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Now that criticism is crushed in the West, Israel can revel in impunity

Jonathan Cook
Counterpunch
Wed, 31 Jul 2019 00:00 UTC
bulldozer House
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Recent events have shone a spotlight not only on how Israel is intensifying its abuse of Palestinians under its rule, but the utterly depraved complicity of western governments in its actions.

The arrival of Donald Trump in the White House two-and-a-half years ago has emboldened Israel as never before, leaving it free to unleash new waves of brutality in the occupied territories. Western states have not only turned a blind eye to these outrages, but are actively assisting in silencing anyone who dares to speak out.

It is rapidly creating a vicious spiral: the more Israel violates international law, the more the West represses criticism, the more Israel luxuriates in its impunity.

This shameless descent was starkly illustrated last week when hundreds of heavily armed Israeli soldiers, many of them masked, raided a neighbourhood of Sur Baher, on the edges of Jerusalem. Explosives and bulldozers destroyed dozens of homes, leaving many hundreds of Palestinians without a roof over their heads.
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Pistol

Hamza bin Laden, son of Osama bin Laden, reported dead


RT
Wed, 31 Jul 2019 18:10 UTC
Hamza bin Laden
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Hamza bin Laden
US officials claim Washington has intelligence that the son and possible successor of Osama bin Laden has been killed, NBC reports. As of yet, the officials have provided few additional details.

Three US officials who requested anonymity told NBC that Hamza bin Laden - son of terror leader and founder of al-Qeada Osama bin Laden - has been killed. The circumstances of his death, or whether there was American involvement, are not clear.

Hamza bin Laden gave his last known public statement to the al-Qaeda group's media arm in 2018, threatening Saudi Arabia with attack and calling for the overthrow of the Saudi monarchy, but has not been heard from since.

According to former FBI agent and counter terrorism expert Ali Soufan, Hamza was "being prepared for a leadership role in the organization his father founded," and would likely be looked on favorably by the "jihadi rank-and-file" were he to take on that role.
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Puerto Rico: More FEMA relief water caches located years after hurricanes Maria and Irma killed thousands


RT
Wed, 31 Jul 2019 17:37 UTC
Field of water bottles
© AFP/Ricardo Arduengo
Field of water bottles
Tens of thousands of water bottles intended for hurricane survivors in Puerto Rico have been found sitting in a field unopened. After a similar discovery last year, the find suggests massive waste in the US disaster relief effort.

Nearly two years after a pair of hurricanes rocked Puerto Rico, killing thousands, traces of Washington's ill-fated relief project still litter the country. Aerial photos captured by the AFP news agency reveal a veritable ocean of waste: countless water bottles heaped onto pallets on farmland near the city of San Juan.

Puerto Rico was devastated by Hurricane Maria in 2017, the deadliest storm to hit the country in decades. The disaster caused an estimated $100 billion in damage and left nearly 3,000 dead. Maria hit just weeks after Hurricane Irma, which also caused deaths and extensive damage.

A spokesman for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), one of the bodies tasked with overseeing disaster relief in Puerto Rico after the storms, said the water is expired surplus, and that the agency is currently in the process of disposing of the bottles.

Comment: See also:

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Cow Skull

Taking a page from Pompeo: UMich prof teaches his students to lie, takes aim at Trump

Ethan Cai
Campus Reform
Wed, 31 Jul 2019 17:48 UTC
david morse university michigan lie
© University of Michigan
David Morse
A Michigan lecturer teaches a public policy course in which he instructs students to lie, while also taking aim at President Donald Trump.

Last offered during the winter 2019 semester, "Values & Ethics: Lying and Public Policy" (PUBPOL 474) was taught by University of Michigan public policy professor David Morse.

"Each student in my class starts by proposing a lie with a political agenda"

In an opinion piece posted Tuesday for The Washington Post, Morse detailed his experience teaching the course and prefaced his account by stating that "Trump's lying might encourage Americans to lie more frequently" and "we have good reason to fear that Trump's lying threatens our democracy."

Comment: Wow . . . . just, wow. But given we are governed by psychopaths, it's no wonder their pale imitations end up in lesser positions of power.

Pompeo, who once said the CIA 'lies, cheats and steals', defends US intel on Huawei spying

From Political Ponerology on the author's experience of attempted indoctrination at university:
We tried to evaluate the talent level of those colleagues who had succumbed to this personality-transformation process, and reached the conclusion that, on average, it was slightly lower than the average of the student population. Their lesser resistance obviously resided in other bio-psychological features which were most probably qualitatively heterogeneous. I found that I had to study subjects bordering on psychology and psychopathology in order to answer the questions arising from our observations; scientific neglect in these areas proved an obstacle difficult to overcome. At the same time, someone guided by special knowledge apparently vacated the libraries of anything we could have found on the topic; books were indexed, but not physically present.

Analyzing these occurrences now in hindsight, we could say that the "professor" was dangling bait over our heads, based on specific psychological knowledge. He knew in advance that he would fish out amenable individuals, and even how to do it, but the limited numbers disappointed him. The transpersonification process generally took hold only when an individual's instinctive substratum was marked by pallor or certain deficits. To a lesser extent, it also worked among people who manifested other deficiencies in which the state provoked within them was partially impermanent, being largely the result of psychopathological induction.

This knowledge about the existence of susceptible individuals and how to work on them will continue being a tool for world conquest as long as it remains the secret of such "professors". When it becomes skillfully popularized science, it will help nations to develop immunity. But none of us knew this at the time.


