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Sister of victim in 1973 cold case murder speaks out after suspect arrested through DNA

Emily Shapiro
ABC News
Thu, 21 Feb 2019 16:30 UTC
Linda O'Keefe
The sister of a little girl who was strangled to death in 1973 didn't expect to see a conclusion to the mysterious cold case, she told ABC News hours after a man's arrest was announced on Wednesday.

"I never really thought that they would actually ever find the individual responsible," Cindy Borgeson, a sister of Linda O'Keefe, told ABC News. "After all this time, finding out there is a face and a name...just brings additional closure."

O'Keefe, 11, was abducted on July 6, 1973, as she walked home from summer school, the Newport Beach, California, Police Department said. Her strangled body was found the next day.

Their mother "carried that guilt the rest of her life," Borgeson said.

James Neal, 72, who lived in Southern California and worked in construction in the 1970s, was arrested this week in Colorado, where he had been living, Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer said at a Wednesday news conference.
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Toys

More snowflakery: California college calls POLICE over poster of cartoon frog Pepe

Katie Anderson
Campus Reform
Wed, 20 Feb 2019 15:09 UTC
pepe the frog
Folsom Lake College notified the local police after finding a poster of a cartoon frog, stating that "hate has no home on our campus."

An FLC faculty member found the sheet featuring Pepe the frog on their office door earlier in February. The school informed the Los Rios, California Police Department about the incident so it would "be on heightened alert for any signs that this may be part of a larger trend or pattern," according to an email sent to the school community and obtained by Campus Reform.

The picture of the smirking frog appeared alongside other posters pertaining to "fascist dog whistles," Democratic Socialists of America, and a week of social justice events.

Comment: They've no problem, mind, with the raised fist symbol created by Gene Sharp and his band of merry military-intelligence buddies.

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No Entry

Chase bank de-platforms conservative performance artist and Rebel Media host Martina Markota

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Wed, 20 Feb 2019 21:45 UTC
martina markota rebel media
Two weeks after Chase Bank announced that it would no longer do business with Proud Boys Chairman Enrique Tarrio, Conservative performance artist and Rebel Media personality Martina Markota has become the latest conservative media figure to be targeted by the bank which has made no secret of its support for liberal causes (see its decision to cut ties with the gun industry).

martina markota chase

Comment: This is getting scary. De-platforming simply due to one's political beliefs is bad enough when its done on social media, but for financial institutions to oust customers because they support the wrong candidate - it couldn't get any more dystopian! Remember Revelations, "And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name"? As Jordan Peterson said, "If you don't think there are reasons in your life for "well-meaning" financial institutions to implement the same limitations on you then you are not thinking."

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Better Earth

Russian man tasked with saving Irish language in rural county


RT
Thu, 21 Feb 2019 12:28 UTC
Dr. Victor Bayda

Dr. Victor Bayda
In a highly improbable turn of events, a Russian man has been tasked with saving and reviving the Irish language in an isolated, rural part of Ireland.

Dr. Victor Bayda, a native of Moscow, has been named as an Irish language officer in the Kerry Gaeltacht (a primarily Irish-speaking region) by the Comhchoiste Ghaeltacht Uíbh Ráthaigh, a local community organization in the area which is tasked with reviving the language.

Bayda has been teaching Irish or Gaeilge at Moscow State University for the past fifteen years. He began learning Irish after he first mastered Scots Gaelic (in addition to speaking Dutch, Welsh, Swedish, French, German and Icelandic... and Russian and English), and holds a PhD for a thesis relating to certain aspects of the Irish language. So he certainly has the gift of the gab.

"Irish is such a beautiful language and is well worth learning. It's a different way of thinking and the language allows you to express yourself in creative ways not possible in most major European languages. It's certainly a language worth saving and holding on to," Bayda told Irish state broadcaster RTE.
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Black Magic

Former Uber driver tries to blame 2016 shooting rampage on 'devil' app that 'literally took over mind and body'

Tom Berman and Enjoli Francis
ABC News
Thu, 21 Feb 2019 11:38 UTC
Jason Dalton
Jason Dalton, who pleaded guilty to murder and assault, got life in prison.

In never-before-seen interrogation tapes, Jason Dalton, the former Uber driver who pleaded guilty to a 2016 shooting spree in the Kalamazoo, Michigan, area that left six dead and two severely wounded, explained in detail how he claimed the ride-sharing app had "guided" him to kill unsuspecting residents.

During the 2016 interrogation, tapes of which ABC News' "20/20" obtained, Dalton told investigators that he'd been working for Uber for less than a week and had noticed something unusual about the mobile app.

"The minute that I logged on, to be honest with you, I don't know what happened," he is heard telling investigators in tapes. "I know you guys are going to have a hard time believing this, but it literally took over (my) mind and body."
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Bullseye

Jussie Smollett taken into custody by Chicago police over allegedly lying about attack

Morgan Winsor and Mark Osborne
ABC News
Thu, 21 Feb 2019 13:20 UTC
Jussie Smollett
© Invision/AP, FILE
Jussie Smollett attends an "Empire" event in Los Angeles, May 20, 2016.
Jussie Smollett has been charged with felony disorderly conduct.

"Empire" actor Jussie Smollett was arrested in Chicago early Thursday morning for allegedly filing a false report of a crime, police said.

Chicago Police Department spokesman Anthony Guglielmi announced via Twitter early Thursday that Smollett "is under arrest and in custody of detectives."

