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Heartless Israeli ambulance crews are denying injured Palestinians medical treatment

Jonathan Cook
JonathanCook.net
Tue, 19 Apr 2016 00:00 UTC
Israeli death squad
© AFPIsraeli death squad steps over a Palestinian man after killing him in the center of the Israeli-occupied city of al-Khalil (Hebron), October 29, 2015.
Israeli ambulance crews adopt a policy of denying injured Palestinians treatment, say rights groups

There is mounting evidence that Israeli ambulance crews are withholding treatment from Palestinians injured during a wave of attacks over the past six months, according to rights groups.

Physicians for Human Rights in Israel, a medical watchdog group, found that wounded Palestinians had been left untreated for as long as two hours.

In some cases, it is believed medical teams failed to tend to the injuries of suspected attackers as revenge, in the expectation that they would die from their wounds.

In parallel, says the group, Israeli soldiers regularly deny Palestinian crews in the occupied territories access to injured Palestinians in violation of international agreements. Palestinian ambulances have been regularly fired on and paramedics attacked as they tried to reach the scene.

Physicians for Human Rights accused Israel's leading medical bodies - the Israeli Medical Association, which lays down ethical codes, and Magen David Adom, which supervises ambulance services - of ignoring the evidence it has collected of such abuses.

"We have seen no serious response to our complaints, no investigations, not even an attempt to meet us. They don't appear to want to give answers," Mor Efrat, a researcher for the rights group, told Al-Jazeera.

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Propaganda

Do you really think you elect the president? 'Voting is rigged & used to pacify the public' says three-time US presidential candidate Ron Paul

Arjun Walia
Collective Evolution
Tue, 19 Apr 2016 19:44 UTC
rigged us elections
"This is the way the system works, it's a rotten system, and I see elections as so much of a charade. So much deceit goes on. . . . whether it's a Republican or a Democrat president, the people who want to keep the status quo seems to have their finger in the pot and can control things. They just get so nervous so, if they have an independent thinker out there, whether it's Sanders, or Trump, or Ron Paul, they're going to be very desperate to try to change things. . . . More people are discovering that the system is all rigged, and that voting is just pacification for the voters and it really doesn't count."

Above are the words of Dr. Ron Paul, three-time presidential candidate and a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Similar to Bernie Sanders, Dr. Paul attracted significant attention while he was in the running, appealing to the intellect of the masses and helping to wake people up to the realities of the U.S. electoral system.

U.S. presidential elections are rigged. This is the truth that he, and Sanders, and so many others, hope to make clear. Voting only provides the illusion of democracy, it does not actually serve democracy. In the video below, Dr. Paul goes on to describe how the electoral process has become a giant charade, meant to entertain rather facilitate democracy. He also argues that who exactly is chosen for president is irrelevant, because corporate interests will always prevent them from effecting real change. In a recent debate with Hilary Clinton, Bernie Sanders made the same arguments, saying that "no matter who is elected to be president, that person . . . will not be able to succeed because the power of corporate America, the power of Wall Street, (and) the power of campaign donors is so great that no president alone can stand up to them." (source)

Comment: If elections are rigged anyway, is there any point in voting at all?

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Preparing for economic collapse? Fed issues ominous warning to JPMorgan Chase, leaders of world finance flock to secret meetings

Daisy Luther
The Organic Prepper
Sun, 17 Apr 2016 00:00 UTC
fed preps for collapse
Tick. Tock.

Do you hear that? It's the clock on the time bomb, and it appears to be ticking relentlessly toward our economic collapse.

It seems like every day, there is a new threat to the financial well-being of the disappearing middle class in America. Of course, less affected are the members of Congress and their buddies on Wall Street. You know, the ones that put the politicians in office to get favorable decisions made on their behalf in Washington.

But if you happen to have been ignoring the folks Obama calls "peddlers of fiction" who have been warning us all of an impending economic crisis along the lines of the last financial collapse, you might want to pay attention now, because a disturbing series of events is in motion.

First of all, the Fed just issued a terrifying warning to the biggest bank in the country.

Finally, the Fed has admitted that we just can't take another hit without incurring an epic disaster.

Comment: #3. Learn to determine Skills and character traits that are hard to find during a crisis

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Dollars

Seeing the green: More banks willing to deal with legal marijuana businesses


RT
Wed, 20 Apr 2016 19:13 UTC
marijuana dispensory
© David McNew / Reuters
As more states contemplate legalizing recreational marijuana, the businesses that pop up are going to need banking solutions. Fortunately for them, more US banks are becoming willing to dabble in the cannabis trade.

Over the last two years, the number of banks and credit unions open to dealing with marijuana businesses has increased by almost six times, the Associated Press reported, citing federal data. Back in March of 2014, only 51 banks and credit unions in the country were willing to deal with cash from pot businesses, but the number now stands at 301.

The large increase is surely due, in part, to the momentum that supporters of legalization have gained over the years. Since 2012, four states - Washington, Colorado, Oregon and Alaska - and the District of Columbia have legalized recreational marijuana. This year, several states, including California and Nevada, could vote to permit casual pot use as well.
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Bandaid

Saudi Arabia beheads gays and bloggers, puts terrorists in luxury prison resorts


Sputnik
Wed, 20 Apr 2016 17:53 UTC
beach
© Pixabay
Looking at the luxurious settings in Saudi prisons for inmates with terrorism-related charges, it seems that Riyadh isn't too willing to punish people who were caught fighting on the side of terrorist organizations in Syria, RT reported.

