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Bishop accused of 'brutally' raping nun 13 times exposed thanks to sisterly protest


RT
Tue, 12 Feb 2019 18:02 UTC
Bishop Franco Mulakka
© Reuters / V SivaramBishop Franco Mulakka
In the latest sexual abuse scandal to hit the Catholic Church, a nun who said a bishop raped her 13 times claims the church tried to silence her, while fellow nuns who showed support for the victim were intimidated.

The Indian nun from the southern state of Kerala said Jalandhar Bishop Franco Mulakkal first raped her in 2014 when he visited the convent and called her into his room one night.

"I was numbed and terrified by his act. I took all efforts to get out, but in vain. He raped me brutally," she later wrote in a letter to the Pope's representative in India.

The news comes just days after Pope Francis finally acknowledged that sexual abuse of nuns by the clergy is an ongoing problem.
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Scotland's main Highland Games body under pressure from radicals to offer transgender competitions

Shan Ross
The Scotsman
Tue, 12 Feb 2019 17:42 UTC
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Scotland's main Highland Games body, which has faced strong criticism over its lack of gender equality for female athletes, will today be under pressure to discuss including transgender non-binary categories in its events.

The Scottish Highland Games Association (SHGA), representing over 60 Games north of the border, is meeting the Scottish Government later this month to lobby for funding.

It is facing internal pressure to develop strategies on both gender equality and non-binary representation. Moving towards making Games more inclusive follows last month's announcement by Scottish Athletics, the national governing body for athletics in Scotland, that all their championship events would include a non-binary gender category.

The Scottish 5K Championships at Silverknowes, Edinburgh, in April, will be one of the first such events. Ahead of today's meeting in Perth, Ian Grieve, SHGA secretary, sent committee members an email about demands to allow women to compete in the Games in which he said "It might not stop there", before highlighting the link to Scottish Athletics' new policy on non-binary categories.
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Israeli Supreme Court asked to overturn law protecting IDF from civil damages


Sputnik
Mon, 11 Feb 2019 22:47 UTC
idf soldier
© Flickr/ Israel Defense Forces
Haifa-based nongovernmental organization Adalah on Sunday asked the Israeli Supreme Court to overturn the law protecting Israeli soldiers from having to pay civil damages when they negligently harm Gazans on the basis that all of Gaza is a war zone.

Adalah and the Gaza-based Al Mezan Center for Human Rights are appealing a lower court's 2018 denial of the case of Palestinian high school student Attiya Nabaheen, who was shot while on his family's property on his 15th birthday in 2014 by Israeli soldiers, Palestinian news source Wafa reports. Nabaheen is confined to a wheelchair as a result of his injuries. An Israeli lower court found in November 2018 that Nabaheen could not seek restitution from the Israel Defense Force because as a resident of Gaza he lives in "enemy territory," as an Adalah press release described.

In 2007, Israel declared Gaza "enemy territory." In 2012, Amendment No. 8 to Israel's Civil Wrongs Law made residents of an "enemy territory" ineligible to seek compensation from Israel for civil damages, Adalah notes. The rationale for the law, the Jerusalem Post reports, is that Hamas, the ruling party in Gaza, remains in a state of war with Israel.
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The banal evil of Isis Davis-Marks: 'I'm watching you white boy'

Melissa Mackenzie
The American Spectator
Tue, 12 Feb 2019 14:56 UTC
Hannah Arendt
German-Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt
"Totalitarianism appeals to the very dangerous emotional needs of people who live in complete isolation and in fear of one another." - Hannah Arendt

Mama's don't let your babies grow up to be Yalies. They're the worst. And, as it turns out, evil. Isis Davis-Marks, a staff columnist for the Yale Daily News wrote a piece titled, "Evil is banal." Indeed. Ms. Davis-Marks then proceeded to unintentionally illustrate that fact.

Her first sentence is a tip-off, "Everyone knows a white boy with shiny brown hair and a saccharine smile that conceals his great ambitions." The word "saccharine" is used multiple times throughout her piece. There is no such thing a sweet smile from a white boy.

