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Israel 'salutes' the Israel Massacre Forces

Gideon Levy
Haaretz
Sun, 01 Apr 2018 20:14 UTC
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The death counter ticked away wildly. One death every 30 minutes. Again. Another one. One more. Israel was busy preparing for the seder night. TV stations continued broadcasting their nonsense.

If there was any concern, it was because soldiers couldn't celebrate the seder. By nightfall the body count had reached at least 15, all of them by live fire, with more than 750 wounded. Tanks and sharpshooters against unarmed civilians. That's called a massacre. There's no other word for it.

Comic relief was provided by the army spokesman, who announced in the evening: "A shooting attack was foiled. Two terrorists approached the fence and fired at our soldiers." This came after the 12th Palestinian fatality and who knows how many wounded.

Sharpshooters fired at hundreds of civilians but two Palestinians who dared return fire at the soldiers who were massacring them are "terrorists," their actions labeled "terror attacks" and their sentence - death. The lack of self-awareness has never sunk to such depths in the IDF.

Comment: The IDF (and Israeli society in general) is so blind to its own brutal crimes, that the Twitter account of the IDF proudly published the following:

IDF tweet Gaza massacre
Shortly afterwards they deleted the tweet, but the human rights organization BTselem made a copy. Obviously, it dawned on them that they had just admitted to premeditated murder.

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Germany: State of emergency declared as 60 men brawl with machetes in the street

Rob Virtue
Express
Thu, 29 Mar 2018 14:32 UTC
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© Twitter
Duisburg riot: Around 80 people were involved in the clashes


A HORRIFYING street battle between 60 men armed with machetes and metal pipes forcing a state of emergency to be declared in Duisburg.

Police were called to the Altmarkt area of the city over reports of the mass bawl. Officers used CS gas to control the brawling men.

The scores of men were also using telescopic batons in the fight in Druisburg, which is on the west of Germany.

Police said they were spat at and had objects hurled at them.
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Red Flag

Dr. Vandana Shiva: Monsanto's seeds of suicide

Dr. Vandana Shiva
Global Research
Fri, 05 Apr 2013 12:32 UTC
Monsanto
"Control the oil, and you control nations. Control the food, and you control the people." - Henry Kissinger
Monsanto's talk of 'technology' tries to hide its real objectives of control over seed through genetic engineering
"Monsanto is an agricultural company. ... We apply innovation and technology to help farmers around the world produce more while conserving more. ... Producing more, Conserving more, Improving farmers lives."
These are the promises Monsanto India's website makes, alongside pictures of smiling, prosperous farmers from the state of Maharashtra. This is a desperate attempt by Monsanto and its PR machinery to delink the epidemic of farmers' suicides in India arising from the company's growing control over cotton seed supply - 95 per cent of India's cotton seed is now controlled by Monsanto.

Comment: Dr. Vandana Shiva has written and lectured extensively regarding the failed science surrounding biotechnology, the genetic modification on plant and animal genes. Read the following articles written by Dr. Shiva to learn more about biopiracy and the control and corruption of the world's food markets based on corrupt GMO science:

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Gag law: Artists, celebs stand by Assange in an open letter


Sputnik
Sat, 31 Mar 2018 16:16 UTC
Assange balcony
© Reuters/Peter Nicholls
Julian Assange
On Tuesday, the Ecuadorian government cut off Assange's communications with the outside world from its London embassy, where the founder of the whistleblowing WikiLeaks website has been living for nearly six years.

On Wednesday, the government of Ecuador said it had switched off outside communications of Assange, currently staying at the Ecuadorian embassy in London. According to Quito, the messages posted by Assange on his social networks pose a threat to Ecuador's relations with the United Kingdom, as well as with other states.

