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Pedophile hunter charged by police for doing their job better than they can

Matt Agorist
Free Thought Project
Tue, 26 Dec 2017 17:27 UTC
Rich Warner
© 7 NewsRich Warner is a self-styled pedophile hunter
After he became fed up with police officers doing a terrible job at catching child predators, Rich Warner took matters into his own hands. He launched a sting operation of his own and was successful at catching pedophiles. However, he apparently became so good at his job that police have moved in to take him out.

Using fake profiles, Warner would lure in these predators. He would set up meetings and then confront the sickos who would show up. Many of Warner's stings have been the subject of high-profile news segments in which he's nabbed child predators who thought they were going to meet children for sex.

As Yahoo reported in August, in one of Warner's stings, Mark Lee Smith arranged to meet the 14-year-old, known as Lou, after grooming her on an online dating site, but instead he found himself face-to-face with an undercover journalist using the alias "Danny Catcher" (Warner) who detained the 28-year-old father of one and called the police.

Smith is a repeat offender and had previously pleaded guilty to charges between June 19 and 23 of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity and attempting to meet a child following sexual grooming. By all measures, Warner's actions protected other children.
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"Basically litter": Police remove candlelit memorial of Justine Damond, shot to death by cop


RT
Wed, 27 Dec 2017 16:37 UTC
Justine Ruszczyk Damond
© Justine Ruszczyk Damond / Global Look Press
Police in Minneapolis have removed a candlelit memorial for Justine Ruszczyk Damond, an Australian woman who was fatally shot by a Minneapolis officer, after discovering the shrine was placed by ethno-nationalists.

On Friday, members of Identity Evropa took credit for placing 12 candles, several roses, and a sign that read "United We Stand" outside the Minneapolis Police Department's 5th Fifth Precinct to honor Damond.

The group said they erected the shrine at the precinct because it was where Minneapolis Police Officer Mohamed Noor, who allegedly shot Damond, was assigned.

"One family will be having an incomplete Christmas this year," the group posted on Twitter.
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Bad Guys

Libtards and Rethugs: Elites laugh as we insult each other

Teodrose Fikre
Ghion Journal
Tue, 26 Dec 2017 16:43 UTC
protesters anti trump
No need to be coy here, I'll admit it. There is something viscerally gratifying about putting people in their place. Nothing feeds the ego more and satiates the id as much as clapping back at people who try to shine at our expense. I'm sure even the most enlightened among us have a hard time returning slights with smiles. It's just human nature to get defensive and lash back when others say something offensive and lash at us. Yet this habit of retorting with scorn against those who try to invert our happiness with their cynicism has become toxic and is poisoning the public airwaves - we have become a society of spite and snark.

Nowhere is this contemptuous conniption of ours more evident than when we are discussing politics and governance. Egged on by a corporate media that has monetized injustice and a political class that turned outrage into a business model to get elected and grab more power, we are devolving into the abyss of pejoratives and ad hominem. Matching wits is passe, we now just throw match sticks at our opponents and hope they catch on rhetorical fire. Aided by technology, we have become a Balkanized society where people seek out like minded thinkers and lambaste anyone who dares to think differently.
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Schools more dangerous than ever due to Obama's lax discipline policies

Paul Sperry
New York Post
Sat, 23 Dec 2017 16:33 UTC
Obama ok
© Reuters
Since President Barack Obama pressured educators to adopt a new code of conduct making it harder to suspend or expel students of color, even kids who punch out their teacher aren't automatically kicked out of school anymore.

Previously, "If you hit a teacher, you're gone," said Peter Kirsanow, a black conservative on the US Commission on Civil Rights. But that's no longer the case, he says, thanks to race-based discipline quotas sweeping the nation's schools.

In just the first year after Obama in January 2014 issued his new discipline guidelines - which came with threats of federal investigations and defunding - schools saw more than 160,000 "physical attacks" on teachers across the country. And yet the assailants were expelled in fewer than 130,000 cases, Kirsanow said, citing the latest available federal data.

Many teachers have been sent to the hospital by students emboldened by the lax discipline rules - which remain in full force, despite the change in administration, and have now been adopted by 53 of the nation's largest school districts, including NYC.

The growing number of classroom horror stories and backlash from teachers unions have left former Obama educrats scrambling to defend the lower discipline standards. "No one has ever advocated for policies that make students or teachers unsafe," argued Catherine Lhamon, the Education Department civil-rights chief who rolled out Obama's directive.

Comment: It doesn't take a rocket scientist to have seen that coming. The quota based policy only leaves the school at the mercy of those that flaunt the rules. The students know that and will use what ever opportunities they have to get back at "da man". There never was any pipeline from "school to prison". The school is the prison.

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Gold Coins

Woman sues Apple for nearly a trillion dollars for deliberately slowing down older iPhones


RT
Wed, 27 Dec 2017 16:13 UTC
Tim Cook Apple
© Stephen Lam / ReutersTim Cook, CEO of Apple
A US woman is suing Apple for nearly one trillion dollars after the company acknowledged it had deliberately slowed down iPhones as they get older. The US tech giant now faces nine suits over the issue.

Violetta Mailyan is reportedly seeking compensation, demanding Apple pay her $999,999,999,000.

