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Girl, 11, smeared blue slime on would-be kidnapper to help police identify him


The Guardian
Thu, 20 May 2021 21:59 UTC
Alyssa Bonal
Alyssa Bonal, who was attacked on Tuesday, said she learned about evidence from the TV show Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

An 11-year-old girl in Florida had the presence of mind to smear the blue slime she had been playing with on the arms of an attempted kidnapper, who threatened her with a knife and dragged her toward his van, so police could identify him.

Alyssa Bonal, of Pensacola, said she learned the importance of evidence from her favorite TV show, the long-running detective series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Alyssa, who managed to fight the man off, was attacked on Tuesday as she awaited her school bus, her near-abduction captured by a neighbor's home security camera.
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Wait, American universities are 'right-wing institutions'? Does Teen Vogue publish facts or fairy tales?

Graham Dockery
RT
Sat, 22 May 2021 08:51 UTC
minnesota left-wing student protest
© Flickr / Fibonacci BlueA left-wing student protest at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
Teen Vogue magazine is now portraying the US' universities as right-wing indoctrination centers. If you needed further proof that modern liberalism has completely detached itself from reality, here it is.

That's what University of Massachusetts Amherst professor Asheesh Kapur Siddique argued in a Teen Vogue feature published on Wednesday.

If you thought Teen Vogue was about fast fashion and kissing tips for adolescent girls, dispense with that idea before diving in. The mag has taken a bizarre turn into identitarian leftism and socialist agitation in recent years, stopping along the way to advise teenagers how to enjoy anal sex and dabble in prostitution.

Comment: How Teen Vogue became a prolific woke propaganda rag is a mystery, but there should be little doubt why teens are the ones being targeted with this ideology: get them while they're young.

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Bullseye

NBA star Kwame Brown rips 'fake woke N****s' who support Joe Biden, says they're 'the new version of the KKK'

David Hookstead
The Daily Caller
Fri, 21 May 2021 09:39 UTC
Kwame Brown
© ScreenshotKwame Brown
Kwame Brown unleashed a rant for the ages about "fake woke" black people who voted for President Joe Biden.

The former first overall pick in the NBA draft has been all over the news lately for his videos, and his rant about black Biden voters is truly on a different level.

Brown said the following in part:
You fake woke negros are the worst, man, you all are the worst thing to the black community...You fake woke n****s won't allow independent thought because I don't care who you vote for. I ain't never cuss nobody out for voting for the Democratic party, I ain't ever called anyone a coon or a disrespectful name, none of that. You motherf**kers...the guys who do that, you all are the new version of the KKK. White folks don't got to do nothing. You all are the new version of the KKK.

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Light Saber

Republicans demand Department of Education withdraw rule forcing critical race theory in schools

Henry Rodgers
Daily Caller
Thu, 20 May 2021 19:23 UTC
Dan Bishop
© Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images
A group of House Republicans sent a Wednesday night letter to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona urging him to withdraw a proposal that may force schools to teach critical race theory (CRT) and the 1619 Project.

The letter, first obtained by the Daily Caller, was spearheaded by North Carolina Rep. Dan Bishop and Texas Rep. Chip Roy and was signed by 24 other Republicans. In the letter, the lawmakers call on Cardona to withdraw the proposal to adopt grantmaking priorities "to improve ... [t]he quality of American history, civics, and government education," saying the department could hold back grants to schools that don't buy into CRT curriculum and the "1619 Project."

"Today concludes the period for comment upon the U.S. Department of Education's referenced proposal to adopt explicitly racialized grantmaking priorities in order 'to improve ... [t]he quality of American history, civics, and government education.' A more wrong-headed, unamerican proposal would be difficult to imagine. Yet, the country must recognize that very soon President Biden's embrace of the poisonous and anti-American ideology of critical race theory threatens to become official policy of the United States government, directed toward our most impressionable citizens — primary and secondary school students across the country," the lawmakers said in the letter.

"As countless Americans know that this effort is wrong, we join more than 24,000 individuals who have commented during the past 30 days, to express our dismay and objections to the proposal," they added.

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Eye 1

Best of the Web: Hateful hypocrisy: In hate crime-obsessed Britain, vilifying Covid vaccine 'refuseniks' comes with establishment approval

Neil Clark
RT
Fri, 21 May 2021 07:00 UTC
no vaccine
© Getty Images / StockPlanets
We hear so much in woke Britain about 'hate crime' and how terrible it is. But right now, we're in the midst of an extremely nasty campaign against those who don't wish to take a Covid vaccine and somehow that's deemed acceptable.

