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Asma Al-Assad: The secret power behind Syrian President Bashar al-Assad

TMR Editor's Note:

There is perhaps no greater example of INSTANT DEMONIZATION by the Western mainstream media (MSM) than the highly coordinated character assassination of Syria's First Lady Asma al-Assad. What follows is an excellent video of Syrian First Lady Asma al-Assad's first interview since start of Syrian conflict. VIDEO: Syria's First Lady Asma al-Assad's interview with Russia's Channel 24

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First Lady Asma al-Assad: Syria's National Treasure and "Joan of Arc"The Most Courageous Woman in the Mideast Firmly Stands With the Bravest Head of State
"Nothing tests the character of a man or woman more than ruthless, relentless and unwarranted persecution."
Certainly there are numerous instances of various VIPs and political leaders who have been taken down by the Mockingbird Media. Those who control the Zio-Anglo-American Axis always resort to grotesque acts of defamation of character to ruin a targeted reputation. Anyone in a significant position of power who does not bend to the will of the World Shadow Government is eventually assailed by the press like there's no tomorrow.

What makes the utterly fabricated case against Asma al-Assad so unique was the extraordinary speed and savagery of her takedown by the press. In point of fact, the transparent campaign of vilification launched against her revealed the true workings of the MSM like no other. The entire Corporate Media exposed itself after the following accurate article about the First Lady was published by VOGUE in February of 2011.

Asma al-Assad: A Rose in the Desert by Joan Juliet Buck

Comment: For an excellent breakdown of Western media's coordinated attack against First Lady Asma al-Assad see: Asma Al-Assad: How Western Propaganda Turned "A Rose in the Desert" Into "A Cheerleader For Evil"


Cow

Making the Case for Sustainable Meat

Cattle farm
I. Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics

Meat, we are told, is bad for the planet. It causes global warming, destroys forests, diverts substantial proportions of the world's grain for feed, all to produce meat which only wealthy Westerners can afford. The iniquity of the situation led George Monbiot to declare in 2002 that "Veganism is the only ethical response to what is arguably the world's most urgent social justice issue." Monbiot later recanted but, since then, we are told with increasing regularity that to save the planet we must radically reduce our consumption of meat. In the face of what seems to be universal agreement on the sins of meat eating, is there really a green argument for meat? I think there is, and I think we should be talking about it. Not only is the public discourse heavily one-sided, but the anti-meat message risks destroying the very environment it claims to be protecting.

Let's start with one of the most repeated statistics used to argue for reduced meat consumption: the claim that 100,000 litres of water are required to produce each kilo of beef - which is a staggering 1000 times more than what is needed to produce a single kilo of wheat. With magazines such as New Scientist uncritically quoting this figure, it is not surprising that it has circulated so widely. Taken at face value, this estimate is shocking and may on its own be responsible for switching tens of thousands of people away from eating meat.

Biohazard

Landmark case: Jury orders Monsanto to pay man $289 million for failure to warn of Roundup cancer risks

roundup
© Mike Blake / Reuters
A groundskeeper who developed non-Hodgkin's lymphoma after using Monsanto's weed-killers for years is entitled to $39 million in compensation and $250 million in punitive damages, a California jury has decided.

The jury at the Superior Court of California in San Francisco deliberated for three days before agreeing that Monsanto had failed to warn DeWayne Johnson, 46, and other consumers of the herbicide's cancer risks.

Johnson filed the lawsuit in 2016, alleging that Monsanto's Roundup and Ranger Pro herbicides are responsible for his cancer. The trial was expedited because his doctors said he was unlikely to survive past 2020.

Bullseye

By many measures today's progressives are beginning to look a lot like totalitarians

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Possibly the most powerful, and dangerous, euphemism in politics today is "progressive."

This writer has many cherished progressive friends. He considers them beautiful... but, often, misguided. Yet perhaps they are more "guided" than he has supposed.

Perhaps progressives, many of them, are precision guided. A pattern is emerging. That pattern is to assert government control over, well, everything. Government control ... in the name of social and economic justice, of course.

There's another word for this: totalitarian.

Tōˌtaliˈte(ə)rēən.

The New American Oxford Dictionary defines totalitarian as:
of or relating to a system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state : a totalitarian regime.

a person advocating such a system of government.
Might this be the progressives' precision-guided purpose?

Comment: The author's observations and conclusions have been confirmed by numerous developments:


Arrow Up

By censoring Alex Jones, the establishment just gave all his worst ideas increased credibility - building a further divide

Alex Jones
Facebook and YouTube have failed to admit that by banning Alex Jones, they are actually doing their part to give credibility to all of his hateful ideas.

