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Rival protests raise tensions in Portland: Patriot Prayer vs. Antifa


RT
Sat, 04 Aug 2018 14:55 UTC
Patriot Prayer group
© Jim Urquhart / Reuters
Right-wing supporters of the Patriot Prayer group gather during a rally in Portland.
Hundreds of demonstrators from the right-wing Patriot Prayer group and Antifa activists have launched rivaling protests in Portland. There's heavy police presence on site after similar events earlier this year ending in violence.

The opposing crowds, described as "giant" by the local media, have gathered at Tom McCall Waterfront Park on Saturday.

The police in riot gear have been so far able to keep the two groups separated on opposite sides of the street, with only minor incidents occurring.


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Ambulance

3 Czech NATO servicemen killed in Taliban suicide attack on convoy in Afghanistan


RT
Sun, 05 Aug 2018 14:30 UTC
Afghan National Army
© Omar Sobhani/Reuters
Afghan National Army troops on patrol, 2012
Three members of NATO's Resolute Support mission have been killed after a suicide bomber stuck a foreign troops patrol in eastern Afghanistan. A US serviceman and Afghan soldiers were also injured.

The attack happened at around 6am local time as the convoy was driving in the Khala Zai area of Parwan, Wahida Shahkar, spokeswoman for the Parwan governor, told local Tolo News.

A statement from the Czech military confirmed that the deaths were Czech service members and that the families of the victims have been informed. Defense Minister Lubomir Metnar has offered his condolences.

Prague had recently have approved a plan to deploy 390 soldiers in Afghanistan through 2020, up from the current 230, according to Associated Press.

Earlier, US Forces confirmed that that two Afghan National Army soldiers and an American serviceman were also wounded in the assault.

The assault brings to seven the number of NATO troops killed in the country in 2018.


The Taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack.

Comment: Trump's re-surge has been a total failure. If there's any hope, this failure can finally be used as a reason to end the useless war: James Corbett: The only reason the US is negotiating with the Taliban is out of desperation, not principles

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Cop shoots man in the face, plants weapon on him and gets to keep his job

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Sat, 04 Aug 2018 13:32 UTC
police killing
A police sergeant in New York was caught on video this week confronting an unarmed 21-year-old man and shooting him at point blank range right in the face and then planting a weapon on him. Sgt. Ritchard Blake claims the victim, Thayvone Santana was trying to rob him, but video and family members say otherwise.

According to police, Blake claimed that Santana was attempting to rob him, so he had no choice but to shoot him in the face. However, police later admitted that Santana and Blake knew each other and may have been in a dispute over a girl.

As the video shows, Blake and Santana appear to be having a verbal dispute on the sidewalk. At no time does Santana ever try to attack, pull a weapon, or otherwise physically assault Blake.

However, as the video shows, Blake then pulls a gun from his waistband and fires off three rounds into Santana's face.

After Blake shoots the otherwise entirely innocent man, he is then seen on the video bending over his victim and placing what a appears to be a shiny object next to him. This was likely done in an attempt to justify the shooting and frame his victim for robbery.
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Your tax dollars at work: Government spends nearly a million dollars on cancer treatments for illegal alien child rapist

Jim Hoft
Gateway Pundit
Sun, 05 Aug 2018 13:40 UTC
Gerardo Valerio-Romero
An illegal alien from Mexico has racked up nearly a million dollars in medical bills over the past year-and-a-half.

The cancer treatments for Gerardo Valerio-Romero have drained the Utah county jail's medical budget.

Gerardo Valerio-Romero is charged with serial rape of an eight-year-old.

Strib.com reported:

Gerardo Valerio-Romero was in Utah County custody, accused of repeatedly sexually abusing an 8-year-old relative, when he was diagnosed with cancer.
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Terrence K. Williams says NYT's Sarah Jeong is 'Crazy-nese': Something wrong with 'fortune cookies Ling Ling is eating'

Tamar Auber
Mediaite
Sat, 04 Aug 2018 21:22 UTC
terrence k williams
A Watters World segment with comedian Terrence K. Williams was abruptly cut off when the Fox New guest made a racist joke.

The conversation was centered around Sarah Jeong, a new New York Times editorial board member who has been the center of the controversy since after just being hired, old tweets were uncovered, causing some to accuse her of being racist against white people.

Speaking of Jeong, Williams said this: "That is a nasty woman. So, of course, the nasty New York Times would hire her. But would they hire Roseanne? No. And I would tell people not to read the New York Times, but it's too late, nobody reads it anyway," he said, prompting a laugh from host Jesse Watters.

Comment: Call the outrage mob! Williams is taking heat for his comments, but he's having none of it.



