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'No one thinks of us' - Gazans speak to RT after Israel destroys 400 acres of crops


RT
Tue, 05 Jan 2016 18:44 UTC
Gaza crops
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More than 400 acres of crops have been destroyed by the IDF near the fence surrounding Gaza, in a lethal no-go zone maintained unilaterally by Israel on the Palestinian side of the border. They say they sprayed pesticides to enable a security operation.

The no-go area is volatile and many explosives are found in it. The IDF told RT this was such a case, as it continues to patrol the area for improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and signs of border infiltrations. Israel's ground forces have also been regularly entering the Gaza Strip to clear obstructions and for other purposes.

The IDF added the spraying of the pesticides did not harm the environment, but Palestinian farmers say hundreds of acres have been laid to waste, and showed evidence of this.


Comment: The IDF's claims are A) not true and B) beside the point. The point is that they are destroying the meager livelihood of an already impoverished people whom they have been occupying and decimating for decades. To make a ridiculous statement like 'pesticides don't hurt the environment' just goes to show how racist and entitled these individuals are.


Comment: Also see: Israel repeatedly sprays crop-killing pesticides on Gaza farms

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Disaster? Not even close - how oil prices and Western finance will really affect Russia's economy in 2016

Alexander Mercouris
Russia Insider
Tue, 05 Jan 2016 04:17 UTC
Putin Xi
© Unknown
The year 2015 ended with further falls in oil prices.

As is now traditional, this have given rise to more predictions of disaster for Russia's economy.

This whole subject is much misunderstood. The major effect on the oil price is on interest rates - not the Russian budget, which gets all the attention.

Oil prices are anyway likely to stabilise - and even rise - before long, whilst the effect of their fall on the Russian economy is diminishing.

To explain all this it is necessary to begin with oil prices, since they are the heart of the story.

Comment: Also see: German media is stuck in an insane, anti-Putin time loop

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Ambulance

Reality check: PRCS provided emergency services to 15,379 wounded since October 1, 2015


Palestine Red Crescent Society
Fri, 01 Jan 2016 00:00 UTC
shotup ambulance
© www.revisionisthistory.orgPalestinians youths examine blood-spattered Palestinian ambulance in which two Arab medics were killed by Israeli army troops.
PRCS' Emergency Medical Teams provided emergency medical services to 15,397 persons wounded by Israeli occupation forces in the oPt since the beginning of October, including 14,035 persons in the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem, and 1,344 persons in the Gaza Strip.

In the West Bank, including in occupied Jerusalem, PRCS' Emergency Medical Teams treated 983 persons who had sustained live ammunition injuries, 2,986 persons who had been hit with rubber-coated metal bullets, 9,691 persons suffering from tear gas suffocation and another 367 persons who had stumbled, were beaten or suffered from burns.

In the Gaza Strip, PRCS' teams treated 489 persons who had sustained live ammunition injuries, 140 persons who had been hit with rubber-coated metal bullets, 602 persons suffering from tear gas suffocation, 107 persons who had been beaten and six others who had been wounded during Israeli raids.

Furthermore, Israeli occupation forces and settlers assaulted PRCS' teams and ambulances 335 times since October 3rd. As a result, 147 paramedics, including several volunteers, were wounded while 94 ambulances sustained damage. Moreover, 94 different incidents in which PRCS' ambulances were denied access have been documented.

Comment: A statistical reminder: Still nothing is done; nothing is said; nothing is remedied; nothing is resolved, and none are rescued.

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Crazed Honolulu cop beats man for praying over a seal

Justin Gardner
The Free Thought Project
Tue, 05 Jan 2016 15:23 UTC
Jamie Kalani Rice and seal
Jamie Kalani Rice praying for a seal.
Jamie Kalani Rice, a native Hawaiian, has filed a federal complaint against Honolulu police for an unprovoked beating he received from Officer Ming Wang, which was captured on videotape.

