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Texas convicts 89 white supremacist gang members and associates


RT
Tue, 15 Aug 2017 12:09 UTC
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© Carlo Allegri / Reuters
An investigation targeting white supremacists with long and violent criminal histories and who sold illegal drugs in north Texas has ended with 89 convictions - the largest prosecution of violent white supremacist gangs in US history.

On Monday, in the Northern District of Texas, US District Judge Jane Boyle sentenced the 89th and final defendant in a case that has lasted two years.

Members convicted in the lawsuit belong to groups such as the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas, the Aryan Circle, the Irish Mob, the Dirty White Boys, the White Knights, and Peckerwood.

Assistant US Attorney P.J. Meitl prosecuted.

The final defendant, Jeramy Weatherall, 29, of Dallas, Texas, was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison. Weatherall pleaded guilty in March to one count of possession of Methamphetamine with the intent to distribute. The combined sentence for all members convicted in the case is 1,070 years in federal prison, a press release stated.

Two other people were also charged in the case. However, one is a fugitive believed to be somewhere in Mexico, while the other died before the trial began.
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"Largest epidemic in the world": Yemen's man-made cholera epidemic pushing its health service to brink of collapse


RT
Mon, 14 Aug 2017 20:06 UTC
Cholera Yemen
© Khaled Abdulla / ReutersA man infected with cholera lies on a bed at a cholera treatment center in Sanaa, Yemen
The cholera outbreak in Yemen which began in April, has now claimed 2,000 lives and has infected 500,000. The nation has been suffering from what the World Health Organization (WHO) describes as the "largest epidemic in the world" amid a civil war and non-stop bombing campaign led by Saudi Arabia.

While the outbreak slowed in July in the worst affected areas, the waterborne disease continues to spread to new areas, creating additional strain on the limited resources available to deal with the crisis.
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People

Until Gaza is free, Israel will never be free

John Wight
Sputnik
Mon, 14 Aug 2017 21:26 UTC
Palestinian youths flying a kite
© AP Photo/ Adel Hana
The abandonment of 1.8 million men, women, and children to their fate in Gaza by the so-called international community is one of the most grievous moral outrages of our time.

Let us not mince words: Gaza in 2017 is a vast open air prison whose inmates have committed no crime or transgression other than that of being Palestinians who dare assert the right to self-determination on land that has long been coveted by an oppressor whose flagrant disregard for international law and human rights is beyond dispute.

Since 2007 the Gaza Strip - comprising a narrow stretch of land which hugs the eastern Mediterranean Coast, and which at 40km long and 12km (at its widest point) is one of the most densely populated parts of the world - has existed in a state of unyielding siege and blockade. Nothing can enter or leave via its Erez border crossing with Israel to the north, or its Rafah border crossing with Egypt to the south, without the consent of the Israeli authorities in agreement with their Egyptian counterparts.
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Israel detains diamond magnate and four others in money laundering probe


Yahoo! / AFP
Mon, 14 Aug 2017 20:44 UTC
Beny Steinmetz
© AFP Photo/JACK GUEZBeny Steinmetz
Israeli police on Monday detained diamond magnate Beny Steinmetz and four others as part of an international money laundering investigation, authorities said.

Tal Silberstein, an adviser to Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern, was also among those detained, as was the acting chairman of Israeli telecommunications firm Bezeq.

It was the second time Steinmetz had been detained by Israeli authorities since December, when he was placed under house arrest as part of a corruption probe involving mining deals in the African nation of Guinea.

Besides the Guinea investigation, the Israeli billionaire was charged in Romania last year with forming an organized criminal group and money laundering in a property-related case that cost the state $145 million.

Israeli police said five suspects had been detained on Monday morning for questioning on suspicions including money laundering, fraud, forgery, obstruction of justice and bribery.

Homes and offices were also searched.
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Red Flag

Fired Google engineer James Damore describes Google as 'almost like a cult'

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Sat, 12 Aug 2017 20:20 UTC
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Fired Google engineer Jame Damore has penned an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal explaining how his good-faith effort to discuss differences between men and women in tech couldn't be tolerated in the company's "ideological echo chamber," adding that self-segregation with similar-minded people has grown in recent decades as we spend more time in digital worlds "personalized to fit our views."
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The Radical Left and Silicon Valley are working together to kill free speech and end the unfettered exchange of ideas

Edmund Kozak
Lifezette
Mon, 14 Aug 2017 19:08 UTC
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© Austin McKinley, Flickr
Political totalitarianism is coming to America, and it is being ushered in not by government thugs in jackboots but by progressive activists and their allies in Silicon Valley.

In a chilling oped published in The New York Times on July 14, Lisa Feldman Barrett, a professor of psychology at Northeastern University, argued that so-called "hate speech" is the same thing as physical violence because it may possibly cause emotionally fragile individuals stress - and should be made illegal.

