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CNN or Trump derangement syndrome - the battle rages on


RT
Thu, 26 Jul 2018 20:00 UTC
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It's not just President Trump's opponents suffering from a form of derangement any more, as the Weekly Standard flipped the script and diagnosed President Trump as suffering from "CNN Derangement Syndrome."

The neoconservative magazine made its diagnosis after the White House banned a CNN reporter from a photo op on Wednesday, for rude and "inappropriate" behavior. The Standard conceded that CNN spews out anti-Trump content from morning to night, but gave the president a stone-faced dressing-down for hitting back.

"Trump's obsession with CNN is irrational," the editors wrote, "and his constant and frequently personal attacks on the organization and its employees are regrettable."

The normally rocky relations between the president and the media outlet hit a new low when the White House banned CNN reporter Kaitlin Collins from covering a media event on Wednesday evening, after she chose to interrupt a press meeting with Trump and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker earlier that day. Collins shouted a barrage of questions about unrelated White House gossip at Trump, which he refused to answer.
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Almost half of Swedes and Danes reject EU, prefer to create own 'Nordic Union'


RT
Fri, 27 Jul 2018 18:33 UTC
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Nearly half of Swedes and Danes said they'd rather be in a 'Nordic Union' with their neighbors from Norway, Finland and Iceland than in the EU, a fresh poll revealed.

Research conducted by pollster Sentio for Norwegian newspaper Klassekampen showed 47 percent support the hypothetical Nordic Union in Sweden and 45 percent in Denmark.

32 percent of Swedes and 36 percent of Danes were happy to remain in the European Union, while the rest said they were undecided on the issue.

As for non-EU member Norway, only 10 percent suggested that it would be a good idea for the country to join the European Union. The concept of the so-called 'Nordic Union,' which would see Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Iceland implementing joint policies, was backed by 32 percent of Norwegians.

Comment: The Euro-project is failing and the arrogant, out of touch, dictatorial bureaucrats in Brussels only have themselves to blame: Also check out SOTT radio's:

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Did America become a nation of slobs?

Jeff Minick
Intellectual Takeout
Fri, 27 Jul 2018 21:15 UTC
women in supermarket
One evening in early April I was waiting for my ten-year-old twin granddaughters to finish their indoor soccer practice when a girl their age approached me and said, "Your coat looks really nice."

It was a wet, chilly evening, and I was wearing a London Fog given me thirty years ago by an elderly widow whose deceased husband no longer had to fret about the rain or the cold.

Though I thanked the girl, her comment took me aback. Then I looked at the other adults milling around me, and thought, as I often think nowadays, that all of them were dressed like...well, like slobs. Several were wearing sweat pants and hoodies, others ragged trousers and rumpled sweaters. One woman, a thirty-something mom, wore designer jeans torn artfully at the knees.

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Caitlin Johnstone: Humanity is deciding if it will evolve or die

Caitlin Johnstone
Medium
Fri, 27 Jul 2018 20:08 UTC
Human evolution
I write a lot about consciousness, enlightenment and the potential humanity has to rise above its conditioned patterns, because if I only wrote about politics and media propaganda I'd be accomplishing nothing but helping the anti-establishment fringe feel good about itself while waiting for human extinction. I can't do this thing honestly and sincerely without periodically pointing to the dangers on the horizon, and to what I perceive as the only off-ramp in sight.

Human society is clearly at its most interesting point ever. Billions of human brains are now interconnected in real time by the internet, we're realizing on a mass scale that all the rules of society were invented by dead people long before any of us got here, and we're seeing that we are free to re-write those rules in a way that benefits us. From popular grassroots examinations of socialist ideas, to cryptocurrencies and an evolving understanding of what money is, to redefining social institutions as ancient and ingrained as marriage and gender identity, more and more people are saying in effect, "Hmm, it looks like all those old thoughts we've been using to describe our reality are causing some problems. Let's find new ones."


Comment: Ok, but how many of those new ones are making life hell on Earth?


It could be described as a collective awakening to the fact that reality and our conceptual model for it are two very different things, and the model is as flexible as your ability to change your mind. We've never seen anything like this before as a species. We've literally never been here.

Comment: Some of it will be beautiful. Some of it will be ugly.

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Man reveals child abuse photos by complaining about FBI blocking porn, charged with two counts of first degree possession


RT
Fri, 27 Jul 2018 16:34 UTC
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A man inadvertently led investigators to his images of child sex abuse by reportedly complaining to local police that the FBI was blocking access to explicit material depicting minors.

Christopher Kruithof complained to a desk officer in Stratford, Connecticut that the FBI was blocking his mobile phone's internet access due to images he viewed containing child abuse, the CT Post reports.

