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Long-lost $6.5M Renaissance masterpiece called "Christ Mocked" found in kitchen of elderly French woman

Tyler Durden
Zerohedge
Wed, 25 Sep 2019 04:15 UTC

An elderly French woman in the northern town of Compiegne didn't realize she had long had a Renaissance masterpiece hanging on her kitchen wall, but just thought it was a random religious icon.

After an expert came to the home to take a look at it, it was discovered to be by the hand of a 13th-century Florentine artist widely recognized as the father of Western painting, and is expected to sell at auction for between €4m and €6m⁠, or 6.5 million dollars.

The painting is said to be by Florentine artist Cenni di Pepo, known as Cimabue, who was so famous even in his own day as to get a mention in Dante's Divine Comedy: "Cimabue thought to lord it over painting's field; and now the cry is Giotto's and his name eclips'd."

Experts have claimed of the piece, known as "Christ Mocked," that there's "no disputing" its origins, after infrared light tests as well as an examination of damage to the wood panel. Analysis of the wood revealed it to be the same as two other panels confirmed to be by Cimabue's hand.

A line-by-line response to Greta Thunberg's UN speech

Jacques Voorhees
Watts Up With That
Tue, 24 Sep 2019 22:32 UTC

Greta Thunberg speaking at the UN

Note: Greta's speech is reprinted below. Her quotes are in italics, mine follow each quote. If it turns out there were errors in transcription — as seems likely — I'll try to update with corrections. I apologize for the snarky tone, but if a 17-year-old can dish it out, I think she can take it.

"My message is that we'll be watching you. This is all wrong, I shouldn't be up here, I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean."

So in your first paragraph you confess that what you're doing is wrong, and you shouldn't be doing it. You note you should be back home and in school. OK, so far we're 100% in agreement. Next?

"Yet, you all come to us young people for hope, how dare you?"

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Think twice before calling the cops to do welfare checks on the disabled

John W. Whitehead
The Rutherford Institute
Wed, 25 Sep 2019 02:03 UTC

"Anyone who cares for someone with a developmental disability, as well as for disabled people themselves [lives] every day in fear that their behavior will be misconstrued as suspicious, intoxicated or hostile by law enforcement."

Steve Silberman, The New York Times

Think twice before you call the cops to carry out a welfare check on a loved one.

Especially if that person is autistic, hearing impaired, mentally ill, elderly, suffering from dementia, disabled or might have a condition that hinders their ability to understand, communicate or immediately comply with an order.

Particularly if you value that person's life.

At a time when growing numbers of unarmed people are being shot and killed for just standing a certain way, or moving a certain way, or holding something — anything — that police could misinterpret to be a gun, or igniting some trigger-centric fear in a police officer's mind that has nothing to do with an actual threat to their safety, even the most benign encounters with police can have fatal consequences.

Unfortunately, police — trained in the worst case scenario and thus ready to shoot first and ask questions later — increasingly pose a risk to anyone undergoing a mental health crisis or with special needs whose disabilities may not be immediately apparent or require more finesse than the typical freeze-or-I'll-shoot tactics employed by America's police forces.

Just recently, in fact, Gay Plack, a 57-year-old Virginia woman with bipolar disorder, was killed after two police officers — sent to do a welfare check on her — entered her home uninvited, wandered through the house shouting her name, kicked open her locked bedroom door, discovered the terrified woman hiding in a dark bathroom and wielding a small axe, and four seconds later, shot her in the stomach.

Four seconds.

That's all the time it took for the two police officers assigned to check on Plack to decide to use lethal force against her (both cops opened fire on the woman), rather than using non-lethal options (one cop had a Taser, which he made no attempt to use) or attempting to de-escalate the situation.

Kabbalist mystic Rabbi predicted Bibi-Gantz showdown would end in politicians 'fighting in heaven'

Sputnik
Tue, 24 Sep 2019 13:36 UTC

Negotiators from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party are set to meet with their Blue and White Party counterparts Tuesday, with Netanyahu and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz set to meet President Reuven Rivlin later this week to try to hammer out a unity government, including the possible rotation of the prime minister's post.

The late renowned kabbalist rabbi and mystic Yitzhak Kaduri may have predicted the current political impasse between Prime Minister Netanyahu and his Blue and White opponents, Israeli media have reported, citing a growing wave of messages on the subject being spread on social media.

According to the reports, Kaduri, whose advice, blessings and amulets were widely sought after during his lifetime, wrote a "hidden book" of prophesies in his youth.

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Daesh terrorist brags about receiving medical treatment in Sweden before returning to Syria

Sputnik
Tue, 24 Sep 2019 10:40 UTC

By the terrorist's own admission, upon his temporary return "home", he was greeted and given a lift by none other than the Swedish Security Police: SÄPO. Still, this didn't save him from Kurdish prison in Syria.

Swedish Daesh* terrorist and former resident of Gothenburg Khaled Shahadeh has claimed he received medical treatment from the Swedish state after being wounded in a clash with the Syrian army in 2014.

By his own admission, he was badly wounded and could hardly move his arm. As Daesh's own healthcare was lacking and the option of buying private healthcare in Turkey also a dubious prospect, he returned "home" for treatment.

