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Flashback Israeli students to get $2,000 to spread state propaganda on social media

Ali Abunimah
The Electronic Intifada
Wed, 04 Jan 2012 06:41 UTC
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The National Union of Israeli Students (NUIS) has become a full-time partner in the Israeli government's efforts to spread its propaganda online and on college campuses around the world.

NUIS has launched a program to pay Israeli university students $2,000 to spread pro-Israel propaganda online for 5 hours per week from the "comfort of home."

The union is also partnering with Israel's Jewish Agency to send Israeli students as missionaries to spread propaganda in other countries, for which they will also receive a stipend.

This active recruitment of Israeli students is part of Israel's orchestrated effort to suppress the Palestinian solidarity movement under the guise of combating "delegitimization" of Israel and anti-Semitism.

The involvement of the official Israeli student union as well as Haifa University, Tel Aviv University, Ben-Gurion University and Sapir College in these state propaganda programs will likely bolster Palestinian calls for the international boycott of Israeli academic institutions.

Comment: See also: How Israel and its minions work to flood the internet with pro-Israeli propaganda and censor any and all criticism

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Eye 1

Mom's secret recording catches kindergarten teacher calling her 5-year-old son a 'loser'

Colleen Wright
Miami Herald
Thu, 05 Jul 2018 21:22 UTC
Banyan Elementary School
By the second week of school last fall, Kandy Escotto knew something was amiss with her 5-year-old.

Her son, Aaron, complained about going to school. He brought home poor grades. Then, while they were working on homework together, Aaron told his mother that he was a bad boy.

"I said, 'Why do you say something like that?' " Escotto said. "He said, 'That's what the teacher tells me when I don't do my work.' "

Escotto said she complained to Banyan Elementary School Principal Cheri Davis about Rosalba Suarez, a 33-year veteran teacher who was named teacher of the year this year at the school in Westchester. She said the principal told her she needed proof that Suarez was bullying her son.
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Beaker

The Amesbury poisoning mystery - magical, morphing 'novichuk'

Craig Murray
craigmurray.org.uk
Thu, 05 Jul 2018 18:27 UTC
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Dawn Sturgess and Charlie Rowley
We are continually presented with experts by the mainstream media who will validate whatever miraculous property of "novichok" is needed to fit in with the government's latest wild anti-Russian story. Tonight Newsnight wheeled out a chemical weapons expert to tell us that "novichok" is "extremely persistent" and therefore that used to attack the Skripals could still be lurking potent on a bush in a park.

Yet only three months ago we had this example of scores from the MSM giving the same message which was the government line at that time:

"Professor Robert Stockman, of the University of Nottingham, said traces of nerve agents did not linger. He added: 'These agents react with water to degrade, including moisture in the air, and so in the UK they would have a very limited lifetime. This is presumably why the street in Salisbury was being hosed down as a precaution - it would effectively destroy the agent.'"

In fact, rain affecting the "novichok" on the door handle was given as the reason that the Skripals were not killed. But now the properties of the agent have to fit a new narrative, so they transmute again.

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Black Magic

Flashback Gay 'parents' bought boy from surrogate mother, raped him daily, then brought him around the world to be raped by other pedophiles


RT
Mon, 01 Jul 2013 21:20 UTC
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Mark J. Newton and Peter Truong with their 'son'
An American pedophile has been convicted to 40 years in prison for years of sexual abuse of an adopted Russian boy. His boyfriend from New Zealand who allegedly assisted in meticulously recording acts of sexual offence is going on trial at home.

Two members of the pedophile porn exchange ring Boy Lovers network, Mark J. Newton, 42 and his long-term partner Peter Truong, 36, were busted in 2011 on suspicion that they were sexually molesting their son, born to a Russian mother in 2005.

A US judge in Indianapolis has imposed maximum sentence on American-born Mark J. Newton, 42, for sexual exploitation of a minor and conspiracy to possess child pornography. Newton is also obliged to pay $400,000 in compensation to the boy's account.

Newton's boyfriend Peter Truong, 36, awaits court in New Zealand.

US District Judge Sarah Evans Barker explained that Mark Newton was tried at district court level to save a jury from seeing the images produced by the defendants.
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Eye 2

Led to the noose in diapers: Shoko Asahara, murderous guru behind Tokyo sarin attack, has been executed


South China Morning Post
Fri, 06 Jul 2018 17:32 UTC
Shoko Asahara
Shoko Asahara, executed Friday for his role in the deadly 1995 sarin attack on Tokyo's subway, used a mixture of charisma and mysticism to lure followers to his Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult.

The "guru" with his wild hair and unkempt beard once led up to 10,000 followers, including some who in 1995 targeted the Tokyo subway in a shocking chemical attack that killed 13 people and injured thousands more.

He reportedly cut a very different figure as he was led to the noose on Friday morning.

