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Sinister: MI5 to warn UK school teachers about 'suspected terrorists'


RT
Mon, 04 Jun 2018 08:57 UTC
London Bridge and Borough Market terror attacks.
© Tom Nicholson / Global Look Press
Members of the public embrace after laying flowers to mark one year since the London Bridge and Borough Market terror attacks.
MI5 plans to warn teachers and police about terrorism suspects, Home Secretary Sajid Javid will reveal in a new counter-terrorism strategy designed to prevent a repeat of London's year of terror in 2017, which claimed 36 lives.

Neighborhood police officers, head teachers, and social workers will now be informed about terrorism suspects in a bid to put a stop to attacks and turn people away from extremism. On Sunday, the anniversary of the London Bridge terrorist attack, Javid highlighted a review that revealed some of those involved in the 2017 attacks were already known to MI5.


Comment: And somehow telling teachers would have helped things?


The home secretary said that the domestic security service had "learned lessons" and will share information with "other organizations" in the future - including local authorities, schools, and front-line police officers. They will offer people support to help deradicalize suspects and inform the security services if their behavior becomes an issue.


Comment: One wonders what behaviour is now classified as an 'issue'?


Comment: The encroaching police state under guise of 'the war on terror'. Lest we also forget the sinister leaks repeatedly revealed between UK intelligence services and terror attacks: Also check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: Perfidious Albion: If Russia is a Rogue State, What is the UK?

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How the media controls the narrative that controls the world

Caitlin Johnstone
Medium
Mon, 04 Jun 2018 10:00 UTC
MSNBC host Joy Reid
MSNBC host Joy Reid still has a job. Despite blatantly lying about time-traveling hackers bearing responsibility for bigoted posts a decade ago in her then-barely-known blog, despite her reportedly sparking an FBI investigation on false pretenses, despite her colleagues at MSNBC being completely fed up with how the network is handling the controversy surrounding her, her career just keeps trundling forward like a bullet-riddled zombie.

To be clear, I do not particularly care that Joy Reid has done any of these things. I write about war, nuclear escalations and the sociopathy of US government agencies which kill millions of people; I don't care that Joy Reid is or was a homophobe, and I don't care that she lied to cover it up. The war agendas that MSNBC itself promotes on a daily basis are infinitely worse than either of these things, and if that isn't obvious to you it's because military propaganda has caused you to compartmentalize yourself out of an intellectually honest understanding of what war is.

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Better Earth

Ireland launches consultation into drug laws, addiction specialist suggests following Portugal's decriminalization model


Irish Examiner
Mon, 04 Jun 2018 09:55 UTC
Addiction specialist Dr Garrett McGovren

Addiction specialist Dr Garrett McGovren
Ireland needs to follow Portugal's example when it comes to drugs according to a leading medic.

Addiction specialist Dr Garrett McGovren says the Portuguese who decriminalised drug use nearly 20 years ago have the lowest number of fatal overdoses in Europe.

The Government yesterday launched a public consultation to find out the general opinion on our own laws.

It is considering scrapping criminal convictions for people caught with drugs for their own use.

Comment: This review comes on the heels of a high profile case where Vera Twomey campaigned for a license for cannabis derived CBD oil to treat her daughter's epilepsy. In praise of her battle she received a "people of the year" award.

A similar debate occurred years ago in the UK where the government drugs advisor, Dr David Nutt, recommended decriminalisation and was promptly sacked.

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Taiwan loses communication with F-16 fighter jet during largest annual drill - Search ongoing

Joseph Yeh
Taiwan Focus
Mon, 04 Jun 2018 16:07 UTC
f-16

F-16
A F-16 fighter jet went missing in northern Taiwan on Monday while participating in an annual military drill, the Air Force has confirmed.

The signal of the F-16, which is based in Hualien in eastern Taiwan, disappeared from radar screens at 1:43 p.m., nearly half an hour after it took off from Hualien Air Base, the Air Force said in a statement.

The military has launched a search to locate the whereabouts of the missing single-seat jet, series number 6685, which was being flown by a major surnamed Wu (吳), according to the statement.

Comment: The F-16, like the F-35, seems to be plagued with technical problems:
F-16s jets cost around $22 million each. They were developed and built by General Dynamics. Current production is managed by Lockheed Martin.


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15-year-old kidnapped by gov't - and his parents jailed for giving cannabis to help stop son's seizures

Jay Syrmopoulos
Free Thought Project
Sat, 02 Jun 2018 00:00 UTC
Cannabis Seizures
"I'm willing to face the jail time or the consequences for it if it will help my son," said a mother who was arrestest for letting her son use cannabis to treat his seizures.

A teenager who suffers from seizures was forcibly separated from his parents and put into state custody, while his parents were jailed and charged with reckless conduct after they provided their son with marijuana to control his seizure disorder.

Matthew and Suzeanna Brill say they let their 15-year-old son, David, smoke cannabis in a desperate attempt to control his severe epileptic seizures. The couple told the New York Times that their son was having numerous seizures a day and that the pharmaceutical drugs he was prescribed to control his epilepsy failed to work.
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Destruction of Bedouin village approved by Israeli court - despite protest by US Congress and EU

Jaclynn Ashly
Mondoweiss
Thu, 31 May 2018 00:00 UTC
Khan al-Ahmar, occupied West Bank
© Jaclynn Ashly
Khan al-Ahmar, occupied West Bank
Children laugh and play in the small Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar, located east of Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank, jumping on tin sheets laid out on the ground and throwing any object they retrieve from the dirt at one another.

