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Bisexual 'neo-Nazi' accused of plotting machete attack on LGBT Pride event

RT
Thu, 01 Feb 2018 16:47 UTC

A bisexual far-right terrorism suspect accused of plotting a deadly machete attack on a LGBT Pride event became interested in Nazis after visiting his girlfriend in Germany, a court heard.

Ethan Stables, 20, is alleged to have planned to kill people at a gay pride demonstration in Barrow, Cumbria, last June. He denies preparing an act of terrorism and threats to kill, and says he is not homophobic but was just trying to impress his friends.

Number of people in US and Canada who check Facebook every day dropped for first time ever

Matt Rosoff
CNBC
Thu, 01 Feb 2018 16:32 UTC

The number of people in the U.S. and Canada who check Facebook every day dropped between the third and fourth quarter of 2017, the first such quarterly drop in company history.

Facebook usage in North America has been largely flat for the last several years, leaving international growth to pick up the slack. But the drop suggests that Facebook usage has reached a saturation point in its first and most lucrative market, and could foretell similar usage drops around the world.

The drop could also be a result of a steady drumbeat of negative press about Facebook, including concern over foreign governments using Facebook posts to divide the U.S. electorate during the 2016 election season, and growing concern over violent and other inappropriate content on the site.

Comment: Americans are probably coming to realize how much Facebook is part of the mainstream media machine and tries to control how they think through its cryptic feed algorithm, plus their obvious censoring of content that is not part of mainstream thought. Time to move on to more free social media sites like VK.

'Insufficient' evidence: IOC overturns 28 Russian athletes' ban from Olympics in groundbreaking ruling

RT
Thu, 01 Feb 2018 15:44 UTC

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has cleared 28 Russian athletes and dropped their life-bans over alleged doping. Their results have been reinstated and the athletes are eligible to compete in the 2018 Winter Games.

"Both CAS panels unanimously found that the evidence put forward by the IOC in relation to this matter did not have the same weight in each individual case," the statement from the Lausanne-based international body said.

According to the ruling, in 28 cases filed by the Russian athletes the evidence was "insufficient" to establish that "an anti-doping rule violation (ADRV) was committed by the athletes."

"With respect to these 28 athletes, the appeals are upheld, the sanctions annulled and their individual results achieved in Sochi 2014 are reinstated," it said.

Comment: The IOC's reaction to having their ruling overturned was "regrets" the successful appeal by the athletes. Of course they do, since they were just following orders in the Western cultural war against Russia. Meanwhile, the athletes who won their appeals are "overwhelmed".

Keep in mind that among the Russian athletes banned who have since been cleared is Russian gold medalist Alexander Legkov who was one of the most controversial banned athletes, as no scratches were found on his doping kits and no salt was discovered in his probes. Kriukov was not mentioned in the McLaren report and has never tested positive for banned drugs. Imagine the stress of being banned for doing nothing wrong. Elite athletes pour their heart and soul into training and competing, and then to be tarnished as a cheater unfairly must be incredibly distressing. The relief is certainly palpable.

This ruling has righted another wrong; the Sochi medal count has now been altered in light of the CAS ruling and Russia is back at first overall. The West tried to diminish Russia's athletic achievements, and like most of what they do against Russia, it failed.

Facebook desperately trying to entice inactive users back

Sarah Frier
Bloomberg
Wed, 31 Jan 2018 14:48 UTC

The social network is getting aggressive with people who don't log in often, working to keep up its engagement numbers.

It's been about a year since Rishi Gorantala deleted the Facebook app from his phone, and the company has only gotten more aggressive in its emails to win him back. The social network started out by alerting him every few days about friends that had posted photos or made comments-each time inviting him to click a link and view the activity on Facebook. He rarely did.

Then, about once a week in September, he started to get prompts from a Facebook security customer-service address. "It looks like you're having trouble logging into Facebook," the emails would say. "Just click the button below and we'll log you in. If you weren't trying to log in, let us know." He wasn't trying. But he doesn't think anybody else was, either.

