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Peter Hitchens: So called 'impartial' Syrian Observatory for Human Rights receives nearly £200k from UK

Omar Baggili
RT
Mon, 14 May 2018 13:16 UTC
Syria
© Omar Sanadiki / Reuters

The British government has given the self-described 'impartial' Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) £194,769.60 for a project to help fund "communications equipment and cameras," according to journalist Peter Hitchens.

The Sunday Mail's Hitchens, a regular critic of British foreign policy, tweeted on Sunday: "Boris Johnson's Foreign Office admits it gave £194,769.60 to the supposedly 'independent' Syrian Human Rights Observatory. How many other 'independent' bodies in the Syrian controversy aren't as 'independent' as they look?"


Comment: The UK is indeed happy to keep funding the propaganda arms of its proxy terrorists. Useful tools in the information war to win the hearts and minds of the sheeple so the West can prolong the pretense of its 'humanitarian interventions' in Syria.

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New report highlights serious gang violence and cyber crime in the UK


RT
Mon, 14 May 2018 14:39 UTC
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A new report has revealed the seriousness of gang violence in the United Kingdom. According to the National Crime Agency, rising gang activity "affects more UK citizens, more often, than any other national security threat."

The annual report shines a light on the UK's underbelly - the NCA estimates 4,629 gangs are active in the UK, and the use of illegal firearms is on the rise as more and more weapons are smuggled across borders from Europe.

The report also identified cyber crime as a growing threat to public safety, increasing in both scale and complexity. NCA Director General Lynne Owens said that the annual report has shown that organized crime groups are exploiting digital technology, such as using encryption services to communicate and dark web marketplaces to aid their activities.
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Desperately seeking a drug bust: Police raid couple's home after Facebook post on legal, edible mushrooms

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Mon, 14 May 2018 14:21 UTC
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It is a travesty enough when the drug war lays waste to the rights and lives of entirely decent people who've harmed no one simply because they choose to ingest a substance deemed illegal by the state. However, because the drug war is such an immoral and barbaric practice, entirely innocent people are also swept up in the dragnet of tyranny and ignorance. Case in point: a couple in Maryland were raided by cops for posting photos of legal morel mushrooms they picked and ate.

On Friday, John Garrison and his girlfriend Hope went foraging the mountains for some morel mushrooms. Morels are known to those in the region as being the safest mushroom to hunt for as they are very easily identified due to their unique look. From mid April to mid May, lovers of nature and good food, like John and Hope will find them growing near trees or where there used to be trees.

Garrison was so excited that they had found a bunch of them, that he posted a photo on Facebook of he and Hope's bounty along with his plans to "sautee them with brown sugar and cinnamon and see how that turns out."
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Thousands rally in Ireland against liberalization of abortion laws

Steve Dellar
The Goldwater
Sun, 13 May 2018 00:00 UTC
Ireland protest against abortion
© Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish TimesA section of the crowd attending the Love Both rally in Merrion Square, Dublin.
Ireland, the deeply Catholic nation, will decide on 25 May whether or not to change the 8th amendment to its constitution which deals with the highly controversial topic of abortion.

According to the latest Irish poll (foreign polls are not allowed anymore, see our related coverage), some 45 percent will vote to change the law, 34 percent will vote no and 18 percent are still undecided.

The Eighth Amendment, article 40.3.3, which was inserted into the Constitution in a referendum in 1983, provides that the State "acknowledges the right to life of the unborn and, with due regard to the equal right to life of the mother, guarantees in its laws to respect, and as far as practicable, by its laws to defend and vindicate that right."

Comment: George Soros has his tentacles in the pro-abortion movement in Ireland, planning to overturn legislation in the country before spreading his degenerate agendas throughout Latin America, Africa, Europe and Tasmania.

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DSMA committee issued two 'D-notices' over Skripal affair

David Miller
Spinwatch
Wed, 09 May 2018 13:37 UTC
DSMA Notice
Spinwatch can reveal that the Skripal affair has resulted in the issuing of not one but two 'D-Notices' to the British media, which are marked private and confidential. We can also disclose the contents of both notices, which have been obtained from a reliable source.

That two notices were issued has been confirmed by the 'D-Notice' Committee. The Committee, which is jointly staffed by government officials and mainstream media representatives has recently changed its name to the 'Defence and Security Media Advisory (DSMA) Committee'. The use of the word 'advisory' is no doubt a bid to discourage the public from thinking that this is a censorship committee. However, the DSMA-Notices (as they are now officially called) are one of the miracles of British state censorship. They are a mechanism whereby the British state simply 'advises' the mainstream media what not to publish, in 'notices' with no legal force. The media then voluntarily comply.

Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned in Salisbury and discovered collapsed on a park bench in the late afternoon of Sunday 4 March. Less than three days later on 7 March, the first and - until now undisclosed - notice was issued.

