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Nazi symbols spray-painted near Indiana synagogue spark outrage and calls for a state hate crime law


RT
Mon, 30 Jul 2018 12:00 UTC
Israel
© Kai Pfaffenbach / Reuters
Social media users have called on state legislators to pass a hate crime law in Indiana, after Nazi symbols were discovered on a wall at the refuse disposal shed wall of a synagogue in Hamilton County, Indiana.

Sometime before Saturday morning, unknown individual(s) spray-painted a pair of Nazi flags and iron cross graffiti on two walls of a brick shed where trash cans are stored at the property of Congregation Shaarey Tefilla in Carmel, Indiana.

After the synagogue notified the police about the defacement, the Jewish Community Relations Council and the Jewish Federation of Greater Indianapolis have been working to make sure that "appropriate measures" are taken following the incident.

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Israel is turning into 'refuge for pedophiles,' warns child abuse prevention activist

Judy Maltz
Haaretz
Tue, 22 Mar 2016 11:38 UTC
Yifat Shasha-Biton Manny Waks
© Aimee Amiga
MK Yifat Shasha-Biton (Kulanu) and Manny Waks at a Knesset pre-hearing on child sex abuse in Jewish communities, Jerusalem, March 21, 2016.


At a Knesset pre-hearing, groups working to prevent the abuse suggested there may be a 'significantly higher proportion' of cases in the ultra-Orthodox community.

Israel has become a safe haven for Jewish pedophiles from around the world, a leading advocate for child sexual abuse victims warned Monday at a Knesset committee pre-hearing on pedophilia in the ultra-Orthodox community.

"Sex offenders tend to move from country to country to avoid jail, but what makes Israel unique is the Law of Return, which essentially grants unhindered access to anyone who is Jewish to come here without any real screening," said Manny Waks, the chief executive officer of Kol v'Oz, a newly formed nonprofit that aims to prevent child sexual abuse in the global Jewish community.

The Law of Return grants automatic citizenship in Israel to those who meet its definition of a Jew.

Comment: Another negative effect of the disastrous idea of creating a state for one religious group only. Why? Because any Jew gets a free pass into Israel, regardless of the sort of person they are or the crimes they have committed. Newsflash: Being Jewish doesn't automatically turn you into a good and decent citizen.

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Tech giants aren't making any money and a bubble's on the horizon


RT
Sat, 28 Jul 2018 14:35 UTC
Stocks
© Wang Ying / Global Look Press
Tech giants like Tesla, Uber, or Spotify are making less and less profit at the moment and experts are worried about their impact on the world. Are we seeing a new economic bubble in the making? RT's Daniel Bushel finds out.

American tech corporations are often making headlines nationwide and internationally, although their own performance is far from perfect. They lose more and earn less, and experts warn of a potential "bubble" looming in the horizon.

Tesla, Elon Musk's flagship company, is worth more than Ford or GM, but produces only a small number of cars. Spotify, a music streaming service, as well as Uber, are losing billions of dollars every year.


"Definitely, there's a bubble, not just in tech stocks but in general stock market itself," Jack Rasmus, professor of political economy at St. Mary's College, told RT, warning that "there are signs of financial fragility" that endanger the world.

Comment: Our whole economy is a pyramid scheme built like a house of cards. It won't take much to have it all come crashing down. See also: It looks like we've just reached the point of peak stock market absurdity

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Twitter tells Trump that it does not 'shadowban,' then admits that it does

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Mon, 30 Jul 2018 10:45 UTC
Twitter
© AFP Photo/JOSH EDELSON
In response to growing outrage over the practice of "shadow banning" conservatives, as confirmed last week by the liberal publication VICE and promptly tweeted about by President Trump, Twitter issued a strange explanation to "set the record straight," where they explicitly state that they do not engage in the practice - except then they describe how they do exactly that.
"People are asking us if we shadow ban. We do not. But let's start with, "what is shadow banning?"

The best definition we found is this: deliberately making someone's content undiscoverable to everyone except the person who posted it, unbeknownst to the original poster." -Twitter
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Poll finds support for Macron & Merkel's coalitions plunged to record lows


RT
Mon, 30 Jul 2018 10:45 UTC
Merkel Macron
© Hannibal Hanschke / Reuters
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron
The people's dissatisfaction with the leading EU governments appears to be rising, as fresh polls show a record decline in the ratings of French President Emmanuel Macron and of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling coalitions.

Support for Merkel's conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its sister party, Bavaria's Christian Social Union (CSU), has gone down to its lowest level since 2006, an Emnid poll, published by Bild am Sonntag, has revealed.

The CDU/CSU are currently polling at 29 percent, their lowest result in 12 years. Merkel's party came out tops in the country's federal election in September 2017 with 33 percent of the vote.
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Looking deeper: Companies are not responsible for the gender pay gap

Tracey Smith
Numerical Insights
Sat, 28 Jul 2018 00:01 UTC
women executives
For quite some time, I have been working with large, global companies analyzing topics related to gender. Specifically, many companies are concerned with providing equity between men and women.
  • Are we promoting men and women in equal proportions?
  • Are we hiring fairly across gender?
  • Are we paying men and women equal pay for the same job role?
In recent times, this topic has received great focus in the news. Unfortunately, there is often a large difference between facts and opinions. Real company data show results that are very much in line with studies that have been conducted by academic professionals for the last 30 years. Here are a few real results.

