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Lost in translation: Taco Bell fires worker who didn't take order, saying 'I don't speak English'


RT
Sun, 16 Sep 2018 13:56 UTC
Taco Bell sign
© Mario Anzuoni / Reuters
First a Taco Bell employee was lost in translation as she was explaining to a woman that she doesn't understand her ordering in English, now she lost her job. The customer complained the incident was racist as she's black.

"No hablo ingles," (I don't speak English) says a drive-through worker in a video posted by Alexandria Montgomery this week that went viral.

The customer's indignation over her failure to order some Mexican food seemed to fall on deaf ears. Two more workers at the Hialeah, Florida restaurant showed up at the window as the squabble continued, but they didn't take her order. The first worker gestured to Montgomery that she was holding up the line before shutting the window.
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'Serial killer' arrested after four murders, suspect is a US border patrol agent


RT
Sun, 16 Sep 2018 13:40 UTC
Border patrol agent
© Loren Elliott / Reuters
A U.S. Border Patrol agent in Texas, U.S., August 16, 2018.
A US Border Patrol agent who authorities described as a 'serial killer' has confessed to four murders following his arrest. Police say all of his female victims were prostitutes.

Juan Davis Ortiz, 35, a US Navy veteran who has been with the US Border Patrol for 10 years, was captured by state troopers on Saturday in Laredo, a Texan city on the border with Mexico. The hunt for Ortiz began on Friday, when a woman reached out to police claiming she was snatched by a man before managing to escape. She provided police with a detailed description of the suspect, including his tattoos, Webb County District Attorney Isidro R. Alaniz told CNN's affiliate KGNS-TV.

When troopers found him in a parking lot, Ortiz tried to escape on foot but was eventually found in the back of a truck.

Police say he confessed to four killings, but declined to reveal details of the attacks. So far, only two victims have been identified: Melissa Ramirez, a 29-year-old woman from Laredo; and Claudia Anne Luera, 42, who was found alive on Highway 255 but later died in hospital. The other two victims are an unidentified man and woman. Authorities say that all of the female victims were prostitutes.
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Syrians go to polls in 1st local elections after seven years of war


RT
Sun, 16 Sep 2018 14:59 UTC
Syrians voting
© Omar Sanadiki / Reuters
Syrians are electing their local councils during first municipal elections since the start of the lingering seven-year war. Polls have opened on Sunday shortly after an overnight airstrike hit Damascus airport.

As many as 6,551 polling stations opened on Sunday morning with Syrians invited to vote for their representatives in local councils, state news agency SANA reported. It said over 40,000 candidates are contesting 18,478 seats. Polls will be closed at 7.00pm local time, and authorities have said they took all necessary precautions to keep the ballot boxes safe and secure.

Today's local elections, the first to be held since the conflict broke out in 2011, comes amid continued violence in various parts of the war-ravaged country. On Saturday night, an airstrike - purportedly carried out by Israeli jets - hit Damascus international airport causing several explosions.
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Impact of Zionism on Jews and Gentiles

Gilad Atzmon
gilad.co.uk
Mon, 10 Sep 2018 00:00 UTC
Jew and the gentile
Early Zionism was a significant and glorious moment in Jewish history; a moment of dramatic epiphany fueled by self-loathing. The early Zionists promised to save the Jews from the Jew and to liberate the Jew from the Jews. They were disgusted by the Diaspora non-proletarian urban Jewish culture which they regarded as parasitic. They promised to bond the new Hebrews with labour and soil. They were convinced that they could transform what they saw as a greedy capitalist into a new 'Israelite hard working peasant.' They believed that they could make the 'international cosmopolitan' into a nationalist patriot, they believed that they knew how to convert Soros into a kibbutznik: they were certain that it was within their capacity to make Alan Dershowitz into a Uri Avneri and Abe Foxman into a peacenik. They promised to make Jews into people like all other people while failing to realize that no other people really want to resemble others.

Zionism has been successful on many fronts. It managed to form a Jewish state at the expense of the indigenous people of Palestine. The Jewish state is a wealthy ghetto and one which is internationally supported. But Israel is a state like no other. It is institutionally racist and murderous. It begs for American taxpayers' money despite being filthy rich. Sadly, Zionism didn't solve the Jewish problem, it just moved it to a new location. More significantly, not only did Zionism fail to heal the Jews as it had promised to do, it actually amplified the symptoms it had vowed to obliterate.
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'The system's not working' is just liberal-speak for 'we're not getting what we want'

David Harsanyi
The Federalist
Thu, 13 Sep 2018 20:34 UTC
kavanaugh hearings
© C-SPAN3
Judge Brett Kavanaugh
Ezra Klein offers another terrible argument against confirming Brett Kavanaugh

CNN released a new poll this week that alleges only 38 percent of Americans support the confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, while 39 percent do not. It was the lowest net approval of any Supreme Court nominee since Harriet Miers. "Even" Robert Bork was +3 in the poll at the time of his confirmation hearing, a helpful reporter pointed out.

The news induced Vox's Ezra Klein to argue that a "lifetime appointment for a Supreme Court Justice who a plurality oppose at the time of his appointment, and who was nominated by a president and confirmed by a political party that were also unpopular, is quite a way for a system to work." His sentiment was echoed across liberal punditry.

