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Best of the Web: More fake anti-Semitism? 'Spike' in neo-Nazi graffiti on streets of Paris blamed by French government on Yellow Vest protesters


RT
Tue, 12 Feb 2019 16:49 UTC
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© Reuters/Vincent KesslerStrasbourg's Grand Rabbi inspects graves desecrated with anti-Semitic graffiti in 2018.
France's interior minister has vowed to take a tougher stance on hatred, after multiple incidents of anti-semitic vandalism, and a spike in anti-Jewish hate crimes last year.

Parisians were greeted with crudely daubed anti-Semitic slogans on shop fronts last weekend, including swastikas sprayed over images of late politician and Holocaust survivor Simone Veil, and the German word for Jews ("Juden") sprayed on a bagel shop in the city center.



Comment: Interestingly, this happened in England last weekend: One naturally wonders if the fact that Jews have been caught committing 'acts of anti-Semitism' in the past might have anything to do with these recent 'spikes' in 'anti-Semitism':

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New Jersey: Voters furious as Governor Murphy prepares to sign 'Rain Tax' into law

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Mon, 11 Feb 2019 13:11 UTC
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Just when frustrated residents of New Jersey, one of the most heavily taxed states in the US, thought Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy had already brought the state into the ninth circle of taxation hell with new taxes to save the state's ailing pension system, middle class voters in one of the least affordable states in the country have now been given one more thing to complain about: A tax on the rain.

After a bill authorizing the new local taxes was passed by the state late last month, Murphy is preparing to sign it into law, over the objections of the state's Republicans, according to the New York Post.

As one state lawmaker told the post, just when NJ residents thought the state had already laid claim to every revenue stream imaginable, Democrats have found one more thing to tax.

"Every time you think there's nothing left to tax, we come up with something else," Assemblyman Hal Wirths (R-Morris-Sussex) exploded during a debate on the measure. "It's just never-ending down here." And voters are understandably furious.


Comment: Pouring on the taxes is not 'water under the bridge' for New Jersey! Voters will rain on this governor's parade!

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Hebron: International observer mission, a restraint on Israeli settler's worst excesses, has come to an end

Jonathan Cook
The National
Sun, 10 Feb 2019 01:00 UTC
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© Abed Al Hashlamoun/EPAIsraeli settler argues with Palestinians wearing blue vests of 'observers' during a protest against the end of the mandate for the Temporary International Presence in Hebron.
You might imagine that a report by a multinational observer force documenting a 20-year reign of terror by Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers against Palestinians, in a city under occupation, would provoke condemnation from European and US politicians. But you would be wrong. The leaking in December of the report on conditions in the city of Hebron, home to 200,000 Palestinians, barely caused a ripple.

About 40,000 separate cases of abuse had been quietly recorded since 1997 by dozens of monitors from Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, Italy and Turkey. Some incidents constituted war crimes.

Exposure of the confidential report has now provided the pretext for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to expel the international observers. He shuttered their mission in Hebron this month, in apparent violation of Israel's obligations under the 25-year-old Oslo peace accords.

Israel hopes once again to draw a veil over its violent colonisation of the heart of the West Bank's largest Palestinian city. The process of clearing tens of thousands of inhabitants from central Hebron is already well advanced.

Any chance of rousing the international community into even minimal protest was stamped out by the US last week. It blocked a draft resolution at the United Nations Security Council expressing "regret" at Israel's decision and on Friday, added that ending the mandate of the Temporary International Presence in Hebron was an "internal matter" for Israel.

Comment: See also:

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Zambia's planned hippo cull - Conservationists lashed scheme as a ploy to make money from trophy hunters


Digital Journal
Wed, 13 Feb 2019 18:12 UTC
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Zambia plans to slaughter 2,000 hippopotamuses to control overpopulation, officials said Wednesday, as conservationists lashed the scheme as a ploy to make money from trophy hunters.

An official at the tourism ministry, who did not want to be named, said a five-year cull of hippos in a park in eastern Zambia would start in May.

"Currently the hippo population in the South Luangwa National Park stands at over 13,000, but Luangwa can only cater for 5,000 hippos," he said.