Thankfully, the First Amendment prohibits the federal government from following such advice, but online companies are taking it upon themselves to stamp-out so-called "hate speech," strangling free speech and the free exchange of ideas in the process.

A number of troubling actions by internet companies - Google most prominent among them - are making it increasingly clear that some in Silicon Valley have proclaimed themselves defenders of the progressive, politically correct faith, and that those firms will silence any and all heretics who challenge those beliefs.
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Flashlight

7 things you need to know about the Alt-Right following Charlottesville

Ben Shapiro
The Daily Wire
Sun, 13 Aug 2017 21:57 UTC
charlottesville car ramming
In the aftermath of Saturday's Charlottesville, Virginia chaos - a physically violent conflict between disgusting white supremacist alt-right thugs and repulsive Antifa thugs, which culminated in a murderous attack by an apparent alt-righter on the Antifa crowd and other miscellaneous counter-protesters, resulting in the death of one person and injuries to another 19 - the hot takes have been coming fast and furious.

Here are some of the things you need to know about the awful events of yesterday.

1. The Alt-Right Is Not Conservative.

One of the hottest takes from the Left is that the alt-right represents the entire right - that what happened in Charlottesville, Virginia represented conservatives broadly. That's factually incorrect, and intellectually dishonest. The alt-right is not just conservatives who like memes or who dislike Paul Ryan. The alt-right is a philosophy of white supremacy and white nationalism espoused by the likes of Vox Day, Richard Spencer, and Jared Taylor.

Here's Jared Taylor explaining the alt-right:


They openly acknowledge their antipathy for the Constitution and conservatism; they believe that strong centralized government is necessary to preserve "white civilization." They label all their enemies "cucks" - men in favor of "race-mixing." Here's a solid guide to what the alt-right actually thinks.
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People 2

What ordinary Chinese really think of North Korea

Adam Garrie
The Duran
Mon, 14 Aug 2017 17:47 UTC
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Chinese citizens have a very balanced view of the standoff between North Korea and the United States.

China's official policy on North Korea is widely known. Beijing argues for North Korea to cease its weapons tests and argues for the US and its allies to cease testing weapons and conducting military drills in and around South Korea. Furthermore, China like Russia, is calling for direct talks between Washington and Pyongyang.

But what do ordinary Chinese think?

The group Asian Boss went to the streets of Beijing to ask mainly young but highly informed Chinese men and women what they thought about North Korea.
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Stormtrooper

The Memo: Fear and loathing at the Googleplex

C.J. Paget
CJPaget Blog
Mon, 14 Aug 2017 16:17 UTC
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The author of the google memo is wrong, but many of his detractors are wronger

So, a google employee named James Damore posted a 'manifesto' round the office. It got leaked, and he got fired. I've read the manifesto, (hereafter the googlememo) and I disagree with it on some major points (more on that below). However, I think it's a well argued and respectfully put. I've seen people denouncing the writing, but they've been of the 'humanities snob' crowd that would rather he'd posted in Latin. I'm sure they will have just as much derision for this blogpost. In fact, the googlememo is one of the least offensive things I've read. This blogpost will be more offensive (humanities scholars have likely already added me to their shitlist).

However, this blogpost isn't really about the memo. It's about the reaction that has done so much to confirm Mr Damore's accusations, a reaction by media and online individuals that has been dishonest, short-sighted and utterly self interested. I'm not going to say it was 'well meaning' as so many have, because frankly I don't think it was. This reaction illustrates what the modern left has become: a rich person's weapon dedicated to destroying the social framework of rights that people struggled generations to put in place. 'Social Justice' is a lie, as anyone who has been paying attention will see that it's always justice for the few, and never for you. For people who actually care about a fair society for all, it's time to walk away. The left is the enemy of the people now.
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Dollars

Over half the $76 billion military aid sent to Afghanistan since 2002 was looted


Sputnik
Mon, 14 Aug 2017 17:15 UTC
Afghan National Army soldiers
© AP Photo/ Musadeq Sadeq
In what's becoming a recurrent staple of US overseas adventurism, over half the US$76 billion worth of US military aid sent to Afghan security forces since 2002 has been "looted and embezzled," according to a former intelligence officer, due to "brazen corruption" that has seen money and weapons siphoned to private militias.

Kabul Khan Tadbeer, a former Afghan intelligence official and a security analyst, said internal forces that seized power after the ostensible fall of the Taliban in 2001 armed private militias and even embezzled numerous small arms and ammunition for profit.

He called for greater efforts in Washington and Kabul to uncover corruption, and suggested there should be a halt on further aid until the missing equipment was accounted for.

While US$76 billion in military aid was "enough" to last Afghanistan for 40 years without any corruption, he said, not even half of it was left as of August 2017.
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