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Bizarro Earth

French identitarians to be fined and jailed for opposing illegal immigration

Guillaume Durocher
Unz review
Tue, 03 Sep 2019 12:00 UTC
Illegal Immigration
Prison for Non-Violent Opposition to Illegal Immigration: GI activists Clément Galant, Romain Espino, and Damien Lefèvre.
The pro-European and anti-immigration movement Generation Identity (GI) has achieved a worldwide notoriety through its often spectacular actions, whether by occupying EU and government buildings or manning their own ship to halt migrant smugglers in the Mediterranean. Such actions are not without risk however.

In spring 2018, French GI activists - frustrated by the French government's inability or unwillingness to get the migrant crisis under control and prevent illegal immigration into their country - decided to take matters into their own hands with symbolic but effective nonviolent action.

GI blocked the Col de l'Échelle, an Alpine mountain pass near the border with Italy, through which migrant crossings were known to occur. The activists deployed banners, fences, and even helicopters to prevent the migrants from entering France.

Comment: See also: Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal #26: Globalization vs Nationalism - The Hidden Causes of The Yellow Vest Protests in France

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Oscar

Felicity Huffman's 14-DAY sentence shows you can get away with ANYTHING if you're rich & famous


RT
Fri, 13 Sep 2019 22:17 UTC
Felicity Huffman
© Reuters / Robert Galbraith GMH / PNFelicity Huffman accepts her Emmy award.
That actress Felicity Huffman will go to jail for only 14 days over college entrance fraud shows there are really two justice systems in the US: one for the rich, famous and politically correct - and another for everyone else.

The 'Desperate Housewives' star pleaded guilty to paying $15,000 to falsify her daughter Sophia's SAT - a college admissions test - and was sentenced to two weeks in jail, 250 hours of community service, a $30,000 fine and a year of supervised release. Altogether, a slap on the wrist to a Hollywood celebrity.

It did not take long for her case to be contrasted with the fate of Tanya McDowell, a Connecticut woman who falsified a residency document in 2011 to enroll her son in a better school. McDowell ended up getting jailed for five years for first-degree larceny, and would have faced an even longer sentence had she not made a deal with prosecutors.

Comparing the two cases is absolutely apples to apples. That McDowell was later charged with selling drugs to undercover police officers and given a concurrent sentence does not change the severity of her initial punishment - 130 times longer than was meted out to Huffman.
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Family

SOTT Focus: 'The Great Scattering': How Identity Panic Took Root in the Void Once Occupied by Family Life in the West

Mary Eberstadt
Quillette
Tue, 27 Aug 2019 21:00 UTC
family photo
Of all the issues that divide us, none seems as inimical to reasoned discussion as identity politics. Conservatives excoriate such politics as politically opportunistic theater, the acting out of coddled "snowflake" students. Liberals and progressives put forth an opposing grievance-first narrative, arguing that identity politics emanates from authentic wounds.

But what if both contenders have a piece of the truth? What if many identity-firsters today are claiming to be victims because they and their societies are victims — only not so much of the abstract "isms" they denounce, but of something else that till now has eluded description?

Let's try a new theory: Our macro-politics have become a mania about identity because our micropolitics are no longer familial. This, above all, is what happened during the decades in which identity politics went from being a phrase in an obscure quasi-radical document to a way of being that has gone on to transform academia, law, media, culture and government.
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Bizarro Earth

Florida teen tries to use parents' money to kill them

Sarah Wilson , Myrt Price , Samantha Manning
WFTV
Wed, 11 Sep 2019 20:47 UTC
Alyssa Hatcher
A 17-year-old Lake County girl is behind bars after investigators said she tried to hire people to kill her own parents.

Deputies said she stole their debit card and took out more than $1,400 to try and pay two different people to kill them.

Alyssa Hatcher is a student at Umatilla High School. Deputies said a tip by another teenager led them to discover her plan to have her parents killed.