"The population is higher and poses a danger to the ecosystem."

The Born Free conservation group called on the government to call off the cull, which it said was being staged to lure money from hunters.

"The justifications for this cull -- which is being openly marketed to paying trophy hunters -- are like a sea of shifting sand," said Born Free's president, Will Travers.
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Facebook using bots to detect suicidal thoughts and report cases to police

Elizabeth Nolan Brown
Reason
Wed, 13 Feb 2019 19:55 UTC
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Facebook protects itself from risk by putting users in danger. Facebook moderators can't handle determinations like whether a King Cake baby counts as obscenity. Yet the social media giant has nonetheless appointed itself arbiter of your mental health. And if its bots don't like what they see, Facebook may report you to police.

As part of "suicide prevention efforts," Facebook "says it has helped first responders conduct thousands of wellness checks globally, based on reports received through its efforts," reports CNN. Antigone Davis, Facebook's global head of safety, told the station: "We are using technology to proactively detect content where someone might be expressing thoughts of suicide."
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Russians favor peaceful democratic means of change over street protests, other forms of political activism


RT
Wed, 13 Feb 2019 18:39 UTC
Russia’s Central Election Commission
© Sputnik / Kirill Kallinikov
Russians, who want life in their country to change for the better, favor voting in elections and signing petitions and dislike taking part in street protests and donating money for causes, a new opinion poll shows.

The poll, conducted by the Levada Center, offered people various venues for pursuing changes in public life and asked whether or not they personally were prepared to take them. Finding a party with a program aligned with personal preferences and voting for it was the most popular option, with over 70 percent supporting this path. Signing petitions and open letters was chosen by 53 percent while lodging complaints with the authorities was favored by 49 percent.

While Russians are prepared to express their opinion, they don't seem eager to put more significant effort into their political activities. The least popular way to seek change in the country is donating money to political or public organizations - 91 percent responded they are not willing to do it. Almost equally unattractive is the option to personally run for office and enact change, which was seen as undesirable by 90 percent of the people polled.

Other options rejected by over a half of Russians were taking part in street protest (77 percent against), volunteering for a political cause (76 percent against) and becoming a paid employee of a public organization (69 percent against).
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LGBT activists are teaching judges to take trans kids from parents who won't let them 'transition'

Margot Cleveland
The Federalist
Tue, 12 Feb 2019 18:12 UTC
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On Thursday, the Health and Human Services committee of the South Dakota House killed a bill that would have protected the right of parents to refuse to consent to medical or psychological treatment for a child suffering from gender dysphoria if the treatment "would induce, confirm, or promote the child's belief that the child's sex or gender identity is different from the child's sex presented at birth." Proposed House Bill 1205 also provided that "no public authority or official of this state may take any adverse action against a parent for exercising this right."

That such a simple affirmation of parental rights could not clear a committee in this solidly red state should terrify parents, as it lays bare transgender activists' plan: use the government to force parents to affirm a false sex for their child, agree to hormone blockers, and accept a transition to their son or daughter's preferred gender. If parents refuse? Removal of the child from the family, due to alleged medical neglect.

We are already seeing the first two waves of this strategy, according to Dr. Michelle Cretella, executive director of the American College of Pediatricians. The first wave began in 2016 in the divorce and child custody setting, Cretella explained.

"I first began hearing from distraught parents in this situation in 2016 and in 2017, I heard from seven families in as many different states in this situation. In all but one case the child was a 15 year-old girl who never had any sexual identity confusion prior to her parent's divorce," Cretella said. "The other case involved 4-year-old triplet boys whose mother desperately wanted a girl. The mother was a psychologist herself and had cross-dressed one of the boys for two years, insisting that it was his idea. In each of the seven cases the guardian ad litems and judges removed the right to medical consent and/or custody from the parent who objected to transition with puberty blockers and hormones."

Comment: It's hard not to think there is a hidden agenda behind this movement. Trans activists are either convinced of their own 'compassion', or simply use it as a mask to fulfill that other agenda. The fact is, most kids grow out of gender dysphoria, especially if it is of the rapid onset type (which is itself a social contagion, having nothing to do with a deep-seated conviction that they were born in the wrong body). So why are these activists so hell-bent on getting these kids to have irreversible surgery and having them removed from their parents?

