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Looper: Firefighter chief in tiny Siberian village suspected of five arson attacks 'to check brigade's preparedness'


RT
Thu, 07 Nov 2019 18:30 UTC
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A fire brigade chief in a small Russian village is suspected of being behind a series of arson attacks since he took office just over two months ago. The fires were meant to test the efficiency of the brigade, according to rumors.

The bizarre arson case that was made public this week happened in a village called Balyksa in Russia's Khakassia region in western Siberia. The small isolated community of less than 2,000 residents was hit by a string of inexplicable fires in the past two months. That is, they were inexplicable until law enforcement found proof that they were man-made.

But it's the identity of the suspected perpetrator that made the case special. The arsons were pinned on none other than the chief of the village's fire brigade. The 26-year-old man was caught on a CCTV camera when he was setting on fire a wooden garage in late October, the local branch of the news program Vesti reported on Wednesday.
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Saying 'blind spot' is ableist, not inclusive enough - say power-hungry liberals

Sophia Narwitz
RT
Wed, 06 Nov 2019 17:04 UTC
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In a misguided attempt at protecting the so called "marginalized" individuals, the regressive left continues to ban an ever-increasing list of words - an action that only serves as a tool for oppression.

Thanks in large part to the intrusive nature of the internet in our daily lives, an annoying trend has taken root where any and every thing we say comes under scrutiny from complete strangers. More so now as a new community of victim olympians scour the net for things to take umbrage with.


Did you know you're not supposed to say "blind spot" anymore? You know, that thing everyone has on the periphery of their vision. It might sound absurd that such a common phrase could be deemed offensive, but as we now live in clown world, that's exactly what has happened. The same goes with "turn a blind eye" and "tone deaf."

The reasoning for this is that such terms are viewed as "ableist", a word that by its dictionary definition means "discriminating against disabled or handicapped people." Now maybe it's because I don't suffer from the mental handicap that is being "woke", but I struggle to see how "tone deaf" is discriminatory.
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Florida school's resource officer arrested after video shows him slamming 15-year-old girl to ground

Karma Allen
ABC News
Tue, 05 Nov 2019 09:50 UTC
e Deputy Willard Miller was arrested on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019, for allegedly slamming a 15-year-old girl
© Broward County Sheriffs Office
Broward County Sheriff's Office Deputy Willard Miller was arrested on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019, for allegedly slamming a 15-year-old girl.
A Florida officer was arrested on Tuesday after video appeared to show him slamming a female student to the ground at a school for children with emotional and behavioral disabilities.

Surveillance footage released by the Broward Sheriff's Office shows Deputy Willard Miller, who was working as a school resource officer at Cross Creek School in Pompano Beach, grabbing a 15-year-old student by the neck and throwing her to the ground.

Miller, 38, turned himself in on Tuesday and was charged with one count of child abuse without great bodily harm, a felony, according to the sheriff's office, which released video of the Sept. 25 incident on Tuesday.

The office's Internal Affairs Division launched an investigation "upon immediate review of the video" on Sept. 27 and placed Miller on restricted administrative assignment, the office said in a statement.

After further investigation, detectives formally presented the case to the State Attorney's Office on Oct. 23. He was suspended without pay on Oct. 28.

Comment: Its bad enough when an officer acts in this way at a regular school - but in a school for children with emotional and behavioral disabilities ?! What the heck kind of training are these people getting??

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Sanity prevails: 7-year-old at center of Texas transgender custody battle opts to attend school as a boy

Madison Dibble
Washington Examiner
Wed, 06 Nov 2019 16:59 UTC
James Younger transgender

James Younger
James Younger, the 7-year-old at the center of the transgender custody battle, has decided to attend school as a boy.

Younger's father, Jeffrey Younger, was blocked by a Texas judge after refusing to cooperate with the child's mother, Anne Georgulas, as she allowed the child to transition from male to female.

Georgulas claimed James Younger identified as a woman and wanted to be called Luna, something Jeffery Younger refused to do.

Judge Kim Cooks placed both parents under a gag order and granted joint managing conservatorship to both parents in late October, meaning they must both consent to any medical treatments their children are given.

Comment: It was only though public outcry that a probably mentally-disturbed mother was prevented from forcing her delusions on an innocent child. Kudos to the father who fought for his child's right to be who he is.

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Airport pages "Epstein Coverup": Viral meme spreading across social media keeps Epstein story going

Paul Joseph Watson
Summit News
Wed, 06 Nov 2019 23:57 UTC
epstein airport page sign coverup
Questions surrounding suspicious suicide of billionaire sex trafficker still percolating.

San Diego International Airport paged someone with the name "Epstein Coverup," as the viral meme relating to the suspicious "suicide" of the billionaire sex trafficker continues to spread.

A video posted to Twitter shows the text, "Airport is paging Epstein Coverup please meet your party at terminal two east by American Airlines" appearing on the airport's message board.
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80-year-old Israeli Rabbi beaten by right-wing Israeli settlers for trying to protect Palestinian farmers


IMEMC News
Mon, 21 Oct 2019 04:33 UTC
Israeli Rabbi Beaten

Rabbi Moshe Yehudai
A group of around 30 masked Israeli settlers attacked Israeli and international human rights activists on Wednesday, beating them with crowbars while they were protecting Palestinian farmers trying to harvest olives in the village of Burin, in the West Bank.

