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Pathologized children: Young people launch climate crisis school strike, protest in over 100 cities

Sharon Lerner
The Intercept
Fri, 15 Mar 2019 07:00 UTC
protest group Extinction Rebellion
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Young women and girls from the protest group Extinction Rebellion aim to force the government to introduce radical climate change policies while marching in Central London on March 9, 2019.
For her 16th birthday, Maddy Fernands asked her parents for an unusual gift: to switch the family to wind power. She didn't want an iPhone, new clothes or - banish the thought - a car. Cars and trucks account for about a fifth of greenhouse gas emissions, and a significant amount of Fernands's climate anxiety. "Sometimes we'll be stuck in traffic and I'll look outside and watch the exhaust coming out of the car in front of me and I'll freak out," she told me. "I feel so powerless to stop it."

Fernands has been struggling with that sense of helplessness since she first became keyed into the accelerating timetable of climate change in seventh grade. "It seemed like the end of the world," she said. "But the apocalyptic message wasn't being broadcast. Nobody was taking correct action to put us on a path away from climate catastrophe." Because her parents and teachers didn't seem to share her urgency, Fernands decided that she herself would have to sound the alarm over climate.

Comment: The bogus specter of global warming has somehow endowed many young people into a sick rut of pathological persistence - where the only thing that will make them 'feel happy' is to become devoted acolytes of one of the most malevolent efforts at social engineering in contemporary history.

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Why we should all be terrified of 'children's crusader' global warming activist Greta Thunberg

Igor Ogorodnev
RT
Wed, 13 Mar 2019 15:11 UTC
A carnival float celebrating Thunberg
© REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay
A carnival float celebrating Thunberg in Dusseldorf earlier this month
From her judging gaze, to her all-or-nothing beliefs, to her unshakeable certainty in her own correctness, the 16-year-old environmental activist evokes unappealing historical parallels.

The journey of Greta Thunberg's activism reads like a Biblical tale: from sitting alone with a placard on a Stockholm street last August, to leading tens thousands of children across the world to walk out of classes on Fridays to protest climate change.

Her doomsday message that there are 12 years left before irreversible temperature rises has been heard from the podiums from her hometown to Davos to Brussels to a UN conference - everywhere the adults marveled.
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Better Earth

The 'Robin Hood' of Villarramiel


The Local, Spain
Wed, 13 Mar 2019 15:17 UTC
Robin Hood
© Screenshot Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves/Google Maps
Residents of a tiny Spanish village have been left mystified by an anonymous donor who leaves envelopes of cash in postboxes or under people's doors.

Since Wednesday last week, around 15 people in Villarramiel, northern Spain, have received envelopes containing up to €100 in notes, Mayor Nuria Simon told AFP.

Locals are trying to work out why a group of apparently unconnected people in a village of just over 800 residents have been singled out for the gifts.

Some Spanish news reports have labelled him the "Robin Hood of Villarramiel".

"We're all bewildered and expectant as we don't know where this money comes from or who the benefactor is," said Simon.

"We don't know what the intention is."
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Muslim leaders of United Kingdom call for added protection at mosques after Christchurch massacre

Nazia Parveen and Vikram Dodd
The Guardian
Fri, 15 Mar 2019 11:22 UTC
armed police UK
Islamophobia warning comes as UK police step up patrols after New Zealand terror attack

Muslim leaders in the UK have called on the government to redouble its efforts to ensure the country's mosques are protected in the wake of the shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand, as they said worshippers attending Friday prayers would be doing so in the face of "unabated Islamophobia".

The warning came as British police stepped up patrols in Muslim areas and around places of worship in direct response to the terrorist attack, in which at least 49 people were killed and 48 injured.

About 100 counter-terrorism investigations are already under way to thwart extreme rightwing terror plots in Britain and those who might help them, the Guardian understands.

Comment: See also:

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First Look is now No Look: The Intercept shuts Snowden archive amid layoffs and outrage


RT
Thu, 14 Mar 2019 19:39 UTC
Edward Snowden
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Edward Snowden
First Look Media, the parent company of the Intercept, announced it will shut access to the archive of documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden to cut costs as it plans to layoff 4 percent of staff.

The news was met with outrage from high ranking staff member and filmmaker Laura Poitras, who went to Hong Kong to meet Snowden in 2013, just before the first revelations from his trove of National Security Agency documents were published.

She said she was "sickened" by the decision to "eliminate the research team, which has been the beating heart of the newsroom since First Look Media was founded," and slammed the company for making the decision without consulting her or other board members.

Poitras, Glenn Greenwald and Jeremy Scahill joined First Look Media at its founding, launching the Intercept in 2014 as a place to "aggressively report" on the Snowden documents. The company employed a research team to work on the huge trove of documents provided by Snowden.
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Boeing 737 Max: Was it an AI event?

James Thompson
The Unz Review
Mon, 11 Mar 2019 00:00 UTC
AI landing Boeing
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AI landing a Boeing 737
Conventional wisdom is that it is too early to speculate why in the past six months two Boeing 737 Max 8 planes have gone down shortly after take off, so if all that follows is wrong you will know it very quickly. Last night I predicted that the first withdrawals of the plane would happen within two days, and this morning China withdrew it. So far, so good. (Indonesia followed a few hours ago).

