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'Our Leader Loved by the People': N. Korea celebrates becoming nuclear nation with fireworks & street parties


RT
Sat, 02 Dec 2017 19:51 UTC
North Koreans celebrating
© Kim Won-JinNorth Koreans celebrating the successful test-fire of the new-type ICBM Hwasong-15
Soldiers and citizens of Pyongyang took to the streets in celebration to mark the successful launch of North Korea's new intercontinental ballistic missile.

The festivities marked the launch of the Hwasong-15 missile earlier this week, which North Korean officials claim can reach anywhere in the mainland United States. Civilians took part in dances, while soldiers marched through the streets laughing and hugging.

"The successful test-fire of the new-type ICBM Hwasong-15 has thrown all servicepersons and civilians of the DPRK [Democratic People's Republic of Korea] into great joy and excitement," the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said in a statement Thursday. "Dancing parties were displayed by working people of various circles and youth and students in different parts of Pyongyang."


"The participants danced to the tune of songs 'Our Leader Loved by the People' and 'The Country of the People,' extending the highest glory and warmest congratulations to respected Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un, who registered a great success in accomplishing the historic cause of completing the state nuclear force and brought about such spectacular victory as putting an end to the history of aggression and nuclear threat by the imperialists."

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Israeli App enables Jewish Americans to become foot soldiers in online war - fighting against growing BDS movement and exposure of Israel's crimes

Josh Nathan-Kazis
Forward
Thu, 30 Nov 2017 00:00 UTC
ACT.IL Israel app
The dozen or so Israelis sitting around a conference table at a Jewish community center in Tenafly, New Jersey, on a recent Wednesday night didn't look like the leading edge of a new Israeli government-linked crowdsourced online propaganda campaign.

Tapping on laptops, the group of high school students and adult mentors completed social media "missions" assigned out of a headquarters in Herzliya, Israel. Later, some planned the shooting of a pro-Israel video that weekend. At the end of the evening, adult mentors filled out a form to send a report back to the office in Herzliya.

Call it a pro-Israel human "botnet."

The Herzliya headquarters is the base of Act.il, a hybrid Israel advocacy effort and online information operation. A joint project of two Israeli not-for-profits, it is led by former Israeli intelligence officers and has close ties to Israel's intelligence services, its Ministry of Strategic Affairs and American Jewish casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson. Act.il's leaders frame the program as an effort to counterbalance anti-Israel attitudes online.

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Comment: What might really help the individuals involved in Act.il is working to see Israel's self-created problems much more objectively; problems that will probably mean Israel's own undoing and ultimate self-destruction at the hands of it's own pathological behavior and hubris. But that would be a very tall order for these strongly programmed and propagandized people.

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What's he hiding?: Officer suspended for erasing teen girl's texts after she committed suicide

Rachel Blevins
The Free Thought Project
Sat, 02 Dec 2017 18:09 UTC
Officer Francisco Armando Olmos
Officer Francisco Armando Olmos
On the day a teenage police explorer scout committed suicide, she called one of the officers at the department where she was interning. That officer is now facing charges for deleting evidence from the girl's phone, raising crucial questions about their relationship, and what the officer is trying to hide.

Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department Officer Francisco Armando Olmos, 31, is now facing charges of obstruction of justice and computer trespass for allegedly deleting text messages, Snapchats, and even changing his contact information, on the phone of an 18-year-old girl while police were investigating her death, according to a report from RTV6.

The young woman, who has remained anonymous, joined the IMPD's Explorers program when she was 16 and was reportedly 18 when she met Olmos in January 2015. The officer, a 10-year veteran of the department, testified that the woman participated in several ride-alongs with him, at the rate of about one to two rides per month, for the next 10 months.

