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St. Petersburg ranks as world's best cultural destination for 3rd year in a row


RT
Sat, 08 Dec 2018 19:59 UTC
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Russia's northern capital, Saint Petersburg, has been named the world's leading cultural city destination for the third consecutive year. The award is traditionally handed out by the World Travel Awards (WTA).

Saint Petersburg, that once again justified its rank as the Russian cultural capital, triumphed over Beijing, London, New York City, Paris, the Ecuadorian capital of Quito, Rio de Janeiro, Rome, Sydney, and Venice.

The red carpet ceremony was held in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon. WTA annually awards leaders in tourism, airlines, and hotel and hospitality sectors. Ranked as the travel industry's most prestigious awards programme, WTA was founded in 1993 and includes an international jury of hospitality experts and peers, mainly from the World Travel and Tourism Council.
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High ranking colonel arrested in child sex sting

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Sat, 08 Dec 2018 18:30 UTC
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Earlier this week, the FBI Metro Atlanta Child Exploitation Task Force held a sting to catch alleged sex traffickers and made multiple arrests in the process. During the sting, a high-ranking Air Force Colonel was ensnared by federal agents.

The undercover sex bust unfolded Tuesday night at a Cobb County hotel at which Lt. Col. Willie Newson, 47, was arrested. According to authorities, Newson thought he was meeting a 14-year-old girl at the hotel. He was actually meeting undercover agents pretending to be a child.

Georgia Department of Defense spokeswoman Desiree Bamba told AJC.com that Newson is on the command staff of Maj. Gen. Jesse T. Simmons Jr., who is the commander of the Georgia Air National Guard. Newson also was formerly the commander of the 165th Communication Flight of the 165th Airlift Wing, according to the official.

"Lt. Col. Newson's alleged actions do not reflect the values we uphold in the Georgia National Guard," she said.

As WSB-TV reports, the "undercover officer that Newson spoke with gave him the opportunity to stop communicating several times." However, Newson continued to pursue who he thought was a 14-year-old girl.
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Facebook's new sexual solicitation policy will ban 'dirty talk' on the site

Michael Kan
PCMag
Thu, 06 Dec 2018 17:58 UTC
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Looking for a good time? Well, don't post about it on Facebook.

The company has quietly updated its content-moderation policies to crack down on implicit requests for sex.

The expanded policy specifically bans "sexual slang," hints of "sexual roles, positions or fetish scenarios," and erotic art when mentioned with a sex act. Vague, but suggestive statements such as "looking for a good time tonight" when soliciting sex are also no longer allowed.

Facebook added the new "sexual solicitation" policy on Oct. 15. But it was only on Wednesday when internet users began to take notice. And many are not happy, fearing that the mere mention of sex will get their content taken down.
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SOTT Focus: What do the protesters in France want? Check out the 'official' Yellow Vest manifesto


Sott.net
Sat, 08 Dec 2018 17:38 UTC
The following list of demands has been circulating among French social media users in recent days. We do not know its exact origins or author(s), but it seems to have first appeared here on December 5th. You'll have to click on the image to enlarge it if you want to read it in French. We've translated it into English (in summary, not word-for-word) below...
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Universal Credit misery: Five-week waiting time in UK's benefit system will leave 10,000 Scots penniless at Christmas

Andy Philip
Daily Record
Thu, 06 Dec 2018 04:30 UTC
The new benefit has a five-week waiting time built in which means anyone claiming today will not get support until the New Year.

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© PAFamilies may have to rely on food banks to survive.
Ten thousand Scots will be left penniless at Christmas after being transferred to Universal Credit.

The new benefit has a five-week waiting time built into the system which means anyone claiming today will not get support until the New Year.

Universal Credit, which bundles six old benefits together, is being rolled out across Scotland.

The UK Government claimed it would "simplify" payments and guide people into work.

But Scottish Government Social Security Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville said the switch-over will leave thousands of new claimants with no income over the festive period.

Comment: Universal Credit's rollout has been fraught with misery and incompetent, callous responses from authorities since inception:

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Plainclothes cops ambush man and kill him while trying to serve a warrant

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Fri, 07 Dec 2018 15:38 UTC
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This week, Pennsylvania state Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced that no charges will be filed against Officer Richard Nicoletti, who was seen on video executing an unarmed father of three by shooting him in the head at point blank range as he was surrounded by police.

