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Jewish settlers attempt to break into Palestinian kindergarten as part of routine harassment designed to incite punishment from IDF

Mondoweiss
Wed, 14 Feb 2018 00:00 UTC

© Human Rights Defenders
Israeli soldier confronting Sharbati family on roof of house in Hebron, before seizing construction tools.

We received the following two videos and report from Human Rights Defenders and Badia Dwaik yesterday -Editor.

On Saturday morning [February 10], a group of settlers led by the notorious Anat Cohen gathered by the door to the kindergarten of a Palestinian school in Hebron and attempted to break into the building. The school is closed on Saturdays.

Badee Dwaik, leader of the group Human Rights Defenders and the photographer that documented the disturbance, said that at least one of the settlers chanted in Arabic to the locals that had gathered "you are godless atheists and we are the true believers (the chosen people)." In Arabic the words are "Enta Kuulum Kaffari" (you are godless atheists) and "Nanhno Al-Mmominin" (we are believers).

Comment: These are but a few examples of the despicable treatment continuously inflicted on Palestinians by the Israelis who continually thumb their noses at international law.

Israel installs concrete checkpoints at Jerusalem's Old City gate in effort to push out Palestinians

Mustafa Abu Sneineh
Middle East Eye
Tue, 13 Feb 2018 14:52 UTC

The new checkpoints at Damascus Gate are an Israeli attempt to take full control of Jerusalem, say residents

Israel is installing permanent checkpoints at a key entrance to Jerusalem's Old City in order to keep Palestinians with already limited access out, residents tell Middle East Eye.

Construction at the Damascus Gate area - one of the most popular entrances used by Palestinians - started weeks after US President Donald Trump recognised Jerusalem as Israel's capital.

Palestinians living in Jerusalem say the new checkpoints aim to create "facts on the ground" to change Jerusalem's current status quo as an occupied city.

Mahdi Abdul Hadi, the head of the Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs (PASSIA) based in Jerusalem, said: "The checkpoints at Damascus Gate are aimed at paralyzing any Palestinian social, religious and youthful movements in this site.

Baltimore's police are so corrupt that lawmaker proposes to disband and reorganize entire department

John Vibes
Free Thought Project
Fri, 16 Feb 2018 00:00 UTC

Baltimore cops have proven to be so corrupt and criminal that even lawmakers are kicking around the idea that firing every single cop is a plausible solution.

After a recent corruption trial exposed just how bad things were at the Baltimore City Police Department, Maryland state delegate Bilal Ali suggested that the whole department should be "disbanded and reorganized from the ground up."

In a proposal that he made this week to Mayor Catherine Pugh and Commissioner-Designate Darryl De Sousa, Ali pointed to the example of Camden, who disbanded their police department just a few years ago.

"In 2013 Camden [New Jersey] disbanded its police department in response to record-breaking levels of violence and an extremely inefficient police budget. Four years later, Camden hit its lowest homicide rate in 30-years," Ali said.

Meanwhile, this past year the city of Baltimore saw its worst ever homicide rate, with a total of 342 killings.

Comment: Ali seems to have the right idea here and there's been a successful precedent for starting fresh as the article describes.

The levels of police corruption in Baltimore are hellacious:

New York high school teacher & twin brother charged with bomb-making and distribution of explosives to a minor

RT
Fri, 16 Feb 2018 05:03 UTC

New York Police Department (NYPD) officers in Bronx

A teacher at an Upper Manhattan high school and his twin brother have been arrested on suspicion of running a bomb factory in their Bronx apartment. Police recovered some 30 pounds of precursors and a bomb-making manual.

Christian Toro, a teacher at a charter school in Manhattan, allegedly enlisted his students' help to manufacture explosives. Christian, along with his twin brother Tyler Toro, also devised a way to get rid of the incriminating evidence, the former's confiscated diary indicates.

At a press conference on Thursday, NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill revealed that the arrests were a result of a two-month long investigation into a bomb scare at the school on December 4. Police initially traced the threat to a 15-year-old student, who was then arrested. At that point, neither of the Toro brothers were implicated in the investigation. It was only when Christian abruptly resigned on January, 10, that he got on the law enforcement's radar. A school laptop his brother returned two days later became the key to uncovering a larger plot involving both twins. A technical staffer accidentally discovered what appeared to be a bomb-making manual on the laptop and alerted the police.

