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Militant group Jaish al-Islam who accuse Assad of gas attack 'used chemical weapons' against Kurds

Matt Drake
The Express
Fri, 13 Apr 2018 19:03 UTC
Jaish al-Islam (Army of Islam)
Jaish al-Islam (Army of Islam)
The rebel group which is in control of the Douma region in Syria, the site of an alleged chemical attack which has been blamed on the Assad regime, was itself accused of using forbidden weapons on Kurds in 2016.

Jaish al-Islam (Army of Islam) was formerly known as Liwa al-Islam (Brigade of Islam) and is a coalition of Salafist Islamist militant groups based in the Douma and Eastern Ghouta regions of the Syrian capital of Damascus.

Douma was the site of an alleged chemical weapons attack where up to 43 people were killed and it has been blamed on the Syrian regime.

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Star of David

Not buying it: Israel's genocidal explanations for killing unarmed protesters finally backfiring as international outrage grows

Jonathan Ofir
Mondoweiss
Fri, 13 Apr 2018 18:00 UTC
Yaser Murtaja shot by IDF
© Liam O'HareAn Israeli sniper killed Yaser Murtaja, one of six Palestinian journalists shot that day during the Land Day protests.
Israeli leaders have been making downright genocidal claims against Palestinians, and the rhetoric finally seems to be backfiring. The government's line on "defending itself from terrorists" is not being swallowed by the world as easily as it used to be. Especially because those genocidal statements betray other than "defensive" intentions to the actions in Gaza. And the process is accelerating Israel's delegitimization as a supposed liberal democracy.

Take for example Likud spokesman Eli Hazan's claim that "all 30,000 [Gazan protesters] are legitimate targets."

Or Defense Minister Lieberman's claim that "there are no innocent people in Gaza".

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Books

Teacher's post about 'disrespectful' students goes bonkers viral — 426,922 Facebook shares and counting


Conservative Fighters
Fri, 13 Apr 2018 00:01 UTC
Marburger viral FB post
A Texas teacher's post about parents "coddling and enabling their children" has since gone viral, receiving over 750,000 reactions on Facebook.

In the post, Julie Marburger describes how parents "have become far too disrespectful, and their children are even worse."

See if you agree with it.

Comment: Given the state of today's youth, teachers have got it really tough. And the parents and administrative staff are just as bad. It won't be a surprise to see teacher shortages in the near future.

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Attention

SOTT Focus: Russian Defense Ministry: We have evidence of UK's role in staging Douma provocation


Sputnik
Fri, 13 Apr 2018 17:31 UTC
Douma bombardment Syria
© Agence France-Presse / Sameer Al-DoumyA photo taken from the town of Douma shows flames rising in the distance which are believed to be coming from Damascus International Airport following an explosion early in the morning of April 27, 2017
An apparent false flag chemical attack in the Syrian town of Douma on April 7 has served as a pretext for the United States to threaten the Middle Eastern country with a missile strike; Russia has been calling for a transparent investigation while local doctors have said no one has requested any medical treatments for poisoning.

The Russian Defense Ministry held a press briefing on what the Western narrative describes as an alleged chemical attack in Syria's Eastern Ghouta. No evidence has been presented to support the claim. A Russian chemical corps commission that has been sent to Douma reported that no traces of chemical poisoning were found. On April 12, the US defense secretary acknowledged that the Pentagon had no evidence of chlorine or sarin use in Douma.

Speaking at the briefing, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said that the ministry has enough evidence that the planned provocation with chemical weapons was carried out in Syria's Douma on April 7.

Comment: Will the Empire finally be tripped up by its web of lies?

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Family

Baby born to surrogate mother in China four years after parents died in car crash

Lily Kuo
The Guardian
Fri, 13 Apr 2018 17:32 UTC
Grandparents of Tiantian win long legal battle for custody of frozen embryos left by his mother and father

Baby Tiantian granted custody grandparents
The son of a Chinese couple who died more than four years ago has been born to a surrogate mother, according to Chinese media.

Shen Jie and Liu Xi had been married for two years when they decided to try in vitro fertilization. Five days before they were scheduled to transplant one of the fertilized embryos into Liu, the couple died in a car accident in March 2013 in the Chinese coastal province of Jiangsu.

For the next three years, the parents of Shen and Liu fought for the rights to four frozen embryos left by their late children in a complicated and unprecedented legal case in China, according to the Beijing News.

After several court battles, both sets of parents finally won custody of the embryos, and in January of 2017, with the help of an underground surrogacy agency, they drove to Laos to find a mother. Surrogacy is illegal in China.

