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Black Friday 2018: Homo-Americanus hungrily stalks flat screen TVs


RT
Sat, 24 Nov 2018 15:06 UTC
NYC shoppers
© Reuters / Stephanie Keith
People shopping during a Black Friday sales event at Macy's flagship store in New York City on Thanksgiving.
You'd be forgiven for thinking internet shopping has made night-long queues in the November cold and frenzied fights over discounted TV-sets things of the past - but you'd be wrong. Black Friday traditions are stronger than that.

It's the year 2018 and while online retail giants like Amazon continue to kick the proverbial ass and take names of bricks and mortar stores, it appears thousands of old-school shoppers still enjoy the adrenaline and satisfaction of literally chasing a bargain.

Sadly, the chaos once reserved for Black Friday has leaked into Thanksgiving Thursday. The day intended to be spent with loved ones over turkey dinner, has been somewhat overshadowed by the department store race to pull in the first customers.
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Pakistan arrests Cleric whose supporters held violent rallies over Blasphemy Law


RFEL
Fri, 23 Nov 2018 00:00 UTC
Khadim Hussain Rizvi
© Arif Ali/AP
Khadim Hussain Rizvi speaks to supporters during a protest following the Supreme Court's decision to acquit Pakistani Christian woman Asia Bibi of blasphemy, in Lahore on November 2.
Pakistani authorities have arrested a radical Islamic cleric whose followers held violent rallies against the acquittal of a Christian woman in a blasphemy case.

Khadim Hussain Rizvi, the leader of the hard-line Tehrik-e Labaik party was arrested late on November 23 in the eastern city of Lahore, the party said in a statement.

Police said that Rizvi's supporters clashed with police soon after he was taken away, with at least five people wounded.
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Professional Santa fired from parade after saying he wouldn't consider hiring a female Santa

Tom Dillane
NZ Herald
Sat, 24 Nov 2018 10:40 UTC
Neville Baker Santa
© Michael Craig
Neville Baker has been the Farmers Santa Parade Santa for the past four years. He runs My Santa, a recruitment company that specialises in training and placing professional Santas.
The man who Farmers ditched as their longstanding Santa in tomorrow's Auckland Christmas parade has said he is taking legal advice over a "big wrong" done to him.

Neville Baker told the Herald on Sunday tonight it had been insinuated he was a "pervert".

"Everyone is picking things out and making me to look to be stupid. I'm going to take legal advice right across the board I'm going to address this because there's been a big wrong."

Comment: Since when do "family values" include gender-bending traditional beloved characters? If you're going to cast for a bio-pic, you're going to choose an actor who conforms to the look, including the gender, of the person being depicted. The same goes for Santa Claus. That suggesting this would mean you lose your contract is yet another example of the runaway train of SJWism.

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Gold losing its luster as palladium prices soar but Russia keeps smiling


RT
Sat, 24 Nov 2018 13:50 UTC
An employee places ingots of 99.98 percent pure palladium on a table
© Reuters / Ilya Naymushin
An employee places ingots of 99.98 percent pure palladium on a table.
Palladium prices have been hitting record highs, jumping more than nine percent this year - the best performance among major metals, and investors are betting the bull run is just getting started.

Almost 70 percent of palladium demand comes from the auto industry, according to researcher CPM Group. The metal, which is used mainly in catalytic converters, has benefited from the automobile industry's move away from diesel to petrol engines. The shift has boosted demand in a market which currently has limited supply.
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Why are the WaPo and #resistance liberals mourning a slain al-Qaeda-linked propagandist?


Sputnik
Sat, 24 Nov 2018 13:24 UTC
Raed Fares al qaeda
© Front Line Defenders
Raed Fares, al Qaeda propagandist
The assassination of a prominent Syrian rebel in the province of Idlib on Friday has engendered some Western observers to laud him as a "pro-democracy activist" who is against extremism. A cursory look through Raed Fares' social media pages, however, reveals his sympathies may have laid elsewhere.

Fares is known for orchestrating photo shoots in a small village in Idlib called Kafranbel and running a reportedly "independent" radio station. He is said to have been kidnapped by al-Qaeda affiliates in addition to attempts to take his life over the past few years.

Comment: Whatever he was personally, Fares appears to have been a good foot soldier in the Empire's Syrian theater, effectively spreading the poison of disinformation and division.

