were wounded, an estimated 750 by gunfire, the remainder injured by rubber bullets and tear gas.

The offense committed by the Gazan protesters that has earned them a death sentence was coming too close to the Israeli containment fence that has turned the Gaza strip into the world's largest outdoor prison. President Donald Trump's chief Middle East negotiator David Greenblatt described the protest as "a hostile march on the Israel-Gaza border...inciting violence against Israel." And Nikki Haley at the U.N. has also used the U.S. veto to block any independent inquiry into the violence, demonstrating once again that the White House team is little more than Israel's echo chamber. America's enabling of the brutal reality that is today's Israel makes it fully complicit in the war crimes carried out against the helpless and hapless Palestinian people.

So where was the outrage in the American media about the massacre of civilians? Characteristically, Israel portrays itself as somehow a victim and the U.S. media, when it bothers to report about dead Palestinians at all, picks up on that line. The Jewish State is portrayed as always endangered and struggling to survive even though it is the nuclear armed regional superpower that is only threatened because of its own criminal behavior. And even when it commits what are indisputable war crimes like the use of lethal force against an unarmed civilian population, the Jewish Lobby and its media accomplices are quick to take up the victimhood refrain.

Comment: There is no reason for an armed superpower to open fire on peaceful civilians within their own territory. Yes, where is the outrage!!!

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Russian Flag

Christian values on sodomy and abortion surge In Russia - 83% reject homosexuality in poll


Russian Faith
Wed, 28 Mar 2018 00:01 UTC
Russian lady
The proportion of Russian citizens who consider abortion unacceptable has tripled over the course of the past 20 years, from 12% to 35%.

The number that condemns adultery and same-sex relationships has also significantly increased, according to data from a recent Levada Center sociological survey. According to experts, the change in public opinion attests to the strengthening of traditional family values, Pravoslavie.ru reports.

The nationwide survey held in late December 2017 showed that the majority of Russians (68%) condemn extramarital sexual relations, while only 50% condemned it in 1998. The 2017 number includes 77% of women and 57% of men.

Comment: It seems rather clear that the Russians hold more traditional values than Western "partners," who increasingly seem to be pulled in the direction of more liberal attitudes, particularly towards abortion and homosexuality.

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Hardhat

France's rail union claim PMs contract change a "declaration of war" - first day of strikes cause chaos


connexionfrance.com
Wed, 04 Apr 2018 11:03 UTC
SNCF strike chaos as commuters seek alternative routes
Some commuters have been waiting for the few trains running; one woman fell on the tracks and was rescued by other passengers
Hundreds of kilometres of traffic jams and huge crowds at train stations have built up today as SNCF goes on strike for the first time in its planned three-month stoppage.

Over 400 km of traffic jams were recorded before 8h00 across Île-de-France this morning, reported news source FranceInfo, as travellers tried to get around the train chaos. Authorities described the road conditions as "exceptional", and SNCF management said roads were expected to be "very disrupted" throughout the day.

Train stations across the country were packed, as some commuters had not given up on trying to get one of the few trains still running.

Around 12% of TGV were scheduled to leave as usual, along with 13% of Intercités. One in five TER services will run, including 6% of trains and 24% of buses. Over 90% of international Thalys trains will run, as will 75% of Eurostar services.

Comment: All's not well in France:

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Star of David

Israel's talking points on Gaza protest murders are indefensible

Marilyn Garson
If Americans Knew Blog
Sun, 01 Apr 2018 17:20 UTC
Palestinian protesters gaza Land Day
© Said Khatib/Agence France-PressePalestinian protesters east of Khan Yunis, Gaza, on March 31, 2018.
Even before the protest began, Israeli spokespeople framed it preemptively as a Hamas production, even though it was supported by Gaza civil society organizations and all political parties. Civilian Gazans' willingness to walk to that fence measures their yearning to express themselves as humans and claim their freedom, even at immediate risk.

In 1988 at the gates of Jerusalem's Old City, I watched Palestinian youths face down Israeli soldiers. The soldiers held rifles, while the Palestinians held stones. That asymmetry sent the Judaism of my childhood crashing headlong into my sense of justice. The stones demanded that I ask, "What could make a young man risk his life this way?"

My work with war-affected communities later brought me to the Gaza Strip. Living there from 2011 to 2015, I confronted Israel's power from the ground.
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Attention

Malaysia passes Anti-Fake News bill as governments worldwide crack down on free speech

John Vibes
The Free Thought Project
Tue, 03 Apr 2018 16:52 UTC
fake news police
As governments across the world attempt to fight back against "fake news," Malaysia has set a troubling precedent by banning news stories it deems to be "fake" with a new law that imposes a penalty of up to 6 years in prison for violators.

Under the new bill, titled Anti-Fake News 2018, "news, information, data, and reports which is or are wholly or partly false" are now illegal. The penalties do not only apply to the news organizations and websites where these stories originated, but they will also be extended to the average person who might share a story on social media without knowing whether or not it is true.

