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60 French snipers detained at checkpoint in Hasakah, Syria

Tom Winter
FRN
Sat, 19 May 2018 09:37 UTC
Map of Syria
Intended destination of the French sniper caravan
The question of the French military presence on the ground in Syria is an extremely delicate issue: Syria is a sovereign state, which has not called on the Republic to help it. Ground forces would therefore be signs of ... occupation.

However, 60 French snipers have just been challenged by the Syrian regular army, after getting lost. Rest assured, they were released, but what were they doing there? What are we doing there? Strangely, no news of this filters into the French press ...

The facts: 60 French soldiers on the ground in Syria outside of any international mandate.

Comment: See also: Kurdish Defense Official confirms French troops operate in northern Syria - Putin and Macron discuss the situation in Syria

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The Stock Market is Literally a Ponzi Scheme

Lee Camp
RT America
Sat, 19 May 2018 07:45 UTC
ponzi factor book stockmarket
© Tan Liu
Interview with Tan Liu - author of The Ponzi Factor: The Simple Truth About Investment Profits - on 'Redacted Tonight', where he explains that dividends from 'profits' are nearly always other investors' money...

Can we say 'wealth redistribution', capitalist-style?

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Explosions heard near airport in Hama, Syria


Sputnik
Sat, 19 May 2018 09:10 UTC
Syrian ambulance
© AP Photo / Hussein MallaSyrian ambulance
According to SANA news agency, several blasts have occurred near the airport of Syria's city of Hama.

Four powerful explosions that hit the Syrian city of Hama earlier on Friday were caused by a fire at an ammunition warehouse located at the city's airport, a source in the Syrian security services told Sputnik.

"A fire at one of the ammunition depots of Hama's airport has triggered four explosions in a row," the source said.

Comment: According to local sources, a major part of the airbase was destroyed in explosions. The reason is still unknown.
Some Syrian pro-government sources said that poorly stored ammunition in Hama airbase had exploded as result of a heat wave that's hitting central Syria. Other sources claimed that a poorly controlled explosion of dozens of IEDs, captured from militants, led to the explosion of all the ammo depots in the airbase.



Local observers didn't rule out the possibility of an Israeli airstrike, especially that Israel had targeted similar ammo depots in the eastern Hama countryside on April 29. Another possibility is that Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) or the Free Syrian Army (FSA) targeted Hama airbase with grad rockets, as they do on a regular basis.


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Selfish Ledger: Leaked video reveals Google's vision of 'total data collection'

Charlie Nash
Breitbart
Thu, 17 May 2018 22:34 UTC
google meeting
© AP
A leaked internal video from Google portrays the company's vision of "total data collection."

The 2016 video made by Google X's Head of Design Nick Foster was obtained by the Verge, and discusses how users could choose a "life goal," which Google then attempts to steer them towards through personalization.

"It imagines a future of total data collection, where Google helps nudge users into alignment with their goals, custom-prints personalized devices to collect more data, and even guides the behavior of entire populations to solve global problems like poverty and disease," declared the Verge, who reported that "the middle section of the video presents a conceptual Resolutions by Google system, in which Google prompts users to select a life goal and then guides them toward it in every interaction they have with their phone."

Comment: The video:



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The great impeachment billboard battle in Palm Beach

Christine Stapleton
Palm Beach Post
Fri, 18 May 2018 22:34 UTC
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© Allen Eyestone / The Palm Beach PostCompeting billboards on the drive to Mar-a-Lago.
How much would you pay to own a piece of a billboard - once located on the presidential motorcade route - that called for the impeachment of President Donald Trump?

An unidentified buyer has paid $2,500 for the section of the sign that spells out the word "NOW" - as in "IMPEACHMENT NOW." The eleven letters in the word impeachment are going for $500 apiece, while an 5" x 7" piece of vinyl billboard runs $25.

Demand for the billboard memorabilia has raised enough money for MadDog PAC, a small, grassroots political action committee, to put the billboard back up along Southern Boulevard through November.

"We consider it our flagship billboard," said Claude Taylor, co-founder of the Maryland-based committee about the billboard returning to its previous site on Monday. "It's going to be there, month in, month out."

The return of the billboard comes even as Democratic Party leaders, like House minority leader U.S. Rep Nancy Pelosi, are tamping down impeachment talk.