Comment: Perhaps in the next article on this story we'll read about how the FBI surreptitiously encouraged these two to pursue bomb-making...

Will schools ban best friends?

Maggie Parker
Yahoo News
Wed, 14 Feb 2018 21:00 UTC

© Getty
I hope those smiles aren't exclusive between the two of you. Please distribute those smiles equally among the class.

Students may soon have to say goodbye to their best friend, and they have Prince George to blame.

We can't help but wonder ... does this mean George doesn't have someone he can call a best friend? Boy, would he be missing out." The concept was introduced when the royal tot first started school a few years ago. Ben Thomas, headmaster of St. Thomas's Day School, said at the time, "I would certainly endorse a policy which says we should have lots of good friends, not a best friend," according to the Telegraph. We can't help but wonder ... does this mean George doesn't have someone he can call a best friend? Boy, would he be missing out.

In the last few months, the trend has moved from Europe to America, according to Barbara Greenberg, a clinical psychologist specializing in family and relationship issues. Why would schools do such a thing? "They want to foster inclusivity," Greenberg tells Yahoo Lifestyle. "And they want their schools to be characterized as having children that don't exclude other ones. So what they did was take an extreme stance, which was to ban the whole concept of best friends in the hope that children would then form a group of friends."

Comment: Ridiculous. It's natural for people to form closer, more intimate relations with the people they like best. Watered down, meaningless relationships with scores of people are unfulfilling.

Leave Them Kids Alone! Micromanaging Kids to Death by Banning Best Friends

The media ceased reporting the Russian collusion story because they helped create it

Lee Smith
The Federalist
Thu, 15 Feb 2018 00:00 UTC

The press has played an active role in the Trump-Russia collusion story since its inception. It helped birth it.

Half the country wants to know why the press won't cover the growing scandal now implicating the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Justice, and threatening to reach the State Department, Central Intelligence Agency, and perhaps even the Obama White House.

After all, the release last week of a less-redacted version of Sens. Charles Grassley and Lindsey Graham's January 4 letter showed that the FBI secured a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant to search the communications of a Trump campaign adviser based on a piece of opposition research paid for by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee. The Fourth Amendment rights of an American citizen were violated to allow one political party to spy on another.

If the press did its job and reported the facts, the argument goes, then it wouldn't just be Republicans and Trump supporters demanding accountability and justice. Americans across the political spectrum would understand the nature and extent of the abuses and crimes touching not just on one political party and its presidential candidate but the rights of every American.

That's all true, but irrelevant. The reasons the press won't cover the story are suggested in the Graham-Grassley letter itself.

The Intercept is morphing from guard dog to attack dog for the establishment

Caitlin Johnstone
Steemit
Thu, 15 Feb 2018 00:00 UTC

The Ecuadorian embassy in London cut off Julian Assange's internet access in October of 2016, but the WikiLeaks Twitter account kept posting about leak drops uninterrupted. The embassy's action made headlines all across mainstream media. It is common knowledge for anyone who was paying attention to WikiLeaks during that time. The Intercept's editors are unquestionably aware of this.

They are aware of this, and yet they allowed an article to be published about allegedly leaked Direct Messages on Twitter which continuously, pervasively and fundamentally assumes that the WikiLeaks account is controlled by Assange and Assange only. The account is referred to as "Assange" throughout the entire article.

"Throughout this article," the latest establishment effort at undermining public opinion of WikiLeaks states, "The Intercept assumes that the WikiLeaks account is controlled by Julian Assange himself, as is widely understood, and that he is the author of the messages, referring to himself in the third person majestic plural, as he often does."

There is no basis whatsoever for The Intercept to assume this. In addition to the obvious implications of the WikiLeaks account continuing to tweet despite Assange's lack of internet, WikiLeaks has made repeated public statements that it is a shared staff Twitter account. There is absolutely no excuse for such a spectacular journalistic failure to be interwoven without apology throughout an entire article of a widely esteemed publication. Even if The Intercept does end up retracting this grotesque embarrassment and extensively editing the article to reflect fact instead of fiction, there will be no reason to believe that this was due to anything other than public outcry, and the damage is already irreparable.

Comment: News positioning is not INFORMation; it is MANipulation.

