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Wikileaks calls for blockade of bitcoin processor Coinbase after being blocked from using its services 'without explanation'


Sputnik
Tue, 24 Apr 2018 17:42 UTC
assange
© REUTERS / Peter Nicholls
WikiLeaks has accepted bitcoin donations to help support its platform and fund the legal costs of its founder, Julian Assange, who has spent almost six years in Equador's London embassy.

WikiLeaks is calling for a global blockade of one of the world's largest crypto-trading exchanges, Coinbase, a large California bitcoin processor, deeming it "an unfit member of the crypto community" after the company banned the whistleblowing organization's online store from using its services "without explanation."

Even though the WikiLeaks Shop mainly sells WikiLeaks-related merchandise, such as T-shirts, hoodies, posters and accessories to help fund its operations, Coinbase has called the shop a "violation of the company's policy" - a very vague statement, which leaves a lot of room for speculation, and the bitcoin community is seriously worried by the payment processor's decision.
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Every child left behind: Watchdog says Israel's demolishing of West Bank schools may amount to int'l crime


Sputnik
Wed, 25 Apr 2018 17:23 UTC
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© Reuters / Mussa QawasmaPalestinian schoolchildren queue outside a tent where they attend lessons after Israeli troops confiscated caravans used as school classrooms, due to the lack of an Israeli-issued construction permit, in the West Bank village of Jubbet Al Dhib, near Bethlehem August 24, 2017
Israel's policy of demolishing schools in the West Bank and denying the Palestinians building permits for new ones violates local residents' right to education and pressures Palestinians to leave the Israeli-controlled areas, which may be ultimately qualified as an international crime, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday.

"Israeli authorities have been getting away for years with demolishing primary schools and preschools in Palestinian communities. The Israeli military's refusal to issue building permits and then knocking down schools without permits is discriminatory and violates children's right to education ... Israeli officials should be on notice that razing dozens of Palestinian schools not only can block children from getting an education, but may be an international crime," Bill Van Esveld, senior children's rights researcher at Human Rights Watch said, as quoted in the watchdog's statement.

More than a third of Palestinian communities in the West Bank's Area C, where the Israeli military has exclusive control over building under the 1993 Oslo accords, currently do not have primary schools.

Comment: Depriving innocent children of an education is one of the most heinous tactics in Israel's large arsenal of cruelty.

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Eye 2

Fascist is as fascist does: The Left are today's real fascists

Mike of the Ornery Young Gunz
Halsey News
Wed, 25 Apr 2018 16:09 UTC
skull genocide
There is a disturbing trend in American politics that involves attributing the vilest political ideologies to conservatives (or anyone who is right of Marx) regardless of whether that label actually applies or not.

Since Trump's electoral win in 2016, the Left has rediscovered their love of screaming the word Fascist (and racist and sexist and Nazi) at pretty much anyone whom the label doesn't apply to. Accept the right to keep and bear arms? Fascist! Accept there are only two genders? Fascist! Accept that free markets are the best way to increase the quality of life of everyone, poor and rich, black and white, conservative and liberal? FASCIST!!

Before the word loses all meaning (George Orwell wrote in 1944 that "the word 'Fascism' is almost entirely meaningless ... almost any English person would accept 'bully' as a synonym for 'Fascist,'") let's discuss what "fascist" actually means, where it comes from, and who are the real fascists in America.
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Red Flag

Facebook blocks prominent gun rights organization just as two anti-gun ballot initiatives are getting off the ground

Brock Simmons
Gateway Pundit
Wed, 25 Apr 2018 00:00 UTC
facebook censorship, facebook bans gun rights organization
Our *good friends* at Facebook have apparently blocked Oregon Firearms Federation founder and director Kevin Starrett from being able to post a few days ago.

"I have no idea why I was blocked and FB does not respond to questions about it. Clearly we have always had strong views posted on FB with no problems. But if any random individual can complain and silence you, Facebook is a forum we will be moving away from" Starrett tells The Gateway Pundit.

Comment: The disingenuous hedging on the part of Zuckerberg who claimed Facebook considers itself to be a 'platform for all ideas' is absurd - outright censorship of any person or organization whose opinions run counter to the establishment is well documented:

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Heart - Black

Israel border guard gets 9 months in jail for shooting dead Palestinian teen protester


RT
Wed, 25 Apr 2018 16:36 UTC
Ben Deri
© AHMAD GHARABLI / AFPBen Deri
An Israeli border guard has been jailed for nine months after being found guilty of shooting dead a teenage Palestinian protester in the West Bank in 2014.

The prosecution reached a plea bargain with the accused, Ben Deri, after a Jerusalem court found the officer caused the death of 17-year-old Nadeem Siam Nawarah by using live ammunition instead of rubber bullets to disperse a crowd during demonstrations in the village of Beitunia, near Ramallah. Deri was found guilty of causing death by negligence.

In his judgement, Judge Daniel Teperberg said Deri committed severe harm to Israeli values of "sanctity of life and the human right to wellbeing." Deri was jailed for nine months and received an additional six-month suspended sentence. Prosecutors had accused Deri of deliberately switching his rubber bullets for live rounds but his indictment was amended as part of his plea deal.

