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'Ghost ships' with corpses of presumed N. Korean fishermen keep landing on Japanese shores (VIDEO)

RT
Wed, 31 Jan 2018 13:23 UTC

Small wooden boats filled with unidentified dead sailors, assumed to be North Korean fishermen, keep washing up on the shores of Japan.

The so-called 'ghost ships' have been regularly washing up on the shores of Oga, a city in the peninsular Akita Prefecture. This year, however, has already seen a dramatic rise in the number of discoveries.

Since December, the remains of 35 people have been found aboard 103 wooden boats that drifted onto Japanese shores or were discovered in its territorial waters. A total of 13 of the dead have yet to be identified.

One of the somber overturned boats in Oga was captured in eerie drone footage by RT's Ruptly video agency.

Comment: In November, Fox News suggested the dead sailors were 'North Korean defectors':

N. Korean defectors possible occupants of ghost ship found on Japanese coast

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Japanese authorities make another grim "ghost ship" discovery

French students occupy University of Paris floor demanding amnesty to all migrants

RT
Thu, 01 Feb 2018 13:07 UTC

French students demonstration immigration France Paris

Students at the University of Paris occupied a campus building Tuesday, calling on the government to support and grant asylum to all migrants regardless of their reasons for coming to France.

Describing themselves as the Migrant Support Committee, the students issued a statement calling for "papers for all" and an end to the distinction between "economic migrants" and "political refugees."

Comment: Nothing wrong with expressing solidarity for people who found themselves in circumstances that forced them to leave their home countries. However, one day these students will grow up to realize that the issue is far too complicated to solve by 'giving papers to everyone' and may in fact create more problems - some in Europe are actually resenting this already. How about understanding first the causes of mass migration and demanding from their government foreign political and economic policies that help to mitigate it?

Israeli group suing two New Zealanders for convincing pop star Lorde to cancel Tel Aviv concert

Sputnik
Wed, 31 Jan 2018 11:08 UTC

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New Zealand singer Lorde announced on December 24 she will not be performing in Tel Aviv in 2018.

The move is the first lawsuit filed under a 2011 Israeli law, which paves the way for legal action against anyone calling for a boycott against Israel, if that call could knowingly lead to a boycott.

An Israeli legal rights group, Shurat HaDin, has announced that it is suing the two New Zealanders for allegedly convincing pop singer Lorde to cancel her show in the Jewish state on behalf of three would-be concertgoers for about $13,000 in damages.

According to the group, two New Zealanders, one of Jewish and one of Palestinian origin, knew that their letter to Lorde could trigger a boycott, making them open to a suit under the 2011 Israeli law. The legislation paves the way for legal action against anyone calling for a boycott against Israel, including of lands it has occupied, if that call could knowingly lead to a boycott.

Comment: More from RT:

Israelis sue Kiwis over Lorde's cancelled Tel Aviv gig in 1st case under anti-boycott law
Published time: 31 Jan, 2018 19:22

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Singer Lorde
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Two New Zealand citizens face legal action in Israel after Shurat HaDin, a Tel Aviv-based group protecting Jewish rights worldwide, filed a lawsuit against them on Tuesday, claiming they convinced Lorde to cancel her show, scheduled for June 2018.

Justine Sachs, a Jew, and Nadia Abu-Shanab, a Palestinian, urged the singer to scrap her Israeli tour dates in an open letter published last December. The women cited the occupation of Palestinian land, as well as violations of basic human rights of Palestinians living in the occupied territories. "An economic, intellectual and artistic boycott is an effective way of speaking out against these crimes," they wrote, adding such tactics were effective against apartheid in South Africa.

Responding to the letter, the 21-year-old singer tweeted: "Noted! Been speaking (with) many people about this and considering all options. Thank u for educating me i am learning all the time too."

She later canceled her shows, saying she was "sorry" and hoped that "one day we can all dance."

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Launched in 2005, the Palestinian-led BDS campaign was designed to pressure Israel to comply with international law and to end its occupation of the Palestinian territories. The campaign urges international companies and investors to leave Israel, as well as calling on artists, writers, and cultural institutions to oppose the Israeli government.

To fight back, the Israeli government has taken several measures, including restricting entrance to the country to BDS activists from 20 organizations. The government has even reportedly set up a secretive group to counteract the anti-Israeli campaigns through "mass awareness activities."

