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Sick joke? Front page of Polish newspaper runs piece on "how to recognise a Jew"


Haaretz
Thu, 14 Mar 2019 09:49 UTC
tylko Polska
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The front page of Polish-language weekly Tylko Polska, or 'Only Poland.'
A right-wing newspaper with national distribution in Poland ran on its front page an article that instructs readers on "how to recognize a Jew."

The Polish-language weekly, Tylko Polska, or "Only Poland," lists on its front page "Names, anthropological features, expressions, appearances, character traits, methods of operation" and "disinformation activities."

The text also reads: "How to defeat them? This cannot go on!"

The page also features a headline reading, "Attack on Poland at a conference in Paris." The reference is to a Holocaust studies conference last month during which Polish nationalists complained that speakers were anti-Polish. That article features a picture of Jan Gross, a Polish-Jewish Princeton University scholar of Polish complicity in the Holocaust and a frequent target of nationalist attacks.

Comment: See also:

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Leftist exec confronts YouTube CEO about her son watching Ben Shapiro videos; 'gateway drug' to Neo-Nazism


The Daily Wire
Wed, 13 Mar 2019 00:01 UTC
Kara Swisher
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Kara Swisher, co-founder of Recode
On Monday, tech website Recode published an interview conducted by YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki with Recode's co-founder Kara Swisher, who bemoaned that her 13-year-old son had started watching Ben Shapiro videos, claimed watching the videos was a "gateway drug" to eventually watching Neo-Nazi videos, and said she would remove Shapiro's video's from YouTube if she could. That prompted Shapiro to fire back on Twitter, "It seems rather illiberal of you to ask YouTube to ban my videos."

The two women were discussing how to keep youngsters safe from problematic material on YouTube when Wojcicki stated:
But recommendations, for example, we just made a change to how we handle recommendations, where we have readers, the readers go through - we make sure they're representative from all parts of the US, we publish the guidelines - those readers then identify a set of videos that they think are, could be, they might technically meet the requirements of following our community guidelines, but they're close. And there's a lot of content that, there's 1 percent that brushes up against the community guidelines. So what we do is we identify this with, a set of them, with humans, and then we use machines and machine learning to expand, and based on that then we are basically very unlikely to recommend that.

Comment: In generations gone by, parents would be upset that their kids were listening to heavy metal or rap music that espoused values they found problematic. Today they're upset the kids are learning to think by watching intellectuals like Ben Shapiro or Jordan Peterson. Sounds like the kids today have their heads much more firmly on their shoulders than their parent's generation did. It also seems like there are much worse things kids could be watching on YouTube.

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Attraction inequality and the dating economy

Bradford Tuckfield
Quillette
Tue, 12 Mar 2019 00:01 UTC
sexy couple b&w
Jesus said that the poor would always be with us. Despite the best efforts of philanthropists and redistributionists over the last two millennia, he has been right so far. Every nation in the world has poor and rich, separated by birth and luck and choice. The inequality between rich and poor, and its causes and remedies, are discussed ad nauseam in public policy debates, campaign platforms, and social media screeds.

However, the relentless focus on inequality among politicians is usually quite narrow: they tend to consider inequality only in monetary terms, and to treat "inequality" as basically synonymous with "income inequality." There are so many other types of inequality that get air time less often or not at all: inequality of talent, height, number of friends, longevity, inner peace, health, charm, gumption, intelligence, and fortitude. And finally, there is a type of inequality that everyone thinks about occasionally and that young single people obsess over almost constantly: inequality of sexual attractiveness.
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New indictment reveals NXIVM leader Keith Raniere had sex with children and produced child porn

Emily Saul
NY Post
Wed, 13 Mar 2019 14:56 UTC
Keith Raniere
Nxivm leader Keith Raniere had sexual relationships with children and produced kiddie porn of it, according to newly unsealed court papers.

Raniere, 58, is accused of having a child "engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing one or more visual depictions of such conduct, which visual depictions were produced and transmitted," reads a new indictment released Wednesday.

Raniere's co-defendants, "Smallville" actress Allison Mack, Seagram heiress Clare Bronfman, Lauren Salzman and Kathy Russell were allegedly aware of his predilection for predation, and even facilitated it, according to prosecutors, who have now charged them for that conduct under a racketeering count.

His co-defendants "were aware of and facilitated Raniere's sexual relationships with two underage victims: (1) a fifteen-year-old girl who was employed by Nancy Salzman and who - ten years later - became Raniere's first-line 'slave' in DOS," the filing reads.

