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Chechen charity Kadyrov foundation delivers tons of humanitarian aid to war-hit regions in Syria


RT
Tue, 03 Jul 2018 12:10 UTC
Akhmat Kadyrov Foundation humanitarian aid
© Sputnik
Humanitarian aid from Akhmat Kadyrov Foundation in Damascus
A Chechen charity organization has delivered hundreds of tons of food and other aid to the Syrian people and is now sponsoring the restoration of historical mosques in the country, the government's press service reports.

In a press release timed to coincide with the 14th anniversary of the Akhmat Kadyrov Public Foundation - the charity group named after the first Chechen president who was killed by terrorists in 2004 - the Chechen government noted that the group had been delivering aid outside the Russian Federation "for a long time and on a broad scale."

Comment: Meet Ramzan Kadyrov, son of Akhmat:

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German police chief praises Russia's organization of World Cup: 'You don't see intel when it works'


RT
Tue, 03 Jul 2018 11:50 UTC
World Cup Russia Brazil
© Vitaly Belousov / Sputnik
German Federal Police Chief Dieter Romann praised the organizers of the 2018 World Cup in Russia, who have managed to prevent hooligan-related incidents, while assisting well-behaved fans.

Romann spoke highly of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), saying: "the good work of intelligence services should not be seen. Therefore it's organized very well."

German law enforcement has cooperated with the FSB for many years in the fields of border control, document checks, among other things, the federal police chief told reporters at the FSB headquarters in Moscow.

Comment: We are all loving the World Cup, aren't we?

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New York private school plans to racially segregate students based on 'research'


RT
Tue, 03 Jul 2018 11:29 UTC
Little Red School House New York
© Wikimedia Commons
A West Village private school is facing a severe backlash from parents over its policy of segregating students by race. The school has promised to review the practice, but also said parents had been told about it.

The $45,485-a-term Little Red School House is facing outrage from parents who are appalled at the idea of segregating children based on race and ethnicity, the New York Post reports.

Parents recently learned of the school director Philip Kassen's plans to put minority middle-school students in the same homerooms starting next school year. The students share classes with their homeroom group for 30 percent of the day.

They also became aware that seventh and eighth graders had already been placed in classrooms based on race in the last school year and that this would likely be expanded to sixth grade in September. A number of parents have even reported the racial division appears to already occur from kindergarten onwards.


Comment: Has the US come around full circle? Presumably, all these kids share very similar linguistic and cultural backgrounds, and so far we haven't heard of any problems with small children in American schools over their ethnicity. So isn't the school creating a problem where none existed? Aren't they teaching children that appearance is more important than ideas and behavior? If research points to some sort of benefit to being around your own ethnicity, don't children get that already at home?

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24 MS-13 gang members charged with murder & dismembering victims


Twitchy
Tue, 03 Jul 2018 11:19 UTC
MS-13 gang members
No big deal, just 24 MS-13 gang members charged for, among other things, killing and dismembering victims:

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Reporter resigns after falsely claiming Annapolis shooter wore Maga hat

Andrew Kerr
The Daily Caller
Tue, 03 Jul 2018 11:19 UTC
maga hat
© Reuters
A reporter at a Massachusetts-based newspaper resigned Friday after falsely claiming in a tweet Thursday that the man who killed five employees at the Capital Gazzete newspaper left a "Make America Great Again" hat at the crime scene.

"Shooter who killed 4 people at Annapolis newspaper dropped his #MAGA hat on newsroom floor before opening fire," Conor Berry, a reporter at The Republican in Springfield, Mass., wrote in a now-deleted tweet.
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Palestinians perform Dabke during 14th weekly Gaza protest amid live bullet fire and tear gas, two protesters killed & 400 injured


RT
Mon, 02 Jul 2018 08:13 UTC
Palestinian Dabke Great March Return
© Ruptly
Live bullet fire and tear gas shot by Israeli soldiers did not stop about half a dozen Palestinian activists from performing an Arab folk dance at the latest Great March of Return protest, which, once again, has turned out deadly.

Taking a break from protesting and rushing the Israeli lines, a number of Palestinian youths staged a perfectly executed Dabke circle dance at the 14th weekly Great March of Return demonstration on Friday.

Swinging ropes in their hands, typically used to hurdle projectiles at IDF soldiers across the demarcation line, a number of young male activists were joined by a young woman to perform a piece synonymous with the Palestinian cultural resistance against occupation.


Comment: From the Palestine Chronicle:
Health officials in Gaza said two Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire during demonstrations. Hundreds of other protesters were also wounded.

The victims included 14-year-old Yasser Abu al-Naja who died after sustaining a gunshot wound to the head east of Khan Younis, Ashraf al-Qidra, spokesperson for Gaza's health ministry, said.


Mohammad Fawzi Hamaydeh, 24, was also pronounced dead shortly after being shot by Israeli live fire in the abdomen and foot, east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.


Among the 415 wounded at Friday's demonstration, 11 were children. Three of the injured cases were severe.


