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Brainwashed or ambitious? After Gaza slaughter, US mayor praised Israeli security responses as 'moving' - finds fault with Dems 'easy judgment'

Philip Weiss
Mondoweiss
Tue, 02 Apr 2019 18:49 UTC

Last May, South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg went to Israel with the American Jewish Committee and two weeks later discussed his trip with that organization. At the time Israel was killing Palestinian protesters at the Gaza fence - 60 on one day within days of Buttigieg's visit, getting global attention - yet Buttigieg repeatedly praised Israel's security arrangements as "moving" and "clear-eyed", said the U.S. could learn something from them, and blamed Palestinians and Hamas for the "misery" in Gaza.

He also faulted fellow Democrats for making snap judgments based on "90-second cable news versions of what's going on over there."

Buttigieg, 37, a former Navy intelligence officer, is today a rising star in the Democratic presidential field as a midwestern mayor with a reputation for intelligence and pragmatism. In his 22-minute discussion with the AJC's Seffi Kogen last May, Buttigieg never mentioned the Gaza protests directly. But he said that if you only visited Israel, you'd see what wise judgments Israelis are making.

Comment: Keep an eye on this one. He's making all the right Deep State connections.

Russian court sentences ex-military officer to 19 years for fighting alongside ISIS

RFE/RL
Tue, 02 Apr 2019 18:59 UTC

Denis Khisamov was initially deported to Tajikistan because he had a forged Tajik passport, authorities said, but was later handed to Russia.

A Russian court has convicted a former military officer of fighting alongside Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria and sentenced him to 19 years in prison.

Denis Khisamov was found guilty and sentenced on April 2 by the North Caucasus District Military Court in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don.

He was convicted of participation in the activities of a terrorist organization and receiving training to carry out terrorist acts.

Investigators said that Khisamov, who retired from military service in 2009, confessed to taking part in 10 IS battles in Syria in 2015-16 in which about eight people were killed and 13 wounded in those operations.

They said Khisamov confessed that he underwent training for IS recruits in Raqqa, Syria, joined an IS cell consisting of 300 members, and killed four people while fighting alongside IS.

The prosecution also said that in December 2016 he moved to Turkey and robbed currency-exchange offices there, stealing some $230,000 that he later channeled to an IS member for use in Syria.

Vox Media reporter admits Trump winning election made the Left so crazy they believed Russia collusion story

Emily Zanotti
The Daily Wire
Mon, 01 Apr 2019 18:37 UTC

Since learning last week that Special Counsel Robert Mueller found no evidence of direct collusion between the Donald Trump presidential campaign and Russian officials looking to alter the outcome of the 2016 presidential elections, some left-leaning media and progressive activists have been on a soul-searching mission. How did they miss that the allegation was so thinly substantiated?

Vox Media feels it may have the answer. In an interview over the weekend with Rolling Stone writer Matt Taibbi, who claims that the Russian collusion spectacle was the worst media mistake in history, both Vox reporter Sean Illing and Taibbi agree: the Left was just far too devastated in the weeks following Trump's election to think straight.

"A lot of people simply did not want to believe that Trump was a legitimate president, that someone this vulgar and this dishonest could win a presidential election," Illing says. "And I think that disbelief and the emotional devastation of his election colored a lot of our judgments."

YouTube clamps down on Tommy Robinson's channel with series of restrictions

RT
Tue, 02 Apr 2019 18:46 UTC

YouTube has responded to pressure to ban Tommy Robinson by placing a series of restrictions on the anti-immigration activist's channel, including turning comments off and making his videos undiscoverable.

The Google-owned company will place a content warning on Robinson's videos before they play and they won't appear as recommendations. Comments and likes are not allowed, and Robinson will also be blocked from live streaming.

View counts also won't appear on any of the English Defence League founder's videos, and his channel, with over 388,000 followers, will be unable to make money from advertisements, although YouTube already suspended ads on his videos in January.

"After consulting with third-party experts, we are applying a tougher treatment to Tommy Robinson's channel in keeping with our policies on borderline content," a YouTube spokeswoman said.

'Idiotic and divorced from reality': Prof dissects Disney film Moana through lens of 'rape' and 'toxic masculinity'

Ben McDonald
Campus Reform
Tue, 02 Apr 2019 18:01 UTC

A Gonzaga University professor related Disney movie Moana to themes of rape and colonization in a Thursday presentation.

As previously reported by Campus Reform, philosophy professor Danielle Layne hosted an event, titled, "Is MoanaAbout Rape?"

At the event, which Campus Reform attended, Layne showed attendees a full viewing of the movie without prior comment and encouraged people to watch the movie with an open mind. She followed up with a 10-minute presentation, which preceded an hour discussion during which attendees could ask her questions.

The presentation proceeded with three themes regarding the film: feminine and indigenous empowerment, environmental destruction (rape of nature), and neo-colonialism.

