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Chief architect of Notre Dame: 'We installed new detection system in 2010, and completely rewired the cathedral, so the fire wasn't caused by electrical short-circuit'


Sott.net
Thu, 18 Apr 2019 11:55 UTC
mouton archtiect engineer notre dame

Former chief architect/engineer of Notre Dame Cathedral, who oversaw renovation of its electrical wiring and installed a modern fire detection sytem in 2010
French media reports citing an interview with the former French Inspector-General for Historic Monuments Benjamin Mouton, who oversaw the installation of state-of-the-art fire prevention systems in the Notre Dame Cathedral in 2010, and who was responsible for the building from 2000 to 2013, cast doubt on today's leak to the Associated Press that the fire was likely caused by an electrical short-circuit.

Benjamin Mouton was interviewed live on TV on Monday evening as the fire continued to burn the 850-year-old symbol of French culture and history. Here's what he had to say:
"I don't understand this at all. The fire's spread is extremely curious. With really old oak like that, it's super-hard, so you'd need a lot of smaller wood to first get the fire hot enough for the oak beams to burn.

In 2010 we replaced all the electrical wiring, so there's no way this was sparked by a short-circuit. We put new wiring in place according to modern standards. And we went even further; we installed state-of-the-art fire protection and detection systems in the cathedral.

At all times, there are always two men on standby in the Cathedral, day and night, to go investigate anything the moment an alarm goes off, then if necessary to call the fire emergency services.

I am really stunned that this [the fire] has happened. It's incomprehensible."
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Husband killed, wife fighting for life after being attacked by pet deer in Victoria, Australia

Ashlea Kunowski
9news.com.au
Wed, 17 Apr 2019 10:16 UTC
Moyhu deer attack

Moyhu deer attack
A 47-year-old man has died and his wife is fighting for life after they were attacked by their pet deer in north-east Victoria.

Paul McDonald was feeding the deer at his property in Moyhu, near Wangaratta, about 8.20am today when the animal attacked.

"At some point while he was in the enclosure he was attacked by the deer," Acting Senior Sargent Paul Purcell said.

Mr McDonald's wife, Mandi, 45, and their son rushed to provide assistance when they heard a noises.

Mandi entered the enclosure and was also attacked before the couple's son dragged her away from the family pet.

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French journalist: France is burning - two churches are vandalized each day & no one gives a f*ck

Paul Joseph Watson
Summit News
Thu, 18 Apr 2019 09:49 UTC
Notre Dame fire
French journalist Maxime Lepante warns that France's history is "in the process of burning down" as a result of two churches being vandalized every day and that political and religious leaders don't "give a f*ck."

Lepante highlighted recently released statistics that show there were 1062 anti-Christian acts in 2018, compared to just 100 anti-Muslim acts. Throughout 2018, no less than 875 churches in France were targeted.

"Two churches were vandalized per day," said Lepante, adding, "This government, this regime....including the Pope, including the cardinals, shut their mouth, say nothing when our churches are being vandalized, and in contrast, the minute there is a mosque that has a pot of pork sausage in front of it, there's immediately arrest and prison for the person who did it....apologies from the whole of France, the stigmatization of racism and so on, it's an absolutely unbearable double standard!"
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Propaganda

The MSM's cringiest hot takes after Notre Dame fire

Igor Ogorodnev
RT
Thu, 18 Apr 2019 09:49 UTC
Notre Dame fire
© Thomas Samson, AFP/Getty Images
Flames and smoke billow around the gargoyles decorating the roof and sides of the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris on April 15, 2019. - A huge fire swept through the roof of the famed Notre-Dame Cathedral in central Paris on April 15, 2019, sending flames and huge clouds of grey smoke billowing into the sky.
Watching perhaps the most visceral act of live destruction on TV since 9/11, it was hard to find the right words. But that didn't stop the media reaching for the wrong ones.

After all, what better time to push your political agenda?

"At a moment like this, how foolish it seems to pretend that we are not all Europeans. We stand with France in its hour of heartbreak. We will never, ever, turn away," is the note on which the Guardian finished its editorial, as the fire was still rummaging inside Notre Dame Cathedral.
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Fire

Notre Dame Cathedral worker claims Paris' largest church was DELIBERATELY set on fire

Paul Joseph Watson
Summit News
Mon, 15 Apr 2019 06:20 UTC
Notre Dame fire
The famous Notre Dame cathedral in Paris is on fire, with one worker claiming that the blaze was deliberately set.

The roof of the historic building has completely collapsed.


"The cause is not yet clear, but officials say it could be linked to renovation work," reports the BBC.

However, TIME columnist Christopher J. Hale tweeted, "A Jesuit friend in Paris who works in #NotreDame told me cathedral staff said the fire was intentionally set."

Comment: See also:

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Mark Zuckerberg leveraged Facebook user information to hurt rivals and help friends

Olivia Solon and Cyrus Farivar
NBC News
Tue, 16 Apr 2019 04:30 UTC
Mark Zuckerberg and chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg.
© Getty Images
Leaked internal Facebook documents show that the plans to sell access to user data were discussed for years and received support from Facebook’s most senior executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg and chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg oversaw plans to consolidate the social network's power and control competitors by treating its users' data as a bargaining chip, while publicly proclaiming to be protecting that data, according to about 4,000 pages of leaked company documents largely spanning 2011 to 2015 and obtained by NBC News.

The documents, which include emails, webchats, presentations, spreadsheets and meeting summaries, show how Zuckerberg, along with his board and management team, found ways to tap Facebook's trove of user data - including information about friends, relationships and photos - as leverage over companies it partnered with.

