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He's back! Former PTL televangelist Jim Bakker returns warning Christians to prepare for the Apocalypse

Tim Funk
The Charlotte Observer
Mon, 19 Feb 2018 20:34 UTC
Jim Bakker
Now 78 with a white beard, Jim Bakker is no longer the sunny, baby-faced preacher who co-hosted “The PTL Club” in the 1970s and ’80s with then-wife Tammy Faye.
Three decades after his PTL empire near Charlotte crumbled amid financial and sex scandals, Jim Bakker is back on TV with a different, darker message:

The Apocalypse is coming and you better get ready.

Ready to be judged by God, sure. But the main mission of "The Jim Bakker Show" - broadcast from a Christian compound deep in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri - appears to be to sell you fuel-less generators, doomsday guidebooks and freeze-dried food with a shelf-life of up to 30 years.

Bakker, whose co-host is second wife Lori, says stocking up on such survivalist merchandise could keep you alive amid the catastrophes - earthquakes, hurricanes, war, famine - that some Christians believe are signs that End Times are near.
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Somali Uber driver in UK had daughter's genitals mutilated to stop her from "feeling sexy"

Liam Deacon
Breitbart
Tue, 20 Feb 2018 20:00 UTC
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© Jean-Marc Bouju/AP
A Somali heritage Uber driver allowed his seven-year-old daughter to be subjected to Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) because he said it stops "women feeling sexy all the time", a court has heard.

The case represents one of the first times a prosecution for the crime - common in some migrant and Muslim cultures - has been brought to court in the UK, despite being illegal here since 1985 and hundreds of successful prosecutions in France.

"The case concerns... a practice that is illegal in this country and is becoming illegal in countries around the world," Anna Vigars QC, prosecuting, told the court as the case began Monday.

"But, there are communities in Africa and the Middle East where it is common," she added, according to The Guardian.

The prosecution alleges that the Somali father, who speaks "broken" English, admitted allowing his daughter to be cut to charity worker and anti-FGM campaigner Sami Ullah after picking him up in his Uber in March 2016.

Comment: The WHO estimates that around 200 million girls and women (around 5%) have undergone FGM. A 2016 study estimates that around 37% of boys and men undergo male genital mutilation (i.e. around 1.4 billion males). Both practices need to stop.

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'It's our grandson!' 2yo boy returns from Iraqi orphanage after his grandparents recognize him in RT video


RT
Wed, 21 Feb 2018 19:47 UTC
Grandson reunited
A two-year-old boy, who was left stranded in Iraq, has been returned to Russia. His grandparents, who spotted Zaid in an RT video from an orphanage haven't seen their daughter for months.

Zaid lost one finger in a shelling attack in Iraq, where his mother had taken him. He was found on the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL)-controlled territory. The boy's mother left Russia when he was only nine-months-old. Found in an Iraqi orphanage, Zaid doesn't remember what happened to either her or to his father.

With Islamic State's self-proclaimed caliphate in tatters, many children possibly belonging to the terrorist group's fighters have been left stranded in Iraq and Syria following their parents' deaths. RT has been conducting a 24/7 campaign to return Russian-speaking children back home to their relatives.
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US helicopters spotted in NE Syria evacuating ISIS terrorists from prison


Sputnik
Wed, 21 Feb 2018 19:24 UTC
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© CC BY 2.0 / The U.S. Army / Jalalabad Airfield
The US-led coalition is often accused of supporting terrorist groups in Syria, including organizing safe passage and extraction from encirclements and hot zones. Videos have appeared on YouTube and Facebook allegedly showing the process of transportation of the terrorists.

The source from the town of al-Hasakah (north-east part of Syria) has told Sputnik on the condition of anonymity that local people have witnessed US helicopters landing multiple times on the territory of the local prison, controlled by Kurds, and then leaving. According to the source, they were taking away some of the Daesh (banned in Russia) terrorists, detained in that prison. There have also been reports of US military bringing munitions to this prison.


This news comes on the hot heels of reports made by Iraqi media, which indicated that American helicopters were moving members of Daesh from the prison in al-Hasakah to their base near the village of Abu Hajar in the eastern part of Syria. According to their sources, over 100 Daesh terrorists, most of them with foreign citizenship, most likely were brought to this prison by the US from Deir ez-Zor.

Comment: Indeed, that has always been U.S. policy, and there's no indication that it has changed. Steven Chovanec's recent article has all the details:

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'There's no point': Russian curler Krushelnitsky decides against CAS hearing for doping case


RT
Wed, 21 Feb 2018 17:31 UTC
Russian curler
© Vladimir Pesnya / Sputnik
Russian Olympic bronze medal curler Alexander Krushelnitsky has decided against the holding of a Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) hearing regarding his doping case for meldonium.

Krushelnitsky announced in a statement, presented to TASS by the Olympic Athletes of Russia (OAR) delegation head Stanislav Pozdnyakov, that he believes a hearing would "not make sense".

"It is silly to deny it, when the presence [of a] banned substance is confirmed by two doping tests. The probes were taken during the Olympic Games, and I am prepared for the corresponding verdict, which is predictable in such situations.

