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Is the myth about meteors causing people to kill themselves in Indonesia?

Shinta Maharani
VICE
Thu, 22 Feb 2018 16:45 UTC

The night before Aan* tried to take his own life, the skies above Yogyakarta briefly glowed red. It's unknown if Aan saw the meteor streak across the sky himself, but plenty of others in his rural coastal district of Gunung Kidul had. And they all knew what it meant-someone was about to die.

The next day Aan, 18, was pale and listless. He walked into the kitchen, took a short knife his grandmother used to peel the skin from fruits, and wandered out to the backyard. His grandmother Marni understood what was about to happen. She ran outside and tried to wrestle the knife away from her grandson, but she was too weak. She fell backwards as Aan plunged the knife deep into his own chest. He then pulled the blade out and threw it toward the oak trees behind his family's home.

Blood spurted from the wound in his chest. Marni screamed.

Vanessa Beeley: Mainstream media is lying - Residents of Ghouta are being slaughtered by Western-backed Al Qaeda

Sputnik
Thu, 22 Feb 2018 16:48 UTC

An article published by the Guardian stated that eastern Ghouta is turning into Syria's Srebrenica. The report says that the population there is not being protected following the failure of negotiations for peaceful resolution in late 2017. Radio Sputnik spoke with activist and independent investigative journalist Vanessa Beeley in an interview.

Sputnik: Mass media reports that the US and its allies are attempting to protect the civilians in Eastern Ghouta- is this really the case?

Vanessa Beeley: What needs to be made very clear and I think perhaps needs clarifying for your audience because we are hearing as usual the sensationalist journalism from NATO aligned corporate media in the West describing the Syrian Arab Army's legitimate military campaign against terrorist factions led, again, by Al Qaeda-affiliated factions that have occupied the areas, the eastern suburbs of Damascus, since 2013.

Basically, the atrocities that those media outlets are denying are the almost daily rain down of mortars and projectiles, missiles, explosive bullets, the suicide car bomb attacks against Syrian civilians in densely-populated residential areas of Damascus city, which also, by the way, is home now to a number of refugees, particularly from eastern Ghouta but other areas from of the east such as [Dourbar and Durmur] and have been for many years because many of the civilians in those areas fled the terrorist occupation and invasion in 2013. Those same terrorist factions were raining mortars down upon predominantly school children, civilians and residents of Damascus city are also known to be abusing, starving, imprisoning, putting Syrian civilians into cages as human shields and holding them hostage.

Comment: To comprehend the events of Srebrenica - its scope and complexity, and to examine the parallels happening in Eastern Ghouta, see: The truth about the Srebrenica 'genocide', 20 yrs later

In addition:

Nikki Haley: Israel won't love peace plan drafted by pro-Israel Trump advisors

RT
Fri, 23 Feb 2018 12:30 UTC

Trump's Middle East peace plan is almost ready but won't be "loved" by either side, Nikki Haley has predicted. However, the Trump administration's staunchly pro-Israel stance seems at odds with the plan's alleged impartiality.

A vision for a peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is currently being finished by Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law and a vocal supporter of Israel; along with Jason Greenblatt, a senior Trump adviser and, coincidentally, also Israel's ardent advocate. This was revealed by Haley in her address at the University of Chicago's Institute of Politics on Thursday.

Haley reassured her Chicago audience that the peace roadmap "won't be loved and won't be hated" by either Israel or the Palestinians. She added that "it's up for them to decide" how to best solve the conflict, and "if they decide on two states, the United States will support two states. If they decide on certain boundaries, the United States is going to support those boundaries."

"The Palestinians deserve better and the Israelis deserve better. Right now, they're in conflict. It's not a good situation," Haley said. "If the leaders would put aside their pride and their ego, and think about their people, and improving the quality of life for their people, this peace process will do that."

Comment: Not a 'win-win'...just a 'meh-meh'? Best prediction yet, if anyone can believe Nikki Haley.

