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Sweden at epicenter of illegal adoptions scandal


Sputnik
Wed, 31 Jan 2018 13:33 UTC
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A former head of the Chilean Child Care Agency has claimed that an unknown number of children were victims of the "child trade" to Sweden, which is otherwise known for having the highest per capita proportion of international adoptees in the world.

Many of the children adopted from Chile by Swedes during the 70's and 80's were taken from their mothers without their consent, an investigation by Chilean journalists in collaboration with Swedish national broadcaster SVT has shown.

Between 1971 and 1992, largely during the Pinochet era, over than 2,000 Chilean children were adopted by Swedish couples from Chile. Over the years, these adoptions have been questioned due to allegations of coercion and kidnapping.
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Flashback 'There are no safe spaces in real life' says Allie Stuckey, the Conservative Millennial, to students


Fox News
Wed, 31 May 2017 20:18 UTC
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Conservative millennial blogger Allie Beth Stuckey has been causing shock waves on social media with her tough talk on liberals, feminists and college campus "safe spaces."

In a recent Facebook video, Stuckey absolutely ripped the state of higher education in America.

"Since when did college become a place for parents to ship their kids off to become indoctrinated and brainwashed?" Stuckey said. "Since when did professors stop teaching critical thinking and mental fortitude? Since when did it become more important to protect people from getting their feelings hurt than preparing for real life?"

"Because here's the deal, college students: there are no 'safe spaces' in real life."

Comment: The idea behind "safe spaces" is delusional in the extreme, with snowflakes demanding a protective bubble where the right to not be challenged on anything reins supreme. It's a regressive tendency that shows, above all, who is and isn't actually fit for life in the real world.

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Top-secret Australian govt files sold at 'second-hand furniture shop'


RT
Wed, 31 Jan 2018 12:16 UTC
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Canberra has launched an investigation into how hundreds of top-secret documents spanning five governments and dubbed The Cabinet Files ended up being sold at a second-hand furniture shop in the Australian capital.

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) obtained the treasure trove of files and published a series of exclusive reports earlier this week.

Most of the documents were classified, some "top secret" and others marked "AUSTEO" (to be seen by Australian eyes only), and were meant by law to remain secret for at least two decades.

Among other things, the ABC's revelations reportedly feature allegations that the "Australian Federal Police (AFP) lost nearly 400 national security files in five years" and that former Prime Minister John Howard's National Security Committee (NSC) gave "serious consideration to removing an individual's unfettered right to remain silent when questioned by police."
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'I'm going to ruin his life lol': Teen the latest victim of false rape accusation and police disclosure failings


RT
Wed, 31 Jan 2018 12:20 UTC
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A teen accused of rape spent three months in custody because police did not disclose texts that proved his innocence. His alleged victim wrote in one message: "I'm not just going to mess his life up, I'm going to ruin it lol."

Connor Fitzgerald, 19, had the rape charge against him thrown out when prosecutors discovered the texts. Fitzgerald, of South Norwood in south London, lost his job as a BT engineer because of the claim.
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Phone-addicted teens aren't as happy as those who play sports and hang out IRL - New Study

Sarah Buhr
Tech Crunch
Tue, 23 Jan 2018 00:00 UTC
To no parent's surprise, too much smartphone use makes teens unhappy.
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So says a new study from San Diego State University, which pulled data from over one million 8th-, 10th-, and 12th-graders in the U.S. showing teens who spent more time on social media, gaming, texting and video-chatting on their phones were not as happy as those who played sports, went outside and interacted with real human beings.

But is it the screen time bringing them down or are sadder teens more likely to insulate themselves in a virtual world? Lead author of the study and professor of psychology Jean M. Twenge believes it's the phone that contributes to making them unhappy, not the other way around.

"Although this study can't show causation, several other studies have shown that more social media use leads to unhappiness, but unhappiness does not lead to more social media use," Twenge said.

Comment: Further Listening: The Health & Wellness Show: The Smarter Your Phone, The Dumber Your Brain



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SOTT Focus: Is America waking up to the farce that is feminism?

