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'His psychological torture is unabated': John Pilger reveals Assange's appalling prison conditions


RT
Thu, 29 Aug 2019 11:09 UTC
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© REUTERS/Neil Hall
Australian journalist and BAFTA award-winning documentary filmmaker John Pilger says the "psychological torture" of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange continues "unabated" while he remains in British custody.

Pilger tweeted that he recently spoke with Assange and said the journalist had lost even more weight than previously reported; he has also been denied a chance to speak to his parents on the phone.

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160 years into Darwinism, and human speech is still unexplainable

Barbara Kay
The National Post
Tue, 27 Aug 2019 17:16 UTC
Charles Darwin
© WikipediaCharles Darwin
Darwinism's puzzling Achilles' heel is its utter failure to account for, alone amongst the species, humans' large brains and capacity for both abstract thought and speech.

Back when the world was young, I was taught that four visionaries' theories shaped modernity: Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein. Of them, only Einstein's could be subjected to scientific scrutiny. The rest remained hypotheses, resistant to such standard scientific tests as falsifiability, replicability and predictability, but so beautiful in their comprehensiveness that the intelligentsia accepted them for what they were not: settled science.

Time has proven unkind to Freud's and Marx's theories, but very kind to Darwinism. Why? Shhh. If you dare to ask, you invite ridicule. Because the minute one expresses doubt about Darwin's basic premise that all life-forms, including humans, descend from a common ancestor through the simple processes of random, heritable variation and natural selection, one admits the possibility of a counter-theory — Intelligent Design — that is considered anathema to the intelligentsia, since it implies, you know, the G-word.

Comment: Professor Gelernter in conversation with other Darwin sceptics:



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Hundreds of migrants storm 6m-high razor wire at Spanish exclave Ceuta


RT
Fri, 30 Aug 2019 15:45 UTC
Migrants
At least 150 of an estimated 250 migrants who attempted to storm Spain's north African exclave Ceuta, made it to the city's Temporary Migrant Reception Centre (CETI) of Jaral in the early hours of Friday morning.

Six Spanish police officers were injured in scuffles as migrants stormed the six-meter-high fence, which bristles with razor wire, at 7:20 am local time near the breakwater of the town of Benzu.

The Red Cross were deployed to treat injured migrants who became stuck on the fence. Video from the scene shows Spanish authorities escorting jubilant migrants through the streets of the city along Morocco's northern coast.
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ISIS fighter was still claiming UK housing benefits while he was beheading people in Syria

Matthew Dresch
Mirror
Fri, 30 Aug 2019 17:20 UTC
Anouar Haddouchi
Anouar Haddouchi was dubbed 'the executioner of Raqqa' for his sickening crimes.
A former resident of Birmingham who beheaded more than 100 people in the Islamic State's former Syrian capital has been captured.

Anouar Haddouchi, dubbed 'the executioner of Raqqa', was originally from Belgium but moved to the Midlands in 2009.

The terrorist managed to claim thousands of pounds in housing benefit while fighting for ISIS in Syria.

Haddouchi, 35, is reportedly now being held in a prison run by the Syrian Democratic Forces, a force comprising a mix of Kurdish and Arab fighters.

Haddouchi beheaded more than 100 people in ISIS's former Syrian capital of Raqqa, Het Laatste Nieuws reports.

Troops arrested the fighter and his 32-year-old wife Julie Maes after the battle for the last ISIS stronghold of Baghouz.
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Sweden ends sweeping 'automatic asylum' policy for Syrians


RT
Fri, 30 Aug 2019 14:17 UTC
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© Reuters / Johan NilssonA police officer escorts migrants from a train at Hyllie station outside Malmo, Sweden.
Stockholm has tightened its lenient migration laws with regard to Syrian asylum seekers, saying that not all parts of the war-torn country are equally dangerous anymore.

Since the intensity of the war in Syria "has slightly decreased," the new asylum seekers "will not automatically be granted protection in Sweden" any longer, the Swedish Migration Agency said on Thursday.

From now on, officials will assess each Syrian asylum seeker, considering what part of the country he or she came from. The residents of the six 'more dangerous' provinces - Aleppo, Raqqa, Idlib, Homs, Hama, and Deir ez-Zor - can still expect asylum to be granted automatically. That will not be true for people living in 'less dangerous' regions in the south, including Damascus, as well as in Latakia and Tartus on the Mediterranean coast, and the Kurdish-held northeast.

Comment: See also: 'Don't go out alone': Swedish police warn women after four rapes in four days in town of Uppsala

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Israeli police throw stun grenade at Haaretz photographer during raid on East Jerusalem neighborhood


RT
Fri, 30 Aug 2019 10:29 UTC
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Israeli police threw a stun grenade at a Haaretz photographer in Isawiya, East Jerusalem, and detained a journalist and two members of a parents' committee during the Wednesday night raid on the Palestinian neighborhood.

