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Why do perfectly intelligent people believe in Climate Change?

Dr Andrew Edmonds
Medium.com
Sun, 30 Jun 2019 00:01 UTC
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The operative word in this somewhat leading question is "believe". Global warming is a belief system with all the characteristics of a religion.

Look at how non-believers are vilified. Look at how we are told we must make sacrifices to the god of global warming; to sacrifice little old ladies through their unaffordable heating bills; to sacrifice our countryside to windmills and solar farms; to sacrifice our cars and our mobility.

How did we get to this point in our supposedly rational age?

Comment: While the above points are certainly valid, there is some nuance missing. The climate is changing, but it's not for the reasons touted by the mainstream media, activists and globalist propaganda. As far back as 1967 it's been known that the sun controls the climate, not CO2. But that simply doesn't fit the religious narrative.

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How Antifa apologists defend street violence

Robby Soave
Quillette
Wed, 03 Jul 2019 10:49 UTC
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2017 photos released by Portland police, depicting antifa members arrested in 2017 and arraigned at Multnomah County Court.
A day before the 2017 Women's March, spectators and activists of all stripes descended on Washington, D.C. for the inauguration of President Trump. Supporters of the new president wore "Make America Great Again" baseball caps and toted "Trump-Pence 2016" signs. Detractors were more colorful.

"Trump is the symptom, capitalism is the disease, socialism is the cure," read one sign, wielded by a woman with a T-shirt depicting a clenched fist.

Others were at least funny: I spotted a man holding a sign featuring a cartoon Batman slapping Trump in the face with the caption "Stop tweeting!" — a parody of a drawing from the Batman comics, in which the caped crusader slaps Robin.

The demonstrations were mostly peaceful. Mostly.

Masked protesters known simultaneously as the "black bloc" (because they wear black clothes and hoods to mask their identities) and "antifa" (as in anti-fascist) smashed the windows of a local Starbucks and a Bank of America. They also set a limousine on fire. How these acts of property damage were intended to undermine Trump remains a mystery, given that the CEO of Starbucks and many Bank of America employees were financial supporters of the Hillary Clinton campaign. The limo driver, we learned, was a Muslim immigrant.
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Gabriel Nadales: I'm a former Antifa member and enough is enough -- Antifa must be stopped

Gabriel Nadales
Fox News
Wed, 03 Jul 2019 00:01 UTC
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Andy Ngo was assaulted at an Antifa riot in Portland
The video showing Quillette reporter Andy Ngo being savagely attacked by Antifa at a demonstration in Portland, Oregon, last weekend has rocked the nation. The footage of masked thugs beating him with blunt objects and throwing "milkshakes" allegedly filled with quick-drying cement is shocking to many.

But I'm not surprised by this horrific behavior — I was once behind the mask.

I first became involved in Antifa in 2010 while I was in high school, and over the course of two years I participated in several demonstrations throughout Southern California. Although I never hurt anyone, I yelled obscenities, I destroyed property and I am ashamed of my actions. While I walked away from the movement over seven years ago, I have been following its growth and today's Antifa members are far more brutal, thuggish and bold than anything I experienced.

Comment: The Andy Ngo beating seems to have been a major turning point for some, with many leftists and leftist media who previously made excuses for Antifa, are now finally calling them out for the thugs that they are. This kind of mob violence against any they disagree with is completely inexcusable, regardless of political orientation.

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New Jersey court blasts judge for going easy on accused rapist who's 'from a good family'

Natalie Musumeci
NY Post
Wed, 03 Jul 2019 10:41 UTC
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A New Jersey appeals court has blasted a state family court judge — and reversed his decision — after he refused to try as an adult a 16-year-old boy accused of raping an intoxicated 16-year-old girl and sending video of the alleged sex assault to his buddies.

In a ruling last year in Monmouth County, New Jersey Superior Court Judge James Troiano denied prosecutors' motion to try the teen as an adult and instead said: "This young man comes from a good family who put him into an excellent school where he was doing extremely well."

"He is clearly a candidate for not just college but probably for a good college. His scores for college entry were very high," said Troiano, who also detailed the boy's extracurricular activities, including that he was an Eagle Scout.

