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There is nothing to fear but the fearful themselves

Dan Sanchez
Activist Post
Fri, 04 Dec 2015 18:42 UTC
fear Hannity
When I first learned of the recent attacks in Paris, a chill went down my spine. "No," I thought, "This is all happening too fast."

I was terrified. I was not terrorized, mind you. What happened in Paris was tragic, of course. But I was not so ignorant and innumerate as to think the kind of violence it represented was a statistically significant direct threat to myself and my loved ones. I was fully cognizant that, even with the recent uptick in terror attacks, the probability of my family ever being caught up in one was vanishingly minuscule. I am more likely to be felled by a deer or a bolt of lightning than by a jihadist's Kalashnikov.

What terrified me was the response of all the people who are incapable of such a proportional perspective: those who saw the news from France and panicked, thinking "I'm next!" As distant as it was, the Paris attacks unleashed in America a surge of fear and of calls for greater police powers, as well as an attendant wave of anti-Muslim hate and war lust.
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Hundreds in Berlin protest horrific, inhumane treatment of refugees

Christopher Dreier
World Socialist Web Site
Fri, 04 Dec 2015 18:21 UTC
Germany Protest refugees
© WSWSProtest at LaGeSo against conditions facing refugees
On the evening of November 29 hundreds of people demonstrated outside the Berlin refugee registration centre, the State Office for Health and Social Affairs (LaGeSo), to protest against the inhumane treatment of refugees. The demonstration was organized at short notice by volunteers from the group "Night before LaGeSo" via Facebook and was supported by other groups, including "Moabit Helps".

Many of the demonstrators, who gathered despite pouring rain, brought homemade signs and banners bearing slogans such as "Refugee crisis? No, a management crisis!" "First welcome, then (allowed to) freeze" and "Stop the shameless spectacle".

Rebecka, a student at Humboldt University who regularly helps refugees, came to the demonstration because she regards the conditions at LaGeSo as scandalous. "The behaviour of the Berlin Senate can only be described as institutional racism", she said. "The temperature has dropped and the first fatality is only a matter of time. This can only be explained by the fact that people are to be forced to quit Berlin."

A similar assessment was to be heard from almost everyone aware of the conditions prevailing at LaGeSo and who had decided to attend the demonstration. For months, hundreds of refugees have been forced to wait for hours at the gates of the site in all weather conditions, to sign up for an asylum procedure or receive vital provisions. Those forced to queue include many sick persons, the elderly and children.

Although the initial registration of refugees has now been outsourced, many still wait at the LaGeSo premises for transport to the new application centre in Bundesallee. Hundreds also wait day after day to obtain a guarantee of payment for accommodation in a hostel, a medical certificate or other essential social services.

LaGeSo's Kafkaesque numbering system has collapsed, and so it is now basically: first come, first served. This deliberately created situation means that people begin queuing in the evening and then spend the night in front of LaGeSo in the hope of securing an appointment the next day.

Comment: Read the latest report from the German editors of SOTT.net on the rise of hatred towards refugees and Muslims in Germany.

Refugee crisis in Germany - Nazis on the rise - 'Never again' is happening again

See also:

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Cow Skull

Staged reality: The brutal onslaught of bullcrap

Zen Gardner
Waking Times
Wed, 02 Dec 2015 19:04 UTC
MSM talking heads
The stuff we're forced to witness and read about is incredible. Literally.

Besides this obviously orchestrated clampdown and ramped up war mongering following the Paris "incident', front and center is the Syrian turnaround by a bold stepping, clear minded Russia. The media is beside itself furiously trying to bury, minimize, justify and demonize this wise and functional step , the barefaced truth of which is turning this psychopathic move toward western hegemony on its warped head.

The ongoing genocides in Yemen, Ukraine and Palestine continue with nary a flicker of mention in the western press, with the Yemen extermination recently exacerbated no doubt by weaponized storms further jeopardizing the lives of millions in that defenseless country.

