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Arizona: Bill Gates invests in huge chunk of land to build a smart city

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One of Bill Gates' investment firms has spent $80 million to kickstart the development of a brand-new community in the far West Valley.

The large plot of land is about 45 minutes west of downtown Phoenix off I-10 near Tonopah.

The proposed community, made up of close to 25,000 acres of land, is called Belmont. According to Belmont Partners, a real estate investment group based in Arizona, the goal is to turn the land into its own "smart city."

"Belmont will create a forward-thinking community with a communication and infrastructure spine that embraces cutting-edge technology, designed around high-speed digital networks, data centers, new manufacturing technologies and distribution models, autonomous vehicles and autonomous logistics hubs," Belmont Partners said in a news release.

Comment: Flying mosquito vaccines and microchipped birth control included with residence.


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Army lifts ban on waivers for recruits with history of some mental health issues, goal of recruiting 80,000 new soldiers in 2018

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© USA TODAYThe Army will now allow recruits with a history of some mental health conditions to seek waivers to join the service. Here's why this is happening now.
People with a history of "self-mutilation," bipolar disorder, depression and drug and alcohol abuse can now seek waivers to join the Army under an unannounced policy enacted in August, according to documents obtained by USA TODAY.

The decision to open Army recruiting to those with mental health conditions comes as the service faces the challenging goal of recruiting 80,000 new soldiers through September 2018. To meet last year's goal of 69,000, the Army accepted more recruits who fared poorly on aptitude tests, increased the number of waivers granted for marijuana use and offered hundreds of millions of dollars in bonuses.

Expanding the waivers for mental health is possible in part because the Army now has access to more medical information about each potential recruit, Lt. Col. Randy Taylor, an Army spokesman, said in a statement. The Army issued the ban on waivers in 2009 amid an epidemic of suicides among troops.

"The decision was primarily due to the increased availability of medical records and other data which is now more readily available," Taylor's statement to USA TODAY said. "These records allow Army officials to better document applicant medical histories."

Comment: See also: Americans didn't elect Donald Trump to expand foreign military intervention


Family

2-year-olds to be brainwashed with "transgender lessons" in UK

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Drag queens are being brought into nursery schools for storytelling sessions to teach children from the age of two about issues such as gender fluidity.

Bristol-based organisation Drag Queen Story Time (DQST) runs reading sessions with 'queer role models' for young children in schools, libraries and hospitals.

Launched by Bristol University Law graduate Thomas Canham, the project aims to teach children about transgender issues through storytelling, in addition to misogyny, homophobia and racism.

The 26-year-old was inspired to set up the project after learning about a similar scheme in the US named Drag Queen Story Hour.

Nursery bosses said the sessions are needed so that children encounter people "who defy rigid gender restrictions", according to the Mail on Sunday.

They reportedly want to target two and three-year-olds in order to influence them early against hate crime.

Children this age have not yet developed any discriminatory 'isms', it was suggested.

But critics told the Mail that the sessions could "blind impressionable children of two and three to one of the most basic facts of human existence".

Comment: As Daws implies, the recent epidemic of "transgenderism" is not an ordinary situation. It is an emotional contagion - a mass hysteria. The number of youths who experience real gender dysphoria is minuscule, but the prevalence of transgender propaganda (propagated by a tiny group of activists within the minuscule number of gender dysphorics) has convinced many young people - particularly young women - that they might not be what sex they actually are. Ironically, the transgender hyperactivists are probably more likely to provoke even more negative reactions than they would otherwise by taking this approach. People don't like being told what to think, especially when it's so obvious that's what is being done.


Heart - Black

Malibu church warned to stop feeding the homeless

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A Malibu church that has helped the homeless for years has been told to stop feeding people down on their luck.

CBS2's Craig Herrera spoke to the people at the United Methodist Church about the request.

At various times, the church can serve as many as 70-100 people. They have been serving the meals on Wednesdays since 2014.

They were reportedly told to stop food service right after Thanksgiving.

"It's a safe place," says Michah Johnson who is homeless, "and everyone is welcome. And the food is really good. It's home-cooked. And there's TLC involved."

Johnson said he still doesn't have a place to live, but he just found a job.

"The church is very helpful," he says. "They keep my spirits up. They keep me accountable. When you're homeless, it's very easy to slip off and become jaded."

Comment: No loving kindness or humanity allowed. Bans on feeding the homeless are in place all over the country.


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Orthodox Church is not against sex education in Russian schools, but urges caution

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The church does not oppose sex education in schools, but urges caution as it can corrupt young minds, the head of the Moscow Patriarchate external relations department has stated.

"If these lessons turn into corruption of the young, as it unfortunately happens very often, the Church would definitely oppose them. At the same time, the situation in which children do not know some very elementary things is also wrong," Metropolitan Bishop Hilarion said in an interview with Rossiya-24.

The cleric added that certain lessons were necessary to educate children about measures that can prevent them from contracting HIV or some other sexually transmitted disease, but emphasized that sex education in schools must be done in a "chaste" way.

