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Reporter resigns after falsely claiming Annapolis shooter wore Maga hat

Andrew Kerr
The Daily Caller
Tue, 03 Jul 2018 11:19 UTC
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A reporter at a Massachusetts-based newspaper resigned Friday after falsely claiming in a tweet Thursday that the man who killed five employees at the Capital Gazzete newspaper left a "Make America Great Again" hat at the crime scene.

"Shooter who killed 4 people at Annapolis newspaper dropped his #MAGA hat on newsroom floor before opening fire," Conor Berry, a reporter at The Republican in Springfield, Mass., wrote in a now-deleted tweet.
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Palestinians perform Dabke during 14th weekly Gaza protest amid live bullet fire and tear gas, two protesters killed & 400 injured


RT
Mon, 02 Jul 2018 08:13 UTC
Palestinian Dabke Great March Return
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Live bullet fire and tear gas shot by Israeli soldiers did not stop about half a dozen Palestinian activists from performing an Arab folk dance at the latest Great March of Return protest, which, once again, has turned out deadly.

Taking a break from protesting and rushing the Israeli lines, a number of Palestinian youths staged a perfectly executed Dabke circle dance at the 14th weekly Great March of Return demonstration on Friday.

Swinging ropes in their hands, typically used to hurdle projectiles at IDF soldiers across the demarcation line, a number of young male activists were joined by a young woman to perform a piece synonymous with the Palestinian cultural resistance against occupation.


Comment: From the Palestine Chronicle:
Health officials in Gaza said two Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire during demonstrations. Hundreds of other protesters were also wounded.

The victims included 14-year-old Yasser Abu al-Naja who died after sustaining a gunshot wound to the head east of Khan Younis, Ashraf al-Qidra, spokesperson for Gaza's health ministry, said.


Mohammad Fawzi Hamaydeh, 24, was also pronounced dead shortly after being shot by Israeli live fire in the abdomen and foot, east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.


Among the 415 wounded at Friday's demonstration, 11 were children. Three of the injured cases were severe.


Since Palestinians began staging mass rallies near the Gaza-Israeli fence on March 30, scores of protesters have been killed and thousands more injured by gunfire from Israeli troops and snipers.
See also: 'Extremely violent riots': 2 killed, 310 injured and Israeli drone shot down in latest Gaza clashes

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No country for old women: Homelessness in America

Steve Martinot
The Berkeley Daily Planet
Thu, 21 Jun 2018 11:15 UTC
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I'm reading Marcia Poole's essay in the Planet (6/15/18) on Ani, an 80 year old Buddhist nun who's been homeless for the last five years. She's sick, and in a wheel chair, and living in a tent. That is, until she got thrown to the ground so hard that it cracked her skull. Now she's in the hospital. She begged our Mayor, Jesse Arreguin, a couple of weeks ago, in a video interview at the encampment she's living in, to please find her a place to live. She can't beat her illnesses living in a tent. She needs to be able to wash.

She's been applying to everything she can find that might be a way off the street, and none of it has gotten anywhere. One might suppose that the Mayor knows that the city is more intent on just closing homeless encampments, and moving people around from place to place, from one raid after another, and so on, like they did in 2016. So he smiles as he leaves her.

Osha Neumann sent an open letter to the city about the raids on RVs in the Marina just this month. Its essential message was, "oh no, not again; why is civility so impossible to embrace?" Many of the homeless who get kicked out of their encampments are disabled, but that doesn't seem to matter. When seizing their property, the police are seizing their survivability.

Comment: The story above is indeed tragic but the solution is not readily apparent. It's easy to look at rich institutions and say that the simple answer is to take their money and give it to the needy. But this betrays the complexity of the issue and offers only poorly thought-out pseudo solutions. Income disparity is an issue that needs to be taken seriously and needs to be thought-out thoroughly before it can be solved.

