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Sweden deals with alleged brothels disguised as massage parlors


Sputnik
Tue, 23 Jan 2018 11:43 UTC
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Despite having criminalized the purchase of sexual services almost 20 years ago, Sweden continues to tussle with this problem. A recent trend involves alleged brothels operating under the respectable guise of massage parlors.

Although some legislators in Sweden are intent on making buying sex abroad a crime, it continues to struggle with prostitution issues at home. Suspected bordellos disguised as massage parlors now threaten the country's feminist reputation. In 2017, the police suspected sex trade happening at 30-40 salons in Gothenburg and Malmö alone, Expressen reported.
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ICE jails Polish doctor living in US for 40yrs, family is demanding his release


RT
Tue, 23 Jan 2018 11:23 UTC
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© Jeff Topping / Reuters
A 43-year-old Polish-born doctor living in the US for nearly 40 years is in jail after being detained by ICE over a misdemeanor charge from his youth. The physician's sister says the man "doesn't even speak Polish."

Dr. Lukasz Niec, 43, was detained after US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents came to his Michigan home last Tuesday and led him away in handcuffs to the Calhoun County jail, according to WOOD.
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French jail guards to continue strike until more secure facilities for terrorists provided


Sputnik
Mon, 22 Jan 2018 23:37 UTC
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© Agence France-Presse/ Pascal Pochard-CasabianceRiot police officers walk by Borgo prison on January 22, 2018 on the French Mediterranean Island of Corsica, as striking prison guards block its access as part of a nationwide movement to call for better safety and wages
The secretary general of the French UFAP-UNSA prison union Jean-Francois Forget spoke to Sputnik amid a nationwide wave of clashes and attacks on guards in detention centers.

On prison Guards' Demands

French prison guards will continue their strikes unless the government offers acceptable proposals regarding better pay and measures for protection of staff members from radicalized inmates, Jean-Francois Forget told Sputnik on Monday.

"The prison staff and the prison syndicates will not put an end to this movement until our demands are heard, unless the government comes up with acceptable proposals, for now they are not... We are asking for specialized facilities of a very high security level to guard the Islamist terrorists, for now there was no offers regarding this matter," Forget said.
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The stars who promised to move to Canada when Trump won (and didn't)

Ashifa Kassam and Benjamin Lee
The Guardian
Mon, 22 Jan 2018 23:25 UTC
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Snoop Dogg and Lena Dunham were among a host of celebrities who pledged to move north under a Donald Trump presidency - yet stayed put

It is a longstanding tradition of American politics: at some stage in the electoral cycle, prominent citizens from the world of art and entertainment declare that if their preferred candidate is not victorious, they will move to Canada.

In the last presidential campaign, the threat - or promise - started to surface during early in the primaries. And this time, as Donald Trump pledged to build a wall along the Mexican border and temporarily ban Muslims from the country, it seemed some might actually follow through.

Comment: Nothing more than celebrity virtue-signalling.

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SOTT Focus: Damore Lawsuit Exposes Extremist Ideology And Social Intolerance at Google

D. Rodriguez
Sott.net
Tue, 23 Jan 2018 00:22 UTC
James Damore Google
Remember when students at Evergreen state college took over their school last year, hurling racist abuse at their teachers and staff? Downright petulant and obnoxious, it was an expression of ultra-liberalism come full-circle: bigoted and racist.

But now imagine a place where such kids are a little older and not only have their way, they have the ability to influence one of the most powerful corporations on Earth.

For a multi-billion dollar outfit that has so much control over information, whose biases are expressed in the algorithms at the heart of its search engine, and is neck deep in state collusion from censorship to demonetization, it's pretty scary to learn what the culture at Google is like.

With its heavily progressive (like, crazily progressive) views, it's no surprise that anything resembling a conservative viewpoint is punished at Google, as a matter of policy.
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New Jersey man facing 15 years in jail for catching ex-wife cheating


RT
Mon, 22 Jan 2018 21:38 UTC
Sean Donis, Nancy Aguero
© Sean Donis / Nancy Aguero / Facebook
A New Jersey man is facing 15 years in jail after he used an iPhone app to track his wife which led him to her boss' bedroom.

Sean Donis, 37, says he was minding his kids in April 2016, while his wife went to dinner with friends and he went searching for his son's iPad. When he couldn't locate it, he used the 'Find My iPhone' app to track the device and saw it traveling toward the New York state line.

