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Twitter users blast NATO mouthpiece Eliot Higgins for refusing to debate MIT physicist on chemical weapons use in Syria


RT
Wed, 11 Apr 2018 14:08 UTC
Eliot Higgins
© ANP / AFP / AFP
Eliot Higgins, British investigative journalist and founder of Bellingcat
Amateur war-crimes investigator and full-time blogger at the Bellingcat website, Eliot Higgins, has turned down an invitation to debate a prominent MIT physicist on the issue of chemical-weapons use in the Syrian conflict.

Journalist Aaron Mate attempted to set up a debate between Higgins and Theodore Postol, professor emeritus of Science, Technology, and International Security at MIT, a month ago. Responding to Mate's request on Twitter, Higgins promptly refused on the grounds that the professor - who once worked as a scientific adviser to the chief of naval operations at the Pentagon - is "an idiot."

Higgins' own work involves 'investigating' war and conflict from the comfort of his home in England. He does this by watching videos on YouTube and 'examining' and 'analyzing' photographs posted on Twitter for clues. He does not, however, visit the locations he claims to be investigating, which is what real investigators and journalists typically do. Nonetheless, Higgins is beloved by pro-NATO Western media and frequently referenced by them as an"expert."
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WaPo takes swipe at 'white evangelicals' who blindly support both Trump and pastors accused of sexual misconduct

Teri Webster
The Blaze
Sun, 08 Apr 2018 13:53 UTC
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A Washington Post report takes a swipe at both "white evangelicals" and President Donald Trump, saying that the two groups have something in common.

"As white evangelicals have been some of President Donald Trump's staunchest defenders, a handful of their leaders find themselves contending with a problem all too familiar to the commander in chief: a sex scandal," the Post reported, referring to allegations of Trump's affair with adult film star Stormy Daniels.

In recent months, at least four leaders in the evangelical move have been "accused of violating the tenets of their faith, from adultery to sexual abuse," the report stated.

It's happening at a time when the #MeToo movement is shining a spotlight on allegations of sexual abuse and harassment in the workplace. And that might mean the spirit of the #MeToo movement is hitting home where some people would say is the most unlikely of places: churches.
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Ann Coulter: Militant Leftists are creating a generation of ferocious conservatives

Justin Caruso
The Daily Caller
Tue, 20 Mar 2018 13:47 UTC
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Conservative commentator Ann Coulter had an interesting take on young people when she appeared on Fox News' "Tucker Carlson Tonight" Tuesday.

Coulter told Tucker that leftists are "creating, without realizing it, this really hilarious and ferocious generation of right-wingers."

WATCH:
"Has there ever been a more obedient little cadre of robots than college students?" The Daily Caller co-founder asked.

"Is anyone brave? Is anybody giving the finger to the man and speaking the truth? Where are those people? What happened?"

"Well, the good news is, I'm following a lot of them on Twitter," Coulter replied. "I get the impression that we are creating, I mean, the left is creating without realizing it, this really hilarious and ferocious generation of right-wingers, these college students, they're listening to white privilege all day, every moment of every day, white heterosexual men are emerging from college barking at the moon right-wingers."

"They're fun to follow on Twitter," Coulter added.
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How an Obama-era diversity directive ushered murder, rape and suicide into American public schools

Amanda Prestigiacomo
The Daily Wire
Tue, 10 Apr 2018 22:46 UTC
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When a policy intended to create racial equality treats students differently based on the color of their skin and buries serious wrongdoing in the name of diversity, real victimhood is ripe for the making and injustice is bound to flourish.

An Obama-era diversity-themed education directive has been doing just that, according to educators, anti-school violence advocates, and guardians of student victims. Whistle-blowers have uncovered the ushering in of seemingly avoidable rapes, sexual assaults, suicides, murders, and vicious bullying within the halls of our public schools due to a threatening federal guidance issued in 2014.

Education Week explains that the civil rights guidance, which was jointly issued by the Departments of Education and Justice, "put schools on notice that they may be found in violation of federal civil rights laws" or denied federal grants "if they enforce intentially discriminatory rules or if their policies lead to disproportionately higher rates of discipline for students in one racial group, even if those policies were written without discriminatory intent."
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Football first: US fans biggest buyers of Russia 2018 tickets despite White House's plea


RT
Tue, 10 Apr 2018 12:09 UTC
US American fans children
© Tim Warner / AFP
US citizens account for the largest number of foreign ticket sales for the 2018 World Cup in Russia, despite warnings from a senior White House official to 'think twice' about attending this summer's football festival.

The senior Trump administration official warned: "I would think twice because we won't have the same ability to protect our citizens or even just dealing with the regular consular affairs when we're there. And the other countries too. You would have that concern in any country about having the lack of consular support."

