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Scandal erupts at University of Pennsylvania over the promotion of 'bourgeois' behavior

Heather Mac Donald
National Review
Tue, 29 Aug 2017 10:31 UTC
professor Amy Wax
Professor Amy Wax
Two law professors face racism, sexism, and homophobia charges for urging Americans to act responsibly.

Were you planning to instruct your child about the value of hard work and civility? Not so fast! According to a current uproar at the University of Pennsylvania, advocacy of such bourgeois virtues is "hate speech." The controversy, sparked by an op-ed written by two law professors, illustrates the rapidly shrinking boundaries of acceptable thought on college campuses and the use of racial victimology to police those boundaries.
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FSB detains two planning separate Sept. 1 terror attacks in Moscow


RFE/RL
Thu, 31 Aug 2017 21:14 UTC
fsb terror suspect
© TASSAn FSB video carried by state-run Russian media showed a man saying that he planned to "commit jihad" and carry out a bomb attack "on the orders of Islamic State."
The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) says it has detained two people who were planning to carry out terror attacks in Moscow on September 1, the first day of school.

In a statement on August 31, the FSB said that a powerful homemade bomb was found in the home of one of the suspects and claimed that he acknowledged he was planning a suicide attack.

It said the other suspect had posted a video on the Internet in which he swore allegiance to the extremist group Islamic State (IS) and said he was planning to attack civilians with a bladed weapon.

An FSB video carried by state-run Russian media showed a man saying that he planned to "commit jihad" and carry out a bomb attack "on the orders of Islamic State." It also showed an ax it said the other suspect was planning to use.
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RT editor-in-chief asks Reporters Without Borders to clarify who 'enemies of journalism' are


RT
Thu, 31 Aug 2017 20:58 UTC
RT news room
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RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan has requested that the secretary general of Reporters Without Borders, Christophe Deloire, clarify remarks he made to French media in which he mentioned "enemies of journalism" when talking about the Moscow-based news outlet.

"We would like to kindly request that the Secretary General of Reporters Without Borders, Christophe Deloire, clarifies his position, and shares just whom specifically he considers to be an enemy of journalism within RT," Simonyan wrote in an open letter Thursday.

"If, as he says, he doesn't believe that the entirety of the RT team are enemies of journalism, it would be helpful to know whom he is talking about."

Deloire made the controversial comments earlier this month in an interview with the French weekly cultural and TV magazine Telerama.

Comment: Reporters Without Borders must be looking into a mirror when spouting this nonsense:

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SBU finds 800 groups critical of regime on Ukraine-banned sites VKontakte and Odnoklassniki

GolosPravdu, translated by Tom Winter
Fort Russ News
Thu, 31 Aug 2017 20:41 UTC
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The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has published a report on the results of its monitoring of the social networks VKontakte and Odnoklassniki. As it turned out, Ukrainians criticized the authorities in 800 groups.

This was told by the head of the department Vasily Gritsak, journalists of the Ukrainian opposition newspaper Golos Pravdiy write.

Moreover, in the opinion of the SBU, groups criticizing the authorities are "anti-Ukrainian."

"In fact, there are a lot of such groups. We counted about 800 anti-Ukrainian groups in these networks," the statement said.
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Teen claims juvenile detention center used the inmates as 'sex slaves'

Kaja Whitehouse
New York Post
Thu, 31 Aug 2017 19:09 UTC
Horizon Juvenile Center
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An 18-year-old Bronx resident claims in a new lawsuit that workers at a juvenile detention center have been using their teen jailbirds as "sex slaves."

Franklin Maldonado, who turns 19 in a few weeks, said he was placed at the Horizon Juvenile Center in the Bronx in 2013 and 2014, when he was just 15 years old.

