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DOJ and ATF about to find themselves in court over new bump stock ban

Chris Eger
Guns.com
Wed, 19 Dec 2018 15:06 UTC

Legal challenges have already been filed to a planned federal requirement to give bump stock owners 90 days to destroy or surrender their devices.

The Firearms Policy Coalition, Firearms Policy Foundation, and Madison Society Foundation on Tuesday filed a lawsuit in a Washington, D.C. federal court against Acting U.S. Attorney General Matthew Whitaker and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives seeking a motion to block a pending ban on bump stocks announced earlier that day. The member groups, filing on behalf of Pennsylvania bump stock owner Damien Guedes, argue Whitaker and the ATF are overstepping their legal authority.

"The ATF has misled the public about bump-stock devices," said Pennsylvania firearms attorney Joshua Prince, who along with Adam Kraut, is representing Guedes. "Worse, they are actively attempting to make felons out of people who relied on their legal opinions to lawfully acquire and possess devices the government unilaterally, unconstitutionally, and improperly decided to reclassify as 'machineguns'."

Editor-in-chief of Mother Jones caught skewing poll data to trash Bernie

RT
Thu, 20 Dec 2018 11:01 UTC

Bernie Sanders is unfit to be president because black women don't care for him, the editor-in-chief of a prominent American magazine has argued citing a poll that... doesn't really support her claim.

Clara Jeffery, editor-in-chief of Mother Jones, revealed to the internet on Tuesday that black women do not think that Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders would be an appetizing presidential candidate in 2020, preferring instead Democratic heartthrobs such as Senator Kamala Harris and former Vice President Joe Biden.

"Survey asked black women to say who's among their top three candidates: Harris: 71.1% Beto: 38.3% Biden: 25% Booker: 24.2% Warren: 22.3% Abrams: 15.2% Bernie: 12.1% Bernie's never going to be the nominee unless he turns these numbers around," Jeffery tweeted, along with a link to her source.

French media 'in cahoots' with govt: RT interviews censored Yellow Vest protester

RT
Thu, 20 Dec 2018 11:01 UTC

A French news channel's eyebrow-raising edit has reinforced the belief that the media "are in cahoots" with the country's political elite, a Yellow Vest protester, whose anti-Macron placard was airbrushed from a photo, told RT.

Jean-Baptiste Redde said he was shocked when he learned that TV channel France 3 had sanitized an AFP photograph showing him holding a sign that read "Macron out." The channel, which dropped the "out" part of Redde's message, blamed the curious Photoshop-job on a "human error."

That explanation was far from being enough for the activist. "The censorship by France 3 casts a shadow on the media in general," he told RT France. "The protesters start to think that the media are in cahoots with politicians and the financial elite. Such sort of censorship doesn't help the situation."

Racist, sexist UCLA professor says there's 'too many white male firefighters out there'

Hank Berrien
Daily Wire
Thu, 20 Dec 2018 11:01 UTC

In an article printed in the Harvard Business Review, a UCLA professor argued that there are too many white male firefighters in America.

Corinne Bendersky, Professor of Management and Organizations at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, who does research on "gender bias," posited "black firefighters still face challenges with social exclusion and explicit racism," and "firefighters tend to default to a reductive set of traits (physical strength evaluated through strict fitness tests, for example) that serve to maintain white men's dominance in the fire service."

In addition, Bendersky opined that because 64% of calls for firefighters are triggered by medical emergencies, being male is often insufficient, writing, "To succeed as a firefighter, stereotypically masculine traits like brawn and courage are simply not enough. Firefighters also need the intellectual, social, and emotional skills required to deliver medical emergency aid, support each other through traumatic experiences, and engage intimately with the communities they serve."

Comment: Also see: 'Humanities hijacked by ideologues': Jordan Peterson excoriates Western academia

Petition calls on Disney to drop Hakuna Matata trademark, because 'cultural appropriation'

Aanu Adeoye and Adeng Korium
CNN
Thu, 20 Dec 2018 11:01 UTC

"Hakuna Matata" was a well known song in Disney's 1994 hit movie "The Lion King." A remake of the "The Lion King" is due for release next year.

An online petition is calling on Disney to relinquish its trademark of the Swahili phrase "Hakuna Matata."

The phrase, which roughly translates to "no problems" or "no worries" and is a common expression in parts of eastern and southern Africa, is perhaps best known as a song in Disney's 1994 hit movie "The Lion King."

The company trademarked the expression the same year, according to the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

The petition, created by Zimbabwean activist Shelton Mpala, has received more than 50,000 signatures.

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Sick: Teacher who raped child should get off easy because he wanted it say lawyers

Joshua Rhett Miller
New York Post
Wed, 19 Dec 2018 09:25 UTC

Attorneys for a former middle school teacher who admitted having sex with a 14-year-old student argued she should serve less than the minimum sentence for the crime because the boy was a "willing participant," according to a motion filed on behalf of 27-year-old Stephanie Peterson obtained by the Daytona Beach News-Journal.

Peterson, who previously taught at New Smyrna Beach Middle School, pleaded guilty in October to lewd and lascivious battery sex act with a child and electronic transmission of material harmful to minors, admitting that she had sex with an eighth-grader in her car and gave him oral sex in her home and in a barn behind his home between November 2017 and last January, court documents show.