"The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but that it was impossible to avoid joining in. Within thirty seconds any pretence was always unnecessary. A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one's will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic. And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp." From George Orwell's '1984.'

"Selfish idiots." "Refuseniks." "Anti-vaxxer loonies." "Holding the country to ransom." "A menace to their own health and ours." "They're like drink drivers." Just a few of the insults that have been hurled at Brits who, despite the biggest drug promotion campaign in our history, have decided they don't wish to take one of the new-on-the-market Covid vaccines.

Freedom of choice? Bodily autonomy? They seem to have gone out of the window, along with all the other basic rights we have lost in Britain these past 15 months. The date is 2021, but we're actually living in Orwell's '1984,' with its daily 'Two Minutes Hate.'
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Promoting Covid jabs on dating apps is both preposterous and proof that govt & Big Tech are a match made in hell

Peter Lloyd
RT
Fri, 21 May 2021 16:22 UTC
tinder app
© Reuters / Akhtar Soomro/Illustration
Forget the accidental 'super likes', STDs & casual ghostings - online dating is set to get even worse, thanks to government meddling and virtue-signalling tech bosses. Clearly, there's never been a better time to be single.

People on dating apps are looking for one of two things: romance or sex. Occasionally, they want both - ideally, from the same individual. Sometimes, they even want marriage and kids. But there's one thing they never, ever want, and that's a Covid-19 vaccine.

Nor do they want intervention from Big Tech and a meddling government, but that looks unavoidable for today's modern singletons. President Joe Biden's administration has already started pushing inoculations via the US industry's most popular platforms Tinder, Hinge, OkCupid and Bumble.

And now the UK government is reportedly set to follow suit. A Westminster source told the Telegraph: "All those apps will be approached to flag the importance of getting vaccinated. There are ongoing conversations. It would be a decision for platforms [if they wished] to be involved."

Comment: Also a good reason to stay away from dating apps. See also:

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Broom

Boko Haram leader tried to kill himself to avoid capture during clash with rivals - reports

Jason Burke
The Guardian
Thu, 20 May 2021 15:28 UTC
Shekau
© AFP/Getty ImagesBoko Haram's leader, Abubakar Shekau, speaking in a video message in 2018 .
Intelligence officials in Nigeria have claimed the leader of Boko Haram is dead or seriously wounded after trying to kill himself to avoid capture during clashes with a rival extremist faction.

There is no confirmation of the claims, and Nigeria's intelligence services and military have reported Abubakar Shekau's death many times before.

But this is the first time that reports have described Shekau - who won global infamy with the kidnapping of nearly 300 female students from a college in 2014 - as dying in fighting with other militants.

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Eye 1

French interior minister calls on cops to crack down on people out past curfew after 'deplorable' scenes at bars & cafes


RT
Thu, 20 May 2021 18:36 UTC
Paris mask lockdown
© Reuters / Christian HartmannParis, France, May 19, 2021.
France's Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin has vowed to come down with force on those flouting the country's Covid-19 rules after footage showed crowds of lockdown-weary revelers flocking to bars and restaurants.

Speaking to reporters on Thursday, Darmanin said he had asked law enforcement to act with "great firmness" against anyone not respecting France's 9pm curfew.

The minister criticized the "deplorable" scenes across the country on Wednesday as cafes, bars and restaurants legally opened up for the first time in six months.

Comment: Last summer, when the establishment partially lifted lockdowns and gave people a brief holiday from tyranny, protests erupted across much of the West; of particular note were the BLM riots. But this kind of reaction from people was actually predicted by some psychologists in the early days of the very first lockdown. Because it's human nature to want to relieve the stress that confinement creates. And so, now, following a year of lockdowns, with continued nonsensical curfews and restrictions, and a potentially bleak future up ahead, it's likely we will see something similar play out:

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Attention

Israel shuts down - Palestinians stage historic strike over Israeli abuses and Gaza bombing

Lubna Masarwa, Shatha Hammad, Latifeh Abdellatif
Middle East Eye
Tue, 18 May 2021 19:28 UTC
Quiet Jerusalem
© MEE/Latifeh AbdellatifMuch of Jerusalem was quiet as Palestinians respected a strike held across historic Palestine.
The stone streets of Jerusalem's Old City are silent. Shutters with peeling paint are firmly rolled down.

