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Swiss billionaire speed fiend fined with $320,000 ticket


RT
Wed, 17 Jan 2018 18:05 UTC
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Swiss pharmaceutical tycoon Ernesto Bertarelli has been fined 310,000 Swiss francs (US$320,000), after being caught driving 88km per hour in a 50 zone, local media report.

While a speeding ticket in the US might set you back a few hundred or perhaps even a few thousand dollars at most, that's not always the case on the other side of the Atlantic.

On December 6, 2016, Ernesto Bertarelli was caught doing 88km per hour in Crans-près-Céligny, just north of Geneva, Switzerland. Bertarelli was fined 10,000 francs, plus a daily penalty of 3,000 francs for a hundred days, 20 Minutes reported on Monday.
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Russian interest in domestic films grow as "honest" movies provide competition with Hollywood


TASS
Tue, 16 Jan 2018 17:48 UTC
Russian films
© Alexei Konstantinov/TASS
Russian film industry has found its trump card to compete with foreign movies, Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky said in his column on the TASS website.

According to him, "moviegoers aren't surprised anymore to see Russian titles on movie posters, still dominated by Hollywood flicks, they have grown used to them and are anticipating to watch 'our' pictures." Medinsky added that the audience would like to watch "honest" movies "about themselves and their country, their problems, responsibilities and triumphs." The minister pointed out that it was "our trump card in competing with movies about the adventures of good-looking foreign guys living in the fantasy land of Marvel (Comics) and Spider-Man."

Comment: The Russians may be onto something. Hollywood is eating dirt in the United States:

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Intersectional infighting as the left cannibalises itself: LGBTQ group leaders step down after Facebook post mentions minorities

Daniel Payne
The College Fix
Wed, 17 Jan 2018 18:01 UTC
Online criticism was 'an act of erasure,' president of group claims
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A shakeup at a George Washington University LGBT group came after the vice president of the group claimed in a Facebook post that minority LGBT members rarely attend the organization's meetings.

The president, public relations chair and events chair of George Washington University's Association of Queer Women and Allies' executive board stepped down shortly after vice president Juliana Kogan "said in a Facebook group for LGBTQ women at GW last month that people of color don't attend AQWA events," according to The GW Hatchet.
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Former 'Today' host Ann Curry: Verbal sexual harassment at NBC was "pervasive"

Jessica Sager
Page Six
Wed, 17 Jan 2018 17:47 UTC
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Ann Curry took only the most subtle shots at Matt Lauer in her first TV interview since leaving NBC News and "Today" when discussing the "pervasive" sexual harassment at the network.

"I'm trying to do no harm in these conversations. I can tell you that I am not surprised by the allegations," Curry, 61, told "CBS This Morning" on Wednesday. "See, now I'm walking down that road - I'm trying not to hurt people. I know what it's like to be publicly humiliated. I never did anything wrong to be publicly humiliated, and I don't want to cause that kind of pain to somebody else," she said, likely referencing when she was infamously and unceremoniously dismissed on air from the morning show in 2012 after just over a year, reportedly at the behest of Lauer, 60, and left NBC in 2015.

"But I can say, because you're asking me a direct question, I would be surprised if many women did not understand that there was a climate of verbal harassment that existed," she said. "I think it would be surprising if someone said they didn't see that. Verbal sexual harassment was pervasive ... It was, period."
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'You've got me': Feminist Cathy Newman crumbles in Channel 4 interview with 'controversial' Prof. Jordan Peterson

Douglas Murray
Breitbart
Wed, 17 Jan 2018 12:01 UTC
Cathy Newman
Repeated attempts to skewer clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson fell flat in a remarkable interview with Britain's Channel 4 news, reports the Spectator.

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Americans love Oprah, but not that much: Majority say she shouldn't run for president

AutSteven Shepard
Politico
Wed, 17 Jan 2018 17:17 UTC
Oprah President
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A majority of voters across several polls don’t think Oprah Winfrey should run for the White House.
Americans love Oprah Winfrey. But they aren't exactly clamoring for the media mogul and former talk-show host to challenge President Donald Trump in 2020.

A majority of voters across several polls don't think Winfrey should run for the White House, according to polls conducted since Winfrey's much-heralded speech at a Hollywood awards show launched a round of presidential speculation. Even among Democratic voters, more say she shouldn't run for president than should.

Still, there's enough evidence to continue fueling speculation about her political prospects. Winfrey performs well on polling ballot tests, tying or leading Trump in a number of surveys. The POLITICO/Morning Consult poll shows Democratic voters prefer her to a host of other potential candidates - except former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)

Comment: More on the poll results from Morning Consult:
"If you were watching cable news the Monday after the Golden Globes, you would have thought the numbers would say 99 percent of Americans want her to run," said Robert Thompson, director of the Bleier Center for Television & Popular Culture at Syracuse University, in a Tuesday interview. "Certainly polls have their limitations, but these numbers don't quite indicate that degree of enthusiasm."

