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🇸🇾 __***Arms depot near Damascus International airport goes up in flames after series of overnight strikes blamed on Israel.***__ 🇮🇱
*https://goo.gl/CM478L*
*AL JAZEERA*

Israeli strikes have hit an arms depot operated by the Lebanese Hezbollah group near Damascus airport, Syrian opposition sources told Al Jazeera.

Witnesses said a total of five strikes occurred near the Damascus airport road, about 25km from the capital, early on Thursday.

Syrian state TV quoted a military source saying rockets fired from Israeli territory targeted a military area in the southwestern part of the airport which caused explosions.

Later on Thursday, Israeli military reported shooting down an aerial *"target"* over the Golan Heights.

Israeli media said residents in the northern Israeli town of Safed reported seeing two missiles being launched and of explosions occurring afterwards.

Al Jazeera's Imtiaz Tyab, reporting from Beirut, said the missiles were so powerful that the impact was felt several kilometres away in the Damascus countryside.

*"In recent weeks, Israel has increasingly carried out a number of strikes against Hezbollah targets for what they describe as a __'red line'__,"* he said.

Allegedly video of the #Damascus International Airport tonight on fire after what are claimed to be Israeli airstrikes. pic.twitter.com/jftHcxtyQ2
— Vince Beshara (@Jacm212) April 27, 2017

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☀ __***Analysis: It’s not just droughts, but nearly all extreme weather is declining or at or near record lows***__ ☀
*https://goo.gl/q985tz*
*CLIMATE DEPOT*

On Eve of DC climate march, drought drops to record lows in U.S. as nearly all extreme weather is either declining or at or near record lows.

*"It is not just droughts that are at or near record levels. On almost every measure of extreme weather, the data is not cooperating with the claims of the climate change campaigners. Tornadoes, floods, droughts, and hurricanes are failing to fit in with the global warming narrative."*

*“Drought in the U.S. fell to a record low this week, with just 6.1% of the lower 48 states currently experiencing such dry conditions, federal officials announced Thursday. That’s the lowest percentage in the 17-year history of the weekly U.S. Drought Monitor report,”* USA Today reported on April 27.

But it is not just droughts that are at or near record levels. On almost every measure of extreme weather, the data is not cooperating with the claims of the climate change campaigners. Tornadoes, floods, droughts, and hurricanes are failing to fit in with the global warming narrative.

Below is a complete rundown of the very latest on extreme weather conditions...

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🇸🇾 __***Trump is puppet of US ‘deep state,’ has no ‘own’ foreign policy – Assad ***__ 🇺🇸
*https://goo.gl/9N6bTR*
*RT*

US president Donald Trump is not a truly independent political leader but merely a puppet of US corporations, military and intelligence, and who serves their interests, Syrian President Bashar Assad has told the Latin American TeleSUR TV network.

Trump pursues *“no own policies”* but only executes the decisions made by the *“intelligence agencies, the Pentagon, the big arms manufacturers, oil companies, and financial institutions,”* the Syrian leader said in an exclusive interview with TeleSUR.

*"As we have seen in the past few weeks, he changed his rhetoric completely and subjected himself to the terms of the deep American state, or the deep American regime,"* Assad added.

He referred to the fact that Trump came to power on a political platform promising a departure from the interventionist policy of the previous US president, Barack Obama, but soon forgot his promises and ordered a missile strike against the Syrian air base following a chemical weapons incident in Syria’s Idlib province.

The Syrian president also said that it is *“a complete waste of time to make an assessment of the American president’s foreign policy”* as *“he might say something”* but what he really does depends on *“what these [US military and business] institutions dictate to him.”*

He also added that it *“is not new”* and *“has been ongoing American policy for decades.”*

*"This is what characterizes American politicians: they lie on a daily basis... That’s why we shouldn’t believe what the Pentagon or any other American institution says because they say things which serve their policies, not things which reflect reality and the facts on the ground,”* Assad told TeleSUR.

He went on to say that the US continues to pursue its age-long policy aimed at establishing and maintaining a global hegemony by turning all countries that oppose it into war zones.

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🇵🇭 __***President Duterte Kicks Rothschilds Out Of Philippines***__ 🇵🇭
*https://goo.gl/S5UHQJ*
*YNW*

President Duterte has vowed to *“eradicate all traces of Rothschild financial criminality”* from the Philippines, announcing that he will no longer respond to pressure or financial blackmail from the US government or Rothschild-controlled global banking institutions.

The president, who claims to have killed cartel bosses with his own hands, is not one to be bullied, and he has now set his sights on cleaning up the financial corruption in his country, promising to *“drive them out like the scavengers they are.“*

Before Rodrigo Duterte assumed the office of president, the Philippines was suffering from the effects of IMF/World Bank-imposed austerity and privatization that exploited its people and resources. It was also one of Asia’s most corrupt and troubled nations.

