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University president speaks out against "tactic of silence" used against him by students - Actions are "awfully close" to fascism

Kyle Perisic
Campus Reform
Thu, 26 Oct 2017 18:20 UTC
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A few weeks after he was shouted down by left-wing activists, University of Oregon President Michael Schill is speaking out against what he calls a misguided crusade against fascism.

Earlier this month, Schill was scheduled to give a State of the University speech during which he planned to announce an anonymous $50 million donation and outline the school's plans to spend that money.

"I have nothing against protest...But the tactic of silencing...only hurts these activists' cause." Tweet This

Before Schill could get to the podium, however, left-wing activists stormed the stage with a megaphone and cardboard signs while chanting "Nothing about us without us!" and repeatedly referring to Schill as "CEO Schill."

Their largely-incoherent message included vague, shouted concerns about tuition costs and "fascist" propaganda.
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Attention

10yo leads Ohio cops on high-speed car chase after stealing family car (VIDEO)


RT
Fri, 27 Oct 2017 15:02 UTC
Ohio police
© Ohio State Highway Patrol / Facebook
A 10-year-old boy led eight police cars on a high-speed chase in Ohio on Thursday after stealing a car from his family's home and hitting the road.

The minor reportedly commandeered the vehicle from his home in Cleveland and drove almost 50 miles (80km) to the Ohio turnpike, where he collided with a cop car.

Following the theft, officers from the Ohio State Highway Patrol (OSHP) attempted to stop the boy in his tracks. However, they were met with resistance as the child veered off road to avoid speed traps.

Footage of the chase shows police attempting to surround the runaway child and his vehicle on a busy US motorway.
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Red Flag

Yale "decolonizes" English dept. after complaints about white authors, students no longer required to study Shakespeare and Chaucer

ARYSSA DAMRON
The College Fix
Fri, 27 Oct 2017 17:18 UTC
studying
English majors no longer required to take class focused on Chaucer, Shakespeare

A year and a half after a petition circulated calling for Yale to "decolonize the English department," the first students are enrolled in a new course created by the department to increase the breadth of the curriculum and combat claims of departmental racism.

What's more, new requirements are in place to ensure a more "diversified" slate of courses.

Previous requirements for the major included two courses in "Major English Poets," including Chaucer, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton and Eliot, among others. But that two-course series petitioners had deemed actively harmful due to its focus on white male poets. The series is no longer a graduation requirement for Yale's English majors.

The petition, a Google document which has since been made private, critiqued the perceived whiteness of the English department requirements: "A year spent around a seminar table where the literary contributions of women, people of color, and queer folk are absent actively harms all students, regardless of their identity."

Comment: Clearly the adults running universities have lost their minds and for some reason are allowing the students to decide on matters over which they should have no say. This isn't the only case of a university and its students seemingly losing their minds:

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Culture of Silence: Hollywood's protection of child predators is a much worse problem than covering up sexual harassment

TIANA DALICHOV
Halsey News
Wed, 25 Oct 2017 17:11 UTC
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It should come as no secret that Hollywood is corrupt. Much like the "swamp" that is our government (shout out to Obama and Clinton re: Uranium One), Hollywood is controlled by millionaires used to getting their way and evading the law.

But it's time the country actually does something about this. Instead of virtue signaling on Twitter (#MeToo) or diverting from the subject to protect victims' feelings, we need to condemn the industry that perpetrated this.

And call me a heartless wretch, but I feel no sympathy for victims of sexual assault and rape who say nothing until 20 years later. For victims who do not report their abuse. For men and women who remain silent and allow the culture of Hollywood to intimidate them. No sympathy whatsoever.

I do, however, feel sympathy for victims who legitimately do not know any better. Like innocent children.
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Couple sentenced to combined 17 years after live streaming sexual abuse of drugged child to pedophile


RT
Thu, 26 Oct 2017 16:51 UTC
Sarah Gotham and Craig Forbes
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Sarah Gotham, 34, and Craig Forbes, 36
A Devon couple who drugged a young girl they nicknamed "sleeping beauty" before live streaming her sexual abuse to an American pedophile via Skype have been jailed. Sarah Gotham, 34, and Craig Forbes, 36, will spend a total of 17 years behind bars.

Gotham and Forbes were first contacted by pedophile Kori Ellis on a 'chat-roulette' site called Omegle after searching the words "pedo" or "pedophile" in the search bar for shared images. The couple and the American, a registered sex offender, then swapped Skype details and streamed their depraved acts to her.

Gotham was jailed for nine years and Forbes was sentenced to eight. Forbes had earlier admitted three charges of sexual assault, possession of indecent images, and breaching a sexual-harm-prevention order.

Plymouth Crown Court heard how the couple had sex sessions while the girl was present, and that Gotham also performed sex acts on the girl. They broadcast it live via Skype to Ellis, a former magician's assistant and dominatrix.
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Heart - Black

Horrific! Iowa parents charged with murder after 4-month-old son found dead in baby swing covered with maggots


The Seattle Times
Fri, 27 Oct 2017 16:59 UTC
Zachary Koehn and Cheyanne Harris
© Chicksaw County Sheriff's Office
Zachary Koehn and Cheyanne Harris
Authorities have charged an Iowa couple with murder in the death of their 4-month-old son, whose maggot-infested body was found in a baby swing in the family's home.

Twenty-year-old Cheyanne Harris and 28-year-old Zachary Koehn (kayn) were arrested Wednesday on charges of child endangerment and first-degree murder in the death of their son, Sterling Koehn. Court records don't list attorneys for either of them. Their preliminary hearing is scheduled for Nov. 2.

