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Israel and Hamas agree to ceasefire after intense fighting


Sputnik
Thu, 09 Aug 2018 23:56 UTC
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© AFP 2018 / Mahmud Hams
After an intense 24 hours of fighting, Israel and Hamas authorities have agreed to a truce, signing a Egypt-mediated ceasefire.

According to Haaretz, the agreement is that Israel will stop launching large-scale military operations in the Gaza Strip as long as Hamas refrains from firing any rockets. The ceasefire was to go into effect at 20:45 GMT.

Overnight Wednesday, the Israeli military conducted airstrikes on some 150 targets in Gaza to retaliate against 200 rockets that were fired toward Israel. Among those targets were a well-known cultural center, Palestinian media report. Israel called the building in a busy residential neighborhood a Hamas base.
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US teen breaks 5 ribs after being pushed from 60-foot bridge by 'friend'


Sputnik
Fri, 10 Aug 2018 00:40 UTC
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© Youtube
Having your back in all the wrong ways.

Jordan Holgerson has spent the last couple of days in a Washington hospital after a 60-foot "leap of faith" was forced on the 16-year-old by a friend.

Footage from the Tuesday incident shows Holgerson standing on the edge of a bridge overlooking Washington's Lewis River at Moulton Falls Regional Park. Despite the teen's reasonable fear, considering someone's dead body had been pulled from the water a week earlier, her friend decided to make the choice for her and pushed the teenager into the river.

"You don't really play around at 60 feet," said one of Holgerson's sisters to KOIN.

Though the "friend" has apologized for the incident, which caused Holgerson to suffer five broken ribs, a punctured lung and air bubbles in her chest, the pusher-in-question is facing charges as the Clark County Sheriff's Office investigates.
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Why does Rashida Tlaib support US military aid to Israel?

Ali Abunimah
Electronic Infatida
Thu, 09 Aug 2018 23:39 UTC
The time to look at Rashida Tlaib's troubling relationship with a leading pro-Israel organization is now.
Rashida Tlaib
Rashida Tlaib (Rashida Tlaib for Congress)
There has been much euphoria over the Michigan primary win on Tuesday that sets up Palestinian American Rashida Tlaib to become the first Muslim woman to enter Congress if, as widely expected, she wins the general election in November.

"As the child of immigrants and an Arab, Tlaib is acutely aware of the issues that impact our community," the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee said in a message congratulating her. "In Congress, we know she will continue to be a strong advocate for the community, and we look forward to working with her."

Comment: Has Ocasio-Cortez changed her stance on Palestine to please Zionist Democratic mega-donors?

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Court rejects appeal: Russian ban on Telegram messenger service remains


RT
Thu, 09 Aug 2018 22:22 UTC
telegram messenger app
© Kirill Kallinikov / SputnikTelegram messenger service on a monitor screen
The Appeals Collegium of the Russian Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by the company behind Telegram, upholding an order to block the messenger over its refusal to hand encryption keys over to security services.

On Thursday, the Appeals Collegium looked into the complaint filed by a team of lawyers representing the UK-registered company Telegram LLP - a major business that owns and promotes a messenger and blog platform known as Telegram.

Its lawyers sought to overturn a court order issued in April that compelled Telegram to hand over encryption keys for clients' messages to the Federal Security Service (FSB). They tried to prove that the FSB did not have sufficient power to issue the original request for encryption keys, and also that the out-of-court handover procedure could reveal Telegram users' correspondence to an "unidentified circle of people."
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Stephen Lendman: Hypocrisy not democracy. Alexis de Tocqueville was wrong

Stephen Lendman
Global Research
Thu, 09 Aug 2018 23:08 UTC
From inception, democracy in America was pure fantasy. No rule of the people ever existed - governance of, by, and for the privileged few alone at the expense of most others.
american flag matrix
© Chris Dionte Walker
American exceptionalism and moral superiority don't exist. The state of the nation is deplorable - more an obscenity than a responsible sovereign state. Count the ways.

Hypocrisy, not democracy, defines how America is governed - an increasingly totalitarian plutocracy, oligarchy and kleptocracy.

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Best of the Web: Why is The Left so Afraid of Jordan Peterson?

Caitlin Flanagan
The Atlantic
Thu, 09 Aug 2018 22:18 UTC
The Canadian psychology professor's stardom is evidence that leftism is on the decline - and deeply vulnerable.
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
© Rene Johnston / Toronto Star via Getty
Two years ago, I walked downstairs and saw one of my teenage sons watching a strange YouTube video on the television.

"What is that?" I asked.

He turned to me earnestly and explained, "It's a psychology professor at the University of Toronto talking about Canadian law."

"Huh?" I said, but he had already turned back to the screen. I figured he had finally gotten to the end of the internet, and this was the very last thing on it.

