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Israel: Third-largest party left out of governing coalitions because it is Palestinian

Philip Weiss
Mondoweiss
Tue, 03 Sep 2019 00:00 UTC
Odeh, Tibi
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Ayman Odeh and Ahmad Tibi, from April 2019. The two men are now leaders of a Joint List of four Palestinian political parties.
The Israeli election is two weeks away, and a poll out today shows that the two biggest parties, Likud and Blue-and-White, are running neck in neck, at 32 and 31 parliamentary seats, both well short of a majority.

Everyone talks about the fourth-largest party as the kingmaker: Former Defense Minister and bouncer Avigdor Lieberman's party polls at 9 or 10 seats. The rightwing settler wants to cobble together a "unity government" of the two top parties and his.

What about the third largest party in the polling? That's the Joint List of Arab parties, now polling at 10 or 11 seats. You'd think they'd be in great demand.

But no one is talking about coalition building with the Palestinian parties because they're not Zionist Jewish; and Israeli governments are Jewish and Zionist.

So Benjamin Netanyahu can make deals with messianic extremists and other rightwing anti-Arab racists, trying to squeeze out an extra three rightwing seats. And insiders can speculate about Labor joining Netanyahu to the point that the Labor leader shaves his mustache off in an ad to make a credible denial. And Netanyahu can try to paint Lieberman as a "leftist" to rally his voters on the religious right.

But the third largest party in Israel counts for nothing.
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Briefcase

Koch Foods is suing ICE over 'illegal' raids, claims illegal aliens were not knowingly hired

John Binder
Breitbart
Thu, 05 Sep 2019 00:00 UTC
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Food processing corporation Koch Foods Inc. is suing the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency after raids which they say were "illegal," claiming that they did not knowingly hire unauthorized workers.

Last month, ICE agents conducted the largest workplace raid in more than a decade across five food processing plants in Mississippi, netting the arrests of 680 illegal aliens. That same day, though, ICE officials said they released about 300 of the illegal workers back into the U.S. on "humanitarian grounds" while more than 200 of the illegal workers had prior criminal records. Prosecutors say many of the illegal workers stole Americans' identities to work at the plants.

In a legal motion against ICE, Koch Foods executives claim that ICE officials did not have substantial evidence to indicate that the food processing plant in Morton, Mississippi employed illegal workers and therefore the raids were illegal.
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Shopping Bag

Tucker Carlson eviscerates Walmart for siding with liberal left on guns, destroying rural America

Danielle Wallace
Fox News
Thu, 05 Sep 2019 18:56 UTC
Tucker Carlson
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Fox News host Tucker Carlson ripped into Walmart on Wednesday after it chose to discontinue sales of certain gun ammunition, accusing the world's largest retailer of siding with urban liberals in the gun debate while simultaneously destroying the economies of small American towns where the company mostly operates.

"The company more responsible than any other company for destroying and degrading rural America, for making our towns uglier and cheaper and poorer. The same people who pushed the appalling lie that brightly colored plastic crap from China is going to make us happy. That company is now lecturing normal Americans, the very Americans that they have hurt, how immoral they are for daring to protect themselves with firearms," Carlson said during his monologue on "Tucker Carlson Tonight.":

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Alarm Clock

StemExpress CEO admits selling beating baby hearts, intact baby heads in Daleiden hearing

Lianne Laurence
LifeSiteNews
Fri, 06 Sep 2019 18:52 UTC
Daleidan
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Center for Medical Progress legal team with David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt outside San Francisco Superior Court.
The CEO of StemExpress admitted in court Thursday that her biotech company supplies beating fetal hearts and intact fetal heads to medical researchers.

She also admitted at the preliminary hearing of David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt of the Center for Medical Progress that the baby's head could be procured attached to the baby's body or "could be torn away."

"That is an especially gruesome admission, but it begs the question: how did they get these fully intact human children?" says Peter Breen of the Thomas More Society, which is representing Daleiden at the hearing.

"If you have a fetus with an intact head and an intact body, and intact extremities, that is something that would indicate that child was born alive, and then had their organs cut out of them, or that that child was the victim of an illegal partial-birth abortion," he told LifeSiteNews.

"Both of these are gruesome and violent acts."
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Alarm Clock

No liberal bias here: NYT list artificially boosts Michelle Obama book over Judge Jeanine

Allum Bokhari
Breitbart News
Thu, 05 Sep 2019 16:14 UTC
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Judge Jeanine Pirro
The New York Times bestseller list appears to have denied Judge Jeanine Pirro the number-one slot on its ranking system, despite the fact she sold over 17,000 more copies than Michelle Obama, and 6,000 more copies than the author who led the list.

There's a mismatch between the rankings on the New York Times bestseller list and NPD Bookscan, the leading book-sale tracking service.

Statistics shown to Breitbart News by an NPD Bookscan subscriber show that in the past week, Judge Jeanine Pirro's book has dominated the competition in terms of weekly book sales, with 26,950 books sold in launch week.

Comment: The New York Times doesn't miss a trick in promoting the Establishment's agenda.

