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Canada's Supreme Court refuses law school accreditation to Christian university because it advocates traditional marriage

Hank Berrien
The Daily Wire
Tue, 19 Jun 2018 14:14 UTC

A Canadian evangelical Christian university will not be permitted to gain accreditation for its law school because it championed a code of conduct that included abstinence from sex outside of heterosexual marriage.

The Supreme Court in Canada, in two 7-2 rulings, found that the law societies of British Columbia and Ontario could deny Trinity Western University accreditation for its law school because of the university's community covenant that included the code of conduct.

The justices ruled that the covenant would impede LGBT students from attending the proposed law school and those who attended would be at risk of significant harm.

Comment: Would the Supreme Court rule the same way if this hadn't been a Christian university, but rather a Muslim or Jewish one?

Like a bad boyfriend, Facebook will harass you mercilessly if you try to break up

Phil Baker
PJ Media
Tue, 19 Jun 2018 13:15 UTC

Breaking up with Facebook is apparently as difficult as breaking up with a bad boyfriend or girlfriend who won't accept your decision. That's the experience Henry Grabar of Slate had when he stopped signing on. He stopped logging in on June 6 and stayed off Facebook for ten days. He had been a member for over ten years and this was the longest period he had remained off the social network. But Facebook didn't leave him alone. He received 17 email messages in a span of nine days urging him to return.

Grabar is not alone in trying to wean himself off Facebook for various reasons. Some do it because they realize it can be a waste of time, while others do it because of the company's inability to protect (or lack of interest in protecting) its members' personal data. The company has mistakenly released data of nearly 100 million of its members and friends of members to third parties, and many of them have used the data for illicit purposes. While Facebook says they are not losing members, some recent statistics paint a different story. According to a Pew study, only 51 percent of U.S. teenagers use the service now, down from 71 percent in 2015. This was the first time the numbers have fallen.

Grabar found that the messages he received actually reinforced his decision to stay off the platform. On one day he received two emails telling him a distant friend had posted a new photo. On another day he received a message telling him that 88 people liked a post in a group he belonged to. And on another day he received an email telling him there was a post to his college alumni group.

Comment: Back in its early days, the messages that you'd get from Facebook would also show what it was people were liking or the comment itself. Now, it only tells you that someone did something but it won't show the details, forcing you to log in to see what it was about. In any case, despite their harassment, people are still leaving the platform. See also:

Iowa Family gets $2 million settlement over cop who killed mother while trying to kill her dog - cop walks free

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Tue, 19 Jun 2018 13:23 UTC

A family has finally won a settlement in the tragic death of their mother, but the only people held liable for the cop who tried to kill a dog and killed an innocent mother instead - are the taxpayers.

On Monday, the taxpayers of Burlington, Iowa were told that they will be hit with a $2 million bill to pay for a police officer who shot and killed an innocent mother. The tragic scenario was captured on video and the fact that most of that video remains a secret was part of the reason the family received the settlement in the wrongful death suit.

The settlement was announced on June 6, but the amount had not been made public until Monday.

Last month, during a federal court hearing in Davenport, Iowa, officials revealed that the confidential police video - a key piece of evidence in exonerating a cop who killed the innocent mom - does not corroborate the cop's claims that he was bitten by a dog before firing the fatal shots that accidentally killed the mother of two.

As TFTP previously reported, the Burlington police department released a 12-second clip from a Burlington Police officer's body cam showing him shooting and killing Autumn Steele.

Comment: Previously:

Video footage shows cop trying to shoot dog but killing innocent mother instead

Five reasons liberals are not nice people to hang out with

John Hawkins
Townhall
Tue, 03 Apr 2012 12:28 UTC

Don't get me wrong. Not every conservative has a winning personality and not every liberal is a toothache in search of a mouth to inhabit. In fact, one of the single nicest people I know is a liberal (Hi, Julie Joyce!) Yet and still, it's not a reach to say that most liberals, especially the ones that are politically active, are just generally difficult to get along with.

It's not just me saying that either. I've interviewed more than one big name conservative who has told me that they moved over to the right in large part because the other liberals they were around were such insufferable human beings.

John Hawkins: ...I always find the stories of people who ideologically move from the left to the right to be fascinating and I noticed that you used to be a liberal who even worked for Ron Dellums...

Michael Medved: Ron Dellums helped to make me a conservative.

John Hawkins: How so? What caused you to move to the right?

Michael Medved: First of all, even at the time I went to work for Dellums, I knew better. Because I was never that far out. I mean I supported Robert Kennedy, not Eugene McCarthy.

John Hawkins: Dellums was even a Communist, wasn't he?

Michael Medved: Yeah, he basically was. I worked for Dellums for 6 weeks and then I couldn't stand it anymore. Because I think he so clearly demonstrated some of the most malign and malevolent tendencies of the American Left. Corruption, drug use, Communist sympathies if not Communist party membership.

Comment: The article was written five years ago, but seems even more relevant today.

For a deep analysis on the liberalism vs conservatism divide, we recommend Jonathan Haidt's excellent book: The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

All your memes are belong to us: Is Europe trying to put an end to memes?

Emily Zanotti
The Daily Wire
Tue, 19 Jun 2018 00:01 UTC

European Union leaders appear to believe they're about to spell the end of the "meme" by passing a series of copyright protections for intellectual property holders known as the Copyright Directive.

