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Flashback Why Europe dodged America's Fentanyl crisis

Max Daly
Vice
Thu, 07 Feb 2019 17:20 UTC
fentanyl
© National Crime AgencyA box of fentanyl marked "Know what this is???!!! It is evil."
In 2017, a spike in fentanyl-related deaths in the north of England and a series of police raids on suppliers led many to believe the super potent opioid had finally found its way into Britain's narcotic food chain. It was only a matter of time, the thought went, before the devastation wreaked in parts of America and Canada — by heroin suppliers stretching out supplies with cheaper, more potent fentanyl — would start to be mirrored in the UK and Europe

On January 18, three dealers busted in April 2017 were jailed for a total of 43 years for selling 2,800 packages of fentanyl and 635g of pure carfentanil over the darknet from their storage unit in Leeds, West Yorkshire. Yet, in the nearly two years between their arrest and jailing, the expected US-style fentanyl explosion has so far failed to ignite. The drug has a growing presence in Europe, but that's still nowhere near the levels seen in north America.

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Airplane

Mystery private jet reportedly travels from Israel to Saudi Arabia and back


Sputnik
Thu, 24 Oct 2019 12:53 UTC
Mystery Private Jet Reportedly Travels From Israel to Saudi Arabia
© CC BY-SA 3.0/Oyoyoy/At Ben Gurion International airport
Saudi Arabia and Israel do not maintain official diplomatic relations, let alone a direct air link, so a journey from Tel Aviv to Riyadh by an unidentified individual or a group of individuals is by no means a negligible event.

A private flight was reportedly made this week from Israel to Saudi Arabia with a stop-over in Jordan, sparking speculation that high-profile Israeli officials could be on board.

A Bombardier Challenger 604 jet departed from Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv and arrived at an airport in Amman, Jordan on Tuesday, where it stopped for two minutes before heading towards Saudi Arabia, according to security reporter Yossi Melman.

"A mysterious flight to Saudi Arabia," Melman, a contributor for the newspapers Maariv and The Jerusalem Post, tweeted on Wednesday. "The Challenger took off from Ben Gurion Airport last night, and left for Amman, where it stopped for two minutes to launder the flight, then took off Riyadh. After a 55-minute stop-over at the Saudi airport's runway, the plane returned to Ben Gurion Airport."
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Illinois manufacturing executives charged with knowingly hiring illegal aliens

John Binder
Breitbart
Thu, 24 Oct 2019 19:56 UTC
restuarant workers
© Associated Press/Elaine Thompson
Four executives at an Illinois manufacturing plant have been charged with knowingly hiring illegal aliens, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency reveals.

According to ICE officials, four executives at the sheet metal KSO MetalFab Inc. manufacturing plant in Streamwood, Illinois — a suburb of Chicago — have been charged with one count each of knowingly harboring illegal aliens and one count each of knowingly hiring illegal aliens.

The four executives include 81-year-old Dora Kuzelka, 62-year-old Kenneth Kuzelka, 56-year-old Kari Kuzelka, and 58-year-old Keith Kuzelka. ICE officials allege that the Kuzelkas knowingly hired at least 18 illegal aliens.
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Star of David

Israel's endgame: Make Gaza uninhabitable

Jonathan Cook
21st Century Wire
Sat, 19 Oct 2019 00:00 UTC
No electricity
© AFP
"Israel has ignored warnings by the United Nations that Gaza is about to become uninhabitable, acting as if Palestinians there can be caged, starved and abused indefinitely. Now crises are unfolding on all fronts - social, economic, political and humanitarian - and Israel is running out of time to find solutions." - AMEU (September-October 2019)
The only way Israelis can be made to sit up and take note of the disaster unfolding next door in Gaza, it seems, is when they fear the fallout may spill out of the tiny coastal enclave and engulf them too. Environmental experts from two Israeli universities issued a report in June warning that the imminent collapse of Gaza's water, sewage and electricity infrastructure would soon rebound on Israel.

