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Malibu church warned to stop feeding the homeless

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A Malibu church that has helped the homeless for years has been told to stop feeding people down on their luck.

CBS2's Craig Herrera spoke to the people at the United Methodist Church about the request.

At various times, the church can serve as many as 70-100 people. They have been serving the meals on Wednesdays since 2014.

They were reportedly told to stop food service right after Thanksgiving.

"It's a safe place," says Michah Johnson who is homeless, "and everyone is welcome. And the food is really good. It's home-cooked. And there's TLC involved."

Johnson said he still doesn't have a place to live, but he just found a job.

"The church is very helpful," he says. "They keep my spirits up. They keep me accountable. When you're homeless, it's very easy to slip off and become jaded."

Comment: No loving kindness or humanity allowed. Bans on feeding the homeless are in place all over the country.


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Orthodox Church is not against sex education in Russian schools, but urges caution

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The church does not oppose sex education in schools, but urges caution as it can corrupt young minds, the head of the Moscow Patriarchate external relations department has stated.

"If these lessons turn into corruption of the young, as it unfortunately happens very often, the Church would definitely oppose them. At the same time, the situation in which children do not know some very elementary things is also wrong," Metropolitan Bishop Hilarion said in an interview with Rossiya-24.

The cleric added that certain lessons were necessary to educate children about measures that can prevent them from contracting HIV or some other sexually transmitted disease, but emphasized that sex education in schools must be done in a "chaste" way.

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Saudi Arabia holds first women's basketball tournament

Jeddah United team pose for a photo before their match with Sadad in the first women's basketball tournament
© OkazJeddah United team pose for a photo before their match with Sadad in the first women's basketball tournament
Manama: Saudi Arabia held its first basketball tournament for women in the Red Sea city of Jeddah on Saturday - a first for the country.

University of Business and Technology beat Dar Al Hekma University at a game held in King Abdullah Sports City - attended exclusively by women.

"The event demonstrated women's passion for sports and this game undoubtedly gives greater impetus to other events that will increase interest and calls among women to promote the concept of community sports," Leena Al Maeena, Member of the Shura Council and a founding member of the Jeddah United basketball team, said, quoted by Saudi daily Okaz on Sunday.

The event, which included other sporting activities, started with an opening match between Jeddah United and Sadad, followed by games by the other six teams in the competition for the title.

Comment: For reasons not yet clear, in recent months there has been sudden shift in Saudi Arabia's internal politics, what is clear is that the current rulers of the infamously repressive regime have recently visited with the heads of the US and Russia, and along with this have begun cracking down on corruption in certain circles. At the same time Saudia Arabia continues it's disregard for human life by bombing Yemen:


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Compelled speech madness spreads to France: French language to be 'corrected' with bizarre gender-neutral 'inclusive writing'

Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer
© AFP Photo/CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULTEducation Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer had decried "repeated attacks on the French language."
Moves to make the French language more female-friendly have sparked impassioned debate in France, with an appalled Academie Francaise warning of a "mortal danger" to the language of Moliere.

At the centre of the debate is the growing use of formulations such as "lecteur.rice.s" for the word "readers" to embrace both genders. Several government ministries, universities and labour unions use so-called "inclusive writing", but it had largely escaped public notice -- until this autumn when it turned up in an elementary school history textbook.

The Academie Francaise, the arbiter of the French language which has inducted just eight women since its foundation in 1635, did not mince words.

"In the face of this 'inclusive' aberration, the French language finds itself in mortal danger," the body intoned.

Comment: This is beyond ridiculous. Orwell's 'newspeak' again seems eerily prescient.

The madness of compelled speech is spreading.

See also: Jordan Peterson: Gender pronouns and free speech war


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Cops can slap homeless women, rape prisoners, assault children, and still keep their jobs

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We live a deeply problematic era in American history. As I type this, the nation is reeling from yet another mass shooting in which 26 people were shot and killed in a rural Texas church. Federal prosecutors are currently investigating and indicting members of Donald Trump's campaign team for various levels of corruption. And while all of this, and so much more, goes on, police brutality, prosecutorial misconduct, and other problems within America's criminal justice system continue with less and less scrutiny.

