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Rape of schoolboy by Catholic nun, and cover up by the Church, revealed in sexual abuse scandal

Paul Jeeves
Express
Tue, 03 Apr 2018 15:54 UTC
nuns
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Edward Hayes wanted to lift the lid on sex abuse by nuns
A victim of sex abuse by a depraved nun has told how she became pregnant by him when he was just 12. Edward Hayes is still fighting for answers from the Catholic Church.

He wanted to speak out over the Easter weekend to lift the lid on sexual abuse by nuns and encourage other victims to finally come forward after years of secret torment

While horrific historic sexual abuse of boys by priests has been widely exposed, he believes his case could be the "tip of the iceberg" in revealing how nuns may also have targeted vulnerable boys.

Mr Hayes's ordeal over nearly three years happened at the former John Reynolds Home in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, run by The Franciscan Missionaries of St Joseph, a Catholic congregation of nuns.
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Star of David

Israeli leaders who ordered calculated murders of Palestinian protesters bear personal responsibility for the deaths and injuries

Ali Abunimah
The Electronic Intifada
Tue, 03 Apr 2018 15:45 UTC
Ahmad al-Najjar
© Ashraf Amra APA images
Ahmad al-Najjar, a shot and wounded by Israeli troops during Land Day marches days earlier, returns to a protest camp near the Gaza-Israel boundary, Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, 2 April
Israeli leaders who ordered troops to open fire on Palestinians taking part in the Great March of Return rallies in Gaza last Friday, even though marchers posed no threat, bear personal responsibility for the deaths and injuries, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday.

They are responsible for "calculated" killings of unarmed civilians in violation of international law, the human rights group states, warning that Israeli leaders could face prosecution abroad.

In a detailed report on Israel's violence against the marches that coincided with the Palestinian commemoration of Land Day, Human Rights Watch dismantles Israeli claims that the use of military snipers against civilian demonstrators was justified by a "terrorist" threat.

Human Rights Watch reaches two key conclusions: the Israeli violence against Palestinians was premeditated, illegal under international law, and ordered at the highest level; and Israel has presented no evidence whatsoever of any credible threat that would justify the violence it used on the day.
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Bullseye

The blame for the downfall of men and boys falls squarely on the shoulders of feminists

Suzanne Venker
Washington Examiner
Fri, 30 Mar 2018 15:08 UTC
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What feminists want is for men and women to cease being men and women and to instead become unisex. Androgynous. Interchangeable beings
On his program "Tucker Carlson Tonight," Carlson and his team gave men in America a voice every Wednesday in March. It is only the beginning of a much-needed conversation, but it was a great start. I can't think of anyone in the media other than Carlson who's courageous enough to tackle this sensitive topic. He covered many, many facts about the plight of boys and men with sincere interest each Wednesday and afterward interviewed a different expert to discuss the problems he'd just described.

But it was in the final segment that Carlson honed in on why Americans are oblivious to this crisis.

America has changed completely. The patriarchy is gone. Women are winning. Men are failing. Men in America are now far more likely to die of a drug overdose, drop out of the workforce because of an addiction, commit a felony and go to prison. They fail in school much more often than women do. They kill themselves at many times the rate. Overall, they die years younger. Those numbers are not speculative. They are hard data gathered over decades by nonpartisan researchers. You'd have to ignore a huge amount of settled science in order to repeat the pieties of 1970s-era feminism, and yet this is exactly what our leaders continue to do.
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Attention

YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, California on lockdown amid reports of active shooter - UPDATE


RT
Tue, 03 Apr 2018 21:09 UTC
Youtube HQ lockdown Apr 3 2018
The YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, California is on lockdown after reports of an active shooter on campus. Police have confirmed activity at the address, while employees described sounds of gunshots and reported an evacuation.

"We are responding to an active shooter," the San Bruno police said on Twitter.

A photo taken from across the street shows a large police presence in the area. Another picture shows police escorting some employees out, with their hands up.

Comment: Police have identified the woman behind the shooting as Nasim Aghdam of San Diego, California. Four people were injured after Aghdam opened fire at the YouTube campus. Adgdam was found dead inside the complex, police believe she committed suicide.
Video from January 2017 has emerged online which appears to show Aghdam criticizing YouTube. Although the woman identifies herself in the video as Nasime Sabz, a law enforcement official told AP that she used that name online and had a long-running dispute with YouTube. Her father, Ismail Aghdam, told the Bay Area News Group that she "hated" the company. He added that she was angry because the company stopped paying her for videos.


In the footage, she complains that her videos no longer received the same number of views they once did, and accuses the site of placing an age restriction on a workout video she made.

"Why they did that? Because it got famous and was getting many views, so they age restricted that video to keep it from getting views," she said. The woman said she contacted YouTube and was told there was inappropriate content in the exercise video.

A channel by the name of Nasime Sabz was deleted from YouTube. The video is now shared by social media users.


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Family

Is Jordan Peterson saving the world?

Tanner Greer
The Weekly Standard
Thu, 22 Mar 2018 18:19 UTC
Zašto komunisti ne mogu izdražati Jordan Petersona
The professor with the massive social following isn't just doing pop psychology. He's trying to rebuild the West's moral order.

