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Oxfam rep says 'Hard to get inside Mosul, over 1mn people still trapped amid op'


RT
Tue, 20 Dec 2016 02:04 UTC
refugees mosul
© Ammar Awad / ReutersPeople who fled the Islamic State stronghold of Mosul, stand in line to receive food at a refugee camp, Iraq,December 18, 2016.
Humanitarian organizations face serious difficulties in delivering aid to people inside Iraq's Mosul amid the US-backed operation against Islamic State, Oxfam spokesman who returned from Iraq told RT. Over 1 million people are still trapped in the city.

"Unfortunately, it's very difficult for humanitarian agencies like Oxfam to get into Mosul itself," Kai Tabacek, Oxfam's digital press officer said in an interview to RT. He returned just a month ago from the area of Irbil, which is 90 kilometers from Mosul.

According to Tabacek, some 100,000 people have managed to flee the violence in Mosul, yet approximately 10 times more are still in the city and facing a "dire humanitarian situation."

After almost two months of operation to liberate Mosul "we have more than 100,000 people who have fled the city and surrounding areas," the Oxfam representative said. "Still more than a million people, we believe, are trapped inside Mosul and they are at risk from being caught by sniper fire, explosive devices. And it's really important that all sides in this conflict provide safe escape routes for those people to leave."
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Attacks of 9/11 paved way for intended rise of Islamophobia


Press TV
Sun, 18 Dec 2016 00:00 UTC
Shabbir Rahmatullah Hassanally
The September 11, 2001 attacks in the US were carried out by Zionists and neocons as an attempt to pave the way for the kind of hate crimes that we see against Muslims across the West today, says a political commentator in London.

Shabbir Rahmatullah Hassanally made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Sunday, while discussing a horrific hate crime against a British Muslim woman that took place earlier this week.

The 27-year-old woman was grabbed from behind and knocked down by two white males in a busy high street on Wednesday, police said on Friday.

The woman had just finished a driving lesson in Old Church Road in Chingford and was on her way to a hair salon when the two men attacked her.

Comment: Hassanally is absolutely and horrifically correct. Read Laura Knight-Jadczyk's 9/11: The Ultimate Truth to understand why.

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'Talented' teenage Idaho football player walks free after sodomizing disabled teammate with coat hanger

Elizabeth Preza
Raw Story
Tue, 20 Dec 2016 00:27 UTC
John Howard
© Screenshot via NY Daily NewsJohn Howard
The white ringleader of a horrific sexual assault of a mentally disabled black teen will avoid jail time and escape classification as a sex offender after pleading guilty to a lesser charge, the Daily Kos reports.

John R.K. Howard plead guilty Friday to one felony count of injury to a child after leading two football teammates to help him carry out a a violent sexual attack on a black teammate with mental disabilities.

The attack occurred on Oct. 23, 2015, when Howard and Tanner Ward, along with a third juvenile student, pretended to offer the victim a hug, then held him down and sodomized him with a coat hanger. KTVB reports "a third attacker then kicked the coat hanger several times, forcing it farther into the victim's body and causing rectal injuries that required treatment at a hospital."

The assault followed several months of race-related discrimination levied against the victim, who was adopted by a Dietrich, Idaho family when he was a child. The 18-year old victim was reportedly called "Kool-Aid," "chicken-eater " and the N-word by his teammates. Howard, the ringleader, "also posted a confederate flag on the plaintiff's computer and demanded he learn and recite a racist song titled "Moonman Notorious KKK," KTVB reports.

Comment: Rape Culture in America - How the system protects the rapists and fails the victims

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More than 400K refugees in Germany unable to find jobs, less than 10% are employed


RT
Mon, 19 Dec 2016 20:24 UTC
German workers
© Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters
More than 400,000 refugees are still without jobs in Germany while less than 10 percent are employed, the government's Institute for Labour Research (IAB) found. Hopes that most of refugees will get well paid jobs are an "illusion," the IAB chief warned.

Only a small number of Germany's 34,000 asylum-seekers managed to find a regular job between December 2015 to November 2016, according to the data released by IAB on Monday, as cited by Der Spiegel.

However, almost a quarter of those who have a job (22 percent) have signed only a temporary contract, the report found. Another 20 percent perform services without a specified contract term. On the other hand, 406,000 refugees in Germany have been registered at employment centers as job-seekers, while nearly 160,000 are registered as unemployed.

