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Pope Francis sending team to investigate whether German diocese mishandled sexual abuse allegations, amid public anger


RT
Fri, 28 May 2021 16:03 UTC
Rainer Maria Woelki
© Ina Fassbender / AFPArchbishop of Cologne Rainer Maria Woelki at the cathedral in Cologne, Germany, April 2021.
Pope Francis will dispatch a team to investigate if the Archbishop of Cologne mishandled sexual abuse claims in the Catholic Church. Parishioners have been protesting against the diocese and demanding accountability.

Investigators from the Vatican will visit the Archdiocese of Cologne, Germany in the first half of June to check whether its leader, Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki, had made "mistakes" in the addressing of the sexual abuse cases, the archdiocese said in a statement on Friday. They will also look at possible failings by Stefan Hesse, the archbishop of Hamburg, who was the former head of personnel in Cologne.

Woelki has been slammed by parishioners for not releasing a report detailing abuse allegations and failing to inform the Vatican about a particular case involving a priest. The cardinal himself had requested an investigation last year and had promised to support the probe. He said he welcomed the fact the Pope wanted "to get his own picture" of the affairs in the archdiocese.

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Bullseye

Stop trusting the experts!

Bruce Abramson
Real Clear Politics
Tue, 25 May 2021 00:01 UTC
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© Jim Lo Scalzo/Pool via AP
Every now and then, I'm lucky enough to meet someone who "follows the science." I count on such folks to teach me some science that I do not yet know. Being scientifically literate, I like to start by asking them some basic questions:

How are key data terms defined? How are data collected and reported? What theories guided the design of the models that process the raw data? What studies validated the models? How sensitive are the models to variations in inputs? How well do the models perform using historical data? Do the models have a track record at prediction — and if so, how well have they done? What alternative hypotheses were considered? How were the hypotheses tested?

Anyone surprised by such questions can't plausibly claim to understand the science, much less to follow it. Most likely, they've confused "the science" with a selected scientist, a claimed scientific consensus, or the scientific establishment. Or, worse, partisan politics masquerading as science.

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Mr. Potato

Paul Joseph Watson: The Uglification of the World

Paul Joseph Watson
Sott.net
Wed, 26 May 2021 13:45 UTC
uglification
As if many social, cultural, political and economic developments weren't bad enough, our public spaces are now being made ugly. And worst of all, we're paying for it (in more ways than one!) - by allowing those who hold office to do as they please.

Watch Paul Joseph Watson speak about this phenomenon in this crude but truthful video:

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Arrow Up

Syrians filled the polling stations to defend their sovereignty and now fill the streets to celebrate the result

Eva Bartlett
RT
Fri, 28 May 2021 10:48 UTC
Celebrators Syria
© Reuters/Omar SanadikiCelebrating Syria's election
The Western leadership and establishment media have once again derided the Syrian presidential vote, but the people don't care. They're too busy celebrating the outcome of the election and the defeat of terrorism in their country.

The irony of media outlets and pundits from America tweeting about what they view as the failure to hold free and fair elections in Syria was not lost on some. I wrote yesterday of the jubilation I saw in eastern Ghouta, where Syrians were celebrating the arrival of election day and proudly voting. I also noted that people "in eastern Ghouta were put through a hell that most of us, living safely far from war, cannot begin to fathom." Back in 2018, I had seen their tortured faces shortly after their liberation. That made seeing them this week smiling incredibly moving.

Just ahead of the vote, I predicted there would be Western cynicism if President Assad won again, which would mean the West had failed in its regime-change project. I was right.

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Heart

Anna Tuv Interview


Patreon
Sun, 14 Mar 2021 06:05 UTC
Anna and child
© UnknownAnna and Child
On 26th May 2015 Ukrainian armed forces started a brutal attack, shelling the residential city of Gorlovka. This is a day Anna Tuv will never forget.

As a result of that shelling, her husband and 11-year-old daughter died in the attack. Her two-year-old son sustained multiple wounds, and her new born baby suffered concussion. She herself was seriously injured and had her left arm torn off. The family home was also totally destroyed.

Four year later, in 2019, Anna became a nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize.

I, like many others wondered how Anna coped with all this trauma so I managed to secure this interview with Anna so she could tell us more about what happened on that fateful day on 26th May, 2015.

At Anna's personal request I have made this interview freely available for all to read.
Anna Injuries/bombing/prosthetic arm
© UnknownAnna Tuv: Injuries and the remains of war

Comment: Anna's courage through hell and despair brings insight and perspective to the ongoing, unreported massacre of Donbass and Lugansk - a phenomenal story of tragedy and survival under most horrific circumstances.

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Bad Guys

Why must Americans rely on foreign media to expose the deplorable conditions of Biden's child migrant detention centers?