Rice saw an endangered monk seal lying on the beach and believed it was sick, so he approached the seal and sat a few feet away from it. Rice chanted at the seal while rubbing sand on his body and throwing it in the air, attempting to use his mana (energy) for healing.

Volunteers with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration recorded the encounter after asking Rice not to approach the seal. They had posted signs saying "Hawaiian Monk Seals: Please do not Disturb."

The cameraman says, "Call the police" as he films. However, Rice was clearly not trying to harm the seal, and resorting to the police was uncalled for.
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What will be the FED's next move in the Oregon militia standoff?

Joshua Krause
The Daily Sheeple
Tue, 05 Jan 2016 15:09 UTC
Malheur National Wildlife Refuge
Malheur National Wildlife Refuge
Ever since armed militiamen took over a federal building in the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, the one question that has been on everyone's mind is "how are the Feds going to respond to this?" Regardless of whether or not you support these people, you have to admit that the government's response hasn't been typical.

At least for now, there isn't an army of soldiers, or swat teams, or tanks, bearing down on the militia's position. As far as we know the FBI is en route, and that's pretty much it. From the accounts that have been coming out of the area, it doesn't look like a Waco situation. It doesn't look like a Bundy Ranch situation either.

Granted, this could still get really ugly at any time, but based on what government officials have said, it doesn't sound like they want that. While its hard to say what they are thinking behind the scenes, publicly they are calling for a peaceful resolution to the situation. Even the White House chimed in, referring to the standoff as a "local law enforcement matter" and refusing to label the militiamen "terrorists," before calling for a peaceful resolution.

Comment: See also:

Armed militia occupy forest reserve HQ in Oregon, call 'US patriots' to arms, Bundy bros join protest

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3 mysterious spheres fall onto 3 Vietnam provinces


Tuoi Tre
Tue, 05 Jan 2016 14:27 UTC
A metal-like orb that apparently crashed to Tuyen Quang on Saturday morning.
A metal-like orb that apparently crashed to Tuyen Quang on Saturday morning.
Three unidentified metal orbs were discovered in three provinces in northern Vietnam on Saturday, while a military official said that the spheres might be parts of a flying object.

The first sphere was found by local residents in Tuyen Quang ,Province following a loud noise from a supposed aerial explosion on Saturday morning.

Provincial leader Chau Van Lam confirmed the report to Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper and said that competent authorities have been working to identify the metallic object.

The mysterious sphere, about 50kg in weight, which has Russian letters on its surface, was initially identified as a device for meteorological research, Lam said.

Comment: See also: Mystery space objects land in Spain

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Grey Alien

Hillary Clinton believes aliens may have visited Earth


RT
Tue, 05 Jan 2016 14:29 UTC
Hillary Clinton
© Jim Young / Reuters
Hillary Clinton has stunned the public with a new revelation: Aliens might have visited Earth, she said. The Democratic presidential hopeful says if elected president, she would dig deep into the secret Area 51 site, aliens and UFOs.

Clinton made comments when talking to Daymond Steer of The Conway Daily Sun in New Hampshire last week. It was the first time since 2007 that she was interviewed by the reporter. Setting politics and mundane issues aside, Clinton and Daymond spoke briefly about extraterrestrial life.

"I think we may have been (visited already). We don't know for sure," the presidential candidate said, when asked about her husband's comment's to late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel. In 2014, former President Bill Clinton told Kimmel that he would not be surprised if aliens visited us.

Mrs. Clinton also promised to expose the aliens and "get to the bottom of it," a vow that might endear her to scientists, space geeks and UFO enthusiasts.

Comment: Forget about what aliens may be out there. Focus on Hillary's alien view on humanity: And on and on and on.

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Snowflake Cold

Crimea turns on gas supply to freezing Ukrainian town: President Vladimir Putin's order to prevent people from freezing


RT
Tue, 05 Jan 2016 13:10 UTC
Crimea gas crisis
© Gleb Garanich / Reuters
Gas has begun flowing into a southern Ukrainian town that pleaded for Russian help during a bitter cold spell. Amid regular blackouts caused by the Kiev administration, Crimean authorities have fulfilled President Vladimir Putin's order to prevent people from freezing.