Comment: Wasted talent is a recipe for revolution!

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The Obamas' final Christmas vacation as First Family


Hawaii News Now
Thu, 15 Dec 2016 11:19 UTC
First Fam
© APFirst Family arrives in Honolulu.
After closing his final news conference of the year with a "Mele Kalikimaka," President Obama and his family left behind chilly temperatures in the nation's capital for their annual Christmas vacation in the islands.

Obama and his family landed at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam about 11 p.m., and were met by U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz, (D-Hawaii), Gov. David Ige, Mayor Kirk Caldwell and Adm. Harry Harris, U.S. Pacific Fleet commander. After the president greeted the dignitaries, the family jetted off to their rented Kailua mansion by motorcade.

The U.S. Coast Guard has established a temporary security zone in Kailua Bay starting Friday at 8 a.m. until 4 p.m. on Jan. 2. The maritime security zone starts from Kapoho Point and extends westward to the shoreline near Kailuana Loop. The zone also includes the adjacent channel beginning at Kapoho Point to the North Kalaheo Avenue Road bridge. An orange marker will indicate the perimeter of the security zone.

This will be the Obamas' final trip to Hawaii as the First Family as the president's second term draws to a close.

It will be punctuated by a historic visit to the USS Arizona Memorial on Dec. 27 with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who will become the first Japanese leader to visit the site. Both will pay tribute to the lives lost in the attack on Pearl Harbor 75 years ago.

During last year's vacation, Obama spent much of his time working out at the gym, playing rounds of golf, going on hikes and dining at high-end restaurants, like Alan Wong's and MW Restaurant.

Comment: Yawn...

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National Geographic now spreading extremist 'left-wing' ideology on gender

Amanda Prestigiacomo
Dailywire
Mon, 19 Dec 2016 01:31 UTC
transgender
"The best thing about being a girl is, now I don’t have to pretend to be a boy," reads the caption, a quote from the fourth grader.
To the sound of thunderous praise from the Left, National Geographic has decided to bring in the New Year by celebrating a nine-year-old boy's sexual confusion.

The magazine's special "Gender Revolution" issue features a cover photo of Avery Jackson, a biologically male elementary student, as seen below.

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Israeli gov strikes deal with settlers of illegal West Bank by moving them to 'unclaimed' land on same hill


RT
Mon, 19 Dec 2016 06:36 UTC
Maale Adumim
© Ammar Awad / ReutersA view of the West Bank Jewish settlement of Maale Adumim is seen near Jerusalem
Residents of a controversial Israeli outpost built on Palestinian land and ruled illegal by the Supreme Court have agreed to be given new homes in another plot of land on the same West Bank hill. Hardline critics denounced it as a "capitulation" and an "expulsion of Jews."

Authorities have narrowly avoided a confrontation with the residents of Amona, who two years ago were given until December 25 to leave the outpost after the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that setting up the settlement on private Palestinian land illegal.

The settlers rejected the previous relocation terms and showed no signs of complying with the ruling, so the Border Force, supervised by the IDF, was preparing to remove them by force.

However, under the deal reached early on Sunday after night-long negotiations, 24 of Amona's 40 families agreed to be moved into mobile homes on another plot of land on the same hillside.

This plot is claimed by the Israeli government under the Absentees' Property Law.

Comment: This one relocation of settlers is, in the vast scheme of criminal Israeli land-grabbing and colonization, a drop in the bucket.And the exception, not the rule; which is that of Palestinian deprivation and subjugation.

See: Expel and exploit: Israel's practice and process of taking over rural Palestinian land and using it for illegal settlements

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Berlin outraged as German-funded school in Turkey 'bans mention of Christmas' or so media reports


RT
Mon, 19 Dec 2016 05:11 UTC
Istanbul Lisesi
© duyun u_umumiye_binasiLisesi High School, Istanbul
Berlin says it'd raise a "completely unacceptable" issue with Ankara after reports emerged that teachers at elite gymnasium in Istanbul, co-funded by the German government, were ordered to stop telling students anything about Christmas rites. The school denies the accusation.

"It is a great pity that the good tradition of the intercultural exchange in the pre-Christmas period was suspended at a school with a long history of German-Turkish tradition," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Sunday, referring to the claims by German teachers in the prestigious Lisesi High School, which is supported by the German government. The teachers said that they were reprimanded by the school's Turkish administration for bringing up Christmas-related topics in class.

