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French doctor who claims homosexuality is treatable by homeopathy faces medical investigation


RT
Thu, 16 Aug 2018 13:07 UTC
homosexual hand holding
© Christian HartmannTwo members of the Swiss gay community at the EuroPride 2009 parade in Zurich.
A French doctor who claimed that homosexuality can be treated by alternative medicine is facing a Swiss government probe. The Geneva-based homeopath Jean-Yves Henry said homosexuality is "not a pathology but a special symptom."

Henry published a paper saying that homosexuality is a symptom of illness, and can be treated with homeopathy and alternative medicine depending on the patient's gender. Geneva regional health minister Mauro Poggia has urged the government body that oversees health professionals and patient rights in the Swiss canton to investigate the doctor's practice.

"For him, it would seem that homosexuality is an illness to cure. This element is enough to justify opening an investigation," Poggia told Le Courrier daily. The case was brought to Poggia's attention following significant backlash on social media, with Twitter users dubbing the French doctor a "clown," an "insult to science," and a "charlatan."

Comment: It's always tricky when research touches on something that is politically incorrect in its implications. Perhaps Dr. Henry was a bit naive to leave his article on his website given the current political climate, whether or not his claims have any merit.

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Facebook bans Infowars for 'hatespeech' but allows rapper who posted child porn to Instagram to keep his account

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Wed, 15 Aug 2018 13:43 UTC
Daniel Hernandez Alex Jones
As the Free Thought Project pointed out last week, a concerted effort by multiple social media companies and tech giants was formed to remove Alex Jones from their platforms. These platforms, including Facebook, claimed Jones' rhetoric violated their terms of service, so they effectively eradicated his audience on social media.

As TFTP reported, Jones pushes anti-Muslim rhetoric, plays right along with the two-party paradigm, and serves as little more than a cheerleader for the current president, all while stoking division all the way along. His words are often hateful and he sometimes spreads outrageous conspiracy theories.

While Jones may distribute a ton of questionable content, he's never posted anything illegal and, he has never posted videos of child porn to any of his platforms. What does child porn have to do with Alex Jones, you ask? Well, nothing really unless we compare Jones getting banned for his entirely legal political speech while others have posted literal child porn to social media and maintain their accounts. Seriously.

For those who may be unfamiliar, rapper Daniel Hernandez, aka Tekashi 6ix9ine, is facing three years in prison for uploading videos to Instagram of he and a friend having sexual contact with a naked 13-year-old girl.
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Silicon Valley giants aren't the same as Christian bakeries

Allum Bokhari
Breitbart
Thu, 16 Aug 2018 12:56 UTC
Mark Zuckerberg
© BNN EDIT: LBJ Library/Flickr, Getty Images: Ludovic Marin/AFP, Drew Angerer, Justin Sullivan
In the intense debate that followed the rapid-fire censorship of Alex Jones and Infowars across virtually every major digital distribution platform last week, no argument has been lazier than the comparison with Christian-owned bakeries.

According to this line of thinking, calls for tech giants to be regulated is equivalent to the leftist cry of "bake the cake, bigot!", usually yelled at Christian bakers who refuse to cater to gay weddings on the grounds of religious principle. As a short essay in the liberal imperialist neoconservative magazine Weekly Standard put it:
You might recall a couple months ago when conservatives celebrated the Masterpiece Cake Shop decision. (Rightly, in my view.) The nub of their argument was that privately held businesses ought to be allowed to refuse certain kinds of services to certain customers, provided that (1) the refusal was based on reasonable, non-discriminatory grounds and that (2) the person being refused had reasonable recourse to an alternative remedy. That's precisely what has happened here.
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Rock band Pearl Jam slammed for poster depicting Trump as rotting corpse


RT
Thu, 16 Aug 2018 09:33 UTC
Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam
© Mike Coppola / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFPEddie Vedder of Pearl Jam.
Rock band Pearl Jam has stirred the political cauldron with an official event poster which depicts the White House engulfed in flames and the carcass of US President Donald Trump being picked over by a bald eagle.

