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Palestinian woman convicted of terrorism and turned activist to be deported from U.S.

Rasmea Odeh
© ReutersRasmea Odeh
Rasmea Odeh was convicted of killing two Israelis in a supermarket bombing.

Convicted terrorist Rasmea Odeh will be deported from the US to Jordan this Tuesday, after being found guilty of immigration fraud.

Odeh, 48, was convicted in 2013 for concealing her arrest, conviction, and imprisonment in her application for United States citizenship in 1995. Odeh had killed 2 Israelis in a 1969 supermarket bombing she carried out for Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).


Comment: Odeh could not possibly be only 48 years old. What else about this story might Israeli news outlet Arutz Sheva be incorrect about?


Bullseye

Chelsea Clinton gets destroyed on Twitter again over fake news story about anti-gay Michigan bill

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DUMB AS A BRICK. Chelsea Clinton tweeted out a fake news story on Friday that claimed the Michigan House of Representatives passed a bill giving EMT's an option to deny treatment to gay patients.

The internet responded.

Below is a screenshot of Chelsea's original tweet because she has since deleted it. She said, "Absolutely appalling: Michigan House Passed Bill Allowing EMTs To Refuse Treatment To Gay People."

At first Chelsea got trolled because the New Now Next article she cited was from 2014, prompting her to delete her tweet.

Comment: More tweet fails from the Spawn of Killary:


Gold Coins

"Artificial work": John McAfee accidentally just revealed why Bitcoin is a complete fraud

John McAfee
© Nullsession/FlickrJohn McAfee at DefCon 2014.
In a recent CNBC interview that's being widely touted by self-deluded Bitcoin promoters as some kind of "smack down" of JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon, Bitcoin advocate John McAfee accidentally admitted why Bitcoin is a total fraud that's doomed to fail.

In answering Jamie Dimon's recent declaration that Bitcoin is a fraud, McAfee replied: (see the video at The Daily Sheeple)

However, sir... you called Bitcoin 'a fraud.' I'm a Bitcoin miner. We create Bitcoins. It costs over one thousand dollars per coin to create a Bitcoin. What does it cost to create a U.S. dollar? Which one is the fraud? Because [the dollar] costs whatever the paper costs, but it costs me and other miners over a thousand dollars per coin - it's called 'proof of work.'

Behold the logic of artificial work: How John McAfee just embraced Paul Krugman's ditch digging fable

The problem with John McAfee's explanation, of course, is that it admits Bitcoins can only be created through the practice of computational wheel spinning operations where the difficulty and duration of such wheel spinning is artificially made needlessly complex by the Bitcoin algorithm. In a world where Bitcoins used to be created for less than one penny's worth of computational work, a single Bitcoin now requires over US$1,000 worth of "artificial work" to be achieved. A rational person must ask McAfee, "Why did Bitcoins used to cost just a penny to create, and now they cost a thousand dollars?" The 100,000 X increase in complexity for generating a Bitcoin, it turns out, is an artificial work algorithm known as "computational difficulty" in mining.

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Airplane

Paris: Unnamed 'direct security threat' prompts evacuation of British Airways flight

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© JSA VIA STORYFULA British Airways plane has been evacuated on the runway of Charles de Gaulle Airport.
A British Airways flight was evacuated in Paris this morning after the pilot warned a "direct security threat" had been made against the plane.

Passengers were escorted onto the tarmac of Charles de Gualle airport by armed cops where they were rigorously searched and their luggage checked by sniffer dogs.

Passenger James Anderson, 20, told how he was initially told flight BA0303 was facing delays over technical issues ahead of its departure to London Heathrow.

But security officers and emergency services soon surrounded the plane as they were ordered off the plane at around 7.45am.

Travellers were twice sent through body scanners and x-rays, while sniffer dogs zoned in on the luggage.

Health

San Diego makes efforts to deal with an outbreak of Hepatitis A

sanitation worker
© Eduardo Contreras / San Diego Union-TribuneEdwin Gonzalez from United Site Services delivers a two-station sink to the Neil Good Day Center on 17th Street in downtown San Diego.
Health officials in San Diego have scrambled for months to contain an outbreak of hepatitis A - vaccinating more than 19,000 people, putting up posters at bus stations and distributing hand sanitizer and cleansing wipes.

Despite those efforts, 16 people have died of the highly contagious virus in San Diego County and hundreds have become ill in what officials say is the nation's second-largest outbreak of hepatitis A in decades.

Earlier this month, San Diego officials declared a public health emergency.

Though Los Angeles has so far escaped an outbreak, public health officials are hoping to head off a similar emergency. They say the virus could easily spread to Los Angeles because of its proximity to San Diego and the region's large homeless population.

"We know it's getting worse in San Diego, so we're really ramping up," said Cristin Mondy, the county's area health officer for a region that includes downtown Los Angeles.

Bullseye

Transgender ideology's profound incoherence and the end of law

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In The Trouble with Principle, Stanley Fish recites an observation that John Milton included in his Areopagitica: "No law, Milton points out, can permit activity that constitutes an assault on it, no law, that is, that 'intends not to unlaw itself.'" Even more self-cancelling is for a law to permit an interpretation of its text that abolishes the very concepts on which its edict depends. In such case, both the law and its interpretation stall in mutual nullification.