Prosecutors say the boy, only identified in court documents as G.M.C., sexually assaulted the girl while at a pajama-themed basement party packed with about 30 other adolescents in New Jersey where alcohol was flowing.
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California university's speech code threatens to punish students for jokes

Greg Piper
The College Fix
Wed, 03 Jul 2019 10:32 UTC
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Offend someone just once and you're in trouble

Telling sex jokes can get you investigated by Texas public universities. Failure to report students who tell sex jokes can get faculty at Texas public universities thrown in jail.

Who would have thought Texas would look worse than California when it comes to speech codes?

Yet California public universities still have their share of kooky conduct codes that infringe on speech, and one of them even has a similar zero-tolerance rule for offensive jokes.

The new "Speech Code of the Month" by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education comes from California State University-Channel Islands, and it's bounded only by the imagination of humorless, woke administrators.

Its Resident Handbook prohibits even a single occurrence of "derogatory comments" or "slurs," whether spoken or visual, and even "gestures" (don't flip the bird at anyone!). It also includes "unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature," which is how you get punished for telling that limerick about a man from Nantucket within earshot of a fourth-wave feminist.

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Russian MoD names naval officers who perished in deep sea sub fire - Full info remains classified


RT
Wed, 03 Jul 2019 17:42 UTC
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© MoD Russia / Sputnik / Sergey Yeshenko
The 14 officers who died fighting a disastrous fire on a Russian deep water research vessel have been named by the Russian Defense Ministry. The crew have sacrificed their lives to save fellow officers and save the submersible.

"Thanks to their timely, dedicated and competent actions, the submariners extinguished the fire, and saved their comrades and the deep-sea vessel while sacrificing their lives," the ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.

Seven 'captains 1st class' (Russian equivalent to NATO OF-5/US O-6 captain rank), perished in the blaze, namely Konstantin Ivanov, Andrey Voskresenskiy, Konstantin Somov, Denis Oparin, and Vladimir Abankin, as well as two honored 'Heroes of Russia' - Denis Dolonskiy and Nikolay Filin.

Comment: See also: The day the 'Kursk' sank: 15 years on, Russia remembers one of worst-ever submarine tragedies

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We need a First Amendment for the Internet to counter the troubling censorship of social media

Konstantin Kisin
The Telegraph
Wed, 26 Jun 2019 13:00 UTC
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The repercussions of companies with an effective monopoly on our news using their position to impose ‘values’ should concern us all
For all its focus on "diversity", Silicon Valley is about as ideologically diverse as a vegan powwow

The advent of modern technology has brought us extraordinary freedoms. Millions now find love by swiping on their phone, podcasters reach audiences of millions from the comfort of their bedrooms and well-meaning neighbours keep us safe by recording private arguments and sending them to national newspapers.

Nowadays elections pivot on viral content published online, while political careers can be ended by an ill-thought tweet or launched with an ingenious piece of clickbait. According to Pew Research, over 61 per cent of milennials get their political news primarily from Facebook. In the decades to come, TV and legacy media will cede power and influence to social media, YouTube and podcasts.

This opening up of this marketplace of information undoubtedly carries huge benefits, but as our political dialogue becomes more heated, it prompts worrying questions.

Comment: Social media platforms are seriously overstepping their bounds in making themselves arbiters of acceptable discourse. If they were smart, they would remain neutral and let those who have always been responsible for enforcing speech laws continue. But it seems they would rather step away from neutrality and try to use their power to influence the masses. By making themselves responsible for what gets published on their platform, they open themselves up to all sorts of hassle, but apparently they would rather control public opinion than simply provide a service.

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'And you tell me to wear an abaya?!": Nicki Minaj to headline festival in Saudi Arabia


RT
Wed, 03 Jul 2019 20:41 UTC
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REUTERS/Carlo Allegri; Global Look Press / Godong
Hip hop artist Nicki Minaj, known for her scantily-clad shows with twerking and half-nude dancers, will headline a festival in Saudi Arabia. The country's dress code may not apply to Minaj, but Saudi women are expected to comply.