The new laws aim to curb any use of copyrighted material, even if that material is made into a derivative work, or an internet meme - and the new protections would allow companies like Google and Facebook, who operate social media sites and can control content, to pull "questionable" material that could be subject to a copyright claim.

That means, critics say, that the European Union will force Google and Facebook to end the meme as we know it. And any speech that anyone in the European Union finds objectionable (or might find objectionable).

Comment: From Techdirt:

David Kaye, the UN's Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression has now chimed in with a very thorough report, highlighting how Article 13 of the Directive -- the part about mandatory copyright filters -- would be a disaster for free speech and would violate the UN's Declaration on Human Rights, and in particular Article 19 which (in case you don't know) says:

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; the right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media regardless of frontiers.
As Kaye's report notes, the upload filters of Article 13 of the Copyright Directive would almost certainly violate this principle.

Former town mayor in Wales convicted of rape and assault of two girls under nine years old

Amie Gordon
Daily Mail
Tue, 19 Jun 2018 11:02 UTC

David Boswell, pictured outside Swansea Crown Court, was found guilty of raping a young girl

A former Welsh Tory mayor is facing a jail sentence after being convicted of raping a young girl.

David Boswell, who was the Conservative mayor of Pembroke, West Wales, was found guilty of raping a young girl.

The 56-year-old, who is still a Pembrokeshire county councillor, was also found guilty of three indecent assaults against her and another girl by a jury at Swansea Crown Court.

David Boswell, pictured outside Swansea Crown Court, was found guilty of raping a young girl

The court heard Boswell raped a nine-year-old girl and indecently assaulted another youngster aged under 13 between 1990 and 1994.

Comment: It's clear the political establishment is well and truly ponerized:

Several injured after "minor explosion" at London's Southgate tube station

RT
Wed, 20 Jun 2018 10:47 UTC

A "minor explosion," likely caused by a battery short circuit, triggered an evacuation at London's Southgate tube station on Tuesday evening, police said, adding that a number of people received minor injuries.

Police said a small number of people were treated at the scene. Emergency services arrived at the station just after 7pm following reports of a small explosion. Local reports suggest that one person was taken out of the station on a stretcher.

Comment: See also:

UK MP: Time for 'British renaissance', abolish the House of Lords

Westmonster
Mon, 18 Jun 2018 12:00 UTC

The eminently sensible Labour MP Frank Field has made another great call - he wants to see the unelected House of Lords abolished.

It comes after Europhile Lords decided to repeatedly vote to overrule the referendum result and push for a Customs Union with the EU and for EEA membership, which would mean open borders.

This blatant disregard for democracy has seen the public turn against the unelected House that now has very little public support.

Field is taking up the mantle for change, tweeting: "Brexit should begin a British renaissance that starts with the abolition of the House of Lords - I will present a Bill on Tuesday that seeks to replace the Lords with a new senate."

Comment: An unelected body wielding so much power and dogged by scandal is hardly the democracy of the future:

Canada legalises recreational cannabis use in a 52-29 senate vote

BBC
Wed, 20 Jun 2018 09:01 UTC

Canada's parliament has passed a law legalising the recreational use of marijuana nationwide.

The Cannabis Act passed its final hurdle on Tuesday in a 52-29 vote in the Senate. The bill controls and regulates how the drug can be grown, distributed, and sold.

Canadians will be able to buy and consume cannabis legally as early as this September.

The country is the second worldwide to legalise the drug's recreational use.

Uruguay became the first country to legalise the sale of cannabis for recreational use in December 2013, while a number of US states have also voted to permit it.

Comment: Prohibition doesn't work and has only served to criminalize otherwise law abiding people while lining the pockets of nefarious organizations:

Also check out SOTT radio's: The Health & Wellness Show: The Highs and Lows of Cannabis as Medicine

The lies we tell ourselves about our government

Michael Krieger
Libertyblitzkrieg
Mon, 18 Jun 2018 15:22 UTC

"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office."

Your average mass media pundit regularly decries the fact Americans no longer have trust in the country's institutions, yet simultaneously refuse to take any sort of responsibility for the situation. Government bureaucrats and other assorted supporters of our decrepit status quo tend to do the same thing. As is typically the case, I'll take the other side.

Not only do I think it's completely sane for Americans to have zero faith in their institutions, including but certainly not limited to the three-letter agencies, Congress and the Federal Reserve, I'll take it a step further and argue we as citizens remain far too naive and trusting for our own good. If nothing else, the recent Justice Department Inspector General's (IG) report on the FBI's investigation of Hillary Clinton's email server should underscore the point.

Telling the truth? What a fucking joke. Liz Cheney is the spawn of Satan.

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Society's Child

Canada's Supreme Court refuses law school accreditation to Christian university because it advocates traditional marriage

Like a bad boyfriend, Facebook will harass you mercilessly if you try to break up

Iowa Family gets $2 million settlement over cop who killed mother while trying to kill her dog - cop walks free

Five reasons liberals are not nice people to hang out with

All your memes are belong to us: Is Europe trying to put an end to memes?

Former town mayor in Wales convicted of rape and assault of two girls under nine years old

Several injured after "minor explosion" at London's Southgate tube station

UK MP: Time for 'British renaissance', abolish the House of Lords

Canada legalises recreational cannabis use in a 52-29 senate vote

The lies we tell ourselves about our government

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