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We're doomed: One third of millennials believe the earth is flat

The Daily Sheeple
Thu, 05 Apr 2018 15:19 UTC

It seems like the "flat earthers" are just a fringe movement of people who want to distrust NASA just for the sake of doing so. But about one-third of all millennials actually believe the earth is not a globe, but a flat disc.

According to Unilad, for some reason, more and more people (and more specifically millennials) seem to be buying into the theory that the earth is a disc rather than a globe, and the group who subscribes to it seems to be growing. There is even a Flat Earth Society whose membership continues to grow.

50 years on from Martin Luther King's murder, hypocrisy continues to reign in America

John Wight
RT
Thu, 05 Apr 2018 16:28 UTC

On the 50th anniversary of his assassination, it is hard to think of anyone whose legacy has been so misrepresented as that of Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King (MLK) dedicated his life to the pursuit of truth regardless of the consequences, personal or political. Thus, at the time of his murder at the hands of a white supremacist on April 4, 1968 in the city of Memphis, where he had arrived to lead a march of the city's sanitation workers over pay and conditions, King found himself an isolated figure.

Indeed, in an uncanny example of a death foretold, on the eve of his assassination, at the end of both the last and one of the most famous speeches he ever gave, the black civil rights leader proclaimed, "I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land. And so I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord."

Is there a connection between the feminization of Christianity and its decline?

Rod Dreher
American Conservative
Thu, 05 Apr 2018 14:58 UTC

Nicholas Kristof is happy this Easter and Passover:

Over the centuries, it was fine for women to be martyred (or, at times, to be burned as witches), but they were denied the right to become priests, rabbis or ministers. Yet a revolution is unfolding across America and the world, and countless women will be presiding this weekend over Easter and Passover celebrations.

In just a few decades, women have come to dominate many seminaries and rabbinical schools and are increasingly taking over the pulpit at congregations across the country. "What we're seeing before our very eyes is a dramatic shift; in my mind it's as big as the Protestant Reformation," says the Rev. Serene Jones, the first woman president of New York City's Union Theological Seminary - where almost 60 percent of the students are now female.

Sloppy? UK Times' lead article questioning govt's 'alliance against Russia' scrubbed, but URL link remains with different story

RT
Thu, 05 Apr 2018 15:48 UTC

The Times' lead article from Wednesday, suggesting Theresa May is struggling to hold together an alliance against Russia, has disappeared from its website, with a completely new story under the same URL replacing it.

So, what could have motivated the paper to shelve the story?

The original article, headlined 'May battles to preserve alliance against Russia', looked at Prime Minister May's handling of the Skripal case after chief executive of the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory at Porton Down, Gary Aitkenhead, gave an explosive interview that revealed that the lab had not concluded where the chemical weapon had come from - despite May's government insisting it was engineered in Russia.

Comment: Who would have approved (or demanded) the change?

Knobs, knockers and Russian 'secret spycraft manuals'

Craig Murray
craigmurray.org.uk
Thu, 05 Apr 2018 15:30 UTC

What is left of the government's definitive identification of Russia as the culprit in the Salisbury attack? It is a simple truth that Russia is not the only state that could have made the nerve agent: dozens of them could. It could also have been made by many non-state actors.

Motorola sales agent Gary Aitkenhead - inexplicably since January, Chief Executive of Porton Down chemical weapons establishment - said in his Sky interview that "probably" only a state actor could create the nerve agent. That is to admit the possibility that a non state actor could. David Collum, Professor of Organo-Chemistry at Cornell University, infinitely more qualified than a Motorola salesman, has stated that his senior students could do it. Professor Collum tweeted me this morning.

The key point in his tweet is, of course "if asked". The state and corporate media has not asked Prof. Collum nor any of the Professors of Organic Chemistry in the UK. There simply is no basic investigative journalism happening around this case.

Craig Murray on Skirpal affair: UK and NATO tried to step up Cold War with Russia

RT
Wed, 04 Apr 2018 14:57 UTC

The UK and its NATO friends have attempted to "step up the Cold War" with Russia and have failed, according to Craig Murray, blogger and the UK's ex-ambassador to Uzbekistan.

Theresa May's Government seems to have been delivered a huge blow today, as Porton Down scientists revealed it cannot confirm Russia was behind the attack on ex-agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia.

The broadcaster and human rights activist said it is an "extremely important" statement from Porton Down - the secretive military base where testing was carried out.

Murray said "a fortnight ago sources inside the Foreign and Commonwealth Office told him they were 'under pressure' to say it was made in Russia" but they knew they were unable to do so.

He said: "What we have seen today is news management because the Government had to get over the hurdle the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons will shortly be telling people there is no evidence this came from Russia.

Nearly 2,000 people were stopped in 9 days under Trump's travel ban - and almost all of them were legal US residents

Michal Kranz
Business Insider
Sun, 01 Apr 2018 00:00 UTC

The travel ban put forward by President Donald Trump at the beginning of last year via executive order led to 1,903 people being stopped by customs agents.