Child Protective Service has helped create a Gestapo-like police state

Paul Craig Roberts
paulcraigroberts.org
Fri, 29 Mar 2019 00:00 UTC

Comment: Read this first: Unvaccinated children ripped away from parents in terrifying late night SWAT raid

My generation and that of our children grew up without Child Protective Service (CPS). We stand up very well compared to subsequent generations.

Child Protective Services is an extremely intrusive government agency that would not have been tolerated. The power of this police agency trumps parental rights and responsibilities. The agency is an important part of the destruction of liberty that I have witnessed over my lifetime.

The Gestapo power that the state now wields over parents is a creation of "child advocates" who believe that it is the function of government to protect children from parents. One consequence has been to erode parental control and to effectively end it in the case of rebellious children who respond to punishment by calling CPS and reporting their parents. CPS has powerful incentives to seize children as it justifies the agency's existence and brings a federal payment for each child seized.

There are reports that many of the seized children end up in the hands of pedophiles, but governments seldom want to hear that they are doing harm rather than good.

Comment: Child Protective Service workers now being installed in public schools

Second explosive device in a week found in Dutch city, area cordoned off

RT
Tue, 02 Apr 2019 17:22 UTC

Dutch police have responded to the discovery of an explosive device, the second such incident this week in the Netherlands.

The explosive device, resembling a grenade, was discovered at about 8:30am local time at the Nieuw Zeist cafe, in a residential area in the town of Zeist, near Utrecht. Reports by local media suggest the device had been left there deliberately, however, this was not confirmed by police.

Singapore Airlines grounds part of Boeing 787 Dreamliner fleet due to engine problems

RT
Tue, 02 Apr 2019 17:58 UTC

Singapore Airlines (SIA) has removed two of its nine Boeing 787-10 aircraft from service due to engine issues. It is more bad news for Boeing following the worldwide grounding of its popular 737 MAX passenger jet.

"During recent routine inspections of Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 TEN engines on Singapore Airlines' Boeing 787-10 fleet, premature blade deterioration was found on some engines," the carrier said in a statement on Tuesday.

Two SIA 787-10 aircraft have been removed from service pending engine replacements, while other jets equipped with the model of the Rolls-Royce engine are awaiting precautionary inspections that are to be finished by April 3.

Singapore Airlines said that some of the company's flights have been affected by the grounding, but did not elaborate on the number of the flights and passengers affected. The company is now seeking a replacement to "minimize schedule disruption to customers."

Rutgers professor: Even the concept of time is racially biased

Dave Huber
The College Fix
Tue, 02 Apr 2019 17:49 UTC

One of the privileges of being a tenured professor in the field of "studies" is that you can make up crap out of thin air and majors in the field, fellow faculty, and progressive media all go "Ooooooh!" in amazement.

Rutgers University's Brittney Cooper is a master at this. The associated professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Africana Studies who once opined that Jesus was "potentially queer" or was "married to a prostitute," called black city officials she did not like "white supremacists in Blackface," and had nothing but words of "the four-letter variety" after the US Supreme Court allowed for religious exemptions to the ObamaCare contraceptive mandate, now says that the very concept of time itself is ... racially biased.

$450M Leonardo da Vinci painting mysteriously vanishes into thin air

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Mon, 01 Apr 2019 23:00 UTC

Back in November 2017, "Salvator Mundi," a painting of Jesus that was controversially attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, was driving the art world crazy. Aside from its sky high price of $450 million and its sale to a bidder that many thought represented Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the painting's authenticity was also called into question.

Which is why when the Louvre Abu Dhabi cancelled a planned showing of the work this week, it caught the eye of art world yet again. Not only that, but the museum's culture department has deflected questions about the work and other museum workers have said that they "do not know where the painting is," according to Inquisitr.

The bottom line: the painting appears to have vanished into thin air.

French officials at the Louvre in Paris expected to get the painting for an exhibition later this year that will mark the 500th anniversary of Da Vinci's death. They hoped that the painting would surface prior to then, but so far, it hasn't.

Comment: See below for more on this 'missing' masterpiece:

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Society's Child

Brainwashed or ambitious? After Gaza slaughter, US mayor praised Israeli security responses as 'moving' - finds fault with Dems 'easy judgment'

Russian court sentences ex-military officer to 19 years for fighting alongside ISIS

Vox Media reporter admits Trump winning election made the Left so crazy they believed Russia collusion story

YouTube clamps down on Tommy Robinson's channel with series of restrictions

'Idiotic and divorced from reality': Prof dissects Disney film Moana through lens of 'rape' and 'toxic masculinity'

Child Protective Service has helped create a Gestapo-like police state

Second explosive device in a week found in Dutch city, area cordoned off

Singapore Airlines grounds part of Boeing 787 Dreamliner fleet due to engine problems

Rutgers professor: Even the concept of time is racially biased

$450M Leonardo da Vinci painting mysteriously vanishes into thin air

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