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Archive: ITTBF 8-18-17
Is it OK to punch a Nazi in the face?
That’s the question animating much of the discussion of Saturday’s white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, which quickly devolved into a brawl between rally-goers and a contingent of anti-fascist counterprotesters known as antifa. Following the clashes, a white supremacist rammed his car into the counterprotest, killing Heather Heyer, 32.
Leaders and activists across the spectrum — except President Donald Trump — have unequivocally condemned the racist, anti-Semitic rally. But they are divided on whether physically attacking white supremacists is justified simply because they are white supremacists. Continue reading “Antifa: The Group That Fought White Supremacists In Charlottesville”
We cut the statue below the knees within minutes,” a Hungarian student said, recalling the exciting scene in October 1956 at Varosliget, Budapest’s version of Central Park, where 200,000 Hungarian rebels shouted “Russians go home!” while felling Joseph Stalin’s 25-meter idol to the ground.
The bronze sculpture’s collapse, the disembodiment of its head and the mutilation of its body memorably sparked the bloody anti-Soviet uprising that shook the world. Continue reading “Middle Israel: Who Moved My Statue?”
One hundred years ago in August 1917, the London Gazette published an official announcement that “a Jewish regiment” had been established. Based on the international regiments of small oppressed nations in Europe that had fought in foreign armies against great empires during the 19th century, it heralded the Israel Defence Force in 1948. Its formation marked the success of attempts by Chaim Weizmann and Vladimir Jabotinsky to symbolise the rebirth of a Jewish nation. Continue reading “Birth of a fighting force for Zionism”
Coincidence?
A woman says she has survived the Barcelona van attack months after also being caught up in the terrorist rampages in London Bridge and Paris.
Julia Monaco, 26, was shopping with friends when a van ploughed through nearby crowds killing 13 people and injuring more than 100.
It was her third brush with terror while travelling through Europe this year. Continue reading “Barcelona attack: Woman caught up in third terror event after surviving London Bridge and Paris rampages”
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Archive: TWFTT 8-18-17
Activist Post – by Brandon Turbeville
The Israeli government is at it again. The Zionist settler state is currently laying the groundworkfor a justification of military aggression against Syria over flimsy claims that Iran is building a scud missile factory in Lattakia.
Israel claims that satellite photos allegedly taken by its EROS-B satellite show the construction of the Scud missile factory. The location is allegedly near Lattakia near the coastline. Continue reading “Israel Claims Iran Is Building A Missile Factory In Syria, Builds Excuses For Strike Against Assad”
Breitbart – by Warner Todd Huston
A ninety-year-old bust of Abraham Lincoln, our sixteenth president, was destroyed in a South Side Chicago neighborhood overnight on Wednesday.
15th Ward Alderman Raymond Lopez criticized the destruction of the statue in a Facebook post on Wednesday evening.
“What an absolute disgraceful act of vandalism. This bust of Abraham Lincoln, erected by Phil Bloomquist on August 31, 1926, was damaged & burned,” Lopez wrote. “If anyone has any information regarding this act, please contact the police or my office immediately.” Continue reading “90-Year-Old Bust of Abe Lincoln Destroyed in Chicago Neighborhood”
BOSTON (Reuters) – Boston officials are planning road blockades and even banning food vendors from the historic Boston Common as they step up security around a “Free Speech” rally on Saturday featuring right-wing speakers, aiming to avoid a repeat of last weekend’s violence at a white supremacist rally in Virginia.
Some 500 police officers will be on the streets around the popular tourist destination. They are planning to close some roadways to vehicles, mindful of the car attacks that killed a woman in Charlottesville and 13 in an attack in Barcelona on Thursday. Continue reading “Roadblocks, weapons bans as Boston braces for ‘Free Speech’ rally”
WASHINGTON — Friday will be controversial White House chief Strategist Steve Bannon’s final day working in the West Wing. White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders issued a statement to the press pool describing the move as a mutual decision between Bannon and White House Chief of Staff John Kelly on Friday.
“White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and Steve Bannon have mutually agreed today would be Steve’s last day. We are grateful for his service and wish him the best,” Sanders said. Continue reading “Steve Bannon is leaving the White House”
The Economic Collapse – by Michael Snyder
On August 21st, approximately 25,000 U.S. troops will join “tens of thousands” from the South Korean military to conduct a “major military exercise” that is already triggering threats from North Korea. Considering the fact that any sort of provocation could cause a nuclear war to erupt on the Korean peninsula, is this really a wise thing to do? The more research that I do on this upcoming solar eclipse, the stranger things become. When I first started hearing about this eclipse many months ago, I didn’t pay too much attention, but now after looking into it extensively I do believe that it is going to be quite significant.
And I didn’t even know about this major military exercise that will happen during the eclipse until today. The following comes from MSN… Continue reading “The U.S. Military Will Be Conducting ‘A Major Military Exercise’ On The Korean Peninsula During The Solar Eclipse”
The Intercept – by David Dayen
WELLS FARGO, THE CURRENT poster child for corporate crime recidivism, announced that three of its board members would step down at the end of the year, in a nod to the company’s many incidents of customer abuse. But, in an example of what passes for accountability in the modern age, they did not claw back any compensation from those board members. Instead, the departing board members were allowed to take an early retirement. And the replacements are either already on Wells Fargo’s payroll, or come from close corporate partners.
Stephen Sanger, who only took over as chair of the board of directors after the resignation of CEO and chair John Stumpf last year, will step down Jan. 1, along with two colleagues, Cynthia Milligan and Susan Swenson. The trio are among the bank’s longest-serving board members; Milligan joined in 1992, Swenson in 1998, and Sanger in 2003. And all three served during Wells Fargo’s decade-plus practice of instituting fake accounts to goose sales growth, not to mention recent revelations of nickel-and-diming mortgageborrowers, auto loan customers, small business owners, and investors. Continue reading “Wells Fargo Reshuffles Board With Scandal-Ridden Insiders”
The Berkeley area teacher who pummeled a white nationalist last year, and just recently was arrested on assault charges for that attack, is claiming that “standing up to fascism is not a crime.”
By Any Means Necessary’s Yvette Felarca, who teaches in the Berkeley Unified School District, said at her arraignment that “Standing up against […] the rise of Nazism and fascism in this country is not a crime,” and added “We have the right to defend ourselves.” Continue reading “Teacher arrested for assaulting white nationalist: Violence against far-right ‘not a crime’”
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Infowars.com has learned the White House counsel has prepared, at the request of President Trump, a pardon for former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio that is ready for Trump to sign.
The question is whether President Trump will sign the pardon now, before traveling to Phoenix for a rally at the Phoenix Convention Center on Tuesday, May 22 – or if President Trump will sign it at all. Continue reading “White House Prepares Arpaio Pardon For Trump’s Signature”