"Her of all people, that was very shocking to me," a student said. "She's such a sweet girl. She's very caring."
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Footprints

Is the US playing a 'double game'? Some border residents upset with US safe-zone patrols, YPG


Sputnik
Fri, 13 Sep 2019 10:26 UTC
US/Turk patrols
© AP/Turkish Defence MinistryUS and Turkish patrols around Syrian town Manbij in November, 2018.
Over the weekend the United States and Turkey began their first joint patrols in the northern part of Syria along the border with Turkey. This comes after Ankara and Washington agreed last month to set up a "safe zone" along the Syrian-Turkish border that would serve as a buffer between the US-backed Kurdish People's Protection Units, or YPG.

The American-backed YPG militias have led the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the fight against Daesh, but many residents of border towns and villages are suspicious of Turkey's cooperation with the United States because they do not regard the US as a real ally of Turkey due to American support for the Kurdish forces.

Ankara considers the YPG a terrorist group and an offshoot of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which has been fighting to establish a Kurdish autonomous region in southeast Turkey since the early 1980s.

Locals in the Turkish border towns of Akçaoba, Akçakale, and Ziyaret are in favour of creating a buffer zone but under the control of Turkey without US involvement. They believe that America is playing a double game and is in the region to further its own goals. That's the view of local resident Mahmut Sönmez:
"We want Turkey to control the 'safe zone' because this issue is directly related to our security and the security of our country. We live right on the border, and the presence of YPG here worries us all very much. Our security will be ensured when the YPG units are withdrawn from the border and the Turkish military takes their place. Turkey should create a 'safe zone' as soon as possible, and not follow the United States lead, which deliberately drags out time."
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Take 2

Best of the Web: William Peter Blatty's counter-countercultural parable in The Exorcist

Kevin Mims
Quillette
Fri, 13 Sep 2019 17:47 UTC
exorcist child
In her new book Primal Screams: How the Sexual Revolution Created Identity Politics (excerpted in Quillette on August 27), essayist and cultural critic Mary Eberstadt documents just how damaging the sexual revolution of the 1960s, and its normalization of divorce in particular, has been to America's children. She mentions many publications that comment on "the correlations between crumbling family structure and various adverse results," particularly for the children of divorce. The authors she cites include former U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, social scientist James Q. Wilson, and Elizabeth Marquardt, author of Between Two Worlds: The Inner Lives of Children of Divorce.

A writer she doesn't mention, however, is William Peter Blatty, author of the blockbuster 1971 horror novel The Exorcist. Those who have never read the novel, or are familiar only with its 1973 cinematic incarnation, probably believe the book to be a potboiler about demonic possession. But it is also an allegorical warning about the importance of the traditional family unit and the devastation wrought when it breaks down. Curiously, this aspect of the novel went largely unnoticed by the book's earliest reviewers.

Back in 1971, the advent of no-fault divorce laws in the United States was seen in liberal circles as an unalloyed benefit for society. Thus, the book critics for most of the mainstream publications that bothered to review The Exorcist — Time, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, etc. — treated the book as either a modern day pastiche of Poe and Mary Shelley, or else as a traditional story of the battle between Good and Evil. What's odd about this is that Blatty made no effort to hide his social conservatism. You don't have to be a postmodern literary detective to find it in the subtext. Blatty was not a subtle writer, and he set his message out on the page for all to see, although very few have ever remarked upon it.
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Attention

Militants open fire in US-held Rukban 'refugee camp' after civilians demand seized UN food


Sputnik
Thu, 12 Sep 2019 17:32 UTC
rukban
© AP Photo / Raad Adayleh
Militants have opened fire at a market in Syria's Rukban refugee camp to disperse civilians demanding that delivered humanitarian food be distributed among them, the head of the Russian centre for Syrian reconciliation said on Thursday.


Comment: In other words, the camp is controlled by thieves and knaves. Good job, USA.


