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Record fentanyl bust on US-Mexico border used as ammunition in heated Wall battle

RT
Fri, 01 Feb 2019 08:49 UTC

US Customs & Border Patrol agents caught a truck at the Mexican border loaded with meth and enough fentanyl to kill 57 million Americans. The bust was used by both President Donald Trump and his critics in the border wall battle.

On Thursday, the CBP made public that its agents in Arizona had found 254 pounds (115 kg) of fentanyl and 395 pounds (179 kg) of methamphetamine on a tractor-trailer transporting cucumbers from Mexico. The contraband was discovered by a CBP canine at the Mariposa port of entry in Nogales, just past noon on Saturday.

While the fentanyl has been sent to the laboratory for detailed analysis, the substance is so lethal that this amount has been estimated as enough to kill 57 million Americans - roughly a fifth of the entire population, currently estimated at 325.7 million.

"This is the largest fentanyl seizure in any port of entry" and "in the history of CBP," Guadalupe Ramirez, acting director of field operations in Tucson told the Arizona Republic.

'John of God' cult leader allegedly ran child sex slave farm

Nika Shakhnazarova
NY Post
Thu, 31 Jan 2019 19:50 UTC

A cult leader known as "John of God" has been accused of running a sex slave farm and selling babies to the highest bidder on the black market.

Joao Teixeira de Faria was arrested a week after over 600 allegations were made against him in what prosecutors say could be the worst serial crimes case in Brazil's history.

The 77-year-old's renowned spiritual world crumbled in December after he was accused of sexually abusing a Dutch woman on live TV.

The woman's claims prompted over 600 similar allegations to arise from around the world from countless women - all of which Faria has denied.

Blood chilling 'vampire' caught posing as doctor in Russian city of Chelyabinsk

RT
Fri, 01 Feb 2019 16:12 UTC

A man was caught posing as a doctor in a clinic in the Russian city of Chelyabinsk. Obtaining a fake diploma turned out to be the least of his crimes, however, as he had committed a blood-chilling murder two decades ago.

The man, identified as Boris Kondrashin, had been working in one of the city's state clinics as a GP since November. He was arrested this week for producing fake documents in relation to his medical training, as well as storing a large stash of illegal drugs in his apartment, according to Russian investigators.

While this part of the story was scandalous enough on its own, it turned out to be only the tip of the iceberg, and the fake doctor had a blood-chilling background. When he was just 16, he murdered a classmate in a vicious ritual killing.

Back then, he was a rather strange schoolboy, who was keen on exploring the occult and black-magic rituals, according to an article by a local newspaper dating back to 2000. Kondrashin identified himself as 'Baron fon Ginczel' - and apparently did actually have links to nobility - and lived with his father, who was a psychiatrist.

Racism, re-examined

Coleman Hughes
Columbia Daily Spectator
Fri, 01 Feb 2019 15:26 UTC

In the spring semester of my first year, I experienced racism on campus.

I was in the Writing Center at Philosophy Hall, waiting outside my professor's office while he finished meeting with another student. As I sat there wearing a plain white tee, ratty black jeans, and a pair of worn leather shoes with mismatched laces, I noticed a pair of eyes glaring at me from across the room. Eventually the owner of those eyes walked over and asked, with barely concealed suspicion, "Who are you here to see?" I said my professor's name and pointed to his office. But my answer didn't seem to satisfy the man, so he entered the office and spoke with my professor to verify that I was telling the truth. No other student in the Writing Center was subjected to any scrutiny whatsoever.

Whether it's driving while black, barbecuing while black, or swimming while black, many black people can recall a similar experience--a time when a white person treated them with suspicion because of their skin color. In those moments, when the sting of racism is fresh, it's easy to become pessimistic about the state of racial progress in America. After my experience in the Writing Center, for instance, it might have been tempting to conclude that Columbia, for all its pretension to diversity and inclusion, functions, in effect, as a vessel for systemic racism.

But I didn't come to that conclusion, and here's why.

