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Ultra-Orthodox woman gives birth to her 20th child

Stuart Winer
The Times of IsreaThe Times of Israel
Thu, 21 Dec 2017 08:42 UTC
Babies in hospital
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Illustrative photo of new born babies in a Jerusalem hospital.
An expectant woman who arrived at Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem to give birth earlier this week astounded staff when she revealed that the baby would be her 20th child.

The ultra-Orthodox woman, 42, was from the Mea Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem, the hospital said in a statement Wednesday.

Midwife Aliza Altmark was chatting with the woman in preparation for the birth when the mother revealed that she already had 19 children - including one set of twins - from 18 previous births. In total, the serial birther has spent some 14 years of her life pregnant, the hospital said in a statement. Over the years some of her older children have married and had children themselves.
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Robert Kraft tells Trump he plans to build a factory in North Carolina after tax cut bill

Charlie Spiering
Breitbart
Fri, 22 Dec 2017 10:59 UTC
Robert Kraft Trump
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President Donald Trump announced that New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft told him of plans to build a factory in North Carolina as a result of his tax cut bill.

"He just wanted to let me know he's going to buy a big plant in the great state of North Carolina," Trump told reporters.

Kraft, who is Trump's friend, has visited and called the president since he took office. The Patriots even gave Trump a Super Bowl ring during their visit to the White House to celebrate their NFL championship.

The Kraft Group owns International Forest Products as well as RandWhitney, a packaging company.

Comment: It will be interesting to see if more businesses follow suit. See also: GOP tax bill persuasion: AT&T, Boeing, Comcast reward employees with cash

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FBI Entrapment Operation Nabs Delusional California Ginger Flake for 'Plotting Christmas Attack'


Breitbart
Sat, 23 Dec 2017 12:02 UTC
Everitt Aaron Jameson

Gingers for Jihad: Everitt Aaron Jameson
The FBI announced on Friday that it arrested California tow truck driver Everitt Aaron Jameson for plotting a Christmas terror attack on Pier 39 in San Francisco.

Comment: On a related note; why are so many of the White Western 'jihadis' gingers?

See also: The FBI is 'manufacturing terrorism cases' on a greater scale than ever before

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Bank of America giving its employees a special year-end bonus of $1000 to celebrate tax cuts

John Carney
Breitbart
Fri, 22 Dec 2017 11:31 UTC
Cash Money
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Bank of America has joined the parade of American companies celebrating tax cuts by giving its employees a special year-end bonus.

Brian Moynihan, the bank's chief executive, sent an email to employees citing the benefits to the company from the lower corporate tax rate.

"In the spirit of shared success, we intend to pass some of those benefits along immediately. U.S. employees making up to $150,000 per year in total compensation-around 145,000 teammates-will receive a one-time bonus of $1,000 by year-end," Moynihan wrote.

Comment: Another company to add to the list. Question is whether these savings will continue to be passed on to their employees further down the road.

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As seen on Telegram: 'ISIS' provides 'terror hints' like random murders or derailing trains

Bridget Johnson
PJ Media
Fri, 22 Dec 2017 11:22 UTC
ISIS Rumiyah Magazine
© ISIS Rumiyah Magazine
ISIS supporters are encouraging lone jihadists to try methods such as making a terrorist attack look like a random murder or cooking up poisons to use on victims in a new suggestion list.

The "hints" list, posted on Telegram, shows the Eiffel Tower and Big Ben in the background, with blood dripping from the top of the image. It was distributed in Arabic, French and English, with the English translation not clean.

Lone jihadists were urged to have "total emmersion [sp] in the community," while "choosing easy targets to deal with" in an operation that "must be secret & unseen."

Comment: An unknown user posts something on Telegram claiming to be from ISIS, so it must be genuine! Be afraid!

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Merry Christmas: Salvation Army bell ringer beaten for holiday cheer

Katherine Rodriguez
Breitbart
Fri, 22 Dec 2017 00:01 UTC
salvation army bellringer attacked
A Salvation Army bell ringer in California had been beaten in front of a Walmart because he wanted to spread joy this holiday season.

Rev. Jamie Wolfe Sr., the man ringing the bell, told CBS Sacramento that he says "Merry Christmas" to everyone who passes by his donation bucket, but one Grinch managed to knock the joy out of him.

"He haymakered me, hit me, got me down on the ground and we started wrestling, at that point I'm fighting for my life," Wolfe Sr. said.

Comment: It seems the holidays can bring out a lot of people's inner Grinch. See also:

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Does a gender wage gap exist? 6 feminist myths that refuse to die

Christina Hoff Summers
Time
Fri, 17 Jun 2016 15:20 UTC
Gender Wage Gap
Much of what we hear about the plight of American women is false. Some faux facts have been repeated so often they are almost beyond the reach of critical analysis. Though they are baseless, these canards have become the foundation of Congressional debates, the inspiration for new legislation and the focus of college programs. Here are five of the most popular myths that should be rejected by all who are genuinely committed to improving the circumstances of women:

MYTH 1: Women are half the world's population, working two-thirds of the world's working hours, receiving 10% of the world's income, owning less than 1% of the world's property.

