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Palestinian Christians and Muslims call on faith communities to help end Israel's genocidal occupation


Mondoweiss
Thu, 26 Apr 2018 12:00 UTC
Palestinian Christians and Muslims march together to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre
© Seth HeraldPalestinian Christians and Muslims march together to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to protest to a new Israeli tax policy and proposed property law which caused Christian leaders to temporarily shut the doors of the church in February, 2018.
Then the Lord saw it, and it displeased Him that there was no justice. (Isaiah 59:15b)

As he approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it. (Luke 19:41)

We the undersigned, a group of Palestinian-American Christians from several church traditions, call on all faith communities to:
  • Denounce the Trump administration's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and the decision to move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem.
  • Lift up, in your places of worship, the plight of Palestinians, Muslims and Christians alike, recognizing that Israeli policies of occupation and apartheid are leading to the virtual extinction of the indigenous Christian population in Palestine.
  • Recognize the urgency of ending Israel's genocidal siege and attacks on the entire Palestinian hostage population of the Gaza Strip.
  • Continue to use economic pressure as well as other nonviolent means to compel Israel to end its apartheid practices and policies against the Palestinian people.

Comment: Top Israeli "sabotage" strategist admits BDS is winning


Comment: See Also: Also check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: The Truth About Israel and Palestine, with Robert Fantina

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Nearly 300 Bangladeshis arrested after illegally crossing Texas border in 2018

Bob Price
BreitBart
Sun, 29 Apr 2018 13:43 UTC
US Border patrol Agents
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Border Patrol agents in South Texas arrested nearly 300 Bangladeshi nationals for illegally crossing the border from Mexico during the first six months of Fiscal Year 2018. Border Patrol officials say the Bangladeshis make their way to Texas via a cartel-connected smuggling pipeline.

In two separate incidents over the weekend, Border Patrol agents in the Laredo Sector arrested nine young men from Bangladesh. They crossed the Rio Grande River boundary from Nuevo Laredo to South Laredo, according to information obtained by Breitbart Texas from Laredo Sector officials.

The Laredo Sector leads the nation in the apprehension of Bangladeshi nationals who illegally cross the border. So far this year, the Laredo Sector arrested 200 Bangladeshis - all men who are mostly between the ages of 18 and 35, officials told Breitbart Texas in an interview earlier this month.

Officials in the Rio Grande Valley Sector confirmed to Breitbart Texas that their agents apprehended an additional 76 Bangladeshi nationals for the current fiscal year. This brings the total in South Texas to 276.

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Attention

How the mainstream media revealed an inconvenient truth about Syria


Tim Hayward
Sun, 29 Apr 2018 12:36 UTC
Nadiya Hussain
Nadiya Hussain, vilified for criticising Theresa May over air strikes on Syria
The truth is sometimes revealed through words, but more often through deeds.

The Times and several other papers recently carried alarming stories about "Apologists for Assad" to be found in social media, in independent journalism, and even in universities. Passive consumers of corporate media communications may have taken the papers' word for it and been perturbed. The more alert, however, will have taken this conspicuous flagging of certain journalists, tweeters and academics to be a strategic communication: "these are people you must not listen to and definitely not think of emulating!"

The response from the critically aware has been spectacularly resistant - not least on Twitter, which, ironically, was the main source of the "evidence" used in the coordinated smear campaign. The fact of a campaign, and a coordinated one, appeared obvious. Perhaps a rush to launch the attacks all at once was due to an unexpectedly quick unravelling of the authorized narrative in Syria. As the Syrian Arab Army brought Douma back under government control, the liberated citizens were bringing horrendous stories about conditions of life under the UK-sponsored "moderate rebels", speaking of terror, humiliation, deprivation, rape, murder and forced labour. These stories, if verified, would severely undermine the mainstream narrative. As would the discovery of exceedingly inconvenient facts relating to the alleged chemical attack that recently served as justification for the F-UK-US bombing raid.

So it is that those of us who strive to get a fair hearing for the inconvenient testimonies are branded "Apologists for Assad".

