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Ridiculous: West Hollywood wants the removal of Trump's Walk of Fame star, but not that of convicted rapist Bill Cosby


RT
Tue, 07 Aug 2018 00:00 UTC
Donald Trump's star at Hollywood's Walk of Fame
© David McNew / AFPDonald Trump's star at Hollywood's Walk of Fame
The city of West Hollywood has voted unanimously in favor of removing President Donald Trump's star at the Walk of Fame, citing Russiagate allegations as well as his take on women, immigration and transgender soldiers.

The five-member city council approved a proposal put forth by West Hollywood Mayor Pro Tempore John D'Amico and Councilwoman Lindsey Horvath, who called for the removal of the star, US media report. Both D'Amico and Horvath said the marker had to be removed "due to [Trump's] disturbing treatment of women and other actions."

Ahead of the vote on Monday, West Hollywood City Council said they were following the steps of the American film industry, which suspended "certain members of the entertainment community... due to their actions toward women."

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UK Labour Party is right to drop racist IHRA guidelines of anti-Semitism - Manchester Jewish Group

Manchester Jewish Action for Palestine
Mondoweiss
Tue, 07 Aug 2018 01:25 UTC
Jeremy Corbyn
© Dan Kitwood
As Jewish people in Manchester, England, we resent the despicable racism shown towards the Palestinians by Guardian stalwarts such as Jonathan Freedland, Polly Toynbee, Jessica Elgott, Eddie Izzard, Nick Cohen, Marina Hyde and Gaby Hinsliff among others, all saturating comment sections on mainstream news websites with attacks designed to bring down the UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, and to protect Israel from accountability. The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Anti-Semitism definition guidelines the Labour Party are correctly omitting, are designed by Israeli propagandists to aid their many mass lobby attempts to stop international solidarity with the Palestinians and to deny Palestinians the right to express the nature of Israel's 70 years of violence and racism towards them.

We call on everyone to see that creating a largely-mythical anti-Semitism 'crisis' in the Labour Party is one of the few tools left to ailing and desperate establishment hacks wanting to smear Corbyn and maintain UK support for Israel, no matter how many Palestinians the Israeli army slaughters, or how many houses, schools, and hospitals Israeli jets destroy in Gaza. In the face of this, Zionist groups with a history of uncritical support for Israel claim that Corbyn presents an existential threat to British Jews? This is obscene, hypocritical scaremongering.

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Former Iranian President Ahmadinejad scorns 'dollar dictatorship' as foundation of American Empire


RT
Tue, 07 Aug 2018 19:54 UTC
Ahmadinejad
Former two-term Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the dollar is one of the major pillars of US dominance over global finance and trade. He has called for change in the current world order.

"Things need to change, current orders should be reordered," the former leader of the Islamic Republic tweeted on Monday, hours before the first round of the US sanctions came into effect.

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Corbyn, Assange, Trump: Incidents and accidents, hints and allegations

Raúl Ilargi Meijer
The Automatic Earth
Sun, 05 Aug 2018 21:34 UTC
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Jeremy Corbyn is an anti-semite. Julian Assange is a rapist, a Russian agent and a terrorist. Donald Trump is an anti-semite, a rapist AND a Russian agent. Vladimir Putin wants to invade and enslave the entire western world and to that end employs Assange, Trump, maybe also Corbyn(?), as well as thousands upon thousands of hackers and murderers who make people vote for whoever Putin chooses, and poison former Russian agents on western soil.

These allegations, and there's many more of them, have a number of things in common. Most importantly, they serve to change your mind. They serve to change your perception of reality. They seek to whip up your support for the very people and forces that launch them into the media.

Something else they have in common is that none of them has ever been proven, even though some of them are getting on in years. But they were never meant to be proven, simply because they don't have to be. If your mind is a fertile breeding ground for such allegations, all that needs to be done is plant a seed, and plant another, and then water them day after day by repeating the allegations and make them 'yummier', until they sprout a plant or a tree 'spontaneously'.
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Crooks who spent two years digging tunnel to tap Russian oil pipeline busted just three meters from goal


RT
Tue, 07 Aug 2018 16:18 UTC
Crooks tunnel Russian oil pipeline
© Screen grab from police footageThe entrance to the secret tunnel.
Six people in Russia who spent two years digging a 125m tunnel by hand, through which they wanted to reach a major oil pipeline to tap into, have been busted a mere three meters away from their goal.

The peculiar story happened in Irkutsk region in Western Siberia. According to a police report, six people in the city of Angarsk, where a large oil refinement center is located, joined forces to tap into a major oil pipeline.

The scheme was not of the get-rich-quick kind however. Stealing oil for a significant gain would require time, so the gang needed to reach the closely monitored pipeline undetected. They got some shovels and spent two years digging a tunnel from a concealed location.
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The Pentagon exercises direct influence and supervision of more movies than you would believe

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Mon, 06 Aug 2018 21:07 UTC
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Pentagon-influenced films
A year ago we featured a detailed report by authors Tom Secker and Matthew Alford exposing just how vast the Pentagon and CIA programs for partnering with Hollywood actually are, based on some 4,000 new pages of formerly classified archived documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.

