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Barbaric: Maine Democrats squash bill to criminalize female genital mutilation


Girls Just Wanna Have Guns
Wed, 25 Apr 2018 18:26 UTC
female genital mutilation survivor screenshot
House Democrats in Maine voted against a bill that would criminalize female genital mutilation (FGM), because they were afraid of political correctness and possible Islamophobia.

The bill would have held any doctor or mutilator, consenting parents/guardians and transporters accountable for their role in forcing a girl to undergo FGM; exacting penalties from each of these individuals.

The legislation should have passed with flying colors, however Democrats - except one - shot it down due to ad hominem cries against Republican legislator Rep. Heather Sirocki, who is one of the bill's sponsors.

Comment: Genital mutilation of both girls and boys is barbaric and should be outlawed.

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Stock Down

Analysis points to a 1929-level market crash; the only question is when

Dr. Tuomas Malinen
GnS Economics
Wed, 25 Apr 2018 08:09 UTC
brooklyn daily eagle stock market crash 1929
In the 4th of February, we published a blog entry detailing the similarities of the current stock market environment with that before the stock market crash in 1987. On February 5th, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) experienced the worst daily point decline of its history. Since then, the stock market has recovered, but are we out of the woods?

At the aforementioned entry, we also warned that the situation in the global economy actually resembles more of the time before the Great Depression than that before of the Black Monday in 1987. Worryingly, the same holds for the US equity markets. In fact, almost all of the developments that led to the Great Crash of 1929 are already visible in the US. We may thus be heading towards the worst asset market crash in 90 years.

Comment: It should be obvious at this point that the stock market, and probably almost all markets on the planet, are manipulated. The questions then are: how complete is their control over the manipulation of the markets, what happens if they lose control, and when?

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Black Magic

Chomsky falls in line with "progressives" calling for continued US military involvement in Syria

Whitney Webb
MintPress News
Thu, 26 Apr 2018 17:01 UTC
Noam Chomsky
© Andrew Rusk/FlickrNoam Chomsky is pictured amongst others.
Since most progressive figures would never publicly call for extending a U.S.-led military occupation, this petition shows that the war propaganda in Syria - particularly as it relates to the Kurds - has been highly effective in subverting the progressive anti-war left as it relates to the Syrian conflict.

On Monday, the New York Review of Books published an open letter and petition aimed at securing Western support for putting pressure on Turkey to end its occupation of Afrin, opposing further Turkish incursions into Syria, and backing autonomy for Rojava - the region of Northern Syria that has functioned autonomously since 2012 after its administration was taken over by U.S-allied Kurdish factions. Authored by the Emergency Committee for Rojava, it has since been signed by well-known progressive figures such as Noam Chomsky and Judith Butler in its bid to organize efforts for the fulfillment of the group's demands.

Those demands are entirely focused on U.S. government policy. The petition asks the government to "impose economic and political sanctions on Turkey's leadership, . . . embargo sales and delivery of weapons from NATO countries to Turkey, . . . insist upon Rojava's representation in Syrian peace negotiations," and - most paradoxically of all - "continue military support for the SDF [Syrian Democratic Forces]," the Kurdish-majority group that has acted as a U.S. proxy and has been accused of ethnic cleansing in its bid to construct a Kurdish ethnostate in Northern Syria.
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Bizarro Earth

Societal rot: Parents outraged after 'revenge sex' and 'baby daddy' issues appear on Florida school assignment


RT
Sun, 29 Apr 2018 08:14 UTC
child student homework laptop
© Jon Nazca / ReutersFILE PHOTO
A sexually explicit question that appeared on a practice paper handed out to Florida high school students has caused outrage for its reference to revenge sex and use of the phrase 'baby daddy.'

The bizarre innuendo was included in a question about blood types. "Ursula was devastated when her boyfriend broke up with her after having sex. To get revenge, she had sex with his best friend the next day."

"Ursula had a beautiful baby girl nine months later. Ursula has type O blood, her ex-boyfriend is type AB blood, and his best friend is type A blood. If her baby daddy is her ex-boyfriend, what could her baby's possible blood type(s) NOT be?" the question stated.


Comment: We'd say you can't make this stuff up, but apparently someone did.


Comment: Children are highly impressionable and have enough negative influences in this society. Do they really need to be handed more filth in school assignments?

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Document

Court grants Google's request to seal documents in the James Damore case

Allum Bokhari
Breitbart
Sun, 29 Apr 2018 16:00 UTC
James Demore
Google has filed a motion in court to seal documents pertaining to James Damore's class-action lawsuit against them, arguing that the documents were causing their employees to be "harassed." In response, the court has agreed to seal the records for two months. Google is also branding critics of their far-left diversity policies as "alt-right" according to Damore's attorney.

"They have sealed it for a two-month period, believe it or not." said Harmeet Dhillon, the attorney representing Damore and the other plaintiffs in the lawsuit.

The lawsuit documents, which can still be accessed via Dhillon's website, have been a source of multiple news stories about Google. Most recently, Breitbart News reported on new evidence published in the latest filing, which shows that Google cautions its managers against rewarding the values of "white-male dominant culture," including "individual achievement" and "objectivity." The documents also show that Google has failed to discipline employees who threatened their co-workers for holding differing points of view.

Now Google is trying to have this embarrassing material shut off from the public.

