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Drunken man goes on stabbing rampage in Paris, injuring 5


RT
Wed, 14 Feb 2018 16:08 UTC
Eiffel Tower
© Gonzalo Fuentes / ReutersFrench police patrol near the Eiffel Tower in Paris on February 9, 2018.
Five people have been stabbed in Paris overnight in an attack by a drunken man who was later arrested.

The incident unfolded at 11pm local time on Tuesday, when the man pulled out a knife and began randomly stabbing passersby, according to French media reports.

He tried to stab six people, five of whom had to be taken to hospital for cuts which were not life-threatening. The sixth victim escaped without injury, after the knife failed to penetrate the clothing.
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San Francisco fines landlord millions for providing cheap housing to low-income, disabled veterans

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Mon, 12 Feb 2018 15:55 UTC
homeless man
© Luke MacGregor / Reuters
In the land of the free, government and law enforcement not only wage war on the poor and homeless through various unscrupulous means designed to extract revenue and attack the right to exist but those who try to help the homeless-by feeding, clothing, or sheltering them-also face the wrath of the state. As the following case illustrates, even those who've laid down their lives for the state-veterans-and the ones who help them are now being targeted.

Judy Wu, a landlord in San Francisco has converted 12 properties she owns into 49 housing units over the last decade which she and her husband, Trent Zhu, rent to homeless, low-income and disabled veterans.

Because they've split the units into much smaller ones, the couple is able to provide these veterans with very cheap housing. The contribution to society hasn't gone unnoticed by the city, however, who couldn't care less about the dozens of previously homeless veterans now off the streets thanks to the couple.

According to Reason, Wu's problems stem from a zoning law as the couple's property was only zoned for 15 dwellings.

Comment: Not only can you not house the homeless, you can't feed them either:

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Politics over sportsmanship: US and British athletes shamefully refusing to speak or shake hands with Russian athletes


Sputnik
Wed, 14 Feb 2018 15:57 UTC
russian olympic athletes
© AFP 2018/ Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV
It looks like for some athletes genuine sportsmanship and Olympic camaraderie are taking a back seat to hostility and political intrigues.

Some US and British athletes are refusing to shake hands with their Russian colleagues taking part in the Winter Olympics in South Korea's Pyeongchang, Russian skeleton athlete Nikita Tregubov has told Sport Express.

"They don't say hello and neither do I. No sweat. Why? I don't know. I don't give a heck," Tregubov added.
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Drunkard shoots into crowded Birmingham pub after being turned away


RT
Wed, 14 Feb 2018 15:48 UTC
Birmingham gunman
© West Midlands Police
CCTV footage has emerged of the moment a drunk man fired a gun at a crowded pub in Birmingham. He fled the scene in his vehicle before being arrested by armed police.

The video, posted on YouTube by West Midlands Police, shows Lee Embley, 48, opening fire at the pub after one of its door staff refused him entry because of his evident alcohol intoxication.

Embley can be seen being escorted away from the venue, and reaching out to his waistband to take out his black revolver. He then fires a round, before nonchalantly walking away. The bullet smashed through the window of a bedroom where children sometimes sleep.

No one was injured. Following the incident, Embley got into his car and drove off.

Police had to chase him for three miles before Embley crashed into a 'no entry' sign. He had been driving at 80mph on 30mph roads.
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Cryptocurrency boss says most digital assets will soon be worthless


RT
Wed, 14 Feb 2018 15:40 UTC
chinese stock market
© Kim Kyung-Hoon / Reuters
In time most digital currencies will be worthless, according to the head of the centralized cryptocurrency ripple, Brad Garlinghouse.

The majority of cryptocurrencies can't be used as transactional currency, and they are being traded like assets, according to the CEO. Ripple and the company behind it are arguably the most criticized digital assets, as the whole idea of bitcoin as the first cryptocurrency was that it should not be regulated.

"It's not clear what the use case is. It's not clear what the value proposition is. Long-term value will be dictated by the utility of that asset," Garlinghouse said, as quoted by Business Insider. He was speaking at a Goldman Sachs technology conference in San Francisco.
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#MeToo and '68: Where did the Sexual Revolution go wrong?

Slavoj Žižek
RT
Thu, 08 Feb 2018 16:41 UTC
#MeToo buttons pins
© Lucy Nicholson / Reuters
This year marks half a century since the May 1968 events in Paris (and elsewhere) which launched a youth-driven liberal movement that changed the world.

Thus, now is a good time to reflect upon the similarities and differences between the sexual liberation and feminism of the 1960's and the protest campaigns that flourish today, from LGBT+ to #MeToo.