The report noted at the time that
"These documents for the first time demonstrate that the US government has worked behind the scenes on over 800 major movies and more than 1,000 TV titles."
Reviewing the ever expanding list, the average movie watcher might be in for a shock at what films are actually included - there are the more predictable ones like Black Hawk Down, Zero Dark Thirty, and Lone Survivor; but also entirely unexpected ones that apparently needed the military-industrial complex's propaganda touch like Earnest Saves Christmas, Karate Kid 2, The Silence of the Lambs, Twister, the Iron Man movies, and more recently Pitch Perfect 3.
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Hundreds of gypsies flee region in Russia fearing retaliation for the rape and murder of 9yo girl


RT
Tue, 07 Aug 2018 10:39 UTC
Gypsies in Russia.
© Andrey Varenkov / SputnikGypsies in Russia.
Around 200 gypsies have fled a village in Russia's Belgorod Region fearing retaliation from the locals after the rape and murder of a schoolgirl by one of the group's members.

The body of the 9-year-old, showing signs of violent death, was discovered in Urazovo village on July 31. Shortly after that a man from the local gypsy community was detained on suspicion of committing the crime and charged with murder and rape. He confessed to the crime.

The investigators believe the perpetrator spotted the girl at a village store a day before that. The 30-year-old then followed the child and attacked her in a quiet place, raping and strangling his victim.

The villagers were outraged after they learned of the tragedy and called on the police to hand the rapist over to them. When their demand was rejected, the people vowed to burn down the gypsy homes.
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UK's tiny number of Syrian Christian refugees sparks backlash against UN - accusations of discrimination


RT
Tue, 07 Aug 2018 19:13 UTC
christian syrian refugees
© Stephane Mahe / ReutersChristian Syrian refugee Walid Aleid, injured in a bomb attack in Damascus, rides a bus from Paris to Le Mans with fifteen family members. October 2, 2015.
The UN seeks to "keep families and faith communities together," claiming "only 0.2 percent of Syrian Christian refugees have relatives in the UK" and denying claims it discriminates against the religious minority.

The UNHCR, the United Nations refugee agency, has told RT that its priority is to keep families and those of the same religious faith together - adding that other European countries boast higher numbers of relatives of Syrian Christians than Britain, hence the discrepancy.

External Relations Officer for UNHCR UK, Laura Padoan told RT:
"Resettlement is a vital lifeline for vulnerable refugees, but as spaces are limited, they are reserved for refugees deemed to be at greatest risk.

"UNHCR strives to keep families and faith communities together in the resettlement process, which is one reason why we have generally submitted more minorities to other European countries (as well as to North America and Australia) than to the UK, where only 0.2 percent of Syrian Christian refugees have relatives."

Comment: Importing refugees who would not disrupt the host community's culture would not serve those who are looking to remake Europe.

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Censorship: Facebook bans Infowars for using 'hate speech'; Apple removes Alex Jones' podcasts


RT
Mon, 06 Aug 2018 12:35 UTC
Alex Jones Infowars
© Lucas Jackson/ReutersInfoWars' founder Alex Jones
Facebook has shut down InfoWars' page saying the conservative news outlet used hate speech. An editor at the website says the social media giant failed to tell it what the offending posts were.

InfoWars Editor-at-large Paul Joseph Watson said in a tweet that the account has been "permanently banned" for "unspecified" hate speech. Visitors to InfoWars page are now greeted with a message saying: "Sorry, this content isn't available right now".

Describing the development as a "chilling precedent for free speech," Watson said that Facebook did not tell the media organization what the offending posts were. "To all other conservative news outlets - you are next. The great censorship purge has truly begun," he wrote.

Facebook said in a blog post on Monday that it was banning four of the pages belonging to Infowars founder Alex Jones for repeatedly uploading content in breach of the social network's community standards.

Comment: Facebook and Apple are now self-imposed gatekeepers. Is it just business avoiding a legal hassle? Or is censorship the new corporate responsibility.

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Agreed, Alex Jones is terrible, but the war on Infowars is a war on all of us

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Tue, 07 Aug 2018 00:00 UTC
AlexJones Freedom
© TheFREETHOUGHTPROJECT.com
The coordinated attack on Alex Jones sets a dangerous precedent that could be used to wipe out all independent media by Big Tech.

Alex Jones has come a long way since his days of calling out the Federal Reserve, fighting the two-party paradigm, pushing for a real investigation into 9/11 and calling for an end to war in the Middle East. Now, he pushes anti-Muslim rhetoric, plays right along with the two-party paradigm, and serves as little more than a cheerleader for the current president, all while stoking divide all the way along.

Recently, his vitriol has gotten him thrust in the limelight once again and a concerted effort by corporate media giants to silence him and purge his information has taken place. On Monday, it was announced that Facebook, Apple, Spotify, and YouTube all permanently deleted the Infowars and Alex Jones Channels, Podcasts, and pages. Outside of their own domain, Infowars was nearly entirely purged from the internet.

While the thought of silencing this loud mouthed Trump-pumping Islamophobic blowhard may be appealing to you, the effects of such a coordinated move and ability of of these corporations to silence him are chilling.

Comment: Have our freedoms and rights slid an inch or a mile?

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