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'Yes, we're racists': Rabbis recorded endorsing Hitler, urging enslavement of Arabs


Sputnik
Sun, 05 May 2019 15:32 UTC
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An Israeli media outlet has released a series of undated recordings, in which two rabbis from a West Bank religious academy can be heard praising slavery, defending Adolf Hitler's ideology and making racist comments while speaking about Jewish supremacy.

In a recording published by Channel 13 news, Rabbi Eliezer Kashtiel, the head of the Bnei David pre-military academy in the settlement of Eli in the West Bank, is telling a class that being a "slave to a Jew is the best":

"The gentiles will want to be our slaves. Being a slave to a Jew is the best. They're glad to be slaves, they want to be slaves. Instead of just walking the streets and being stupid and violent and harming each other, once they're slaves, their lives can begin to take shapes", Kashtiel said as cited by Channel 13.

According to the media outlet, the rabbi goes as far as to claim that Arabs want to "be under the occupation" due to what he described as "genetic problems" and promotes Jewish superiority.

"All around us, we are surrounded by peoples with genetic problems. Ask a simple Arab 'where do you want to be?' He wants to be under the occupation. Why? Because they have genetic problems, they don't know how to run a country, they don't know how to do anything. Look at them. Yes, we're racists. We believe in racism... There are races in the world and people have genetic traits, and that requires us to try to help them. The Jews are a more successful race".

Comment: The above quotes are far from being some anomalous statements made by just a few pathological rabbis.

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Complete internet blackout: Half of Russians believe their lives wouldn't change without the web


RT
Mon, 06 May 2019 21:38 UTC
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More than 51 percent of Russians are sure that there is life without internet and their lives won't change significantly if it stops existing, a recent poll revealed.

If the internet completely shuts down, as many as 24 percent of Russians say it won't affect them, while 27 per cent believe their lives would be affected just slightly, a new survey by the Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VTsIOM) showed.

However, 48 per cent are really worried about a possible global shutdown of the world wide web. Some 37 percent of Russians said their lives would change significantly, but they would be able to adapt to living offline. Meanwhile 11 percent can't imagine functioning without the internet, most of them being residents of Moscow, St. Petersburg and other big Russian cities.

Currently, some 84 percent of Russians are internet users, while 69 per cent use it daily. Surveys show that most Russians use the internet for social media and reading news as well as for bank transactions and online shopping.

Though a complete shutdown of the internet sounds unlikely, the Russian government has already introduced measures to prevent this from happening. In April, President Vladimir Putin signed a bill designed to ensure the sustainable, autonomous operation of Runet - the Russian segment of internet - in case of a global shutdown or a deliberate cut-off by the US which could take place if the relations deteriorate further, according to the MPs who proposed the bill.
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Boeing claims missing safety alarm on crashed 737 MAX was 'not necessary,' FAA didn't need to know


RT
Mon, 06 May 2019 21:24 UTC
Boeing 737 MAX 8
© AFP / Stephen Brashear
Boeing has claimed that a safety warning light packaged as an optional extra on the 737 MAX 8 was not "necessary for safe operation," even after the light's absence had been blamed for two fatal crashes.

Boeing's 737 MAX 8 has been involved in two deadly crashes in less than six months, killing a combined 346 people. In both cases, investigators have blamed incorrect 'angle of attack' (AOA) sensor data for pitching the planes downwards to their doom. A functioning warning light could have alerted pilots to this malfunction.

While Boeing shipped the aircraft with a light fitted as standard, it would not work unless airlines had opted to buy a separate AOA indicator, the company revealed in a statement on Sunday.

