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Muslims raise over $50k for victims of Pittsburgh synagogue shooting

RT
Sun, 28 Oct 2018 23:03 UTC

© Reuters / Cathal McNaughton
People visit an impromptu memorial at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the wake of the gun attack.

The Muslim-American community has raised more than $50,000 for the victims of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting that left at least 11 people dead and six injured.

The 'Muslims Unite for Pittsburgh Synagogue' campaign, hosted by the Muslim crowdfunding site LaunchGood, aimed to raise funds to support the shooting victims with funeral expenses and medical bills.

Saudi women's activist quits social media: "Twitter is a tool to silence us"

RT
Sun, 28 Oct 2018 22:54 UTC

A prominent Saudi activist has quit Twitter and Facebook, accusing the social media giants of becoming tools for despotic governments to target dissidents and rights campaigners with trolls and bots.

Saudi women's rights activist Manal al-Sharif dramatically deleted her Twitter account, which has some 300,000 followers, on stage last week at the SingularityU Nordic 'global innovation' conference. The next day she posted a video on YouTube explaining why she shut down her account, telling viewers that Twitter has become home to "trolls, pro-government mobs and bots," many of which are "paid by pro-government [agents] to silence, intimidate and harass dissidents."

Calling for a more ethical social media, Al-Sharif said that "the same tools we joined for our liberation are being used to oppress us and undermine us, and used to spread fake news and hate, I'm out of these platforms."

Al-Sharif left Saudi Arabia many years ago in a self-imposed exile, and helped start women's fight for the right to drive in Saudi Arabia in 2011. Saudi women won the right to drive in June this year.

Although Riyadh is trying to foster a more progressive image, the traditionally conservative nation recently introduced laws that see those who post or share content that mocks or attacks religion on social media jailed for up to five years.

Comment: How very progressive. Saudi Arabia sure sounds like a s***hole country, doesn't it?

IKEA Russia faces online backlash for allegedly comparing women to dogs in Facebook post

RT
Sun, 28 Oct 2018 22:37 UTC

IKEA's Russian branch has got itself in hot water over a Facebook ad that some users saw as comparing women to dogs and purveying sexist stereotypes. The company deleted the post and apologized after the outcry.

The controversial post featured a Jack Russell terrier dog sitting at a table in in front of a serving of pancakes. "What to do if you've scratched his car or chewed on his slippers: Cook pancakes with jam; put on the table his favorite [IKEA brand] rag; greet him with a faint smile; avoid saying 'honey, we need to talk,'" the caption for the post read.

72 hrs of hate-filled violence has social media debating whether a travel warning should be issued for US

RT
Sun, 28 Oct 2018 22:00 UTC

Tree of Life synagogue pittsburg shooting

© Reuters / John Altdorfer
The Tree of Life synagogue is pictured after 11 people were killed during services on October 27, 2018.

US would issue travel alerts if same kind of violence was happening in other countries, a Washington Post editor wrote in a tweet after Pittsburg shooting. The post went viral resonating with people within and outside the country.

"Front page of @washingtonpost right now. The United States would be issuing travel warnings against countries with this kind of violence and instability," Kate Woodsome, a supervising editor of video op-eds, tweeted on Saturday.

The front page was indeed filled with violence, showcasing two hate-filled crimes which played out over the course of 72 hours.

The Screens: How the PTB tell us what to believe

Caitlin Johnstone
caitlinjohnstone.com
Mon, 22 Oct 2018 00:00 UTC

We are surrounded by screens full of voices that are always lying to us, and experts wonder why we're so crazy and miserable all the time.

The screens tell us, "This is a perfectly normal and sane way of doing things. It is perfectly normal and sane to strip the earth bare and poison the air and the water in an economic system which requires infinite growth on a finite planet. People who say otherwise are raving lunatics!" And the social engineers wonder why there's increasing disaffection and alienation among the populace.

The screens tell us, "Just spend your time in this world turning the gears of the machine and you will be happy. The machine is your friend. The machine takes care of you. Work hard pulling its levers and greasing its cogs until you are old and you will gain satisfaction," and then they wonder why we're all gobbling up antidepressants like candy.

The screens tell us, "We need to drop explosives on Nation X because they need Freedom and Democracy™. We know we said that about Nation Y and Nation Z and that went terribly wrong, but that's because it wasn't managed properly. Trust that it is good and proper for the citizens of Nation X to be killed with bombs and bullets," and then they wonder why people keep snapping and committing mass shootings.

Comment: And who or what is the dynamism 'behind the screens'? Even OZ had a lever puller!

Rad feminists eviscerate NYT for warning Trump would 'erase' transgender peeps

Tyler O'Neil
PJ Media
Mon, 22 Oct 2018 00:00 UTC

On Sunday, The New York Times dropped a bombshell, reporting that the Trump administration was considering draft rules to reverse Obama's move redefining "sex" as "gender identity" in federal law. Radical feminists eviscerated the report on Monday, even as liberal activist groups and transgender activists took to the streets to protest the tentative rule change.

"The Women's Liberation Front (WoLF) is a radical feminist organization that stands to liberate women and girls from patriarchy," WoLF lawyer and spokeswoman Kara Dansky told PJ Media on Monday.

"You can't fight for the rights of women and girls if you can't define that category directly. Women have been oppressed and discriminated against for thousands of years on the basis of our biology," not their gender identity, Dansky declared. "Everybody knew what a woman was when they wouldn't let us vote."

