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Stressed out Americans desperately try to escape the news

Claire Suddath
Bloomberg
Fri, 29 Jun 2018 14:59 UTC
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Demonstrators hold signs and an American flag during the “March For Truth” protest at Foley Square in New York.
Last week, Jen Wrenn, a children's literacy advocate in San Diego, attended her first political protest after reading about the Trump administration policy of separating small children from their immigrant parents at the border.

She had heard ProPublica's audio of a little girl crying in the border camp and decided to do something about it. She shouted. She marched. And afterwards, she decompressed by watching the Mr. Rogers documentary, "Won't You Be My Neighbor?"

"As soon as I hear the theme song, my blood pressure goes down," Wrenn said. "I think that kind of calm is what we all crave mentally right now."

The film about Fred Rogers, the beloved figure of American childhood, has made $4.9 million at the box office since it opened on June 8-more than 20 times the typical haul for a documentary. In interviews, director Morgan Neville paints the documentary's success as indicative of our times. "We're in this period in our culture where I feel like nobody wants to be an adult anymore," Neville recently told Deadline. "A character like Fred takes us back to how we should treat each other."
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Howard Dean wonders if Ukraine's anti-Semitism struggle is Russian disinformation - gets told off by researcher


RT
Sat, 30 Jun 2018 13:58 UTC
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The author of an article published in the Jewish-American press about anti-Semitic attacks in Ukraine has pushed back against progressive heartthrob Howard Dean, who suggested that the piece was inspired by Russian propaganda.

Lev Golinkin wrote an open letter to Dean - former six-term governor of Vermont and Chair of the Democratic National Committee - after he speculated on Twitter about Golinkin's article, 'Violent Anti-Semitism Is Gripping Ukraine - And The Government Is Standing Idly By,' which was published by prominent Jewish-American outlet The Forward.

"Be interested to know if this is based on Russian disinformation," Dean tweeted on June 24, in response to Golinkin's piece.


Comment: Howard Dean just made a fool of himself by displaying his absolute ignorance of what is going on in Ukraine. The coup was largely carried out with the support of neo-nazi groups, and these same groups have supported the government that followed. So why would anti-semitism (of the real type) come as a surprise in Ukraine??

For people who are still struggling to figure out who is who and what is going on in Ukraine, we recommend watching this documentary:

'Ukraine on Fire': How US, Not Russia, Destroyed Ukraine - Oliver Stone Documentary Finally Available (VIDEO)

See also:

Sputnik takes an inside look into Ukraine's Security Services' death squads

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Provocative article shaming Russian girls for romancing World Cup visitors sparks online fury


RT
Fri, 29 Jun 2018 10:44 UTC
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A provocative article in a popular Russian tabloid, shaming women as 'whores' for their hospitality and romance with foreign fans during the World Cup, has triggered an avalanche of criticism and heated debate on women's rights.

The controversial piece, entitled "The time of whores: Russian women disgrace their country and themselves during the Mundial," has brought Moskovsky Komsomolets (MK) over half a million clicks in less than a day and was widely reposted and discussed on social media.

The author, Platon Besedin, wrote that, while the coaches and footballers praised the organization of the World Cup, and the visiting fans claim that, contrary to what they'd been led to believe about Russia, it turned out to be an awesome country with welcoming people, the Russian women are working hard to maintain the sad stereotype that "they are for sale."

"Not all of them are like this, of course, but the black sheep bring shame on the whole flock. And let's be frank, there's quite a lot of those black sheep," Besedin claimed, adding that social media is full of videos of interactions between foreign fans and local women, who "behave like shabby broads with low social responsibility."

"We've raised a generation of whores, ready to spread their legs to only the sound of foreign speech. And if they're also shown a dollar then it's absolutely perfect for them," he stated. The author went on to blame such behavior of the country's females on the "degradation of Russian men, who are both weak and irresponsible."
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Tucker: 'Time for adults on the Left to rein in the mob'


Fox News
Tue, 26 Jun 2018 21:02 UTC
Tucker Carlson
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Tucker Carlson said in his monologue Tuesday that the left is showing that it no longer believes its political opponents have the same Constitutional rights that it has.

"Progressives decided the Bill of Rights applies only to people who agree with them," Carlson said. "Their views are protected by the First Amendment. Yours are hate speech."

Carlson said liberals have already shown that they are allowed security details while telling conservatives they can't "have a gun at home."

"[Non-liberals] no longer have freedom of movement or association. They're surrounded by mobs and threatened," he said, adding that it is time for the "adults on the left" to "rein in" that "mob."

