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What can go wrong? French government will release 50 Islamic terrorists and 450 radicalised prisoners by 2019

Abdelhamid Kaddour
Voice of Europe
Thu, 14 Jun 2018 09:04 UTC
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"Four-hundred-fifty radicalised prisoners will be out of jail by 2019 plus fifty Islamic terrorists," said the French Justice Minister, Nicole Belloubet, to BFMTV.

She added that "There will be 20 Islamic terrorists who will leave prison this year and 30 next year".

This shocking statement should not come as a surprise for whose people who know the extreme clemency of the European countries' justice systems; as early as the previous week, a Belgian Islamic terrorist, Benjamin H., committed brutal killings while he was on "penitentiary leave," despite his known Islamic views.

"There are also simple criminals who've been radicalised during their jail-time (...) 450 radicalised prisoners will get out of prison from 2019," Belloubet said.

France, being the host of the biggest muslim community in Europe, has already suffered the deaths of 245 French nationals from Islamic terrorism.

Yet, astonishingly, the French government is not taking the appropriate measures to protect the French people from further attacks.

Comment: Following the example of Justin Trudeau?

Is Trudeau Off His Rocker? Canadian PM Wants to 'Reintegrate' ISIS Terrorists Into Society

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Mr. Potato

Not Satire! Rachel Maddow reveals shocking fact that China and Russia are "literally neighbors" with North Korea!


RT
Thu, 14 Jun 2018 08:04 UTC
Rachel Maddow
Regular MSNBC viewers will be familiar with Rachel Maddow and her affinity for Russiagate speculation; but the conspiracy-happy host has finally gone off the deep end with her coverage of the Singapore nuclear summit this week.

On Tuesday's episode of her show, Maddow launched an 18-minute long attempt to prove that the person who benefited most from US President Donald Trump's nuclear summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was actually Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Before she got down to the business of explaining how Putin secretly controlled Trump during the Singapore summit, however, Maddow had some very important news to impart to her viewers. This news was so important that Maddow spent the first three minutes of her segment building up to the big reveal.

With much fanfare, the intrepid MSNBC host revealed to the world - drum roll, please - the well-hidden fact that North Korea has, indeed, got a small border with Russia.

Now, of course, this was nothing that a quick glance at a map of the world couldn't confirm in two seconds, but on The Rachel Maddow Show it was truly groundbreaking information presented almost as though Maddow herself had uncovered a huge geographical secret.

Comment: Here is Rachel Maddow's full unintentionally hilarious exposition of the 'Putin plotted peace in Korea' conspiracy theory:



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Gold Seal

UN General Assembly condemns Israel for 'excessive use of force', calls for 'protection of the Palestinians' on Gaza border


RT
Wed, 13 Jun 2018 09:12 UTC
Gaza border
© Amir Cohen / Reuters
The UN General Assembly has adopted a nonbinding resolution condemning Israel's use of 'excessive force' against Palestinian protesters in Gaza. A US amendment to condemn Hamas did not get enough support.

The resolution condemns Israel for "excessive use of force" against Palestinian demonstrators on the Israeli-Gaza border and calls for the "protection of the Palestinian civilian population" in Gaza. It was adopted with 120 votes in favor and eight votes against, with 45 abstentions.

The amendment offered by US envoy Nikki Haley sought to condemn Hamas, which runs the elected government in Gaza, for firing rockets at Israel. The amendment received 62 votes in favor, with 58 nations opposed and 42 abstaining. It needed a two-thirds majority to pass, however, so it was not included in the final resolution.

Comment: UN OHCHR statement: Israel must address excessive use of force against Palestinians

This is another diplomatic defeat for US/Israel. Is the world really standing up to Israel's crimes? See:

Ideological Possession: Israel's Zionists Shoot Themselves in the Foot

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TV

Death in Gaza and the corporate media's world of illusions

Jonathan Cook
Dissident Voice
Wed, 13 Jun 2018 00:00 UTC
Gaza protestors
For several years now, I have been writing these regular blog posts with one end in mind: to help open a door for readers and encourage them to step through. I select issues, usually those that dominate western media coverage and represent a consensus that we might term the Great Western Narrative, and try to show how this narrative has been constructed not to inform and enlighten but to conceal and deceive.

It is not that I and the many other bloggers doing this are cleverer than everyone else. We have simply had a chance - an earlier one - to step through that door ourselves, because of a jarring life experience that the Great Western Narrative could not explain, or because someone held the door open for us, or more usually because of a combination of the two.

My Personal Awakening

It is easy for me to identify my own process of awakening. It began with the dislocation of moving to Nazareth and being immersed in someone else's narrative - that of the Palestinians. Then, I faced for the first time in my career as a journalist an impenetrable wall of opposition, even from my own former newspaper, the Guardian, as I tried to explain that counter-narrative. In fact, I found that the Palestinian narrative was invariably misrepresented as anti-semitism. These were dark years of disillusionment and the loss of a professional and ideological compass.
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Arrow Down

'Peace is bad for business': War-profiting stocks take a dip after diplomatic progress with North Korea

Jake Johnson
Common Dreams
Wed, 13 Jun 2018 00:00 UTC
us air force
© U.S. Air Force/Madelyn Brown
American defense contractors were practically drooling over the prospect of all-out war with North Korea as President Donald Trump was recklessly flinging "fire and fury" last year, but Tuesday's summit between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un appears to have dampened war profiteers' dreams of yet another catastrophic U.S.-led military conflict - at least for now.

