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Israeli celebration premature; Gazans have crossed the 'fear barrier'

Ramzy Baroud
CounterPunch
Thu, 31 May 2018 16:39 UTC
Gaza violence
© zeenews.india.comGreat March of Return
60 Palestinians were killed in Gaza on May 15, simply for protesting and demanding their Right of Return as guaranteed by international law.

50 more were killed since March 30, the start of the 'Great March of Return', which marks Land Day.

Nearly 10,000 have been wounded and maimed in between these two dates.

'Israel has the right to defend itself', White House officials announced, paying no heed to the ludicrousness of the statement when understood within the current context of an unequal struggle.

Peaceful protesters were not threatening the existence of Israel; rock throwing kids were not about to overwhelm hundreds of Israeli snipers, who shot, killed and wounded Gaza youngsters with no legal or moral boundary whatsoever.

8-months old, Laila al-Ghandour was one of the 60 who were killed on May 15. She suffocated to death from Israeli teargas. Many, like her, were wounded or killed some distance away from the border. Some were killed for simply being nearby, or for being Palestinian.

Meanwhile, Ivanka Trump, daughter of US President, Donald Trump, ushered in a new era of international relations, when she and her companions unveiled the new US Embassy in Jerusalem.

Comment: The courage and sacrifice of the Palestinians has not gone unnoticed. It is appalling that recognition has taken decades and resolution has yet to come.

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Yoda

Jordan Peterson and how the Left's thought police keep political discourse controlled through shallow ideological crusades

Carol Horton
Quillette
Tue, 22 May 2018 18:23 UTC
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Like most people, I'd never heard of Jordan Peterson until a short time ago. In my case, the first signal of his arrival on the cultural scene was a friend's series of Facebook posts vividly denouncing him as a reactionary cult-like leader. Seeing a Canadian psychology professor be the subject of such alarm piqued my curiosity. As an American ex-academic, I tend to stereotype Canadians as almost laughably polite, and professors as largely contained in their own hyper-specialized, politically irrelevant bubbles. The vision of a wild-eyed Canadian psych prof with a fanatical alt-right following on YouTube was an intriguing challenge to my priors.

Soon, I found myself going down the Peterson rabbit-hole with countless others. I listened to several of his lectures on reinterpreting Bible stories as archetypical myths. Contradicting my friend's warnings of hate-filled right-wing propaganda, I found Peterson's discussions intellectually engaging, personally meaningful, and a refreshing departure from the standard discourse on such issues. I read up on Peterson's battles over Canadian hate speech legislation and watched his infamous Cathy Newman interview. Here again, I found Peterson's commentary to be largely thoughtful and thought-provoking. I tuned into his podcast discussions with Sam Harris, and started exploring Harris's work as well. I even bought and read 12 Rules for Life, and put Maps of Meaning on order at my local public library.
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Arrow Down

UK risks water shortage as 3 billion litres of water lost in leaks everyday - Meanwhile heavy rain causes flooding in parts of the country

Joseph Carey
Express
Wed, 23 May 2018 09:43 UTC
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In a new report, the Environment Agency stated three billion litres of water is equivalent to the usage of 20million people.

The agency starkly warned of significant water shortages in future years as the UK population continues to grow.

The warning of a potential future water shortage comes as Britain has been hit with sweltering heat this year, with temperatures expected to reach highs of 30C over the bank holiday weekend.


Comment: It's also been pretty stormy for this time of year too.


This has prompted bookmaker Coral to cut its odds on this year being the hottest on record.

Comment: With many places in the UK under water right now this a sick joke. The UK receives adequate rainfall each year that, were it collected and transported correctly, there would be more than enough for the population, even with increased demand.

The future for the UK looks bleak indeed. We see the same corruption plaguing all privatised utilities and services. And not satiated by this carnage, the pathological establishment have their eyes on the police, schools and the NHS.

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Peace Destroyers: Report finds widespread evidence of child sex abuse by UN peacekeepers and NGO workers across the globe


Sputnik
Thu, 31 May 2018 18:13 UTC
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© AP Photo / Eranga Jayawardena
United Nations peacekeepers are meant to bring stability to vulnerable populations and deter violence. However, a growing pile of allegations against them indicates they also bring sexual abuse and exploitation, endangering the people they were sent to protect.

Sex abuse of children by NGO workers or UN peacekeepers have come under the spotlight again after it has been reported that British lawmakers are reviewing a UN report from 2001 naming 15 major aid organisations implicated in a "sex-for-food" scandal.

The report alleges that workers from more than 40 NGOs and 15 international organisations - such as the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) - "had sexually exploitative relationships with refugee children."

Although the allegations couldn't be fully confirmed, their sheer volume "is a critical indicator of the scale of the problem," the researchers reportedly warned.

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees from 2001 to 2005, Ruud Lubbers, at the time rejected allegations of child sex abuse by members of his staff as "gossip."
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Testing the sheeple's pedo meter: Children's film 'Show Dogs' pulled from theaters after parental outrage over 'pedophile grooming' message

Paul Bois
The Daily Wire
Thu, 24 May 2018 00:00 UTC
Producers 'show dogs' children's film pedophile grooming
"The company takes these matters very seriously" Really.... so how is it that not a single producer, actor, or executive ever raised a red flag regarding the film's subject matter prior to production?
In what can only be described as a grassroots victory for parents everywhere, the children's film "Show Dogs" has been pulled from theaters and will be re-edited following an intense public outcry over what many parents saw as covert pedophile messaging.