Smollett turned himself in at 5:15 a.m. local time and made a statement to police before being taken into custody. His lawyers, Todd Pugh and Victor Henderson, were not present at the time but they released the following statement the night before, "Like any other citizen, Mr. Smollett enjoys the presumption of innocence, particularly when there has been an investigation like this one where information, both true and false, has been repeatedly leaked. Given these circumstances, we intend to conduct a thorough investigation and to mount an aggressive defense."
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X

The silencing of academics

Joanna Williams
Sp!ked
Wed, 06 Feb 2019 00:01 UTC
Cambridge
© Getty

A toxic culture of sniping and censorship has swamped academic life.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission of England and Wales, along with other higher-education organisations, has published new guidelines designed to enshrine freedom of expression as the default position on campus. There's surely no better illustration of the low regard for free speech on some campuses: the state is having to enforce free speech on students and academics who are desperately defending their right not to be offended. Tragically, this is where we are right now in UK universities. Radical students do not demand freedom of speech in order to criticise the establishment, but instead demand protection from speech.

Since the new guidelines were released we've had students insisting on their right to No Platform feminists like Germaine Greer and Linda Bellos, while their overgrown veneraters in academia and the media blithely insist that free speech is alive and well. Politically motivated head-burying is unhelpful; as Tom Slater has discussed on spiked this week, campus censorship is not a myth.

Comment: Because the current generations have never had to fight for freedom of speech, it seems they don't really know what it is or have any understanding of its value. Freedom of speech means that others have the right to offend you, and you have the right to argue, disagree or ignore them. That so many go the route of trying to shut down voices they disagree with has truly grave implications at all levels of our society.

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Attention

Self-proclaimed white nationalist arrested for planning a 'mass terror attack', the government says

Lynh Bui
Washington Post
Thu, 21 Feb 2019 11:47 UTC
Christopher Paul Hasson white nationalist
A U.S. Coast Guard lieutenant and self-identified white nationalist was arrested after federal investigators uncovered a cache of weapons and ammunition in his Maryland home that authorities say he stockpiled to launch a widespread domestic terrorist attack targeting politicians and journalists.

Christopher Paul Hasson called for "focused violence" to "establish a white homeland" and said, "I am dreaming of a way to kill almost every last person on the earth," according to court records filed in U.S. District Court in Maryland. Though court documents do not detail a specific planned date for an attack, the government said he had been amassing supplies and weapons since at least 2017, developed a spreadsheet of targets that included House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and searched the Internet using phrases such as "best place in dc to see congress people" and "are supreme court justices protected."

"The defendant intends to murder innocent civilians on a scale rarely seen in this country," the government said in court documents filed this week, arguing that Hasson should stay in jail awaiting trial.
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Propaganda

Lara Logan is right about media bias, but she overlooks a greater threat

John Elliott
Intellectual Takeout
Tue, 19 Feb 2019 00:01 UTC
Lara Logan
© Chris Corbin,US Air Force
Lara Logan is a world-famous journalist unafraid to venture into hot war zones. She nearly died during the "Arab Spring" in Cairo when a mob of Muslim men sexually assaulted her.

Logan is making headlines again, but for a different reason. In an interview with the Mike Drop podcast, she asserts that the American media is absurdly left wing and supportive of Democrats. She calls it a "disaster for this country," adding that she is likely committing "professional suicide" by giving the interview.


Comment: See: 'I'm Committing Professional Suicide': CBS Star Reporter Admits 'Mostly Liberal' Journalists are Now 'Political Activists'


Logan left CBS News a few months ago and apparently decided to open up. If anyone is qualified to discuss media bias, then it is a veteran of this established television network.

Comment: Logan's candid remarks aren't newsworthy because they're not telling us anything new - the left-leaning bias of legacy media (and social media) is well established at this point. What's interesting about it is that an insider is confirming what the media themselves deny. While the MSM stand behind their supposed integrity as unbiased and objective, Logan calls them out for what they are - political activists. It's refreshing to have the constant media gas-lighting exposed for what it is.

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Star of David

Bizarro world! France threatens to boycott Eurovision over Israeli TV show that predicted French contestant as Muslim, gay...and a terrorist


RT
Thu, 21 Feb 2019 10:35 UTC
israel eurovision
© Meged Gozani
Mali Levi and Roy Miller in the 2019 Israeli miniseries "Douze Points."
France has reportedly threatened to boycott the Eurovision song contest in protest over an Israeli television series which portrays France's entry in the popular competition as a terrorist.

Set to air in May, the three-part series called Douze Points ('twelve points' in French, the highest score you can receive at Eurovision) is about a French-Algerian Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) terrorist posing as a gay man who manages to secure a place in the high-profile international song contest - ostensibly in hopes of carrying out a heinous terrorist attack live on television. The program will air the same week as Eurovision 2019, which is being hosted by Israel.

The fictional Israeli series has apparently rubbed French authorities the wrong way - perhaps because France will be represented this year by Bilal Hassani, a gay Muslim.

Comment: One dark possibility is that Hassani was selected afterwards to fit with a script.

But the show is presumably as its creators claim: a send-up of Israelis' obsession with terror.

Which leaves this a freakishly hilarious coincidence.

When Zionisms collide!

This show has it all: terror, entertainment, LGBT-ness, Muslim migrants... and the Israeli security services, of course, saving the day.

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