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Court finds Jehovah's Witness church guilty of covering up child sex abuse; victim awarded $35 million

Jack Burns
The Free Thought Project
Sun, 30 Sep 2018 23:09 UTC
jehovah's witness
The ultra secretive church, the Jehovah's Witnesses, have been ordered by a jury to pay $35 million dollars to the survivor of child sexual abuse. The church (better recognized in communities as the ones who always seem to knock on your doors) peddles the writings of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York. The jury determined the organization ordered Montana church leaders not to report child sexual abuse one of its members perpetrated against one of three young girls.

The church plans to appeal the verdict but the girl, who is now 21-years-old, considers the ruling a powerful victory. Her attorney, Neil Smith, told reporters:
Hopefully that message is loud enough that this will cause the organization to change its priorities in a way that they will begin prioritizing the safety of children so that other children aren't abused in the future.
Churches, church leaders, counselors, doctors, teachers and others are considered, in most states, "mandatory reporters" and are required by law to inform authorities when and if child abuse of any kind is suspected. Smith's case against the church contended the church not only failed to report but encouraged other mandatory reporters not to file a police report, and as a result, severely injured his client. The jury agreed, leveling a massive settlement against the church for protecting a pedophile.

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Attention

Man stabbed in the face on London Underground train - Latest attack in city's crime epidemic


RT
Sun, 30 Sep 2018 21:30 UTC
london underground knife attack
A man is being sought by British Transport Police after he allegedly stabbed another passenger in the face aboard a train on the London Underground following a row - the latest attack in the city's ongoing knife crime epidemic.

The attack happened shortly before 1am in the early hours of Sunday morning in a carriage traveling on the network's Central Line between Mile End and Bethnal Green stations.

Witnesses to the incident claim the victim was "stabbed in the face" following an argument with another passenger, who fled the scene after the attack

Pictures surfacing on social media show the victim with a blood-soaked sweatshirt seemingly looking at his injuries on his phone. Another image shows newspapers used to mop up blood that had gathered on the floor of the carriage.

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America's shame on display: US has nothing to teach the world about justice or politics after Kavanaugh farce

Igor Ogorodnev
RT
Sun, 30 Sep 2018 20:53 UTC
Blasey Ford Kavanaugh
© ReutersChristine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh
Many outside the US watched Thursday's hearing with open-mouthed revulsion at the bad faith, lack of due process and inhumanity on display. Dysfunction in the biggest Western democracy sets a poor example to the rest of the globe.

The present does not own the monopoly on ugly scenes in Congress - the McCarthy interviews are on tape, after all. Nor do either of the parties - from Kenneth Starr's ultimately futile humiliation of Bill Clinton, to their intransigence during Obama's two terms, Republicans largely set the tone for the partisanship that reigns today.

But make no mistake about it: in the age of a hysterical and agenda-driven news media, and a social media that amplifies its worst aspects, the Kavanaugh and Ford testimonies marked a new low. And it is the Democrats that have guided the process into a high-stakes wrestling match in a toxic swamp.
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World Health Organization: Israel refusing access to medical care for Gaza residents - 20% of applicants are cancer patients


Ma'an News
Sun, 30 Sep 2018 16:32 UTC
gaza child hospital
A fifth or 20% of medical applications submitted in August by patients in the besieged Gaza Strip were denied, by Israel, a permit to leave for medical treatment in East Jerusalem or Israeli hospitals were for cancer patients, according to a monthly report by the World Health Organization (WHO).

On Thursday, WHO published their monthly report on health access for Palestinians in the occupied territories, showing that 18% of the denied applications were for orthopedics and 14% for neurosurgery patients.

Several Palestinian patients have died while waiting for an Israeli permit to get life-saving treatment that is not available in Gaza.
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Family

Russian military: Over 300 civilians left Idlib safe zone past 24 hours


Sputnik
Sun, 30 Sep 2018 04:21 UTC
Idlib, city
© Reuters/Ammar AbdullahCity of Idlib, Syria
More than 300 people left Syria's Idlib de-escalation zone through the humanitarian corridor over the past 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry's Center for Refugee Reception, Distribution and Settlement said Saturday in a statement.

"In total, 301 refugees (112 women and 141 children), 10 vehicles and 100 heads of cattle have passed via the Abu al-Duhur CP [checkpoint] to Aleppo province from the Idlib de-escalation zone," the statement reads.

It is noted that medical care was provided to 175 Syrians, including 81 children.

Earlier in September, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan signed an agreement aimed at setting up a 9-12 mile demilitarized zone in Idlib province along the contact line of the armed opposition and the government forces by October 15.

