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DNA testing service breach involves 92M user accounts


RT
Tue, 05 Jun 2018 23:39 UTC
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Genealogy and DNA testing service My Heritage has revealed that the details of more than 92 million user accounts have been compromised in a cybersecurity breach.

Emails and hashed passwords of users who registered for the service, up to and including October 26, 2017 - the date of the breach, were found on a private server, the company confirmed Monday. The incident was brought to the ancestry site's attention by a security researcher who came across the file named 'myheritage' on a private server outside of MyHeritage.

Upon analysis of the file, the company confirmed it was legitimate and included the email addresses and hashed passwords of 92,283,889 users.

MyHeritage is an Israel-based ancestry platform where users can create family trees and search through familial and historical records. It has some 35 million family trees on its website, according to a report from Israeli media last year.
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They may be able to drive now, but there are still plenty of things women in Saudi Arabia can't do


RT
Wed, 06 Jun 2018 14:50 UTC
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Saudi Arabia has begun issuing driving licenses to women as it prepares to lift the ban on female motorists. However, the move has illuminated other ways in which females are discriminated against in the notoriously strict state.

Ten women received the first Saudi licences on Monday, with about 2,000 more expected to join the new community of female drivers before the ban expires on June 24. The women already held driving licences from the UK, Lebanon and Canada, but had to take a driving test before having the right granted to them in Saudi Arabia.

While women can now vote and drive, the milestone is still tinged by oppression as women must still seek male permission to get a licence - as they are required to do for all other important decisions. Here are eight ways in which women are still discriminated against in the Gulf kingdom.

Comment: Don't fret. Saudi Arabia has been generous in other ways:

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Russian lawmakers want to scrap patient confidentiality for teens to combat STDs and unwanted pregnancies


RT
Wed, 06 Jun 2018 14:41 UTC
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© Yevgeny Odinokov / SputnikA school graduate at the Gorky Central Park of Culture and Leisure.
Russian MPs have drafted a bill that, if passed, would cancel doctor-patient privilege for people under 18, claiming that such a move would better enable parents to fight post-puberty problems and substance abuse.

Business-oriented mass circulation daily Kommersant reported on Wednesday that the legislature of central Russia's Samara region had prepared a draft increasing the age at which patients can rely on confidentiality in relation to their communication with doctors from current 15 years to 18 years.

An explanatory note attached to the bill by its sponsors states that "children in their late teens often have no desire to inform their parents or guardians about various problems of the puberty period, such as early pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, injuries received in conflicts with their contemporaries, and addiction to alcohol, tobacco and other substances."

The sponsors also attached some statistics to their draft, claiming that up to 22 percent of schoolchildren in Russia are sexually active and, in the final year of secondary school, this proportion is even higher at almost 38 percent. They also state that, according to the WHO, three percent of 11-year-old boys in Russia, seven percent of 13-year-old boys, and 12 percent of 15-year-old boys drink alcohol at least once a week.
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'This world is a better place without her': Siblings publish scathing obituary of late mother


RT
Wed, 06 Jun 2018 14:35 UTC
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People say you shouldn't air your dirty laundry in public. That's seemingly not the view of Jay and Gina Dehmlow, a disgruntled duo who posted a savage obituary of their late mother Kathleen in their local newspaper.

The obituary, published in Minnesota's Redwood Falls Gazette, has been shared more than 36,000 times online and tells the life story of 80-year-old Kathleen Dehmlow. From her birth in 1938 in Wabasso, Minnesota, the five-paragraph piece remembers her marriage in 1957; the birth her two children, Gina and Jay; her 1962 pregnancy by her husband's brother Lyle; and her decision to "abandon her children" and move to California.

"She passed away on May 31, 2018, in Springfield and will now face judgement. She will not be missed by Gina and Jay, and they understand that this world is a better place without her," the obituary closes.
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Health officials blame Tinder for the 20% rise in STDs


RT
Wed, 06 Jun 2018 14:25 UTC
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Victorian-era sexually transmitted diseases like gonorrhea and syphilis are making a comeback in the UK because dating apps are speeding up the process of people meeting and having sex, health officials have warned.

