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Students hate on quotes from Trump's SOTU, until they are told they are actually Obama's

Trump Obama
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Some students reacted negatively to quotes they believed were from President Donald Trump's recent State of the Union Address, until realizing they were actually quoting Barack Obama.

Campus Reform's Cabot Phillips spoke to students outside John Jay College in New York City, who unanimously criticized the supposed Trump quotes, describing them as "warmongering," "aggressive," and "immature."

The quotes, taken from some of Obama's State of the Union addresses, included threats to destroy the Islamic State, statements of America's military strength, and attacking China's economic policy.

Comment: The first guy in the video might have been ignorant about the speech, but he was quite on the mark with his comment about ISIS. However, it is interesting to see how quickly they changed their tune once they found out it was Obama's speech. See also: Trump's SOTU hasn't happened yet, but these students already hate it


Snowflake

Snowflakes are today's fascists!

Hitler Youth book burning
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If we close our minds to ideas that upset us, the long-term consequence is that our minds will atrophy. We will no longer be able to think for ourselves, writes Stephen Pollard (photograph of Hitler Youth members burning books, dated 1938).
Last weekend I, along with many around the world, commemorated Holocaust Memorial Day. As editor of the country's leading Jewish newspaper, The Jewish Chronicle, it is a memorial of particular significance.

Through editing the newspaper, I am confronted daily with the legacy of that unique evil, including the suppression of debate, the distortion of truth and even the burning of books at the heart of that terrible chapter in our history.

I know, too, that the Third Reich's totalitarian impulse - that only one type of question and one type of answer are legitimate, and all else must be extinguished - is far from unique because repressive regimes the world over continue to ban freedom of enquiry and freedom of expression.

We must be on our guard.

Comment: While it's easy to mock the snowflakes due to their ludicrous and hilarious hyper-sensitivity, it's hiding a more ominous agenda. What happens when we conceded liberties in the face of absurd protest? The above author lays it out, yet how many are listening?

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Handcuffs

Cop robs disabled man of his opioid prescriptions while on duty - gets caught on film

Christopher Michael Barnett
A police officer who has been a member of his department for more than 15 years was arrested and charged with distributing and possessing prescription opiate medications, which he stole from a disabled man while he was on duty.

Christopher Michael Barnett, a sergeant with the Hagerstown Police Department, was arrested after he was caught stealing from a disabled man who was physically unable to leave his bed. WJLA News reported that Barnett entered the man's apartment using "a phony pretense," and he then began to go through the man's bottles of prescription painkillers.

When a caregiver arrived later and noticed that several of the man's pills were missing, he called the police department, and Barnett was the one who was put on the phone. The report claims that Barnett was quick to hang up the phone, and decided to return to the apartment in person.

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Jet3

Pilot of Russian Su-25 posthumously conferred Hero of Russia award

rebel fighter
© AFP 2018/ OMAR HAJ KADOUR
Maj. Filippov will be posthumously conferred the Hero of Russia award, the Russian Defense Ministry stated.

The pilot of the Su-25 bomber that had been shot down in Syria blew himself up after he was surrounded by terrorists, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

Black Magic

Masonic Lodges for politicians and journalists operating at Westminster secretly

masonic ring
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Two lodges for Freemason MPs and political journalists are continuing to operate secretly at Westminster, it has been revealed. The 'brotherhood' is said to be so covert most lobby reporters are unaware of its existence.

According to the Guardian, the Chambers are still home to the New Welcome Lodge, which recruits MPs, peers and parliamentary staff, and the Gallery Lodge, reserved for the political press corps. Freemasonry records reveal that a third lodge called the Alfred Robbins Lodge, also for journalists, carries on gathering in London on a regular basis.

Ambulance

Military helicopter crashes in residential area in Kanzaki, southern Japan

Japanese military helicopter
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Japanese military helicopter
A Japan Self-Defense Forces (SDF) helicopter has crashed in a residential area in Saga Prefecture, according to police.

The crash occurred in the city of Kanzaki, NHK reported, citing the Ministry of Defense. The chopper was reportedly a Boeing AH-64 attack helicopter attached to a base in Kumamoto Prefecture.


A house is burning near a kindergarten as a result of the crash, according to Kanzaki City Hall. The city is sending out staff and fire brigades to investigate the situation.

Rocket

Turkish proxy forces capture huge cache of anti-tank missiles and weapons destined for the Kurdish YPG in Syria's Afrin - VIDEO

Large amount of anti-tank missiles and weapons

Large amount of anti-tank missiles and weapons captured by Turkish-backed forces
Turkish-backed forces have captured a large amount of anti-tank missiles and weapons from a smuggler.

Large amount of anti-tank missiles and weapons

Large amount of anti-tank missiles and weapons captured by Turkish-backed forces
The smuggler was leaving jihadist-held territory and heading towards Afrin where the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) are engaged in an intense conflict with the Turkish military and their Syrian proxies.

Anti-tank missiles

Question

Muslims who attacked church in Egypt get no jail time - but Christian fined over $20k for no church license

Church attack Egypt
Islamic law forbids Christians to build new churches: "The subject peoples ... are forbidden to build new churches." (Reliance of the Traveller, o11.5). Islamic law also forbids Christians to repair old ones. And so in this case, the Muslims who attacked the church get off scot-free, while the Christian who set up the unlicensed church is fined.

Why does the al-Sisi regime allow this glaring double standard, even as it has pledged to protect Egypt's Christians? Either al-Sisi cannot stop this ongoing Muslim persecution of Christians, or he will not. If he cannot, then he is a weak and ineffective ruler. If he will not, it may be that he is practicing steam control, as did Nasser, Sadat and Mubarak before him. That is, despite his affirmations of support for the Christian community, he could be quietly allowing this escalating Muslim persecution as a way to placate the pro-Muslim Brotherhood elements within Egypt, and to keep them from turning in force against his regime.

Comment: The pro-Muslim Brotherhood appears to have some things in common with ISIS:


Pocket Knife

Aleppo Central Prison guards and prisoners fight terrorists with epic resilience (VIDEOS)

prison isis
A documentary film about the siege of Aleppo Central Prison by armed terrorist groups backed by Western countries. The siege continued for 16 months during during which thousands of terrorists tried to control the prison in exchange for dozens of elements from the prison garrison. The prisoners and guards fought alongside each other and were able to withstand the siege and the attempts of the terrorists failed.

Documentary in three parts: -
  • Part 1( 30 )minutes.
  • Part2 ( 33 )minutes.
  • Part 3 ( 38 )minutes.

Briefcase

Russia's Olympians win their case against IOC

Russian athlete
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Russian athlete, Sochi Olympics 2014
Two months ago, when the International Olympic Committee decided to suspend the Russian Olympic Committee and to ban Russian athletes from competing in the coming Winter Olympics in PyeongChang in South Korea under their own flag - allowing only a selected few Russian athletes to compete under the Olympic flag and by invitation only - I expressed in an article for RussiaFeed my own total incomprehension at this decision.

I said that the decision seemed to me to make no legal sense since it contradicted the findings of the International Olympic Committee's own Schmid report, which concluded that there was no evidence of any government organised state sponsored doping scheme in Russia.

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