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Rose City Antifa claimed attack on Andy Ngo, boasted it was a victory for 'community defense'

Shelby Talcott
The Daily Caller
Thu, 01 Aug 2019 10:09 UTC
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Rose City Antifa claimed its attack on Andy Ngo in June as a victory for "community defense" just a few days after the assault left Ngo with a brain hemorrhage.

Journalist Andy Ngo was attacked and left with a brain hemorrhage while reporting at an Antifa rally June 29. Rose City Antifa released a statement July 3 celebrating the attack and explaining how Ngo and "the far-right mob were stopped, physically." The actions by Antifa were cited as a means of "community defense," according to the statement.

"On June 29, 2019, Andy Ngo tried a repeat of his actions on May 1, 2019- to film the actions of armed men on a mission to attack activists, to be used for propaganda purposes," Rose City Antifa's statement read. "As on May Day, this past weekend he and the far-right mob were stopped, physically."
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Let them sail yachts: Why Greta Thunberg and the environmental elite hate you

Graham Dockery
RT
Wed, 31 Jul 2019 18:17 UTC
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Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg will sail across the Atlantic by boat to attend two climate conferences. But the teenager's carbon-neutral odyssey reveals the disregard - even contempt - the elite have for the rest of us.

Thunberg shot to fame for organizing school walkouts against climate change last year. A series of talks lamenting her generation's impending doom have since made her the poster child for a strange, apocalyptic brand of environmentalism, with British lawmakers nodding along to her declaration that "we probably don't even have a future anymore" in April, and the world's power-brokers listening intently to her exhortation that they should "feel the fear I feel every day," made at the World Economic Forum in Davos several months earlier.

She offers only one path to salvation: an immediate halt to all carbon emissions - there can be no compromise.


Comment: See also:

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Five couples agree to CRISPR their embryos to avoid deafness

Kristin Houser
Futurism
Mon, 08 Jul 2019 09:34 UTC
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Hearing Things

Denis Rebrikov wants to use CRISPR to create more gene-edited babies — and he already knows who their parents might be.

In June, the Russian biologist told Nature he planned to gene-edit human embryos and then bring them to term. To date, only one person — Chinese scientist He Jiankui — has ever openly produced gene-edited babies, with the claim that the edits would prevent the babies from inheriting their fathers' HIV.

On Thursday, Rebrikov told New Scientist he has five pairs of Russian parents eager to let him gene-edit their embryos for a different and socially loaded reason: to prevent the offspring from inheriting their parents' deafness.

Rebrikov told New Scientist that each parent interested in his study is deaf due to mutations in their GJB2 gene. When two people with those mutations reproduce, the child is guaranteed to be born deaf.

By using CRISPR to edit one copy of the GJB2 gene in a fertilized embryo, Rebrikov believes he'll be able to grant the parents' wishes to have a biological child that isn't deaf.


Comment: He believes it will work. That's a far cry from actually working considering they still can't get it exactly right with plants.


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Prof develops AI to determine who is spreading 'misinformation' online

Celine Ryan
Campus Reform
Wed, 31 Jul 2019 15:32 UTC
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Researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara are developing an artificial intelligence system that will identify whether or not what someone shares on social media is "genuine" or "misleading."

Titled Dynamo: Dynamic Multichannel Modeling of Misinformation, the project is headed up by UCSB professor William Wang. Wang specializes in "natural language processing," the subsect of artificial intelligence dealing with a computer's ability to process human language.

Using this type of analysis, Wang and his team have set out to create a means of analyzing text in social media posts and online articles to reveal information about their origins, as well as individuals who are sharing them. Wang's research will be used to create tools that identify the ideologies, motivations, intended audiences, and affiliations of those sharing information online, according to a UCSB news release.

This information will then be used to determine if a post is "misleading," "clickbait," or whether or not it comes from what UCSB terms "established' news sites.

Comment: Yet another AI tool that will in the end be used for censorship masked as protecting the public from 'misinformation'. See also:

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Married Red Pill: Teaching Men to Game Their Wives

Darcy Reeder
Medium.com
Wed, 31 Jul 2019 21:28 UTC
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My husband and I are in bed at the end of what felt like a very long day.

We aim for equality every day: equal time working, equal time parenting. Time together. Time apart.

But today it felt like I was holding the world together by myself.

I'm trying to tell him how hard it was, looking for appreciation, looking for a promise that he'll help me get more me time tomorrow.

He's not hearing me: He's defending. He's explaining. He's excusing. He's rationalizing.

I take a deep breath, measure my words, make sure this comes out as an "I statement":
"I feel unappreciated and alone."
"Well, you're choosing to feel those things."

Clearly, we need some help communicating.

I came across some relationship advice claiming to fix everything.