A number of human rights activists, journalists and artists have signed an open letter to Ecuadorian president Lenin Moreno urging him to restore internet and telephone access to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange who has been holed up at the country's embassy in London.
"We call on the government of Ecuador to allow Julian Assange his right of freedom of speech... We ask that his basic human rights be respected as an Ecuadorian citizen and internationally protected person and that he not be silenced or expelled... We call on President Moreno to end the isolation of Julian Assange now," the letter published on the website of the Courage Foundation said.
The letter was signed by, among others, famous model, actress and animal rights campaigner Pamela Anderson, British composer and performer Brian Eno, British fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, philosopher Slavoj Zizek, former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, US film director Oliver Stone and linguist Noam Chomsky.
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Russian military strikes potential deal to withdraw Jaysh Islam from Eastern Ghouta


Sputnik
Sun, 01 Apr 2018 21:03 UTC
Jaesh Al Islam
© AFP/Zein al-Rifai/Aleppo Media Center
Rebel Forces from Jaesh Al Islam
On Saturday, the Syrian army command announced that the government forces had liberated all the towns and cities in the embattled Damascus suburb except for the city of Douma which remained under the control of militants.

According to Maj. Gen. Yuri Yevtushenko of the Russian Reconciliation center, a preliminary agreement on the withdrawal of Jaysh al-Islam militants from Syria's Eastern Ghouta was reached.
"The activities aimed at prompting the Jaysh al-Islam radical movement to end hostilities and to disarm continue... As of today a preliminary agreement on withdrawal of extremists of the Jaysh al-Islam group from Eastern Ghouta has been reached," Maj. Gen. Yuri Yevtushenko said.
The Russian officer added that the militants in Douma must show minefield and tunnel maps and voluntarily clear buildings and transport routes of mines before withdrawing.

Speaking about the humanitarian corridor with the checkpoint at Muhayam Wafedeen, the representative of the reconciliation center said that a total of 100 civilians left the area via this corridor on Sunday, bringing the total number of people who used it up to 29,330.

The official said that starting from Sunday the humanitarian corridor was opened for militants and their families.
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The glitter of gold rises as the dollar declines and US-China trade war escalates


RT
Mon, 02 Apr 2018 11:49 UTC
gold pieces
© Leonhard Foeger/Reuters
The price of the traditional safe haven gold increased on Monday after Beijing introduced retaliatory measures against American goods coming to China.

After falling in the past three trading sessions, the yellow metal surged over $8 per troy ounce to $1,335. "The trade war is going on and it is getting worse, so that might be the reason that people are selling dollars and buying gold," said Yuichi Ikemizu at ICBC Standard Bank in Tokyo, as quoted by Reuters.

China has introduced additional tariffs of up to 25 percent on 128 US products including frozen pork, wine and certain fruits and nuts, in response to Washington's duties on imports of aluminum and steel.

The index, which compares the dollar against six other major currencies, slid 0.3 percent. Gold prices slid 1.7 percent last week in its biggest drop since early December, but the precious metal has surged 1.7 percent in January-March, a third quarterly gain in a row.

Analysts say gold may have hit rock bottom, and investors are going to be lured with the current situation in the market. "Even the most steel-nerved trader will be tempted to go in now," Ikemizu said.

Last week, analyst Larry McDonald, publisher of the Bear Traps Report, predicted a "perfect storm" of rising gold prices is coming. The turbulence around the US political situation and a possible trade war with China can send gold prices higher, he said.
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Fox News' Gillian Turner cracks UK's poisoning hoax with this explanation 'why Russia did it'

Alex Christoforou
The Duran
Mon, 02 Apr 2018 09:45 UTC
Gillian Turner
© Peplemuku
Gillian Turner
Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace talked U.S. - Russia relations, with Fox News "analyst" Gillian Turner weighing in on a recent UK poisoning hoax. Turner, in all her foreign policy brilliance explained exactly why the Kremlin, and specifically President Putin, was guilty certainly of poisoning Sergei Skripal.

When Chris Wallace asked Turner why Russia would do such a thing as poison a washed up spy in the UK, Turner blew the case wide open with her breakdown as to the reason for the Kremlin's provocative and senseless move to allegedly poison Skripal and his daughter.

Gillian Turner's answer to Chris Wallace..."Why not."

These are the people Fox News trots out as "Russian experts". What a f**kin joke, and what an embarrassment to journalism, Fox News, and basic human reasoning.

