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How Japan Has Almost Eradicated Gun Crime
Post Date: 2020-01-21 22:20:57 by Deckard
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Japan has one of the lowest rates of gun crime in the world. In 2014 there were just six gun deaths, compared to 33,599 in the US. What is the secret? Shotguns and air rifles are the only firearms you can legally buy in Japan. Photo by Ronald Grant. If you want to buy a gun in Japan you need patience and determination. You have to attend an all-day class, take a written exam and pass a shooting-range test with a mark of at least 95 percent. There are also mental health and drugs tests. Your criminal record is checked and police look for links to extremist groups. Then they check your relatives too - and even your work colleagues. And as well as having the power to deny gun licences, ...
Neil Peart, Rush Drummer Who Set a New Standard for Rock Virtuosity, Dead at 67
Post Date: 2020-01-10 22:14:52 by Deckard
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Rolling Stone – by Brian Hiatt Neil Peart, the virtuoso drummer and lyricist for Rush, died Tuesday, January 7th, in Santa Monica, California, at age 67, according to Elliot Mintz, a family spokesperson. The cause was brain cancer, which Peart had been quietly battling for three-and-a-half years. A representative for the band confirmed the news to Rolling Stone. Peart was one of rock’s greatest drummers, with a flamboyant yet precise style that paid homage to his hero, the Who’s Keith Moon, while expanding the technical and imaginative possibilities of his instrument. He joined singer-bassist Geddy Lee and guitarist Alex Lifeson in Rush in 1974, and his ...
Russia’s Officials And Media Commentators React To The Killing Of Soleimani
Post Date: 2020-01-08 22:04:17 by A K A Stone
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On January 3, the Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, Commander of the special-task Quds Force of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, was killed by the US military, in an airstrike on Baghdad airport. On that very day, Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov held a telephone conversation with his American counterpart, United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. In their conversation,“Lavrov stressed that targeted actions by a UN member state to eliminate officials of another UN member state, and on the territory of a third sovereign country without its knowledge grossly violate the principles of international law and deserve condemnation. “The Russian Minister pointed out ...
Pentagon sends six B-52 strategic bombers to military base on Diego Garcia
Post Date: 2020-01-07 14:36:34 by Deckard
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Daily MailThe Defense Department is sending six B-52 bombers to the Diego Garcia military base in the northern Indian Ocean as preparations for possible military action against Iran move forward.Pentagon officials told CNN on Monday that the B-52 will be available for operations against the Islamic Republic if ordered into action, though the deployment does not signal a decision has been made about any attack plans. The United States maintains several military bases in a number of Middle Eastern countries in close proximity to Iran, but it chose to deploy its bombers to Diego Garcia because it is out of reach of Iran’s longest range missiles, according to the ...
Stampede kills 40 at funeral for Iran general killed by US
Post Date: 2020-01-07 09:02:16 by IbJensen
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Mourners attend a funeral ceremony for Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani and his comrades, who were killed in Iraq in a U.S. drone strike on Friday, in the city of Kerman, Iran, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2020. The leader of Iran's Revolutionary Guard threatened on Tuesday to "set ablaze" places supported by the United States over the killing of a top Iranian general in a U.S. airstrike last week, sparking cries from the crowd of supporters of "Death to Israel!" TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A stampede on Tuesday at a funeral procession for a top Iranian general killed in a U.S. airstrike last week killed 40 people and injured 213 others, two Iranian semi-official news agencies ...
Don't Believe Mike Pence's Spin About Iran and 9/11
Post Date: 2020-01-06 17:05:36 by Deckard
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The vice president says assassinated Iranian general Qasem Soleimani was involved in the September 11 plot. That's as true as when Republicans said Saddam Hussein was. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Newscom) In October 2002, when the United States was on the brink of entering a disastrous war in Iraq, a congressman named Mike Pence stood up on the floor of House of Representatives to denounce the television networks for refusing to cover President George W. Bush's address outlining the case for war.The Indiana Republian was referring to an October 7, 2002, speech that Bush delivered in Cincinnati, Ohio. In it, the president argued that Saddam Hussein's Iraqi regime "possesses ...