A large police presence entered Isawiya as part of an ongoing crackdown in the area that has seen almost nightly raids for months, with 340 arrests and one fatal police shooting in what residents say is an intimidation campaign.

When the authorities were leaving the area Wednesday night, people threw stones at them and young men threw a firebomb and fireworks. Police ordered the crowd of residents, journalists, and Israeli activists to disperse.

Video footage shows a police officer hurling a stun grenade at Haaretz photographer Emil Salman, who was filming in the yard of a house and was not standing near other people at the time. A police officer can be heard saying, "throw at him, throw," before the grenade was flung.

Comment: Impression management - If there is no evidence to prove Israeli malfeasance, then 'it didn't happen'.

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NH survey center admits 'our polling schedule is determined by CNN'

Jake Mercier
Medium
Thu, 29 Aug 2019 16:33 UTC
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© Paul Sancya / Associated PressRep. Tulsi Gabbard speaks in Detroit on July 31, 2019 during the second of two Democratic presidential primary debates hosted by CNN.
Before debates, dark money is stifling debate within the Democratic Party

It's no secret that the Democratic establishment fears Tulsi Gabbard. It's also no secret that they are perfectly willing to pull the necessary strings to determine the outcome of an election (see 2016). Many, now, are sounding the alarms on the DNC's methods of who gets airtime during the 2020 debates.

In an exclusive comment to CitizenSource, the University of New Hampshire Survey Center — one of the only DNC-approved pollsters in New Hampshire (due to the fact that they are "partners" with CNN) — explained why they wouldn't be conducting a poll this month in the battleground state before the crucial September debate. Director Andrew E. Smith responded:
"The UNH Survey Center is funded by grants and contracts. We have contracted with CNN during this primary cycle as we have since 2000. Our polling schedule is determined by CNN and their polling budget."

Comment: The Democratic party continues its evil ways. It's likely to come back to bite them hard in 2020. But they are too wrapped up in their progressive bubble (again) to see it.

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Illinois police launch investigation after video shows officer placing a choke hold on a suspect

Karma Allen
ABC News
Wed, 28 Aug 2019 13:52 UTC
police chokehold
Police are reviewing an incident caught on video where Elonte McDowell was choked by police in DeKalb, Ill., on Saturday, Aug. 24, 2019.
An Illinois police department has opened an excessive use of force investigation after social media footage appeared to show an officer placing a man in a choke hold during an arrest for marijuana possession.

The DeKalb Police Department in northern Illinois said it was reviewing footage and witness statements in connection with the arrest of 25-year-old Elonte McDowell, a black man who was placed in a choke hold and tased by white police officers last week, authorities said Tuesday.

McDowell's girlfriend, Alyssa Retuerto, captured the Aug. 24 arrest on video and posted it to Facebook with the caption, "For you guys to decide. Right or wrong?" Retuerto can be heard pleading with the officers in the video, asking why they needed to use a Taser while McDowell was pinned to the ground and in a choke hold.
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Teen went shooting with his mom and now he can't return to school

Cam Edwards
Bearing Arms
Thu, 29 Aug 2019 11:50 UTC
teen shooting gun
A Colorado teen has been told he cannot return to school until authorities hold a "threat assessment hearing" after he went target shooting with his mother. Nate Evans, a junior at Loveland High School in Loveland, Colorado actually got a visit from police after he posted video of his plinking with his mom Justine according to the Colorado 2nd Amendment group Rally For Our Rights.
A report had come in to the police department about the video and they were told Nate was a threat. After showing the videos to the police officers and explaining that they'd simply gone on a mother-son outing to train with their legally owned firearms, the police stated that they had done nothing illegal and were well within their rights. They also determined Nate was not a threat to himself or anyone else, and went on their way.

But it wasn't over.
Unfortunately, even after police determined that there was nothing nefarious about a mom taking her son out for some firearms training, the school district wasn't convinced.
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Uproar after Indian judge brands Tolstoy's War & Peace 'objectionable material'


RT
Fri, 30 Aug 2019 08:49 UTC
War and Peace Tolstoy
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An Indian judge's lack of literary appreciation has been roundly mocked online after he reportedly demanded a defendant explain why he had a copy of a book about a "war in another country," in reference to 'War and Peace'.

Activist Vernon Gonsalves was on trial in Bombay High Court for allegedly inciting violence back in December 2017, the PTI agency reports. Police presented the court with what they considered "highly incriminating evidence" seized from Gonsalves' home, namely "books and CDs with objectionable titles."

While the court agreed with the defense that mere possession of literature does not make one a terrorist, it demanded an explanation from the defendant about some of the works in question - chiefly, 'War and Peace'.
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