Specious bullshit of the day
John Farnham ·
11:16 pm MDT
Vivian Bercovici: Placing an embassy in Jerusalem is not a barrier to negotiating peace
The U.S. embassy move does not preclude, decide, predetermine or prejudge anything about Jerusalem's final status or peace in the Middle East
John Farnham ·
One political op-ed is insufficient to preclude judgement that a move to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel is a contentious action. As a Canadian, I recall when the government of Joe Clark was wracked by international scorn at any presumption to make such a move... in its first week in office ! For any pundit to claim it is not a matter of importance requires that warmongering under religious conviction...is not important. https://www.aljazeera.com/.../jerusalem-capital-israel... Nor is the UN. Nor is ownership important. http://time.com/.../david-friedman-jerusalem-jewish-israel/Palestinians in Jerusalem
Despite Israel's de facto annexation of East Jerusalem, Palestinians who live there were not granted Israeli citizenship.
Today, some 420,000 Palestinians in East Jerusalem have "permanent residency" ID cards. They also carry temporary Jordanian passports without a national identification number. This means that they are not full Jordanian citizens - they need a work permit to work in Jordan and do not have access to governmental services and benefits such as reduced education fees.
Palestinian Jerusalemites are essentially stateless, stuck in legal limbo - they are not citizens of Israel, nor are they citizens of Jordan or Palestine.
Israel treats Palestinians in East Jerusalem as foreign immigrants who live there as a favour granted to them by the state and not by right, despite having been born there. They are required to fulfil a certain set of requirements to maintain their residency status and live in constant fear of having their residency revoked.
Any Palestinian who has lived outside the boundaries of Jerusalem for a certain period of time, whether in a foreign country or even in the West Bank, is at risk of losing their right to live there.
Despite Israel's de facto annexation of East Jerusalem, Palestinians who live there were not granted Israeli citizenship.
Today, some 420,000 Palestinians in East Jerusalem have "permanent residency" ID cards. They also carry temporary Jordanian passports without a national identification number. This means that they are not full Jordanian citizens - they need a work permit to work in Jordan and do not have access to governmental services and benefits such as reduced education fees.
Palestinian Jerusalemites are essentially stateless, stuck in legal limbo - they are not citizens of Israel, nor are they citizens of Jordan or Palestine.
Israel treats Palestinians in East Jerusalem as foreign immigrants who live there as a favour granted to them by the state and not by right, despite having been born there. They are required to fulfil a certain set of requirements to maintain their residency status and live in constant fear of having their residency revoked.
Any Palestinian who has lived outside the boundaries of Jerusalem for a certain period of time, whether in a foreign country or even in the West Bank, is at risk of losing their right to live there.
But 'Jerusalem being the capital of Israel is not contentious." Only if you ignore a history of religious wars ( Crusades ) based on objections to that claim.
11:16 pm MDT
This Is How Pakistan Gives Terror Groups A Pass
A supporter of Islamic charity organization Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) carries a sign while listening to the speech of leaders (unseen) who are condemning the house arrest of Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, chief of (JuD), during a protest demonstration in Karachi, Pakistan, Feb. 3, 2017. *VOA: **Pakistan's 'Name Game' Gives Terror Groups a Pass* Changing one's name in Pakistan is a daunting and lengthy legal procedure that requires extensive paperwork. Surprisingly, that is not the case with militant groups that get banned by the government. In the past two decades, several groups accused of car... more »
Picture Of The Day
Palestinian demonstrators run for cover from Israeli fire and tear gas during a protest against U.S. embassy move to Jerusalem and ahead of the 70th anniversary of Nakba, at the Israel-Gaza border in the southern Gaza Strip May 14, 2018. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa *WNU Editor:* The above picture is form this photo-gallery ....* Palestinians protest U.S. embassy move* (Reuters)
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Google Employees Resign Over Company's Pentagon Contract On Using Artificial Intelligence In Drone Warfare
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"A Look to the Heavens"
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"On The Whole...."
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DCCC Caught Lying In Colorado Again. What Is Wrong With These People?