Comment: Google has a lot to be embarrassed about and sealing the documents will do little to scrub their image:

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Attention

A Cancer on Society: Monsanto claims right not to speak about Roundup

Alfonso Saldaña & Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap
Common Dreams
Sat, 28 Apr 2018 13:18 UTC
monsanto
Monsanto doesn't want the world to know their product is labeled a "probable carcinogen."

It's no secret that Monsanto Corporation's trademarked pesticide Ready Roundup has become one of the most widely used herbicides in agriculture since its introduction in the mid-1970s. What might be a surprise to most is that, according to the World Health Organization's (WHO) International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), glyphosate, the principal ingredient in the herbicide, is a "probable carcinogen." Acting to protect its public, as governments should do, the State of California required that food labels indicate the presence of glyphosate. Problem sorta solved... except for Monsanto's ill-gotten and ill-considered constitutional rights.

Obviously, Monsanto doesn't want the world to know that it is highly likely their product is a carcinogen, so Monsanto took California to court - and won. Despite the IARC's findings, a U.S. District Judge has temporarily suspended the labeling of food products that contain traces of the herbicide, because it violates Monsanto's First Amendment "right not to speak".
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Question

Was it facts and the law or the #MeToo movement that led to Cosby's guilty verdict?

Marina Medvin
Townhall
Thu, 26 Apr 2018 14:53 UTC
Bill Cosby
Bill Cosby was found guilty on all 3 counts of aggravated indecent assault for drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand in Philadelphia.

I have to wonder how much the prosecutor's closing arguments had to do with the jury's decision. The government made policy arguments to the jury during their closing argument. The prosecutor argued that Cosby questioning the complaining witness' intentions is "the exact reason that women and victims of sexual assault don't report this crime." The government was shaming Cosby for confronting his accuser, for exercising a Constitutional right enumerated in the Bill of Rights. The effect of the argument is that the prosecutor signaled to the jury that the fate of future victims feeling confident in reporting crimes rests in the hands of this jury.

This was a policy argument. A way to implant into the mind of the jury the idea that making a societal change will start with a Cosby conviction. The government was referencing the #MeToo movement and the hoards of women (and men) coming forward on the internet to report their previously unreported allegations of sexual assault. Yet, it is a dangerous road, making an individual set of allegations of a trial into a representation of society's problems with this type of accusation. Surely an individual should not be the scapegoat for the ills of society as a whole.
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Bizarro Earth

Finian Cunningham: Democrats using Russia as a scapegoat for their historic failure

Finian Cunningham
Strategic Culture
Fri, 27 Apr 2018 12:00 UTC
Democrats
A new study by renowned French economist Thomas Piketty in his expertise of social inequality can be invoked to explain the ongoing obsession of the US Democratic party with Russia and its alleged interference in the 2016 American presidential election.

Piketty has concluded that the historic rise of social inequality in Western states over several decades is correlated with the political collapse of leftwing parties which traditionally had professed to represent the interests of the working-class population.

In particular, it is this historic political failure of the Democrats in the US which explains their obsession with doggedly attacking Russia over the last presidential election, as indicated by the latest lawsuit launched by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) against Russia, Trump and Wikileaks.

The 2016 presidential victory of Republican "outsider" Donald Trump over Democrat rival Hillary Clinton came as a shock to the American political establishment.

Comment: As if often the case, the West is completely lost in pathological projection, since they're the ones meddling in democracies around the world, and in their final gasps to retain power, they're using Russia as a scapegoat to distract from their abject failure, as dictatorships are wont to do: Also check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: Lessons from collapse of USSR for USA: Interview with Dmitry Orlov

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Woman claims financial struggles caused her to strangle and burn her two children


RT
Sun, 29 Apr 2018 14:43 UTC
Yelena Karimova
© RuptlyYelena Karimova in court on Saturday.
Yelena Karimova, a 27-year-old Russian single mother, is being investigated for murder after carrying out a premeditated plan to strangle her two small children, incinerate their bodies, and dump them in an abandoned warehouse.

According to a statement that was put together on the basis of her confession, on Wednesday Karimova put her children, four-year-old Hadija, and two-year-old Suleyman, in the back seat of a rented Kia and went out for a drive in the large central Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod.

She then stopped her car and strangled the children, one after another.

Afterward, she drove to a petrol station, bought lighter fluid, transported the bodies to a forest near the motorway and set her dead children on fire.
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Former NBC news anchor, Tom Brokaw, accused of sexual harassment

Rob McLean
CNN
Sun, 29 Apr 2018 14:36 UTC
Tom Brokaw
Tom Brokaw
Former NBC News correspondent Linda Vester has accused former "NBC Nightly News" anchor Tom Brokaw, who retired in 2004, of harassment, according to reports by the Washington Post and Variety.

Variety reported that Vester said Brokaw "tried to force her to kiss him on two separate occasions." She also told the magazine that he groped her and showed up at her hotel room uninvited.

"I am speaking out now because NBC has failed to hire outside counsel to investigate a genuine, long-standing problem of sexual misconduct in the news division," Vester told the Post.

Brokaw denied the allegations in a statement provided to reporters by NBC.

"I met with Linda Vester on two occasions, both at her request, twenty three years ago because she wanted advice with respect to her career at NBC," Brokaw said in the statement. "The meetings were brief, cordial and appropriate and despite Linda's allegations I made no romantic overtures towards her at that time or any other."
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