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AlDe'emeh believes that Europe's politicians are naïve when it comes to mass-immigration, Islam and failed integration. He advises halting the influx of refugees, stating that Western Europe is "importing a civil war", adding that "we first have to know what we need to do with the people who are already here".
When I was a child I was told by my parents that I was a winner, and for the first six years of my life I believed what my parents had told me.
I was late in talking, but I went off to school with high hopes of learning to read like my sisters, and for the first year things were fine because there weren't many demands on us other than standing in the right line, sitting down, keeping our mouths shut and going to the bathroom on time.
A kakistocracy is a form of government in which the least qualified person is in power. Brennan could have simply used an Idiocracy reference like a normal person, but then we wouldn't know how smart he is.
The New York Times has editorialized sternly about Murtaja's killing, the General Federation of Arab Journalists wants the case prosecuted at the International Criminal Court, and the AFP is reporting that Murtaja was detained and beaten by Hamas just three years ago, in a thorough rebuke to the Israeli government's claim that Murtaja was a Hamas officer.
The Federation of Arab Journalists will ask "the International Criminal Court to prosecute Israel and demand the Palestinian Authority institute a lawsuit at the court" for the shootings of six journalists last Friday, according to a statement from the group. Following "an extraordinary meeting at its Cairo headquarters," the Arab journalists blasted the world's complacence about the attacks.
Kevin Johnson, who has been in the top job a year, apologized on Sunday after two men were reportedly escorted from a Starbucks café by police in Philadelphia. According to eyewitness Melissa DePino, who filmed the incident at the Spruce Street store last week, Starbucks staff called police on two black men waiting at a table for a friend without ordering.
"The police were called because these men hadn't ordered anything. They were waiting for a friend to show up, who did as they were taken out in handcuffs for doing nothing," she posted online. "All the other white people are wondering why it's never happened to us when we do the same thing."
Comment: Wow, this is bad. While the cops fall back to "we were just doing our job," they really shouldn't have been called in the first place. This is going to be a PR nightmare for Starbucks.
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Sainsbury’s will be bringing in pouches that allows customers to place chicken pieces straight into a frying pan without having to touch them
Sainsbury's will be bringing in pouches that allows customers to place chicken pieces straight into a frying pan without having touch them.
The supermarket chain said the plastic pouches were developed after consumers under the age of 35 said they didn't like to handle uncooked meat.
Sainsbury's will be bringing in pouches that allows customers to place chicken pieces straight into a frying pan without having touch them
Any prospect of having to be in contact with the raw produce left the millennials with high levels of anxiety, the store's survey showed.
Comment: The problem of contamination has little to do with the handling of the food and more to do with the abhorrent conditions and origins involved in factory farming.
As to the fear of touching raw meat, these people are slowly becoming so removed from reality that they're hardly able to function within it anymore. And millennial do appear to be at the forefront of this breakdown, but it certainly is not limited to them.
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"We hold a sense of crisis that the falsifying and hiding of public documents means nothing less than the destruction of our nation and democracy," said economist Masaru Kaneko to a crowd of some 30,000 people in front of the Diet building.
The fans unfolded a banner reading "F**ck Trump" in a message to Washington calling on it to stop killing the Syrian people on the pretext of establishing "peace."
Donald Trump ordered on Friday a massive missile strike against Syrian targets in response to the alleged chemical attack in the city of Douma in the Damascus suburb. Jointly with the United Kingdom and France, the United States had launched 103 missiles, 71 of which were intercepted by Syrian air defense systems. According to the Syrian authorities, which have repeatedly said that they had destroyed their chemical weapons stockpiles, the strikes damaged Syrian infrastructure and left three civilians wounded.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that the attack had been conducted illegally.
An inquiry into the assassination of Alexander Litvinenko in the heart of London in 2006 has concluded that he was "probably" murdered on the personal orders of Vladimir Putin. This is a troubling accusation.
The report (pdf) said that Litvinenko, who died from radioactive poisoning, was killed by two Russian agents, Andrei Lugovoi and Dmitry Kovtun, who were most likely acting on behalf of the Russian FSB secret service.
Comment:
- The Litvinenko case - a timeline
- Russia ready to cooperate with Britain on Litvinenko case - FSB
- Maxim Litvinenko: 'Western intelligence killed my brother to turn public opinion against Putin'
- Litvinenko - By Way Of Deception Part 1Litvinenko: By Way Of Deception - Part 2
- Litvinenko: By Way of Deception Part 3: The Apartheid State Of Israel














Comment: The fact that children can make it through school, and sometimes college, without knowing how to read is truly a shocking fact. But apparently one can even hold down a successful teaching career without being functionally literate. While the above story is tragic, and inspiring, one has to ask - how the heck does this happen? If those teaching our children don't even know the fundamental basics of learning, what does that say about what's being taught? The future looks bleak indeed.
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