Civil sources told SANA Sunday that the US-led collation carried out several raids on the houses of citizens in the said villages, claiming the lives of at least 29 persons.
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Civil sources told SANA Sunday that the US-led collation carried out several raids on the houses of citizens in the said villages, claiming the lives of at least 29 persons.
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Mack Beggs (left) after defending his Class 6A girls 110-pound title during the UIL State Wrestling Championships in Texas
Mack Beggs (left) after defending his Class 6A girls 110-pound title during the UIL State Wrestling Championships in Texas
Mack Beggs, an 18-year-old senior from Euless Trinity High School near Dallas, entered the tournament in Cypress outside Houston with an undefeated record. He beat Chelsea Sanchez - whom he beat for the title in 2017 - in the final match Saturday.
Video posted online showed a mix of cheers and boos from the crowd following Beggs' win.
Beggs is in the process of transitioning from female to male and taking a low dose of testosterone.
It was his steroid therapy treatments while wrestling girls that stirred a fierce debate about competitive fairness and transgender rights last season. It's been a lot quieter since last year, when his march to a state championship was dogged by a last-minute lawsuit that tried to stop him.
Comment: Of course the fact that taking testosterone results in muscle growth had nothing to do with this double victory... or did it?
CNN has never offered an explanation for this event, and nobody has ever been able to provide me with a plausible defense of it.
This is not some tinfoil hat fantasy I made up in my imagination. This happened. CNN knowingly staged a fake, scripted interview and deceitfully passed it off to its audience as a real one, exploiting a small child for interventionist propaganda in an inexcusably fraudulent way.
Comment: Johnstone is right - questioning the official narrative is always the right thing to do. See:
- Second Florida survivor alleges CNN scripted narrative to push gun control
- Paddock autopsy states Las Vegas shooter died more than twelve hours later than 'suicide' in official narrative
- TEDx talk: Sharyl Attkisson explains the origins of the 2016 'Fake News' narrative (VIDEO)
- Gaslighting the public: Mainstream propagandist calls skepticism of Syria narrative 'dangerous inversion of reality'
- Police revelation could dismantle 'lone wolf' narrative in Las Vegas massacre
- Adjusting the narrative: New York Times, struggling to save its collusion tale, pivots from Page to Papadopoulos
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Turkish army troops gather near the Syrian border at Hassa, in Hatay province on January 21, 2018. Turkish forces on January 20, 2018, began a major new operation aimed at ousting the Peoples' Protection Units (YPG) Kurdish militia from Afrin, pounding dozens of targets from the sky in air raids and with artillery. Turkey accuses the YPG of being the Syrian offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) which has waged a rebellion in the Turkish southeast for more than three decades and is regarded as a terror group by Ankara and its Western allies.
Turkish army troops gather near the Syrian border at Hassa, in Hatay province on January 21, 2018. Turkish forces on January 20, 2018, began a major new operation aimed at ousting the Peoples' Protection Units (YPG) Kurdish militia from Afrin, pounding dozens of targets from the sky in air raids and with artillery. Turkey accuses the YPG of being the Syrian offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) which has waged a rebellion in the Turkish southeast for more than three decades and is regarded as a terror group by Ankara and its Western allies.
The complexities of the fighting in Afrin have - unsurprisingly - confounded most people, to the point where understanding of what is actually going on there is becoming very difficult and is causing much misunderstanding.
Deciphering Russian policy with respect to the Afrin conflict between Turkey and the Kurds is causing special problems.
The most common view I have seen is that Turkey attacked the Kurds in Afrin with Russia's agreement, with some speculating that the Russians are using the Afrin conflict to drive a wedge between Turkey - a NATO member state - and the US, which is backing the Kurds.
This has supposedly pitted the Russians against the Syrian government and Iran.
The recent movement of Syrian troops into Afrin has even led to some talk of Syria and Iran being now pitted in a conflict in Afrin alongside the Kurds against a supposed "Russian-Turkish" alliance.
This is often accompanied with talk that President Assad has made a serious mistake by sending his troops to fight alongside the Kurds in Afrin. Supposedly the Syrian military without the support of Russia is incapable of defeating the Turkish military and is risking a serious defeat by fighting the Turks alongside the Kurds in Afrin.
In my opinion this analysis is wrong, and in this article I shall attempt to show why.
Comment: If a compromise is reached between the Syrian government, Turkey and the Kurds, it will be a great victory in favor of peace and stability in the region - and once again the world will have Russia to thank for this. The problem is not only that Turkey has been playing a double game since the beginning of the Syrian conflict and it is unpredictable, but also that the U.S., Israel and allies are not just going to sit and watch how the prospect of destroying and plundering Syria is taken away from their hands.
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The women were convicted to death by hanging after "it was proven they belong to the Daesh terrorist group and after they confessed to marrying Daesh elements or providing members of the group with logistical aid or helping them carry out terrorist attacks," Judge Abdul-Sattar al-Birqdar, a spokesman of the court, told reporters, using an Arabic acronym for Islamic State. The court's decision can still be appealed, he said.
