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'I watched the terrifying way in which we Judaize the land': an eyewitness account of the Sur Baher home demolitions

Yuval Abraham
Mondoweiss
Fri, 02 Aug 2019 09:30 UTC
Israel home demolitions

Ismail sits with one of his sons after being thrown out of their home. (Screenshot from Yuval Abraham's film "A Dark Night in Wadi al-Hummus")
Translator's note: Below is the testimony of Yuval Abraham, a filmmaker and journalist, who stayed with a family in Sur Baher the night their home was demolished by Israeli forces. Abraham's account, translated from Hebrew, was originally published on Facebook and addressed to fellow Israeli Jews. The story of Ismail's family, described here through Abraham's eyes, is one of many. That night, 72 other families had their homes demolished by Israeli forces. Abraham and filmmaker Rachel Shor made a short film about these events, available at 972 Magazine: A dark night in Wadi al-Hummus. — Yarden Katz


I'm mentally exhausted. I spent the night in Sur Baher. I saw with my own eyes how they ruined Ismail's life and his home. A gentle man, with kind eyes. He planned every detail in his home. "My dream home," he told me at three o'clock in the morning, before the catastrophe, as his foot was shaking. He kept saying, I wish it won't happen. I wish they won't destroy [my home]. The kitchen cabinets were painted bright pink, the style he loves, that he picked, and the walls of his four-year old daughter were soundproof and insulated, to prevent the room from overheating in the summer. He sent her to sleep at her grandfather's. His other kids were home. Everyone's awake. Scared to death that the monster might come.

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Firefighting helicopter crash in China kills four

Bill Gabbert
Wildfire Today
Tue, 11 May 2021 12:18 UTC
HELICOPTER

Helicopter crash in China May 10, 2021. Still image from video.
It was attempting to refill its water bucket at a lake

Four were killed Monday May 10 after a helicopter crashed in Erhai Lake in Dali, Southwest China's Yunnan Province. The Z-8X helicopter operated by the People's Liberation Army Air Force had been assisting firefighters on the ground by dropping water with an external bucket. It crashed while attempting to refill at the lake.

Initially it was reported that the two pilots were killed and there were two missing crewmembers. After a search that involved 16 ships and more than 490 rescuers the crewmembers were found deceased about 16 hours later, very early Tuesday morning local time.

Videos show the aircraft start to slowly rotate or spin while it was a couple of hundred feet above the lake before the bucket was lowered into the water. The spin increased in speed and the helicopter descended, then there is an explosion that sends debris flying before the helicopter hits the water.

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Texas officials back pardoning Floyd for 2004 drug arrest

Juan A. Lozano
My Northwest
Tue, 11 May 2021 12:53 UTC
floyd mural
© REUTERS/Nicholas Pfosi
Top leaders in the Texas county where George Floyd grew up supported a resolution Tuesday calling for him to be posthumously pardoned for a 2004 drug arrest by a former Houston police officer now facing murder charges in a separate case.

The five members of Harris County Commissioners Court unanimously approved the resolution in support of the pardon request, which was submitted last month to the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles. The board still must decide whether to recommend a pardon, and Gov. Greg Abbott will have the final say.

"I think this is a phenomenal opportunity to fix a miscarriage of justice in George's case," Tera Brown, a cousin of Floyd, told commissioners before they approved the resolution.

Comment: The lionization of St. George Floyd continues unabated. Of course Floyd didn't deserve to die, but all evidence points to the fact that he wasn't exactly a model citizen. No need to paint him as such in retrospect.

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Ruling paves way for longer sentence in George Floyd's death

Amy Forliti
AP
Wed, 12 May 2021 10:46 UTC
Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill
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In this April 19, 2021, file image from video, Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill addresses the court after the judge put the trial into the hands of the jury, in the trial of Chauvin, in the May 25, 2020, death of George Floyd at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis, Minn. In a ruling May 12, 2021, Judge Cahill finds aggravating factors in death of George Floyd, paving way for tougher sentence for Chauvin.
A Minnesota judge has ruled that there were aggravating factors in the death of George Floyd, paving the way for the possibility of a longer sentence for Derek Chauvin, according to an order made public Wednesday.

In his ruling dated Tuesday, Judge Peter Cahill found Chauvin abused his authority as a police officer when he restrained Floyd last year and that he treated Floyd with particular cruelty. He also cited the presence of children and the fact Chauvin was part of a group with at least three other people.

Cahill said Chauvin and two other officers held Floyd handcuffed, in a prone position on the street for an "inordinate amount of time" and that Chauvin knew the restraint was dangerous.

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Former Olympian: Female weightlifters told to 'be quiet' about transgender people competing for Olympics

Tim Pearce
The Daily Wire
Mon, 10 May 2021 00:01 UTC
laurel hubbard
© Scott Barbour/Getty Images
Former Olympic weightlifter Tracey Lambrechs said female athletes are being told to silence complaints about transgender New Zealand athlete Laurel Hubbard competing in women's weightlifting competitions.

Lambrechs blasted allowing biological men to compete against women in sports during an interview with Television New Zealand (TVNZ) last week, according to Reuters. Lambrechs comments come as the 43-year-old Hubbard is poised to become the first transgender athlete to compete in the Olympics, assuming they can qualify under the New Zealand Olympic Committee (NZOC) regulations for fitness and performance.

"I'm quite disappointed, quite disappointed for the female athlete who will lose out on that spot," Lambrechs said. "We're all about equality for women in sport but right now that equality is being taken away from us."

