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NFL ticket sales down after protests

Carlos Garcia
The Blaze
Fri, 29 Sep 2017 13:30 UTC
Washington Redskins
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According to one metric of ticket sales, the NFL is taking a beating, and some say it's because of the protests during the national anthem.

How much are ticket sales dropping?

TickPick, a seat ticket reseller, says that they're seeing a drop in ticket sales of 17.9 percent. While there is a normal seasonal drop from week to week, last year it was only 10.8 percent. The drop this year is their steepest since 2014.

Another ticket reseller, TicketCity, says sales have plummeted by 31 percent.
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Is the MSM making another attempt to normalize pedophilia?

Ryan Cristián
Waking Times
Sat, 30 Sep 2017 22:27 UTC
Anthony Weiner
We should begin with the 2014 opinion piece published by the NYT that, shockingly, few are familiar with. That article is entitled, "Pedophilia: A Disorder, Not a Crime." It begins, "THINK back to your first childhood crush. Maybe it was a classmate or a friend next door.." doing their best to associate this sickening practice with our first feelings of love, otherwise implying that it is natural, if not normal.

In what can only be seen as shameless pandering to those behind the scenes, the article goes on from there to make the assertion that pedophiles are neither responsible for the crimes they commit, nor do they have the ability to stop themselves, effectively relieving these damaged individuals of all culpability and accountability for their actions. The author goes as far as to label the crime a "disability," with potential discrimination thereof. The writer makes the claim that the laws currently in place in the US are, "inconsistent and irrational," and argues that these child molesters should be sent for treatment, as opposed to serving prison time for their heinous acts against the most defenseless of us all. This is despite the overwhelming numbers that show just how often these "victims of impulse," as the writer is trying to frame them, are "victims" of recidivism; the tendency of a convicted criminal to re-offend.

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California college campuses open free food pantries to help starving students

Roxana Kopetman
Orange County News
Fri, 29 Sep 2017 09:03 UTC
food pantry
© Ana Venegas, Orange County Register/SCNGChristopher Solares, left, of Orange, and Monica Orozco, right, of Tustin, pick out food items at Santiago Canyon College’s HawkÕs Nest Food Pantry onThursday September 14, 2017.
Steve Hoang had more than schoolwork to fret about his first year of college. He went hungry.

"I lost 25 pounds," said the UC Irvine sophomore. "It was one of my biggest worries, that I wouldn't have enough to eat."

The tall, thin 18-year-old was among hundreds of students who lined up this past week to take a peek at UCI's newly expanded food pantry, intended to help students like him.

Across Southern California and the nation, colleges and universities no longer view the concept of the starving student as an inevitable joke, but a serious issue. To address what's become known as "food insecurity," campuses are opening up free pantries.

Some are as small as closets. In fact, UCLA's pantry is called the Food Closet.
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Air France Airbus makes emergency landing, engine blows out over the Atlantic


RT
Sat, 30 Sep 2017 18:12 UTC
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© Flight Radar24Flight path of Air France Airbus AF66
An Air France Airbus bound for Los Angeles was forced into an emergency landing in Canada after one of its engine blew out over the Atlantic.

The Airbus A380 departed from Paris and landed in Goose Bay at about 1:40pm local time. Part of the engine cowling was missing and debris scattered all over the runway, CBC reports.

Air France confirmed the issue in a tweet. "Technical issue identified, #AF66 diverting per precaution to Goose Bay YYR for technical checks." it said. "AF66 landed safely. Customers taken care by Air France and rerouting solutions on going."


Comment: All's well that lands well.

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Spanish nationalists take to the streets to protest against Catalonian independence


RT
Sat, 30 Sep 2017 21:17 UTC
Spanish nationalist Catalan protest
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Spanish nationalists protesting the upcoming Catalan referendum have given Nazi salutes during a rally in Spain's capital.

Some 100 nationalists took to the streets of Madrid Saturday, protesting the Catalan referendum scheduled for October 1, as well demanding the release of a group of their fellow far-right activists from a previous protest.

Some of the protesters have been openly demonstrating the notorious Nazi salute, while demanding that Spain remain a united state.
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Disgusting! Cop follows elderly couple home & assaults them for honking their horn

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Sat, 30 Sep 2017 21:17 UTC
Carl and Margaret Wilson
Carl and Margaret Wilson
An elderly Ohio couple, who've never been in trouble with the law before got a hefty dose of the police state this week because they honked their horn at the wrong cop.

Carl and Margaret Wilson were on their way home this week when they came up behind a Summit Metro Parks ranger.

