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Amnesty International: Iran must halt 'imminent' execution of three child offenders


RFE/RL
Fri, 22 Feb 2019 19:50 UTC
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Amnesty International has called on Iran to immediately halt plans to execute three young men who are on death row for crimes committed when they were under the age of 18.

The London-based rights group said on February 22 it had learned that Mohammad Kalhori, Barzan Nasrollahzadeh, and Shayan Saeedpour -- all convicted for separate crimes that took place while they were minors -- are at risk of "imminent" execution.

"The Iranian authorities must act quickly to save these young men's lives. Failing to stop their execution would be another abhorrent assault on children's rights by Iran," Saleh Higazi, deputy Middle East and North Africa director at Amnesty International, said in statement.

"International human rights law strictly prohibits the use of the death penalty against people who were under the age of 18 when the crime was committed," Higazi said.

Iran is among a handful of countries that executes juvenile offenders.
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NYT shill Bari Weiss regurgitates Hasbara talking points on Joe Rogan

David Samel
Mondoweiss
Sat, 23 Feb 2019 20:02 UTC
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In her recent podcast discussion with Joe Rogan and in her New York Times column, Bari Weiss manages to make dishonest and endlessly rehashed hasbara talking points even worse.

Item one: When the subject of Israel came up with Rogan, Weiss offered:
"There's an obsession on the State of Israel. Like if you were an alien that landed from outer space, you would think that the greatest oppressor in the world is this tiny state that's the size of New Jersey. These people say nothing generally about the genocide of Uighur Muslims in China. . . It's an enormous story [and it's appalling] that you don't know about it."
At first hearing, this is just another nauseating attempt to shame Israel's critics as anti-Semites for elevating concern for Palestinians over supposedly more deserving victims elsewhere in the world. Weiss, however, is especially vulnerable to the comeback, "What about you?" She enjoys an extremely prominent and influential media position as op-ed columnist for the Times, yet has never written a single column about the Uighurs for whom she feigns concern only as a pretext to defend Israel. And while she chides pro-Palestinian voices for their apathy over the Uighurs, she has never urged supporters of Israel to abandon their focus on an economic and military powerhouse and instead labor on behalf of the Uighurs.


Weiss and her ilk feel entitled to work tirelessly to support and defend Israel while bemoaning the fact that other people are interested in the same issue but have a contrary opinion. While everyone who makes this obscene "what about" argument is grossly hypocritical, Weiss's ability to shine a light on what she pretends to feel is such a deserving yet under-covered cause makes her version especially embarrassing.

Comment: If you've got the time, Ryan Dawson over at ANC released an epic 7-hour rebuttal of Weiss over on BitChute.



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Record number of Afghan civilians killed in 2018 - UN


RFE/RL
Sun, 24 Feb 2019 19:34 UTC
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© Noorullah Shirzada / AFPA wounded Afghan boy receives treatment at a hospital following multiple explosions in Jalalabad on September 11.
The United Nations says a record number of Afghan civilians were killed in 2018, blaming the increase on unprecedented suicide bombings by militant groups and air strikes carried out by U.S.-led forces.

The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said the conflict in Afghanistan killed 3,804 civilians and wounded another 7,189, an 11 percent increase from 2017, in its annual report released on February 24.

The civilian death toll is the highest number since UNAMA began tallying figures in 2009.

The UNAMA report said 2018 "witnessed the highest number of civilian casualties ever recorded from suicide attacks and aerial operations."

According to the report, 63 percent of all civilian casualties were caused by militants -- with the Taliban being blamed for 37 percent of the dead and wounded, the Islamic State (IS) militant group for 20 percent, and other antigovernment groups for 6 percent.

The Afghan government and its U.S. and NATO allies were blamed for 24 percent of the dead and wounded civilians, many of them killed in increased air strikes carried out mostly by international forces.

"For the first time since 2009, UNAMA recorded more than 1,000 civilian casualties from aerial operations," the report said.

The U.S. military said it carried out 6,823 sorties last year in which munitions were fired, the highest number in the last six years.
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HORRIFIC car crash in St. Petersburg: Two killed including American citizen


RT
Sun, 24 Feb 2019 19:12 UTC
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The blood-chilling moment when a driver mowed down pedestrians in central St. Petersburg, killing two people, was caught on CCTV. The driver was under the influence of nitrous oxide and lost consciousness, local media reports.

The horrifying crash occurred at Nevskiy Avenue overnight, when a BMW X6 traveling at high speed skimmed a couple of vehicles before mounting the sidewalk. The car then hit a group of pedestrians, sending them flying into the air. The heart-stopping moment of the crash was caught by a security camera.

Warning: Disturbing video below.

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Organ harvesting in Macedonia a fact, police is involved

Marija Nikolovska
Minna Report
Fri, 22 Feb 2019 19:19 UTC
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Several Skopje neighborhoods have started citizens patrol, some months ago, others are joining in.
Today, the neighborhood of Dame Gruev within the municipality of Gjorce Petrov have started citizens patrol after 7pm.

All of this is an effort to prevent kidnappings of individuals across the country, but particularly in Macedonia's capital - Skopje where it has reached near epidemic levels. The target appear to be citizens as young as 15, but not older than 45.

The latest case was with Daniela Pecevska, mother of three, from Dracevo who disappeared in the Skopje suburb of Aerodrom while shopping around 9pm. Her body was found 5 days later, floating in Vardar. She was missing both kidneys. Police has no comment.

