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Christian group DJKM sues SPLC and Amazon over 'hate group' label

Tyler O'Neil
PJ Media
Wed, 23 Aug 2017 15:34 UTC
Southern Poverty Law Center Hate Map
© Southern Poverty Law CenterSouthern Poverty Law Center Hate Map
On Tuesday, D. James Kennedy Ministries (DJKM) filed a lawsuit against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the charity navigation organization GuideStar, and Amazon for defamation, religious discrimination, and trafficking in falsehood. The SPLC listed DJKM as a "hate group," while GuideStar also categorized it in those terms, and Amazon kept the ministry off of its charity donation program, Amazon Smile.

"We embarked today on a journey to right a terrible wrong," Dr. Frank Wright, president and CEO at DJKM, said in a statement Tuesday. "Those who knowingly label Christian ministries as 'hate' groups, solely for subscribing to the historic Christian faith, are either woefully uninformed or willfully deceitful. In the case of the Southern Poverty Law Center, our lawsuit alleges the latter."

The SPLC has labeled DJKM an "anti-LGBT hate group" for its opposition to same-sex marriage and transgenderism. "These false and illegal characterizations have a chilling effect on the free exercise of religion and on religious free speech for all people of faith," Wright declared.

"After having given the SPLC an opportunity to retract, we have undertaken this legal action, seeking a trial by a jury of our peers, to preserve our own rights under the law and to defend the religious free speech rights of all Americans," the DJKM president concluded.

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Two law professors praise America's 1950s 'Bourgeois Culture', condemned as racists

Rachel Frommer
The Washington Free Beacon
Sun, 27 Aug 2017 22:55 UTC
UPenn Quad
© Wikimedia Commons
Two law professors have been condemned by University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) students, alumni, and faculty as bigots engaging in "racist and white supremacist discourse," after they wrote a nostalgic op-ed praising America's 1950s "bourgeois culture."

UPenn Professor Amy Wax and University of San Diego's Lawrence Alexander were slammed by a group of 54 UPenn doctoral students and alumni as "promoting hate and bigotry under the guise of 'intellectual debate'" in their piece titled, Paying the price for breakdown of the country's bourgeois culture, published earlier this month by the Philadelphia Inquirer.

In it, they argued the "[1950s] culture laid out the script we all were supposed to follow: Get married before you have children and strive to stay married for their sake. Get the education you need for gainful employment, work hard, and avoid idleness. Go the extra mile for your employer or client. Be a patriot, ready to serve the country. Be neighborly, civic-minded, and charitable. Avoid coarse language in public. Be respectful of authority. Eschew substance abuse and crime."

Comment: America is reaching the point of no return for academics who have instantaneously become victims in and of a rapidly changing paradigm where documented history, observations of cultures past and related commentary have become irrational targets for self-appointed guardians of society, silencers of free speech, monitors of free thought.

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Pakistani school concert drops John Lennon's 'Imagine' over blasphemy law fears


RT
Sun, 27 Aug 2017 20:39 UTC
John Lennon
© Global Look PressJohn Lennon
A private school in Karachi has dropped John Lennon's classic "Imagine" from a student concert following complaints about the song's "atheist lyrics."

Students at Karachi Grammar School were due to sing the Beatle singer's 1971 solo hit at an annual event in a tradition stretching back decades. However, school administrators were forced into a late change over fears they could be liable for prosecution under Pakistan's blasphemy laws.

Newspaper columnist Ansar Abbasi highlighted the song's lyrics in a tweet Wednesday, sparking a widespread debate over whether the "controversial" lyrics were appropriate for a school event.

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Changing priorities: Young Israelis are abandoning lucrative technology careers for simpler lifestyles


Phys.org
Sun, 27 Aug 2017 00:00 UTC
dotan goshen farmer
© AFP Photo/JACK GUEZDotan Goshen quit a job as a high-powered tech executive to set up a farm
Former technology executive Dotan Goshen carefully arranges some melons at the bottom of a crate, followed by courgettes, tomatoes and lettuce.

With a smile of satisfaction, he contemplates his "organic basket" ready to be delivered to a customer.