US President Barack Obama is scheduled to visit Saudi Arabia to discuss how Washington and Riyadh will work to defeat terrorism. But it turns out the two countries have nothing in common when it comes to the treatment of inmates convicted of terrorism charges.

The high-security Al-Hair prison is the largest of five prisons established to lock up people for terrorism-related charges. First, it was full with al-Qaeda members, but more recently Daesh militants have been thrown to Al-Hair to serve their sentences.

"They also get water aerobics classes and even conjugal visits. And these prisoners are also said to have an Olympic-size swimming pool and art-therapy classes," RT's Nikki Aaron reported.


Comment: Like every state sponsor of terror, Saudi Arabia can't help but be forced to arrest their own assets on occasion. While the U.S. offers a variety of attractive retirement programs - including assassination, torture, imprisonment, or a facilitated 'jail break' and reassignment - Saudi Arabia just puts them in a luxury resort spa.

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Dollars

Hello, Harriet! Andrew Jackson gets booted off the twenty dollar bill


RT
Wed, 20 Apr 2016 16:46 UTC
twenty dollar bill
Former slave Harriet Tubman will replace former President Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew is expected to announce.

There will also be changes made to the $5 bill to depict civil rights-era leaders and on the $10 for the suffragette movement, Politoco reported citing sources.

Comment: With the War on Cash in full swing and the dollar about to crash, does it really make a difference?

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Eye 2

Israel's psychopathic society: "Death to the Arabs" rally draws thousands in support of soldier who murdered wounded Palestinian

Ali Abunimah
Electronic Intifida
Tue, 19 Apr 2016 00:00 UTC
Israel protest
In Tel Aviv's Yitzhak Rabin Square on Tuesday evening, thousands of Israelis rallied in support of Elor Azarya, the soldier filmed executing a gravely wounded Palestinian last month.

Rally-goers shouted anti-Arab slogans and attacked persons perceived as being leftists or journalists.

Hours earlier, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a call for leniency for the soldier.

Times of Israel reporter Judah Ari Gross tweeted that an activist from B'Tselem, the human rights group that released the video of Azarya shooting and killing Abd al-Fattah al-Sharif, had to be escorted out of Rabin Square by police in order to "protect his life."

Comment: For more context on the events leading up to this abhorrent display of racism and pathological hatred, see:

Israeli medic: "He's not dead, shoot him in the head"


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Footprints

Punta Gorda airport becomes the latest to kick out the TSA

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Mon, 18 Apr 2016 16:17 UTC
TSA screening
It goes without saying that if the people of any country want something done efficiently, and in the most cost-efficient manner, they do it themselves or outsource it to private third-party service providers, instead of entrusting it to a bunch of bureaucrats and unmotivated government workers.

Finally, airports in the United States are starting to come to that realization as well. So far, private security agents monitor at least 22 airports in major cities like San Francisco and Kansas City. The latest airport to replace the TSA is the Punta Gorda Airport in Florida.

As Sputnik reports, Florida's Punta Gorda airport has begun to privatize security, taking the keys away from the what according to many is America's most inept, inefficient and often, grotesquely demeaning governmental organization, the TSA, and handing them over to a firm called ISS Action, a security company out of Queens, New York.
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Heart - Black

Florida: Cops stand by and do nothing as three teen girls drown in submerged car

Andrew Emett
The Free Thought Project
Wed, 20 Apr 2016 15:58 UTC
honda pulled from pond
Newly released dash cam footage reveals a Florida sheriff lied last month when he falsely claimed that his deputies took off their gun belts and attempted to save three drowning teenage girls. Instead of attempting to rescue the dying teens, the deputies can be seen on video standing beside the pond while listening to the girls' final screams.

According to Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri, a friend asked 35-year-old Damien Marriott to drive the three teenage girls to Child's Park on Wednesday, March 30. For some reason, Marriott reportedly stopped at a Walmart to buy a TV when he left his keys in the ignition with the engine running along with three girls that he did not know sitting in his 1990 Honda Accord. Although Child's Park closes at 8 p.m. on Wednesdays, Marriott did not return to his vehicle or report his car stolen until 8:30 p.m. that night.

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Rape culture: Young girls in UK fear going to school because of out-of-control sexual harassment and violence


Sputnik
Tue, 19 Apr 2016 15:38 UTC
rape schools britain
A major investigation into the prevalence of sexual harassment and violence in schools is underway in Britain after more than 600 alleged rapes were recorded over the last three years.

A revelation of little surprise to a mother from south east London who revealed to Sputnik that her 13-year-old daughter was missing out on her education because she felt pressured to have sex at school every day.

"My daughter came to me emotionally distraught saying that the pressure she's getting for sex at school means that she doesn't want to go to school," the mother told Sputnik.

"I took it up with the teachers and said my daughter would not be returning to school until someone deals with this.

"The school did take steps to improve the situation and my daughter goes to school every day but she tells me, 'Mum, everybody in every year has asked me for sex.' "

The Commons Women and Equalities Committee is behind the investigation into UK schools after data last year showed 5,500 alleged sexual offences, more than 600 alleged rapes and 4,000 alleged physical assaults were recorded in UK schools over three years.

Comment: Rape culture: 1 in 5 women in the UK are sexually assaulted in school

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