Though the Filipino people, through strong showings of popular resistance over a period of years, were able to curb some of the most rampant crony corruption, many of the shackles imposed by these Rothschild-controlled institutions remained.

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🇨🇳 __***China Delivers Humiliating Slap to Kim Jong Un***__ 🇨🇳
*https://goo.gl/JrS5rH*
*CONSERVATIVE TRIBUNE*

China has no desire to see the United States topple the North Korean regime and plant a pro-Western government right on China’s borders. In fact, it appears that China may be taking actions to rein in North Korea.

An editorial published in the Global Times, a newspaper widely believed to be __the unofficial mouthpiece of China’s Communist Party, warned that North Korea would suffer if it conducted another nuclear test.__

The editorial seemed to suggest that China wouldn’t be surprised __if the U.S. launched a strike against North Korea__ if the country conducted another nuclear test — and perhaps more importantly, __the article never suggested that China would respond to such an action__.

*“Once the US launched surgical strikes against North Korea’s nuclear and missile facilities, the Pyongyang regime will be forced to make a life-or-death decision. By then, if North Korea does not resort to strategic retaliation, its deterrence will lose ground and Washington will play it like a fiddle,”* stated the article.

China has already taken unprecedented action to show its displeasure with North Korea, such as turning away coal shipments from the country.

President Donald Trump has repeatedly stated that he wants the Chinese to do more to stop North Korea, but that if they are unwilling to help him, he is willing to go it alone against North Korea.

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🇺🇸 __***Donald Trump warns of 'major, major conflict' with North Korea ***__ 🇰🇵
*https://goo.gl/rEgYLH*
*THE GUARDIAN*

Donald Trump has said that a *“major conflict”* was possible with North Korea though he would prefer to solve the standoff over the country’s nuclear and missile programme through diplomacy.

Trump’s warning on Thursday came towards the end of a week where the administration has made a concerted effort to restrain Pyongyang from carrying out major new weapons tests.

At the same time, US officials sought to clarify US policy after a variety of mixed signals in the administration’s first 100 days.

Rex Tillerson, the secretary of state, said that the US would be prepared to enter into direct talks with the regime of Kim Jong-un, but that it would have to prepare to negotiate getting rid of all its nuclear weapons.

The opening to diplomacy came as the head of the US Pacific Command, Admiral Harry Harris told the Senate that the standoff with North Korea was the worst he had seen. It was an assessment echoed by the president.

*“There is a chance that we could end up having a major, major conflict with North Korea. Absolutely,”* Trump told Reuters.

*“We’d love to solve things diplomatically but it’s very difficult,”* the president added.

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🇬🇧 __***LONDON SHOOTING: Police foil 'active terror plot'***__ 🇬🇧
*https://goo.gl/NoQFlb*
*BBC*

Police say they have foiled an active terror plot after __a woman was shot__ during a raid on a house in Willesden, north-west London.

The 21-year-old woman was one of the subjects of the investigation and is in a serious but stable condition.

A raid also took place in Kent, with __six people arrested in total.__

Officers say the operation was not connected to an arrest near Parliament on Thursday, when a man was detained on suspicion of terror offences.

Police said the house in Harlesden Road, Willesden, which was raided on Thursday evening, had been under observation.

At about 19:00 BST, firearms officers entered the property. CS gas was sprayed and a woman was shot.

A 16-year-old boy, and a man and woman, both aged 20, were arrested. A 43-year-old woman was arrested in Kent.

Two further arrests were made in Willesden after a man and woman, both aged 28, returned to the raided property.

The police said the suspects had been arrested __on suspicion of the commission, preparation and instigation of terrorist acts__.

They are in custody at a south London police station.

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🇺🇸 __***Feminist Site Teaches Women How To Give Themselves Unsafe At-Home Abortions***__ <:REEE:281041868056166401>
*https://goo.gl/gR0Gup*
*THE DAILY WIRE*

A newly launched feminist website is breaking free from even the facade of caring, teaching women how to give themselves unsafe at-home abortions, possibly with the use of illegally obtained pills. The practice of at-home, self-induced abortion comes with major health risks and is illegal in some states.

International pro-abortion group Women Help Women instructs women on how to *"use the abortion pill at home, offering online advice and counseling about how to use medications the Food and Drug Administration says should be taken only by prescription and under medical supervision,"* reports The Washington Post.

