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'Separation between the yolk and white': Tzipi Livni's Zionist vision for Jews and Palestinians

Philip Weiss
Mondoweiss
Wed, 28 Nov 2018 00:00 UTC
Tzipi Livni

Livni said that the entire goal of expanding settlements is just what Palestinians have told us it is, to force the state to provide those Jews with security, so the army is there, and “we never have to yield any territory.” But the right should be careful of what they wish for!
Many times recently we've heard the suggestion from Israel supporters who are fearful about the death of the two state solution under Netanyahu's settler-government and the loss of Israel's international reputation that Israel must take unilateral moves to keep alive the dream of a Palestinian state. So Israel must therefore stop building settlements and establish a de facto border inside the West Bank, to make Palestinians a little bit happy.

A plan put forward last month by the quasi-official Israeli thinktank - and home to former US ambassador Dan Shapiro - the Institute for National Security Studies includes those measures. Build as much as you like inside existing settlements but go no further.
The goal is the combined demonstration of the determination to advance toward separation, reduction in the friction and dangers arising from expansion of settlements deep in the Palestinian territories, and allocation of space for Palestinian territorial contiguity.
The critical word in all such plans is "separation." Netanyahu and friends have done a terrible thing by all but annexing large portions of the West Bank creating a de facto one state solution in which Israel has sovereignty over a large Palestinian population, thereby threatening the Jewish majority of Israel.

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Books

In academia, censorship and conformity have become the norm

Debra Soh
The Globe and Mail
Wed, 28 Nov 2018 11:45 UTC
scientific journals
A new academic journal, titled The Journal of Controversial Ideas, launching in the new year, will be peer-reviewed and offer a diverse range of viewpoints, calling upon liberals, conservatives, as well as those who are religious and secular, to submit their work. Most notably, it will allow academics to publish under pseudonyms.

Much of the response to this journal has been criticism alleging that only academics with hateful ideas would require the option to publish under a pseudonym. In truth, facts today are deemed controversial if they deviate from accepted narratives, and professors must self-censor out of fear of being condemned and losing their jobs.

Based on conversations I've had with colleagues still working in academia and from what I can tell about recent cases of censorship, the antagonism is primarily from left-leaning colleagues attacking other liberals. The problem has been increasing and was the reason I chose to leave the field of sex research.

Comment: The fact that there even needs to be a Journal of Controversial Ideas should be a red flag for our culture. Shouldn't all academic ideas be controversial, or at least challenging in some way? Academics are supposed to be working to uncover truth, not publishing 'safe' ideas that won't offend anyone. We certainly hope this new journal is successful, but have a feeling it will be smeared with all sorts of unflattering labels (alt right? Nazi? Transphobic?) the second they publish anything remotely interesting.

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Handcuffs

'Zero tolerance': Berlin police present 5-point plan to fight Arab gangs and recent crimewave


Sputnik
Wed, 28 Nov 2018 20:12 UTC
police germany polizei
Police in Berlin have been combating Arab criminal clans in the city for years, but without significant success. Following a migration spike in the country, competition between the various Arab gangs has intensified, resulting in blatant crimes such as the robbery of a Tiffany jewellery shop in the renowned shopping centre Kaufhaus des Westens.

Authorities in Berlin gathered on 26 November to discuss a 5-point plan to curb Arab gangs rampant in the German capital, Die Welt reported. First of all, a Coordination Office on Organized Crime will be established to ensure flawless and timely cooperation between various offices, agencies and departments in the city. Apart from police and tax investigators, immigration offices and even job centres will participate in the new joint venture.

Secondly, Berlin authorities are planning to strengthen control over trade and financial operations to prevent money laundering, thus depriving Arab gangs of income. Moreover, they are to clamp down hard against all criminal assets and property to ensure its confiscation.

Participants of the meeting also agreed to adopt a 'zero tolerance policy' towards even minor crimes committed by gang members. Authorities have vowed to vigorously prosecute not only those involved in drug trafficking, burglary or robbery, but even illegal parking or street racing.

