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Iran arrests London-backed spy cell

Abbas Edalat
Members of a team affiliated to Britain with links with the groups leading the 2009 unrests were arrested by the security forces, a source said on Thursday.

"Recently, members of a network affiliated to Britain have been arrested", who sought to launch espionage operations in Iran and had contacts with some main members of the group who led the 2009 unrests and other anti-Iran groups, the source told FNA.

Abbas Edalat was also among those arrested in Iran.

British sources said last night that Edalat is a British-Iranian citizen and a professor of computer sciences and mathematics at Imperial College in London.

Imperial College plays a special role in training spies in different disguises to launch espionage operations inside Iran.

According to Wall Street Journal, Edalat traveled to Iran from his home in London at an unknown date to attend an academic workshop, according to family friends.

The British Foreign Office said in a statement that it was "urgently seeking information from the Iranian authorities following reports of the arrest of a British-Iranian dual national."

Snowflake

The social justice mob attacks Kanye West

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Stephen Colbert's Wednesday night attack on Kanye West's sanity, followed by the late-night host's demand that the rap superstar stop praising Trump, might have been wrapped in humor, but these tactics are as old as the Democrat Party itself.

Although the approach has evolved over the centuries, Democrats have always sought to hold on to power by controlling, manipulating, and even threatening black Americans.

Today, as a means to keep blacks in their place and hold on to electoral power, Democrats do what Colbert did Tuesday night - use the weapons of ridicule and the threat of social ostracization to punish independent-thinking black men.

Comment: Further reading: Too Far Left: How Liberals Transformed Into Illiberal Social Justice Warriors


USA

Trump praises Kanye West for his 'good taste' and for 'sticking to his guns'

Kanye West
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President Donald Trump praised rap superstar Kanye West for standing by his political beliefs despite criticism from the liberal black community.

"He has good taste," Trump said, adding that he got along with West and was thrilled to see the rapper "sticking to his guns."

The president made his comments in an interview on Fox and Friends on Thursday morning.

Comment: Further reading:


Biohazard

32 year anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster

Disaster
© Sean Gallup
The Ukrianian town of Pripyat, just outside the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, is a ghost town after a disaster at the plant 32 years ago.
Thirty-two years ago, the world witnessed the worst ever civil nuclear disaster when the Chernobyl nuclear power plant ejected a cloud of radiation into the air above northern Ukraine.

Much has changed since that April day in 1986-including the former Soviet Union itself. On the anniversary of the deadly disaster, here are the facts to know.

On April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in northern Ukraine, near the city of Pripyat, suffered a series of explosions and a fire that caused a tremendous amount of radiation to be released into the atmosphere, mostly iodine and cesium isotopes. Experts point to both flawed design in the reactor as well as improper training-and response-of the power plant's employees.

Comment: Read more about Chernobyl's Tragic Legacy:


Better Earth

Are we entering a new reality?

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Well I'll be damned. There's a lot of cool stuff happening all of a sudden.

After loudly denying rigging their primaries for two years, the leaders of the Democratic Party are now openly admitting to deliberately stacking primary elections to ensure the win of preselected establishment loyalists. In response to an audio recording of House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer telling a progressive congressional candidate that he'll be running in a contest rigged for his opponent by the DCCC if he doesn't drop out, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi came right out and told the press "I don't see anything inappropriate in what Mr. Hoyer was engaged in - a conversation about the realities of life in the race as to who can make the general election."

I mean, wow. She just came right out and said it. All it took was a little audio recording to transform months and months of "But Russia! Russia Russia Russia!" into "Yeah of course we do that. Duh."

And it really is that blatant and undeniable. I've gotten a few establishment loyalists in my social media notifications attempting to argue that "rigging" is too strong a word for the act of secretly stacking primary contests to ensure the election of preselected candidates, but their heart isn't really in it. After a certain point there's only so much Orwellian doublethink you can do.


Comment: Perhaps there is a 'shift in consciousness' on the horizon. But whether it leads to any type of spiritual evolution remains to be seen, as a shift can go either way. Let's hope it's for the better, as there are still many obstacles ahead of us.


Eye 2

44 percent spike in murder rate in London last year

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You know that saying, the future's not what it used to be? Well, the same goes for progress. After all, no one said getting full multicultural and progressive would be a walk in the park. To get to the point, according to a Daily Mail piece, crime rates are skyrocketing in Sadiq Khan's fiefdom, Londonistan that is, and as a matter of fact, the same goes all across the board in Britanistan, one of the most diverse countries in the world. By skyrocketing, I mean London, the former capital of world's largest and strongest empire, where natives are now a minority, saw a 44 percent spike in murder rate last year, and that's nothing to hide behind in a country that bans butter knives and pepper sprays, not to mention guns. London is currently confronted with a veritable crime epidemic, mostly knife crimes, and the same goes for the country's largest cities. 150 people were murdered in London in 2017, which is 44% worse than the previous year, while knife offenses grew by more than 20%, reaching 14,680 last year. So far, 60 people were killed on Londonistan's streets in 2018, and to paraphrase Labor MP Naz Shah, everybody should shut their mouths about the crime epidemic in the UK, for the sake of diversity, of course.

Not only knife crimes are on the up and up in the UK, as the same goes for firearms offenses (yes, guns are completely and totally banned in Britain, yet criminals don't seem to care much about the rules), reaching 6604 recorded crimes in 2017, which translates into an 11 percent raise year over year. Knife and gun crimes mostly occur in UK's most diverse areas, where the immigrant population is strongly represented, i.e. in London and the major cities all across Britain.

