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Unbelievable! Four Broward County Deputies waited outside school as children were killed

Ben Shapiro
The Daily Wire
Sun, 25 Feb 2018 12:53 UTC
Scott Israel
© Michele Eve Sandberg/Corbis via Getty Images
On Friday, CNN issued a shock report finding that earlier reports regarding Broward County Sheriff's Deputy Scot Peterson - the armed school safety officer who apparently cowered outside the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School while a mass shooter slaughtered 17 people inside - were accurate, but that Peterson wasn't the only officer waiting outside. According to CNN:
When Coral Springs police officers arrived at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, on February 14 in the midst of the school shooting crisis, many officers were surprised to find not only that Broward County Sheriff's Deputy Scot Peterson, the armed school resource officer, had not entered the building, but that three other Broward County Sheriff's deputies were also outside the school and had not entered, Coral Springs sources tell CNN. The deputies had their pistols drawn and were behind their vehicles, the sources said, and not one of them had gone into the school.

Comment: As Alex Christoforou writes, "The entire US law enforcement system failed. The schools system failed, the local police failed, the Florida state bureaucracy failed, officers on duty failed, the FBI failed." All signs of a very sick culture.

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US should enforce existing gun laws before launching new ones

Andrew Malcolm
McClatchy DC
Sun, 25 Feb 2018 12:53 UTC
2nd Amendment gun rights rally
© Ted S. Warren AP
Here we go again with yet another "national conversation" about guns that is neither a conversation nor national. And not productive.

Understandably, as with the Newtown, Conn., elementary school massacre in 2012, the agonized outcries and visceral fears after the outrageous Broward high school deaths on Feb. 14 erupt from parents who entrust their most prized treasures to a public school. The betrayal is horrendous. The suffering unimaginable. And we flail around trying to find answers for the unimaginable, the inexplicable, the unacceptable.

There must be something we can do to prevent such awful events. There is. We could have.
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Propaganda

CNN's Drew Griffin accuses heroic school shooting survivor of lying

John Nolte
Breitbart
Sun, 25 Feb 2018 12:53 UTC
CNN Colton Haab
© CNN, Fox News; arr: BNN
CNN's Drew Griffin explicitly accused school shooting survivor Colton Haab of lying over the student's claim that CNN wrote a question for him to recite at the far-left network's widely criticized anti-gun town hall.

On Thursday evening, President Trump tweeted out criticism of CNN's ongoing fake news crisis with a quote from Fox News's Tucker Carlson, who interviewed Haab Thursday night.

"'School shooting survivor says he quit @CNN Town Hall after refusing scripted question.' @TuckerCarlson," Trump tweeted, adding, "Just like so much of CNN, Fake News. That's why their ratings are so bad! MSNBC may be worse."
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Smiley

Ben Swann returns: This may be the most interesting thing happening in alternative media right now

Caitlin Johnstone
Medium
Fri, 23 Feb 2018 00:01 UTC
Ben Swann
"The Russian envoy to North Korea warned President Trump not to place any further sanctions against North Korea or Kim Jong-un surrounding 'supplies of oil'," says a clean-cut reporter in a polished, professional newscast presentation. "To do so, he says, would be perceived as a declaration of war."

Hmm, interesting. What am I watching? CNN?

"But if we're going to be honest," the reporter continues, "aren't all sanctions an act of war? And why are we putting sanctions on North Korea in the first place?"

Ohhhhhh.

This ain't CNN.

Comment: Good to see Ben Swann back! And it seems like his segments are as truthful and provocative as ever. As Johnstone says above, it's worth paying attention to this guy. Welcome back Ben!

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Attention

More SJW silliness: Black History Month meal prepared by blacks sends black student into hysterics

Paul Bois
The Daily Wire
Sun, 25 Feb 2018 13:18 UTC
rib dinner
© The Washington Post / Contributor / Getty Images
Two Aramark employees have been fired by the food service after preparing a meal at NYU during Black History Month that was deemed racially "insensitive." Reports suggest that the employees are African-American, though Aramark has not confirmed details about the ethnicity of the fired employees.

