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Thousands pack Pennsylvania stadium for Trump rally, while overflow crowd watches event on big screen


pennlive.com
Wed, 11 Dec 2019 12:04 UTC
Trump Pence Pennsylvania rally
© Cameron Clark/York Daily Record
Trump and Pence during the rally at Giant Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania, December 10, 2019.
The Giant Center is filled to capacity for President Trump's rally tonight.

Hundreds weren't able to get in for the president's speech in Hershey. The bridge connecting the Giant Center to the Hersheypark lot was jammed pack with hundreds and hundreds of Trump supporters decked out in red hats and some in red, white and blue apparel.


Some seemed to be disappointed that they could not get in. Others were just as festive as they were when they arrived earlier this afternoon.


Comment: Trump touted his NAFTA replacement trade victory at the rally, while bashing the Democrats' formal commencement of impeachment proceedings as "impeachment light."

In fact, Trump claims the Democrats supported him on the US-Mexico-Canada trade deal because:
"It's a huge deal and it plays down the whole impeachment because they're embarrassed by the impeachment. Our poll numbers have gone through the roof because of her [Pelosi's] stupid impeachment."


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160 Iranian lawyers call for probe into deadly crackdown on protests


RFE/RL
Tue, 10 Dec 2019 19:21 UTC
Iran protests
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A total of 160 Iranian lawyers have called for an investigation into a deadly crackdown against protests that hit some 100 cities and towns last month.

The lawyers made the plea in an open letter to President Hassan Rohani that was published on the opposition news site Kalameh on December 9.

Calling for the accountability and transparency of the state, the letter said the perpetrators of the crackdown should be dismissed from their positions and punished.

Iranian authorities have yet to publish any definitive official death toll for the several days of unrest triggered by a sharp hike in gas prices.

Comment: It's possible, and likely, that these protests were both organic and involved outside interference:

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Attention

Suicide bomb attack hits outside largest US base in Afghanistan, Bagram


RT
Wed, 11 Dec 2019 10:55 UTC
Afghan National Army
© Reuters / Omar Sobhani
FILE PHOTO: Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers keep watch outside the Bagram Airfield entrance gate, north of Kabul, Afghanistan.
A powerful blast ripped through a medical facility outside Bagram Air Base, the largest US military installation in Afghanistan, killing one civilian and wounding dozens more.

The attack took place north of Kabul, just outside Bagram, and targeted an under-construction medical base being built for civilians, according to the NATO-led mission in Afghanistan.

A local woman was killed by the blast, TOLOnews said, citing officials. There were different reports on how many civilians were injured. The latest estimate is 62 wounded.

There were no US or coalition casualties, Resolute Support said in a statement.

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Nearly 175 Saudi aviation students grounded after Pensacola base shooting


RT
Tue, 10 Dec 2019 20:16 UTC
Saudi Arabia Defense Attache
© Reuters / FBI Jacksonville / Handout
Saudi Arabia Defense Attache, Major General Fawaz Al Fawaz, arrives to meet with grounded Saudi students at NAS Pensacola on December 9, 2019.
Some 175 Saudi Arabian military aviation students have been grounded in a "safety stand-down," just days after Saudi Air Force lieutenant Mohammed Alshamrani shot and killed three sailors at Pensacola Naval Air Station.

"A safety stand-down and operational pause commenced Monday for Saudi Arabian aviation students," Navy spokeswoman Lieutenant Andriana Genualdi told Reuters on Tuesday, explaining that the grounding covered Naval Air Station Whiting Field and Naval Air Station Mayport in addition to Naval Air Station Pensacola.

Alshamrani, one of several hundred foreign aviation trainees at the Pensacola base, was killed in a shootout with Escambia County Sheriff's deputies on Friday morning. Police were called to the facility at around 7am local time as the Saudi soldier killed three classmates with a handgun and wounded five more; two deputies were also hit in the shootout.

Comment: See: 4 dead in shooting incident at Pensacola naval base; suspect was Saudi national, officials say - UPDATES

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Nihilism, human waste, and human extinction in San Francisco

Daniel Greenfield
Front Page Magazine
Thu, 05 Dec 2019 00:01 UTC
greta mural
"I think mankind is doomed to extinction," Andrés Petroselli, better known as 'Cobre', told me.

Petroselli, an Argentinian muralist, has traveled around the United States of America putting up giant murals of famous people. There's a giant Quincy Jones mural in Chicago, Frank Sinatra's big blue eyes dominate a Brooklyn street, a mournful Robin Williams used to peer into San Diego, before being demolished, and a leering Michael Jackson is splashed across a storefront in Los Angeles.

