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Los Angeles teen arrested for sitting wrong way on the train, swarmed by over a dozen cops

Jack Burns
Free Thought Project
Tue, 23 Jan 2018 00:00 UTC
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Dramatic footage has just been released showing 18-year-old Bethany Nava, a West Hollywood resident, getting arrested for having her foot on the subway seat in front of her. According to the Facebook live video, Nava was riding the Red Line Metrorail when the confrontation with police occurred.

An unnamed LAPD officer, a sergeant, had reportedly asked Nava to remove her foot from an adjoining seat but she didn't immediately comply. "It doesn't matter. You're getting off the train right now. I already told you what to do but you disobeyed me," he told her in a normal voice. He then ordered her to stand up and told her she would be getting off the train at the next stop. "I paid to be on the train, asshole!" Nava told the officer as he laid his hands on her and pushed her off the train.

"I'm 18. He's taking me off the train for having my foot on the fucking seat," she told the person recording. The officer whose badge number is 5203, was then surrounded by concerned citizens who accused him of abusing his badge and being on a power trip.
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Montana governor signs executive order forcing net neutrality


RT
Tue, 23 Jan 2018 21:38 UTC
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© Ronen Tivony / Global Look Press /File
Following the repeal of net neutrality by Federal Communications Commission, Montana Governor Steve Bullock brought it back to the state through an executive order.

The order said that any internet service provider with a government contract cannot block or charge more for faster delivery of websites to any customer in the state.

"If you want to do business in Montana," the Democratic Governor told the New York Times on Monday, when he signed the executive order, "there are standards on net neutrality you will have to follow."


The new rule would affect any new or newly renewed contract inked after July 1 of this year. The list of providers that would likely be affected includes some of the industry's biggest names. AT&T, Charter, CenturyLink and Verizon all currently have contracts with the state.

Comment: A bold move by Montana. The lawsuits are sure to follow. But can the big telecoms afford to file a suit in every US state? It would be interesting to watch!

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Jordan Peterson vs Cathy Newman, Revenge of the SJW Spin Doctors

James Delingpole
Breitbart
Tue, 23 Jan 2018 21:20 UTC
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Jordan Peterson has called bull on the left's claims that SJW media maven Cathy Newman has been a victim of "threats" and "alt-right" bullying.

In his first video appearance since totally owning Newman in a must-watch Channel 4 studio discussion on feminism, free speech and social justice, Peterson expressed regret at having given any credence to the threat claims.

"Define threats," Peterson says, when asked whether he believes if these "threats" ever actually existed.

Because there is no evidence that these "threats" were credible, Peterson now wishes he had never tacitly endorsed their existence when he asked his Twitter followers to "back off" from being rude to Newman.

His critics just exploited this by using it as proof that threats had indeed been made.
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John Coleman, founder of the Weather Channel and global warming sceptic, passes away

Anthony Watts
Watt's Up With That
Sun, 21 Jan 2018 21:08 UTC
John Coleman
© The Weather Channel
John Coleman
It is with great sadness that I announce this. John Coleman was a true hero of mine, and a great friend. He made gigantic contributions to television, to weather forecasting, and even to the National Weather Service who changed and upgraded many of their methods to accommodate the visionary ideas he had in founding the Weather Channel.

In 1983, Coleman won the American Meteorological Society award for Outstanding Service by a Broadcast Meteorologist. The organization credited Coleman for "his pioneering efforts in establishing a national cable weather channel," according to the AMS website.

I last saw John Coleman a couple of months ago in Chicago at a gathering of TV meteorologists and climate skeptics. He was as jovial and as witty as ever.

To say "he will be missed", is an understatement.

Comment: Independent thinkers like Coleman will be sorely missed.

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Liberal feeding frenzy: Princeton offers to give students $10k for those willing to hold 'identity and difference' events

Matthew Penza
Campus Reform
Mon, 22 Jan 2018 09:57 UTC
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Princeton University is offering students up to $10,000 to run "conversation" events on topics of "identity and difference" through a program called Campus Conversations on Identity (CCI).

Funding opportunities for CCI events take one of two forms: mini-grants of up to $1,000, awarded on a rolling basis; and "signature event" grants of between $1,000 and $10,000. To qualify for the latter category, an event must be a widely publicized public lecture or workshop sponsored by or presented "in partnership with" a department or other unit of the university.

