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Judge rules parents can kick their 30yo son out of house

Mark Price
Charlotte Observer
Tue, 22 May 2018 11:21 UTC
Michael Rotondo
© WDKXMichael Rotondo
The strange case of a New York state couple going to court to get their 30-year-old son to move out has ended in favor of the parents, according to media outlets in upstate New York.

State Supreme Court Justice Donald Greenwood ruled Tuesday that Michael Rotondo must leave his parents' home in Camillus in upstate New York, reported TV station WSTM.

Rotondo said he planned to appeal, calling the judge's decision "outrageous," reported WSYR.

The 30-minute court hearing was described as "surreal" by the news outlet Syracuse.com, which reported Michael Rotondo was argumentative, refused to address his parents directly and never denied they asked him to leave the home.
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Red Flag

Researchers warn about global 'staggering' obesity epidemic


AFP
Wed, 23 May 2018 11:16 UTC
obesity
In 27 years from now, almost a quarter of the global population will be obese, researchers said Wednesday, warning of the mounting medical bill.

If current trends continue, 22 percent of people in the world will be obese by 2045, up from 14 percent last year, according to research presented at the European Congress on Obesity in Vienna.

One in eight people, up from one in 11, will have type 2 diabetes -- a form of the disease that generally hits in adulthood as a result of being overweight.

"These numbers underline the staggering challenge the world will face in the future in terms of numbers of people who are obese, or have type 2 diabetes, or both," said researcher Alan Moses of Danish healthcare company Novo Nordisk's research and development department.
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Pistol

MP warns: Cocaine fuels soaring violent crime rate as UK set to become Europe's coke capital


RT
Wed, 23 May 2018 11:05 UTC
Cocaine, bullets, and a gun.
© Caspar Benson / Getty ImagesCocaine, bullets, and a gun.
The UK is on the way to becoming the cocaine capital of Europe, a government minister has warned. Security minister Ben Wallace linked the profitable drug to soaring crime rates.

Wallace said the "high-margin, high-supply drug" was "fueling" an increase in violence on the streets. He told MPs that technology had enabled drug dealers to avoid police detection and order drugs directly from other "serious" gangs.
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House

The cost of Fatherlessness

Augusto Zimmermann
Quadrant
Wed, 23 May 2018 10:23 UTC
Child abuse and neglect overwhelmingly occur in households from which the biological father is absent or removed. Shamefully, recognising and defending fathers' role in the protection of their biological children is spurned by the prevailing left-feminist agenda
Fatherlessness
For years fathers' groups have complained that whenever they request that fathers should have more time to spend with their children after divorce, feminist groups argue that those children will be exposed to more violence.

Contrary to social evidence, feminists think males raised without fathers will treat women better. And yet, most of the male perpetrators of domestic violence are the products of what once was called a "broken home". They have been denied a meaningful contact with their biological fathers, and, as a result, denied experience of traditional fatherhood.

Comment:

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Eye 2

Israeli ambassador says Dutch parody of Eurovision song is anti-Semitic because it references Israeli violence in Gaza


RT
Wed, 23 May 2018 09:19 UTC
eurovision parody
© Rafael Marchante / Reuters
Israel's ambassador to the Netherlands made a formal complaint over a sketch show version of Israel's winning Eurovision entry. The spoof song included references to Israeli violence in Gaza and has been called anti-Semitic.

Israel's ambassador to the Netherlands Aviv Shir-On has lodged an official letter of protest to BNNVARA, the public broadcaster that aired the show, the Foreign Ministry and the Central Jewish Board group in the country.

The 'Samme Wallis de Vries Show,' created a spoof of the winning Eurovision performance, with comedian Martine Sandifort playing the part of singer Netta Barzilai. The lyrics of the female empowerment anthem "Toy" were changed to something more politically relevant: "The world's leaders are eating out of my hand... we're throwing a party, are you coming? Later, at the al-Aqsa mosque, which will be empty soon anyway." The al-Aqsa Mosque is one of Islam's most holy places, located in a part of Jerusalem that Israel claims for its own.


The video also features footage of protesting and wounded Palestinians, as well as a reference to the US Embassy opening on Israel's 70th anniversary, to which Sandifort sings, "the Palestinians aren't invited to her party." Instead of the lyrics, "I'm not your toy," the comedic version says, "look how beautifully I launch missiles." On the day of the embassy opening on May 14, almost 60 Palestinian protesters were killed by Israeli forces at the border.

Comment: There is almost nothing one can say or do that criticizes Israel without it being called 'anti-semitism'.