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EU Should Fight US ‘Imperialism’, Make It Show Respect – French Politician
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By Ending the Iran Deal, Trump Has Put America on the Path to War
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WATCH “Israeli-Made” Landmines, Other Weaponry Handed Over by Syrian Militants-Terrorists
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Iran’s Nuclear Deal Deadline on Meeting Agenda
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EU, China, Russia Will Stick to Iran Nuclear Deal: Lavrov
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Palestinians Angry at U.S. Embassy Relocation to Jerusalem Al-Quds
PressTV Streamed live 17 hours ago Israeli troops have opened fire on Palestinians who have gathered near a Gaza fence for the climax of a six-week demonstration coinciding with the inauguration of US embassy in Jerusalem al-Quds. Clashes erupted along the fence Monday between Palestinians and Israeli forces as protesters converged on the site for a […]
Trump’s Pyrrhic Victory: the US Opts for a Path That Can Only Lead to War
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Iran Official Says Europe Has 60 Days to Give Nuclear ‘Guarantees’
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‘Terrible Massacre’: Israel Kills 58, Injures 2,771 Gaza Protesters as US Embassy Opens in Jerusalem
“In 2001, Dr. Ariella Oppenheim, of Hebrew University, a biologist, published the first extensive study of DNA and the origin of the Jews. Her research found that virtually all the Jews came from Khazar blood. Not only that but Oppenheim discovered that the Palestinians—the very people whom the Jews had been persecuting and ejecting from […]
EU Chief Says Europe Must ‘Replace the US’ as World Superpower as He Attacks Trump Over Iran Deal and Accuses America of Turning Its Back on Allies
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Chet Raymo, “The Sound And Fury”
*“The Sound And Fury”* by Chet Raymo “Not so long ago, I mentioned here Himmler and Heydrich, two of Hitler's most terrible henchmen. A friend said to me: "If there's no afterlife, no heaven or hell, then those two diabolical creatures got away with it. Their fate was no different than that of any one of their victims, an innocent child perhaps." And, yes, if there is no God who dispenses final justice, then we are left with an aching feeling of irresolution, of virtue unrewarded, of vice unpunished. Heydrich was gunned down by partisan assassins, and Himmler committed suicide a fe... more »
"If You Caught A Glimpse..."
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Free Download: Theodor Rosyfelt, “The Foolish Almanak For Anuthur Year, 1906"
*Click image for larger size.* “It is said that nothing is impossible; but there are lots of people doing nothing every day.” "The Foolish almanak for anuthur year; the furst cinc the introdukshun ov the muk-rake in magazeen gardning, and the speling reform ov owr langwij by Theodor Rosyfelt" - Theodor Rosyfelt, “The Foolish Almanak For Anuthur Year, 1906" Download the complete and fascinating “The Foolish Almanak For Anuthur Year, 1906” here: - https://archive.org/details/foolishalmanakfo00bostiala Fascinating, lol...
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“The Age of Petty Tyrannies”
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The Poet: Fernando Pessoa, “I Don’t Know If The Stars Rule The World”
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Another Conflict Of Interest For Special Counsel Robert Mueller?
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National Urban League Annual Report Highlights STEM Gap, Student Debt
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Report: Ecuador Wants Julian Assange To Leave Their Embassy In London
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Creepy Porn Lawyer Threatens Daily Caller for Exposing Him as a Sleazy and Creepy Porn Lawyer
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If Any Other Country Was Shooting Civilians Like Israel, The US Would Be Calling For Invasion By Now
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25% of Americans Suffer When Exposed to Common Chemicals. Adding WiFi Radiation and Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs) = Bigger Toxic Nightmare
By B.N. Frank On March 14, 2018, University of Melbourne research revealed that 1 in 4 Americans report sensitivity to common chemicals such as inspect... more »
Breaking: Over 100 buses preparing to exit northern Homs
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Iraq coordinated attack on ISIS with Syrian authorities: expert
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Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain condemn Israeli aggression against Palestinians
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US-backed forces fully capture border-town in southeast Deir Ezzor (video)
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White House blames Hamas for civilian deaths in Gaza
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Rebels filmed training inside US military zone in southern Syria
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Syrian Army is one of the strongest forces in Middle East – Iranian Official
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ISIS trapped between Syrian Army, SDF lines in southern Deir Ezzor – map
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Breaking: US blocks request for independent Gaza inquiry at UN – AFP
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“How It Really Would Have Been”
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The Danger of Process-Free Foreign Policy
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Saudi Arabia Will Use Trump to Gain Leverage over the War in Syria
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Is China Changing the Postwar Consensus or Enhancing It?
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"How It Really Is, And Has Been"
•Israel Kills 55, Wounds 2,000 Gazans In "Terrible Massacre" As US Opens Jerusalem Embassy •Bloody Monday: Israeli snipers kill scores of Palestinians and wound 2,400 and fire tear gas at 35,000 protesters rallying against the US Embassy opening in Jerusalem overseen by Trump's Middle East envoy Jared Kushner and daughter Ivanka "Ye shall know them by their fruits."
My Take On Today's Violence On The Israeli - Gaza Border
Reuters *WNU Editor*: 58 killed, 2700 wounded. If Hamas wanted to divert media attention to their cause from today's celebrations on the opening of the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem .... they succeeded. But there were suppose to be 100,000 protesters at the barricades today .... not 40,000 .... and no one was able to breach the border. There were riots in the West Bank .... but even that was less than what many had expected. Arab governments condemned Israel .... but I also found their protests to be muted .... I guess their focus was elsewhere. Many governments in the West stayed away... more »
Has Paul Ryan Lost His Mind-- Or Is He Just Pretending To Have Lost His Mind?
