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Christian website "Biblical Gender Roles" supports marital rape in the name of God

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A website that gives sex advice to married Christians argues that women can never give their spouses "a flat no" when asked for sex because "her body does belong to her husband."

The anonymous founder of the Biblical Gender Roles website, who says he is a white male in his 40s, came under fire earlier this month after he wrote an article titled, "Is a husband selfish for having sex with his wife when she is not the mood?"

"Feminists and even some women who would not consider themselves feminists believe it is selfish for a man to have sex with his wife, knowing she is not in the mood," the writer explains. "In fact some claim if a man has sex with his wife when she is not the mood this is rape... Here we will try to answer this very important question, from a Biblical perspective."

Although the author insists that he would not advocate "for a husband to force himself physically upon his wife," he says that "a Christian wife should never give her husband a flat no, BUT she can humbly and gently ask for a delay."

And any request for a delay "must be done humbly and respectfully, and always with the attitude in mind that her body does belong to her husband."

A "wife does not have the right to stand and deny her husband access to her body," he writes, adding that she can ask for a delay with a "legitimate" reason, but "the judge of what is legitimate or not is her husband."

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San Andreas: A prepper's view of earthquake survival

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Nothing warms my prepper's heart more than a good disaster movie that supports my hypotheses about a specific event, and the recent movie San Andreas was no exception.

Okay, sure, there was some pretty unrealistic stuff like when The Rock was driving a boat through post-tsunami San Francisco and just happened to find his daughter that he was looking for. The last time I went to San Francisco, my daughter and I had trouble finding each other on the first floor of Forever 21, for crying out loud.

But, when you only have two hours for a movie, you have to be willing to suspend your disbelief somewhat and put that kind of stuff aside. So, putting that aside, I enthusiastically recommend the movie. We live about 4 hours from San Francisco and go there occasionally for educational outings to the excellent museums, so the setting was quite familiar to us, as was the premise of what would occur if an earthquake happened there. So familiar that my daughter was the frequent recipient of my elbow, as I whispered, "See!!!! I told you this was what would happen if the Big One hit that time we went to the Science Museum!" Trooper that she is, she said, "Yes, Mom, I know, you were right about that too." Since she's a teenager, she probably also rolled her eyes each time, but it was dark and I can't be absolutely certain of that.

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French romanticism disappearing: Paris authorities remove up to 1 million "love locks" from famous Paris bridge

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© Reuters / John SchultsA recently-married couple from Poland, Dominika and Bartek Mieczkowski, embrace near grills covered with "love locks" on a walkway which leads to the Pont de Arts over the River Seine in Paris, France
Paris authorities removed hundreds of thousands of metal padlocks from iconic Pont des Arts bridge in front of the Louvre on Monday, with the new anti-romantic token ban possibly breaking millions of hearts around the world - for security reasons.

Both Parisians and tourists had been attaching their tokens to the famous 19th century bridge for years. The padlocks symbolically immortalize their love.


Both Parisians and tourists had been attaching their tokens to the famous 19th century bridge for years. The padlocks symbolically immortalize their love.

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Best of the Web: Everything Americans think they know about Russia is wrong

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© Russia InsiderOne day she'll get paid maternity leave. The horror!
Russia is actually ahead of the United States on many issues championed by the American Left

We all know what it feels like to log onto the Newsweek-owned Daily Beast, or the puerile random listicle generator known as Buzzfeed, and peruse the invective-laden anti-Russian, anti-Putin screeds contained therein. These hysterical publications serve a function; that function is to convince members of the American public who might balk at militarism that today's Russia is a dangerous, dirty, backward, evil place, and its leader is some amalgamation of Dr. Evil and Emperor Palpatine.