She fleshes out her argument:
When I'm watching the white boy - who is now a white man by this point - on CNN, I'll remember a racist remark that he said, an unintentional utterance that he made when he had one drink too many at a frat party during sophomore year. I'll recall a message that he accidentally left open on a computer when he forgot to log out of iMessage, where he likened a woman's body to a particularly large animal. I'll kick myself for forgetting to screenshot the evidence.

And, when I'm watching him smile that smile, I'll think that I could have stopped it.

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Flashback BBC staffing guidelines say one in six on-screen roles 'must be gay, lesbian, trans, or disabled' by 2020


Daily Mail
Sat, 23 Apr 2016 14:21 UTC
Tunde Ogungbesan
In a statement on the BBC's website, Tunde Ogungbesan (pictured), head of diversity, inclusion and succession at the BBC, said: 'The BBC is a diverse organisation, whichever way you look at it
One in six of all on-screen BBC roles must go to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender or disabled people by 2020, the corporation's new diversity targets state.

In a bid to deter criticism that it has been failing to reflect its audience, the BBC has pledged that LGBT and disabled people will each make up eight per cent of all on-air and on-screen roles.

The new targets follow a heated debate in the House of Commons led by David Lammy MP on the issue of the broadcaster's diversity.

Fifty per cent of all on-screen and broadcasting roles will go to women, who already make up 48.5 per cent of the BBC's total workforce.

Comment: If the BBC wants to reach more people, then they might consider laying off their insidious propaganda. As it is though, diversity and fake news actually go together quite swimmingly!

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Woman from viral video who threw chair from Toronto balcony onto busy expressway wanted by police


BlogTO
Mon, 11 Feb 2019 21:39 UTC
toronto woman chair balcony
Have you seen this woman? I mean, have you seen her outside of that video where she whips a chair from the balcony of a condo building over the Gardiner Expressway and miraculously manages not to kill anyone?

Toronto Police are appealing to the public for help in locating the person who spawned Monday's biggest local news story with one very bad decision over the weekend.

"Chair-toss-chick," as I've taken to calling her, rose to the peak of Toronto internet fame on Monday morning after video footage surfaced of her throwing patio furniture from a high-rise onto fast-moving traffic below.

Comment: The world has all kinds of idiots, but Toronto seems to have a disproportionate share of them.

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NPC

Embattled Gov. Ralph Northam slammed for referring to 'first indentured servants from Africa' instead of slaves


USA Today
Tue, 12 Feb 2019 11:33 UTC
Ralph Northam
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D)
Embattled Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam's media apology tour is off to a rough start.

Northam went on "CBS This Morning" in an interview that aired Monday in an effort to save his political career after reporters uncovered a racist photo on his medical school yearbook page.

At the start of the interview, Northam referred to "the first indentured servants from Africa" who arrived in Virginia, and he faces backlash from critics accusing him of minimizing historic horrors with a euphemism for slavery.

"Well, it has been a difficult week," Northam said after the first question from CBS' Gayle King. "If you look at Virginia's history, we're now at the 400-year anniversary - just 90 miles from here, in 1619, the first indentured servants from Africa landed on our shores."

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US sheriffs warn ICE could be forced to release 8,300 criminal aliens

David Krayden
Daily Caller
Tue, 12 Feb 2019 11:33 UTC
sheriff
America's sheriffs are warning Congress to stop a proposed backroom deal that would institute a ceiling on the number of illegal immigrants that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) can detain.

According to letters sent to House and Senate lawmakers on Friday, the National Sheriffs' Association (NSA) and the Major Country Sheriffs of America claim that if ICE is forced to release detainees, over 8,300 criminal illegals will be sent to the streets and potentially lost to the administrative and judicial systems.

The letters were obtained by The Daily Caller Sunday after contacting the NSA.

