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50 years on from MLK assassination and the day the dream died


RT
Thu, 05 Apr 2018 16:06 UTC
martin luther king
Wednesday marks 50 years since Dr Martin Luther King Jr was gunned down on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.

A passionate orator, King's distinctive voice captivated audiences in the United States and around the world. As one of the most visible leaders of the civil rights movement, he strove to end racial segregation and used the tactics of non-violence and civil disobedience to further the cause of workers' rights.

He was in Memphis supporting striking sanitation workers the day he was murdered, April 4, 1968. The previous night he'd given a rousing speech to the workers in which he proclaimed, somewhat prophetically: "Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now.... I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know the night that we as a people will get to the promised land."
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F-16 jet crashes at base outside Las Vegas during routine training


RT
Thu, 05 Apr 2018 18:47 UTC
F-16 fighter jet
© Reuters
A US Air Force F-16 fighter jet lands at the Osan U.S. Air Base in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, March 20, 2018
A US Air Force F-16 jet has crashed at the Nellis Air Force Base outside of Las Vegas, during routine training on the Nevada Test and Training Range, officials said Wednesday. The pilot's condition is unknown.

The incident occurred at 10:30am local time (17:30 GMT) on Wednesday.

Nellis Air Force Base is home to the US Air Force Warfare Center, which claims to be the largest air combat training center in the world.

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Better Earth

We're doomed: One third of millennials believe the earth is flat


The Daily Sheeple
Thu, 05 Apr 2018 15:19 UTC
flat earth
It seems like the "flat earthers" are just a fringe movement of people who want to distrust NASA just for the sake of doing so. But about one-third of all millennials actually believe the earth is not a globe, but a flat disc.

According to Unilad, for some reason, more and more people (and more specifically millennials) seem to be buying into the theory that the earth is a disc rather than a globe, and the group who subscribes to it seems to be growing. There is even a Flat Earth Society whose membership continues to grow.
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50 years on from Martin Luther King's murder, hypocrisy continues to reign in America

John Wight
RT
Thu, 05 Apr 2018 16:28 UTC
martin luther king mlk
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Martin Luther King
On the 50th anniversary of his assassination, it is hard to think of anyone whose legacy has been so misrepresented as that of Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King (MLK) dedicated his life to the pursuit of truth regardless of the consequences, personal or political. Thus, at the time of his murder at the hands of a white supremacist on April 4, 1968 in the city of Memphis, where he had arrived to lead a march of the city's sanitation workers over pay and conditions, King found himself an isolated figure.

Indeed, in an uncanny example of a death foretold, on the eve of his assassination, at the end of both the last and one of the most famous speeches he ever gave, the black civil rights leader proclaimed, "I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land. And so I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord."
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Is there a connection between the feminization of Christianity and its decline?

Rod Dreher
American Conservative
Thu, 05 Apr 2018 14:58 UTC
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Nicholas Kristof is happy this Easter and Passover:
Over the centuries, it was fine for women to be martyred (or, at times, to be burned as witches), but they were denied the right to become priests, rabbis or ministers. Yet a revolution is unfolding across America and the world, and countless women will be presiding this weekend over Easter and Passover celebrations.

In just a few decades, women have come to dominate many seminaries and rabbinical schools and are increasingly taking over the pulpit at congregations across the country. "What we're seeing before our very eyes is a dramatic shift; in my mind it's as big as the Protestant Reformation," says the Rev. Serene Jones, the first woman president of New York City's Union Theological Seminary - where almost 60 percent of the students are now female.
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Propaganda

Sloppy? UK Times' lead article questioning govt's 'alliance against Russia' scrubbed, but URL link remains with different story


RT
Thu, 05 Apr 2018 15:48 UTC
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The Times' lead article from Wednesday, suggesting Theresa May is struggling to hold together an alliance against Russia, has disappeared from its website, with a completely new story under the same URL replacing it.

So, what could have motivated the paper to shelve the story?

The original article, headlined 'May battles to preserve alliance against Russia', looked at Prime Minister May's handling of the Skripal case after chief executive of the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory at Porton Down, Gary Aitkenhead, gave an explosive interview that revealed that the lab had not concluded where the chemical weapon had come from - despite May's government insisting it was engineered in Russia.

Comment: Who would have approved (or demanded) the change?