Soaring violent crime spikes in Sweden beg politicians to respond

Paulina Neuding
The Spectator
Sat, 10 Feb 2018 09:00 UTC

Shootings, hand-grenade attacks and gang warfare have made some city areas no-go zones

January was a particularly violent month in Sweden. A 63-year-old man was killed in Stockholm by a hand grenade lying in the street. A Dutch exchange student was hit by a stray bullet during an execution-style killing at a pizza restaurant in Uppsala. In Gothenburg, a hand grenade was thrown into a flat and exploded in the kitchen - the same predominantly immigrant-populated suburb where an eight-year-old British boy was killed in a grenade attack less than two years ago. In Malmö, a grenade was tossed at a police station and exploded outside. So it has not, so far, been a very happy new year.

For Swedes, this has become a familiar theme. Gun violence is on the rise, with daylight shootings and without regard for bystanders. In the past nine years, reported and attempted murders involving guns have almost doubled. According to Swedish police, hand-grenade attacks (which were virtually unknown until a few years ago) are without parallel in countries not at war.

The grenades - dubbed 'apples' by criminals - are smuggled into the country from former Yugoslavia. They are plentiful in the black market for weapons after the wars in the Balkans and are sold cheaply, or even handed out as freebies upon purchase of assault rifles. Stockholm police recently put a figure on it: less than £890 can buy you five automatic weapons and ammunition with 64 hand grenades as a sweetener. The grenades can, of course, be sold on. The street price in Sweden is about £100.

Comment: Clearly Sweden is clinging to an archaic illusion that is not serving anyone. See also:

UK restores support to a Syrian aid project accused of funding 'extremists'

Jamie Merrill
Middle East Eye
Wed, 14 Feb 2018 13:44 UTC

The UK Foreign Office has restored funding to a controversial Syrian aid scheme accused of putting money in the pockets of hardline militants responsible for summary executions and stoning women, Middle East Eye can reveal.

The plug was pulled on the multi-million-dollar scheme to train a civilian police force in Syria in November after a BBC documentary aired allegations that officers from the Free Syrian Police (FSP) were working with courts accused of summary executions and torture, including the stoning of women.

The report, "Jihadis You Pay For", claimed that UK taxpayer money paid to the FSP reached people with links to the Nusra Front, the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda. The documentary also claimed that dead and fictitious police officers were listed on the force's payroll.

Florida's Governor Scott demands FBI director's resignation over missed Parkland shooter tip

RT
Fri, 16 Feb 2018 19:55 UTC

Florida Governor Rick Scott has called for the FBI director to resign in the wake of the high school shooting that killed 17 students.

Scott is responding to the news that the FBI didn't follow proper protocol in following up on a tip about the shooter, Nikolas Cruz. "The FBI's failure to take action against this killer is unacceptable....The FBI Director needs to resign," said Scott in a statement.

"We constantly promote 'see something, say something,' and a courageous person did just that to the FBI. And the FBI failed to act. 'See something, say something' is an incredibly important tool and people must have confidence in the follow-through from law enforcement. The FBI director needs to resign," Scott added.

On January 5, a person close to Cruz called an FBI tip line about the 19-year-old's potential to carry out a school shooting, his desire to kill people, erratic behavior and disturbing social media posts.

"We have determined that these protocols were not followed for the information received by the PAL on January 5. The information was not provided to the Miami field office, and no further investigation was conducted at that time," the FBI said in a statement Friday.

Comment: When the FBI doesn't pursue a lead, we have to question why not.
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Society's Child

Jewish settlers attempt to break into Palestinian kindergarten as part of routine harassment designed to incite punishment from IDF

Israel installs concrete checkpoints at Jerusalem's Old City gate in effort to push out Palestinians

Baltimore's police are so corrupt that lawmaker proposes to disband and reorganize entire department

New York high school teacher & twin brother charged with bomb-making and distribution of explosives to a minor

Will schools ban best friends?

The media ceased reporting the Russian collusion story because they helped create it

The Intercept is morphing from guard dog to attack dog for the establishment

Soaring violent crime spikes in Sweden beg politicians to respond

UK restores support to a Syrian aid project accused of funding 'extremists'

Florida's Governor Scott demands FBI director's resignation over missed Parkland shooter tip

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