"The content of mail they send is essentially trying to trick you," said Gorantala, 35, who lives in Chile. "Like someone tried to access my account so I should go and log in."

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San Francisco to expunge thousands of marijuana convictions which will "right so many wrongs"

RT
Thu, 01 Feb 2018 00:36 UTC

The San Francisco district attorney's office has begun a process to expunge weed-related convictions from thousands of criminal records.

At a media conference Wednesday, San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon estimated that his office will immediately dismiss 3,038 marijuana-related misdemeanors and begin reviewing another 4,940 marijuana-related felonies to be reclassified as misdemeanors.

"Today I'm announcing that the San Francisco District Attorney's Office proactively will be dismissing misdemeanor cases, sealing the records of those who were convicted for marijuana offenses," Gascon said.

Comment: The 'war on drugs' has been abused since its inception and has essentially been a massive money maker for nefarious groups and as an excuse to demonize particular sections of society:

Maryland: Two women beat kids, locked them up and made them eat dog feces, say investigators

Rose Velazquez
Delmarva Now
Thu, 01 Feb 2018 09:23 UTC

Home of women charged with multiple counts of child abuse

Three children in Mardela Springs were beaten and reportedly locked up and fed bread and water, oatmeal and sometimes dog feces, authorities said Wednesday.

Two women were arrested Wednesday and charged with multiple counts of child abuse involving the children in their custody.

Amanda R. Wright, 29, and Besline Joseph, 25, of Norris Twilley Road in Mardela Springs, were charged in the case.

Investigators determined the three victims, ages 8, 9 and 10, lived with Wright and her live-in girlfriend, Joseph.

Comment: Any case of child abuse is disturbing to the extreme, but it seems odd that a number of these extreme cases have been popping up in the news lately. See:

Indian cleric 'forbids' Muslim women from checking out luscious 'footballer thighs'

RT
Thu, 01 Feb 2018 14:43 UTC

© Pascal Lauener / Reuters
Turkey's and Switzerland's soccer players run with the ball on a rain soaked the pitch during their Group A Euro 2008 soccer match at St Jakob Park in Basel, June 11, 2008.

A senior cleric at one of the world's largest Sunni Muslim seminaries has issued a religious decree saying that Muslim women should not watch men playing football - even on television.

Mufti Athar Kasmi, from India's Darul Uloom Islamic School, said that women who watch men "playing with bare knees" violate Islamic doctrine.

"Why do women need to watch these football matches? What [will they] gain by looking at footballer's thighs? Their attention will be on that only and they will even miss the scores," Kasmi said, as cited by the Times of India.

US Federal judge blocks Kansas law punishing boycott of Israel (BDS) supporters

Jesse Rubin
Mondoweiss
Tue, 30 Jan 2018 14:14 UTC

Esther Koontz, Kansas math teacher and Mennonite, who supports BDS.

In an unprecedented victory for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, a federal judge has blocked Kansas from enforcing a state law which punishes those who express support or engage in the boycott of Israel.

Federal Judge Daniel Crabtree issued a preliminary injunction on Tuesday, prohibiting the state from acting for the duration of a lawsuit filed in October by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of Esther Koontz, a longtime Wichita public school teacher.

The suit derives from Koontz's adherence to the Palestinian call for BDS. Alongside fellow members of the Mennonite Church USA and in solidarity with Palestinians, she decided to boycott all consumer products from both Israeli companies and those that operate in Israel's illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank.

After the passage of the anti-BDS law, all Kansas state employees were required to sign a certification guaranteeing they do not participate in the boycott of Israel.

Comment: Judge Crabtree picked up on the fact that the anti-BDS law puts Israel First - before the First Amendment, that is.

