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Eva Bartlett: Syrian civilians at ground zero expose the chemical attack hoax

Hague conference
© Michael Kooren / Reuters
A boy featured in White Helmet video of alleged chemical attack in Douma speaks at a news conference in the Hague, April 26, 2018.
Western media keeps referring to an alleged chemical attack on Douma, Syria, as an established fact, but have yet to produce one iota of evidence from the town that, until recently, was controlled by Jaysh al-Islam.

Unverified videos, emanating from the Western-funded propaganda construct the White Helmets, do not constitute evidence, nor do testimonies taken in Turkey or Idlib, Syria, which is under terrorist rule.

On the other hand, there are many testimonies that contradict the accusations, including those of 17 Syrians from Douma (among them doctors and medical staff), who, on April 26, spoke at the headquarters of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in the Hague, stating that there was no chemical attack.

The leaderships of the US, UK, France and their lapdog media, unsurprisingly, dismissed the Syrian testimonies as "obscene" and a "masquerade". It should be noted that the same media took as utterly credible the words attributed to a then-seven year-old girl named Bana al-Abed, living in eastern Aleppo, before it was liberated. Corporate media and Western leaders had no issues with the credibility of Bana, who was living surrounded by twenty-five terrorist cells in her district alone. But the testimonies of Syrians from Douma are "obscene."

Eye 1

'Deliberate war crime': Palestinians decry murder of 21yo female paramedic at Gaza border during the Great March of Return

Colleagues of Palestinian nurse Razan Al-Najar react to her death.
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Colleagues of Palestinian nurse Razan Al-Najar react to her death.
The killing of a 21-year-old female medical worker during the Great March of Return at the Gaza border is nothing short of a war crime, Palestinian officials said, calling on the international community to hold Israel responsible.

The murder of 21-year-old medical volunteer, Razan Al-Najar, is a direct violation of all "international treaties and conventions" that ensure the protection of the medical staff in the conflict zones, Palestinian Minister of Health, Jawad Awwad, said late Friday, noting that the shooting of the paramedic must have been "deliberate" and amounted to a "war crime."

The volunteer was shot in the chest by the Israeli Defense Forces on Friday near the border fence east of Khan Younes, in the southern Gaza Strip, while she was helping wounded Palestinians.

An anonymous witness told Reuters that, at the time of the tragedy, the medical worker wore a white uniform, which clearly distinguished her from the rest of the Palestinian crowd taking part in the 10th weekly Great March of Return protests.

Comment: See also: 'No one is happy with 60 killed' - Israel's Ehud Barak offers 'shoot and cry' crocodile tears over Gaza murders


Handcuffs

Cop arrested after threatening to rape a woman and kill her family if she didn't send him nude photos

officer Joshua David Fancher
A police officer was arrested this week for attempting to extort nude photos from a Georgia woman on Instagram. 25-year-old officer Joshua David Fancher was charged with making terroristic threats for reportedly threatening to rape and kill the woman, along with her entire family.

Detectives in Lowndes County, Georgia, told WKMD that Fancher threatened to kill the woman's 5-year-old brother and rape her sister if she did not send him nude photos. It was not just one threatening message either-according to the arrest warrant, these messages continued for more than 5 months.

A press release from the Volusia County Sheriff's Office discussed some of the charges against Fancher and the evidence in the case. The statement reads:
"Joshua David Fancher, 25, of DeLand, was arrested this afternoon at the Orange City Police Department on a Georgia warrant charging him with making terroristic threats. The Lowndes County (Ga.) Sheriff's Department is investigating the case. The victim reported receiving numerous threatening messages from an unknown person attempting to extort her for nude photographs. The messages, which started via Instagram, included threats to kill the victim and kill and/or rape her family members if she didn't provide the photos. VCSO detectives executed a search warrant at Fancher's residence at a DeLand apartment complex to assist in the Lowndes County SO investigation."

USA

Disintegrating society: Self-confessed pedophile runs for congressional seat in Virginia

Nathan Larson
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Nathan Larson
Nathan Larson, a 37-year-old accountant from Charlottesville, Virginia, is running for Congress as an independent candidate in his native state. He is also a pedophile, as he admitted to HuffPost on Thursday, who has bragged in website posts about raping his late ex-wife.

In a phone call, Larson confirmed that he created the now-defunct websites suiped.org and incelocalypse.today ― chat rooms that served as gathering places for pedophiles and violence-minded misogynists like himself. HuffPost contacted Larson after confirming that his campaign website shared an IP address with these forums, among others. His sites were terminated by their domain host on Tuesday.

On the phone, he was open about his pedophilia and seemingly unfazed about his long odds of attaining government office.

"A lot of people are tired of political correctness and being constrained by it," he said. "People prefer when there's an outsider who doesn't have anything to lose and is willing to say what's on a lot of people's minds."

Comment: Utterly sickening! That this cretin has the temerity to announce his perversity while seeking public office says a lot about how close society is to accepting pedophilia as an 'alternative lifestyle'. UPDATE: The Libertarian party responds:
After news of Larson's activities was made public, the Libertarian party acted swiftly to prevent him from running on their platform.

