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Famous atheist Sam Harris deletes Patreon account in protest of its biased political bans

Hank Berrien
The Dailywire
Mon, 17 Dec 2018 00:00 UTC

On Sunday evening, famed atheist Sam Harris fired off a tweet announcing he would delete his Patreon account on Monday to protest Patreon banning several content creators from using their platform. Harris wrote:

Patreon has banned several personalities from the platform, including British YouTuber Carl Benjamin, better known as Sargon of Akkad, commentator James Allsup, and Milo Yiannopoulos. In July 2017, Patreon banned former Rebel Media personality Lauren Southern.

Comment: Deluded souls in the Silicon Valley blue bubble would be wise to remember that competition still exists. See also:

Ron Paul: Financial market correction could make economy 'worse than 1929'

Mac Slavo
SHTFplan.com
Mon, 17 Dec 2018 00:00 UTC

Former presidential candidate, Dr. Ron Paul says that the current market conditions are ripe for a correction of 50% and Wall Street is vulnerable to depression-like conditions in the next year. "It could be worse than 1929," Dr. Paul said recently in an interview.

Paul said Thursday on CNBC's "Futures Now that "Once this volatility shows that we're not going to resume the bull market, then people are going to rush for the exits." Paul added that "it could be worse than 1929." He was referencing the fateful day in October of 1929 when the stock market crashed, and the United States was flung into the Great Depression that lasted ten years. During that year, a worldwide depression was ignited because of the U.S.'s market crash. The stock market began hemorrhaging and after falling almost 90 percent, sent the U.S. economy crashing a burning.

And of course, no one believes it could happen again. But Dr. Paul is continuously warning against the media's constant optimism. As well-known Libertarian, Paul has been warning Wall Street that a massive market plunge is inevitable for years. He's currently projecting a 50 percent decline from current levels as his base case, citing the ongoing U.S.-China trade war as a growing risk factor. "I'm not optimistic that all of the sudden, you're going to eliminate the tariff problem. I think that's here to stay," he said. "Tariffs are taxes." And these tariffs are a direct tax on the American economy and consumer.

China and Japan continue slashing holdings of US debt

Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss
Reuters
Mon, 17 Dec 2018 16:01 UTC

China and Japan, two of the largest non-U.S. holders of Treasuries, slashed their holdings of U.S. government debt in October, Treasury Department data showed on Monday, in line with the decline in global reserves.

China had $1.138 trillion in U.S. Treasuries in October, down from $1.151 trillion the previous month. The world's second-largest economy has cut its Treasury positions for five straight months, but remains the largest holder of U.S. Treasuries outside the United States.

"China's foreign exchange reserves fell during the month of October, perhaps as it was trying to defend its currency. They sell Treasuries to do that," said Gennadiy Goldberg, interest rates strategist at TD Securities in New York.

Netanyahu's son Yair gets banned by Facebook for a day over anti-Muslim messages

Sputnik
Tue, 18 Dec 2018 04:03 UTC

The son of Israeli Prime Minister, Foreign Minister, Defense Minister, Immigration Minister and Health Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Yair, was briefly banned from Facebook after he shared a series of incendiary posts on the platform last week.

In one of the posts, he claimed that peace would not exist in Israel until all Muslims are gone.

Yair Netanyahu has, Al Jazeera noted, "faced criticism of being a grown man living in the prime minister's residence despite having no official role," causing controversy in his father's administration on multiple occasions.

Chief among those controversies, perhaps, was "strippergate," which centered around an audio recording of Yair's ride in a government vehicle as he was "drunkenly ping-ponging between strip clubs," according to Israel's oldest daily newspaper, Haaretz. One of Yair's friends joked that a government security guard would have to be killed if he quit his job because he overheard their conversation.

Egyptian referendum for Libyan exiles shows 92% support for Dr. Saif Al Islam Ghadafi's presidential bid

Joanne Moriarty
libyanwarthetruth.com
Mon, 17 Dec 2018 15:17 UTC

Last week in Egypt, a referendum was held among Libyans who are future voters living in exile in Egypt because of the destruction and occupation (by force) of their country by NATO, France, US, UK and their terrorist mercenaries.

The referendum results show the Libyan support for Saif al-Islam Gaddafi's candidacy for the Libyan presidency in the upcoming elections in Libya in the spring of 2019. Only Libyans were allowed to vote in this referendum and even though held in Egypt, the results are a microcosm of the Libyan country. The results of this referendum are the reason the Khazarian Mafia New World Order is panicking and making every attempts to discredit, assassinate, arrest or otherwise stop Dr Saif from running for President.

There was one question in the referendum: "Do you support Seif al-Islam Ghadafi as the head of state capable of completing the reconstruction of Libya?"

The results of the referendum are as follows: (you will find an official certified document of results attached to the bottom of this article)

Of the 65,125 Libyans who voted:
91.64% voted YES
8.36% voted NO

'Our whole life has been destroyed': Palestinian family in East Jerusalem forced to demolish their own home

Yumna Patel
Mondoweiss
Tue, 18 Dec 2018 11:29 UTC

The days since 38-year-old Murad Hashimi lost his home in occupied East Jerusalem have been some of the most difficult of his life.

Not only did he lose the home he was born and raised in, but he was forced to demolish it with his own two hands.

"When I was destroying my house, it was like I was in a daze," Hashimi told Mondoweiss. "I couldn't think clearly. Even now, I can't think about anything except the house."