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Most of us think it's silly to remove Laura Ingalls Wilder's name from a children's lit award

J. Warner Wallace
Townhall
Sun, 01 Jul 2018 00:01 UTC
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Last week, the Association of Library Service to Children renamed the award it gives authors or illustrators whose books "have made, over a period of years, a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children." This award used to be called the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, but the association's board decided to rename it the Children's Literature Legacy Award. Why? Because, according to board members, Wilder's books include "anti-Native and anti-Black" references that fail to represent the association's "core values of inclusiveness, integrity and respect."

Wilder wrote about her childhood experiences in a 19th century pioneer family. Perhaps her most famous book, Little House on the Prairie, describes Native Americans as "wild animals" and includes characters who believed "the only good Indian was a dead Indian."

Comment: The difference between descriptive and prescriptive language is not something the Christians have a monopoly on - any reasoning thinking individual should be able to tell the difference between these things. But as the leftists get more and more extreme, nuance goes out the window and any reference to anything 'against the rules' needs to be eradicated. Any description of racism therefore becomes racist.

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UK: Corbyn agrees to legalizing medical cannabis but opposes recreational use


RT
Mon, 02 Jul 2018 13:13 UTC
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© Stefan Puchner/ Global Look Press
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has called on medical cannabis to be decriminalized "as quickly as possible," but has stopped short of backing the legalization of the class B drug for recreational use.

Talking to Sky News show Sophy Ridge on Sunday, the Opposition leader said health issues arising from the use of any sort of drug should be thoroughly assessed before discussing their legalization.

"I think at this stage we should say that medical use of cannabis is good, and that cannabis oil used is clearly beneficial to people. That should be decriminalized and made readily available as quickly as possible," Corbyn said.

Comment: Corbyn is known to like a pint of beer, but he does not currently support the rights of others to recreationally use cannabis. While one shouldn't encourage the use of any drugs for recreational use, there is no evidence that cannabis is any more addictive or harmful than alcohol so there isn't much objective reasoning for his position.

Regardless, it's a positive move that sufferers of conditions which can be alleviated or even cured by cannabis may no longer be punished by an outdated and biased system: Also check out SOTT radio's: The Health & Wellness Show: The Highs and Lows of Cannabis as Medicine

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Children's football team missing for 9 days found trapped in flooded cave in Thailand


RT
Tue, 03 Jul 2018 01:47 UTC
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© Soe Zeya Tun / ReutersA family member looks at a photo of trapped under-16 football team and their coach near Tham Luang cave complex, Thailand
As the FIFA World Cup yielded many apparent divine interventions, a real-world miracle has happened in Thailand, when all players in a children's squad and their coach, who had spent nine days in a flooded cave, were found alive.

The sudden and almost traceless disappearance of the Wild Boar football team in northern Thailand on June 23 had kept the whole island nation on its toes for nine days, with parents and those who were glued to TV updates fearing the worst.

However, after more than a week of no news and fading hopes, two British divers, part of an international team of rescuers involved in the effort, reached the so-called Pattaya Beach deep-water cave, where the boys and their mentor were holing up, on Monday.

The Thai Navy SEALs, who have been leading the large-scale search and rescue operation, posted a heartwarming video on its FB page, showing the moment the British divers first saw the frail-looking boys, crammed on a narrow ledge in complete darkness.

Comment: Extreme weather is rapidly becoming a part of daily life so people need to factor this in to their plans, even in areas they're familiar with:

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Poll shows nearly 70% of Italians back Salvini's stand against EU on migrant ferries

Liam Deacon
Breitbart
Sun, 17 Jun 2018 10:07 UTC
Italian interior minister Matteo Salvini
© MARCO BERTORELLO/AFP/Getty Images
Almost 60 percent of Italians say it was right to shut their ports to ships transporting illegal migrants from Africa, and 68 percent say populist interior minister Matteo Salvini was correct to stand up to the EU on the issue.

The poll comes as a convoy of ships carrying more than 600 migrants docks at the Spanish port of Valencia, a week after they were picked up close to Africa for transport to Italy, before Salvini refused to take them.

