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MSM's tools of the trade: Atrocity porn and Hitler memes target Trump for regime change?

James George Jartras
Strategic Culture Foundation
Sun, 24 Jun 2018 02:53 UTC
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American and global audiences have been bombarded with media images of wailing children in holding facilities, having been separated from adults (maybe their parents, maybe not) detained for illegal entry into the United States. The images have been accompanied by "gut-wrenching" audio of distraught toddlers screaming the Spanish equivalents of "Mommy!" and "Daddy!" - since, as any parent knows, small children never cry or call for their parents except in the most horrifying, life-threatening circumstances.

American and world media have provided helpful color commentary, condemning the caging of children as openly racist atrocities and state terrorism comparable to Nazi concentration camps and worse than FDR's internment of Japanese and Japanese-Americans. Indeed, just having voted for Trump is now reason enough for Americans to be labeled as Nazis.

Comment: By the same author: 'Get Trump!' When, Where, And How Will The Empire Strike Back?

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Ex-Vatican diplomat sentenced to 5 years in prison for watching child porn


RT
Sat, 23 Jun 2018 16:15 UTC
Vatican
© Alberto Pizzoli / AFP
St Peter's Basilica in Vatican City.
A former Holy See diplomat has been sentenced to five years in prison for possessing child pornography, in the latest scandal to rock the Catholic Church.

Tribunal President Giuseppe Dalla Torre delivered the verdict on Saturday, ending a two-day trial during which defendant Monsignor Carlo Capella admitted to viewing images from his phone, an iCloud, and Tumblr account.

Capella, 51, asked for leniency during the trial, claiming the child pornography was just a "bump in the road" of his career as a priest, which he loved and wanted to continue. He said the images were viewed and shared during a period of "fragility" due to a personal crisis sparked by a job transfer to the Vatican Embassy in Washington DC.

It was never part of my priestly life before," he told the court, as quoted by Reuters. He added that after arriving in the US, his first four months were "bland" and he felt "empty" and "useless," the Catholic News Agency reported.
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Major crude oil spill spreads across Iowa floodwaters, forcing evacuations after train derails


RT
Sat, 23 Jun 2018 17:31 UTC
Oil spill
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Drone footage released by authorities in Iowa shows oil spreading across flooded fields following a devastating train derailment. Dozens of damaged cars are seen piled on the broken train tracks near the Rock River.

The 33-car freight train carrying oil from Alberta, Canada, derailed on Friday morning near Doon in Lyon County, Iowa. The BNSF Railway Company has not revealed how much oil the tankers were carrying, and said it doesn't know how much oil has leaked, but that a clean-up is underway.
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Defamation lawsuit: NPR is sued for $57M over Seth Rich coverage

Cassandra Fairbanks
Gateway Pundit
Thu, 21 Jun 2018 00:00 UTC
Seth Rich
© LinkedIn
Slain Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich.
A $57 million defamation lawsuit has been filed against National Public Radio over their 2017 report that accused Texas-based financial advisor Ed Butowsky of colluding with President Donald Trump and Fox News to plant stories about slain DNC staffer Seth Rich.

Butowsky is the man who offered to assist the family of Rich with the cost of hiring a private investigator. The family is now suing him for alleged conspiracy theories over the murder of their son.

In addition to NPR, Butowsky's lawsuit also names their media correspondent David Folkenflik, and is said to be the first of several defamation suits Butowsky plans to file over the coverage.
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Libs alarmed at number of conservative judges being appointed

Kaylee McGhee
Liberty Headlines
Thu, 21 Jun 2018 00:00 UTC
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'It oftentimes depends on whose ox is being gored...'

Congress held a hearing on Thursday to address the overburdened judiciary, made so by growing caseloads and not enough approved judicial nominees.

Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Ohio, described the judiciary's predicament as a "crisis point." Several federal districts are unable to keep up with the growing number of cases filed in both the civil and criminal courts, he said.

And while Republicans are gradually filling the empty seats left during former President Barack Obama's time in office, the legal system is still struggling.

Judge Lawrence Stengel testified before the House Judiciary Committee, and said Congress needs to approve new judgeships.
"It has now been 15 years since the last judgeship was established," he said. "For the 27 district courts the conference has recommended new judgeships for, the average waited filings are 577 per judgeship. Twenty courts have about 500 waited filings, six above 700, and one above 1,000."

Comment: Overriding the disconnect, filling the gaps...will that be enough to certify a society with proper and functional mechanisms that adhere to the Constitution via a legitimate method of judicial governance?

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Maajid Nawaz: Case study of an (ex) status-driven extremist?

Neil Godfrey
Vridar
Sat, 06 Feb 2016 16:01 UTC
maajid nawaz
© Wikipedia

Comment: Nawaz was recently awarded $3.4 million in a settlement with the Southern Poverty Law Center. The SPLC had labeled Nawaz an "anti-Muslim extremist" in one of their reports. They subsequently removed the report, and posted an apology to Nawaz and his think tank. That's the good news - the SPLC stifles free speech like no other. But with Nawaz back in the news, it's worth taking a closer look at the man; thus, this Vridar report from 2 years ago.

Unlike his inspiration Barannikov, however, Mirsky was unable to contain himself: he told everyone who would listen that he was the attempted assassin. . . . Soon [the police arrested him].