LPVA Chair, Bo Brown said in a statement that, "Nathan Larson does not have and will never receive the Libertarian Party nomination. He espouses many archaic and dark ideas that fly in the face of libertarian philosophy. The Libertarian Party believes in equal rights for all people. No matter how he attempts to rationalize his opinions, they are far outside the realm of the Libertarian Party Platform. If he persists in his campaign for office, he will find that his ideas and previous writings are considered repugnant to the people of Virginia and rightfully so."



Airplane

Trainee pilot miraculously lands plane on California street at rush hour

Airplane
© Chris Young / Reuters
A pilot made a miraculous emergency landing on a busy California street on Friday. The speeding plane somehow managed to avoid cars, people, and a mass of electric cables.

The Cessna 172 aircraft made its death-defying landing near Hamilton Avenue and Magnolia Street in Huntington Beach just before 5pm. The pilot, who was reportedly just a trainee, experienced engine trouble soon after taking off from the nearby John Wayne Airport.

She was forced to make an emergency landing and expertly steered the small aircraft down the busy street as quick thinking motorists moved their vehicles out of the plane's path. The area has a large amount of power lines overhead, which made her landing all the more impressive.

Arrow Up

'Pretty agile': Western sanctions beneficial for local Russian businesses - EY's Joe Watt

Russian traffic
© Maxim Shemetov / Reuters
The economic pressure of sanctions on Russia is very clear, according to EY's Joe Watt, who told RT that the Russian government is "pretty agile" in responding through many of its initiatives.

"It's the localization agenda and import substitution, and the government is also putting a lot of money into different sections. And you can see now that the number of domestic players is starting to really improve the quality of their production up to world standards," said Watt, the chairman of the Management Committee and Managing Partner for the CIS at EY.

According to him, import substitution is providing a lot of opportunity for local employment in Russia. The sanctions had a certain impact, but "I think maybe they were of some benefit to local industry."

Deoffshorization and the effects of sanctions are bringing a lot of money back to Russia, and there have been a lot of investments from Asia in the Far East of Russia as well, he said.

Sherlock

Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch takes on 4 muggers near Baker Street, saves cyclist from criminals

Benedict Cumberbatch
© Mark Blinch / Reuters
Benedict Cumberbatch found himself channeling his character Sherlock Holmes on Friday when he bravely saved a Deliveroo cyclist from a gang of criminals. The attack took place close to 221B Baker Street.

Cumberbatch, who has played the iconic detective Sherlock Holmes since 2010, leapt from his Uber when he spotted four men assaulting a Deliveroo driver in London. "Leave him alone!" he shouted, the Sun reports.

Cumberbatch dragged the muggers off the Deliveroo driver and quashed their attempts to throw punches at him. "I did it out of, well, I had to, you know." Cumberbatch later said.

Robot

Google reportedly will scrap controversial AI project with Pentagon after employees revolt

US military drone
© Reuters
Google decided not to renew a controversial AI contract with the Pentagon after receiving backlash from its employees, reports say. The company's staff earlier said they didn't want the product to be used for war.

Diane Greene, the CEO of Google Cloud, said the tech giant won't renew its contract with the Pentagon, Gizmodo and the New York Times report citing sources.

According to the information, during a weekly staff meeting, Greene explicitly cited the backlash among Google employees over ties with the US Defense Department, as many of them said the policy runs counter to the company's 'Don't Be Evil' principle. The phrase served as the company's motto from its founding days but was dropped from the official code of conduct in 2015, following Google's reorganization, with Alphabet Inc. created as its parent company.

Take 2

Backfire: Al-Qaeda warns Saudi crown prince over replacing mosques with cinemas

People inside the first Saudi Arabia cinema in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on January 13, 2018
© Reem Baeshen / Reuters
People inside the first Saudi Arabia cinema in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on January 13, 2018.
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has reportedly warned Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman over his reforms, saying that reinstating movie theaters and bringing WWE wrestlers to the country were sinful projects.

The Sunni terrorist group said that Mohammad bin Salman replaced mosques with cinemas and gave up on religious texts in a statement on its Madad news bulletin, cited by SITE Intelligence Group. The influence of atheist and secular views has paved the way for corruption and moral degradation in Saudi Araba, the group said in its statement.

AQAP was especially unhappy about the WWE Royal Rumble event, which took place in the Kingdom in April. It said the American wrestlers exposed their private parts and wore signs of the cross before the mixed crowd of Muslim men and women. Other signs of degradation include daily concerts, movie screenings, and circus shows, the jihadists added.


Comment: Could this be an American ploy to keep Saudi Arabia in check and not get too advanced or 'democratic'?


Star of David

Israeli soldiers kidnap head of rights center from his home

Osama Shaheen
The Israeli occupation forces at daybreak Thursday kidnapped the Palestinian activist Osama Shaheen, 35, from his home in al-Khalil's southern town of Dura, in the southern occupied West Bank.

According to the Palestine Prisoners Center for Studies, Israeli forces broke into the home of journalist Osama Shaheen, also the center's head, and wreaked havoc on the building before they kidnapped him.

Shaheen was released from Israeli jail just nine months ago after he had served a one-year administrative detention sentence, issued with neither charge nor trial.

Comment: Further reading: Should Israel be labeled a psychopath?