Spoofed: Germany's Bild duped by bogus Russian meddling 'bombshell'

RT
Thu, 22 Feb 2018 02:48 UTC

German tabloid Bild has been forced to retract a report about Russian interference in German politics. The 'bombshell' was invented by a satirical magazine to expose Bild's lax editorial standards and have some fun in the process.

Editors of Titanic, a German monthly satirical magazine with a circulation of approximately 100,000, found it odd and amusing that the German media, including the top-selling Bild daily, for some reason hesitated to blame Russia for meddling in their country's political process too. Capitalizing on the global 'Russian meddling' hysteria, they devised a 'spy movie' plot, a storyline that would feature a Russian 'troll factory' using social media bots to target German politicians.

"There were no rumors of Russian meddling and we thought - 'this cannot be' - we have to make an alliance with the Bild tabloid and push a story of Russian meddling. And as we see now, it works perfectly," Moritz Hürtgen, editor of Titanic, told RT.

Work on border wall begins in downtown Calexico

San Diego Union Tribune
Wed, 21 Feb 2018 01:15 UTC

The federal government began work Wednesday to replace a section of border wall in California, the first wall contract awarded in the Trump administration outside of eight prototypes that were built last year in San Diego.

Customs and Border Protection is replacing a little more than two miles in downtown Calexico, a sliver of the president's plan for a "big, beautiful wall" with Mexico. A barrier built in the 1990s from recycled metal scraps and landing mat will be torn down for bollard-style posts that are 30 feet high, significantly taller than existing walls.

The administration is seeking $18 billion to extend the wall. Efforts to pay for it as part of a broader immigration package that would include granting legal status for people who came to the county as young children [DACA] failed in the Senate last week.

In November, SWF Constructors of Omaha, Neb., won a contract for $18 million to replace the wall in Calexico, about 120 miles east of San Diego. It encompasses an area bisected by the New River, where smugglers are known to guide people through polluted waters. The project, which includes a bridge over the river, is expected to take 300 days.

Comment: Trump's physical wall is being challenged by the 'legal wall'. Stay tuned to see 'what goes up' and 'what comes down'.

Shocking! Seattle woman calls newspaper to warn that neighbor is flying Confederate flag

Amelia Hamilton
Truth Revolt
Fri, 23 Feb 2018 19:35 UTC

Even if this was a confederate flag, so what?

A New York Times bestselling author and self-described "veteran journalist" in Seattle was very concerned to find that a Confederate flag seemed to be flying in front of a nearby house.

True-crime writer Rebecca Morris saw something, and said something. She sent a news tip to the Seattle Times which read:

"Hi. Suddenly there is a Confederate flag flying in front of a house in my Greenwood neighborhood. It is at the north-east corner of 92nd and Palatine, just a block west of 92nd and Greenwood Ave N. I would love to know what this 'means' ... but of course don't want to knock on their door. Maybe others in the area are flying the flag? Maybe it's a story? Thank you."

Comment: Why "of course don't want to knock on their door?" Are Americans so terrified of each other that they can't knock on their neighbor's door?

And so what if it's a confederate flag?

Turns out the story is that it wasn't a Confederate flag. Darold Norman Stangeland, the owner of the home in question, said "That's a Norwegian flag. It's been up there since the start of the Olympics." He continued "I'm a proud Norwegian-American. My parents emigrated here in the mid-1950s."

So, no neighborhood white supremacists after all. But since this is left-leaning Seattle, perhaps Ms. Morris could keep an eye out for Antifa flags or Che t-shirts instead.

Comment: In the Seattle Times article about its reporter who actually followed up Ms Libtard's suggestion by driving out to the address, one person remarks:

"Maybe that's the story, we're so stressed by all things political that we see things that aren't there."

You can say that again!

'Poor people have the right to look beautiful': India to offer free breast implants to women

Yahoo! News
Fri, 23 Feb 2018 19:53 UTC

Thousands of poor women in India's Tamil Nadu state have been offered free cosmetic breast surgery, including implants, its health minister said Friday, because "poor people also have a right to look beautiful".

