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ISIS troops reportedly redeployed to Afghanistan & Pakistan

Sputnik
Wed, 21 Feb 2018 13:19 UTC

Daesh is gaining a new foothold for its troops' deployment in Afghanistan and Pakistan instead of the territories lost in Syria and Iraq, Col. Gen. Andrey Novikov, the head of the Commonwealth of Independent States Anti-Terrorism Center (CIS ATC), said Tuesday.

"After the elimination of a great part of the IS [Daesh] combat core, its 'fragments' have been evacuated to other regions... In Afghanistan and Pakistan, a new base for IS [Daesh] deployment is now being formed to replace the ones lost in Syria and Iraq," Novikov said at the meeting of the CIS member states' anti-terrorist centers heads.

The US has been accused numerous times of providing various forms of support to Daesh and other terrorist groups, operating in the region.

Comment: Further reading: In-depth analysis: US protecting ISIS to weaken rivals, justify and expand indefinite US occupation of Syria

Illegal immigrant arrested after raping 7-year-old girl and her mother

Bob Price
Breitbart
Wed, 21 Feb 2018 13:19 UTC

illegal immigrant Daniel Hernandez Del Angel

Officials in Louisiana charged an illegal immigrant from Mexico with raping a 7-year-old girl over a period of six months. Less than three weeks later, prosecutors charged the man with molesting the child's mother in 2003 when she was only 11-years-old.

The 43-year-old Mexican national, Daniel Hernandez Del Angel, has been illegally living in the country for the last 22 years, reported WGNO in Metairie, Louisiana.

Officers with the Bossier Parish Sheriff's Office started to investigate Del Angel in early 2017 when the allegations about raping the 7-year-old girl surfaced.

More gender equality leads to less women in STEM fields, not more

Olga Khazan
The Atlantic
Sun, 18 Feb 2018 13:04 UTC

Though their numbers are growing, only 27 percent of all students taking the AP Computer Science exam in the United States are female. The gender gap only grows worse from there: Just 18 percent of American computer-science college degrees go to women. This is in the United States, where many college men proudly describe themselves as "male feminists" and girls are taught they can be anything they want to be.

Meanwhile, in Algeria, 41 percent of college graduates in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math-or "STEM," as its known-are female. There, employment discrimination against women is rife and women are often pressured to make amends with their abusive husbands.

According to a report I covered a few years ago, Jordan, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates were the only three countries in which boys are significantly less likely to feel comfortable working on math problems than girls are. In all of the other nations surveyed, girls were more likely to say they feel "helpless while performing a math problem."

So what explains the tendency for nations that have traditionally less gender equality to have more women in science and technology than their gender-progressive counterparts do?

Comment: Which is what James Damore was saying all along in his memo. Funny enough, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki also admits the same thing after claiming the memo was 'discrimination'.

War on terror expanded: The war on dissent and the specter of divisiveness

CJ Hopkins
Counterpunch
Fri, 26 Jan 2018 12:30 UTC

Just when you thought the corporatocracy couldn't possibly get more creepily Orwellian, the Twitter Corporation starts sending out emails advising that they "have reason to believe" we have "followed, retweeted," or "liked the content of" an account "connected to a propaganda effort by a Russia government-linked organization known as the Internet Research Agency." While it's not as dramatic as the Thought Police watching you on your telescreen, or posters reminding you "Big Brother Is Watching," the effect is more or less the same.

And if that's not creepily Orwellian enough for you, Facebook has established a Ministry of Counterspeech, manned by "a dedicated counterterrorism team" of "former intelligence and law-enforcement officials," to "disrupt ideologies underlying extremism" (see Chris Hedges' recent essay for details). The Google Corporation is systematically disappearing, deranking, and maliciously misrepresenting non-corporate news and opinion sources, and the "thought criminals" who contribute to them. Meanwhile, the corporate media continues to pump out Russia paranoia propaganda like this Maddow segment on MSNBC about "the remarkable number of Russian financiers who'll be rubbing elbows with the Trump team in Davos."

These are just the latest salvos in the corporate establishment's War on Dissent, an expanded version of the War on Terror, which they've been relentlessly waging for over a year now. As you may have noticed, the ruling classes have been using virtually every propaganda organ at their disposal to whip up mass hysteria over a host of extremely dubious threats to "the future of democracy" and "democratic values," Russia being foremost among them, followed closely by white supremacy, then a laundry list of other "threats," from Julian Assange to Bernie Bros to other, lesser "sowers of division."

Comment: The masses of silent dissenters are indeed a 'significant threat' to the version of 'global capitalist ideology' the author describes - but it is not the only one. Russia and China are leading the world into a multipolar order, and that implies a geopolitical threat, not only a social one. It is not impossible that the confrontation leads to an actual major war.

Professor Jordan B. Peterson: A hero for our times?