Peterson could have been sentenced to up to 20 years in prison if convicted of both felonies at trial, but she now faces between five and 10 years behind bars when she's sentenced Wednesday at a courthouse in DeLand.

Comment: If this were a male teacher one can only imagine the public outcry if the warped lawyers tried to claim the child 'wanted it':

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Feminism's dependency trap

Marilyn Simon
Quillette
Thu, 20 Dec 2018 08:35 UTC

Reading the news stories about #MeToo and sexual harassment, and the barrage of social media posts that accompanied these headlines, I became saddened but also increasingly frustrated. It wasn't the reports of men behaving badly that angered me, but the despair that seemed to be the expected response to these stories, and the helplessness that my female friends appeared to attach to femininity itself that I found troubling.

The unintended and painful irony of recent feminism's preoccupation with overcoming male oppression has been to place men at the centre of female identity. This makes the feminine experience something like an echo; women's voices seem to be little more than a response, or a rebuttal, to men's voices, which are taken to be primarily an instrument of patriarchal oppression. But, in my own experience, men aren't interested in maintaining power and control over women - they simply don't see women as a group that they are oppressing, or that they would like to oppress.

We hear a lot about "male privilege" but historically it has been the "privilege" of men to make their way in the hard world in order to first win a woman's affections, and then support the family structure financially. We might call this "patriarchy," but this term isn't the synonym for misogyny that contemporary progressive political culture seems to think it is. (One has to appreciate the misplaced sincerity of many of my university students who roundly condemn The Patriarchy, while driving their father's Toyota to campus every day, and using his savings to pay for their tuition. Not infrequently it occurs to me that the people who are most vocal against The Patriarchy are those who have benefited from it the most.)

Comment: See also:

International Tribunal Exposes Pedophilia Problem: Victims Testify About Child Sex Trafficking, Satanic Ritual Abuse And Power Structure

Brian Shilhavy
Health Impact News
Tue, 18 Dec 2018 00:00 UTC

800,000 children a year in the United States go missing, many of them being sexually trafficked through pedophilia networks where the children suffer unimaginable horrors such as Satanic ritual abuse.

This number is comprised of documented cases of children gone missing, and does not include children who are born and bred into pedophilia networks and have no birth certificates, or undocumented immigrant children who come across the borders.

Worldwide, the number is close to 8 million children missing and being sexually trafficked.

Such is the scope of the problem that was reported earlier this year (2018) in Westminster, London by The International Tribunal for Natural Justice (ITNJ), as the court convened over a 3-day period to launch their Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Human Trafficking and Child Sex Abuse.

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Hundreds of police departments have instituted 'public safety watchlists' using an array of surveillance technologies

MassPrivateI
Tue, 18 Dec 2018 00:00 UTC

To everyone that thinks secret watchlists are nothing more than a conspiracy theory I give you, law enforcement's secret public safety watchlists.

The name of the company responsible for creating public safety watchlists should say it all but I digress.

A recent article in Xconomy reveals that law enforcement is using Suspect Technologies facial recognition software to create secret public safety watchlists.

"Suspect Technologies is also working to pilot a real-time service next year by monitoring public surveillance video feeds with its facial recognition software and cross-referencing it all against a public safety watchlist, CEO Jacob Sniff says. He explained the plans but declined to identify the law enforcement client."

"We have an agency early adopter, his conception is he's going to have 10 facial recognition cameras in town: one in the police station lobby, some at the Greyhound bus locations, city hall, even the public pool area," Sniff says. "He's going to be scanning people's faces against a small public watchlist."

Hooded knife-man stabs three during rampage through two London surgeries

Amie Gordon
Daily Mail
Wed, 19 Dec 2018 18:23 UTC

machete attacks east london surgeries Dec 2018

One man has been arrested following the incident at St Stephen's Health Centre in East London this morning.

A man 'armed with kitchen knives' allegedly stabbed three people on a rampage through two London doctors' surgeries today.

Three people were taken to hospital after they were attacked in St Stephen's Health Centre in Tower Hamlets and The Tredegar Practice in Bow, east London by a man wielding a '12-inch blade'.

According to bystanders, the man burst into The Tredegar Practice around 11am and stabbed two men before lunging towards a mother-of-three in the waiting room as patients fled.

He was then tackled by a brave have-a-go hero before he ran out of the surgery and to the nearby St Stephen's Health Centre, where he allegedly attacked a wheelchair-bound woman.

Three remain in hospital, although their injuries are not understood to be life threatening.

Police were tonight questioning a 40-year-old suspect in relation to the stabbings.

Comment: No surprise - Sadiq Khan's response to the knife crime epidemic isn't proving to be effective:

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Society's Child

DOJ and ATF about to find themselves in court over new bump stock ban

Editor-in-chief of Mother Jones caught skewing poll data to trash Bernie

French media 'in cahoots' with govt: RT interviews censored Yellow Vest protester

Racist, sexist UCLA professor says there's 'too many white male firefighters out there'

Petition calls on Disney to drop Hakuna Matata trademark, because 'cultural appropriation'

Sick: Teacher who raped child should get off easy because he wanted it say lawyers

Feminism's dependency trap

International Tribunal Exposes Pedophilia Problem: Victims Testify About Child Sex Trafficking, Satanic Ritual Abuse And Power Structure

Hundreds of police departments have instituted 'public safety watchlists' using an array of surveillance technologies

Hooded knife-man stabs three during rampage through two London surgeries

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