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Rich and famous preppers are sharing what they're doing

Daisy Luther
The Organic Prepper
Tue, 15 May 2018 00:00 UTC
rich preppers
Prepping just doesn't seem as "crazy" as it used to. It appears that prepping isn't just for doomsday-fearing, tinfoil hat types anymore. Lots of people have woken up to the fact that the worst can happen, and they're getting ready for it.

Even, it so happens, rich and famous folks.

Whether they're worried about a giant asteroid hitting the earth, the breakdown of society, the "big" earthquake, or nuclear war, they have one thing in common - they intend to be ready and to protect the people they love. If these rich and famous folks are publicly doing something as "crazy" as getting prepped, I think we should all pay attention. It's entirely possible that they know something we don't.
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Democrat senator warns colleagues: 'Voters don't care about Russian bots'

Carlos Garcia
The Blaze
Tue, 15 May 2018 21:57 UTC
Senator Amy Klobuchar
© YouTube screenshotSenator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) scolded her party for focusing too much on President Trump and "Russian bots" during a progressive conference.
Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) scolded her own party for focusing too much on bashing President Trump, and warned them that they would lose if they didn't provide an alternate vision for America.

Here's what she said.

Klobuchar was speaking at a "Center for American Progress" Ideas Conference Tuesday when she made the comments.

"That's what people, is on their head," Klobuchar said, "is what's happening to them with their cost of college, or what's happening, how does that tax bill affect them. Those are things that are going to be on their minds."

"Healthcare premiums, those things," she continued. "I'm well aware of that. They're not asking me about Russian bots, OK? They're asking me about like soybean exports. This is a true story, I spent days in the rural part of our state."
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Reporters say Israel deliberately targeting journalists at Gaza protest with snipers and tear gas

Frank Sellers
The Duran
Wed, 16 May 2018 02:23 UTC
Israel snipers gaza protest
© Associated Press/Ariel SchalitIsraeli soldiers on a watch tower along the Israel - Gaza Border, May 15, 2018. Israel faces growing diplomatic fallout from the use of lethal force against unarmed protesters.
US and Israel are very clear: international law doesn't matter, unless it allegedly involves WMDs.

Three separate journalists, not for Palestinian news outlets, have reported being attacked by Israeli forces. While Israel says that it carefully considers each shot fired, if believed, would leave no other conclusion than that the IDF was intentionally trying to harm or liquidate journalists covering the conflict on the Israeli border. Specific information was reported by an Al-Jazeera reporter, who gave the following report to France24 news:

Comment: Israel knows the truth of their actions will be fatally damaging to their image in the world.

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Naked, unarmed science teacher shot dead by Virginia police

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Wed, 16 May 2018 23:33 UTC
Marcus-David Peters shooting
The family of Marcus-David L. Peters-an honors graduate and high school science teacher-is asking for answers after a Richmond police officer shot and killed him while he was naked and unarmed. Not only did the officer swiftly escalate to unnecessary deadly force against a naked man, but now the department is telling the public that it was justified.

According to reports, the shooting happened along I-95 in Richmond after Peters lost control of his vehicle, sending it crashing into the trees. Police say that Peters then exited the vehicle, entirely naked, and began running into and then rolling around on or near the interstate.

Police say that Peters had previously struck another vehicle prior to crashing and then fled the scene. After a brief chase, he crashed and then ran naked up the northbound lane of I-95. Police claim Peters then charged an officer who had no other choice but to resort to deadly force against the naked and unarmed man who 'charged the officer.'
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Riverside court overturns California assisted death law

Alexei Koseff
Sacramento Bee
Tue, 15 May 2018 20:36 UTC
Brittany Maynard
© Rich Pedroncelli / AP fileA portrait of Brittany Maynard, a Californian who moved to Oregon to take advantage of that state’s right-to-die law for the terminally ill, sat on the dais of the California Senate Health Committee.
A judge in Riverside County on Tuesday overturned California's controversial assisted death law nearly two years after it took effect, ruling that the Legislature improperly passed the measure during a special session on health care funding.

The court is holding its judgment for five days, according to representatives for supporters and opponents of the law, to give the state time to file an emergency appeal.

"We're very satisfied with the court's decision today," said Stephen G. Larson, lead counsel for a group of doctors who sued in 2016 to stop the law. "The act itself was rushed through the special session of the Legislature and it does not have any of the safeguards one would expect to see in a law like this."

The state plans to seek expedited review in an appellate court, according to Attorney General Xavier Becerra, who said in a statement that he strongly disagreed with the ruling.

Assemblywoman Susan Talamantes Eggman, the Stockton Democrat who carried the bill, said Californians who are in the process of obtaining life-ending drugs through the law have had "the carpet ripped out from under their feet."
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Who killed more civilians than Islamic State? Coalition forces

Anne Gulland
The Telegraph
Tue, 15 May 2018 07:01 UTC
Mosul Iraq
© Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFPRuins of Mosul, Iraq
More people were killed during the nine-month battle to liberate the Iraqi city of Mosul than during the three-year occupation by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil), a study has claimed. Last year's battle to drive Isil out of Mosul left huge swathes of the city in ruins and displaced up to one million people.

