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March 2018 is Proving to be a Truly Historical Month for the Future of our Planet

The Saker
The Saker Blog
Fri, 23 Mar 2018 16:18 UTC
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March 2018 will go down in history as a truly historical month
  • March 1st, Vladimir Putin makes his historical address to the Russian Federal Assembly.
  • March 4th, Sergei Skripal, a former UK spy, is allegedly poisoned in the UK.
  • March 8th, British officials accuse Russia of using nerve gas to attempt to murder Sergei Skripal.
  • March 12th, Theresa May officially blames Russia for the poisoning and gives Russia a 24-hour ultimatum to justify herself; the Russians ignore that ultimatum. The same day, the US representative at the UNSC threatens to attack Syria even without a UNSC authorization.
  • March 13th, Chief of Russia's General Staff Valery Gerasimov warned that "in case there is a threat to the lives of our military, the Russian Armed Force will take retaliatory measures both over the missiles and carriers that will use them". The same day Chief of the Russian Armed Forces' General Staff, Deputy Defense Minister, General of the Army Valery Gerasimov had a phone conversation with Marine Corps General Joseph Dunford, chairman of the United States' Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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Gold Seal

Syria gas attack, Russian election hacking and White Helmets - Debunking Fake News with fmr intelligence officer Scott Ritter

Daniel McAdams
The Ron Paul Institute
Thu, 27 Jul 2017 16:43 UTC
Former Marine intelligence officer and UN Chief Weapons Inspector for Iraq, Scott Ritter, joins the Ron Paul Liberty Report today to shed light on the phony "17 intelligence agencies agree on Russian election hacking" story and to explain why in his vast intelligence and WMD experience why the UN "investigation" into the April "sarin gas" attack in Syria was deeply flawed and should not be believed. Also don't miss Ritter's fascinating explanation of the real purpose of the so-called "White Helmets" in Syria!

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Stormtrooper

Fake News CNN cancels interview with conservative Parkland shooting survivor over retweet

Cortney O'Brien
Townhall
Wed, 21 Mar 2018 16:37 UTC
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It took five weeks for Kyle Kashuv, a conservative Parkland shooting survivor, to be granted an interview with CNN, despite several of his classmates getting plenty of airtime. Having finally won an interview with Brooke Baldwin, the network has now canceled his appearance.

Apparently, it has to do with one of his retweets.

Kashuv's friend called to tell him the network had disinvited him. The tweet that got him booted was one composed by sports journalist Clay Travis , who called Baldwin a "fake news hypocrite."
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Jordan Peterson is the alpha male America needs and the reason why he sparks outrage

Nicole Russell
The Washington Examiner
Fri, 23 Mar 2018 15:51 UTC
Jordan Peterson
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Jordan Peterson
Long before the Right (or the Left) noticed Jordan Peterson's right-of-center political bend, he was a sound academic, an intellectually honest lecturer, and YouTube "star." Which is why so many people can't stand him, save for the few of course who love him. The few who love him do so precisely because of the reason everyone hates him.

Women on the Right especially love Peterson because he tells men to man up - see the "Tragic Story of the Man-Child" - and that's why a lot of men abhor his take-it-or-leave-it call to manhood. More mature members of the millennial or Generation X generations appreciate reading or listening to his no-nonsense advice rooted in common sense and psychological underpinnings - which is exactly what most of the younger generations can't stand him. All this is why America needs this Canadian, and why he has become an "overnight" sensation that has been brewing for decades.
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Bullseye

Anti-war Trump supporters are now out of reasons to support the president

Caitlin Johnstone
Medium
Thu, 22 Mar 2018 16:02 UTC
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Mere days after promoting Mike "I'm going to make the CIA a much more vicious agency" Pompeo to Hillary Clinton's old job as Secretary of State, President Trump has replaced his National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster with John Bolton, who Glenn Greenwald just described as "unstable, monstrous and bloodthirsty," and "an actual sociopath in the clinical sense of that term."

Greenwald is not being hyperbolic; there is no more bloodthirsty a war hawk in Washington than John Bolton. Just last month he authored an article for the Wall Street Journal arguing in favor of a preemptive strike on North Korea, in which he cited a quote from Pompeo as part of his argument. Bolton calls for regime change in every rival of the US empire on a regular basis, he knowingly advanced lies to help manufacture support for the Iraq invasion, he revived the US-Russia arms race by leading America's withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in 2002, advocates more escalations with both China and Russia, and has spent his entire career pushing for death and destruction at every opportunity.

