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Mr. Potato

Best and brightest? Yale students eagerly sign fake petition to do away with the First Amendment

Melissa Dykes
The Daily Sheeple
Thu, 17 Dec 2015 00:00 UTC
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Sometimes it's hard not to begin a story with the line "this country is going to Hell in a hand basket".

The safe-spaces-political-correctness cancer is spreading across this country at an alarming rate. It's metastasizing. Soon it's going to infect every inch of the Bill of Rights like termites feasting on a foundation.

The dumbed down, Idiocracy society is real. It's here. Now.

Below is a video that shows the ivy leaguers at Yale not just signing a petition to do away with the First Amendment, but actually fawning over how wonderful of an idea they all think repealing the First Amendment is because of reasons like if something hurts someone's feelings, it should not be protected as free speech.

In the video, filmmaker and satirist Ami Horowitz is the guy getting students to sign his petition, and reportedly a solid majority was all for it. Even more sad, not a single one of them seems to realize the irony of signing a petition to do away with a freedom that includes the right to petition!

Comment: More evidence that the fascist programming is complete.

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Handcuffs

Drug price gouging CEO - Martin Shkreli arrested on Securities Fraud charges

Erin Elizabeth
Health Nut News
Thu, 17 Dec 2015 16:12 UTC
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© Francesco Nazardo
We all remember the day it happened because before that moment we hadn't ever heard of this "young man"; the day that Martin Shkreli, 32, raised the price of a life-saving pill called Daraprim - (the preferred treatment for a parasitic condition known as toxoplasmosis, which can be deadly for unborn babies and patients with compromised immune systems including those with HIV or cancer) from $13.50 to $750 - the world drew a sad, collective sigh. In the days after, as he made mainstream news rounds trying to clean up the mess he'd made and justify his actions at the same time, many people just saw him as a criminal.

Karma had the last laugh early this morning. Not only was Shkreli arrested in his home in Manhattan by federal agents, accused of securities fraud related to a firm he founded, but the man who has become a symbol of "defiant greed" has also lost his job. In a statement the company said it was replacing him as CEO, "because of serious concern about his conduct".
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Red Flag

Professor at Christian college in Chicago suspended over headscarf comments

Ryan Felton
The Guardian
Wed, 16 Dec 2015 15:51 UTC
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© Stacey Wescott/AP Larycia Hawkins, a Christian and associate professor of political science at Wheaton College, wears a hijab at a church service in Chicago
A Christian college in Chicago has suspended a tenured professor who has been wearing a headscarf to show solidarity with Muslims, a decision she said was made as part of her Christian Advent worship and has prompted "pushback almost exclusively from other Christians".

Last week, Larycia Hawkins, an associate professor of political science at Wheaton College, announced her decision to wear a hijab as a demonstration of "human solidarity" with Muslims, in the wake of the recent mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, which authorities said was inspired by Islamist terrorists.

"I stand in human solidarity with my Muslim neighbor because we are formed of the same primordial clay, descendants of the same cradle of humankind," she posted on Facebook. "I stand in religious solidarity with Muslims because they, like me, a Christian, are people of the book."

But the comments made by the 43-year-old generated confusion at Wheaton's campus about "complex theological matters", the college asserted in a statementlast Friday. And, it continued, some Christians may have interpreted Hawkins' remarks as a failure to "reflect the distinctively Christian theological identity of Wheaton College".

Comment: What's next? Will people be arrested for wearing hijabs? Will groups of people lynch anyone wearing a headscarf? The atmosphere of fear and hatred in the US is being systematically controlled by the elites. Do YOU want to control your own mind, or the let the psychopaths in control do that for you?

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Health

Corporate takeover and demise of the Red Cross

Justin Elliott
ProPublica
Mon, 14 Dec 2015 00:00 UTC
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© Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington PostIn her seven years as CEO of the Red Cross, Gail McGovern has cut hundreds of chapters and thousands of employees, eroding the ability of the charity to aid Americans in times of need.
When Gail McGovern was picked to head the American Red Cross in 2008, the organization was reeling. Her predecessor had been fired after impregnating a subordinate. The charity was running an annual deficit of hundreds of millions of dollars.

A former AT&T executive who had taught marketing at Harvard Business School, McGovern pledged to make the tough choices that would revitalize the Red Cross, which was chartered by Congress to provide aid after disasters. In a speech five years ago, she imagined a bright future, a "revolution" in which there would be "a Red Cross location in every single community.''

It hasn't worked out that way.

McGovern and her handpicked team of former AT&T colleagues have presided over a string of previously unreported management blunders that have eroded the charity's ability to fulfill its core mission of aiding Americans in times of need.

Under McGovern, the Red Cross has slashed its payroll by more than a third, eliminating thousands of jobs and closing hundreds of local chapters. Many veteran volunteers, who do the vital work of responding to local fires and floods have also left, alienated by what many perceive as an increasingly rigid, centralized management structure.

Comment: It is curious that very often the American Red Cross receives 70% of ALL the donations made by the public to help the victims in any given high profile event. So where does the money go?

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Eye 1

Megalomania in the US: The fight between Trump & Bush that everyone is talking about

Mike Whitney
CounterPunch
Thu, 17 Dec 2015 14:25 UTC
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© Unknown
In case you missed last night's two hour steelcage GOP extravaganza, here's the 26-second food fight between frontrunner Donald Trump and Jeb Bush that everyone is talking about.

Not surprisingly, the topic was one that dominated the discussion all night: What candidate is best qualified to savage civil liberties at home while bombing the rest of the planet into oblivion?

Judging by his ability to disembowel Bush in front of a hand-picked audience of red-meat party loyalists, Trump appears to be the hands-down winner.