A whole new frame for seeing the world:
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Is it time for America to break apart?

Boyd D. Cathey
The Unz Review
Fri, 26 Jul 2019 21:01 UTC
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Fine then. Who is? And what is your country?
There is a question that increasingly arises, uncomfortably, in our conversations...from brief exchanges at work at the water cooler, at home with family, after church on Sunday, with our email messages to friends and associates. To watch any amount of television news these days, to switch back and forth between, say, CNN and Fox, and to listen to their interpretations of any event or issue, no matter what, that same question clambers in the background like an unchained wild beast:

What has happened — what is happening — to the geographical entity we call the United States, to its people, to its culture? Does it not seem like the country is coming apart at the seams, in just about everything, from its once-established moral base in a more or less historic Christian framework to its very vision of reality, of what is real and what is not?

Millions of "woke" social justice progressives now control the Democratic Party and most of our media; they dominate our entertainment and sports industries; they push for open borders and what amounts to "population replacement" of natives by illegal aliens; and they have a stranglehold on the near entirety of our educational system, from the primary grades to our colleges.
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Prominent Israeli Rabbi calls for Third Temple to be built - thus fulfilling a doomsday prophecy


Sputnik
Wed, 31 Jul 2019 16:34 UTC
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Rabbi Avigdor Nebenzahl
The rabbi argued that there's already a commandment in place that calls to build the Temple, and that issues such as the possible renewal of sacrifices should be discussed separately.

Rabbi Avigdor Nebenzahl, a prominent Israeli theologist who, until recently, served as the chief rabbi of the Old City of Jerusalem, has brought forth a rather sensitive religious matter as he called for the building of the Third Temple on the Temple Mount - one of the holiest sites in the world for Muslims, Christians and Jews, Breaking Israel News reports.

According to the media outlet, Nebenzahl stated that "we must do everything in our power to build the Temple," insisting that there's never been any sort of religious ruling that would tell the Jews to wait for the Temple to "fall from the sky."

Comment: It's notable which religions are calling for the end of days and how closely they're aligned with nations evidently attempting to bring that about: Also check out SOTT radio's:

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Get woke, go broke! Procter and Gamble suffers $8 billion loss from Gillette

Amelia Lucas
CNBC
Tue, 30 Jul 2019 20:12 UTC
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KEY POINTS
  • Procter & Gamble reported Tuesday that it wrote down the value of its Gillette brand by $8 billion.
  • Executives attributed the write-down to currency devaluations and lower shaving frequency.
  • The consumer products giant has also faced increased competition from disruptors like Dollar Shave Club and Harry's.
Despite Procter & Gamble's write-down of its struggling Gillette brand, executives expressed confidence about the future of the shaving business.

P&G reported an impairment charge of $8.0 billion in the fiscal fourth quarter, resulting in a net loss of $5.24 billion. The one-time, noncash charge was to adjust the carrying values of Gillette's goodwill and intangible assets.

Comment: Notice how this report neglected to mention how Gillete's new feminist advertising campaign might have had something to do with men choosing not to buy products from companies that tell them they are toxic! But, yeah, blame beards!

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Hypocritical glitterati flock to Google summit on climate change in private jets and mega-yachts

Emily Smith and Ebony Bowden
Page Six
Tue, 30 Jul 2019 18:59 UTC
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Leonardo DiCaprio, Prince Harry and Barack Obama are attending Google's climate gabfest
The world's rich and famous have flocked to a posh Italian resort to talk about saving Mother Earth — but they sure are punishing her in the process.

The billionaire creators of Google have invited a who's who of A-list names — including former President Barack Obama, Prince Harry, Leonardo DiCaprio and Katy Perry — to the Sicilian seaside for a mega-party they've dubbed Google Camp.

The three-day event will focus on fighting climate change — though it's unknown how much time the attendees will spend discussing their own effect on the environment, such as the scores of private jets they arrived in and the mega yachts many have been staying on.
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Indians Twitter-roast man who complained his order was delivered by a Muslim: 'Food has no religion'


RT
Wed, 31 Jul 2019 18:42 UTC
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A Hindu man who complained on Twitter about his food order being delivered by a Muslim has been shamed by his fellow Indians, with even the founder of the food delivery app he used telling him that his business won't be missed.

Twitter user @NaMo_SARKAAR on Wednesday ignited a powder keg of social media outrage after publicizing that he had been prevented from canceling an order on Zomato after discovering that his food was being delivered by a "Muslim fellow."

In a series of tweets, the dissatisfied customer grumbled about how the food delivery app had "allocated a non-Hindu rider" for his order.

"@ZomatoIN is forcing us to take deliveries from people we don't want," he declared, adding that he had uninstalled the app and would "discuss the issue with my lawyers."
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