This latest move makes it abundantly clear that wars are planned, and a team is being assembled to help facilitate them. There is only one thing John Bolton knows, and that's killing. He would not be appointed to National Security Advisor (a position which does not require Senate approval) unless large amounts of killing were planned. That is what John Bolton does. It is what he is for. He is a weapon.
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Discovery of police corruption freed dozens from US prisons in 2017

Scott Shackford
Reason
Wed, 14 Mar 2018 16:15 UTC
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Government misconduct a big driver of exonerations last year

In 2017, 84 Americans were freed from prison after revelations of government misconduct helped prove them innocent. That sets a record, according to an annual report on exonerations in America.

It's actually only part of the picture. An additional 96 defendants in Chicago and Baltimore were released last year in "group exonerations" as a result of two very high-profile police corruption cases.

The details are part of the National Registry of Exonerations' annual report, a project by the University of California Irvine Newkirk Center for Science and Society, the University of Michigan Law School, and the Michigan State University College of Law. All in all, 139 exonerations were added to their registry for 2017, a drop from 171 in 2016. Though the total number of exonerations came down, a record number of people were exonerated due to official misconduct, mistaken eyewitness identification, false confessions, and perjury or false accusations.
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Chess

Britain's ultimatum to Russia gets no backup - NATO and EU allies reject demands for action on Skripal

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Thu, 22 Mar 2018 14:15 UTC
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The War Harpy and The Lying Clown
British diplomacy fails to unite West in strong action against Russia

Donald Trump's latest tweets saying that the US should aim for better relations with Russia underscores a crucial point about the Skripal case: the British are failing to win the support of their allies that they seem to have expected.

At this point it is necessary to say something about the British diplomatic strategy last week,

On Monday 12th March 2018 British Prime Minister Theresa May gave Russia a 36 hour ultimatum saying that unless it proved itself innocent the British government would deem it guilty of the attack on Sergey and Yulia Skripal

Here is what Theresa May said to the British House of Commons on 12th March 2018:

Comment: Britain's big gamble on the likely false flag they have perpetrated has only undermined their position as a 'great power' even more.

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Sheeple

Free speech battle: SJWs shut down Faith Goldy talk at Canadian university

Lindsay Shepherd
Maclean's
Thu, 22 Mar 2018 21:32 UTC
Faith Goldy
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Faith Goldy, who was supposed to speak at Wilfrid Laurier University but was interrupted by a fire alarm, speaks outside the university on Tuesday, March 20, 2018
Hanging from a nearby building was a big white sheet with ominous black paint that read "Laurier enables white supremacy." About 100 demonstrators carried signs that asserted "No Nazis at Laurier", "Not on my campus", "Against neo-Nazism" and "Your definition of freedom of speech is hate speech."

"Hey hey! Ho ho! White supremacy's got to go!" the gender-ambiguous speaker yelled into the microphone.

A little later I would be given two pieces of paper with a scribbled "F-k Nazis", and someone would try to forcefully hand me a makeshift Ku Klux Klan robe.

I looked around the protest to see many familiar faces, such as professor Greg Bird, who had tweeted earlier in the day that free speech is a "ruse", asking: "Is @Laurier a university or a Nazi recruitment centre?"
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Nevada student suspended for swearing during phone call to Congressman

Beth Baumann
Townhall
Tue, 20 Mar 2018 14:38 UTC
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Last week, 17-year-old Noah Christiansen decided to partake in the national walkout, along with other students across the nation, to call for gun control.

Christiansen used that time to call the office of his Congressman, Rep. Mark Amodei (R-NV) to urge him to vote for gun control legislation. The student spoke with one of Amodei's staff members about the need for stricter gun control laws. During the conversation, Christiansen allowed a curse word to drop.

He said Congress needed to "get off their [expletive] asses" and act to prevent further gun violence, the Los Angeles Times reported.

A few hours after the conversation, Christiansen learned he had been suspended for two days. The reasoning? Amodei's staffer called the school to let them know about the conservation that transpired.

The Robert McQueen High School junior was suspended for two days "for being disrespectful and insubordinate." He was also removed from his position as secretary/treasurer for the school's student body government.
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Ridiculous: Tennessee has fined residents almost $100,000 for braiding hair since 2009

Deborah Cassens Weiss
ABA Journal
Fri, 16 Mar 2018 09:30 UTC
Fatau Diouf
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Fatou Diouf at work in her shop in Tennessee.
Hair braiders without a "natural hair stylist" license in Tennessee can be punished with a civil penalty of $1,000 for each instance of unlicensed work.

The fines add up. According to a review by the Institute for Justice, the state imposed $100,000 in fines against dozens of braiders and more than 30 natural hair shops since 2009. A communications associate for the group highlighted the findings in an article for Forbes.

Among those fined is Fatou Diouf, who was required to pay $16,000 for employing workers without the required stylist's license, even though her shop is licensed. A payment plan for her most recent violations requires Diouf to pay $830 a month toward the fine.
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