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Massachusetts man holds onto hood of speeding SUV for three miles in road rage incident

Phil McCausland
NBC News
Sat, 26 Jan 2019 12:33 UTC
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A road rage incident accelerated quickly on Friday afternoon when a sideswipe led a Massachusetts man to hold onto the hood of a speeding SUV for approximately three miles on the state turnpike.

Police told NBC Boston that Richard Kamrowski, 65, jumped onto the hood of a white Infiniti SUV that belonged to Mark Fitzgerald, 37, after a verbal altercation over a minor traffic accident on Interstate 90 about 20 miles west of Boston.

Fitzgerald apparently had enough of the two men's confrontation at some point after their collision and attempted to drive away, but Kamrowski then jumped onto his hood and held on while Fitzgerald drove for "a very significant distance," police said.

Though Fitzgerald pushed his small SUV up to speeds as high as 70 mph during the incident, no one was injured. The driver was eventually stopped by others on the roadway, one going so far as to point a gun at the SUV to convince him to stop the car, NBC Boston reported.
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SOTT Focus: The Truth Perspective: What MAGA-hat Kid Can Teach Us About The Corruption of Ideology

Harrison Koehli, Corey Schink, Adam Daniels
Sott.net
Sat, 26 Jan 2019 17:00 UTC
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It shouldn't have been newsworthy. Just a few years ago, it wouldn't have provoked much of a reaction. But a smiling teenager and a drumming Native American have caused a firestorm of commentary, invective, heated emotions, and calls for violence. What is it that causes otherwise intelligent people to seemingly turn into halfwits when confronted by such non-events? What provides the template for the stereotyped and 'proper' response to the encounter we've all seen repeatedly and which has been analyzed to death by mainstream media and the Twitter commentariat?

Today on the Truth Perspective we once again mine Andrew Lobaczewski's Political Ponerology for clues to help us understand the puzzling new reality we find ourselves in: how ideologies degenerate, how and why polarization grips nations, what we had to ignore in order to get to this point, and what we have to learn in order to stop it from progressing or from happening again.

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San Francisco may grant exception to 'sanctuary city' laws to allow alleged rapist's extradition from Canada

Joel B. Pollak
Breitbart News
Thu, 24 Jan 2019 17:29 UTC
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© Haven Daley/Associated PressProtesters hold up signs outside a courthouse in San Francisco in April 2017.
The City of San Francisco will decide whether to make an exception to its "sanctuary city" laws in one case, after the federal government refused to allow an accused rapist to be extradited from Canada to face trial unless local law enforcement cooperated to ensure he would not be released into the U.S.

SFGate.com reported Wednesday that a San Francisco Board of Supervisors committee "begrudgingly agreed Wednesday to relax the city's sanctuary law for this one case." The final decision awaits the approval of the full Board of Supervisors.

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Raw video shows CNN colluded with FBI to film Roger Stone SWAT-style raid and arrest

Kristinn Taylor
Gateway Pundit
Fri, 25 Jan 2019 00:01 UTC
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Raw video posted to Twitter by CNN freelance cameraman Gilbert De La Rosa of the FBI arrest of Roger Stone early Friday morning at his home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, shows De La Rosa was parked right in front of Stone's house waiting for the FBI to show up and that when they arrived the FBI ignored him as he got out of his vehicle to film, instead of treating him as a potentially armed hostile actor or innocent bystander at a heavily armed surprise pre-dawn raid.

That the FBI completely ignored De La Rosa as he got out of his vehicle when they arrived indicates FBI agents were told in advance a CNN cameraman and reporter would be on scene waiting to film the pre-dawn raid and arrest of Stone. Those instructions would have come from higher ups showing that CNN, the FBI Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office colluded to put CNN front and center for the raid.

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Unyielding Gilets Jaunes plan first nocturnal protest in Paris


RT
Sat, 26 Jan 2019 14:51 UTC
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© REUTERS / Benoit TessierProtesters wearing yellow vests take part in a demonstration by the "yellow vests" movement in Paris, France, January 26, 2019.
Eleven weeks into protests, the Yellow Vest movement shows no sign of abating. The unyielding demonstrators rallying against President Emmanuel Macron's reform agenda now plan to stage their first night protest in Paris.

Calls for the protests in the French capital to continue into the night have appeared in many Yellow Vest groups on Facebook. Some of the groups also vowed to stage such rallies on a regular basis until the end of national consultations on the issues raised by the demonstrators.

"We'll gather every night from this Saturday onwards, and we'll keep coming till at least the end of the national consultation [Grand Debat]," one Facebook post read. "We'll make Place de la République our giant ring road."

Comment: With the French establishment and Western media in general under-reporting or misreporting the Yellow Vest protests, independent reporter Vincent LaPierre is publishing video reports on the major Saturday protests in Paris: Act 9 of Regime Change in France: Yellow Vests Protesters Remain Determined - Vincent Lapierre Reports

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How 'toxic masculinity' ads keep women afraid and men shamed

Barbara Kay
The Post Millennial
Fri, 25 Jan 2019 15:07 UTC
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Frightening women out of their wits for no good reason and arousing shame in male viewers as both films are designed to do, serves no purpose other than to demonize men collectively, arouse resentment in the majority of men, who are decent and non-violent, and erect walls of distrust between the sexes.
Some students of human nature believe that, because our ancestors could only survive as a species human through a constant awareness of danger, we are endowed with an inherent need to be in a "state of fear" about something or other, even if the objective danger is neither existential nor widespread. It's certainly true that political movements often encourage a state of fear to enhance their image of indispensability.