Boeing engineers discovered this problem in 2017, but conducted an internal review and concluded that the dummy alarm "did not adversely impact airplane safety or operation." Only after the crash of Indonesian Lion Air Flight 610 last November did the company issue a bulletin revealing that the light did not work as advertised.
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Court of Arbitration for Sport hands a victory to female athletes everywhere

Doriane Lambelet Coleman
Quillette
Mon, 06 May 2019 20:36 UTC
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Margaret Wambui and Francine Niyonsaba, photographed at the Olympic 800m semifinals in Rio de Janeiro on August 18, 2016.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) this week upheld the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) regulations governing eligibility for the women's category in international elite athletics competition. In effect, CAS decided the question "who is a woman" for purposes of elite sport. And it ratified the IAAF's preferred answer: A woman in sport is anyone whose legal identity is female - whether they personally identify as such or not - and who has testosterone (T) levels in the female range. That may seem like a mere technical ruling. But as I'll explain in this article, the ramifications are profound for female athletics everywhere-a cause that has been central to my life and to the lives of millions of girls and women worldwide.

The female range for testosterone is categorically different from the male range. In general, males have 10 to 30 times more T than females. Most females, including most elite female athletes, have T levels in the range of 0.5 to 1.5 nanomoles per liter (nmol/L). For men, typical values are 10 to 35 nmol/L. The reason there is a gap, with no overlap between the ranges, is that beginning in puberty, the testes produce a lot more T than ovaries and adrenal glands combined. And so the IAAF maximum of 5 nmol/L for women has been set, generously, to reflect the upper bound of T levels that can be produced even by polycystic ovaries.
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Just making it up: Fake News Central CNN says Venezuela's Juan Guaido 'won elections in January'


RT
Mon, 06 May 2019 20:31 UTC
Juan Guaido
© Reuters / Ueslei Marcelino
CNN took the concept of "fake news" to a whole new level with a recent report on Venezuela, in which it claimed that citizens "chose" coup leader Juan Guaido over current president Nicolas Maduro in January "elections."

In a report on Sunday's deadly Venezuelan military helicopter crash, CNN wrote that "pressure is mounting" on Maduro to step down "following elections in January in which voters chose opposition leader Juan Guaido over him for president."
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IDF eliminates Gazan that allegedly transferred Iranian funds


Sputnik
Sun, 05 May 2019 19:01 UTC
Khudari/Car destroyed
© The Yeshiva WorldHamed Ahmed Khudari • Car airstrike
Shortly after the IDF announced that the Israeli Air Force had eliminated a senior Hamas militant purportedly responsible for smuggling Iranian funds to support Gaza-based armed groups, the press service of the Israel Defence Forces published a video of the operation.

Earlier in the day, the Israel Defence Forces stated that Hamed Ahmed Khudari, a Gazan militant allegedly responsible for transferring Iranian funds to Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Gaza, was killed.

"Attacking terrorist targets by fighter jets in the Gaza Strip", the IDF said on Twitter.

Shortly after the statement, the country's military published a video on its official Twitter account showing the very moment of the attack.


Comment: More from The Yeshiva World, 5/5/2019:
It appears that targeted strikes are underway, as the IAF has hit a black Toyota Corolla vehicle in a neighborhood in Gaza City, with Gaza source reporting there are two persons dead in the strike. This is the first targeted strike on terrorists in over four years.

Khudari was 'the' main money man for both Hamas and the Islamic Jihad, working with Iran and others to fund ongoing terrorist activities in Gaza, primarily for the Islamic Jihad. According to the IDF, al-Khodari owned a number of money exchanges in the Gaza Strip and used them to bring in large amounts of cash into the coastal enclave for Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and other terror groups.


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Once again, The New York Times distorts the news - dishonestly making oppressed Gazans the aggressor and Israel the victim

James North
Mondoweiss
Sun, 05 May 2019 00:00 UTC
New York Times headquarters
New York Times headquarters
Here's today's misleading headline in the Times; "Gaza Militants Fire 250 Rockets, and Israel Responds With Airstrikes." This is a classic Times tactic to rig its Israel/Palestine coverage; distort the timeline to make it seem like the Palestinians started the violence, and that Israel is (reluctantly) "responding."

Amos Harel, who covers the military for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, is hardly a supporter of Hamas. But he is an honest reporter, and you can turn to him (or one of his colleagues), rather than to the New York Times whenever there is a new outbreak of violence so you can try and figure out what is actually happening.