A port city along the Sea of Azov in the Kherson Oblast of southern Ukraine, Genichesk is home to more than 25,000 people who began suffering severe gas shortages when the thermometers plunged to -14 degrees Celsius over the weekend. By Monday more than 1,500 residents in the Kherson region were left without gas, as authorities struggled with the decreased pressure on the municipal pipeline.

Comment: See more: Ukrainian town asks Putin for Russia's help against the cold and gets it

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Extinguisher

Best of the Web: Liar's Award for 2015: US brought peace to Syria!


FARS News Agency
Fri, 01 Jan 2016 11:02 UTC
john kirby
© sputniknews.comLiar, Liar...
The United States government can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but it cannot fool all of the people all of the time. That's why when State Department Spokesman John Kirby bragged up Washington's sordid achievements of 2015, even things that they never did, such as the declaration that the US brought "peace and security to Syria," everyone in the entire world raised eyebrows and said come again?

Writing in his laudatory year-in-review, Kirby further bragged of the US "stepping up to aid the Syrian people during their time of need," while taking credit for peace talks set for next month. Ironically, the peace talks are the fruit of a joint Russian-Iranian effort to get the opposition groups - not "moderate" terrorists - to talk with the Syrian government, something the War Party and its vassals had long resisted and openly opposed. Kirby's silly declaration notwithstanding, the War Party is no longer able to hide the bitter truth about the ongoing proxy war from hardcore thinkers:
  • The US has been bombing Syria for years to affect regime change and the nation is shedding millions of refugees as a result. Despite Kirby's efforts to couch America's involvement as a "humanitarian contribution," it consists pretty much exclusively of regime-change fantasy, all while arming "moderate" terrorists and allowing US bombers to be at the service of ISIL, Al-Qaeda and other proxies - the same goons that attacked Paris in November.
  • When it comes to Syria, state demolition and not "peace and security" is the best choice to describe what the United States and its rogue partners have delivered there thus far. Any doubters should ask the United Nations Security Council, which says the conflict has killed some 250,000 people and displaced 12 million.
  • According to human rights groups, despite the role of US military intervention in fuelling the rise of ISIL and conflict in Syria and Iraq, the American humanitarian response is severely lagging. Washington has admitted just about 1,854 Syrian refugees since 2012, and they will only take in more after two years of security checks.
  • The UN has registered over 2.1 million Syrian refugees in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon; 1.9 million in Turkey; and nearly 30,000 in North Africa. All of these numbers are low, as many refugees do not register. Further, these numbers fall well below calls for the US to resettle at least 100,000 refugees next year.

Comment: The best lies are not this obvious! Perhaps Kirby believes his own country's propaganda where perception is purposefully completely twisted and facts don't matter. Eyebrow raising? How about a bona fide trial-by-public truthification! The US definitely brought something to Syria, but it most assuredly wasn't peace!!!

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Apple Green

Don't panic go organic: Homeless activists feed an entire shelter with rooftop garden

Steven Maxwell
Activist Post
Mon, 04 Jan 2016 00:40 UTC
roof top garden atlanta
Every activist has read the increasing number of stories where homelessness is being criminalized, as if simply being homeless isn't punishment enough. However, there is a rising tide among all walks of life that is beginning to view homelessness in a very different light.

As a sinking economy and the criminal actions of the banking elite are leading many middle class, stable families into abject poverty, it is becoming much easier to identify with the less fortunate the closer their plight appears to be. Defenders of the homeless are becoming much more vocal now. We have seen some amazing examples recently of people moved to help those in need through programs such as an artist who paints and sells portraits of the homeless and gives them the profits; a former homeless man who gives back to the homeless by selling book reviews and buying food to share; or the inspiring story of a community organizer who used his own faith to connect with those from other faiths in a common cause of feeding those in need.
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