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U.S. Pays for Palestinian School Books that Glorify Terrorism, Promote Extremism

In a ghastly waste of taxpayer dollars, the U.S. government helps pay for Palestinian school books that glorify terrorism and promote extremism. The Palestinian Authority (PA) and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) uses the radical material to educate about 300,000 students in grades 1 through 11 at hundreds of schools in Gaza and the West Bank. The curriculum and inciting materials are largely funded by the U.S., which is by far the UNRWA’s biggest financial supporter.

As the UNRWA’s largest donor in 2017, Uncle Sam doled out a whopping $364 million, more than double the amount of the second-largest contributor, the European Union. The money helps provide millions of Palestinians throughout the Middle East with healthcare, food, schools and other vital services. Earlier this year the Trump administration slashed the funding by more than $300 million until the UNRWA, part of the famously corrupt United Nations, makes critical changes. The head of the UNRWA said in a mainstream news report that the shortfall in U.S. funding means there may not be enough money to re-open schools in August and September for the new academic year. Considering the PA curriculum that’s a good thing and likely part of the change that the Trump administration is seeking.

PA textbooks are radical, glorify martyrdom, demonize Israel, encourage war and teach children that Palestinian statehood can be achieved through violence. An in-depth analysis conducted by a research group that exposes intolerance in school textbooks found that the books “groom young Palestinians to sacrifice themselves to martyrdom,” promote the idea of a mass “return” to Israel, and “feature a radical Islamist, and occasionally, a Salafi worldview.” The probe found that inflammatory language is found in textbooks across the curriculum and that, besides eliminating Israel, the Palestinian curriculum routinely glorifies terrorism. Enraging passages and graphics from dozens of textbooks are included throughout the report. For instance, in a fifth-grade Arabic textbook jihad and martyrdom are celebrated as “the most important meanings of life.” A renowned Palestinian terrorist (Dala Mughrabi) responsible for the 1978 murder of 38 people—including 13 children—near Tel Aviv is described as a hero that students should be proud of.

The probe examined 66 textbooks from the overall curriculum and the report touches on a number of topics such as the concepts of jihadism and radicalization associated with religious teachings, including martyrdom and the PA’s relationship to global Islamism. “The curriculum exerts pressure over young Palestinians to acts of violence in a more extensive and sophisticated manner,” the review found. “The discourse is couched in terms of nationalist and religious martyrdom, across science, literature, history and religious education textbooks.” The analysis focused on the 2017-18 PA curriculum, which marked the first full reform of the Palestinian curriculum since 2000. “Radicalization is pervasive across this new curriculum, to a greater extent than before,” investigators found, adding that “with a comprehensive and oft-stated justification for defensive (obligatory) jihad, the curriculum’s focus appears to have expanded from...

DEMOCRACY DIES IN AMAZON’S WAREHOUSES

The Washington Post, at least since its latest rebrand in February 2017, prides itself on supposedly illuminating the threats and dangers to American democracy and the nation’s values. While in the Trump era, WaPo’s reporters, columnists and editors have generally agreed that the man in the White House himself represents the most dire of threats.

Regardless of the accuracy of such a judgement, it is one a newspaper can hold and still remain honest and accurate. If that same paper has declared itself such an arbiter of the things threatening the country’s foundations, one would expect it to investigate all the controversies facing all facets of American society.

In the case of WaPo’s coverage, there exists one growing controversy that has remained conspicuously uncovered: the conditions of Amazon’s workplace. (RELATED: Trump Wants Washington Post To Register As A Lobbyist For Amazon)

Such conditions have been covered extensively in the mainstream press. A number of Amazon’s warehouse workforce has long complained about abusive conditions, with one reporter who went undercover as a warehouse worker for six months comparing it to a stint in prison.

“I’ve worked in warehouses before, but this was nothing like I had experienced. You don’t have proper breaks — by the time you get to the canteen, you only have 15 or 20 minutes for lunch, in a 10-1/2-hour working day. You don’t have time to eat properly to get a drink,” the writer, James Bloodworth, told Business Insider.

A series of features in Pennsylvania’s The Morning Call outlines other disturbing conditions faced by Amazon workers at a Breinigsville warehouse.

After a fire alarm went off during a nightshift in November 2010, employees were locked outside in 20-degree temperatures, with many wearing nothing but T-shirts and shorts.
When a disabled employee asked to go inside, where warehouse managers were at the time, his request was denied “and he was forced to remain outside without a coat for about three hours,” the paper said.

