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Violators of Beijing smoking ban are being reported using social media app WeChat


Xinhua News
Thu, 09 Nov 2017 21:02 UTC
Smoker in Bejing, China
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An increasing number of reports related to smoking in indoor public places have been made on China's popular social networking app WeChat.

Beijing Tobacco Control Association said its official account on WeChat, "Smoke-Free Beijing" received 2,717 reports from August to October.

It said an average of 900 reports have been received every month, with an increase of 50 percent compared with that of the second quarter of the year. The complaints were mainly concerning restaurants, office buildings and Internet cafes.

Smoking controls have made some progress in the city, said the association, adding that medical institutions, schools and hotels have seen greater improvement among other indoor public places.
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Making schools 'safer'? Colorado voters elect convicted murderer to Denver school board


CBS Denver
Wed, 15 Nov 2017 21:12 UTC
Thomas Seaba Denver School board
© CBSThomas Seaba
An admitted murderer was elected to serve on the East Otero School Board in La Junta.

Thomas Seaba pleaded guilty to murdering a fellow Marine in the 90s. A detective on the case said Seaba shot the victim five times.


Comment: The detective said Seaba shot the victim once in the back of the head, then returned later and shot him four more times. "Anyone who shoots someone five times in the head, you know, no doubt it was a cold-blooded killing," said Col. Donnie Worrell.


Seaba moved back to Colorado after getting out of jail and got a job with La Junta's Wastewater Department.

His past was well known during the school board race.
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20 killed, 30 injured in car bomb explosion planted by ISIS, at site for displaced families in eastern Syria


RT
Fri, 17 Nov 2017 20:10 UTC
Smoke rises at site for displaced families in eastern Syria
© YPG / FacebookSmoke rises at site for displaced families in eastern Syria
Twenty people have been killed and 30 others injured by a car bomb planted by Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) at a site for displaced families in eastern Syria, according to state media.

The blast occurred near the city of Deir ez-Zor, according to SANA state news agency. It took place near the al-Jafra area, which is controlled by the Syrian government. The People's Protection Units (YPG) confirmed the incident on their Facebook page, calling it a "massacre."
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Interrupt "whiteness" in order to expose and remove it, says mad professor

Sara Gonzales
The Blaze
Thu, 16 Nov 2017 18:18 UTC
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© Stefan Puchner/AFP/Getty ImagesA college lecturer gave a workshop at the University of Texas to warn students of the damaging effects of "white privilege."
A retired professor, who hosted a workshop at the University of Texas on Saturday called "White Fragility: Understanding and Working Against White Privilege," spent three hours warning students of the damaging effects of "white privilege."

What was said?

● Dr. Robin DiAngelo, who is white, invented the term "white fragility" several years ago, which she defines as "a state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves" in which white people become "irrational."

● During the lecture, DiAngelo asked all whites to come to the front of the room, where they were each asked to read quotes about their "internalized superiority, racial privilege, and other deficiencies as whites," according to The College Fix. DiAngelo then instructed attendees "not to clap" as the students took their seats.

● DiAngelo also told the participants her goal is "interrupting whiteness" because too often it goes "unmarked," and people must "center it" so they can "expose" and remove it.

Comment: This is what happens when you give idiots degrees. Identity politics reduces people to their biological categories, and nothing more. There's another word for that: racism. But apparently it's fine to be racist as long as you're "fighting oppression" - just as the Israelis!

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British explorer goes missing in New Guinea after trying to make contact with isolated tribe


RT
Wed, 15 Nov 2017 17:09 UTC
Benedict Allen
© Science Museum / Global Look PressBenedict Allen
A British explorer is missing in the remote jungles of Papua New Guinea after being dropped off by helicopter three weeks ago to try and find the lost tribe of Yaifo - one of the few remaining tribes to have no contact whatsoever with the outside world.

Benedict Allen's family have not heard from him since then, and hold grave fears for his safety after the seasoned explorer failed to board his flight out of Port Moresby. He was due to leave the capital on Sunday to fly to Hong Kong to talk at the Royal Geographical Society on Tuesday.

Comment: What can you say about a guy who puts himself in situations where he has to eat his dog, imposes himself on isolated tribes who would rather be left alone, and makes his wife worry that he could be dead?

Update Nov 17 - Allen has been found 'alive and well' by Chiefs in Papua New Guinea. He had reportedly been caught up in tribal fighting in an attempt to reach a remote village and has requested rescue.
Allen is understood to have been marooned near an airstrip, where he was sighted after fighting between tribes in the area cut off roads and bridges. His friend Frank Gardner, the BBC's security correspondent who travelled to Papua New Guinea with him twice last year, reported he had been sighted "safe and well."