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Abducted Ohio State University student and suspected abductor killed in police shootout in Kentucky

Samuel Chamberlain
Fox News
Tue, 12 Feb 2019 18:18 UTC
Skylar Williams and her suspected abductor, Ty'rell Pounds.
© The Ohio State University at MansfieldSkylar Williams and her suspected abductor, Ty'rell Pounds.
An Ohio State University student and the man suspected of abducting her died Monday following a shootout with a Kentucky state trooper, authorities said Tuesday.

Kentucky State Police said in a statement that Skylar Williams, 20, was pronounced dead at the University of Louisville Hospital following the shooting in Oldham County. Her suspected abductor, 24-year-old Ty'rell Pounds, was pronounced dead at the scene.

Authorities said Williams was taken at gunpoint earlier Monday from a parking lot on Ohio State's branch campus in Mansfield, 100 miles northeast of the university's flagship campus in Columbus. Investigators told Fox 8 Cleveland that Pounds had a previous relationship with Williams and was the father of her child. The station also reported that Williams had taken out an order of protection against Pounds and reported to Mansfield Police last month that she was assaulted by him in September.

"Our Ohio State community suffered a tragic loss with the death of Mansfield student Skylar Williams," OSU President Michael Drake said in a statement released Tuesday. "This senseless and shocking incident has left our campus shaken. We join Mansfield Dean Norman Jones in expressing our condolences and deepest sympathies. Our thoughts and prayers are with Skylar's family."
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Flat Earthers: Australia is fake and people there are NASA-paid actors

Atiq Ahmed
Physics and Astronomy Zone
Tue, 31 Jul 2018 17:50 UTC
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There's a growing number of people who seem to think the world is, in fact, flat. But it gets better. They also insist that Australia is actually just one big hoax. According to a viral Facebook rant, the entire country (and presumably the 24 million people that live there) is completely FAKE.

The idea resurfaced at a some recent gathering of the so-called Flat Earthers in the Birmingham recently where over 200 people came together to confirm to each other that the Earth is nothing more than a giant pancake.

The origin of the "fake Australia" post started on Reddit back in 2017 and was written by a Shelley Floryd. But it appears to be back in the minds of the spherically-challenged at the moment.

Comment: One of the more obvious symptoms of society's inability to think. There have been proofs since ancient times of a round earth, but they require the ability to hold an abstract idea in one's mind and extrapolate beyond what is immediately before one's eyes. The Ship Over the Horizon is a classic example of an early round earth proof

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Ukrainian police officer gets jail time for insulting neofascist goon


RT
Wed, 13 Feb 2019 18:00 UTC
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© REUTERS / Valentyn Ogirenko
A Ukrainian court sentenced a police officer who used the name of nationalist hero and Nazi henchman Stepan Bandera as a slur while scuffling with far-right rioters in Kiev. They walked free from custody, but the officer did not.

Vasily Melnikov, the officer in question, is now set to spend the next two months in a pre-trial detention facility although he may be released on a $4,240 bail. Local reports say the trial was closely watched by members of C14, a far-right group Melnikov was dispersing in a viral video that caused quite a stir across Ukraine.

Earlier this week, C14, whose name presumably refers to the fourteen-word white supremacy slogan, approached a police station in the Ukrainian capital. Riot police had to tackle assailants armed with knives, pepper sprays and a pistol. The brawl eventually got more violent when the far-right tried to storm the building.


"Get down, Bandera!" the officer is heard as he forces one of the mobsters onto the ground.

Comment: Ukraine is officially the cultural backwater of Europe. Western leftists like to warn about the 'far right' in Hungary and Poland, but conveniently never mention that Ukraine is teeming with actual neofascists. Banderite scum were behind the Maidan revolution of 2014, they have members in the Ukrainian government, and they have been responsible for a campaign of terror, torture, and murder. Theses are the West's 'allies' in the fight against 'Russian aggression'. Kind of makes supporting Russia's position seem like the rational choice, no?

See also: Unabashed neo-fascists: Ukrainian police publicly declare their admiration for Bandera

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