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Equity & social justice for all: Your children's new school curriculum

Margaret Wente
Globe & Mail
Fri, 01 Dec 2017 14:47 UTC
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Canada's biggest school system has some problems. Math scores are flat or in decline. Too many kids aren't doing well in school, and too many of them are visible minorities. Something must be done. What is it?

The answer is to make social justice and "equity" the main focus of education in Ontario. Every school board, school and classroom will be re-engineered to root out racism and discrimination. School boards will collect data on race and ethnicity to ensure that equity is reflected in everything from staff hires to student suspensions. Teaching materials will be revised to be less Eurocentric. Children will be taught the history of colonialism, residential schools and oppression. Kids in the "applied" stream will be placed in the academic stream, because streaming is discriminatory.

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Fire

Ohio woman burns down home trying to kill bedbugs


CBS News
Sun, 10 Dec 2017 14:36 UTC
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© WKRC​Authorities said that three people were injured and 10 people were left homeless after a woman accidentally started a fire while trying to kill bed bugs in Cincinnati.
Authorities said that three people were injured and 10 people were left homeless after a woman accidentally started a fire while trying to kill bed bugs with rubbing alcohol at a multi-family home in Cincinnati.

WXIX-TV reports it's the second time in two weeks that a fire sparked by attempts to kill bed bugs has caused extensive damage in Cincinnati.
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Propaganda

Fake News: Raw Story says arena in Florida 'mostly empty' for Trump rally

Kristinn Taylor
The Gateway Pundit
Sat, 09 Dec 2017 11:14 UTC
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© AP Photo/Jonathan BachmanPresident Donald Trump waves to supporters during a rally in Pensacola, Fla., Friday, Dec. 8, 2017.
Reporters are pushing back against liberals claiming President Donald Trump spoke to a "mostly empty" rally in Pensacola, Florida Friday night.

A photo taken well before Trump spoke showing empty seats is being promoted as proof Trump flopped in Florida.

A tweet by Trump about the crowd size, "GREAT EVENING last night in Pensacola, Florida. Arena was packed to the rafters, the crowd was loud, loving and really smart. They definitely get what's going on. Thank you Pensacola!", triggered even more hysteria, prompting the liberal site Raw Story to promote the empty arena lie.



Comment: Raw Story posted an update:
UPDATE [12:45 PM Eastern, December 9, 2017]: The initial version of this story included two Tweets that have since been deleted by their authors. One picture included a green arrow that claimed to point to President Trump. Further video evidence show that it was not.

Additionally, we must clarify that further video evidence shows a larger crowd, though no photos have yet emerged showing a "packed" crowd.

To provide fuller context, we have included video below. The upper deck behind the stage is not full in any of the photos.
Nice try. They still haven't changed the title, and are admitting it is a 'larger crowd' while still trying to push the 'empty' angle, in others words, a weak attempt to save face.

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Looks pretty full up there behind the President. Not the first time the liberal media was caught understating crowd sizes.

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Dollars

East German village auctioned off for just €140,000


RT
Sun, 10 Dec 2017 10:06 UTC
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An anonymous bidder has bought an entire village in the eastern German state of Brandenburg. The locals, who have seen most of their neighbors and children leave since the fall of the Berlin Wall, are hoping some meaningful change will ensue.

The small, sparsely-inhabited village of Alwine, located some 150 kilometers south of Berlin, was auctioned off on Saturday in the German capital for €140,000 ($165,000), local media report. Karhausen auction house had set the minimum bid for the 16,000-square meter village at €125,000 ($147,000).
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Heart

Bolshoi's controversial Nureyev ballet premieres and leaves 'powerful impression'


TASS
Sun, 10 Dec 2017 09:45 UTC
While the Bolshoi Theater has always maintained that the production was postponed because it was not ready, alternative reasons were widely covered by the mass media

Bolshoi Theater
© Vladimir Astapkovich/TASS
The opening of the ballet Nureyev, directed by Kirill Serebrennikov and choreographed by Yuri Possokhov, is scheduled for December 9 and 10, at the Bolshoi Theater. Journalists were invited to the press viewing, ahead of the production, and the overall feedback has been positive.

The ballet, based on the life of legendary Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev, is set as an auction. It begins with the conductor's baton lot, with which Nureyev made his debut in Vienna, and goes on with more lots - costumes from different periods of his life, personal letters that are read out loud by actor Igor Vernik from the Moscow Art Theater.
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Portrait of Hillary Clinton briefly shuts down Art Miami tent due to security dog reaction

Elizabeth Koh And Nicholas Nehamas
Miami Herald
Sat, 09 Dec 2017 15:09 UTC
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© Nicholas NehamasFair director Nick Korniloff said two security dogs reacted to a crate containing a painting of Hillary Clinton — pictured in a shaggy pink hairdo — during a pre-show security sweep.
When two security dogs reacted to a suspicious crate before an Art Miami tent opening early Saturday morning, Miami police officers briefly shut down the area for a few hours to investigate the possible threat.

But when they opened up the offending crate, officers found something else instead: a punky portrait of Hillary Clinton in a studded jacket and shaggy pink haircut, in a neon picture frame to match.