It turns out the issue was actually linked to ransomware - but the complaint led police to delve further into Kruithof's internet habits.
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Facebook bans Alex Jones for 30 days

Rachel Thompson
Mashable
Fri, 27 Jul 2018 14:33 UTC
Alex Jones
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A mere matter of days after InfoWars founder Alex Jones received yet another YouTube strike - but wasn't banned - he's been hit with a 30-day block on Facebook.

Jones received another strike on YouTube this week for violating community guidelines in four videos, which have since been taken down.

A Facebook spokesperson confirmed in an email that the social network has enforced a 30-day time out for Jones after he was found to have violated Facebook's Community Standards.

"Our Community Standards make it clear that we prohibit content that encourages physical harm [bullying], or attacks someone based on their religious affiliation or gender identity [hate speech]," said a Facebook spokesperson.
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Brawl on Hollywood Walk of Fame: Watch what happens if you openly support Trump in Liberal Amerika

Cassandra Fairbanks
The Gateway Pundit
Fri, 27 Jul 2018 15:33 UTC
Brawl at Trump's star in Hollywood
A massive brawl broke out at Donald Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame after a youth pastor and YouTuber went out in "full MAGA gear" to see how supporters of the president are treated in public.

The YouTuber, Elijah Schaffer, had teamed up with musician Joy Villa for the social experiment. Though he is a Trump supporter, he describes his YouTube channel as being centrist.

To see what it is like to openly support our president, the duo went to the recently-vandalized Hollywood star and offered tourists a free photograph with a Trump cut out on Thursday evening.

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Canine 'troublemaker': Colombian cartel offers $70K for police sniffer dog after it busted gang's cocaine


RT
Fri, 27 Jul 2018 07:30 UTC
Colombian police sniffer dog
© General Jorge Nieto
A top sniffer dog used by Colombian police has become a troublemaker for the nation's top drugs cartel, which has put a $70,000 price on the pooch's head after it busted tons of the gang's cocaine.

The Urabenos (also known as the Gulf Clan), said to be Colombia's mightiest drug gang, has offered 200m peso ($70,000) to anyone who takes out the police sniffer dog named Sombra - which is Spanish for 'Shadow.' According to local media, Dario Antonio Usuga, the boss of the clan, was the one who put the hit on the six-year-old female German shepherd.

The threats came after Sombra appeared on a report by Colombia's El Tiempo news outlet when she busted a record nine tons of the Urabenos' cocaine in recent years, estimated to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Understandably, this was a big loss for the cartel.
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Even Dershowitz thinks Israel's 'nation state of Jews' law goes too far

Philip Weiss
Mondoweiss
Thu, 26 Jul 2018 17:14 UTC
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© Yonkers TribuneAlan Dershowitz
Alan Dershowitz was on i24 News last night and said his new memoir is about "how much more difficult it is today" to defend Israel today than it used to be. That chore now includes defending Israel's new law making the country the "nation state of the Jewish people," in which only one people have the right of self-determination, Jews.
I think it was not a necessary law to pass. Look everybody knows Israel is the nation state of the Jewish people. If you want to pass a basic law, you just pass a law incorporating the brilliant declaration of independence of Israel, which talks about equal rights for all.

I don't think there was a need to have a basic law declaring what everybody knows. It only gives ammunition to the opposition.

People who think this will help in Israeli Diaspora relations are wrong.

Comment: What a litigious schmuck. 'Everybody knows' Israel is an ethnocentric apartheid state, but to put it in writing just gives the 'opposition' ammunition to confirm it. Better to just stand behind the fiction of 'equal rights for all' enshrined in the Israeli declaration of independence (even though 'everyone knows' that's not actually true). At least Dershowitz is honest. He's not actually concerned about 'equal rights'; he's concerned about being able to defend apartheid using legal fictions.


To do that, Get the rabbis out of marriage and the law, and who is a Jew, that's the way to improve Israel-Diaspora relations. But this law is "unnecessarily provocative" and "a mistake."
Look I don't think anybody doubts that Israel is the nation state of the Jewish people. Of course the criticism of it is hypocritical, coming from the Palestinians. They declare Palestine to be an Islamic state governed by sharia law, where no Jew can buy property or be a citizen. That's really racist. I mean, almost all the Arab countries are Muslim states. But I didn't see any reason for enacting this law on Israel's 70th anniversary. I think it was a mistake.
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UK suspends cooperation with US over death penalty threat for ISIS 'Beatles'


RT
Fri, 27 Jul 2018 16:52 UTC
Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheik
© ReutersAlexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheik
The UK Home Office has suspended cooperation with the US in the case of two alleged Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) fighters raised in Britain, who could face the death penalty if tried under the United States' jurisdiction.

The move comes after Home Secretary Sajid Javid, in a leaked letter to US Attorney General Jeff Sessions, initially waived Britain's usual position, which demands assurances are sought that the death penalty should not be applied to former or current citizens.
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