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Yes, Syrian refugees can return to Aleppo... Over 600,000 have already done so


RT
Sat, 12 Aug 2017 14:55 UTC
A girl is seen at a damaged site in Aleppo's Sheikh Maqsoud neighbourhood, Syria
© Omar Sanadiki / ReutersA girl is seen at a damaged site in Aleppo's Sheikh Maqsoud neighbourhood, Syria.
Aleppo, a city retaken by Damascus from rebels in December last year, has become a major destination for displaced Syrians returning home in 2017 as numbers of returnees to Syria spills over 600,000, according to the UN.

Over the first seven months of 2017, over 600,000 displaced Syrians returned home, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Friday, citing its own figures as well as those of the UN Migration Agency and partners on the ground. The returnees are overwhelmingly internally-displaced people, but 16 percent returned to Syria from other nations, primarily Turkey. The number almost matched that recorded in the whole of 2016.

An estimated 67 percent of returnees went to government-controlled Aleppo Governorate, with the provincial capital itself being the primary destination. Among other places where refugees went in significant numbers, according to ICO, is Al-Hasakah Governorate, the north-eastern province dominated by Kurds.
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SJW madness: Stanford University introduces course to 'abolish whiteness'

Tom Ciccotta
Breibart
Fri, 11 Aug 2017 14:54 UTC
all lives matter
© AP Photo/David Goldman
Stanford University will introduce a course this fall which will task students with considering "abolishing whiteness" and the ultimate goal of understanding "what is the future of whiteness," according to the institution's course catalog.

The course, which is entitled "White Identity Politics," will be taught by instructor John Patrick Moran, and analyze the "future of whiteness." For the uninitiated, the concept of "whiteness" refers to the social aspect of race. According to the University of Calgary, "whiteness" is a socially and politically constructed learned behavior built upon the systematic privileges afforded to whites in Western society.

The Stanford course looks to abolish this social concept of "whiteness" through an analysis of what the course description alleges is "the rise of white identity politics in the United States" as a result of the 2016 Presidential election. Stanford Professor Tomás Jiménez explained that "whiteness" refers to "the set of behaviors and outlooks associated with the racial category, white."
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Russian police arrest 'jihadis' over plot to crash bullet trains into each other and drive truck bomb into celebration attended by Vladimir Putin

Will Stewart
Daily Mail
Sat, 12 Aug 2017 14:29 UTC
russia secret service raid
© Anna Ledovskikh/YouTubeRussian secret services have detained 'terrorists' trained in sabotage who sought to engineer the crash of two express trains with a combined speed of 186 mph.
Russian police have detained 'terrorists' who planned to crash two express trains together and drive a truck packed with explosives into a celebration attended by Vladimir Putin.

They were aiming to disrupt the Confederations Cup tournament last month, a precursor to the FIFA World Cup hosted by the Russian President next year, it is believed.

Police say an alleged jihadist cell tried to target a high speed rail line used by Russia's Sapsan 'bullet' trains at Farforovskaya railway station close to St Petersburg, Putin's home city. But the plot was foiled and police have released video of arrests being made (See here.)
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Google just red-pilled the public to their evil ways

Tom Luongo
Halsey Media
Thu, 10 Aug 2017 14:31 UTC
Google
James Damore will go down as one of the heroes of the MAGA movement. His plan to entrap Google was perfectly laid and like good SJLs - Social Justice Lemmings - the powers that be at Google fired him for doing nothing more than expressing an opinion.

That his opinion was outside of Google's cultural norm is irrelevant. Google made an enormous mistake, firing Damore before realizing the long-term ramifications of their act.

No way did Damore not know exactly what he was doing by circulating his now famous ten-page memo about Google's stifling culture. He did and he's pursuing the next logical step, legal action.

Regardless of whether a court finds in his favor or not, Google's reputation as an employer and as a service provider is now permanently tarnished. In their ideological fervor to stamp out all Wrong-think they provided us with prima facia evidence of their commitment to ideological excellence over operational excellence.

Stockholders should be selling on this news. This is a company that has already opened itself up to multiple shareholder lawsuits for selectively demonetizing sites its management is ideologically opposed to.

Comment: More on the misdeeds of this tech behemoth:

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Panic preparedness buying grips America: 'Never seen it at these levels... we can barely keep up' says leading distributor

Mac Slavo
SHTF Plan
Fri, 11 Aug 2017 14:13 UTC
Manager Ben Orr At Detroit Army Surplus Store
© Sandra McNeill/WWJ Newsradio 95Manager Ben Orr At Detroit Army Surplus Store.
As is often the case, most people wait until the last minute to prepare for the worst.

As reported by CBS Detroit, one Army Surplus store owner reports that preparedness equipment is flying off the shelves:
"We've been very busy. Unusually busy, I'd say," Orr told WWJ's Sandra McNeill. "It's definitely an increase, just in selling all the normal prepper stuff, end of the world stuff. A lot of water prep stuff, food, MREs - the military meals."

And there's been a substantial increase in the sale of a particular item they don't sell much of - a so-called radiation antidote called potassium iodide.

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"It actually stops your thyroid from absorbing any radiation. So, it fills your thyroid with iodine, which it normally does anyways," said Orr.

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Another popular request: gas masks. But most people looking for those will be out of luck.