Gideon Bromberg, the Israeli director of EcoPeace Middle East, which commissioned the report, told journalists:
"Without urgent, vigorous action, plagues and infections will break out that could cost a great many lives, both in Israel and in Gaza, and no fence or Iron Dome [Israel's missile interception system] can thwart them."
Israel's liberal Haaretz newspaper paraphrased another of Bromberg's comments:
"If something isn't done, the upshot could be political horror in the form of hundreds of thousands of Gazans fleeing for their lives toward Israel - for fear of catching disease."
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Star of David

'Longest trial in history' involves a Palestinian worker charged with funding Hamas, now in 129th hearing


RT
Wed, 23 Oct 2019 23:57 UTC
al-Halabi
© AFP/Dudu GrunshpanFormer World Vision employee Muhammed al-Halabi at district court in Beersheva, Israel.
A former charity manager in the Gaza Strip accused of funding Hamas has attended court for the 129th time in what has become the longest trial of its kind in Israel's history, dragging on as witnesses are blocked from testifying.

The 41-year-old aid worker, Muhammed al-Halabi, was arrested in June 2016 while working for World Vision, a Christian humanitarian group, charged with funneling kickbacks to Hamas and its armed wing. For nearly four years, however, Halabi has been denied his proper day in court, instead forced to endure an endless series of stop-go proceedings in which key witnesses are barred from testifying.

His most recent hearing on Wednesday was no different, quickly hitting a dead end soon after it began. Halabi's brother, Hamed, told Middle East Eye:
"Today's hearing was cancelled shortly after it started because the witnesses were not present. The prosecution then threatened that any witnesses who come from Gaza to give their testimony will be detained.

"They do not want anyone to prove them wrong. All the eyewitnesses and even the officials at World Vision gave proof that he was innocent. But this is not what the prosecution is looking for."
The Israeli government has denied travel permits to crucial witnesses in the former charity worker's case, preventing them from leaving Gaza to give testimony in Israeli courts. Halabi's lawyer, Maher Hanna, says that guarantees he cannot receive a fair trial.
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Israel extorts its imported serfs: Palestine workers forced to pay to work in Israel


Middle East Monitor
Thu, 24 Oct 2019 16:48 UTC
Israel checkpoint west bank workers
© Nedal Eshtayah/Anadolu AgencyThousands of Palestinians queue up to cross into Israel and begin their work day as the sun begins to rise, at Eyal Border crossing, in the city of Qalqilya, West Bank on 1 May 2019
Some 20,000 Palestinian workers paid $140 million to brokers and employers in order to get permits allowing them to work in Israel, Israeli newspaper Haaretz revealed yesterday.

The workers make up 33 per cent of all Palestinian labourers in Israel, the paper added.

According to the report, workers paid upwards of $400 a month to get a permit, but field activists in the Israeli rights groups Kav La'Oved and Machsom Watch said they "heard of higher amounts being charged for each permit."

Comment: Herded like cattle: The plight of Palestinian workers

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Light Sabers

Best of the Web: Hundreds of thousands demand Texas leaders step in to prevent gender 'transition' of 7-yr-old boy - AG to look into case (UPDATE)

Calvin Freiburger
Life Site
Wed, 23 Oct 2019 17:19 UTC
James Younger
© savejames.comJames Younger
As the country watches in horror a Texas father's legal battle to prevent his ex-wife from "transitioning" their seven-year-old son into a faux girl, a growing chorus of Americans is demanding state and federal leaders intervene to save James Younger.

On Monday, a Dallas jury ruled 11-1 against father Jeffrey Younger in his fight against his ex-wife, Dr. Anna Georgulas, who wants to subject young James to puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones as well as legally force his father to treat him as a girl. Mr. Younger contends that all of this is being pursued against his son's will.


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The case has sparked intense national outrage even as the mainstream press largely ignores it, with experts warning that not only is affirming a child's gender confusion psychologically unhealthy in the long run, but exposure to sex-change hormones carries serious physical risks including infertility, impairment of adult sex function, and reduced life expectancy.

As of the time of this writing, a Change.org petition calling on Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott and state lawmakers to intervene has received more than 211,000 signatures. LifeSiteNews has also launched its own petition calling to support James and his father, which will be delivered to the governor and Jeffrey Younger. LifeSite's petition has collected more than 26,000 signatures so far.

Comment: UPDATE Oct 24

The judge presiding over the case of the father, Jeffrey Younger, ruled today that the parents will have joint conservatorship over James, which includes making joint medical decisions for the child. Unfortunately, the judge also put a gag order on both parents so that they cannot speak to the press about the case which means that the Save James website will have to be shut down.

