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World gone crazy! Latvian performance artist stages cannibalism - slices flesh from people's bodies, fries it and feeds it to them in live Facebook stream

cannibal performance

Cops in Latvia are now probing barmy Arturs Bērziņš's show after a flurry of complaints from disgusted viewers

This is the horrifying moment a crazed performance artist sliced flesh from the bodies of two assistants before frying it in a pan and FEEDING it to them on a bizarre live Facebook stream.

Cops in Latvia are now probing barmy Arturs Bērziņš's show after a flurry of complaints from disgusted viewers.

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© Arthur Berzinsh : YouTube
Barmy artist Arturs Bērziņš sliced flesh from the backs of his assistants to make a point about human extinction

Comment: What the heck is it with people advocating for the normalization of cannibalism these days!?


Eye 1

Facebook: Time to cut ties with this surveillance system?

The Cambridge Analytica revelations may be the final nudge we need to turn away from the social network. And it's only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to big tech harvesting private information

Facebook
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Facebook has displayed a remarkable lack of contrition in the immediate aftermath of the Cambridge Analytica revelations.

Sorry to break it to you, but you are probably a "dumb fuck". This is according to statements by a young Mark Zuckerberg anyway. Back in 2004, when a 19-year-old Zuckerberg had just started building Facebook, he sent his Harvard friends a series of instant messages in which he marvelled at the fact that 4,000 people had volunteered their personal information to his nascent social network. "People just submitted it ... I don't know why ... They 'trust me' ... dumb fucks."

Fourteen years later, the number of people who have trusted Zuckerberg with their data has grown from 4,000 to 2 billion. Zuckerberg has also grown, or so he would have you believe. In a 2010 interview with the New Yorker, the Facebook founder said he regretted those early messages. "If you're going to go on to build a service that is influential and that a lot of people rely on, then you need to be mature, right? I think I've grown and learned a lot."

When it comes to respecting and safeguarding the information people have given him, however, has Zuckerberg really learned that much? Recent events suggest not.

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Briefcase

Fired Atlanta Hawks employee sues team for discrimination against white people

Atlanta Hawks
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Former Atlanta Hawks employee, Margo Kline, has filed a lawsuit against the basketball organization, alleging it cultivates discrimination against white people.

She also claims to have been fired after complaining about discriminative working conditions. Kline lost her job in March 2017 after spending five years with the club as the community development coordinator.

The fired woman said the Hawks External Affairs Director David Lee, who is black, fostered a culture of discrimination against white people, and especially white women.

Piggy Bank

EU set to hit tech giants, such as Facebook and Google, with new taxes

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The EU is cracking down on US tech giants
US tech giants such as Google, Facebook and Amazon are set to be hit with new taxes as part of a crackdown by the European Commission.

Under proposals tabled on Wednesday, which aim to ensure digital firms are taxed in a "fair and growth-friendly way", the Commission plans to impose a 3 per cent levy on revenues of the biggest players.

The tax would apply to sales from digital activities that "escape the current tax framework", and will affect companies with total annual worldwide revenues of at least €750m (£658m) and EU revenues of a minimum €50m.

Stop

WhatsApp founder tells followers it's time to "Delete Facebook"

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The knives are out.

Silicon Valley tech billionaires smell blood in the water. Are we seeing the beginning of the end for the giant spy social network Facebook?

WhatsApp co-founder, Brian Acton referenced the viral movement urging everyone to delete their Facebook account, "in the wake of recent revelations that the personal data of 50 million Facebook users was used without their permission by political data company Cambridge Analytica during the 2016 presidential campaign."

Zerohedge notes that we may be witnessing Facebook's MySpace moment...

Mr. Potato

Too much Deep State Kool-Aid? Fox News analyst quits, says network 'advances Putin's agenda'

Ralph Peters
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Ralph Peters is a longtime Fox News analyst.
A longtime Fox News contributor said Tuesday he's leaving the network, and blasted it for becoming a "propaganda machine."

Ralph Peters, a strategic analyst for Fox News and a retired lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army, issued a scathing email to colleagues that was sharply critical of the network's rhetoric and support for President Donald Trump.