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Arrow Down

How a 124-year-old statue, reviled by Native Americans, came down

Jose Fermoso
The Guardian
Mon, 24 Sep 2018 06:00 UTC
Early Days Statue
© American Renaissance/Jeff Chiu/AP"Early Days" Statue depicts a Native American at the feet of a Spanish cowboy and Catholic missionary in San Francisco.
In the middle of the night and with dozens of Native Americans watching, San Francisco city workers tied safety ropes around a 124-year-old bronze statue and pulled. Carefully, they dislodged the piece from a granite platform and laid it on top of a flatbed truck. It was a moment stoked with meaning. After decades of effort, the Early Days statue, a symbol of colonization and oppression to many, was gone.

Those who gathered at the removal last week didn't celebrate with fire torches. They only prayed, sang hymns, and looked on morosely at the empty platform. That's what happens when civic institutions, in this case the city arts commissions, finally see a people as worthy of protection.

"I feel like it is a win. I feel good about it. [But] there is still a lot of work to be done," Desirae Harp, a Mishewal Ona*tsáTis (Wappo) and Diné (Navajo) tribe member told me.

Erected in the aftermath of the California mission era, the Early Days statue depicts a Native American on his back, defeated, a Catholic priest above him pointing to the heavens, and an anglicized vaquero bestriding the scene in triumph. The statue is part of the Pioneer Monument celebrating the state's origins. Native Americans saw it as dehumanizing art but no one had managed to convince politicians to take it down. It wasn't until gender- and racially-diverse city boards, as well as backlash against Eurocentric depictions of dominance, that change came.
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Arrow Up

Railway link confirmed to connect Russia's St. Petersburg with Germany's Berlin


RT
Sun, 30 Sep 2018 11:10 UTC
Railway
© Wolfgang Rattay / Reuters
Russia and Germany have agreed to connect Germany's capital Berlin with St. Petersburg, which is often branded Russia's northern capital.

The news, first published in the Russian media, was confirmed by Germany's Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure. The train will go from Germany to the Russian exclave city of Kaliningrad and then onwards to St. Petersburg, the ministry has confirmed in a letter to RT.
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Fire

Harrowing scene: Deadly car explosion shakes Pennsylvania town


RT
Sun, 30 Sep 2018 13:36 UTC
Explosion
© Twitter / ThouzandFloyd
At least one person died after a car explosion struck a neighborhood in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Witnesses of the harrowing scene say the fire was "crazy" and that "streaks of blood" were seen around the explosion.

Debris from the car, which reportedly was split in half after the blast, was reportedly strewn around the whole block on Sunday. The explosion was felt far beyond the area and was heard throughout the town, local newspaper the Morning Call reported.

"The fire was crazy," resident Carlos Perodin, who lives not far from the scene, told local media. Others revealed that they "saw body parts, streaks of blood around the explosion."
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Hammer

Life in a gynocracy: Distorting language and statistics to advance an agenda

Clarice Feldman
American Thinker
Sun, 30 Sep 2018 14:36 UTC
metoo sign
The performance of women this week - from Senator Dianne Feinstein to Christine Blasey Ford to the howling mobs on Capitol Hill - made me seriously consider surgically altering my sex. They are demanding special treatment because of their sex and in the process placing all of us - male and female alike - at peril of witch hunts against men and then, in time, against all who will not bow to their rule.

My Facebook friend Alex Bensky reminded me of the advantage to me of transgendering:
Ah, then we'd be unable to criticize your politics, your social viewpoints, your choice of teams to root for, and anything else you say because we'd be transphobic.

‪As a footnote, I've seen an estimate that the transgender population is about 0.05% of the population. This is hardly a warrant for beating up people but it is not clear to me why unless we substantially alter social arrangements that have existed in almost every known human society and celebrate...not just accept but celebrate...transgenderism, we are mean, hateful people.
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Booth at a Brighton University event offered new students tips on how to be prostitutes

Andrew Gilligan
The Sunday Times
Sun, 30 Sep 2018 00:01 UTC
University students
© AlamyAn advice service with a stand at Brighton University fresher’s fair says that one in six students either does sex work or is thinking about doing so.
A university has been accused of encouraging its students into prostitution after hosting a stand at its freshers' fair advising new undergraduates how to be sex workers.

Alongside the hockey team and Amnesty International, the freshers' fair at Brighton University last week also included a stand run by the Sex Workers' Outreach Project (Swop) Sussex, which calls itself an "advocacy" and advice service "representing student sex workers".

Swop tweeted last week: "1 in 6 students does sex work or thinks about turning to sex work. We can help."

Comment: This is pretty gross. One has to wonder if the value of a University education is worth the price prostitution inevitably has on your soul.

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