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Why The Entire Political-Media Class Just Tried To End Ilhan Omar’s Career
Post Date: 2019-02-12 11:01:22 by Ada
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Well, now we all know what happens when a public official criticizes AIPAC. And of course, that was the whole idea. twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/1095046561254567937 Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar has published an apology for making self-evident observations about the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), an immensely influential lobbying firm which, like all lobbying firms, works to influence government policy toward a specific agenda, in this case the interests of the Israeli government. She issued the apology after hours upon hours of shrill, hysterical shrieking accusations of antisemitism from the entire establishment political-media class. If you’re lucky enough ...
Diplomatic Sources: Trump Requesting Visit to Tehran through Mediators
Post Date: 2019-02-12 05:25:07 by Tatarewicz
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TEHRAN (FNA)- Senior diplomatic sources in Tehran revealed that US President Donald Trump is seriously attempting to open a channel to hold direct talks with his Iranian counterpart and travel to the country. "The US is not so much serious in the current sanctions given the waivers granted to certain countries… and it is trying to make a communication bridge to Iran," Amir Moussavi, a former Iranian diplomat, told the Arabic-language al-Mayadeen news channel on Friday. "Based on information I have, a message was sent from Washington (via mediators) for direct talks with Mr. Rouhani. Even Mr. Trump has voiced readiness to visit Tehran," he added. Moussavi said ...
Fury as headteachers BACK pupil strike that will see thousands of schoolchildren walk out of lessons next week in a protest over climate change (6 Pics)
Post Date: 2019-02-11 14:32:15 by Horse
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A nationwide school strike over climate change has been 'applauded' by the head teachers' union, leaving many furious. The mass walkout called UK Youth Strike 4 Climate currently has students in 38 cities and towns across the country planning to join them on Friday's protest. It is expected thousands of pupils from places including Cardiff, Brighton, Exeter and Glasgow will down their books for three hours, reports the Sunday Express. This isn't the first time that young people have coordinated action against climate change and the UK strikes have taken inspiration from a 16-year-old Swedish activist. The National Association of Head Teachers, which is chaired by ...
Apple and Google Accept Saudi Smartphone App Which Tracks Women’s Movements
Post Date: 2019-02-11 14:27:16 by Horse
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Apple and Google are facing criticism for hosting a Saudi Arabian smartphone app on their platforms which allows men to track women’s movements and “stop them leaving the country.” According to Insider, the app, named Absher — which is available on Google’s Play Store and Apple’s App Store — is “a government web service which allows men to specify when and how women can cross Saudi borders, and to get close to real-time SMS updates when they travel.”
Revolutionary Guard Threatens To "Raze Tel Aviv And Haifa To The Ground" If US Attacks Iran
Post Date: 2019-02-11 13:52:50 by Horse
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As Iran celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution that led to the overthrow of the Shah back in 1979, and the establishment of the country's current Ayatollah-led government, citizens took to the streets on Monday for a day of nation-wide rallies. And amid the celebration. And of course, it wouldn't be a celebration of Iran's greatest gesture of contempt against the US without a healthy dose of belligerent rhetoric courtesy of members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. To that end, according to reports on Iranian television cited by Sputnik, an IRGC commander warned that Tehran "will raze Tel Aviv and Haifa" to the ground if Washington attacks ...
How To Tell If Someone Is Controlled Opposition
Post Date: 2019-02-11 11:25:54 by Ada
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Every day in my article comments and social media I get people warning me that this or that journalist, activist or politician is “controlled opposition”, meaning someone who pretends to oppose the establishment while covertly serving it. These warnings usually come after I’ve shared or written about something a dissident figure has said or done, and are usually accompanied by an admonishment not to ever do so again lest I spread their malign influence. If you’ve been involved in any kind of anti-establishment activism for any length of time, you’ve probably encountered this yourself. Paranoia pervades dissident circles of all sorts, and it’s not entirely ...