As even the Post admits, the organization is teaching women how to self-induce abortion with pills some may have *"illegally obtained ... on the Internet or through other means."*

*"The abortion pill approved by the FDA is actually two drugs that may be used in combination through the 10th week of pregnancy. Taken during 24 to 48 hours, the drugs — mifepristone and misoprostol — halt the development of pregnancy and induce miscarriage,"* continues the Post. *"The agency recommends medical supervision followed by an in-person follow-up appointment, and it warns people not to obtain the pills over the Internet because they might be unsafe."*

Ethical stuff.

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🇺🇸 __***TRUMP: 'I'm a nationalist and a globalist. I'm both'...***__ <:jewstar:285075531609669632>
*https://goo.gl/BLdvmz*
*THE WALL STREET JOURNAL*

President Donald Trump was prepared to end the North American Free Trade Agreement deal, which had governed trade relations for the past 23 years, with a dramatic announcement Saturday at a Pennsylvania political rally marking his 100th day in office.

As rumors spread of the possible action, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto called the president urging him not to pull out of the accord. *“Let me think about it,”* Mr. Trump said. Within a half hour a call came in from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau with a similar request.

But Mr. Trump said in the interview that he still holds his strongest card. *“We’ll terminate Nafta if we’re unable to make a deal, but hopefully we won’t have to do that.”*

Craig Fuller, who served eight years in former President Ronald Reagan’s White House, said in an interview: *“The trouble here is I don’t see how you get a course correction when there isn’t a course. It’s just erratic.*

*“He needs to go look at the two factions inside the White House and get rid of one of them. You can’t operate that way in the White House.”*

Mr. Trump dismissed talk about a split inside his White House between aides with a nationalist or globalist orientation. __*“Hey, I’m a nationalist and a globalist,”* he said. *“I’m both. And I’m the only one who makes the decision, believe me.”*__

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🇺🇸 __***"The CIA Has Been Deeply Humiliated" - Ron Paul Interviews Julian Assange***__ 🇦🇺
*https://goo.gl/gc4Dlc*
*ZERO HEDGE*

Having blasted the Trump administration for their hyprocritical flip-flop from *"loving WikiLeaks"* to *"arrest Assange,"* Ron Paul made his feelings very clear on what this signals: *"If we allow this president to declare war on those who tell the truth, we have only ourselves to blame."* Today he sits down with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for a live interview...

*"The CIA has been deeply humiliated as a result of our ongoing publications so this is a preemptive move by the CIA to try and discredit our publications and create a new category for Wikileaks and other national security reporters to strip them of First Amendment protections,"*

Full interview below: https://youtu.be/QwkrtpXp-wg

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🇺🇸 __***‘Cult leader’ Alex Jones loses full custody of children in bitter courtroom battle ***__ 🇺🇸
*https://goo.gl/SQ1khK*
*RT*

Right-wing conspiracy theorist and Infowars host Alex Jones was described as a *“cult leader”* who brainwashed his children into *“cult followers”* by his ex-wife’s lawyer during a bitter custody battle.

No doubt Jones’ loyal followers – or rather 'fans' – will take offense to the label, delivered by Kelly Jones’ attorney, during closing statements in the pair’s court battle over their three kids.

*“Mr. Jones is like a cult leader,”* said Robert Hoffman, according to the Austin American-Statesman. *“The children appear to be cult followers, doing what daddy wants them to do,”* which the attorney went on to liken to *“straight up child abuse.”*

*“Somehow, this man has gotten away with murder,”* Hoffman added. *“It’s the equivalent of that and it’s wrong.”*

*Currently in the Alex Jones trial, we are going over whether he believed his daughter's doctors when they said her toe was broken*
— *dan solo (@dansolomon) April 19, 2017*

Hoffman went on to claim that Jones was *“emotionally, sexually, physically abusive”* during their marriage, and used wealth to *“escape detection,”* reports Law Newz.

Other revelations brought forward during the nine-day trial include Jones’ claim (under oath) to have slept with more than 150 women before the age of 16, admitted to smoking weed to test its strength, and his failure to remember basic details about his kids because he ***“ate some wicked chili.”***

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🏳️‍🌈 __***Milo Yiannopoulos Is Starting a New, Ugly, For-Profit Troll Circus***__ 🏳️‍🌈
*https://goo.gl/4AqD4L*
*VANITY FAIR*

Days after releasing a video touting his return to the campus, Yiannopoulos told the Hive that he would be launching a new media venture in the coming weeks with what he says is a $12 million investment from backers whose identities he is protecting. (Yiannopoulos showed me a page from the contract with the investors' names blacked out.)

Another person involved with the company, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, was similarly secretive: *"Milo has the best instincts about these things,"* he said.

The business, which will be called Milo Inc., will be even more focused on stoking the sort of ugly political conflict that's closer to the surface than ever in these early months of the Trump administration.