Five IDF soldiers indicted for beating Palestinians and filming it

Sputnik
Fri, 01 Feb 2019 14:50 UTC

An Israeli military court indicted five members of the Israel Defense Forces hailing from the Netzah Yehuda Battalion, a unit intended to foster participation of Orthodox Jewish men in the IDF, for assaulting handcuffed Palestinian prisoners, the Jerusalem Post reports.

The IDF troops captured two Palestinians - a father and his son - and detained them on the grounds they helped Asam Barghouti, a man wanted for carrying out two shooting attacks outside Jerusalem, flee the police.

The indictment alleges that IDF personnel snapped photos and recorded videos as they beat the daylights out of the handcuffed and blindfolded prisoners.

The indictment further alleges that the son's blindfold was removed as IDF troops beat his father.

'Beware the ideologues': Jordan Peterson responds to the APA's distortion of masculinity

Jordan Peterson
jordanbpeterson.com
Fri, 01 Feb 2019 11:12 UTC

Beware the Ideologues in Psychologists' Clothing

The American Psychological Association (APA) recently released their Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Boys and Men (paralleling, in principle, their 2007 guidelines for girls and women). It manages to be simultaneously predictable, reprehensible, infuriating and disheartening - no mean feat for a single document. Make no mistake about it: this document constitutes an all-out assault on masculinity, as such - or, to put it even more bluntly, on men. The coup of the APA undertaken by the ideologues and the second-raters is now complete. The field has been compromised, perhaps fatally. And the unforgivable Guidelines provides sufficient but by no means exhaustive evidence of that. The document opens with a series of terminological definitions. These serve perfectly to indicate the nature of the ideological substructure that constitutes the true motivation of the writers. Only a small number of words or phrases were chosen for definition, which means that it is those words that are of prime import. The intent is that the Guideline's readers will understand, assimilate and come to regard as self-evident the conceptual structure that both selected the words and defined them - and these, by the way, could not possibly be clearer indicators of the post-modern/victimhood ideology.

Here are the words and phrases: Gender, Cisgender, Gender Bias, Gender Role Strain, Masculinity Ideology, Gender Role Conflict, Oppression, Privilege, Psychological Practice, and Gender Sensitive. These are all presented, along with their interpretations and definitions (available here for your detailed perusal: https://bit.ly/2Miaj05). Here's two, just for the flavor:

Comment: Also see: Stoicism is needed more than ever: A response to the APA's distortion of masculinity

Why do feminists insist women aren't successful if they focus on their family?

Stefanie Stiles
The Federalist
Fri, 01 Feb 2019 11:12 UTC

"It's not my fault you're bitter about being a failure. That's on you for making bad decisions."

I was still half-asleep that morning when I read the text, which had arrived late the night before. It was as unexpected as a punch in the gut. I was being called a failure. The word had an ugly, anti-social ring to it.

The day before I had foolishly engaged in a social media debate with a woman of my generation, someone I considered a casual friend. I will call her "Jane."

We had met a few years earlier through mutual friends. I was in my early-30s, a freshly minted PhD in English, a full-time instructor at a college on the prairies. Jane was a wunderkind lawyer in town, in her mid-20s. We were both married, both homeowners, both striving young women in our chosen professions. Over the next few years, we both gave birth to our first child.

France's Red Scarves: A synthetic counter-protest that's now the darling of the media

Whitney Webb
Mint Press News
Fri, 01 Feb 2019 11:12 UTC

As the "Yellow Vest," or Gilet Jaunes, protest in France continues to perplex and concern the French government and European elites, a new "counter-protest" has emerged in response to the popular protest movement now entering its 12th week.

Protesters branding themselves as the "Red Scarves," or Foulards Rouge, descended on Paris this past Sunday in order to protest the "violence" of some Gilet Jaunes protesters and a desire to see the country return to "normalcy." The French government, which has sought to weaken and disperse the Yellow Vests movement since its inception, stated that the Red Scarves numbered around 10,500 in Paris, while other reports claimed that the demonstration was significantly smaller than the government-supplied figure.