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Fake weather too? Weather Channel anchor 'battles' Hurricane Florence winds as others walk casually in background


RT
Sat, 15 Sep 2018 19:34 UTC
weather channel fake news hurricane florence
© Weather Channel/Mike Endrizzi / YouTub
Weather Channel reporter Mike Seidel struggles to stand on his feet during live broadcast from North Carolina, hit by Hurricane Florence.
A video of Weather Channel's Mike Seidel battling wind gusts in the eye of hurricane Florence has gone viral for all the wrong reasons, after two men casually walking by in the background were spotted on live broadcast.

During a live Weather Channel broadcast from Wilmington, North Carolina, Seidel is seemingly holding on for his life. He has been ridiculed online, though, after an attentive viewer spotted two locals walking by in the background as if nothing special was going on. The men, dressed in hoodies, can be seen taking snaps with their phones while Seidel is struggling to stand on his feet.

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Delhi, India: Police officer's son arrested for rape and filming the brutal beating of a woman in viral video


RT
Sat, 15 Sep 2018 19:01 UTC
man beats woman
© Twitter/aaprajeshrishi
The son of a Delhi police officer filmed brutally beating up a woman after he allegedly raped her has been arrested. The 21-year-old also allegedly assaulted his ex-fiancé on a separate occasion.

A police investigation is underway into allegations against Rohit Kumar Tomar, arrested on Friday after disturbing images of him beating up the woman in an office space on September 2 emerged.

The content of the video, which shows the accused slapping and using his elbows and knees to maximize the pain inflicted on the woman, was so horrific that it prompted the Minister of Home Affairs to tweet an appeal to the Delhi Police Commissioner to take action.
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'Teargas became my daily meal': Human rights activist recounts IDF's constant harassment of Palestinians in East Jerusalem

Tom Suarez
Mondoweiss
Fri, 14 Sep 2018 00:00 UTC
human rights activist Palestine Abdulwahab Sabbah

Human rights activist Abdulwahab Sabbah is director of the Dar Assadaqa community center in Abu Dis, part of London’s human rights and twinning organization, Camden Abu Dis Friendship Association.

My friend Abdulwahab (Abed) Sabbah is the director of Dar Assadaqa, a community center in Abu Dis, East Jerusalem. He is the Palestinian half of London's human rights organization CADFA, the Camden Abu Dis Friendship Association. He sent me an account of an IDF attack on his family in their apartment in Abu Dis on September 4, and followups.

What a day. We started early, at around 2:30 AM, when savage mercenaries from the Israel IDF invaded my father's and my house. They started to knock hard on the main door, and when my father open the door, eight of them entered with their weapons into the house before I woke up and went down to see what was happening. By that time, five of them went up to my house [apartment], woke my family and pushed them downstairs to my father's. All of us were held in one room; and the soldiers started to go into the rooms, one by one. They took our mobiles [cell phones] and IDs [and] birth certificates. My little daughters were sitting staring, not knowing what is happening. Who are these people with guns and masks wandering in our house, and shouting and pushing? My father was as usual the strongest and fought back.

First, they wanted to arrest my son Mohammed. They took him up stairs without allowing me to go with him, and when he was ready they asked about my youngest son Yassar, who was out helping to prepare our cousin's wedding, which is today. By the end they gave me a military order: to come to the Israeli military camp in Abu Dis at 10 AM.

Four other young people, together with the wife of a "wanted man" (as they said), were arrested. And 10 houses at least were invaded at the same time in Abu Dis today.
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Iowa police finally release complete footage of wrongful killing of innocent mother

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Fri, 14 Sep 2018 14:58 UTC
Autumn Steele
In June, the taxpayers of Burlington, Iowa were told that they will be hit with a $2 million bill to pay for a police officer who shot and killed an innocent mother. The tragic scenario was captured on video and the fact that most of that video remained a secret was part of the reason the family received the settlement in the wrongful death suit. However, all that has now changed and the video was released this week.

In May, during a federal court hearing in Davenport, Iowa, officials revealed that the confidential police video - a key piece of evidence in exonerating a cop who killed the innocent mom - did not corroborate the cop's claims he made before firing the fatal shots that accidentally killed the mother of two.

Now, we have the evidence showing this was true.

As TFTP previously reported, the Burlington police department released a 12-second clip from a Burlington Police officer's body cam showing him shooting and killing Autumn Steele.
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The Truth Perspective: Morality in Politics: Why We All Don't Just Get Along


Sott.net
Sat, 15 Sep 2018 16:00 UTC
The righteous mind book
© Jonathan Haidt
History is filled with moral doctrines; doctrines that tell us where we are, what to do, and the kind of future we're striving for. These moral systems differ significantly around the world, and oftentimes in spectacular ways. In the 20th century many Western intellectuals took these differences as proof that morality was always a social construct used to maintain power and authority by an oppressive elite. After all, if what is considered 'moral' in one culture is absolutely 'immoral' in another, what hope was there for an objective morality?

Thankfully the story didn't stop there. In his book The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt set out to answer this question by assembling decades of his and others' pain-staking research. By grounding our knowledge of morality in the evolutionary history of mankind, he ultimately sets out a new theory of morality, one that is intuitively, intellectually, and empirically robust. Today on the Truth Perspective we'll discuss his arguments and the evidence he presents while placing them in their historical context.

Running Time: 01:23:49

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