In some cases, Facebook would reward favored companies by giving them access to the data of its users. In other cases, it would deny user-data access to rival companies or apps.

For example, Facebook gave Amazon extended access to user data because it was spending money on Facebook advertising and partnering with the social network on the launch of its Fire smartphone. In another case, Facebook discussed cutting off access to user data for a messaging app that had grown too popular and was viewed as a competitor, according to the documents.

All the while, Facebook was formulating a strategy to publicly frame these moves as a way of protecting user privacy.
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Bad Guys

Demanding our chains: Poll shows Americans are uniquely hostile toward Assange, want him prosecuted

Eric Zuesse
Sott.net
Wed, 17 Apr 2019 21:52 UTC
Assange
© Jack Taylor/Getty Images
Julian Assange gestures to the media from a police vehicle on his arrival at Westminster Magistrates' Court on April 11, 2019 in London.
A YouGov poll of 2,455 Americans taken on April 11th found that by a margin of 53% to 17%, or by slightly over 3 to 1, Americans want Julian Assange to be prosecuted.

The question was: "Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was arrested in London. Do you think he should or should not be extradited to the US?"

This was a remarkably bipartisan hostility toward Assange. As the YouGov news-report on that finding indicated:

"That majority increases among both Republicans (59% supporting extradition) and Democrats (62% supporting extradition), but decreases to a plurality (46%) among Independents. Independents were more likely to respond with uncertainty (32% saying they don't know) than Republicans and Democrats, and a little more than one in five Independents (22%) are opposed to extradition."
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Arrow Down

South Africa's deterioration worst among nations not at war

Antony Sguazzin
Bloomberg
Wed, 17 Apr 2019 20:11 UTC
South Africa land confiscation
© Mike Hutchings / Reuters
Father of seven, Muneer Baxter, works on a shack erected during illegal land occupations, in Mitchell's Plain township near Cape Town, South Africa
South Africa's performance on a range of social, economic and governance measures deteriorated more in the past 12 years than any other nation not at war, according to Eunomix Business & Economics Ltd.

The decline is likely to continue as the country wrestles with the consequences of nine years of worsening corruption and policy paralysis under former President Jacob Zuma, the Johannesburg-based political-risk advisory company said. The fragility of the economy may also limit the tenure of his successor Cyril Ramaphosa, who faces his first national election on May 8, it said.

"There is the strongest likelihood of him being a one-term president," Claude Baissac, the head of a Eunomix, said in an interview. "He is starting with a very weak economy, the weakest of any president since Mandela. He is also starting with a fairly weak hand from a political standpoint."
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Info

A woman is being sought after lockouts at Columbine High and other Colorado schools - UPDATE

Sheena Jones and Scott McLean
CNN
Wed, 17 Apr 2019 01:40 UTC
Sol Pais

Sol Pais is sought in relation to lockouts at Columbine High School and several other Colorado schools.
Authorities are searching for an armed woman, who was "infatuated" with Columbine, in connection with alleged threats that led to lockouts at Columbine High School and nearly 20 other schools, officials said Tuesday.

The FBI Denver Division and the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office identified the woman as 18-year-old Sol Pais. She traveled to Colorado on Monday night "and made threats in the Denver metropolitan area," the sheriff's office said in a Facebook post. She is considered dangerous, authorities said.

"She did make statements that were threatening to schools and she did purchase a firearm... and that's why she's a credible threat," said Patricia Billinger, a spokeswoman with the Colorado Department of Public Safety.

Comment:

UPDATE 17/04/19: Sol Pais has been found in Littleton, Colorado dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound

The massive search for Sol Pais, the Surfside teen who reportedly made threatening comments about schools in the Denver area, is over. Late Wednesday morning authorities said Pais is dead. They said she died a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the Littleton area.

Pais had been on the run after reportedly making threats that led to the closure of school for more than half a million students on Colorado's Front Range Wednesday.

A SWAT team and a Clear Creek County snowcat were near the Echo Lake Campground in the Arapaho National Forest and in the midst of an extensive search operation Wednesday morning. The search was centered at the base of Mount Evans.

The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office and the FBI had said Pais traveled to Colorado from Miami on Monday night and bought a pump-action shotgun and ammunition.

"Because of her comments and her actions. Because of her travel here to the state. Because of her procurement of a weapon immediately upon arriving here, we consider her to be a credible threat certainly to the community and potentially to schools," said FBI Denver Special Agent in Charge Dean Phillips.

CBS4 News spoke to a man who identified himself as Sol's father on Tuesday night.

"It's like a bad dream. We don't know. We don't have any idea," said the man through a closed door. He did not give his name.

Wednesday morning, FBI agents were seen removing a bag of items from the home.




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Attention

Time to worry: Medical journals are getting woke


Uncommon Descent
Wed, 17 Apr 2019 18:28 UTC
social justice doctor
© Stock
They fight racism, not cancer. Will your doctor sound like a self-absorbed neurotic?:
I am racist, shaped by the sometimes subtle tendrils of white supremacy deeply embedded in our culture. I mean this not as a sanctimonious admission of guilt, but as a call to self-reflection and action for us white physicians.

-- Deborah Cohan, M.D., M.P.H., "Racist Like Me - A Call to Self-Reflection and Action for White Physicians" at New England Journal of Medicine (paywall)
We hope no one facing a difficult diagnosis has to listen to someone whose basic mission in life sounds like dumping on herself instead of serving others.

The journal was urged to get woke. While the predations of the raging Woke in science is not a core mission for us at UD, we think we should let readers know when it is happening, especially if it could affect you.
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