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Slovakian Jewish cemetery: Almost 60 graves vandalized 'worse than during WWII'


RT
Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:10 UTC
Jewishcemetary
© Facebook/Namestovo Jewish cemetery
Namestovo Jewish Cemetary
At least 59 tombstones were overturned and smashed into pieces by unknown vandals at a Jewish cemetery in Slovakia. Caretakers of the graveyard said they had never seen such a vicious attack, even under Nazi occupation.

The incident occurred at the Jewish cemetery in the northern Slovak town of Namestovo. The destruction was noticed on Monday and it was not immediately clear when the destructive spree itself occurred.
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Bad Guys

Kentucky Gov. Beshear to restore voting rights to over 100,000 former felons

Dareh Gregorian
NBC News
Wed, 18 Dec 2019 18:53 UTC
Beshear
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear announced in his inaugural address Tuesday that he'll sign an executive order this week restoring voting rights to more than 100,000 people who've been convicted of felonies.

"My faith teaches me to treat others with dignity and respect. My faith also teaches me forgiveness," Beshear said in a speech outside the state Capitol in Frankfort.

"That's why on Thursday I will sign an executive order restoring voting rights to over a hundred thousand men and women who have done wrong in the past but are doing right now. They deserve to participate in our great democracy," the Democrat declared.

"By taking this step, by restoring these voting rights, we declare that everyone counts in Kentucky. We all matter."
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Yellow Vest

Dutch farmers, construction workers protest insane environmental policies driving them out of business

Mike Corder
AP
Wed, 18 Dec 2019 12:00 UTC
dutch farmer protest
From border crossings in the east to a steel factory in the west, Dutch farmers and construction workers protested Wednesday against the government pollution policies they say are driving them out of business.

Farmers took to the roads in their tractors, blocking a major highway at the border with Germany. They also parked in the center of The Hague and in front of the entrance to a steel mill near the North Sea coast, Dutch police and media reported.

The Dutch protests are part of a wave of demonstrations in Europe that also includes unions in France who are upset over French President Emmanuel Macron's pension reform plans. Also Wednesday, opponents of legislation in Poland that would give the government the power to fire or fine judges are expected to take to the streets.

Comment: Protests against government mandated eco-insanity are erupting throughout Europe: See also: RT provides some tweets showing footage of the protest:









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Bronx girl seen kidnapped in video admits it was a hoax

Edgar Sandoval
New York Times
Wed, 18 Dec 2019 17:43 UTC
Karol Sanchez
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The grainy black and white video showed a nightmarish scene in the Bronx.

A mother and her 16-year-old daughter were walking down a quiet street on Monday night when two men appeared and dragged the teenager into a vehicle.

New Yorkers were captivated for hours by the news on Tuesday, after an Amber Alert had been issued and video of the kidnapping spread online.

At first, there was good news: The girl, Karol Sanchez, had been found, unharmed.

Hours later, more disconcerting information surfaced: Karol confessed that it was all a hoax that stemmed from her difficult relationship with her mother, according to two police officials.

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Fake GRU agent detained over weapons & accused of raping own daughter he fathered with cousin 'wife'


RT
Wed, 18 Dec 2019 17:25 UTC
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© Sputnik / Nina Alekseeva
Andrey, the suspect in the case, during a court hearing
A seemingly respectable religious family is suspected of hiding a despicable story of domestic abuse and incestuous rape. Police have already arrested the father for stashing an illegal arsenal of firearms.

If all details about the 10-member family at the center of the story currently floating around in the media are confirmed, it may well give fodder to a horror movie script. Officials have, so far, been restrained in their reporting, but what they said is already disturbing.

On Monday evening, police went to the family home in the village of Khimozi, which is located some 30km (18.6 miles) south of St. Petersburg. They were following up on a tip from a local resident, who said she believed the head of the family has been raping his 13-year-old daughter for years. Once let inside, they reportedly discovered lots of hastily hidden illegal firearms.
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Hundred-strong terrorist cell busted in Russian prison where management was on the take - investigators


RT
Wed, 18 Dec 2019 17:18 UTC
russian police
© Investigative Committee of Russia
A wide-ranging probe involving multiple agencies has busted a large terrorist cell operating inside a prison in southern Russia. Senior management at the jail stand accused of taking bribes to turn a blind eye.

The jihadist ring was organized by a man from the southern republic of Dagestan, who was serving a sentence for illegal possession of firearms, Russian law enforcement said on Wednesday.

The prison where he was serving his term is located in Kalmykia, a region just north of Dagestan. Since his arrival in 2013, he managed to recruit over 100 inmates for what the investigators call a terrorist organization. Prison management was apparently aware of the recruitment drive, but they chose to turn a blind eye to the activity in return for bribes, instead of cracking down.
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Yellow Vest

Yellow Vests & brass necks: The brutality of Macron's crackdown continues to be invisible

George Galloway
RT
Wed, 18 Dec 2019 17:04 UTC
yellow vest protest pensions
© Getty Images / Omar Havana
Though they wear high-vis, French protesters have been all but invisible in the so-called mainstream media, also provoking deafening silence from the labor and trade union movement, and even the so-called 'left' within it.

