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French officials will temporarily close a mosque whose imams called for armed jihad and Sharia law


RT
Wed, 06 Feb 2019 15:24 UTC
mosque
© REUTERS / Gonzalo Fuentes
Fearing potential terrorist attacks, the south-eastern city of Grenoble will temporarily close a mosque in which imams were allegedly calling for "armed jihad." Over 400 worshippers attended the mosque each day.

The Al-Kawthar mosque, located in a populous Rue des Trembles district of Grenoble, has become fertile soil for disseminating "ideas and theories that provoke violence, hatred and discrimination," the local prefecture said. It claimed the imam legitimized "armed jihad... Sharia and discrimination against women."

The imam's sermons allegedly stirred up hatred towards those practicing other religions. It is thought that over 400 Muslims attended the Al-Kawthar each day, according to French media.
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Texas man dies from exploding vape pen

Nichole Manna
Star-Telegram
Mon, 04 Feb 2019 22:04 UTC
William Brown
© KTVT/Family PhotoWilliam Brown died of a massive stroke after the e-cigarette he was using exploded and tore his carotid artery.
A 24-year-old Fort Worth man died last month after his vape pen exploded in his face, according to the Tarrant County medical examiner's office.

William Brown was at a vaporizer store in Keller when it happened. His grandmother, Alice Brown, said he had just purchased the device and was using it for the first time in her car.

He died at John Peter Smith Hospital two days after crawling from the car to the trunk area where he collapsed on the pavement, she said. She said she believes William was attempting to get help. Brown said somebody who saw William called an ambulance.

The medical examiner ruled William Brown's cause of death as penetrating trauma from an exploding vaporizer pen. His left carotid artery was severed, the report says. Alice Brown said doctors at JPS told her that William suffered a stroke inside the car and eventually had bleeding in his brain.
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Patreon CEO says the company's generous business model is not sustainable as it sees rapid growth

Brandon Gomez
CNBC
Tue, 05 Feb 2019 18:56 UTC
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Crowd-funding service Patreon announced its latest benchmark Wednesday, with more than 3 million patrons supporting content creators each month through the company's platform.

Patreon allows illustrators, authors, podcasters, musicians and other independent creators to receive crowd funding directly from their audience.

The number of active patrons supporting artists on the platform in 2019 has seen significant growth, up 1 million over the last year, the company said. The company is also on track to pay out $500 million to content creators in 2019, pushing the company to surpass $1 billion in payouts since its inception in 2013.

Comment: As Jordan Peterson said, "Patreon has learned nothing". Adding a bunch of features no one cares about is not going to solve their problem of multiple people exiting the platform due to their biased ousting of people with political viewpoints they don't agree with. Why set up your business around a platform you could be kicked off if you say something the morality police deem unacceptable?

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High school students disqualified from debate after quoting Ben Shapiro, Jordan Peterson

Ashe Schow
The Daily Wire
Wed, 06 Feb 2019 12:35 UTC
Ben Shapiro
© hoto by Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
A pair of Utah high school seniors lost a debate round because they read quotes from Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro and clinical psychologist Dr. Jordan Peterson, who were deemed "white supremacists" by the judge.

Layton High School senior Michael Moreno and his debate partner, whom The Daily Wire will not name, were participating in a round with a topic relating to immigration. The specific topic of the round was "Resolved: The United States Federal Government should substantially reduce restrictions on legal immigration." Moreno and his partner were arguing in the negative, meaning they were arguing against the other team's plan to reduce restrictions on legal immigration.

Instead of arguing in the affirmative, Moreno told The Daily Wire, the other team read a "slam poem" about how terms like "legal" and "illegal" are dehumanizing. In documents provided to The Daily Wire, these students quoted from numerous professors critical of assimilation and the notion that immigrants must act American to live "the good life."

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US-funded Ukrainian radio promotes local neo-Nazis, deletes article when called out


RT
Wed, 06 Feb 2019 10:48 UTC
Members of the Azov Battalion
© Alexandr Maksimenko / SputnikMembers of the Azov Battalion in Kiev, Ukraine. July 2017
Radio Svoboda, the Ukrainian outpost of the US-funded Radio Free Europe, has taken issue with an article in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz critical of local neo-Nazis, only to delete its opus after coming under criticism.

Journalist Michael Colborne painted a grim picture of Ukraine's violent extreme right. Colborne himself says he was attacked while covering a gay rights march in Kiev last November.

One group singled out by Colborne is C14, a neo-Nazi organization that began as an offshoot of the far-right 'Svoboda' (Freedom) party. Initially known as the National-Social party of Ukraine, Svoboda's politicians have described the party as "the last hope of the white race," approvingly quoted from 'Mein Kampf' in council meetings, and organized militant summer camps for children - training the young ones to play games, climb mountains, and shoot at Russians.
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Jimmy Dore utterly dismantles NYT journalist after her failed Tulsi Gabbard hit-job on Joe Rogan's show

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Wed, 06 Feb 2019 10:48 UTC
Bari Weiss Tulsi Gabbard
For those who missed it, Joe Rogan had Bari Weiss on "The Joe Rogan Experience" two weeks ago - where he took the New York Times' journalist to task in real time as she fumbled over facts, figures, and using a word without knowing what it means.

Weiss, a vocal critic of Donald Trump, was attempting to smear Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), who is quite possibly the largest threat to establishment Democrats in 2020 for her staunch "anti-interventionist" foreign policy agenda and populist views on the economy.

