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Michelle Wolf's attack on Trump staff was worse than you think

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Michelle Wolf
On Saturday night, one Washington crowd tried to give President Donald Trump the Nobel Peace Prize, while another Washington crowd stood up against the most offensive "jokes" a "comedian" has ever uttered. When Michelle Wolf spoke at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, her monologue descended into an x-rated tirade most infamous for attacks on White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

Wolf's attacks on Sanders proved disgusting from about every angle, but only those familiar with the Hulu series The Handmaid's Tale - or the Margaret Atwood novel on which it is based - could understand the worst aspect of this tirade.

Comment: Unfortunately we are most likely not living in a better world, and Wolf is already being hailed as a hero in the SJW universe.


Snakes in Suits

Teacher berates student for using Fox News as source in assignment, forces him to write paper on 'Trump's lies'

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Jacob Hein is an eighth grade honors student at Blackhawk Middle School in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The other day he had an assignment in Spanish class - take a current event in the news and translate the story into Spanish.

So Jacob translated a FoxNews.com story about U.S. Navy pilots who spotted unidentified flying objects. The following day his teacher publicly berated Jacob in front of the entire class for using Fox News as a source.

"She said, 'Fox News is fake news. It's full of lies and you are no longer to use Fox News for these articles. Do you understand?" Todd Hein said on the Todd Starnes Radio Show.

Hein said his son was shocked.

Light Sabers

Zakharova to reveal Western journalists who scoffed at Syrian witnesses at next briefing

Maria Zakharova
© Sputnik / Evgenya Novozhenina
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova criticized unethical behavior by western reporters toward Syrian witnesses of the staged 'chemical attack' in Douma. She promised to reveal the journalists' names at a nearest press briefing.

Talking on Rossiya 1 TV Channel, Zakharova pointed at questions made by British ITV and BBC journalists during an Organization on Prevention of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) news conference on April 26, in which 17 witnesses of the staged 'chemical attack' at Syrian Douma were present.

According to Zakharova, an ITV reporter asked the witnesses how much they were paid for taking part in the press conference, while a BBC journalist claimed that a 12-year-old boy named Hasan Diab, who took part in the briefing, would suffer "psychological trauma."

"The journalists who first exploited a thesis about democracy for many years, then images of children, for many years - they now ask whether a child suffers a psychological trauma after being brought to Hague... I've found names of those journalists, there are not just British, but also Dutch," Zakharova said on TV.

Comment: A Syrian boy comes out and tells his story about what happened to him - the media scoffes and calls it propaganda. A Syrian girl makes up story about Syria - the media mops it up. One sells the narrative, the other counters it. See how that works? Zakharova is right to call them out on their unethical behaviour. See also: Twitterati challenge journalist who complained Douma testimony as 'bizarre & underwhelming'


Eye 2

False flag operations: The current practices

Teaching false flags
© Anthony Freda
False Flag is a concept that goes back centuries. It was considered to be a legitimate ploy by the Greeks and Romans, where a military force would pretend to be friendly to get close to an enemy before dropping the pretense and raising its banners to reveal its own affiliation just before launching an attack. In the sea battles of the eighteenth century among Spain, France and Britain hoisting an enemy flag instead of one's own to confuse the opponent was considered to be a legitimate ruse de guerre, but it was only "honorable" if one reverted to one's own flag before engaging in combat.

Today's false flag operations are generally carried out by intelligence agencies and non-government actors including terrorist groups, but they are only considered successful if the true attribution of an action remains secret. There is nothing honorable about them as their intention is to blame an innocent party for something that it did not do. There has been a lot of such activity lately and it was interesting to learn by way of a leak that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has developed a capability to mimic the internet fingerprints of other foreign intelligence services. That means that when the media is trumpeting news reports that the Russians or Chinese hacked into U.S. government websites or the sites of major corporations, it could actually have been the CIA carrying out the intrusion and making it look like it originated in Moscow or Beijing. Given that capability, there has been considerable speculation in the alternative media that it was actually the CIA that interfered in the 2016 national elections in the United States.

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Heart - Black

Gazan who lost limb due to IDF sniper fire during peaceful protest talks to RT

Mohammed al-Ajoury
As the stand-off turned violent, a bullet fired by a suspected Israeli soldier tore into the right leg of Mohammed al-Ajoury, a 17-year-old Gazan. He was treated for the gunshot wound but, when his condition became life-threatening, the leg had to be amputated. Israel has repeatedly threatened Palestinians with the use of live ammunition during the protests, citing "security reasons."

Al-Ajoury, who spent six hours in surgery and then one week in intensive care unit, told RT: "I didn't think my leg would be like this. I wasn't aware that it would be amputated. It seems that my relatives told the doctors not to tell me that."

"I was an athlete, I used to play multiple sports and I used to play for the Palestinian Union," he said with a bitter smile. The 17 year old recalled that the Israeli soldiers "were brutally shooting people," saying that an old man was hit by an explosive bullet in front of him. "He was protesting peacefully and was not throwing any stones," al-Ajouri said.