Milo Inc., according to a press release, will be based in Miami, with a planned staff of 30. It will be in the business of what can be best described as corporatized trolling via live entertainment, with Yiannopoulos and his investors hosting events featuring right-wing talent.

Milo Inc.'s first event will be a return to the town that erupted in riots when he was invited to speak earlier this year. In fact, Yiannopoulos said that he is planning a *“week-long celebration of free speech”* near U.C. Berkeley, where a speech by his fellow campus agitator, Ann Coulter, was recently canceled after threats of violence.

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🇺🇸 __***Congress approves stopgap spending bill to avert shutdown***__ 🇺🇸
*https://goo.gl/AvuxA8*
*FOX NEWS*

Congress on Friday approved a one-week, stopgap spending bill to avert a government shutdown this weekend, giving lawmakers more time to negotiate a broader budget deal – as lawmakers also pushed off talks on a new health care package.

The spending measure passed the Senate by voice vote after clearing the House on a bipartisan 382-30 vote. It now goes to President Trump’s desk.

Lawmakers had been facing a midnight deadline to pass a new funding bill. They will now continue to work on a bigger, $1 trillion budget package, under a new deadline of next Friday.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said earlier that bargainers were *"very close"* to an agreement. But underscoring lingering battles over environmental and financial regulations, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., continued to object to what he called *"poison pill riders."*

But the bipartisan budget talks had progressed more smoothly after the White House dropped a threat to withhold payments that help lower-income Americans pay their medical bills and President Trump abandoned a demand for money for a border wall with Mexico.

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🇺🇸 __***AUDIO: student forced to stop reading Bible before class***__ 🇺🇸
*https://goo.gl/LwzrtE*
*CAMPUS REFORM*

A Northern Arizona University student was recently asked to stop reading his Bible prior to the start of one of his classes, according to audio obtained by Campus Reform.

In a recording of the February incident, provided to Campus Reform by Kevin Cavanaugh for Congress, Mark Holden explains the situation to History Department Chair Derek Heng, who had been called in by the instructor, Dr. Heather Martel, after Holden had refused her request that he put his Bible away.

Holden tells Heng that he had arrived early to his U.S. history course and, as usual, used the spare time to read his Bible, but claims that Martel had objected to the routine because she didn’t want to see a Bible in front of her.

*“So Prof. Martel says that she doesn’t want you sitting in front of her because you put, you know, a Bible out, right?”* Heng can be heard explaining to Holden, adding that while he doesn’t *“know what the dynamics [are] going on in the classroom,”* the *“real key is to make sure that, you know, the class is able to go on and that you are in the classroom.”*

Nonetheless, and despite Holden’s protestations that class wasn’t going to begin for “another five minutes,” Heng concluded the conversation by again asking Holden if he would put his Bible away.

*“So, will you, will you, will you, put your Bible away?”* he asks, to which Holden replies that he always puts his Bible away once class begins, stating that he only reads the Bible *“before class”* and always makes sure to stow it away *“before class starts.”*

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🇨🇳 __***China Bans List of Islamic Names, Including ‘Muhammad’, in Xinjiang Region***__ <:pepesmug:281041251749462016>
*https://goo.gl/v0xE1r*
*BLOOMBERG*

Authorities in China's Xinjiang region are prohibiting parents from giving children some Islamic names in the latest effort to dilute the influence of religion on life in the ethnic Uighur minority heartland.

*"Muhammad,"* *"Jihad"* and *"Islam"* are among at least 29 names now banned in the heavily Muslim region, according to a list distributed by overseas Uighur activists.

An official at a county-level public security office in Kashgar, a hub in southern Xinjiang with strong Islamic influences, says some names were banned because they had a *"religious background."* It is unclear how widespread the ban is or whether it is tightly enforced. The official refused to identify herself, as is common with Chinese officials.

The naming restrictions are part of a broader government effort to secularize Xinjiang, which is home to roughly 10 million Uighurs, a Turkic people who mostly follow Sunni Islam. Top officials including Xinjiang's Communist Party chief have publicly said that radical Islamic thought has infiltrated the region from Central Asia, protracting a bloody, yearslong insurgency that has claimed hundreds of lives.

Aside from the prohibition on Islamic names, local Xinjiang officials have, at times, strongly discouraged or prohibited Islamic veils, while government-linked commentators have called for bans of mosques with domes or other Middle Eastern architectural styles.

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🇺🇸 __***Obama secures $800,000 for two speaking engagements***__ 🇺🇸
*https://goo.gl/wRsGKu*
*RT*

Former President Barack Obama has secured another $400,000 fee as he was interviewed for 90 minutes by cable network A&E Networks
before an audience of advertisers. It is second speaking engagement for $400K announced in the same week.