Although the overall number of sexually transmitted infections (STI) has fallen by 0.3 percent since 2016, the number of gonorrhea cases has seen a 22-percent spike to 44,676, the highest since 1949, new figures from Public Health England (PHE) reveal.

The incidence of syphilis, which can be life-threatening and cause severe damage to the brain, heart and nervous system, increased by 20 percent from 5,955 in 2016 to 7,137 to 2017.

Gwenda Hughes, head of the STI department at PHE, said: "Sexually transmitted infections pose serious consequences to health. It is likely to be a result of condomless sex. We've got these apps and they enable people to find partners much more quickly."

Hughes warned that STIs pose grave risks for both current and future partners. "The impact of STIs can be considerable, with some causing infertility, pelvic inflammatory disease and harm to unborn babies.

Comment: The rise in STIs is cultural and behavioral in nature. No amount of correct condom usage and sexual health services can correct the dearth of moral grounding that led to this problem in the first place.

It's time to admit that the sexual revolution was a catastrophic failure

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Pro-Israeli lobby groups weaponizing 'diversity' campaigns to pump up anti-Palestinianism sentiment

Yves Engler
Dissident Voice
Sun, 03 Jun 2018 12:38 UTC
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Should "Jewish Heritage Month" be used as a cover for Israeli nationalism and to suppress Palestinian protest?

A recent incident at a Toronto high school demonstrates the depravity of the pro-Israel lobby. It also illustrates their use of Canadian cultural and "diversity" initiatives to promote a country that declares itself to be the exact opposite of diverse.

Amidst the recent slaughter of nonviolent protesters in Gaza, a half-century illegal occupation of the West Bank and weekly bombings in Syria, an Israeli flag marked with "Jewish Heritage Month" was hoisted in the main foyer of Forest Hill Collegiate Institute. After a couple days the flag created by Israeli nationalist students was moved - possibly due to complaints from other students - to a less prominent location where Jewish Heritage Month events were taking place. In response B'nai Brith, Hasbara Fellowships, Simon Wiesenthal Centre for Holocaust Studies and Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) all claimed persecution. "Discrimination has absolutely no place in our schools", noted a CIJA spokesperson with regards to moving the Israeli flag to a less prominent location in the school. For their part, the Wiesenthal Center said our "objective is to ensure that TDSB [Toronto District School Board] adheres to its own values of equity and inclusivity for all students" while B'nai Brith's press release decried the "Jewish students who have had their heritage denigrated." That group then published a story titled "Forest Hill Collegiate Has History of Alienating Jewish Students, Former Pupil Says."

Comment: Unfortunately the Zionist lobby has its claws as deep into Canadian politics as it does into the U.S. Money talks regardless of country.

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Mosque and Sikh temple set on fire in arson attacks on same night in Leeds, UK


Yorkshire Evening Post
Wed, 06 Jun 2018 09:12 UTC
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Two places of worship in Beeston have been targeted by arsonists in what police believe were linked hate crimes.

Just before 4am this morning, the front door of the Jamia Masjid Abu Huraira - also known as Beeston Central Mosque - on Hardy Street was deliberately set alight using what is thought to have been flammable liquid. Fire crews managed to contain the blaze before it spread.

At around the same time, a fire was reported at the nearby Guru Nanak Nishkam Sewak Jatha, a Sikh gurdwara on Lady Pit Lane. The front door was alight and damage was caused to the door and a pillar.

Detective Inspector Richard Holmes, of Leeds District CID, said: "We are treating both these incidents as linked given the closeness of the locations and the similar times that they have occurred.

