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Lab revokes honorary titles for Nobel Prize winner James Watson after 'repeated racist comments'

James Watson
© Jose Mendez, EPA-EFE file photo
James Watson, founder of the DNA structure and 1962 Physiology and Medicine Nobel Prize winner, talks during his conference called "Mi vida inmersa en el ADN," or "My life immerse on the DNA," at the beginning of the X International Medicine advances Congress, in Guadalajara, Mexico, on 21 February 2008.
Nobel Prize-winning scientist James Watson has been stripped of his honorary titles at the laboratory he once led after doubling down on racist comments.

Watson, who discovered DNA's double helix structure alongside Francis Crick and Rosalind Franklin in the 1950s, said that genes cause a difference on IQ tests between blacks and whites, in a recent PBS documentary "American Masters: Decoding Watson."

The leaders of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on Long Island said in a statement his comments were "reprehensible, unsupported by science."

Comment: Were Watson's comments actually racist? They certainly seem to walk the line. But if there is an actual biological basis for IQ, shouldn't that be something that is talked about rather than simply stripping titles from anyone who dares to bring it up?

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Stop

Silencing the Angel Moms: The DNC and MSM refuse to discuss victims of illegal alien crimes

Angel Moms
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Since January 1, neither CNN nor MSNBC has booked a single "Angel Mom" - mothers of children brutally murdered by illegal aliens - as guests on their networks, per an analysis conducted by the Republican National Committee (RNC).

The RNC told Breitbart News it has tracked both networks since the beginning of the year as they intensely bash President Donald Trump over the government shutdown that is now the longest ever in the history of the United States. Since the turn of the year to 2019 from 2018, neither network has conducted a single interview with any family members of victims of illegal alien crimes.

The Angel Moms, or Angel Families, are the surviving family members of those Americans who were tragically killed by illegal aliens. Their plight is a particularly vivid illustration of the effects of unfettered illegal immigration. Had the federal government enforced immigration law and removed the illegal aliens who committed these heinous crimes before they committed them, the crimes never would have happened and their loved ones would presumably still be alive today.

In his Oval Office address to the nation last week, President Donald Trump highlighted just how pervasive illegal immigration crime is in the United States by citing statistics of how many rapes and killings in which illegal aliens have been involved in just the past year.

Comment: Not surprising. Anything that clashes with the globalist agenda of open borders is shoved under the rug.
San Diego TV station claims CNN declined its 'local view' on border wall because of reports that it's effective


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Polish mayor killed in knife attack during charity concert, suspect is mentally ill repeat offender

knife attack mayor gdansk
© Reuters/ KFP / Anna Rezulak
A man holding a knife shouts on the stage after Gdansk's Mayor Pawel Adamowicz was stabbed during a charity event in Gdansk, Poland, on January 13, 2019.
The mayor of Poland's northern city of Gdansk, who was critically injured by a knifeman during a charity concert performance, has succumbed to his wounds in hospital, a medical official has said.

Mayor Pawel Adamowicz was on Sunday stabbed several times by a man claiming to have been wrongfully accused and jailed. Known only as Stefan W., the attacker ran to the stage at an annual charity event collecting money for Polish medical facilities. The assault took place right in front of a crowd of people. The knifeman then grabbed the microphone, accusing the mayor's party, The Civil Platform, of his alleged ordeal.

The 53-year-old Adamowicz suffered a serious injury to the heart as well as cuts to his diaphragm and abdominal organs and had to be resuscitated right on stage before being hospitalized. He underwent emergency surgery and was placed on life support "in a very critical condition," Jerzy Karpinski, a physician with the Gdansk regional health department, told the Polish PAP news agency. Adamowicz succumbed to his injuries on Monday.

Snakes in Suits

Polls suggest that Pompeo's US jingoism and anti-Iran warmongering is widely rejected by Mideast public

Pompeo

Pompeo was the skunk at the party and doesn’t seem to have the self-awareness to notice.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gave a major and extremely embarrassing foreign policy speech in Cairo on Thursday, which is probably inconsequential since his major talking points departed from the positions of his president, Trump. Also, aside from some generals and kings and princes, nobody in the region agrees with anything he said.

Pompeo's message to Egypt is that the US plays a positive role in the Middle East and that Obama was wrong to attempt to get out of the region and re-balance toward the Pacific Rim. The US, Pompeo implied, should have taken a stronger hand during the Arab Spring to keep the Muslim religious Right from coming to power, and should have forestalled the rise of ISIL in Iraq and Syria by staying in Iraq. The US, he said, does not want to occupy any country against its will, in contrast to Iran. (Fact check on Pompeo: Iran is not occupying any countries in the Middle East but has given some military assistance to Syria at the request of Damascus. The US aggressively invaded Iraq without a casus belli and occupied it for nearly a decade against its will.) Pompeo attempted to whip up anti-Iran sentiments as part of his vision of a grand alliance of the US and the Arab world (and, shhh, Israel) against Iran and Hizbullah.