Comment: As the narrative on Syria (and the Skripals) continues to break down, it seems that the media has taken a pause in digging their own grave. See also: Syria - A Case Study in Western Propaganda

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Dolphin takes down Australian paddleboarder in incredibly well-timed stunt


RT
Sun, 29 Apr 2018 09:30 UTC
Dolphins
© Gary Cameron / ReutersA pair of dolphins leaping over Atlantic waves.
Jaw-dropping footage from Western Australia shows what may be the beginning of a dolphin uprising against humanity. In the video, one member of a gang of the mammals unexpectedly launches a full-body assault on an innocent man.

Paddleboarder Andrew Hill, 54, was enjoying the surf Friday afternoon when he noticed a pod of dolphins bearing down on him near Gracetown, a coastal town approximately 270 kilometers (167 miles) south of Perth.

"Eight or nine of them decided to catch that wave and surf straight at me, which has happened lots of times in the past to me and generally they just take off to one side left or right," Hill told Perth Now.
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Sweden: Refugee from Syria with criminal history rapes 12 year old girl - receives 6 month sentence


Voice of Europe
Fri, 27 Apr 2018 12:00 UTC
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An unaccompanied refugee "child" has been sentenced to 6 months of youth detention for raping a 12-year-old girl in Sweden. In a police interview, the Syrian said that he did not know it was illegal to have sex with a child. The teen has also been convicted of other serious crimes, but will not be deported.

The investigation into the case started after Swedish journalist Joakim Lamotte revealed that the police ignored the rape case of the young girl, Fria Tider reports.

After Lamotte's revelation, a national debate was ignited in which the national police commissioner and Prime Minister Stefan Löfven were involved. After almost a year the research of the case was finished, Lamotte wrote 'a shame' in a Facebook post.

Comment: Rape is as illegal in Syria as it is in Sweden, so the defense is merely a sickening lie. The offenders criminal history and the lenient sentence for such a heinous crime - and were he in Syria he be locked away for a hell of a lot longer - is merely one example of the deleterious effects of supposedly 'liberal' thinking has had on Swedish society. Other countries are not so deluded and there is a growing movement to address the serious problems inherent in mass migration. However, so long as the West wages perpetual illegal wars around the world, the problem of refugee's and migrants will continue to be a problem: Also check out SOTT radio's: The Truth Perspective: Weapons of Mass Migration: Interview with Michael Springmann on Europe's Migrant Crisis

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Best of the Web: Speaking the Unspeakable: The Assassination and Martyrdom of Thomas Merton

Edward Curtin
edwardcurtin.com
Thu, 26 Apr 2018 21:03 UTC
A Quasi-Review of The Martyrdom of Thomas Merton by Hugh Turley & David Martin
"Killing a man who says 'No!' is a risky business," the priest replied, "because even a corpse can go on whispering 'No! No! No! with a persistence and obstinacy that only certain corpses are capable of. And how can you silence a corpse?" - Ignazio Silone, Bread and Wine
thomas merton
Fifty years have elapsed since Thomas Merton died under mysterious circumstances in a cottage at a Red Cross Conference Center outside Bangkok, Thailand where he was attending an international inter-faith monastic conference. The truth behind his death has been concealed until now through the lies and deceptions of a cast of characters, religious, secular, and U.S. governmental, whose actions chill one to the bone. But he has finally found his voice through Hugh Turley and David Martin, who tell the suppressed truth of Merton's last minutes on earth on December 10, 1968.

This is an extraordinary book in so many ways. First, because the authors prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Trappist monk and anti-war writer Thomas Merton was assassinated and did not die in a fabricated accident, as has been claimed for all these years.

Comment: The CIA can't help doing what it does for satanic forces, but it's appalling that a monastery appears to be covering up the murder of one of its own.

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Multiple Oregon cities pass ordinances making it illegal to ban guns

Jack Burns
The Free Thought Project
Thu, 26 Apr 2018 19:06 UTC
bill of rights
A showdown is brewing in the State of Oregon following gun control advocates' proposed assault weapons ban called Initiative Proposition 43 (IP43). Under the guise of "gun control" and "safety of our children," proponents of the measure aim to effectively ban all weapons produced since the Civil War. But several counties are pushing back with their own Second Amendment Preservation Ordinances.

