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Hotel Americana: They divide us; we conquer ourselves

Teodrose Fikre
The Ghion Journal
Wed, 06 Dec 2017 00:01 UTC
Charlottesville riot
© Samuel Corum/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
This is a saga of a once free people who were defeated with weaponry and then subdued with chicanery. The first part of the saga witnessed a rebellion as the masses put up a spirited battle to overcome oppression. After decades of systematic repression, eventually the people were quelled with a most diabolical of schemes. What eventually subdued them was factionalism as people who shared the same struggles and felt the same injustices were convinced that their plights were dissimilar and that they were each other's enemies. Divide and conquer set brother against sister and neighbor upon neighbor until all were eventually made equal through suffering and despair. In a land that could feed the world, the mass majority were put into the yoke of poverty while a few were living a life of high society.

At first glance, the above paragraph seems to describe what is going on in Africa. If that was your assumption, I don't blame you for making the logical leap to that conclusion. After all, Africa was in fact colonized by malicious foreigners who came in the guise of missionaries as they invaded the continent of man's birth with a bible in the front hand and guns behind their backs. Induced tribalism created by artificial borders and manufactured countries where none existed is how more than a billion people were eventually put to shackles as their wealth is being siphoned off to this day by gluttonous colonizers. A continent that can feed the world has thus been reduced to the status of beggars and AID recipients.
"For the nation to live, the tribe must die." ~ Samora Machel

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Pistol

House passes 50-state gun carry permit reciprocity, intensifies background checks


RT
Thu, 07 Dec 2017 12:54 UTC
man with gun
© Bill Waugh / Reuters
Both pro and anti-gun control advocates are unhappy with a bill the US House passed to allow permitted gun owners to carry concealed handguns across state lines and also enhances the national background check system.

The House bill passed Wednesday, 231-198, and follows two of the deadliest mass shootings in modern US history. The largely Republican-backed bill was supported by six Democrats, and 14 Republicans voted against it.

The bill is seen as a win for the National Rifle Association, which has long pushed for Concealed Carry Reciprocity (CCR) - the standard term for allowing people with permits for concealed weapons to carry guns over state lines.
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Stock Down

Seasons Greetings: Ukraine mimics the West, adopts December 25th as holiday

Mark Chapman
The Kremlin Stooge
Mon, 04 Dec 2017 00:01 UTC
putin winking
© APUncle Volodya says, “When people complain of your complexity, they fail to remember that they made fun of your simplicity.”
Nolan Peterson, perennial Ukraine optimist and is-the-glass-half-empty-or-are-you-not-listening-to-me guy, feels like the country has turned a corner. Yes, by God, things are looking up. Ukraine might not be able to look forward to EU membership, but hey! It has visa-free travel, so if you have enough money for a vacation, you can go to the EU and see what it would be like to live there. Ukraine might not be able to look forward to NATO membership, but there are a few NATO troops in Ukraine training the country's soldiers so that they can get a feel for what it would be like to be a NATO soldier, sort of. I mean, apart from getting paid, and stuff.

And the country's GDP growth might be an anemic 0.2%, the Balance of Trade might have been relentlessly negative for more than a year, so that Ukraine is digging itself into a deeper hole every month by buying more than it's selling - worse yet, nearly all of it with borrowed money - and the Government Debt to GDP ratio might have more than doubled from Yanukovych to Poroshenko. Running the economy is like juggling flaming tar. But never mind that. Sit down for a minute, because Mr. Peterson has big news, the kind of news that is going to make you want to pack up your troubles in your old kit bag and smile, smile, smile. You're going to want to jump in the air - proof, incidentally, that you are not a Moskal - and click your heels together.

Ukraine now has Christmas.

Comment: Well, they've already adopted Black Friday, why not Christmas? The Ukraine is a sinking ship and a few Christmas decorations, borrowed from Western nations, is nothing but rearranging the deck chairs. See also:

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Newspaper

Police prepare to review plans to make misogyny a hate crime


RT
Thu, 07 Dec 2017 11:53 UTC
girl sitting
© PhotoAlto/Frederic Cirou/ Getty
Criminals motivated by sexism could face increased sentences as police prepare to review plans to make misogyny a hate crime. It comes as part of efforts to clampdown on sexual harassment.

Proposals to make misogyny the sixth strand of offences categorized as a hate crime are currently being discussed by senior police officers. If agreed, criminals who are found to have acted out of hatred towards women would be handed longer sentences. Under the reforms, sexist behavior or language would be treated as an aggravating factor to other crimes such as assault and harassment.


Comment: Lady Justice is not so blind to gender or race these days.

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John Conyers III arrested and accused of stabbing girlfriend during argument earlier this year

Yamiche Alcindor
The New York Times
Wed, 06 Dec 2017 10:55 UTC
John Conyers III
© Aaron J. Thornton/Getty ImagesJohn Conyers III, son of the retired Representative John Conyers Jr., at a movie premiere in July.
John Conyers III, who was endorsed by his father on Tuesday to succeed him in the House, was arrested in February after his girlfriend suffered knife cuts during an argument.

Mr. Conyers, in an interview Wednesday, tried to head off a possibly disqualifying scandal just a day after his father resigned from Congress amid multiplying allegations of sexual harassment. As issues of sexual harassment and abuse roil Washington, any violent altercation against a woman could doom his effort to take the seat that his father held since 1965.