Maybe you don't believe that Ryan fled from the field of battle when he noticed that Randy Bryce's @IronStache momentum was leaving him with no pathway to reelection. And maybe you believe that the Speaker of the House decided he really needed to be home in Janesville 7 days a week so he could spend the next few years teaching little Sammy and Charlie how to kill animals with bows and arrows. If you believe the latter, you may believe what he told the Wisconsin Republican convention Saturday as well. He did warn Republicans to watch out for the blue wave headed their way but... he ... more »
June 15:In my last blog, I promised....
...to include in this one an outline of the rise of capitalism. I already regret that promise. It's a story so ugly as to be unbelievable. Alas, it's all too true. And we are living at its terrible edge. Through most of written history, humans have been ruled by an aristocracy of birth. There were exceptions - as among our native peoples here in Canada - but generally it was an aristocracy of kings and nobility whose only qualification was being born to the right parents. For the most part, this aristocracy couldn't care less about the 'common' people who worked the fields of the ar... more »
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Reality Winner’s Defense Appeals Magistrate Judge’s Decision To Reject Subpoenas
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The incredible contempt of the political class for ordinary people
I was infuriated to read a presentation by a senior economist from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. It was at a seminar titled "Navigating Pension Reform in Illinois: What Lies Ahead?" We've already taken a hard look at Illinois' self-inflicted financial and pension woes, and how they threaten the economic future of every resident of that state. Now, to solve them, the presentation proposes to hit those residents *even harder.* The title of the presentation is "Can (or Should) a Statewide Property Tax Be Used To Payoff the Unfunded Pension Liability?" (Link is to an Adobe A... more »
“Lousy Deals and Turning Wheels”
*“Lousy Deals and Turning Wheels”* by James Howard Kunstler “In that long ago yesteryear of 1979, before blogging, tweeting, twerking, hacking, posting, ghosting, doxing, and all the other Internet-enabled compulsions of the present day, a gang of inflamed young men, said to be students, invaded the US embassy compound in Teheran and took fifty-two American embassy personnel hostage - crossing an age-old line of geopolitical conduct that kicked off the epic conflict between global Islam and a USA-led West, still on-going as you read. I followed the Iran Hostage Crisis avidly… the g... more »
Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- May 14, 2018
*Stephen Farrell, Reuters*: *The U.S. is opening an embassy in Jerusalem. Why is there a furor?* JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The United States opens its embassy in Jerusalem on Monday, a move that has delighted Israel and infuriated Palestinians. The opening ceremony is at a U.S. consular building in the Arnona neighborhood. It will house an interim embassy for the ambassador and a small staff until a larger site is found. The compound cuts across the 1949 Armistice Line that separated West Jerusalem from No Man’s Land, which Israel captured in the 1967 Six Day War and has held under ... more »
World News Briefs -- May 14, 2018 (Evening Edition)
*Daily Mail:* *Bloody Monday: Israeli snipers kill scores of Palestinians and wound 2,400 and fire teargas at 35,000 protesters rallying against the US Embassy opening in Jerusalem overseen by Trump's Middle East envoy Jared Kushner and daughter Ivanka* * US moving embassy from Tel Aviv today after Trump recognised Jerusalem as Israel's capital in December * Israeli snipers have killed scores of protesters near the Gaza border with more than two thousand injured * Mass protests taking place with Palestinian government accusing Israel of committing a 'terrible massacre' * Comes aft... more »
QotD: “When the State owns everything, it also owns you."
*“When the State owns everything, it also owns you. Funny how people can’t just leave Communist countries, isn’t it? They always have to escape.”* ~ Keith O'Neil . Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Permission to republish is granted, with link and attribution.
Manitoba Religious Groups That Will Get Canada Summer Jobs Funding
Chugging along here. Manitoba here. Not as many different groups as BC or Ontario, but still diverse. Also, still no identified anti-choice groups have slipped by. The Canada Summer Jobs attestation seems to be working as intended. Reminders: I was going by name only, quite literally. All (known) religious groups got tagged. Others that sounded "churchy" got checked. Caps and quotation marks from original document. Where "no website" is noted I could not find a website for that particular group. (Obviously there is a website for "United Church of Canada" but sometimes I couldn't fi... more »
Baser Prioritizes Diversity, Increases Retention and Graduation
After a series of polarizing flyers galvanized colleges and universities across San Antonio, Dr. Ric N. Baser penned an op-ed piece as president of the Higher Education Council of San Antonio arguing that hate speech has no role on college campuses.
Cancer patient ‘cured by cannabis oil’ gets 1,000s of messages a day
A woman in Coventry, England who claimed she cured her terminal cancer with cannabis oil is now vowing to continue her fight to get the drug legalized in the UK after having received “thousands of messages from fellow sufferers asking for help.”[note]Coventry Telegraph, May 4, 2018.[/note] Back in March, CoventryLive shared her amazing story with the world […] The post Cancer patient ‘cured by cannabis oil’ gets 1,000s of messages a day appeared first on Health Nut News.
