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R. Kelly is under criminal investigation in Georgia, 'direct result' of #SurvivingRKelly Lifetime docu-series

Xeni Jardin
Boing Boing
Tue, 08 Jan 2019 14:59 UTC
R. Kelly
Today is R. Kelly's birthday. Today, news is breaking that the singer is under investigation in Georgia.

R. Kelly has been accused of abuse, predatory behavior, and pedophilia for decades. A new investigation has launched into charges he committed crimes against girls in Fulton County. Dream Hampton, executive producer of 'Surviving R. Kelly,' said it best.
Happy Birthday @rkelly https://t.co/vJsPMKYMF9

- dream hampton (@dreamhampton) January 8, 2019
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Snakes in Suits

Feds find 23 guns in office of indicted gun-control advocate Chicago Democrat

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Wed, 09 Jan 2019 11:36 UTC
Edward Burke

Edward Burke
A longtime Chicago alderman and staunch gun-control advocate who was arrested on federal corruption charges stemming from an attempt to use his position to extort a company hoping to renovate a fast food restaurant in his ward was found to have 23 firearms in his offices, according to a local CBS affiliate.

Edward Burke, who has for decades been one of the city's most powerful and most notoriously corrupt officials, reportedly relied on a city ordinance stemming from the 1870s that designated all Aldermen as "peace officers" allowing them to carry and store weapons in their offices and city buildings - where even those with a concealed carry permit are not allowed to carry them.
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Sick! 'TransKids' site sells fake penises for girls who identify as boys

Dave Urbanski
The Blaze
Wed, 09 Jan 2019 11:36 UTC
TransKids website
The website is called "TransKids," and it's "dedicated to providing young folks with gender expression gear and resources," according to its homepage.

What 'gear,' exactly?

For instance, the site sells a number of books for kids, some aimed at gender transition:

Comment: This 'transgender' indoctrination of children is the product of some sick minds.

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Eye 1

When we protected women from the wolves

James P. Pinkerton
The American Conservative
Mon, 31 Dec 2018 00:01 UTC
little red riding hood
Okay, so with the holiday season coming to a close, we've now been through the entire dialectical sequence for the song "Baby, It's Cold Outside."

Featured in the film Neptune's Daughter, the song won an Oscar in 1950 and remained a popular standard for decades. That was the dialectical thesis.

Then came the antithesis. More recently, "Baby, It's Cold Outside" has been judged to be retrograde, inappropriate, even an ode to date rape.

Comment: It's a shame that traditional roles are looked upon as antiquated and oppressive in the current paradigm, as they undoubtedly served a useful function. Regardless of whether or not they were perfect (likely not), it seems modern humans are eager to throw the baby out with the bathwater, recasting women in the role of men and men as useless and 'toxic'; an unsustainable re-imagining if there ever was one.

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Airplane

Woman hops on counter, screams and yells 'racist' at JetBlue employee

Katherine Rodriguez
Breitbart
Wed, 09 Jan 2019 09:52 UTC
Jetblue
© AP Photo/Richard Drew
An irate woman had a complete meltdown when she found out she could not board her flight out of a Florida airport, jumping on a counter and yelling the word "racist" at a JetBlue employee, according to a video posted Monday on Instagram.


The viral video, shot by singer Post Malone's manager Dre London, shows the unidentified passenger screaming "racist" at a JetBlue employee working the counter at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport while throwing her body onto the counter by the gate.
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France is in free fall

Guy Millière
Gatestone Institute
Sun, 06 Jan 2019 06:00 UTC
Yellow vests Paris
© Veronique de Viguerie/Getty Images
French President Emmanuel Macron seems to hope that weariness will lead the "yellow vests" protestors to give up, but there seems no sign of it yet. On the contrary, the "yellow vests" seem dedicated to bringing him down. Pictured: "Yellow vests" protesters on December 15, 2018 in Paris, France.
  • French officials evidently understand that the terrorists are engaged in a long war and that it will be difficult to stop them; so they seem to have given in. These officials are no doubt aware that young French Muslims are being radicalized in increasing numbers. The response, however, has been to strengthen Muslim institutions in France.
  • At the time President Macron was speaking, one of his emissaries was in Morocco to sign the UN Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, which defines immigration as "beneficial" for the host countries. Under it, signatory states pledge to "strengthen migrant-inclusive service delivery systems."
  • A group of retired generals published an open letter, saying that signing the Global Compact was a further step towards "the abandonment of national sovereignty" and noted that "80% of the French population think that immigration must be halted or regulated drastically".
  • The author Éric Zemmour described the "yellow vests" revolt as the result of the "despair of people who feel humiliated, forgotten, dispossessed of their own country by the decisions of a contemptuous caste".