Comment: See also: There's no way Alex Krushelnitsky willingly took Meldonium to enhance his curling game

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'A gift from fate': Child thought dead for 7 years reunites with Russian couple thanks to bailiffs


RT
Wed, 21 Feb 2018 17:44 UTC
Child
© Philippe Lissac / Global Look Press
A Russian couple who thought their baby had died shortly after birth were reunited with their child after more than seven years, thanks to bailiffs who had come calling to ask for money for the boy's care.

The touching story with a long-postponed but happy ending began in the southwestern Russian city of Volgograd back in 2011. A couple decided to abandon their newborn as they were told that the baby would not survive for more than a week. However, the parents changed their minds just five days later, and rushed to take their child back, but it was too late as doctors told them that the boy had already died.

Almost seven years later, however, Russia's Federal Bailiffs Service was tasked with recovering money from the parents for the child's care, as the boy was alive and staying in a care home, according to a statement published on Tuesday.
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An alumnus' call to Jewish students for Israeli Apartheid Week: 'I faced my Jewish racism. Will you?'

Robert Cohen
Mondoweiss
Mon, 19 Feb 2018 18:32 UTC
Israel checkpoint
© Xinhua/Fadi ArouriPalestinians wait to cross Qalandia checkpoint on their way to attend Ramadan Friday prayers in Jerusalem on Aug. 3, 2012.
We need to talk about Jewish racism.

I know what you're thinking. How dare I accuse us, a people who've suffered so greatly from prejudice, hatred and persecution, of holding racist attitudes ourselves?

But it turns out that our past experience provides no protection and our communal memories can hinder, not help us.

This particular conversation is about to become more urgent if you're a Jewish student on a campus in the U.K. or Western Europe, North America or Australia.

The 14th annual 'Israeli Apartheid Week' (IAW) takes place around the world from the end of February through mid-April. There'll be talks, film screenings, and mock West Bank security checkpoints and Separation Walls to highlight the daily indignities of Palestinian life in the Occupied Territories. Thirty years after I graduated, I've been invited back to speak to students at Manchester University in the UK. It will be a homecoming - of sorts. But I've become a very different kind of Jew to the one who left there in 1988.
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Polish minister seeks "Polocaust" museum to commemorate non-Jewish victims of WWII


RT
Wed, 21 Feb 2018 18:47 UTC
Auschwitz
© Kacper Pempel / ReutersThe former Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz in Poland.
Poland's Deputy Minister of Culture has endorsed the creation of a special "Polocaust" museum to commemorate the non-Jews who died in Poland during World War II.

It is estimated that around three million ethnic Poles were among the six million people who were killed in Poland during the war. Minister Jarosław Sellin said in an interview on Poland's Radio One that he regrets that Poland's suffering isn't more widely known around the world. He said it's time "this terrible fate" was acknowledged.

Sellin made the comments following last week's passing of the so-called "death camp" law, which made it a crime to suggest that Poland had any complicity in Nazi war crimes. The new law has provoked anger in Israel.
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With millions of war crimes, a culture of of impunity exists in Afghanistan courtesy of US Empire


RT
Wed, 21 Feb 2018 18:42 UTC
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© REUTERS/Omar SobhaniThe funeral of the victims of a car bomb attack in Kabul
With the extensive presence of "warlords and human-rights abusers," as well as a "culture of impunity" in Afghanistan, over a million victims of alleged war crimes may not receive ICC justice, analysts warn.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) opened up an investigation into the situation in Afghanistan last November and began collecting testimonies with the help of organizations working both in Europe and Afghanistan. Up to January 31, the ICC received 1.17 million allegations of abuses and atrocities at the hands of the Taliban, the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIL/ISIS), Afghan security forces, warlords, the US-led coalition, as well as foreign and domestic intelligence agencies.


Comment: See: Courtesy of the US Empire: Afghanis submit over a million human rights abuse claims in 3 months


"The depth of the crimes in Afghanistan is very extensive," Abdul Wadood Pedram, of the Kabul-based Human Rights and Eradication of Violence Organization, which helped to collect data for the inquiry, told RT. "Unfortunately, the Afghan law and justice organizations have not catered to these cases so far."

"The culture of impunity from law is expanding unfortunately in Afghanistan - the presence of warlords and human rights abusers is extensive right now ... and [the ICC] need to provide an answer to the demand of millions of people who are victims, and have suffered."
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Shame! Repent! Facebook ad exec forced to apologize for telling the truth about Russian ads


The Last Refuge
Wed, 21 Feb 2018 18:28 UTC
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© facebook
Good grief, I doubt there is a more apropos example of how liberal echo-chambers generate a sketchy group-think compliance mindset.

After President Trump re-tweeted a discussion thread from Facebook VP of Ads Rob Goldman, which cited analysis done last year of Russian ad purchases/engagement, the liberal hive instantly attacked the executive.

According to Wired.Com Rob Goldman quickly began apologizing for expressing "uncleared thoughts", where those thoughts are actually based on facts - but run counter to the necessary liberal narrative - so they must be repelled at all costs.

This you have to read:

Comment: The next time you speak, be sure to clear your thoughts with the nearest liberal Russia-hater first. You wouldn't want to say something verboten.

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