If that isn't dystopian enough, the newly placed head of the Human Rights Commission of the so-called United Nations is none other than Saudi Arabia, a country deeply tied to all things terrorist who have just announced a mass beheading to take place as part of their public relations inspired move to continue to appear as barbaric as possible.
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More than 1,000 IDF soldiers storm Shuafat refugee camp to demolish 1 Palestinian's home with explosives

Allison Deger
Mondo Weiss
Thu, 03 Dec 2015 17:45 UTC
IDF forces Shuafat
© Via FacebookIsraeli police patrol Shuafat refugee camp in East Jerusalem during a demolition on December 2, 2015.
Yesterday in a major operation more than 1,000 Israeli forces crowded the streets of Shuafat Refugee camp in East Jerusalem to demolish by explosion the family home of a Palestinian who killed three and wounded 14 in a car ramming attack in November 2014, causing clashes between residents and Israeli police.

While the demolition was in progress Israeli forces closed all entrances into the camp and roads inside of the congested neighborhood. Ambulances were prevented from driving into the area to retrieve patients wounded with rubber bullets in unrest until the Israeli army left the camp, Red Crescent spokesperson Erab al -Fuqaha told Mondoweiss.


During the explosion, debris damaged the homes of numerous neighboring Palestinians, cracking foundations and walls and shattering windows.


Scores of Shuafat residents logged the incursion over social media. A Facebook page for the camp posted photos showing dark blue clad police in riot gear walking through the street. Video footage from the Israeli military and camp residents show police using maps to guide them to the al-Akri family home, drilling holes in the wall to implant explosives, and detonating incendiary devices which caused a mushroom cloud of smoke.

Comment: Another glimpse into what life is like for Palestinians under the domination of a psychopathic regime. It is absolutely horrifying what they have to endure under Israeli occupation.

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Tajikistani court sentences seven IS supporters


TASS
Fri, 04 Dec 2015 10:53 UTC
recruit
© www.rferl.orgA screen grab of recruiting for Islamic State in Yekaterinburg, Tajikistan, March 2015.
A court in Tajikistan's southern Khatlon province has sentenced seven local residents to prison terms ranging from 7 to 27 years on charges of involvement in the activities of the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group (outlawed in Russia), the court secretariat told TASS on Friday.

According to the verdict announced by the judge, the defendants are charged under several articles of the country's Criminal Code, including the establishment of a criminal organization, public appeals for changing the existing political system, promotion of IS ideas and recruitment of citizens for taking part in the fighting in Syria.

"The law enforcement bodies of the province traced the extremist group, among its members were three young people under 18, after the incident with rising the IS flag in the city of Shaartuz in August," a source in Tajikistan's Interior Ministry told TASS. The investigation proved the involvement of the group's members in attempts to recruit young residents of Shaartuz to Islamic State, active correspondence in social networks with supporters of the terrorist organization and a statement of their support for their ideas.

According to the State Committee for National Security of Tajikistan, more than 700 citizens of the country, mostly young people, are taking part in the fighting in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan on the side of the Islamic State.

Comment: IS tentacles reach far and wide. Every point of recruitment is an anchor to and of this devastating societal plague and territorial end-game, brought to someone else's (your) doorstep courtesy the US, UK, Israel and NATO. No restrictions apply.

Recruitment involves a propaganda video, promises of money and a "carefree life" for those who travel to IS-controlled areas in Syria and Iraq. Most recruits come from labor migrants. Scaremongering plays on the fears of the "Islamist threat" and the societal effects/ramifications of radicalization. Over a million Tajik migrants work in Russia.

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Google accused of spying on children as young as 7 years old


RT
Thu, 03 Dec 2015 19:52 UTC
google office
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission in which they allege that Google has been violating the privacy of students as young as seven years old by mining their data.

The EFF's Tuesday complaint said that Google can track every search term, site, and video students view using a feature that is enabled by default on the Chromebooks that are sold to schools. The data collection is allegedly not used for advertising purposes, but rather to "to improve Google products."