Comment: Certainly an excess in immigration and 'diversity' will increase the amount of competition and tension within a given society, and therefore social chaos. But is that enough to account for such a sharp increase in murders? After all, London has been multicultural for many years. On the other hand, other parts of the world, such as Latin America, are suffering from unbelievable waves of violent crime, and they are not particularly characterized by multiculturalism.


Passport

Omissions and distortions: A first-hand account of the use of mortars against civilians in Syria


Comment: The MSM have been ignoring the atrocities committed against the Syrian people by U.S.-backed mercenaries, because it wasn't expedient. Only now are they showing "concern" after the alleged beheading of American journalists. The U.S. plans in Ukraine have failed and they are now switching their strategy of containing Russia by shifting to the Middle East. ISIS serves as a great excuse for such a goal, all under a humanitarian pretext. Like in Ukraine, the civilians are again stuck in the middle of geopolitical games.


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In stark contrast to the sparse coverage of the brutality of ISIS and other terrorist groups in Syria over the past few years, there has recently been substantial coverage of the emergence of ISIS in Iraq and the terrorist acts that this US-backed and funded group has been committing. This surge of media focus on ISIS' brutality in Iraq and particularly on the recent alleged be-headings of two American journalists is extensively considered, amongst independent political analysts, to be setting the stage for NATO and the Axis-of-Imperialists to "fight terrorism" in Iraq and Syria, aka destroy both countries (note: there are valid doubts as to the legitimacy of the Foley video itself).


Comment: Washington Menaces America With Its ISIS Creation
The current justification for ongoing preparations against Syria has been the Foley execution video, which experts have agreed upon was staged. The London Telegraph in its article, "Foley murder video 'may have been staged'," would state:
Analysts believe the British jihadi in the video may not have been James Foley's killer, although it is accepted that the journalist was murdered.
Of course, if the video was staged, and every claim about it made by ISIS thus far proven a fabrication, no evidence at all suggests when and where, or even if Foley was murdered. If he was, no evidence suggests by whom. And despite this revelation, the US continues building momentum to intervene in Syria.

Glaringly absent from corporate media accounts of the proxy-war being waged on Syria is the fact that the very same terrorist group, as well as other Western-backed, al-Qaeda aligned terrorist organizations (like al-Nusra and the so-called "Free Syrian Army"), have been terrorizing Syrians for years - beheading them, flogging, crucifying, amputating hands - to name but a few of their crimes against thousands of Syrians.

Roses

'My gladiator lay down his shield': Toddler Alfie Evans dies in Britain after UK court refuses his travel for possible treatment

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Candles and placards are pictured during a protest in support of Alfie Evans, in front of the British Embassy building in Warsaw, Poland April 26, 2018.
Alfie Evans, the 23-month-old British toddler whose grave illness drew international attention, died early on Saturday, his family said.

Alfie had a rare, degenerative disease and had been in a semi-vegetative state for more than a year.

After a series of court cases, doctors at Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool removed his life support on Monday, against his parents wishes.

Comment: A tragic end to this story. While it's unknown whether the offered treatment in Italy would have saved Alfie, the fact that the NHS essentially held the boy prisoner against his parents' wishes is what's truly disturbing about the case. The parents must be the ultimate arbiter of the fate of their children, not the state. This is a very dangerous precedent for the UK.

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Light Saber

US Jewish protests against Israeli murders in Gaza highlight growing schism

Jewish Voice for Peace members arrested
© MEE/Jake Ratner
Jewish Voice for Peace members were arrested in front of US Senator Chuck Schumer's office
14 American Jews arrested in action aimed at persuading members of Congress to condemn Israel's killing of Palestinian protesters in Gaza

Fourteen American Jews were arrested by the New York Police Department after blocking the entrance to US Senator Chuck Schumer's New York office on Thursday, the latest Jewish-led civil disobedience action aimed at pushing members of Congress to condemn Israel's killing of Palestinian protesters in Gaza.

Chanting "Free, Free Gaza" and singing Jewish prayers while wearing black, the protesters, all members of Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), sat in front of Schumer's office building, locked arms and unfurled a banner that read: "Schumer, your silence is shameful. NYC Jews stand with Gaza. Palestinians should be free."

The 14 who were arrested were joined by at least 40 other JVP members there to support the protest and push Schumer, the Democratic majority leader, to speak out against Israeli actions in Gaza. The demonstrators wore signs around their necks with the names of the 41 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces since 30 March, when Gazans began the Great March of Return.

Comment: Not just the Jewish community, but everyone with a conscience should speak up against the crimes of Israel in Gaza:

March of Return: Israel's Officially Sanctioned Use of Deadly Force Against Palestinians Delivers Deadly Blow to Its Credibility


Star of David

Real antisemitism: $5m grant to Israeli medical center cancelled after Arab student selected as recipient

Sheba Medical Center Israel
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Heart Centre in Sheba Medical Center in Israel
Donors to an Israeli medical excellence programme refused to continue funding it because one of the doctors selected this year to receive the money is Arab, the Times of Israel reported.

The Swiss family reportedly froze the $5 million payment to outstanding young physicians, saying it has "no intention" of donating to non-Jewish recipients.

The unnamed donors, who are said to be a "family of Holocaust survivors", have been giving $5 million every year to the Sheba Medical Centre in Ramat Gan near Tel Aviv. The programme, which has been running for the last 13 years, selects eight to ten young aspiring doctors and medical students per year from about 100 candidates for the grant.

Comment: Good for the hospital for not giving in to such absurd demand.