The radical feminists at WoLF actually sued the Obama administration over its legal redefinition of "sex" to include "gender identity" in federal civil rights law. This move "effectively strips women and girls of their legal protections by eliminating the ability to legally distinguish between males and females," WoLF explained. The group dropped the suit following news that the Trump administration would not follow the same rules.

"The NYT piece misleads its readers by suggesting that it is possible to change sex, and it uses the words 'sex' and 'gender' interchangeably," Dansky told PJ Media. Echoing the Obama administration, The New York Times adopted the language of transgender ideology, which makes it more difficult to protect women.

Comment: Dansky says 'gender identity' is an ideology. Is it? Ben-Shalom attacked transgender ideology as "fake science." Is it?

Gallup poll: 57% of Americans believe 2 parties not enough

RT
Sun, 28 Oct 2018 02:03 UTC

The majority of US citizens believe the two-party system is inherently flawed, and there is need for an actual third party to reflect the will of the people, a new poll has found. The trend has been stable for past five years.

The new Gallup poll, released on Friday, shows that almost every third US national is dissatisfied with the alternating reign of the Republican and Democratic parties in the American politics. Some 38 percent of respondents said that the two do such a poor job that a new major political force needs to be established.

The concept of a third big party that will challenge the long-lasting dominance of the duo has, logically, found the most favor with the Independent supporters, who have long been calling for an alternative. Seventy-two percent of the Independents rally behind the third option.

Comment: In addition to a third party, Americans should vote for political term limits on senators and representatives, demand Congress reads and debates the laws they pass and make Israel's payoffs to own the US government a crime.

Helicopter crashes outside Leicester football stadium with 4 aboard, including club's billionaire Thai owner

Sky News
Sun, 28 Oct 2018 15:57 UTC

Firefighters were seen putting the massive fire out

A Sky cameraman who watched the Leicester City owner's helicopter crash outside the stadium says the pilot guided the aircraft away from people on the ground.

Having just recorded post-match interviews inside the stadium, Sky Sports News cameraman Dan Cox was walking across the car park as the helicopter came overhead.

He told Sky News: "I heard the helicopter coming out of the stadium, saw it as you do, they are amazing pieces of machinery and then I just carried on walking thinking next time I look up it is going to be overhead.

"The next thing I just looked up and it was just spinning, static just out of control, just a constant spinning, I have never seen anything like it."

Neither Leicester City FC nor the police have yet officially confirmed who was on the aircraft but Sky News understands the club's owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha was on board.

Comment: Noted below are some other recent helicopter crashes:

Update 31 Oct 2018

Footage her surfaced of the chopper spinning out of control before plummeting to the ground:

Syria's cancer-stricken First Lady Asma Assad filmed warmly engaging with hospital patients

RT
Sat, 27 Oct 2018 09:55 UTC

Bashar Assad's wife Asma has been filmed speaking to women at a Syrian cancer center before attending her own treatment session. Back in August, Syria's first lady was diagnosed with breast cancer.

Asma Assad was captured on camera at a local cancer center, where she arrived to undergo another treatment session. In the footage uploaded by the Syrian presidency, she is seen wearing a pink headscarf and warmly greeting the hospital staff and patients. She appears to have lost her hair as a result of chemotherapy.

The first lady herself is combatting cancer after being diagnosed with the disease back in August. At that time, Damascus acknowledged that she had started treatment for the early stages of breast cancer.

Comment: See also: 'I belong to the people who've taught the world endurance, strength and facing the odds': Asma Assad speaks about her battle with cancer

Read more about this amazing woman who is much loved and respected by the Syrian people:

Inferno erupts at oil depot in Tianjin, China

RT
Sun, 28 Oct 2018 20:45 UTC

FILE PHOTO: Reuters

A massive fire has broken out at an industrial park in Tianjin, China, with videos showing enormous flames and thick plumes of smoke engulfing the area.

The fire reportedly broke out at an oil depot in the coastal city at around 8:45pm local time on Sunday.

A video posted online shows shocked locals as they stare helplessly at the inferno.

Despite the intensity of the dramatic blaze, no casualties have been reported, according to Chinese media.

Comment: Tianjin, China, was where that INSANELY-large explosion happened in 2015. It was so large it left a giant crater, leading some to speculate that China had been 'nuked'. It wasn't obviously, but blame was left to fall on 'mismanagement', when in fact there was almost certainly some natural aspect to it, like unprecedented outgassing or related seismic, underground activity.

Other notable fires this year:

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Society's Child

Muslims raise over $50k for victims of Pittsburgh synagogue shooting

Saudi women's activist quits social media: "Twitter is a tool to silence us"

IKEA Russia faces online backlash for allegedly comparing women to dogs in Facebook post

72 hrs of hate-filled violence has social media debating whether a travel warning should be issued for US

The Screens: How the PTB tell us what to believe

Rad feminists eviscerate NYT for warning Trump would 'erase' transgender peeps

Gallup poll: 57% of Americans believe 2 parties not enough

Helicopter crashes outside Leicester football stadium with 4 aboard, including club's billionaire Thai owner

Syria's cancer-stricken First Lady Asma Assad filmed warmly engaging with hospital patients

Inferno erupts at oil depot in Tianjin, China

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