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Political commentator Ben Stein: Ocasio-Cortez is promising the same kinds of things as Hitler

Ed Mazza
Huffington Post
Wed, 23 Jan 2019 16:26 UTC
Ben Stein
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Ben Stein on Tuesday claimed policies advocated by freshman lawmaker Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) "invariably lead to bad things," including genocide.

The actor, former speechwriter to President Richard M. Nixon, and political commentator even made comparisons to Adolf Hitler.

Ocasio-Cortez has made headlines for advocating higher marginal tax rates of up to 70 percent on earnings past $10 million in income as well as a "Green New Deal" to tackle the climate crisis.
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Four arrested in plot to bomb Muslim community of Islamberg, NY

Georgie Silvarole and Meaghan M. McDermott
USAToday
Tue, 22 Jan 2019 16:12 UTC
Andrew Crysel, Vincent Vetromile, Brian Colaneri
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Andrew Crysel, Vincent Vetromile, Brian Colaneri
An offhand remark by a Greece Odyssey Academy student during lunchtime on Friday sparked a police investigation that led to the arrest of four people in connection with an alleged plot to attack a Muslim community in New York.

Greece Police Chief Patrick Phelan said the probe kicked off after a 16-year-old student showed a picture of another person on his phone to friends in the cafeteria and "made a comment to the effect 'he looks like the next school shooter, doesn't he?'"

Other students alarmed by that student's remarks reported them to school officials.

Through a series of subsequent interviews, police were eventually led to what Phelan said was a "serious plot" to attack the community of Islamberg in Delaware County, near the Catskills.

During the investigation, police recovered 23 firearms and three homemade bombs, Phelan said.
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'Dog gulag' owner arrested for abandoning 70 animals to resort to cannibalism to survive while he went on vacation


RT
Wed, 23 Jan 2019 14:55 UTC
Dog in shelter
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A stray dog in a shelter.
The owner of a private shelter for stray dogs in Russia is accused of abandoning almost 70 of his animals, leaving them to resort to cannibalism to survive. He was arrested after returning from a trip to Thailand.

The horrible case of alleged gross negligence and animal cruelty happened in the far-eastern Amursk Region. The shelter is located in Chigiry, a satellite village of the provincial capital Blagoveshchensk. Until recently, it had a contract with the authorities to house stray dogs after they are caught by animal control services.

The contract expired in December, however, and the owner, Vyacheslav Zolotarev, apparently decided that caring for the animals was no longer his job. Instead, he and his wife went on a trip to Thailand, according to reports in the local media, but apparently made no effort to ensure that the animals were cared for in their absence.
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Fraud: Native 'activist' Nathan Phillips never served in Vietnam, but raised money claiming he did

Cassandra Fairbanks
The Gateway Pundit
Wed, 23 Jan 2019 12:03 UTC
Nathan Phillips Covington Catholic
The Washington Post has had to issue yet another retraction after falsely claiming that far-left Native American activist Nathan Phillips served in the Vietnam War. He didn't - but this lie was previously used to help raise money for a documentary about his life.

On Monday, the Washington Post quietly issued a correction to their story about the activist, saying that while he served in the Marines, he was never deployed to Vietnam.

"Correction: Earlier versions of this story incorrectly said that Native American activist Nathan Phillips fought in the Vietnam War. Phillips served in the U.S. Marines from 1972 to 1976 but was never deployed to Vietnam," the update reads.
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Brazilian Jews sue cartoonist over 'Nazi hug' drawing of Netanyahu & Bolsonaro

Marcus M. Gilban
Times of Israel
Wed, 23 Jan 2019 12:03 UTC
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro cartoon
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A cartoon by Brazilian artist Aroeira published in January 2019 in the O Dia newspaper, featuring Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, in a hug with their arms held in the shape of a swastika.
Brazilian Jews have filed a lawsuit against an iconic cartoonist over a drawing that was considered anti-Semitic.

The Rio Jewish federation sued cartoonist Aroeira for his image featuring Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Brazil's new president, Jair Bolsonaro, in a hug with their arms held in the shape of a swastika. The cartoon was published by O Dia newspaper and circulated on social media.

"Art can never be used to offend the memory of millions of people who died in World War II. The issue will be viewed with severity. We can't tolerate the offense to Jews and other minorities," Jewish federation president Arnon Velmovitsky told the weekly television show Comunidade na TV on Sunday.
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Supreme Court allows military to implement transgender restrictions

Jessica Gresko
ABC News
Wed, 23 Jan 2019 12:03 UTC
SupremeCourt
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The Trump administration can go ahead with its plan to restrict military service by transgender men and women while court challenges continue, the Supreme Court said Tuesday.

The high court split 5-4 in allowing the plan to take effect, with the court's five conservatives greenlighting it and its four liberal members saying they would not have. The order from the court was brief and procedural, with no elaboration from the justices.

