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Woke Yale stops teaching 'problematic' European art canon, proving we no longer deserve the classics

Alexander Adams
RT
Tue, 04 Feb 2020 15:31 UTC
Michelangelo
© Getty Images / Lucas SchifresThe Creation of Adam by Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel, the Vatican Museums
Yale University is abandoning one of its core courses, a comprehensive survey of 700+ years of Western art. It has been deemed too Western, white, and male - and now the art canon gets thrown under the woke bus.

Yale University has announced that it is scrapping the course "Introduction to Art History: Renaissance to the Present". This course is an overview of the development of Western art, forming a handy survey of the visual culture of Europe and North America.

From this autumn, the course will be discontinued despite being popular and oversubscribed. Some students expressed disappointment, stating that the current course is a valuable primer in culture.

Course tutor Tim Barringer said: "I don't mistake a history of European painting for the history of all art in all places." He also called the teaching of Western art history in isolation as "problematic". In effect, Yale believes a course about Western culture is too Western. Barringer's statement echoes that of the director of undergraduate studies, Marisa Bass, who said: "There has never been just one story of the history of art."

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Rush Limbaugh diagnosed with advanced lung cancer

Audrey McNamara
CBS News
Mon, 03 Feb 2020 19:08 UTC
rush limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh has been diagnosed with "advanced lung cancer," the conservative radio host announced on his show Monday. Limbaugh said he first realized something was wrong on his birthday, January 12.

"I have to tell you something today that I wish I didn't have to tell you. It's a struggle for me because I had to inform my staff earlier today," he said. "I can't help but feel that I'm letting everybody down with this. But the upshot is that I have been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer."

The 69-year-old talk show host explained to listeners that he began to experience shortness of breath that he at first believed to be asthma, but turned out to be a "pulmonary problem involving malignancy." Limbaugh had the lung cancer diagnosis confirmed by "two medical institutions" later that month, he said.

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Fire

Chaos wins the Iowa caucus

Matt McDonald
Spectator
Tue, 04 Feb 2020 01:05 UTC
Caucus goers in Iowa
© Getty ImagesCaucus goers in Iowa
Six months ago, you would have predicted a Joe Biden win in the Iowa caucuses. Four months ago, Pete Buttigieg looked like the favorite. Twenty-four hours ago, Vermont senator Bernie Sanders seemed set to storm to victory. But no one foresaw an outcome this disastrous for the Democratic party.

Precinct captains across the Hawkeye state reported faults with an app used in the caucuses for the first time. In a statement, a spokesperson for the Iowa Democratic party described 'inconsistencies in the reporting of three sets of results':
'In addition to the tech systems being used to tabulate results, we are also using photos of results and a paper trail to validate that all results match and ensure that we have confidence and accuracy in the numbers we report.'

Comment: Must have been Russians.

See also: Oops. Des Moines Register abruptly cancels release of Dem poll ahead of Iowa caucuses - Buttigieg left off list

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"Martyrs"? Some Iranian relatives of Ukrainian airliner victims complain of treatment by their government


RFE/RL
Mon, 03 Feb 2020 16:13 UTC
PS752
Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752
A man who lost his wife in Iran's January 8 downing of a Ukrainian passenger jet says he fled the country after being pressured by authorities for criticizing the way the government handled the tragedy.

Javad Soleimani's wife, Elnaz Nabiyi, was among 176 people killed by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) missile attack against the civilian airliner.

He says he was summoned by Iranian intelligence agents for "insulting" state officials.

"I decided to leave the country as soon as possible because I wasn't the person to go to their office and apologize for my criticism, so I decided to leave Iran immediately and be the voice of the victims and their families," Soleimani said in a January 30 interview with Canada's CBC News Network.

Soleimani, a postgraduate student at the Alberta School of Business in Canada, says Iranian authorities also interfered in his wife's funeral to prevent potential protests.

Comment: There appear to be some worthwhile questions regarding the official story of what happened that day:

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Video of woman being stoned to death in Afghanistan being investigated by rights group

Frud Bezhan
RFE/RL
Mon, 03 Feb 2020 14:15 UTC
stoning
A video grab shows Afghan men stoning Rokhshana to death in Ghor Province in October 2015.
Afghanistan's Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) says it is investigating video footage that shows an Afghan woman being stoned to death.

The two-minute clip shows a group of men throwing rocks at a covered woman who is lying in a hole that has been dug in the ground. A crowd of onlookers can be heard shouting "Hit her!" and "Allahu Akbar!"

The woman's cries and screams can be heard.

The AIHRC told RFE/RL that it is trying to discover exactly when and where the video was shot, and why the woman was killed.

The Taliban claims the footage is from the same October 2015 stoning that RFE/RL previously obtained footage of -- a case in which a 19-year-old woman in the central province of Ghor was killed for alleged adultery.

