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Switzerland: Imam charged for telling worshipers to 'kill Muslims who did not pray'


RT
Sat, 12 Aug 2017 00:16 UTC
praying muslim
© Daily Mail
An Ethiopian imam who allegedly publicly called for the killing of non-practising Muslims has been charged by Swiss prosecutors. The Winterthur public prosecutor's office said in a statement Friday that the imam was charged on August 2 with inciting violence and other offenses.

The religious leader is accused of invoking the murder of Muslims who refuse to participate in the common prayers during a sermon at An'Nur Mosque, Winterthur on October 21, 2016. He allegedly called for the expulsions of such non-practising Muslims, adding if they still refuse to pray they should be burned and killed in their homes.

The imam, who has not been named, also stands accused of sharing brutal depictions of killings via Facebook and of violating the Aliens Act by working without a permit.

He has been held in investigative custody since November when police raided the mosque after receiving evidence about the sermon.

The prosecutor's office initiated criminal proceedings against four people, including the Ethiopian imam. The mosque has been at the centre of a number of police operations over its alleged support for radical Islam. It closed at the end of June after the landlord refused to extend the rental contract.

Prosecutors are seeking an 18-month suspended sentence and expulsion from Switzerland for 15 years for the cleric.

Comment: Justice and beliefs...sometimes an unholy mix.

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Men and women differ: Straight talk about occupational choices and work-family tradeoffs

David C. Geary
Institute For Family Studies
Sat, 12 Aug 2017 19:47 UTC
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Institute For Family Studies Editor's Note: This is the third of three posts in a roundtable on men and women at work the Institute for Family Studies is hosting this week.*

The recent firestorm ignited by James Damore's "Google's Ideological Echo Chamber" reflects a closed-minded and knee-jerk hostility to issues that need to be discussed in an open and dispassionate manner. The strongest vitriol seems to be directed at any suggestion that women and men may differ in fundamental, biologically-based ways and that any such differences might contribute to the sex disparity in certain occupations and in work-family tradeoffs, among other issues. These are certainly hot button topics, but public censorship of their discussion only ensures that nothing will change. I cannot comment on all of the points raised in Damore's treatise, but I will make a few points about sex differences in occupational choices and work-family balance in the sections below.

Interests and Occupational Choices

Sex differences in occupational interests have been known for decades, and a recent aggregate analysis of the interests of more than 500,000 people shows that some of these differences are quite large.1 The most relevant finding here is that about 15% of women have the same level of interest in engineering as the average man; 50% of men, by definition, would have stronger interests in engineering than the average man. Now, today's math-intensive engineering does not have a direct evolutionary basis to it,2 but today's occupational interests are likely influenced by more basic interests that have an evolutionary foundation.

Comment: Sexual neuroscience PhD: Google memo engineer is right, sex differences are real

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Trio who turned underground nuclear bunker into £2mn a year cannabis factory jailed


RT
Sat, 12 Aug 2017 17:31 UTC
Bunker
© Clodagh Kilcoyne / Reuters
Three men who turned a former MoD underground nuclear bunker into a factory capable of producing £2 million worth of cannabis a year were jailed for up to eight years on Friday.

The trio were caught leaving the disused bunker in the tiny town of Chilmark, in the South East of England in February.

Constructed in the 1980s, the bunker was designed to shelter a local government in the event of nuclear holocaust. And though it is no longer owned by the Ministry of Defence, the bunker is still fully functional and, according to police, "almost completely impenetrable."

So secure was the bunker that police, acting on intelligence, had to wait for the three men to exit before they could swoop in, take the keys and gain access.
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Southern nationalists reignite the cry for secession

Jay Reeves
WBRC
Fri, 11 Aug 2017 17:19 UTC
League of the South flag
League of the South flag
As 21st century activists seek to topple monuments to the 19th century Confederate rebellion, some white Southerners are again advocating for what the Confederates tried and failed to do: secede from the Union.

It's not an easy argument to win, and it's not clear how much support the idea has: The leading Southern nationalist group, the Alabama-based League of the South, has been making the same claim for more than two decades and still has an address in the U.S.A., not the C.S.A.

But the idea of a break-away Southern nation persists.

The League of the South's longtime president, retired university professor Michael Hill of Killen, Alabama, posted a message in July that began, "Fight or die white man" and went on to say Southern nationalists seek "nothing less than the complete reconquest and restoration of our patrimony - the whole, entire South."

"And that means the South will once again be in name and in actuality White Man's Land. A place where we and our progeny can enjoy Christian liberty and the fruits of our own labor, unhindered by parasitical 'out groups,'" said Hill's message, posted on the group's Facebook page a day after a rally in support of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Virginia.

The group's website says it is "waging a war to win the minds and hearts of the Southern people,"
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Teachers drag 7 yo autistic boy by the legs through school


RT
Sat, 12 Aug 2017 16:24 UTC
7 yo autistic boy
© Bonnie Kemle McKean / Facebook
Two teachers are facing disciplinary action after they were caught dragging a seven-year-old autistic boy by the legs in school surveillance footage.

