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Pro-Trump Miss Michigan who refused to try on hijab stripped of title over Twitter posts - report


RT
Fri, 19 Jul 2019 13:17 UTC
Kathy Zhu
© Facebook / Kathy Zhu
Ardent Trump supporter Kathy Zhu has said she was stripped of a Miss World America title after the organizers took issue with her black-on-black violence tweet and her refusal to try on a hijab as part of a school activity.

Prominent conservative commentator Kathy Zhu, known as Political Kathy on Twitter, posted a screenshot of an email by state director of the Miss World America beauty pageant for Michigan, Laurie DeJack, notifying her that she must dissociate herself from the contest due to "offensive, insensitive and inappropriate content" found on her social media.

DeJack said that the MWA no longer recognizes her as a "participant of any sort or in any capacity" and demanded she removes all the mentions of her taking part in the pageant.

Zhu also posted screenshots of her lengthy text-message exchange with DeJack, in which she informs Zhu that there has been a "huge issue" with her, without providing any details. As Zhu pressed DeJack for more information, the director cited a 2016 tweet by Zhu, reading: "Did you know that the majority of black deaths are caused by other blacks? Fix problems within you own community before blaming others."
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Best of the Web: In season 3, Stranger Things' celebration of '80s pop culture becomes a political ideology

Noah Berlatsky
The Verge
Mon, 08 Jul 2019 09:54 UTC
We're fighting the old wars again to see if they come out better this time
Stranger Things Russia
Stranger Things have happened. Millions of Americans today, for example, believe that their president is a Russian Manchurian candidate...

Warning: spoilers ahead for season 3 of Stranger Things

The third season of Stranger Things, like the first two seasons, revels in the fun, funny, nostalgic detritus of 1980s pop culture. Much of the series's action is set in a mall, the center of teen life before the advent of iPhones and Amazon. In the shopping emporium, the kids buy colorful '80s clothes and watch movies like Back to the Future and George Romero's Day of the Dead. Glimpses of classic Dungeons & Dragons manuals and period issues of Penthouse are scattered around the screen. Running jokes include references to '80s teen sex symbol Phoebe Cates and the bombastically maudlin theme song for The Neverending Story. Most horror stories surprise the audience with terrifying monsters that leap from the shadows. Stranger Things is more invested in surprising viewers with a wave of nostalgic touchstones.

Season 3 is different from its predecessors, though, in that its retro impulses extend not just to pop culture, but to geopolitics. The season's plot is steeped in Cold War paranoia. The nostalgia for a threatened Russian invasion is as comforting and cutesy in its own way as references to New Coke or the X-Men. But it's also an indication that the obsession with the past can indicate not just ongoing affection, but ongoing anxiety. Sometimes, art looks back to the '80s because people love the '80s. And sometimes it looks back there because the '80s, like Stranger Things' Mind Flayer, has its tendrils in the brain of American culture and won't let go.

Comment: They're certainly part of the drama, and their gaps in awareness feed 'the monster', but Trump and Trump supporters are not 'the monster'.

To 'kill the Mind Flayer now' would require seeing the source(s) of the cultural schizophrenia sweeping across the US, which mostly emanates from the intelligentsia and 'elites' of US society, who are in the throes of highly destructive ideological possession - the results of which are all projected onto Russia, which is anti-ideology.

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SAA launches next major Idlib offensive - the Al-Ghaab Plain Operation

Drago Bosnic
Fort Russ
Fri, 19 Jul 2019 09:45 UTC
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The terrorist occupied Idlib province in Syria
A large number of SAA (Syrian Arab Army) soldiers have been deployed to the northwestern part of the Al-Ghaab Plain this afternoon, military sources report. The source revealed that the reinforcements were deployed to the government stronghold of Joureen, which is located just east of the Latakia Governorate. The reinforcements deployed to the Al-Ghaab Plain were from several different units, including the Syrian Army's 4th Armored Division and the "Tiger" Force.

The Syrian Arab Army just started a major offensive in Al-Ghaab Plain in northwestern Syria. While seizing the Idlib Governorate part of the Al-Ghaab Plain is imperative to securing Latakia, the Syrian Arab Army may run into issues if they push too far north towards Jisr Al-Shughour.