Since Palestinians began staging mass rallies near the Gaza-Israeli fence on March 30, scores of protesters have been killed and thousands more injured by gunfire from Israeli troops and snipers.
See also: 'Extremely violent riots': 2 killed, 310 injured and Israeli drone shot down in latest Gaza clashes

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No country for old women: Homelessness in America

Steve Martinot
The Berkeley Daily Planet
Thu, 21 Jun 2018 11:15 UTC
homeless woman
I'm reading Marcia Poole's essay in the Planet (6/15/18) on Ani, an 80 year old Buddhist nun who's been homeless for the last five years. She's sick, and in a wheel chair, and living in a tent. That is, until she got thrown to the ground so hard that it cracked her skull. Now she's in the hospital. She begged our Mayor, Jesse Arreguin, a couple of weeks ago, in a video interview at the encampment she's living in, to please find her a place to live. She can't beat her illnesses living in a tent. She needs to be able to wash.

She's been applying to everything she can find that might be a way off the street, and none of it has gotten anywhere. One might suppose that the Mayor knows that the city is more intent on just closing homeless encampments, and moving people around from place to place, from one raid after another, and so on, like they did in 2016. So he smiles as he leaves her.

Osha Neumann sent an open letter to the city about the raids on RVs in the Marina just this month. Its essential message was, "oh no, not again; why is civility so impossible to embrace?" Many of the homeless who get kicked out of their encampments are disabled, but that doesn't seem to matter. When seizing their property, the police are seizing their survivability.

Comment: The story above is indeed tragic but the solution is not readily apparent. It's easy to look at rich institutions and say that the simple answer is to take their money and give it to the needy. But this betrays the complexity of the issue and offers only poorly thought-out pseudo solutions. Income disparity is an issue that needs to be taken seriously and needs to be thought-out thoroughly before it can be solved.

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Most of us think it's silly to remove Laura Ingalls Wilder's name from a children's lit award

J. Warner Wallace
Townhall
Sun, 01 Jul 2018 00:01 UTC
Laura Ingalls Wilder house
Last week, the Association of Library Service to Children renamed the award it gives authors or illustrators whose books "have made, over a period of years, a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children." This award used to be called the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, but the association's board decided to rename it the Children's Literature Legacy Award. Why? Because, according to board members, Wilder's books include "anti-Native and anti-Black" references that fail to represent the association's "core values of inclusiveness, integrity and respect."

Wilder wrote about her childhood experiences in a 19th century pioneer family. Perhaps her most famous book, Little House on the Prairie, describes Native Americans as "wild animals" and includes characters who believed "the only good Indian was a dead Indian."

Comment: The difference between descriptive and prescriptive language is not something the Christians have a monopoly on - any reasoning thinking individual should be able to tell the difference between these things. But as the leftists get more and more extreme, nuance goes out the window and any reference to anything 'against the rules' needs to be eradicated. Any description of racism therefore becomes racist.

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Marijuana

UK: Corbyn agrees to legalizing medical cannabis but opposes recreational use


RT
Mon, 02 Jul 2018 13:13 UTC
cannabis
© Stefan Puchner/ Global Look Press
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has called on medical cannabis to be decriminalized "as quickly as possible," but has stopped short of backing the legalization of the class B drug for recreational use.

Talking to Sky News show Sophy Ridge on Sunday, the Opposition leader said health issues arising from the use of any sort of drug should be thoroughly assessed before discussing their legalization.

"I think at this stage we should say that medical use of cannabis is good, and that cannabis oil used is clearly beneficial to people. That should be decriminalized and made readily available as quickly as possible," Corbyn said.

Comment: Corbyn is known to like a pint of beer, but he does not currently support the rights of others to recreationally use cannabis. While one shouldn't encourage the use of any drugs for recreational use, there is no evidence that cannabis is any more addictive or harmful than alcohol so there isn't much objective reasoning for his position.

Regardless, it's a positive move that sufferers of conditions which can be alleviated or even cured by cannabis may no longer be punished by an outdated and biased system: Also check out SOTT radio's: The Health & Wellness Show: The Highs and Lows of Cannabis as Medicine

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Children's football team missing for 9 days found trapped in flooded cave in Thailand


RT
Tue, 03 Jul 2018 01:47 UTC
Thailand cave rescue
© Soe Zeya Tun / Reuters
A family member looks at a photo of trapped under-16 football team and their coach near Tham Luang cave complex, Thailand
As the FIFA World Cup yielded many apparent divine interventions, a real-world miracle has happened in Thailand, when all players in a children's squad and their coach, who had spent nine days in a flooded cave, were found alive.

The sudden and almost traceless disappearance of the Wild Boar football team in northern Thailand on June 23 had kept the whole island nation on its toes for nine days, with parents and those who were glued to TV updates fearing the worst.

However, after more than a week of no news and fading hopes, two British divers, part of an international team of rescuers involved in the effort, reached the so-called Pattaya Beach deep-water cave, where the boys and their mentor were holing up, on Monday.

The Thai Navy SEALs, who have been leading the large-scale search and rescue operation, posted a heartwarming video on its FB page, showing the moment the British divers first saw the frail-looking boys, crammed on a narrow ledge in complete darkness.

Comment: Extreme weather is rapidly becoming a part of daily life so people need to factor this in to their plans, even in areas they're familiar with:

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