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Russia to create rival to Wikipedia - protect knowledge from 'erosion', fake news

RT
Thu, 10 Oct 2019 19:07 UTC

The Russian equivalent of Wikipedia will become a reliable source for "safe," verified, data without any ideological or political agenda, and could be accessed by 15 million people a day, its creators said.

The ambitious undertaking, which is powered by the Great Russian Encyclopedia (GRE) publishing house, is going to receive 2 billion rubles ($31 million) in state funding between 2020 and 2022.

The nationwide interactive encyclopedic portal is aimed at protecting contemporary knowledge from "erosion" and sheltering online users from misleading information, GRE communications chief, Anna Sinitsyna, said.

With the avalanche-like growth of all kinds of falsifications (including those in scientific, historical, statistical and demographic data) and fake news, generated by some media and private users online, we see it as a particularly urgent task to create a database of safe information (verified by the scientific community).

All the entries on the portal will be of purely scientific and educational nature, "free of any political or ideological agenda."

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Indiana AG: 165 more fetal remains linked to late doctor

Rick Callahan
ABC News
Fri, 11 Oct 2019 11:59 UTC

Indiana's attorney general said Friday that 165 sets of fetal remains have been found in the Chicago area inside a car owned by a late Indiana abortion doctor, boosting the total number of abandoned sets of fetal remains discovered at properties linked to him to more than 2,400.

Attorney General Curtis Hill said the 165 remains were discovered Wednesday in the trunk of a Mercedes-Benz parked at a business property in Dolton, Illinois, where Dr. Ulrich Klopfer had kept a total of eight cars.

Those remains are believed to be from abortions Klopfer performed in 2002 at his three Indiana abortion clinics, Hill said.

Last month, 2,246 sets of fetal remains were found in Klopfer's Will County, Illinois, garage, after relatives stumbled onto them while cleaning out that building after he died Sept. 3 at age 79.

Comment: See also: Family of abortionist makes grisly find after his death

Social Justice Warriors won't listen, but you should

Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay
The Wall Street Journal
Fri, 11 Oct 2019 18:17 UTC

It would be charming for advocates of social-justice ideology to say, "We need to have a conversation," were they not almost uniformly such dreadful conversationalists. If they'll converse with you at all, you might hear that any disagreement with them is a sign of your inherent weakness ("white fragility," Robin DiAngelo), of your intentional refusal to engage honestly ("pernicious ignorance," Kristie Dotson), or of your unreasonable expectation that someone do your homework for you ("epistemic exploitation," Nora Berenstain). You might find yourself accused of complicity in white supremacy (Barbara Applebaum) or misogyny (Kate Manne), both understood in an obscure "systemic" sense, though of course the words retain the damning connotations rightly associated with their literal meanings.

In short, social-justice ideologues have a stock of concepts to protect themselves from listening to inconvenient facts or reasonable criticisms. This can make conversations with them impossible. They don't want to talk with you; they want to talk at you. You're supposed to shut up, listen and believe, because, according to their underlying theory, any story that isn't consistent with their approved discourse has "already been told" and "upholds unjust power dynamics." Chances are, you'll be insulted and accused of moral failures — participation in systems of oppression, racism or sexism — and the conversation will go nowhere.

Comment: "Never argue with a fool; onlookers may not be able to tell the difference." — Mark Twain

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2 officers disarmed, suspended: Paris police department aims at radicalisation in its own ranks

RT
Sat, 12 Oct 2019 13:42 UTC

Two Paris police officers have reportedly been disarmed, with one suspended from duty. It comes after a radicalised police IT specialist slashed four colleagues to death on October, 3.

Mickaël Harpon, a police computer specialist who prosecutors say followed a "radical vision of Islam," stabbed three officers and an administrator to death at Paris' police headquarters last Thursday, before he was shot dead by a patrolman. Interior Minister Christophe Castaner described Harpon's attack as a "serious failure" of the state to detect "signs of radicalization."

Paris Police Chief Didier Lallement advised officers on Monday to "immediately report" signs of "possible radicalization of an agent," Le Parisien reported. The newspaper described an atmosphere of "paranoia" spreading through the ranks.

Comment: Radical Islamist police officer who killed his Paris colleagues had top secret security clearance & info on undercover cops

Foreign media experts slam British journos as 'useful idiots' for Brexit coverage: Why no outrage over biased reporting on Iraq & Assange?

Omar Baggili
RT
Sat, 12 Oct 2019 13:19 UTC

© Agence France-Press / Oli Scarff
Journalists are seen at the temporary media broadcast tents near the Houses of Parliament in central London

A panel of media experts spanning a myriad of nationalities have come out united in their brutal criticism of British journalists' coverage of Brexit - it's a shame they were silent on UK military interventions and Julian Assange.

The group of foreign journalists came together for a conference in London on Thursday to discuss Brexit and the media.

Their primary issue with the state of the UK press is its insistence on publishing Brexit stories based on government leaks and anonymous sources, as well as what they see as a failure to rigorously question the substance of the information received.

Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism director Rasmus Nielsen claimed the "British press is being played like an instrument and it doesn't care."