Even though he's put up murals from his native Argentina, where giant Gandhis and Frida Kahlos look down on passerby, to Lafayette, Indiana, and across Spain, he's deeply concerned about global warming.

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Student fightback sees University beef ban overturned

Hayley Dixon
The Telegraph
Mon, 09 Dec 2019 14:51 UTC
beef burger

Beef burgers will now be reinstated on the menu
Students have fought back against a ban on beef on their University campus as the union voted to reverse the decision.

The University of East Anglia (UEA) student union faced backlash after agreeing to take dishes like hamburgers and spaghetti bolognese off the menu at their bars or shops in order to tackle climate change.

Now less than a month after the decision was made to ban the meat it has been overturned by the same council.

Comment: Great to see people fighting back against BS 'climate emergency' austerity measures. The plus side to all this propaganda is that naturally raised pastured animals may get on the menu through the back door, leading to greater nutrition of the general public without them even realizing it. This may lead to better functioning brains and more people waking up to the CO2 hoax.

One can dream...

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New poll shows Hillary Clinton in first place among Democratic candidates

Ariel Zilber
Daily Mail
Tue, 10 Dec 2019 12:28 UTC
hillary clinton
Hillary Clinton would be leading the race for the Democratic nomination for president if she declared her candidacy, according to a new poll.

The online survey by Harris Poll which was released by Harvard University's Center for American Political Studies shows the former secretary of state in first place with 21 per cent of the vote.

Joe Biden, the current frontrunner, would receive 20 per cent while Senator Bernie Sanders is at 12 per cent.

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Resident outrage as massive Greta Thunberg 'Christmas' mural goes up on 'a-political' council wall

Chris Hook
7news.com.au
Wed, 11 Dec 2019 08:48 UTC
greta christmas mural australia
© Benalla Rural City/Facebook
A massive mural of Great Thunberg has been painted as part of a small town's Christmas celebrations.
An 'a-political' country council is finding itself at the centre of a civic storm after a local artist painted a huge mural of teen climate change activist Greta Thunberg on the side of one of its buildings.

The image was created as part of Benalla Rural City's annual Window to Window Christmas festival, in which artists paint seasonal pictures on shop windows across the town.

The town is about 212km north-east of Melbourne in the Victorian high country.

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Bomb

Bombshell: CNBC anchor admits building 7 brought down in 'controlled implosion' on 9/11

Matt Agorist
Free Thought Project
Mon, 09 Dec 2019 00:00 UTC
CNBC anchor building 7
On September 11, 2001, at 5:20 p.m., World Trade Center Building 7 suddenly collapsed into its own footprint, falling at free fall speed for 2.5 seconds of its seven-second complete destruction. WTC 7 was not hit by a plane. After it collapsed, Americans were told that office fires caused a unique — never before seen — complete architectural failure leading to the building collapsing into its own footprint at the rate of gravity.

For more than a decade, many Americans never even knew WTC 7 fell — up to and including the person who was Secretary of Defense when the towers came down, Donald Rumsfeld.

In 2011, Donald Rumsfeld went on a radio and television tour to promote sales of his revisionist memoir. Of course, most hosts refused to ask him any questions of substance. However, one radio host hailing out of Chicago, Mancow Muller, was unafraid of asking hard-hitting questions.

On the show, Mancow asked Donald Rumsfeld what his thoughts were on World Trade Center Tower 7. His answer was ridiculous.
"What is building 7? ...I've never heard that before." said Donald Rumsfeld

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Bomb

Hong Kong police defuse two home-made bombs containing 10kg of high explosives found on college campus

Danny Mok
South China Morning Post
Mon, 09 Dec 2019 13:52 UTC
hong kong police find explosives Wah Yan College
© K.Y. Cheng
Police officers display evidence of the two home-made devices.
Bomb disposal officers in Hong Kong defused two home-made devices containing 10kg (22lb) of high explosives that were found on school grounds and designed to kill large numbers of people, police said late on Monday.

Officers said the bombs were "complete, fully functional and ready to be used" radio-controlled improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, and had one purpose only - to kill and maim.

A school janitor spotted the devices in the grounds of Wah Yan College Hong Kong on Queen's Road East in Wan Chai at about 5.30pm.

Alick McWhirter, senior bomb disposal officer, said the devices contained two types of high explosives: a primary high explosive, which was designed to act as the detonator and booster, and a second one based around ammonium nitrate. They were also designed to fragment and included shrapnel, in the form of nails.

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