Unlike during the lead-up to the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, where the left took the lead in opposing the Bush administration's reckless Middle East policy, American liberals have more or less given Obama a free hand in his dealings with Russia and the Evil Putin. Liberals opposed the Iraq War, and spent many an hour arguing with Bushies about the errors of his foreign policy. It just so happens that these individuals turned out to be right, but their insistence on facts, logic, and commitment to the truth have gone out the proverbial window when it comes to Russia and Ukraine. "Putin is just like Stalin," my earnest, well-educated, liberal friends tell me. "His next target is Moldova and he hates gay people and Pussy Riot and now he wants to use prison labor to build the World Cup venues and he hates all women and doesn't support women's rights. I don't understand why you are so pro-Russian." I am pro-Russian because I can tell the difference between right and wrong. I can also realize when a country and a leader are being demonized to further an American geopolitical agenda. Furthermore, I can see that the more the United States tries to create some philosophical difference between the U.S. and Russia as existed during the Cold War, the more the former opens itself up to critique.

Comment: See also: 'Pussy Riot', the U.S. State Department and Economic Shock Therapy


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Sepp Blatter to resign as FIFA president

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© Reuters/Ruben SprichFIFA President Sepp Blatter arrives for a news conference at the FIFA headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland, June 2, 2015.

Comment: One can't help but wonder if Blatter's resignation is a result of pressure from the U.S. over his insistence that Russia will host the 2018 World Cup. It certainly appears as though Russia hosting the World Cup in 2018 is now decidedly up in the air.


Sepp Blatter has said he will resign as president of football's governing body, FIFA, at an extraordinary congress of the organization. The sensational announcement comes just four days after Blatter was reelected as FIFA boss for a fifth term.

"I cherish FIFA most of all and always try to do the best for football and the organization," Blatter said at a press conference in Switzerland. "I decided that I should keep running in elections. The election now is over, but the challenges remain. FIFA needs restructuring, the FIFA delegates have given me the mandate. But it is not supported by other members of FIFA, fans, clubs. Those who inspire FIFA like we do.Therefore, I ask to convene an extraordinary congress as soon as possible to elect my successor."

Blatter, who took charge of world football in 1998, said he would be carrying out the duties of FIFA president until the extraordinary congress.

The new congress will take place between December 2015 and March 2016, the chairman of FIFA's audit and compliance committee, Domenico Scala, has said. He has taken the floor after Blatter.


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Reports of food poisoning at homeless shelter in Salt Lake City, Utah; 50 people taken to hospital

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About 50 people were taken to Salt Lake City hospitals Sunday night after reports of food poisoning at a homeless shelter, and some individuals were transported by bus due to the high volume of patients; firefighters said there don't appear to be any serious illnesses as a result of the incident.

Jasen Asay, Salt Lake City Fire Department Spokesman, said about 50 individuals from the Road Home Shelter, located at 210 South Rio Grande, were taken to nearby hospitals. He said they evaluated the patients and transported some by ambulance and others who were less ill by bus.

"This evening around 9:30, the Salt Lake City Fire Department responded to several reports of food poisoning here at the shelter at 210 South Rio Grande," he said. "When our crews arrived, they started evaluating some people down here at the shelter, started noticing that a lot of them were suffering from symptoms similar to food poisoning."

The patients were taken to hospitals for treatment of symptoms that included vomiting and nausea.

"We've transported approximately 50 patients from both the men's shelter and the women and family shelter to the hospital in minor condition, no real serious injuries, but a lot of discomfort," Asay said.

Asay said they evaluated numerous patients and transported about 50 of them, and he added that more patients may have sought treatment at hospitals prior to when first responders were dispatched.

The exact cause of the illnesses remains unknown.

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United Airlines forced to ground all domestic flights due to computer automation issues

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A computer glitch forced United Airlines, the world's second-largest commercial air provider, to momentarily halt all scheduled domestic take-offs.

For 39 minutes on Tuesday morning, all UA flights expected to depart within the United States were grounded while the airline addressed "automation issues."

An advisory from the Federal Aviation Administration's air traffic control system command center said unspecified automation issues had prompted the FAA to announce a ground stop for all UA flights inside the US.