Organizers of the Jeddah Season cultural festival, a project overseen by a Saudi government agency, announced on Tuesday that Minaj would perform at the event, scheduled for July 18. The musician's stage act, which typically features provocative dancing and songs use vulgar language, has prompted cries of hypocrisy, aimed at a government that imposes austere restrictions on women.

One Saudi woman took to Twitter to call out the double standards. Her video has been viewed thousands of times and has gone viral.

Comment: Considering the sordid underbelly of Saudi Arabia, much appreciated by Saudi elites, it isn't too surprising they would find an act like Minaj appealing, perhaps her booking was intended to be more of a private affair: Saudi princess reveals Kingdom's dark side: "Orgies with underage girls, heavy drug and alcohol abuse"

See also: And check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Saudi Arabia: A Wretched Hive of Scum And Villainy, Fully Supported by The West

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Israel: Off-duty cop shoots and kills unarmed black Ethiopian Jewish teen UPDATE

Robert Inlakesh
21st Century Wire
Mon, 01 Jul 2019 00:00 UTC
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© Avshalom Sassoni/Jerusalem PostEthiopian Jews protest murder of 24-year-old Yehuda Biagda by police brutality January 2019.
An Israeli off-duty police officer shot dead an 18 year old Ethiopian Israeli Jew, near Haifa, this Sunday sparking outrage amongst the Ethiopian Jewish population.

Demonstrators voiced their outrage this Monday after the gunning down of an unarmed black Jewish teen in the area of Kiryat Haim, near Haifa which is located in Northern Israel.

An off-duty Israeli police officer shot dead 18 year old, Soloman Tekha, claiming that the unarmed teens had put his life in danger, however, all of the eyewitnesses testified against this claim.

The officer, who has not been identified over his personal "security concerns", was apparently detained and later released to temporary house arrest following the incident.

The claim made by the officer was that he approached an ongoing fight that had broken out and as he approached to help, he had stones thrown at him, this was then used as the justification - being the "life threatening" circumstance - for the drawing of his weapon and fatally shooting the unarmed black teenager.

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Update 3/7/2019, 08:11, from RT:
Israel sees violent protests after Police kill Ethiopian teen

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© Reuters/Corinna KernCar burns as part of a protest over death of Solomon Tekah.
Some 47 police officers were injured and 60 people arrested after a spate of protests across Israel over the shooting dead of 18-year-old Ethiopian-descendant Solomon Teka. Protesters erected burning barricades and clashed with police in the northern city of Haifa on Monday and Tuesday following Teka's death in Kiryat Haim late on Sunday.


Crowds of Ethiopian Israelis blocked junctions across the country after an off-duty police officer reportedly shot the teenager dead. The cop has been placed under house arrest and an investigation into the shooting is underway.


"It's not 'killing', it's murder," Teka's cousin, Amir, said in a radio interview on Tuesday, as cited by Al Jazeera. "It cannot be that a person is next to his home and gets murdered and they say 'killed.' What was it? A work accident? Was he hit by a car?"

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© REUTERS/Ronen ZvulunRelatives and friends of Solomon Teka attend his funeral in Haifa, Israel July 2, 2019
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu published a video response to the violent clashes late on Tuesday, saying that "everyone was mourning the tragic death of Solomon Teka," while beseeching the crowds not to escalate further. "I ask you, let's solve the problems together while adhering to the law."

Teka crowd
© REUTERS/ Corinna KernCrowd confronts police
The Ethiopian Jewish community numbers around 140,000, including more than 50,000 expats. They have complained of systemic harassment and racism since forming in Israel in the 1980s and 1990s after an in an influx of Jews from elsewhere in the world.
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'Mini AOC' doxxed and threatened, family shuts down all her social accounts

RACHEL Stoltzfoos
The Daily Caller
Wed, 03 Jul 2019 18:02 UTC
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The family of a young girl who went viral for mocking Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shut down all of her social accounts Wednesday, after receiving death threats and harassing phone calls.

A tweet from the account purporting to belong to the little girl's stepfather said she will not be doing any more content because the harassment and death threats "have gone too far" and threaten her and the family's safety.
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