That night, my son tried to explain the thing to me, but it was a buzzing in my ear, and I wanted to talk about something more interesting. It didn't matter; it turned out a number of his friends - all of them like him: progressive Democrats, with the full range of social positions you would expect of adolescents growing up in liberal households in blue-bubble Los Angeles - had watched the video as well, and they talked about it to one another.

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Hysterical Israeli spokesman blasts BBC in angry tweet for factual report of air strike killing pregnant mother and toddler - BBC caves


RT
Thu, 09 Aug 2018 22:05 UTC
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© Ahmed Zakot / ReutersIsraeli aircraft bomb Gaza City, August 9, 2018.
An Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman left diplomatic niceties aside, heading straight to Twitter to accuse the BBC of lying in a story headlined "Israeli airstrikes 'kill woman and baby.'"

Emmanuel Nahshon angrily tagged BBC World and informed them that his tweet constituted a "formal complaint by the Israeli Foreign Ministry."

Comment: Israel conveniently leaves out the fact that rockets are launched in retaliation for initial Israeli aggression. The Daily Star reports that on August 8th:
Israeli tank fire killed two Hamas gunmen in Gaza Tuesday in a strike the Israeli military described as return fire for a shooting attack against its forces. The account was disputed by the Palestinian group. Hamas' military wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, confirmed in a statement that the dead men were its fighters and named them as Ahmad Murjan and Abdel-Hafez al-Silawi.

The two men killed in northern Beit Lahiya were Hamas snipers taking part in a live-fire exercise within a compound on Gazan territory, the group's armed wing said in a statement. It deemed Israel's shelling of them a "criminal act."

Hamas warned Israel that it would pay for the attack, without elaborating. "The resistance cannot allow the occupation to impose a policy of bombing sites and targeting fighters without paying the price," it said in a statement.

In an earlier statement, the Israeli military said gunmen fired on its soldiers from a Hamas post, which was shelled by a tank in response. There was no word of Israeli casualties.

The military released footage that it said was of the incident.

One of the grainy black-and-white video clips shows two men in a watchtower; one appears to open fire as puffs of smoke burst in front of him. The video then cuts to separate footage of a shell hitting the post and an explosion.


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The real Ukraine: Americanized, nazi-dominated

Eric Zuesse
The Strategic Culture Foundation
Tue, 07 Aug 2018 21:06 UTC
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Banderista rally. Stepan Bandera was a prominent Nazi collaborator in World War II.
Such important reality as is shown in this picture is virtually unpublishable in mainstream US 'news'media, because US 'news'media need to deceive their public about the most important international realities - such as that the US imposed upon Ukraine a nazi regime against Russia, and the US now lies to accuse Russia for doing what Russia must do in order to protect itself from the US nazi regime next-door.

This picture is among many which were originally published in the excellent 4 July 2018 article by Asa Winstanley at The Electronic Intifada. His article was headlined "Israel is arming neo-Nazis in Ukraine". That article focuses upon Israel's strong support for the racist-fascist (or ideologically nazi) Government of Ukraine. (Click onto it to see the documentation - it's Israeli nazis, against Russians, not against Jews, though they're allied with ones that are against both, which is why the US did this - aiming to conquer ultimately Russia.)

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'Superman' actress Margot Kidder dies from 'self-inflicted alcohol and drug overdose'

Taryn Ryder
Yahoo! News
Wed, 08 Aug 2018 20:58 UTC
Margot Kidder
© Gilbert Carrasquillo/FilmMagic
Margot Kidder's death has been ruled a suicide. Park County, Montana Coroner Richard Wood confirmed to the Associated Press that Kidder died "as a result of a self-inflicted drug and alcohol overdose." The actress was found by a friend in her Livingston, Montana, home on May 13. She was 69.

Kidder's daughter, Maggie McGuane, told the AP, "It's a big relief that the truth is out there." McGuane, an only child, noted that Montana has one of the highest suicide rates, adding, "It's important to be open and honest so there's not a cloud of shame in dealing with this."

McGuane continued, "It's a very unique sort of grief and pain. Knowing how many families in this state go through this, I wish that I could reach out to each one of them."

Comment: RIP Margot.

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Utah doomsday 'prophet' who promoted child marriage, polygamy sentenced to 25 years in prison


Yahoo! News
Wed, 08 Aug 2018 20:29 UTC
John Coltharp
A self-styled prophet who helped lead a Utah doomsday cult that believed in polygamy and promoted child marriage remained defiant Wednesday as he was sent to prison for at least 25 years.

John Coltharp, 35, told a judge he was following "heavenly laws" and was an Old Testament figure returned to Earth to promote child marriage, the Deseret News reported .

He maintained that it doesn't matter how long he goes to prison because society won't last much longer.

Judge Marvin Bagley told Coltharp his beliefs are wrong and don't come from the Bible. He said he hopes Coltharp is never released from prison.

Coltharp pled guilty to sodomy and child bigamy charges in June. He could spend life in prison as he waits for a parole board to determine a possible release date.
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