Comment: As long as the myth that men make more than women 'because sexism' exists, this skewed vision of reality does nothing but create resentment and division. We need an accurate picture of reality to properly assess where problems exist and come up with possible solutions. Unless the goal is to create division; in which case, well done.

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Unmaking affirmative action: Race-rigging college admissions is a zero-sum game

Stephen T. Asma
Quillette
Fri, 27 Jul 2018 00:01 UTC
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On July 3, the Trump administration rescinded the Obama approach to race-based college admissions. This returns the U.S. to the philosophy of George W. Bush's White House, which argued that race should not be a significant factor. The Trump initiative may have no immediate impact since the Supreme Court upheld race-based admissions policies in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin in 2016. But an impact is surely coming. Consider that Justice Scalia died before he could vote against affirmative action in the Fisher case. Now Justice Kennedy is retiring and Trump's Supreme Court will certainly tilt against the policy with dissenters like Justices Roberts, Thomas, and Alito. Previously, Justice Thomas asserted that, "a State's use of race in higher education admissions decisions is categorically prohibited by the Equal Protection Clause." And Justice Roberts is on record as saying that "the way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race."

Comment: The author's point is well taken. It seems that the intentions of affirmative action in college admissions is undergoing an existential crisis - just what are we trying to achieve here? While there is certainly some argument for allowing disadvantaged minorities a leg-up for access to higher education, abandoning a merit-based system in favor of ideological 'diversity' only serves to increase division to the point of ludicrosity.

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Italian artist who painted Ahed Tamimi mural arrested in Israel


RT
Sun, 29 Jul 2018 17:14 UTC
mural
© Wisam Hashlamoun / Global Look Press
Italian artist Jorit Agoch paints a mural depicting Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi on July 25, 2018 in Bethlehem.
Israeli police have arrested the Italian graffiti artist who depicted Ahed Tamimi on a West Bank separation wall mural in Bethlehem, to coincide with the Palestinian teenage heroine's release from prison.

Agostino Chirwin, also known as 'Jorit Agoch,' wrote on his Instagram account "We are in prison from Israeli army. Who can help us please do it" on Saturday. He was detained with another Italian artist and a Palestinian, whose identities were not released, according to Reuters.

Earlier this week Chirwin, known for hyperrealistic murals of activists, painted a portrait of 17-year-old Tamimi on the wall that separates the West Bank and is regarded as a segregation barrier by Palestinians. The artist usually hides his identity with the help of a black cloth wrapped around his head but posts his murals on an Instagram account.
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Censoring conservatives: Rep. Gaetz files FEC complaint against Twitter over shadow bans

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Sat, 28 Jul 2018 12:10 UTC
Rep. Matt Gaetz

Rep. Matt Gaetz
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) against Twitter after he discovered that his account was being shadowbanned - the practice of excluding or reducing the visibility of one's tweets from normal circulation on the platform.

Gaetz's decision comes after several weeks of conservative users proving that they've been subject to "Quality Filter Discrimination" (QFD) shadowbans, as well as a "glitch" reported by VICE that excluded user's names from auto-populating search results.

During an appearance with Fox's Tucker Carlson, Gaetz announced that he had filed the FEC complaint, which "gives his political rivals an unfair advantage," reports Cassandra Fairbanks of the Gateway Pundit.

Comment: Shadowbanning is an insidious form of censorship that is, more or less, invisible. It really just shows how duplicitous Twitter and other social media platforms really are. We suppose they won't be happy until they've effectively created an autonomous bubble populated by only those who share the same political views. What an exciting sounding platform.

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Catalonia's deposed President Puigdemont vows to continue struggle for independence

Frank Sellers
The Duran
Sun, 29 Jul 2018 12:00 UTC
Puigdemont
After being released from detention in Germany on a Spanish arrest warrant, the deposed Catalonian President, Carles Puigdemont, announced that he was going to continue to pursue the cause of Catalonia's independence. Puigdemont made the statement at a joint press conference in Waterloo, the site of Napoleon's 1815 defeat, and from where the cause for Catalonia's independence will be orchestrated through a 'Republican Council', which he says that he is going to organize. Much of Puigdemont's political activism will take place from Belgium. He was released on bail after four months in detention, and a German court has ruled that he can't be extradited to Spain on charges of rebellion.

AFP reports:

Comment: It seems these calls for independence whether it be Brexit or a potential "Nordic Union" are really just attempts by citizens to claw back a modicum of control in their lives rather than be taken for a ride by a corrupt system. At the same time we see the BRICS nations teaming up and providing a glimpse of how voluntary cooperation between nations can be of a real benefit to everyone involved: Also check out SOTT radio's:

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