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Bestselling author outed as a pathological liar after repeatedly claiming he had cancer

Sian Cain & Allison Flood
The Guardian
Tue, 05 Feb 2019 20:33 UTC

Dan Mallory, author of the bestselling thriller The Woman in the Window under the pseudonym AJ Finn, has admitted to lying about having brain cancer for years, after a lengthy New Yorker profile accused him of a long history of falsehoods around his professional history and health.

Mallory made headlines in 2016 when his identity as a book editor was revealed during a heated auction for his debut novel, The Woman in the Window. A film version of the thriller, about a woman with agoraphobia who begins spying on her new neighbours, is due out later this year, scripted by Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Tracy Letts and starring Amy Adams and Gary Oldman.

However, the New Yorker article by Ian Parker lays out a history of Mallory fabricating stories of illness and death, including that he had been diagnosed with brain cancer. The article claims Mallory had repeatedly said he had cancer, including in an Oxford University application, and to colleagues while working at publishing houses in both London and New York.

Comment: If he was lying about having brain cancer, he's more than likely lying about being bipolar. The only disorder he can truly claim is chronic fib-itis.

Police teargas protesters in Paris as unions rally over minimum wage

RT
Tue, 05 Feb 2019 19:38 UTC

As demonstrators marched in a union-organized rally over the minimum wage, French police again deployed tear gas on protesters in Paris as violent scuffles broke out.

The ugly scenes occurred as France's largest union, the Confédération générale du travail (CGT), held a rally in the capital.

Comment: See also:

Grave of Karl Marx smashed with hammer

RT
Tue, 05 Feb 2019 19:26 UTC

The tomb of iconic German philosopher Karl Marx, a grave visited by tens of thousands each year, will allegedly "never be the same again," after it was vandalized in a suspected hammer attack.

Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust have published an image on social media showing the damaged marble plaque which honors Marx and some of his family members, including his wife. Damage to the lettering of Marx's name can be clearly seen.

Hypothermia kills nearly 30 children, newborns at refugee camp in Syria

Press TV
Thu, 31 Jan 2019 16:51 UTC

The UN says nearly 30 internally displaced Syrian children have lost their lives because of freezing temperatures and lack of basic needs at a refugee camp in northeastern Syria over the past two months.

The World Health Organization (WHO) said in a statement on Thursday that children and newborns died in a teeming camp in Hasakeh, mainly due to hypothermia.

"At least 29 children and newborns are reported to have died over the past eight weeks, mainly from hypothermia, while travelling to the camp or shortly after arrival," the statement read.

The UN health agency also expressed extreme concern over the conditions of those who make it to al-Hol, where lies the main camp for people displaced by the fighting against the Daesh terrorist group and other foreign-sponsored outfits.

Comment: See also: The U.S. Role in the Destruction of Syria

Germany's power grid overhaul to cost billions more than expected - and consumers will be footing the bill

Brian Parkin
Bloomberg
Mon, 04 Feb 2019 16:16 UTC

Germany's plan for new power cable "autobahns" to take wind and solar energy from the north to the south of the country is set to cost billions more than envisaged.

The grid upgrade will cost as much as 52 billion euros ($59 billion), 53 percent more than was budgeted for in 2014, the companies building the north-south high-voltage links said in a joint statement. Two more of the super cables are needed on top of the three already planned in order to meet the government's new green power targets, the builders said.

The revised blueprint spells bigger electricity bills for a nation that already shares with Denmark the highest retail power costs in the European Union. Grid upgrade expenses are tacked on to consumers' bills.

Comment: With a rapidly changing climate this investment is likely to turn out out to be a seriously costly mistake:

Army vet live streams his suicide on Facebook after shooting his girlfriend and killing her son

RT
Tue, 05 Feb 2019 19:00 UTC

A US Army veteran said to be suffering from PTSD shot himself in the head on a Facebook live broadcast after shooting his girlfriend and killing her six-year-old son.

Jovonie McClendon Jr called the police and his mother after he had shot his partner and her son Carter, telling them he was sorry before he took his own life in an apartment in Miami Township, Ohio on Friday morning.