FACTS: This injustice confection is routinely quoted by advocacy groups, the World Bank, Oxfam and the United Nations. It is sheer fabrication. More than 15 years ago, Sussex University experts on gender and development Sally Baden and Anne Marie Goetz, repudiated the claim: "The figure was made up by someone working at the UN because it seemed to her to represent the scale of gender-based inequality at the time." But there is no evidence that it was ever accurate, and it certainly is not today

Comment: Jordan Peterson and Camille Paglia really put the last myth into context with their discussion of the "Patriarchy" and the ways in which men and women have shaped themselves throughout history.



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Syria celebrates first anniversary of Aleppo's complete liberation

Paul Antonopoulos
Fort Russ News
Fri, 22 Dec 2017 00:00 UTC
Aleppo celebration
Thousands of people gathered in Saadallah al-Jabiri square in Aleppo on Thursday to join a military parade marking one-year since the Syrian government retook the city.

The military were greeted by many of the city's residents carrying pro-government banners and images of President Bashar al-Assad.

In an interview, one demonstrator was joyous. "Thank God, Aleppo won, we are relived. We are very happy with this victory."

Aleppo is Syria's largest city and industrial hub. It was one of the most bitter battles in the war so far, but since the expulsion and defeat of terrorist forces, life has virtually returned to normal.


Comment: For more on the incredible turnaround Aleppo has seen since Russia came to Syria's aid:

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If money was the reward for hard work, moms would be the billionaires

Caitlin Johnstone
Medium
Sun, 17 Dec 2017 14:44 UTC
traditional mother
I was at the supermarket last night, again, fifth time this week, when I bumped into a friend of mine and we had The Christmas Conversation.
Her - "How's Christmas going?"

Me - "Good! I've got most of the presents done and Christmas is at my mum's this year and she only wants me to do the vegetables. How are you?"

Her - "Oh, terrible, the two little ones still believe and I haven't even started shopping for that plus it's my year to have it so I'm out of my mind trying to get the house clean for the big day. I haven't even got the tree up!"

Me - *soothing clucking noises and a friendly rub on the back.*
Ask a woman right now how her Christmas is going and she will almost certainly unfurl her to-do list before your eyes, from the turkey to the costumes for the kids' concerts. They should call it the Season of To-dos. For women, anyway.
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Catalonia votes: Separatist parties secure absolute majority, Puigdemont to regain power


RT
Thu, 21 Dec 2017 20:20 UTC
puigdemont catalan vote
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Pro-independence parties have again secured an absolute majority in the Catalan parliament, with former regional leader Carles Puigdemont poised to regain the power he had been stripped of by Madrid.

With over 99.5 percent of the votes counted, the trio of pro-independence parties: the Together for Catalonia (JxCat), headed by deposed regional president Puigdemont, the Esquerra Republicana (ERC) and the Popular Unity Candidacy (CUP) are likely to secure 70 parliamentary seats collectively, with 68 required for an absolute majority in the 135-seat assembly.

Although the Citizens Party won the election by a small margin in terms of vote share, it will only pick up 37 seats, and unlikely to form a unionist majority.

While the preliminary results signal a likely victory for the secessionists, it shows a great rift among Catalans on the question of independence. The unionist and pro-independence parties are only separated by a couple percent of votes.

The snap elections were called by Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy in October, in the aftermath of the independence referendum deemed illegal by Madrid. The October 1 independence plebiscite was marred by a central government sanctioned police crackdown on voters.

Comment: Puigdemont congratulated the Catalan people for sending "a message to the world":
"The Catalan republic has beaten the monarchy and article 155. The Spanish state has been beaten. Mr Rajoy and his allies have lost,"Puigdemont said from Brussels where he is hiding from Spanish authorities.
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While the pro-union Citizens Party actually won the election, it did so only by a small margin in terms of vote and share of seats, and is unlikely to form a ruling coalition. Its leader, Ines Arrimadas, lamented that an "unfair" electoral law had given "more seats to those who have fewer votes in the street."

Pro-independence parties, she claimed, "can no longer speak on behalf of everyone" because voters are clearly "in favor of union with Spain" and "for the first time, a unionist party has the elections in Catalonia."

"The Rajoy recipe does not work. Europe must take note," Puigdemont said after the preliminary results of Catalonia's snap election were announced. He also called on Madrid to release all political prisoners. "Now we need to restore democracy, restore our legitimate government, our freedoms. We need to free all those people who are still in prison, but should not be."

"We have maintained the legitimacy and continuity of an institution that was born in 1359. With this legitimacy, we have given news to the world: the Catalan Republic has won. Let them understand it well! Let them take note!"


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