The younger Mr. Conyers said that the couple began arguing around 3 a.m. the day after Valentine's Day and that after a physical fight, the police arrested him on suspicion of domestic violence.

The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office later dropped the charges, but the girlfriend got a restraining order against Mr. Conyers, which remains in effect until next March, he said.

"She says I stabbed her, which makes no sense," Mr. Conyers, 27, said. "I didn't do this. She and I had a verbal altercation and that escalated. She pulled the knife on me. She was chasing me. I tried to take it from her. There was a struggle. I pinned her to the wall. She kept swinging and she cut herself."

Comment: See also: Democratic Congressman John Conyers retires amid sexual harassment allegations - and endorses his son to replace him

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Brigitte Bardot pens letter to Putin asking him to pay personal attention to problem of stray dogs in Russia


TASS
Thu, 07 Dec 2017 11:17 UTC
In Bardot's view, the "wild methods" used by health and sanitation agencies for getting rid of stray cats and dogs should not be applied in Russia

dogs
© ITAR-TASS/Sergey Pavlishak
French actress and animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot wrote a letter to President Vladimir Putin asking him to take the problem of stray dogs in Russia under his personal control. The copy of the letter was obtained by TASS on Wednesday.

Bardot thinks that the Russian authorities should revise the methods of tackling this issue.

Comment: Actress Brigitte Bardot: Russia is lucky to have a president as remarkable as Putin

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Toys

'Coffin on the wheels': Ukraine boasts military hardware on video, gets trolled


Sputnik
Thu, 07 Dec 2017 11:01 UTC
Ukraine coffin on wheels military hardware
© Sputnik/ Youtube / Генеральний штаб ЗСУUkraine troops show off their mettle in drills before the US National Guard.
Internet users are having a field day at the Ukrainian army's expense after the latter released video footage of drills meant to show off its prowess before a delegation of visiting US National Guardsmen.

The armed forces' new video shows troops from the California National Guard arriving at a training center in northern Ukraine to watch their Ukrainian counterparts take part in drills and discuss the prospects for further military cooperation.

The video features the Ukrainian military showing off its mostly Soviet-era tanks, artillery and infantry weaponry being used to effect in an effort to wow their American colleagues.

But what really seemed to 'wow' internet users in the video-gone-viral is a new coffin-shaped vehicle filled with anti-aircraft gunners pictured driving back and forth along a railway track. Some quickly christened the cart a 'wagon on a string'; others said it reminded them of a cart from a rollercoaster ride. The more macabre among users simply called the vehicle a 'coffin on wheels', given its distinct shape.

Comment: Lets not be mean to the uki-nazis. Their economy is in a wreck, so all they could afford was a cardboard trolley to go and reconquer the Donbass.

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Hewlett Packard quietly installs havoc-wreaking spyware on its PCs without consent

Mac Slavo
SHTFplan.com
Tue, 28 Nov 2017 00:00 UTC
HP spying
On the heels of Lenovo's massive $3.5 million fine for preinstalling adware on laptops without users' consent, Hewlett-Packard is jumping in with both feet when it comes to installing spyware on its PCs without the consumer's permission.

According to numerous reports gathered by Computer World, the brand is deploying a telemetry client (a system data that is uploaded by the Connected User Experience and Telemetry component), on customer computers without asking permission.

The software, which was first identified on November 15 of this year, is called "HP Touchpoint Analytics Service" and appears to replace the self-managed HP Touchpoint Manager solution. According to the official productivity description, it features "the tools you need to ensure all your managed devices' security - and brings you greater peace of mind". The problem is, it's installing itself without permission and is wreaking havoc on customers' systems.
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Smiley

Sheryl Sandberg worried #MeToo will lead to manlash

Melissa Locker
Fast Company
Thu, 07 Dec 2017 00:29 UTC
Sheryl Sandberg
© WSJ
This is why we can't have nice things. In the wake of the #MeToo campaign, Sheryl Sandberg is worried that there might be a backlash-against women.


Comment: Trying to head it off at the pass? Won't work. Hrmm, Randi Harper said it best...

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Busted: Recording that California police said didn't exist, where Feldman named his abusers back in 1993, has been found

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Wed, 06 Dec 2017 21:27 UTC
Corey Feldman
During an interview with the now disgraced host of NBC's Today Show, Matt Lauer grilled Corey Feldman and accused him of never going to police with his story. However, Feldman quickly retorted and explained to Lauer that there is a recording in which he did tell police who abused him-during the statute of limitations-and they did nothing.

"I've told the police," Feldman said. "In fact, if anybody wants to go back to 1993, I sat there with the Santa Barbara police, I gave them the names, they're on record. They have all of this information but they were scanning Michael Jackson. All they cared about was trying to find something on Michael Jackson."


Comment: Very interesting that this was buried by the MJ fiasco at the time. Jackson, of course, probably was innocent.


This statement quickly became the subject of a massive controversy after Feldman went on to appear on Dr. Oz who called the Santa Barbara police to ask for this recording. Replying to Feldman's claims that they had a recording of these names, the Santa Barbara police denied the existence of it. However, as TFTP predicted at the time, this was not true. And, moments ago, the recording of Corey Feldman naming his abusers to the police was found.


Comment: So, the last time Feldman went to the police, in 1993, a fake 'distraction-scandal' (Michael Jackson pedophile claims) blew up in Hollywood.

And now, today, another fake 'distraction-scandal' has blown up ('Weinstein-gate') right as his claims are finally being taken seriously.

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