McClendon told those watching the live stream it had "been nice knowing you" before shooting himself in the head.

When police arrived at the scene, they found his girlfriend Di'eisha Patterson seriously wounded and the bodies of McClendon and the young boy.

Why aren't illiberal universities challenged?

Nigel Biggar
UnHerd
Fri, 01 Feb 2019 18:10 UTC

It's high time academics started standing up to the campus thought police

We need to talk about 'discrimination', 'homophobia', and 'identity'. In fact, we need to rethink them. Daily, these words are trotted out as if their sense were as good as it is common. But it really isn't.

At the beginning of the new year, the young Thought Police who guard our own egalitarian Cultural Revolution targeted their latest victim. John Finnis is an eminent legal philosopher, whose trademark is precise, relentlessly logical reasoning, and who is best known for pioneering a novel and sophisticated theory of natural law. He is also a conservative Roman Catholic, whose moral arguments tend to support the official teaching of his church. It should come as no surprise, therefore, that he holds unfashionably critical views about homosexual practice.

Nick Sandmann: The Truth in 15 Minutes

Linwood Pc
Youtube
Tue, 05 Feb 2019 18:30 UTC

2 weeks ago, the mainstream media, politicians, church officials, commentators, & celebrities rushed to judgment to wrongfully condemn, threaten, disparage & vilify Nick Sandmann based solely on a few seconds of an out-of-context video clip. It only takes 15 minutes to learn the truth. Here it is.

Prosecutors reveal serial killer Bruce McArthur staged photos of his victims after their deaths

Rob Gillies
ABC News
Tue, 05 Feb 2019 18:10 UTC

© Tijana Martin/The Canadian Press via AP, File
Members of the Toronto Police Service excavate the back of a property in Toronto during an investigation in relation to alleged serial killer Bruce McArthur

Serial killer Bruce McArthur staged photos of some of his victims after they died, posing corpses in fur coats and cigars in their mouths, a prosecutor said Monday as the sentencing hearing began for the former gardener who preyed on men from Toronto's Gay Village district.

Prosecutor Michael Cantlon said McArthur would later access some of the photos long after the killings. The prosecution didn't display the images found on McArthur's electronic devices during the session, but said they included after-death photos of six of the eight victims.

"Victims were posed naked, with cigars in their mouth, shaved, and/or made to wear a fur coat and hat," Cantlon said.

He also said police found a naked man handcuffed to the bed when they raided McArthur's home and arrested him Jan. 18, 2018. He said police moved in when they realized McArthur had someone over. The man, who survived, was identified only as Middle Eastern and named "John."

Leaked tape reveals French police discussion about shooting Yellow Vest protesters

RT
Tue, 05 Feb 2019 17:29 UTC

Police in the city of Toulouse came under fire after several officers were caught on tape discussing plans to "shoot" the protesters involved in clashes.

The comments were made in the police command room, as broadcaster France 3 reported, where the officers were watching an intense standoff between police and the demonstrators unfolding on the streets of Toulouse.

While the officers aren't seen in the video, the voices are heard saying "What a bunch of bastards!" and "The f***ers!", when the clashes turned violent.

Comment: The official count is likely very low compared with reality. Macron has caught the tail of a tiger two decades in the making. The people will not be backing down.

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Robotech

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Rowan Cocoan

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Winternights3

Someone deport this monstrous POS back to hell, or wherever. Anywhere with a good stockade 😤and his kids too

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Society's Child

Bestselling author outed as a pathological liar after repeatedly claiming he had cancer

Police teargas protesters in Paris as unions rally over minimum wage

Grave of Karl Marx smashed with hammer

Hypothermia kills nearly 30 children, newborns at refugee camp in Syria

Germany's power grid overhaul to cost billions more than expected - and consumers will be footing the bill

Army vet live streams his suicide on Facebook after shooting his girlfriend and killing her son

Why aren't illiberal universities challenged?

Nick Sandmann: The Truth in 15 Minutes

Prosecutors reveal serial killer Bruce McArthur staged photos of his victims after their deaths

Leaked tape reveals French police discussion about shooting Yellow Vest protesters

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