Demonstrating that even the slightest whiff of peace is enough to scare investors in America's most profitable military contractors, USA Today reported on Tuesday that shares of Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Boeing, and General Dynamics all "took a dive" as Trump and Kim signed a vague, non-binding agreement that is merely the first step toward a lasting diplomatic solution.

"Peace is bad for business," noted writer Ajit Singh in response to the new report.
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Brick Wall

The Left doesn't understand Jordan B. Peterson - because they don't WANT to understand him

Marina Medvin
Townhall
Tue, 12 Jun 2018 00:01 UTC
Jordan B. Peterson
I have been following Jordan B. Peterson for quite some time.

Surprise! It's not just misogynists or stupid white males, or "self-help junkies," that follow Jordan Peterson, a fallacy the left is so desperately trying to advance. Turns out, some of his audience is made up of educated, successful, assertive females.

[Holding tight for leftist screams ...]

Leftists are wrong about him because the left is deaf when hearing Jordan Peterson.

Peterson uses big words to say simple things, the left is right about that. But what the left cannot grasp is the essence of what Peterson's audience gets out of his lectures. And it's not the size of his words that impress us. It's his rationality.
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Cult

Operation How Do You Sleep? Exposing Lewis Arthur and Veterans on Patrol

Stephen Larpington
LewisArthur.wordpress
Wed, 13 Jun 2018 22:34 UTC
Pedophile Networks and Rape Trees - The Strange Saga of Lewis Arthur
lewis arthur
Recently a story out of Tucson, Arizona went viral. A group dedicated to rescuing homeless veterans had stumbled onto a child sex trafficking camp in the woods near route 19 at a Cemex property, 40 miles from the border with Mexico. The Facebook live streams were captivating. The group insisted this could be nothing other than a "cartel rape camp" for trafficked children. The group found hair dye and children's toys. A buried septic tank was identified as a holding cell for young victims. Pieces of hose and straps nailed to a tree at "child level" were said to be restraints, and the tree in question was most definitely a "rape tree."

Law enforcement was called and responded to the scene. The veterans group angrily proclaimed on Facebook that the responding officers didn't investigate properly. They then occupied the site, hanging an American flag from the tower of an abandoned cement factory. The veterans group placed personnel with rifles at various positions should the cartel sex traffickers return. They collected "evidence" they claimed law enforcement ignored. This high­­­ drama was captured in livestream after livestream.

This is the story of Michael '"Lewis Arthur" Meyer, the leader of the group Veterans on Patrol and the star of these compelling Facebook Videos, as told by someone who has observed his activities closely over the past 4 years. As you will find reading this article, I don't believe much of what Lewis Arthur has to say, but I do believe this:

"I used to walk with the devil hisself."

- Lewis Arthur in a recent Facebook Video, explaining his criminal background and redemption
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Document

Russia's Interior Ministry says registration cards of prisoners from Gulag camps being digitized, not destroyed


RFE / RL
Wed, 13 Jun 2018 18:13 UTC
Gulag prisoners
© Mikhail Sokolov/RFE/RL
A photo of Gulag prisoners in Perm (undated).
Russia's Interior Ministry says it is digitizing thousands of registration cards of prisoners caught up in the Soviet-era gulag camp system, not destroying them as historians warned.

The ministry released its statement on June 13, about a week after a Russian researcher first made the charge that the records were being destroyed.

According to historians, the registration cards contain key information about people caught up in the sprawling prison camp system that existed for decades during the Soviet era.

The Moscow-based Gulag History Museum, considered the country's foremost exhibition of the prison camp system, said earlier this month that researcher Sergei Prudovsky had discovered a directive from 2014 ordering the destruction of the cards.

Comment: Researcher discovers potentially 'catastrophic' destruction of Soviet-era documents - Russian govt says all records 'kept forever'

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Hardhat

Better than debt slavery: Why twenty-somethings are choosing skilled trades over college degrees

Tom Purcell
Townhall
Mon, 11 Jun 2018 15:15 UTC
skills trades
When I was a 19-year-old college sophomore in 1982, my father gave me advice that makes even more sense for 19-year-olds today.

Despite his protestations, you see, I chose English as my major at Penn State. Worried about my ability to land a job, he begged me to at least minor in something practical.

I'm still the only person ever to graduate from Penn State with a major in English and a minor in air conditioning/heating.

I joke, of course, but if I were 19 now, I don't think I'd go thousands upon thousands into debt to fund a liberal arts degree.

I'd give skilled trades - electrician, plumber, machinist, IT and many other skill sets - a serious look, because that's where the opportunity is.

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Dollar

US Federal gov't collected record individual income taxes through May; still runs $532.2 billion deficit

Terence P. Jeffrey
CNS News
Tue, 12 Jun 2018 02:56 UTC
US Capitol building
The federal government collected a record $1,143,141,000,000 in individual income taxes through the first eight months of fiscal 2018 (Oct. 1, 2017 through the end of May), according to the Monthly Treasury Statement released today.

Despite the record individual income tax collections, the federal government still ran a deficit of $532,241,000,000 over those same eight months, according to the Treasury statement.

The approximately $1,143,141,000,000 in individual income taxes that the Treasury collected in October through May of this fiscal year was $56,273,800,000 more (in constant May 2018 dollars) than the $1,086,867,200,000 (in constant May 2018 dollars) in individual income taxes that the Treasury collected in October through May of fiscal 2016-which was the previous record.
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