According to the official program description, CCI was created "to support a series of public programs about identity and difference" in order to "resource opportunities that provide a public forum for productive dialogue; to model honest conversations on a range of complex social issues; and to provide an opportunity for self-reflection and learning about the experiences and viewpoints of others."

Comment: Someone get Jordan Peterson over to this school of "higher learning" quick to speak some sense to these students - and their University's President! All half-kidding aside, isn't it interesting how one of the US's top schools is feeding into these ideologies just as Peterson's name recognition and message is just now reaching a new height?

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New York City sues Big Pharma for role in city's opioid epidemic

Michael Gartland
NY Post
Tue, 23 Jan 2018 20:33 UTC
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© AP
The city is suing major pharmaceutical companies for their role in the opioid epidemic, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Tuesday.

The lawsuit filed in state Supreme Court seeks $500 million in damages for current and future costs from what the mayor described as "corporate drug pushers."

"Who's getting away with bloody murder right now? The big pharmaceutical companies," he said at a press conference in the Bronx.

"It's time for Big Pharma to pay for what they've done. It's time that they are held accountable."
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Video shows LAPD officer dragging 18yo woman off train and arresting her for not removing her feet from a seat


Sputnik
Tue, 23 Jan 2018 20:25 UTC
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© Sputnik/ Vitaliy Belousov
This week, an officer with the Los Angeles Police Department dragged an 18-year-old woman off a Red Line Metrorail train after she reportedly refused to remove her feet from a seat.

A video of the altercation uploaded on YouTube shows a police officer requesting that West Hollywood resident Bethany Nava move her feet off the seat of a Metrorail train.

After Nava refused to follow the officer's instructions, the cop told her she would have to get off the train at the next stop. Once the train arrives at the platform, Nava refused to budge and the unidentified police officer is then pictured dragging Nava off the train car as she holds on to a pole inside the car.
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Western civilization and its enemies

Paul Krause
Crisis Magazine
Tue, 23 Jan 2018 19:44 UTC
Melrose Abbey, Scotland.

The remains of Melrose Abbey, Scotland.
What is civilization and why is it important? Civilization is many things, but at its heart, it is both the inheritance of societal ideas, customs, and traditions which inform the body, and it is how that body is structurally organized based on that inheritance coupled with the ongoing changes of socio-political development. Western civilization, for all of its imperfections, is, nevertheless, Christian in its inheritance and still Christian in its current state of composition (needing to be awakened to be sure).

Political theology, as an academic sub-discipline of political philosophy, is the study of how religious and theological ideas and systems have influenced the concept of the political. It is not "faith-based" politics as many people might think or otherwise claim. In fact, it is a discipline that is otherwise fairly secular; but one that recognizes the profound and tremendous importance of the theologico-political question as foundational for civilization itself.

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Actress Suzanne Somers is huge fan of Trump but believes it's career suicide to admit it in LA


TMZ
Tue, 23 Jan 2018 20:14 UTC
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Suzanne Somers is saying it loud and proud ... she's a huge fan of President Trump, and she also believes she's c ommitting career suicide by saying that.

We got Suzanne leaving WeHo hot spot Madeo over the weekend and asked about the government shutdown. She says politicians need to get their crap together, but she praises the Prez ... particularly for the economy.

For the record, Trump's GDP stats in his first year mirror almost exactly Obama's in his second term.

Suzanne -- whose last big TV gig was on the '90s sitcom "Step by Step" -- can't help but laugh after acknowledging her Hollywood fate.

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'Fake news, I'm coming to gun you down': Man arrested after threatening CNN staff


RT
Tue, 23 Jan 2018 19:58 UTC
CNN fake news
© Reuters
A Michigan man has been arrested after allegedly calling CNN and threatening to "gun down" employees at the Atlanta headquarters of the network.

Brandon Griesemer of Ann Arbor, Michigan, made 22 calls to CNN on January 9-10, according to an affidavit which was unsealed Friday and cited by the news network. Four calls, which were recorded, contained threats.

"Fake news. I'm coming to gun you all down," he reportedly said during a January 9 call, while cursing and using a derogatory word directed at African-Americans.
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