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Philosopher fight: Slavoj Zizek attacks Jordan Peterson and Steven Pinker at Cambridge Union


RT
Fri, 23 Nov 2018 13:27 UTC
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© Global Look Press/Chinafotopress/ZUMAPRESS.com/Nancy Kaszerman(left) Slavoj Zizek; (top right) Steven Pinker; (bottom right) Jordan Peterson
In a clash of the world's most popular philosophers, avowed communist Slavoj Zizek attacked 'pseudo-scientific' Jordan Peterson and Steven Pinker, who he described as his "enemy," during an appearance at the Cambridge Union.

Zizek, who appeared at the prestigious university's union earlier this month, rounded on his fellow philosophers in his typical unique style.

Having previously praised Peterson for his contentions with political correctness, Zizek denounced the Canadian for having fallen into 'this stupid trap of using the term of the contemporary right: cultural marxism.'

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Israeli-American who hoaxed US with thousands of fake anti-semitic bomb threats jailed for 10 years

Bar Peleg
Haaretz
Thu, 22 Nov 2018 15:27 UTC
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© Meged GozaniThe hacker in court, June 2018.
An Israeli-American hacker who terrorized U.S. Jews with bomb threats was sentenced on Thursday by a Tel Aviv District Court judge to 10 years in prison.

The 19-year old was charged with making thousands of bomb threats, including to a United States senator, as well as to airports, schools and Jewish centers in the U.S. in 2016 and early 2017.

The hoax threats forced widespread evacuations and stirred fear of resurgence of anti-Semitism.

The hacker, whose name was withheld from publication, was arrested in March 2017 with the help of the FBI. An Israeli court convicted him in June of all counts committed when he was no longer a minor, from 2016 onwards.

Among other counts, he was convicted of extortion, conspiracy to commit a crime, money laundering and assaulting a police officer. According to the conviction, he made around 2,000 false terrorism threats from 2015 until his arrest in March 2017.

In addition to the 10-year prison term, the Tel Aviv court gave the hacker a year's probation and fined him 60,000 shekels ($16,000).

Comment: This young man is an Israeli hero, just doing his part to keep up the myth of a rise in anti-Semitism - which is good for Israel. The more Diaspora Jews who feel the world is inhospitable, the more will flee to Israel and help solve their demographic problem.

The fact is, just like racism in general, anti-Semitism is not as big a problem as the identity-politics NPCs would have you believe. Think of all those anti-Semitic attacks, and then realize that thousands of them alone have been perpetrated by this loser. It kind of puts things into perspective.

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'Love contract': Stalker given 4 year jail sentence for her 10 year vicious harassment campaign against ex


BBC
Thu, 22 Nov 2018 10:20 UTC
Lina Tantash
© Eddie MitchellLina Tantash stalked her ex-boyfriend Jarlath Rice for 10 years sending thousands of abusive messages
A "vicious, manipulative" stalker who turned her ex's life into a "living nightmare" after he broke a so-called love contract has been jailed for four years.

"Devious" Lina Tantash, 44, waged a 10-year harassment campaign against Jarlath Rice, Lewes Crown Court heard.

She bombarded him with 20,000 abusive texts, hacked his voicemails and sent £200 worth of pizza to his work.

Tantash was convicted of stalking at an earlier hearing.

Sentencing her, Recorder Stephen Lennard told Tantash: "You are a vicious, manipulative and devious woman."

Prosecutor Ryan Richter told the court Mr Rice and Tantash had a fling in Dublin in 2007.

Comment: The stalker is clearly a danger to society and one wonders what took the authorities so long to bring her to justice: Also check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: Women Who Love Psychopaths - With Sandra L. Brown

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ABC's president who fired Roseanne Barr resigns - 'The Connors' ratings tanked

DW & BJ
davidharrisjr.com
Thu, 22 Nov 2018 00:01 UTC
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Hollyweird is still floundering in its leftist PC environment the way they have since Donald Trump became president. ABC took one in the shorts when they "killed" Roseanne Connor with an opioid overdose. The latest executive to fall is Channing Dungey, who has resigned after ABC's "The Connors" spinoff ratings tanked.

Comment: When it comes down to it, firing Roseanne for her supposedly racist tweet, was not what the majority of the American public wanted. They wanted to watch Roseanne and were able to see her tweet for what it was - a poorly thought out and juvenile insult. Her firing was nothing more than caving in to the NPC outrage brigade, who are out for blood, don't accept apologies and don't care about the consequences. Those who pander to these people will lose.

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James Woods uses Twitter to help veteran who said he's contemplating suicide

Katherine Lam
Fox News
Tue, 20 Nov 2018 00:01 UTC
James Woods
James Woods took to Twitter on Monday to help a veteran who tweeted he was contemplating suicide.

Woods attempted to help a man named Andrew MacMasters after the actor came across a since-deleted tweet the veteran posted saying he was going to kill himself because he has "lost everything [and] have nobody."

The 71-year-old actor responded to MacMasters tweet and tried to get him to direct message him.

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Of all the Hollywood elite who virtue signal and pay lip service, it's nice that one in a million like James Woods actually seems to care, and actually does something about it.

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Best of the Web: What happens if Julian Assange is put on trial in the US?