Klamath and Deschutes Counties are attempting to push back against the ordinance by passing their own county-wide ordinances to disallow the county sheriff from enforcing any state or federal law which would infringe on county residents' rights to keep and bear arms. It's effectively a ban on gun bans.

Klamath County resident Timothy Harris filed a petition titled K-18-1 to:
Preserve the right of the People of, on and in Klamath County to:
Keep and bear arms as originally understood; in self-defense and preservation, and in defense of one's community and country.
Freely manufacture, transfer, sell and buy firearms, firearm accessories and ammunition, which are designed primarily for the same purposes.
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'Dilbert' creator Scott Adams heaps praise on Kanye West

Billboard
Mackenzie Cummings-Grady
Mon, 23 Apr 2018 19:26 UTC
Kanye West
© Kevin Mazur/WireImageKanye West speaks onstage during the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden on Aug. 28, 2016 in New York City.
Scott Adams, who Kanye West has taken a keen interest in recently via a series of retweets, is the creator of the Dilbert comic strip, which started in 1989 and still runs today, appearing in more than 25 languages across the world. Adams is also a published author and has written novellas and a self-help book titled How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big.

Adams took to social media this past Sunday to film a 20-minute video titled "Kanye West Showed the Way to the Golden Age." In the video, which has since gone viral, Adams described how Kanye West will be the one that leads us mere mortals to the age of enlightenment. "Let me tell you about the golden age," Adams started off. "Maybe you've noticed that the universe seems to be serving up more surprises than normal." He then described how these "surprises" all started with Trump's ascension to president of the United States. "In each of these ways, what we're seeing is things we didn't think were possible."
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Marjory Stoneman Douglas teacher calls Kyle Kashuv 'the next Hitler' for visiting gun range and suggests 'something needs to be done about him'

Matt Vespa
Townhall
Thu, 26 Apr 2018 17:45 UTC
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UPDATE: Broward County Public Schools said they're looking into the matter:


Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student Kyle Kashuv is not part of the left wing push his peers have taken on the issue of gun control. He's a conservative. He's pro-Second Amendment. And he's trying to offer another view on this subject in the aftermath of the tragic shooting at his school on February 14 that left 17 people dead. In March, Guy interviewed Kashuv, who at the time was not given an equal platform in the media as that of his more liberal peers, Emma Gonzalez, Cameron Kasky, and David Hogg. All three have become the new faces of the anti-gun Left. So, it's no shocker since the news media is pro-gun control and appallingly ignorant of firearms, firearm terminology, and the current laws on the books that regulate gun ownership and carry rights. That's a post for another time, however.

Comment: Interesting how often we see liberals raging against violence from the 'right', yet they have no qualms about engaging in or encouraging violence from those whose political ideology they find acceptable.

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Trump Effect: America's economy sustained a growth pace unlike anything seen in 13 years

Patti Domm
CNBC
Thu, 18 Jan 2018 19:00 UTC
TrumpEffect
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In the year since President Donald Trump has been in office, the economy has done something it has been unable to do since 2005 - maintain 3 percent growth for three quarters in a row.

While the final numbers aren't in, economists Friday were ratcheting up growth projections to 3 percent or better for the fourth quarter, after December's strong retail sales and revisions to prior months.

"It could even grow at 3 percent for the year. The numbers are very strong," said Joseph LaVorgna, chief economist Americas at Natixis. He forecasts an above consensus growth pace of over 4 percent for the fourth quarter.

Economists in CNBC/Moody's Analytics Survey upped their median fourth-quarter GDP forecast Friday by a median 0.4 to 3 percent. NatWest Markets raised fourth-quarter GDP to 3.5 percent from 2.7 percent, based on a stronger view of the consumer, and the Atlanta Fed GDPNow shows fourth-quarter growth now at a pace of 3.3 percent, from 2.8 percent earlier in the week.

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