Borissov [L] and Fico
The developments highlight widespread resistance among the more socially conservative countries of the former eastern bloc to the liberal values of wealthier Western Europe.
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico yesterday said he refused to ratify the Istanbul Convention because he considers it at odds with the country's constitutional definition of marriage as a heterosexual union.
Comment: The Bulgarian Church has come out against this treaty, and has issued some strong words against 'gender ideology' in general:
"It is a tool that instills a value system that is unfamiliar to us in order to allow society to be governed by a new model in the interests of a small part of it," the Church's Holy Synod, its top executive body, said in a statement.
"It raises concerns about the future of the European Christian civilization because it contains a new understanding of man - man as an absolute master, the man without God who follows his desires and passions to such an extent that he can even determine his gender," the Holy Synod said.
"The consequences of denying biblical truths are tragic and we are witnessing them in many societies where "gender" ideology has long been a state policy," the church said.
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Ryan T. Anderson is the Heritage Foundation's William E. Simon Senior Research Fellow and one of my favorite writers in Washington. He's got an uncanny ability to combine razor-sharp arguments with kindness and good faith. He's the best kind of public intellectual: One who tries to clarify ideas that are clouded with illogic without ever trying to score points, or grab any weapon at hand.
His new book on the transgender political project is titled When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment and it's the most important book yet written on the subject. I talked with him about it over email recently. Here's a transcript of our conversation.
Comment: When the world was surprised at this transgender activism phenomenon, Prof. Jordan Peterson stood up to challenge the phenomenon and the political, educational establishment that mindlessly supports it. The battle is not yet over, but the irrational nature of the extremist demands of the transgender activists is being exposed more and more each day.
See also:
- Professor Jordan Peterson exposes the creeping dictatorship of the gender-rights movement
- Jordan Peterson: Gender pronouns and free speech war
- Jordan Peterson is giving hope to young men searching for answers
- Why Jordan Peterson's message is so crucial for the community
- Jordan Peterson's battle against identity politics in academia could result in female college students coming to their senses
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US troops in Afghanistan July 7, 2017.
US troops in Afghanistan July 7, 2017.
And whatever happened to the reality TV star who used to tell under-performers, "you're fired"?
Today, as commander in chief, President Trump is indefinitely extending the Afghan war's record as the longest in U.S. history. He's wasting $45 billion to wage it this year alone. And he's not even thinking of firing his huckster generals who claim that sending a few thousand more troops and stepping up the bombing will be a "game changer."
Much like the Vietnam War, every day's news of war from Afghanistan puts the lie to optimistic claims of a military solution. A recent BBC study concluded that Taliban forces are now active in 70 percent of the country, more than at any time since the end of 2001. Unofficial U.S. estimates of their strength have soared from about 20,000 in 2014 to at least 60,000 today.
First of all, I'm tired of watching people turn into pretentious assholes who think their activism makes them better than everyone else, even those oppressed and marginalized groups with whom they claim "allyship".
If you've ever worked in the shelter system, or any field that serves those deemed as oppressed or marginalized in any way, such as abuse victims, the homeless, or people who struggle with addictions and/or mental illness (just a few examples)...one of the first things you learn is that they usually do not frame their worldviews in terms of academic theories you learned in gender studies classes in University. For the most part, they tend to not analyze their experiences in terms of systemic power and privilege, concepts such as "the patriarchy", "white privilege", or "heteronormativity". While many of these folks are directly impacted by class inequality and do realize it, they are likely not spending their days and nights reading Karl Marx, educating themselves on the intricacies of capitalism. They do not sit around pondering the effects of "problematic behaviours" in radical communities. They are not concerned with checking their privilege. No. They are busy trying to survive. Getting through the next day. Meeting their basic needs such as food, shelter and hygiene. They do not bother with policing their language and worrying about how their words might unintentionally perpetuate certain stereotypes. They are more concerned with their voices being heard in the first place.
GOLD! This one's for you, John McCain!
The Olympic hockey final turned out to be a real thriller, with the Russians winning on an overtime goal by Kirill Kaprizov - now hailed as a national hero. The Russian hockey players, who competed in South Korea under a neutral flag, beat Germany 4-3.
The Olympic flag, with its five interlocked rings, was raised in honor of the Olympic Athletes from Russia (OAR) team as the players were awarded their gold medals. But the whole squad along with fans in attendance sang the Russian national anthem, drowning out the Olympic Hymn, despite the IOC banning the country's athletes from any public activities associated with the national flag, anthem, and other symbols at the Olympics in PyeongChang.
Comment: Butt-hurt ultra-liberals everywhere be spitting mad! Slava Rossiya!
Comment: Just five days ago:
US, Turkey, terrorists kill dozens of civilians in Syria today - Damascus, Afrin, Deir Ezzor
Evidently, the U.S. and its allies are not nearly as concerned for civilians in Deir Ezzor as they are for jihadists in East Ghouta:
East Ghouta: Syria wants to liberate it, the West wants to save the terrorists occupying it