The spectacular rise of Jordan Peterson has caught much of the world flat-footed. Discussions of the psychology professor from the University of Toronto tend to focus on the enormous popular movement his lectures have spawned, rather than the actual ideas presented in the lectures themselves. As a result, no one seems to know who the "real" Jordan Peterson is.

In a way, this is understandable. Peterson is a man of several personae. One Peterson is the inventor of an innovative and compelling neuropsychological model of human behavior. This is the Peterson presented in a dozen research articles reviewed and published by his academic peers.

Another Peterson dispenses pieces of practical advice and dispels progressive dogmas with a quiet, fatherly charisma. This is the Peterson made famous in podcasts, television interviews, and his best selling self-help book.
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New York Port Authority terminal's work disrupted after report of 'white substance'


RT
Wed, 04 Apr 2018 14:39 UTC
New York Port Authority
© Shannon Stapleton / Reuters
New York's Port Authority bus terminal had been partially evacuated after police say they found a "white substance" in a walkway, WCBS 880 radio reports.

The white powder was found to be non-hazardous, and terminal management declared that while there was "no immediate danger," parts of the terminal would remain temporarily closed.
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Evil Rays

Devolution of society: A quick list of stupid and dangerous internet challenges from recent years


RT
Wed, 04 Apr 2018 14:15 UTC
condom challenge
The 'condom challenge' is the latest internet craze harming teens the world over. In light of this new stunt, RT.com takes a look back at some of the strangest internet crazes people willingly undertook on camera.

Condom Challenge

This 'classic' challenge reappeared on the internet over the last few days. It involves snorting condoms up the nose and attempting to pull it through the nasal cavity and out of the mouth. Aside from the associated the vomit-inducing sounds, this maneuver is life-threatening. It can cause the person to choke or suffocate - all the while looking damn foolish.

Condom Challenge MK 2

Incredibly there is more than one way to use a prophylactic for the amusement of the baying internet public. However, both toy with potential suffocation and death. This challenge involves filling a condom with water and then putting the airtight pleasure sack over your face and attempting not to drown.

Comment: Kids reveal their disturbing psychology as they snort condoms for likes

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Evil Rays

Kids reveal their disturbing psychology as they snort condoms for likes

John Vibes
The Free Thought Project
Mon, 02 Apr 2018 14:21 UTC
condom snorting challenge
If the trend of kids eating Tide Pods was not disturbing enough, a new social media challenge has teens snorting condoms. The exact origin of this trend is unknown, but in recent weeks teens across the country have been snorting condoms and putting the footage on YouTube to catch their 15 minutes of fame-or perhaps 15 minutes of shame.

The search term "Condom Challenge" will bring up more than 279,000 results on YouTube, most of which show young people performing this gross and dangerous trick.

In the stunt, a teen takes a condom up one nostril and attempt to pull it out of their mouth or out of the other nostril. This is actually a trick that has been performed by professionals in sideshows for generations. However, none of these kids are professionals and many of them are getting sick and risking permanent damage to their bodies.

In a recent column for Forbes, Bruce Y. Lee, a Johns Hopkins professor said, "anything else that goes up your nose can damage the sensitive inner lining of your nose, cause an allergic reaction, or result in an infection."

Doctor Carol Cooper told The Sun that this stunt could even kill someone.
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Mr. Potato

If you make grammar mistakes on the internet, you're probably a Russian troll - Atlantic Council fellow


Sputnik
Wed, 04 Apr 2018 11:12 UTC
Twitter Russian flag
© Dado Ruvic / Reuters
A 3D-printed Twitter logo displayed in front of Russian flag, October 27, 2017.
If you're a Russian immigrant in the United States - or anywhere else - don't bother tweeting your opinions unless your English is flawless. Otherwise you'll be branded a Kremlin-paid troll by influential American think tanks.

Eagle-eyed Ben Nimmo, a fellow at the Atlantic Council, has tweeted advice for Twitter users to help them identify "Russian troll-factory accounts" on the social media platform.

What gives the Russian trolls away, Nimmo advises, is their tendency to use imperfect English. For example, Nimmo highlights the "inability" of so-called Russian trolls to use the words 'a' or 'the' because the Russian language itself does not use definite or indefinite articles.

Comment: Ben Nimmo is propagandist tool and working the troll factory himself! :wink:

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Fire

Moscow shopping mall catches fire, casualties reported


Sputnik
Wed, 04 Apr 2018 10:52 UTC
Moscow mall fire
© Sputnik/ Iliya Pitalev
According to reports, two KA-32 helicopters are ready to extinguish a fire in the Persei shopping mall in eastern Moscow.

The Persei shopping mall has caught fire in Moscow's east on April 4, evacuation is underway and there are casualties, an emergency services source told Sputnik.

According to preliminary information, the fire started on the fourth floor of the building.

"The fire was given the 2nd rank of complexity, there are injured, visitors are evacuated by the rescue ladder," a source in the local emergency services told Sputnik.

Comment: Here's a list of some of the major fires in Russia so far this year:

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