It began with a trickle and turned into a storm when mommy blogger Terina Maldonado of Macaroni Kid sounded the alarm over one of the film's wildly inappropriate plot points that sent a dangerously creepy message to children.

"Show Dog" stars Will Arnett as an FBI agent named Frank who is forced into partnering with a talking dog named Max (voiced by Ludacris) to infiltrate a prestigious dog show in the hopes of rescuing a kidnapped panda. One of the film's plot points involved the character Max learning to cope with the idea of having a judge examine his genitals while competing in the dog show.
Considering that "Show Dogs" is a movie for children and Max was an anthropomorphized character, Maldonado and many parents interpreted the scene as "pedophile grooming," sending the message for children to be comfortable with a stranger touching their private parts:
The day of the finals come and if Max doesn't let his private parts be touched, he may lose the competition and any hope of finding the kidnapped panda. It all rests on his ability to let someone touch his private parts. The judge's hands slowly reach behind Max and he goes to his 'zen place.' He's flying through the sky, dancing with his partner, there are fireworks and flowers-everything is great-all while someone is touching his private parts.

Comment: Pedophilia in Hollywood needs a spotlight

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Attention

Terrorist suspect accused of plotting to have IS lone wolves attack Prince George at his London school


RT
Thu, 31 May 2018 10:11 UTC
Prince George
© Andrew Matthews / ReutersPrince George
An terrorist suspect has changed his plea to guilty after being accused of encouraging Islamic State extremists to attack Prince George at his London school. Husnain Rashid, 32, has now admitted to encouraging terrorism.

Rashid, 31, used encrypted message service Telegram to share a picture of the third-in-line to the throne next to the image of an Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) fighter and the address of the Prince's school, Westminster Magistrates Court heard in December.

He urged his online followers to attack the prince and to inject poison into supermarket ice creams. He allegedly advised internet users on how a lone terrorist could carry out an attack with poison, chemicals, bombs and knives.The court has already heard how Rashid provided an "e-toolkit for terrorism" in an online channel that he ran, dubbed 'the Lone Mujahid.'
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Laptop

Majority of US federal agencies grossly unprepared for cyberattacks


RT
Thu, 31 May 2018 15:26 UTC
computer hacker
© Kacper Pempel / Reuters
The majority of US government agencies are grossly unprepared and unprotected against cyberattacks, a damning new report finds. The current situation has been described as "untenable."

The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) found 71 out of 96 government agencies have cybersecurity programs that are "at risk" or "high risk" when it comes to security.

Dozens of federal agencies are unable to deal with cyberattacks on their networks, the Federal Cybersecurity Risk Determination Report and Action Plan revealed. The report was commissioned in response to Executive Order 13800, which requires all federal agencies submit risk assessment reports.
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Family

Second Turkish Stream pipeline may traverse Bulgaria after Putin-Radev talks

Frank Sellers
The Duran
Thu, 31 May 2018 15:02 UTC
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Bulgaria is returning its willingness to cooperate with Russia on its much needed energy projects

After shunning the prospect of a Bulgarian Stream pipeline going through Bulgaria back in 2014 and a new nuclear plan in 2012 following a visit from Senator McCain and residual Western pressure to abandon the projects, Bulgarian President Rumen Radev travelled to Moscow last week to plead with Russian President Vladimir Putin and his energy ministers to resume the project to construct the nuclear plan and a gas hub in Bulgaria.

Following a phone conversation between Putin and Turkey's President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, news was released that neither party was opposed to the pipeline's progress through Bulgaria.

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Target

North Carolina police caught on video siccing police dog on innocent man and savagely beating him

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Thu, 31 May 2018 00:00 UTC
An otherwise entirely innocent man was walking down the street when he was surrounded by police who then sicced a K9 on him and began punching, kicking, and tasering him for no reason.

Kyron Dwain Hinton beaten by North Carolina police
A North Carolina judge released a series of disturbing videos this week showing the horrifying attack on a man who had done nothing but walk down the road. Kyron Dwain Hinton, 29, had harmed no one and committed no crime when he was surrounded by police, mauled by a K9, pistol whipped, kicked, punched, and stomped on-for nearly five minutes.

The incident happened on April 3 and the videos are so horrifying that three of the officers involved have actually been charged for it.

According to police, they received a series of calls about a man walking down Raleigh Boulevard around 10 pm. When police responded to the area, they found Hinton.

First on the scene was the North Carolina Highway patrol, followed by Raleigh police. Things remained calm as officers talked to Hinton until Wake County Deputy Cameron Broadwell arrived on the scene with his police dog, Loki.

Hinton was peacefully standing there, talking with deputies when deputy Broadwell decided the time for talking was over. Without cause or provocation, Broadwell begins shouting at Hinton to get on the ground.
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Pirates

Man stabbed to death in wealthy London borough amid knife crime 'epidemic'


RT
Thu, 31 May 2018 15:17 UTC
Islington, London
© Vickie Flores/ Global Look PressStreet in Islington, London, cordoned off last week after reports of a man stabbed.
A middle-aged man has been stabbed to death in London's second wealthiest borough, Kensington and Chelsea, bringing the capital's murder rate so far this year to 67.

The man, believed to be a delivery driver, was found with multiple stab wounds at 10:20pm on Cathcart Road, Chelsea, on Wednesday night. He was reportedly attacked after failing to hand money over to a group of youth.

The victim, understood to be in his 40s, was pronounced dead at the scene despite ambulance paramedics' efforts. The area is home to a string of affluent people, including Notting Hill star Hugh Grant.
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