Doug Heye, a former spokesman for the Republican National Committee who is now a CNN contributor, said Winfrey successfully seized the moment at the Golden Globes with a speech about important contemporary issues that was not blatantly political. Asked about the voters who said Winfrey should not run for president, he ascribed that to political fatigue.

"People like Oprah because they've watched her do amazing things for 30 years now. Yeah, she supported candidates in the past, but being a candidate yourself opens you up to all kinds of political attacks," he said in a Tuesday interview.

Sixty-two percent of those surveyed described Winfrey as liberal, 39 percent of whom described her as "very liberal." Six in 10 Republicans described Winfrey as "very liberal," compared with 28 percent of Democrats who described her as such. A 33-percent plurality of Democrats described Winfrey as "somewhat" liberal.
See also:
Oprah don't do it: Don't run for president
Oprah for president . . . . seriously?

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In #MeToo age, Ithaca College's new female president draws attention for 16-year-old sex abuse conviction

Jennifer Kabbany
The College Fix
Wed, 17 Jan 2018 17:27 UTC
Shirley Collado
Five months ago, Shirley Collado was tapped as the new president of Ithaca College. Today, she's making headlines for a different reason. The New York Daily News reports:

The president of Ithaca College in upstate pleaded no contest to sexually abusing a patient when she worked at a psychiatric hospital nearly two decades ago.
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Ohio State University course to teach students why white male masculinity is harmful and privileges men

Amanda Tidwell
The College Fix
Tue, 16 Jan 2018 17:13 UTC
masculine man
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Masculinity simultaneously harms yet privileges men, syllabus states

A class taught this spring at Ohio State University will review a parade of reasons why white heterosexual masculinity is allegedly problematic, tackling the topic from the constructs of racial issues, bullying, pop culture, societal expectations and much more, according to its syllabus.

The course, "Be a Man! Masculinities, Race and Nation," includes a variety of readings to that end, including its required textbook "Dude, You're a Fag!" by C.J. Pascoe, which analyzes masculinity as not only a gendered process, but sexual one, its Amazon description states.

Other assigned reading excerpts include: "Masculinity as Homophobia" by Michael Kimmel; "Advertising and the Construction of Violent White Masculinity" by Jackson Katz; "Dude Sex: Dudes Who Have Sex with Dudes" by Jane Ward; "Looking for My Penis" by Richard Fung; "Sodomy in the New World" by Jonathan Goldberg; and "Teaching Men's Anal Pleasure" by Susan Stiritz.
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Ex-bride of jihadi commander shocks viewers during interview after saying her extremist husband has a good side


RT
Wed, 17 Jan 2018 16:15 UTC
Ex-jihadi bride
© Tania Joya TheLibertarian/ Facebook ·
The British ex-wife of a top American Islamic State commander left audiences baffled when she said she still loves her terrorist ex-husband and suggested that he has a "good side."

Tania Joya, originally from Harrow in London, who describes herself as a former extremist, married American jihadi John Georgelas - whose convert name is Yahya al-Bahrumi - after meeting him online.

Having dedicated herself to extremism after meeting al-Bahrumi, she fled with him to Syria in 2014, along with her four children. Joya has since left the country, now living in Dallas, Texas. She claims to have a new focus in life; helping to de-radicalize terrorists.

Comment: An important point made in Stanton Samenow's book, Inside the Criminal Mind is that all criminals of every type believe they are basically good people. This view of the self is essential in being able to commit crimes, including ones against humanity. This same belief obviously also exists in those who purposely choose criminals as their mates, both with regard to their own self image as well as toward their chosen partner. As Samenow notes, it is this belief that poses the greatest obstacle for change:
No matter how much physical, financial, or emotional damage he causes, the criminal believes he is a good person...

It is important to understand how a criminal fortifies his good opinion of himself so that he can do a kind deed for someone and then, shortly thereafter, wreak havoc. The criminal's view of himself as a decent person constitutes a major barrier to change.


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MLK opposed everything liberal America represents


Sputnik
Wed, 17 Jan 2018 16:14 UTC
MLK on picket line
© AP Photo
There is nothing quite so nauseating as liberal America associating itself with the legacy of Martin Luther King (MLK), a man who stood against everything it stands for and represents, such as cozying up to Wall Street and the rich at home while unleashing war without end overseas.

That Martin Luther King Day is an annual circus of liberal hypocrisy is evidenced in the likes of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton using it an opportunity to engage in gushing tribute to a man whom, if alive today, would be among their most impassioned adversaries. As US academic Cornel West writes, "The litmus test for realizing King's dream was neither a black face in the White House nor a black presence on Wall Street. Rather, the fulfillment of his dream was for all poor and working people to live lives of decency and dignity."

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