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Star of David

Calculated dehumanization: The lives of Palestinian children in Israel

Nyla Matuk
Mondoweiss
Sat, 25 Nov 2017 12:11 UTC
israel palestine child
Imagine you are a family of four: two parents and two children aged, say, 11 and 15. You are all sleeping when at 3:45 a.m., there is a loud bang at your front door. Before you've reached the door, four heavily-armed soldiers have broken it down and barged into your home with no warrant and no explanation.

One soldier-barely older than your children himself-grabs your 15-year-old son, binds his arms behind his back, and blindfolds him. Without a word to you, the soldiers haul the boy outside to their vehicle and throw him onto the floor at the back, pistol-whipping him before speeding away.

Hours later, your son's blindfold is removed but his arms remain bound. From the moment he is kidnapped, he is not permitted to use the bathroom or given water or food. He is surrounded by foreigners speaking a language he cannot understand, and he is denied legal counsel. Your child is taken to an interrogation room and bullied into confessing a "crime"-insulting the honor of a soldier, for instance, or throwing stones at a wall. Like you, your son was born into a military occupation and under military law a soldier's honor is worth 10 years of your son's life.
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Heart - Black

Heartless America: Good Samaritans shutdown, ticketed for feeding homeless during Thanksgiving holiday

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Fri, 24 Nov 2017 11:47 UTC
Atlanta good samaritans homeless Thanksgiving
© WSB-TV
Feeding the homeless is now illegal in Atlanta and you will be ticketed and extorted unless you pay the state for permission beforehand.

Atlanta, GA - According to the official historical record, in 1621, the Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Indians shared an autumn harvest feast that is acknowledged today as one of the first Thanksgiving celebrations in the colonies. For over a century, families have gathered to proclaim what they are thankful for while others have taken to shelters and charities to help those who cannot help themselves. However, thanks to the state, helping others during this most giving time is now illegal-unless you pay the government for permission.

During this Thanksgiving week, Adele Maclean and Marlon Kautz took to the streets to begin handing out food to the homeless-like they do every week. However, this time, instead of receiving praise for their services, they were issued a notice of extortion by police in the form of a citation.

Comment: You can watch the WSB-TV report here.

Outrageous! What are these Good Samaritans thinking? Don't they know that Thanksgiving is for people to turn into violent zombies and go out on a Black Friday bargain-hunting expedition?

Walking Dead: Shootings, brawls, babies injured in Black Friday madness

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Dollar Gold

Stadiums are economic sinkholes: NFL banks billions of dollars on the backs of taxpayers and small businesses

Jeff Mordoc
The Washington Times
Wed, 22 Nov 2017 00:00 UTC
Paul Brown Stadium
© John Minchillo/Associated PressHamilton County residents overwhelmingly voted for a half-percent sales tax increase and municipal bonds to pay for Paul Brown Stadium to keep the Bengals from leaving Cincinnati, but the deal hasn't been good for taxpayers.
The Cincinnati Bengals threatened the unthinkable in 1995. Team owner Mike Brown vowed the team would move to Baltimore unless a new stadium was built.

Taxpayers in Hamilton County, Ohio, where Cincinnati is located, feared something greater than wounded civic pride if their football team left. They worried that the Bengals' departure would spur an economic crisis throughout the region. A University of Cincinnati study released at the time estimated that the Bengals added $77 million to the local economy.

Hamilton County residents could avert disaster, however. All they needed to do was vote for a modest half-percent sales tax increase. The tax increase and municipal bonds would cover the estimated $287 million needed to build the Bengals' new home.

Comment: The NFL is increasingly being put under the economic microscope as of late in the wake of the controversy surrounding the financial hit they're taking from backlash against the 'kneeling protests'. In these hard economic times, lavish NFL stadiums that cost the taxpayer money are hard to justify. Especially when no one is going to the games. See:

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Attention

Tiger shot dead in Paris railway station after escaping from circus

Jeremy Culley
Daily Star
Sat, 25 Nov 2017 10:18 UTC
paris tiger escape
© TwitterALARM: The tiger was shot in Paris after escaping from a circus
The big cat reportedly entered a railway station in the city and was "terrorising passengers".

The animal was shot by circus staff, police said. A tram line had been closed while the animal was at large.

No further details were immediately available.

"He had entered a railway station, leading to its closure," said an eyewitness who lives nearby.

"There were fears that the tiger would hurt railway passengers around the Garigliano Bridge. That's where he was cornered and then shot dead."

The alarm was raised at 5.50pm and armed police rushed to the scene, together with the tigers' owners.

Comment: Second time a tiger has been loose in Paris: Firefighters and police hunting tiger on the loose near Paris

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Bandaid

Snowflake WaPo contributor wants us to stop talking about the Clintons

Ian Mason
Breitbart
Wed, 22 Nov 2017 00:01 UTC
Bill and Hillary Clinton
© PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP/Getty ImagesHillary and Bill Clinton
A Wednesday Washington Post op-ed is calling for Republicans to give the Clintons a pass and stop discussing decades of sexual misconduct and scandals because "their political careers are over."

The piece, by pro-hijab Canadian History Professor Matthew A. Sears is the latest in a string of similar columns to acknowledge Bill Clinton's decades of sexual misdeeds were once relevant, but to argue they are largely undeserving of attention now.

"Many liberals have for a long time thought a Clinton reckoning is long overdue," Sears writes, "We look back with great horror and shame at the way the allegations against Clinton were handled in the '90s, not to mention the appalling and life-ruining treatment meted out against his accusers."