The complaint alleges that the monitoring is in violation of a Student Privacy Pledge that Google signed in 2014, which the EFF said is legally enforceable under the Federal Trade Commission Act.

Comment: Isn't Google's motto "Don't be evil"? Perhaps they don't consider spying to be evil.

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Met Police reports Islamophobic attacks triple in London following Paris attacks

Ben Church
RT
Fri, 04 Dec 2015 16:46 UTC
UK Muslim in bus
© Bernadett Szabo / Reuters
Hate crimes against Muslims in London have risen threefold in the wake of the Paris attacks, according to police. British Muslims fear further attacks after MPs voted to extend airstrikes against Islamic State (formerly ISIS/ISIL) from Iraq into Syria.

On November 10, three days before the Paris attacks, 24 hate crimes were reported to police from the previous week. By contrast, 76 were recorded in the week ending November 24.

Islamic communities across the country are fearful of more hostility resulting from parliament's decision to launch airstrikes on Syria.

Speaking to the BBC, Mussurut Zia from Muslim Women's Network UK said the situation in Syria "increased the likelihood of them being targeted."

Comment: For more on this rising phenomenon:

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NASA-funded study: Over 32 advanced civilizations have collapsed before us, and we're next in line

Simon Black
Sovereignman.com
Fri, 04 Dec 2015 14:45 UTC
civilization collapses
As any long-time reader of this column knows, we routinely draw from historical lessons to highlight that this time is not different.

Throughout the 18th century, for example, France was the greatest superpower in Europe, if not the world.

But they became complacent, believing that they had some sort of 'divine right' to reign supreme, and that they could be as fiscally irresponsible as they liked.

The French government spent money like drunken sailors; they had substantial welfare programs, free hospitals, and grand monuments.

They held vast territories overseas, engaged in constant warfare, and even had their own intrusive intelligence service that spied on King and subject alike.

Of course, they couldn't pay for any of this.

French budget deficits were out of control, and they resorted to going heavily into debt and rapidly debasing their currency.

Stop me when this sounds familiar.
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Fire

16 killed in Molotov cocktail firebombing on Cairo nightclub


RT
Fri, 04 Dec 2015 12:54 UTC
Cairo attack
An apparent firebombing of a nightclub in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, has claimed at least 16 lives, security officials report. Earlier reports said 18 people had been killed.

The attackers tossed multiple Molotov cocktails inside the establishment located at a hotel in the Agouza area near the center of Cairo in the early morning assault, starting a fire, Egyptian media reported.

The Cairo Post newspaper says three masked assailants reportedly carried out the attack.

Six people were injured, according to preliminary estimates.

Cairo police are searching for the perpetrators as a rescue operation continues. An official told Reuters that one of the suspects was an employee of the restaurant that was attacked.
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Major explosion rocks gas refinery in Texas

Sarah A Matott
Carlsbad Current-Argus
Thu, 03 Dec 2015 21:52 UTC
Orla plant fire
© KWES 9Blast: at least two injured in explosion
More than 250 oil workers escaped injury Thursday morning after an explosion rocked the Anadarko gas refinery near Orla and forced safety workers to evacuate people from a 10-mile radius, officials said.

Only two workers were reported to have minor injuries by late Thursday. The black plume of smoke from the refinery was visible from as far away as the Guadalupe Mountains and the explosion could be felt 25 miles away.

The fire broke out about 9 a.m. at the Ramsey Natural Gas Processing Plant near Orla, about 45 miles away from Carlsbad.

The plant is owned by Western Gas Partners and is operated by Anadarko Petroleum Corporation.

John Christiansen, Anadarko Petroleum Corporation vice president of corporate communications, said in an email Thursday afternoon the fire was still burning into the night, but had diminished and had been contained to one area of the plant. Emergency scanner traffic indicated that firefighters would stay at the site overnight to ensure any remaining fire burned safely.
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