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Another UN warning but nothing changes: Yemen war pushes country 'towards the edge of a cliff'


RT
Wed, 02 Aug 2017 21:13 UTC
An old man infected with cholera lies on the bed at a hospital in Sanaa, Yemen
© Mohamed al-Sayaghi / ReutersAn old man infected with cholera lies on the bed at a hospital in Sanaa, Yemen.
Yemen's ongoing conflict and a "man-made" humanitarian catastrophe has "no end in sight," the head of the UN Development Programme (UNDP) in the war-torn country has said, warning that nearly 7 million people are at risk of starvation.

After more than two years of conflict, Yemen, one of the poorest countries on Earth, is suffering on an unprecedented scale from the ongoing war.

As of August 1, around 70 percent of Yemenis are in urgent need of humanitarian aid. Roughly 60 percent have no prospects of securing their next meal as nearly 7 million "are close to slipping into a state of famine," Auke Lootsma, UN Development Programme (UNDP) Country Director said Tuesday.

"The current food security crisis is a man-made disaster not only resulting from decades of poverty and under-investment, but also as a war tactic through economic strangulation," Lootsma said.
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Israeli lobby at work: Jodi Rudoren says Palestinians experience 'apartheid' - but not in NYT

Jonathan Cook
Mondoweiss
Wed, 02 Aug 2017 20:11 UTC
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Guess who said this recently: Israel's treatment of Palestinians looks "a lot like apartheid" - and not just in the occupied territories, but inside Israel too, where one in five citizens are Palestinian.

"I actually think the issue of apartheid is more relevant to how Arab Israelis [Palestinian citizens of Israel] are treated within the framework of the country [Israel]."

No, it wasn't Jimmy Carter, the former US president who a decade ago famously went head-to-head with the Israel lobby by publishing a book that compared. Israel's policies in the occupied territories to apartheid

The author of this even more incendiary statement is none other than Jodi Rudoren, the New York Times' decidedly soft-on-Israel Jerusalem bureau chief from 2012 until her departure 18 months ago.

Her apartheid comment is included in an interview with John Lyons, who himself served in Jerusalem for many years, in his case reporting for the Australian newspaper.

Comment:

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Machete-wielding man leads UK police on harrowing chase


RT
Wed, 02 Aug 2017 19:58 UTC
UK police machete
© West Midlands Police / YouTube
Dramatic footage shows two police officers risking their lives as they chase a machete-wielding man with mental health issues down a street in Birmingham.

The two plainclothes officers were on patrol when they received reports of a man carrying a 2ft-long blade in Printing House Street.

The 20-year-old man, identified as Iryan Brown, has been handed an indefinite hospital order under the Mental Health Act following the incident in mid-September last year.
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Police State America: Man given a $250 fine for improperly cleaning a river

Rachel Blevins
The Free Thought Project
Sun, 30 Jul 2017 17:19 UTC
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Two college students learned the hard way that life in a Police State often includes unnecessary interrogation, false accusations and citations for victimless "crimes," even when the suspects in question were helping to clean up the community.

YouTubers Brandon Jordan and Tristan Yaptengco, both students at Columbus State University, were interrupted by police while they were filming what they referred to as a "river treasure" video for Jordan's YouTube Channel, Jiggin' with Jordan. This consisted of the pair diving into a local river, and recovering the objects they found at the bottom-sometimes unique finds, and sometimes pieces of trash that they removed from the river.

Jordan told The Free Thought Project that he and his friends have gained a reputation in the community for helping to clean it up, while featuring their adventures on YouTube.

"We all do 'river treasure' videos in the river where we are always cleaning up old lures, nets, bundles of fishing line and anything we find on the bottom of the river," Jordan said. "So we are always cleaning it up. Everyone down there knows us from our YouTube channels and how we do a lot of good publicity for the city."
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Welcoming 'diversity' when it conforms to liberal ideology: Conservative Florida university students told they aren't welcome

Erica Haas
Town Hall
Tue, 01 Aug 2017 19:30 UTC
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The University of Central Florida's (UCF) student government has recently appointed a new Diversity Chair, and its conservative students are less than thrilled. It's not that Grayson Lanza is a vocal Democrat, it's that he has zero tolerance for those with differing opinions.

According to Knight News - an independent, student-run paper - various students have accused Lanza of being hostile towards conservatives and saying that Trump-supporters have no place on UCF's campus.

Daniel Hanna, a UCF student who voted for the current president, told the paper that he was confronted by Lanza at a pro-Trump rally on the UCF's "free speech lawn" (that's a whole other issue we won't get into) last September.

Hanna was reportedly having a good time with friends when Lanza and other liberal students began harassing them, calling them racist and sexist (among other things) and repeatedly telling them that they're not welcome.

Comment: The liberal ideology in America has undergone a ponerogenic process and has now become an intolerant dogma:
On a range of issues, liberals seem not only increasingly incapable of comprehending how or why someone would affirm a more traditional vision of the human good, but inclined to relegate dissenters to the category of moral monsters who deserve to be excommunicated from civilized life - and sometimes coerced into compliance by the government.


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Jordan Peterson temporarily banned by Google and YouTube, no justification given

Rob Shimshock
The Daily Caller
Tue, 01 Aug 2017 16:48 UTC
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A professor in Canada who refuses to use gender-neutral pronouns and criticizes social justice issues was banned from using his Google and YouTube accounts Tuesday, regaining access hours later with no detailed explanation provided.