Comment: See also: 26yo Tennessee woman gives birth to daughter frozen as embryo for 24 years

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Attention

Russian MoD: 'Thousands of rotting corpses' under ruins of Raqqa a public health crisis


RT
Fri, 13 Apr 2018 19:23 UTC
Raqqa, after being retaken from Islamic State, last year
© ReutersRaqqa, after being retaken from Islamic State, last year
The Russian Defense Ministry has criticized the Western-led coalition for creating a sanitation emergency in Raqqa after it took the Syrian city from Islamic State, but failed to organize a clean-up or rebuild.

"The epidemiological situation in Raqqa remains very grave. There are still thousands of corpses rotting underneath the debris," said Russian Ministry of Defense spokesman Igor Konashenkov, during a press briefing in Moscow.

The official outlined the difference between the reconstruction efforts in cities taken back by government forces, such as Aleppo, where "schools, hospitals and markets have reopened" and those like Raqqa, which have largely been left to their own devices.

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Quenelle

Best of the Web: Paul Joseph Watson lays it out: ANOTHER STUPID F**KING WAR

Alex Christoforou
The Duran
Thu, 12 Apr 2018 16:34 UTC
war is a racket
What could possibly go wrong? (Strong language)

Fuck Democracy...

Fuck Parliament...

Fuck Congressional approval...

Let's just declare war by tweets.

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Radar

Seven US spy planes spotted near Russian facilities in Syria - Russian jets cover Syria's airspace after reports of US spy planes - UPDATE


Sputnik
Fri, 13 Apr 2018 10:21 UTC
US Navy P-8 Poseidon aircraft
© AFP 2018 / Greg WOODUS Navy P-8 Poseidon aircraft
Neither Moscow nor Washington has commented on reports about US anti-submarine aircraft flying over Syria's eastern coast, where Russia's Hmeymim Airbase is located. The alleged flyover comes amid Washington's threats to launch a missile strike on Syria.

A Twitter account of the Mil Radar, which tracks military aviation flights, has reported that seven US patrol planes have allegedly conducted reconnaissance missions in the Eastern Mediterranean over Syria's coast.

The six P-8A Poseidon anti-submarine patrol aircraft and the EP-3E Aries II electronic warfare and reconnaissance aircraft reportedly flew over the area where Russia's Hmeymin Airbase and the logistics base of the Russian Navy in Tartus are located.


Comment: Update: Russian jets are highly active above Syria today, following reports of U.S. spy planes near the coastal provinces of Tartous and Latakia.
According to earlier reports, seven U.S. spy planes were flying along the Syrian coast, with some of the aircraft approaching the Hmaymim Military Airport in the southwestern part of Latakia.

While Russian jets have been routinely flying along the coast since the U.S. President Donald Trump's threats, they have recently increased the number of flights over the last 12 hours.

Russian jets have also been cited in several places across Syria, including the Homs, Deir Ezzor, Hama, and Idlib governorates.
See also: US spy planes continue flights over Russian base on Syria's Mediterranean coasts

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X

Not a 'neutral public forum': Ted Cruz says Facebook actively censors, suppresses conservative speech

Senator Ted Cruz
Fox News
Thu, 12 Apr 2018 00:00 UTC
Zuckerberg
© AP/Andrew Harnik
When Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before a Senate Judiciary Committee and Commerce Committee joint hearing Tuesday, I asked a relatively simple question: does Facebook consider itself a neutral public forum?

Zuckerberg said that Facebook is a "platform for all ideas," but declined to give a "yes" or "no" answer. The problem is, this is not merely an academic distinction between words. Facebook's answer to the question could affect millions of users, and attract (or prevent) a lot of attention from federal regulators.

Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) states: "No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider."

This is a good provision. It means that, for example, if you run a blogging platform and someone posts a terrorist threat in the comments section, you're not treated as the person making the threat. Without Section 230, many social media networks could be functionally unable to operate.

In order to be protected by Section 230, companies like Facebook should be "neutral public forums." On the flip side, they should be considered to be a "publisher or speaker" of user content if they pick and choose what gets published or spoken.


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Star of David

Israeli government's pathetic effort to smear murdered journalist Yaser Murtaja as a terrorist is failing

Philip Weiss
Mondoweiss
Wed, 11 Apr 2018 16:06 UTC
Yaser Murtajajournalst Gaza
© AIN MediaYaser Murtaja, founder of Ain Media.
Last Friday, an Israeli sniper killed Yaser Murtaja, 30, one of six Palestinian journalists shot that day. Yesterday the Israeli Prime Minister's office and Defense Minister sought to smear Murtaja as a terrorist.
Defense Minister @AvigdorLiberman: The photographer () was a terrorist with a prior association w/ the military wing of Hamas. He held the rank of captain & was paid regularly by Hamas since 2011. He used to fly drones to collect intel on IDF forces at the front.
The claim featured a photograph of Murtaja with a drone, taken from his own Facebook page. Murtaja proudly worked as a photographer with drones. His famous recent Facebook entry, in which he said he dreamed of leaving Gaza, featured a drone image.

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