Here, we cover many incidents of injustice from the past week that you likely have not heard about, but deserve our time and attention.

Comment: Is it any wonder why police in the United States have such a tarnished reputation when such flagrant violations of the law and common decency go unpunished or justice is served lukewarm?


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UK: Christian charity concerned about rise in reports of 'honour-based' violence

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A Christian charity has told Premier it's concerned about latest figures that reveal despite prosecutions for "honour-based" violence being at their lowest level in five years, the number of reports to police have gone up.

Just five per cent of cases reported to police are referred to the Crown Prosecution Service.

Peter Grant from Restored, which tackles violence against women, told Premier's News Hour it's never acceptable for these crimes to be committed.

He said: "These are basic crimes against individual human beings and I think what we must call out is the fact that no religion and no social code should be allowed to disguise the fact that these are crimes."

Comment: It is not only the police force that needs to address this problem differently. Obviously, the communities of the affected women need to reassess and reform their religious beliefs and traditions, since they fail in the most fundamental task of protecting the most vulnerable: women and children.

It is also interesting that this article does not mention the religions that condone such behaviour - perhaps out of fear of not being 'politically correct' - with the most likely suspect being Islam. If this was mainly a problem of Christians, would the media pull back their punches in the same way?


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Corey Haim's mother accuses Dominick Brascia of sexually abusing her son

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Last week we reported that former actor Dominick Brascia accused Charlie Sheen of molesting the late actor Corey Haim-but now Haim's mother has come forward to say that her son was sexually abused by Brascia, and she saw it happen.

Judy Haim, Corey's mother, appeared on the Dr. Oz show after the allegations hit the news to clear the air and tell her side of the story, and she dropped a bombshell.

"This guy Dominick is the guy that abused my son. My son said so. He said so on 'The Two Coreys.' If you ever go back and watch any interview that my son ever gave, you would understand what I'm talking about. He hid nothing," Judy said.

Judy said she even saved her son from being "pinned down" by Brascia on one occasion after she received a phone call from him yelling and screaming that Brascia wouldn't get off of him.

Pirates

Hacked Swedish radio station plays half hour of ISIS recruiting song

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Earlier this year, President Trump took a beating in the mainstream media for blasting Europe's, and more specifically Sweden's, disastrous immigration policies...

Of course, since that feud erupted, the MSM has been repeatedly embarrassed by a series of violent attacks perpetrated by Muslim migrants on Swedish citizens. Here are just a few examples:

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Terror survivor wants free speech on extremist ideas

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© One Young WorldBjorn Ihler survived an attack and now wants to tackle extremist ideas.
Bjorn Ihler read Anders Breivik's book only a week after jumping into lake Tyrifjorden in Norway to escape the terrorist's bullets.

Bjorn was one of the survivors on Utoya island where Breivik killed 77 people in July 2011. What Bjorn found in the far-right "manifesto" surprised him.

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Man acquitted of rape of 11 year old girl by French jurors

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Following a years-long investigation, a criminal court in the Seine-et-Marne district near the French capital has ruled a now 30-year-old man cannot be charged with the rape of an 11-year-old girl, as no evidence of "threat or violence" has been established.

The man, a Cape Verdean native, was 22 years old when he met the girl in the city of Nevers in central France, where she was on vacation visiting family. The girl, who is of Congolese origin, was playing with her cousin in the street when the man approached her and invited her to a walk in the park, Le Parisien reported. There, the then 11-year-old was undressed and subjected to sexual intercourse, she claims, saying she asked the man to stop and told the stranger her age.

The man maintains the act was consensual, and that the girl told him she was almost 15-years-old - the age of consent in France. However, to obtain a rape conviction, prosecutors needed to prove that sex was non-consensual. The girl's counselor, who met her after the incident, said she was of "girlish physique, [and] could not be confused with a teenager or a woman," according to Le Parisien.


Comment: There you go. There was no question that she was underage.


Comment: French courts obviously have some very sick pedophiles running the show, and this acceptance of pedophilia is one big nail in the coffin of society. Possibly the final one. People really need to start getting mad about this!