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Jerusalem effect: Amsterdam man with Palestinian flag breaks windows of Israeli restaurant, subdued by police


RT
Fri, 08 Dec 2017 11:31 UTC
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A man with a Palestinian flag has smashed windows at a Jewish restaurant in Amsterdam and forced his way inside, local media reported. The incident has been caught on camera.


Comment: Because bringing your sectarian conflicts into other peoples countries is what multiculturalism is all about. Trump moves an embassy, so some peon in Amsterdaam has to attack a shopkeeper?


The video of the incident which emerged on local media, shows the man carrying a Palestinian flag hitting windows of the Glatt Kosher restaurant. The man then kicks his way through the front door and a few seconds later emerges with an Israeli flag, the footage shows.

Officers deployed pepper spray to arrest the suspect, who turned out to be a 29-year-old male residing in the Netherlands.


Comment: We are likely to see a lot more of this from those who are rightly outraged by Trump's recent decision. But the real danger here is not only the likelihood (if predictable) carnage that the IDF will wreak on Palestinians lashing out in Gaza or the West Bank - but the conflation between those Palestinians acts and terrorist groups like Al-Qaeda, who are already coming out and making statements in support of Palestine. This whole situation can turn into another bloodbath against innocents in no time - when half the world will be told to think that Palestinians are the same as "the terrorists."

See: The Myth Of The Palestinian Suicide Bomber

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Cops break man's face and express regret that they didn't kill him

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Thu, 07 Dec 2017 20:07 UTC
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Once again, the cops from what is now becoming one of the most infamous departments in the country are in the spotlight. This time, the Euclid police department beat a man so severely that they literally broke his face and he had to be hospitalized. Also, after they arrested him, two officers were caught on the dashcam expressing their disappointment that they didn't kill him.

Tensions between police and citizens in Euclid, Ohio have come to a head recently after police killed an unarmed 23-year-old man over a marijuana roach and officers were seen on video pulverizing another man over a suspended license, and, as TFTP reported last week, beating the hell out of an innocent man after mistaking his colostomy bag for a weapon.

The most recent black eye on the department stems from the arrest of Erimius Spencer. Because Officer Michael Amiott and Officer Shane Rivera smelled a plant, they claimed the right to kidnap and cage Spencer in December 2016.

According to the police department who has been caught lying on multiple occasions and beating entirely compliant and innocent individuals, Spencer resisted when they found less than one gram of cannabis in his possession. Naturally, they used the claim of resisting to inflict serious harm on Spencer.
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U.S. military seeking to block transgender recruitment while court appeal in process


Yahoo News
Thu, 07 Dec 2017 19:57 UTC
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© AFP Photo/Jewel SAMADProtesters demonstrate in front of the US Army career center in Times Square, New York on July 26, 2017
President Donald Trump's administration has asked a federal court to block the Pentagon from starting the hiring of transgender recruits next year.

The filing by the Justice Department late on Wednesday is the latest in a series of legal measures that have unfolded since Trump sent out three tweets in July saying that transgender troops could not serve "in any capacity" in the military.

Those tweets, later followed by a formal White House memorandum, set off a roar of protest -- with several service members and rights groups quick to sue.

Two federal courts have since temporarily blocked Trump's ban, and the Pentagon was due to start accepting transgender recruits on January 1.

The government's filing calls for a partial delay, specifically that the Pentagon does not accept transgender recruits from that date.

"Defendants request that the court stay the portion of its preliminary injunction requiring defendants to begin accessing transgender individuals into the military on January 1, 2018," pending an appeal decision, court documents state.

Comment: This is how the U.S. looks to countries like Russia: Russian TV news: America is 'committing suicide' by allowing transgenders in the military. The fact is, a large number of gender dysphoria cases aren't even "real" - they're the result of social contagion. And given that transgender killings are apparently at an all-time high, maybe accepting them into the military isn't such a good idea at this time?

The strangest thing about the level of transgender hysteria is that a tiny minority of trans people has managed to position themselves as the voice of all trans people. Well, they're not. And the loudest activists for causes of social justice often happen to be the most psychologically pathological.

