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Anti-fascist group holds protest rallies across US to remove Trump, Pence


RT
Sat, 04 Nov 2017 13:56 UTC
Anti-fascist group holds rallies across US
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Anti-fascist rallies, described by members of the far-right as the "Antifa Apocalypse," have been scheduled to take place in more than 20 US cities Saturday, calling for the end of the Trump administration.

New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Miami, and St. Louis are among the locations for the mass demonstration, organized by Refuse Fascism. The group is calling for the removal of both US President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence from power.

"Our actions will reflect the values of respect for all of humanity and the world we want - in stark contrast to the hate and bigotry of the Trump/Pence fascist regime," it said in a statement online.

Comment: The group should have planned for a long protest because this could take awhile.

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Nutty professor doesn't want students to believe that hard work brings results 'because it's racist and perpetuates whiteness'

Toni Airaksinen
Campus Reform
Sun, 05 Nov 2017 13:39 UTC
studying, critical reasoning
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Pennsylvania State University-Brandywine professor criticized her students' belief in "meritocracy" and "hard work" in an academic article published Thursday.

Angela Putman, who teaches public speaking at Penn State-Brandywine, designed a comprehensive three-day seminar on "white privilege" for her students, then interviewed 12 attendees on their belief in meritocracy and equal opportunity.

To her dismay, Putman discovered that these "whiteness ideologies" were widely endorsed by students, many of whom agreed that "if I work hard, I can be successful" and that "everyone has an equal opportunity to achieve success."

Comment: There's obviously no need to study or prepare for this professor's exams! She could follow in the steps of this professor and just let students choose their own grades!

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European integration: Every fourth prostitute in Europe is a citizen of Ukraine


Stalker Zone
Thu, 02 Nov 2017 10:48 UTC
Prostitution Saudi-Arabien
© Reuters/Sigit Pamungkas
The international organization for migration published official data, from which it follows that every fourth prostitute in Europe is a citizen of Ukraine. Don't be frightened, friends, at these figures - the Ukrainian reality is even more terrible.

Here is only one small example. At a school in the city of Nikolaev representatives of a public organization distributed brochures to girls [on the sly after the announced lecture about AIDS - ed] - a guide on how to live in the new "European reality". Specifically, the Ukrainian labor market is being formed and is growing. Even if there is no other work and none is expected, girls should know that Europe will take care of them. The younger generation of Ukrainian schoolgirls will find out how to apply themselves.

"If you are involved in the sex business, then this brochure is for you," it is said in the introduction. "You have chosen a very dangerous profession, but if you always follow these simple rules, then you will get a chance to live a long life".

Comment:
"If you are involved in the sex business, then this brochure is for you," it is said in the introduction. "You have chosen a very dangerous profession, but if you always follow these simple rules, then you will get a chance to live a long life".
"Chosen"? When a woman follows the "profession" of prostitution, it is because she has been forced by either the circumstances or people around her into doing so - not because it was her vocation in life.

Victoria Nuland must be proud. Is it any wonder that there is yet another Maidan in the making?

Memo for Mrs Nuland: Ukraine is being gripped by a new Maidan - but the western cameras and cookies are absent

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US-backed terrorists detonate car-bomb that kills over 100 refugees in Deir ez-Zor, Syria


RT
Sun, 05 Nov 2017 10:01 UTC
Smoke billows over Deir ez-Zor
© AFPSmoke billows over Deir ez-Zor during an operation by Syrian forces against Islamic State (IS)
Dozens of refugees were killed and scores injured by a car bomb in the suburbs of the city of Deir ez-Zor on Saturday, Syria's SANA state news agency reported. Women and children appear to be among the victims.

The bombing targeted the largest refugee gathering in the region, Sana reported. The blast occurred in the outskirts of the city, in the area near Conoco and al-Jafra gas fields.

The agency said that "large numbers of children and women" fell victim to the explosion, citing its own correspondent at the scene.

Comment: See also: US-backed forces steal Syrian oilfields while Syrian Army liberates country from ISIS

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The very high price of the hyperconvenient economy

Ralph Nader
Counterpunch
Fri, 03 Nov 2017 00:00 UTC
amazon and you're done
Apart from sensual appeals, the chief marketing wave in our country is selling convenience. It has reached a level of frenzy with companies like Amazon and Walmart racing your order to your doorstep (with Amazon now wanting the electronic key to your house).

Ever since the industrial revolution, when the division of labor between consumers and producers widened and deepened, the convenience of not having to grow your own food, weave your own clothes and build your own shelter have become a given of economic progress. Expert specialization has tended to make products better and more standardized as well.

But, in recent decades, adding tiers of conveniences touted by the vendors' television/radio/print advertisements has rarely mentioned the downsides.

Comment: What will people do should the grid should go down, or the economy fails, or there's a massive earthquake preventing the transport of all the items we are so used to getting, seemingly, at the click of a button? Western society has never been so dependent on the hyperconnected/hyperconvenient economy - or so vulnerable to its collapse - as it is right now.

