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Delusional Cologne mayor thinks she can stop migrant sex attacks with 'respect' wristbands


Voice of Europe
Fri, 15 Dec 2017 15:16 UTC
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As many may know, New Year's Eve 2015 was a disaster for the German city of Cologne. Hundreds of women were sexually assaulted, robbed or raped by large groups of migrant men.

But officials of the city and the police think they have now found a solution. The mayor of Cologne, Henriette Reker, launched a new campaign, focused on respect yesterday. Wristbands with the text will be distributed throughout the city to prevent new sexual assaults and rapes.

It didn't take long for people to attack the initiative. A social media user asked the city's mayor:

Comment: Leave it to the mayor that blamed the victims for the attacks to think up something so utterly absurd.

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Green Light

Wealthy CEOs Tim Cook and Charles Koch lecture Americans to show 'courage' by welcoming illegal immigrants

Neil Munro
Breitbart
Fri, 15 Dec 2017 12:40 UTC
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Americans should have the courage to ignore their written laws, to amnesty DACA illegals and accept an open-borders world, says an op-ed by two wealthy CEOs who stand to gain more wealth in a labor market flooded by low-wage migrants.

The op-ed by Tim Cook (CEO of Apple, wealth $800 million and growing) and Charles Koch (Koch Industries, $49 billion and growing) was posted in the Washington Post newspaper owned by Jeff Bezos (owner of Amazon, $98 billion and growing). Under the headline "Congress must act on the 'dreamers,'" it declared:
We must do better. The United States is at its best when all people are free to pursue their dreams. Our country has enjoyed unparalleled success by welcoming people from around the world who seek to make a better life for themselves and their families, no matter what their backgrounds ... each successive generation - including, today, our own - must show the courage to embrace that diversity and to do what is right.

Comment: As we commented here:

The very-conservatives want all illegal immigrants gone now. The very-liberals want all illegal immigrants to stay, and more to come. Both are unrealistic, so a compromise of some sort is probably the only way to go, and focusing on the very-criminal element in the illegal immigrant population sounds like a safe bet - if they can actually get results and not just deport a bunch of jay-walkers.

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Ultra-liberal feminists don't speak for all women

Lauren DeBellis Appell
Fox News
Fri, 15 Dec 2017 13:21 UTC
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The days of ultra-liberal feminists in the media and Hollywood brainwashing women into believing they speak for the majority of us are coming to an abrupt and final end.

Conservative women have increasingly risen to more prominent positions with larger platforms and louder microphones, making it harder for their voices to be drowned out by the shrieks of the extreme liberal women.

MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski erupted in hysterics on "Morning Joe" Tuesday, demanding all women who work in the White House - including the President Trump's daughter, Ivanka - turn their backs on the president over a tweet he sent in response to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., calling on him to resign over allegations of sexual misconduct. The president fired back saying that Gillibrand would do anything for campaign contributions.
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USA

Psycho cop smashes handcuffed woman's face into pavement (VIDEO)

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Fri, 15 Dec 2017 13:21 UTC
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Last July, Tiffany McNeil would walk into the Branch County Jail in handcuffs only to leave in a stretcher moments later after being brutally assaulted by a police officer and knocked unconscious.

What happened while McNeil, 31, was being processed into jail that fateful day is now the subject of a federal lawsuit alleging that police used excessive force and then lied about what happened. The incident-in which a half dozen cops stood by and watched their brother in blue smash a handcuffed woman's face into the pavement-was also captured on video.

"It was absolutely egregious, disgusting, thug-like conduct," McNeil's attorney, Solomon Radner, said. "You don't expect that from police officers, and it shouldn't be tolerated."
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Stock Down

2017 was a bad year for Facebook, 2018 not looking much better

Leonid Bershidsky
Bloomberg
Thu, 14 Dec 2017 08:00 UTC
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Facebook is projected to boost sales by 46 percent and double net income, but make no mistake: It had a terrible year. Despite its financial performance, the social media giant is facing a reckoning in 2018 as regulators close in on several fronts.

The main issue cuts to the core of the company itself: Rather than "building global community," as founder Mark Zuckerberg sees Facebook's mission, it is "ripping apart the social fabric." Those are the words of Chamath Palihapitiya, the company's former vice president of user growth. He doesn't allow his kids to use Facebook because he doesn't want them to become slaves to "short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops."

Palihapitya's criticism echoes that of Facebook's first president, Sean Parker: "It literally changes your relationship with society, with each other ... God only knows what it's doing to our children's brains."

Facebook has reacted nervously to Palihapitya's accusations, saying he hadn't worked at the company for a long time (he left in 2011) and wasn't aware of Facebook's recent initiatives. But I can't see any practical manifestations of these efforts as a user who has drastically cut back on social networking this year for the very reasons cited by Parker and Palihapitya.