3,000 additional troops to deploy to Middle East as Pentagon prepares for Soleimani strike fallout
Post Date: 2020-01-06 15:58:34 by Deckard
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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is sending thousands of additional troops to the Middle East to bolster security and its ability to respond quickly to expected violence throughout the region after a U.S. airstrike in Baghdad killed Iran’s most powerful general, defense officials said Friday. The new deployment will include roughly 3,000 82nd Airborne Division soldiers who were placed on prepare-to-deploy orders earlier this week amid growing tensions in Iraq between the United States and Iran, two officials said. At least several dozen special operations troops were also deployed to the region, one of the officials said. The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because the ...
Stop saying Biden is the 'most electable'. Trump will run rings round him
Post Date: 2020-01-05 14:13:57 by Tooconservative
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Supporters of Joe Biden are unlikely to be persuaded by most of the common criticisms. They know he can be rambling and unintelligible. They know his record is unimpressive and that he doesn’t really have “policy proposals”. None of this matters, though, because to them he has the most important quality of all: he can beat Donald Trump. Nothing you can say about the former vice-president’s record, platform or mental state matters next to the argument that he is the best hope Democrats have of getting Trump out of office. There’s just one problem: it’s a myth. It is a myth just as it was a myth that Hillary Clinton was a good candidate against Trump. Biden is ...
RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN CRITICIZES PRO-HITLER POLISH AMBASSADOR TO NAZI GERMANY: THAT BASTARD WAS AN ANTISEMITIC PIG; I HAVE NO OTHER WORDS
Post Date: 2020-01-04 21:08:18 by A K A Stone
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December 25, 2019Clip No. 7675 Russian President Vladimir Putin Criticizes Pro-Hitler Polish Ambassador to Nazi Germany: That Bastard Was an Antisemitic Pig; I Have No Other Words On December 24, Vladimir Putin took part in the Defense Ministry Board meeting held at the National Defense Control Centre. During the Defense Ministry Board meeting, Putin discussed the role of European countries in contributing to the outbreak of WWII. Commenting on Poland, Putin used strong words to criticize the Polish ambassador to Nazi Germany, Josef Lipski, who backed Hitler in 1938. “That bastard! That antisemitic pig – I have no other words,” Putin said referring to Lipski. This video ...
Trump’s Point of No Return
Post Date: 2020-01-04 20:01:23 by Deckard
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When I wrote that the coup against President Trump had morphed into a Civil War, I wasn’t kidding. The sham impeachment created the perfect environment for the Democrats and Republicans to get something definitive from him by playing the House and the Senate off each other. With the Senate Neocon Occupied Territory the escalation of belligerence since Speaker Nancy Pelosi pushed through the impeachment vote has been serious. First, there was the rider to the NDAA which upped the sanctions on everyone willing to work on Nordstream 2. Then Lindsey Graham pushed the frankly insane DASKA bill through the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Pelosi forced her impeachment vote ...
IRGC Quds Force Commander Qasem Soleimani: Trump's Rhetoric Is That of a Casino
Post Date: 2020-01-04 16:37:41 by A K A Stone
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Published on Jul 30, 2018 In response to U.S. President Trump's recent tweet to Iranian President Rouhani, IRGC Qods Force Commander General Qasem Soleimani warned "Trump the gambler" that "You may start the war, but we will be the ones to determine its end.” In a speech delivered on July 26 in the city of Hamedan, General Soleimani said that Trump's rhetoric was "that of a bartender or a casino manager" and warned him that "we are near you in places that you can't even imagine. We are a nation of martyrdom." His speech aired on Iran's Channel 5.
Corporate Media Turns to Warhawks, Including Former Bush Officials, to Beat Drums of War on Iran
Post Date: 2020-01-04 14:28:13 by Deckard
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Karl Rove and Ari Fleischer, senior adviser and White House press secretary under the George W. Bush administration, appeared on Fox News Thursday night in the hours after the Trump administration assassinated top Iranian military official Qasem Soleimani. (Photo: Fox News/screenshot)Trump critics and peace advocates watched in horror Thursday night and Friday morning as some of the top architects of the Iraq War took to the corporate media to spin a narrative aimed at retroactively convincing Americans that the killing of Iranian military official Qasem Soleimani was essential to the safety of the U.S.—a replica of the run-up to the Iraq War nearly two decades ago. Following reports ...