10 Reasons The Gilets-Jeunes Are The Real Deal
Post Date: 2019-02-11 10:58:20 by Ada
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The Gilets Jaunes are the real deal for genuine change; not only in France but also in how the rest of the world conceives and practices politics itself. We live in a world where democracy is a threat and freedom is a punishment, where you can’t tell a turd from a diamond, where 5G is trumpeted even as it threatens to kill us, where the prevailing ethos is buyer-beware and where anyone against warmongering and eternal war is smeared and painted as a monster. Who do you believe? All the things you felt certain about Democracy, liberty, the right to free speech, television news, all these things are not only being undermined, in reality, they are being thrown in your face. ...
South Africa’s Protection Racket
Post Date: 2019-02-11 09:47:22 by Ada
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Rainbow Nation shows its colors South Africa is an ongoing topic of concern among the dissident right, which views it as a cautionary tale about the dangers of becoming a minority in your own country. The Rainbow Nation has been largely ignored by the mainstream media since the end of apartheid, but last year Donald Trump scandalized the global establishment by highlighting it in a tweet. Predictably, the media coverage was overwhelmingly negative. One response came from a transplanted American white woman living in South Africa, Eve Fairbanks, who wrote an article for Politico entitled “Trust Me, Donald Trump, White South Africans are Doing Fine.” In it, she wrote about an ...
Capitol Hill Cowards: Why Congress Is Trying to Undermine Trump’s Troop Withdrawal Plan
Post Date: 2019-02-11 09:11:25 by Ada
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Afghanistan is America’s longest war, at seventeen years and counting. It has run longer than the Mexican-American War, Civil War, Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, and Korean War combined. Yet Congress has conducted minimal oversight and done nothing as the executive branch’s aim devolved into pushing failure onto the next administration. In Syria Washington chose to enter a civil war of minimal security concern to America. Syria was allied with the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Washington’s previous forays in similarly imploding Middle Eastern nations—Lebanon and Libya—turned out badly. The executive branch concocted ever more outlandish ...
Morocco quits Saudi-led coalition in Yemen, withdraws ambassador from Riyadh
Post Date: 2019-02-10 16:49:02 by Horse
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Government officials say Morocco has stopped taking part in military action with the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen's war, and has recalled its ambassador to Saudi Arabia. Tensions have been mounting between Morocco and Saudi Arabia, amid international concerns about Saudi actions in the Yemen war and other issues. A Moroccan government official said on Thursday that Morocco no longer takes part in military interventions or ministerial meetings in the Saudi-led coalition.
The amount of vacant homes in the United States is six times the amount of individuals without a place to sleep at night.
Post Date: 2019-02-10 16:44:10 by Horse
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There are roughly 18.6 Million vacant homes in the United States, while there are an estimated 3.5 Million Americans who experience homelessness. 40,000 of those Americans who experience homelessness are United States military veterans. This comparison of numbers of vacant homes and the homeless population over the last ten years makes a bleak statement about housing inequality. Sources: www.mintpressnews.com/empty-homes-outnumber-the-homeless-6-to-1-so-why-not-give-them-homes/207194/
Iconic African Animals Covered in Snow After Freak Sub-Saharan Blizzard
Post Date: 2019-02-10 16:30:18 by Horse
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South African animals accustomed to desert heat braved icy conditions after freak blizzards hit the country last week. Now, the rare sight of giraffes, antelopes, rhinoceroses, elephants and other animals covered in snow have been widely shared on social media. Social media user Kitty Viljoen shared photos of elephants walking in the snow in the Sneeuberg mountain range on the Western Cape of South Africa. She also snapped photos of snow-covered giraffes in the Karoo, a semidesert region of South Africa. Poster Comment:Photos and videos at source. Global Warming is freezing animals in Africa.
World Hurtling Toward Multi-Civilizational Asiatic Hegemony
Post Date: 2019-02-10 12:28:42 by Ada
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New book explains why the 21st Century will be the Asian Century Your Asian masters The greatest merit of Parag Khanna’s new book, The Future is Asian, is to accessibly tell the story of a historical inevitability – with the extra bonus of an Asian point of view. This is not only a very good public service, it also blows out of the water countless tomes by Western “experts” pontificating about Asia from an air-con cubicle in Washington. Asia hands from the West tend to be extremely protective of their extra-territoriality. In my case, I moved to Asia in 1994, and Singapore was my first base. In time I found out – along with some of my colleagues at Asia Times ...