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'Vegaphobia': Vegans come up with an SJW term for 'hating on vegans', say they're victims of oppression

Manisha Krishnan
VICE
Wed, 21 Nov 2018 11:51 UTC
vegan protester
© Sylvain Lefevre/ABACAPRESS.COM
I've written before about why some people react negatively toward veganism.

The vegans I interviewed shared a wide variety of reasons they believed people felt resentful toward vegans, including a lack of diversity within the vegan community, perceived preachiness, comparisons to the Holocaust or slavery, as well as defensiveness about being a meat eater and not wanting to change.


Comment: First of all, the idea that people who object to veganism are 'resentful' is a misnomer. 'Annoyed' would be a much better adjective. Second, "lack of diversity" is probably not even on the list of the anti-vegans' grievances. It's obvious where this author is coming from and that she's completely unable to see outside her own bubble.


Comment:
This whole thing is preposterous. The fact that its become the norm to attach "phobia" onto any label of someone who is against something is an incorrect use of English. Vegan-haters aren't afraid of vegans. There's no phobia involved.

But the idea that someone's chosen dietary lifestyle can cause them to become the victim of oppression is just silly. If you choose to eat differently from the rest of the population, (and to be damn preachy about it) so be it. But to complain about marginalization is completely hypocritical - you've marginalized yourselves.

If vegans weren't so overly enthusiastic about trying to win converts to their twisted worldview, they would likely encounter much fewer instances of "vegaphobia". Unfortunately, the reasonable vegans who keep their lifestyle to themselves often get caught in the crossfire.

Here's a few additional possible reasons for the rise of "vegaphobia":

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'Simply inhuman': Greek cleaning lady jailed 10 years for faking school certificate


Times of Malta
Sat, 24 Nov 2018 12:32 UTC
school classroom
A Greek cleaning lady has been sentenced to 10 years in jail for fibbing about her elementary school record in a court ruling which has provoked uproar in the country.

The 53-year-old woman had worked at a publicly-funded nursery for 15 years until a review in 2014 revealed she had doctored a certificate documenting her primary education.

A regional court handed down the sentence this month on charges of defrauding the public, according to the semi-official Athens News Agency.
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Twitter shuts down account for comparing siege of Gaza to the Warsaw Ghetto

Tony Greenstein
Mondoweiss
Sat, 24 Nov 2018 12:32 UTC
3D-printed Facebook and Twitter logos
© Dado Ruvic / Reuters
According to Twitter, wishing Jewish anti-Zionists had died in Auschwitz is not a breach of rules whereas comparing the siege of Gaza to the Warsaw Ghetto is.

On November 17th I was informed by Twitter that my account was suspended permanently. No reason was given. However Jack Mendel @mendelpol who describes himself as a web editor and 'so-called journalist' at the Jewish News was soon boasting that he had made a complaint.

This is not the first time that Twitter has targeted my account. In February, at the height of the campaign to free Ahed Tamimi, 17, from Israeli jail, Twitter locked my account. My offence? As part of my profile I had a photo of Israeli soldiers violently attacking Ahed and other Palestinian children. 'Remove' they demanded.
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The FAANG stocks — Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google — lost more than $1 trillion and counting

Michael Sheetz
CNBC
Tue, 20 Nov 2018 17:05 UTC
FAANG stocks
The five "FAANG" stocks collectively lost more than $1 trillion in market value from recent highs on an intraday basis Tuesday.

The stocks - Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google-parent Alphabet - all began Tuesday trading lower. Apple led the group's losses, falling 4.8 percent. The four other stocks later turned around, with Facebook and Alphabet ending the day higher.

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Man suspected of money laundering after $400,000 found in washing machine


CNN
Sat, 24 Nov 2018 10:36 UTC
money laundry

Police were looking for unregistered residents when they found the valuable load.
The term "money laundering" was never more appropriate than this week, when Dutch police found around $400,000 stuffed inside the drum of a washing machine.

A man present in the house during Monday's raid was arrested on suspicion of -- yes, you've guessed it -- money laundering.

Authorities were checking for unregistered residents in western Amsterdam when they found the load.

The municipal administration revealed that no one lived at the address," the police told CNN in a statement. "When the police did a search through the house they found €350,000 hidden in the washing machine."

Comment: This guy needs to check out how the pro's do it:

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