Goshen, a graduate of Israel's prestigious Technion technological institute, made a dramatic change of course after his boss called him at home one evening and berated him for not devoting himself sufficiently to his work-even though he was putting in at least 50 hours a week.

The following day, the 37-year-old father of three handed in his resignation and set out to realise his dream of producing organic fruit and vegetables.

He is one of a growing number of Israelis who entered the flourishing high-tech industry at a young age before abandoning high-flying jobs and good salaries for a lifestyle more suited to their ideals.

The phenomenon is not uniquely Israeli.
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Met police advise: 100MPs could lose lives in potential Westminster terror attack


RT
Sun, 27 Aug 2017 16:48 UTC
Westminster
© Clodagh Kilcoyne / Reuters
London Metropolitan Police could soon introduce extra security measures at the Palace of Westminster after a night-time terror attack simulation revealed serious flaws in the protection of the UK's parliament building.

The mock terror attack, conducted last month while the country's MPs were in recess, saw costumed police use a boat to cross the Thames and access the building via a terrace. They then worked their way through the corridors and into the Commons chamber. The operation took around five minutes to complete.

Police sources told the Sunday Telegraph that a similar real-life event would end with the slaughter of more than 100 MPs.
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Attention

RT on the scene in Tal Afar: Devastation, countless booby-traps and mines


RT
Mon, 28 Aug 2017 16:39 UTC
tal afar
Booby-traps and mines left behind by Islamic State in emptied houses, destruction and almost no civilians - this is the reality in a town of Tal Afar liberated with great fanfare by US-backed Iraqi forces. RT's crew has filmed the gruesome remnants of war.

US-backed Iraqi troops entered the strategic town of Tal Afar earlier this week, but there is still long way to go until life returns to normal. RT correspondent Murad Gazdiev has seen the neighborhoods of the town literally paved with explosive devices.

"A day after the victory was announced in Tal Afar, fighting still hasn't died down," Gazdiev reported, standing in front of improvised graffiti that read in Arabic: "Islamic State [IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL] will remain."

While forced to retreat from most of Tal Afar's neighborhoods, the jihadists are still hiding in basements, buildings and underground tunnels in order to ambush Iraqi forces. Occasional skirmishes still take place between the Iraqis and Islamists, but the greatest dangers are hidden inside the buildings.

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Anarchists and antifa violently overwhelm right-wing demonstrators in Berkeley, police outnumbered and mostly passive

Lizzie Johnson, Erin Allday, Michael Cabanatuan & Nanette Asimov
SF Gate
Sun, 27 Aug 2017 20:49 UTC
masked anarchists
An army of anarchists in black clothing and masks routed a small group of right-wing demonstrators who had gathered in a Berkeley park Sunday to rail against the city's famed progressive politics, driving them out - sometimes violently - while overwhelming a huge contingent of police officers.

Hundreds of officers tried to maintain calm in and around Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park before the 1 p.m. "No to Marxism in Berkeley" rally, putting up barricades, searching bags and confiscating sticks, masks, pepper spray and even water bottles. The goal was to head off the type of clashes that sprang from similar rallies in the city earlier this year.

But once again, counterdemonstrators frustrated efforts by police, who numbered about 400. As the crowd swelled to several times that size, officers stepped aside and allowed hundreds of people angered by the presence of the right-wing rally to climb over the barriers into the park, said Officer Jennifer Coats, a spokeswoman for Berkeley police.

The masked counterprotesters, often referred to as antifa or antifascists, significantly outnumbered the people who had come for the rally, many of whom wore red clothing indicating support for President Trump. The anarchists chased away the right-wingers, and in one case four or five pummeled a man with fists and sticks before a radio host for Reveal, Al Letson, jumped in to shield the victim. Anarchists also attacked reporters who documented their actions.

Comment: See: Violent "Color Revolution" in America? Attempted overthrow of Trump threatens to shred fabric of American society

When the angry masses - many of which include the silent majority of relatively conservative individuals - finally get awakened to just how egregious the acts of antifa and others are, we are likely to see something like this...