Suspicious that the iPad was with his wife of six years, Nancy Donis, 38, Sean tracked the device to an unknown location and arrived at his wife's parked car outside a house he didn't recognise.
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University student charged with setting fires on campus tells police "you're lucky I don't know how to build a bomb"

Tad Vezner and Sarah Horner
Twin Cities Pioneer Press
Fri, 19 Jan 2018 21:33 UTC
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Tnuza Jamal Hassan
A former St. Catherine University student charged with setting fires on the college's St. Paul campus told police she did it because she'd "been reading about the U.S. military destroying schools in Iraq or Afghanistan and she felt that she should do exactly the same thing," according to a criminal complaint filed Friday.

"You guys are lucky that l don't know how to build a bomb because l would have done that," Tnuza Jamal Hassan, 19, of Minneapolis allegedly told investigators after being arrested Wednesday afternoon in a campus dorm lounge.

Hassan was charged in Ramsey County District Court with a single count of first-degree arson. No injuries or major damage were reported in the fires, all of which occurred in the middle of the day Wednesday.

Ramsey County prosecutor Margaret Galvin said in court Friday that Hassan had "substantial ties" to the local community and added that authorities were investigating whether she had any international ties as well.
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Study: Russia's the safest country in Europe for Jews

Alexander
RussiaFeed
Mon, 22 Jan 2018 19:58 UTC
Putin Rabbi Berel Lazar
© EPA/MIKHAIL KLIMENTYEV /SPUTNIK/KREMLIN MANDATORY CREDIT: SPUTNIKRussian President Vladimir Putin (L) and Russia's Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar (R) meet with representatives of the European Jewish Congress in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, 19 January 2016. Others are not identified.
Norwegian study confirms far lower incidents of anti-semitic violence in Russia than France, UK, Germany, Norway, Sweden and Denmark

The present controversy stirred up by the Russia Insider article on the subject of the relationship of the Jewish people and Russia (about which see my discussion here) by reviving old stories about the attitudes towards Jews of the tsarist authorities and during the Russian Civil War, has diverted attention from the actual reality, which is that Jewish people in Russia are safe and welcome, are now significantly safer in Russia than in the supposedly mature democracies of Western Europe, and that there is no climate of hostility in Russia towards Jews at all.

Confirmation of this comes not from 'Russian state propaganda'. It comes from a recent (June 2017) and detailed academic study of instances of anti-semitism in Russia, which also looks into similar such instances in France, the UK, Germany, Sweden, Norway and Denmark.
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'God Save the Queen': Tory MP calls for students to learn UK national anthem to aid integration met with backlash


RT
Mon, 22 Jan 2018 21:12 UTC
Queen
© Mary Turner / Reuters
Conservative MP Andrew Rosindell is calling for 'God Save the Queen' to be taught in schools across the UK to bolster a sense of "national identity" and aid integration - but the suggestion has been met with a backlash.

"With such a diverse society, it is even more important that all schoolchildren in the UK are taught the national anthem," he told the Romford Recorder. "This instils a great sense of belonging for young people growing up, and aids integration."

Reverend Paul Nicholson, founder of Taxpayers Against Poverty, spoke to RT's Polly Boiko in response to the Romford MP's comments. He said that, in modern Britain, we need to question what the UK's national song actually means.

"All the major faiths support the moral law that you should love your neighbor as you love yourself - so we should be asking what the national anthem stands for," he said.
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UN envoy encounters 'unacceptable squalor' among homeless in California

Alastair Gee
The Guardian
Mon, 22 Jan 2018 20:56 UTC
Leilani Farha
© Talia Herman for the GuardianUN special rapporteur Leilani Farha in San Francisco: ‘deeply, deeply concerned’ by homelessness in California
Leilani Farha was being given a walking tour in central San Francisco. Near a thronged artisanal grocery store and a food-truck park, she saw something under a freeway that gave her pause.

A young homeless man sat on the ground. He wore two pairs of jeans and had a hood pulled over his long brown hair. Before him was a crockpot filled with burning paper, over which he was heating tortillas in a dirty skillet. As cars, cyclists and tech commuter buses rushed past, white smoke poured into the darkening air.

"The last time I saw cooking on a sidewalk," Farha said, "was in Mumbai."

Farha, 49, is a Canadian lawyer. She is also the United Nations special rapporteur on adequate housing, charged with probing deplorable living conditions and assessing compliance with international human rights law. Her latest project is a report on "informal settlements" - shanties, favelas, tent cities - which will be presented at the UN general assembly.
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