Jeffrey Dennis, 36, was gunned down in broad daylight by Nicoletti, a 29-year-veteran assigned to the Narcotics Field Unit of the Philadelphia police department. Police were preparing to serve a search warrant on Dennis' home over alleged drug dealing when they found him on the road and murdered him.

Shapiro launched an investigation into Dennis' killing in August just after it took place.

"My office conducted a thorough four-month review of this case, interviewing witnesses, examining video footage, and analyzing all available evidence," Shapiro said in a statement. "We applied the facts to Pennsylvania law, and accordingly, no criminal charges against Richard Nicoletti will be filed by my office."
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The number of illegal immigrant families in the US has shattered records

Stephen Dinan
The Washington Times
Thu, 06 Dec 2018 15:21 UTC
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Migrants are escorted by a U.S. Border Patrol agent as they are detained after climbing over the border wall from Playas de Tijuana, Mexico, to San Ysidro, Calif., Monday, Dec. 3, 2018.
Illegal immigration ticked up in November, but the number of those people traveling as families shattered records, Homeland Security reported Thursday, saying it's proof that migrants have figured out how to game the flawed U.S. immigration system.

More than 25,000 people who came as part of families were snared by Border Patrol agents sneaking across the U.S.-Mexico line, and nearly 5,000 more were encountered at official border crossings where they demanded entry.

Nearly 5,300 more children traveling without parents were also caught jumping the border, the government said.

The 25,000 family "units," as they're called, are by far a record, far surpassing the heights of the Obama years.

"The November 2018 border numbers are the predictable result of a broken immigration system - including flawed judicial rulings - that usurps the will of the American people who have repeatedly demanded secure borders," said Katie Waldman a spokeswoman for Homeland Security.
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Preston, UK: 'Poster child of Corbynomics' named most improved place to live and work

William J Richardson
EvolvePolitics
Thu, 01 Nov 2018 14:29 UTC
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Research conducted by PriceWaterhouse Coopers, in association with the thinktank, Demos, has named Preston - the UK City whose Labour-run Council's socialist policies saw it labelled the "poster child of Corbynomics" - as the most improved urban area in the UK to live and work.

The annual research, called the Good Growth for Cities 2018 index, measures the UK's biggest 42 cities and uses indicators including health, income, skills, housing affordability, commuting times, environmental factors, income inequality and new business starts.

Unemployment in the winning City fell to 3.1% last year, compared to 6.5% in 2014. In addition, Preston has seen improvements above the national average in health, transport, residents' work-life balance and skills across the entire population, from young to old.
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Fitting: 95% of speed cameras in central France region destroyed - part of 'Yellow Vest' protest

Paul Joseph Watsen
Infowars.com
Fri, 07 Dec 2018 14:14 UTC
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Devices covered with yellow jackets in symbolic gesture

95 per cent of speed cameras in one area of France have been completely destroyed as part of the 'yellow vest' anti-government protest movement.

According to Le Point, almost all speed cameras in Puy-de-Dôme, a region in central France, have been taped over, broken or burned.

Comment: The French spirit of rebellion has been awakened. Macron and his ilk had better tread carefully. The populace has been here before.

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Coming out of the broom closet: Witches and Pagans now outnumber Presbyterians


The Wild Child
Sat, 01 Dec 2018 13:51 UTC
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The practice of witchcraft in the U.S. has risen dramatically over the past few decades.
According to statistics, the number of registered Witches and Pagans currently outnumber Christian Presbyterians in the US.

Witchcraft and other pagan religious practices increased in the U.S. over the past few decades, with millennials turning to astrology and tarot cards as they turn away from Christianity and other traditionally dominant Abrahamic religions.

The number of witches and Americans practicing Wicca religious rituals increased dramatically since the 1990s, with several recent studies indicating there may be at least 1.5 million witches across the country. A Trinity College study conducted in 1990 estimated only about 8,000 Wiccans in the U.S., but the increase has been led by a rejection of mainstream Christianity among young Americans as well as a rise in occultism.

With 1.5 million potential practicing witches across the U.S., witchcraft has more followers than the 1.4 million mainline members of the Presbyterian church.

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