Life has also become miserable for Mohammed Abed, a promising Palestinian football player, who was also shot in the leg by the Israelis. "During my football career, I hoped to be one of the best players in Gaza," Abed told RT. "After this injury, my football career is over."

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Light Saber

Russian air base in Syria repels another Western proxy drone attack

Russian Jet
© Sputnik / Dmitriy Vinogradov
On the evening of April 24, Russian forces repelled an attack by armed drones on their Hmeimim airbase in the province of Latakia.

According to the reports, Russian Pantsir-S1 air defense systems shot down two drones armed with projectiles before they were able to attack the base. Some sources added that the airbase had also come under rocket attack. However, these rocket were also intercepted.

Later the Russian Defense Ministry released a statement saying that its air defense systems had intercepted "small aerial targets of unknown origin".

The repeated drone attacks on the Russian military facilities show that militant groups operating in Syria have no more resources with which to oppose the Syrian Arab Army (SAA), backed by Russia and Iran, and their key current goal is to gain media coverage in a desperate attempts to receive additional funds and support from their foreign sponsors.

Such a media effect could be achieved if militants were to succeed in delivering damage to the Russian airbase and the aircraft deployed there.

Comment: This appears to be the second time that's happened. Previously:


Dollar

US legalized cannabis market on track to hit $25bn by 2025

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Medical and recreational marijuana sales in the US will reach $11.7 billion this year, according to cannabis analytics firm New Frontier Data. It has predicted a 25 percent increase for 2019.

Overall, the American legal weed industry could be worth $25 billion in seven years, the researcher said.

"With a number of states expected to advance cannabis legalization measures in the next 24 months, more Americans will be able to access legal cannabis in the years to come, making this a watershed 4/20," said New Frontier Data's chief executive officer, Giadha Aguirre De Carcer.

April 20 (or 4/20) is the day thousands of Americans gather around the country every year to celebrate and smoke marijuana, which remains illegal in most of the country.

Comment: See also: Seattle voids criminal records for misdemeanor pot convictions, giving people a second chance


Cowboy Hat

'Not our way:' Moscow says it won't break into US diplomatic compounds

Samuel Hyde House residence of the Russia consul-general Seattle
© Jason Redmond / Reuters
US State Department officials hold a tarp to cover a locksmith working to gain access to the former residence of the Russian consul general in Seattle on April 25, 2018.
Russia does not plan to answer in kind to Washington forcing its way into Russia's locked consulate in Seattle, which Moscow sees as a violation of international law, Russia's Foreign Ministry spokesperson said.

Last week, US officials called a locksmith to break into the sealed Russian consulate in Seattle, which was vacated by Russian diplomats after Washington ordered it closed, citing its proximity to a US Navy base and a Boeing construction site. Plainclothes US Department officials held a large blue tarp over the consulate's entrance as the locksmith was gaining access to the building that had the Russian flag still flying over it.

Moscow, which did not agree to remove the diplomatic immunity from the compound, vocally protested what it labelled as "a gross violation of diplomatic conventions."

Bulb

Seattle voids criminal records for misdemeanor pot convictions, giving people a second chance

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All too often, homeless or otherwise unemployed people are accused of being lazy or complacent because they do not have a job. However, many of those people don't have jobs because-thanks to the government's war on drugs-they've become unemployable. Because of a massive and successful backlash against a portion of the war on drugs, however, many of these folks are now getting a second chance.

It is no secret that a marijuana conviction is a blow to individual freedom-even if you were lucky enough not to go to jail or have already gotten out. A drug conviction limits the ability for people to get a job, borrow money, or even find a place to live. This attack on freedom then leads to a function known as recidivism which limits an individual's choices thereby fostering an environment which will lead to that person ending up back in jail.

The city of Seattle is taking action to help those whose lives have been thrown off track after getting caught by police with a plant. Officials have filed a motion in municipal court that will vacate-retroactively void-all misdemeanor marijuana convictions in the city.

As Fortune Magazine reports, according to a statement from Mayor Jenny Durkan, the request would effect 542 people. The city has also requested the dismissal of outstanding misdemeanor possession charges.

Heart - Black

How the US treats its own: Puerto Ricans still suffering 8 months after Hurricane Maria

Puerto Rico hurricane aftermath
For all those peoples around the world, who worship America as the land of milk and honey, and believe that adopting its principles and aligning their political policies with those of America will somehow mean that they will suddenly experience a comprehensive national renaissance, or that America will reward them by exporting to them massive prosperity, just take a look at how America treats its own. Let's take a brief look at Puerto Rico.

Around eight months ago, Hurricane Maria struck the Caribbean island, one of America's colonies, leaving it 'totally destroyed'. In the aftermath, with so much destruction, one might expect that the Feds would be putting together an aid package to rebuild the island's infrastructure.

Puerto Rico, by and large, still looks and operates much as though it were still stuck in the dark ages, and at night, it definitely is, as the power grid, damaged by Hurricane Maria, remains an unreliable public infrastructure all these months later. The water situation isn't much better as the citizenry must additionally filter the water that comes from the tap, since its quality can't be taken for granted.