To outsiders and regulators, Facebook looks like a dangerous provider of instant gratification in a space suddenly vital to the health of society. It's also making abuse and aggression too easy -- something the U.K. Committee on Standards in Public Life pointed out in a report published on Wednesday. Sounding one of the loudest alarm bells on social media yet, the panel urged the prime minister to back legislation to "shift the balance of liability for illegal content to the social media companies."

Comment: See also:

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Attention

Almost 5 million Americans default on their student loans

Zoe Papadakis
Newsmax
Thu, 14 Dec 2017 15:20 UTC
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Student loan defaults hit nearly five million in the third quarter, a doubling from four years ago, The Wall Street Journal reported, or about 13 percent of outstanding loans.

While the overall U.S. economy has enjoyed steady growth and notched its quickest pace in three years, according to Reuters, there has been a sharp decline in payments made towards federal student loans among those leaving schools in the past three years.

Data released by the Education Department shows that the number of students who have not made payment in the last year has grown by nearly 274,000 in the third quarter alone, the Journal said.

The statistics mark a reversal of half a decade's worth of decline in new defaults, with 580,671 reported defaults among the five million people from 6,173 schools who began repaying their student loans in Oct. 2013, The Washington Post said.

The Journal said that by the end of the quarter defaulted student loans totaled $84 billion - which is around 13 percent of the reported $631 billion required to be paid back.

Comment: See also:

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2 + 2 = 4

Both genders 'equally prone' to sexual harassment


Sputnik
Fri, 15 Dec 2017 11:24 UTC
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Amid the raging #Metoo scandal, in which tens of thousands of women across the globe have protested sexual harassment, a Norwegian researcher has come up with a surprising and, possibly, unpopular approach: men and women are equally vulnerable to sexual harassment at work.

The Norwegian Institute of Occupational Health (Stami) concluded in an earlier cross-industry survey that both sexes are exposed to harassment in the workplace.
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One-third of Americans weighed down by overdue debt, study

Aimee Picchi
CBS News
Thu, 14 Dec 2017 05:30 UTC
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By many measures, the American economy is booming. Yet that's not always translating into stronger financial health for a large share of US consumers.

One-third of Americans are weighed down by overdue debt, meaning their outstanding payments are in arrears and have been handed off to debt collectors, according to new research from The Urban Institute. That's not a healthy situation for households because overdue debt can lower one's credit score, making it harder to finance purchases such as a home or car while also making it more expensive to borrow money.

The problem is worse in some regions of the country, especially those where health insurance coverage is sparser, incomes are lower and the share of nonwhite households is higher, according to the Urban Institute's data. Almost one in five households have medical debt in collections, a sign of how many Americans struggle with the cost of health care, including those insurance.

Comment: The debt crisis in America continues. See also:

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UK: Traditional depictions of motherhood to be banned from advertising, agency sez 'can lead to mental, physical and social harm'

Virginia Hale
Breitbart
Thu, 14 Dec 2017 12:00 UTC
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Cooking, cleaning mums will be banned in advertisements across the UK from next year, following a study which claimed traditional gender roles are "harmful and outdated".

The decision to tighten regulation was announced by the Committees of Advertising Practice (CAP) this week, after a report published in summer identified gender stereotypes in adverts as a driver of inequality between men and women.

"Wherever they appear or are reinforced, gender stereotypes can lead to mental, physical and social harm which can limit the potential of groups and individuals," the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) alleged in its study.

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Cop pepper sprays handcuffed man in fit of rage, maces fellow cop as well

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Thu, 14 Dec 2017 09:34 UTC
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Showing how dangerous it can be to be near a raging cop as he doles out street justice, a Bridgeton police officer was hit with pepper spray as his fellow officer tortured a man with the chemical weapon for no reason.

According to John Paff, who filed an Open Public Records Act request to obtain body camera footage of the incident, the event occurred at about 5 a.m. at the Riggins service station on West Broad Street, Bridgeton which is across the street from the Cumberland County Courthouse.

Two men were in a 1996 Buick that had run out of fuel. The men, who appeared to be intoxicated, told officers that they were waiting for the Riggins station to open so that they could purchase fuel. During an investigation, police discovered an empty whiskey bottle on the floor of the Buick, Paff reported.

Initially, instead of arresting the men, the responding officers simply cited the two men and told them to call someone to come get them. The two men were told explicitly not to drive the car.

However, because the car was at the pump, Marty Drummond, who was clearly drunk, got in and moved the car to the side of the gas station. This caused the officers to move in for arrest after witnessing him drive drunk.
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