The group has been described as "diverse" - much like the Yellow Vests, who have drawn support from across the French political spectrum - and "apolitical," as its leadership have stated that the Red Scarves are not necessarily supportive of French President Emmanuel Macron, whose ouster is being sought by Yellow Vests demonstrators. Some participants who were interviewed on Sunday stated that they were not protesting against the Yellow Vests but instead in favor of protecting the integrity of France's political institutions. This has led the Red Scarves themselves, as well as subsequent media reports, to portray the group as representing France's "silent majority" that - until now - had refrained from demonstrating.

Man faints from free flu shot, gets hit with $5K hospital bill

Chris Perez
New York Post
Thu, 31 Jan 2019 22:58 UTC

Worst flu shot ever?

A North Carolina man says he had to be hospitalized after fainting from a flu shot, but it's what happened next that truly made him sick.

When Matt Gleason got discharged, he was reportedly hit with a $4,692 medical bill - which included a $2,961 ER admission fee and nearly $1,000 in charges for blood tests.

The amount was later reduced by his insurer, Blue Cross and Blue Shield, to $3,711 - but since Gleason had a $4,000 annual deductible, he was still responsible for paying off all of it.

While the bill may not seem like a lot to some, the married father of two told Kaiser Health News that it has really put him in a tight spot.

"What it does is wipe out our savings," he said.

Some of the other charges that Gleason got hit with included $400 for an EKG, $348 for a chest X-ray and $83 for a urinalysis, according to KHN.

Comment: They legally have a 'right' to what essentially amounts to stealing. Not exactly the most convincing argument.See also:

Ideological programming complete: Law student laments due process being used in college rape cases

David French
National Review
Wed, 30 Jan 2019 15:29 UTC

Way too easy, according to critics of the Trump administration's efforts to introduce more due process to campus sexual-assault tribunals

Yesterday, the New York Times published a student activist's op-ed with a rather provocative title: "When College Rapists Graduate."

Now, when you read those words, what do you think? I initially thought the story must be about a prison education program. After all, rape is an extraordinarily serious crime. It was punishable by death until relatively recently in American history, and even now it's punishable by long prison sentences.

Instead, it turns out that the piece, written by a law student and activist named Alyssa Leader, laments the outcome of a campus sexual-assault adjudication and condemns the Trump administration's efforts to introduce a greater degree of due-process protections to the campus tribunals that hear such cases. Leader had claimed that she was sexually assaulted and harassed by another student. She filed a complaint against him with the university (Harvard), which, after applying the most lenient burden of proof and a degree of due process that would never be acceptable in any criminal or civil court, found him not responsible. Later, she sued Harvard - not the man she alleges assaulted her - because, as her lawyer told the New York Times, "The more traumatic of the two is the institutional betrayal and lack of response to her reporting." A judge dismissed the case.

It's against this backdrop that Leader now complains that her alleged assaulter "got a coveted job, where he'll only have more power as time goes on." The message is crystal clear - not only should colleges adjudicate sexual-assault claims under the most lenient possible standards, they should act as a firewall against the future careers of young men in the crosshairs. After all, unless colleges act now, the alleged harassers of today will grow up to be the Harvey Weinsteins of tomorrow.

Comment: See also:

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Society's Child

Record fentanyl bust on US-Mexico border used as ammunition in heated Wall battle

'John of God' cult leader allegedly ran child sex slave farm

Blood chilling 'vampire' caught posing as doctor in Russian city of Chelyabinsk

Racism, re-examined

Five IDF soldiers indicted for beating Palestinians and filming it

'Beware the ideologues': Jordan Peterson responds to the APA's distortion of masculinity

Why do feminists insist women aren't successful if they focus on their family?

France's Red Scarves: A synthetic counter-protest that's now the darling of the media

Man faints from free flu shot, gets hit with $5K hospital bill

Ideological programming complete: Law student laments due process being used in college rape cases

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