The next day, that same employee had to leave work in an ambulance.

Normally, such an omission of horror stories would not necessarily raise eyebrows. After all, Amazon might be one of the largest companies in the world, but the paper has routinely...

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Liberal Activist Bicyclist Eaten By Mountain Lion In Seattle

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Seattle’s cycling community took to social media this week to mourn the death of cyclist S.J. Brooks, who died from a cougar attack near North Bend on Saturday.

Brooks, who used the pronoun “they,” was at the time riding with Izzy Sederbaum, who also suffered injuries but survived.

Brooks was the co-founder of the Seattle chapter of the Friends on Bikes organization, which is dedicated to “fostering a community for women of color who love riding bikes.” According to the Friends on Bikes website, Brooks had been riding bikes since childhood, “crushing down the Shunga Trail” in Kansas.

It seems that was when Brooks caught the bug, a passion they brought to everything from bike commuting in Montreal to serving on the board of directors of Boston’s Bikes Not Bombs organization.

Brooks was also involved in efforts to make the biking community a more welcoming and safe place for women, trans and nonbinary cyclists of...

The Deep State Is Alive And Well.
Any reasonable report would have concluded political bias because it is so pervasive in the FBI leadership.

The IG Report Is Historical

The recently released IG Report heavily criticising the actions of former FBI Director James Comey and lead FBI investigative agent Peter Strzok’s handling of the Hillary private server scandal as well as alledged Russian collusion but concluding that there was no evidence of bias in the final decision, is the equivalent of the IG completing a report on Chef Bobby Flay’s book, “From My Kitchen to Your Table” and finding no evidence of any recipes. Reasonable Americans across the country rightfully have found the IG’s report to be thorough on evidentiary content but ridiculous regarding conclusion.

Nevertheless, the IG’s report is historical and monumental for several reasons. For starters, the report uncovers the reality of a deep state, where high ranking government officials used their power and operated outside department rules and regulations as well as the law to disqualify a legitimately elected U.S. President. Whereas before the report’s release, one could argue that the belief in a deep state was the stuff reserved for tin foil hat wearing quacks, now to deny the existence of the deep state is to deny reality.

The second gift of the IG’s report exposes the reality of a conspiracy. In the report, when FBI lawyer Lisa Page asked FBI agent Strzok if Trump would be President, Strzok replied, “No he won’t. We’ll stop it.” The key word is “we” which includes a high ranking official in the person of Strzok and points to one or more persons working with him in stopping Trump which is the definition of a conspiracy.

Again, before the report’s release, just mentioning the term conspiracy could force a person to lose credibility. Now, with the hard evidence showing that two senior FBI agents, instrumental in the investigations, communicated their need to take down a President, makes a claim legitimate.

It was Trey Gowdy, as chairman of the Benghazi Committee, who uncovered Clinton’s use of a private email server, not the fourth estate.

It was Republicans working on congressional committees that uncovered inconsistencies regarding the FBI’s probe of Hillary Clinton’s email server, not the fourth estate. And although not part of the Hillary server scandal, it was not the fourth estate but instead The House Intelligence Committee that exposed the Steele discredited dossier that was central to...

MIAMI, FL (The Miami Herald) – A Honduran national in the United States illegally has been charged with killing two women in Miami over the past three months and dumping their bodies on the street, police announced Monday.

Juan Carlos Hernandez-Caseres, 37, was arrested Saturday morning for the murders of Ann Farrin, 41, and Neidy Roche, 39. Both women, police said, were prostitutes.

Farrin’s body was found by paramedics Wednesday morning in the 3000 block of Northwest 25th Avenue, between Northwest 38th Street and Northwest 37th Street. Hernandez-Caseres told police he had picked Farrin up in his car for the purpose of paying her for sex, but sometime during intercourse, he became “enraged” and punched her in the throat and neck.

Surveillance footage taken at the time shows a black vehicle coming to a stop between Northwest 38th Street and Northwest 37th Street. The driver gets out, removes a body from the passenger side and leaves it on the sidewalk.

Roche’s body was found three months ago, on March 2, near the corner of Northwest 30th Avenue and Northwest 26th Street. She suffered head trauma and was lying on the side of the road.

Following Farrin’s death, police noticed similarities in the cases. They used DNA evidence and other leads to determine Hernandez-Caseres was the killer.

An arrest warrant issued to Miami-Dade police into the death of...