After multiple mainstream media op-eds questioned why Alex Jones' InfoWars was still allowed on social media, Facebook, YouTube, Apple, and Spotify responded by slamming the ban hammer down on InfoWars this week, and as a result, they are responsible for feeding and giving credibility to the same vitriol that they claimed they wanted to silence.

Anyone who has spent time listening to Jones or watching his videos knows that he consistently caters to a fear-mongering "they are coming after us" type rhetoric that targets his current enemy. While that enemy used to be the federal government and the establishment in the United States, it has more recently become anyone he deems as "anti-Trump" in order to fit his apparent undying support for the current president.

Document

Russia may introduce online voting as early as in 2021

electronic voting
© Ramil Sitdikov / Sputnik
A member of Russia's Central Elections Commission has told reporters that the country might introduce online voting, similar to systems used in Switzerland and Estonia, for the 2021 parliamentary elections.

"Considering the scale of the Russian Federation's territory we have to start using internet voting. I think that we will possibly do something already in the next federal elections campaign - the 2021 State Duma elections," Vasily Likhachev told reporters on Friday.

The official added that the main problem that obstructed the possible switch to voting via internet was security concerns adding that the system would be considered viable only when it guarantees that not a single vote will be lost. He also said that positive examples from nations such as Switzerland and Estonia testify to the fact that it can be done.

Comment: See also:


Arrow Down

Social media posts could destroy your college dreams, lawyer warns

College students
Merely following Alex Jones on Twitter almost cost one teen a college admission. Another lost his scholarship over a Facebook message about the 2016 election. Anything you post can and will be used against you, a lawyer tells RT.

"It's absolutely troubling what some of the colleges are doing," attorney Bradley Shear, who specializes in social media cases, told RT. Many universities are hiring monitoring companies that comb the social media lives of applicants, even going so far as to spy on their search histories and internet activity.

"This is a very problematic situation," Shear said. "It's a very big problem and it's only getting worse."

Shear shared a story about one client of his, a 17-year-old who was asked in his college admission interview why he followed Alex Jones on Twitter. Last week, half a dozen platforms banded together to ban, block and delete the accounts of Jones and his InfoWars show.

Eye 1

121 more injured, paramedic on duty among two killed by Israeli fire in Gaza

Injured protester in Gaza
© Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters (file photo)
Two people have been killed in Gaza, including a paramedic on duty, the Palestinian Health Ministry reports. The Palestinian Red Crescent reports that 121 have been injured and that 57 of these were hit by live bullets.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) told RT it "condemns the killing of the medic Abdullah al-Qatati while on duty today by the Israeli occupation in Rafah."

"Abdullah volunteered with the Medical Relief Society to provide medical assistance to affected people during the March of Return," it said.

Qatiti was killed in Rafah in southern Gaza and five other paramedics have been injured. Saeed Aloul was reported dead by the Health Ministry. Journalists Alaa Abdel Fatah and Mahmoud al-Jamal have also been injured, local media reports.

Rose

Dutch anti-immigrant politician takes own life after claiming gang-rape by Muslims

Willie Dille suicide
© Facebook/Willie Dille
A city councilor in The Hague and member of the anti-immigrant Freedom Party has taken her own life, hours after posting a video on Facebook in which she claimed she was gang-raped by Muslims as part of an intimidation campaign.

Willie Dille, 53, reportedly ended her own life on Wednesday, two days after sharing a video on social media in which she claimed to have been kidnapped and raped by a Muslim gang over a year ago.

Dille served as an MP for the anti-immigrant Freedom Party from 2010-2012 before returning to her seat on The Hague city council. The party's leader, Geert Wilders, is an outspoken critic of Islam. The suicide was confirmed by local Freedom Party leader Karen Gerbrands who said Dille "could no longer bear what had happened to her and the reactions she had had."


Star of David

Norwegian daily accused of anti-Semitism after depicting Netanyahu as swastika-shaped enforcer of apartheid

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
© Abir Sultan/Reuters
Norway's sixth-largest newspaper may have gone too far when it published a cartoon of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that apparently linked his policies to Nazism and apartheid.

The cartoon by Finn Graff shows the Israeli leader sitting on a bench marked "Whites only." His body is shaped like a swastika while his left fist punches a mustached man, presumably a member of the Druze minority. The picture comes with a report about the outcry among the Druze after Netanyahu's government passed a reform officially making Israel a Jewish state - a move that many critics say runs contrary to democratic values.
Raphael Schutz, Israel's ambassador to Norway, retweeted the controversial image on Tuesday, calling it an example of "the most repulsive imaginable anti-Semitic imagery". He demanded the cartoon be deleted, but three days later it was still available on the newspaper's website.