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Liberal Authoritarianism & The Great Mills School Shooting

Corey Schink
Sott.net
Wed, 21 Mar 2018 22:56 UTC
Sheriff Tim Cameron

Larry Hogan (R) while St. Mary's Sheriff Tim Cameron (R) speaks Tuesday at the Loffler Senior Center about the shooting incident at Great Mills High
Another tragic school shooting has taken place in the US, this time in southern Maryland. Students at Great Mills High School yesterday ran for cover as 17 year old student Austin Wyatt Rollins opened fire, wounding two students before the School Resource Officer, also a member of the SWAT team, opened fire on him. It is still unclear whether he killed himself or whether he was killed by the officer.

As we will see, this incident, and how it unfolded, contradicts nearly all liberal logic regarding the problem of school shootings in general. Thus it is reasonable to conclude that we won't be bombarded with weeks of media coverage. For this reason it seems important to analyze the situation both for the challenges it poses to the official liberal narrative, and for the deeper tragedy that it represents in American culture:

A) The weapon Rollins used was subject to Maryland's strict gun control laws
B) An armed school resource officer ended the confrontation before it had the potential to escalate into a mass shooting
C) The liberal response to school shootings is as bad as, if not worse than, the shootings themselves - for reasons we will explore below.

But first, the official version of events as they unfolded on Tuesday, March 20th, 2018.
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Craig Murray: On being a dissenting voice in the UK

Craig Murray
craigmurray.org.uk
Tue, 20 Mar 2018 00:00 UTC
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I just thought I might give you a little taste of what it means to your personal life to express dissent from the government line in the UK in 2018. Let me start with this combined effort from the UK's most popular website, Guido Fawkes, which fanatically supports the government, and the Blairite crew at "The Guardian".

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The red ink is original.

Now it is true that, when I was sacked as Ambassador by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office for blowing the whistle on extraordinary rendition and the Blair government's misuse of intelligence from torture, I went into a terrible depression and voluntarily spent ten days or so in St Thomas Hospital (not a mental illness facility) for treatment. I have never tried to keep this secret, indeed it is a major part of my memoir "Murder in Samarkand". It is also true, as I have always acknowledged, that I have had other less serious depressive episodes treated at home and been diagnosed as bipolar since I was 20.

That we stigmatise anybody who has ever had a mental illness, write them off and view their views, on anything, as invalid, is an attitude I had hoped we had moved past last century. Indeed, if this hatchet job was done on anybody writing within the Overton window, then the Guardian would be dedicating editorials to condemning it. We have in fact moved to the old Soviet position, where disagreement with the official line equals mental illness. I quite confess this sort of thing does in fact hurt me - if you cut me, do I not bleed?

Comment: Murray isn't the only dissenting independent journalist to be under vicious attack either. See what Caitlin Johnstone has had to contend with recently: This job of truth-telling sucks sometimes

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German TV interview with illiterate polygamous Syrian 'refugee' shocks viewers


Free West Media
Wed, 21 Mar 2018 21:18 UTC
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The report on German TV
German media reported recently on a 32-year-old Syrian, who lives with six children - a seventh is expected soon - and his two wives in Pinneberg. Although polygamy is strictly banned under German law, Ahmad adheres to Sharia law with German regulatory approval.

During the Spiegel TV interview with the Syrian, he only granted his wives permission to speak after a while. The women barely had a say in the report. It seems that the only thing they were allowed to say was to express their satisfaction with their promised fate.

Ahmad, an illiterate, and his wives are also satisfied with the apartment financed by the German taxpayer. In the single bedroom - so we learn - the three do not sleep together, but in succession. Being a second wife is obviously a shift worker job.

Ahmad wishes for four wives and 10 to 20 children and would eventually need a larger flat. His third future wife still lives in Syria. For the fourth wedding, the illiterate imagines wedding a German woman, provided she is a Muslim. She may even be only 13, as was the case with one of his current wives.

Comment: Right but he wouldn't face 'certain death' in Syria, so that's not the real reason this politician wouldn't send him home.

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'Another Deepwater Horizon oil disaster is just a matter of time': Critics respond to new offshore oil lease sale


RT
Wed, 21 Mar 2018 18:07 UTC
Deepwater Horizon disaster
© US Coast Guard / Reuters
Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010
The Trump administration has held the biggest lease sale of oil and gas in US history. Environmentalists fear the auction will massively expand fossil fuel production and could lead to the next Deepwater disaster.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday sold more than 77 million acres of federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico for offshore oil drilling, an area twice the size of Florida. The lease sale forms part of the Trump administration's plans to increase domestic energy production by opening up new areas for oil drilling.

Oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico became increasingly controversial after the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010, which killed 11 workers and released millions of barrels of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico. The catastrophe caused $17.2 billion-worth of damage to natural resources, according to a study in 2017 commissioned by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Critics of the sale fear the expansion in offshore drilling could devastate marine life and lead to roll-backs in environmental protections. "Trump is selling off our oceans and selling out coastal communities and marine life to the oil industry," said Kristen Monsell, oceans program legal director at the Center for Biological Diversity.

Comment: While Trump's efforts at revitalizing the US economy and energy sector are laudable, this particular effort does seem horribly short-sighted considering the number of devastating oil spill disasters we have seen in the past few decades by criminally negligent oil companies.
We still haven't seen all the effects that the Deepwater Horizon disaster is continuing to have on the oceans, but here are some: And it gets worse:

Florida fears deepen as oil enters the Loop Current



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MSM says Facebook is facing its biggest crisis ever and Zuckerberg is blowing it

Matt Rosoff
CNBC
Sun, 18 Mar 2018 19:38 UTC
Mark zuckerberg
© David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Facebook breach has caused people to wake up, says tech expert

Facebook is facing an existential test, and its leadership is failing to address it.