Despite attempts to deter football fans stateside, US fans have so far been allocated 16,000 tickets for Russia 2018, the highest amount of any country outside the host nation.

Comment: Oh no, the propaganda isn't working. Quick! Threaten with World War III!

Fake Chemical Weapons Attacks Are West's Strategy For Undermining Russia in Syria

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China no longer willing to be world's dump, sends hundreds of tons of trash back to US


RT
Wed, 11 Apr 2018 11:57 UTC
trash can city

China to USA: 'Deal with your own trash for once'
Chinese customs officials have refused entry to 469 tons of solid waste from the US, the import of which has recently been banned, and sent the garbage back to America, Xinhua news agency reported.

Inspectors in Hangzhou, the capital of east China's Zhejiang Province, found the shipment consisting of scrap paper mixed with waste metal parts and used drinking bottles, according to the agency. Shipments with solid waste are prohibited by Beijing.

The customs authorities demanded the garbage be returned to America as soon as possible.

In late 2017, China banned imports of 24 types of solid waste into the country as part of the fight against environmental pollution. Previously, China was a global importer of garbage, including from the United States, which was one of the largest suppliers.

Comment: The trash is literally coming home to roost.

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Notations from the sibling society

John Waters
First Things
Tue, 10 Apr 2018 23:26 UTC
Campus protest march against hate speech
© Fibonacci Blue via Creative Commons
The "snowflakes" problem is not really a snowflakes problem: It is the result of an absence not so much of adulthood as of grown-ups. There is no reason why young people reared between the 1990s and the present should be dramatically different from previous generations of young people. Nor should there be any dramatic difference between the sensibilities and sensitivities of young people who end up in college and those who leave education early to earn an honest living. Yet something like this is what we are enjoined to believe by the idea that, for no diagnosed reason, the present generation of young people is more umbrageous and high-strung than any that went before.

No. When young people demand to be protected from the content of prescribed texts, protest the invitation of voluble "right-wingers," or demand the demolition of campus monuments to national heroes, they are merely doing what young people have always done: testing the resolve of their elders and seeking the limits of their tolerance. The problem is not with the students, but with those who are supposed to be in authority over them, who cannot bear to see themselves as elders.
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Debunked: How Voice of America 'journalist' pushed fake news story on 'Russian tanks crossing into Ukraine'


RT
Wed, 11 Apr 2018 09:52 UTC
Russian tank BMP-3
© Russian Ministry of Defense / Sputnik
File photo: Russian infantry fighting vehicles, BMP-3, seen at a firing range in the Russian southern military command region.
The easily-verifiable false claim by Voice of America journalist that Russian tanks were filmed entering Ukraine was shared thousands of times before being debunked. The journalist, however, refused to issue a retraction.


Comment: With the entire world feeling a bit nervous about the New Cold War possibly degenerating into a hot war, propagandists such as those working for Voice of America are not missing any opportunities to up the ante.

See also:

The "systemically murderous and evil' scheming of the empire: Is a new war against Russia in Ukraine unfolding before our eyes?

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Delusional Zuckerberg: Facebook is in 'arms race' with Russia


BBC
Wed, 11 Apr 2018 02:42 UTC
protester Cambridge Analytica Facebook
© Getty Images
Image caption Protesters angry at the Cambridge Analytica revelations attended the hearing
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has told US senators his company is in a constant battle with Russian operators seeking to exploit the social network.

"This is an arms race. They're going to keep getting better," he said.

Mr Zuckerberg was answering questions in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data collection scandal.

He also revealed Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election, had interviewed Facebook staff.

Comment: See also:

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Toronto cops ruthlessly beat innocent teenager, causing traumatic brain injury, then release him

Jack Burns
The Free Thought Project
Sun, 08 Apr 2018 13:47 UTC
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A teenager has filed a $3 million lawsuit alleging that Toronto's Fare Inspectors and the Toronto Police used excessive force when they arrested him. At the center of the lawsuit is the disturbing video of his arrest and attack which left him severely injured, both psychologically and physically.

The teen is known in court papers as "John Doe" as he is still a minor.

An eyewitness said she saw the Fare Inspectors violently slam the teen into a bench and then again on the ground. The recorded video starts after Doe is already on the ground. For what appears to be an agonizing 8 minutes, the young man can be heard screaming in pain. As he appears to have done nothing wrong, he maintained his innocence and was unwilling to lay entirely still as police rammed their knees in his back and pummeled him.

Doe's lawyers say he was simply arrested for being Black. He and his mother are seeking $3 million in damages from the Toronto Police Services Board, the Toronto Transit Commission, two unidentified police officers and three unidentified TTC fare inspectors. They claim Doe was a victim of racial profiling, assault, unlawful detention and negligence among other allegations. Together with their lawyers, they filed a complaint with the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC), which acknowledged receipt of the following complaints:
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