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Notorious Israeli Jewish supremacist rabbi preaches rape

Yossi Gurvitz
Mondoweiss
Mon, 28 Aug 2017 16:09 UTC
Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu
Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu of Safed, notorious for incitement against Palestinians.
Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu is the Rabbi of the town of Safed, and is one of the most notoriously racist rabbis in Israel. Prosecutors twice considered indicting him for breaking the law against incitement, and twice backed down. He has publicly said he will not condemn "price tag" attacks (by settlers on Palestinians), saying "if the government won't act, then the public should" (Hebrew). His most notorious act was signing a petition demanding no Jew rent or sell apartments to a non-Jew in his town of Safed; 300 rabbis joined the call. While the act was openly racist, and illegal, the Israel law against incitement to racism specifically excludes "religious debate" from the law; thus the case against Eliyahu was closed (Hebrew). Eliyahu's ongoing racism, however, is likely to have cost him the 2013 election of the office of Chief Sephardic Rabbi, though he came relatively close (he got 49 votes, the winner got 68). Eliyahu, a member of the Chief Rabbinate Council, also failed to get elected in 2014 as rabbi of Jerusalem; at the time he was reputed to be the candidate of the Jewish Home (Hebrew).

An Israel blogger, Ruhama Weiss, exposed yesterday (Sunday) an old ruling (from 2002) of Eliyahu regarding the thorny issue of rape during war, the mizvah of the Comely Woman. Those who read Hebrew can read the original here. Below is a translation of Eliyahu's reply. Be advised: the text is rather brutal and I endeavored to keep the translation as close as possible to the original.

Comment: Consider the fact that rabbis like this are not marginal, like their "KKK/white supremacist" cousins are in the United States. Unfortunately for Jews who listen to the mind-garbage of this esteemed rabbi, he's a total idiot. His "preaching" amounts to an extended session of applying makeup to a pig. Slavery (but see how moral our slavery is!), rape (but see how such rapes preserve the Jewish people!), murder (better them than us!): anything goes when you're defending God's chosen people, apparently. It's really ironic that rabbis like him don't get along better with jihadist imams - they share so much in common!

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Border Patrol agents discover hidden smuggling tunnel near US-Mexico border after 30 people detained

David Caplan
ABC News
Sun, 27 Aug 2017 07:41 UTC
smuggling tunnel US Mexico border San Diego
This tunnel, with a ladder inside, was found by U.S. Customs and Border Protection on August 26, 2017, near the Mexico border near San Diego. CBP said it was used to smuggle people into the country illegally.
U.S. Border Patrol agents discovered on Saturday morning a tunnel near the Mexican border near San Diego that was used to smuggle people into the country, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said.

The discovery was made after CBP agents arrested 30 people who were in the U.S. illegally near the Otay Mesa port of entry.

"At around 1:12 a.m., Border Patrol agents encountered several people who had apparently just been smuggled into the U.S.," CBP said in a statement. "Agents searched the area and discovered a crude opening in the ground with a ladder inside and determined that is was a smuggling tunnel. The tunnel's exit is located just north of the secondary fence in the vicinity of the Otay Mesa port of entry."
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Expecting praise, professor's attempt to expose her students to 'their own white ignorance', leads to criticism


WND
Mon, 28 Aug 2017 15:19 UTC
university of iowa
University of Iowa
An assistant professor at the University of Iowa who pledged to expose her students to "their own white ignorance" in a "peer-reviewed academic journal" was stunned and appalled that she was, well, criticized for it.

Jodi Linley, a white education instructor, wrote that her goal was to make her "mostly white" graduate students keenly aware of their "white privilege" and use her classroom to "deconstruct whiteness." If she did otherwise, she explained, it would make her "complicit" in perpetrating white supremacy.

"For white students," she wrote, "talking about race with an all-white group of peers ... [reveals] their own white ignorance."

Linley said her commitment to designing classes that fight white privilege began as soon as she became a professor in 2014, at which point she resolved to "develop courses that both unveiled and rejected" the notion that "neutrality and objectivity are realistic and attainable."

"As a white assistant professor of mostly white graduate students who will become higher education leaders, I work to dismantle whiteness in my curriculum, assignments and pedagogy," Linley explained, noting that in addition to her "white identity," she also draws on her "identities as a queer, able-bodied, cisgender woman" with a working-class background to construct her "teaching paradigm."

Comment: White shaming appears to be all the rage now.

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