Comment: Trump's got a history of being a conman whose obsession with his own image is rivaled only by his contempt for everyone else. After all, when he's not bragging about himself or insulting someone's looks, he's perfectly comfortable insulting the handicapped. So what does it say about the future of America that so many Americans are held spellbound by his lunacy? As Laura Knight-Jadczyk writes in her article Knowledge and Freedom: Antidote to the rising fascism:
[T]hose individuals who have sustained and make a living propagating the illusion of free markets, just wars, humanitarian interventions, etc. are either themselves psychopaths in positions of power or so deeply corrupted by psychopathic thinking that they might as well be psychopaths - for all the suffering and destruction they inflict on others. Unless and until people come to recognize this problem for what it is, humanity as a whole is in for a long, slow, horrifying train wreck of massive global suffering.

Morality and humanism cannot long withstand the predations of this evil. Knowledge of its nature - and its insidious effect on both individuals and groups - is the only antidote.


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Nuke

Scottish nuclear power station reactor shuts down after 'electrical fault'


BBC News
Mon, 14 Dec 2015 07:41 UTC
Torness nuclear power station
© TSPLReactor 2 at Torness nuclear power station made an 'unscheduled' shut down
There has been an unscheduled shutdown of one of the reactors at Torness power station in East Lothian.

Reactor 2 stopped automatically during routine testing when an issue with an electrical system was detected.

EDF energy which operates the plant said there were no health or environmental impacts.

Paul Winkle, Torness Power Station director, said: "I believe it is important to keep you updated on any developments at Torness power station."

He added: "I wanted to make you aware that we shut down one of our reactors earlier on Monday. This is the first unplanned shut down this year.

"Reactor 2 automatically shut down during routine testing when an issue was detected in an electrical system. Protection equipment, which is designed to 'fail safe', operated to automatically shut down the reactor.

"The reactor shut down safely and cooling to the reactor was maintained at all times. There were no health or environmental impacts."

Torness power station's two nuclear reactors generate enough electricity to power more than two million homes and started operating in 1988.

The station employs more than 500 full time staff and around 250 full time contract partners.

Comment: One of the reactors at the Indian Point nuclear power plant, outside New York City, was shut down this week following an "electrical disturbance". It was the second shutdown at the complex this month, and the fifth incident this year. See also:

SOTT Exclusive: Solar System 'grounding': Transformer explosions and electrical anomalies

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Arrow Down

Woman donates tiny house to San Diego homeless man, one week later cops take it and arrest him

Arturo Garcia
The Raw Story
Wed, 16 Dec 2015 22:14 UTC
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© KGTV-TVMichael Clark stands next to a 'tiny house' donated to him by Lisa Kogan.
San Diego police are investigating the arrest of a local homeless man less than a week after he began using a "tiny house" donated to him, KGTV-TV reported.

"They said, 'Well, we are going to give him two hours to move it,'" said Anthony Brown, who witnessed the arrest of Michael Clark on Tuesday morning. "Five minutes later there was a tow truck here and they took the house away."

According to Brown, officers immediately handcuffed Clark, rather than issue him a ticket.

Clark had only received the small structure on Saturday following the efforts of a local woman, Lisa Kogan, and her friends. He was arrested while sleeping in it across the street from a local church, the International Love Ministries of God, where he also works as a deacon.

Comment: The cruel and heartless treatment of the homeless in the 'exceptional' USA is truly despicable.

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Bullseye

Saudi camel smooch leads to heated family feud

Zara Zhi
Opposing Views
Wed, 16 Dec 2015 03:01 UTC
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A Saudi family is demanding their son divorce his wife after seeing her kiss a camel.

The bride's mother-in-law was left incensed after witnessing the smooch and her orders to end the marriage have sparked a family feud.

The couple say they are happy together but the wife is now too scared to return to her husband's home, where her mother-in-law also lives.

The wife kissed the camel spontaneously at the family's home west of Riyadh because she was happy about the profit the animal was generating.

Her enraged mother-in-law believed it to be a violation of social and religious standards and insisted her son divorce his wife.

According to Gulf News, the woman has moved back to her father's house and will return to her husband's house only if she does not have to live with his mother.

The wife thinks the whole ordeal came about because she has yet to have a baby, and just wants the dispute to end so that she can live in peace with her husband.

Comment: Let's hope the couple can remove the manipulating psychopath out of their home and live in peace.

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Boat

Castaway survives 15 months at sea, gets sued for $1mn, accused of 'eating' his crewmate


Rt
Thu, 17 Dec 2015 21:17 UTC
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© Jose Cabezas / ReutersCastaway fisherman Jose Salvador Alvarenga.
A fisherman from El Salvador who was lost at sea for 438 days but miraculously survived is being sued for $1 million by the family of his dead crewmate, who accuse him of eating their son's remains in order not to starve to death.

Salvador Alvarenga, 36, is the only man in the world to have survived so long stranded at sea, but he might now have to pay $1 million to the family of Ezequiel Cordoba - the man who accompanied him on his shark fishing trip in November 2012.
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Bell

Homeless are taking refuge in LaGuardia Airport

Danielle Furfaro
New York Post
Mon, 14 Dec 2015 01:43 UTC
A homeless man sleeps on a ledge at LaGuardia Airport
© Georgett RobertsA homeless man sleeps on a ledge at LaGuardia Airport
LaGuardia Airport has become so riddled with homeless that it could now even make some 3rd world nations look good.

The number of homeless living at the airport has increased dramatically in the past year, turning the main terminal into the city's most popular de facto crashpad, where they sleep, eat and wash up while competing for space with passengers, according to Port Authority sources.

At least 50 homeless people live inside the airport's Terminal B, which anyone can get into without passing through security, sources said.

Comment: The Port Authority's main goal is to provide them services? Then quit dragging your arse about it (or lying about your intent) and get busy helping! Sheesh.

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