"I tooted the horn and went around; he swung out behind me and followed me up," Carl Wilson told FOX 8.
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Edmonton's mayoral candidate speaks reason!: It's time to revisit smoking ban


CBC News
Thu, 28 Sep 2017 12:04 UTC
Don Koziak
© Rick Bremness/CBCDon Koziak says it's time for Edmonton to revisit the bylaw that prohibits smoking in public places.
Edmonton mayoral candidate Don Koziak says the city should revisit the "failed experiment" to ban smoking inside public spaces.

"I think it's probably a suicidal type of position because everybody wants to be seen as righteous, but I think reasonable voters can see the benefit to a reasonable bylaw that allows for all of the citizens of Edmonton to enjoy what they want to enjoy," Koziak said in an interview Thursday.

"I think that the smoking ban was an experiment, and we've tried it, and there's still people smoking," he added. "And I find it frustrating when I see people outside in the dead of winter, trying to keep warm, because we've decided that we can't accommodate them."
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Attacks continue on churches and mosques while Israel stands by and does nothing

Tamara Nassar
The Electronic Intifada
Fri, 29 Sep 2017 00:00 UTC
Beit Jamal
© UnknownStained glass and a statue of the Virgin Mary were among the items destroyed in the latest attack on St. Stephen's church at Beit Jamal, west of Jerusalem.
Since 2009, at least 53 churches and mosques have been vandalized in present-day Israel and the occupied West Bank. The vast majority of those cases - 45 - have been closed without any charges against perpetrators.

In all, there have been just nine indictments and seven convictions, according to Israeli government data reported by the newspaper Haaretz. Only eight of the cases remain under investigation. They were usually dismissed on the grounds of unknown perpetrators.

A lawmaker raised the matter in Israel's parliament, the Knesset, at the request of Tag Meir, an organization that monitors racially motivated crimes. According to Haaretz, public security minister Gilad Erdan wrote to the lawmaker that the attacks "were perpetrated from various motives, ranging from negligence through mental illness and, in extreme cases, incidents of arson that appear deliberate."

The newspaper noted that Erdan's assertion "seems to contradict the fact that most of the cases were closed on the grounds of 'perpetrator unknown.'" Moreover, according to Haaretz, all the cases involved arson.

Comment: This is Israel. Come to expect it. Remember: To object is anti-semitic.

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Why is the U.S. economy failing so miserably?

Paul Craig Roberts
Paul Criag Roberts
Fri, 29 Sep 2017 00:00 UTC
US economy
Do the Wall Street Journal's editorial page editors read their own newspaper?

The frontpage headline story for the Labor Day weekend was "Low Wage Growth Challenges Fed." Despite an alleged 4.4% unemployment rate, which is full employment, there is no real growth in wages. The front page story pointed out correctly that an economy alleged to be expanding at full employment, but absent any wage growth or inflation, is "a puzzle that complicates Federal Reserve policy decisions."

On the editorial page itself, under "letters to the editor," Professor Tony Lima of California State University points out what I have stressed for years: "The labor-force participation rate remains at historic lows. Much of the decrease is in the 18-34 age group, while participation rates have increased for those 55 and older." Professor Lima points out that more evidence that the American worker is not in good shape comes from the rising number of Americans who can only find part-time work, which leaves them with truncated incomes and no fringe benefits, such as health care.
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Hollywood actress Maggie Gyllenhaal normalizes pornography and sex work in Guardian interview

Jane Mulkerrins
The Guardian
Sat, 30 Sep 2017 16:07 UTC
Maggie Gyllenhaal
© Paul Schiraldi/HBOSex and the city ... Maggie Gyllenhaal as Candy in The Deuce.
Set in the grimy, trash-strewn New York of 1971, The Deuce is named after a notoriously seedy stretch of West 42nd Street that was populated by pimps and prostitutes, and home to live peep shows and porn shops. Written by David Simon, who created The Wire, and his frequent collaborator George Pelecanos, the series charts the rise of the pornography industry in New York City.

Simon has said that the show is about "the commodification of women" and from the female bar staff poured into skimpy leotards by James Franco's bar manager, Vinnie, to the violent control the pimps exert over the prostitutes they run, every woman in the show, and her sexuality, is being packaged and profited from. Maggie Gyllenhaal plays Eileen "Candy" Merrell, a prostitute and single mother who rejects street-walking protocol and refuses to be controlled by a pimp, stating that "nobody makes money off my pussy but me".

Comment: Seems like nowadays, in order to have a show about "the commodification of women", excessive nudity and sex are needed. And sex sells. HBO is cashing in on the sex trade by having a show about the sex trade, all without being "pornographic" itself. How's that for normalizing?

Fifty shades of filth: The glorification and acceptance of pornography reveals society's moral bankruptcy

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