See also: More transgender madness: Transgendered men allowed to shower with girls scouts in UK

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Best of the Web: Class dismissed: Identity politics without the identity - The white American working class

Michael K. Smith
Counterpunch
Wed, 06 Dec 2017 10:06 UTC
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"The goal of mainstream politicians of both parties should be to drive a wedge between the viciousness of white supremacy and people who are basically decent but tired of what they see as 'political correctness' that ignores the very considerable challenges faced by working-class whites while directing them to feel sorry for a whole range of other groups."

-Joan C. Williams, White Working Class - Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America

"We're voting with our middle finger."

-South Carolina Trump supporter

"There was no reason why the Left had to abandon its old blue collar base."

-Milo Yiannopoulos
My apologies to Ta Nehisi Coates and the "it's all about race" school of politics, but by now it should be clear to just about everyone that attempting to achieve a democratic majority by multiplying victim minorities is doomed to failure.

For the four decades we have seen neo-liberal economics at work, white working class fortunes have gone steadily down the drain while diversity enthusiasts aggressively demanded universal sympathy for a growing list of victim groups: the poor, blacks, Latinos, "native" Americans, Asians, the disabled, lesbians, gays, bisexuals, the transgendered, queers, non-binary people, the asexual, along with every possible "intersection" of these identities. Meanwhile, legitimate anger at the economic squeeze imposed on working people from outsourcing and mass immigration from the Third World has been written off as racism, sexism, nativism, and xenophobia. By 2016, the longstanding depression visible throughout rural America was a key factor in elevating Donald Trump to the presidency.

Comment: The left lost its way by betraying the genuine needs of the working class, and it is now chasing phantoms into fruitless and even dangerous territories. See also: Fascism came to America wrapped in a rainbow flag and wearing a pussyhat

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Major crime crackdown in Guatemala as 80 raids lead to 60 arrests


teleSUR
Thu, 07 Dec 2017 00:00 UTC
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© Twitter- @MPguatemalaSince July, a team of 720 police have conducted 81 raids in 14 of the nation’s 22 departments to dismantle the large-scale criminal ring.
Police report the people were behind a series of violent crimes including conspiracy, extortion, and murder.

After an extensive investigation across Guatemala, 43 of the 60 gang members arrested will be charged with extortion among other crimes, the public ministry said Wednesday.

Since July, a team of 720 police conducted 81 raids in 14 of the nation's 22 departments to dismantle the large-scale criminal ring, public ministry spokeswoman Julia Barrera said. Among the detainees arrested were 40 women and four adolescents.

"Our investigators documented in video and photography the movements of these extortionists, established where they live and their activities," said police spokesperson Pablo Castillo, who added that six lives were spared thanks to the investigation.

Comment: So nearly 1 out of every 2 violent crimes in Guatemala is drug-related. Reminds one of this recent story out of another Central American Country: 3,000 bodies found at Mexican drug cartel extermination site

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No Entry

Geneva bans both burkinis and topless bathing at swimming pools


RT
Fri, 08 Dec 2017 18:44 UTC
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© Fethi Belaid / AFP
Now ladies will have to unclad should they want to go to a swimming pool in Geneva, but not too much: the city lashed out at Muslim swimwear burkinis - and topless bathing, banning both.


Comment: We just can't have nice things.


Under the new rules voted in this week by the city authorities, women should wear "a one-piece or two-piece swimsuit," local La Tribune de Genève newspaper reported. Women who wish to swim in Geneva's pools have to wear swimsuits that should come down "no lower than knee level and keeps arms bare" and shouldn't be "a swim skirt or a dress," the legislation said.

Under the previous edition, swimmers were authorized to wear "any clothing that is specifically used for swimming," as the city authorities were more concerned with youngster coming for a dive in "street wear." That wording was, however, deemed "insufficient" and the standards received a "simple update."

The changes were criticized by a number of politicians, including Christian Democrat Alia Chaker Mangeat, who said the update "creates a new controversy" and may provoke extremists.


Comment: Who cares? Whatever happened to not negotiating with terrorists?