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Stabber-jihadi attacks police station in France - Officer shoots knife out of his hand - UPDATE: Attacker 19-year-old army cadet


RT
Tue, 04 Feb 2020 06:59 UTC

Comment: Update 13:00 CET

It turns out the 'jihadist' is a 19-year-old French military cadet...
The suspect was "a young soldier who was completing his two months of initial training and was on probation," Defense Minister Florence Parly confirmed on Tuesday.[...]

The prosecutor in the northeastern city of Metz Christian Mercuri told reporters that the 19-year-old alleged culprit joined the army in early December.

gendarmerie
© AFP / Pascal Pavani
A man armed with a knife has been shot by a gendarme after entering barracks and wounding an officer in the hand at Dieuze in the Moselle region of France. Local media reports said the man was immediately neutralized.

The incident happened at around 3:30PM. The officer retaliated with his tear gas canister before firing his weapon twice, the gendarmerie told AFP.

The attacker, who reportedly entered the barracks wearing civilian clothing, was injured in the abdomen and transported to Metz hospital.

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YouTube announces adjustments to already biased algorithms to control political information

Margaret Harding McGill and Sara Fischer
Axios
Mon, 03 Feb 2020 23:38 UTC
YouTubeCensored
© barenakedislam.com
YouTube will bar videos that lie about the mechanics of an election, the company announced in a blog post Monday, but indicated it remains reluctant to crack down more broadly on deceptive political speech, as some critics have demanded.

Why it matters: YouTube's content policies — which are separate from the advertising policies Google outlined in the fall — do not ban political falsehoods at a time when tech platforms are under fire to limit misinformation about candidates and elections.

Driving the news: In new explanations refining its stance, YouTube clarified how its deceptive practices policy applies to election-related content, including deepfakes.
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Nirbhaya case: Govt. wants no delay in hanging, Delhi High Court reserves order


Outlook
Sun, 02 Feb 2020 00:00 UTC
Nirbhaya case
The Central government on Sunday told the Delhi High Court that the indefinite stay imposed on the execution of the four convicts in the Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case was a "deliberate, well-calculated and well-thought out attempt to frustrate the process of law" and that there should be "no delay" in their hanging.

The bench of Justice Suresh Kumar Kait, holding during a special court proceeding on the weekend, later reserved its order on the Centre''s plea.

Appearing for the Centre, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta said: "In the interest of the society and victim, there should be no delay. Even in the case of the convicts, the Supreme Court says that there should be no delay as it would have dehumanising effect on the convict."
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The Super Bowl's biggest losers: The boys and girls being sold for sex 20 times a day

John W. Whitehead
The Rutherford Institute
Tue, 28 Jan 2020 00:00 UTC
abused child

Comment: Dear reader, even if the numbers of abused children stated below is true by half, the implications for just how sick and predatory a society the US is - is profoundly disturbing. Though we at SOTT.net have been publishing reports and news on rampant pedophilia and sex trafficking for many years, few articles approach the extent to which the problem exists in the US as the following does by John W. Whitehead, the highly credible publisher of The Rutherford Institute. Read it and weep.


There can only be one winner emerging from this year's Super Bowl LIV showdown between the San Francisco 49ers and the Kansas City Chiefs, but the biggest losers will be the hundreds of young girls and boys — some as young as 9 years old — who will be bought and sold for sex during the course of the big game.

It's common to refer to this evil practice, which has become the fastest growing business in organized crime and the second most-lucrative commodity traded illegally after drugs and guns as child sex trafficking, but what we're really talking about is rape.

Adults purchase children for sex at least 2.5 million times a year in the United States.

It's not just young girls who are vulnerable to these predators, either.

According to a USA Today investigative report, "boys make up about 36% of children caught up in the U.S. sex industry (about 60% are female and less than 5% are transgender males and females)."

Consider this: every two minutes, a child is exploited in the sex industry.
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Denver nonprofit buys hotel, transforms it into 139 mini-apartments for the homeless

Elias Marat
The Mind Unleashed
Tue, 04 Feb 2020 06:16 UTC
Homeless hotel
Across the United States, sky-high housing costs, a severe shortage of affordable housing, and stagnating wages have shredded the social fabric of countless communities, driving increases in homelessness and long-term poverty.

In Denver, Colorado, the problem has grown in pace with national trends, with one local study showing that at least 5,755 homeless people reside in the Mile High City.

So when a Quality Inn and Suites located on a major road went up for sale, the president of the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless (CCH) saw the perfect opportunity to turn the former hotel into a place where unhoused residents could rebuild their lives.

John Parvensky, who has headed the local nonprofit organization since 1985, purchased the 139-room hotel for $8.4 million using a combination of private, state, and city funds before renovating the property and renaming it Fusion Studios. The building is the 17th of its kind that he has opened in the 30-plus years he's been working on the issue.
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