Amos Harel tells a more complicated story. He reports that the day before the rocket barrage, during Friday protests along the Gaza border, an Israeli jeep came under fire; one Israeli officer received "moderate" wounds and a soldier was wounded lightly. Then,
Israel responded with tanks and aerial strikes, killing two Hamas military wing members. Two more Palestinian protesters were killed by Israeli fire in separate incidents along the border.
Four dead Palestinians. Only then did the Gaza militant groups "respond," with the rocket attack.
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The rise of surveillance capitalism and big tech utopianism

Mark Kernan
Counterpunch
Mon, 06 May 2019 00:00 UTC
Surveillance Capitalism
A few years ago after the 2008 financial crash Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone described Goldman Sachs, that great titan of financial capitalism, as a "great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money." Fast forward almost ten years and you could say the same, and much worse, about surveillance capitalism, according to Shoshana Zuboff author of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power.

This time though the squid is even bigger and it is jamming its blood funnel, via smart phones, smart TVs, tablets & soon even smart homes, into every last nook and cranny of our individual & collective privacy. The very thing that was suppose to set us free and serve us, as internet creator Tim Berners Lee had hoped, has now evolved as Lee said "into an engine of inequity and division; swayed by powerful forces who use it for their own agendas." The capture & commodification of our data, the predatory construction of user profiles and surveillance is in the DNA of surveillance capitalism. Cambridge Analytica is only the tip of the iceberg.

Zuboff points out in her brilliant book that all pervasive, stealthy and omnipresent surveillance capitalism has exploited human experience to collect free raw material for translation into behavorial data. The behavorial surplus - our emotions, fears, our voices and our personalities-is then fed into thinking 'machine intelligence', and then reconfigured into predictive products. Products specifically designed to anticipate what you will do today, tomorrow, and next week by means of behavorial modification. But not only does surveillance capitalism predict it also nudges us, influencing our behaviour through personalised and intrusive targeted advertising.
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Free speech under attack: Man faces year in prison for telling police they are 'pissing on the Constitution'

Matt Agorist
The Free Though Project
Mon, 06 May 2019 00:00 UTC
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After police refused to respond to his calls for assistance, a Texas man gave police a peaceful piece of his mind, but it landed him in jail.

Warning that the government must not be given the power to criminalize speech it deems distasteful or annoying, The Rutherford Institute has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to stop the prosecution of a Texas man who faces up to one year in jail and a $4000 fine for sending emails to police criticizing them for failing to respond to his requests for assistance.

In an amicus brief filed with the Supreme Court, Rutherford Institute attorneys argue that the prosecution of Scott Ogle for sending complaints to a sheriff's office, including one email stating that officials were "pissing" on the Constitution, violates the First Amendment's safeguards for freedom of speech and the right to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

Moreover, Institute attorneys argue that the Texas law under which Ogle was charged, which makes it a crime to send "annoying," "alarming" or "harassing" electronic messages, is so overbroad that it could be used to punish a negative review of a restaurant posted online or caustic Facebook posts.
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Yellow Vests mobilize for 25th weekend of protests


RT
Sat, 04 May 2019 00:00 UTC
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© Reuters / Charles PlatiauA protester holds a sign depicting French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner and the word 'liar' at a march in Paris
Three days after clashing with police at May Day demonstrations, Yellow Vests protesters marched in Paris and across France, in the 25th straight weekend of anti-government anger.

According to the Interior Ministry, 18,900 demonstrators took to the streets on Saturday, the lowest turnout since the movement began as a protest against a planned fuel tax hike in November. However, the Yellow Vests have regularly disputed the figures released by the ministry, accusing officials of downplaying the scale of the protests.

In Paris, protesters demanded the resignation of Interior Minister Christophe Castaner. Castaner had accused Yellow Vests protesters of staging an "attack" on a hospital in the city during Wednesday's May Day protests. Social media footage told a different story, with the protesters seeking refuge in the hospital to avoid police batons and tear gas.

Comment: Muslims and the working class: France's marginalized and natural Yellow Vest allies

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