Doctor explains how fasting can completely reverse Type 2 Diabetes
By: Arjun Walla / Collective Evolution “Everyone has a physician inside him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick […] The post Doctor explains how fasting can completely reverse Type 2 Diabetes appeared first on Health Nut News.
WSJ: How bad is the Government’s science?
Back in 2005, John Ioannidis, who is now a professor of medicine at Stanford, made headlines by announcing that half the results published in peer-reviewed scientific journals were probably wrong. And since then, “researchers have confirmed his skepticism by trying—and often failing—to reproduce many influential journal articles.”[note]WSJ, April 16, 2018.[/note]But, what about our government? Are […] The post WSJ: How bad is the Government’s science? appeared first on Health Nut News.
“Hunt my animals and I’ll catch you.” The women fighting elephant poaching in Zimbabwe
Here at HNN, we love animals and we love women. Check out this amazing story from BBC News about Zimbabwe’s armed female anti-poaching unit who protect one of the biggest elephant populations in Africa. GIRL POWER! The post “Hunt my animals and I’ll catch you.” The women fighting elephant poaching in Zimbabwe appeared first on Health Nut News.
Newsweek: Ask your baby’s permission before changing diaper, says sexual consent expert
This week Australian sex education expert Deanne Carson sparked a debate on the topic of sexual consent after she suggested parents ask their children for permission before changing their diapers. Carson, who works for an organization which teaches children about consent (something they aim to do as early as possible) appeared on Australia’s ABC news network […] The post Newsweek: Ask your baby’s permission before changing diaper, says sexual consent expert appeared first on Health Nut News.
What I Learned From my Mom about Life, by Dr Mercola
Editor’s note: What a beautiful story by Dr. Mercola. I was so fortunate to know his mom for many years, spending time at her house, our house, my parents house with her. She was an extraordinary woman. Joe (Dr Mercola) lost both his mom and dad within a matter of months. It’s been a tough […] The post What I Learned From my Mom about Life, by Dr Mercola appeared first on Health Nut News.
Vaxxed: From cover-up to catastrophe, FREE TO WATCH until May 17th
In honor of the two year anniversary of Vaxxed, the full-length version of VAXXED is FREE to watch in every country* starting NOW until May 17th at 12 pm PST! To watch FOR FREE, use this: http://vaxxedthemovie.com/hnnvaxxed/ It’s been 2 years since Vaxxed captured international headlines when it was pulled from the already-announced line-up of the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival on March […] The post Vaxxed: From cover-up to catastrophe, FREE TO WATCH until May 17th appeared first on Health Nut News.
Romaine lettuce warning now includes Florida; 149 sick in 29 states
The CDC first posted warnings about romaine lettuce in early April.[note]Food Safety News, May 10, 2018.[/note] But it wasn’t until about two weeks ago that we started hearing about people getting sick or recalls for the leafy green. Health officials believe they have traced the outbreak to a farm in Yuma, Arizona (which provides most […] The post Romaine lettuce warning now includes Florida; 149 sick in 29 states appeared first on Health Nut News.
Caution! This is like sending disease an honored invite into your life
By Ronnie Cummins, Organic Consumers Association After decades of chemical-intensive agriculture, factory farms and genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in our food, and an ongoing war against natural systems and traditional knowledge, America’s rural communities, environment and public health are rapidly deteriorating. RELATED STORY: NY Post: Pesticide linked to cancer is in nearly every US food: report The fatal harvest […] The post Caution! This is like sending disease an honored invite into your life appeared first on Health Nut News.
Follow the 5-to-1 rule for packaged foods
Written By Michael Greger M.D. FACLM on May 8th, 2018 When people think fiber, they think constipation. And it’s true: If we could get Americans to eat just the minimum recommended daily intake of fiber-containing foods, we could save our country $80 billion—and that’s just from the effects on constipation alone. But that’s not all. “Accumulating evidence indicates that greater dietary fiber […] The post Follow the 5-to-1 rule for packaged foods appeared first on Health Nut News.