At the event at the Pierre Hotel in New York on Thursday, Obama got a standing ovation when he entered the room. Asked about what
he missed most about the White House, he said it was sitting on the Truman Balcony on summer nights and gazing at the Washington Monument
and the Lincoln Memorial, a source in attendance said, according to the New York Post.

US Senator Elizabeth Warren (D, Massachusetts) said she was troubled, and concerned about the overall influence of money in politics.

*"I was troubled by that,"* the Massachusetts senator said Thursday during an interview with the SiriusXM show *"Alter Family Politics"*
on Radio Andy, according to ABC News.

Former presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) called it *"unfortunate"* that the Democratic leader would ally himself with Wall Street interests.

*"I think at a time when people are so frustrated with the power of Wall Street and the big money interests, I think it is unfortunate*
*that President Obama is doing this," Sanders said on CBS's "This Morning."*

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__***North Korea has reportedly launched a ballistic missile just hours after the UN met to discuss the country's nuclear threat.***__
*http://news.sky.com/story/north-korea-test-fires-ballistic-missile-10855244*
*"North Korea fired an unidentified missile from a site in the vicinity of Bukchang in Pyeongannam-do (South Pyeongan Province) early this morning," South Korea's Yonhap reported, quoting a statement issued by the military.

A US government source told Reuters that initial indications were that the test was unsuccessful.

US President Donald Trump has warned there is a chance of a "major, major conflict" with North Korea due to rising tensions over its nuclear ambitions and missile tests.*

http://news.sky.com/story/north-korea-test-fires-ballistic-missile-10855244

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🇵🇭 __***6.8 quake off Philippines triggers tsunami warning***__ 🇵🇭
*https://goo.gl/HabYOw*
*RT*

A 6.8 earthquake has struck south off the Philippines island of Mindanao, triggering a brief warning
of *“hazardous tsunami waves”* for the country’s coastlines, according to the US Geological Survey and
the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said that tsunami waves could reach 300km from the epicenter of
the earthquake, which was recorded at 6.8 on the Richter scale.

#Tsunami warning after M6.8 quake hits off Philippines, waves could reach 300km from epicenter,
1m above normal tide levels: @NWS_PTWCpic.twitter.com/MtwZDA6h1Y
— People's Daily,China (@PDChina) 28 апреля 2017 г.

Waves reaching up to 1 meter above normal tide levels are possible in the Philippines, while some
coastlines in Indonesia, Malaysia and Palau could expect waves up to 30 centimeters higher than
usual, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said.

The warning was lifted roughly an hour later, with the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center saying that
__*“the tsunami threat from this earthquake has now passed.”*__

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🇺🇸 __***Documents Tie Berkeley Riot Organizers To Pro-Pedophilia Group, NAMBLA***__ 🇺🇸
*https://goo.gl/bBoccC*
*THE DAILY CALLER*

The left-wing activists behind the anti-conservative riots at Berkeley have ties to one of the nation’s most prominent
pro-pedophilia organizations.

The Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration & Immigrant Rights, and Fight for Equality By Any Means
Necessary — more commonly referred to as By Any Means Necessary or BAMN — is one of the militant leftist groups waging a
campaign against conservatives and Trump supporters in Berkeley.

BAMN’s parent organization worked directly with the North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) in the years just
before it founded BAMN, according to NAMBLA documents reviewed by The Daily Caller. In addition, a member of that parent
organization said to have founded BAMN is an admitted member of NAMBLA, which she has described as the victim of a
*“witch-hunt.”*

BAMN, which did not return a phone call and voicemail seeking comment, was founded by the Revolutionary Workers League,
a small, Detroit-based Marxist organization. Many of BAMN’s leading members over the years have also been RWL members.

An anonymous group of researchers provided TheDC with copies of internal NAMBLA publications from the 1990’s. The
internet sleuths requested anonymity, citing fear of retaliation by BAMN members, and asked instead to be collectively
referred to as, *“The shadowy and/or mysterious organization known as Antifaleaks.”*

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🇺🇸 __***Gun-Controlled Chicago: Over 1,000 Shooting Victims This Year***__ 🇺🇸
*https://goo.gl/4oLBfp*
*BREITBART*

Gun-controlled Chicago already has yielded more than 1,000 shooting victims as of April 27 of this year alone.

The pace of shootings shows Chicago is on track to have another year of nearly 4,400 shooting victims, which is the
number of victims the city witnessed last year.

According to the Chicago Tribune, the violence on April 25 was so bad that *“two people were killed and five others were
wounded over a single hour.”* That hour was indicative of the kind of violence that has been erupting in Chicago
throughout 2017.

Breitbart News reported that 29 people were shot, one fatally, during 18 hours that began at 2:30 a.m. on April 15. The
Tribune reported that some of the victims of those 18 hours were as young as 14.