Comment: The Washington Examiner reports more on the story:
"We are at wits end on this," said Bristol County, Mass. Sheriff Thomas M. Hodgson. "This really is a catastrophe," he said of the anti-Trump proposal backed by Democrats including Speaker Nancy Pelosi and progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Hodgson is one of 60 key sheriffs meeting with the House Freedom Caucus on the steps of the U.S. Capitol today before hitting individual House and Senate offices to lobby for wall and ICE funding. He spoke to Secrets from the bus transporting him and sheriffs from Arizona, Texas, Massachusetts and Ohio to the Hill. [...]

Hodgson said that his jail holds some 200 criminal illegal immigrants and he bluntly said that if any were to be freed, they would go out and commit more crimes.

"We'd have to release these people to go out and commit more crimes," he said.

He also charged that threats to ICE funding, made by lawmakers including Ocasio-Cortez, and cuts to the cap on how many criminal illegal immigrants can be held, is a bid by Democrats to please their liberal base of supporters.

"They put our people at risk just to take care of their political agenda," said Hodgson, a leading spokesman among the nation's 3,000 sheriffs for immigration enforcement.


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Massive 'God Emperor Trump' float rolls through parade in Italy


Fox News
Sun, 10 Feb 2019 00:01 UTC
god emperor trump float Italy
A gigantic float depicting President Trump as a "God Emperor" rolled through the streets during a parade in Italy over the weekend.

The float was part of the annual Viareggio Carnevale parade, which began in 1873, according to the event's website.

The float, which was titled "The Master-Drone" and created by Fabrizio Galli, was meant to emulate the "dominant character" of the war game "Warhammer 40,000."

Comment: More from Newsweek:
The float, titled, "The Master Drone," was created by Fabrizio Galli and depicted Trump as a God emperor from the Warhammer 40,000 series. In the series, the Emperor of Mankind is the greatest embodiment of universal order. As written on the parade's website, the parallelism between Trump and the character in the series has "never been more fitting."

"Donald wants to go back to the moon, travel to Mars and create the first space army," the website said. "...The time of intellectuals, philosophers and of old and worn culture is over."

The float featured Trump's head, adorned with Romanesque crown. Instead of the president's usually black or blue suit, he was dressed head to toe in gold armor and had talons instead of fingers on one of his hands.

In his hand was the Emperor's Sword, which, in the series, has the ability to slice through even the strongest armor without requiring much effort. Written on the sword were the words, "Dazi Vostri," which translates to "your duties." Near the sword's handles were four blue birds, reflecting the logo of the social media website Twitter, which the president has routinely used to berate his enemies and advocate for his positions.

Footage of the parade broadcast by NoiTv Lucca showed the massive float make its way down the parade route in Viareggio, Italy. Trump's head, hands, eyes and arms were able to move, showing him scanning the crowds that amassed for the annual event.

The Viareggio Carnevale has taken place since 1873 and is considered to be one of the most renowned festivals in Italy and Europe. Political satire has been a major component of the festival since the 1960s and this isn't the first time a float was inspired by America's president.


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Over 1000 scientists sign "dissent from Darwinism" statement

Brittany Slaughter
The College Fix
Mon, 11 Feb 2019 00:01 UTC
Darwin
Earlier this month, a long kept list of Ph.D. scientists who "dissent from Darwinism" reached a milestone - it crossed the threshold of 1,000 signers.

"There are 1,043 scientists on the 'A Scientific Dissent from Darwinism' list. It passed the 1,000 mark this month," said Sarah Chaffee, a program officer for the Discovery Institute, which maintains the list.

"A Scientific Dissent From Darwinism" is a simple, 32-word statement that reads: "We are skeptical of claims for the ability of random mutation and natural selection to account for the complexity of life. Careful examination of the evidence for Darwinian theory should be encouraged."

Comment: What's amazing, aside from the fact that many scientists are now showing the bravery to step forward and go against scientific orthodoxy, is that the orthodoxy is so entrenched that most are unwilling to even look at the criticisms of Darwinism. Anyone brave enough to look uncritically at the evidence can't help but see the failings of neo-Darwinism and the unmistakable sign of a remarkably intelligent designer.

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