Syrian President Assad Is Running Out Of Troops Willing To Fight For Him
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad reaches out to shake the hand of a Syrian army soldier in eastern Ghouta, Syria, March 18, 2018. SANA / Reuters *Sam Dagher, The Atlantic*: *Assad Is Desperate for Soldiers* *The problem is that few want to fight for him.* TRIPOLI, Lebanon—In late March, the Assad regime released a propaganda video aimed at the young men of Syria. In the video, titled “Braids of Fire,” Asma al-Assad, the wife of Bashar al-Assad, the president of Syria, stands before a squad of female army volunteers dressed in camouflage and army boots. “You are far stronger and mor... more »
America has been at war with Iran for decades
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Suspend Labour Friends of Israel
This, from Emily Thornberry, is a powerful statement. “We condemn unreservedly the Israeli government for their brutal, lethal and utterly unjustified actions on the Gaza border, and our thoughts are with all those Palestinians in Gaza whose loved ones have been killed or injured as a result. “These actions are made all the worse because they come not as the result of a disproportionate over-reaction to one day’s protests, but as the culmination of six weeks of an apparently systemic and deliberate policy of killing and maiming unarmed protestors and bystanders who pose no threat t... more »
BAHRAIN: Former British Ambassador Resigns from Advisory Post after Foreign Minister Supports Israeli Aggression
*21WIRE + Peter Ford* | "I say with a heavy heart that Bahrain will be one of the first to suffer if the conflict in Syria is widened"
Creation Scientists Slam Evolution Propaganda in Schools
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Jimmy Kimmel, Willie Brown, Doug Schoen, NPR: Enough Trump-Bashing?
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Oklahoma Governor Disappoints Both Gun Owners and Gays on Friday
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Exam Question (featuring the BBC's John Simpson)
Let's summarise the BBC's view of the US embassy opening and the violence on the Israel-Gaza border today through the tweets of its World Affairs Editor so far... ...moving chronologically from the earliest today to the latest... (1) Do you spot a point of view - a bias - emerging? And (2), if so, in what direction?* (2 marks)* *[For 'Complaints from both sides' fans, we'd love to hear from any Electronic Intifada types here. What do you make of John Simpson's tweets?]* ******** *John Simpson*: Chances of a diplomatic 2-state solution between Israel & the Palestinians became van... more »
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DAMASCUS, SYRIA (10:30)- Israeli Snipers have today killed 55 Palestinian Peaceful demonstrators, injuring 2,771. Seven children were amongst the 55 who were targeted and gunned down by Israeli Snipers today, over 100 other children were wounded. Since the 30th of March, over 12,000 peaceful demonstrators have been injured by Israeli regime forces, Israel have also […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - The Arab Source
Gaza Massacre: 52 Palestinians murdered and 2,000+ injured
DAMASCUS, SYRIA (9:00 P.M)- Today a masscre was inflicted upon the an unarmed Gazan population of demonstrators. Israeli Snipers have killed 52 Palestinians and injured in excess of 2,000 during a single day. Today has been the most bloody day for the Gaza Strip, since the 2014 Gaza bombardment. Included in the dead today were […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - The Arab Source
Hezbollah chief hails Syrian response to Israeli attack, calls reports of 23 dead ‘lies’
BEIRUT, LEBANON (8:00 P.M.) – Hezbollah’s Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah hailed the Syrian military’s response to the Israeli attack on Thursday, stating that this was a clear ‘message’ to Israel about attacking Syria’s sovereignty. “For the first time, the occupation forces’ installations in the occupied Golan Heights were targeted with such an attack. Israel claims […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - The Arab Source
Scores of ISIS terrorists eliminated as Syrian, Palestinian forces advance in southern Damascus (photos)
BEIRUT, LEBANON (7:40 P.M.) – The so-called Islamic State (ISIS) has suffered several setbacks in the southern part of Damascus these last 48 hours, as the joint Syrian-Palestinian forces continue their large-scale offensive to eliminate the last remnants of this terrorist group near the capital. Led by the 105th Brigade of the Republican Guard and […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - The Arab Source
Russia welcomes Egypt’s refusal to send troops to Syria on US proposal
Russia views positively Egypt’s decision against sending its troops to Syria as was proposed by Washington, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said after negotiations between Russian and Egyptian foreign and defense ministers in the 2+2 format on Monday. “We touched upon this issue in the context of discussing the Syria situation, in the context of […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - The Arab Source
Russian Air Force bombs northern Aleppo after jihadists launch attack on gov’t areas
BEIRUT, LEBANON (6:10 P.M.) – The Russian Aerospace Forces unleashed a massive assault on the jihadist rebels positioned just north of Aleppo city, today, a military source told Al-Masdar News. According to the source, the Russian Aerospace Forces were responding to a breach in the Aleppo ceasefire that was caused by the jihadist rebel forces […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - The Arab Source
US military presence near Tanf base in Syria ‘aggression’ – Syrian UN envoy
The US military presence near the At-Tanf military base and nearby Rukban refugee camp in the south of Syria is “pure aggression and occupation,” head of the Syrian government delegation to the Astana reconciliation talks Bashar Jaafari told reporters. “For us, the American military presence in Syria is a pure aggression and occupation. We sent […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - The Arab Source
Damascus-Homs highway to be re-opened for first time in 5 years [+Video]
Damascus, Syria (6:00 p.m.) – After more than 5 years of total closure, the Damascus-Homs highway will be available for public traffic starting tomorrow after concluding the reconstruction process. The strategic, M5 dual carriageway was completely out of service since Islamist rebels took over most of the areas overlooking it, sniping at vehicles and passers-by, […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - The Arab Source
BREAKING: You can't believe a thing you read!
