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Not the happiest place on Earth: Disneyland closes two cooling towers after Legionnaires' disease found


Ottawa Citizen
Sun, 12 Nov 2017 18:03 UTC
A dozen cases of the bacterial lung infection were discovered about three weeks ago, the Orange County Health Care Agency announced Friday

Disneyland
© AP Photo/Jae C. Hong
In this Jan. 22, 2015, file photo, visitors walk toward Sleeping Beauty's Castle in the background at Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California.
Disneyland has shut down two cooling towers after people who visited the Southern California theme park came down with Legionnaires' disease.

A dozen cases of the bacterial lung infection were discovered about three weeks ago, the Orange County Health Care Agency announced Friday.

The patients, ranging in age from 52 to 94, lived or had spent time in Anaheim, and nine had visited Disneyland in September. One patient, who hadn't visited the park, has died, the agency said.
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Barcelona: Protesters demand the release of Catalan separatists

Sam Edwards
Reuters
Sat, 11 Nov 2017 17:27 UTC
catalan protesters
© REUTERS/Javier Barbancho
Protesters take part in a demonstration called by pro-independence asociations asking for the release of jailed Catalan activists and leaders, in Barcelona, Spain, November 11, 2017.
Tens of thousands of Catalan independence supporters clogged one of Barcelona's main avenues on Saturday to demand the release of separatist leaders held in prison for their roles in the region's banned independence drive.

Wearing yellow ribbons on their lapels to signify support, they filled the length of the Avenue Marina that runs from the beach to Barcelona's iconic Sagrada Familia church, while the jailed leaders' families made speeches.

Catalonia's two main grassroots independence groups called the march, under the slogan "Freedom for the political prisoners," after their leaders were remanded in custody on charges of sedition last month.

The protest is seen as a test of how the independence movement's support has fared since the Catalan government declared independence on Oct. 27, prompting Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy to fire its members, dissolve the regional parliament and call new elections for December.

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Controversy erupts over UK school homework assignment making pupils 'write to family about your conversion to Islam'

Liam Deacon
Breitbart
Fri, 10 Nov 2017 00:00 UTC
muslim school UK
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A father has refused to allow his 12-year-old daughter to do a school homework assignment - said to be "in line with the National Curriculum" - asking her to write a letter to her family telling them she has converted to Islam.

Mark McLachlan, 42, from the North East of England, said he did not mind his stepdaughter learning about other faiths, but argued the project was "inappropriate" as it was a parent's choice what values they raise their child with.

The stepfather found the assignment in his daughter's school planner and posted an image of it online, stating that he was "furious" and would be visiting the Kepier school in Houghton-le-Spring to discuss the matter.

"Write a letter to family about converting to Islam," read the girl's Religious Education (RE) homework task for Wednesday the 8th of November, according to the image on social media.

When he visited the school, Mr. McLachlan was told that projects such as the letter are part of the National Curriculum. There was a very similar case in Guernsey reported last year after it stirred controversy.

Comment: What were they thinking? Its hard to imagine that such assignments weren't designed with some agenda in mind, considering the understandable sensitivity surrounding religious conversions to radical Islam. If the stated reason is to actually teach about other faiths why did they not choose Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism or any other religion?

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'Addio' holy smokes: Vatican bans sale of cigarettes

Philip Pullella
Reuters
Thu, 09 Nov 2017 06:44 UTC
Man smoking
© Reuters/Laszlo Balogh (file photo)
Pope Francis has ordered a ban on the sale of cigarettes inside the Vatican from next year because of health concerns, a spokesman said on Thursday.

"The motive is very simple: the Holy See cannot be cooperating with a practice that is clearly harming the health of people," spokesman Greg Burke said in a statement.

He cited World World Health Organization (WHO) statistics that smoking causes more than seven million deaths worldwide every year.

Cigarettes have been sold at a discounted price to Vatican employees and pensioners.

Vatican employees are allowed to buy five cartons of cigarettes a month. Many Italians ask their non-smoking friends who work in the Vatican to buy cigarettes for them because they cost much less than in Italy, where they are subject to heavy taxes.
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Attention

Argentina: Pensioners injured and detained during government protest


telesur
Sat, 11 Nov 2017 16:54 UTC
argentine protest
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Leaders of the Justice Workers' Union announced a march against harsh labor reforms in Argentina.
The confrontations between unions and the government of Mauricio Macri continues to deepen.

Pensioners and social organizations in Argentina were evicted by police during a protest in Buenos Aires, that left several people wounded and detained, according to La Jornada.

Police from Mar del Plata used rubber bullets, tear gas and sticks to break up a protest of elderly pensioners that included disabled participants.

The workers of Freddo, the most important ice cream producer, occupied the headquarters of the company in the neighborhood of Balvanera to support those workers that had been previously fired and the low wages that they maintain.