The image by bassist Jeff Ament and illustrator Bobby Brown was used as promotional material for Pearl Jam's gig at Grizzly-Washington Stadium, Montana on Monday.

The event was a benefit to urge fans to get out and vote in the Montana Senate election in November, with Ament known to be a firm supporter of current Democratic Senator Jon Tester. The band is currently fundraising for Tester's reelection.

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Tech conference rescinds Marine Le Pen invite after massive online pressure


RT
Thu, 16 Aug 2018 12:30 UTC
Marine Le Pen
© Gonzalo Fuentes / ReutersMarine Le Pen, National Rally (Rassemblement National) political party leader
France's Marine Le Pen had her invitation to the Web Summit tech conference recalled after the organizers of the event, which is held in Portugal, got pounded with outraged messages from critics of the right-wing politician.

Le Pen, leader of Euroskeptic National Front party, vanished from the list of speakers at the annual tech conference on Wednesday afternoon, which is taking place in Lisbon on November 5-8. Web Summit founder Paddy Cosgrave, who earlier defended Le Pen's participation, citing freedom of speech, changed his mind after a huge social media storm and calls to boycott the event. He announced the decision in a lengthy thread on Twitter.

"It's clear to me now that the correct decision for @WebSummit is to rescind Marine Le Pen's invitation," Cosgrave tweeted on Wednesday, adding that the decision was based on "the large reaction online," and that Le Pen's presence would be "disrespectful" both to Portugal and some of attendees of the meeting.
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"Crisis point": New Zealand primary school teachers strike for first time in 24 years

Eleanor Ainge Roy
Guardian
Wed, 15 Aug 2018 01:24 UTC
new zealand teacher strike
Primary school teachers across New Zealand have gone on strike for the first time in in 24 years.
'Crisis point': New Zealand hit by primary school teacher strike

Zoos, community halls and churches hold all-day events to help keep 400,000 children occupied

Primary school teachers have gone on strike in New Zealand for the first time in 24 years, weeks after 30,000 nurses walked off the job.

An estimated 29,000 teachers stopped work for a full day on Wednesday, demanding a pay rise from the government of 16% over two years. The industrial action affected 400,000 children.

The teachers are striking over large class sizes, low pay, a teacher shortage and excessive administration requirements.

Louise Green, the lead negotiator for teachers' union the NZEI, said the profession was at a "crisis point" and the government needed to invest in the future of the country's children, as well as making the profession desirable again to new recruits.

Comment: Failing to support those who provide the most vital services in society reflects the terminal decline we are seeing throughout the West: Also check out SOTT radio's: The Truth Perspective: Poverty and Homelessness in America

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New anti-Facebook site launches to claim tech giant is 'killing the internet', despite legal threats


RT
Wed, 15 Aug 2018 17:19 UTC
Mark Zuckerberg
© Leah Millis/Reuters
A new anti-Facebook blog, giving small and mid-sized publishers a place to vent their frustrations over the tech giant's censorship policies and algorithms hiding their content, has gone live despite legal threats.

FacebookZoo, hosted on niche publishing platform Maven, went live on Tuesday. It aims to give disgruntled publishers an avenue to criticize the company's censorship policy, as well as outline how its "ever-changing algorithms" have drastically affected their livelihoods in favor of shareholder profit.

The blog has already survived an attempt by Facebook's legal team to shut it down. The attempt failed to go anywhere as Maven had the foresight to trademark 'FacebookZoo' while it was in beta mode, according to the New York Post.

Facebook's legal representative known only as 'Ethel' wrote to Maven, saying: "Your unauthorized use of the Facebook name is likely to cause confusion as to whether you or your company's activities are authorized, endorsed, or sponsored by Facebook when, in fact, they are not."

Comment: Really? We wonder then, why the threats to the press: Work with us or die! Facebook threatens Australian press saying: 'Work with us or end up in a hospice'

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Back to the school factory? The alternative to children's public education

Mila Keller
Libertarian House
Sat, 11 Aug 2018 00:01 UTC
back to school
It's back-to-school time. You can now find hundreds of "back-to-school" posts with helpful tips on what to buy your kids, how to prepare them for the constant harassment, and what lies to tell them to reduce their anxiety about returning to the factory of bullying, boredom, and bull.