Patricia Casey
Irish Times
Wed, 21 Feb 2018 12:17 UTC

To those of you familiar with his name, Jordan B. Peterson is an inspirational phenomenon or an alt-right bigot, depending on your perspective. To those who have never heard of him - he is worth getting to know.

Peterson is Canadian and Professor of Psychology at Toronto University. I vaguely heard of him a few months ago when my attention was drawn to a YouTube clip of him being challenged by a number of transgender students for refusing to use their preferred pronouns. You might ask, what's so remarkable about this? Well, for transgender people this is now mandated by the Canadian Government's Bill C-16 and Peterson sees this as an assault on free speech.

Head teacher under fire over Millennial tirade

RT
Wed, 21 Feb 2018 11:56 UTC

The head teacher of one of England's top boarding schools is under fire after branding his students' generation "mollycoddled, entitled and spoilt."

Douglas Robb, who has been head teacher of the £34,000-a-year Gresham's school in Norfolk for the past three years, blasted millennials for having a "sense of entitlement" as they think a "one-in-a million-job" will land on their doorstep in no time.

Making the comments in a blog post on the school website, he wrote: "They have been advertised to since birth; they have had credit and loans on a plate; they have been overly molly-coddled; and they have been overwhelmed by a strange combination of fictional sitcom characters, reality TV and social media stars, who paint a picture of perfection to be achieved.

Radical liberal indoctrination in schools: It's worse than you think

John Hinderaker
Powerline
Wed, 21 Feb 2018 11:27 UTC

Edina High School in suburban Minneapolis was long regarded as one of the country's top secondary schools. In recent years, its national ratings and its local reputation have slipped, perhaps in part because teachers are spending time promoting a left-wing agenda and bullying conservative students rather than teaching the subjects they are paid to teach.

Following last November's election, 80 Edina High School teachers-which must represent pretty much the entire faculty-signed an editorial in the school's newspaper that was basically a Democratic Party manifesto. The editorial was authored by Tim Klobuchar (second cousin). It went so far as to oppose calls for unity; unity, it implied, will exist only when all conservatives have been banished from the stage.

Americans express shock at acts of disorganized violence and are oblivious to its organized violence

Frank Scott
legalienate
Fri, 16 Feb 2018 03:23 UTC

"The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do": Samuel P. Huntington

The latest American slaughter of innocents - at home instead of abroad - has led to the usual outpourings from political leaders expressing prayers and sympathy and then switching to attacks on the evil weapons wielders that completely avoid the social system relying on massive weapons production and their wielding by military forces glorified for making wars.

The bloody horror in Florida that took seventeen lives is known to everyone in the USA but that same population is kept relatively ignorant of the bloody horror being perpetrated everyday in Yemen, Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan and Palestine/Israel - to mention only the Middle East - by people using the armaments we sell them, when they're not being used by our own military which we train to use our weapons to kill people; foreigners, until further notice.

Report reveals US weapons for sale on Syrian terrorist website

Sputnik
Wed, 21 Feb 2018 10:25 UTC

A wide assortment of US-supplied weapons ended up for sale on an online terrorist marketplace in Syria, a CNN investigation revealed on Tuesday.

"Grenade launchers, heavy machine guns, thermal sniper scopes and body armor all appear on the jihadist channels, which also offer tips on encryption and even introduce smugglers to get people in and out of Syria," the CNN report said.

The media outlet also published a string of messages between someone in Syria's Idlib province and a reporter, in which the reporter negotiated a discount to purchase the M-16 rifle for $775 using the encryption app Telegram.

Meet the secretive family who's selling billions in OxyContin and profiting from the opioid crisis (VIDEO)

Investment Watch Blog
Sun, 18 Feb 2018 00:00 UTC

The Sackler Family

Money is Power! Legal Drugs for Profits, Pain, and Stupidity?

President Donald Trump's nominee for drug czar, Republican Congressmember Tom Marino, had to withdraw from consideration after a Washington Post / "60 Minutes" investigation found he led a drug industry-backed effort to pass a law that weakened the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's ability to crack down on addictive opioids. Meanwhile, calls are growing to look at the major pharmaceutical companies that have fueled the opioid crisis.

A new investigation by Esquire magazine reveals how the secretive Sackler family, owners of the company that invented OxyContin, downplayed the risks of addiction and exploited doctors' confusion over the drug's strength. We speak with Christopher Glazek, the Esquire reporter behind the story.

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

ISIS troops reportedly redeployed to Afghanistan & Pakistan

Illegal immigrant arrested after raping 7-year-old girl and her mother

More gender equality leads to less women in STEM fields, not more

War on terror expanded: The war on dissent and the specter of divisiveness

Professor Jordan B. Peterson: A hero for our times?

Head teacher under fire over Millennial tirade

Radical liberal indoctrination in schools: It's worse than you think

Americans express shock at acts of disorganized violence and are oblivious to its organized violence

Report reveals US weapons for sale on Syrian terrorist website

Meet the secretive family who's selling billions in OxyContin and profiting from the opioid crisis (VIDEO)

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