Comment: There have been a rather large number of worrisome airline glitches recently:

Sott Exclusive: Mayhem and Maydays in May skies: Aircraft crashes, accidents, glitches, mishaps and near misses


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Down with Monsanto: Increasing number of countries banning cancer causing glyphosate and GMO's

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An increasing number of countries are banning Monsanto's cancer-linked Roundup herbicide, a.k.a. glyphosate. Others are banning Monsanto's GMOs. Meanwhile, Monsanto-funded U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton thinks "(t)here is a big gap between what the facts are, and what the perceptions are." Actually the facts are established: Monsanto's herbicides and GMOs are harmful to humans and animals. Several studies have demonstrated it and even led the World Health Organization to issue a warning against glyphosate's links to cancer.

In fact, Monsanto knew 35 years ago that its glyphosate was linked to cancer and other health issues. GM-Free Cymru discovered this while looking into the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) archives from the early 80′s:
There were many animal experiments (using rats, mice and dogs) designed to test the acute and chronic toxicity of glyphosate in the period 1978-1986, conducted by laboratories such as Bio/dynamics Inc for Monsanto and submitted for EPA consideration... but like all the other older studies they were and still are treated as Trade Secrets and cannot be freely accessed for independent scrutiny. That in itself is suggestive that the studies contain data which Monsanto still does not wish to be examined by experts in the toxicology field. It is also deeply worrying that EPA acceded to the routine Monsanto requests for secrecy on the flimsiest of pretexts.

However, archived and accessible EPA Memos from the early 1980′s do give some indications as to what the rat studies contain (9). Although the studies predate the adoption of international test guidelines and GLP standards they suggest that there was significant damage to the kidneys of the rats in the 3-generational study... In the rat study results, the changes in the bladder mucosa are significant because metabolites, concentrated by the kidneys, have led to hyperplasia that could be considered as a very early and necessary step in tumour initiation. (GM-Free Cymru, Monsanto Knew of Glyphosate / Cancer Link 35 Years Ago, April 19, 2015)

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Who's murdering thousands of chickens in South Carolina?

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Somebody turned the fans off on 300,000 chickens to suffocate them—somebody who knows exactly how the industry works.

The chicken farm on Brewer Road, just south of the small town of Manning in South Carolina, is hidden away down a series of winding country highways, between a patch of forest and an empty farm field. On the morning of Feb. 17 the farm's owner, a Vietnamese immigrant named Hoangson Nguyen, was awakened by a frantic phone call. Nguyen, who goes by "Sonny," raises birds under contract for Pilgrim's Pride, the nation's second-largest poultry company. An employee who checks the chicken houses each morning was shouting over the phone. Something was terribly wrong.

Nguyen sped to the farm. That morning, when the farmhand opened the door to the first building, a sophisticated warehouse designed to hold about 20,000 birds, a column of steam had billowed out. Nguyen went into the control room and saw that the temperature inside was 122F. He entered the cavernous building. It was like a sauna: The giant circular fans used to cool the chicken house had been switched off. A set of electronic alarms had also been disabled. There were thousands of dead chickens on the ground, pressed up against the walls as if they'd tried to escape. They'd been smothered to death overnight in the intense heat. Nguyen knew immediately that this wasn't an accident. Someone had killed his flock.

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African elephant populations facing extinction due to hunting and poaching for ivory

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© Reuters/Philimon BulawayoElephants walk inside Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park
Seventy years ago, there were between 3 million and 5 million elephants in Africa. Today, as the number of African bush elephants has dropped to nearly half a million, this magnificent animal faces extinction in some parts of the continent.

"If conservation action is not forthcoming, elephants may become locally extinct in some parts of Africa within 50 years," warns the World Wildlife Fund.

Others have said that elephants could be extinct in Africa within our lifetime.

Recent news about elephant populations has been heartbreaking. These wonderful animals are being slaughtered on a truly horrific scale.

Last week, it was reported that the elephant population of Mozambique has almost halved since 2009, due to poaching. There were over 20,000 elephants in the southeast African state in 2009, but last year the total was down to 10,300.

This comes on the back of news that half of the elephants in Tanzania's Ruaha National Park - one of the largest national parks in the whole of Africa - have been lost to poachers in just one year.