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Luxury property developer accused of Islamophobia after 'airbrushing mosque' out of marketing photos


RT
Thu, 06 Dec 2018 18:10 UTC
London Islamic Cultural Society and Mosque
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London Islamic Cultural Society and Mosque in Hornsey, north London
A property developer has been accused of Islamophobia after 'airbrushing' a nearby mosque out of marketing photos for their new luxury apartments worth £395,000, in north London.

Fairview New Homes has caused outrage among local people and attendees of the London Islamic Cultural Society and Mosque in Hornsey, north London, with their promotional shots for the new 'Altitude' development. The property developer has omitted the mosque, prompting accusations of Islamophobia for "trying to pretend" the religious building "does not exist" so that it does not harm sales.

RT's Anastasia Churkina went to the new property development to get the views of local people. One local insisted the mosque was too big for developers to simply miss it out, claiming "it's been left out deliberately. I imagine if you were a user of the local mosque you might be offended."
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Bad Guys

Colorado cop who kidnapped mentally unstable woman and raped her gets off with 90 day sentence in plea bargain

Jack Burns
The Free Thought Project
Wed, 05 Dec 2018 00:00 UTC
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Instead of felony charges for sex assault by force, sex assault by a person in a position of authority and false imprisonment, the officer reached a plea deal with prosecutors to plead guilty to lesser misdemeanors of unlawful sexual contact and official misconduct.
In August of 2017, Curtis Lee Arganbright, a Westminster police officer, was asked to take an unruly woman home from the hospital. She was allegedly attempting to steal items belonging to the Emergency Room after checking herself in for alcoholism. But instead of getting the woman safely home, Arganbright took her down a dark road and raped her on the front of his car while she was still in handcuffs.

Instead of felony charges for sex assault by force, sex assault by a person in a position of authority and false imprisonment, the officer reached a plea deal with prosecutors to plead guilty to lesser misdemeanors of unlawful sexual contact and official misconduct. As a result of the sweetheart deal, some have alleged, Arganbright now only has to serve 90 days in jail followed by four years probation, and has to register as a sex offender.

Criminal defense attorney Dan Recht told Denver's Channel 7 news the prosecution likely believed they did not have enough evidence in court to get a felony conviction. Recht described the difficult scenario.

They have a victim that was intoxicated. An officer saying that she was sexually aggressive and he foolishly and unlawfully reacted and was sexual, but that it was consensual...At the end of the day. It's clearly he said, she said. Except that he's a police officer and it's an abuse of power.

Comment: Proving yet again that the rules for those 'in authority' are vastly different than those applied to the rest of society.

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Monkey Wrench

'Failed system': Extensive evidence shows US Dept of Education's approach to campus sexual assault was widely criticized

Tyler Coward
FIRE
Thu, 15 Nov 2018 00:00 UTC
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On Oct. 12, six Democratic senators wrote U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos to ask her to delay proposed Education Department regulations governing Title IX.

The letter asked Secretary DeVos a series of questions, including two that were particularly relevant to FIRE. First they asked for "a list of all organizations, advocates, and experts that have been consulted in the process of developing [a notice of proposed rulemaking] thus far." They also requested that the Secretary "provide the analysis behind the Department's determination that the former Title IX guidance was 'widely criticized' and a 'failed system.'"

Because FIRE was one of the organizations that provided input to the Department and because we value transparency, we sent the Senators a letter to emphasize that the input we provided the current administration was consistent with the input we provided the Department during the Obama administration, and was the same input we have repeatedly provided to Congress and the public.

In order to keep the letter to a manageable length, though, we did not seek to set forth the extensive evidence behind the Department's assessment that the prior approach was "widely criticized" and "failing." It is important, however, to demonstrate the magnitude of that evidence for the public record. So here, in longer form, we are posting the evidentiary support for our statement to the Senate Democrats that our "concerns about the erosion of procedural protections have been subsequently echoed by a diverse range of widely respected organizations, individuals, legal scholars ... and an increasing number of state and federal courts."

Comment: Title IX gave accusers almost carte blanche to ruin the lives of many innocent young men:

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Ambulance

Red Cross: Humanitarians can't fix Yemen without a political solution to armed conflict


RT
Thu, 06 Dec 2018 14:40 UTC
A boy stands on the rubble of a house in the city of Saada, Yemen
© Reuters / Naif Rahma
Rubble of a house in the city of Saada, Yemen.
Yemen's disastrous humanitarian situation cannot be fixed by aid organizations as long as there is no political solution for the armed conflict there, the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross told RT.

Speaking during a visit to Moscow, Peter Maurer said he and other people providing relief for those living in conflict zones are hopeful that this week's negotiations in Sweden would bring progress in curbing violence in the Arab country.

"What is certainly true is that the humanitarians on their own can't fix the situation in which Yemen is in today, this is one of the most dire humanitarian situation we have seen, people have been dying not only from the direct attacks, but also from the destruction of the infrastructure, of hospitals, of water systems," he said. "This situation can only be fixed if a political solution is found. There is a slight light at the end of the tunnel with peace talks going on in Sweden."

Comment: There is now at least some hope for a political solution as representatives from the Yemeni government and Houthi rebels are meeting in Sweden to attend UN-sponsored negotiations aimed at ending the war. Mohammed Abdul-Salam, spokesman and chief negotiator for the Ansarullah movement, wrote on his official Twitter page that the Houthis "will spare no effort to make a success of the talks to restore peace and end the aggression." Martin Griffiths, the UN special envoy for Yemen said on Thursday in opening remarks at the talks that 'Both parties have called for a de-escalation, which is an important backdrop to these talks. This is a show of serious intent.'