"Fox has degenerated from providing a legitimate and much-needed outlet for conservative voices to a mere propaganda machine for a destructive and ethically ruinous administration."

"Today, I feel that Fox News is assaulting our constitutional order and the rule of law, while fostering corrosive and unjustified paranoia among viewers," he said in the email, which was obtained by Buzzfeed. "Over my decade with Fox, I long was proud of the association. Now I am ashamed."

Bulb

Ex-Obama aide AND ex-Clinton aide both say Hillary should 'go away, take a very long vacation'

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A former spokeswoman at the State Department is the latest to weigh in on Hillary Clinton's comments disparaging Americans who voted for Donald Trump, and she offers a simple message: "go away."

Marie Harf, former spokeswoman for the Obama State Department, appeared on Fox News Sunday to discuss Clinton's recent comments in India while promoting her book What Happened, a tome dedicated to blaming her humiliating 2016 election loss on others.

Reliving the election, Clinton told India Today she "won the places that are optimistic, diverse, dynamic, moving forward. And his whole campaign - 'Make America Great Again' - was looking backwards."

"You know, you didn't like black people getting rights. You don't like women getting jobs. You don't want to see that Indian-American succeeding more than you are," Clinton said, mocking Trump's campaign and its supporters. "Whatever your problem is, I'm going to solve it."

Comment: Fat chance Killary will listen.


Sherlock

Former professor recounts how she escaped political correctness with the help of evolutionary psychology

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A professor emerita at California State University-East Bay has written a book about how she "escaped" political correctness with the help of evolutionary psychology.

How I Escaped Political Correctness and You Can Too was just published by Dr. Loretta Breuning,who was a professor of Management for over 20 years at California State before she left academia to launch her own think-tank, The Inner Mammalian Institute.

Through the Institute, Breuning spreads awareness of how people can "build power over their mammalian brain" to become happier and healthier-and she contends her new book is an extension of her thinking on that subject.

Eiffel Tower

France moving forward with on-the-spot fines of €90-750 for "sexual harassment" in public

Marlène Schiappa
© Laurent Cipriani/AP
Marlène Schiappa, the minister for gender equality, has said French laws must state that it is forbidden to threaten, intimidate or follow women in the street.
France is to introduce on-the-spot fines for sexual harassment in public places and lengthen the time-limit for filing rape complaints as part of new legislation against sexual violence.

The French president, Emmanuel Macron, has said the aim is to ensure "women are not afraid to be outside".


Comment: Well, now the opposite will be the case. Which is partly the point.


The legislation, which will be presented at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday and go to parliament in the coming months, was prepared before the sexual harassment allegations against the Hollywood film producer Harvey Weinstein and the #MeToo movement, but it has gained prominence since.

The law will also set a new legal age of consent - 15 - at which a minor is considered able to agree to a sexual relationship with an adult aged over 18. This move follows outrage over a case in which a rape charge was dropped when a court decided an 11-year-old girl had consented to sex with a man more than twice her age.

Comment: More from RT:
"There is some reluctance, some say we will kill the culture of the 'French lover'... if we punish street harassment," Schiappa told Reuters. "But it's the opposite. We want to preserve seduction, chivalry and 'l'amour à la française' by saying what is key is consent. Between consenting adults everything is allowed; we can seduce, talk, but if someone says 'no', it's 'no' and it's final."
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Pirates

The Iraq War: 15 years of American chaos and bloodshed

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On March 19, 2003, US President George Bush ordered the invasion of Iraq. It's a decision which brought an onslaught of violence to the civilian population and has left the nation reeling 15 years later.

Bush declared the military invasion to depose Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and disarm the country, promising civilians that freedom was in sight. "The tyrant will soon be gone. The day of liberation is near," he said.

While the 2003 invasion officially ended on May 1, with a declaration from Bush in front of an infamous 'Mission accomplished' banner, what ensued was 15 years of American troops on the ground and hundreds of thousands of deaths.

The US-led invasion resulted in the killing of more than 115,000 civilians, according to Iraq Body Count. However other sources, taking into account indirect deaths linked to the invasion, put this figure at 500,000.