Comment: See also: Look Where They Tell You Not to Look

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Palestinians protest opening of US Embassy in Jerusalem as Israel kills another 43 and injures 2,200 in Gaza - in one day

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Mon, 14 May 2018 12:30 UTC
Gaza March of Return
The Israeli military continued its violent repression of Palestinian protesters on Monday when soldiers once again gunned down unarmed demonstrators whom it claimed were trying to penetrate the border fence separating Israel from the Gaza Strip.

According to Italian newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore, Israeli soldiers said they were "provoked into violence" when small groups of Palestinians began throwing stones at IDF soldiers from the other side of the border fence. The soldiers responded by gunning down demonstrators; by the time the demonstrations had quieted down, at least 28 Palestinians had been killed, and another 600 had been wounded, according to the Hamas-controlled Health Ministry.


Comment: It's not just snipers murdering demonstrators: Israeli warplanes bomb north Gaza Strip

(The headline has been updated with the latest casualty figures.)

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British pensioners receiving less than those retiring in India, Chile, or China

Ben Gelblum
The London Economic
Mon, 12 Feb 2018 12:00 UTC
oap pensioner sad
Our state pensions are actually the least generous in the developing world, the latest research from the OECD shows.

Brits earning the average salary of £26,500 will have to get by on less than a third of that if they are relying on a state pension. They are now looking at just £122.30 a week to retire on.


Comment: A salary of £26,500 is actually much higher than the average worker is earning.


And worryingly, the Government Actuary has warned that the cost of the present British pension pot is too much.

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) analysed state pensions in industrialised countries as a proportion of salary earned, taking into account taxes and social security payments.

Comment: Considering life expectancy averages around 81 years, although for the poorest it is much lower and females in England it is actually falling for the first time since the 1920's, those who are lucky enough to reach retirement age have a life of poverty to look forward to.

This is just one of many signs of the impending collapse of the UK - and the US is faring no better:

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Footage shows fire engulfing apartment block in Dubai, residents evacuated


RT
Sun, 13 May 2018 08:31 UTC
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© dcd997 / Instagram
Dubai firefighters battled a major fire at a high-rise residential building in the city. Footage from the scene shared on social media shows flames and huge plumes of smoke engulfing the tower.

Dubai Civil Defence said they were working to put out the blaze at Zen Tower in the Marina area on Sunday morning, and confirmed that all residents had been evacuated safely, with no reports of injuries.

The fire broke out at around 11am local time and appears to have stripped the building's cladding. The blaze coincides with a huge dust storm in the region, causing poor visibility.

Dubai Civil Defence said it brought the blaze under control within an hour of reaching the site.

Comment: There do appear to be a significant number of fires in apartment buildings, hotels, malls and even churches occurring around the world. While the causes may differ, at least in the case of Dubai, and the other United Arab Emirate states, it could have something to do with the slave labour they employ to construct the buildings:

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Flashback Army gets caught up in Obama birther conspiracy theory

Megan McCloskey
Stars and Stripes
Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:44 UTC
Ellen Gilmore
© SHANNON SZWARC/(COLUMBUS, GA.) LEDGER-ENQUIRERMaj. Stefan Cook places his hand on Ellen Gilmore, a self-proclaimed concerned citizen, outside of the federal courthouse in Columbus, Ga., earlier this month. She thanked him for having “the courage to stand up for the Constitution of the United States.”
Army Maj. Stefan Cook sought out a notorious lawyer in February, formally volunteered for an Afghan deployment in May and was granted orders to deploy in June.

But the Army reservist's intention appeared not so much to fight for America as to fight against President Barack Obama, in furtherance of a bizarre conspiracy theory.

In July, Cook filed a lawsuit against the Army, the defense secretary and the president, claiming that Obama could not lawfully order him to go to war because he is not the legitimate president of the United States.

Cook is one of the so-called "Birthers," a small group of activists who subscribe to a fringe conspiracy theory alleging that Obama was not born in the United States and therefore cannot legally serve as president. The conspiracy theory, proven false by numerous media investigations as well as officials in the state of Hawaii where Obama was born, first surfaced early in the presidential campaign, but in recent months it has continued to fester on the Internet.
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Flashback Supreme Court again sets aside challenge over Obama's citizenship

Bill Mears
CNN
Tue, 30 Nov 2010 09:37 UTC
obama
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The Supreme Court has again cast aside an appeal that raised doubts about President Barack Obama's U.S. citizenship, a grass-roots legal issue that has gained little legal or political footing, but continues to persist in the courts.

The justices without comment Monday rejected a challenge from Charles Kerchner Jr., a Pennsylvania man who sought a trial in federal court forcing the president to produce documents regarding his birth and citizenship.

Kerchner's attorney, Mario Apuzzo, had argued in a petition with the Supreme Court that Obama did not fit the definition of a "natural-born citizen" required for the nation's highest office, as defined by Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution.

That clause states, "No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States."
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