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Attention

More than 7-in-10 California immigrant households receive taxpayer-funded welfare

John Binder
Breitbart
Tue, 04 Dec 2018 00:00 UTC
US Customs and Border Patrol
More than 7-in-10 households headed by immigrants in the state of California are on taxpayer-funded welfare, a new study reveals.

The latest Census Bureau data analyzed by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) finds that about 72 percent of households headed by noncitizens and immigrants use one or more forms of taxpayer-funded welfare programs in California - the number one immigrant-receiving state in the U.S.

Meanwhile, only about 35 percent of households headed by native-born Americans use welfare in California.

All four states with the largest foreign-born populations, including California, have extremely high use of welfare by immigrant households. In Texas, for example, nearly 70 percent of households headed by immigrants use taxpayer-funded welfare. Meanwhile, only about 35 percent of native-born households in Texas are on welfare.
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Heart - Black

Chinese mum fakes son's kidnapping to test husband's love

Laurie Chen
South China Morning Post
Wed, 05 Dec 2018 16:03 UTC
Chinese man missing son
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A Chinese woman has been arrested for faking the kidnapping of her son, to test her husband’s love, according to police.
Police have accused the mother of an 11-year-old boy who went missing in eastern China for more than five days of staging a hoax after the child was found at a relative's house.

The boy, surnamed Huang, was found safe and well late on Tuesday evening, but his disappearance was a deliberately created false alarm, according to a statement on Wednesday from police in Yueqing, Zhejiang province.

The boy's mother, a 33-year-old woman surnamed Chen, has been detained on suspicion of "creating and deliberately spreading false information", according to police.

The woman, who had been in an argument with her husband, had "deliberately planned and created this false alarm" as a way of testing whether her husband really cared about her and her son, police said.
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Holly

Christmas is canceled? Swedish newspaper blasted for renaming the traditional holiday 'winter celebrations'


RT
Thu, 06 Dec 2018 14:35 UTC
Santa
© Global Look Press/ Egon Bömsch
A Swedish newspaper has come under fire after it stopped short of publishing a headline with the word Christmas. It instead referred to the much-revered holiday season as "winter celebrations."

Sydsvenskan, a regional daily headquartered in Skåne County, published an article on how Christmas celebrations are being moved from Gustaf Adolf Square to the "safer" one at Stortorget, as part of counter-terrorism measures.

Stockholm was the scene of a deadly terrorist attack on April 7 last year, when a truck ploughed into a crowd of pedestrians, killing five and injuring many more.

Police reported that the perpetrator had expressed sympathy with extremist groups, including Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS).

Comment: See also:

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Christmas Tree

Elementary school principal in Nebraska tried to ban slew of Christmas-themed items

Tré Goins-Phillips
Faithwire
Thu, 06 Dec 2018 15:44 UTC
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© Joanna Kosinska/Unsplash

An elementary school in Nebraska has banned a long list of Christmas-themed items in hopes of being "inclusive and culturally sensitive to all of our students," the principal said.

According to a report from Liberty Counsel, a religious liberty law firm, principal Jennifer Sinclair has banned an extensive list of items from Manchester Elementary School of Elkhorn Public Schools.
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Arrow Down

What America is doing to its young people is appalling

James Ostrowski
LewRockwell.com
Mon, 03 Dec 2018 20:58 UTC
american flag fence
Critics are perhaps too quick to judge America's young people, citing declining SAT scores, obesity, drug overdoses, addiction to smart phones, bizarre alterations of personal appearance and high rates of (alleged) mental illness. It's just too easy to be annoyed at how some of the cashiers at the local grocery store seem unable to carry on a conversation or have chosen to mutilate their faces with pieces of metal. We are perhaps too quick to condemn the crazed behavior of young protesters in recent years without fully considering what our government, society and culture have done to these poor souls.

Let's begin at the beginning. Forty percent of Americans are now born out of wedlock. Single parent families are associated with a long list of social maladies:
"Children who grow up with only one of their biological parents (nearly always the mother) are disadvantaged across a broad array of outcomes. . . . they are twice as likely to drop out of high school, 2.5 times as likely to become teen mothers, and 1.4 times as likely to be idle - out of school and out of work - as children who grow up with both parents. Children in one-parent families also have lower grade point averages, lower college aspirations, and poorer attendance records. As adults, they have higher rates of divorce. These patterns persist even after adjusting for differences in race, parents' education, number of siblings, and residential location." Sara McLanahan, "The Consequences of Single Motherhood," American Prospect (Summer 1994).

Comment: See also:

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Cell Phone

New York City wants to make it illegal to send a sexy pic without affirmative consent

Elizabeth Nolan Brown
Reason
Wed, 05 Dec 2018 15:08 UTC
statue of David
It's illegal to flash your genitals at strangers in public, but not to send unsolicited nudes via text, app, email, or social media. This is a situation the New York City Council seeks to rectify. To that end, a bill introduced last week by Councilman Joseph Borelli-which Wired has dubbed "NYC's Anti-Airdrop Dick Pic Law"-would prohibit "unsolicited disclosures of intimate images."

Under Borrelli's measure, it would be a misdemeanor offense "to send an unsolicited sexually explicit video or image to another person with intent to harass, annoy, or alarm such other person," punishable by up to a year in jail or a $1,000 fine. Sexually explicit means anything showing "genitals, pubic area or anus of any person."
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