Gabbard, an Iraq war veteran, took heat over a January 2017 trip to Syria, where she met with President Bashar al-Assad in what she said was an unplanned trip approved by the House Ethics Committee. For this, Gabbard has been mercilessly smeared by the establishment media - which has published blatant propaganda painting her as a Kremlin stooge.
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Why so many young women don't call themselves feminist

Dr Christina Scharff
BBC
Wed, 06 Feb 2019 02:19 UTC
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© Getty Images
In recent years, feminist movements have attracted significant attention in Europe and North America. So why do so many young women still say they do not identify with the term?

Fewer than one in five young women would call themselves a feminist, polling in the UK and US suggests.

That might come as a surprise as feminism - the advocacy of women's rights on the grounds of equality of the sexes - has been in the spotlight lately.

Comment: The term feminism, with all its baggage, has become toxic in its presentation of the world. The feminist lens distorts everything to a skewed viewpoint that sees sexism lurking behind absolutely everything. It's just another identity politics category to keep people separated. Bravo to the younger generation for having some integrity.

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Pope admits abuse & sex slavery of nuns by priests an ongoing problem


RT
Wed, 06 Feb 2019 09:02 UTC
nuns
© Reuters / Amr Abdallah Dalsh
Pope Francis has admitted that sexual abuse of nuns by priests - up to and including "sexual slavery" - is an ongoing problem in the scandal-plagued Catholic Church, but stresses that the Vatican is "working on it."

"I can't say 'this does not happen in my house.' It is true," Francis said, when a reporter brought up a recent article in the Vatican's women's magazine about the sexual abuse of nuns. "Do we have to do more? Yes. Are we willing? Yes."

"We have been working on this for a long time. We have suspended some priests because of this," he added, without volunteering further details.

Asked if he planned to call a bishops' conference similar to this month's summit to address clergy sex abuse of children, the Pope declined to answer. "I want to move forward. We are working on it," he repeated.

Francis praised his predecessor, Pope Benedict, for dissolving one congregation of nuns "because slavery had become part of it - even sexual slavery on the part of priests or the founder." A Vatican press director confirmed the pontiff was referring to the Community of St. Jean in France, which was dissolved during Benedict's first year as Pope after he was blocked from investigating the order as a cardinal. That was in 2005.

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Downtown Los Angeles sees US military hold unexpected war drill - UPDATE

Tyler Durden
Zerohedge
Tue, 05 Feb 2019 14:14 UTC
helicopter LA
Helicopters swarmed overhead...

Loud booms echoed through the streets...

No, this is not Beirut, Damascus, or Kabul - it's Downtown Los Angeles.

As The LA Times reports, a series of loud booms that rocked downtown LA on Monday night startled some people, but LAPD said there was no need to be concerned, as the noises were part of a U.S. Army training exercise involving aircraft and weapon simulations in urban settings.

Comment: RT provides more information on this bizarre drill that clearly startled many residents and their tweets give some insight into what was going through their minds:
Dozens of Black Hawk helicopters descended on downtown Los Angeles Monday night while residents reported explosions and scrambled to find out if they were looking at a military invasion or a film shoot.

The sinister flock of military birds hovered and zoomed through the high-rise canyons of downtown, accompanied by strange explosions and military maneuvers - and zero explanation from the authorities as to what was going on for what must have seemed like hours.

At least one helicopter actually landed on Wiltshire Boulevard in downtown LA, and explosions were heard all over the city.

The LA Police Department belatedly released a statement assuring Angelenos that it was only a drill, explaining "members of the US Army" had cleared the "military training" with local police and officials.


"The purpose of the training is to enhance soldier skills by operating in various urban environments and settings," the LAPD wrote, stressing that "safety precautions" were in place to prevent "unnecessary risk to both participants and/or area residents and property."

While local news reportedly called the operation an "unannounced exercise to keep the troops sharp," the LAPD claimed "citizens in close proximity to the areas where the training will take place will be notified prior to the training."

Yet they apparently didn't notify everyone, as locals took to Twitter in varying states of terror to try to find out what was happening.





While everyone was looking at the helicopters, a P-8A Poseidon circled the city for hours. The high-powered surveillance craft, known as a "submarine killer," set tongues wagging.

The military exercise, which reportedly involved Special Forces, will continue through Saturday. While the choice of downtown Los Angeles is supposed to "simulate urban environments the service members may encounter when deployed overseas," more than a few worried they were training for a mission closer to home.






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Woman behind the arrest of faith healer John of God after claiming he was running a 'sex slave farm' commits suicide at her home in Barcelona

NATALIA PENZA
MailOnline
Mon, 04 Feb 2019 09:30 UTC
Sabrina Bittencourt
© MailOnlineSabrina Bittencourt (pictured), 38, died at her home in Barcelona just days after accusing John of God - real name Joao Teixeira de Faria - of running a 'sex slave farm'
  • Sabrina Bittencourt died after accusing faith healer John of God of sex abuse
  • She claimed he kept women captive and exported their children on black market
  • The faith healer has been accused of abusing hundreds of women in Brazil
A woman who helped to bring down a Brazilian faith healer accused of sex abuse has taken her own life in Spain.

Sabrina Bittencourt, 38, died at her home in Barcelona just days after accusing John of God - real name Joao Teixeira de Faria - of running a 'sex slave farm'.

She claimed young girls were held captive in a farming operation which exported babies on the black market.
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