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Moral high road? ABC-Disney fires Roseanne for racism, but keeps convicted pedophiles on its payroll

Jack Burns
The Free Thought Project
Fri, 01 Jun 2018 00:00 UTC
The same company that claimed it fired Roseanne Barr for "racist" Tweets, has a history of hiring convicted pedophiles and giving them access to children.

Brian Peck, Victor Salva, Disney corporation pedophiles

Both Brian Peck and Victor Salva were convicted of several sex crimes against children—yet went on, after their convictions, to enjoy lucrative careers within Disney’s corporation.
The cancellation of the series "Roseanne," and the public firing of Roseanne Barr have created a media firestorm, and while ABC was publicly responsible, the network is owned by Disney, and the decision was ultimately made by Disney CEO Bob Iger.

However, the quick decision made by Disney with the claim that it would not tolerate "racist" comments, makes many wonder why the company, which built its empire on entertaining children and families, thought it fitting to fire Barr over her controversial Tweets, at the same time that it seems indifferent to hiring pedophiles and sexual predators to work inside the family-friendly organization.

Both Brian Peck and Victor Salva were convicted of several sex crimes against children-yet went on, after their convictions, to enjoy lucrative careers within Disney's corporation. Peck, who starred in X-Men and in all three Living Dead films, served 16 months in prison and he still works with children on Disney film projects. According to court documents reported by the Daily Mail, detailing Peck's crimes against a child actor known as "John Doe" to protect his identity:
The documents show Peck was originally charged with 11 counts including: lewd act upon a child; sodomy of a person under 16; attempted sodomy of a person under 16; sexual penetration by foreign object; four counts of oral copulation of a person under 16; oral copulation by anesthesia or controlled substance; sending harmful matter; and using a minor for sex acts.

Comment: Firing Roseanne had little to do with her tweets which were only used as a pretext to get rid of a high-profile celebrity whose propensity to broadcast uncomfortable truths was dangerous for the liberal elites. Pedophilia however, is pervasive among the those same elites and thus poses no moral problem for them whatsoever!

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Hearts

'Hailed as heroes': American youth football team rescues couple from overturned car


RT
Fri, 01 Jun 2018 14:06 UTC
Team rescue
© Rachel Vasquez / Facebook
An American youth football team have been hailed as heroes after they helped rescue two people from an overturned car.

The Boise Black Knights were driving though Oregon on Tuesday on the way back from a tournament when a car in front of a team van overturned, trapping the two passengers inside.

Members of the team, which is mainly made up of 13- and 14-year-olds, were quickly out of their vehicles to help rescue the stricken passengers. They first helped to drag one person from the crashed car, before working together to lift the other side so that the other passenger could escape the wreckage.

Footage from the incident shows the youngsters putting their teamwork into action to carry out the rescue.
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Caesar

Poll finds majority of Russians believe efforts to curb corruption have been successful


RT
Fri, 01 Jun 2018 14:26 UTC
russia corruption
© Iliya Pitalev / Sputnik
A suspect in the Federal Agency for Transport Supervision Agency (Rostransnadzor) corruption case in the Dorogomilovsky District Court of Moscow
Around 55 percent of Russians believe the authorities are waging a successful war against corruption, with 47 percent saying that arrests of senior officials for bribery are the best proof of this.

In a survey conducted by state-run VTSIOM agency in late May, 55 percent of the respondents said they have noticed the positive results of the nationwide anti-corruption campaign; 25 percent said they cannot see the results of the campaign, and 13 percent said the situation with corruption is getting worse.

When asked what the most obvious result of the anti-corruption campaign is, 42 percent mentioned the arrests of senior officials. On the other hand, 47 percent described the high-profile cases as "show trials, settling of accounts between civil servants or conflicts between competing power groups."
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'We are fighting for our children': Kadyrov vows to rescue 94 Russian children from prison in Iraq


RT
Fri, 01 Jun 2018 09:24 UTC
Ramzan Kadyrov
© Said Tzarnaev / Sputnik
Ziyad Sabsabi, representative of the head of Chechnya in the Middle East and North Africa, and Sophia, a girl brought back from Iraq.
The head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov has revealed plans to return to Russia almost 100 children whose mothers had been jailed in Iraq over alleged participation with the Islamic State terrorist group.

"After a short pause connected with solving some complicated legal problems we will bring 94 children home to Russia. These are children of women who had been sentenced to lengthy prison terms by Iraqi authorities. They will be transported to Russia in two groups, the first group consists of 49 people and 25 of them will arrive to Russia already in June this year," Kadyrov wrote in his Telegram messenger-blog.

He added that all of the children in the first group had been born in Russia and thus remained Russian citizens and under Russian jurisdiction. All necessary papers for the children to cross borders have been prepared.

Comment: See also:

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Whitehall source shares post-Brexit plan to grant N. Ireland joint UK/EU status


RT
Fri, 01 Jun 2018 14:22 UTC
uk flag
© Alberto Pezzali/ Global Look Press
Northern Ireland will be granted joint UK and EU status, according to an anonymous government official, in a plan that could shatter the Conservative-Democratic Unionist Party alliance in Westminster.

According to a senior Whitehall source cited by the Sun, Brexit Secretary David Davis is reportedly planning on giving Northern Ireland joint status so it can trade freely with both the EU and the UK.