The court's decision clears the way for the Pentagon to bar enlistment by people who have undergone a gender transition. It will also allow the administration to require that military personnel serve as members of their biological gender unless they began a gender transition under less restrictive Obama administration rules.
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Trump invites Covington students to White House as death threats force their school to close


RT
Wed, 23 Jan 2019 12:03 UTC
Covington Catholic Student
President Donald Trump has invited to the White House the Covington Catholic High School students who became the most hated people in the nation this weekend, while their school has been forced to close as threats keep pouring in.

Students from Covington, who became viral super-villains when a clip of them appearing to surround and mock a Native American elder was widely shared, will meet with Trump "as early as tomorrow," Fox News host Laura Ingraham initially reported on Tuesday - only to qualify the statement a few hours later with a note that any such meeting would take place "after shutdown." White House press secretary Sarah Sanders confirmed the invitation had been issued.

Meanwhile, students and parents at Covington were warned just hours before the start of classes on Tuesday to stay off campus for the day. The last-minute missive followed a letter to parents informing them that "the incident that took place at the March for Life in Washington, DC" was being investigated by an independent third party and advising them to contact the authorities in case of any threats.

Comment: Also see: Shocking video footage confirms Covington students were being viciously harassed by rabid Black Hebrew Israelites

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Mainstream media is literally making people sick by their propagation of "Trump anxiety disorder" a/k/a Trump derangement syndrome

Caitlin Johnstone
Caitlin Johnstone Rogue Journalist
Wed, 16 Jan 2019 00:00 UTC
Trump Anxiety Disorder
A new, updated data set is now available on a psychological phenomenon that has been labeled "Trump Anxiety Disorder" or "Trump Hypersensitive Unexplained Disorder," and it says that the phenomenon only got worse in 2018. The disorder is described as a specific type of anxiety in which symptoms "were specific to the election of Trump and the resultant unpredictable sociopolitical climate," and according to the 2018 surveys Americans are feeling significantly more stressed by the future of their country and the current political environment than they were last year.

Pacific Standard reports as follows:

As the possibility of a Hillary Clinton victory began to slip away-and the possibility of a Donald Trump presidency became more and more certain - the contours of the new age of American anxiety began to take shape. In a 2017 column, Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank described this phenomenon as "Trump Hypertensive Unexplained Disorder":
Overeating. Headaches. Fainting. Irregular heartbeat. Chronic neck pain. Depression. Irritable bowel syndrome. Tightness in the chest. Shortness of breath. Teeth grinding. Stomach ulcer. Indigestion. Shingles. Eye twitching. Nausea. Irritability. High blood sugar. Tinnitus. Reduced immunity. Racing pulse. Shaking limbs. Hair loss. Acid reflux. Deteriorating vision. Stroke. Heart attack. It was a veritable organ recital.

Comment: Johnstone's analysis is spot on and confirmed by many stories!

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Politics on the playground: 'Yellow vests vs. police' game hitting French schoolyards


RT
Wed, 23 Jan 2019 11:01 UTC
Yellow vest protests kids
As France experiences its worst turmoil in decades, a new craze is sweeping French schoolyards. Alongside football, tag, and hopscotch, perceptive kids are taking sides in a new game at recess: Yellow Vests against the police.

"The Yellow Vests are the bad guys, they break the shop windows, so we fight between the bad guys and the policemen," explained 6-year-old Adam, a schoolboy in Paris' 8th District, to France's BFM TV. Admitting he preferred to play as a Yellow Vest because less running was involved, Adam said that he chooses not to shout anti-government slogans alongside his friends because he 'doesn't agree' with them.
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The many lies told by the NY Times in its "sympathetic" feature on Rouzan al-Najjar and The Great March of Return

Eric Maddox
Mondoweiss
Tue, 22 Jan 2019 00:00 UTC
Razan al-Najjar

Razan al-Najjar, photo shared by the al-Najjar family.
Much has been made of a recent New York Times piece since it came out on December 30, 2018 "A Day, a Life: When a Medic Was Killed in Gaza, Was It an Accident?" no doubt because some see it as breaking from the Times typically lopsided treatment of this issue. Here are my thoughts on why it isn't much of a departure at all.

The Times undermine their own reporting with a misleading headline. If you actually read the article (which many obviously won't), it's clear that there's no such ambiguity:
"The bullet that killed her, The Times found, was fired by an Israeli sniper into a crowd that included white-coated medics in plain view. A detailed reconstruction, stitched together from hundreds of crowd-sourced videos and photographs, shows that neither the medics nor anyone around them posed any apparent threat of violence to Israeli personnel. Though Israel later admitted her killing was unintentional, the shooting appears to have been reckless at best, and possibly a war crime, for which no one has yet been punished."
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