Fair director Nick Korniloff said that the two dogs reacted to the crate during a pre-show check shortly after 8 a.m., prompting organizers to clear the site. Both the Art Miami tent and a tent for Context, connected by a tunnel, were closed off. The package was then searched and the painting of the former Democratic presidential candidate was found inside.

Police officers ran the 16 inch by 20 inch acrylic-on-wood artwork through an X-ray machine, which turned up no suspicious material.

"We had to err on the side of caution," Korniloff said. Both tents eventually reopened around 10 a.m.

The painting - titled "Punk Hillary" - had been shipped with a similar portrait of President Donald Trump (called "Trump Pimp"), depicting him in a zebra-printed hat with a gold dollar-sign chain around his neck. The Trump portrait had already been removed from the crate before the security check.

Comment: That's quite reaction over a painting - but being that it's Hillary Clinton, perhaps warranted. Or the dogs simply find her just as repulsive as we do. See:

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Bizarro Earth

Jewish Agency for Israel spokesperson alarmed over growing Anti-Semitic sentiment in Sweden


Sputnik
Sun, 10 Dec 2017 09:00 UTC
A group of masked people has reportedly firebombed a synagogue in the Swedish city of Gothenburg.

Swedish ambulance
© AP Photo/Bjorn Larsson Rosvall
According to local media reports, no person has been injured in the incident that occured Saturday in the second biggest city of Sweden. The fire was extinguished soon after the attack. Swedish law enforcement forces have locked down the area, launching a probe into the incident, media reports say.
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Wolf

Burn the warlock: #MeToo has morphed into a moral panic that poses as much danger to women as it does to men

Claire Berlinski
The American Interest
Sun, 10 Dec 2017 06:41 UTC
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#Metoo, of course. Women are not going nuts for no reason. We're fed up with feeling prickles down our spine as we walk alone on dimly lit streets. Fed up with thinking, "If he feels entitled to send me that message, what might he feel entitled to do to if he knew where I lived?" Fed up with strangers who smack their lips and murmur obscenities at us. Fed up with thinking, "No, I don't want to go to his hotel room to discuss closing the contract. I'll have to tell him my husband's waiting for me to call. 'My husband? Oh, yes, he's pathologically jealous, bless his heart, and a bit of a gun nut...'" My husband is perfect in every way but one-he doesn't exist-but he has served me so well over the years that I'm willing to overlook his ontological defects. I shouldn't need him, but I do.

I've been fortunate. My encounters with law enforcement have been contrary to reputation: The police have taken me seriously, once arresting a stalker when he failed to heed a warning to cease and desist. But too many women have been murdered because they could not persuade the police to take them seriously. That stalker doubtless believes he was "unjustly accused" and "his life destroyed" by a hysterical woman. He's full of it. I'll bet he did the same thing to many women before me. Sexual predation tends to be a lifelong pattern.

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People

The end of American prison visits: Jails end face-to-face contact and families suffer

Shannon Sims
The Guardian
Sat, 09 Dec 2017 08:17 UTC
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© Ben DeppTiffany Burns tries to talk to her boyfriend Chrishon Brown, who is locked up in Jefferson Parish jail.
It's been described as 'Skype for the jailed' and is being sold as safer and more convenient. But it begs the question: are in-person visits a human right?

One sunny day in October, at the Jefferson Parish correctional center just across the river from downtown New Orleans, Tiffany Burns, 34, was visiting her boyfriend.

The pair had been dating for almost two years and were still giggly in love when a late July knock on the door sent him away. Scooped up by the police after being accused of robbing a suburban bank at gunpoint, Chrishon Brown, 37, was sent to the correctional center while his case worked its way through the court.

A new, unwelcome chapter of their relationship began, with Brown using all his jail funds to call Tiffany, and Tiffany visiting as often as she could.

It was a long drive from her home in the Metairie suburb west of New Orleans, and could sometimes take about an hour each way with the traffic near downtown, but Burns was happy to do it. "When I visit, sometimes I forget about the glass and it feels like we are together again."

Comment: For profit prisons are going to figure out how to make money off of everything.

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Dollars

The next generation money mules for criminals are children and young adults


Malwarebytes Labs
Tue, 05 Dec 2017 22:37 UTC
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According to Cifas, a nonprofit fraud prevention organization based in the United Kingdom, more than 8,500 cases of bank account misuse have been filed against 18- to 24-year-olds between January and September 2017. Cifas has linked the account abuse to an uptick in young people acting as money mules, allowing their bank account to be used in order to facilitate the movement of criminal funds. The number of young people engaged in this kind of money laundering scheme doubled in the last four years, painting a troubling picture.

Earlier this year, the Metropolitan Police in the UK claimed that children as young as 13 years old have also been used by gangs or criminals to move stolen money on their behalf. The youngsters were either approached-often with threats of violence-right outside their schools, or they responded to adverts they saw on social media or video sharing sites that offered cash rewards of at least $67 (£50) for money transfer work. Some posts were even advertised as legitimate work under the likely titles of "Financial Manager," "Money transfer Agent," or "Payment processing agent."

Money mules (aka smurfers) usually get a cut from moving money, but it was found that youngsters were often never paid.
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