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Officials from 6 nations planning to boycott the 2018 World Cup in Russia

Putin World Cup
Moscow has been busily preparing its facilities to host the 2018 World Cup games. Not only has Moscow been part of this but so have other places around the Russian Federation. However, there is a push on in the Western nations for the officials of six countries (Poland, Iceland, Denmark, Sweden, Australia and Japan) to boycott the event.

That's fine. Stay home. Russia doesn't need you here anyway if you don't want to be here.

The London tabloid The Sun ran this report in the evening of March 26th, 2018. In its piece it elicited the "outrageous" attack on Sergei Skripal and his daugher Yulia, pinned the blame for this attack on Russia, and on President Vladimir Putin in particular, and then went on weaving false narratives with the same aplomb as that of a drunken sailor on a rant:

Pirates

Anti-human vegan extremists try to ruin a man's restaurant, so he butchers and eats deer leg in front of them

Toronto chef deer
A Toronto chef, apparently exasperated at an animal rights protest outside his restaurant, carried what appeared to be a leg of raw venison to the front windows facing the sidewalk. As the protesters watched, he took a knife and began separating the meat from the bone.

As he worked, one of the protesters videoed the scene and gave frantic commentary: "To taunt the activists," said the man behind the camera in a video posted online and picked up by BlogTO, "he has brought the leg of a recently murdered deer to this dining area."

Michael Hunter, the chef and owner of Antler Kitchen and Bar, didn't look at the protesters, didn't say anything. Some police officers on hand for the protest entered the restaurant to speak with him - though Toronto police deny they asked him to stop what he was doing. "It's his restaurant he can do what he wants, really," Sgt. Philip Townley said.

Comment: This goes further than mere opposing views. These activists are using pseudo-compassion as a means of control, domination and ultimately as a means of destruction. Such desire for power is blinding, even in being able to see such a desire for what it is. It consumes and becomes the regulator of thought and behavior, disguising itself with misdirected and often impossible 'noble intentions'. It leads to being passively possessed by an idea, a volatile tool of the idea itself rather than its master.

The inevitable weakness that follows prevents foresight, self examination, and any genuine compassion. For example, the protest organizer Marni Ugar said she was 'shocked' at the restaurant owner carving up a meal in front of them, yet she apparently can't comprehend her reprehensible behavior of actively trying to harm a man's livelihood and reputation. Instead of attracting converts to their cause, they expose themselves as petty zealots. It's little wonder why these extremists identify so strong with animals. They reject what it is to be human. That said, they're much worse animals than the animals which they claim to defend. Fortunately, plenty of reasonable people who have never previously heard of the restaurant will now seek it out and support it.


Fire

Pope Francis' 'There's no hell' remark sets Twitter on fire

fire
© CCO
"There is no hell where the souls of sinners suffer for eternity," Pope Francis said as quoted by the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, but did he really?

According to the media, Pope Francis said that the souls of those who repent are pardoned by God and "join in his contemplation" after death, but those who do not show repentance cannot be pardoned and their souls "disappear." The Pope concluded that hell does not exist - "what exists is the disappearance of sinful souls," the newspaper reports.

Cross

Weirdo college professor claims Jesus was a 'gender-fluid drag king with queer desires'

Dr. Tat-siong Benny Liew
© College of the Holy Cross/Google maps
College of the Holy Cross professor, Dr. Tat-siong Benny Liew, claims Jesus was a "drag king" who had "queer desires."
A theology professor at a Catholic college is making some bizarre - some would even say blasphemous - claims about Jesus Christ that is causing a stir on campus.

Dr. Tat-siong Benny Liew, chair of New Testament Studies at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass., said Jesus was a "drag king" who had "queer desires." He also claims the Last Supper was a "literary striptease" and that Jesus was not a man, but gender fluid.

The "Gospel of John" professor cited the book of John in the Bible to try to back his arguments.

"[Christ] ends up appearing as a drag-kingly bride in his passion," he argues. "If one follows the trajectory of the Wisdom/Word or Sophia/Jesus (con)figuration, what we have in John's Jesus is not only a 'king of Israel' or 'king of the Ioudaioi [Jews],' but also a drag king."

Comment: Disgusting speech about Jesus is a-okay but say that Allah is gay and you'll get yourself banned from the UK like Lauren Southern.


USA

Tucker Carlson: Obama administration pushed the idea that girls thrive when men fail

Let Girls Learn Initiative
The Obama White House sought new ways to close a gender gap that no longer existed.

One Obama administration initiative was "breaking down gender stereotypes in toys."

Educators at all levels supported Obama's drive to raise up women and bring down men. Under Obama, the war against 'toxic masculinity' was launched.

Comment: See also:


Question

What is wrong with people? Nikolas Cruz swamped with love letters, photos and money from besotted teen girls

Nikolas Cruz
© Amy Beth Bennett / Global Look Press
Nikolas Cruz, who is accused of killing 17 people in a high school shooting in February, has been inundated with sexually provocative letters and money from besotted fans, according to a local newspaper.