*MONDAY, MAY 14, 2018The New York Times covers the schools:* How poorly does the New York Times report on public schools? Put another way, can you believe a thing you read in the hapless, Hamptons-based newspaper? We're going to say the answers are these—*very* poorly, and no. Consider the lengthy report in today's editions about the decline of music programs in the city's high schools as large, comprehensive high schools have been replaced by large numbers of much smaller specialty high schools. Fewer marching bands and orchestras! This is the focus of today's report on Gotham's... more »
Saudi-Led Forces Preparing To Launch An Assault On The Fourth Largest City In Yemen
*Al Arabiya*: *Arab Coalition launches military operations towards Yemen’s Hodeidah* An Arab Coalition commander in Yemen announced on Monday the launch of “large-scale military operations” towards the city of Hodeidah. In a statement to the UAE’s official news agency WAM, Brigadier Abdul Salaam Al Shehi said the move was “building on the military momentum and advance achieved west of Taiz Governorate.” He said the forces are preparing to carry out “surprise, qualitative operations against the Houthi militia.” He added: “All Yemeni national resistance are participating in the o... more »
TRUMP IS BECOMING THE PRESIDENT HIS VOTERS WANTED
Nate Silver says: Trump's approval rating, 42.4 percent, is his highest in more than a year in our tracking. (Since 5/4/17, which was before he fired Comey.) https://t.co/j7XEedEnAf — Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) May 14, 2018 Matt Yglesias responds: I kind of feel like if Trump could just avoid saying or doing anything at all for the next three months he could get over 50% pretty easily. https://t.co/c7FHTEc5Ga — Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) May 14, 2018 Yglesias misses the point. Trump is gaining ground precisely because he seems like an activist president now. Until the t... more »
Should Party Leaders (And Schlemiel DCCC Staffers) Pick The Party's Candidates Or Should Local Democrats Decide?
Even though Bob Borosage is a Beltway person, he's a very smart guy. I know him from our work at the Progressive Majority Political Action Committee and I noticed that he always knew what he was talking about. He's a contributing editor at *The Nation* and he does an excellent job there. On Friday they published a piece by him, Why Primary Fights Are Good for the Democratic Party, that I'm hoping DCCC staffers decide to read. It's about them and the miserable disservice they are doing to the party, to the country and to democracy itself. "The DCCC," he writes, "shouldn't be pushin... more »
Innocent Couple Raided by Cops for Facebook Post of LEGAL Morel Mushrooms
By Matt Agorist Darlington, MD — It is a travesty enough when the drug war lays waste to the rights and lives of entirely decent... more »
Neonatal Hepatitis B Vaccine, The Autism Influencer From Day One Of Life?
By Catherine J. Frompovich Is the U.S.-mandated Hepatitis B vaccine administered to newborn infants within 24 hours of birth the initial ‘impact’ vaccine for ‘programming’... more »
Trash Company, Owned by a Senator, Using Cops to Shake Down Poor Families Unable to Pay Bills
By Jack Burns York County, PA – A garbage company owned by a state senator has come under fire for using the police to intimidate... more »
Regents Approve Tuition, Fee Increase at Southeast Missouri
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. Southeast Missouri State University’s tuition and fees will increase in the fall in response to reduced state funding for universities. The Board of Regents on Friday approved a 2.1 percent increase in tuition, but waived all but 1 percent while leaving open the possibility of another increase. The Southeast Missourian reports Gov. […]
Calling the Police on People of Color
Seemingly everywhere from department stores to college dorms, each week brings a new story of a White person who targets a non-White person for racial profiling and summons police because the complainant simply feels uncomfortable.
College in Missouri Unveils Free-Textbook Program
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Students taking online or evening classes at a private college in central Missouri will no longer have to pay extra fees or for textbooks with the school’s new program. Columbia College President Scott Dalrymple says the school was looking at how to make college more affordable by getting rid of extra fees […]
A cancer researcher said she collected blood from 98 people. It was all her own.
A researcher collected her own blood and forged the labels so it would appear to be samples from nearly 100 people, according to a new finding of research misconduct released today by the U.S. Office of Research Integrity (ORI). The former researcher at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center swapped her own blood … Continue reading A cancer researcher said she collected blood from 98 people. It was all her own.
Paddock 2.0? Man Claiming to Be Federal Agent Found in Hotel With Arsenal & Psych Meds
[image: hotel] A man was arrested after police claimed his social media posts were suspicious, and they found a collection of firearms in his hotel room. The post Paddock 2.0? Man Claiming to Be Federal Agent Found in Hotel With Arsenal & Psych Meds appeared first on The Free Thought Project.