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MIB

Knobs, knockers and Russian 'secret spycraft manuals'

Craig Murray
craigmurray.org.uk
Thu, 05 Apr 2018 15:30 UTC
Gary Aitkenhead Porton down skripal
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Gary Aitkenhead, Porton Down's chief executive
What is left of the government's definitive identification of Russia as the culprit in the Salisbury attack? It is a simple truth that Russia is not the only state that could have made the nerve agent: dozens of them could. It could also have been made by many non-state actors.

Motorola sales agent Gary Aitkenhead - inexplicably since January, Chief Executive of Porton Down chemical weapons establishment - said in his Sky interview that "probably" only a state actor could create the nerve agent. That is to admit the possibility that a non state actor could. David Collum, Professor of Organo-Chemistry at Cornell University, infinitely more qualified than a Motorola salesman, has stated that his senior students could do it. Professor Collum tweeted me this morning.

The key point in his tweet is, of course "if asked". The state and corporate media has not asked Prof. Collum nor any of the Professors of Organic Chemistry in the UK. There simply is no basic investigative journalism happening around this case.
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Craig Murray on Skirpal affair: UK and NATO tried to step up Cold War with Russia


RT
Wed, 04 Apr 2018 14:57 UTC
skripal home
© Reuters/ Hannah McKay
Officers guard the home of Sergei Skripal
The UK and its NATO friends have attempted to "step up the Cold War" with Russia and have failed, according to Craig Murray, blogger and the UK's ex-ambassador to Uzbekistan.

Theresa May's Government seems to have been delivered a huge blow today, as Porton Down scientists revealed it cannot confirm Russia was behind the attack on ex-agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia.

The broadcaster and human rights activist said it is an "extremely important" statement from Porton Down - the secretive military base where testing was carried out.

Murray said "a fortnight ago sources inside the Foreign and Commonwealth Office told him they were 'under pressure' to say it was made in Russia" but they knew they were unable to do so.

He said: "What we have seen today is news management because the Government had to get over the hurdle the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons will shortly be telling people there is no evidence this came from Russia.
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No Entry

Nearly 2,000 people were stopped in 9 days under Trump's travel ban - and almost all of them were legal US residents

Michal Kranz
Business Insider
Sun, 01 Apr 2018 00:00 UTC
Donald Trump
© Leah Millis/Reuters
President Donald Trump
The travel ban put forward by President Donald Trump at the beginning of last year via executive order led to 1,903 people being stopped by customs agents.
  • The majority of them were legal residents of the US.
  • While a federal judge quickly blocked that travel ban, Trump later issued two other travel bans, the second of which has been allowed to go forward by the Supreme Court.

Comment: State Department now 'fully implementing' Trump's expanded travel ban

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Blackbox

Yulia Skripal call to cousin and statement to police released - "everyone's health fine, will be discharged soon"

Vladimir Rodzianko
The Duran
Thu, 05 Apr 2018 14:43 UTC
yulia skripal
© julia.skripal / Facebook / Global Look Press
After being hospitalized in a poisoning in Salisbury, UK in early March, Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia, have been upgraded to a stable condition.

The poisoning has set off an unprecedented diplomatic row the last few weeks between Russia and the UK - with Prime Minister Theresa May and Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson accusing Russia unequivocally of orchestrating the attack, all without providing a shred of evidence pointing to Russia's guilt. In fact, there has been increasingly more evidence coming out that Russia was NOT the culprit of this poisoning.

Boris Johnson and Theresa May are increasingly coming under public scrutiny for the handling of the Skripal case, turning the UK's leadership into a laughing stock.

The most recent development in the Skripal affair is a recorded phone call aired by Russian broadcaster Rossiya 1, purportedly between Yulia Skripal and her cousin, Victoria Skripal Thursday morning.

The hosts of the "60 Minute" show on Rossiya 1 - Evgeny Popov and Olga Skabeyeva - said they were unable to confirm the authenticity of the phone call.


Comment: The UK police also released a statement on behalf of Yulia:
"I woke up over a week ago now and am glad to say my strength is growing daily. I am grateful for the interest in me and for the many messages of goodwill that I have received.

"I have many people to thank for my recovery and would especially like to mention the people of Salisbury that came to my aid when my father and I were incapacitated. Further than that, I would like to thank the staff at Salisbury District Hospital for their care and professionalism.

"I am sure you appreciate that the entire episode is somewhat disorientating, and I hope that you'll respect my privacy and that of my family during the period of my convalescence."


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