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Former UK lecturer blasts SJW students with 'smug little minds', says 'the Stasi would have loved you'


RT
Tue, 26 Feb 2019 19:54 UTC
University of Lincoln
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A university lecturer who quit his post after being accused of Islamophobia and sexism has hit out at students who have "smug little minds," claiming they would have been loved by the repressive East German secret 'Stasi' police.

Michael Blackburn, who taught creative writing and English Literature at the University of Lincoln, has written a scathing piece on his blog in which he denounces "wannabe leftist politicos" and "social-justice types" for behaving like a "mob,"who seek to drive out dissenting views - like his.
They are now the witch hunters, but instead of condemning you, as the victim, to imprisonment, torture or death, you're banished to the soft gulag of shame, unemployment and the destruction of your reputation and career.
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'DNSpionage' attacks threaten internet traffic infrastructure, US agencies warn


Sputnik
Tue, 26 Feb 2019 01:07 UTC
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Key internet and US security agencies have warned that internet infrastructure faces a new danger in the form of Domain Name System (DNS) attacks, which enable hackers to snoop on data transfers or even spoof websites.

"There is an ongoing and significant risk to key parts of the Domain Name System (DNS) infrastructure," the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) said in a February 22 statement. DNS is responsible for routing internet traffic to its intended destination.

These attacks enable hostile parties to snoop on data being sent through the DNS, to redirect traffic to other locations and even to impersonate or "spoof" the destination website, ICANN specialists told AFP.

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Argentina's chief Rabbi beaten in savage nighttime attack by home invaders


RT
Tue, 26 Feb 2019 20:24 UTC
Rabbi Gabriel Davidovich
© Twitter / Asociacion Mutual Israelita ArgentinaRabbi Gabriel Davidovich
A band of criminals broke through the roof of the Buenos Aires home of Argentina's chief rabbi, Gabriel Davidovich, at 2am, beat him, tied up his wife and escaped with valuables in an attack some have called a hate crime.

"We know you're the Rabbi of AMIA [Argentine Israelite Mutual Association]," was reportedly the last thing a masked man told Davidovich before the "savage" assault which left him hospitalized with serious injuries, including nine broken ribs.

AMIA, whose building was bombed in 1994, resulting in the deaths of 85 people, has expressed "deep unease" at the attack and what was said to Davidovich, who has headed the organization since 2013.
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France sees gay marriage on the rise while traditional marriages decline


RT
Tue, 26 Feb 2019 19:52 UTC
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© AFP / Geoffroy VAN DER HASSELT
While mass demonstrations greeted the authorization of gay marriage in France in mid-2013, between that point and 2017, around 40,000 same sex couples have been officiated, new statistics show.

Proponents of gay marriage are hopeful following new marriage statistics released by France's National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies Tuesday. The data for 2017 shows that 7,244 same sex marriages were officiated during the year.

On Twitter, one user expressed hope for a day when gay marriage would become so naturalized it would no longer even put in a separate category.
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Tommy Robinson banned from Facebook and Instagram

Alex Hern, Jim Waterson
The Guardian
Tue, 26 Feb 2019 19:40 UTC
Tommy Robinson
© Danny Lawson/PATommy Robinson addresses a protest outside the BBC’s offices in Salford on Saturday.
Tommy Robinson, the far-right founder of the English Defence League, has been permanently banned from Facebook and Instagram for repeatedly breaking policies on hate speech, Facebook said.

The company said Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, broke rules that ban public calls for violence against people based on protected characteristics; rules that ban supporting or appearing with organised hate groups; and policies that prevent people from using the site to bully others.

The decision to ban Robinson from the social media sites could threaten his ability to reach large audiences. He is already banned from Twitter and the decision to cut him off from Instagram and Facebook will leave him reliant on YouTube as the only major online platform to provide him with a presence.
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Hysterical: WaPo accuses Netflix of being a stooge for Russia because streaming service airs historical drama about Trotsky


RT
Thu, 28 Feb 2019 02:58 UTC
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The Washington Post has found another Russian secret agent in America's own backyard, this time reprimanding US-based streaming service Netflix for doing the Kremlin's bidding by showing a Russian historical drama.

The WaPo has sounded the alarm over perhaps the most unlikely Russian stooge yet, putting Netflix on a par with the usual suspects, like RT and the St. Petersburg 'troll factory', as supposed tools of the Moscow propaganda game.

The liberal publication has taken aim at the 2017 Russian mini-series 'Trotsky', currently being streamed on the platform. The eight-episode series, which depicts the life of famous Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky, was produced to mark the centenary of the Russian revolution and was initially oriented towards domestic audiences.

Comment: With every passing accusation, The Washington Post, NY Times, CNN, etc. make it clear that they are in fact hysterical - and aiming to further hystericize and polarize the West against Russia.