The right-wing Lega party leader and Minister of the Interior, who forms half of Italy's new populist coalition government alongside Luigi Di Maio's Five-Star Movement, appears to have popular support in Italy.

Comment: Italy has said it will give ships and equipment to the Libyan Coast Guard to help it intercept and bring migrants back home.
Italy's government has announced Monday it will provide 10 motor launches and two ships, as well as an unspecified amount of equipment and other material, to the Libyan Coast Guard service, in order to increase its capacity to intercept and bring back illegal migrants from the Mediterranean Sea.
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Ben Shapiro: I'm happy to see Trump impeached but I need to see evidence

Cristina Laila
Gateway Pundit
Sat, 30 Jun 2018 17:51 UTC
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Never Trumper, and EIC of The Daily Wire, Ben Shapiro, appeared on HBO's "Real Time With Bill Maher" Friday evening and said Trump is too stupid to have colluded with Russia but if he did collude, he's happy to see the Mueller indictments and ultimately happy to see Trump impeached.

"Collusion" isn't even a federal crime, so there's that.

The Mueller witch hunt is a political hit job by the Deep State. It's riddled with conflicts of interest and a crime hasn't even been named. Mueller's and Rosenstein's philosophy is 'show me the man and I'll find the crime.'

Obama's corrupt FBI planted spies in Trump's campaign in order to create a 'Russian collusion' narrative.

Obama's corrupt officials illegally unmasked members of Trump's campaign and obtained FISA warrants on Carter Page by using a fake, Hillary-funded dossier compiled by a former British spy.

Comment: Gateway Pundit is taking a pretty hard stance on Shapiro. In the video Shapiro refers to himself as a 'sometimes' Trumper, not 'never' Trumper, which is a probably a healthier position to adopt then having blind faith in a leader. However they are correct about the corrupt FBI and investigation, which was never really about Russia. See also:

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SOTT Focus: Russian TV report: Propaganda matrix obliterated as foreign visitors discover real Russia


Vesti
Mon, 02 Jul 2018 20:31 UTC
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Israeli and Iranian fans hang out together on Red Square during the 2018 Football World Cup
The World Cup continues, there are still two more weeks to go until the final match. However, the championship has already improved Russia's global image. It's so impossible to deny the obvious, even BBC showed positive reports from Nikolskaya St. The Swedish officials who mentioned boycotting the World Cup now plan to come to support their team. Even the US President, whose State Department has urged not to visit Russia for safety purposes, speaks extremely well of the World Cup.


Comment: THIS is why they tried to take the tournament off Russia. This is why they tried to get it cancelled, moved, whatever. This is why they conducted black ops like the Skripal Affair and non-stop fake news about how god-awful Russia and Russians are.

They dreaded what would happen when 2 million foreigners actually visited the place - including around 80,000 Americans - and had a grand old time.

And now Fake News has come crashing head-long into Reality.

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Portland Police revoke permit after riot breaks out as protesters clash downtown

Eder Campuzano
The Oregonian
Sun, 01 Jul 2018 06:41 UTC
Portland riot
© Bryan Colombo / Reuters
Portland Police declared a riot Saturday after tensions between the right-wing Patriot Prayer group and local anti-fascist activists came to a head and broke out in violence.

The afternoon began with a permitted rally at Terry Schrunk Federal Plaza organized by Joey Gibson, U.S. Senate candidate for Washington and leader of the right-wing, Vancouver-based group.

A counter-demonstration by masked local anti-fascist groups gathered nearby among a heavy police presence. Officers seized weapons such as utility knives, clubs and chemical sprays, detaining several protesters early on.


Portland Police made four arrests during the demonstrations, none of them connected to the events of the day.

Tusitala "Tiny" Toese, 22, and Donovon Flippo, 23, were arrested upon arriving at Terry Schrunk Plaza for an alleged assault in Portland earlier in the month.

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