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Self-hating feminist wonders why is it so bad that a Muslim man has three wives


Speisa
Thu, 05 Oct 2017 17:22 UTC
Ulla Lundegård
Feminist artist and writer Ulla Lundegård can not understand why it is so outrageous that Muslim men bring several wives when they come to Sweden.

It may even be that they live a much more interesting life than many Swedish couples do after thirty years of being married, she writes in Expressen.

Ulla Lundegård's article is a comment to the upset voices that were raised after it became known that Nacka municipality is buying three homes in Saltsjöbaden for an entire SEK 14 million to a Muslim man with three wives.

"Why do we place so much emphasis on the fact that this man has three wives? And why are we talking with disgust that the municipality has to get apartments for all of these? They also have the right to housing, right?" asks the 65-year-old feminist.

She states that we must not let our "prejudices and established tradition-bound norms" stand in the way of how enriching it may actually be for a Muslim man to have a whole set of wives.

"The children have three mothers with different qualities and ages that can help out when needed. They can even share their love for the man and live in the same house! It's more than any of us can imagine."

Comment: "More than any of us can imagine." That's one way of putting it...

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Evil Rays

Aleppo Twitter girl's mom is frantically deleting pro-war tweets in tandem with propaganda book tour


Sputnik
Tue, 03 Oct 2017 16:51 UTC
bana twitter
© AP Photo/ ADEM ALTAN
Bana al-Abed, the eight-year-old Syrian girl whose alleged Twitter account and 'reports' from militant-held Aleppo recieved widespread praise in the mainstream media, has published a memoir. However, her viral book tour has been accompanied by the silent deletion of tweets encouraging the US to attack Russia and Syria.

Bana's book, Dear World: A Syrian Girl's Story of War and Plea for Peace, was released this week in stores and online. Amazon described it as a "powerful reminder of the resilience of the human spirit, the unconquerable courage of a child, and the abiding power of hope."

Fiction writer J.K. Rowling, a longtime Bana fan, also raved about the book, calling it "the testimony of a child who has endured the unthinkable." 'Dear World' also received praise in Glamour magazine, the New York Post and Haaretz, and was described by Bustle as one of October's must-have non-fiction books.

Comment: No one in the media is willing to say anything bad about such a sweet little girl. Thankfully they don't have to. Her parents are the monsters of this story: a jihadist father and a supporting mother who has exploited her daughter all in the name of violent revolution and jihad. Great idols to have, Ms. Rowling!

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Heart - Black

11-year-old Palestinian shot in the head with rubber bullet during Shufat raid


Ma'an News Agency
Mon, 02 Oct 2017 16:45 UTC
Jerusalem police
Three Palestinians, including an 11-year-old boy, were injured Monday evening when Israeli forces raided Shufat refugee camp in occupied East Jerusalem, sparking violent clashes.

The Palestinian Red Crescent said that the child was evacuated in a moderate condition to Israel's Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem after Israeli forces shot him in the forehead with a rubber-coated steel bullet.

A man in his 60s and another resident who was not identified further were also treated on the scene after they were shot with rubber bullets. Several others suffered from severe tear gas inhalation.
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Blue Planet

Flat-earth rapper B.o.B. seeking funding to launch mini-satellite to test theory

Chris Bell
BBC
Tue, 26 Sep 2017 16:42 UTC
rapper bob
Spoiler: The Earth is not flat.

But US rapper B.o.B. is crowd-funding the launch of satellites to see if he can get some evidence to the contrary.

The rapper, whose real name is Bobby Ray Simmons Jr, has been a vocal proponent of the Flat Earth theory - the claim the Earth is, in fact, a disc and not spherical.

Some proponents of the Flat Earth theory claim NASA employees guard the edge of the world to prevent people falling off.

Seeking to raise $200,000 (£150,000) on the GoFundMe crowd-funding website, B.o.B refers to himself as "Flat Earth Bob". At the time of writing he had raised a little over $650, but the campaign was trending on the GoFundMe site.


Comment: He's up to just over $5000 now. The sad thing is, even if this project went forward and showed the curvature of the earth, B.o.B. would be denounced by other flat-earthers as part of the cover-up.

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Rainbow

U.S. opposed UN resolution condemning death penalty for same-sex relations

Michael K. Lavers
Los Angeles Blade
Mon, 02 Oct 2017 22:23 UTC
UN flag
© sanjitbakshi/FlickrThe U.S. on Sept. 29, 2017, is among the countries that voted against a U.N. Human Rights Council resolution condemning the use of the death penalty against those convicted of consensual same-sex sexual relations.
The U.S. on Sept. 29 voted against a U.N. Human Rights Council resolution that condemns the death penalty for those found guilty of committing consensual same-sex sexual acts.

The resolution - which Belgium, Benin, Costa Rica, France, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia and Switzerland introduced - passed by a 27-13 vote margin.

Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Rwanda, South Africa, Togo, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Albania, Croatia, Georgia, Hungary, Latvia, Slovenia, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, El Salvador, Panama, Paraguay, Venezuela, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Switzerland and the U.K. supported the resolution. Botswana, Burundi, Egypt, Ethiopia, Bangladesh, China, India, Iraq, Japan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates joined the U.S. in opposing it.