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IDF soldiers get 6 months in jail for beating handcuffed, blindfolded Palestinian prisoners


RT
Mon, 25 Feb 2019 17:53 UTC
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Two of the five Israeli soldiers accused of severely beating restrained Palestinian prisoners have reached a plea agreement with military prosecutors. They'll be demoted in ranks and get six and a half months in jail.

The soldiers are the first of the five belonging to the ultra-Orthodox Netzah Yehuda Battalion to admit to beating a father and his teenage son who remain in Israeli custody without charges. While the plea agreement will help them avoid more serious charges of aggravated assault, they will still face six and a half months in prison and a demotion.

Negotiations are ongoing regarding charges against the remaining three soldiers whose detention has been extended until Wednesday. Two of the five are also being charged with obstruction of justice for attempting to collaborate their stories beforehand.

The Israeli soldiers were arrested on January 10, days after allegedly striking their Palestinian prisoners "with slaps, punches and bludgeons while they were handcuffed and blindfolded, causing them serious injuries," the IDF said.

Comment: No doubt Israeli society is for the most part outraged - not that IDF soldiers are engaged in torture, but that they were punished, however lightly. To a large segment of Israeli society - especially among Orthodox groups like the battalion in question - Palestinians are considered to be animals, to be pushed out of Palestine in order for the "redemption of the land" - and utterly destroyed like the Amalekites. It is a major sin to harm an Israeli Jew - to harm a Palestinian, not so much. Often it's a religious requirement.

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Justice: Australian Cardinal Pell convicted of molesting 2 choirboys

Rod McGuirk
Associated Press
Tue, 26 Feb 2019 17:21 UTC
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© Associated Press/Andy BrownbillCardinal George Pell leaves the County Court in Melbourne, Australia, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019. The most senior Catholic cleric ever charged with child sex abuse has been convicted of molesting two choirboys moments after celebrating Mass, dealing a new blow to the Catholic hierarchy's credibility after a year of global revelations of abuse and cover-up.
The most senior Catholic cleric ever charged with child sex abuse has been convicted of molesting two choirboys moments after celebrating Mass, dealing a new blow to the Catholic hierarchy's credibility after a year of global revelations of abuse and cover-up.

Cardinal George Pell, Pope Francis' top financial adviser and the Vatican's economy minister, bowed his head but then regained his composure as the 12-member jury delivered unanimous verdicts in the Victoria state County Court on Dec. 11 after more than two days of deliberation.

The court had until Tuesday forbidden publication of any details about the trial.

Pell faces a potential maximum 50-year prison term after a sentencing hearing that begins on Wednesday. He lodged an appeal last week against the convictions.

Comment: The Catholic church has a long way to go cleaning up its mess. Will it even survive?

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Twitter banned me for ideological reasons - which is why I'm suing them

Meghan Murphy
Quillette
Tue, 26 Feb 2019 00:00 UTC
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This is a response to "Who Controls the Platform?"-a multi-part Quillette series authored by social-media insiders. Submissions related to this series may be directed to pitch@quillette.com.
Progressives who claim that "reality has a liberal bias" may be correct on certain issues. But problems emerge when the facts don't co-operate with the liberal narrative. We saw an example recently, when it emerged that actor Jussie Smollett had been formally charged with making up a hoax hate-crime involving MAGA-hat-wearing men assaulting him with bleach, a noose and racist, homophobic epithets. As Quillette's Andy Ngo noted, Smollett's original claim attracted an outpouring of performative sympathy from an all-star cast of liberal grandees. But when it turned out the attack never happened, most of those same commentators kept mum. A similar pattern played out with the boys from Covington Catholic High School caught on video at the Lincoln Memorial: Too often, observers seize on a fashionable narrative and either reject or ignore evidence that falsifies it-because what counts for them is less about the actual truth of a claim, and more about how much on-brand social-media value is associated with boosting it. Call it doublethink or virtue-signaling. But whatever label you choose, the phenomenon has real effects on public policy-as my own experience shows.

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7 US troops injured in Poland after van veers off the road and crashes


WRAL
Tue, 26 Feb 2019 10:23 UTC
US soldiers poland
© Staff Sgt. Ron Lee/Army National GuardU.S. soldiers assigned to the 1st Armored Brigade Cavalry Team, 1st Cavalry Division’s, 91st Brigade Engineer Battalion begin loading their vehicles on rail for transport in Karliki, Poland, Nov. 6, 2018.
Polish and U.S. officials in southwestern Poland say that seven U.S. troops were injured, two of them, seriously when their van veered off the road and rolled over.

A police spokeswoman in Zagan, Anna Kublik-Rosciszewska, said the crash took place Sunday afternoon near Trzebien, on the A18 road as the troops were traveling in the direction of Wroclaw on a routine mission.

She said Monday that six of the troops were hospitalized and that two of them were in serious condition. The seventh was treated on the spot.

The troops are with the 21st Theater Sustainment Command, or TSC, based in Karliki, in Zagan region.

Comment: At least from the details so far, the fault appears to lie with the driver and/or the passengers. What's notable is that this is just the most recent in series of crashes and accidents within the US military:

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