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The sexual revolution's war on fathers

John Waters
First Things
Fri, 22 Dec 2017 19:24 UTC
father and child
Divorce cases in the U.S. now account for 35 to 50 percent of civil litigation, at a cost to the public purse of billions of dollars per year.


Comment: But muh military industrial complex!


Out of these cases has grown a vast panoply of ancillary bureaucracies: social workers, psychologists and psychiatrists, child protection experts and enforcers, counselors, mediators, divorce planners, forensic accountants, and so forth. Behind a smoke screen of piety concerning the difficult job they have to do in "helping" or "providing services," their purpose is the human equivalent of the breaker's yard: They tear asunder the superstructure of the family and then move to the foundations, demolishing relationships between husband and wife, between parents and children, and even sometimes between the children themselves.

In his scrupulously researched book on how the sexual revolution has proven a war against fathers, Stephen Baskerville, professor of government at Patrick Henry College, describes the costs of divorce:

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Ambulance

Train collision near Vienna, Austria leaves dozens injured


RT
Fri, 22 Dec 2017 19:21 UTC
train
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A two-train collision resulted in a pair of carriages being overturned near the Austrian capital Vienna. Over a dozen people were injured, local transport company confirmed.

The crash happened at around 6pm local time near the station of Kritzendorf, north of Vienna. Roman Hahslinger, a spokesman for railway company OBB, said a Railjet intercity train with 30 people on board struck an empty regional train, resulting in the Railjet train tipping over.

Vienna's S-Bahn said in a tweet that emergency workers treated 15 people who were injured in the crash. However, the chief of the local fire department, Franz Resperger, told noe.ORF.at that initial information suggests 20 people were injured.

Resperger also told ORF that two helicopters and a large number of rescue workers were on the scene. The cause of the crash is still unknown.

Rescue services had to free some of the trapped passengers from the carriages, authorities said. A rail replacement bus has been set up to service the route.
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Pistol

Woman and 6yo boy killed by deputies during lengthy Texas manhunt


RT
Fri, 22 Dec 2017 19:17 UTC
Police crossing tape
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A 6-year-old boy was shot and killed by Bexar County sheriff's deputies as they opened fire on a woman who was thought to have a gun at a mobile trailer park after a lengthy manhunt. No gun was found.

The woman, a wanted felon and a suspect in a car theft, had been trying to break into a mobile home on Thursday when deputies caught up to her on the front porch after a several hours manhunt, and opened fire. The child was inside the home with several adults who were not hurt.
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Heart - Black

Investigation reveals racist texts police officers sent to each other


RT
Fri, 22 Dec 2017 18:55 UTC
cell
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An investigation into two Florida police officers has revealed a shocking series of racist text messages sent to one another in a group chat.

The internal probe was launched by the Edgewater Police Department in the east of the state after colleagues reported officers William Wetherall and Matthew Snyder over the contents of messages sent during a shift in September this year. Despite the two accused resigning after being confronted with screenshots of their exchanges in October, senior EPD officers nevertheless launched an investigation.

The report, which has been seen by RT.com, details how Wetherell and Snyder made multiple comments and shared memes disparaging African Americans. The group exchange begins with a meme from Snyder captioned: "This just in... No work boots were stolen in the looting."Wetherell then replies, saying: "Because black people don't steal things for work." To which Snyder writes in return: "That's how you starve them. Hid [sic] their paycheck under their work boots."
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Newspaper

Danish zoos accept pets as predator feed


Sputnik
Fri, 22 Dec 2017 19:02 UTC
lions at Copenhagen zoo
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Denmark, which has previously sparked controversy with its unorthodox ways of slaughtering animals deemed unfit for breeding and dissecting them in front of the public, has taken things to a whole new level by collecting people's unwanted house pets as feed for carnivores.

For those willing to do away with their pet, hungry predators at the Copenhagen Zoo and Givskud Zoo are more than ready to take over. Both zoos are eagerly accepting pet animals as feed for carnivores like lions, tigers, wolves and Tasmanian devils.
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Heart - Black

11 Russian athletes banned for life by IOC over alleged doping violations


RT
Fri, 22 Dec 2017 18:40 UTC
olympic luger
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The International Olympic Committee has banned 11 Russian athletes for life over alleged doping violations at the Sochi Games in 2014.

The Olympic governing body announced on Friday it had banned the athletes based on findings from the Oswald Commission, which is looking into alleged doping violations at the 2014 Winter Games held in Russia.


Comment: The IOC continues its witch hunt against Russian athletes, but does nothing to Western athletes like Justin Gatlin, whose agent was caught on film admitting that "all American sprinters" take performance-enhancing drugs. That's real evidence, yet the politicized IOC ignores it. They have lost all credibility.


Among those sanctioned are Tatyana Ivanova and Albert Demchenko, who won silver medals in luge events at Sochi, and cross-country skiers Nikita Kryukov and Alexander Bessmertnykh, also silver medalists in Sochi.