War Again on the Front Burner
Post Date: 2020-01-04 00:58:38 by Deckard
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The nonsensical statement below from the Pentagon announcing that the US government has committed an act of war against Iran should frighten everyone: “At the direction of the president, the US military has taken decisive defensive action to protect US personnel abroad by killing Qasem Soleimani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force, a US-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization.” “This strike was aimed at deterring future Iranian attack plans.” “The United States will continue to take all necessary action to protect our people and our interests wherever they are around the world.” Murdering a high-ranking official of a government is an ...
#WWIII Now Trending as Trump Fulfills Neocon Wet Dream of Provoking War with Iran
Post Date: 2020-01-03 22:38:15 by Deckard
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Late Thursday night, without any congressional authorization, president Donald Trump ordered and carried out the assassination of one of the most powerful people in Iran, knowingly setting off what could amount to a new world war. Qassim Suleimani, the leader of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, was killing in Iraq “to protect U.S. personnel abroad,” according to the Pentagon. In reality, however, this move just hurled the United States and its citizens into perpetual danger and inevitable chaos and debt. The saber rattling began last week when the US accused Iran of killing an American contractor. “Iran killed an American contractor, wounding many,” Trump tweeted. ...
Touch-screen controls may have doomed USS McCain in tanker collision; now their makers will get paid to install upgrades
Post Date: 2019-12-22 03:25:08 by Deckard
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By Nebojsa Malic, senior writer at RT A new report into the 2017 collision that killed 10 sailors and nearly sank a US warship argues the badly designed touch-screen control system was at fault. So its creators will now get paid to ‘fix’ it, obviously. The guided missile destroyer USS John S. McCain sailed into the path of the tanker MC Alnic just east of the Singapore Strait in the early hours of August 21, 2017. The 30,000-ton vessel rammed the McCain, collapsing a bulkhead where 12 sailors were asleep. Only two made it out alive. It was the Navy’s worst accident at sea in decades.The Pentagon launched a probe, and forced several admirals into retirement. Also ...
Lame Excuses: WaPo’s Afghanistan Papers
Post Date: 2019-12-22 02:31:44 by Deckard
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PHOTO: John Moore/Getty Images The “Afghanistan Papers” scam by The Washington Post is an exercise in Hanlon’s Razor skulduggery. It represents an outright fabrication, a false narrative of “controversy,” packaged in the guise of classified information. The papers follow the same template of deception that was used in destroying Sudan’s pharmaceutical industry, as well as 9/11. It hollowly rationalizes revelation of earth-shattering criminality by using complex but ridiculous narratives about “bad intelligence” and a “lack of coherent strategy.” Read “US Destroyed Sudan’s Pharmaceutical Industry Under Flimsy Pretenses” ...
A VERY Merry Brexmas! Boris Johnson celebrates passing his Brexit deal...
Post Date: 2019-12-21 11:45:39 by nolu chan
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A VERY Merry Brexmas! Boris Johnson celebrates passing his Brexit deal by dining at Scott's in Mayfair where Noel Gallagher was also hosting his Christmas party with guests including Sienna Miller Mr Johnson dined at a Mayfair restaurant after celebrating historic Brexit win It's been a relentless few weeks for the Prime Minister in lead-up to Christmas MPs today voted in favour of Johnson's Brexit deal with 358 to 234 majority The win means the UK is now on course for leaving the EU by January 31 However, PM criticised by Labour for removing protections from original WAB By Sophie Tanno and Jack Maidment Deputy Political Editor For Mailonline Published: 13:52 EST, 20 ...
Pompeo rips Democrats' 'foolish position on Israeli settlements'
Post Date: 2019-12-17 07:40:48 by A K A Stone
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pushed back Monday against congressional Democrats who demanded that the Trump administration retract its declaration last month that it views Israeli towns in Judea and Samaria as legal under international law. In a letter..., the Secretary of State called Democrats’ positions against Israeli towns in Judea and Samaria “foolish”, Israel Hayom reported Monday night. Last month, Pompeo announced that the State Department did not view Israeli towns in Judea and Samaria as being inherently illegal under international law, reversing the policy set down late in the Obama administration, mirroring the position adopted by the Carter administration ...