Cannibal trio sentenced for killing women, stuffing flesh into pastries, sold some to neighbors

Katherine Lam
New York Post
Mon, 17 Dec 2018 15:59 UTC

© ZUMAPRESS.com
From left, Jorge Beltrao Negromonte da Silveira, his wife, Isabel Cristina Pires, and his mistress Bruna Cristina Oliveira da Silva during their trial in September 2014.

A Brazilian man - dubbed the "Sweeney Todd" cannibal - his wife and his mistress were each sentenced to several decades in prison after they were convicted of murdering women and stuffing their flesh into pastries that they then ate and handed out to neighbors, reports said.

Jorge Beltrao Negromonte da Silveira, his wife, Isabel Pires, and his mistress, Bruna Cristina Oliveira, were sentenced over the weekend after they were arrested in 2012 for killing at least three women, Brazilian outlet G1 reported. The trio - nicknamed the "cannibals of Garanhaus" for the neighborhood where the murders took place - was on trial for killing Alexandra Falcon Silva, 20, and Gisele Helena da Silva, 31.

Silveira was sentenced to 71 years in prison, while his wife received 68 years and his mistress 71 years and 10 months.

The trio lured women to their home by offering them a job as a nanny or giving them religious advice before slaughtering them and eating their flesh. Silveira's wife used some of the flesh to make stuffed meat pastries called salgados. They sold some of the pastries to neighbors.

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Serial blasphemer: Belgian model arrested, again, this time for nude photo shoot at the Vatican

Koen Berghuis
Mirror
Mon, 17 Dec 2018 16:25 UTC

© CEN/Jesse Walker from ENKI EYEWE
Marisa crossing a street in the Vatican City near the St. Peter's Basilica with a huge wooden crucifix.

Marisa Papen has previously been imprisoned after posing nude at the Karnak Temple Complex near Luxor, Egypt.

A Playboy model who has posed naked at the Vatican while holding a large wooden crucifix in the latest of a series of controversial photoshoots has been arrested.

Belgian model Marisa Papens is seen dragging the cross across a street with St Peter's Basilica visible in the background - while nude.

Another of the pictures shows Papen sitting naked on some bibles on the wet cobblestones of St Peter's Square while other snaps show her tied to the cross.

Comment: If one's only goal is to attract attention, shock through blasphemy is a rather easy target. Despite all their self-congratulation, and false martyrdom (10 hours in jail; what saints), there's nothing particularly provocative or interesting in their stunts. Papen seems bent on going after low-hanging fruit in order to court controversy, having previously posed nude at the Egyptian temple in Luxor and the Western Wall in Jerusalem. While she acts like there's a message behind these stunts, it seems more likely to be a product of a combined thrill-seeking and daddy issues.

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Cows are getting a bad rap and it's time to set the record straight: Giving up meat won't save the planet

Frank M. Mitloehner
The Conversation
Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:02 UTC

As the scale and impacts of climate change become increasingly alarming, meat is a popular target for action. Advocates urge the public to eat less meat to save the environment. Some activists have called for taxing meat to reduce consumption of it.

A key claim underlying these arguments holds that globally, meat production generates more greenhouse gases than the entire transportation sector. However, this claim is demonstrably wrong, as I will show. And its persistence has led to false assumptions about the linkage between meat and climate change.

My research focuses on ways in which animal agriculture affects air quality and climate change. In my view, there are many reasons for either choosing animal protein or opting for a vegetarian selection.

Comment: The myth that animal agriculture is somehow bad for the environment (or anything beyond negligible) just refuses to die. All in all, it's a distraction from the real environmental concerns that carry a much greater impact than CO₂.

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Why do fundamentalist Christians unconditionally support Israel?

Henry Kamens
New Eastern Outlook
Thu, 13 Dec 2018 00:00 UTC

It appears that many fundamentalist Christians support the hard-line policies of the Israeli Government (currently consisting of the parties Likud, United Torah Judaism, Shas, Kulanu and the Jewish Home) more blindly and fanatically than most Jews do. Christian and Jewish Zionist organizations in the US have combined their lobbying efforts, their targets being governors and state legislatures.

Approximately 26 states - more than half - have enacted laws or executive orders to prohibit their state governments from awarding contracts to companies that support the BDS program, the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israeli program. This BDS movement uses boycott-related tactics against Israel or the Israeli-Occupied Territories in an attempt to get Israel to stop oppressing the Palestinians.

This is where American politicians interact with international issues and lobby groups. For instance, Kentucky Republican Gov. Matt Bevin, a Christian fundamentalist, issued an executive order on November 16, 2018 that states that "the Commonwealth of Kentucky unequivocally rejects the BDS practices and stands firmly with Israel," noting that these BDS practices "threaten the sovereignty and security of a US ally and friend of the Commonwealth."

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Society's Child

Famous atheist Sam Harris deletes Patreon account in protest of its biased political bans

Ron Paul: Financial market correction could make economy 'worse than 1929'

China and Japan continue slashing holdings of US debt

Netanyahu's son Yair gets banned by Facebook for a day over anti-Muslim messages

Egyptian referendum for Libyan exiles shows 92% support for Dr. Saif Al Islam Ghadafi's presidential bid

'Our whole life has been destroyed': Palestinian family in East Jerusalem forced to demolish their own home

Cannibal trio sentenced for killing women, stuffing flesh into pastries, sold some to neighbors

Serial blasphemer: Belgian model arrested, again, this time for nude photo shoot at the Vatican

Cows are getting a bad rap and it's time to set the record straight: Giving up meat won't save the planet

Why do fundamentalist Christians unconditionally support Israel?

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