Speed skaters Ivan Skobrev, who won silver and bronze medals at the Vancouver 2010 Games, and Artem Kuznetsov were also sanctioned.
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Teen YouTube star gunned down after hurling insult at cartel boss on social media

Joshua Rhett Miller
New York Post
Fri, 22 Dec 2017 19:36 UTC
Juan Luis Lagunas Rosales
© New York PostJuan Luis Lagunas Rosales, known as “The Pirate of Culiacán”
A Mexican YouTube star known for videos showing him drinking to excess was gunned down after hurling an insult at a notorious cartel boss on social media, authorities said.

Juan Luis Lagunas Rosales, better known as "The Pirate of Culiacán," was just 17 but had amassed thousands of followers on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, where he posted pictures and videos of himself downing bottles of booze, or standing alongside scantily clad Latina women, large quantities of marijuana or shiny sports cars.

In one recent video, Rosales apparently insulted Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, also known as "El Mencho," head of the New Generation Cartel of Jalisco.
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Magnet

'Mysterious magnetism': Metal sticks to stomach of Syrian boy in bizarre trick (VIDEO)


RT
Fri, 22 Dec 2017 11:28 UTC
Magnetic boy
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Every superhero has a moment when their special powers becomes clear. For web-slinging Spider-Man, it was after a radioactive arachnid bite. In Zulfikar Ibrahim's case, he found out his belly doubled as a magnet during dinner.

Hailing from Syria's port city of Latakia, the young boy has become something of a mini-celebrity for his seemingly strange ability to stick metal objects to his stomach. His grandparents are hoping his apparent condition can be studied abroad to get to the bottom of his mysterious "magnetism."

"We were concerned about this phenomenon. Speaking frankly, I don't want it to affect him," said Zulfikar Ibrahim's grandfather. "Since Russia is specialized in this subject, we want this phenomenon - or this biological energy - to be cultivated and studied in Russia."

In 2014, Russian schoolboy Nikolai Kryaglyachenko made headlines when he claimed an electrical accident left him with powers of human magnetism. Hence, the belief that Russian specialists may have some insight into Ibrahim's new found skills.
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Oscar

Sick! Texas mother charged with faking son's illness, boy had numerous pointless hospital visits and surgeries


CBS News
Thu, 14 Dec 2017 17:54 UTC
faking illness
© CBS DFWChristopher's mother is charged with injury to a child for allegedly faking his illness, resulting in 13 major surgeries.
An 8-year-old Dallas boy may have endured more than 300 unnecessary doctor visits, gone through more than a dozen pointless surgeries and suffered life-threatening treatment complications after police and child protective officials say his mother faked multiple illnesses beginning when he was a newborn.

Kaylene Bowen-Wright is charged with injury to a child and was jailed on $150,000 bond, reported CBS DFW. The child and his two siblings were removed from the home by child welfare officials last month.

An investigation by Child Protective Services (CPS) found Bowen-Wright took her son, Christopher, to hospitals in Dallas and Houston with a variety of complaints, resulting in 323 medical appointments and 13 "major" surgeries, CBS DFW reports. He's been on a feeding tube, confined to a wheelchair, developed a blood infection that landed him in the ICU, and has spent time in hospice care, Dr. Suzanne Dakil wrote in an affidavit provided to the CPS investigator.

The agency's report indicated it was likely a case of Munchausen Syndrome by proxy, where a caregiver fakes or creates a child's symptoms to receive attention, sympathy or other benefits. A CPS investigation also found Bowen-Wright cut her son's hair and posted a picture of him in a Make-A-Wish shirt claiming he had cancer in an effort to raise money.

Comment: Criminal behavior can take many forms but the following seems to underlie most: "...we can assume that the motives are to gain attention to have drama in one's life, excitement" - at the expense of others.

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3yo girl abandoned in Iraqi jail for 'ISIS widows' brought back to family in Russia


RT
Fri, 22 Dec 2017 12:16 UTC
Child reunited
One more child whose parents fled Russia to join Islamic State in the Middle East and died there has been brought back to her homeland. However, hundreds more minors are believed to be stranded in war-torn Iraq and Syria.

Three-year-old Sofia Zaynukova from the southern Russian republic of Dagestan had been discovered in an Iraqi prison where wives and widows of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) fighters are held. The girl, whose parents traveled to the region to join the terrorist group years before, was looked after by a woman, who picked her up after a deadly airstrike in Mosul. The woman said the girl's mother was buried under the rubble.

Zaynukova's father left Dagestan in 2015, having deceived his own parents by saying he was traveling to a nearby city to get medical treatment accompanied by the girl and her mother. He ended up as an IS fighter in Iraq, just as his brother did. That man's daughters, Sofia's cousins, Khadija, 5, and Fatima, 3 were reunited with their grandparents earlier this year.

"I lost my two sons, but I was given my granddaughters back," their grandfather says. Daughters of his elder son were brought back home from a Baghdad orphanage after having been spotted in an RT video about children whose parents were killed fighting for IS. The family then started looking for the third missing child, Sofia. See video here.

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