Eighty year old Rabbi Moshe Yehudai told reporters that he "feared for his life" as he was beaten mercilessly on the head, arm and shoulders. He was one of five Israeli human rights activists who was beaten in the attack.

Yehudai was rushed to hospital with severe head injuries and a broken arm.

Yehudai is a member of Rabbis for Human Rights, a group made up of Israeli and international Rabbis and supporters that engage in human rights accompaniment in the West Bank, especially in areas known for Israeli settler violence.

According to local sources, more than 30 masked Israeli settlers came running into the olive grove where the harvest was going on, and began beating the Palestinian farmers, Israeli rabbis and international human rights activists.

While being treated for his injuries, Yehudai told reporters from the Times of Israel, "Suddenly, the settlers came with their faces [covered]. They started running at us, they surrounded me, threw rocks at me, hit me with crowbars, giving me a head injury. I told them I'm 80 years old. Leave me alone."

But the settlers kept coming and beating him and the other activists and observers.

Comment: Another in a very long line of despicable and psychopathic acts coming from Israeli settlers and their politically and religiously pathological brethren. Hardly a day goes by without us hearing of another gut-wrenching and sickening story that is consistent with this type of behavior in Israel.

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Mexico's week of bloodshed: What is going on?

Anthony Esposito
PVDN
Thu, 31 Oct 2019 00:01 UTC
mexico carnage bloodshed
Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador took office in December, promising not to repeat the "failed policies" of past administrations that have done little to stem a tide of drug-related violence that cost some 29,000 lives last year.

But events in the states of Sinaloa, Michoacan and Guerrero this past week, including two mass killings and an all-out gun battle on Thursday that saw security forces overwhelmed by cartel gunmen, have raised questions about the effectiveness of his new security strategy.

On Monday, cartel hitmen shot dead at least 13 police in an ambush in Aguililla in the western state of Michoacan, long convulsed by turf wars between drug gangs, latterly the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) and its enemies.

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It's taking off: PewDiePie highlights viral 'Epstein didn't kill himself' meme

Paul Joseph Watson
Summit News
Tue, 05 Nov 2019 00:01 UTC
Pewdiepie
The "Epstein didn't kill himself" narrative is now so viral that it was highlighted by PewDiePie in one of his recent meme review videos.

The world's number one YouTuber reviewed a series of memes that contained completely unrelated, out of context content and then ended with the phrase "Epstein didn't kill himself."

These included a meme about boiling oranges to make your house smell like fall, one about eating candy corn, and another which ended with Pewds reading out the words, "Jeffrey Epstein was murdered to protect the names of elitist pedophiles who run the world."

Comment: These "Epstein didn't kill himself" memes may be single-handedly responsible for keeping awareness of the controversial story in the public's consciousness when the mainstream media essentially tried to bury it. Project Veritas' latest release is keeping the fire burning. Overall, the public seems unwilling to let this one go, as those at the top of the pyramid would most likely like to see.

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LGBT rainbow poppy causes controversy; critics say it disrespects veterans

Phoebe Cooke
The Sun
Wed, 06 Nov 2019 08:34 UTC
LGBT rainbow poppy
© Twitter
This rainbow poppy was being sold on eBay - until the seller was forced to shut up shop
A rainbow alternative to the red remembrance poppy has left some social media users fuming.

Some critics claim the LGBT+ variation "disrespects" fallen soldiers. Here's what they've said.

Comment: This is indicative of the LGBT+ movement who feel they have to take everything and make it about gender/sexuality. The fact that they feel it's their right to hijack any existing movement or tradition and subvert it for their own purposes screams of entitlement.

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'Micky Mouse' discovered to be one of the names included on the climate emergency declaration published on Tuesday in journal BioScience

Nicole Mortillaro
CBC News
Wed, 06 Nov 2019 20:25 UTC
climate protest Ottawa parliament
© Trevor Pritchard/CBC
Protesters on Parliament Hill demand change during a major climate rally in Ottawa on Sept. 27, 2019. A petition declaring a climate emergency is being questioned after it emerged that one of the 11,000 signatories was Micky Mouse.
On Tuesday, a paper signed by more than 11,000 scientists declaring a climate emergency was published in the journal BioScience.

The signatories included climate scientists and researchers from other fields, such as microbiology, glaciology and oceanography.

However, at least one name on the list is raising questions: Micky (sic) Mouse from the Micky Mouse Institute for the Blind in Namibia.

When asked how Micky made it on the list, William Ripple, one of the authors of the paper, said in an email that he and his colleagues used a four-step process to check the signatures but that this one seems to have "slipped through our checks."

Comment: Whenever you have a petition open to the public, you're bound to get some trolls from the opposition. This isn't really the issue (unless there are enough fake entries to put a significant dent in the total number of signatories). What is more egregious is that many of the signatories appear to have nothing to do with climate science or its related fields. If the petition wants to use Science™ to lend it credibility, it darn well better make sure its '11,000' signatories are actual scientists in related fields. Otherwise, they might as well have polled Guardian readers.

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