The southern Indian state is known for its populist schemes, which have previously included free canteens and providing thousands of disadvantaged people with goats, laptops and bicycles among other items.

It will now offer cosmetic breast surgery free of cost to all women -- for aesthetic or medical reasons -- with priority given to those from the poorest sections of society.

"If a poor woman desires to look beautiful, we will support her financially," state health minister C. Vijayabaskar told AFP. "Whether they require medical procedures or beauty treatment, it will be free."

Kurds come out in support of Assad, Syria, after Syrian fighters enter Afrin to protect Kurds from Turkish invaders

Sputnik
Fri, 23 Feb 2018 19:51 UTC

Residents of a Kurdish-held enclave in northern Syria that recently became ground zero of a major Turkish military operation staged a rally to welcome the arrival of pro-Damascus militia units.

During a rally held in the main square of the city of Afrin, the assembled people waved Syrian flags and portraits of Syrian President Bashar Assad as they welcomed the arrival of pro-government militia troops to the beleaguered province, Press TV reports.

The participants of the rally insisted that "Afrin is an integral part of the territory of Syria" and swore to prevent both Turkish troops and "terrorist groups" from taking their homeland.

Comment: From Fort Russ:

"Kurds and Arabs are one people, we have protected the Kurdish protection units, and now the Syrian Arab Army also came to protect us, we are all one. The Syrian people are one," said one of the Kurdish locals.

"We are against [Turkish President Recep Tayyip] Erdogan, and against the Ottoman Turkish aggression, we Syrian people are one people, the land is one, and we are united," said one of the soldiers.

So far the net benefit of the Turkish invasion has been to show the Kurds who their real friends are: the Syrian government.

Missing CDC employee left work sick 10 days ago, hasn't been seen since

Emily Shapiro
ABC News
Thu, 22 Feb 2018 16:34 UTC

Police are asking the public for help finding a missing Centers for Disease Control and Prevention employee who went home sick 10 days ago and hasn't been seen or heard from since.

Timothy Cunningham, 35, went to work on Feb. 12 and left sick, the Atlanta Police Department said. Cunningham, who studied at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, is a commander in the Public Health Service and has been sent to respond to public health emergencies including the Ebola virus and the Zika virus, according to the CDC.

The CDC in a statement called Cunningham "a highly respected member of our CDC family."

Berlin women's march protests migrant violence, Islamisation of Germany

Voice of Europe
Sat, 17 Feb 2018 19:43 UTC

Europe's women marched in Berlin to protest against migrant violence and child marriages. Organiser of the march in Germany's capital, was women's rights activist and AfD party member Leyla Bilge. The motto of the demonstration today was: "It's enough!"

One of the reasons for the protest today is the endangerment of Germany's women by uncontrolled mass migration, the flyer says. It adds that women lose self-determination by the "government-enforced Islamisation of our homeland".

On the flyer the group demands "immediate securing of Germany's border and the deportation of all illegal immigrants". According to them "Germany is not an experimental laboratory for medieval experiments".

Comment: Funny how leftist policies of "diversity and inclusion" just end up creating more problems for women... Unfortunately for German women, however, migrant-related problems don't count. Diversity trumps safety.

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Society's Child

Is the myth about meteors causing people to kill themselves in Indonesia?

Vanessa Beeley: Mainstream media is lying - Residents of Ghouta are being slaughtered by Western-backed Al Qaeda

Nikki Haley: Israel won't love peace plan drafted by pro-Israel Trump advisors

Spoofed: Germany's Bild duped by bogus Russian meddling 'bombshell'

Work on border wall begins in downtown Calexico

Shocking! Seattle woman calls newspaper to warn that neighbor is flying Confederate flag

'Poor people have the right to look beautiful': India to offer free breast implants to women

Kurds come out in support of Assad, Syria, after Syrian fighters enter Afrin to protect Kurds from Turkish invaders

Missing CDC employee left work sick 10 days ago, hasn't been seen since

Berlin women's march protests migrant violence, Islamisation of Germany

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