Professor Jordan B. Peterson of the University of Toronto disputed Google and YouTube's decision to lock him out of his accounts, according to correspondence obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation.

"Please tell me what principle I have violated," said Peterson in his email to Google upon discovering that he was locked out of his account. "I have not violated any terms that I am aware of and have not misused my account."

The psychology professor has over 350,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel, which he uses as a platform to post his lectures, interviews, and Q&As.

"We understand you've recently been unable to access your Google account, and we appreciate you contacting us," said Google in a response. "After review, your account is not eligible to be reinstated due to a violation of our Terms of Service."

But Google did not provide any details regarding which rule the professor violated.

Comment: Google tries to pretend they're impartial, but they're not. They regularly censor political speech on YouTube, and they get away with it. The only thing holding them back is bad publicity. Perhaps Peterson just has too big an audience - witness the almost immediate publication of the above DC article.

Most "big platform" sites and services (YouTube, Patreon, PayPal, Twitter) coincidentally have the same politics. In general: anti-Russian, anti-Assad, pro-Israeli, anti-Trump, pro-Ukraine, etc. Get the picture? Questioning the official groupthink is verboten.

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Overdose deaths surge in Britain: Majority from dangerous mix of opioid fentanyl and heroin


RT
Wed, 02 Aug 2017 10:03 UTC
Fentanyl
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At least 60 people have died in Britain since December after taking fentanyl, a dangerous opioid painkiller that dealers are mixing with street heroin to make it 50 times more potent.

The alarming statistic comes as the Office for National Statistics (ONS) announced on Wednesday that drug deaths have hit a record high in England and Wales. Some 3,744 people were fatally poisoned by both legal and illegal drugs in 2016, 60 more than the previous year, it says.

It is the highest number since comparable statistics began in 1993.

Comment: A dangerous mix of opioids called 'gray death' is causing overdoses across the US

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Miner to auction rare collection of diamonds including Russia's purest and most expensive diamond


RT
Wed, 02 Aug 2017 14:05 UTC
Russian diamonds Dynasty Collection
The Dynasty Collection
Russian diamond miner Alrosa is planning to sell a unique collection of five diamonds; including a 51.38-carat gem which is "the purest of all large diamonds manufactured throughout the Russian jewelry history."

The so-called 'Dynasty Collection' consists of five diamonds cut from a 179-carat rough diamond which was recovered in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) two years ago.

"This collection is really unique. All five diamonds were manufactured from one rough diamond, which is an exceptional case. It took a year and a half to create the collection. But the result was worth it: we have obtained amazing quality diamonds," said Alrosa President Sergey Ivanov, adding the group has been certified by the Gemological Institute of America.
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Puerto Rico: Medical marijuana to offset its fiscal crisis


RT
Tue, 01 Aug 2017 20:43 UTC
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Puerto Rico is pinning its future on medical marijuana production to lift it out of its dire financial crisis. The US territory is over $70 billion in debt after decades of economic stagnation.

Puerto Rico's new governor legalized medical marijuana by decree two years ago. Democratic Governor Ricardo Rossello signed a measure last month which legalizes and regulates the plant for medicinal use.

"This advanced legislation recognizes medical cannabis as an alternative medical treatment, while maintaining all safeguards to protect the general public," Rossello said signing the law, according to leafly.com

With over $70 billion in public debt, backers envision fields of marijuana, manufacturing centers and dispensaries on the Caribbean island that's home to 3.5 million people.
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Jewish summer camp criticized for hosting kids with Palestinian flag


RT
Tue, 01 Aug 2017 16:55 UTC
Palestinian Flag
© Israel News Online
Jewish summer camp Solomon Schechter in Washington state was forced to apologize following backlash over its raising of a Palestinian flag to welcome Palestinian guests participating in the Kids4Peace program.

The decision to fly the Palestinian flag was meant to provide a "teachable moment" and serve "as a sign of friendship and acceptance," camp directors told parents in an email on Friday.

Last week, the Jewish summer camp hosted kids participating in the Jerusalem-based Kids4Peace program, which brings Jewish and Palestinian young people together for a few days to promote peace between the two peoples that have been in conflict with each other for decades.

What the camp saw as a gesture of "friendship and acceptance" has been met with an angry reaction among some in the Jewish community. A group called the New Jewish Defense League wrote that the flag flying is how young American Jews are being "indoctrinated to be self hating Jews."

Activist Pamela Geller, who had previously expressed anti-Muslim views, compared it to "flying the Nazi flag and at German Jewish day school in 1938."

Eventually, Camp Solomon Schechter issued an apology on its Facebook page.

Comment: A blissful camp experience was jarred by a flag. The 'teachable moment' became one for the camp administrators who thought they were offering a chance for campers to experience empathy, but instead received harsh criticism and degradation from the parents.

Sample comments from Israel News Online:
"Solomon Shechter supports terrorism and the destruction of Israel by proudly displaying this PLO flag."

"It's amazing that it took disgust from the campers to see how incorrect this was."

"Burn it! Solve."

"I will never send my children to this camp, which has made it clear that its policy is to legitimize and honor the hate-filled and hate-inducing false narrative of the enemies of the Jewish people."

"Amazing how some people are still duped by pseudo agendas by the Palestinians. Never was Palestine a nation and for them to say that they are the victim when they continually preach to wipe Israel and all Jews from the face of the world only shows their "real stone heart" of hate."


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