Olmos was also the first officer to respond to the scene when the woman was found dead in her bedroom on Nov. 2, 2015. She died from a single gunshot wound to the head, and it was determined that she had committed suicide.
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In defense of Dr. Jordan B. Peterson: Responding to his critics

Uri Harris
Quillette
Fri, 01 Dec 2017 17:49 UTC
jordan peterson
A few days ago, Canadian author and English professor Ira Wells published an essay expressing concern about popular Canadian psychology professor and social critic Jordan B. Peterson. The essay was written in the wake of an incident at Canadian university Wilfred Laurier, where a teaching assistant was reprimanded for playing a short clip of a televised Peterson debate over the compelled use of gender pronouns. (I analysed the incident in Quillette last week.)

Regrettably, Wells's essay is littered with inaccuracies and casual insults, accompanied by a moralistic undertone that is sure to turn off Peterson's supporters, and perhaps even neutral observers. Nevertheless, I think he succeeds in condensing many of the common criticisms of Peterson, which makes the essay worth responding to as the foundation for a genuine debate of these issues. I suggest reading it if you haven't already done so.

Wells's main criticisms, as I understand them, are as follows:
  1. Peterson is celebrated in the news media as a champion of free speech and liberal, democratic values, while in fact promoting a far-right worldview.
  2. Peterson has made no substantial contribution to academia and misunderstands the views he is criticising under the label of 'postmodern Neo-Marxism.'
  3. Peterson's criticism is based on a desire to cling to old-fashioned social structures and a society of winners and losers.
I'll address each of these points in turn, before summarising. For the record, I don't consider myself a supporter of Peterson, although I agree with his core assertions. (I am not a donor.) The arguments presented are my own, or in the case where I am representing Peterson's views, my interpretation of his views.
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Dollars

Police steal $91K from traveling musician

Jack Burns
The Free Thought Project
Sat, 02 Dec 2017 17:56 UTC
police theft
Civil asset forfeiture schemes by police departments, highway patrols, and government agencies, continue to separate people from their money. Phil Parhamovich, a traveling musician, found out the hard way when he had his entire life savings stolen from him by the Wyoming Highway Patrol, all $91,800 of it.

Parhamovich had recently signed a contract to purchase a music recording studio in Wisconsin, and was going to use the money to make a down payment on the transaction. And while making a down payment in cash may seem suspicious for some critics, cash is legal tender and allowed to be used for any transaction.

While the traveling musician and artist was going through Wyoming on his way to Wisconsin, he was pulled over in a routine traffic stop by WY Highway Patrol. According to the Institute for Justice (IJ), the law firm now representing Parhamovich, the officers of the law convinced the artist he was committing a crime by traveling with cash. Under pressure, they convinced him to sign a waiver giving Wyoming Highway Patrol his money and waiving his right to contest the seizure.

Comment: See also: 'Highway robbery': Police in Oklahoma seize $53k of funds for Thai orphanage

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FBI arrests 70yo who made deadly poison ricin & tested it on her neighbors


RT
Sat, 02 Dec 2017 17:36 UTC
Nursing home
© Manuel Geisser / Global Look Press
A 70-year-old Vermont woman has been arrested by the FBI after concocting the deadly poison ricin and testing it on residents at the retirement community where she lived.

Betty Miller, who lives in Wake Robin retirement community in Shelburne, was arrested by FBI agents on Thursday on suspicion that she was stockpiling the highly toxic substance which is produced in the seeds of the castor oil plant.

The poison kills the cells in a person's body by preventing them from making the proteins they need. Mild doses can cause difficulty breathing, fever, cough, nausea, and tightness in the chest. Larger doses can result in vomiting, bloody diarrhea, severe dehydration, and death.

Court documents reveal that Miller told health care providers she attempted to poison other residents by putting the ricin on food or in drinks during the past several weeks, Vermont news station WCAX report.
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'Your DNA is an abomination': Texas university in the crosshairs for publishing rabidly anti-white article


RT
Sat, 02 Dec 2017 16:47 UTC
anti white article
© Andrew Homann / Facebook
A Texas university newspaper is apologizing after a student wrote an opinion piece that condemns white privilege and accuses white people of being an "aberration" that "shouldn't exist."