Pussy John Bolton and His Codpiece Mustache
Post Date: 2019-02-10 09:54:08 by Ada
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Examining the Freak Show American government has become a collection of sordid and dangerous clowns. It was not always thus. Until Bush II, those governing were never lunatics. Eisenhower, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Obama, Clinton had their defects, were sometimes corrupt, and could be disagreed with on many grounds. They weren’t crazy. Today’s administration would seem unwholesome in a New York bus station at three in the morning. They are not normal American politicians. In particular they seem to be pushing for war with Iran, China, Russia, and Venezuela. And–this is important–their behavior is not a matter of liberals catfighting with conservatives. All ...
She's Truly a Genius
Post Date: 2019-02-10 06:25:48 by Horse
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Iran Unveils New Surface-to-Surface Ballistic Missile
Post Date: 2019-02-09 21:53:15 by Tatarewicz
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TEHRAN (FNA)- The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) displayed a new surface-to-surface ballistic missile, Dezful, with a range of 1,000 kilometers and a warhead weighing nearly half a ton. Dezful surface-to-surface missile was unveiled in a ceremony on Thursday marking the 40th anniversary of the victory of 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran. The ceremony marking the inauguration was held in an underground missile factory described as an "underground missile production city". Dezful is a version of the Zolfaghar missile that has a 700km range and a 450-kilogram warhead. In a relevant development on February 2, Iran unveiled its newly-developed long-range cruise missile ...
GRAPHIC: Photographer's Hand Blown Off By Police Grenade During Yellow Vest Mayhem
Post Date: 2019-02-09 20:20:48 by hondo68
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A man's hand was blown off by a police grenade in Paris on Saturday during the 13th straight week of Yellow Vest protests. Capturing the graphic aftermath of the incident was Ruptly - the video agency of Russia's RT. The Ruptly crew who filmed the horrific aftermath of the blast injury say they rushed over after hearing an explosion, and found the injured protester surrounded by paramedics. Police fired tear gas and flash grenades to deter protesters, while demonstrators threw the canisters back towards police and lobbed signs and pieces of boarding as projectiles. An eyewitness told the AFP that the grenade which obliterated the protester’s hand was fired by police to ...
'Shame for humanity': Turkey urges China to close Uighur camps
Post Date: 2019-02-09 19:58:52 by Ada
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Turkey calls China's treatment of its Muslim ethnic Uighur minority 'a great cause of shame for humanity'. Turkey has condemned China's treatment of its Muslim ethnic Uighur people as "a great cause of shame for humanity" and asked it to close the "concentration camps". In a statement on Saturday, Turkish foreign ministry spokesman Hami Aksoy said it's "no longer a secret" that China has arbitrarily detained more than a million Uighurs in "concentration camps". He said the Turkic Muslim population faced pressure and "systematic assimilation" in western China. REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK Exposed: China's ...
Hungary Shows the West the Path to Survival
Post Date: 2019-02-09 15:45:50 by BTP Holdings
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Hungary Shows the West the Path to Survival Just as they resisted communism, so too are they leading the charge against the radical open-borders project. By Scott McConnell • February 8, 2019 Viktor Orbán arriving at NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) Summit 2018 in December. By Gints Ivuskans/shutterstock A specter is haunting the European Union—the specter of Eastern Europe. Hungary is a country slightly more populous than Virginia, and its population diminishes slightly every year. It receives substantial subsidies from richer EU countries, produces nice wines, but has little industry not tied to German auto plants. Its military has roughly zero external ...