At least eight other class action lawsuits have been filed in the US District Courts in California, New York, and Illinois over how Apple handles power management of batteries in older iPhones.
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Robot

Robots being used by San Francisco animal rights group to deter homeless people


RT
Thu, 14 Dec 2017 08:07 UTC
Homeless man in San Francisco
© Frederic J. Brown
One of the largest animal rights organizations in the US aims to eliminate animal homelessness in San Francisco, California. Now it is using a robot to deter homeless humans from setting up tents on its property.

Earlier this month, the San Francisco Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SFSPCA) hired a robot to alert authorities when homeless people set up encampments in its parking lot and in the sidewalks surrounding its building.

Rather than using physical force to remove homeless people and their belongings, the robot uses a system of lasers, cameras, a thermal sensor and GPS to alert the authorities. At five feet tall and weighing 500 pounds, the robot can read up to 300 license plates per minute and send alerts when it identifies people on a "blacklist."

Named K9, the robot is a part of a fleet that patrols malls, sports arenas, and corporate campuses of companies including Microsoft and Uber. Owned by San Francisco bay area company Knightscope, the robots are available for just $7 per hour - far less than San Francisco's $14 per hour minimum wage.
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Poll: 89% say multiculturalism has failed in Bradford, UK


Shy Society
Wed, 27 Dec 2017 15:07 UTC
Multiculturalism has failed say Bradford residents
Nine in ten people say Bradford is divided, in a nod to the city's failed multiculturalism experiment, according to a new poll in a local newspaper.

The eye-opening survey comes as city councillors said "Asian youths" had attacked pubs owned by white business owners in November and more generally intimidated women from visiting the town centre after dark to enjoy the night time economy. The council chamber heard further claims that armed police had been required at a recent Jewish community event amid a "huge increase" in anti-Semitism and that people had been caught "goose-stepping" outside a centre for asylum seekers in Keighley.

A report on the story, appearing in both the Telegraph & Argus and Asian Image, asked readers: 'Do you think Bradford is a divided district?' to which a whopping 89 per cent answered 'yes' in a poll of almost 2,300 people. Latest census information published in June 2017 revealed that Bradford is home to the largest Pakistani population in England (20.3 per cent) with a quarter of the population (24.7 per cent) identifying as Muslim.
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Christmas Tree

Appalling Dickens-style Christmas tour of Los Angele's Skid Row


RT
Wed, 27 Dec 2017 15:08 UTC
Skid Row Christmas in LA
On the outskirts of California's most populous city lies a heart-wrenching sight - block after block of squalid, grinding poverty, where tents and makeshift shelters line the streets as far as the eye can see.

The English writer and social critic Charles Dickens would have had enough material for many more novels depicting life of the poor, had he been around to see LA's most impoverished neighborhood.

Just blocks away from LA's fashionable restaurants, coffee shops and cultural venues, barely visible from the top of the city's shimmering skyscrapers, is something of a warzone, a veritable no-man's land where entry is not conducive to healthy living. In fact, it can be downright deadly.

Welcome to LA's Skid Row, where reportedly one in three residents are homeless. It has been called one of the "most densely-populated areas of people experiencing homelessness."

On Christmas Day, 'citizen journalist' Nick Stern decided to take a drive around this neighborhood to see how some of California's least fortunate citizens were spending the holidays. Stern posted his video, just under three minutes long, on Live Leak. It makes for painful viewing.

Comment: See also: The Truth Perspective: Poverty and Homelessness in America

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Attention

Nine celebs who are 2017's most hideous 'feminist' sex abuse-enablers

John Nolte
Breitbart
Tue, 26 Dec 2017 00:01 UTC
feminist enablers harassment
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Just as they did during Bill Clinton's presidency, in 2017, America's leading leftwing feminists once again proved that nothing has changed in the era of #MeToo - that, if it means furthering The Cause or protecting their friends, they are in reality nothing less than partisan villains eager to enable credibly accused sex abusers.

Most of the time these hideous women hold the sisterhood mask fairly steady. But every once in a while it slips and we are allowed to see what is really behind the hear me roar facade: a grotesque ideologue willing to sell out and personally destroy alleged victims in order to protect a left-wing agenda that, in their own twisted minds, trumps all - even photographic evidence and basic, human decency.

Comment: Here's a couple more from the past:

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Light Sabers

Aaron Maté vs Luke Harding: What happens when a Russiagate skeptic debates a professional Russiagater (VIDEO)

Caitlin Johnstone
Medium
Tue, 26 Dec 2017 15:19 UTC
Aaron Maté Real News Luke Harding Guardian
© Real News
Have you ever wondered why mainstream media outlets, despite being so fond of dramatic panel debates on other hot-button issues, never have critics of the Russiagate narrative on to debate those who advance it? Well, in a recent Real News interview we received an extremely clear answer to that question, and it was so epic it deserves its own article.

Real News host and producer Aaron Maté has recently emerged as one of the most articulate critics of the establishment Russia narrative and the Trump-Russia conspiracy theory, and has published in The Nation some of the clearest arguments against both that I've yet seen. Luke Harding is a journalist for The Guardian where he has been writing prolifically in promotion of the Russiagate narrative, and is the author of New York Times bestseller Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win.

In theory, it would be hard to find two journalists more qualified to debate each side of this important issue. In practice, it was a one-sided thrashing that The Intercept's Jeremy Scahill accurately described as "brutal".


Comment: Memo for Mr Harding: Do not start a journalistic investigation having decided what the conclusion is in advance - and do not confuse context with evidence.

More Caitlin Johnstone on Russiagate:

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