The children's loud giggling and the wide smiles of the women, who energetically offer visitors tea and juice, belie the reality: the entire community could be demolished by the Israeli government at any moment.

Last week, Israel's Supreme Court ruled to allow the state to demolish Khan al-Ahmar, including a medical clinic, mosque, and a school made from mud and tires built by an Italian NGO almost a decade ago. The demolition could be carried out at any time as of next month.

"We can't do anything except wait for the Israelis to come," Eid Abu Khamis, a leader of the Bedouin in the area and a resident of Khan al-Ahmar, told Mondoweiss. "Unlike Israel, the United States does not fund us to obtain F-35 jets. We don't have tanks. We have nothing but our people's will and resilience."

"If they come to demolish the village, they will have to forcibly carry me off the land if they want me to leave," Abu Khamis said. "We are not leaving and we will continue to resist by remaining on our land."
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Almost four million Afghan children miss out on school due to fighting, poverty & discrimination - UNICEF


RT
Sun, 03 Jun 2018 21:40 UTC
Afghan girls
© Mohammad Ismail / Reuters
Afghan girls read the Koran in a religious school.
Almost four million kids in Afghanistan are unable to attend school classes because of security and poverty issues, as well as discrimination against girls in the country, a new report by the UN agency for children reveals.

Some 3.7 million children aged between seven and 17 are deprived of their right to education in Afghanistan, UNICEF's Global Initiative on Out of School Children reports.

60 percent of those out-of-school are girls, who are at "a particular disadvantage" due to gender-based discrimination in the Muslim country, the UN Children's Fund said. The worst situation is currently in the Afghan provinces of Kandahar, Helmand, Wardak, Paktika, Zabul and Uruzgan, where up to 85 per cent of girls are missing out on classes.

Lack of security in conflict areas and displacement of families due to fighting were mentioned as being among the reasons contributing to the first increase in the out-of-school rate in Afghanistan since 2002, UNICEF said in the paper. Poor education facilities and lack of women teachers were also a cause for concern, it added.
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"Working-class hero" Tommy Robinson serving Israel's Yinon Plan for Europe

Navid Nasr
Fort Russ News
Fri, 01 Jun 2018 00:01 UTC
Tommy Robinson arrest
Let's get straight to the point before we belabor the ins and outs of the Tommy Robinson story and what it all means. Israel is, and has been, supporting just about every single far-right movement in Europe who will accept its support in exchange for supporting Israel against 'radical Islam' in the Middle-East. It has created for itself any movement with the phrase 'Defense League' in it. That includes Tommy Robinson's former comrades of the EDL - English Defense League.

Israel is doing three things, following the basic 'problem-reaction-solution' formula. First of all, their influence should neither be over-estimated, nor under-estimated. There is a strategy of tension at play here, and it does not necessarily revolve around Israel, but also revolves around the US which is actually at odds with the EU. But Israel is undoubtedly gaming this whole thing.

Their goal is to create a greater Israel, as spelled out in the Yinon Plan. FRN and CSS's own Joaquin Flores' detailed analysis of the probability that Israel, especially under Likud rule (who have always championed similar) is a good start in order to understand it.

Comment: See also:

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Michael Krieger: May you live in stupid, corrupt and yet fascinating times


Liberty Bitzkrieg
Wed, 30 May 2018 21:13 UTC
Operation Mockingbird

In the old days, America's top spies would complete their tenures at the CIA or one of the other Washington puzzle palaces and segue to more ordinary pursuits. Some wrote their memoirs. One ran for president. Another died a few months after surrendering his post. But today's national-security establishment retiree has a different game plan. After so many years of brawling in the shadows, he yearns for a second, lucrative career in the public eye. He takes a crash course in speaking in soundbites, refreshes his wardrobe and signs a TV news contract. Then, several times a week, waits for a network limousine to shuttle him to the broadcast news studios where, after a light dusting of foundation and a spritz of hairspray, he takes a supporting role in the anchors' nighttime shows.

- Politico: The Spies Who Came in to the TV Studio

May you live in stupid, corrupt and yet fascinating times.

- Me, paraphrasing a Chinese curse

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Better Earth

55% of Russians think anti-corruption campaign a success

Frank Sellers
Russia Feed
Sun, 03 Jun 2018 12:46 UTC
corruption
Western media loves to paint Russia as a country loaded with corruption from top to bottom, as a megalithic banana-republic. The common perception of a society bought and paid for by oligarchs is what the average American has in their mind. These accusations, of course, are never validated but just thrown around and accepted because of repetition. But if you talk to somebody who is familiar with Russia you hear an entirely different story than what the media gives. RT has provided us with some actual numbers from recent polls of what Russians think about corruption in their country:
Around 55 percent of Russians believe the authorities are waging a successful war against corruption, with 47 percent saying that arrests of senior officials for bribery are the best proof of this.
In a survey conducted by state-run VTSIOM agency in late May, 55 percent of the respondents said they have noticed the positive results of the nationwide anti-corruption campaign; 25 percent said they cannot see the results of the campaign, and 13 percent said the situation with corruption is getting worse.

When asked what the most obvious result of the anti-corruption campaign is, 42 percent mentioned the arrests of senior officials. On the other hand, 47 percent described the high-profile cases as "show trials, settling of accounts between civil servants or conflicts between competing power groups."

Comment: The motivations may be many and varied but the results speak for themselves.


Comment: For real insight into the man behind the purge of the corrupt class in Russia, see:

Vladimir Soloviev's New Documentary Interview With Putin Now Available
"Putin" - The new documentary sure to change everything you thought you knew about Russia's president

And for the results:

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