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Society gone to hell: Porn star renounces her children to set up a satanic cult

RT
Fri, 25 Jan 2019 19:42 UTC

An Argentinian porn star and self-professed 'Goddess of Death', who claims to have a personal relationship with the Devil, has renounced her children and set up her own satanic cult.

Sabrina Sabrok, 42, said she created the 'Legion Sabrok' cult to teach others how to cast spells, communicate with the dead and make pacts with the Devil.

"I decided to do this cult so that interested people feel identified, people who really want to change their lives, and to think differently and not in the way that society dictates," the Playboy model explained to Mexican publication Infobae.

The cult's website offers advice on covenants with the Devil, black magic spells and even matchmaking for those seeking a mate who shares their interest in the occult.

Comment: Yet another showcase of the current cultural collapse.

'Capitalism is not immoral - it's amoral, ' Bono tells Davos audience

Joe Brennan
Irish Times
Wed, 23 Jan 2019 19:48 UTC

U2 frontman and social activist Bono endeared himself to an audience of global business leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday when he said that capitalism is "not immoral" as he called on them to join the fight against extreme poverty in Africa and Aids.

"Capitalism is not immoral - it's amoral. It requires our instruction," Bono said on a Davos panel discussing how to fill a multitrillion-dollar financing gap in the achievement of a UN goal to end poverty globally by 2030. "Capitalism has taken more people out of poverty than any other 'ism'. But it is a wild beast that, if not tamed, can chew up a lot of people along the way."

Bono, co-founder of One, a global campaign and advocacy organisation with more than 10 million members seeking to end extreme poverty, said that the negative forces of unfettered capitalism have driven an international move towards populism.

The singer said public-sector spending - as the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria, for example, is currently seeking to raise $14 billion to save an estimated 16 million lives - is the most vulnerable as governments in developed states in Europe grapple with domestic problems such as homelessness.

However, he said, "If Africa fails, Europe cannot succeed."

HALF of Facebook accounts are fake, says Zuckerberg's Harvard classmate

RT
Fri, 25 Jan 2019 17:01 UTC

As many as half of Facebook's two billion accounts are fake or duplicates, according to a new report from a former classmate of CEO Mark Zuckerberg. He has highlighted how the fakes defraud users, advertisers and investors alike.

Rocked by a major privacy scandal last year, Facebook has been trying to create an image of a company with high community standards, striving to curb the illicit behavior of users. But the company may be deliberately understating the amount of fake accounts, a new report says.

The firm's own quarterly investment reports reveal that the its much-vaunted account base, which is supposedly has over 2 billion monthly active users, is packed with fake accounts communicating with just enough randomness to trick the social network's algorithms, according to Zuckerberg's former classmate at Harvard, Aaron Greenspan.

Greenspan claimed that he had originally come up with the idea for Facebook and worked on the future network, before Zuckerberg eventually founded the company. That claim was the basis of the trademark dispute between Facebook and Greenspan's company, Think Computer Corporation, settled in 2009.

Deputy once hailed as a hero now charged with excessive force

CBS Los Angeles
Thu, 24 Jan 2019 18:48 UTC

An Orange County Sheriff's deputy was hailed as a hero for stopping a crazed knife-wielding suspect in 2013.

But a federal jury now finds the hero used excessive force in subduing the man. And they ruled Orange County must now pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in restitution to the man's mother.

Connor Zion's family cherished his talent and his life.

Zion's life was cut short in a controversial encounter with deputies.

Dash cam video captured the sounds of the first round of gunshots. He is seen running around a patrol car and a deputy fires another round.

You see the deputy - Michael Higgins - stomp Zion's head three times.

"The police are not trained to stomp victims into unconsciousness, especially after they've been shot 13 times," says Brian Olney, an attorney for the plaintiff's family.

German man sues town for discrimination over 'Only for Women' parking spaces

RT
Fri, 25 Jan 2019 15:48 UTC

A German town's effort to prevent sexual violence has seen it hauled to court by a man who claims its 'woman-only' parking spaces are discriminatory. The road to hell is paved with good intentions, as the old saying goes.

Dominik Bayer, 25, from North Rhine-Westphalia, appeared at a hearing at the Administrative Court in Munich, Bavaria, on Wednesday saying: "I feel discriminated against as a man."

Bayer argued that he is fighting for "equal rights for men and women" because the signs were not only discriminatory against men, they were also offensive to women by implying they "are weaker," reports Spiegel Online.

Bayer noticed the signs reading 'Only for Women' while visiting a friend in the Bavarian town of Eichstätt in early 2018.

Suspect in 4 Nevada murders accused of selling victims' jewelry

Michelle L. Price and Ken Ritter
AP
Thu, 24 Jan 2019 17:07 UTC

A suspect in four fatal shootings in Nevada was accused in court Thursday of being in the U.S. illegally and possessing weapons and selling jewelry stolen from some of the dead.

Wilber Ernesto Martinez-Guzman, a 19-year-old immigrant from El Salvador, appeared before a judge in Carson City in shackles with a Spanish-language interpreter and a public defender at his side.

The judge spent more than 25 minutes reading aloud a 36-count criminal complaint that suggested property theft as a motive for the slayings. He set bail at $500,000.

Martinez-Guzman was not charged with murder and did not enter a plea to burglary, stolen property and weapon charges that are punishable by decades in prison. Authorities in nearby Douglas and Washoe counties, where the four victims lived, have said they plan to file murder charges against him soon, perhaps as early as Friday.