Suzanne Venker
Washington Examiner
Wed, 31 Jan 2018 11:10 UTC
Women's March
© AP Photo/Jae C. HongThe Women's March was the first tip-off that the new wave of feminism is less about equality of the sexes and more about revenge of one sex against another.
First, there was Dr. Jordan Peterson's infamous takedown of feminist Cathy Newman, whose debate on feminist issues has garnered almost 5 million views on YouTube and almost 75,000 comments to date, not to mention a slew of op-eds.

Now, there's President Trump's refusal to call himself a feminist.

I have high hopes that America is waking up to the farce that is feminism. "For the first time in decades, if not ever, [feminism's] tenets are being publicly challenged," writes Corey Schink for Signs of the Times.

It is long overdue, for we can now expose feminism for what it is: a war on men, on children, and on family.

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Guilty until proven innocent: Louisiana man freed after 37yrs in prison for crime he didn't commit


RT
Wed, 31 Jan 2018 09:10 UTC
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A Louisiana man, who for 37 years maintained his innocence in a rape case, has been freed after a Jefferson Parish judge overturned his conviction.

Judge June Darensberg vacated Malcolm Alexander's 1980 conviction based on the Innocence Project's application arguing that his counsel provided "ineffective assistance." The effort was bolstered by DNA testing that excluded Alexander as a suspect, according to Innocence Project Director Barry Scheck.

"Thank you from the bottom of my heart for getting my child out of that place," Alexander's mother, Maudra, 82, who is wheelchair bound, told attorneys from the Innocence Project, according to the New Orleans Times Picayune.

Comment: In America, justice really comes in the form of proving your innocence - not the other way around. See also:

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Merkel is losing control - Germans start large protests against migrants and open borders


Voice of Europe
Wed, 31 Jan 2018 10:29 UTC
Protest in Cottbus
© Zukunft Heimat / FacebookProtest in Cottbus
Two large protests against migration have woken up the Germans: On 20 January, at least 2,500 participants were protesting in Cottbus and last Sunday, on 28 January, there was another big protest in Kandel.

The protests started in Cottbus after Syrians attacked several Germans within a matter of days. For example a German man and a German boy were attacked with knives by Syrians. After other incidents, tensions in the town became so high that it stopped the acceptance of new refugees.

But also in Kandel people have had enough of migrant violence. In December, a 15-year-old German girl, called Mia, was brutally murdered by an Afghan refugee in a drug store. Mia was well-liked, she helped organise the local carnival every year.
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Mass graves of dozens of Syrian soldiers found in Idlib


FARS News Agency
Tue, 30 Jan 2018 22:36 UTC
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The Syrian Army units found the bodies of a number of soldiers in three mass graves in their mop-up operation in the newly-freed Abu al-Dhohour airbase in Southeastern Idlib, field sources reported on Tuesday.

The sources said that the army's engineering units continued their cleansing operation near Abu al-Dhohour airbase in cooperation with the country's Red Crescent in and outside the airbase and discovered the bodies of 45 Syrian soldiers killed by the Al-Nusra Front (Tahrir al-Sham Hay'at or the Levant Liberation Board) and buried in three mass graves.

The sources guessed that more bodies will be discovered in the airbase as the terrorists executed 71 soldiers when they once captured the military airport.
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Canadian serial killer: Landscaper, Bruce McArthur, charged with five counts of murder

Sharon Kirkey
National Post
Mon, 29 Jan 2018 20:47 UTC
Bruce McArthur
© FacebookBruce McArthur, 66, of Toronto, was first charged with two counts of first-degree murder. Police have now announced three new charges against McArthur.
A man who describes himself as a shy and helpless romantic at heart, a former mall Santa Claus, is now an accused serial killer who, Toronto police allege, buried the skeletal remains of his victims' dismembered bodies in the bottom of outdoor planters and flower pots.

Parts of more human bodies may be hidden in planters or gardens at homes throughout Toronto. No one knows exactly which ones.

In an investigation unlike any before seen in the history of the nation's largest city, police have charged 66-year-old freelance landscaper Bruce McArthur with five-counts of first-degree murder, most of the victims men who had been reported missing from Toronto's gay village area.

The remains of at least three people were recovered from large planters at a midtown Toronto property linked to McArthur and where he may have previously landscaped.

Comment: For more on the profiles of killers see: Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI by Ressler and Shachtman.

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