Comment: See also: Israeli general confirms snipers have orders to shoot children - and defends them for it

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Red Cross official: War-torn Yemen's infrastructure in full collapse, crisis is one of the worst


RT
Wed, 25 Apr 2018 19:00 UTC
Women receive food at a charity kitchen
© Mohamed al-Sayaghi / ReutersWomen receive food at a charity kitchen in Sanaa, Yemen April 20, 2018
Yemen, where Saudi Arabia is waging a bombing campaign with thousands of civilian victims, is facing the collapse of its whole infrastructure and not enough aid is coming in, the former Red Cross head in Yemen told RT.

"It's wider than a famine," Alexandre Faite said of the situation in the country. "There's a problem with structural collapse of the system in Yemen. You have problems of water, you have problems of sanitation... There's also a crisis that has led to a million suspected cases of cholera last year."

With the country's infrastructure falling apart due to the ongoing fighting, "it's not only one of the most serious crises that I've seen, it's one of the most complicated," the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) official said.


Comment: See also: Boy clinging to his dead father won't become face of Yemen war for millions of Westerners (GRAPHIC)

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Smoking

Duma committee approves proposal for return of smoking areas in Russian airports


RT
Wed, 25 Apr 2018 14:52 UTC
Smoking room
© Kirill Kalinnikov / SputnikA smoking room at the World Trade Center, Moscow.
Despite protests from the Health Ministry, the Lower House committee for transport has approved a bill that, if passed, would allow the return of smoking areas in airports.

The sponsor of the bill, MP Sergey Boyarsky (United Russia), explained the motion by the fact that the current blanket ban on smoking in airports only increases the number of civil offences, because some smokers simply cannot stand prolonged deprivation regardless of punishment.

In addition, such illegal smoking subjects other people to tobacco smoke, potentially damaging their health, which would not happen in dedicated smoking lounges. Finally, smoking outside special areas in airports is dangerous as these facilities hold both highly flammable substances and a lot of visitors.

Boyarsky also noted that the World Health Organization's framework convention on tobacco control, which Russia signed in 2008, contains no recommendations on banning smoking in or near airports.
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Red Flag

Anti-Christian Democrats refuse to confirm government appointee her job in Iowa for single comment on conservative article

Tony Perkins
Family Research Council
Mon, 16 Apr 2018 16:28 UTC
Katherine Asjes
© Andy Abeyta, Quad-City Times/ZumaPress/NewscomKatherine Asjes
You don't have to be a Trump nominee to face the Christian inquisition. Just ask Iowa conservatives. The bad blood that's turned the hearings of Mike Pompeo, Russell Vought, and Amy Barrett into anti-faith slugfests seems to be spilling over into state politics, too. And at least one military wife is out of a job because of it.

By every other measure, Katherine Asjes was "more than qualified" to join the Iowa Board of Medicine. With a strong background in hospital PR and the support of Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds, most people thought Asjes was a shoo-in. So, when her nomination failed to get the 33 votes she needed for confirmation, the one question most people had was: Why?

According to the liberals who opposed her, it was simple. She was too religious for the job. Critics, including liberal ringleader state Sen. Tony Bisignano, a Democrat, urged his party to reject Asjes because of a single comment she made on a Catholic World Report post. The article, "Re-Rebuilding a Bridge: The Connection between Contraception and the LGBT Community," raised "red flags," Democrats said.
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Barnard College alumni opposes Israeli divestment backed by large majority of students

Stephen Lendman
Global Intel Hub
Tue, 24 Apr 2018 23:18 UTC
Students Barnard College divest from Israel
Students at New York's prestigious Barnard College vote to divest from Israel
Barnard is to Columbia University as Radcliffe was to Harvard - both Cambridge, MA schools fully integrated in 1999.

Barnard and Radcliffe are two so-called Seven Sisters northeastern US liberal arts colleges - Vassar and Radcliffe now co-educational, Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, and Wellesley remaining all-female.

Around one-third of Barnard students are Jewish. Last week, the student body voted nearly two -to-one to divest from companies complicit with Israeli human rights violations.

According to the school's Student Government Association, 59% of students cast ballots, the largest referendum turnout in school history.

In April 2016, an initiative called Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) was launched by Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine, along with Barnard/Columbia Jewish Voice for Peace.

It called on Barnard and Columbia to divest from stocks, funds, and other investments in companies profiting from Israeli violations of international law and Palestinian human rights through colonization, militarized occupation, and apartheid.

Comment: Israel's horrific killings of unarmed Palestinians in Gaza have so outraged the public that a new wave of support has been garnered for the BDS movement despite ongoing resistance from the usual apologists:

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Eye 2

Self-described Earth Day founder Ira Einhorn murdered his girlfriend, stuffed her body in a trunk and left it in his closet


Conservative Fighters
Tue, 24 Apr 2018 16:16 UTC
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Convicted murderer Ira Einhorn
Here's an inconvenient truth about a self-described co-founder of Earth Day: he murdered and composted his girlfriend. Environmental activist and self-proclaimed Earth Day co-founder Ira Einhorn had a dark side.

Einhorn was found guilty of murdering his ex-girlfriend and stuffing her "composted" body inside a trunk, NBC News reported in 2011.

After five years of being together, Helen Maddux broke up with Einhorn. Enraged, he threatened to throw Maddux's belongings onto the street if she didn't come by to get them. She went to Einhorn's apartment to retrieve them on Sept. 9, 1977, but was never seen again.

Maddux went missing after going out to the neighborhood co-op to buy tofu and sprouts, Einhorn told police several weeks later.
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