They fear harping too much on impeachment will galvanize Republican candidates and voter. And Democratic candidates who endorse impeachment risk losing independent voters.
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Michigan man arrested for fathering son with his 20-year-old daughter

Gemma Mullin
UK Sun
Wed, 16 May 2018 21:40 UTC
Gregory Michael St. Andre
© Fox2
A 37-year-old man has been arrested after fathering a baby boy with his 20-year-old daughter, it's reported.

Gregory Michael St. Andre, of Warren, Michigan, faces charges of incest and third-degree criminal sexual contact after a DNA test revealed he was the child's dad.

An investigation was launched when the victim's mum went to police after the baby was born in February, claiming she and other relatives suspected ongoing sexual abuse.

The victim's aunt, Michelle Truszkowski, told FOX 2: "This is a horrible, horrible thing that happened.

"It's just madness. It's tearing our whole family apart.

"We've been through this for years. It started years ago."

She added: "This is an incest case and it's disgusting. And he shouldn't be walking around."
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US Embassy relocation could prove to be 'the perfect storm'

Joshua Leifer
+972 Magazine
Mon, 14 May 2018 00:00 UTC
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© Oren Ziv/Activestills.orgA view of the new US Embassy, Jerusalem, Israel
Policy experts warn that Trump's decision could amplify Palestinian hopelessness, which along with other events could lead to violence. It could also wake people up to reality, however, and that may not be a bad thing.

The streets of Jerusalem are lined with American and Israeli flags, and the signs for the new U.S. Embassy have gone up. But as Israel celebrates the U.S. Embassy moving to Jerusalem, Palestinian and Israeli policy experts warn that the Trump administration's decision could have potentially dangerous consequences.

"The move has filled the Palestinian people with frustration and emphasized the situation of hopelessness, of lacking any serious hope of developments [coming from] negotiations," said Professor Omar Yousef, head of the graduate program in Jerusalem Studies at Al Quds University.

The Trump administration broke decades of international consensus by moving the embassy and recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital. Until May 14, every foreign embassy in Israel was in Tel Aviv, a diplomatic protest of sorts - a refusal to recognize Israel's illegal annexation of East Jerusalem.
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US birth rate at all-time low: What is causing the decline?

Rachael Rettner
Live Science
Thu, 17 May 2018 07:11 UTC
Empty crib
© facebook
The number of babies being born in the United States continues to fall, with the birth rate reaching a new record low in 2017, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Last year, about 3.8 million babies were born in the U.S., which is 2 percent lower than the number born in 2016, and the lowest recorded number of births in 30 years, according to the report. What's more, there were about 60 births per 1,000 women ages 15 to 44, which is 3 percent lower than the rate in 2016, and the lowest recorded rate since the government started tracking birth rates in 1909.

The decline in the U.S. birth rate from 2016 to 2017 was the largest single-year drop since 2010, the researchers wrote in the report, which was published today (May 17).
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Black pastor wants blacks out of white churches

Alex Nitzberg
Liberty Headlines
Thu, 17 May 2018 19:11 UTC
Michael Jordan church sign
New Era Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama posted incendiary messages on its church sign, including a message that declared "Black Folks Need To Stay Out Of White Churches" and a message on the reverse side of the sign that read, "White Folks Refused To Be Our Neighbors."

The church's pastor, Michael Jordan, who is black, objects to nearby Church of the Highlands plan for an upcoming satellite church campus that is planned for his community.

This campus will be "in one of Birmingham's most violent neighborhoods," according to The Christian Post.

Church of the Highlands is the biggest church in the state of Alabama, and according to CBS News- the second-largest church in the nation.

Comment: Maybe Pastor Jordan doesn't want the competition?

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Gross! Celebrities brag about their 'penis facials'

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Fri, 18 May 2018 19:04 UTC
facial treatment from baby
Cate Blanchett and Sandra Bullock have made headlines recently by revealing their 'secret' to maintaining young and healthy looking skin. The duo have nicknamed the procedure the 'Penis Facial' due to the fact that the serum used in the process is derived from the foreskin of Korean babies.

Known officially as the Hollywood EGF (Epidermal Growth Factor) Facial, so-called penis facials have earned the nickname not just because the process smells like sperm, but because it requires a serum derived from the cells of the foreskin of newborn babies.

What's more is that not only are they publicly admitting to the use of mutilated baby penis parts to look younger, but they are celebrating it. On Thursday, Bullock went on The Ellen DeGeneres Show to explain why she's so happy about this treatment and to explain the reason it has been called the 'Penis Facial.'

As if to imply babies across an ocean don't matter as much as babies here, the serum, Bullock tells DeGeneres, is "an extraction from a piece of skin that came from a young person far, far away."
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