On March 31, Breitbart News reported that two sons were shot to death in front of their mother. Raheem Jackson, 19, and
20-year-old Dillon Jackson had gone to the restaurant where their mother worked to say hello to her and to eat. They
were killed just outside the restaurant as their mother looked at them through a window.

The Tribune quoted the sons’ mother saying, *“I can’t go on, my life is over. I’m about to goddamn kill myself. I was
standing right here in the window, they killed ’em right in front of me.”*

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then tell your nigger kids not to be in a gang

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🇮🇱 __***Israel and ISIS Are Allies. There. We Said It. ***__ 🇮🇱
*https://goo.gl/7MA8qp*
*RUSSIAN INSIDER*

When you bomb an ally, you apologize. When you bomb an enemy, you don’t. What does that make ISIS to Israel?

In the midst of complaining about the Islamist threat to Israel and the world, Bibi Netanyahu conveniently forgets that
his own country enjoys a tacit alliance with the Islamic State (IS) in Syria.

It is an alliance of convenience to be sure and one that’s not boasted about by either party. But is not terribly
different from one that Israel enjoys with its other Muslim allies like Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states.

Israel's defence minister, Moshe Yaalon, revealed Israel’s ties to IS in Syria. I’ve documented, along with other
journalists, Israeli collaboration with al-Nusra, an affiliate of al-Qaeda. But no Israeli until now has admitted it has
collaborated with IS as well.

It’s common knowledge that Israeli foreign policy going back to the days of Ben Gurion has been exceedingly
opportunistic and amoral as exemplified in this infamous statement:

*"Were I to know that all German Jewish children could be rescued by transferring them to England and only half by
transfer to Palestine, I would opt for the latter, because our concern is not only the personal interest of these
children, but the historic interest of the Jewish people."*

So I suppose one shouldn’t be surprised at this new development. But still it does momentarily take one’s breath away to
contemplate just how brutally cynical Israel’s motives and choices can often be.

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🇺🇸 __***Judge Finds High School Teacher Not Guilty Of EPIC 9-HOUR THREESOME SEX TRAUMA With Male Teen***__ 🇺🇸
*https://goo.gl/kQxZgZ*
*THE DAILY CALLER*

A Louisiana judge has entered a finding of not guilty against one of the two English teachers in small-town Louisiana
arrested for having an epic, nine-hour threesome with the same then-16-year-old male student.

The now-former teacher is Shelley Dufresne. Dufresne, 34, taught at Destrehan High School in the suburbs of New Orleans.

The other teacher allegedly involved in the unholy trinity was Rachel Respess, 26.

The district court judge, Danyelle Taylor, based her criminal trial finding of reasonable doubt on a lack of evidence
provided by local investigators and her belief that the male teen — the primary witness at trial — was unreliable,
reports The Times-Picayune.

The judge conceded that Dufresne probably did have a bunch of sex with her now-19-year-old paramour.

*“She betrayed a very basic public trust as a school teacher,”* the judge said. However, the case in Judge Taylor’s
courtroom turned largely on the location of all the sex. Was it in Jefferson Parish, where Taylor presides, or was it in
St. Charles Parish, the next parish over?

*“I do not believe that the threshold has been met by the evidence presented to this court,”* the judge said. She also
described the teen as having a *“braggadocious nature”* and a *“propensity to lie.”*

Police say the ménage à trois occurred in the fall of 2014. They say it featured the then-16-year-old male student along
with Dufresne and the other teacher, Respess.

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🇮🇪 __***Europe could allow a united Ireland to join EU after Brexit***__ 🇪🇺
*https://goo.gl/j3rYGk*
*THE GUARDIAN*

European leaders may be preparing to recognise a united Ireland, in a declaration that would pave the way for the north
to swiftly rejoin the European Union. At their first Brexit summit on Saturday, the EU’s 27 leaders are expected to
discuss a text stating that if Ireland unified, the north would automatically become part of the EU.

The inclusion of the text is a victory for the Irish government, which had pressed for the inclusion of a *“GDR clause”*,
a reference to the integration of the former east German state into the European Community after the fall of the Berlin
wall. The declaration is bound to raise fears that Brexit could trigger the unravelling of the UK, although there is no
majority in Northern Ireland for unification.

The Irish clause is informed by the Good Friday peace agreement, which states that north and south of Ireland have a
right to unify if a majority agree north of the border. Enda Kenny, the taoiseach, has argued that it is important for
the north of Ireland to have “ease of access” to rejoin the EU if reunification were to occur.