The email, sent by the German staff of the school, who are subordinate to the Turkish administration, was seen by DPA news agency. It says that "it ensues from the notice of the Turkish administration, that from now on nothing should be told, worked on as well as sung, about the Christmas traditions and the Christian festival in the classroom."

The email was sent by the German administration to teachers, employed at the school at the expense of the German authorities, upon a meeting called on by their Turkish superiors. At the meeting the teachers were warned against disseminating "the rumors" among the students with their unauthorized Christmas-themed teaching.

Shortly after the memo was leaked to the media, the incident threatened to spiral into a full-fledged diplomatic row as the school's conduct caused a stir in the German media and provoked sharp criticism from an array of high-ranking officials.

Comment: This 'media lie' syndrome of creating a false cause to initiate, increase, exacerbate an effect, is cropping up in many countries where Western influence and purposes cross paths with a rebellious nature or political endgames. Purposeful divisiveness is a tool of manipulation and control, mass-produced courtesy of MSM.

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War on Christmas escalates as FFRF atheists threaten lawsuit for a nativity scene

Ken Klukowski
Breitbart
Sun, 18 Dec 2016 00:00 UTC
St. Bernard nativity
© BreitbartSt Bernard's Nativity scene
Militant atheists at the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) are threatening to sue St. Bernard, Ohio, over the city's Nativity scene — a Christmas display depicting the scene of Jesus's birth in Bethlehem in the Holy Land. If FFRF follows through and files in federal court, that case could result in a historic restoration of religious liberty nationwide.

St. Bernard is a suburb of Cincinnati. For many years, the city has displayed a crèche — i.e., a Nativity scene — during the Christmas season. It is accompanied by non-biblical seasonal holiday displays as well, making this outdoor crèche similar to the one the Supreme Court upheld in its 1984 case Lynch v. Donnelly.

However, in 1989, the Supreme Court moved to the left on this issue, holding by a narrow 5-4 vote in County of Allegheny v. ACLU Greater Pittsburgh Chapter that a crèche erected on the grand staircase of a Pittsburgh courthouse violated the Constitution's Establishment Clause (which provides that Congress cannot establish a religion, a rule the Court in 1947 extended to state and local governments). In Allegheny, the justices voted 6-3 to allow a menorah and Christmas tree in the park outside the courthouse.

That case was strongly denounced by originalists and conservatives because it invented a brand new standard called the "endorsement test" for the First Amendment's Establishment Clause. Under this new rule, any government action involving faith or religion is unconstitutional if some "reasonable observer" would believe the government was endorsing religion.

Comment: Open-minded, unprejudiced, unbiased...the definition of 'tolerant' is not applicable to this group of 'unfortunate' atheists who live in this horribly non-customized world. We are becoming a people of narrowing foci, unable to allow for differentiation and choice, provoking increasing societal battlegrounds where none should exist. The penalty: more definitions, more laws, more tests begetting more definitions, more laws... The prognosis: Societal rigor mortis, a state accommodating complete control by the PTB.

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Cop nearly kills handcuffed boy by shoving him through window - loses only 5 days vacation

Justin Gardner
The Free Thought Project
Mon, 19 Dec 2016 20:09 UTC
Javier Payne
© Michael Schwartz /for New York Daily News The Rev. Al Sharpton shows some of Payne's 50 stitches at the National Action Network in New York in this 2014 file photo.
Video footage has emerged of NYPD Sgt. Eliezer Pabon suddenly shoving a handcuffed 14-year-old boy against a plate glass window, which shattered and almost killed him. Javier Payne had to undergo 4 hours of surgery to remove shards of glass from his lung and near his heart.

After finding Sgt. Pabon guilty of excessive use of force, Assistant Deputy Commissioner for Trials Nancy Ryan docked the Bronx cop a mere five days of vacation. The punishment was far less than the 30 days lost vacation the NYPD suggested when it filed administrative charges against Pabon.

The lame excuse for discipline is even more outrageous when compared to a punishment handed down to another Bronx officer, Joseph Spina, who was docked eight vacation days for saying he wouldn't have voted for mayor Bill de Blasio. That incident was caught on film when Spina gave a driver a summons.

With the two punishments, New York City's police accountability system is showing just how flawed and subjective it can be.

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