Comment: Things are fast approaching the tipping point and as the rhetoric escalates, the likelihood that America will find itself in the midst of a civil war increases each day. See also:

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Antifa: Growth of an American Insurgency

Corey Schink
Sott.net
Sat, 30 Jun 2018 16:02 UTC
Antifa
While Trump hoped the release of the long-awaited Inspector General report on June 14th would exonerate him and lead to real investigations into real criminals, it instead revealed a tepidness that led some commentators to the conclusion that the Inspector General is 'not merely afraid' of the FBI, but that he 'isn't sure that Trump is going to win the war' political insiders are waging against him.

The latest family separation crisis along the border is part and parcel of that war. It was no doubt timed to steal headlines from the release of the IG report. Since its release the media, Democrats and Progressive groups have dominated those headlines and taken the war against the Trump Administration to an entirely new level.
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'Abolish ICE!' Women protesters occupy US Senate building, 575 arrested


RT
Fri, 29 Jun 2018 10:02 UTC
Abolish ICE protest
© Jonathan Ernst / Reuters
Nearly 600 activists, protesting Donald Trump's 'zero-tolerance' policy against illegal immigrants, have been arrested after staging an occupy sit-in at the Hart Senate Office building in the nation's capital.

Hundreds of women, wrapped in metallic silver blankets, referencing the duvets given to migrant children in detention centers, occupied the Senate office building in Washington DC after marching down the streets of the city chanting "Shame! Shame! Shame!" and "This is what democracy looks like."

Demanding the closure of the detention centers for illegal immigrants, the activists made a brief stop in front of the Department of Justice, urging the government to "abolish ICE," the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.

Comment: See also:

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'Occupy ICE' tent camp taken down by feds

Joshua Caplan
Breitbart
Thu, 28 Jun 2018 13:49 UTC
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© AP Photo/Don Ryan
Federal authorities on Thursday began taking apart a makeshift tent camp blockading U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) headquarters in Portland, Oregon.

Federal officers wearing tactical gear began clearing out protesters demonstrating at the facility against the Trump administration's now-halted family separation policy

"At approximately 5:30 a.m. today, federal law enforcement officers initiated a law enforcement action to reopen the federal facility at 4310 SW Macadam Avenue in Portland," a Federal Protective Service spokesperson said.

Photos and videos of the clear-out have begun circulating on social media.

Comment: See also: Portland: Ground zero for the next American civil war?

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'Repentant Jihadi' from Toulouse claims terrorists planned to bomb a nuclear plant in France


Westmonster
Fri, 29 Jun 2018 13:33 UTC
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Jonathan Geffroy, a former jihadist who claims to be repentant, has told French media that the terrorists who attacked Paris in November 2015 had also planned to bomb a nuclear power station.

Geffroy, who spent two years in Iraq and Syria living among ISIS fighters, was captured by the Free Syrian Army whilst trying to flee Syria. When he was taken into French custody, he vowed to tell security services everything he knew about the group.

"From the moment I left ISIS until today, I made a commitment to say everything I knew about IS," he told the media.

Geffroy told French media that the son of the Clain brothers (the jihadis who claim responsibility for the Paris attacks) told him that 'adolescent kamikazes would be sent to Europe' by the Islamic State.

Comment: ISIS jihadists are not only heartless fanatics, they also lack brains. Did they think that a car bomb at the entrance of a nuclear plant compound would make the whole nuclear plant blow like a nuke?

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Border Patrol Agent: The best way to end to the humanitarian crisis on our southern border is Trump's wall

Brandon Judd
Fox News
Fri, 29 Jun 2018 14:15 UTC
US-Mexico border wall
If Democrats and the media elite truly cared about the safety of illegal immigrants, they'd be down on the border right now working to build the wall President Trump wants America to have.

As a veteran Border Patrol agent, I know firsthand that a secure border with the big beautiful wall the president is building is the only humane and permanent solution to the crisis at the border.

Despite Democratic obstruction, President Trump is building the wall now, and he will play hardball with Congress to ensure that the necessary funding to complete the wall is secured. Without a completed wall, thousands of illegal immigrants will continue to put their lives at risk.

Comment: A little too much sense-making in the above article. We can't expect hysterical democrats to listen to reason when it comes to the illegal immigration issue. They don't actually want to solve the problem or care about the illegals they're shedding their crocodile tears over - they want to use this issue to lambast Trump and his supporters.

See also:

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Tickets to space going on sale in 2019


RT
Sat, 30 Jun 2018 13:14 UTC
moon
© Simone Brandt / Global Look Press
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos will start selling passenger tickets for trips into space as early as next year, according to Blue Origin, the space-tourism startup owned by the billionaire.

The company expects its New Shepard suborbital vehicle to carry the first space tourists to orbit in 2019, according to Blue Origin Senior Vice President Rob Meyerson. The top manager hasn't provided any details on ticket prices.

"We plan to start flying our first test passengers soon," said Blue Origin senior vice president Rob Meyerson, as quoted by Space News. "We expect to start selling tickets in 2019."
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