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Star of David

Twitter erupts over 'Christian Rabbi' who fails to name Pittsburgh victims, asks people to pray for GOP at Pence rally


RT
Tue, 30 Oct 2018 20:01 UTC
Tree of Life memorial
© Reuters / Cathal McNaughton/C-SpanA makeshift memorial outside the Tree of Life synagogue.
A 'Christian Rabbi' who offered prayers for victims of the Pittsburgh massacre failed to mention them by name and called upon people to pray for the GOP. Americans didn't appear to find it patriotic.

Vice President Mike Pence held the rally in the Waterford Township of Detroit. It took place less than 48 hours after the Pittsburgh Synagogue tragedy and was opened by a rabbi who held a prayer to honor the victims.

Rabbi Loren Jacobs represents the Messianic synagogue Shema Yisrael based in Michigan. Though the followers call themselves members of Messianic Judaism, a combination of Christianity and Judaism, many of the main Jewish movements refuse to accept them as 'true' Jews.

Pence couldn't possibly "have done something more offensive to Jews" than choose Jacobs to open the rally, people on Twitter were quick to point out.
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Attention

Matt Drudge slams Fox News for laughing during synagogue shooting segment


RT
Tue, 30 Oct 2018 15:26 UTC
Matt Drudge Fox News
Matt Drudge hosting his show on Fox News in 1999 and the Fox News panel he criticized on October 29, 2018.
Conservative political commentator Matt Drudge has lashed out at Fox News over a panel on political violence in the US. Critics called him a cherry-picking hypocrite who misrepresented the network's coverage.

On Monday, Drudge broke his silence on Twitter to criticize Fox News for making light of the political climate in America. He posted screenshots of smiling Fox panelists, whose cheerfulness apparently clashed with the phrase "Questions on how mail-bomb scare, synagogue attack could impact midterm voters eight days from now" below.

"Not even 48 hours since blood flowed at synagogue? Check your soul in the makeup chair!" he wrote.


Comment: Drudge seems to have knocked a screw loose! Seems in his outrage he missed the message about the value of civility during tragedies. In any case, we're seeing more and more of this rabid misconstruction of reality. The social climate has been primed for people to take offense at pretty much anything and interpret intentions in the worst light possible. People appear to be quickly losing the ability to discern information within context. It seems relational understanding is being bypassed in favor of impulsive and aggressive emotion, which is perversely given the full authority of truth by its mere existence. This is a growing trend, fostered in no small part out of the acceptance of 'accusation as fact' craze in the anti-Russian crusade and the #metoo movement.

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Beaker

Stetson has two mommies: Lesbian couple both carry baby during pregnancy


RT
Tue, 30 Oct 2018 18:56 UTC
pregnant women
© Michelle Tribe / Wikimedia Commons
Two women of a same-sex couple each carried their son during pregnancy in what has been hailed a medical first. The unusual IVF method managed to save the family money, too.

Ashleigh and Bliss Coulter from Mountain Springs, Texas both wanted to experience carrying their child and, thanks to a novel IVF method, known as reciprocal effortless in vitro fertilization, this was able to become a reality.

"This represents the first time that two women have both physically carried their child together," fertility specialist Dr. Kathy Doody of The Center for Assisted Reproduction told CBS11.

Doctors from Doody's clinic placed a capsule containing Bliss's eggs fertilized with donor sperm into Bliss's body, creating a kind of incubator for the cells, keeping them warm and shedding any toxins.

Comment: Where's daddy?

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Airplane

UK police investigate laser light shone at plane cockpit flying at 29,000 feet


RT
Tue, 30 Oct 2018 18:51 UTC
laser lights
© REUTERS / Phil Noble
A laser was shone into the cockpit of a passenger plane which was flying at 29,000ft (8,840m). Humberside police have confirmed the incident happened on Saturday as the plane flew over North East Lincolnshire.

The Scandinavian commercial flight from Manchester to Bilund, Denmark, was hit by the laser at 18:45 GMT on Sunday.

A spokesman for the force stated that the "captain of the flight reported to National Air Traffic Services (NATS) that he was over the Ottringham Beacon and had the cockpit illuminated by a laser coming from a coastal town to the starboard (right) side of aircraft.

"The NATS team have assessed the flight's path and location and have assessed that it came from the Grimsby area."
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Black Magic

100-name 'hit list' reportedly found in US mail bomber's van


RT
Tue, 30 Oct 2018 17:02 UTC
Cesar Sayoc mail bomber van stickers
© Global Look / Paul Bilodeau
Cesar Sayoc, suspected of mailing at least 15 pipe bombs to prominent Democrats, was just getting started, according to law enforcement sources who say they found a "hit list" of over 100 names in his Trump-spangled van.

The list, which includes names and addresses, was found in the van where he is believed to have lived and constructed the devices. Sources familiar with the probe say Sayoc told FBI agents and other authorities that he did not mean to hurt the targets during a brief interview at their South Florida field office.

The fifteenth envelope - a third mailing destined for CNN headquarters in Atlanta after two earlier packages were sent to the station's New York offices - was intercepted Monday afternoon at a postal facility.

