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Thanks but no thanks during this season of Thanksgiving

Uncola
The Toll
Sun, 20 Nov 2016 16:26 UTC
Thanksgiving
During this season of Thanksgiving, I would like to express my overwhelming gratitude. Thank you, President Obama. Thank you for not upholding your oath to the U.S. Constitution to protect America's southern border. Thank you for illegally granting amnesty via executive action and avoiding the unnecessary hassles of passing the legislation through Congress. And thank you for your efforts in turning the United States of America into a third-world refugee camp.

Thank you, Obama, for your broad support of Islam and for labeling American citizens as bitter, xenophobic racists clinging to their guns and religion. I would also like to express my gratitude to you, your enablers, and all of the sycophantically corrupt, establishment politicians for near doubling the national debt of the United States these last eight years.

Another heartfelt expression of gratitude goes out to all of the media pundits, talking heads, newspaper columnists, Silicon Valley moguls as well as the proprietors, purveyors and contributors of actual fake news websites who contort themselves daily to support leftist politicians and the progressive agenda. Without the blind commitment of those who have facilitated the Cloward-Piven strategy of sacrificing America to the global elite banking establishment, it would have been far more difficult for Obama to fundamentally transform our country over the last eight years.

Indeed, without the help of the punditocratic media commentariat, the Obama administration might have been held accountable for the Fast and Furious scandal, NSA overreach, the IRS scandal, veteran death panels and illicit prisoner trades with America's sworn enemies; not to mention the blaming of Benghazi on a YouTube video. Thanks for sweeping all of that under the proverbial rug. You should be proud.
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Israelis cheerful about Trump presidency


Mondoweiss
Mon, 28 Nov 2016 16:35 UTC
Israel Trump opinions

"I'm very happy Mrs. Clinton lost. She's an enemy of the Jewish people," says one person interviewed in West Jerusalem's Zion Square.
According to a New York Times poll, 24% of American Jews voted for Donald Trump, yet according to a poll conducted by iVoteIsrael and released in the Jerusalem Post the Republican candidate received 49% of the Israeli-American vote. On Tuesday, November 22, Mondoweiss reporters asked Israelis in West Jerusalem's Zion Square what they thought about the election of Donald Trump and found overwhelming support for the incoming U.S. president.

"In this difficult time all over the world, it's time for strong leaders," says one Trump admirer.

Support for Trump echoed positive statements by members of the Knesset and of the Israeli government right after the election. Naftali Bennett, the Minister of Education, was the most vocal and fastest to celebrate the President-elect. His team issued a press release stating that: "Trump's victory is an opportunity for Israel to immediately retract the notion of a Palestinian state in the center of the country, which would hurt our security and just cause". The Habayit Hayehudi chairman also said that "the special connection between the United States and Israel will be preserved and even enhanced."

Comment: Nice comment by the last interviewee, that he hopes "Palestine will go out of existence". The proper word for that is genocide, buddy.

It's ironic that Obama is seen as 'bad for Israel' considering the obscene amount of money that country gets from the U.S. increases every year. The U.S. shouldn't even be giving Israel a dime. But hey, what's international law? This is Israel we're talking about here.

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Illinois man arrested in sexual assault and killing of 8-year-old girl

Nina Golgowski
The Huffington Post
Mon, 28 Nov 2016 16:35 UTC
Glen Ramey, 53, is facing rape and murder charges in the death of an 8-year-old girl
© Illinois State Police
Glen Ramey, 53, is facing rape and murder charges in the death of an 8-year-old girl.
A southeast Illinois man has been arrested in the rape and killing of an 8-year-old girl who went missing outside of her home last week, authorities said.

Glen Ramey, 53, was taken into custody early Sunday morning on charges of first-degree murder and predatory sexual assault, state police announced.

He was arrested nearly four days after Sabrina Stauffenberg vanished while waiting for a ride to church outside of her home Wednesday. Her body was found hours later near a vinegar plant in Olney, the Belleville News-Democrat reported, citing police.
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Passengers injured after plane hits turbulence coming into Sydney Int'l Airport


RT
Tue, 29 Nov 2016 16:13 UTC
airplane
© Max Rossi / Reuters
Multiple people have reportedly been injured after a China Eastern Airlines plane hit turbulence coming into Sydney International Airport, according to Australian media. Emergency services are working at the scene.

Paramedics have confirmed that they are treating 10 passengers for minor injuries, MyGC.com.au reported.

Five people are being taken to the hospital for treatment, according to Ten Eyewitness News.

Multiple ambulances were called to Gate 32 at the airport, where the injured passengers had gathered.
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Confidential security report: Half of all extremists returning to Germany remain devoted to their cause


RT
Mon, 28 Nov 2016 15:31 UTC
jihadists with mask
© AFP
About a half of all extremists who have returned to Germany after fighting for terrorist groups in Syria and Iraq remain committed to radical ideas, Die Welt daily reports, citing a confidential security services report.

About 48 percent of the jihadists that returned to Germany from the Middle East are still loyal to the extremist cause, says a report jointly prepared by the Hessian Information and Competence Centre against Extremism (HKE), the German Federal Criminal Police, and the domestic intelligence service (BfV), according to Die Welt.

The confidential paper seen by Die Welt also says that about 8 percent of those who came back made "a tactically motivated return to recover or to get money and new equipment" for terrorist groups.