According to CBS News, the two employees were fired as a result of a complaint by a sophomore, who says she confronted the head cook about the "racially insensitive" meal but was "lied to" and ultimately "ignored." The meal, the student claimed in a Facebook post, consisted of barbecue ribs, collard greens, watermelon-flavored water, Kool-Aid, and mac and cheese.

"Sophomore Nia Harris, who is black, said the head cook dismissed her objections and told her black employees planned the menu," reports CBS News. "She posted about the menu and her experience on Facebook, saying she 'was lied to, placated, and ignored.'"

Comment: What, pray tell, would be a more appropriate Black History Month meal?

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Russian journalist walks off "ideological" Al Jazeera panel: "Putin has a very high percentage of support. And it's not because people are stupid"


RT
Sun, 25 Feb 2018 11:01 UTC
Journalist and TV host Vladimir Pozner.
© Journalist and TV host Vladimir Pozner. Anton Denisov / Sputnik
Journalist and TV host Vladimir Pozner.
Vladimir Pozner, one of Russia's most-respected journalists, walked out of an Al Jazeera panel on the upcoming Russian election after it became clear that it would only be "an ideological debate" void of real analysis.

The Friday installment of Mehdi Hasan's UpFront program on Al Jazeera English was devoted to Russia's alleged interference in the 2016 US election and the upcoming election in Russia, which incumbent President Vladimir Putin is predicted to win, according to polls.

The second part featured a 15-minute panel of experts, including Pozner, fellow journalist Evgenia Albats, and political activist Vladimir Kara-Murza. Albats and Kara-Murza, both outspoken opposition figures in Russia, took turns dismissing the upcoming vote as "not a real election," after which came Pozner's turn to speak, which he used to graciously bow out.

Comment: When you look at the situation objectively, there are clear reasons Putin is loved at home, and by a great many abroad, and why he/Russia is hated by so many in the corrupt Western establishment: Also check out SOTT radio's:Behind the Headlines: The Russia Collusion Ruse: Why the US Deep State Hates Russia, Not Trump

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Republicans refute 'point by point' the newly-released Democratic memo on Steele dossier

Sara Carter
Sara A. Carter Blog
Sat, 24 Feb 2018 03:50 UTC
nunes
© Mark Wilson/Getty IMages
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA)(C) stands with Rep. Peter King (R-NY), (L) and Rep. Don DeSantis (R-FL)
Nunes: The FBI used political dirt paid for by the Democratic Party to spy on an American

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes said the Democratic opposition memo did not change the facts or change the outcome of the investigation's finding his committee released in their own partisan memo several weeks ago.

On Saturday the much anticipated Democratic memo written by ranking minority member of the committee Rep. Adam Schiff, R-CA, was released and surmised that former British spy "Christopher Steele's raw intelligence reporting did not inform the FBI's decision to initiate its counterintelligence investigation in late July, 2016" among other assertions. The dossier played a significant role in the investigation into President Trump's 2016 campaign and alleged that members of the Trump campaign were colluding with the Russian government against then presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

Nunes, R-CA, fought back Saturday against Schiff. Nunes said the Democratic memo did not dispel the original findings of the committee, which he noted were also validated by an investigation headed by the Senate Judiciary Committee into Steele and his role in providing the FBI with the unverified dossier. Senate Judiciary Chairman Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, and Senator Lindsey Graham, R-SC, made a criminal referral to the Department of Justice last month and released their findings after receiving approval from the FBI.

Comment: RT provides more information:
Earlier this month, President Donald Trump blocked the release of the Democrats' rebuttal, sending the document back to the House Intelligence Committee for revision, citing "national security concerns." The House Democrats heavily redacted the memorandum before releasing it on Saturday.

The White House called the release of the memorandum a "politically driven" attempt by the Democrats to "undercut" Donald Trump.