Comment: What is clear at this point is how completely out of touch Macron is with the people he supposedly democratically governs. If he continues to outright ignore their demands, refusing to give any concessions, living in a bubble of his own hubris, it's likely the Yellow Vests will get their wish and he'll be hoisted on his own petard.

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Bad Guys

Americans rapidly accepting unrestricted facial recognition tech


RT
Wed, 09 Jan 2019 04:19 UTC
facial recognition cameras
Americans are increasingly embracing Big Brother, according to a recent survey that found only one in four want restrictions on the use of facial recognition technology by governments - a marked change from two months ago.

Just one in four Americans want strict government limits on the use of biometric technology - with opposition shrinking further if such technology would help law enforcement, reduce shoplifting, or speed up security screenings at the airport, according to a national poll conducted last month by the Center for Data Innovation. Opposition to biometric surveillance decreases with age, and women are more accepting of the technology than men, the poll results show.
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Bizarro Earth

University initiates disciplinary action against professor who exposed shoddy scholarship of 'grievance studies'

James Varney
Washington Times
Mon, 07 Jan 2019 03:46 UTC
Portland State University
© Beth Nakamura/The Oregonian via AP
In this Sept. 21, 2017, photo, students settle into their dorm at Portland State University in Portland, Ore.
A scholar whose carefully crafted fiction helped expose the rot within some sectors of the modern academy is now under fire from his home, Portland State University, although prominent academics throughout the West have risen to his defense.

Peter Boghossian, an assistant professor of philosophy at Portland State University in Oregon, led a trio of scholars last year who submitted to leading publications what they called "intentionally broken" papers on gender, race and sexuality. Several of the absurd pieces were published.

Now, Portland State has initiated disciplinary action against Mr. Boghossian for what it calls a breach of the institution's ethical guidelines.

Among the renowned international scholars urging Portland State to forgo such action is University of Oxford professor emeritus Richard Dawkins, who compared PSU administrators to the duplicitous pigs in George Orwell's "Animal Farm."

Comment: Universities are now fighting in favor of corrupt scholarship. How much clearer can it get that US 'higher learning' institutions have become corrupt and dogmatic centers for the indoctrination of post-modern ideology?

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Attention

University students appalled by Trump immigration quotes, except they're actually from Democrats

Cabot Phillips
Campus Reform
Tue, 08 Jan 2019 18:43 UTC
campus reform
This month, the federal government entered a partial shutdown after Congress was unable to reach a budget agreement, primarily on funding for President Donald Trump's proposed wall along the southern border.

The wall, a key talking point for Trump throughout the campaign, has been decried by leaders in the Democrat party as anti-American and immoral, among other things.

But their opposition to the wall and embrace of looser immigration laws seems to be a new development.

Comment: It's actually pretty amazing to see how in the short span of just a couple of years, perceptions of a given issue can be altered because 'orange man bad'.

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Bad Guys

IDF captures Palestinian militant who reportedly killed two Israeli soldiers


Sputnik
Tue, 08 Jan 2019 18:10 UTC
IDF soldiers
© AP Photo / Majdi Mohammed
The Israeli Security Forces have captured a militant who murdered two IDF soldiers during the shooting near Givat Asaf crossing north of Jerusalem on 13 December, Israel Police National Spokesman to the foreign Media Micky Rosenfeld said on Tuesday.

"Yamam CT operations capture wanted terrorist Aatzam Barguti, behind the attack at Givat Asaf bus stop when 2 soldiers were murdered on 13.12", Rosenfeld wrote on Twitter.
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