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People

Jordan Peterson is playing in the Left's cultural sandbox

David French
National Review
Mon, 21 May 2018 14:58 UTC
Jordan Peterson
There's room for a Christian counter-offensive in secular culture.

Rarely in my life have I read a more hostile or vicious takedown of a public figure than last week's New York Times profile of Canadian author and psychologist Jordan Peterson. Rarely have I witnessed a more bizarre and bad-faith interview of a public figure than journalist Cathy Newman's January interrogation of Peterson on Britain's Channel 4 News. Few public figures inspire more vitriol and mockery on Twitter than, you guessed it, Jordan Peterson. And never before have I seen vitriol so out of proportion to the "threat" of the man's underlying message.

I don't claim to be an expert on everything the man's said, but I read and reviewed his most recent book, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote for Chaos, and I've watched many of his most popular YouTube videos - and the contrast between the actual content of his message and the rage and mockery it elicits never fails to surprise me. Have we really reached the point where the basic argument that men and women are different, or that free men and women will often make different choices in large part because they are different, or that religion and ancient traditions can inform and guide our lives today, are now so toxic that their advocates must and should face a relentless campaign to drive them from the public square?

Or, given the obvious crisis that young men face - with rising rates of suicide and drug overdose, and diminishing educational outcomes - why the extraordinary hostility to a man who is reaching those same young men with a message of hard work, personal responsibility, honor, and integrity?

Comment: See also:

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Hourglass

Chris Hedges: The collapse is coming, get ready

Chris Hedges
Truthdig
Sun, 20 May 2018 00:00 UTC
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The Trump administration did not rise, prima facie, like Venus on a half shell from the sea. Donald Trump is the result of a long process of political, cultural and social decay. He is a product of our failed democracy. The longer we perpetuate the fiction that we live in a functioning democracy, that Trump and the political mutations around him are somehow an aberrant deviation that can be vanquished in the next election, the more we will hurtle toward tyranny. The problem is not Trump. It is a political system, dominated by corporate power and the mandarins of the two major political parties, in which we don't count. We will wrest back political control by dismantling the corporate state, and this means massive and sustained civil disobedience, like that demonstrated by teachers around the country this year. If we do not stand up we will enter a new dark age.
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Book 2

4.8mn Swedish homes to get war prepper pamphlet


RT
Wed, 23 May 2018 03:47 UTC
Swedish troops
© Bjorn Larsson Rosvall/TT News Agency / Reuters
The Swedish government is issuing pamphlets explaining how citizens should prepare for a multitude of potential crises from terrorist attacks to all-out war, saying: "Sweden is safer than many other countries but threats exist."

The booklet, produced by the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB), advises Swedes to stock up on tinned food, bottled water and blankets in addition to planning how they would manage the supply of water, food, heat and communications when public services are not functioning as normal.

Comment: Ridiculous! Sweden distributes 4.7 million leaflets on 'how to prepare for war with Russia'

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Arrow Down

Kendrick Lamar kicks white fan off stage for rapping the n-word in song he invited her to sing


BBC
Tue, 22 May 2018 03:21 UTC
Kendrick Lamar
© Getty ImagesKendrick Lamar at Coachella festival in April
A white woman has been booed at a Kendrick Lamar gig for singing the N-word on stage.

The rapper invited the woman, who identified herself only as "Delaney", to sing M.A.A.D City during his set at the Hangout Festival in Alabama.

But Kendrick stopped her after she repeatedly used the N-word - which is heard multiple times in his song.

As the crowd reacted angrily, Kendrick told her: "You gotta bleep one single word."

She appeared not to realise why she had been stopped, and asked: "Am I not cool enough for you, bro?"

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Bullseye

Debunking the propaganda and getting our facts straight on Venezuela

Alba Movements
Resumen
Mon, 14 May 2018 00:00 UTC
supporters venezuela
Supporters of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro celebrate after the National Electoral Council declared him winner of the presidential election

1. "There is no democracy": In Venezuela there have been 23 elections since 1998, the year in which Hugo Chavez was elected as President and began a process of democratization of the State's powers with high level of public participation in the decisions they make in their political, economical, cultural and organizational life. This is known as Participative Democracy with Protagonism from the people. Furthermore in Venezuela, voting is not obligatory, and still the participation levels in the last decades has been more than 70%, higher than what is there in United States, Spain, Colombia, Peru and Chile. For 11 years, Venezuela has used electronic or automatic voting system, which allows accelerating the voting process and protecting the results.

Comment: Maduro and his party may not be perfect but it bears repeating that Venezuela would not be in the shape it's in today if not for the on-going attempts on the part of the US to sabotage the sovereignty of the South American country and its work towards independence from the empire to the north.

And the attempts have been staggering in scope:

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