SAUDI ARABIA ACCUSED OF HELPING CITIZENS CHARGED WITH RAPE & CHILD PORN TO FLEE 8 US STATES
Post Date: 2019-02-09 15:12:53 by Horse
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Saudi Arabia appears to have been systematically helping its US-based citizens to evade American justice for serious crimes, possibly by providing fake passports and private planes. Late last year, the Oregonian reported five cases of suspects successfully fleeing charges in the state of Oregon, which was temporarily home to about 1,000 students from Saudi Arabia. But the same news outlet has now discovered a total of 17 cases across eight states and even Canada, suggesting the ploy is an established practice. Most of the cases involve a similar scenario: after an arrest, the Saudi consulate hires a legal team and eventually posts bail, which in two cases constituted $1 million and $500 ...
Russia says won’t move Israel embassy to al-Quds
Post Date: 2019-02-09 15:11:19 by Horse
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Russia is not planning to move its diplomatic mission in Israel to Jerusalem al-Quds despite US President Donald Trump’s recognition of the city as the new Israeli "capital". Russian Ambassador to Israel Anatoly Viktorov told the TASS news agency on Thursday that Moscow would not breach international law and United Nations resolutions on Jerusalem al-Quds. "The issue of transferring the Russian embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem is outside the agenda. Russia is committed to the international legal framework concerning Jerusalem, including corresponding United Nations Security Council resolutions," Viktorov said.
How SoftBank ate the world
Post Date: 2019-02-09 13:22:46 by Horse
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Led by the charismatic Masayoshi Son, Japanese conglomerate SoftBank’s Vision Fund is taking over tech, one company at a time. This is the story of what happens if the disruptors are disrupted. In the morning of July 20, 2017, at the luxurious Prince Park Tower hotel in Tokyo, Masayoshi Son emerged on stage in front of a packed conference hall, his diminutive silhouette backlit by bright white lights. Son, the CEO of Japanese internet, energy and financial conglomerate SoftBank Group, was dressed simply, as is his habit, in a grey suit and a striped shirt. He smiled and introduced himself in Japanese. Son is known for his fanciful analogies and long speeches. In 2010, his talk about ...
Why I Hope Maduro Wins And North Korea Keeps Its Nukes
Post Date: 2019-02-09 10:05:11 by Ada
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A second summit meeting for the US and North Korea is reportedly scheduled to take place in Vietnam at the end of the month. Expert opinions on where these negotiations are headed range from the insightful to the incredibly naive, with mainstream media consumers consistently finding themselves in the latter category. Trump supporters believe their president is going to pull off some Art of the Deal wizardry and convince Pyongyang to completely denuclearize, and mainstream Democrats believe Trump is being foolish, facilitating the nefarious agendas of an evil dictator. As happens with pretty much all US foreign policy issues these days, the picture is completely obscured by the mass ...
White Power in Cuba
Post Date: 2019-02-09 09:46:51 by Ada
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During some recent travels, I came across a copy of Lonely Planet: Cuba. The authors, who clearly sympathize with the country’s communist regime, nonetheless note the following: While there are no ghettos or gangs in Cuba’s larger cities, a quick tally of the roaming jineteros/as [petty criminals] in Vedado and Habana Vieja will reveal a far higher proportion of black participants. On the other side of the coin, over 90% of Cuban exiles are of white descent and of the victorious rebel army that took control of the government in 1959 only a handful (Juan Almeida being the most obvious example) were of mixed heritage. (Lonely Planet, p. 57) Cuba then fulfills the usual pattern ...
US Congresswoman: Trump Supporting Al-Qaeda, Saudis Main Sponsors of Terrorism
Post Date: 2019-02-09 06:33:12 by Tatarewicz
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TEHRAN (FNA)- US Democrat Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard strongly criticized President Donald Trump for supporting Al-Qaeda terrorist group, and said the Riyadh government is the main state supporter of terrorism in the region. "Trump says he is going to focus on counter-terrorism while simultaneously supporting/helping al-Qaeda and partnering with the Saudis, the actual leading state sponsors of terror, who spread the extremist ideology that fuels the likes of ISIS (ISIL) and al-Qaeda," Gabbard wrote on his Twitter account while referring to a recent report by CNN on Saudi Arabia's support for terrorist groups, specially al-Qaeda. A new report by CNN found that Saudi Arabia ...
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