U of Iowa Christian group who denied leadership position to gay member ruled non-discriminatory

Aaron Colen
The Blaze
Wed, 31 Jan 2018 11:28 UTC

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A Christian organization at the University of Iowa that was disbanded for not granting a gay member a leadership position has been reinstated. A judge ruled last week against the school’s “selective enforcement” of its nondiscrimination policy.

A Christian organization at the University of Iowa that was disbanded for not granting a gay member a leadership position has been reinstated after a judge ruled against the school's "selective enforcement" of its nondiscrimination policy.

Business Leaders in Christ refused to give a leadership position to an openly gay student who refused to sign the group's Statement of Faith.

The statement reads: "Members should conduct their careers without the greed, racism, sexual immorality and selfishness that too often arise in business, political and cultural institutions."

Comment: If you take the fact that the student is gay out of the equation, it seems like a fairly straight-forward case. If you refuse to sign the "Statement of Faith", a requirement for leadership, then you can't be the leader. Maybe a better question is why would you want to lead a group with whom you disagree on foundational principles? Pro-Lifers don't try to lead Pro-Choice groups, and vice-versa. It's hardly discriminatory to want a leader who aligns with the values of the organization.

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Israeli journalist says young American Jews' support for Palestinians is 'sickness'

Philip Weiss
Mondoweiss
Tue, 30 Jan 2018 13:51 UTC

Israeli journalist Ben-Dror Yemini

I ought to be grateful that after Israeli journalist Ben-Dror Yemini began his talk at a Reform synagogue in New York last week by saying that he had asked for seven hours to address us, he proceeded to speak for only 90 minutes, passing over many of the slides in his power point on the Industry of Lies against Israel so that he could get us home at a respectable hour. I really thought we were in for a Castro-like drubbing!

Even at its abbreviated length, though, the talk was unsettling. There was one urgent question all evening: Why are so many young American Jews being drawn into criticism of Israel? Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch introduced Yemini in the sanctuary of the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue by saying that Jewish children are "succumb"-ing to lies put forward by Omar Barghouti, a founder of the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement.

Even Jews, even our own children, often succumb or are at least tempted by this industry of lies.

That concern was restated from the floor several times, by many of the 60 Jews gathered there, almost all about my age or older (60s). Why have our children fallen for Palestinian celebrities in their tailored suits?

Comment:

Yemini's overall point was that Israel is not nearly as guilty of human rights abuses as other countries, but it is "paying the price for being a democracy."

Oh, for Yahweh's sake, not another Israeli snowflake complaining about how mistreated they are by the rest of the world! Just because they oppress and murder Palestinians and steal their land!

Interesting that it was a liberal synagogue that organized the event:

Gaslighting for Israel: Liberal and Leftist Zionists

Ehret an idiot beyond belief

smertzasmert

.. .. are wheel barrel sales are up too?

Jibrish

I doubt any pureblood would object to the "vaccinated" being masked, but if they (the "vaccinated") still feel unsafe then maybe their problem is...

HashAttack2

I said this would happen...now they are looking to mandate companies with less that 100 employees...shits getting real, people[Link]

Bezel Bub

it's all a lie ! :O

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Society's Child

Bisexual 'neo-Nazi' accused of plotting machete attack on LGBT Pride event

Number of people in US and Canada who check Facebook every day dropped for first time ever

'Insufficient' evidence: IOC overturns 28 Russian athletes' ban from Olympics in groundbreaking ruling

Facebook desperately trying to entice inactive users back

San Francisco to expunge thousands of marijuana convictions which will "right so many wrongs"

Maryland: Two women beat kids, locked them up and made them eat dog feces, say investigators

Indian cleric 'forbids' Muslim women from checking out luscious 'footballer thighs'

US Federal judge blocks Kansas law punishing boycott of Israel (BDS) supporters

U of Iowa Christian group who denied leadership position to gay member ruled non-discriminatory

Israeli journalist says young American Jews' support for Palestinians is 'sickness'

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