Comment: The Twitterati weighed in almost immediately, as hundreds of armchair detectives dug into Sayoc's background and cast scorn of the over-the-top van decals and amateurish "bomb" construction. Many remarked on the fact that the postage stamps on the packages were never cancelled, and how would a nobody find George Soros' home address to make a delivery.





Has some operative group overplayed their hand?

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Red Flag

Human head brought to police station fools officers, who thought it was Halloween prank. It wasn't

Don Sweeney
The Sacramento Bee
Mon, 29 Oct 2018 16:24 UTC
human head oakland
© KGO
When someone told Oakland, California, police on Friday they'd brought a severed human head to the downtown station, officers at first suspected a Halloween prank, KGO reported.

Then they took a closer look, the station reported.

"It was decomposed and had a little bit of flesh on it," Sgt. Michael Cardoza told KGO. "I can say in my years of service I've never had a human skull delivered to the police station."

Two visitors to an Oakland apartment complex had discovered the decaying head in the backyard earlier Friday morning, The San Francisco Chronicle reported. They decided to take it to police.

"They thought it was real enough that it had to be brought to our attention immediately," Cardoza told KGO.
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Boat

Russia's Arctic sea now major shipping route for European & Asian trade, cargo quadruples in five years


RT
Tue, 30 Oct 2018 14:43 UTC
Cargo shipping russian northern sea route
© Sputnik / Vladimir AstapkovichStretching through Arctic waters, the Northern Sea Route is operated within Russia’s Exclusive Economic Zone. The passage is gradually becoming a major trade route for goods shipped between Europe and Asia.
Cargo shipping in Russia's northernmost territorial waters has increased by more than four times since 2013, according to Aleksandr Kalashnikov, the department head at the Northern Sea Route Administration.

The volume of cargo transported through the route totaled 13 million tons as of October 1, marking a significant increase against three million tons shipped five years ago, according to Kalashnikov, who heads the navigational, hydrographic, and hydro-meteorological department.

Cargo shipping in Russia's northernmost territorial waters has increased by more than four times since 2013, according to Aleksandr Kalashnikov, the department head at the Northern Sea Route Administration.

The volume of cargo transported through the route totaled 13 million tons as of October 1, marking a significant increase against three million tons shipped five years ago, according to Kalashnikov, who heads the navigational, hydrographic, and hydro-meteorological department.

Comment: See also:

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Telephone

Sweden sets up crisis hotline for abusive partners - hoping they will overcome their 'shame' and reach out for help


RT
Mon, 29 Oct 2018 14:05 UTC
hotline
© Reuters / James Lawler Duggan
Swedish officials and social workers hope that abusive partners will lower their hands, take a breath and call a helpline, an unorthodox solution to a surprisingly common problem in ultra-progressive country.

The helpline is a two-year pilot project organized by local authorities in the nation's capital of Stockholm and the southern region of Skane, where Sweden's third-largest city Malmo is located. The service will start accepting calls in January.

While confidential helplines for abuse victims are already commonplace, providing support to the abusers themselves is a novel approach, one the organizers say will help them overcome shame, make amends, and stop hurting their loved ones.


Comment: And is there any research data to show this approach actually works? We guess we will find out...


There is "no obvious way of getting into contact with those perpetrating the violence," but this project can change that, project leader Christina Ericson told state broadcaster SVT.

Trained social workers and psychologists will be ready to advise and counsel the perpetrators who want to stop hurting their partners. They will also work with people who experience thoughts of beating their loved ones, and help them to avoid violence.
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Eye 1

'Money for education, not NATO slaughter': Students clash with police over school reforms in Athens


RT
Mon, 29 Oct 2018 21:42 UTC
education clash athens
© Reuters / Alkis KonstantinidisClashes in Athens as Greek students demonstrate against a draft bill changing university entrance requirements
The Greek capital was plunged into chaos after hooded rioters threw flares at police officers, who responded with tear gas. The protests were sparked by planned changes to educational policies.

Some 2,000 people, most of them youth, took to the streets of Athens on Monday to demonstrate against a draft bill altering requirements for university entrance.

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Biohazard

Fracking causes strongest quake yet at new site in UK

Michael Holmes
Blackpool Gazette
Tue, 30 Oct 2018 13:15 UTC
fracking blackpool
Fracking has been stopped for 18 hours again after four earthquakes in the space of half an hour this morning, including the most powerful recorded since the controversial operation got underway in Lancashire earlier this month.

The British Geological Survey (BGS) noted four earthquakes from 11.30am until 11.58am, which the first measuring 1.1 on the magnitude scale. The others measured -0.2, -0.4, and 0.1.

In a statement, Cuadrilla said the "micro seismic event measuring 1.1ML (local magnitude) was detected" while fracking was taking place at its exploration site in Preston New Road, Little Plumpton.


Comment: In an area which rarely experiences earthquakes, that it was caused by fracking is clear.


"This is the latest micro seismic event to be detected by the organisation's highly sophisticated monitoring systems and verified by the British Geological Survey (BGS)," it said.

"This will be classed as a 'red' event as part of the traffic light system operated by the Oil and Gas Authority but as we have said many times this level is way below anything that can be felt at surface and a very long way from anything that would cause damage or harm.

Comment: It's a sure sign of the sorry state of the UK that they are doggedly pursuing such a dangerous and criminal endeavour:

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