You know that saying, the future's not what it used to be? Well, the same goes for progress. After all, no one said getting full multicultural and progressive would be a walk in the park. To get to the point, according to a Daily Mail piece, crime rates are skyrocketing in Sadiq Khan's fiefdom, Londonistan that is, and as a matter of fact, the same goes all across the board in Britanistan, one of the most diverse countries in the world. By skyrocketing, I mean London, the former capital of world's largest and strongest empire, where natives are now a minority, saw a 44 percent spike in murder rate last year, and that's nothing to hide behind in a country that bans butter knives and pepper sprays, not to mention guns. London is currently confronted with a veritable crime epidemic, mostly knife crimes, and the same goes for the country's largest cities. 150 people were murdered in London in 2017, which is 44% worse than the previous year, while knife offenses grew by more than 20%, reaching 14,680 last year. So far, 60 people were killed on Londonistan's streets in 2018, and to paraphrase Labor MP Naz Shah, everybody should shut their mouths about the crime epidemic in the UK, for the sake of diversity, of course.

Not only knife crimes are on the up and up in the UK, as the same goes for firearms offenses (yes, guns are completely and totally banned in Britain, yet criminals don't seem to care much about the rules), reaching 6604 recorded crimes in 2017, which translates into an 11 percent raise year over year. Knife and gun crimes mostly occur in UK's most diverse areas, where the immigrant population is strongly represented, i.e. in London and the major cities all across Britain.

In stark contrast to the sparse coverage of the brutality of ISIS and other terrorist groups in Syria over the past few years, there has recently been substantial coverage of the emergence of ISIS in Iraq and the terrorist acts that this US-backed and funded group has been committing. This surge of media focus on ISIS' brutality in Iraq and particularly on the recent alleged be-headings of two American journalists is extensively considered, amongst independent political analysts, to be setting the stage for NATO and the Axis-of-Imperialists to "fight terrorism" in Iraq and Syria, aka destroy both countries (note: there are valid doubts as to the legitimacy of the Foley video itself).


Glaringly absent from corporate media accounts of the proxy-war being waged on Syria is the fact that the very same terrorist group, as well as other Western-backed, al-Qaeda aligned terrorist organizations (like al-Nusra and the so-called "Free Syrian Army"), have been terrorizing Syrians for years - beheading them, flogging, crucifying, amputating hands - to name but a few of their crimes against thousands of Syrians.

Alfie Evans, the 23-month-old British toddler whose grave illness drew international attention, died early on Saturday, his family said.

Alfie had a rare, degenerative disease and had been in a semi-vegetative state for more than a year.

After a series of court cases, doctors at Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool removed his life support on Monday, against his parents wishes.

14 American Jews arrested in action aimed at persuading members of Congress to condemn Israel's killing of Palestinian protesters in Gaza

Fourteen American Jews were arrested by the New York Police Department after blocking the entrance to US Senator Chuck Schumer's New York office on Thursday, the latest Jewish-led civil disobedience action aimed at pushing members of Congress to condemn Israel's killing of Palestinian protesters in Gaza.

Chanting "Free, Free Gaza" and singing Jewish prayers while wearing black, the protesters, all members of Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), sat in front of Schumer's office building, locked arms and unfurled a banner that read: "Schumer, your silence is shameful. NYC Jews stand with Gaza. Palestinians should be free."

The 14 who were arrested were joined by at least 40 other JVP members there to support the protest and push Schumer, the Democratic majority leader, to speak out against Israeli actions in Gaza. The demonstrators wore signs around their necks with the names of the 41 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces since 30 March, when Gazans began the Great March of Return.

Donors to an Israeli medical excellence programme refused to continue funding it because one of the doctors selected this year to receive the money is Arab, the Times of Israel reported.

The Swiss family reportedly froze the $5 million payment to outstanding young physicians, saying it has "no intention" of donating to non-Jewish recipients.

