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Karma: Poachers who broke into rhino reserve attacked and killed by pride of lions


RT
Thu, 05 Jul 2018 19:04 UTC
lions

Dinner in sight: Lions at the Sibuya Game Reserve which would have been among those that devoured three rhino poachers this week
At least three poachers who broke into a rhinoceros reserve in South Africa received a brutal dose of karma when they were torn to pieces by a pride of lions.

Staff at the Sibuya Game Reserve in Kenton-on-Sea, South Africa discovered the men's bloody remains on Tuesday, including dismembered limbs and a decapitated head. Several pairs of empty shoes were discovered, indicating that the lions ate the men, although staff say that more remains may be hidden in the thick bush.

"The lions are our watchers and guardians and they picked the wrong pride and became a meal," reserve owner Nick Fox told the Daily Express. "Whilst we are saddened at any loss of life, the poachers came here to kill our animals and this sends out a very clear message to any other poachers that you will not always be the winner."

Fox said that axes, wire cutters, and silenced rifles were found near the poachers' remains. He added that "they were clearly intent on killing rhinos and cutting off their horns."
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Mr. Potato

A grant for this? Prof claims Hispanic students perpetuate 'colorblind racism' with belief in meritocracy

Toni Airaksinen
Campus Reform
Tue, 03 Jul 2018 18:50 UTC
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A Michigan State University sociology professor claims that the "abstract liberalism" of many Latino and Latina college students serves to reinforce "colorblind racism."

Maria Isabel Ayala interviewed 50 Latino(a) students at Midwestern University, and was dismayed to find that they attribute their success to hard work and self-reliance while shunning affirmative action.

Sociology professor Maria Isabel Ayala made the argument in a recent study published by the Journal of Latinos and Education, having received $25,000 from the school to conduct the research.

"Abstract liberalism counters affirmative action and supports race-blind college admissions."

Comment: Ayala "study" was nothing more than an attempt to perpetuate the radical Left's culture of victimhood. The students she interviewed showed they possess the common sense needed to make a success of their lives.

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Smoking

French designer's fashion show goes against the grain with celebration of smoking

Sarah White
Thomas Reuters Foundation News
Thu, 05 Jul 2018 18:56 UTC
Jean Paul Gaultier
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Jean Paul Gaultier
With sultry tuxedos and a gown that appeared to waft down the catwalk like cigarette smoke, French designer Jean Paul Gaultier celebrated smoking in all its forms on Wednesday in a fashion show filled with tongue-in-cheek digs at overly rigid attitudes.

Reinterpretations of "Le Smoking" - or tuxedos for women popularised by late French couturier Yves Saint Laurent in the 1960s - dominated the Haute Couture collection, with black and white combinations of jackets and ruffled dresses for instance.

The designer took smoke as his inspiration for a see-through dress decked out in swirling embellishments, or a wedding gown with a featherlight, waspy train that looked like it could vanish into thin air as it twirled on the runway.
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Eye 2

38 wounded, 15 arrested Palestinians by Israeli forces while razing homes near Jerusalem


Days of Palestine
Thu, 05 Jul 2018 20:45 UTC
Israeli occupation forces carrying woman in Gaza
Fifteen other Palestinians were arrested during the demolition.

Israeli occupation forces wounded 38 Palestinians and arrested 15 others during an Israeli military operation to demolish scores of Palestinian homes east of occupied city of Jerusalem.

Residents of Khan al-Ahmar said that the Israeli bulldozers stormed their town and demolished their homes and livestock facilities.

Comment: See also:

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Bad Guys

Deadbeat who assaulted teens and stole MAGA hat in San Antonio has long criminal record

Peter D'Abrosca
Big League Politics
Thu, 05 Jul 2018 00:00 UTC
Kino Jimenez assault MAGA hat San Antonio

Jimenez has a lengthy criminal history fraught with run-ins with the law, including several DWI charges, a drug possession charge, and a burglary charge according to public records.
The perpetrator who assaulted a group of 16-year-olds in San Antonio, TX restaurant is a 30-year old Dungeons & Dragons cosplaying deadbeat who lives with his parents and has an extensive criminal record.