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Bandaid

Black man sues white Mississippi cops for beating him to a bloody pulp

Natalie Musumeci
New York Post
Thu, 01 Aug 2019 18:04 UTC
David T. Logan
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David T. Logan
An African American man was beaten to a bloody pulp by white Mississippi law enforcement officers during a traffic stop this month, the man's attorney has claimed.

But a sheriff defended the officers, saying that 28-year-old David Logan resisted arrest and that his account of what unfolded is "not even close to what happened."

Logan's attorney, Carlos Moore, shared a disturbing photo of Logan on Monday that showed his shirtless client with his hands behind his back, a swollen left eye and blood streaming down his face onto his chest.

Moore claimed that during the July 18 incident in northern Mississippi's Yalobusha County, officers tased an unarmed Logan and beat him.

"They roughed him up to the extent that he was out of his clothes," said Moore, who added that Logan had to be treated at two hospitals for a broken bone near one eye and was left with double vision and sleeping problems from the incident.

Moore told the Oxford Eagle that the officers "attacked [Logan], threw him on concrete pavement, tased him, roughed him up real bad."
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Kazakhstani man stabbed to death in street with 'sword' in Germany - UPDATE


DW
Thu, 01 Aug 2019 17:10 UTC
German man killed sword
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A 36-year-old man was stabbed to death in Stuttgart on Wednesday with a weapon described as a "sword."

The man was attacked in a street in the late afternoon, police said.

Witnesses called police after the attack, which occurred during a dispute. The victim succumbed to his injuries despite rescue efforts.

The suspect fled by bicycle.

Comment: While the cause of the dispute remains unknown, police have revealed that the 36-year-old German-Kazakh was killed by his 28-year-old Syrian roommate. "According to eyewitnesses, the two men were arguing, with the suspected assailant repeatedly asking the victim "Why have you done that?" after which he grabbed the sword and stabbed his roommate."

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Wave pool malfunction triggers tsunami at water park in China, injuring 44 people

Tim Wyatt
The Independent
Thu, 01 Aug 2019 16:01 UTC
wave machine China
© Screenshot
Video of swell goes viral after false claim that machine operator was drunk
It was supposed to be a fun day out at a waterpark, with hundreds of people enjoying the gentle swell of a wave machine while riding inflatable rings.

But when machinery malfunctioned at the Yulong Shuiyun Water Park in northern China on Sunday it instead generated an enormous tidal wave which swept away unsuspecting swimmers, causing at least 44 injuries.

A video of the accident shows dozens of visitors, many riding lilos, being hurled into the air as the artificial tsunami crashes through a pool packed with adults and children.

Comment: World's tallest waterslide to be destroyed after decapitation of 10-year-old Kansas politician's son

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NPC

Not satire: WaPo sees 'hidden Russia connection' in hamburgers

Nebojsa Malic
RT
Thu, 01 Aug 2019 09:12 UTC
hamburger russian
© Global Look Press/Andrey Arkusha
Since hamburgers are so quintessentially American, they are perfect targets for disparagement by the woke clickbait media - Latest nonsense? They have a ‘hidden Russia connection.’
There is no food so quintessentially American as hamburgers, which of course makes them a perfect target for disparagement by the woke clickbait media. The newest twist is that they have a 'hidden Russia connection.'

"Even one of Trump's favorite foods has a hidden Russia connection": That is how the Washington Post Magazine chose to spin its most recent article about the humble ground meat patty sandwich, which delves into the history of the Soviet cousin of hamburgers. More on that in a minute, however.

The Post tweet about the story was widely seen as being in bad taste, with a ratio of 1,300 replies to 250 retweets and likes combined, within two hours of being posted.

Most of the replies mocked the paper for continuing to beat the "Russiagate" horse that has already been clobbered to death - if not by the report of special counsel Robert Mueller, then by his congressional testimony last week. The Post's reporting on the subject has already earned the paper widespread scorn.

Comment: Washington Post content has at times become so similar to The Onion, that it's difficult to determine if they're serious - or just that 'woke'.

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Briefcase

Lawsuit launched after college hid evidence that accuser invented rape to avoid punishment for drinking

Alexander Pease
The College Fix
Wed, 31 Jul 2019 14:25 UTC


'Jane Doe asked campus security if she could face discipline'
drinking woman
© Peter Titmuss/Shutterstock
A Minnesota liberal arts school hid exculpatory evidence from a student it found responsible for sexual assault, even though it knew his accuser had ulterior motives, according to a federal lawsuit filed earlier this month.

Carleton College withheld evidence that "Jane Doe asked campus security if she could face discipline for underage drinking before filing her complaint" against "John Doe," he alleges in the suit.

John was also left in the dark about the fact that a Title IX coordinator told Jane she wouldn't be punished if her underage drinking was disclosed "as part of a sexual assault claim," the suit claims.

He and his attorney only learned about the existence of exculpatory evidence after Carleton had expelled him, while he was under criminal investigation for sexual assault. (The Pioneer Press named him based on this criminal proceeding.)

Comment: College rape policy a 'failed system' says Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, sparking outrage

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Elderly woman's body, donated to science, instead blown up in US Army explosive experiment


9News
Thu, 01 Aug 2019 12:43 UTC
Doris Stauffer

Doris Stauffer's body was donated to science.
A US family have expressed their outrage after their elderly relative's body was blown up in an explosives test.

Doris Stauffer's body, 73, was donated to science after her death in 2013, with her family believing her remains would be used to study the effects of Alzheimer's Disease.

Instead her body was sold to the US Army for explosives testing, her son Jim told Reuters.
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