Under the plans, which are yet to be confirmed by Downing Street, a "special economic zone" sharing the same EU trade rules would be brought in along the 310-mile border.
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Snakes in Suits

Leaked emails reveal Google misled the public about size of Pentagon AI project


RT
Fri, 01 Jun 2018 14:17 UTC
google
© Alain Jocard / Reuters
Google misled the public about the size of the company's contract to develop AI for the Pentagon, and its executives chose against publicizing its participation in the project, leaked emails obtained by The Intercept show.

Diane Greene, the chief executive of the company's cloud business unit, recently told employees that revenue from Project Maven - a Pentagon program under development which aims to use artificial intelligence to help drones identify human ground targets without the assistance of human operators - was "only" for $9 million. But internal company emails from September 2017 obtained by The Intercept suggest otherwise.

One message, said to be from Aileen Black, a member of Google's defense sales team, noted that the deal would rake in $15 million over the next 18 months. The email also said that the budget for the program was expected to eventually expand to $250 million. Black's assessment appears to have merit: According to The Intercept, one month after news of the contract broke, the Pentagon allocated an additional $100 million to Project Maven.
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Criminal state: Imprisoned teen Tamimi in coma after life-threatening medical neglect by Israeli authorities

Tamara Nassar
Electronic Intifada
Fri, 01 Jun 2018 11:56 UTC
Hassan Tamimi hospital
Imprisoned Palestinian teenager Hassan Abdulkhaleq Mizher Tamimi was subjected to life-threatening medical neglect by Israeli authorities.

Tamimi, 18, has a serious medical condition in his liver and kidneys, which makes him unable to absorb proteins. He requires a strict vegetarian diet, medicines and periodic tests at the hospital.

Israeli authorities provided him with none of that since his arrest two months ago, and his medical condition deteriorated sharply.

As his situation worsened, Israeli authorities refused to transfer Tamimi to a hospital or provide necessary treatment, his relative Muhammad Tamimi told Wattan TV.

Comment: Further reading:

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USA

NJ cop arrested after beating a mentally ill man in wheelchair

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Fri, 01 Jun 2018 11:56 UTC
Paterson police New Jersey
The Patterson Police Department in New Jersey is making headlines this week after their fourth officer in only two months has been arrested by federal agents. Officer Roger Then, 29, was arrested on Wednesday for participating in the beating of a mentally ill man in a wheelchair - and making a video to remember it.

The person in the wheelchair was a patient at a hospital. He had committed no crime and had called authorities for help because he felt suicidal. However, once he got to the hospital, help was the last thing he received. Instead, he received a horrific beating at the hands of the two responding officers.

Officer Then and his partner, known only as Police Officer 1 in the complaint, proceeded to beat their wheelchair-bound victim so horrifically that he required surgery to save his eyeball.
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Arrow Down

Evergreen State's "Independent" report whitewashes campus meltdown, claims professor

Adam Sabes
Campus Reform
Thu, 31 May 2018 15:06 UTC
Evergreen State College

Riot police face off against Antifa protesters at the height of the disruptions at Evergreen State.
Evergreen State College released a 38-page "Independent" report on the protests and riots of last spring that is far from "independent," claims a former administrator at the college.

Last spring, Evergreen State was engulfed in riots after a Bret Weinstein, a former professor, sent an email questioning the school's "day of absence," which called for white students to leave campus for a day of diversity workshops while students of color stayed on campus to participate in a different form of diversity programming.

"If Evergreen's looming financial crisis becomes fatal, we now have a historical document placing blame not on Bridges, but on [Weinstein]."

After accosting Weinstein in class and verbally berating him to the point that the campus police chief suggested he leave campus for his own safety, the student protesters then held several high-ranking administrators hostage until they agreed to comply with a list of demands.

The report was commissioned to review the situation and provide feedback on how the college could prevent and control a recurrence of similar disruptions.

President George Bridges nominated people to conduct the "Independent" review, which was then followed by vetting and approval of the nominees by the Board of Trustees.

Multiple faculty members and a former high-ranking administrator, however, claim that the report is far from "Independent."

Comment: No amount of whitewashing is going to erase the mark of what happens when leftist ideology is taken to the extreme. See also:

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Stock Down

The Eurozone is structurally imbalanced and the Euro is doomed


charleshughsmith.blogspot.com
Tue, 29 May 2018 12:00 UTC
EU flag
Papering over the structural imbalances in the Eurozone with endless bailouts will not resolve the fundamental asymmetries. Beneath the permanent whatever it takes "rescue" by the European Central Bank (ECB) lie fundamental asymmetries that doom the euro, the joint currency that has been the centerpiece of European unity since its introduction in 1999.

The key imbalance is between export powerhouse Germany, which generates huge trade surpluses, and its trading partners, which run large trade and budget deficits, particularly Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain.

Those outside of Europe may be surprised to learn that Germany's exports are roughly equal to those of China ($1.2 trillion), even though Germany's population of 82 million is a mere 6% of China's 1.3 billion. Germany and China are the world's top exporters, while the U.S. trails as a distant third.

Germany's emphasis on exports places it in the so-called mercantilist camp, countries that depend heavily on exports for their growth and profits. Other (nonoil-exporting) nations that routinely generate large trade surpluses include China, Japan, Germany, Taiwan and the Netherlands.

Comment: A backlash is building and, given the vote, many in the Eurozone would choose to leave, or at least radically renegotiate the terms of membership:

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