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Football referee charged with sexual offences involving 300 boys in Norway

Henry Martin
Daily Mail
Tue, 20 Nov 2018 19:29 UTC
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According to the prosecutor's office, about 300 boys aged 13 to 16 were targeted since 2011, in Norway and other Nordic countries
Norwegian authorities have charged a man in his twenties with sexual offences involving some 300 teenage boys - the biggest such case in the country's history.

The man, said to be a football referee, allegedly adopted female personas in chat forums to target boys on the internet, according to Norwegian media.

He then convinced the victims to engage in sexual acts - which he filmed - with promises of erotic photos in return, it is claimed.

According to the prosecutor's office, about 300 boys aged 13 to 16 were targeted since 2011, in Norway and other Nordic countries

'The case is a serious one, and it is the biggest case of sexual abuse in Norway to date,' state prosecutor Guro Hansson Bull said in a statement.

Comment: See also: And check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: Predators Among Us - Interview With Dr. Anna Salter

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Cow

Economists' new proposal to tax steak and bacon to "save lives" is a really bad idea

Ryan Bourne
Foundation for Economic Education
Fri, 16 Nov 2018 00:01 UTC
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Meat is a tasty pleasure, and governments should be wary of policy demonizing it.

Some economists want to make it more expensive for the less well-off to enjoy a clear revealed pleasure: eating red and processed meat.

The average household in the poorest fifth of the income distribution dedicates 1.3 percent of spending towards it. That's over double average household spending in the richest quintile. Yet meat is now a new "public health" target. Lifestyle controls once stopped at smoking and drinking. They recently expanded to soda and even caffeine. Now, even the hallowed steak is not sacred.

Comment: The idea that taxing meat to "save lives" is a farce from the get-go, because meat is not detrimental to health. All the "studies" that try to make the case against meat are observational, with an infinite number of confounding factors making conclusions about its effect on health impossible. All a meat tax would accomplish would be to make it yet more difficult to achieve a normal state of health for the average consumer.

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Star of David

Israel's crusade for annexation in Jerusalem: The role of Ma'ale Adumim and the E1 Corridor

Zena Agha
Shabaka
Mon, 26 Mar 2018 22:30 UTC
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Overview

In recent months, Israel has made a series of relentless attempts to annex settlements bordering Jerusalem. The most ambitious: The Greater Jerusalem bill, which sought to annex Ma'ale Adumim, Givat Zeev, Beitar Illit, and the Etzion bloc - a settlement cluster between Jerusalem and Hebron -and which was scheduled for approval by the Israeli Ministerial Committee for Legislation at the end of October 2017. 1 Its ultimate aim was to "Judaize" Jerusalem through demographic gerrymandering and territorial expansion. 2

While Netanyahu delayed the bill indefinitely due to pressure from the United States, which was concerned that it would hinder efforts to resurrect peace talks, the intent behind it lives on in other measures. In the wake of US President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital in December 2017, Israel has ramped up efforts to annex the land and change the demographic makeup of Jerusalem.
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Health

Picking up the pieces in Gaza: Prosthetic limb workshop races to keep up with demand from shootings at protests

Ahmad Kabariti
Mondoweiss
Mon, 19 Nov 2018 00:00 UTC
Artificial Limbs and Polio Center in Gaza City
© Mohammed AsadBaha'a Abu Ayyad practices walking on a prosthetic leg at the Artificial Limbs and Polio Center in Gaza City
Sitting on a white sheet on a bed in Gaza City, Anas Minerawi, a 26-year-old civil engineer/trainee, reimagines noon of last May 18th, when "everything turned into completely grayish-white mixed with gibberish noise".

"I felt like something very painful was going out of my chest," Anas stammered.

He had been shot by Israeli fire during the weekly protest east of Gaza city on the border with Israel. He told me:

amputated limb
© Mohammed AsadAnas Minerawi holds his amputated limb, at the Artificial Limbs and Polio Center in Gaza City
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Zuckerberg's "war face" has pushed key executives to leave, stoked tension with Facebook chief Sandberg

Tyler Durden
Zerohedge
Mon, 19 Nov 2018 15:15 UTC
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Earlier this year, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg gathered around 50 of his key executives and told them that the company was at war - more specifically, under siege from lawmakers, investors and angry users over the Cambridge Analytica data harvesting scandal and Russian influence on the platform.

Zuckerberg, according to the Wall Street Journal, told his top lieutenants during that June meeting that while executives can move more slowly and methodically on key decisions during "peacetime," he would be acting more decisively going forward, said people familiar with the remarks.

The result? Tension which has boiled over to the point where several key executives have left the country - as well as friction between Zuckerberg and longtime COO, Sheryl Sandberg.
The 34-year-old CEO believes Facebook didn't move quickly enough at key moments this year and increasingly is pressing senior executives to "make progress faster" on resolving problems such as slowing user growth and securing the platform, said people familiar with the matter. Mr. Zuckerberg also at times has expressed frustration at how the company managed the waves of criticism it faced this year.