Kino Jimenez ruined the evening of Hunter Richards and his friends, who were enjoying a late night meal at Whataburger when he stole Richards' MAGA hat, cursed him out, and left the restaurant in huff.

WATCH:


Comment: One has to praise the teenager's cool-headed response to the event. Unfortunately, with the outright incitement of civil unrest coming from high-profile politicians and celebrities we can expect more of such incidences with potentially devastating consequences. But of course, those calling for revolution plan to be safely ensconced in their gated communities while the civil war rages on and their useful idiots as well as innocent civilians endure the consequences.

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Sheriff

Multiple cops arrested in massive conspiracy

Thinker
IWB
Tue, 03 Jul 2018 00:00 UTC
Mass Trooper&Media
© Matt Stone
Massachusetts State Police Colonel Kerry A. Gilpin speaks to the media at Mass State Police Headquarters about 21 state troopers that will face duty status hearings for overtime pay audit.
Since Donald Trump has taken his seat in the White House, change has happened and more for the better than the worse. A man who wasn't supposed to win, did and has changed the course of the world without even knowing it. As more and more corruption and conspirators are exposed daily, there is a change in the air and truth is screaming to be first. Men/women who do believe in honor are stepping up to expose those who are making them look bad in the eyes of the people. As a police officer, "HONOR & TRUTH" are what the people want to see when they look at the man/woman who has swore an oath to serve and protect them. A police officer who does wrong, exposed the whole department to criticism from the public. A department that rids the bad apples will find success and support from their community. Waiting for more corruption to be expelled from more police departments around the U.S. as the "Drain the Swamp" campaign continues to expand.

Going far beyond simply cheating on their time cards, three Massachusetts State Troopers have been arrested and charged with embezzlement. According to the allegations brought against the troopers, they stole tens of thousands of dollars when they billed the state for overtime they either did not work or time they stole when they clocked out early. The officers are Paul Cesan, Gary Herman, and David Wilson. In 2016, Cesan is believed to have embezzled $29,000, Herman $12,468, and Wilson $12,450, which amounts to a year's salary for some hourly workers. Following the discovery, Cesan and Wilson resigned, and Herman was suspended.

Comment: When law enforcers are equal to or more criminal than the people they arrest - there is something terribly wrong with the system. A state chemist fabricating evidence for 24,000 cases? Geez!

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Attention

Update for 2018: Evidence shows half of Americans are in or near poverty

Paul Buchheit
Common Dreams
Mon, 02 Jul 2018 00:00 UTC
poorpeople march
© Poor People's Campaign
The extreme level of inequality in the U.S. is battering the poor

Deniers like Nikki Haley refuse to admit that mass poverty exists in their prosperous nation. That would reflect poorly on their capitalist beliefs. But if the skeptics would look at the half of America they don't care to see, the stark display of destitution might shock them. At least until they invent an excuse to remove it all from their minds.

The U.S. poverty rate in 2016 was between 12.7 and 14.0 percent. But the poverty threshold is based on an outmoded formula from the 1960s. According to the Congressional Research Service (CRS), the threshold should be THREE TIMES HIGHER today. And it could be even higher if the true nature of poverty is considered.

Poverty is Not Just a Dollar Figure

There is poverty in the diminishing quality of life for Americans who are unable to pay for medical treatment during years of declining health, and instead turn to life-threatening opioid painkillers, readily available in a nation with less than 5 percent of the world's population and 30 percent of the world's opioid consumption. Poverty is the lack of community support in a winner-take-all society; the stress of overwhelming debt; the steady decline of jobs that pay enough to support a family; the inability to afford a move to a desired neighborhood; the deadening impact of inequality on physical and mental well-being.

Comment: The rich look forward to the future and fondly remember the past. The poor are uncertain about today...over and over again.