Srecko Horvat
Al Jazeera
Thu, 22 Nov 2018 20:37 UTC
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© Daniel Tapia/ReutersSupporters of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange demonstrate in front of presidential palace in Quito, Ecuador, October 31, 2018
The prosecution of the WikiLeaks founder in the US would have grave consequences for press freedom across the world.

Last week it became clear that what WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his lawyers have been warning for seven years has already happened: He has been charged in a criminal case in the United States. The fear of being extradited and tried in the US has forced him to seek refuge at the Ecuadorian embassy in London since 2012.

This news hardly came as a surprise to those of us who have been following his case or have been convinced that Assange's fate is of profound and historical importance and could define the future of the freedom of the press.

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Caravan migrants to be deported from Mexico after Tijuana arrests

Julie Watson
The Washington Times
Tue, 20 Nov 2018 00:00 UTC
Migrants from CA caravan
© AP Photo/Rodrigo AbdMigrants from Central American caravan.
Migrants camped in Tijuana after traveling in a caravan to reach the U.S were weighing their options Tuesday after a U.S. court blocked President Donald Trump's asylum ban for illegal border crossers.

Many said they have no intention of breaking the law, but were feeling pressure after anti-migrant protests in this Mexican border city amid claims by Trump and the Tijuana mayor that the caravan harbors gang members and criminals, something they strongly deny.

Keven Paul Mejia, a 27-year-old former security guard from the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa, said there were some delinquents traveling with the group of several thousand who smoke marijuana and get drunk.

But, he said, most are like him, just hoping to land a job in the U.S. "There are more of us who are good, than bad," Mejia said.

Herson Cordonez, a 29-year-old Honduran, said the actions of a few migrants were tainting the image of the 4,000 to 6,000 in the caravan, not all of whom have yet reached Tijuana. "We are not criminals, we are migrant workers," Cordonez said, adding that he was considering trying to get into Canada if the U.S. doesn't want him.

Tijuana officials said late Monday they had arrested 34 caravan members for drug possession, public intoxication, disturbing the peace and resisting police, and they would be deported to their home countries.

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Biohazard

Gap in pipe causes Newfoundland's largest-ever oil spill, now impossible to clean up


GlobalNews.ca
Thu, 22 Nov 2018 19:12 UTC
newfoundland oil spill
After 4 days of silence, Husky Energy is finally facing television cameras over what is now Newfoundland's largest-ever oil spill.

The company says that a gap in the pipe at the SeaRose platform is what led to a record 250,000-litre spill on Friday, 350 kilometres southeast of St. John's.

"We don't know why this connector has disconnected," said Husky Energy executive Trevor Pritchard on Tuesday.

The leak occurred as the platform prepared to restart production during a fierce storm that was, at the time, the most intense in the world.


Comment: Seismic records show Newfoundland was literally shaking from vicious windstorm


Husky says there was a loss of pressure, in an underwater pipe, connecting to the SeaRose, a vessel that helps produce and store oil.

The sea was extremely turbulent - more than 8 metres high - but Pritchard admits Husky did not get, or, even need, permission to operate in such dangerous conditions.

Comment: With extreme weather on the rise all over the planet, and corporate and governmental greed reaching its zenith, one can expect more disasters like this and even greater than this on the horizon:

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Twitter bans outspoken conservative activist Laura Loomer

Tal Axelrod
The Hill
Wed, 21 Nov 2018 18:42 UTC
Laura Loomer
© Facebook / Laura LoomerLaura Loomer
Twitter permanently suspended far-right activist Laura Loomer from its platform on Wednesday, a spokesperson confirmed to The Hill.

The Daily Beast reported on Wednesday that Loomer, the latest conservative figure to be removed from the social media platform, claimed she was suspended over a tweet criticizing Rep.-elect Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), one of the first Muslim women elected to Congress.

"Isn't it ironic how the twitter moment used to celebrate 'women, LGBTQ, and minorities' is a picture of Ilhan Omar? Ilhan is pro Sharia Ilhan is pro-FGM Under Sharia, homosexuals are oppressed & killed. Women are abused & forced to wear the hijab. Ilhan is anti Jewish," she claimed in a tweet.
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British academic accused of spying for UK gov't sentenced to life in prison in United Arab Emirates

Nazia Parveen and Patrick Wintour
The Guardian
Wed, 21 Nov 2018 18:31 UTC
Matthew Hedges with his wife, Daniela Tejada
© Daniela Tejada/EPAMatthew Hedges with his wife, Daniela Tejada
A British academic who was accused of spying for the UK government in the United Arab Emirates after travelling to Dubai to conduct research has been sentenced to life in jail.

Matthew Hedges, 31, has been in a UAE prison for more than six months. The University of Durham PhD candidate went to the country to research his thesis and was sentenced at an Abu Dhabi court on Wednesday in a hearing that lasted less than five minutes, with no lawyer present.

His wife, Daniela Tejada, 27, who was present in the courtroom, said Hedges began shaking when the verdict was read out.

"I am in complete shock and I don't know what to do," she said. "Matthew is innocent. The Foreign Office know this and have made it clear to the UAE authorities that Matthew is not a spy for them."

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