The majority of them were legal residents of the US.
While a federal judge quickly blocked that travel ban, Trump later issued two other travel bans, the second of which has been allowed to go forward by the Supreme Court.

Comment: State Department now 'fully implementing' Trump's expanded travel ban

Yulia Skripal call to cousin and statement to police released - "everyone's health fine, will be discharged soon"

Vladimir Rodzianko
The Duran
Thu, 05 Apr 2018 14:43 UTC

After being hospitalized in a poisoning in Salisbury, UK in early March, Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia, have been upgraded to a stable condition.

The poisoning has set off an unprecedented diplomatic row the last few weeks between Russia and the UK - with Prime Minister Theresa May and Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson accusing Russia unequivocally of orchestrating the attack, all without providing a shred of evidence pointing to Russia's guilt. In fact, there has been increasingly more evidence coming out that Russia was NOT the culprit of this poisoning.

Boris Johnson and Theresa May are increasingly coming under public scrutiny for the handling of the Skripal case, turning the UK's leadership into a laughing stock.

The most recent development in the Skripal affair is a recorded phone call aired by Russian broadcaster Rossiya 1, purportedly between Yulia Skripal and her cousin, Victoria Skripal Thursday morning.

The hosts of the "60 Minute" show on Rossiya 1 - Evgeny Popov and Olga Skabeyeva - said they were unable to confirm the authenticity of the phone call.

Comment: The UK police also released a statement on behalf of Yulia:

"I woke up over a week ago now and am glad to say my strength is growing daily. I am grateful for the interest in me and for the many messages of goodwill that I have received.

"I have many people to thank for my recovery and would especially like to mention the people of Salisbury that came to my aid when my father and I were incapacitated. Further than that, I would like to thank the staff at Salisbury District Hospital for their care and professionalism.

"I am sure you appreciate that the entire episode is somewhat disorientating, and I hope that you'll respect my privacy and that of my family during the period of my convalescence."

The ideological perversion of scholarship

Rod Dreher
American Conservative
Thu, 05 Apr 2018 14:39 UTC

I heard from an academic friend yesterday who is extremely discouraged. I invited him to write about his experience for this blog, and I imagine he will. For now, I can tell you this. He is a young scholar working in a highly specialized branch of the humanities, one that requires an immense amount of learning. He proposed a paper for two separate forums within his discipline, and was turned down. He's very, very good in his field, and is used to having his papers accepted, and winning accolades. This was unusual, but it is of course quite possible that his papers weren't as good as the others.

What set him off, though, was his recognition that he probably wasn't going to get accepted anyway, whatever the quality of his work, because the gatekeepers aren't interested in the old-fashioned kind of scholarship that he does. Last year, the papers accepted in these two different forums were not about seriously scholarly topics, but about the kind of shallow takes on politically approved topics. My friend writes that this was "the final nail in the coffin" for him, the one that reveals that he has no place in the academy. He said he is glad to have learned this before becoming dependent on a university paycheck, but it grieves him to have devoted so much of his life to mastering his subject only to arrive at the end of his studies to find that his field has become as politicized as other humanities fields. He writes:

Comment: Academic authoritarians: The perversion of scholarship

Central American MS-13 gang spreading violence across US

Maximus
Halsey News
Wed, 04 Apr 2018 11:00 UTC

A pattern of violence is spreading across the US, with MS-13 gang related murders directly tied to an illegal immigrant pool of recruits.

MS-13 is a transnational gang from Central America which operates in multiple US cities and engages in list of violent crimes, including drug trafficking, murder, rape, prostitution, robbery, home invasions and kidnapping - with their highest level of concentration in the Northeast and West Coast, according to an FBI report.

Horrendous Crimes

In September 2016, the bodies of two teenage girls - Kayla Cuevas and Nisa Mickens - were found in Brentwood, NY.

According to CBS News, the heads and faces of the girls were mutilated in an "almost unmatched" fashion by 13 gang members - 10 of whom were illegal immigrants.

In late January, Nassau County police found the remains of Julio Cesar Gonzales-Espantzay, a 19-year-old immigrant was found hacked to death by gang members with knives and machetes.

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Society's Child

We're doomed: One third of millennials believe the earth is flat

50 years on from Martin Luther King's murder, hypocrisy continues to reign in America

Is there a connection between the feminization of Christianity and its decline?

Sloppy? UK Times' lead article questioning govt's 'alliance against Russia' scrubbed, but URL link remains with different story

Knobs, knockers and Russian 'secret spycraft manuals'

Craig Murray on Skirpal affair: UK and NATO tried to step up Cold War with Russia

Nearly 2,000 people were stopped in 9 days under Trump's travel ban - and almost all of them were legal US residents

Yulia Skripal call to cousin and statement to police released - "everyone's health fine, will be discharged soon"

The ideological perversion of scholarship

Central American MS-13 gang spreading violence across US

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