Good leaders admit mistakes, apologize quickly, show up where they're needed and show their belief in the company by keeping skin in the game.

Facebook executives, in contrast, react to negative news with spin and attempts to bury it. Throughout the last year, every time bad news has broken, executives have downplayed its significance. Look at its public statements last year about how many people had seen Russian-bought election ads - first it was 10 million, then it was 126 million.

Top execs dodged Congress when it was asking questions about Russian interference. They are selling their shares at a record clip.

The actions of Facebook execs now recall how execs at Nokia and Blackberry reacted after the iPhone emerged. Their revenues kept growing for a couple years -- and they dismissed the threats. By the time users started leaving in droves, it was too late.

Comment: The real question is why Facebook, the pseudo-civilian, information-vacuuming darling of the surveillance world, is suddenly being attacked in the mainstream media. Who gains by weakening one of the most efficient propaganda machines in the world?

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FARA not 'far' enough, US lawmakers invent new ways to brand RT and Sputnik as propaganda


RT
Wed, 21 Mar 2018 17:40 UTC
RT studio
© RT
US lawmakers are suggesting new ways to brand RT and Sputnik as "propaganda," believing registration as 'foreign agents' is not enough. RT is already being censored by having its access to Capitol Hill denied.

Concerned that Americans may be watching "foreign propaganda" (or something different than what is offered on the mainstream media menu) Representatives Seth Moulton (D-MA) and Elise Stefanik (R-NY) introduced the Countering Foreign Propaganda Act.

In practice, it would force RT to do even more reporting to the US government than it currently does under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) and will also force it to broadcast every 30 minutes a message saying it is funded by, and is "under editorial control" of, a foreign government. Apparently, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will also be the arbiter of who is under editorial control and who is not, because the BBC and France 24 would not be forced to disclose the origins of their funding, according to Foreign Policy (FP) - presumably, because their messaging is simply accidentally, sort of, in line with that of the British and French governments respectively.

Comment: The US has to resort to legislation to cripple RT and Sputnik because they have no real substantiation of faulty reporting or interference. The truth of the lie has to be progressively supported by punishment and degradation, no matter how unwarranted or unfair.

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Chief rabbi in Israel gets lambasted for calling African-Americans 'monkeys'


RT
Wed, 21 Mar 2018 17:01 UTC
Chief Sephardic Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef
© Reuters
Chief Sephardic Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef (left) meeting with Pope Francis.
A civil rights group dedicated to fighting anti-semitism has hit out at the Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel after he reportedly labeled black people "monkeys." Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef made the comments during a religious sermon.

Yosef allegedly used derogatory phrases when talking about African-Americans during a lesson to followers last Saturday, reported Ynet News. During the speech, the rabbi appeared to specifically suggest that prayers should only be offered to black people whose parents happen to be white.

Comment: Some other wonderful sentiments voiced by rabbis that made news:

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Eye 2

Revenge? Syrian "rebels" massacre civilians in rocket attack days after Assad drives himself to Ghouta front lines

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Wed, 21 Mar 2018 19:15 UTC
damascus bombing
© Leith Fadel
Explosions light up the Damascus sky with Mt. Qasioun in the background during previous fighting in the summer of 2017.
On Tuesday evening anti-government fighters in the embattled East Ghouta suburb of Damascus launched a major attack, firing several missiles and artillery shells into a crowded shopping district of government-held Jaramana area, resulting in a civilian massacre.

The Guardian has described the attack as "one of the deadliest rebel attacks on the Syrian capital" which according to early reports took the lives of 38 civilians, including women and children. Local reporters say that number may climb higher.

And according to Middle East based Al-Masdar News, which has a correspondent on the ground close to the scene, a near simultaneous attack on the Mezzeh District of Damascus resulted in the deaths of a woman and five children.
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MIB

On spycraft and the Skripal case: When slippery eels swim with sharks they often get eaten

Gregory Sharkey
21st Century Wire
Wed, 21 Mar 2018 19:01 UTC
theresa may skripal
The attempted murder of Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, in Salisbury, last week, has provided the UK a penalty kick, as they now take on the baton from the US, in this preposterous demonisation of Russia.

Let us first examine what we know for facts: Skripal was a Russian spy who became a double agent, working for British Intelligence, in the 90s. He was arrested in 2004 by the Russian Federal Security Service and later convicted of high treason. He served four years of a eighteen year sentence, before being part of a high profile swap with the US. He has lived in the UK since 2010.

It would be fair to assume that whatever damage he did to Russia, had already been done, and that he'd never get the same access to sensitive material, directly. I know little about intelligence agencies, or how they operate. But what I know of, is the psychological profile of an average spy, double agent, or informer.

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Why celebrated author Margaret Atwood has become so hated by feminist writers

Jonathan Kay
Quillette
Thu, 15 Mar 2018 00:01 UTC
Margaret Atwood
On March 9, a University of Alberta English professor named Julie Rak headlined a speaking event that was billed as a showdown on the issue of "bad feminism." A promotional poster done up in a boxing motif included a picture of Rak on one side, and legendary Canadian author Margaret Atwood on the other.

Bad Feminism poster

The poster for Julie Rak’s speaking event held at the University of Alberta on March 9

Comment: See also:

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