Comment: Interesting that a "confidential" report was allowed to be seen by the press.

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Poll shows majority of Russians warming toward West and favor rapprochement


RT
Tue, 29 Nov 2016 10:44 UTC
russian snowfall
© Vladimir Pesnya / Sputnik
Pedestrians during a snowfalls, Russia.
The latest poll has shown that the proportion of Russians who favor warmer and closer relations with Western nations is growing fast and has almost reached the historical maximum registered in 2000.

The Levada Russian independent public opinion research center reported on Tuesday that experts had summed up the results of a poll conducted in mid-November and found out that 71 percent of the Russian public support the idea of rapprochement with the West. In comparison with the previous similar poll that was conducted in July last year, this share increased by 21 percent and the center noted in its press release that it was near the all-time maximum of 76 percent registered in March 2000.

The researchers also looked into the changes in Russians' attitude to various foreign nations and found out that 56 percent of Russians claim that their attitude to the United States is still bad. This is down from 64 percent in September and 65 percent in January this year.
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Facebook employees are quitting because of new censorship algorithm

Jake Anderson
AntiMedia
Mon, 28 Nov 2016 15:19 UTC
Facebook censoership graphic
The war on "fake news" embarked upon by Facebook, Google, and Twitter may be earning the media goliaths brownie points with establishment politicos, but users — and even employees — aren't feeling as enthusiastic.

In the midst of backlash over the stunning victory of President-elect Donald Trump, which some people attribute to the preponderance of apocryphal headlines disseminated by Internet search engines and social media platforms, the companies are tweaking their algorithms in order to target specifically blacklisted sites, many of which happen to be alternative media sites that question the political and media establishment. Many of the sites are also financially dependent on ad revenue earned by organic and referral traffic directed by Google, Facebook, and Twitter.

Comment: Some Facebook employees seem to see the writing on the wall: 'Fake News' and the Totalitarian War on Freedom and Truth

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Amazon employee jumps off company building after e-mail note

Spencer Soper
Bloomberg
Mon, 28 Nov 2016 15:09 UTC
Amazon shipping center
An Amazon.com Inc. employee was injured when he leaped off a building at the company's Seattle headquarters in what police characterized as a suicide attempt.

The man, who wasn't identified by authorities, sent an e-mail visible to hundreds of co-workers, including Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos, before the incident occurred, according to a person familiar with the matter. The man survived the fall from Amazon's 12-story Apollo building at about 8:45 a.m. local time Monday and was taken to a Seattle hospital, police said.

The man had recently put in a request to transfer to a different department, but was placed on an employee improvement plan, a step that can lead to termination if performance isn't improved, said the person, who asked not to be identified discussing company personnel matters. More than 20,000 people work in multiple buildings at Amazon's headquarters.

"Our thoughts are with our colleague as he continues to recover," Amazon said in a statement. "He's receiving some of the best care possible and we will be there to support him throughout the recovery process."
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Psychopathic rant: British neo-Nazi youth leader says 'Hitler was wrong to show Jews mercy'


RT
Mon, 28 Nov 2016 17:32 UTC
British nazi youth
© Reuters
Jack Renshaw, a spokesman for the British far-right fascist group National Action, is facing a criminal investigation after a recording emerged of him telling a secret meeting that Hitler's only mistake was to have shown the Jewish people "mercy."

In the recording, taken at an event called the Yorkshire Forum earlier this year, Renshaw is heard sharing extreme anti-Semitic views.

"Hitler was right in many senses, but you know where he was wrong? He showed mercy to people who did not deserve mercy," the young man says in the recording, heard by the Times.

"As nationalists, we need to learn from the mistakes of the National Socialists and we need to realize that, no, you do not show the Jew mercy," he added.

Comment: The banality of evil is alive and well - not only among the filth-spouting youth of England - but in the politically correct halls of power in the Western world; the only difference being their respective levels of crudeness, "sophistication" and cunning.

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North Dakota governor orders emergency evacuation of DAPL protesters


RT
Tue, 29 Nov 2016 03:00 UTC
The Oceti Sakowin camp is seen in a snow storm during a protest against plans to pass the Dakota Access pipeline near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, near Cannon Ball, North Dakota, U.S. November 28, 2016.
© Stephanie Keith / Reuters
The Oceti Sakowin camp is seen in a snow storm during a protest against plans to pass the Dakota Access pipeline near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, near Cannon Ball, North Dakota, U.S. November 28, 2016.
North Dakota Governor Jack Dalrymple has issued an executive order for protesters to evacuate a campsite near the Dakota Access Pipeline. Concerns of harsh winter and lack of sanitation were cited as reasons for protesters to leave and not return.

Citing "safety concerns and the potential danger to human life for those camping on federal property without proper shelter during harsh winter conditions," Governor Dalrymple (R) ordered an emergency evacuation of campsites housing protesters demonstrating against the North Dakota Access Pipeline on Monday.

Comment: What a load of nonsense. See this article. Apparently there are plenty of places to camp in the winter in North Dakota, some of which are in state-operated parks! But we're expected to believe that it's dangerous to camp as a protester:
Camping in North Dakota during the winter months is not for everybody, as it gets very cold here come that time of year. That's not to say that you can't enjoy some North Dakota camping in the wintertime, as there are campsites around the state that remain open the whole year through.


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