Comment: Germany isn't the only country that has seen a rise in gang crime following an influx of uncontrolled migration: See also: And check out SOTT radio's:

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Attention

Blast near chemical plant in north China kills 22, injures 22 more


Xinhua
Thu, 29 Nov 2018 11:10 UTC
Explosion China Zhangjiakou City Hebei
A blast near a chemical plant in Zhangjiakou City, north China's Hebei Province, has killed 22 and injured 22 others early Wednesday morning, local authorities said.

The blast occurred near Hebei Shenghua Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. in Zhangjiakou at around 0:40 a.m. Fire caused by the blast has engulfed 38 trucks and 12 vehicles, according to the Zhangjiakou city government.

The injured have been rushed to hospitals for treatment.

Comment: Here is one man's description of the horrible event:
"It was after midnight when I put down my phone to go to bed when I heard a very loud bang, followed by a few more," said a man named Zhang who works in another chemical factory some 200 meters away from the blast site.

"There was a shaking and two pieces of the ceiling fell. I thought it was an earthquake so I hid under a bed for a while," he said.

"When I looked out of the window I saw a large fireball sweep across the area," said Zhang, whose car was singed.

He awoke others in his dormitory and they ran to safety.

"Even the grass outside our factory was on fire, so we quickly put it out," he said.

Beijing is hosting the 2022 Winter Games, with some of the mountain sport competitions taking place on the outskirts of Zhangjiakou.

The explosion occurred in the city's Qiaodong district. Snowboard, cross-country skiing and freestyle skiing events will be held some 45 minutes away in Chongli.


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Sheriff

Texas Rangers raid Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston over child molestation allegations


Fox 5
Thu, 29 Nov 2018 11:10 UTC
Manuel La Rosa-Lopez
The Texas Rangers are currently assisting in a search warrant executed on the Archdiocese of Houston-Galveston which began Wednesday morning around 10 a.m. The Montgomery County District Attorney's office is now heading the raid.

"We will take any document of piece of information related Father Manuel La Rosa Lopez or involving any other criminal activity," wrote Tyler Dunman of the Montgomery County D.A.'s office.

Catholic Church officials are now struggling with a widening scandal after recent sex assault accusations. Manuel La Rosa-Lopez was charged and arrested in September, after he was accused of molesting teens in the 1990s and early 2000's.

Comment: Also see: Authorities raid office of Houston Cardinal heading US Bishops' response to the sex abuse crisis

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Maybe they've got a point: Facebook allegedly 'X-rates' Macron's photo with two shirtless men


Sputnik
Thu, 29 Nov 2018 09:20 UTC
Macron x-rated
© AFP 2018 / Eliot BLONDET / AFP / POOL
The much-hyped photo of French President Emmanuel Macron posing with two bare-chested young men during his September trip to the island of Saint Martin is back in the spotlight.

Social media users have revealed that the infamous picture of President Emmanuel Macron happily smiling next to a reported drug dealer and a middle finger-giving resident of Saint Martin is being censored on Facebook for violating the network's rules against 'nudity and sexual activity'.

TWEET: 'Imagine this: my post from 30 September with this photograph of #Macron was censored by #Facebook. My comment was: "Funny way to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Fifth Republic". Reason: nudity! These people are crazy'.

Comment: Makes you wonder if Facebook knows something about the relationships between Macron and Saint Martin teenagers that the rest of us don't (at least officially)...

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Crusader

Authorities raid office of Houston Cardinal heading US Bishops' response to the sex abuse crisis

Joshua Gill
The Dail Caller
Wed, 28 Nov 2018 16:15 UTC
Cardinal Daniel DiNardo
State and federal authorities searched the office of Cardinal Daniel DiNardo on Wednesday in connection with a case of alleged sexual abuse in the Houston archdiocese.