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Former MSNBC host justifies death of white man punched by black teen after racial slur at Dunkin' Donuts


RT
Wed, 12 May 2021 21:05 UTC
dunkin' donuts sign logo
© REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
Former MSNBC host Touré Neblett blasted "white justice" and appeared to celebrate the death of a 77-year-old man who died after being punched for reportedly using a racial slur.

Neblett was reacting to a story out of a Florida Dunkin' Donuts where a 27-year-old black man named Corey Pujols said he punched a man nearing 80 after he reportedly used a racial slur. The man later died, and Pujols is facing a manslaughter charge, something Neblett argues is unjustified.

"If there was actual justice in this country, as opposed to white justice, then if you went to someone's minimum wage job and called them the n-word twice, whatever happened after that would be legally acceptable," the liberal pundit tweeted on Wednesday.

Comment: Words are justification for murder now. No free speech, no right to a free trial, it's instant death penalty with no consequences for the assailant if one dares utter the wrong word. Sounds fair Touré.

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Penn State passes resolution calling for end to 'male-specific' terms like 'freshman' & 'senior'


RT
Wed, 12 May 2021 17:57 UTC
Penn state
© REUTERS/Eric Thayer
Pennsylvania State University is the latest college to make a move towards wokemania, after the faculty passed a resolution getting rid of terms like 'freshman' and 'senior' for not being gender inclusive.

The Senate Committee on Curricular Affairs at the school passed the 'Removal of Gendered & Binary Terms from Course and Program Descriptions' resolution and it was signed by over two dozen professors and administrators, according to a report from Campus Reform.

Under the resolution, terms such as 'freshman,' 'underclassman,' 'senior,' and 'upperclassman' are being retired in the name of inclusivity.

These terms are apparently "decidedly male-specific" while terms such as 'upperclassmen' can be interpreted as being "both sexist and classist," the resolution states, arguing that Penn State "has grown out of a typically male-centered world."

Terms like 'junior' and 'senior' stem from father-son conventions, according to the resolution, making them also non-inclusive.

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Evil Rays

How 'woke' may be leading us to civil war

Roger L. Simon
The Epoch Times
Sun, 09 May 2021 00:00 UTC
Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola
The other day, I wrote that "woke" was the new conformism.

It is, of course, but I undersold it. It's much more than that and more dangerous.

As Tal Bachman notes at Steynonline, it's now our state religion, a state religion in a country that - constitutionally and for good reason - isn't supposed to have one.

But "Wokism" is yet more than that, too. It's a mass psychosis similar to many that have arisen throughout history when the masses followed leaders who, in their zeal or self-interest, took them to disastrous ends.

A good example was when the Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola - in a 1497 version of "cancel culture" - swept up everything secular in Florence from some of the most extraordinary paintings and sculpture of all time to the works of Boccaccio and burned them in the so-called Bonfire of the Vanities.
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Ransom group linked to Colonial Pipeline hack is new but experienced (if its even they who're responsible)

Raphael Satter
Reuters
Mon, 10 May 2021 19:10 UTC
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Comment: See the following story (and note its numerous knock-on effects) to get a sense of why 'cyber attack' has so much coverage at the moment: Cyberattack forces shutdown of largest gasoline pipeline in United States - UPDATES


The ransomware group linked to the extortion attempt that has snared fuel deliveries across the U.S. East Coast may be new, but that doesn't mean its hackers are amateurs.

Who precisely is behind the disruptive intrusion into Colonial Pipeline hasn't been made officially known and digital attribution can be tricky, especially early on in an investigation. A former U.S. official and two industry sources have told Reuters that the group DarkSide is among the suspects.

Cybersecurity experts who have tracked DarkSide said it appears to be composed of veteran cybercriminals who are focused on squeezing out as much money as they can from their targets.

"They're very new but they're very organized," Lior Div, the chief executive of Boston-based security firm Cybereason, said on Sunday.

"It looks like someone who's been there, done that."


Comment: So "new" in the sense of them being a new brand of hacker.


Comment: Much is made about DarkSide here, but nothing said about their denial of participating in the hack:
"Our goal is to make money and not creating problems for society," DarkSide wrote on its website.
...or who else might be responsible for it. But this event has gotten the attention of the Feds, and maybe that was the intention all along IF the malicious actors were hired hands of a US government seeking to use such an event to help further along the on-going Totalitarian agenda - and prime the public for a much more concerted and devastating cyberattack Cyber Polygon style.

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Oil Well

Venezuela's decaying oil and gas industry will need $77.6 billion to rebuild itself

Tim Korso
Sputniknews
Tue, 11 May 2021 22:19 UTC
It is unclear, however, how the state oil company plans to raise such a vast sum of money from investors while remaining under sanctions from the US which affect both funding and oil sales.

Venezuelan state-owned oil giant Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) believes an investment of $77.6 billion can set the country's oil and gas industry back on its feet, according to an internal document obtained by Reuters. The paper titled "Investment Opportunities", reportedly drafted in February 2021 not long after new US President Joe Biden was inaugurated, envisages a total overhaul of the country's gas and oil infrastructure, oilfields, refineries and other facilities to increase crude output to several million barrels per day instead of the present 578,000.

PDVSA Oil Company
© CC BY-SA 3.0 / THE PHOTOGRAPHER / PDVSA
PDVSA

Comment: Here's another example of a wonderful utopia after the US brings Justice and democracy! See also:

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