Kenya, Nigeria, Tunisia, Indonesia, the Philippines, South Korea and Cuba abstained.
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Arrow Down

US Veteran Affairs is blocking research on marijuana that could help vets suffering from PTSD overcome addictions to opioids

Eric Katz
Government Executive
Tue, 03 Oct 2017 00:00 UTC
Marijuana Vets PTSD
© Mel Evans / APIn this March 10, 2016, photo, former U.S. Marine, Mike Whiter lights a marijuana cigarette at his home in Philadelphia. Some veterans say marijuana helps them manage their anxiety, insomnia and nightmares.
In 2010, Boone Cutler was taking 30 milligrams of morphine, 70 milligrams of oxycodone and other opioids each day. He regularly went three to four days without sleep. The Army veteran had survived a blast injury while deployed in Sadr City, Iraq, and has since endured seven knee surgeries, five shoulder surgeries and back surgery. He also suffers from Parkinson's Disease.

"I did my time," Cutler says. "I've been beat up a few times."

That year, however, Cutler abandoned his treatment through the Veterans Affairs Department and checked himself into a psychiatric ward at a private hospital, where he quit his prescribed cocktail of opioid painkillers cold turkey. Upon leaving the hospital, a coworker convinced him to try something new for his physical and psychological symptoms: marijuana. He was reluctant, telling his colleague, "I'm not one of those pot heads."

The more he thought about it, the more he realized he had nothing left to lose: "I tried everything," he says. "Nothing worked."

But after trying cannabis, Cutler experienced something for the first time since he returned from Iraq: He slept for five hours.

"I thought it was a fluke. I tried it again, and it happened again," he says. "That was an absolute, 100 percent, 180-degree life changing event for me."

Comment: Those who have much to lose if the government changes its antiquated stance on marijuana have been working diligently to insure this doesn't happen.

Trey Gowdy asks a simple question about weed, and exposes the US' tyrannical drug war
Opioid use decreases in US states that legalize medical marijuana to treat pain

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Vader

A day late and a dollar short: Rent-boy rape claim & 6 other allegations against ex-PM Heath would have been investigated


RT
Thu, 05 Oct 2017 13:35 UTC
Edward Heath
© Johnny Eggit / AFPEdward Heath,12 October 1989
A summary report on Operation Conifer, launched two years ago by Wiltshire Police, states there were sufficient grounds to interview former Conservative Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath concerning seven allegations were he still alive today.

The report, examining allegations of child sex abuse perpetrated by Heath, was published on Thursday.

The report says: "Where it is concluded that if he had still been alive Sir Edward Heath would have been interviewed under caution to gain an account, it is emphasized that his account would be as important as other evidence gathered as part of the wider investigation.

"Accordingly it is critical to stress that no inference of guilty should be drawn from the fact that Heath would have been interviewed under caution."
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Quenelle

Tobacconists protest cigarette price hike by dumping ton of carrots outside the Ministry of Health


RT
Thu, 05 Oct 2017 13:39 UTC
tobacconists angry Paris
© Jonathan Moadab / RT
French tobacconists angry at plans to raise cigarettes prices carried out an unusual carrot protest on Wednesday, during which hundreds of the root vegetables were dumped outside the Ministry of Health in Paris.

Under government plans to cut smoking, the price of a standard packet of cigarettes will rise six times from around €6.50 to €10 over the course of the next two-and-a-half years.

In September, France's Health Minister described the price hike as "imperative" to public health.
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Mr. Potato

Vandals paint 'dead' on monument to Confederate General Stonewall Jackson in Virginia


RT
Thu, 05 Oct 2017 13:05 UTC
Stonewall Jackson Statue
© Kenneth Garrett / Global Look PressStonewall Jackson Statue, Manassas National Battlefield Park, Manassas, Virginia, USA
A monument to Confederate General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson on the Manassas National Battlefield Park was vandalized with white paint, adding to the list of defaced statues this year.

The monument to Jackson was allegedly defaced overnight, as it was discovered at 6:30am Wednesday. The perpetrator or perpetrators poured "a large quantity of white paint" on three of the statues' four sides on the base. Then, the word "Dead!!!" was spray painted in gold over the white paint, according to the National Park Service, DCist reported.

Experts in the field of preservation have already begun to remove the paint. The NPS, says it is still working through ideas related to the best way to remove any remaining oils, paint or other damage to the statue.
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Family

Prove to me privilege exists, and we'll go from there...

Brian Hendrix
Halsey News
Wed, 04 Oct 2017 22:05 UTC
White privilege
As a thirty-seven year-old basic white dude, I have long been peeved at the idea that my skin has afforded me privilege in this nation of America. It just seems quite the ridiculous notion that some black kid, with a phone that cost $400 more than my computer, wearing clothing that costs more than my furniture, can tell me that he or she's oppressed and I'm privileged because they're black and I'm white. More than scoff at the notion, I bear teeth and gnarl furiously at the presumption that my life has been comfortable and a magic carpet ride, while the people who tell me this are financially better suited and grew up in better homes and have experienced more luxuries than I have. Where, I ask, is this privilege?

By and large, however, I get the game: Nobody wants to be ordinary. We all dream of being special to the world, in some regard. And for minorities, a great way by which they can feel special is to seek the world's pity and handouts by playing the victim card relentlessly. Great for them! Although it seems a bit beta-male-ish to me, the desire to be pitied as a way to be special; but, hey, whatever works. The trouble is: It has worked all too well! We see this strategy, made popular by whiny blacks, now adopted by people who pretend to be unique genders and whatever else they can pull out of their hats to be pitied as part of their special life-perks packages. And not only has it spread out to other special victim cults, but full-grown adults in America, supposedly educated, have bought into this nonsense and pity the poor self-victimized bastards to the point they're editing curricula to reflect the populous stance that all white people benefit from privilege, all nonwhite people suffer under oppression.
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