Montgomery County District Attorney Brett Ligon said authorities searched the archdiocesan offices for employment and disciplinary records related to Manuel La Rosa-Lopez, who faces accusations of sexually harassing two people when they were teenagers. Two of the individuals who accused Rosa-Lopez also accused DiNardo, who has headed the U.S. bishops' response to the Catholic sex abuse crisis, of disregarding their claims.

Authorities also searched for evidence of any further crimes that La Rosa-Lopez might have committed. The search raises questions as to why Ligon's office did not simply subpoena DiNardo's office for the records.

"This is not a search warrant against the Catholic Church," Ligon clarified, according to The Associated Press. "We're going to go wherever the investigation requires us to go."
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NPC

'Woke' NASA Astrobiology Chair thinks exploration of Mars problematic because 'colonialism bad'

Caleb Howe
The Blaze
Wed, 28 Nov 2018 21:22 UTC
Lucianne Walkowicz
© Andrew Toth/Getty Images for National Geographic
Astronomer Lucianne Walkowicz of National Geographic's 'Mars' at The Beacon Theater on November 14, 2018 in New York City.
Adler astronomer Lucianne Walkowicz is the Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology, not to mention a guest star (as herself) on National Geographic's Mars TV series. Cosmologist Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is with Department of Physics at the University of Washington, and fellow at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. And together they are, counter-intuitively, not so keen on the exploration or colonization of Mars.

In fact, the very word "exploration" is inherently "problematic", they would have us believe, as detailed in a panel discussion published at Gizmodo last week. It was highlighted Sunday by Powerline, with the observation that "if these folks had been with NASA in the 1960s, we'd have never made it to the moon." That may seem like a snarky insult on the part of Powerline, but in fact it's precisely the point that the scientists made.

Comment: There's certainly something to be said for a 'non-interference directive', but this self-hating scientist has gone well past that into full-blown SJW lunacy.

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Airplane

Indonesia says Lion Air jet not airworthy on flight before crash

Cindy Silviana and Fergus Jensen
Reuters
Wed, 28 Nov 2018 21:10 UTC
Nurcahyo Utomo
© REUTERS/Darren Whiteside
Indonesian investigators said on Wednesday a Lion Air Boeing 737 jet that plunged into the sea, killing 189 people onboard, was not airworthy on a flight the day before it crashed on Oct. 29.

The Oct. 28 flight from Bali to Jakarta had experienced similar technical issues to the doomed flight the next day from Jakarta to Pangkal Pinang, said Nurcahyo Utomo, head of Indonesia's national transport safety committee (KNKT).

The pilot of the Oct. 28 flight chose to press on to Jakarta after shutting down the plane's anti-stall system, Utomo said.

"This is the basis of our recommendation to Lion Air. In our view, the plane was not airworthy," he told a news conference in Jakarta.

Comment: Investigators also discovered that as the Lion Air jet began its ascent after taking off, the plane's pilots fought to maintain control as an automatic safety system repeatedly forced the aircraft's nose down. This was the same problem that pilots experienced the night before the crash which should have grounded the plane.

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Pirates

Afghan official reports Daesh forced to go underground with fewer than 10,000 fighters while Taliban expands


Sputnik
Mon, 26 Nov 2018 21:09 UTC
Afghan troops
© AFP 2018 / Noorullah Shirzada / Pool
The militants of the Islamic State terrorist group (banned in Russia) have gone underground in Afghanistan, with the size of the organization's sleeper cells in the country currently amounting to less than 10,000, Mohammad Mohaqiq, the second deputy chief executive of Afghanistan, told Sputnik in an interview.

"Takfiris [followers of a radical Islamist ideology] and Daesh terrorists do not have official presence in the provinces of Faryab, Jowzjan and Sar-e Pol, however, despite this, they are hiding in sleeper cells, there are also a number of camps, where the foreigners are undergoing training, but they do not openly declare their presence," Mohaqiq said.

He added that the terrorists operating in the country had suffered considerable casualties in fights with the Taliban radical movement.
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