Instead of protecting him, supervisor Natalie Medford told Maldonado that if he "took care of her needs," she would protect him from disciplinary action and give him special privileges such as use of her cellphone and the ability to watch "special" movies, according to a Manhattan federal lawsuit.
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Hero saves 50 people from floods in Port Arthur, Texas after official rescuers failed to arrive

Emma Parry
The Sun
Thu, 31 Aug 2017 11:40 UTC
Gaelon Phillips rescuer Hurrican Harvey
Gaelon Phillips took matters in his own hands after waiting hours for official rescuers to show when his Texas home town of Port Arthur in Hurricane Harvey aftermath
A man has been hailed a hero after rescuing 50 people from homes deluged by Hurricane Harvey floods in Texas after official rescues failed to show up.

Gaelon Phillips, 23, waited for around seven to eight hours in his hometown of Port Arthur for a rescue helicopter to show up - before being told they couldn't take his family because they were so busy.

The artist and music producer, whose Facebook page was filling up with messages from friends and neighbours begging to be rescued, then decided to take matters into his own hands.

Gaelon's uncle and a friend came round with a boat and together they worked tirelessly all Wednesday to rescue 50 stricken people - including newborn babies, elderly people and the sick - and get them to dry land.
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Explosion, massive fire rocks downtown Houston building


ABC13
Mon, 28 Aug 2017 11:49 UTC
Fire in downtown Houston
We're following breaking news in downtown Houston, where an explosion has rocked a building on Fannin Street.

Eyewitness video from Eliud Balderas shows a raging fire shooting from the windows of the Lone Star Legal Aid offices.


There is no word yet on how the fire began.

A thick cloud of smoke can be seen rising in downtown at the site of the fire.
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'We only kill black people': Cop's attempt to reassure female driver lands him in hot water


RT
Thu, 31 Aug 2017 18:23 UTC
Police officer cop only kill black people
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A police lieutenant in the state of Georgia is in hot water after telling a female driver, who was reluctant to move her hands out of fear of being shot during a routine traffic stop, "remember, we only kill black people."

Dash cam footage, obtained by Channel 2 Action News, shows a woman being pulled over by Officer Greg Abbott in Cobb County in July 2016. When Abbot tells the female driver to grab her cell phone, the woman responds that she is afraid to move her hands after seeing "way too many videos of cops."

To ease her fears, Abbott tells the woman, "but you're not black. Remember, we only shoot black people. We only kill black people, right? All the videos you've seen, have you seen the black people get killed?"

Abbot has been meanwhile moved to administrative duty pending the outcome of an investigation. Cobb County Police Chief Mike Register told Channel 2 Action News that the officer's remarks were totally inappropriate.
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A thousand 'treason' complaints against Merkel since 2015


France 24
Wed, 30 Aug 2017 22:04 UTC
Germans red cards
© AFPFar right opponents of Angela Merkel booed and some brandished the red card as she campaigned in eastern Germany.
More than 1,000 criminal complaints for high treason have been filed against German Chancellor Angela Merkel since the height of the refugee crisis in 2015, local media reported Wednesday.

Most of the complaints come from supporters of the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany party, which is poised to win seats in the federal parliament for the first time in next month's general election, the daily Mannheimer Morgen newspaper said. "The complaints against the chancellor have all been determined to be baseless," a spokeswoman for the federal prosecutor's office, Frauke Koehler, told the paper.

Comment: As with most deep state picks and deals with the devil, Merkel will survive.

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Police officer injured in 'completely unprovoked' knife attack in Stockholm


RT
Thu, 31 Aug 2017 17:40 UTC
Stockholm knife attack
© Aftonbladet / Global Look PressStockholm, Sweden, 31 Aug 2017.
A police officer has been injured in a reported knife attack in central Stockholm. Police have detained the suspected assailant and said the attack was "completely" unprovoked.

The reported stabbing took place at around 10:40am local time on Thursday at Björns Trädgård park, just across the road from one of the largest squares in the Swedish capital, according to local media reports.

A police officer received "non-life threatening injuries" after reportedly being stabbed in the neck with a knife, according to national broadcaster SVT.

"As it seems right now, it was completely unprovoked,"said Stockholm police spokesman Lars Byström.

Officers arrested one man in connection with the attack and launched a preliminary investigation on the basis of attempted murder.
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