In Haifa, Jewish cafes are serving coffee. Beside them, Palestinian-run businesses have their lights turned off.

Across Israel, the clanking, sawing and drilling sounds from construction sites have disappeared. There are no Palestinian labourers manning the scaffolds now.

Millions of Palestinians have gone on strike.

In Israel, occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank, Palestinians have downed tools or stayed away from their desks in just the latest example of pan-Palestinian solidarity following days of Israeli crackdowns and ferocious bombing on Gaza.

"I cannot recall, for years, Palestinians of all backgrounds, factions, Muslims, Christians, atheists, being united under one goal," Inas Abbad, a political science researcher and activist from East Jerusalem, told Middle East Eye.

"This is the first time since the Second intifada that Palestinian parties, together with all Palestinians of the occupied territories of 1948, have issued a joint statement and a unified call for a strike."
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Palestinians celebrate ceasefire; Israel attacks Al Aqsa worshipers, again Updates


Mondoweiss
Fri, 21 May 2021 00:00 UTC
Palestinians and flag celebrate
© Ashraf Amra/APA ImagesPalestinians celebrate in the streets following a ceasefire
May 21, 2021
Latest Updates:
  • After 11 days of fighting, Israel and Hamas agree to a ceasefire, negotiated by Egypt, that started early Friday, 2 AM Jerusalem time. US President Joe Biden "commended" Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu for ending hostilities.
  • Gaza death reached at least 232, including 65 children, and 1,760 injured due to ongoing Israeli airstrikes; 50,000 families have been displaced, 24 health facilities suffered partial or complete damage, Gaza Ministry of Health reports.
Israel attacks worshipers at the al-Aqsa mosque compound, again:

Israeli forces are reportedly attacking worshipers at the al-Aqsa mosque compound, following a massive demonstration after Friday prayers during which Palestinians celebrated victory after a Gaza ceasefire. Local media is reporting that Israeli forces are firing tear gas, stun grenades, and rubber bullets.

Comment: Relief was evident as Palestinians celebrated the end of hostilities, death and damage - as skirmishes at Al-Aqsa became the new reminder.

Update 20/5/2021 22:35 Biden to help IDF, continue support for Israel:
Biden
© Reuters/Jonathan ErnstUS President Joe Biden gives remarks on the ceasefire.
Joe Biden vowed to resupply Tel Aviv's Iron Dome missile defense system in the wake of 11 days of fighting with Palestinian militants in Gaza, after confirming a ceasefire deal had been reached between the two sides.

Reiterating Washington's support for Israel's "right to defend itself against indiscriminate rocket attacks" in a brief national address on Thursday evening, Biden said that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
"also shared with me his appreciation for the Iron Dome system, which our nations developed together and which has saved the lives of countless Israeli citizens, both Arab and Jew. I assured him of my full support to replenish Israel's Iron Dome system to ensure its defenses and security in the future. I send sincere condolences to all the families, Israeli and Palestinian, who have lost loved ones."
Biden said Washington would work to provide "rapid humanitarian assistance" and aid reconstruction efforts in Gaza, where some 450 buildings were destroyed or severely damaged in Israeli strikes. This effort would be "in full partnership with the Palestinian Authority, not Hamas."
Update 20/5/2021: Ceasefire ends the terror in Gaza...for now. Accountability and trust remain in question:


A group of human rights experts stated:
"The international community must ensure that Israel, the occupying power, complies fully with the more than 30 UN Security Council resolutions and the hundreds of General Assembly resolutions of which it is in breach. A brand new diplomatic playbook is needed, which leaves behind realpolitik. A rights-based approach must guide the diplomacy of the international community to secure a just and durable solution."
Update: 21/5/2021 2:23: Street parades and impromptu fireworks displays erupted in Palestinian cities early on Friday morning, even as the destruction toll of over 450 buildings and death and injury tally is still underway:

Update: 21/5/2021 11:22: Israeli police storm al-Aqsa complex following the ceasefire in pursuit of worshippers who gathered to celebrate:
Footage released on social media showed Israeli police firing into crowds of Palestinian worshippers shortly after they had congregated for Friday prayers. Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said officers had been targeted by Palestinians who threw stones, and began "riot" suppressing measures.

At least 20 Palestinians have been wounded, with two being taken to hospital, according to Palestine Red Crescent. Reuters reported stones and molotov cocktails being thrown towards police.




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