While a broken head or even a broken window in Hong Kong or Venezuela can and often does lead the news, more than a year of weekly upheaval, mass movements of working people met with extreme violence by the French state and its achingly liberal President Macron has been ignored by Western print and broadcast journalists with studied arrogance.

There can be no rational justification for this. Hong Kong is almost 6,000 miles (9,656km) from England, Caracas almost 5,000 (8,047km). France is 31 miles (50km) away. It's not cheap to send and maintain news crews at the other ends of the earth. Cheap awaydays proliferate to Paris.

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'All terrorists should be forgiven'? Parents furious over UK school assignment telling pupils to 'imagine you're a parent of Manchester bomb victim'

James Campbell, Benjamin Blosse
Manchester Evening News
Tue, 17 Dec 2019 17:08 UTC
Children at Bridlington School homework terrorist Manchester

Children at Bridlington School were asked whether all terrorist should be forgiven
A school has come under fierce criticism after its pupils were told to do homework based on the Manchester bombing and forgiving terrorists.

Pupils at a school in East Yorkshire were tasked with an assignment on a homework app which states: "Imagine that you are a parent of one of the Manchester bombing victims.

"Write a response to the point of view that: "All terrorists should be forgiven".

22 people were killed in the Arena attack at the Ariana Grande gig on May 22, 2017.

One parent said she took her child out of Bridlington High School for the day until she has some answers.

She told Hull Live : "There are children at the school who attended the concert and were there when the attack happened. There is even a cousin of one of the victims at the school.

Comment: Clearly a poorly considered assignment, and particularly so now when tensions are high. People no longer feel safe enough to attend Christmas festivities due to the threat of terrorist attacks - so preaching forgiveness is really a bit rich.

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India: Curfew lifted, broadband services restored in Guwahati after 6 days of unrest


Business Insider
Tue, 17 Dec 2019 00:00 UTC
  • Curfew was imposed in Guwahati, Dibrugarh, Jorhat, Tinsukia on December 11.
  • Army was also deployed after protests against the CAA turned violent.
  • Landline-based internet services are but mobile internet will be suspended till 9 a.m. on Wednesday.
Curfew in Assam
© IANS News
Security personnel stand guard near Janta Bhawan during an indefinite curfew clamped by the Assam government following deteriorating law and order situation over the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2019.
The administration here on Tuesday lifted curfew and restored the broadband internet services in the state capital as the situation improved in Assam, which was on the boil over the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA).

After violent protests against the CAA, curfew was imposed in Guwahati, Dibrugarh, Jorhat, Tinsukia and a few other cities on December 11 and the army was deployed.

Comment: Meanwhile, the protests have spread to several high-profile Universities in New Delhi, Chennai, Lucknow and other locations. See also:

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US military uses photo of Nazi war criminal to commemorate battle anniversary

Andy Gregory
The Independent
Wed, 18 Dec 2019 11:26 UTC
Joachim Peiper
© Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Joachim Peiper of the Waffen-SS, pictured wearing the Iron Cross awarded to him in 1940
The US military has used a glamorised image of a Nazi war criminal who led an infamous massacre during the Battle of the Bulge to kick off a photo-series commemorating the Allied victory's anniversary, drawing a furious reaction on social media.

Joachim Peiper was a personal assistant to Heinrich​ Himmler and the chief of a German combat unit that murdered at least 84 American prisoners of war during the Nazis' failed final offensive on the Western front.

Peiper and 72 others in his unit were later convicted of war crimes for the Malmedy massacre, which saw them assemble dozens of surrendered American troops in the snow and open fire without warning on the second day of the five-week Battle of the Bulge.

Comment: Yahoo news reports on the 'white power hand sign' the above refers to:
Possible 'white power' hand signs at Army-Navy game probedThe Army and Navy academies are looking into hand signs flashed by students that can be associated with "white power" and were televised during the Army-Navy football game on Saturday, school officials said.

Cadets at West Point and midshipmen at the Naval Academy in the stands both appeared to display the sign during the broadcast, officials with the two military academies told The Wall Street Journal. The gesture was seen during an ESPN broadcast segment.

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School officials are trying to determine what the hand signals were meant to convey, they said.

"We're looking into it," Lt. Col. Chris Ophardt, a spokesperson for the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in New York, told the Journal. "I don't know what their intention is."

"We are aware and will be looking into it," said Cmdr. Alana Garas, a spokesperson for the U.S. Naval Academy, in Annapolis, Maryland.

The Pentagon didn't immediately respond to the Journal's request for comment.

The hand sign is similar to the one often used to indicate "OK," but the Anti-Defamation League says it has lately been used as an extremist meme, in part because of its ambiguity.

U.S. Coast Guard leaders last year reprimanded an officer who used a similar hand sign during a television broadcast.
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