Comment: Previously:

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People

Rights official suggests foster care for homeless people unable to care for themselves


RT
Thu, 14 Mar 2019 15:17 UTC
Homeless
© Sputnik / Pavel Lisitsin
Homeless people in a shelter in Yekaterinburg
Russia may benefit from using the foster family care system to help vulnerable adult people in the same way children with no family to care for them avail of it, the head of the presidential human rights council suggested.

The idea was floated by Mikhail Fedotov during a council session dedicated to homelessness and how the government can work with civil society in tackling the problem.

"A foster child lives in a family while the people, who take care of him or her, get compensation for it. We may use the same mechanism for the elderly homeless people or homeless people with disabilities," the official said.

He added that social workers would then be able to check on people in such situations to ensure they are not abused.
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Woman with cancer who used J&J talc awarded $29 million by California jury

Tina Bellon
Yahoo News
Thu, 14 Mar 2019 15:47 UTC
Johnson's baby powder
© Agence France-Presse / Justin Sullivan
A California jury on Wednesday awarded $29 million to a woman who said that asbestos in Johnson & Johnson's talcum-powder-based products caused her cancer.

The verdict, in California Superior Court in Oakland, marks the latest defeat for the healthcare conglomerate facing more than 13,000 talc-related lawsuits nationwide.

J&J said it would appeal, citing "serious procedural and evidentiary errors" in the course of the trial, saying lawyers for the woman had fundamentally failed to show its baby powder contains asbestos. The company did not provide further details of the alleged errors during the trial.

Comment: It's clear that J&J values its bottom line more than it does the health of its customers.

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Telegram gains 3 million new users in 24 hours during Facebook outage


RT
Thu, 14 Mar 2019 14:42 UTC
Telegram
© Reuters/Dado Ruvic
Cloud-based, privacy-focused messenger system Telegram added a whopping 3 million new users to its estimated 200 million user base in a single day after Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp all went down.

Telegram's founder and CEO Pavel Durov announced the massive uptick in registered users on his personal channel on Thursday, boasting about the merits of his popular alternative messenger app.
I see 3 million new users signed up for Telegram within the last 24 hours. Good. We have true privacy and unlimited space for everyone.

Comment: See also: Censorship hitting Left, Right, and Non-Aligned media: Now Zero Hedge gets the ban-hammer from Facebook - UPDATES: Facebook backs off, 'it was a mistake'

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Opium poppy growth to become legal in Russia to counter possible Western sanctions


RT
Thu, 14 Mar 2019 11:41 UTC
Opium poppy
© Sputnik
An opium poppy flower.
The Russian parliament has furthered a bill, which seeks to legalize growth of plants that can be used to produce opioids. The measure is meant to ensure that Russia has a steady supply of raw materials for producing painkillers.

At the moment growth of opium poppies is completely illegal in Russia, which means that Russian medicine producers have to import materials to produce opioid painkillers. The bill, which passed its first reading in the Russian parliament on Thursday, wants to cover this potential vulnerability by making poppy growth a state monopoly.
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'Killer inflation' & the soaring cost of services

Charles Hugh Smith
Of Two Minds
Thu, 14 Mar 2019 09:47 UTC
economics
The soaring cost of services is driven by a number of factors.

What will the future bring: fire (inflation) or ice (deflation)? The short answer: both, but in very different doses. Goods that are tradeable and exposed to technologically driven commodification will decline in price (deflation) while untradeable services that are difficult to commoditize will increase in price (inflation), generating a self-reinforcing feedback loop of wage-price inflation.

Gordon Long and I discuss these trends in our latest program The Supply-Demand Services Problem (YouTube).
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Activists occupy Sarah Lawrence College, demand it punish conservative professor for expressing his views

Robby Soave
Reason
Thu, 14 Mar 2019 09:47 UTC
Sarah Lawrence College

Sarah Lawrence College
A group of activist students at Sarah Lawrence College calling themselves the Diaspora Coalition have released a long list of demands after occupying the campus's main administrative building for 24 hours.

One of these demands concerns Samuel Abrams, a tenured professor of politics. Abrams is conservative-leaning, and has complained about the ideological bias of leftist administrators in a New York Times op-ed. Last November, his office door was vandalized by unknown persons who wanted him to apologize to marginalized students and quit the college.

Now the Diaspora Coalition is demanding that Sarah Lawrence review Abrams' tenure. The review should be conducted by a panel consisting of members of-you guessed it-the Diaspora Coalition, as well as faculty members of color.
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