Yemen's Houthis Are Now Targeting Saudi Arabia's Oil Facilities
*Reuters:* *Yemen's Houthis fire missile at Aramco facility, Saudi says it falls in desert* RIYADH (Reuters) - Yemen’s armed Houthi movement launched a ballistic missile at a Saudi Aramco facility in Saudi Arabia’s southwestern Jizan province on Monday, the group’s al-Masirah TV reported, but a Saudi-led coalition said the rocket fell in the open desert. The Houthis, an Iran-allied group that holds much of Yemen including the capital Sanaa, have fired a series of missiles into the kingdom in recent months, part of a three-year-old conflict in Yemen widely seen as a proxy battle b... more »
E.C. George Sudarshan: 1931-2018
Ennackal Chandy George Sudarshan passed away today. He was a top Indian theoretical physicist. Most recently, he was a colleague of Steven Weinberg, Jacques Distler, and others at UT Austin. See Google News for reports about his life, work, and death. He was a Hindu physicist (interested in the science-religion interface) who has been nominated for the Nobel prize in physics 9 times. Among topics he has contributed to, we find the impressive list: Optical coherence, Sudarshan-Glauber representation, V-A theory (with Marshak), Tachyons, Quantum Zeno effect, Open quantum system, ... more »
Israel uses live rounds in Gaza after US opens embassy in Jerusalem, 52 dead, THOUSANDS injured
The main issue is the disparity of force, which we always see when Israel "defends" itself More The post Israel uses live rounds in Gaza after US opens embassy in Jerusalem, 52 dead, THOUSANDS injured appeared first on The Duran.
Teenage girl 'chatted about killing Obama'
One line in this BBC report http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44109760 on the plot to kill Barack Hussein Obama caught my eye as so BBC: 'Ms Boular said Hussain, a Briton from Coventry, had approached her on Instagram.' You have to admire the BBC's persistence.
It’s Stories Like These That Really Inspire Positive Change In The World
Mayor of Salt Lake County, Utah, Ben McAdams, spent three days living on the streets.
History, Act, and Issue: A House for the Ego
A distinction made in 1987 caught my eye.
These 5 Organizations are the Reason Cannabis is Still a Crime
If for years most people have agreed on legal cannabis, why does it remain a federal crime?
Sarah Sanders Says Whining Kids Best Practice For Dealing With Media
*DC -* While White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders cherishes her role as a mother of three children 6 years and under, she doesn’t shy away from the fact that there are difficult motherhood days – similar to dealing with *CNN’s Jim Acosta*. In an interview with the Daily Caller she was asked “What’s more difficult: Dealing with your children on an onerous day or dealing with [CNN reporter] Jim Acosta?” “Both of them whine pretty regularly. They both like to ask the same questions and sometimes their tone needs to be adjusted a little bit. So I think that having kids has prepar... more »
Hezbollah Deputy Leader: 'New Phase' In War With Israel After Strikes
Lebanon's Hezbollah deputy leader Sheikh Naim Qassem gestures as he speaks during an interview with Reuters in Beirut, Lebanon March 15, 2018. REUTERS/Aziz Taher *Reuters:* *Hezbollah says rocket attack on Israeli-occupied Golan marks 'new phase'* BEIRUT (Reuters) - The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah group said on Monday a missile salvo into the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights last week marked a new phase in the Syrian war and showed Damascus and its allies would not let Israeli attacks in Syria go unanswered. Israel has said the attack from Syrian territory was carried out by Iran... more »
Researcher: Cloud changes “can result in significant changes to Earth’s surface temperature”
Originally posted on Watts Up With That?: Clouds like a semi-transparent parasol Climate researcher from the program “Make Our Planet Great Again“ coming from the US to the Goethe University FRANKFURT. Following the Paris Climate Agreement, Germany and France created the program “Make Our Planet Great Again,“ to promote climate change research. One of 13…
NOAA says La Niña in the Pacific is over
Originally posted on Watts Up With That?: Adios, La Niña by Rebecca Lindsey, NOAA The La Niña event that overtook the tropical Pacific this past winter is officially over, according to the latest update from NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center. La Niña’s signatureof heavier-than-usual rainfall in the western part of the basin has tapered off, and the cool surface waters…
Open Physics vs Secret Climate Science
Originally posted on Watts Up With That?: Antique Padlocks. By Adam Jones from Kelowna, BC, Canada [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons Guest essay by Eric Worrall Should scientists share their data and method? EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt stirred a hornet’s nest when he issued a demand for the end of secret science. But isn’t…
The Science and Climate Ignorance of Society Needs Correcting, But How? Some Thoughts
Originally posted on Watts Up With That?: Guest opinion: Dr. Tim Ball Science historians say the Scientific Revolution began with Copernicus when he proposed the heliocentric system that the Earth orbits the Sun. I used to think it was not worth discussing because one in four Americans and one in three Russians think the opposite,…
Statements From Pompeo Indicate U.S. Offering Carrot, Rather Than Stick, to North Korea
[image: statements-from-pompeo-indicate-u-s-offering-carrot-rather-than-stick-to-north-korea] Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said if North Korea eliminates its nuclear weapons, we will relieve sanctions, leading to investment in the country by U.S. entrepreneurs.
