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Don't let the Skripal case be pushed down the memory hole along with Libya and Aleppo

Caitlin Johnstone
caitlinjohnstone.com
Tue, 22 May 2018 15:55 UTC
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On the fourth of March, in the sleepy British cathedral town of Salisbury, an ex-spy named Sergei Skripal was poisoned by an assassin with the most deadly nerve agent known to man.

The Russian government was immediately blamed by a shocked and outraged world. Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson assured the people of Great Britain that "There's no doubt" that Moscow was responsible. In a large and sudden leap forward in cold war escalations, Russian diplomats were thrown out of countries all around the globe, including my own Australia, in a show of solidarity with the United Kingdom. It was the largest collective ejection of Russian diplomats in history.

Two months after his earth-shattering assassination, as the world stared spellbound at the weekend's immensely popular PR spectacle of a royal wedding, Sergei Skripal was quietly discharged from the hospital he'd been staying at. The BBC reports that he is walking and approaching complete recovery.

Wait a second. Haven't I seen this Python skit before?

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Comedian tells the truth and gets blasted after saying 'straight white male' is the new 'N-word'


RT
Tue, 22 May 2018 15:42 UTC
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Stand-up comedian Josh Denny has been hit by criticism on social media over remarks he made on Twitter. The comic, who is white, compared the phrase "straight white male" with the 'N-word' - a racial slur directed at black people.

The tweet attracted more than 10,000 responses in two days, with the vast majority of the comments being very negative towards the 34-year-old comedian. Users lambasted Denny, calling him 'ignorant' and 'tone-deaf.' Many accused him of not understanding the history of racial relations in the US, or the actual meaning of the 'N-word.'

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Thousands in Sweden have implanted microchips in their skin for sake of 'convenience'

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Tue, 22 May 2018 15:22 UTC
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More than 3,000 people in Sweden have implanted tiny microchips beneath their skin to replace their credit card information, identification, keys, train tickets, among other everyday items, Agence France-Press announced Sunday.

The implant, which is about the size of a grain of rice, utilizes Near Field Communication (NFC) technology, also found in credit cards, debit cards, key fobs, and smartphones. This technology is considered "passive," which means the microchip stores data that can be read by other devices but cannot read data themselves.

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This might resemble an Orwellian nightmare to many, but in Sweden, residents are flocking to get these implanted microchips by "convenience over concerns of potential personal data violations," AFP explained.

Governments in Europe quietly experimented with embedding the small chip in humans in 2015 in Sweden, and several other countries in the region, before the recent rollout.
"Swedes have gone on to be very active in microchipping, with scant debate about issues surrounding its use, in a country keen on new technology and where the sharing of personal information is held up as a sign of a transparent society," AFP notes.

Comment: The narrative is always the same: 'give up your freedoms and privacy so that we can protect you'. It will be anything but. Once the government decides to force mandatory chips in order to do banking or receive health care, they will be that much closer to 'total control'. Brings to mind this passage:
Revelation 13:

16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:

17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
It's not just the Swedes that are promoting it. It has been sometime in the US and Australia - with plans to eventually get everyone micro-chipped.

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Liberal professor boosts women's grades to help them 'compete' with men

Ethan Huff
Natural News
Tue, 22 May 2018 15:39 UTC
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Do women need an academic mulligan, of sorts, in order to excel in the traditionally male field of science? A professor of information systems at The University of Akron in Ohio apparently thinks so, as he recently announced to his class via email that all of his female students would be receiving an automatic grade or two increase simply because they have XX chromosomes.

Professor Liping Liu seems to have bought into the feminist narrative that women need to invade every single field where men currently dominate in order to achieve societal "equality." And seeing that not as many females choose information science as their college major compared to men, Prof. Liu decided that he would artificially inflate their grades as an incentive, doing his part to help "balance the scales" of gender in the field of science.

According to reports, Prof. Liu apparently told his class that females would be receiving an arbitrary grade boost after he had already submitted these inflated grades to the university's registrar. He further explained that females were getting preferential treatment over men as part of "a national movement to encourage female students to go to [sic] information sciences."

Other students were also given grade boosts that they didn't deserve, including students who had earned scores on exams that demonstrated higher performance than their calculated ones, as well as students who attended class but somehow missed getting on the attendance log. But it was Prof. Liu's decision to issue grades using overtly sexist criteria that got everyone's attention.

Comment: Scratch an identity-politics-obsessed liberal and you'll find a sexist (and probably a racist too). They're so convinced of the inferiority of women and minorities that they think they need "special" treatment to help them succeed. If there's anything worse than a belligerent bigot, it's a bigot who thinks he's helping you. He doesn't. And he thinks even less of the people he classifies as "oppressors", i.e. every single white male.

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Arizona running exercise practicing response to mass influx in the event of major California earthquake


NBC 4
Tue, 22 May 2018 00:38 UTC
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Government agencies, businesses and other organizations in Arizona plan to participate in an exercise to practice how the state would respond to a migration of 400,000 people following a catastrophic earthquake in Southern California.

The Arizona Department of Emergency and Military Affairs says participants in the National Mass Care Exercise in the coming week will tackle how to organize operations such as providing food, shelter and medical services.

The department says its planning for the exercise has been underway for nearly a year.

Comment: A wise course of action considering the continuing unrest along the West Coast:

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Turkish-backed militants plunder ancient artifacts in Aleppo


FARS News Agency
Sun, 20 May 2018 15:17 UTC
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The Ankara-backed militants have plundered several old infrastructures of Afrin in Aleppo province as the Turkish army and its allies continue driving out civilians and looting their properties in the town, media sources said.

