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Inquest into death of conspiracy theorist who vomited two litres of black blood now delayed without reason

Jane Lavender
The Mirror
Thu, 09 Nov 2017 11:19 UTC
Max Spiers
© Youtube/Max SpiersMax Spiers was found dead while he was due to attend a conference in Poland
The inquest into the mysterious death of a British conspiracy theorist who died after vomiting two litres of black blood has been delayed again.

Max Spiers' body was discovered while he was on a trip to Poland for a conference.

The 39-year-old died suddenly on the sofa in the home of science fiction writer, Monika Duval, in July last year.

Father-of-two Max died after vomiting the black fluid, but Polish officials ruled he died from natural causes, even though a post-mortem was not carried out.

His inquest opened in December 2016 and was due to resume this Thursday in Maidstone, Kent.

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Dominoes

Should all secessionist movements be allowed to succeed?

John Stossel & Maxim Lott
Reason
Tue, 07 Nov 2017 10:38 UTC
European secessionist movements
© Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Many Californians are upset about Donald Trump. Some are so upset that they are working to get a referendum on the ballot in 2018. It would ask Californians if their state should leave the United States and become an independent country-which it was back in 1846.

But if they vote to leave will the rest of America let them? Maybe not, if Spain's reaction to a similar movement is any guide. A region called Catalonia wants to secede from the rest of Spain. But the Spanish government says that is illegal and sent thousands of police to stop Catalonians from even voting about whether they want to leave. The police brutally assaulted many people trying to vote.

Catalonia's regional Parliament responded with a declaration of independence from Spain, but the Spanish authorities then dissolved the parliament and arrested many of the leaders who favored secession. Other leaders have fled the country and are trying to convince the EU to give Catalonia independence.

Comment: Would letting any group secede actually and not just theoretically lead to better laws and better governments, or would this end up creating more problems than it would supposedly solve? It really depends on the context of the particular secessionist group or movement: who they wish to secede from, why, who is or isn't supportive, why, and so on.

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Mr. Potato

Landlord bans Indian and Pakistani tenants because of 'curry smell', court deems unlawful

Rebecca Taylor
Sky News
Wed, 08 Nov 2017 20:25 UTC
Fergus Wilson
© Sky NewsFergus Wilson stands by his claim
A buy-to-let landlord who banned Indian and Pakistani tenants because he claimed they left his property smelling of curry has been told the policy is unlawful.

Fergus Wilson, 69, told his letting agencies in March not to allow his homes to be rented by "coloured people" because he said they left a "curry smell" in the homes at the end of the tenancy.

He was taken to court by the Equality and Human Rights Commission, and on Wednesday, a judge at Maidstone County Court ruled such discrimination was unlawful.

Mr Wilson was handed a three-year injunction, which means he is not allowed to stop tenants renting from him because of their race.
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Propaganda

Four viral claims spread by journalists on Twitter in the last week alone that are false

Glen Greenwald
The Intercept
Sun, 05 Nov 2017 10:09 UTC
Donna Brazile
There is ample talk, particularly of late, about the threats posed by social media to democracy and political discourse. Yet one of the primary ways that democracy is degraded by platforms such as Facebook and Twitter is, for obvious reasons, typically ignored in such discussions: the way they are used by American journalists to endorse factually false claims that quickly spread and become viral, entrenched into narratives, and thus, can never be adequately corrected.

The design of Twitter, where many political journalists spend their time, is in large part responsible for this damage. Its space constraints mean that tweeted headlines or tiny summaries of reporting are often assumed to be true with no critical analysis of their accuracy and are easily spread. Claims from journalists that people want to believe are shared like wildfire, while less popular subsequent corrections or nuanced debunking are easily ignored. Whatever one's views are on the actual impact of Twitter Russian bots, surely the propensity of journalistic falsehoods to spread far and wide is at least as significant.

Just in the last week alone, there have been four major factually false claims that have gone viral because journalists on Twitter endorsed and spread them: three about the controversy involving Donna Brazile and the Democratic National Committee, and one about documents and emails published by WikiLeaks during the 2016 campaign. It's well worth examining them, both to document what the actual truth is, as well as to understand how often and easily this online journalistic misleading occurs.

Comment: Accusations are piling up against the Queen of Corruption Cheatery Clinton. No army of Twitter Clinton-bots and Fake News journalists will save her this time (or so we hope).

On the recent revelations made by Donna Brazile, see: And more on whose side so-called journalists are on:

Media Bias: ABC, NBC and CBS skip Donna Brazile bombshell that DNC was rigged for Clinton

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Heart - Black

He cared for Haitian orphans. Now he's been found guilty of sexually abusing them.

Jacqueline Charles
Miami Herald
Tue, 07 Nov 2017 19:23 UTC
daniel pye
© FacebookDaniel Pye was found guilty Tuesday by a Miami federal jury on three counts of traveling to Haiti from Miami to have sex with underage girls at his orphanage.
Each young woman told a similar story, detailing horrible sexual acts done to them as children while living at a Haitian orphanage in the seaside city of Jacmel.

One young witness was so uncomfortable that she could not say the word vagina, and kept referring to her "front" through a Creole translator to describe how the man who ran the home "was always touching the children." Another, who testified that her abuse started at age 6, described how he would hold her head and she would struggle as he forced her to perform oral sex on him.

Three others recounted additional episodes of abuse.

On Tuesday, a Miami federal jury found Daniel John Pye, 35, guilty of traveling to Haiti from Miami on three separate dates for the purpose of engaging in illicit sexual conduct with minor girls in his care. He was found not guilty on a fourth count.

Pye faces up to 30 years in prison on each of the three counts. Sentencing is set for Jan. 10.

