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Boise, Idaho priest lived in a world of child pornography and Satanism - sentenced to 25 years in prison

Katy Moeller & Ruth Brown
Idaho Statesman
Thu, 20 Dec 2018 09:01 UTC

© Darin Oswald
Thomas Faucher appears before Fourth District Judge Jason Scott to be sentenced after being found guilty of multiple felonies, including possessing and trafficking child pornography among other charges Thursday at the Ada County Courthouse in Boise, Idaho.

Editor's note: Some readers may find the details in this news story disturbing.

The Rev. W. Thomas Faucher, a longtime priest in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Boise who pleaded guilty to five felony crimes, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison without parole and will be required to register as a sex offender.

Faucher, 73, was accused of amassing thousands of child porn images and videos on his home computer - and pleaded guilty in September to sharing some of those images online. He apologized in the courtroom ahead of his sentencing at the Ada County Courthouse in Boise on Thursday.

"This is the crime that has the potential for both immediate and long-lasting consequences," 4th District Court Judge Jason Scott said. "... I think there is a legitimate risk to the community."

"I am deeply sorry that I was and have been connected to that in any way," Faucher told the judge in a statement that lasted about 17 minutes. Faucher said he was deeply struck by the victim impact statements and that he knows child pornography is not a victimless crime.

Comment: The exorcism sounds like a good idea.

Fiction meets Reality? Witches are offended by Trump's 'witch hunt' mantra

RT
Sun, 23 Dec 2018 00:00 UTC

It may be the season to be jolly but that's not going to stop witches wanting to get a piece of the press pie to tell President Trump to stop using his beloved 'witch hunt' mantra.

The community of wiccans are utilizing the festive season to share what means the most to them - and that's criticising Trump for using the offensive term 'witch hunt'. Of course, the politically correct mainstream media has felt obliged to listen to their plight.

Natural allies? Why the post-modern faux-Left is useless to the Yellow Vest movement

Jim Kavanagh
The Polemicist
Wed, 19 Dec 2018 17:34 UTC

Comment: Though the author here is a committed socialist (which presents its own dangers to society) he presents a cogent, grounded critique of the neutered, worse-than-useless "Left" spawned by post-modern Marxism

Something's happening here...

Class Act

The "yellow vest" (gilets jaunes) movement has upended French politics, at least.

It has delivered a sharp and refreshing smack in the face to the smuggest of smug, entitled neoliberal brats, Emmanuel Macron, forcing him to retreat on substantive tax and minimum wage issues. It has also raised a raft of issues from wealth inequality (including demands for higher taxes on the rich) to a rejection of austerity and the dreaded Frexit.

Most importantly, it has acted outside the gatekeeping of traditional opposition parties and institutions-including those of the left, which have all been thoroughly decaffeinated and beguiled by the fantasia of Third-Way EU becoming "Social Europe." The Yellow Vest movement is millions of people out in the street, engaged in militant, confrontational protest, talking to and acting with each other unsupervised, telling the governing elite: "Va te faire foutre!".

A self-mobilization of the working class: This is the specter of Europe past, which Third-Way politicians and intelligentsia thought they had once and for all banished to the netherworld a few decades ago. The Yellow Vest movement, now spreading to other countries, is striking a new body blow to the teetering edifice of neoliberalism that has been built on the bones of the working-class lives in Europe and America over those decades.

Syrians celebrate Christmas & hope for lasting peace as US troops pull out

RT
Mon, 24 Dec 2018 10:11 UTC

Syria, which saw large parts of its territory liberated from Islamists this year, is celebrating Christmas with pre-war fervor, hoping that the fighting is nearing its end as militant control dwindles and foreign actors leave.

The bloodshed in Syria has affected everyone in the country, yet its religious minorities have undoubtedly seen the worst, having faced extreme persecution by the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) terrorists and other hardline Islamists regarding their beliefs. In areas under IS rule, celebrating Christmas was out of the question. Now, as peaceful life returns to the country, things are changing for the better.

Recently, one of the country's tallest Christmas trees was unveiled in the capital city of Damascus. A large crowd of people, many dressed in Christmas costumes, gathered to celebrate the occasion, dancing and singing.

States may be cracking down on the BDS movement for Palestinian rights - but cities are fighting back

Alex Kane
The Nation
Fri, 21 Dec 2018 16:55 UTC

© The Herald-Sun via AP / Bernard Thomas
Lydia Rose, right, participates at the Jewish Voice for Peace gathering on Hanukkah to challenge Islamophobia and fight against racism, December 11, 2015 in Durham, North Carolina.

From Durham to Northampton, activists are finding ways to end their cities' support for Israeli human rights abuses.

Rachel Weber knew she had to work fast.

Two months back, on October 19, the Northampton, Massachusetts, activist discovered through a public-records request that the police chief of her small liberal city planned to go to Israel on a police delegation sponsored by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). The trip, billed as an all-expenses-paid opportunity to learn counter-terrorism tactics from Israeli police officials, was planned for December.

That October day, Weber got in touch with local allies, and scrambled to plan a course of action against the junket, which she found troubling because of Israeli forces' involvement in a decades-long project of military occupation and dispossession of Palestinians.

"The folks on these visits, they go to sites where grave human-rights violations are occurring," said Weber.

Five weeks later, she got word from Northampton Mayor David Narkewicz: He was canceling police chief Jody Kasper's participation in the delegation.