According to Maj. Gen. Alexey Bakin, citing the refugees, a significant amount of cargo earlier delivered by the United Nations and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent to Rukban has been seized by militants and moved to a base of the Kuwat Shahid Ahmad al-Abdo militant group, located to the north of the camp.

"On 11 September, militants opened fire with small arms at a market in Rukban to disperse civilians demanding food," Bakin said at a briefing.

The Rukban camp houses some 25,000 people in conditions described by the World Health Organization as "deplorable" - lacking food, access to medical care and basic amenities.

The camp is located in the US-controlled zone around its unauthorized military base at At-Tanf, making it hard for humanitarian workers to access the area.

Comment: The area occupied by the U.S. just happens to be one of only two border crossing points with Iraq. The U.S. continues to hold the area out of pure spite and malevolence, preventing trade between Syria and Iraq to resume to its pre-war levels. And of course, the Americans are utilizing terrorists to keep it so. That's a given.

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Compass

UK survey shows one third of families sit in silence over meals

John Anderer
Study Finds
Fri, 13 Sep 2019 17:21 UTC
Family at dinner
© olly - stock.adobe.com
Dinner, or any other meal for that matter, in the average suburban home is supposed to be a time for the family to come together, spend some time with each other, and share what is going in their lives. That is, at least, the general belief or notion that has persisted culturally for ages. Alas, it seems "the times they are a-changing" — according to a new survey of 2,500 U.K. parents, a third of families sit in complete silence during meal time.

It seems that many parents just don't know what to talk about with their kids; three in ten respondents said they struggle to come up with dinner-time conversation topics.

Just sitting down at the dinner table together as a family is a struggle for many as well. The survey, put together by Tex-Mex food producer Old El Paso, found that four in 10 parents don't even eat dinner at the same time as their children on most days. Additionally, one in 10 never eat dinner at the same time as their families.

All in all, only a fifth of respondents reported eating dinner with their families every night of the week.
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Magnify

'Adorkable' or rapist? Uncovered documents challenge Zoe Quinn's abuse story (but #MeToo won't care)

Igor Ogorodnev
RT
Thu, 12 Sep 2019 17:14 UTC
Zoe Quinn
© YouTube/Critical PathZoe Quinn
In 2012, feminist activist Zoe Quinn called her romance with game creator Alec Holowka "adorkable". Seven years later, she decried the same relationship as abuse. The troubled Holowka was then disgraced and took his own life.

There is something touchingly naïve about journalists at Canadian alternative news site The Postmillenial going on an old-fashioned internet deep dive to compare Quinn's contemporaneous accounts of her relationship with indie developer Holowka, with her current description. As if they assume that her credibility with the mainstream media and #MeToo campaigners rests on facts, the psychological plausibility of her narrative, or personal trustworthiness, consistency and objectivity.

Nonetheless, it all makes for interesting -if somewhat macabre- reading now.

A quick summary of the accusations. Quinn, already a lightning rod for her originating role in the online culture war Gamergate, made allegations against Holowka, renowned for breakout indie hit Night in the Woods, posted on her Twitter late last month.
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Violin

New Zealand man brings emotional support clown to redundancy meeting

Damien Venuto
The New Zealand Herald
Fri, 13 Sep 2019 05:57 UTC
Emotional support clown
© The New Zealand Herald/Supplied
A Kiwi adman has chosen an unusual support person to accompany him to a redundancy meeting.

In lieu of the usual suspects of a friend, colleague or family member, the member of the creative team at FCB hired a professional clown to attend the meeting with him.

An image sent to the Herald overnight shows the staffer, sitting alongside his support clown while he talks to the individuals running the meeting.

In the strange world of support creatures, this adds another colourful addition to a quirky crew that already includes hedgehogs, peacocks and goats.

The Herald understands that the clown blew up balloons and folded them into a series of animals throughout the meeting.

It's further understood that the clown mimed crying when the redundancy paperwork was handed over to the staffer.
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