Comment: The craven folding of what passes for the 'Fourth Estate in the face of the overt persecution of one of their finest, is a stain on the noble vocation of journalism. They make a mockery of "speaking truth to power", the highest goal of journalism. Assange is everything these hacks are not. He has been willing to put his life literally on the line to preserve freedom of the press. Only a few outliers, unshackled by government control, have carried on in Assange's defence. THEY understand what is at stake.

Jane Fonda arrested at climate change protest in Washington

Nick Allen
The Telegraph
Sat, 12 Oct 2019 02:18 UTC

Jane Fonda, in red, was arrested outside the US Capitol.

Jane Fonda has been arrested at a climate change protest in Washington DC. The 81-year-old actress was detained on the steps of the US Capitol, handcuffed, and escorted into a police vehicle.

Fonda was one of 16 people arrested for unlawfully protesting, and was charged with "crowding, obstructing or incommoding". She was released hours later.

The double Oscar-winner recently moved to Washington to join regular protests after being inspired by 16-year-old Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg.

Comment: It says a lot that someone who previously protested an unjust war can be taken in by a 16 year old autistic child to protest against nothing. Hollywood will always see protest and civil disobedience as a fashion trend rather than an actual engine for change. It would be best to ignore them.

See also: Greta Thunberg: False Prophet of the Children's Crusade

Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency in deep trouble after eBay, Visa, Mastercard and Stripe leave the project

Sputnik
Sat, 12 Oct 2019 12:47 UTC

Companies almost queued up when Facebook announced plans to launch its global cryptocurrency in 2020. Now it seems that the project could be delayed or scrapped altogether as it faces pressure from governments and regulators.

Visa, Mastercard, eBay, and Stripe have said they are leaving Facebook's Libra one week after PayPal announced its withdrawal. In a statement explaining their decision, eBay, Visa, and Stripe all said they respect and continue to have interest in Libra, but had decided to focus on other projects. Mastercard did not respond to a request for a comment.

"Stripe is supportive of projects that aim to make online commerce more accessible for people around the world. Libra has this potential. We will follow its progress closely and remain open to working with the Libra Association at a later stage", Stripe's spokesperson said.

Comment: Like rats leaving a sinking ship...

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Extinction Rebellion mocked for 'trying to hide' diesel generator in protest camp

Naomi Adedokun
Express
Sat, 12 Oct 2019 09:46 UTC

Extinction Rebellion has been mocked after a viral video surfaced which purports to show the group powering one of its camps using pollution-emitting diesel generators.

Unverified footage has emerged of an Extinction Rebellion camp that claims to be in Berlin using what appears to be a diesel generator for power. The large machine was covered by wooden pallets in an apparent attempt to hide it despite the loud whirring noise.

The original footage was posted by German politician Alice Weidel. Sharing the clip, which has been viewed a total of 1.3 million times on Twitter, with her 81.3 thousand followers, Ms Weidel claimed: "What is #ExtinctionRebellion actually doing in this camp?" She accompanied the tweet with the hashtag "#BerlinBlockieren", which is being used by the climate activists in the German capital for their demonstration blitz.

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Implementing Greta

Arthur Chrenkoff
Spectator
Wed, 09 Oct 2019 05:00 UTC

I have written before about the actual policy proposals supported by Greta Thunberg and the Global Climate Strike initiative, which they see as necessary in order to "save the planet". Perhaps the best known of the lot is the requirement that all energy produced by 2030 (or in 11 years' time) come from renewables.

"100 per cent by 2030" sounds like a great slogan, seems pretty concrete and neatly ties with the claims we're only years away from a civilisation-destroying ecological catastrophe unless we take action now. But what does 100 per cent of energy from renewables by 2030 actually mean in practice?

In 2018, the world energy consumption (in electricity) was 13,864.9 million tonnes of oil equivalent (MTOE), an increase of 2.9 per cent on 2017 (the average yearly increase in the decade prior has been 1.5 per cent, since 2000 over 2 per cent).

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Paul Joseph Watson: The Truth About Extinction Rebellion

Paul Joseph Watson
Summit News
Fri, 11 Oct 2019 20:33 UTC

Extinction Rebellion: This is an upper-middle-class death cult and we should ridicule it out of existence.

You've never seen eco-extremism this bad.

A bunch of smug, sanctimonious, privileged, hypocritical idiots lecturing working class people on how to live their lives.

Oh, and their demands are utterly INSANE.

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Society's Child

Russia to create rival to Wikipedia - protect knowledge from 'erosion', fake news

Indiana AG: 165 more fetal remains linked to late doctor

Social Justice Warriors won't listen, but you should

2 officers disarmed, suspended: Paris police department aims at radicalisation in its own ranks

Foreign media experts slam British journos as 'useful idiots' for Brexit coverage: Why no outrage over biased reporting on Iraq & Assange?

Jane Fonda arrested at climate change protest in Washington

Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency in deep trouble after eBay, Visa, Mastercard and Stripe leave the project

Extinction Rebellion mocked for 'trying to hide' diesel generator in protest camp

Implementing Greta

Paul Joseph Watson: The Truth About Extinction Rebellion

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