On Friday, that tension was on display when, during a question-and-answer session with employees at Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., he blasted a fresh round of critical news coverage as "bullshit,"according to the people familiar with the remarks. -WSJ

Comment: Facebook's inner squabbles are also likely the result of the war party's pressure to weaponize the social social media platform:

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NPC

Hollywood actors threaten to boycott Georgia film industry after Democrat's loss

Mac Slavo
SHTFplan.com
Mon, 19 Nov 2018 00:00 UTC
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Several Hollywood actors are calling for a boycott of Georgia's film industry after Republican Brian Kemp officially won the state's gubernatorial contest against Democrat Stacey Abrams. But like the threats to move to Canada if Donald Trump won in 2016, these are also more than likely going to be hollow.

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Comment: Wait a minute - a Democrat lost an election and no one's pinning it on 'Russian meddling'?! What's this world coming to??

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People

Election fraud scheme on L.A.'s skid row got homeless to sign fake names for cigarettes and cash, D.A. says

HANNAH FRY and MARISA GERBER
Los Angeles Times
Wed, 21 Nov 2018 13:35 UTC
skid row
© Los Angeles TimesSkid row in 2016.
A forged signature swapped for $1 - or sometimes a cigarette.

The crude exchange played out hundreds of times on L.A.'s skid row during the 2016 election cycle and again this year, prosecutors said Tuesday as they announced criminal charges against nine people accused in a fraud scheme.

Using cash and cigarettes as lures, the defendants approached homeless people on skid row and asked them to forge signatures on state ballot measure petitions and voter registration forms, the district attorney's office said. The defendants - some of whom were scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday - face several criminal charges, including circulating a petition with fake names, voter fraud and registering a fictitious person.

The charges, which were filed three weeks ago but made public Tuesday, followed a Los Angeles Police Department crackdown on suspected election fraud on skid row earlier in the year.

"They paid individuals to sign the names," Officer Deon Joseph, the senior lead officer on skid row,told The Times in September. "That's an assault on our democracy."
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Next victory for BDS? Human Rights Watch pressures Booking.com to follow Airbnb, end business in Israel's illegal settlements


Sputnik
Tue, 20 Nov 2018 22:17 UTC
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© Human Rights WatchHuman Rights Watch map shows former Airbnb rentals in the illegally occupied West Bank with red dots, blue dots to signify current rentals on Booking.com.
The nonprofit Human Rights Watch urged Booking.com on Tuesday to follow in the footsteps of the home-renting service Airbnb, which on Monday banned listings for apartment rentals in the illegally occupied West Bank.

"Many in the global community have stated that companies should not do business here because they believe companies should not profit on lands where people have been displaced," Airbnb said in a statement.

Activists had long sought to get Airbnb to quit servicing the area, Sputnik News reported.
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SOTT Focus: Why Drivers Are Leading a Protest Movement Across France

Feargus O'Sullivan
CityLab
Mon, 19 Nov 2018 21:23 UTC

Comment: Barely 18 months into his presidency, open rebellion has erupted in France. Now entering its fifth day, hundreds of thousands of people are protesting rising prices and taxes by donning the fluorescent yellow reflective vests all drivers are mandated to store in their vehicles at all times, giving this grassroots movement the name 'Gilets Jaunes' (yellow vests).

Protests occur regularly in France, and strikes of course - nobody does strikes quite like the French - but what stands out about this particular movement is that it's genuinely grassroots. No trade unions, no NGOs, no politicians, and no think-tanks were involved in promoting, leading or sponsoring it. It has no leadership and no spokesman. It doesn't even have a website...


gilets jaune protest france
France may have a tradition of boisterous protest, but this weekend's mass demonstrations against gas tax increases have still managed to take the country by surprise.

On Saturday and Sunday, at least 280,000 protesters took to the streets in urban, suburban, and rural communities across the country, burning cars, blockading highways and fuel depots, and engaging in battles with police and motorists as they demonstrated against planned rises in gas and diesel taxes. So far, over 400 people have been injured in the Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vests) movement - so named because the protesters are wearing the high-viz vests that French drivers are obliged to carry in case of emergencies. On Saturday, one was even killed after being run over by a panicked driver. The movement shows no signs of letting up, however, with protests continuing Monday and more major protest days planned for later in the month.

Comment: Protesters attempted to reach the Elysée Palace - Macron's residence - on Saturday:


The first day, Saturday 17 November, saw the biggest turnouts so far. The whole country pretty much came to a standstill. Here's footage from just some of the protests in just one of France's 96 departments on Saturday:




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Bomb

Blast near wedding hall kills 43 people in Kabul, Afghanistan


RT
Tue, 20 Nov 2018 21:34 UTC
Kabul
© Wikipedia
At least 43 people have been killed in a blast that took place near a wedding hall in the Afghan capital of Kabul, the country's health ministry has said.

The blast took place as attendees gathered to celebrate Eid Milad, an Islamic holiday marking the birthday of the prophet Mohammed.

More than 80 other people were injured in the explosion, officials say. A ministry spokesman told Afghan news network Tolo News that the blast was a suicide bombing.
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