Martinez begins his article, entitled: "Your DNA is an abomination," with a tweaked Robert Oppenheimer quote about the detonation of the first atomic bomb he helped develop.

"Now I have become white, the destroyer of worlds," Rudy Martinez, a student at Texas State University, wrote in an Op-Ed published by the University Star on Tuesday.

Martinez then rambles about his justifications for hating white people.

"When I think of all the white people I have ever encountered - whether they've been professors, peers, lovers, friend, police officers, et cetera - there is perhaps only a dozen I would consider 'decent,'"Martinez wrote.

In the piece, Martinez claims that white people in the US are an "aberration" who descended from Europeans and abandoned their identity "in search of something 'new' - stolen land."

Comment: More libtard madness. The piece would never have seen the light of day if it were written about blacks or Hispanics. Divide and Conquer is alive and well.

Indiana nurse says every white male baby should be sacrificed to wolves, celebrates viral 'fame' [UPDATE]

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'True hero': Las Vegas homeless man saves 2 children from fire with his quick response


RT
Sat, 02 Dec 2017 14:04 UTC
House fire
© Las Vegas FireRescue / Twitter
A homeless man from Las Vegas is a "true hero" for risking his own life in saving two children, a 3-year-old and 10-month-old, from a fire. If not his quick actions, the children could have been severely burnt or killed in the blaze, firefighters said.

Anival Angulo, 36, who currently has nowhere to live, was wandering the streets of Las Vegas on Friday evening when he saw a smoke coming from a nearby apartment building, Las Vegas Fire & Rescue said in a statement. When Angulo approached the complex, he noticed two crying children inside.

Angulo saw a little girl standing near the door of the smoke-filled apartment. It turned out that the security bar door was closed and the dead-bolt was locked. "She could not open the door, so Angulo [started] pulling on the steel door and was able to bend it upward," firefighters said.

"The little girl ran to him and wrapped her arms around his waist. He could see through the smoke the leg of an infant on the floor. He reached down and pulled the infant out," firefighters wrote.
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Study blames police for 'devastating results' in Charlottesville, Virginia violence


RT
Fri, 01 Dec 2017 22:57 UTC
Police
© Karla Ann Cote / RTCharlottesville, Virginia police, August 12, 2017.
Police and government officials failed to ensure public safety and protect free speech during a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in August, an independent review concluded. An anti-fascist protester was killed after the rally.

"The city was unable to protect the right of free expression and facilitate the permit holder's offensive speech," said the report, published Friday. Commissioned by Charlottesville officials following criticism of authorities' handling of the events, it was conducted by Hunton and Williams law firm and led by former US attorney Timothy Heaphy.

Sparked by the city's plan to remove a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee from Emancipation Park, white nationalists flocked from around the country to protest the decision under the banner "Unite the Right." Hundreds of anti-fascist counter protesters came to Charlottesville to challenge them. At the August 12 rally, police stood idly by as physical altercations took place in the park and adjacent streets. Police then declared an unlawful assembly and forced the two sides back together, resulting in more violence.

While clashes were at their peak, Charlottesville Police Department (CPD) "commanders pulled officers back to a protected area of the park, where they remained for over an hour," the report says. "Because of their misalignment and lack of accessible protective gear, officers failed to intervene in physical altercations that took place in areas adjacent to Emancipation Park."
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Best of the Web: SJWs need to stop trying to protect everyone's feelings

Ryan Holiday
Thrive Global
Mon, 27 Nov 2017 16:19 UTC
burning book
Like every kid, I was forced to read Fahrenheit 451 in high school.

If you'd asked me what it was about before last week, I would have told you: "Firemen who burn books."

And if you'd asked me why on earth they did that, I would have answered just as confidently: "Because a tyrannical government wanted them to."

There is a trend afoot to conveniently remember the works of authors like Ray Bradbury and Aldous Huxley as warnings against distant totalitarianism and control. But this only scratches the surface of what these books are about.
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