Media activists in Afrin reported on Sunday that the Ankara-backed militants in Afrin have detached and stole the old railway of Afrin which linked Qatmeh to Akbas square and was built in 1913.

Also, the Kurdish sources reported that the Olive Branch forces, affiliated to the Turkish army, have fully destroyed the tomb of Sheikh Zeid in al-Zeidiyeh district in Afrin and looted the ancient artifacts inside.

Meantime, some reports said that the Turkish government plans to annex Jandaris to the town of al-Reihaniyeh in Turkey by issuing new identity cards for the residents of Afrin, creating fear and panic among the residents of this region.
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German 'asylum fraud' scandal: 10 more migration offices under investigation


RT
Mon, 21 May 2018 15:08 UTC
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German migration authorities have widened their probe into asylum application fraud and are now investigating 10 additional field offices on suspicion of granting refugees permissions to stay in the country without proper grounds.

On Friday, the German Federal Office for Migration and Asylum (BAMF) announced that it would review some 18,000 refugee cases in the city of Bremen going back as far as 2000, after the regional office discovered the approval of up to 2,000 asylum stays between 2013 and 2016, which did not match the government's sanctuary criteria.

On Sunday, the scandal deepened with 10 more asylum decision offices added to the investigation list. BAMF announced that it will examine those branches where the average quotas of asylum applications accepted or rejected in comparison with other offices deviated by 10 percentage points or more, a spokeswoman for the Federal Ministry of the Interior said, following a request from the DPA news agency. A total of an additional 8,500 cases from 2017 would be reviewed, she added.

In addition, BAMF will review a complaint from a Rhineland-Palatinate Bingenan office employee, who on February 6 asked the Nuremberg headquarters to evaluate "divergent assessments of asylum procedure" at the office.

Comment: No shocker here. Meanwhile:
A significant number of German residents, many of whom hold citizenship, have traveled to Syria and Iraq to support various terrorist organizations there over the last years, with many of them now returning. Politicians believe that they may pose a threat to German citizens.

The German media group Funke reported on May 20 that Berlin is aware of more than 1,000 German residents, who have left for Syria and Iraq, since the war broke out several years ago, in order to support various terrorist groups. More than half of them have German citizenship. 243 of them left Germany to support the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK, considered a terrorist group in Germany) and the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) in in their battle against Daesh*. According to the media report, the government revealed the numbers while answering questions from parliamentary representatives of the Left Party.

The number of those who left Germany to fight with terrorist groups is still growing, but slower than 2-3 years ago, the German government said. Some of them are beginning to return to Germany.

The government also revealed that, in accordance with coalition agreements between the CDU/CSU and the SPD parties, a mechanism will be developed aimed at stripping those returning from Syria and Iraq of German citizenship, if evidence of ties with terrorists is found.


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Stock Down

Poll finds 82% of Germans believe US is an unreliable partner


RT
Tue, 22 May 2018 02:18 UTC
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and US President Donald Trump.
© Kevin Lamarque / Reuters
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and US President Donald Trump.
The vast majority of Germans believe the US is not a reliable partner for Berlin when it comes to political cooperation, according to a new poll. It comes after Chancellor Merkel said that Europe can no longer rely on Washington.

The survey, commissioned by public service TV provider ZDF, found that 82 percent of Germans believe the US is not a reliable partner, with only 14 percent believing it is. The remaining four percent were unsure.

It comes after German Chancellor Angela Merkel stated earlier this month that Europe "needs to take its fate into its own hands," noting that "it's no longer the case that the United States will simply just protect us."

Comment: The tide is turning rather quickly against the establishment powers in the US: Also check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: Atlantic Trade War? How Trump Breaking Iran Deal Could Dismantle US Empire

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Police release dramatic footage of Trump hotel shootout


RT
Tue, 22 May 2018 15:08 UTC
Trump hotel shooting
© Miami-Dade Police Department / YouTube
Florida police have released dramatic bodycam footage of their gun battle with a suspect at the Trump National Doral Golf Club Friday.

Suspect Jonathan Oddi, 42, reportedly entered the lobby of the hotel and began shouting anti-Trump remarks before opening fire. Terrified patrons and employees of the hotel fled immediately.

Officers from the City of Doral and Miami-Dade Police Departments responded to multiple 911 calls of shots fired in the area. As footage from the scene shows, the officers entered the hotel and quickly engaged the suspect in a firefight.

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Attention

Texas lieutenant governor calls for 'hardening' of school buildings in wake of latest shooting


Times of India
Sun, 20 May 2018 17:02 UTC
Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patricks
© BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images
Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick speaks to the press on the grounds of Santa Fe High School on May, 20, 2018, in Santa Fe, Texas.
Texas lieutenant governor Patrick called Sunday for a "hardening" of the nation's school buildings in the wake of the attack by a 17-year-old student who killed 10 people at a high school near Houston.

Patrick, a Republican, blamed a "culture of violence" and said more needs to be done to keep shooters away from students, such as restricting school entrances and arming teachers.

"When you're facing someone who's an active shooter, the best way to take that shooter down is with a gun. But even better than that is four to five guns to one," he told CNN's "State of the Union."

On ABC's "The Week", Patrick said he supports background checks for gun purchasers but stressed that "gun regulation starts at home."

Comment: While gun-free school zones don't provide any deterrence and the presence of guns might cause a novice shooter to think twice, they are unlikely to stop false flag events carried out by professionals. See also:

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