Why should I stick my neck out with further predictions? First, because we must speculate the moment something goes wrong. It is natural, right and proper to note errors and try to correct them. (The authorities are always against "wild" speculation, and I would be in agreement with that if they had an a prior definition of wildness). Second, because putting forward hypotheses may help others test them (if they are not already doing so). Third, because if the hypotheses turn out to be wrong, it will indicate an error in reasoning, and will be an example worth studying in psychology, so often dourly drawn to human fallibility. Charmingly, an error in my reasoning might even illuminate an error that a pilot might make, if poorly trained, sleep-deprived and inattentive.

I think the problem is that the Boeing anti-stall patch MCAS is poorly configured for pilot use: it is not intuitive, and opaque in its consequences.

By the way of full disclosure, I have held my opinion since the first Lion Air crash in October, and ran it past a test pilot who, while not responsible for a single word here, did not argue against it. He suggested that MCAS characteristics should have been in a special directive and drawn to the attention of pilots.

Comment: See also:

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Palestinian human rights observers in Hebron under attack following Israel's expulson of TIPH group

Yumna Patel
Mondoweisse
Fri, 15 Mar 2019 19:21 UTC
hebron human rights observers attacks israel
© Yumna Patel/Mondoweiss
Following Israel's expulsion of the Temporary International Presence in Hebron (TIPH) observer group from Hebron last month, a group of Palestinian activists from the city formed their own team of observers to fill in the gaps. Issa Amro and his team of observers head out every morning to the Tel Rumeida neighborhood in Hebron's Old City and stand watch as children make their way to school. The kids must pass through several checkpoints monitored by armed soldiers, and streets that are patrolled by notoriously violent settlers.

In the month since they began their work, Amro's team have been given more than 10 military orders to stop work, and have been attacked by settlers several times. Amro told Mondoweiss that since TIPH was expelled, the situation in Hebron has gotten a lot worse. Mondoweiss followed the team around one morning, and in the span of half an hour, the group, including our cameraman, were attacked and harassed by Israeli settlers, while one international activist who was filming the altercation was arrested by police.

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Dollar

University of Southern California is a corrupt, tax-exempt hedge fund for elites

Tiana Lowe
The Washington Examiner
Wed, 13 Mar 2019 18:48 UTC
USC college
© David McNew/Getty Images
Like most alumni of University of Southern California across the country today, my phone lit up with a number of iterations of this text: "USC's inability to go 5 seconds without a major scandal is just hilarious at this point."

Since the news broke that USC was one of a number of so-called "elite" universities implicated in a massive criminal admissions fraud scandal, the media is focused primarily on the weird cadre of celebrities who conspired in the enterprise. Felicity Huffman of Desperate Housewives and Lori Loughlin of Full House were both arrested as a result of the RICO case. Huffman, in a prime example of how not to get caught literally rigging the results of college admissions exams, unwisely documented the fraud across a string of texts and emails, including the phrase, "Ruh Ro!"

But it's worth taking a step back and understanding how this happened, not from the side of the parents and their hired riggers, but from those colleges complicit in further degrading the state of American academia.
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Australian Aboriginals can now sue for colonial land loss

Bill Code
Aljazeera
Fri, 15 Mar 2019 18:20 UTC
Chris Griffiths and Lorraine Jones
© Northern Land Council
Chris Griffiths and Lorraine Jones were two of the plaintiffs who brought the case to court.
The High Court of Australia has handed down the biggest "native title" ruling affecting Aboriginal ownership of the land in decades, amid claims that billions of dollars in compensation will need to be paid by governments to indigenous groups.

"Native title" refers to the rights of Australia's indigenous people to their traditional land and water recognised by Australian common law.

Lawyers, including those representing mining companies, said the ruling in favour of the Ngaliwurru and Nungali Aboriginal groups - from a remote part of the Northern Territory - paved the way for billions of dollars in compensation nationally.

"The High Court's decision will likely to trigger compensation applications from many of the hundreds of native title holder groups around Australia," said Tony Denholder, in the wake of a case that a federal court ruled on in 2016 - before the High Court became involved.
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Denmark is in a state of unreported collapse due to immigrants who resist assimilating and the cost of providing them with services

Ole Hasselbalch
Gatestone Institute
Thu, 14 Mar 2019 05:00 UTC
Denmark
© Erik Christensen/Wikimedia Commons
Contrary to misleading media reports, Denmark is not forcing suffering refugees to live on a remote island. Only foreign criminals "convicted of crimes and slated for deportation under the terms of their sentences" will be housed there. And they will even be given ferry rides to the mainland, under the excuse that this is necessary due to "international conventions".
The media portrayal of Denmark as a country hostile and inhumane to migrants is misleading, if not completely false.

One reason for the inaccurate picture is that it is painted by journalists' political bias. Another is that trustworthy official Danish statistics on the country's immigration problem are both difficult to find and even harder to interpret. A further problem is a lack of reliable research, at best; and purposely distorted data, at worst.

The following breakdown illustrates that rather than being more relatively free of the consequences of mass migration than other European countries in general, and Scandinavian countries in particular, Denmark is in a state of societal collapse. In spite of Copenhagen's many laws that govern migration and affect immigrants, the Danish people have been experiencing a major cultural and political shift in their life as they have traditionally known it.
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