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__***Video Surfaces of U.S. Presence Near Turkish Soldiers, Kurdish Militia on Syrian Border***__
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2017/04/28/report-u-s-deploys-troops-turkish-syrian-border/

Quick rundown:
- Vids of Stryker units in a convoy with YPG in Northeastern Syria
- Roaches keep fucking up the kurds so mattis put them alongside with the YPG
- Autism: 3 count of Stryker in the video and photo, first vehicle is armed with m134 and spotted with SRAW hanging from the side, second and third is armed with .50 cal CROWS. Photos from Reuters shows the US personel and they're wearing shirts and caps, high confidence its a SF unit. A stryker can carry up to 9, so possibly up to 27 SF

Multiple reports have suggested an elevated American presence on the Syrian-Turkish border where clashes between the Turkish military and the Syrian Kurdish Peoples’ Protection Units (YPG/YPJ) have escalated in the past week.

The Kurdish outlet Rudaw published a video Friday of military vehicles with American flags traveling through Darbasiyah, northeast Syria, by the Turkish border. Eyewitnesses had told multiple news outlets that Turkish and YPG fighters had engaged in fighting in Darbasiyah this week, as the Turkish government confirmed airstrikes on YPG outposts throughout Syria. The Turkish government also attacked the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Iraq.


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***http://goboiano.com/japan-puts-anime-in-zoo-and-penguin-adopts-a-waifu/***

**Japan Puts Anime in Zoo and Penguin Adopts a Waifu**

FUCKING WEEABOOS REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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__***Pope Francis is against libertarianism, says (((common good))) is better than individual freedom***___
*http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2017/04/28/pope-francis-warns-against-invasion-of-libertarianism/* (Breitbart)

Pope Francis had harsh words to describe libertarians Friday, saying they deny the value of the common good in favor of radical selfishness where only the individual matters.

“I cannot fail to speak of the grave risks associated with the invasion of the positions of libertarian individualism at high strata of culture and in school and university education,” the Pope said in an message sent to members of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences meeting in the Vatican and subsequently shared with Breitbart News.

“A common characteristic of this fallacious paradigm is that it minimizes the common good, that is the idea of ‘living well’ or the ‘good life’ in the communitarian framework,” Francis said, while at the same time exalting a “selfish ideal.”

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__***Emeperor Trump tries to solve Hermit Kingdom problem diplomatically, Fat Jong-un makes it impossible***___
*http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2017/04/28/trump-there-is-a-chance-we-could-end-up-having-a-major-major-conflict-with-north-korea/* (Breitbart)

On Thursday, during an Oval Office interview with Reuters, President Trump said: “There is a chance that we could end up having a major, major conflict with North Korea. Absolutely.”

“We’d love to solve things diplomatically but it’s very difficult,” the president added.

China will clearly play a major role in that hoped-for diplomatic resolution, as Trump suggested he would not anger Beijing with another phone call to Taiwan’s president. He explicitly stated he wanted to avoid “causing difficulty” for Chinese President Xi Jinping while he is “doing everything in his power to help us with a big situation.”

He praised Xi as a “good man” who is “trying very hard” to avoid “turmoil and death” on the Korean peninsula.

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__***ASEAN tells Hermit Kingdom to stop fucking around with nukes, says it's not a toy***___
*http://globalnation.inquirer.net/155667/asean-north-korea-stop-testing-nukes* (Inquirer.net)

Foreign ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) urged North Korea on Friday to put a stop to its nuclear testing and ballistic missile launches that have rattled the region and its other neighbors since last year.

The ministers issued a statement on the Korean Peninsula tension, the first statement they made after they met to finalize the regional grouping’s positions on certain issues ahead of the leaders’ summit on Saturday.

The stance taken by the Asean foreign ministers came at a time when North Korea reportedly sought the support of the regional grouping in its row with the United States and called for it to make an issue of the US-South Korea military exercises in the Korean Peninsula.

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🇹🇷 __***Turkroaches block Wikipedia***__ 🇹🇷
*http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39754909* (BBC)
After technical analysis and legal consideration based on the Law Nr. 5651 [governing the internet], an administrative measure has been taken for this website - quotes Turkey's Information and Communication Technology.

As of 0500 GMT, Turkey's government has blocked access to the entire Wikipedia domain without court approval. Such mirrors the 2016 blocking of WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter and Youtube, which at the time the reason was cited as security measures. Erdogan has not commented.

🇦🇺 __***Australian Government begins offering five day course for refugees***__ 🇦🇺
*https://goo.gl/epx6bO* (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

The Government's news Australian Cultural Orientation (AUSCO) intensive program spans over five days, teaching refugees from all background common skills such as how to cross roads, use escalators, shake hands, and flush toilets, in addition to basic English courses.

Zed Seselja, Assistant Minister for Social Services and Multicultural Affairs, suggests that this process takes [into account] some of the most desperate and vulnerable [refugees]. Such is an interesting turn of events given the Turnbull Government's hardline policy on asylum seekers.