Prosecutors painted him as a missionary with a dark side who went to Haiti for one reason: to sexually abuse underage girls.
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Snakes in Suits

Snakes in suits: Gay Talese says Kevin Spacey accuser should 'suck it up'


Fox News
Wed, 08 Nov 2017 01:56 UTC
spacey_talese
© Reuters ; Getty ImagesKevin Spacey and Gay Talese
With the mounting allegations of sexual harassment and predatory behavior against Kevin Spacey, author and journalist Gay Talese had some choice words for the House of Cards star's first accuser.

Speaking to media at an event in New York City, Talese was asked for his thoughts on the recent litany of people coming forward to accuse people in Hollywood of sexual harassment. The author of such magazine profiles as Frank Sinatra Has a Cold and The Silent Season of a Hero said he'd like to make Spacey his next subject.

Spacey has stepped away from acting and reportedly is seeking treatment at an undisclosed location following a BuzzFeed News report in which actor Anthony Rapp came forward and said Spacey made a sexual advance at him when he was just 14 years old. Since then, many men have come forward, including eight people who worked with Spacey on his Netflix series, with similar claims.

Amid the controversy, House of Cards suspended production and Netflix is severing ties with its star.

"I feel so sad, and I hate that actor that ruined this guy's career," Talese told Vanity Fair. "So, OK, it happened 10 years ago ... Jesus, suck it up once in a while!"
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Sheriff

LAPD is now officially investigating pedophilia in Hollywood

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Wed, 08 Nov 2017 00:51 UTC
lapd hollywood
For decades, child actors and Hollywood insiders alike have been all but screaming from rooftops about the alleged pedophile ring that is Tinseltown. However, no significant official inquiry into these claims appears to have ever taken place-until now. The Los Angeles Police Department has just officially confirmed that they are now investigating the alleged pedophile ring in Hollywood.

As the Free Thought Project reported last year, childhood star turned adult actor Elijah Wood came forward and claimed Hollywood is in the midst of a massive sexual abuse scandal, which can be compared to that of Jimmy Savile in Britain.

In an interview with the Sunday Times, Wood dropped a bombshell, noting how child actors were regularly "preyed upon" by industry figures.

"Clearly something major was going on in Hollywood," said Wood. "It was all organized."

What Wood is talking about is the rampant sexual abuse of child actors, which is finally getting mainstream coverage thanks to Corey Feldman and all those who refuse to allow this obvious problem to be swept under the rug.
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Newspaper

Mother Jones' bureau chief is sixth member of elite media accused of sexual harassment

John Nolte
Breitbart
Fri, 03 Nov 2017 17:25 UTC
David Corn
© PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP/GettyDavid Corn
Just coming to light are two emails written by former staffers for the hard-left Mother Jones magazine, who allege that Washington bureau chief David Corn inappropriately touched female employees and made jokes about rape and "women's sexuality and anatomy."

In just a month, Corn is the sixth member of the media elite under investigation for alleged misconduct.

The left-wing Politico just obtained the emails, written in 2014 and 2015, and in a statement, Mother Jones' CEO Monika Bauerlein and editor-in-chief Clara Jeffery said, "[N]ow that they've come to us, we are going to take them seriously and investigate."

Mother Jones admits that three years ago Corn was investigated for "inappropriate workplace behavior" and subsequently "warned about touching female staffers and insensitive descriptions of sexual violence[.]" The magazine maintains that Corn has since behaved appropriately. The details of the emails, however, have spurred them to "probe the allegations further[.]"
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Calculator

'Brilliant a$$holes': Why Silicon Valley lib-techs are becoming despised like bankers

Olivia Solon
The Guardian
Wed, 08 Nov 2017 21:59 UTC
iphone revolt
© Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP/Getty ImagesAt an Apple store in France, activists painted the window to protest the company’s tax evasion.
When Danny Greg first moved to San Francisco to work at Github in 2012, he used to get high-fives in the street from strangers when he wore his company hoodie.

These days, unless he's at an investor event, he's cautious about wearing branded clothing that might indicate he's a techie. He's worried about the message it sends.

Greg is one of many people working in tech who are increasingly self-conscious about how the industry - represented by consumer-facing tech titans like Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Twitter and Uber - is perceived: as underregulated, overly powerful companies filled with wealthy tech bros and "brilliant assholes" with little regard for the local communities they occupy. Silicon Valley has taken over from Wall Street as the political bogeyman of choice, turning tech workers - like it or not - into public ambassadors for the 1%.

Comment: Unfortunately, despite his best efforts, he too may end up 'drinking the kool-aid' by believing that he can actually 'make things better'. As long as the US is dominated by the pathology of the ruling class, their hubris is going to continue infecting everyone and everything.

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Pistol

Hysteria: Michigan Senate bill would allow guns in schools, daycare centers, churches, casinos


RT
Wed, 08 Nov 2017 07:25 UTC
Michigan gun bill
© Ben Brewer/Reuters
In the wake of the recent mass shootings in Texas and Nevada, state lawmakers in Michigan are about to vote on legislation that would allow gun owners to carry concealed weapons in gun-free zones.

On Tuesday, the Michigan Senate Committee on Government Operations voted 3-2, along party lines, to send Senate Bills 584-586 to the state Senate floor. The bills would allow permit holders who have completed at least eight hours of advanced firearm training in the past five years, or who are a certified firearm instructors to carry concealed weapons in gun-free zones.

Under state law, more than 600,000 concealed pistol license (CPL) holders in the state are prohibited from carrying weapons in nine gun-free zones, including schools grounds, daycare centers, sports arenas, large entertainment facilities, taverns, places of worship, hospitals, college dorms or classrooms, and casinos.
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