He tweeted: "UK explorer Benedict Allen is not out of danger yet. He's marooned at an airstrip after tribal fighting cut off all the road bridges. He's currently stuck in remote area of tribal infighting, awaiting air evac."


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New bill in Congress seeks to protect all unborn who have a heartbeat - 69% of Americans back the bill

Paul Strand
CBNNews.com
Wed, 01 Nov 2017 17:57 UTC
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Abortion defenders have long said all that's being aborted is a clump of cells. But pro-life forces say if a heartbeat can be detected, that proves what's inside the womb is a life and should be protected. A new bill in Congress, HR490, would make the presence of that heartbeat the standard for outlawing an abortion.

Some 170 House members back the Heartbeat Protection Act, which had its first hearing on Capitol Hill Wednesday. Polling by the Barna Group shows 69 percent of Americans back the bill.

"That's 86 percent of Republicans, 61 percent of Independents, and yes, even a Democrat majority by 55 percent," said Faith2Action president Janet Porter, the originator of the first heartbeat bill, at a Capitol Hill news conference.

Rep. Steven King, R-Iowa, the main sponsor of this congressional bill, said, "We have a nearly universal consensus in America - wherever you sit on the political spectrum - that human life is sacred."
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Americans agree with Trump's call to improve ties with Russia by a two-to-one margin


Sputnik
Fri, 17 Nov 2017 17:17 UTC
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© Sputnik/ Michael KlimentyevRussian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders meeting
The poll comes in the wake of Trump's call for developing US ties with Russia despite the ongoing probe into alleged Moscow's meddling in the 2016 election described by the US president as a "witch hunt."

American voters agree by a two-to-one margin that a friendly US posture toward Russia would be a greater asset to the United States and the world than the present policy of hostility toward Moscow, according to a poll by Rasmussen reports.

In conducting the poll, Rasmussen read the following quote to survey participants, without identifying President Donald Trump as the speaker, and asked voters whether they agreed or disagreed: "Having Russia in a friendly posture, as opposed to always fighting with them, is an asset to the world, and an asset to our country, not a liability."

Comment: So Americans want the US to get along with Russia, Trump wants to get along with Russia, yet the Deep State is ignoring both the so-called leader of the free world and the people who elected him to enact their wishes and wants to make Russia into an enemy. If anyone still believes the US is the standard for freedom and democracy, they clearly are not paying attention to reality.

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Shelter-in-place in effect for west Baltimore neighborhood, search for gunman who killed officer continues


CBS Baltimore
Thu, 16 Nov 2017 02:26 UTC
Baltimore, MD
A shelter-in-place is in effect for an entire neighborhood of west Baltimore as police continue their search for a gunman who shot and killed a detective Wednesday afternoon.

This shelter-in-place means no one is allowed to come into the Harlem Park neighborhood and no one is allowed out until everything is cleared. The order even applied to a school bus, as a driver was told Thursday morning to turn around at the police perimeter.

Also Thursday morning, police were using megaphones at the scene to try and track down the shooter. Officers have been in the neighborhood since Wednesday at dusk, looking for the suspect from the air and from the ground.
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Penis design in sky lands Navy pilot in hot water


RT.com
Fri, 17 Nov 2017 17:06 UTC
Spanish Air Force F/A-18 fighter jet
© Jon Nazca / Reuters
A US Navy pilot, with perhaps a little too much time on their hands, may be in bother after drawing a giant penis in the skies above rural Washington.

The obscene image, made using a jet's contrails, appeared over the town of Omak in Okanogan County, Washington on Thursday. The nearby Naval Air Station Whidbey Island is home to the US Navy's fleet of EA-18G Growlers - specialized electronic warfare aircraft.

Comment: Don't know what all the fuss is about, it looks like an archway with an infinity symbol below.

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Charity warns of growing trend of live-streamed child sexual abuse


RT
Fri, 17 Nov 2017 16:40 UTC
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© Rolf Kremming / Global Look Press
Children as young as two months of age are being sexually abused online, in what a global charity says is a growing 'dark' trend of live-streamed child exploitation. Much of the demand comes from UK-based pedophiles.

'Cybersex trafficking' is a new form of exploitation, whereby children are being forced to perform sexual acts for the sexual gratification of online customers. The trend has become rampant in the Philippines, where police are receiving thousands of referrals each month, and almost 100 children have already been rescued in the past year.

According to the International Justice Mission (IJM), a global charity in charge of safeguarding poor communities while collaborating with local authorities, says most of the demand comes from Western pedophiles in places like the UK, Canada and the US.
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