You probably guessed it: I'm not a fan of public school. Neither are students. And guess what, neither are their teachers. While it may sound like I'm joking, I'm dead serious, and I even have the stats to prove it:

A survey of 22,000 high-school students revealed that teenagers feel bored in school 70% of the time and experience stress even more often than that (80% of the time). Can we blame them? How much fun would you have staring at a board 8 hours of the day, trying to fit in to avoid bullying, or being tested on something that has no relevance to your life?

Comment: With the current state of the toxic indoctrination factory that is public education, it's no wonder many parents are choosing to take on the burden of educating their children themselves. It's obviously not an option open to everyone, but for those who are willing and able, more power to them.

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Tragically naive: US couple cycling around the world to show evil doesn't exist killed in ISIS-claimed attack


CBS
Wed, 01 Aug 2018 11:05 UTC
Jay Austin and Lauren Geoghegan
The two Americans killed in an ISIS-claimed attack in Tajikistan over the weekend were a couple from Washington D.C. who left their lives in the nation's capital to see the world together by bicycle. According to Lauren Geoghegan's parents, the year-long cycle adventure was typical of their daughter's "openness to new people and places, and her quest for a better understanding of the world."

Robert and Elvira Geoghegan confirmed in a statement sent to CBS News that Lauren and her boyfriend Jay Austin, both 29 years old, were killed in the attack on Sunday as they rode through Tajikistan with a group of other foreign cyclists. A car rammed into the group and then five men got out and attacked the tourists with knives. A Dutch and Swiss national were killed along with Geoghegan and Austin.

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Millennial Couple Bikes Through ISIS Territory to Prove 'Humans Are Kind' and Gets Killed
Michael Sinkewicz 15 Aug 2018

"Evil is a make-believe concept we've invented to deal with the complexities of fellow humans."

A progressive young American couple was killed in an Islamic State-claimed terrorist attack last month while on a bike trip around the world.

Jay Austin and Lauren Geoghegan, who were both in their late 20s, quit their jobs in 2017 to embark on a trip around the world. Austin, a vegan, and Geoghegan, a vegetarian, decided that they're were wasting their lives working.

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Austin and Geoghegan were riding their bikes in the country on July 29 when they were rammed by a car, according to CBS News. Five men got out of the car and stabbed them to death along with two other cyclists, one from Switzerland and the other from the Netherlands.

Two days later, ISIS released a video showing the same men sitting in front of the black ISIS flag. They looked at the camera and vowed to kill "disbelievers," according to The New York Times.

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Throughout the trip, the couple embraced the kindness of strangers and sought to demonstrate that people are inherently good.

"You read the papers and you're led to believe that the world is a big, scary place," Austin wrote. "People, the narrative goes, are not to be trusted. People are bad. People are evil."

"I don't buy it," he continued. "Evil is a make-believe concept we've invented to deal with the complexities of fellow humans holding values and beliefs and perspectives different than our own... By and large, humans are kind. Self-interested sometimes, myopic sometimes, but kind. Generous and wonderful and kind."

Some conservatives have framed the tragedy as a cautionary tale about not just the perils of travel but also naivete in general. In their telling, an overly generous understanding of human nature is behind much of today's progressive movement, including calls to radically scale back immigration enforcement and policing and support for socialism...


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Florida man caught watching child porn in doctor's office, confesses to abusing children


RT
Wed, 15 Aug 2018 21:06 UTC
Keith Garrard
© Polk County Sheriff's OfficeKeith Garrard
A Florida man has admitted to molesting three children, taking pictures of children in public and watching child pornography for 20 years, after police caught him watching child porn on his laptop in a doctor's waiting room.

Keith Garrad, 63, decided that a routine trip to his local medical center in Highland County was an appropriate time to open his laptop and cue up some child pornography. Staff at the facility saw what Garrad was watching and called the sheriff's office.

When deputies showed up, they caught Garrad red-handed, and he confessed to a litany of pedophilia offenses.
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