Only a few weeks later, Mirsky was already betraying his comrades from People's Will and writing humble petitions to the czar. His loyalty to the radical movement evaporated completely; there is even evidence he was recruited to serve as an informant for the prison authorities. . . .
Barannikov sought the thrill of adventure; Mirsky status. The two kinds of motives are often linked in experience and can be linked in theory. Gang activity is a familiar setting where certain young men seek status. In an earlier post in a series addressing factors that attract persons to extremist radical groups, Terrorists on Status Seeking Adventures, I did not discuss Mirsky. But this morning I caught up with a detailed investigation into another (ex)Islamist radical I have posted on a few times and am struck by some similarities.

The contemporary example of someone who was driven by a pursuit for social status in his involvement in an extremist Islamist group appears to be Maajid Nawaz.
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Poll: Confidence in Trump to deal appropriately with Mueller probe split on party lines, age ranges

Alec Tyson
Pew Research Center
Sat, 23 Jun 2018 16:45 UTC
Mueller
© Saul Loeb/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images
Special counsel Robert Mueller following a meeting with Senate Judiciary Committee members at the U.S. Capitol in June 2017.
As special counsel Robert Mueller's inquiry into Russian involvement in the 2016 election continues, most Americans express confidence in him to conduct a fair investigation. But the public is far less confident in Donald Trump to handle matters related to the investigation appropriately.

Republicans and Democrats offer starkly different assessments of Mueller's conduct of the investigation and Trump's ability to deal with it, and these partisan differences extend to views of the importance of the investigation itself.
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Russian MoD reports Syrian Army, FSA repel al-Nusra attack in south de-escalation zone


Sputnik
Fri, 22 Jun 2018 16:34 UTC
syria tanks
© Sputnik/Mikhail Alaeddin/File
Tanks of the Syrian Army at combat positions.
Tensions in the southern de-escalation zone have intensified amid an anti-terrorist operation conducted by the Syrian Army.

The Russian Defense Ministry has stated that the Syrian government forces, jointly with the Free Syrian Army (FSA), has repelled over a thousand al-Nusra Front* attacks in the southern de-escalation zone.

As a result of the attack, five Syrian soldiers were killed and 19 others injured, according to the Russian Defense Ministry.

Comment: South Front also reports:



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Six year standoff: A timeline of Assange's exile at Ecuadorian Embassy

Alex Christoforou
The Duran
Wed, 20 Jun 2018 20:56 UTC
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On Tuesday June 19th, 2012, Julian Assange walked into the Ecuador's embassy in London to claim asylum.

The WikiLeaks founder walked into the Ecuadorian embassy and claimed asylum under the UN's human rights declaration. This followed an unsuccessful attempt to appeal against his deportation to Sweden to face allegations of rape.

The following morning on June 20th the Metropolitan police declared that Assange, who is still under bail conditions following his unsuccessful appeal to extradition, had breached those conditions.

They police stated that they will arrest him and are aware of his current location at the embassy in Knightsbridge, west London.

The six year standoff between Julian Assange, UK police, and the US Deep State had begun.

Check out the video below which chronicles Assange's six year ordeal at the hands of UK authorities and the Deep State, along with a segment from Assange's first public appearance on August 19th, 2012 on the balcony of the Ecuador Embassy, where he would reside for the next six years.


Comment: Is world opinion finally shifting in Julian Assange's favor?
At the time of writing, Julian Assange has been cut off from communication with the outside world, apart from counsel with his lawyers, for 74 days. The Nelson Mandela Rules apply "torture" to just 15 days spent in isolation. Julian Assange is fast approaching five times the limit of consecutive days in isolation that is classified as torture under these rules.

All this is happening when the world's top legal authority on unlawful detention, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, already determined more than two years ago that the UK has arbitrarily detained the WikiLeaks Editor-In-Chief, and that he should be released and compensated immediately. The establishment's viciousness towards Julian Assange has been demonstrated repeatedly by calls from figures within the plutocratic class (or those cheerleading for them) for Assange to be murdered, and by then-CIA Director Mike Pompeo's comparison of WikiLeaks with terrorist organizations like Al Qaeda.

When the most militaristic and corrupt powers on the planet repeatedly flout international law in their pursuit of exacting sadistic revenge for being 'found out', it is up to all of us - the public who WikiLeaks has served - to fight for our own rights and freedoms and for those who through their fearless publishing protect them. In doing so, we must unanimously fight for the restoration of the rights of Julian Assange.


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Times are a-changing for Israeli Lobby: Mal Hyman's outspokenness on Gaza massacre is a sign of things to come in Democratic races

Philip Weiss
Mondoweiss
Wed, 20 Jun 2018 16:08 UTC
Mal Hyman

Mal Hyman, left, meeting Palestinians in 1989
Next week, South Carolina progressive Mal Hyman faces a runoff with South Carolina State Rep. Robert Williams to decide who will be the Democratic nominee for Congress in the state's 7th District. And amazingly, Hyman is not mincing words about Israel's slaughter of Gaza protesters.

"The Fourth Geneva Convention seems to have been broken, and if I was a member of Congress, I would be calling for the International Criminal Court to investigate not only the 2014 massacre but this current one," Hyman told me.

The college prof has been just as outspoken on social media, offering condolences to the family of a slain Palestinian journalist, denouncing the "Shooting Spree at the Gaza Border," and calling on the U.S. to abandon its "colonial mentality" and hold Israel to account.
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