A member of the Saudi royal family and four others were detained after authorities discovered two tons of drugs on a private jet in Beirut on Monday, according to Lebanon's state-run news agency and a government official.

The National News Agency said smugglers were attempting to transport the "huge quantity" of Captagon pills — 40 bags worth — to the Saudi capital of Riyadh.

A customs officer displays Captagon pills, part of the 789 kilogrammes of confiscated drugs, before its incineration in Sofia

Monday's bust was the largest-ever smuggling operation uncovered at Beirut's Rafik Hariri International Airport, according to the news agency.

It said the five Saudi nationals held were being questioned.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/saudi-royal-four-others-detained-beirut-captagon-bust-n451486

Captagon has been well documented as a drug that is fed to Jihadists to give them the will to kill themselves in battle and become suicide bombers for the saudi Jihadi Madness.

Captagon: the amphetamine fuelling Syria's civil war
http://www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2014/jan/13/captagon-amphetamine-syria-war-middle-east

Source: Ynet

"If it was true it would certainly be of concern to us," State Department spokesman John Kirby told a daily briefing.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest said that the Israeli government is not yet actively considering this change, as far as the American government knows.

Earnest said that given the current wave of violence, the US wants to reiterate the "importance of all sides avoiding provocative actions and rhetoric."

Netanyahu brought up the need to address the situation in East Jerusalem's neighborhoods beyond the separation wall during a cabinet meeting that took place two weeks ago.


Read more: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4716732,00.html

Source: USA Today

Beijing reacted angrily Tuesday to a decision by the U.S. Navy to sail a guided-missile destroyer within 12 miles of artificial islands under construction by China in the South China Sea.

The USS Lassen sailed within the presumed territorial limits around the new islands at Subi and Mischief reefs. Those reefs are among seven oceanic features in the disputed South China Sea where China is dredging sand and building major land-based facilities — including long runways and deep-water ports.

China’s Foreign Ministry was quick to condemn the U.S. action Tuesday, saying the ship's actions were illegal and that the move threatened regional peace as well as U.S.-China relations.

"The actions of the U.S. warship have threatened China's sovereignty and security interests, jeopardized the safety of personnel and facilities on the reefs, and damaged regional peace and stability," the ministry said on its website. "The Chinese side expresses its strong dissatisfaction and resolute opposition," the statement added.


Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/10/27/china-south-china-seas-territory-islands-dispute-uss-lassen/74668522/

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China can whine all it wants, kudos to the brave men and women who carried out this operation. I'm sure it was all hands on deck.

A leading French journalist working for BuzzFeed was attacked by far-right Jewish extremists as a mob tried to storm the offices of the country’s national news agency in Paris on Thursday.

David Perrotin was protected by police after being surrounded by a dozen masked men brandishing batons.

The Ligue de Défense Juive was protesting against Agence France Presse’s coverage of the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Trouble broke out soon after 8pm when about 100 people brandishing flags and letting off flares tried to storm AFP’s offices.

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/oct/23/buzzfeed-journalist-attacked-paris-david-perrotin-ldj-afp?CMP=twt_gu

When all else fails use thugs to physically attack the messenger.

Taipei, Oct. 24 (CNA) Eight same-sex couples became the center of attention at Taipei City's mass wedding on Saturday, walking down the aisle to cheers and applause at an event that has officially been opened to gay couples for the first time since it started in 1973.

Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文? presided over the wedding at the University of Taipei's sports stadium and gave blessings to the 123 couples who tied the knot there.

"The wedding today not only marks the 10th anniversary of our happiness and companionship, it is also our way to show practical support for the Taipei city government, for its decision to include gay couples in its mass wedding," said gay rights activist Nelson Chen (陳敬?, who joined the wedding with his partner Kao Chih-wei (高治?.

"Even though same-sex marriage is not yet legalized in Taiwan, if more gay couples can bravely come forward, it will set a great example for the public," Chen told CNA.

http://focustaiwan.tw/news/asoc/201510240018.aspx

Source: Guardian UK



French journalist working for BuzzFeed was attacked by far-right Jewish extremists as a mob tried to storm the offices of the country’s national news agency in Paris on Thursday.

David Perrotin was protected by police after being surrounded by a dozen masked men brandishing batons.

The Ligue de Défense Juive was protesting against Agence France Presse’s coverage of the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Trouble broke out soon after 8pm when about 100 people brandishing flags and letting off flares tried to storm AFP’s offices.

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/oct/23/buzzfeed-journalist-attacked-paris-david-perrotin-ldj-afp?CMP=twt_gu

Source: Daily Mail UK

A Saudi Arabian prince ordered his entire household to gather by the pool and strip off because he wanted to see 'some naked p***y', Daily Mail Online can reveal.

The claim is made in legal documents laying out details of the civil case against Prince Majed bin Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, 29, who was arrested in Los Angeles last month after neighbors spotted a crying, bleeding woman attempting to scale a wall of his compound.

He is also accused of failing to prevent aides from mistreating three female members of his domestic staff – with the result that they now also face charges, although Prince Majed remains the lead defendant.

The women, who all allege sexual harassment and say they were imprisoned at the mansion against their will, have filed a civil claim – seen by Daily Mail Online – against the prince.




Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3287084/Pervert-Saudi-prince-ordered-entire-staff-strip-naked-Beverly-Hills-mansion-s-pool-said-want-naked-p-court-papers-claim.html

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Source: News24

The death toll for the shelling of a rally in Libya's second city Benghazi protesting against a UN-proposed peace deal has jumped to 12, medics said.

At least 12 people died and 39 were wounded after a volley of shells hit the rally attended by hundreds of people, the LANA news agency close to the internationally recognised Libyan government reported on Saturday.

Those present were demonstrating against a proposed power-sharing deal put forward by Libya's UN envoy, Bernardino Leon.

On their Facebook pages, the Benghazi Medical Centre announced eight dead, while the city's Al-Jalaa hospital announced four had died. Medics initially said five people were killed.


Read more: http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/Death-toll-in-Libya-anti-peace-deal-rally-shelling-hits-12-20151025-5

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Still a dangerous violent failed state.

We are lifelong Zionists. Like other progressive Jews, our support for Israel has been founded on two convictions: first, that a state was necessary to protect our people from future disaster; and second, that any Jewish state would be democratic, embracing the values of universal human rights that many took as a lesson of the Holocaust. Undemocratic measures undertaken in pursuit of Israel’s survival, such as the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza and the denial of basic rights to Palestinians living there, were understood to be temporary.

But we must face reality: The occupation has become permanent. Nearly half a century after the Six-Day War, Israel is settling into the apartheid-like regime against which many of its former leaders warned. The settler population in the West Bank has grown 30-fold, from about 12,000 in 1980 to 389,000 today. The West Bank is increasingly treated as part of Israel, with the green line demarcating the occupied territories erased from many maps. Israeli President Reuven Rivlin declared recently that control over the West Bank is “not a matter of political debate. It is a basic fact of modern Zionism.”

This “basic fact” poses an ethical dilemma for American Jews: Can we continue to embrace a state that permanently denies basic rights to another people? Yet it also poses a problem from a Zionist perspective: Israel has embarked on a path that threatens its very existence.

As happened in the cases of Rhodesia and South Africa, Israel’s permanent subjugation of Palestinians will inevitably isolate it from Western democracies. Not only is European support for Israel waning, but also U.S. public opinion — once seemingly rock solid — has begun to shift as well, especially among millennials. International pariah status is hardly a recipe for Israel’s survival.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-zionist-case-for-boycotting-israel/2015/10/23/ac4dab80-735c-11e5-9cbb-790369643cf9_story.html

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