Corbin Kemle was reportedly misbehaving on the playground before the incident occurred at Crestline Elementary School in Ohio in May.

His mother, Bonnie McKean, released footage of the incident on Thursday, after the county prosecutor decided against pursuing felony charges on Wednesday.

McKean said she was "speechless" after watching the video of her son being dragged through the school.

Comment: See also: 10 y.o. autistic boy arrested and locked in a psych ward for 3 days after kicking a teacher - UPDATE



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James Damore: Google is 'almost like a cult'

John Shinal
CNBC
Fri, 11 Aug 2017 17:12 UTC
James Damore
James Damore
The Google engineer fired for writing a controversial memo about diversity has gone beyond referring to the company as an "echo chamber" that won't stand for dissent and now says it's "almost like a cult."

In an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal, James Damore gave his explanation for why he was fired, taking a shot at the company's culture and its famous motto.

"For many, including myself," he wrote, "working at Google is a major part of their identity, almost like a cult with its own leaders and saints, all believed to righteously uphold the sacred motto of 'Don't be evil.'"

Damore was fired at the start of this week after 3 1/2 years as an engineer for a post he wrote, laying out his view that men are biologically more well-suited than women for many tech jobs.

He's not apologizing.

Comment: Google employees confess all the things they hated most about working at Google

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College student threatened by USC because she wouldn't say her bf beat her

Kayla Schierbecker
The College Fix
Tue, 01 Aug 2017 16:43 UTC
Zoe Katz
© Trojan Candy
A former football player was "railroaded" by a "rogue" Title IX office at the University of Southern California, according to a surprising source - his alleged "victim."

Zoe Katz, the captain of USC's women's tennis team, is accusing the university of not only ignoring her protestations that her boyfriend Matt Boermeester didn't assault her, but threatening her for speaking up.

Boermeester, a redshirt junior kicker, was suspended from USC in February after a neighbor saw the football player allegedly assault Katz a month earlier. That claim was repeated to a coach and then to the university Title IX office, according to the Los Angeles Times.

The following "six-month" Title IX inquiry took the form of "repeated interrogations" plagued by "agendas, intimidation and falsehoods," Katz wrote in a two-page statement dated Sunday given to The College Fix from her attorney.
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Transgender kids' summer camp hosts children as young as 4yo


RT
Sat, 12 Aug 2017 11:52 UTC
Bay Area Rainbow Day Camp
© Bay Area Rainbow Day Camp / Facebook
The owner of a summer camp in California that caters to transgender and "gender fluid" children, ages 4 to 12, says she wants to help children feel comfortable with who they are. Critics argue that the camp will only confuse young children.

The Bay Area Rainbow Day Camp in El Cerrito, California, focuses on providing kids with "a safe space for the exploration of gender identity and expression."

Comment: Also see:
I'm a pediatrician. How transgender ideology has infiltrated my field and produced large-scale child abuse

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Fleet of deepwater drones offer hunt for long-missing Malaysia Airlines jet, MH370


RT
Fri, 11 Aug 2017 21:50 UTC
Deepwater drones
© Peter D. Blair / ReutersUS Navy's Bluefin-21 autonomous underwater vehicle.
An American company has offered its fleet of underwater drones to the Malaysia government in the search for the Malaysia Airlines jet, MH370. The jet went missing near Australia three years ago with 239 people on board.

Ocean Infinity's six autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV), or drones, are capable of operating at 6,000 meters under water to collect high resolution data. The company advertises them as offering "seabed intelligence," and equipped with sonar equipment and capable of search "huge swathes of the seabed, quickly and with outstanding accuracy."

"The terms of the offer are confidential, but I can ... confirm that Ocean Infinity have offered to take on the economic risk of a renewed search,"the company said in an email to AP.

"We're in a constructive dialogue with the relevant authorities and are hopeful that the offer will be accepted," it added.

Comment: See also: Was Malaysian Flight 17 shot down by a jet fighter? A German expert thinks so

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Firing of diversity memo author prompt anti-Google street art to pop up near Google offices


RT
Sat, 12 Aug 2017 15:18 UTC
damore anti google poster
© James Hoft / YouTube
Spoof ads are appearing all around Google offices in California after the tech giant fired an engineer over a politically incorrect internal memo. A free speech protest has also been organized against Google over the controversy.

On Friday, a street artist who goes by the name Sabo took credit for plastering anti-Google fake ads just outside Google offices in Santa Monica and Venice, California.

In one of the ads, the classic Apple slogan, "Think different," is printed next to an image of Apple CEO Steve Jobs, while the words "not so much" are printed next to an image of Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Another ad features Google's iconic styling with the word "Goolag," a reference to Soviet labor camps, known as Gulags.
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