Shurat HaDin lodged a complaint on behalf of three ticket-holders for Lorde's concerts, seeking $13,000 in compensation "for moral and emotional injury and the indignity," the group's head and a lawyer representing the plaintiffs, Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, said.

Israel sees that its attempts to derail the BDS movement are no longer working to silence criticism, and is now trying to sabotage the movement in any way possible:

Toronto: Cops suspended after they eat pot edibles from dispensary raid, hallucinate and get stuck in a tree

Rachel Blevins
The Free Thought Project
Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:01 UTC

Two police officers have been suspended after they called for back-up, and the responding officer discovered that they were hallucinating from marijuana edibles - which they reportedly confiscated while raiding a dispensary.

CP24 reported that the officers consumed marijuana edibles while on duty, and then "called for help after one of the officers ended up in a tree." The female officer who responded to the call "slipped and sustained a serious head injury."

In response to the incident, Toronto Police Association President Mike McCormack refused to name the individuals, but said that there was an ongoing investigation and the suspects "could be charged or they could just be cleared through the investigation."

Body cam video shows cops kill Oklahoma grandmother who shot BB gun during marijuana raid

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Sat, 03 Mar 2018 12:13 UTC

Disturbing body camera footage was just released showing the moment police killed a grandmother in her home over a raid for marijuana.

Bartlesville, OK - Michael Anthony Livingston, 50, was suspected of selling a plant that is legal in some form in well over half the country. Because the other half of the country still violently and callously kidnaps, cages, and kills people for this plant, however, Livingston is in jail and his mother is now dead. The entire incident was captured on video and paints a disturbing picture of America's war on drugs.

Geraldine Townsend, 72, was shot and killed earlier this month as a Bartlesville SWAT team executed a search warrant to bust Livingston for the alleged sale of marijuana. Body camera footage of the raid was released today.

When the heavily armed and militarized men kicked in the door to their home, Townsend, likely not knowing who her home invaders were, picked up a pellet gun and fired off two pellets. A Bartlesville officer then shot and killed her.

German intel chief suggests surveilling children of ISIS to prevent terror attacks

RT
Thu, 01 Feb 2018 12:07 UTC

Germany's domestic intelligence chief is urging Berlin to review laws restricting the surveillance of minors, warning that "brainwashed" children who grew up with Islamic State ideology could be "living time bombs."

Hans-Georg Maassen, head of Germany's Office for Protection of the Constitution (BfV), spoke to Reuters about the possibility of children who were raised around Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) in Syria and Iraq could return to Germany and potentially carry out violent attacks.

"We see that children who grew up with Islamic State were brainwashed in the schools and the kindergartens of IS," he said. "They were confronted early with the IS ideology... learned to fight, and were in some cases forced to participate in the abuse of prisoners, or even the killing of prisoners."

Absolutely Sick! Cops kill family's dog in front of kids, force dad to cut its head off or go to jail (UPDATE)

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Sun, 03 Dec 2017 00:01 UTC

A horrifying video was submitted to the Free Thought Project this weekend showing two Georgia cops force a man to cut his own dog's head off because one of them had just shot it.

The owner of the dog, Joe Nathan Goodwin filmed the incident. The video shows that simply because Goodwin refused to cut off his dog's head that he was assaulted by a police officer and thrown down on the hood of his truck.

Imagine for a moment, police officers coming on to your property, killing your dog in front of your children, and as you were grieving, they force you to remove its head.

It is important to note that removing the head of an animal is standard procedure for health departments when testing an animal for rabies. However, this is supposed to be done by professionals who know what they are doing-not a dad who just watched his dog get killed.

Comment: This is a new low in police officers seeming insatiable need to exert unjust authority on innocent citizens. It seems that police officers aren't satisfied with simply killing family dogs in front of their kids. Now they're upping the game by forcing them to desecrate the beloved pet's body. "Sick" doesn't even begin to cover the level of depravity. See also:

Update via The Free Thought Project:

On Thursday, the family filed a lawsuit for damages sustained when police shot and killed their dog and then forced the father to cut off its head to bring it to the health department.

According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Joe Goodwin and Tosha Dacon are suing the county, Sheriff Lewis Walker and deputies James Hollis and Wesley Andrew Neesmith for $75,000 in connection with the Dec. 1, according to the lawsuit.

"Under extreme emotional duress and distress, and under threat of incarceration and physical harm, Plaintiff Goodwin was forced to decapitate the dog with a knife," the lawsuit states.