Comment: The idea that Bill and Hillary Clinton are somehow above reproach because they're no longer in office is absolutely absurd. Why should someone's current position have anything to do with whether or not they're prosecuted for crimes committed in the past?
See also:

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Footprints

Black Lives Matter protesters storm St. Louis Galleria mall on Black Friday

Jim Hof
The Gateway Pundit
Fri, 24 Nov 2017 10:14 UTC
The St. Louis Galleria was shut down today on Black Friday - the biggest shopping day of the year - after Black Lives Matter protesters stormed the popular St. Louis mall.


Hundreds of race activists took part in the planned protest.
The protesters were chanting, "Shut it down!" and "We will win!"


galleria black friday

Comment: Not exactly the best way to get popular support for your cause. Maybe that's because it never really was about black lives. See: BLM member ditches group after finding out "who's in charge", warns others of infiltration and misdirection

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Music

11 year old child prodigy astounds music world with full-length opera composition (video)

Dr Mercola
Mercola
Sat, 25 Nov 2017 10:44 UTC
Alma Deutscher prodigy music child opera
© BBC documentary screenshot
I am so pleased to post this video and I hope it gives you as much joy as it did me when I first viewed it on 60 Minutes. It is beyond extraordinary to have a glimpse into someone as exceptionally talented as 12-year-old Alma. My only regret is that there is no way to post this without exposing you to a minutelong drug commercial, which I'm sure you realize I don't endorse. For some of you, it may be the only time you see these commercials so let them entertain you.

Most of us are gifted with some degree of natural talent - something we do better, or with greater ease, than the average person. And then, there's the true prodigies; people with seemingly unnatural talent. Their gift is so profound, and comes from God-only-knows-where. Alma Deutscher, from Basingstoke, England, is a perfect example of the latter.1

There are a number of musical prodigies out there, but Alma has most of them beat. She was able to name notes on the piano at age 2 and began playing piano and violin at the tender age of 3. Within a year of tutoring, she was playing Handel sonatas on the violin. She's now considered a virtuoso of both instruments. By the age of 4, she'd already begun composing her own melodies, and by 6 she'd written her first piano sonata. This was followed by a violin and orchestra concerto at 9.

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Black Friday goes global: Topless feminist trashes sweets store in Ukraine as shoppers in Brazil and Greece join the frenzied struggle for bargains

Iain Burns
Daily Mail
Fri, 24 Nov 2017 11:42 UTC
Ukraine Femen protester
© EPAA topless activist of the feminist movement FEMEN bearing the slogan 'Black Friday' raids a shop in Ukraine this morning as consumer madness spreads around the world
Black Friday is well under way around the world - with a topless feminist protester appearing in a Ukrainian sweet shop and frenzied bargain-hunters battling for deals in the likes of Brazil and Greece.

Photographs from the Ukrainian capital show a woman from radical feminist group FEMEN throwing confectionery while screaming in protest.

Before being taken away, the woman - who also had the words 'Black Friday' painted on her torso - managed to cause a considerable mess in the store.

Comment: Nice to see that Americans have exported yet another vacuous and damaging tradition around the globe. Considering the US is the only country that celebrates Thanksgiving (other than Canada, but they celebrate a month earlier), Black Friday literally makes no sense in any other country. But it seems a day of unbridled consumerist chaos is just what the masses of planet Earth need to let off a little steam to distract from their sense of impending collapse. See also:

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Rainbow

Fascism came to America wrapped in a rainbow flag and wearing a pussyhat

Caitlin Johnstone
Medium
Fri, 24 Nov 2017 10:17 UTC
gay pride flag
© Andrea Comas / Reuters
There's a popular quote of unknown origin that usually goes something like "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross."

It's a good quote, whoever said it. It warns that if manipulative oppressors are going to seize control of a nation's government, they will obviously need to do so by appealing to the spirit of the times, the current values system of the masses. They're not going to make their entrance screaming "Freedom is slavery!" while a band plays the Darth Vader theme. This is obvious to anyone who possesses any insight into how people think and behave.

But it's a quote from a bygone age. Christianity and flag-waving patriotism still hold value in red states, but they've become largely invisible to the major culture factories of New York and Los Angeles, and thus to the dominant culture of the greater United States. If fascism came to America wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross today, it wouldn't have enough broad public support to implement its agendas, because crosses and flags don't hold that much sway over America's dominant value system. In order to rope in those who don't value the old cultural value symbols, something more is needed.

So when fascism came to America, it came wrapped in a rainbow flag, and wearing a pussyhat.

Comment: Indeed, people in America and in the world at large seem to have lost the ability to think critically and to understand the nuances of complex issues. The misleading and simplistic divide between left and right, the caricature of actual social causes as exemplified by those pink hats and rainbow flags, together with the hysteria that imbues any social or political discourse these days (starting with 'Russiagate'), make it extremely easy for the masses to be manipulated.

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Red Flag

Walking Dead: Shootings, brawls, babies injured in Black Friday madness

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Fri, 24 Nov 2017 00:01 UTC
Black Friday
Before their Thanksgiving dinners could settle, many Americans left their family atmospheres and descended upon department stores and big-box retailers across the country to partake in rampant and apparently violent Black Friday consumerism.

Mindless shoppers aren't even getting the great discounts they cherish since retailers artificially inflate prices of goods in the months before the sales in order to make the subsequent discounts look good in comparison. Also, even if shoppers do manage to grab some genuine discounts, they will invariably buy another product that has a 98 percent markup value.

If we take a step back to observe this downright insanity, it is getting difficult to differentiate between Frank Darabont's Walking Dead and Black Friday shoppers.

Comment: That's a pretty big maybe. While some have speculated that more people are doing their Black Friday shopping online to avoid risking their lives in the chaos of brick and mortar full-contact shopping, the reports of this years madness are still coming in. See:

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