In the aftermath of '68, the French "progressive" press published a whole series of petitions demanding the decriminalization of paedophilia, claiming that in this way the artificial and oppressive culturally-constricted frontier that separated children from adults could be abolished and the right to freely use one's body be extended also to children. They claimed that only dark forces of "reaction" and "oppression" could oppose this measure and among the signatories were iconic cultural figures such as Sartre, de Beauvoir, Derrida, Barthes, Foucault, Aragon, Guattari, Deleuze and Lyotard.

Comment: Žižek, who is one of the more cogent leftist intellectuals in Europe, 'gets it' to some extent - that the increasingly narcissistic culture of victimhood and identity politics has led us to a truly hellish world - but he still seems to be caught up in the liberal feminist ethos of 'women as victims'.

While it may seem to be a tangle of "the free subject who believes themselves ultimately responsible for their own fate and the subject who bases their argument on their status as a victim of circumstances beyond their own control," in reality this is trying to have it both ways by trying to maintain one's status as an individual yet using an ideology for one's own benefit.

No amount of wondering where the sexual revolution of the mid-20th century 'went wrong' is going to shed light on what is going on today. The fact THAT a 'sexual revolution' took place is what went wrong!

See also:

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Stock Down

Investment manager: This stock market is 'nuts,' parallels with 2008 crash


RT
Wed, 14 Feb 2018 15:39 UTC
Wall street
© Brendan McDermid / NASA
Equity markets are not looking healthy and the fact that many investors are still buying stocks after last week's sell-off is a worrying sign, investment manager Peter Toogood told CNBC.

He said investors continue buying despite the current consensus that central banks are moving towards a tighter monetary policy, and the correction seen last week.

When asked if he would be buying anything at this point, Toogood said: "Not really, to be honest, not a lot. It's going to be one of those markets where you're going to, I suspect, get a bear market and it's going to be the reality of how far does it go down before (incoming Federal Reserve Chair) Powell & co. reverse QT (quantitative tightening) and start saying OK we need to be the supportive mechanism again."
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Attention

Mexican authorities detain over 500 US-bound migrants in one weekend


Yahoo News
Mon, 12 Feb 2018 00:00 UTC
Mexican border wall undocumented migrants
© AFP Photo/GUILLERMO ARIASBorder wall prototypes rise at the US/Mexico border in Tijuana, Mexico on January 22, 2018
Mexican authorities detained more than 500 undocumented migrants over the weekend, mostly Central Americans trying to reach the United States, many of them risking their lives, officials said.

Many of the migrants, who were detained in six different operations, were being trafficked by smugglers in unventilated trucks with no food or water.

More than 200 others were found crammed into six "safe houses" used by criminal gangs in the state of Tamaulipas, which borders the United States.

They had paid their traffickers up to $4,000. More than 100 of the migrants in that group were minors.

Comment: Trump unveils plan for immigration deal: Citizenship plan for 1.8 mn undocumented immigrants, restrictions on chain migration

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Michelle Obama unveils official portrait - audience reaction says it all

Benny Johnson
The Daily Caller
Mon, 12 Feb 2018 19:57 UTC
Michelle Obama portrait
© Reuters/Jim BourgArtist Amy Sherald and former first lady Michelle Obama participate in the unveiling of Mrs. Obama's portrait at the Smithsonians National Portrait Gallery in Washington, February 12, 2018.
An official portrait of former first lady Michelle Obama was unveiled at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery Monday morning.

The painting was done by Baltimore artist Amy Sherald, who is known for her social justice painting style.

"Let's just start by saying, 'Wow,' again. Let me just take a minute. It's amazing. Wow," Obama said after the portrait was unveiled. The moment was met with a gasp and applause.

All presidents and first ladies have their portraits done and hung in the Portrait Galle

Comment: Barak's portrait is equally bad. So much for illustrating the dignity of the highest office in the land. It's entirely consistent with an SJW's distortion of reality.

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Sony apologizes after 'Peter Rabbit' allergy scene drives SJW's into anaphylactic fits

Matt Vespa
Townhall
Tue, 13 Feb 2018 14:34 UTC
Peter rabbit
You know we're not going to be okay are we? Remember that scene in Terminator II when a young John Connor sees two boys shooting each other with toy guns, looks to Arnold Schwarzenegger and says, "we're not going to make it, are we?"

"It's in your nature to destroy yourselves," replies the former California governor in his best-known role.

Of course, we were talking about the impending nuclear war in that film series. For us, I feel like the fears of nuclear war have greatly diminished, overtaken by the encroaching tyranny that seeks to not offending anyone.

Comment: It's astonishing that parents are up in arms over this fictional allergy scene when we hear barely a murmur over the sordid and widespread sexualization of children.

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