Kyodo News, citing sources with knowledge of his behaviour in a detention, said Asahara had long ago cut his famous hair short and shaved off his beard.

He refused to use a toilet and instead wore adult diapers at all times.

Since mid-2008, Asahara, whose real name was Chizuo Matsumoto, had declined all meeting requests from his family and lawyers.
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Dollar

Work til you die: Record number of folks age 85 and older are working in the US

Andrew Van Dam
The Washington Post
Thu, 05 Jul 2018 20:35 UTC
Bob Blocksom
© Dustin Franz/WaPoBob Blocksom, 87, in his Berea, Ohio, home in June, is interested in becoming a truck driver to help pay for medical expenses for his wife.
Seventy may be the new 60, and 80 may be the new 70, but 85 is still pretty old to work in America. Yet in some ways, it is the era of the very old worker in America.

Overall, 255,000 Americans 85 years old or older were working over the past 12 months. That's 4.4 percent of Americans that age, up from 2.6 percent in 2006, before the recession. It's the highest number on record.

They're doing all sorts of jobs - crossing guards, farmers and ranchers, even truckers, as my colleague Heather Long revealed in a front-page story last week. Indeed, there are between 1,000 and 3,000 U.S. truckers age 85 or older, based on 2016 Census Bureau figures. Their ranks have roughly doubled since the Great Recession.
US working population 85 and older
© Dept of Labor via IPUMS/WaPo

Comment: The author presents the idea that working into your 80's and beyond is normal. It's likely that these people work because they cannot support themselves on their retirement plans and/or Social Security.

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Newspaper

Landmark free-speech case: Wisconsin Supreme Court sides with conservative Professor

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Fri, 06 Jul 2018 20:28 UTC
John McAdams
The ruling contends that Marquette, a Catholic University, violated its contract with McAdams guaranteeing academic freedom. The court also declared that McAdams should be immediately reinstated. McAdams sued Marquette in 2016 alleging that he lost his job for exercising his freedom of speech. The case has been sent back to the Milwaukee County Circuit Court so that damages, including back pay, can be awarded to McAdams, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
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The distinctions between 'freedom' and 'liberty' as they were originally conceived in the US

Erich Reimer
Townhall
Wed, 04 Jul 2018 00:01 UTC
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We hear the words "freedom" and, to a lesser degree, "liberty" a lot nowadays - and with good reason, as these concepts go to the fundamental root of what it means to be an American.

As we hear these terms however in our political, policy, legal, entertainment, and historical discourse, I began thinking about whether the terms are truly as interchangeable as they have seemingly become nowadays.

"Liberty" seems like an archaic term while "freedom" is much more commonly used modern ideal. However neither the Declaration of Independence nor the Constitution of the United States use the word "freedom," rather describing our rights in the terms "Blessings of Liberty" and "Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."

According to Webster's Dictionary, one definition of "liberty" is "the quality or state or being free," essentially as a synonym of freedom. However the other definitions are more subtle, implying that it is a form or subset of freedom. Essentially, that liberty is freedom within certain bounds.
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Newspaper

Guilty or innocent? Guardian columnist calls out UK govt as 'clueless' in blaming Russia for poisonings


RT
Fri, 06 Jul 2018 16:27 UTC
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© Henry Nicholls/Reuters
It is a basic tenet of British law that the accused are innocent until proven guilty. And yet when it's Russia in the dock, that seems irrelevant.

Top Tory ministers have squarely accused the Kremlin of the Novichok poisonings in Wiltshire, and the mainstream media has been awash with unknown sources and so-called "experts" claiming they have reasons to believe Russia is involved.

In a refreshingly articulate piece in the Guardian, however, former Times editor Simon Jenkins called out the government over its baseless allegations. While it is disappointing that it took a MSM journalist so long to reach such an elementary conclusion, it is still comforting that a piece entitled "If the Novichok was planted by Russia, where's the evidence?" has finally made it to print.

Comment: Should we applaud for MSM finally reporting statements of the obvious? Anomaly? Turn of the tide?
See also: Simon Jenkins: If the novichok was planted by Russia, where is the evidence?

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Arrow Up

Migrants in Germany transferred 17.7B euros to their countries of origin


Voice of Europe
Mon, 02 Jul 2018 00:00 UTC
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In the year 2016 migrants transferred billions of euros to their families in their home countries, German newspaper Die Welt reports.

More than 20 billion dollars (17.7 billion euros) flowed from Germany back to countries of origin in 2016, which is six billion more than in 2007.

While the German government sees it as a type of developmental aid, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, that requested the investigation on the matter, is sceptical.

According to the party recipients of state benefits should be banned from passing on money to their home countries. "It cannot be that development aid from the German social system is financed," AfD spokesman Markus Frohnmaier says.

But Germany's Government considers the remittances to be "development-promoting", because the money arrives directly at the place where it is needed, Die Welt writes.
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