Comment: Senseless violence and vandalism appear to be on the rise around the deteriorating Western world:

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Argentina cancels soccer friendly against Israel under pressure from campaigners


PressTV
Wed, 06 Jun 2018 09:02 UTC
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© AFPThe picture taken on June 5, 2018, shows a poster erected on a street in the West Bank city of al-Khalil (Hebron) next to a portrait of Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas (R), denouncing a friendly football match between Argentina and Israel.
Under pressure from pro-Palestine campaigners, Argentina has canceled a controversial World Cup warm-up match against Israel in the occupied Jerusalem al-Quds amid an international outcry over the regime's crimes against Palestinians.

A senior source at Argentina's Football Federation, who was speaking on condition of anonymity, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that the game had been called off.

In an interview with the ESPN sports channel, Argentinean striker Gonzalo Higuain confirmed the cancellation, saying, "They've finally done the right thing."

Additionally, the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires said in a statement that it "regrets to communicate the suspension of the match" due to "threats and provocations" against Argentinean striker Lionel Messi.

The Palestinian Football Association (FA) had earlier called on Arab and Muslim sports fans to burn photos and T-shirts of Messi if he attended the friendly match.

Comment: Israel's treatment of the Palestinians should not go without consequences. While they may never see a day in court, one can hope more countries will demonstrate that Israel will be shunned and isolated by the international community if they continue down that road.

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Former chief of Israeli Government Press Office reveals pathology: 'I'm an Islamophobe' and 'Arabs lie'

Jonathan Ofir
Mondoweiss
Tue, 05 Jun 2018 16:00 UTC
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"The Arabs lie", said Daniel Seaman, former head of the Israeli Government Press Office, last Thursday. He was on a panel discussion of i24 News together with Haaretz columnist Gideon Levy and Ruthie Blum of the far-right think tank The Gatestone Institute (in English).

Anchor Ami Kaufman wonders: "All Arabs?". Seaman responds, "It's part of the culture".

Kaufman: "Isn't that a little bit stereotypical?"

Gideon Levy pointed out that if anyone were to speak about Jews that way, they would be called an anti-Semite. Ruthi Blum qualified that "when you dare to say it about Muslims, you're called an Islamophobe."

Comment: See also: Should Israel be labeled a psychopath?

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Man of conscience: An Israeli speaks for many when he addresses Iranian students and revolutionary guard cadets on what he hopes for

Miko Peled
Mint Press News
Mon, 04 Jun 2018 00:00 UTC
Miko Peled speaking in Iran.
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Regardless of how much demonizing goes on, regardless of how many times one reads that the "other" is evil, bloodthirsty and may be committed to terrorism, people's compassion comes through at moments like this, and here it did not fail.

Yazd, Iran - As I looked at the two hundred or so young cadets sitting on the floor of the prayer hall, all I could think of were my two boys, Eitan and Doron, who are about the same age as they. The previous day I visited the families of Iranian martyrs, boys who fell during the protracted war between Iran and Iraq. And while giving one's life in the service of one's country is often seen as a great honor, I do not share that feeling at all. So all I could say as I began my remarks was that, seeing how they are about the same age as my own boys, I wish for them and their families that they will not be martyrs but return home safe as soon as their service was over.

The Revolutionary Guard base in Yazd is right off the main road. I was informed the night before that I was to deliver a 7:30 a.m. lecture but no details were provided. That morning, as we were driving, I was told that I would need to leave my camera and phone behind because we were entering a military base. Then they told me that I would be speaking in front of cadets of the famed Iranian Revolutionary Guards, known in Iran as the "Sebah." I entered the prayer hall, accompanied by a translator and several reporters who escorted me throughout the trip, and we were greeted and led to a seat with a microphone. About 10 rows of young men seated 20-across were on the floor with their legs crossed and another hundred or so people in civilian clothes who were seated along the walls of the large hall.

Comment: Though Miko Peled speaks for many who see the pathological Israeli mindset for what it is, and works to address it, there are all too few with his knowledge, experience and fortitude to come out and say and do what he is.

Listen to the Behind the Headlines interview with Mr. Peled for more: Behind the Headlines: Israel massacres Palestinians (again) - Interview with Miko Peled

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