Dr. Jordan Peterson: Leftists who turn to Marxism lack structure in their lives

Alana Mastrangelo
Breitbart
Fri, 21 Dec 2018 00:01 UTC

Clinical psychologist and psychology professor Dr. Jordan Peterson told Breitbart News on Thursday that radical Leftists turn to Marxism because they lack a structural hierarchy.

"What's happening on the radical Left end of the spectrum, is that there's a concerted effort to criticize the structure of current hierarchy," said Dr. Peterson, "and maybe to criticize the idea of hierarchy itself, to consider the West and capitalistic structures as fundamentally as oppressive patriarchies."

"You need a hierarchy," he added, "You can't actually orient yourself in the world without a hierarchy."

Vegan fail: Farmer sells out of turkeys after 'vegan mafia' sends him death threats

Hope Schreiber
Yahoo!
Sun, 23 Dec 2018 00:01 UTC

A U.K. poultry farmer was the victim of death threats after sharing a post on Facebook, but now he's thanking the "vegan mafia" for drawing attention to his establishment.

Come and pick your own Christmas turkey at the farm shop," the Nov. 4 Greendale Farm Shop post read: "We will put a name tag on it and you come and feed it and help look after it for the next 2 months. You won't need to get involved in any of the difficult bits at the end, and we will even bone and stuff it for you when you come and pick it up, in time for Christmas."

The post, which suggested that a buyer will take care of a turkey for two months before sending it to slaughter, was met with ire from vegans.

Comment: It seems vegans are actually good for something.

It's amazing that vegans, who think themselves peaceful and caring, seem to be the first to issue death threats to people who don't share their twisted ideological views.

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Arctic's first ever bank robber "arrested quite quickly"

TheLocal.no
Fri, 21 Dec 2018 12:00 UTC

An armed man has robbed a bank in the world's northernmost settlement on Norway's remote Arctic archipelago of Svalbard but he was caught shortly afterwards, authorities said on Friday.

The heist was the first ever bank robbery in living memory in the territory, which is located in the Arctic Ocean, about halfway between continental Norway and the North Pole.

"There was an armed robbery at around 10:40 am (0940 GMT)," Terje Carlsen, a spokesman for the local governor, told AFP.

"A man with a gun seized a sum of money. He was arrested quite quickly" in the centre of Longyearbyen, the capital, he added.

Police said the suspected robber was a foreigner travelling in the region who was sent to the northern town of Tromso on the mainland where he will be questioned.

Authorities declined to give more details about the suspect's identity, the amount stolen or the weapon used in the robbery.

Comment: This is the latest in a number of incidents reported at Earth's poles recently:

13 dead in Czech coal mine methane explosion

Deutsche Welle
Fri, 21 Dec 2018 12:00 UTC

Thirteen miners have died and about 10 others were injured after a blast at a mine in the Czech Republic.

Thirteen miners, including 12 Poles and one Czech, were killed in a methane blast more than 800 meters (875 yards) underground late on Thursday.

The explosion devastated areas of the CSM hard coal mine near the town of Karvina, which is located 300 kilometers (200 miles) east of Prague, according to the state-run OKD mining company, which operates the mine.

A network of methane sensors deployed in the mine had not detected anything unusual prior to the blast, OKD managing director Boleslav Kowalczyk said.

Worst mining disaster

Comment: Was this merely the usual hazard of the job or is it related to what appears to be an increase in similar incidents?

Previously caught pedophile gang member Mathew Law jailed for 20 years

Vikram Dodd
The Guardian
Thu, 20 Dec 2018 11:06 UTC

Law, 50, is last of eight-strong gang who groomed pregnant mother so they could attack her baby and film their abuse

© Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
National Crime Agency, which investigated the gang of eight, still cannot break into computers owned by Law, an IT expert.

A key member of one of Britain's worst ever paedophile gangs, which groomed a pregnant mother so they could attack her baby and film their abuse, has been jailed for 20 years.

Mathew Law had been previously caught and jailed for child sex offences but was released and later deemed not to need any special measures, the Guardian has learned.

Law, 50, was the last of the gang of eight men to be caught, convicted and now sentenced at Bristol crown court.

The horrific abuse by the gang and the extent to which members targeted one of their victims while he was in his mother's womb, and groomed his parents, has staggered experienced investigators.

The National Crime Agency, which investigated the gang of eight, still cannot break into computers owned by Law, an IT expert. He used TOR software to communicate securely.

Law was convicted of conspiring to rape a baby that was abused by gang members over a period of months. The baby was aged between six and 12 months at the time of the abuse.

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Society's Child

Boise, Idaho priest lived in a world of child pornography and Satanism - sentenced to 25 years in prison

Fiction meets Reality? Witches are offended by Trump's 'witch hunt' mantra

Natural allies? Why the post-modern faux-Left is useless to the Yellow Vest movement

Syrians celebrate Christmas & hope for lasting peace as US troops pull out

States may be cracking down on the BDS movement for Palestinian rights - but cities are fighting back

Dr. Jordan Peterson: Leftists who turn to Marxism lack structure in their lives

Vegan fail: Farmer sells out of turkeys after 'vegan mafia' sends him death threats

Arctic's first ever bank robber "arrested quite quickly"

13 dead in Czech coal mine methane explosion

Previously caught pedophile gang member Mathew Law jailed for 20 years

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