As long as the jihadists control Kabani, the Syrian Arab Army will have trouble controlling the territories west of Jisr Al-Shughour. The jihadists have destroyed an important bridge in northwestern Syria in an attempt to prevent the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) advance into the Idlib Governorate.
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American conservatives need nationalism, not neoconservatism

W. James Antles III
The American Conservative
Fri, 19 Jul 2019 09:45 UTC
John Bolton
© Christopher Halloran / ShutterstockJohn Bolton spoke at the National Conservatism Conference this week.
Asked to weigh in on co-keynoting a conference with national security adviser John Bolton, Tucker Carlson demurred, saying different perspectives should be heard. Bolton was similarly deferential toward the Fox News host when asked the same question, but with a twist. "I'm delighted to be after him," Bolton cracked. "That's called a diplomatic answer."

Many of the main voices at the inaugural National Conservatism Conference reject a foreign policy of forever war. This includes not just Carlson but fellow keynoter Peter Thiel ("On this most important issue Donald Trump is right," Thiel said at the 2016 Republican convention. "It's time to end the era of stupid wars and rebuild our country."), organizer Yoram Hazony, who was sharply critical of neoconservatives in his own speech, and best-selling author J.D. Vance.

But a nontrivial number of speakers who were on the schedule purely for their foreign policy expertise would have been comfortable during the administration of George W. Bush, who was no nationalist conservative. Bolton, who at one point stressed the common ground between President Trump and John McCain, illustrated how to package the old foreign policy to appeal to those interested in a new conservatism.
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Indian cleric confesses to raping 9yo girl inside Uttar Pradesh mosque


RT
Fri, 19 Jul 2019 09:45 UTC
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Police in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh arrested a cleric who allegedly raped a nine-year-old girl on mosque premises while the local imam was away on leave. The cleric later publicly admitted his guilt.

Mohammad Ahmad was taken into custody on Wednesday for allegedly sexually assaulting a nine-year-old girl having been hired by the mosque to teach local children the Koran. The alarm was raised by the girl's mother who filed an official complaint with authorities.

Speaking to local media, Ahmad admitted to the crime, saying the sexual harassment took place "four to five times" in a video shared on social media.
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US House chaplain leads prayer based on Rite of Exorcism to 'cast out all spirits of darkness' from Congress


CNN
Fri, 19 Jul 2019 08:03 UTC
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You know things are bad in Congress when the chaplain's morning prayer on the House floor sounds like an exorcism. On Thursday, the Rev. Patrick Conroy told members of Congress it has been a "difficult and contentious week in which darker spirits seem to have been at play in the people's house."

"In Your most holy name, I now cast out all spirits of darkness from this chamber, spirits not from You," continued Conroy, a Jesuit priest who has been chaplain of the House of Representatives since 2011.

As he prayed, Conroy closed his eyes and raised his hands in supplication. At times, Conroy's prayer sounded strikingly similar to the Catholic Church's old Rite of Exorcism, in which a priest cast "unclean spirits" from a possessed person. (The rite was revised in 1999.)


Comment: Nice effort but until the God of Money is cast out from US Congress, the Devil will reign there.

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Fake health: Amputee who lost his leg to war injury shocked to discover photo of his leg plastered on EU cigarette packaging


RT
Fri, 19 Jul 2019 07:32 UTC
eu cigarette packaging
© REUTERS/Charles PlatiauRevolting propaganda
A man in eastern France made a discovery that left him appalled. A photo of his amputated leg was used, without permission, on a box of cigarettes to spread awareness of the dangers of smoking. He now wants answers.

The photo appeared on packs of cigarettes sold throughout the European Union, and is accompanied by the caption: "smoking clogs your arteries." Yet the man, a 60-year-old Albanian immigrant living in Metz, said he never agreed to the image being used for that purpose.

"It's rather incredible that a person finds themselves without their agreement on cigarette packets throughout the European Union," said Antoine Fittante, the man's lawyer.

Comment: ALL of those disgusting images are fake - in the sense that they're either injuries and ailments caused by anything other than smoking, or they're actors posing.

We're ruled by conscienceless sickos, who justify the scam they're running on the basis that 'well, smoking's bad for you anyway, so this is for the best'.

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Best of the Web: Virtue-signaling gone mad: Apple comes out with 72 different emojis for multiple permutations 'intersectional diversity'

Igor Ogorodnev
RT
Thu, 18 Jul 2019 21:32 UTC
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© AppleThe new relationship emoji being introduced by Apple for its iOS system.
If I wanted an emoji to look exactly like me, I'd just send a photograph. But then, unlike Apple and Google, I understand that they are a symbolic shorthand, not a racist tool of oppression that ignores my identity.