Teenage girls and women have bombarded 19-year-old Cruz, who is currently being held in Broward County jail, with romantic and sexually-explicit mail, according to local newspaper the Sun Sentinel, which obtained photocopies of the letters.

A woman from Chicago enclosed nine "suggestive" photos, while another from Texas commented on his "beautiful" eyes. An 18-year-old from New York included pink hearts in her letter, saying "I know you could use a good friend right now." Another girl sent photos with Hello Kitty Snapchat filters.

Attention

"No Allahu Akbar": Failed ramming attack was not terrorism says French prosecutor

french police
© FILE PHOTO Philippe Huguen / AFP
A motorist has been detained after attempting to mow down soldiers who were jogging near an army base in southern France. The prosecutor has said that the incident did not relate to terrorism.

The incident took place in the town of Varces-Allieres-et-Risset on Thursday morning. A group of soldiers from the 93rd Mountain Artillery Regiment had just started jogging when the vehicle sped towards them.

The servicemen managed to evade the attacker by jumping into a nearby ditch. "The soldiers managed to get up onto the pavement without being hit," army spokesman Colonel Benoit Brulon told AFP.

In a tweet, the prefecture of the Isere region described the incident a "heinous act." BFMTV reported that the driver attempted to hit the servicemen at least twice before speeding away.

Comment: Terrorism is a distinct category and does not include every disgruntled nut job who acts out - even if they shout some tired trope before they do. Though, as noted in the article, this does come on the heels of another event in France that happened just days ago: Three homemade bombs and other weapons found at site of French supermarket attack

Also See: Saudi prince MBS: 'Anglo-Americans asked us to spread Extremist Islam to defeat Russia in Cold War'


Alarm Clock

"Whom the gods wish to destroy": The Telford child sex scandal and the end of England

telford scandal
I've got to assume that very few Americans ever heard of Telford, a district in the English West Midlands. Steve Sailer admits to never having heard of it; and if Steve hasn't heard of it, nobody has.

This is excusable. There was no such place as Telford until 1968. That was when bureaucratic managerialism in Britain was in the ascendant. Ancient towns and villages were being grouped together in strange new entities under stone-faced administrators filled with a conviction of their own managerial competence. Britain's old counties were reorganized to suit the inclinations and convenience of these mandarins, and people were shoveled around like so many truckloads of concrete.

Shortly afterwards Britain entered the European Union, and those British mandarins, to their delight, became globalist apparatchiks, with way bigger expense accounts. They must have had many a laugh with each other, over the champagne and truffles, at how easy it had been.

It was the end of old England. Mass Third World immigration was a key component of the new order. British people who dared to raise their voices against what was happening - people like Enoch Powell - were insulted, abused, and hounded out of public life.

Comment: More on the Telford scandal:


Beaker

Nerve agent that poisoned Skripal detected on his front door

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© Rex Features
Skripal's front door
British police say that the highest concentration of the nerve agent that came in contact with double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, was detected on the front door of his home in Salisbury.

"At this point in our investigation, we believe the Skripals first came into contact with the nerve agent from their front door," Deputy Assistant Commissioner Dean Haydon, Senior National Coordinator for Counter Terrorism Policing, said on Wednesday evening.

Haydon said that further police work would concentrate around the neighborhood where the Skripals, who remain in critical condition, live, but he insisted that "risk remains low" for ordinary inhabitants. Haydon added that "officers are likely (to) be in the area for several weeks and months."

Met police reported that there are still 250 detectives investigating the March 4 incident, which they say involved a variant of Novichok, a powerful nerve agent developed in the Soviet Union. More than 500 potential witnesses have now been interviewed, and 1,350 pieces of evidence collected.

Comment: Skripal's front door has opened a can of worms!


Star of David

New lame idea: 60M 'potential Jews' could be converted in order to promote Israel

GuyIsraeliflag
© Baz Ratner/Reuters
"Hey there...want to convert to Judaism and convince your friends to not be anti-Semitic?"
An Israeli government committee's recommendation to target "potential Jews" around the world to promote Israel, and even be converted, has been slammed by religious groups.

According to the committee, created by Israel's Diaspora Affairs' Ministry in 2016, there are 60 million people around the world who have an "affinity" to Judaism or Israel. The report includes a 'strategic plan' to target such people with the hope that some might even be converted.

It recommended providing learning materials about Judaism and Hebrew to these communities. It also floated the idea of harnessing these groups' "public diplomacy to promote support for Israel and aid in the struggle against anti-Semitism."

On Sunday, the committee called for the Israeli government to create a plan to identify those with links to Judaism but who are not eligible for immigration under Israel's Law of Return, which allows Jews to immigrate to the state of Israel. This would include those with Jewish ancestors, such as the Marranos in Spain and Portugal who converted to Christianity, along with those who hid their Judaism from oppressive regimes.

The report divided its targets into five "circles of affinity." The first group is "core" Jews, making up around 14 million. The second is nine million people who qualify under the law of return, the third group is "distant relatives" of Jews.

Comment: Israel doesn't want converts to live in Israel, they just want to up the influence factor by increasing 'Jewish' numbers in other countries.