Two questions, then. One: Does the federal law prohibiting "sex discrimination" forbid us to countenance the category of "sex"-and thus of "sex discrimination"? Two: Can the rule of law survive a yes answer to question one?

In order to do away with the legal decisiveness of the binary of male and female bodies, legal advocates for transgender ideology now brandish the federal ban on sex discrimination in Title IX-which itself depends on the legal decisiveness of the binary of male and female bodies. But banishing the sex binary concurrently banishes the (dependent) prohibition of sex discrimination. And that, in turn, leaves the transgender legal theory empty-handed, having eviscerated the structure on which its own claims rely.

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Attention

Jihadists planning train derailment, food poisoning in Europe, according to French media citing confidential police note

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© Jaime Reina / AFPA picture taken on August 19, 2017 shows police officers outside the train station of Nimes
French police have issued a confidential note based on an analysis of "jihadist propaganda," warning of possible lone-wolf attacks causing trains to derail and even food poisoning, Le Parisien newspaper reports, citing the document.

"Due to recent jihadist propaganda urging plans for train derailment, particular attention should be paid to any reports of intrusion or attempted sabotage on the premises of railways," a seven-page report compiled by the police directorate at the beginning of September reads, as cited by Le Parisien.

The document, which focuses on aspects of "jihadist propaganda" over the past three months, warns that terrorists are instructed to make explosives "as shown in tutorials," conceal their radicalization, calling on "lone wolves" to cause "train derailments, forest fires or food poisoning" in Europe.

The highest police authorities confirm in the report, citing the propaganda analysis, that "the threats of attack remain very high" in France. The confidential document notes that apart from the railway network, increased vigilance is requested for schools and universities, including "sensitive products or materials" which jihadists may steal from laboratories for homemade explosives.

Comment: Terrorism - of both the false-flag and jihadist-nutjob varieties - will not stop anytime soon. The genie has been let out of the bottle.

See: Explosion at London's Parsons Green station being investigated as a terrorist attack [Updates]


Info

The man who saved the world: Russian officer who averted nuclear war dies at age 77

Stanislav Petrov
© Sergey Pirigov / SputnikStanislav Petrov
A Soviet officer who prevented a nuclear crisis between the US and the USSR and possible World War III in the 1980s has quietly passed away. He was 77. In 2010 RT spoke to Stanislav Petrov, who never considered himself a hero. We look at the life of the man who saved the world.

A decision that Soviet lieutenant colonel Stanislav Petrov once took went down in history as one that stopped the Cold War from turning into nuclear Armageddon, largely thanks to Karl Schumacher, a political activist from Germany who helped the news of his heroism first reach a western audience nearly two decades ago.

On September 7, Schumacher, who kept in touch with Petrov in the intervening years, phoned him to wish him a happy birthday, but instead learned from Petrov's son, Dmitry, that the retired officer had died on May 19 in his home in a small town near Moscow.

On September 26, 1983, Stanislav Petrov was on duty in charge of an early warning radar system in a bunker near Moscow, when just past midnight he saw the radar screen showing a single missile inbound from the United States and headed toward the Soviet Union.

Brick Wall

Harvard hypocrites should be ashamed for withdrawing Chelsea Manning's fellowship invitation

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© Susana Vera / Reuters
Less than two days after announcing that former US Army soldier and whistleblower Chelsea Manning would join the Harvard Kennedy School's Institute of Politics as a visiting fellow, the university rescinded the offer.

The reason should anger anyone who claims to be a fan of free speech and free thought.

Shortly after the initial offer to Manning was made public, former deputy director and acting director of the CIA, Mike Morell, resigned his senior fellowship in protest, claiming he could not be part of an organization that "honors a convicted felon and leaker of classified information."

Not long after, current CIA Director Mike Pompeo cancelled a speaking appearance at the university minutes after it was due to begin. His excuse was the same. In a letter posted on Twitter, Pompeo announced that his "conscience and duty" would not permit him to betray the trust of his CIA colleagues by "appearing to support" the decision to hire Manning as a fellow.


The next day, the dean of the Harvard Kennedy School, Douglas W. Elmendorf, suddenly saw the light and announced that inviting Manning to be a visiting fellow was a "mistake" for which he takes responsibility. This was after rambling on for three paragraphs about how Harvard welcomes a "wide range of views" and never shies away from controversy.

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Hiliter

Vandals deface ancient Native American rock carvings with cat and mushroom depictions

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© Michael KranszA depiction of a cat which Michigan Department of Natural Resources officials say was scrawled onto a sandstone rock that holds carvings made by Native Americans hundreds of years ago.
The only known prehistoric rock carvings by Native Americans in the Lower Peninsula were vandalized sometime this year, according to Michigan Department of Natural Resources officials.

In what officials are calling a "senseless act of vandalism," depictions of a cat, a mushroom and another image were scrawled into the sandstone of the Sanilac Petroglyphs, the DNR reported Friday, Sept. 8.

"We are all deeply saddened by this disrespectful act," said Sandra Clark, director of the Michigan History Center, which interprets the petroglyphs for the public at the state park near Cass City.

"The petroglyphs were created by people who lived in what is now Michigan centuries ago," Clark said. "They are part of all of our history, and they have a deep spiritual meaning for many Anishinabek who live in the Great Lakes Region today."