Feminism is the reigning orthodoxy of our era, and for feminists, men (almost invariably white heterosexual men) are a favourite target for fear mongering. Short film/ads make excellent promotional vehicles for ideas and attitudes. I wrote about the now-infamous, feminism-inspired Gillette short film in these pages last week, a semi-humorous riff on the corporate cynicism behind its conception. But I knew my off-the-cuff riposte had not really addressed my deeper concerns about it, so the film continued to nag at me.

It reminded me of another social-messaging film I had seen and written about. In 2012, to mark the annual commemoration of the 1989 Montreal Polytechnic massacre of 14 women engineering students, the Canadian Women's Foundation put out a short but effective little film addressing the problem of male violence-in particular sexual violence-against women. To me it symbolized what I most dislike about feminists' marketing campaigns: their utter contempt for men, and their willingness to distort evidence in order to demonize them while creating an unnecessary state of fear in women.

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Rescued 3-year-old endured heavy rain, freezing temperatures alone in the North Carolina woods

Emily Shapiro
ABC News
Sat, 26 Jan 2019 04:47 UTC
Missing boy
A 3-year-old boy found alive two days he went missing was "meant to survive" as he endured heavy rains and cold temperatures by himself in the woods, the local sheriff said.

"What he survived out there -- temperatures in the 20s, low 20s, the rain, the downpour that almost put our search on a standstill," Craven County Sheriff Chip Hughes told ABC New Bern affiliate WCTI Friday morning. "This kid, he's strong. He was meant to survive. He's a survivor."

Casey Hathaway was found Thursday night after he went missing Tuesday in wooded Craven County, North Carolina.

Casey is in good condition and resting, Dr. Nicole Check of the CarolinaEast Medical Center said Friday morning.
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Class action lawsuit reveals Facebook orchestrated plan to dupe game-playing kids & parents out of money

Nathan Halverson
Reveal News
Thu, 24 Jan 2019 00:00 UTC
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Facebook orchestrated a multiyear effort that duped children and their parents out of money, in some cases hundreds or even thousands of dollars, and then often refused to give the money back, according to court documents unsealed tonight in response to a Reveal legal action.

The records are part of a class-action lawsuit focused on how Facebook targeted children in an effort to expand revenue for online games, such as Angry Birds, PetVille and Ninja Saga.

The more than 135 pages of unsealed documents, which include internal Facebook memos, secret strategies and employee emails, paint a troubling picture of how the social media giant conducted business.

Facebook encouraged game developers to let children spend money without their parents' permission - something the social media giant called "friendly fraud" - in an effort to maximize revenues, according to a document detailing the company's game strategy.

Sometimes the children did not even know they were spending money, according to another internal Facebook report. Facebook employees knew this. Their own reports showed underage users did not realize their parents' credit cards were connected to their Facebook accounts and they were spending real money in the games, according to the unsealed documents.

For years, the company ignored warnings from its own employees that it was bamboozling children.

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Caesar

How my toxic Stoicism helped me cope with brain cancer

Jonathan Church
Quillette
Sat, 26 Jan 2019 14:45 UTC
man staring out window
Under normal circumstances-e.g. in a time when the American Psychological Association (APA) has not released guidelines questioning whether norms associated with "traditional masculinity" (e.g. stoicism) are harmful to the mental health of men, and a shaving commercial is not being run that criticizes "toxic masculinity"-I would be reluctant to publicly share a story of personal adversity that, as a sometime aficionado of existentialist philosophy, I know I must ultimately face alone.

But in the spirit of opening up, here goes.

I have brain cancer. Not the kind that killed John McCain, Ted Kennedy, or Beau Biden. At least not yet. I am afflicted with a low-grade glioma (specifically, a grade-2 infiltrative astrocytoma). My neurosurgeon informs me that experts do not distinguish between benign and malignant brain tumors. Instead, they distinguish between low-grade and high-grade tumors, the point being that all brain tumors naturally progress to death. There is no cure. High-grade simply gets you there faster. In the words of one study, "all low grade gliomas eventually progress to high grade glioma and death." In short, barring some unforeseen circumstance like a plane crash or another mortal illness, I will die of brain cancer. It's only a matter of time, unless researchers suddenly discover a cure. It could be one year. Two years. Five years. Twenty years. But according to this study, the average life span of someone with a low-grade glioma is seven years.
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Birmingham civil rights org votes to give award to Angela Davis after initially bowing to pressure from Jewish groups to rescind

Mondoweiss Editors
Mondoweiss
Fri, 25 Jan 2019 00:00 UTC
Angela Y. Davis
Angela Y. Davis
The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute has now gone full circle: It announced that it has voted to give its human rights award to Angela Davis after all!

The Institute originally decided to give the scholar and activist the Fred Shuttlesworth Human Rights Award last December. Then on January 4, reportedly under pressure from Jewish groups because of Davis's support for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) targeting Israel, the Institute voted to rescind the award and cancel the gala at which she was to be honored. It had no idea what was coming. The institute suffered a nationwide onslaught of criticism for its cowardice, as well as outrage from the Birmingham city council and school board and mayor. Three board members of the BCRI resigned, and the institute apologized for "missteps" on January 14. Meanwhile, plans were announced for Davis to receive an honor from her native city on the same day as the canceled BCRI gala.

Well, today the last shoe dropped. The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute announced that it voted - evidently a week or ten days ago - to "reaffirm Dr. Davis as the recipient" of the Fred Shuttlesworth Human Rights Award.
"Dr. Davis was immediately thereafter personally invited to reaccept the award."

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