"While the Democrats' memorandum attempts to undercut the president politically, the president supported its release in the interest of transparency," said White House press secretary Sarah Sanders. "This politically driven document fails to answer serious concerns raised by the Majority's memorandum about the use of partisan opposition research from one candidate, loaded with uncorroborated allegations, as a basis to ask a court to approve surveillance of a former associate of another candidate, at the height of a presidential campaign."

Sanders reiterated that the FISA judge was never informed that Hillary Clinton and the DNC funded the controversial Christopher Steele dossier, which allegedly served as the basis for the FBI's surveillance request to spy on the Trump campaign aide. "As the President has long stated, neither he nor his campaign ever colluded with a foreign power during the 2016 election, and nothing in today's memo counters that fact," Sanders added.


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Fans make sure Russian flag flies during Olympic medal ceremony after Alina Zagitova wins gold in figure skating


Sputnik
Fri, 23 Feb 2018 20:57 UTC
russia flag olympics
© Twitter/@mjoitt
While IOC jury is still out on allowing the Athletes from Russia to bear their national flag at the closing ceremony of the Winter Olympics, the tricolor already found a way to represent during Alina Zagitova's triumph.

After 15-year-old Zagitova became the first Russian to win gold with teammate Eugenia Medvedeva finishing second in the figure skating singles final, she refused to answer an NBC reporter's question about the flag controversy.

Meanwhile, some resourceful fans made sure the Russian flag was seen as Zagitova and Medvedeva stood on the podium. The boys from Vidnoe probably couldn't slip a speaker loud enough to overlap the requisite Olympic anthem with Russian national anthem, but they certainly did whatever they could.
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Brick Wall

UK minister rebukes call to compel tax havens to reveal company owners

David Pegg
The Guardian
Fri, 23 Feb 2018 11:43 UTC
Appleby, the offshore law firm
© Drew Angerer/Getty Images
Appleby, the offshore law firm at the heart of the Paradise Papers, was criticised for bringing legal action against the Guardian and the BBC
MPs from across the political spectrum have called for action to tackle money laundering, sanctions busting, tax avoidance and tax evasion in the UK's crown dependencies and overseas territories.

Revelations from the Paradise Papers and Panama Papers investigations into offshore finance were cited extensively during a second reading of the sanctions and anti-money laundering bill, which will replace elements of European legislation after the UK leaves the EU.

The government, however, signaled that it would not force British territories to adopt new transparency measures, despite previous calls by David Cameron for countries around the world to unite in tackling corruption.
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Gold Seal

Bingo! Cindy Sheehan plans Women's March on the Pentagon: 'Women can never be 'free' without addressing war and empire'

Whitney Webb
Mint Press News
Tue, 20 Feb 2018 00:00 UTC
Women’s March
© AP/Cliff Owen
Women’s March demonstrators near the Reflecting Pool at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, Jan. 20, 2018.
In the last few years, arguably the most visible and well-publicized march on the U.S. capital has been the "Women's March," a movement aimed at advocating for legislation and policies promoting women's rights as well as a protest against the misogynistic actions and statements of high-profile U.S. politicians. The second Women's March, which took place this past year, attracted over a million protesters nationwide, with 500,000 estimated to have participated in Los Angeles alone.

However, absent from this women's movement has been a public anti-war voice, as its stated goal of "ending violence" does not include violence produced by the state. The absence of this voice seemed both odd and troubling to legendary peace activist Cindy Sheehan, whose iconic protest against the invasion and occupation of Iraq made her a household name for many.

Sheehan was taken aback by how some prominent organizers of this year's Women's March were unwilling to express anti-war positions and argued for excluding the issue of peace entirely from the event and movement as a whole. In an interview with MintPress, Sheehan recounted how a prominent leader of the march had told her, "I appreciate that war is your issue Cindy, but the Women's March will never address the war issue as long as women aren't free."


Comment: See the new SOTT Focus that addresses this point specifically:

US Wars Fund The Welfare State Which Finances The Liberal March Towards Totalitarianism


Comment: Good on Sheehan for correctly and usefully steering the women's movement in a direction that addresses one of the biggest scourges of our time.

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