A US-led coalition bombed key targets in what were described as "pinpoint airstrikes" by Michael Fallon, who was then the UK's defence secretary, when the city was finally liberated last July.

The RAF struck more than 750 targets during the campaign to liberate the city, second only to the US, according to the Ministry of Defence.

But a survey of around 1,200 households in the city shows that mortality rates among civilians increased nearly 13 times during the battle to liberate Mosul.

The study, published in the journal PLOS Medicine, showed that 505 civilians died from what the researchers called intentional violence. The leading cause of violent death during the period studied was air strikes, accounting for 201 civilian deaths, followed by 172 deaths from explosions.

Comment: More harm than good? While the data is imperfect, the premise is as alarming as it is justified. If Mosul is any coalition example, expect little difference in change of action or outcome in other conflicts. War is never about saving the innocent.

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Japan planning retaliatory action against Trump's import Tariffs


PressTV
Thu, 17 May 2018 05:16 UTC
Containers japan
© AFPContainers sit piled on the docks as a ship is docked at the international cargo terminal at the port in Tokyo, Japan, on February 19, 2018.
The Japanese government is reportedly planning to take retaliatory steps against the United States as Washington has declined to exempt Tokyo from heavy duties on steel and aluminum imports.

Japan's public broadcaster NHK said on Thursday that the country was considering slapping tariffs on US exports worth 409 million dollars in retaliation for steel and aluminum import tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump in March allegedly on national security grounds.

Based on international trade rules, the government will notify the World Trade Organization (WTO) of the plan before the end of this week, according to the NHK.

Comment: While Trump may be attempting to do what's best for the US, it no longer holds the influence on global trade that it once did and many countries are pushing back: Also check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: The Art of The Iran no-Deal: Trump, Israel, And The End of The Atlantic Alliance

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Israel's justification for starting the Six-Day War would give Gazans the right to invade them in turn

Jon Schwarz
The Intercept
Wed, 16 May 2018 18:53 UTC
gaza protest slingshot
© Momen Faiz/NurPhoto/Sipa via AP
One of the key targets of the "Great March of Return" protests in Gaza, which began six weeks ago and culminated Tuesday, is Israel's brutal, decade-long blockade of the small territory, which is about the size of Detroit. The siege has caused Gaza's economy to shrink by one-half, and the United Nations has warned that it will soon render Gaza literally "uninhabitable."

For its part, Israel knows who's to blame for the 100-plus Palestinians dead and the thousands wounded during the demonstrations: Hamas. "They're pushing civilians - women, children - into the line of fire," Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu claimed this week, with no evidence whatsoever. The Israel Defense Forces, or IDF, tweeted that Hamas's "tools for infiltrating Israel" include "children," "disabled civilians," and, most terrifyingly, "rope tied to fence."

But there's a stupendous historical irony to Israel's manufactured outrage: Israel itself claimed that a far less stringent embargo by Egypt in 1967 was a legitimate casus belli for Israel to attack Egypt (which led to Israel seizing control of Gaza and eventually imposing the embargo on it).
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Debunked: Four years old video of 'fake dead Palestinians' exposes pro-Israel propaganda


RT
Thu, 17 May 2018 20:23 UTC
Palestinians carry corpse
© Ammar Awad / Reuters
A video circulating on social media claiming to be evidence that Hamas is faking deaths in Gaza does not actually portray what has been claimed. And not only that - the footage is more than four years old.

The video was shared among pro-Israel social media users in the wake of Monday's Great Return March protests in Gaza, in which Israeli fire killed at least 60. People shared it as 'proof' that Hamas is either faking the number of deaths reported after Monday's unrest or is manipulating people into feeling sympathy for the Palestinian cause.

However, the video actually dates back to 2013 and has been used as anti-Palestinian propaganda since at least 2014, when Israel's Operation Protective Edge war on Gaza saw more than 2,200 Palestinians killed, more than 1,462 of whom were civilians, according to the UN.
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Mali: Albino child kidnapped and beheaded in 'ritual' murder, public outcry follows


Yahoo News
Tue, 15 May 2018 00:00 UTC
Salif Keita
© AFP Photo/HABIB KOUYATEOne of Mali's leading musicians, Salif Keita, seen here with his daugher Nanty, is a campaigner against anti-albino prejudice and crime
Armed men abducted and beheaded a five-year-old albino girl in Mali at the weekend, police said, in what was feared to be a ritual murder for supposedly magic body parts.

Djeneba Diarra, whose family lives in Fana village 125 kilometres (78 miles) north of Bamako, "was sleeping in the courtyard with her mother and her sister" when the men snatched her at around 2:00 am on Sunday, police told AFP on Monday.

The girl's mother at first tried to pursue the kidnappers, who scaled a wall with her child, but then turned back to protect her second daughter, also an albino.

"We searched for the little girl everywhere. We found her body beside a mosque, but she had no head," said a village teacher, Oumar Diakite.

Blaming a lack of security for the killing, angry local residents on Sunday partially burned down the paramilitary police headquarters in Fana, according to several witnesses.

Comment: These heinous crimes have been on-going for years now: And the grotesque ritual abuse and murder of innocents continues around the world...

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