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🇺🇸 __***MDMA a step closer to use for PTSD sufferers***__ 🇺🇸
*https://goo.gl/vWQj9r* (Nature Publications News)
*https://goo.gl/7u2jnU* (Journal of Traumatic Stress)

Last week's Psychedelic Science 2017 conference in Oakland CA had researchers presenting previously unpublished results from Phase II clinical trials of MDMA, better known as ecstasy.

The treatment plan, involving a combination of psychotherapy and MDMA, found a shocking 67% of the 117 subjects no longer suffered PTSD two years after the treatment- 2.91 times as effective than psychotherapy and placebos.

"The results I've seen so far with MDMA are so much better than anything I've seen," says psychiatrist researcher Michael Mithoefer.

Phase III trials are expected to commence later this year.
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🇬🇧 __***Oxford University sorry for eye contact racism claim***__ 🇬🇧
*https://goo.gl/Xgzq83*
*BBC*

Oxford University has apologised for saying that avoiding eye contact could be *"everyday racism"* __after it was accused of
discriminating against autistic people__. The claim was included in a list of *"racial micro-aggressions"* in an equality
and diversity unit newsletter.

But the university was criticised for being *"insensitive"* to autistic people who can struggle making eye contact. It
said it had made a mistake and not taken disabilities into account.

The university originally said *"racial micro-aggressions"* might include: *"Not making eye contact or speaking directly to
people."* It described the behaviours as "subtle, everyday racism" which can be alienating.

In a series of tweets, the university replied: *"We made a mistake. Our newsletter was too brief to deal adequately and
sensibly with the issue. We are sorry that we took no account of other reasons for difference in eye contact and social
interaction, including disability. Oxford deeply values and works hard to support students and staff with disabilities,
including those with autism or social anxiety disorder."*
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**tldr: Oxford is only sorry because they 'weren't PC enough', not because avoiding eye contact ISNT FUCKING RACIST.**
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CUCKED

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<:swastika:301285389753122818> __***8pol: Boston Free Speech Rally PERMIT APPROVED***__ <:swastika:301285389753122818>
*https://8ch.net/pol/res/9815140.html*
*8CH /pol/*

__On May 13th__, a free speech rally will be held in the Boston Common on 139 Tremont St from 12pm-5pm.

Libertarians, conservatives, traditionalists, classical liberals, or anyone else who supports Trump or just hates
leftists are encouraged to attend.

Bring Stickman basics at LEAST. Boston is saturated with Antifa or Antifa sympathizers. Expect a shitload to be there.
They WILL be violent. Remember, Boston is the birthplace of liberty! This is our town, progressives are just squatting
in it. Time to take it back.

**[read thread for planning, do's/dont's, intel, support, hype]**

**FAQ**:

>*What's the point of this rally?*

To support free speech and show the world Boston isn't completely cucked.

>*Will cops stand down or help Antifa?*

Likely. Some are on our side, but they may have orders. Do not expect help.

__**Mad props to @!Doug The Subway Fugitive for this scoop**__

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**tldr: /ourguys/ are organizing a rally in Boston on May the 13th. High likelihood of happening and antifa chimpouts**
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🇺🇸 __***New Biography Says Obama 'Considered Gayness'***__ 🇺🇸
*https://goo.gl/8BgPiM*
*THE DAILY WIRE*

According to a new biography, former President Barack Obama *"considered gayness"* in his college years before ultimately
deciding on a more *"challenging"* heterosexual lifestyle.

The biography, Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama, was penned by American historian, author and New York Times and
Washington Post contributor David Garrow and is set for release on May 9. Garrow is a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer,
known best for his work on Martin Luther King Jr.

Rising Star delves into the relationship Obama had with __an openly gay assistant professor__ at Occidental College,
Lawrence Goldyn, when Obama was a student.

*"Goldyn made a huge impact on Barry Obama,"* writes Garrow, according to The Daily Caller. *"Almost a quarter century
later, asked about his understanding of gay issues, Obama enthusiastically said, 'my favorite professor my first year in
college was one of the first openly gay people that I knew…He was a terrific guy' __with whom Obama developed a
'friendship beyond the classroom__.'"*

*"Goldyn years later would remember that Obama 'was not fearful of being associated with me' in terms of 'talking
socially' and 'learning from me' after as well as in class,"* adds the author.

The award-winning biographer continues: *"Three years later, Obama wrote somewhat elusively to his first intimate
girlfriend that he had thought about and considered gayness, but ultimately had decided that a same-sex relationship
would be less challenging and demanding than developing one with the opposite sex,"* he says.
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***tldr: obama sucked dick for grades***
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HAHAHSHS