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Red Flag

Schoolteacher and wife of cop confesses to sex with one of her students; gets to keep her teacher's license and avoids jail

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Sat, 04 Aug 2018 13:26 UTC
Dori Myers
A Bronx school teacher, who is also the wife of a Rockland County sheriff's deputy, admitted to having sex with one of her students. Not only will she avoid jail but she will also not lose her teaching license.

Dori Myers is a 29-year-old social studies teacher in the public school system who apparently just learned the privileges of marrying a cop. This month, she pleaded guilty to a criminal sex act with a child which is a class D felony and requires her to register as a sex offender.

According to court records, Myers was arrested on January 19 of this year and immediately pleaded not guilty. At the time, her attorney said that she is "a model citizen who looks forward to clearing her name."

This teacher didn't exactly clear her name, but she did get incredibly lax treatment, especially considering the fact that the state of New York currently hold tens of thousands of people in jails for non-violent drug crimes.
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USA

Fights break out between conservatives and Antifa demonstrators at Portland rally

Manuel Valdes and Gillian Flaccus
Associated Press
Sun, 05 Aug 2018 12:55 UTC
portland rally
© AP Photo/John Rudoff
Police search a person before entering a rally in Portland, Ore., Saturday, Aug. 4, 2018. Small scuffles broke out Saturday as police in Portland, Oregon, deployed “flash bang” devices and other means to disperse hundreds of right-wing and self-described anti-fascist protesters.
Small scuffles broke out Saturday as police in Portland, Oregon, deployed "flash bang" devices and other means to disperse hundreds of right-wing and self-described anti-fascist protesters.

Four people were arrested during the protests, the Portland Police Bureau said in a statement Saturday night. Officers also seized "multiple weapons throughout the day," police said.

A reporter for The Oregonian/OregonLive was bloodied when he was struck by a projectile. Eder Campuzano said later on Twitter he was "okay."

Comment: Is Portland ground zero for the next American civil war? It certainly seems that tensions are running quite high in this liberal haven. It's no accident that these right-wing groups have chosen Portland as the site of their repeated protests, since it seems their goal is direct confrontation. That this powder keg is going to explode at some point seems a forgone conclusion.

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Cult

Freemasons will accept women for first time in its history... but only if they joined as a man


RT
Sun, 05 Aug 2018 10:37 UTC
Freemasonry
© Regis Duvignau / Reuters
Transgender women should have the right to remain members of the Freemasons but only if they joined as a man, the UK's largest lodge, the United Grand Lodge of England (UGLE), has said.

UGLE, which was founded in 1717 and has been male-only for centuries, issued new guidance to its 200,000 members in England and Wales, stating that "a Freemason who after initiation ceases to be a man does not cease to be a Freemason". It added that those who have transitioned from female to male can also apply, reports the Times.
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Light Sabers

US federal judge orders restoration of DACA, says its rescission lacks 'rational explanation'


RT
Sat, 04 Aug 2018 00:49 UTC
DACA activists protest
© Amr Alfiky / Reuters
Activists and DACA recipients protest against the Trump administration's policies on immigrants and immigration, during a demonstration in Manhattan, New York, U.S., March 1, 2018.
A US federal judge has sided with the plaintiffs in a case filed against the Trump administration's move to rescind Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), which had sparked a wave of protests in September.

DC District Judge John Bates on Friday upheld his earlier ruling from April 24, that found the White House's decision to scrap the policy, which has shielded about 800,000 migrants from deportation since it was adopted in 2012, was "arbitrary and capricious."

"The Court therefore reaffirms its conclusion that DACA's rescission was unlawful and must be set aside," he wrote in a 25-page opinion on Friday.

The court argued that the memorandum issued by Homeland Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen in June, that was supposed to offer a legally sound explanation for the government's action, failed "to elaborate meaningfully on the agency's primary rationale for its decision: the judgment that the policy was unlawful and unconstitutional."
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Bizarro Earth

The PC insanity continues as skinny eyebrows now declared 'cultural appropriation'

Katherine Timpf
National Review
Sun, 05 Aug 2018 00:00 UTC
Rihanna at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival; inset: British Vogue‘s cover
© Regis Duvignau/Reuters; British Vogue/Twitter
Rihanna at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival; inset: British Vogue‘s cover
Apparently it is offensive for anyone who is not Latina to tweeze her eyebrows a lot.

According to a piece in Marie Claire, deciding to pluck your eyebrows so that they are very thin is "problematic" and "cultural appropriation."

The author, Krystyna Chávez, explained that she was absolutely horrified when she saw a photo of Rihanna with skinny eyebrows.

Comment:
Joe Rogan shatters the 'racist ideology' of cultural appropriation

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