The unnamed donors, who are said to be a "family of Holocaust survivors", have been giving $5 million every year to the Sheba Medical Centre in Ramat Gan near Tel Aviv. The programme, which has been running for the last 13 years, selects eight to ten young aspiring doctors and medical students per year from about 100 candidates for the grant.

The Saudi authorities said they had arrested 994,000 people between 18 April to 22 April, Saudi Okaz newspaper reported.

According to the paper, 14,467 people were stopped by the security agencies and border security forces regarding issues related violations of residency and labour regulations and attempted infiltration across the border into the kingdom.

The paper said 58 percent of those arrested were Yemenis, 39 percents were Ethiopians and 3 percent from other nationalities.

The paper added that the Saudi security forces have arrested 640 people while trying to exfiltrate from the kingdom.

Over $430 billion were unlawfully taken out of Russia in the period from 2000 to 2017, Viktor Bondarev, the chairman of the Russian parliament's upper house's Defense and Security Committee, told Sputnik, citing independent estimates.

"According to independent estimates, in the period from 2000 to 2017 some $430.7 billion were taken out of our country. These enormous funds could have been invested in the development of our economy," Bondarev said.

France's ambassador has walked out of talks with fellow EU envoys over a lack of French translation, in a new demonstration of Paris pushing to curb the dominance of English in post-Brexit Brussels.

"The ambassador left the room to show his disapproval," one EU diplomat said of Philippe Leglise-Costa's decision to quit a meeting on Wednesday after discovering that no interpretation facilities would be provided for a new forum on the EU budget.

Officials said the format proposed for the new forum, to be launched during negotiations starting soon on a new seven-year EU budget, was one under which translators are not present in order to ease the logistics of calling informal discussions.

So the global capitalist ruling classes' War on Dissent is now in full swing. With their new and improved official narrative, "Democracy versus the Putin-Nazis," successfully implanted in the public consciousness, the corporatocracy have been focusing their efforts on delegitimizing any and all forms of deviation from their utterly absurd and increasingly paranoid version of reality.

The Democratic Party is suing Russia, the Trump campaign, and Wikileaks (seriously ... they've filed an actual lawsuit in an actual court of law an everything) for launching "an all-out assault on democracy" by publishing the DNC's emails, "an act of unprecedented treachery," according to Party Chairman Tom Perez. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, having already spent the last six years in a room in the Ecuadorian embassy in London to avoid being arrested by the British authorities, extradited to the United States, and imprisoned for the remainder of his natural life, has been cut off from the outside world in order to prevent him from further "interfering" with democracy by expressing his opinions.

In Syria, where the "international community" has been battling the "global terrorist threat" by supporting moderate jihadist militias intent on overthrowing the government and establishing a fundamentalist theocracy, the corporate media have been hard at work sanctifying the official story of the "chemical weapons attack" in Douma. According to this story, Bashar al-Assad, an uncooperative brutal dictator whom the corporatocracy has been trying to replace with a more cooperative brutal dictator, dropped a lot of chlorine gas bombs (and possibly sarin, the deadly nerve agent), onto a house full of innocent babies. He did this on the eve of victory over those moderate jihadist militias the "international community" has been supporting in their eight-year attempt to take over his country, slaughter him and his entire family, mount their severed heads on spikes, implement nationwide Sharia law, and then go out hunting homosexuals and heretics to gruesomely behead on YouTube. The evacuation of these freedom fighters was already being negotiated, but Assad didn't want to miss his last chance to sadistically gas a lot of women and children and have the Western corporate media broadcast his war crimes throughout the world, or something more or less along those lines.

Students are not allowed to live with pets in dorms at Yale College - unless the pet happens to be an "emotional support animal."

Emotional support animals are allowable under University Policy 4400 on "a case-by-case basis in a reasonable accommodation for a documented disability."

Last year, there was only one registered support animal on Yale's campus, a kitten named Sawa, the Yale Daily News reported. There are currently 14 emotional support animals at Yale College, the liberal arts undergraduate campus for Yale University.

And that figure is expected to grow, said Sarah Chang, associate director of the Resource Office on Disabilities.