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Greta Thunberg: False Prophet of the Children's Crusade

Laura Knight-Jadczyk
Sott.net
Tue, 24 Sep 2019 11:39 UTC

A Greta Thunberg mural in Bristol, UK

As SOTT readers may know, I've been in the "prophet business" for over 25 years now. It hasn't been easy, either. Despite a "Hit List" longer than both my arms, I still feel like Cassandra most days.

I haven't written anything for public consumption for quite a few years now, other than posting on our forum, and the reason is mainly the "Cassandra Complex" just mentioned. I came to realize fully that there just isn't anything that can be done to change the mad descent of humanity into near extinction. In addition to that, beginning back in the early days, vigorous efforts were made to suppress my warnings by taking me off the stage, so to say.

Failing that, the global censorship imposed by Google, Facebook, Twitter and the mainstream media has taken its toll. SOTT.net used to have 6 million readers a month - now we are lucky if we get 2 million. Referrals from FB and Twitter used to be our main mode of connection; now they have faded to oblivion.

Anyway, I'm not dead yet and everything is pretty much proceeding as predicted by our prophecy project - The Cassiopaean Experiment - and we have a good idea of where it will end.

But Greta Thunberg has no idea. And the propagation of her ignorance is literally criminal which, since she is a willing participant, though little more than a child, makes her a criminal too. She doesn't realize that, of course, because she has been thoroughly brainwashed - as has a whole generation of children on this planet; but when was that ever not the case? The words change, but the tune is the same: manipulation and control of humanity is the game.

Haiti: Senator opens fire, shoots a photojournalist in the face, security guard injured

Ruaridh Nicoll
The Guardian
Mon, 23 Sep 2019 14:30 UTC

Two men including a photojournalist have been shot and injured by a Haitian senator who opened fire outside the country's parliament, amid chaotic scenes as the government attempted to confirm the appointment of a new prime minister.

Chery Dieu-Nalio, an Associated Press photographer, was wounded in the face and a second man, Leon Leblanc, a security guard and driver, was also injured in the incident in the country's capital, Port-au-Prince, on Monday.

Although doctors were reported to be removing bullet fragments from Dieu-Nalio's face, the injuries are said not to be life-threatening.

Before leaving the scene, Leblanc told reporters he had seen Jean Marie Ralph Féthière, a senator from the north of the country, draw a handgun as he tried to leave the parliamentary precincts through a crowd of protesters.

Search launched for missing CIA mole Oleg Smolenkov

RFE/RL
Mon, 23 Sep 2019 12:25 UTC

Russia's Interior Ministry says a former Kremlin official, whom media reports have called a CIA informant, has been officially declared missing. The ministry said on September 23 that it had added Oleg Smolenkov, born in 1969, to its list of missing people and that it has launched a search to locate him.

Earlier this month, U.S. media reports from Reuters, CNN, The New York Times, and The Washington Post said a CIA informant in the Russian government had been extracted and brought to the United States in 2017.

Some of the reports said the unidentified Russian had provided intelligence from inside President Vladimir Putin's Kremlin about alleged Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The CIA, the State Department, and the White House have said the reports were inaccurate.

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Laura Ingalls Wilder removed from ALSC award over racist language

BBC
Mon, 25 Jun 2018 00:00 UTC

The US Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) has removed Laura Ingalls Wilder's name from one of its awards over racist views and language.

The association had received complaints for years over the Little House on the Prairie author's "anti-Native and anti-Black sentiments in her work". The ALSC board voted unanimously on Saturday to remove Wilder's name from the children's literature award.

The medal will be renamed as the "Children's Literature Legacy" award.

The ALSC, a division of the American Library Association, said Wilder's novels and "expressions of stereotypical attitudes" were "inconsistent with ALSC's core values". Wilder's children's novels about pioneer life in the American West have been criticised for language that dehumanises indigenous peoples and people of colour.

Notably, one of the opening chapters of the Little House books described a land with "no people. Only Indians lived there".

In 1953, the Harper's publishing company decided to change "people" to "settlers", according to the Washington Post.

But the novels continues to raise concerns due to storylines featuring racist stereotypes and attitudes typical of white Americans of Wilder's era.

500 Scientists Write U.N.: 'There Is No Climate Emergency'

Thomas Williams
Breitbart
Tue, 24 Sep 2019 15:03 UTC

More than 500 scientists and professionals in climate and related fields have sent a "European Climate Declaration" to the Secretary-General of the United Nations asking for a long-overdue, high-level, open debate on climate change.

Just as 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg addressed the U.N. Climate Action Summit in New York accusing world leaders of robbing her of her future, scientists were begging the United Nations to keep hysteria from obscuring facts.

Comment: And we, the Climate Justice Warriors, urge...no DEMAND that you shut the hell up and get on board our hysteria train. NOW!

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Society's Child

Long-lost $6.5M Renaissance masterpiece called "Christ Mocked" found in kitchen of elderly French woman

A line-by-line response to Greta Thunberg's UN speech

Think twice before calling the cops to do welfare checks on the disabled

Kabbalist mystic Rabbi predicted Bibi-Gantz showdown would end in politicians 'fighting in heaven'

Daesh terrorist brags about receiving medical treatment in Sweden before returning to Syria

Greta Thunberg: False Prophet of the Children's Crusade

Haiti: Senator opens fire, shoots a photojournalist in the face, security guard injured

Search launched for missing CIA mole Oleg Smolenkov

Laura Ingalls Wilder removed from ALSC award over racist language

500 Scientists Write U.N.: 'There Is No Climate Emergency'

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