However, Blogger Matt Walsh started the hashtag #protectjamesyounger on Twitter that has been used in tweets over 41,000 times and a petition created by LifeSiteNews in support of Jeffrey Younger's efforts to protect his son from being 'transitioned to a girl' has been signed by over 58,000 people.

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Bullseye

B***h, please! Banning 'sexist' language won't make sexism disappear, any more than banning racial slurs killed racism

Helen Buyniski
RT
Thu, 24 Oct 2019 16:31 UTC
protest
© Reuters / Michael Dadler
A Massachusetts congressman wants to end sexism by punishing sexist language - specifically the word "b***h" - with fines and even jail. But policing speech doesn't kill the underlying sentiment - that requires real social change.

Massachusetts Democrat Daniel Hunt's bill to ban the "b-word," fining offenders $150 on the first offense and $200 or six months in prison if they can't stop saying it, sounds like the kind of joke conservatives might make to poke fun at the uber-liberal Bay State. But the bill - titled 'An act regarding the use of offensive words' - is real. Worse, any witness to the use of the word can complain.
A person who uses the word 'bitch' directed at another person to accost, annoy, degrade or demean the other person shall be considered to be a disorderly person.
Hunt's bill, which he insists was submitted at the request of a constituent, is far from the only example of the Democratic Party clutching its pearls over speech while giving the sentiment beneath that speech a pass. A vocal segment of the Left has become notorious as America's "speech police," calling out offenses real and imagined on social media and inciting outrage mobs to force apologies out of celebrities and businesses, sometimes sincere but often perfunctory and defensive.
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Wealthy Norwegian shipowner funds intelligent design research to counter Darwin in schools


RT
Thu, 24 Oct 2019 16:16 UTC
Einar Johan Rasmussen
© LTJEinar Johan Rasmussen
One of Norway's richest people, shipowner Einar Johan Rasmussen, has pumped $1.6 million into a foundation that aims to challenge Darwin's theory of evolution and to promote intelligent design in its place.

The BioCosmos Foundation calls for "more open debate on biology and the cosmos" and targets "everyone interested in science and the big questions," especially "youth and young adults" - incorporating schoolchildren.

As with all proponents of Intelligent Design theories, the foundation extols the virtues of a pseudo-scientific theory that nature is so finely tuned and well-crafted that it could not have evolved via natural selection and must instead have been engineered.


Comment: RT should get with the program. There's nothing pseudo-scientific about fine-tuning, or the argument that it suggests engineering. There are other theories for fine-tuning, of course, but that doesn't make ID pseudo-scientific.


Rasmussen, 81, who hails from Kristiansand in the country's south - Norway's answer to the Bible Belt in the US - told national broadcaster NRK that his "wish is to make much of this modern research known to the public. It breaks with Darwin in significant ways."


Comment: Good for him. It's about time ID got some money to counter the Darwin lobby.


The millionaire agrees with the BioCosmos Foundation, whose members include a Danish professor, a doctor, a civil engineer and a theologist, that evolution "can no longer be clarified as a result of coincidental mutations and natural choice."
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Goodbye middle class: 50% of American workers make less than $33,00 a year

Michael Snyder
The Economic Collapse
Tue, 22 Oct 2019 16:24 UTC
rubble
The truth is that most American families are deeply struggling, but you hardly ever hear this from the mainstream media. Yes, about 10 percent of all American workers are making $100,000 or more a year, but most of those high paying jobs are concentrated in the major cities along the east and west coasts. For much of the rest of the country, these are very challenging times as the cost of living soars but their paychecks do not.

According to the Social Security Administration, the median income in the United States last year was just $32,838.05. In other words, 50 percent of American workers made more than $32,838.05 and 50 percent of American workers made less than $32,838.05 in 2018. Let's be generous and round that number up to $33,000, and when you break it down on a monthly basis it comes to just $2,750 a month.

Of course nobody can support a middle class lifestyle for a family of four on $2,750 a month before taxes, and so in most families more than one person is working these days. In fact, in many families today more than one person is working multiple jobs in a desperate attempt to make ends meet, and it still is often not quite enough.
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