Robert Bridge
RT
Tue, 25 May 2021 16:28 UTC
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© Dario Lopez-Mills/ReutersYoung migrants' pod at Texas' Donna Department of Homeland Security holding facility.
While the US media never stopped hammering Donald Trump over his 'zero-tolerance' migration policies, journalists happily give Joe Biden a pass as thousands of child migrants arrive in the US to nightmarish conditions.

In order to appreciate how biased the American mainstream media is in favor of the Democratic Party, consider that it took journalists from the BBC (hardly a pro-Trump organization) to uncover the appalling conditions that await the hundreds of child migrants entering the United States from Mexico every single day.

This massive influx of minors, who mostly arrive from Central America, has forced the Customs and Border Protection agency (CBP) to place the minors on daily flights to a network of 200 detention facilities across 22 states, where the young arrivals can expect to be greeted by "cold temperatures, sickness, neglect, lice and filth," among other such pleasantries, the British broadcaster revealed in its shocking report.
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Facebook won't remove posts claiming COVID-19 is human-made


ABC News
Thu, 27 May 2021 01:29 UTC
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© AP
Facebook says it will no longer remove claims that COVID-19 is human-made or manufactured "in light of ongoing investigations into the origin of COVID-19 and in consultation with public health experts."

There is rising pressure worldwide to investigate the origins of the pandemic, including the possibility that it came from a lab. Since the pandemic began, Facebook has been changing what it allows on the topic and what it bans. In February, it announced a host of new claims it would be prohibiting -- including that COVID-19 was created in a Chinese lab. Other claims it added at the time included the false notion that vaccines are not effective or that they are toxic.

Lisa Fazio, a professor of psychology at Vanderbilt University, said the reversal shows the difficulty of fact-checking in general, particularly with something unprecedented like the coronavirus, when experts can disagree and change their minds with new evidence.
"It's one reason that content moderation shouldn't be static, scientific consensus changes over time. It's also a reminder to be humble and that for some questions the best current answer is "we don't know yet" or "it's possible, but experts think it's unlikely."
Facebook's reversal comes as President Joe Biden ordered U.S. intelligence officials to "redouble" their efforts to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, including any possibility the trail might lead to a Chinese laboratory. After months of minimizing these claims as a fringe theory, the Biden administration is joining worldwide pressure for China to be more open about the outbreak. It aims to head off GOP complaints that Biden has not been tough enough and to use the opportunity to press China on alleged obstruction.
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Dollars

Not even the Soviet Union paid people to stay home

Viktorija Simulynaite
Sovereign Man
Wed, 26 May 2021 06:43 UTC
Covid stimulus-checks
Editor's note: This letter was written by Viktorija, our Sovereign Woman
Last week after my little 'incident' when I was almost mugged in downtown Las Vegas, I felt the need to unwind and have a drink.

Apparently everyone else had the same idea, because the hotel bar was packed as tightly as a 'mostly peaceful' protest.

Curiously, though, despite such brisk business, there was only ONE waitress working.

She couldn't possibly keep up with all the orders and looked like she was on the verge of a nervous breakdown. So I walked over to see if she was doing OK.

She was almost in tears as she told me that there would usually be at least 4-6 other servers... but all of her colleagues had simply stopped showing up and the hotel hadn't found anyone to replace them.

After all, why actually work if the government is willing to pay you to Netflix and chill all day?

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Info

Macron in Rwanda: 'Recognition' but 'no repentance' for France's role in genocide

Alison Sargent
France 24
Thu, 27 May 2021 11:59 UTC
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Thursday, May 27, 2021: As the French president visits Rwanda, left-wing daily Libération warns that there will be "recognition" but "no repentance" for France's role in the 1994 genocide. British papers react to bombshell testimony from the PM's former adviser on the government's "disastrous" Covid-19 response. Plus, tennis star Naomi Osaka speaks out against press conferences, and research shows that monkeys adapt their "accents" when talking to monkeys of other species.
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Fire

Three men jailed over 2017 Catalonia terror attacks

Sam Jones
The Guardian
Thu, 27 May 2021 16:16 UTC
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© Fernando Villar/AFP/Getty ImagesMohamed Houli Chemlal (left), Driss Oukabir (centre) and Said Ben Iazza, convicted of helping the perpetrators of 2017 jihadist attacks in Catalonia.
Mohamed Houli Chemlal, Driss Oukabir and Said Ben Iazza jailed over attacks that left 16 people dead and 140 wounded.

Three men have been jailed for between eight and 53 years after being found guilty of assisting the perpetrators of the 2017 terror attacks in Catalonia, which left 16 people dead and 140 wounded.

The men who carried out the atrocities - Spain's worst terror attack since the Madrid train bombings in March 2004 - used a van to knock down pedestrians on Barcelona's La Rambla boulevard on 17 August 2017 and then staged another assault the following day in the Catalan coastal town of Cambrils.

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