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Pirates

Son of IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi killed in battle in Syria


RFE/FL
Wed, 04 Jul 2018 05:09 UTC
Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi
© Abb Takk News/KJN
A son of the Islamic State (IS) extremist group's leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has been killed in battle in the Syrian province of Homs, IS's propaganda agency Amaq announced.

Hudhayfah al-Badri was killed in an "operation against the Nussayriyyah and the Russians at the thermal power station in Homs," the group said in a statement late on July 3 showing a photo of a young man holding an assault rifle. Nussayriyyah is IS's term for the Alawite religious minority sect of President Bashar al-Assad.

IS maintains only a small presence in Syria after being targeted for elimination by Syrian and Russian forces as well as U.S.-backed rebel forces in the last year. It is now estimated to control no more than 3 percent of Syria's territory.

U.S. and Iraqi officials have said they believe IS leader Baghdadi remains alive in Syria near the Iraqi border. Baghdadi, who is originally from Iraq, has been dubbed the "most wanted man on the planet," with the United States offering a $25 million reward for his capture. He had four children with his first wife and a son with his second wife. In September, the last voice message attributed to Baghdadi called on his followers worldwide to "resist" their enemies.

Comment: Update 7/5/18 from Sputnik:
The Russian military had reportedly fired three missiles at a cave, in which 30 terrorists, including Baghdadi's son, were hiding. "Badri wasn't even a fighter... he was an icon that was moved from one place to another as a form of psychological propaganda for the rest of the organization," AFP cited the Falcons as saying, adding that 11 militants had been killed during the attack on the terrorist shelter.


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Books

South Carolina: Police union calls for banning books in high schools that mention police brutality

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Tue, 03 Jul 2018 00:00 UTC
Burning books
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Police are calling for books to be banned from school because they talk about police brutality and real life scenarios that they say breeds distrust.

Censorship is a necessity of the police state. Peaceful ideas that oppose the status quo expose the insidious nature of the establishment and are therefore stricken from the public record. This has long been the practice of all empires and it is currently the practice in America today.

Case in point: police in South Carolina are attempting to get two books in a school banned because they talk about police brutality and corruption.

The Fraternal Order of Police in Tri-County have made their case public and are demanding that Angie Thomas's multiple award-winning novel about police brutality, The Hate U Give, on a school's summer reading list, be banned. The union referred to the book as "almost an indoctrination of distrust of police." As TFTP has reported on numerous occasions, all though this book is certainly not "an indoctrination of distrust of police," the police themselves give society every reason to distrust them.

Another book on the radar of the union to be banned is Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely's All American Boys, which sees a teenage boy trying to overcome his distrust of the police after he is wrongly suspected of shoplifting and then beaten by an officer. All American Boys even features a cop as a protagonist and mentor, yet the union wants it gone.

Comment: It is never about change or education; it is about control: an inverse effect.

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Dollars

Two US Marines ordered to pay $240K to Okinawa assault victim's family


RT
Thu, 05 Jul 2018 15:16 UTC
US Marines Okinawa
© CNN.com
US Marines Okinawa
Two US Marines have been ordered to pay 26.42 million yen ($239,000) compensation to the family of a taxi driver whom the pair brutally attacked on the Japanese island of Okinawa a decade ago.

Thursday's Naha District Court ruling - made in the absence of the two Marines - comes after the family of the now-deceased Munekazu Ura, sought justice, demanding to be adequately compensated for the barbaric attack.

According to the complaint, the incident took place in Okinawa City on January 7, 2008. Ura, who was driving a cab, picked up Joseph Wayne Riddle and Reginald Crapps, stationed at US Marine Corps Futenma Air Station in the city of Ginowan.

Riddle, a 20-year-old corporal at the time, and Crapps, who was then 19, reportedly smashed a liquor bottled on the man's head. The two Marines then fled the scene without paying the $26 fare, leaving the 59-year-old driver bleeding from his wound. The pair were later apprehended, confessed their crimes and were sentenced to several years in prison on assault and robbery charges.

Comment: The US military is not welcome in Okinawa due to rampant crimes against the citizens. Protests and rallies have been ongoing for many years but the US never seems to get the message. See also:

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