Initially, the government wanted to impose a 10-year penalty for those who are found guilty of these laws but were met with a massive public outcry, so they slightly lowered the maximum sentence to 6 years.

Malaysia's communications and multimedia minister, Datuk Seri Dr. Salleh Said Keruak said in a recent statement that this law was necessary in order to save democracy:
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Bad Guys

Iraq court condemns 6 Turkish women to death for ISIS membership


Rudaw
Sun, 08 Apr 2018 16:55 UTC
turkish ISIS woman Iraq
© Agence France-PresseA foreign ISIS female member walks into a court room in Baghdad on February 20, 2018.
A Baghdad court on Monday sentenced six Turkish women to death and a seventh to life in prison for membership of the Islamic State jihadist group, a judicial source said.

The source told AFP that the women, all accompanied by small children in the court, had surrendered to Kurdish Peshmerga fighters after having fled Tal Afar, one of the last ISIS bastions to fall to Iraqi security forces last year.

The women told the court they had entered the country to join their husbands fighting for ISIS in the "caliphate" which the group declared in 2014 in territory straddling Iraq and Syria.

Iraq in February condemned another 15 Turkish women to death on the same charge.

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Pistol

California's assault weapons ban and gun confiscation laws did not prevent the YouTube shooting

Awr Hawkins
Breitbart
Sun, 08 Apr 2018 16:38 UTC
assault weapons ban
© David McNew/Getty
California has an "assault weapons" ban and firearm confiscation orders, but neither control prevented the Tuesday attack at YouTube's San Bruno headquarters.

Ironically, "assault weapons" bans and confiscation orders have been put forward as controls needed in the aftermath of the February 14 Parkland school shooting. Gun control proponents also pushed universal background checks and waiting periods following the Parkland attack, but California has both of those too.

In fact, California has some of the most stringent gun controls in the country. The "assault weapons" ban, confiscation orders, universal background checks, and 10-day waiting period are complimented by a requirement that would-be firearm owners acquire a safety certificate from the state, that all firearms be registered with the state, and that law-abiding citizens pursuing a concealed carry permit demonstrate "good cause" for wanting to carry a gun.
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House

House call: Faulty tanker crashes into 18th century waterfront mansion in Istanbul


RT
Sun, 08 Apr 2018 11:37 UTC
Damaged house
© Yoruk IsikThe damaged Hekimbasi Salih Efendi Mansion is seen after the Maltese flagged tanker Vitaspirit crashed into it by the Bosphorus strait in Istanbul, Turkey April 7, 2018.
A Maltese-flagged tanker, carrying barley from Russia to Saudi Arabia, has destroyed a 19th-century waterfront mansion in Istanbul, after some technical malfunctions caused it to steer off-course while navigating the Bosphorus.

The entire incident, filmed from multiple angles by onlookers, unfolded shortly after 3pm local time on Saturday, after the large tanker 'Vitaspirit' entered the Bosphorus Strait from the Black Sea.
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Cardboard Box

Flashback Trump was right: For every Amazon package it delivers, the Postal Service loses $1.46

Brian McNicoll
The Washington Examiner
Fri, 01 Sep 2017 15:38 UTC
Jeff Bezos Amazon
An old salesman joke: A salesman says, "We sell below cost." A customer asks how he can do that. "Simple," he says. "We buy below cost."

For a day or so last week, Jeff Bezos passed Bill Gates as the richest man in the world. And that's pretty much how he did it.

Bezos runs Amazon, which is primarily a shipping business. It relies on the U.S. Postal Service to deliver two-thirds of its packages. In many places now, it locates a depot near a post office, presorts the packages, and delivers them to the post office. The Postal Service, which has a monopoly on last-mile delivery, does the rest.

The Postal Service is happy because it can report healthy increases in sales in the package delivery department. Postal employees are happy because it means work seven days a week - the Postal Service operates on Sundays almost solely to deliver for Amazon.

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Biohazard

What exactly is the Skripals' situation at Salisbury hospital?


The Off Guardian
Sun, 08 Apr 2018 15:02 UTC
salisbury hospital skripals
Salisbury NHS Trust hospital
The UK has publicly said it is looking for "transparency" in the Skripal investigation. Currently this seems no more true than any other part of the UK's narrative. In fact the opposite would seem to be the case. The situation with the Skripals in regard to Salisbury NHS Trust hopsital is particularly opaque as things stand.

Just to quickly recap.
1. The March 22 High Court judgment by Mr Justice Williams makes it clear the UK govt lawyers were trying to minimise or UK govt lawyers were trying to minimise or even deny the existence of the Skripals' Russian relatives, claiming there was very little evidence there even were any such relatives, even after Sergey's niece Viktoria had been interviewed by UK media outlets, and using this fabricated "lack of evidence" as a reason for not contacting the relatives or involving them in considerations of Yulia Skripals' welfare.

2. The Russian embassy has repeatedly said it is being illegally denied access to the Skripals, and there is evidence the pair have been denied due process.

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