According to socialist councilor Sami Kanaan, the ruling constitutes the "denial of an open, multicultural and liberal Geneva."
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Stock Down

Living the pre-Soviet dream! Latvian population has plunged 27% since 1991


Russia Insider
Thu, 07 Dec 2017 18:43 UTC
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In 2017 Latvia's population is 1.95 million. That is an incredible plunge of 27 percent since the 2.66 million high in 1989. The last time Latvia's population was under 2 million was before WWII, in 1935.

So at least in one way Latvia has accomplished the dream of erasing the 50 years of Soviet "occupation."

Perhaps it will be some consolation to Latvian nationalists that a big chunk of that decline has been ethnic Russians, who have gone from 0.9 million to 0.5 million. However, ethnic Latvians have likewise declined. There are just 60,000 more ethnic Latvians in Latvia today than there were in 1920.

Comment: The Baltics are still resentful over the Soviet Union. Unfortunately for them, they can't seem to make a distinction between modern Russia and the ex-Soviet Union. That results in nonsense like this: Have fun on the wrong side of history, Latvia. And keep watching out for those Russians. They're sure to invade any day now...

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Life under occupation in Hebron: Video shows Palestinian teachers and children being harassed by IDF outside elementary school


RT
Fri, 08 Dec 2017 19:01 UTC
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© btselem / YouTube
Footage shot in Hebron in occupied Palestinian territory shows Israeli soldiers routinely harassing teachers and schoolchildren on a number of occasions. Rights activists say it is part of a state policy aimed at forcing Palestinians to leave the city.

The incidents shown in the video were recorded in October and November by activists attached to B'Tselem, an Israel-based human rights group, near the Ziad Hamuda Jaber Elementary School for Boys, where some 300 pupils are educated. The facility is located in the Wadi al-Nasarah neighborhood of Hebron. Around 50 meters from the neighborhood is a road leading to the Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba - the first that was established in Hebron after the city was occupied by Israel.

A metal gate has been installed some 30 meters from the school, which has to be passed by teachers and pupils. Occasionally, IDF soldiers are deployed at the gate and have been seen to conduct random searches, harass or arrest the Palestinian teachers and schoolchildren, B'Tselem reported.

One part of the video shows a pair of soldiers pushing a student against a wall, who appears to be in his early teens. On another occasion, a soldier confronts a B'Tselem activist who is filming him on camera, trying to physically stop her, and telling her to go stand "behind the dumpster with all the garbage." In another part, a soldier confronts a young man, approaching him aggressively before being warned by another soldier that he is being filmed.
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Almost half of subsidized 'Right to Buy' homes now rented out to make money from Britain's low-income families


RT
Fri, 08 Dec 2017 16:12 UTC
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© Reuters/ Russell BoyceMore than 40 per cent of Right to Buy homes now rented out.
Tens of thousands of council-provided homes bought by working-class families in Britain are now being rented out by private landlords - a consequence of Margaret Thatcher's iconic Right-to-Buy scheme, which was introduced almost four decades ago.

More than 40 percent of properties purchased under the Conservative program are now being rented out to the very communities they were designed to help, decades ago.

Low-income families are given the chance to purchase their home and get on the property ladder under Right to Buy. The stock of homes has not been replenished, however, meaning that the next generation of families in need have had to turn to landlords renting out those very same houses, which were bought at a massive discount.

New research has highlighted how the properties have gone full circle and are now being rented to people who cannot afford to buy their own home. At the same time, there is a dramatic shortage of council homes.
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Woman bullied by social justice warriors online for comments about gay colleague hangs herself


Sputnik
Thu, 07 Dec 2017 17:13 UTC
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© Youtube/Natalia Powel
Mercedes Grabowski (known as August Ames) died of asphyxia due to hanging, the Ventura Health Care Agency reported.

The porn starlet, August Ames, who suffered from chronic depression, passed away at the age of 23 in Camarillo, California. Her friends' fears that she could have taken her own life, confirmed. While the medical examiner has announced news of her suicide by hanging, toxicology tests are still underway. August Ames killed herself following a backlash over statements she made about shooting a scene with an actor who had been filmed in gay pornography.

"Omg, I can't believe she's dead," wrote friend Anikka Albright. "You people should have known better than to berate her over her personal thoughts! Shame on all you for beating it into the ground. Online harassment is a real thing & it claimed another life. Someone who I liked & would have even called a friend!"
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