‘Celebrate Boris!’ – Trump Hails UK Election Result, ‘Massive New Trade Deal After Brexit’
Post Date: 2019-12-13 09:01:49 by nolu chan
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‘Celebrate Boris!’ – Trump Hails UK Election Result, ‘Massive New Trade Deal After Brexit’ By Jack Montgomery Breitbart 12 Dec 2019 U.S. President Donald Trump has hailed Prime Minister Boris Johnson “great WIN!” in Britain’s general election, anticipating a British-American free trade agreement which will put Britain’s commercial arrangement with the European Union in the shade. “Congratulations to Boris Johnson on his great WIN!” wrote the President, who as a pro-border, pro-sovereignty nationalist has been a long term supporter of the Brexit movement. “Britain and the United States will now be free to strike a massive new ...
UK Election: Exit Poll Suggests Historic Tory Majority, Hard-Left Labour Collapse
Post Date: 2019-12-13 08:49:50 by nolu chan
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UK Election: Exit Poll Suggests Historic Tory Majority, Hard-Left Labour Collapse By Oliver JJ Lane Breitbart 12 Dec 2019 A poll of voters taken during election day has suggested the centre-right, Brexit-promising Conservative party of Boris Johnson has achieved a historic victory over Jeremy Corbyn’s increasingly hard-left Labour party. The exit poll puts the Conservatives on 368 seats and Labour on 191, with the United Kingdom looking forward to an evening and morning of results confirming — or correcting — the prediction as given. The projected figure was broadcast by the British state media company and others at 2200 GMT as polling stations closed and, if correct, ...
Rudy G. - Godfather of the Russian Mob?
Post Date: 2019-12-11 10:36:55 by Judas Goat
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.American Free Press.Vol VII .#51 December 17, 2007 americanfreepress.net RUDY GIULIANI &THE `RUSSIAN' MOB Former New York Mayor's ImageAs Crime Buster Tainted By HistoryFormer New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani hopes to ride into the White House on his reputation as a “crime buster.” But he actually brought in another Mafia to replace the one he chased out when he was building this reputation as U.S. attorney in Manhattan years ago.See RUDY, Page 14Page 11, AMERICAN FREE PRESS * December 17, 2007 BEHIND THE SCENES with Michael Collins Piper Rudy G: Godfatherof the Russian Mob?`Crimebusting' merely opened doorfor worse gangsters to set up shop in Big AppleBy ...
How Trump May Finally Kill the WTO
Post Date: 2019-12-09 21:24:44 by A K A Stone
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GENEVA—In an ornate stone palace on the shores of Lake Geneva, just a stone’s throw from the Quai Wilson and the Palais des Nations, the Trump administration is waging its latest battle against the international order that the United States helped to build. At issue is the fate of a little-known part of a little-understood institution: the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization. As soon as Wednesday, if U.S. President Donald Trump continues his administration’s yearslong campaign of obstruction, the WTO’s ability to resolve trade disputes between countries—pretty much its most important function—will likely be paralyzed. That means that the go-it-alone ...
Indicted Oligarch Firtash praises Manafort, says Trump has third-grade smarts
Post Date: 2019-12-08 14:11:55 by Judas Goat
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An indicted Ukrainian oligarch who faces years in an American prison joked about President Donald Trump’s intellect and distanced himself from Paul Manafort’s business dealings in an exclusive, wide-ranging interview with The Daily Beast at his palatial corporate offices in Vienna. Click for Full Text!
Fearless Leader's Mighty WALL in action
Post Date: 2019-12-07 11:32:10 by Judas Goat
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Would the MAGA Cult/herd like to discuss the Russian Oligarchs who own the "American" steel companies where the steel is presumably coming from? Would they like to tell the class WHY the Organized Criminals who ran the Soviet Gulag system built WALLS and the USA DIDN'T?
COME SPY WITH ME Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein were spies who used underage sex to blackmail politicians, ‘ex-handler’ claims
Post Date: 2019-12-05 01:08:45 by Deckard
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GHISLAINE Maxwell and her paedophile lover Jeffrey Epstein were both Israeli spies who took pictures of powerful men having sex with underage girls to blackmail them, their alleged Mossad handler has sensationally claimed. The pair allegedly ran a "honey-trap" operation where they would provide young girls to politicians in order to squeeze them for information for the Israelis. 8 Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein were Mossad spies according to explosive new claimsCredit: Getty - Contributor The unsubstantiated claims have been made by Ari Ben-Menashe who claims he is a former Israeli spy. Ben-Menashe claims that he was the “handler” of Ghislaine's dad Robert ...
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