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Arrow Up

Bahamanian PM praises US for aid that likely reduced casualties from Hurricane Dorian

Joshua Caplan
Breitbart
Fri, 06 Sep 2019 00:00 UTC
Hurricane Dorian Bahamas
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Bahamas Prime Minister Hubert Minnis lauded the United States for "assisting us with all of our needs" in the wake of Hurricane Dorian's widespread destruction to the island nation.

Appearing Thursday on CNN's AC360, Minnis said U.S. aid likely reduced the number of deaths in the Bahamas, which stands at least 30 people as of Friday.

"From day one, the United States was in our territory assisting us with all of our needs. Had it not been for the United States we would not have been advanced this far in the entire process," Minnis told host Anderson Cooper.

"Even though our death numbers, we expect they [will] increase, had the United States not come in quickly... our death numbers would be even more," the Bahamas leader added.

Comment: Quite a contrast to the response from Puerto Rico's corrupt government. More information on Dorian:

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Network

Clash of the titans: Apple unhappy with Google over security flaw report


RT
Sat, 07 Sep 2019 13:10 UTC
Logo of Apple and Google's Android mascot
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Apple has broken its silence on Google's recent bombshell report exposing security flaws that could be exploited to hack iPhones. Apple says Google misrepresented the facts to "stoke fear" among its clients.

Google's cyber security team made headlines last week when it claimed that a massive iPhone hack could have left thousands of devices compromised after their owners visited certain malicious websites. The report, which emerged shortly after an emergency security patch was issued for the latest iPhone operating system (iOS), said the vulnerability existed for at least two years.


Comment: Hackers have had 'monitoring implants' in iPhones for years - Google researcher


Unhappy with the findings, Apple presented its side of the story and assured users of its products' safety on Friday. While it did not deny that the vulnerability existed, it accused Google of misrepresenting the scope and scale of the problem.
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Bizarro Earth

Transgender books aimed at children put them at risk by 'misrepresenting' medical knowledge - academic

Camilla Turner
Yahoo
Wed, 04 Sep 2019 12:00 UTC
girls school
Children are being put at risk by transgender books in primary schools that "misrepresent" medical knowledge on puberty blockers, an academic has claimed.

Books and lesson plans that are designed educate pupils about transgender issues "fail child safeguarding and conflict with the law", according to Dr Susan Matthews, an honorary senior research fellow in creative writing at Roehampton University.

After analysing a series of books that are circulated in British schools, Dr Matthews found that much of the information given about medical transition is "inaccurate", adding that "potential harms are ignored, glossed over or falsified".

Comment: Transgender propaganda aimed at children is on the rise and a backlash against it and its proponents is brewing:

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Bizarro Earth

The West oppressed the third world for so long that it has became the third world itself

Andre Vltchek
New Eastern Outlook
Tue, 03 Sep 2019 00:00 UTC
homeless on street
Many have already noticed: The US really, really doesn't feel like the world leader, or even as a 'first world country'. Of course, I write that sarcastically, as I detest expressions like 'first world', and the 'third world'. But readers know what I mean.

Bridges, subways, inner cities, everything is crumbling, falling apart. When I used to live in New York City, more than two decades ago, returning from Japan was shocking: the US felt like a poor, deprived country, full of problems, misery, of confused and depressed people, homeless individuals; in short - desperados. Now, I feel the same when I land in the US after spending some time in China.

And it gets much worse. What the West used to accuse the Soviet Union of, is now actually clearly detectable in the United States and the United Kingdom themselves: surveillance is at every step, these days; in New York, London, Sydney, and even in the countryside. Every move a person makes, every purchase, every computer click, is registered; somewhere, somehow. And this monitoring is, mostly, not even illegal.

Speech is controlled by political correctness. Someone behind the scenes decides what is acceptable and what is not, what is desirable or not, and even what is permissible. You make one 'mistake' and you are out; from the teaching positions at the universities, or from the media outlets.

In such conditions, humor cannot thrive, and satire dies. It is not unlike religious fundamentalism: you get destroyed if you 'offend'. In such circumstances, writers cannot write ground-breaking novels, because true novels offend by definition, and always push the boundaries. As a result, almost nobody reads novels, anymore.
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Chalkboard

University of Alaska study 'definitively' concludes that fire could NOT have caused the World Trade Center Building 7 collapse on 9/11

Phillip Schneider
Waking Times
Thu, 05 Sep 2019 00:00 UTC
WTC building 7
On September 3rd, the University of Alaska Fairbanks released a study on their analysis of the infamous Twin Towers collapse. In it, they found that the third tower's collapse was, "caused not by fire but rather by the near-simultaneous failure of every column in the building."

On September 11th, 2001, World Trade Center Building 7 collapsed in on itself at free fall speed, falling over 100 feet in less than 10 seconds. After the event, the New York City government cleaned up the debris before a full forensic investigation could be done.

This information and more has prompted many family members of victims, architects, engineers, and everyday people to be skeptical of the official narrative surrounding 9/11, that three buildings fell that day based solely on the impact of Al-Qaeda's hijacked planes.

The report, lead by Dr. J. Leroy Hulsey and funded by Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, is currently in draft form until its public comment period ends on November 1st. The final report is expected to be released before the end of the year.
"The principal conclusion of our study is that fire did not cause the collapse of WTC 7 on 9/11, contrary to the conclusions of NIST and private engineering firms that studied the collapse." - Dr. J. Leroy Hulsey

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