Comment: US foreign policy in the Middle East has been so consistently destructive for so many years that it would require a lot ignorance to view it any other way (assuming one doesn't have a financial or political interest in seeing Middle Eastern populations having their lives rendered asunder and subject to mass Chaos).

The following video sums it up nicely:




Attention

'A family member was trading a child for rent': Familial sex trafficking an on-going problem in upstate South Carolina

family interview
© WSPA
She was a straight-A student with parents in law enforcement.

Growing up, Cat Wehunt said her family was close, but looking back on her life, the 26-year-old could not remember a time where sexual abuse didn't exist in her life.

"I knew that I felt violated, I knew that my body felt violated, but I just didn't know how or what it meant or why it was happening to me," she explained.

Wehunt told a crowd seated at Greenville Health System Thursday that at 12 years old she was raped, and at 14 she had been sold for sex by her older cousin.

Although he was her trafficker, she said she still trusted him because he was family.

Comment: Human trafficking - whether for rape or the use of bodily organs - is a horrifically wide spread problem that continues to plague much of the world:


Bizarro Earth

15 dead in Iranian Army Boeing-707 crash near Tehran

Iran cargo plane crash
© @HeshmatAlavi/Twitter
Shahriar, Tehran Province, #Iran Reports indicate a Boeing 707 cargo plane with 10 on board, has crashed near a city west of the Iranian capital. The plane was from Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan.
Fars has reported that the pilots lost control of the aircraft during landing, resulting in the plane crashing in a residential area. According to the news agency, the plane was meant to arrive at Payam International Airport in Karaj but accidentally went to Fath Airport.

A Boeing-707 cargo aircraft crashed in a residential area of Karaj on the outskirts of Tehran, the Iranian news agency ILNA reported on Monday.

According to media reports, some 16 people were on board the aircraft that was flying from the city of Bishkek.

Heart - Black

Israel experiencing pandemic of 'revenge porn'

revenge porn
© Shutterstock/File
The dissemination of explicit photos and videos of minors online affects children as young as 6, but law enforcement authorities are unable to put a stop to it; a new Knesset study finds that while the law allows jail time for perpetrators, most cases never make it to trial.

It has been two years since Karen (not her real name) met the man who made her life in to a living hell. At first he made a wonderful impression, but unbeknown to her he covered her home with cameras and filmed her in her most intimate moments.

We dated for several months, and the relationship seemed promising. He treated me nicely and with respect," she says.

When she felt their relationship was fizzling out, she ended it and went on with her life, without knowing that her ex was obliterating her privacy.

Comment: Unfortunately, this uniquely modern form of assault has become ubiquitous.


Quenelle

Gilets Jaunes: Is France ground zero for a global movement?

yellow vest tricolour
© Patrice Calatayu
France is at a crossroad. A fairly benign bread-and-butter protest has turned into a major popular dissent putting in question France's political system. It is new, unheard of, and because we live in the digital age, with immediate communication, the world is not only watching, but there is a contagious factor to it, which in the Anglo-Saxon world is called "Yellow Vests Movement". In what could be a healthy contagion of a social yellow fever of dissent, this polymorphic movement has already spread to 25 countries and counting. In the immediate vicinity of France, of course, in countries such as Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany, Spain, but also while not clearly identified as Gilets Jaunes chapters in Hungary, Bulgaria and Serbia. It has reached the Middle East with activities in Israel and Iraq, and the Americas with startup movements, still trying to structure themselves, in the United States and Canada. Is this explosion of dissent merely some short lived copycat effects or is a deeper systemic change in process or, in another word, the catalyst of a historical paradigm shift in real time. France is, for now, the main social battle ground, and critical test of the movement.

Heart - Black

Family sues police department after cop finds missing teen only to rape & impregnate her

Lowell police officer Paul Blair

Lowell police officer Paul Blair
When a Gaston County teenager went missing in 2015, Lowell police officer Paul Blair was assigned to her case.

First he found the 13-year-old, a new court document says, then he began showing up at her home late at night, bringing candy and giving her rides in his patrol car.

Blair, a husband and father, told the girl's parents he wanted to be their daughter's mentor. Instead, he initiated "numerous sexual acts" with her in his patrol car while still on duty and wearing his uniform, the court document says.

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Kurdish SDF official: ISIS is in its 'final moments'

ISIS terrorist jihadi
© Reuters
Islamic State militants are "living their final moments" in the last enclave they hold near the Iraqi border, where U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are attacking them, an SDF official said on Sunday.

A defeat of the jihadists in the enclave would wipe out Islamic State's territorial foothold on the eastern bank of the Euphrates River.

A spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition said the SDF were making "great progress ... but the fight continues".

The SDF, a coalition of militias led by the Kurdish YPG, have driven Islamic State from a swathe of northern and eastern Syria with the help of the U.S.-led coalition over the last four years.