People 2

Saudi Arabia holds first women's basketball tournament

Jeddah United team pose for a photo before their match with Sadad in the first women's basketball tournament
© OkazJeddah United team pose for a photo before their match with Sadad in the first women's basketball tournament
Manama: Saudi Arabia held its first basketball tournament for women in the Red Sea city of Jeddah on Saturday - a first for the country.

University of Business and Technology beat Dar Al Hekma University at a game held in King Abdullah Sports City - attended exclusively by women.

"The event demonstrated women's passion for sports and this game undoubtedly gives greater impetus to other events that will increase interest and calls among women to promote the concept of community sports," Leena Al Maeena, Member of the Shura Council and a founding member of the Jeddah United basketball team, said, quoted by Saudi daily Okaz on Sunday.

The event, which included other sporting activities, started with an opening match between Jeddah United and Sadad, followed by games by the other six teams in the competition for the title.

Comment: For reasons not yet clear, in recent months there has been sudden shift in Saudi Arabia's internal politics, what is clear is that the current rulers of the infamously repressive regime have recently visited with the heads of the US and Russia, and along with this have begun cracking down on corruption in certain circles. At the same time Saudia Arabia continues it's disregard for human life by bombing Yemen:


Black Magic

Compelled speech madness spreads to France: French language to be 'corrected' with bizarre gender-neutral 'inclusive writing'

Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer
© AFP Photo/CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULTEducation Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer had decried "repeated attacks on the French language."
Moves to make the French language more female-friendly have sparked impassioned debate in France, with an appalled Academie Francaise warning of a "mortal danger" to the language of Moliere.

At the centre of the debate is the growing use of formulations such as "lecteur.rice.s" for the word "readers" to embrace both genders. Several government ministries, universities and labour unions use so-called "inclusive writing", but it had largely escaped public notice -- until this autumn when it turned up in an elementary school history textbook.

The Academie Francaise, the arbiter of the French language which has inducted just eight women since its foundation in 1635, did not mince words.

"In the face of this 'inclusive' aberration, the French language finds itself in mortal danger," the body intoned.

Comment: This is beyond ridiculous. Orwell's 'newspeak' again seems eerily prescient.

The madness of compelled speech is spreading.

See also: Jordan Peterson: Gender pronouns and free speech war


Sheriff

Cops can slap homeless women, rape prisoners, assault children, and still keep their jobs

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We live a deeply problematic era in American history. As I type this, the nation is reeling from yet another mass shooting in which 26 people were shot and killed in a rural Texas church. Federal prosecutors are currently investigating and indicting members of Donald Trump's campaign team for various levels of corruption. And while all of this, and so much more, goes on, police brutality, prosecutorial misconduct, and other problems within America's criminal justice system continue with less and less scrutiny.

Here, we cover many incidents of injustice from the past week that you likely have not heard about, but deserve our time and attention.

Comment: Is it any wonder why police in the United States have such a tarnished reputation when such flagrant violations of the law and common decency go unpunished or justice is served lukewarm?


Attention

UK: Christian charity concerned about rise in reports of 'honour-based' violence

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A Christian charity has told Premier it's concerned about latest figures that reveal despite prosecutions for "honour-based" violence being at their lowest level in five years, the number of reports to police have gone up.

Just five per cent of cases reported to police are referred to the Crown Prosecution Service.

Peter Grant from Restored, which tackles violence against women, told Premier's News Hour it's never acceptable for these crimes to be committed.

He said: "These are basic crimes against individual human beings and I think what we must call out is the fact that no religion and no social code should be allowed to disguise the fact that these are crimes."

Comment: It is not only the police force that needs to address this problem differently. Obviously, the communities of the affected women need to reassess and reform their religious beliefs and traditions, since they fail in the most fundamental task of protecting the most vulnerable: women and children.

It is also interesting that this article does not mention the religions that condone such behaviour - perhaps out of fear of not being 'politically correct' - with the most likely suspect being Islam. If this was mainly a problem of Christians, would the media pull back their punches in the same way?


Eye 2

Corey Haim's mother accuses Dominick Brascia of sexually abusing her son

Corey Haim Charlie Sheen Judy Haim
Last week we reported that former actor Dominick Brascia accused Charlie Sheen of molesting the late actor Corey Haim-but now Haim's mother has come forward to say that her son was sexually abused by Brascia, and she saw it happen.

Judy Haim, Corey's mother, appeared on the Dr. Oz show after the allegations hit the news to clear the air and tell her side of the story, and she dropped a bombshell.

"This guy Dominick is the guy that abused my son. My son said so. He said so on 'The Two Coreys.' If you ever go back and watch any interview that my son ever gave, you would understand what I'm talking about. He hid nothing," Judy said.

Judy said she even saved her son from being "pinned down" by Brascia on one occasion after she received a phone call from him yelling and screaming that Brascia wouldn't get off of him.