Authorities say in court records that deputies and medics called to the couple's Alta Vista apartment on Aug. 30 found Sterling dead in the swing. A medical examiner found maggots in his clothing and skin that indicated he hadn't had a diaper change, bath or been removed from the seat in over a week.

Alta Vista is about 125 miles (200 kilometers) northeast of Des Moines.

Source: Associated Press
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Bullseye

Why the Nanny State and paranoid parenting are creating a Fragile Generation

Lenore Skenazy & Jonathan Haidt
reason.com
Thu, 26 Oct 2017 16:25 UTC
child bubble wrap
© Joanna Andreasson
One day last year, a citizen on a prairie path in the Chicago suburb of Elmhurst came upon a teen boy chopping wood. Not a body. Just some already-fallen branches. Nonetheless, the onlooker called the cops.

Officers interrogated the boy, who said he was trying to build a fort for himself and his friends. A local news site reports the police then "took the tools for safekeeping to be returned to the boy's parents."

Elsewhere in America, preschoolers at the Learning Collaborative in Charlotte, North Carolina, were thrilled to receive a set of gently used playground equipment. But the kids soon found out they would not be allowed to use it, because it was resting on grass, not wood chips. "It's a safety issue," explained a day care spokeswoman. Playing on grass is against local regulations.

And then there was the query that ran in Parents magazine a few years back: "Your child's old enough to stay home briefly, and often does. But is it okay to leave her and her playmate home while you dash to the dry cleaner?" Absolutely not, the magazine averred: "Take the kids with you, or save your errand for another time." After all, "you want to make sure that no one's feelings get too hurt if there's a squabble."

The principle here is simple: This generation of kids must be protected like none other. They can't use tools, they can't play on grass, and they certainly can't be expected to work through a spat with a friend.

And this, it could be argued, is why we have "safe spaces" on college campuses and millennials missing adult milestones today. We told a generation of kids that they can never be too safe-and they believed us.
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Red Flag

Women staffers in Westminster are naming MPs with histories of sexual harassment in secret WhatsApp group

Lucy Pasha-Robinson
The Independent
Fri, 27 Oct 2017 16:19 UTC
british parliament
© Getty
None of the MPs have been named, but the allegations could trigger a scandal in Whitehall resulting in resignations
Female staff in Westminster are naming "sex pest" MPs in a secret WhatsApp group, it has been claimed.

The group, made up of researchers, aides and secretaries, is said to have accused politicians, including cabinet members, of being "very handsy" and "not safe in taxis".

None of the MPs have been named, but the allegations - reported by The Sun - could trigger a scandal in Whitehall resulting in resignations, a source told the paper.

"The usual old suspects are there but there have been some surprising younger names crop up," the source said.
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Cow

"This is an animal welfare issue": 'Unstunned' halal meat banned in school meals by Lancashire council


RT
Fri, 27 Oct 2017 10:19 UTC
Halal meat
© Regis Duvignau / Reuters
An English council has voted to ban schools from serving halal meat from animals that are not stunned before slaughter. It follows an impassioned debate between the Muslim community and those arguing the practice is "abhorrent" and "inhumane."

The proposal to ban halal meat from unstunned animals was brought by Geoff Driver, the Conservative leader of Lancashire County Council. "This is an animal welfare issue, nothing more, nothing less," he said, according to the Lancashire Telegraph.

"The reason it has been raised now is because the contract for meat supplies is coming up for renewal," he said. The practice is "abhorrent" and "really, really cruel," he added. He denied the vote was Islamophobic or anti-Semitic.

Lancashire currently supplies 27 schools with "unstunned" halal meat, catering for up to 12,000 children. During a heated debate on Thursday night, councillors voted 41 to 24 to ban the meat from county-run schools. Fifteen councillors abstained.

Comment: See also: Denmark bans kosher and halal slaughter as minister says 'animal rights come before religion'

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Pharoah

Survey reveals majority of Americans believe in ancient advanced civilization while a third believe in alien astronauts

Jason Colavito
jasoncolavito.com
Sat, 14 Oct 2017 15:25 UTC
Atlantis painting
© Sputnik/Igor Boyko
Reproduction of Atlantis painting (1979) by artist Vladimir Smirnov.
Something bad is going on in America, and I'm not entirely sure whom to blame. For the past few years Chapman University has conducted a Halloween-themed study of paranormal and superstitious beliefs tied to Americans' worst fears. Included in the survey questions were items related to subjects of interest to us: ancient astronauts, lost advanced civilizations, etc.

The latest survey was released this week, and for the first time a clear majority of American now professes to believe in a lost Ice Age civilization similar to Atlantis. Across the board, fringe history beliefs reached new heights. People write to me all the time to ask why I bother to talk about "crazy" topics like aliens and Atlantis. I am flabbergasted to report now that it is because more Americans now believe in Atlantis than do not.

The 2017 Chapman University Survey of American Fears Wave 4 found that 55% of Americans believe in Atlantis or another lost ancient super-civilization. Additionally, 35% now believe space aliens visited ancient people in the past. Such figures are simply astonishing, even after accounting for the fact that technically speaking Atlantis and aliens are not "paranormal" per se.

Comment: The author calls the growing beliefs of Americans in Atlantis or aliens as a "total failure of public education and science advocacy", so clearly he thinks these ideas are nonsense. But what the other misses is that science has so far been totally unable to explain the discrepancies in what scientists and historians tell us about human's ancient past, and what the actual records and evidence shows. He is clearly invested in the official historical narrative, but as can be seen a majority of Americans no longer believe that the official story is the truth. That is not a failure, it is a testament to peoples' ability to think for themselves and ignore what "experts" and authority figures tell them. See also:

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