Things are looking quite bad for the Government junta and the criminal police who have made zero arrests yet freed over 2,500 hardened criminals (out of which 450 were turned into policemen). People are taking matters in their own hands, and are not only not expecting anything from police rather are looking at "policemen" as doing the kidnapping.
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'I'm the boss': 'Petulant child' AOC slammed for 'arrogant' dismissal of Green New Deal critics


RT
Sun, 24 Feb 2019 17:23 UTC
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
© Reuters / Jonathan BachmanAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has, once again, raised the ire of many online. This time the freshman congresswoman is being accused of arrogance for her dismissal of critics of the Green New Deal climate initiative she is spearheading.

The ambitious climate plan has attracted numerous detractors with many saying it is unrealistic and unachievable. Speaking at a Girls Who Code event in New York on Friday the 29-year-old hit back at those who shot down the deal, saying, until they come up with a plan of their own, she's in charge.


"Like I just introduced Green New Deal two weeks ago and it's creating all of this conversation. Why? Because no one else has even tried," she said. "So people are like 'oh it's unrealistic, oh it's vague, oh it doesn't address this little, minute thing.' And I'm like 'you try! You do it. Cause you're not. Cause you're not.'"

Comment: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez exemplifies the voice of an ignorant generation

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America in decline: The 'indispensable nation' no more

Andrew J. Bacevich
The American Conservative
Fri, 22 Feb 2019 17:30 UTC
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© mark reinstein/ShutterstockFormer Secretary of State Madeline Albright - war criminal
"Only those of us who were born under Queen Victoria," wrote Ronald Knox, "know what it feels like to assume, without questioning, that England is permanently top nation, that foreigners do not matter, and that if worst comes to the worst, Lord Salisbury will send a gunboat." Knox offered this trenchant observation, redolent with irony and perhaps tinged with regret, not as a policymaker or strategic thinker, but from the vantage point of a clergyman. From the 1920s through the 1950s, Monsignor Knox was the most famous and influential Catholic priest in all of Great Britain. As such, he entertained a distinct perspective on what actually qualifies as permanent and what merely offers the appearance.

While perhaps using different terms - our preference is for dispatching nuclear aircraft carriers rather than gunboats - Americans born after World War II came into adulthood imbued with precisely the same sentiment about their own country. From the mid-1940s onward, the primacy of the United States was assumed as a given. History had rendered a verdict: we - not the Brits and certainly not the Germans, French, or Russians - were number one, and, more importantly, were meant to be. That history's verdict might be subject to revision was literally unimaginable, especially to anyone making a living in or near Washington, D.C.
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Maria Butina's lawyers confident she will be allowed to return to Russia within days after sentencing


RT
Sun, 24 Feb 2019 14:09 UTC
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Jailed 'Russian agent' Maria Butina has a good chance of getting home soon, her attorney told RT. She was arrested in the US in the midst of the hunt for 'Russian meddling'.

Butina's legal team is working to get a time-served sentence in coming weeks, after which the woman would be deported to Russia, her attorney Robert Driscoll told RT.

The defense will be asking for "a sentence in a zero to six month range," he said.

The attorney explained that Butina has already spent seven months in a US prison, and, if the court agrees with her team's reasoning, she won't have to do more jail time.

That verdict would automatically kick start the deportation process. Driscoll hopes that it will be done as quickly as possible, and Butina would see her homeland "in a matter of days" after the sentencing.
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Hands of Venezuela: Demonstrators around the world march to prevent US-led intervention


RT
Sun, 24 Feb 2019 17:01 UTC
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The government of Nicolas Maduro is doing far more for the people of Venezuela than the US administration by providing free services for its population, anti-war activist Sara Flounders told RT, condemning the US-led intervention.

The activists, opposing the US-led intervention, organized some 150 demonstrations around the globe on Saturday to show that ordinary people are against any form of foreign interference. Rallies have been taking place across the US, Flounders told RT after attending a 'No War on Venezuela' rally in New York City.

"In Venezuela today, there is more than six million families who are provided every single week a basic basket of essential supplies. It far exceeds any kind of food distribution program in the United States," Flounders said.
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Child abuse: Gay & trans sex education to be taught to five year old children in UK - opting out is ILLEGAL


RT
Sun, 24 Feb 2019 14:02 UTC
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The lessons on homosexuality and transgenderism will be taught to pupils from the age of five, and it will be illegal for parents to take their children out of the classroom for the lessons in secondary school.
The UK Conservative government is set to announce plans for the introduction of lessons on homosexuality and transgenderism for primary school students, despite an official petition against the move, signed by over 100,000.

The Sunday Times reports that the new curriculum has been finalized after a six-month consultation with the Department of Education, and will be rolled out across UK schools starting from the 2020-21 educational year.

It will be taught to pupils from the age of five, and it will be illegal for parents to take their children out of the classroom for the lessons in secondary school, meaning that at least a term's worth of sex education classes - and likely far more - will be attended by each student.

A popular petition to parliament demanding that the opt-out be retained for the length of the child's school education will be debated in the House of Commons on Monday, though it is not expected to affect the schedule for the implementation of the legislation.

Comment: As sp!ked journalist Brendan O'Neill remarked, "there is no escaping the uncomfortable fact that trans activists, and their many supporters in the establishment, are leading children astray and could well have a detrimental impact on the lives and futures of the new generation."

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