"Gas masks are a big thing too, but we only sell them as novelty," said Orr.
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UK man gets 20 years for setting his brother on fire

Tanveer Mann
Metro
Fri, 11 Aug 2017 14:12 UTC
Blair Logan
© PABlair Logan, 27, pictured, poured petrol on his younger brother Cameron, 23, on New Year’s Day.
A man has been jailed for at least 20 years for the murder of his brother and attempted murder of his brother's girlfriend by setting fire to them on New Year's Day.

Blair Logan, 27, poured petrol on his younger brother Cameron, 23, while he slept next to girlfriend Rebecca Williams at their family home in Milngavie, East Dunbartonshire.

Ms Williams was rescued from the fire and treated in hospital, while Logan's parents were treated for smoke inhalation.

Logan, 27, pleaded guilty to charges of murder and attempted murder last month after admitting to pouring petrol 'with the intention of maiming or crippling' Cameron, but claimed he did not mean to kill him.

The attack was said to be in retaliation for a recent incident at the house when his brother had punched him.
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World's oldest man, Holocaust survivor dies at age 113

Liel Leibovitz
Tablet Magazine
Fri, 11 Aug 2017 11:51 UTC
Yisrael Kristal
© Shula Kopershtouk
Yisrael Kristal, a Holocaust survivor who was recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records to be the world's oldest man and one of the ten oldest men who ever lived, passed away today in his home in Haifa. He was one month shy of his 114th birthday.

He was born in Maleniec, Poland, on September 15, 1903. His father was a Torah scholar, and Yisrael was sent to the Cheder when he was three, to follow in his father's footsteps. Life had other plans: His mother died in 1910, and in 1914, when Yisrael was 11, World War I broke out. When Kaiser Franz Joseph drove through the streets of his town in a car, throwing sweets and waving at the children, Kristal was there to wave back. His father, however, was soon recruited by the army and died in the war.

Moving to Lodz when he was 17, Kristal found work in a candy factory, and soon proved himself as an expert candy-maker. He married Chaja Feige Frucht in 1928, and had two daughters. He continued to manufacture candy, sometime secretly, even after the Nazis took over and forced all of Lodz's Jews into the ghetto. Both of his children perished there. In 1944, when the ghetto was liquidated, Kristal and his wife were both deported to Auschwitz. Chaja Feige died shortly thereafter, but Yisrael survived, working as a forced laborer. When the Red Army liberated him, he thanked the Soviet soldiers by making them candy. He returned to Lodz, rebuilt his old candy shop, and met another woman, Batsheva, who he married in 1947. The couple had a son, Chaim, and a daughter, Shula.
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No-go zones: Alt-right fantasy or the new face of Europe?


RT
Fri, 11 Aug 2017 13:30 UTC
Rosengard in Malmo in southern Sweden, early December 19, 2008
© Stig Ake Jonsson / ReutersRosengard in Malmo in southern Sweden, early December 19, 2008.
Immigrant-dominated, crime-ridden and largely Muslim enclaves across Europe, the so-called "no-go zones," have become as much an ideological battleground as a literal one, but many arguing about them have never been to one.

What no-go zones are not

For most people at most times, the designation "no-go zone" should not be taken literally.

There are exceptions. In the Stockholm suburb of Rinkeby the local police station was shut down in 2014, following the latest in a series of fire-bombing riots, and the one currently under construction is reminiscent of a war-zone outpost, to which police officers will have to be driven. Sparked by seemingly routine encounters between petty criminals and the cops, mass violent protests have originated in the district most years since 2010, though just as notably car burnings and stone-throwing flash riots are at times so frequent they are barely reported in the local media.
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Health authority warns cocaine poisoning cases doubled in France


RT
Fri, 11 Aug 2017 11:49 UTC
cocaine tabs
© Ricardo Rojas / Reuters
A French health and medicine authority issued a warning to citizens after the number of reported cocaine poisonings doubled in one year.

The French National Agency for the Safety of Medicines (ANSM) issued the warning Friday, citing a "worrying increase" in reports from addiction centers who noted an increase in the number, and severity, of cocaine poisonings recently.

The data showed that the number of reports of cocaine poisoning doubled between 2015 and 2016, and ANSM noted that, "this increase continues to be seen for the year 2017."

The agency said while a definite explanation for the increase is still unknown, a national survey of addict centers is under way in an effort to determine the cause.
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Bavarian Minister: It's almost impossible to deport refused migrants and asylum seekers


Sputnik
Fri, 11 Aug 2017 15:15 UTC
Migrants Bavaria
© AFP 2017/ Christof Stache
German authorities are almost unable to deport refused asylum seekers from Germany, Bavarian Minister-President told the Focus media outlet on Friday.

German authorities are almost unable to deport refused asylum seekers from Germany to their countries of origin due to a number of factors, including migrants' lack of necessary documents, Bavarian Minister-President and Chairman of the Christian Social Union (CSU) Horst Seehofer told the Focus media outlet in an interview issued on Friday.

"Basing on my nine-year experience as the minister-president, I would say that there is a big illusion in Germany in the issue of deporting [refused asylum seekers] ... It is almost impossible to send back migrants, who have already arrived in the country [Germany]," Seehofer said.
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