Jewish stones are better than Palestinian ones, apparently

Jonathan Ofir
Mondoweiss
Fri, 25 Jan 2019 17:24 UTC

Following the killing-by-stones of Palestinian Aisha al-Rabi, 48, on October 12th, allegedly by Jewish settler youths, Israel is facing an ideological question of how to regard stones, and whether stones have a nationality.

"A stone thrower is a terrorist," Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked said in 2015, when Israel was amending a law that establishes stiff prison terms for stone-throwers (up to 20 years if harmful intent is proven, 10 years even if the stone-thrower does not intend harm).

In the al-Rabi case, there has now reportedly been found forensic evidence - that is DNA on the very stone that killed her as she, her husband, and daughter were traveling in a car on the occupied West Bank - tying it to one of the five Jewish suspects (as Nir Hasson reported yesterday in Haaretz).

This is a pretty clear case. Israel's security agency Shin Bet also reported that before the arrest of the five teens from the Rheleim settlement Yeshiva (religious school), extremist settler activists rode in cars to the youths' homes (violating the religious prohibition against driving on Shabbat) to advise the youths on how to conduct themselves under interrogation. One of these activists was Meir Ettinger, the grandson of Meir Kahane and a veteran of arrests and interrogations. Until recently, Ettinger was also the prime focus of the Shin Bet's Jewish division.

Deal of a lifetime: Charlatan Israeli sex convict rabbi says he can revive the dead, for only $5k

Marissa Newman
Times of Israel
Thu, 24 Jan 2019 17:01 UTC

Sex convict rabbi Eliezer Berland promises he can revive people who were officially declared brain dead, if family members pony up some NIS 20,000 ($5,400), according to a television report on Thursday that exposed the working of the miracles-for-cash services offered by the shadowy leader of the Shuvu Bonim community.

Berland has long been known to offer "pidyonim," or kabbalistic benedictions, to the ill, whereby they receive a blessing after donating money. In late-night visits, and surrounded by dozens of followers, Berland frequently shows up at Israeli hospitals across the country, unattended by staff, to bless the sick, according to footage uploaded by his followers.

Israeli journalists from Channel 12 news, seeking to unearth how it works and after encountering victims of Berland's scheme, invented the case of a 35-year-old woman, "Yael," who was declared brain dead.

They contacted Berland's aide Natan, who was initially circumspect, saying he would have to check as it was a case of brain death. "If it wasn't brain death, I would promise you that he would revive her," he tells them, tacitly acknowledging the irreversible loss of all cognitive functioning.

Common sense: Council of Europe calls for Muslims to legally register their Sharia marriages

Maya Oppenheim
Independent
Thu, 24 Jan 2019 16:47 UTC

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A measure adopted by the 47-nation international organisation raised concerns about the role of sharia councils in family, inheritance and commercial law

Muslim couples getting married in the UK should be legally required to civilly register their union before or during the Islamic ceremony, the Council of Europe has said.

Raising concerns about the role of sharia councils in family, inheritance and commercial law, the human rights organisation made up of 47 member states, called for obstacles stopping Muslim women from accessing justice to be removed.

A resolution called on British authorities step up measures to provide protection and assistance to those who are in a vulnerable position and run awareness campaigns which teach Muslim women about their rights.

"Although they are not considered part of the British legal system, Sharia councils attempt to provide a form of alternative dispute resolution," it says.

It adds: "Whereby members of the Muslim community, sometimes voluntarily, often under considerable social pressure, accept their religious jurisdiction mainly in marital and Islamic divorce issues, but also in matters relating to inheritance and Islamic commercial contracts.

"The assembly is concerned that the rulings of the Sharia councils clearly discriminate against women in divorce and inheritance cases."

Bomb threat leads to evacuation of Frankfurt train station

Deutsche Welle
Fri, 25 Jan 2019 16:47 UTC

Some 500 passengers were evacuated from a high-speed train at the Frankfurt South train station after German police received a bomb threat. After searching the ICE train, authorities later gave the all-clear.

A bomb threat against a Deutsche Bahn Intercity-Express (ICE) train prompted an evacuation and the temporary closure of a train station in the German financial capital of Frankfurt on Friday.

Federal police in the city of Koblenz reported the threat on Twitter, writing that 500 passengers on the high-speed train had been removed safely at the Frankfurt Süd (Frankfurt South) train station and that they were uninjured.

After searching the train, German police gave the all-clear and the passengers were able to re-board the train and continue their journey.

Comment: Incidents at transport hubs are all over the news these days. Although it is interesting that the threat was made to a particular company, so one wonders whether it was a disgruntled worker?

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Society's Child

Society gone to hell: Porn star renounces her children to set up a satanic cult

'Capitalism is not immoral - it's amoral, ' Bono tells Davos audience

HALF of Facebook accounts are fake, says Zuckerberg's Harvard classmate

Deputy once hailed as a hero now charged with excessive force

German man sues town for discrimination over 'Only for Women' parking spaces

Suspect in 4 Nevada murders accused of selling victims' jewelry

Jewish stones are better than Palestinian ones, apparently

Deal of a lifetime: Charlatan Israeli sex convict rabbi says he can revive the dead, for only $5k

Common sense: Council of Europe calls for Muslims to legally register their Sharia marriages

Bomb threat leads to evacuation of Frankfurt train station

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