State Technocracy and its Civil Servants
Windows on the World on how the government and intelligence services link with the corporate sector to control the narrative on any given topic
Ending Tuberculosis In Humans By Learning To Tolerate It
American government-funded science likes to declare wars. War on cancer, war on obesity, during the Obama administration there were seven different "Manhattan Projects" related to science and health. It connotes action, it makes the public feel like something important is happening with taxpayer money, revolutionary, instead of being iterative and slow. Plants are more practical. They developed an evolutionary strategy to "tolerate" rather than "resist" infection to maintain health. And that may be the roadmap for tuberculosis. read more
Twitter Is The Place To Go For Fake News
If you want to spread fake news, and rarely have it corrected, Twitter is the best way to go, according to a new analysis. Experience does not help. Instead, the social media platform’s most active users are complicit in detecting and spreading falsehoods, even during public emergencies. An analysis in *Natural Hazards*, looked at four false rumors — two each from the Boston Marathon and Hurricane Sandy, including an infamous falsehood about the New York Stock Exchange flooding. The authors looked at whether Twitter users spread the false news, sought to confirm it, or cast doubt u... more »
World Health Organization calls for ban on trans fats
World Health Organization calls for ban on trans fats https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2018/05/14/world-health-organization-trans-fats-ban/606660002/ Advertisements
Is Gina Haspel Qualified To Be CIA Director?
Will the Senate confirm career CIA officer Gina Haspel to be the Agency's next director? Sens. McCain and Paul, who don't often agree, have both vowed to oppose Haspel due to her past involvement in torture and cover-up of torture. They have a good point. But is there a bigger issue in play here? If we are going to have the kind of government agency that the CIA has become -- fomenting coups, arming jihadists, paramilitary activities, etc. -- maybe, and sadly, she's just the right person for the job!
Trump’s Ten Lies: A Response to the Iran Nuclear Agreement Speech
[image: undefined] After listening to Trump’s speech explaining his decision to pull out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear agreement with Iran, Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said that Trump’s speech contained "over ten lies." Khamenei didn’t go on to name the lies. So, what were the lies Trump told? *Lie #1 - "The Iranian regime is the leading state sponsor of terror"* The United States has long known that its ally, Saudi Arabia, and not its enemy, Iran, is the leading state sponsor of terror. All recent attempts to link Iran to terrorism ha... more »
Mount Sinai multiple sclerosis researcher admits to misconduct
A researcher who has received millions in funding from the U.S. National Institutes of Health and who runs a lab at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York has confessed to falsifying data in a 2014 paper. Gareth John, who studies multiple sclerosis and other neurological diseases, “has expressed remorse for … Continue reading Mount Sinai multiple sclerosis researcher admits to misconduct
Will Congress Authorize Indefinite Detention of Americans?
Under the guise of exercising supervisory power over the president’s ability to use military force, Congress is considering writing Donald Trump a blank check to indefinitely detain US citizens with no criminal charges. Alarmingly, this legislation could permit the president to lock up Americans who dissent against US military policy. The bill that risks conveying... Read more »
Deep Racial Inequality Remains in Brazil Despite Progress
By Beatriz Miranda, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Despite Brazil’s progressive constitution concerns with human rights and social inequalities based on race are still a problem in the country. According to Carioca lawmaker Benedita da Silva and Bahian sociologist Vilma Reis, Brazil’s black population still fights to guarantee its basic rights. Known as […]
If Any Other Country Was Shooting Civilians Like Israel, The US Would’ve Invaded By Now
[image: israel] If another country shot and killed dozens of protesters in the way that Israel just did, the U.S. would be promising "freedom and democracy," and planning to invade. The post If Any Other Country Was Shooting Civilians Like Israel, The US Would’ve Invaded By Now appeared first on The Free Thought Project.
WATCH: Bikers Refuse to Sit Idly By as Cop Admits He’s Profiling Them
[image: profiling] Police officers in California began profiling a group of innocent men, taking photos of them and their vehicles, because they rode motorcycles. Needless to say, the men did not take kindly to it. The post WATCH: Bikers Refuse to Sit Idly By as Cop Admits He’s Profiling Them appeared first on The Free Thought Project.
Big airport OOPS!
An Asiana Airlines Airbus A330 airliner got too close to a Turkish Airlines Airbus A321 at Istanbul Airport yesterday. I don't know why the Turkish Airlines plane was so far back in its parking position. It doesn't look like it was being pushed back after loading passengers. You can read more about the collision here. I wonder how long both jets will spend in the body & fender shop? Peter
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