They also rejected the proposed new labor reform to be applied by the government of Mauricio Macri, which they say include massive layoffs and threats against union delegates and those who attend workers' assemblies.
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Taylor Swift now on 'feminazi' hit list for refusing to conform to the 'progressive' party line

Tiana Dalichov
Halsey News
Sat, 11 Nov 2017 00:00 UTC
Taylor Swift
On Friday, Taylor Swift's newest album, Reputation, was released through Big Machine Records. But amid all the festivities surrounding the release, Swift quickly earned feminists' ire for refusing to take a stand on politics (i.e. not openly opposing Donald Trump).

Back in September, PopFront editor Meghan Herning called out Swift for supposedly supporting the White Supremacy movement because she refused to explicitly denounce white supremacy (and by extension, the President and his supporters). Herning asserted that Swift's silence was "calculated," and that her "silence in the face of injustice means support for the oppressor."

Basically, the piece was championing the notion that unless Swift openly came out in support of Hillary Clinton and "progressive politics," like so many others in her field (e.g. Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Beyonce), she would be supporting white supremacy and empowering Trump supporters to continue their bigoted, homophobic, white supremacist ways.

Swift's lawyer immediately responded by demanding a retraction on grounds of defamation of Swift's character, which ACLU of Northern California attorney Michael Risher claimed was "a completely unsupported attempt to suppress constitutionally protected speech."

Let me say that again: they think defaming Taylor Swift is protected speech.
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France's interior minister warns of 'very high' terrorism risk ahead of anniversary of Paris attacks


RT
Sun, 12 Nov 2017 15:48 UTC
police
© Gonzalo Fuentes / Reuters
As France prepares to mark the second anniversary of the November 2015 Paris attacks, Interior Minister Gerard Collomb has warned that the terrorist threat remains "very high," with a number of "small groups" planning attacks.

France has been on high alert since January 2015, when it was paralyzed by a series of Islamic State-linked terrorist attacks. The most horrific of these took place on November 13, 2015, when 130 people were killed and hundreds of others injured in coordinated attacks in and around Paris.

"This was the first case of mass killing" in France, Collomb told Le Journal du Dimanche (JDD) on Saturday. "We did not think back at the time that it was even possible in France... Now we are prepared."

"Our services are better equipped to detect threats, they do it every week, quietly," he added.

Collomb told RTL last month that as many as 32 attack plots have been thwarted in the past two years in France.

The terrorist threat level remains "very high," Collomb told JDD, citing the presence of "small groups, here and there on our territory, [which] have plans for violent attacks each on their own, without any link between the groups."
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Sexual harassment claims reveal the unholy among the holier-than-thous

Peder Jane
News Observer
Tue, 07 Nov 2017 10:51 UTC
Sex harassment claims reveal the unholy among the holier-than-thous merryl streep
© Shizuo Kambayashi AP
In this Wednesday, March 4, 2015 file photo, Meryl Streep waves to photographers during the Japan premiere of “Into the Woods” in Tokyo.
The crowd responsible for Donald Trump's election - the pious, self-dealing Swamp Creatures he ran and railed against - have had a bad few weeks.

Their troubles began with reports that Harvey Weinstein has been assaulting women for decades. This was an open secret in Hollywood and yet no one - not George Clooney, Matt Damon, Meryl Streep and other A-listers who love to lecture Americans - said a peep until they were forced to.

Irony doesn't quite capture the fact that Weinstein and his pals have donated millions to Bill and Hillary and other Democrats so they could rail against the GOP's war on women. You can't make this stuff up.


Comment: Killary the 'feminist'? She's the most anti-women, anti-life candidate in history

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Heart - Black

South Africa's white genocide is a never-ending nightmare


Voice of Europe
Tue, 07 Nov 2017 12:00 UTC
South Africa’s white genocide is a never-ending nightmare
Another bloody day has come to an end for the European minority in South Africa. This comes against a backdrop of heightened tensions in the country amid sustained violent attacks on the Afrikaner Boer farming community.

South Africa’s white genocide is a never-ending nightmare

Screenshot YouTube SABC news
Two elderly women were murdered in two separate instances in the town of Lichtenburg. One of the victims being a 73-year-old woman was stabbed to death and nearly decapitated in her bedroom.
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Attention

German activist tells Germany to wake up: We are being conquered!


Voice Of Europe
Thu, 09 Nov 2017 12:00 UTC
German activist tells Germany to wake up: We are being conquered! Tatjana Festerling
In an epic speech full of passion activist Tatjana Festerling talks to Germany. Here's a fragment:

"Feel what is going on over there! Feel the despair, hopelessness and don't start trying to rationalize everything in your mind again! Bulls**t! Nonsense!"

"Police officers are being attacked and strangled! Women can no longer go jogging alone! What kind of country is that, please?! Ridiculous!"
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