On Wednesday, World Emoji Day, the two California companies revealed their expanded repertoire of "newest designs that bring even more diversity to the keyboard."

Seventy-two new iOS emojis of couples holding hands, instead of a generic symbol. Thus, a blonde woman with a blond man, a blonde woman with a tan skinned man, a blonde woman with a light-skinned black man, a blonde woman with a dark-skinned black man, a dark-skinned black woman with a light-skinned black woman, a white man with a moustache with a white man without a moustache, and so on and on and on.
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Fake passport, 'piles of cash' & diamonds but defence lawyers still insisted Epstein was 'not a flight risk'


RT
Thu, 18 Jul 2019 19:52 UTC
epstein
© Agence France-Presse/ Stephanie Keith
Mysteries only multiply as the Jeffrey Epstein saga continues to unravel. A fake passport found in the sex offender's Manhattan home raises the possibility he had official cooperation traveling the globe under a false identity.

Federal investigators found the document alongside "piles of cash" and dozens of diamonds in a safe in Epstein's New York mansion, the Daily Beast reported on Monday. Prosecutors say the passport, which contains Epstein's photo but uses a fake name, was issued in Austria in the 1980s; they are still trying to determine how it was obtained.

Comment: Child advocate Carissa Phelps says Epstein's famous friends may have participated in 'sinister' crimes:
The scandal surrounding disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein could have been stopped by his many celebrity friends who chose to turn a blind eye, according to attorney and advocate Carissa Phelps.

The author, attorney and advocate for sexually exploited runaway children, spoke to RT's Mike Papantonio to discuss Epstein's case. Phelps, who is herself a survivor of human trafficking, said while nobody should have the resources to enslave others and get away with it, "as long as we have the rich and powerful raping children and getting away with it, we will still have that same behavior and local communities won't stand a chance.

Despite his conviction for soliciting a child, Epstein appeared to continue to enjoy a large circle of so-called 'Hollywood' friends including President Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, Kevin Spacey and Woody Allen. Some of which, Phelps says, could have, at best, helped victims, and, at worst, participated in the heinous acts.

"Most of those people that you mentioned probably could have helped victims have a voice and chose not to," said Phelps.

"Some of those people may have had things themselves that they were involved with that were sinister and bad."



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Israeli politician Ehud Barak is seen entering Jeffrey Epstein's townhouse despite claiming he never socialised with the Pedophile

Martin Gould
Daily Mail
Tue, 16 Jul 2019 16:19 UTC
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(Left) Ehud Barak in disguise entering Epstein's NYC apartment. (Right) Ehud Barak not in disguise.
The ever-expanding probe into Jeffrey Epstein's pedophile ring is now threatening to derail the Israeli election as DailyMail.com has obtained exclusive pictures of one of Benjamin Netanyahu's main challengers hiding his face as he entered the convicted sex offender's Manhattan townhouse.

A bevy of young women were also seen going into the multi-millionaire's lavish seven-story home on the same day that Ehud Barak was snapped.

Barak, a former prime minister of Israel now trying to make a comeback in Israeli politics, has long had business ties to Epstein, which Netanyahu's team are now trying to exploit.

And the pictures that DailyMail.com has obtained are certain to add fuel to the fire, as Barak claims he has 'never met Epstein in the company of women or young girls.'

Comment: It's unclear whether Barak was in the townhouse at the same time as the "bevy of beauties" as a timeline is not provided.

Barak has since threatened The Daily Mail with a libel suit if they don't remove the article, Barak's lawyers stated in a letter:
"Your article is embarrassing... There are a number of serious accusations and defamatory insinuations that were made against our client that are completely untrue."

"You attempted to link our client to the Epstein case, claiming that he was somehow involved in his pedophilia network. This is a lie as you know," the lawyers continued.

The letter demanded that the Daily Mail retract the story by 7 p.m. Israel time and apologize to Barak, who has launched a political comeback as the chair of the Israel Democratic Party.

"At best, your motive was naive and irresponsible, and at worst, you intentionally and maliciously harm our client in order to harm his reputation, thereby helping his political rival," the lawyers wrote, suggesting that the Daily Mail had been politically motivated.


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