Finally, a Facebook commenter on The Duran's FB page pointed out this gem of a comment from Turner when analyzing British intelligence on the poisoning hoax..."The Brits confirmed that they believe..."

You have to see it (video below) to believe the immense stupidity in today's mainstream media...


Comment: It's not only what she said, it is the authoritarian way in which she said it. Can't beat that, now can we?

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Kellyanne Conway denies she is White House's 'number-one' leaker


RT
Mon, 02 Apr 2018 14:52 UTC
KellyanneConway
© Joshua Roberts/Reuters
Kellyanne Conway
Kellyanne Conway has denied a new claim that she is the "number-one leaker" in President Donald Trump's White House.

In an interview on CNN's State of the Union with Jake Tapper, author Ronald Kessler made the surprising claim that Conway, Trump's former campaign manager, was the source of most leaks coming out of his administration.

Kessler, who is promoting his new book The Trump White House: Changing the Rules of the Game, told Tapper that Conway leaked so much that on one occasion she forgot she was on the record, and said "mean, cutting and honestly untrue" things about former chief of staff Reince Priebus. Conway also "dissed" the president's daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner, who is also Trump's senior adviser, Kessler said. "So, if you wonder why there are so many leaks out of the White House, one reason is Kellyanne Conway is the number-one leaker," he told Tapper.

But during a Monday interview with Abby Huntsman on Fox News, Conway strongly denied she has been leaking information from the White House.

"Leakers get great press, and one day I will have my say. I really keep my counsel while I'm here," she said. Conway also denied claims of a strained relationship with Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner. "I have a great working relationship, and a great relationship with Jared and Ivanka, had dinner with them recently at their house," she said.

Conway said she had spoken with Trump about the accusation and that the president knows "who the leakers and the liars are and have been."

Comment: Publicity is the goal of the author. Deniability is the goal of Conway...at least until she 'has her say.'

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"We are not Macron's toilet!" Tensions rise on France-Italy border as French agents storm Italian migrant facility


RT
Sun, 01 Apr 2018 00:14 UTC
French police signal to a migrant, June 1, 2017
© Pascal Rossignol / Reuters
French police signal to a migrant, June 1, 2017
Italian politicians voiced outrage over an incursion by armed French customs agents, during which they raided an Italian train station to search migrants wanting to cross into France.

The story unfolded at a train station in Bardonecchia, a town near the Franco-Italian border, where an NGO called Rainbow for Africa was handling migrants trying to cross the Alps and reach France. The organization said armed French border and customs agents suddenly burst into the station, taking a migrant who they said was suspected of drug trafficking.

The French agents demanded that Rainbow for Africa's staff conduct a urine test on the man, and "intimidated our doctor and the mediators and lawyers," the NGO said on Twitter. The charity said that health institutions are respected as neutral places "even in wartime," and accused the French officers of violating the principles of independence, neutrality, impartiality and humanity.

Comment: Initially, the EU proclaimed they would welcome migrants and refugees with open arms, now leaders are arguing over who should be stuck with them - pretty much all of them stayed quiet on the reasons they're their in the first place; and some, like Macron, are looking to make the problem even worse: Also check out SOTT radio's: The Truth Perspective: Weapons of Mass Migration: Interview with Michael Springmann on Europe's Migrant Crisis

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Time bombs: A century after the end of WWI, discarded munitions continue to show up on beaches

Wayne Perry
Phys.org
Fri, 30 Mar 2018 00:00 UTC
discarded war munitions beaches
A century after World War I ended, discarded munitions from that and other wars continue to make their way onto beaches around the country.

Items ranging from tiny fuses to full-scale mines are displaced by beach replenishment projects, sucked from the ocean floor and pumped ashore, or by strong storms that uncover them.

The most recent discovery came earlier this month when seven WWI rifle grenades were found on the beach in Mantoloking, New Jersey, which is undergoing a beach replenishment project to undo damage from Superstorm Sandy more than five years ago.

Many of the items were simply dumped overboard at the end of World Wars I and II; others remain from military drills or target practice. They've been discovered in at least 16 states from New Jersey to Hawaii.

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