As the AJC notes, in addition to the "great physical and mental pain and suffering," which has required counseling, Goodwin lost his job as a result of the actions, the lawsuit states.

Seattle: Residents making a run across the city line to avoid Sugar Tax

Danny Westneat
The Seattle Times
Wed, 31 Jan 2018 15:32 UTC

© Danny Westneat/The Seattle Times
The Bartell Drugs store, in White Center just steps outside Seattle city limits, tries to lure in customers turned off by Seattle’s pricey new soda tax.

White Center finds itself a city divided - literally, down Roxbury Street - by the price of pop.

Ahmed Mohamed's shop in the farthest reaches of West Seattle is so small you can easily miss it. But he's nevertheless Ground Zero for Seattle's latest economic experiment.

Mohamed runs West Seattle Halal Market, a two-aisle store specializing in meats and poultry butchered according to Islamic rules. A few shelves in the middle of the store, though, are given over to a popular side product that now has his neighborhood, White Center, literally divided.

"Here is the precious fluid," Mohamed laughs, showing me around the store.

He holds up a two-liter plastic bottle of Coke.

Comment: Trying to change behaviour through taxation is a devious nanny-state tactic for enforcing "right-think". It rarely actually changes the "deviant" behaviour, only serving to fatten the pockets of the governments collecting the taxes and, in the current case, hurts businesses.

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Surprise poll: DACA amnesty a deal killer for Trump's strongest supporters

Jeremy Segal
The Gateway Pundit
Tue, 30 Jan 2018 03:56 UTC

Trump supporters at Toyota car dealership

A new poll released Tuesday, shows a whopping 71% of President Trump's strongest supporters staunchly oppose any border security deal that includes DACA amnesty, and could cost the president tremendous support from his base.

Ear to the Ground Listening Project, a collaboration of academics, market researchers and policy experts conducted the panel survey of 6,883 Trump supporters between January 12, 2018, and January 25, 2018. The survey reveals numerous insights about how President Trump's strongest supporters feel right now.

The survey indicates President Trump has tremendous support and confidence from his base, but congressional Republicans are in the doghouse with a pathetic 16% approval from the president's supporters.

Vegas shooting: Investigators question 'person of interest' who sold ammunition to shooter

The Guardian
Wed, 31 Jan 2018 22:40 UTC

Scene inside Stephen Paddock's Mandalay Bay suite

An Arizona man named in court documents as a "person of interest" during the investigation of the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history said he had met the gunman one time and sold ammunition to him.

Douglas Haig told the Associated Press on Tuesday that he had been contacted earlier by investigators in the case.

Speaking at his suburban home in Mesa, Nevada, Haig said he planned to hold a news conference later this week to answer questions about his name surfacing in the investigation.

"I am the guy who sold ammunition to Stephen Paddock," Haig said without disclosing any details. Police say Paddock was the gunman and killed himself as officers converged on him.

A law enforcement official told the AP in October that Paddock bought 1,000 rounds of tracer ammunition from a private seller he met at a Phoenix gun show. The official spoke anonymously because they were not authorized to disclose case information. It was not immediately clear if that person was Haig.

Ehret an idiot beyond belief

smertzasmert

.. .. are wheel barrel sales are up too?

Jibrish

I doubt any pureblood would object to the "vaccinated" being masked, but if they (the "vaccinated") still feel unsafe then maybe their problem is...

HashAttack2

I said this would happen...now they are looking to mandate companies with less that 100 employees...shits getting real, people[Link]

Bezel Bub

it's all a lie ! :O

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Society's Child

'Ghost ships' with corpses of presumed N. Korean fishermen keep landing on Japanese shores (VIDEO)

French students occupy University of Paris floor demanding amnesty to all migrants

Israeli group suing two New Zealanders for convincing pop star Lorde to cancel Tel Aviv concert

Toronto: Cops suspended after they eat pot edibles from dispensary raid, hallucinate and get stuck in a tree

Body cam video shows cops kill Oklahoma grandmother who shot BB gun during marijuana raid

German intel chief suggests surveilling children of ISIS to prevent terror attacks

Absolutely Sick! Cops kill family's dog in front of kids, force dad to cut its head off or go to jail (UPDATE)

Seattle: Residents making a run across the city line to avoid Sugar Tax

Surprise poll: DACA amnesty a deal killer for Trump's strongest supporters

Vegas shooting: Investigators question 'person of interest' who sold ammunition to shooter

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