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University professor decries 'toxic masculinity' in Beauty and the Beast film

Toni Airaksinen
Campus Reform
Sat, 04 Nov 2017 15:53 UTC
beauty and the beast
A professor at Florida International University recently argued that the Disney film Beauty and the Beast is rife with "toxic masculinity."

Bryant Sculos, who teaches politics at Florida International University, argues in an academic journal article that Gaston and the Beast, the two male protagonists of the story, are emblematic of "toxic masculinity" in both the 1991 animated version of the film and the 2017 live-action remake, albeit in different ways.

"The beauty of the 1991 Beauty and the Beast is that it taught young boys that sometimes the sensitive, intellectual guy could 'win' the heart of the beautiful woman," Sculos notes, later adding that "the portrayals of toxic masculinity in the original animated feature and the more recent live-action remake are quite similar-with one categorical exception: the role of others in the (re)production of that toxic masculinity."

Comment: A serious mental virus is spreading around US universities and frying professors' brains. See:

Sociology professor blows a gasket, claims 'white nuclear family is powerful force that supports white supremacy'
Deranged university professor wants to 'do away with masculinity completely'
Rabid feminist professors claim that citations in scholarly articles contribute to 'white heteromasculinity'
Do algebra and geometry promote "white privelege"? This prof thinks so

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GOP's hidden 46% bracket and the 'bubble tax'

Danny Vinik
The Agenda
Thu, 02 Nov 2017 06:07 UTC
Paul Ryan
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House Republicans claim the tax plan they introduced Thursday keeps the top individual rate unchanged at 39.6 percent-the level at which it's been capped for much of the past quarter-century. But a little-noticed provision effectively creates a new band in which income is taxed at over 45 percent.

Thanks to a quirky proposed surcharge, Americans who earn more than $1 million in taxable income would trigger an extra 6 percent tax on the next $200,000 they earn-a complicated change that effectively creates a new, unannounced tax bracket of 45.6 percent.
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Bizarro Earth

UK anti slavery NGO promotes child refugee acceptance scheme


Sputnik
Sat, 04 Nov 2017 21:50 UTC
Britain was supposed to accept at least 3,000 unaccompanied migrant children to the country under the law that came into force for a brief period of time in 2016.

Father and daughter refugees
© AFP 2017/Daniel Mihalescu
On Thursday, former Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron called for the reintroduction of the amendment to the Immigration Act 2016, which came into force in May 2016 and was suspended in February 2017.

The amendment proposed by Lord Alfred Dubs was designed to bring at least 3,000 unaccompanied migrant children to the United Kingdom, but since then only 480 children have been allowed to move to the country under the scheme.
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Las Vegas Police: Paddock was 'in debt and depressed' (like THAT explains a motive)


RT
Sat, 04 Nov 2017 21:36 UTC
Las Vegas memorial
© Steve Marcus / Reuters
The gunman who killed 58 people and injured over 500 at a Las Vegas concert last month had lost a significant amount of money in the past two years. Police think that might be a "determining factor" in the worst mass shooting in modern US history.


Comment: Not convincing. Sorry guys, try again.


Stephen Paddock was a high-stakes gambler and real estate investor who had lost a "significant amount of wealth" since September 2015, which led to "bouts of depression," Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo said in an interview with news station KLAS-TV.

"This individual was status-driven, based on how he liked to be recognized in the casino environment and how he liked to be recognized by his friends and family," Lombardo said. "So, obviously, that was starting to decline in the short period of time, and that may have had a determining effect on why he did what he did."


Comment: Ok, but what about the other two dozen or so individuals involved?


Comment: What a load of BS.

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Syrian filmmaker fakes own 'assassination' to help publicize his anti-Assad movie


Sputnik
Fri, 03 Nov 2017 21:19 UTC
Muhammad Bayazid
© Photo: Youtube/TRT WorldMuhammad Bayazid
A Syrian opposition filmmaker has apparently been exposed as the architect of a fake attempt on his life - staged in order to promote his anti-Assad movie.

Earlier in October Muhammad Bayazid, a Syrian opposition filmmaker and creator of an upcoming movie about alleged torture and abuse perpetrated in Tadmore prison in Syria, was stabbed in Istanbul in what the Guardian described as a suspected assassination attempt.

However, the New Arab reveals that the attack was apparently orchestrated by Bayazid himself in attempt gain publicity and to promote his movie.

The media outlet managed to obtain a video record of several conversations between Bayazid and his producer, Mohammed al-Hindi, that took place in May and June this year. During these chats the filmmaker apparently outlined a plan to stage a fake attempt on his own life in order to promote his work and to attract potential sponsors.

Comment: Bayazid must have figured that if the White Helmets could get an Oscar staging and faking heroics with their anti-Assad propaganda - why can't he?!

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