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Italian pro-migration cooperative starts courtship course for migrants to teach them not to beat women for refusing to have a relationship with them

Alessandr
Defend Europa
Fri, 26 Jan 2018 10:06 UTC
Italian migrants
Modena, the cooperative "Red Lion" had the fantastic idea to start a courtship course for migrants, teaching them how to behave with Italian women and how to react to a refusal. We are truly living in surreal times.

Apparently, the people we are welcoming in our continent must be taught not to hurt women in case they refuse to have any kind of relationship with them. The "anti-racist" front in Italy has officially lost its mind. The same cooperative has been aiding "refugees" and migrants for a long time and is proud supporters of multiculturalism. A truly lovely progressive story.

Comment: It seems that no matter where you go in world, feminist ideology that places men at the root of all evil cannot be escaped and is making its way into public policy under the guise of 'diversity'. See also:

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Smoking

Japan gives up on total indoor smoking ban despite coercion ahead of Olympic games in 2020


Kyodo News
Tue, 30 Jan 2018 09:52 UTC
smoking japan
The Japanese government said Tuesday it plans to restrict use of heat-not-burn tobacco products but give up on a total ban on indoor smoking to prevent passive smoking, backpedaling from its initial goal due to industry resistance.

Heat-not-burn tobacco products will be restricted as a user's breath contains nicotine and other substances that can cause cancer, but use of such products will be allowed in specially designated rooms at restaurants where customers will also be able to eat and drink, according to the government plan.


Comment: Smoking tobacco does not cause cancer:


Under the plan drawn up by the health ministry, smoking will be completely banned in hospitals, schools, universities and government offices to protect children and others from secondhand smoking. Minors will be prohibited from entering smoking spaces.

Comment: It's a small victory but the anti-smoking nutjobs don't give up so easily. But to celebrate: Let's All Light Up!

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Fire

Massive fire engulfs Taiwan oil refinery after blast


RT
Tue, 30 Jan 2018 04:37 UTC
Taiwan oil refinery fire
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A huge inferno raged in Taoyuan City in northwestern Taiwan following an oil refinery blast. The explosion rattled nearby buildings and terrified residents, according to local media.

The blast occurred at the oil refinery in Taoyuan, which belongs to a Taiwan petrochemical company, at 6:42am local time on Monday, according to the state-run Xinhua news agency. Although the site is located in a densely populated area with hundreds of thousands of inhabitants, there were no reported casualties.

Locals heard a series of huge explosions that lasted for up to 10 minutes, with some comparing the sound to a "massive gun firing off for a long time," Taiwan News reports. Others said the blast was like an earthquake, according to Xinhua.

More than 40 firefighters were sent to tackle the blaze, which reportedly affected an area covering 50 square meters. An initial investigation suggests a heating furnace tube ruptured and caused the explosion, despite the refinery having recently undergone annual maintenance.

The incident triggered protests among local residents, who demanded the relocation of the refinery. A number of accidents, including two serious explosions, have occurred at the facility since it opened in the 1970s.

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Bill Gates planning to genetically engineer a 'super cow'

Matthew Loffhagen
Outer Places
Mon, 29 Jan 2018 18:31 UTC
GMO Cow
© Keith Weller/USDA
In recent years, Bill Gates has started dipping his toes into unusual pools of creativity.

The grand high emperor of Microsoft is already working on a sprawling, futuristic "smart city" to be built in the Arizona desert, but now he has a second project to devote his time to - he's going to engineer the perfect cow.

Bearing in mind his plan to build a desert city, this isn't a terrible idea - ideally, this genetically engineered bovine will be significantly more hardy than our current and inferior livestock, and will be able to produce milk at far higher temperatures.

Of course, Gates' plan isn't really aimed at creating cows to feed his technological utopia (although he probably won't mind if that's a nice side-effect). Instead, Gates is hoping that these cows will help his ongoing humanitarian work in arid parts of the world where famine and pestilence is still affecting the lives of millions.
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USA

The pathologies and underestimation of just how far along the American collapse is

Umair Haque
Eudaimonia
Thu, 25 Jan 2018 00:00 UTC
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The Strange New Pathologies of the World's First Rich Failed State

You might say, having read some of my recent essays, "Umair! Don't worry! Everything will be fine! It's not that bad!" I would look at you politely, and then say gently, "To tell you the truth, I don't think we're taking collapse nearly seriously enough."

Why? When we take a hard look at US collapse, we see a number of social pathologies on the rise. Not just any kind. Not even troubling, worrying, and dangerous ones. But strange and bizarre ones. Unique ones. Singular and gruesomely weird ones I've never really seen before, and outside of a dystopia written by Dickens and Orwell, nor have you, and neither has history. They suggest that whatever "numbers" we use to represent decline - shrinking real incomes, inequality, and so on - we are in fact grossly underestimating what pundits call the "human toll", but which sensible human beings like you and I should simply think of as the overwhelming despair, rage, and anxiety of living in a collapsing society.

Let me give you just five examples of what I'll call the social pathologies of collapse - strange, weird, and gruesome new diseases, not just ones we don't usually see in healthy societies, but ones that we have never really seen before in any modern society.
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Chart Pie

"Dollar General": The profitable business of selling to the hard-up


The Economist
Thu, 25 Jan 2018 00:00 UTC
Dollar General thrives where low-income families struggle
Dollar General
© Alamy
"THEY want to build one every four miles," says the cashier at Dollar General, a discount shop, in Lewisburg, a small town in the rolling hills of central Tennessee. Situated on a big parking lot, next to a provider of payday loans open 24 hours a day, a supermarket chain called Priceless and Dirt Cheap, another southern chain of discount shops flogging the unsold or returned merchandise of other retailers, the shop is one of three Dollar Generals in Lewisburg. Tennessee is the home state of Dollar General, which in recent years overtook its rivals to become the retailer of choice of low-income Americans, so it has one of the denser statewide networks of shops. Yet with well over 14,000 outlets across America (about the same number as there are McDonald's restaurants) almost 75% of Americans now live within five miles of a Dollar General.

"Over the last five years a new Dollar General opened every four-and-a-half hours," says Garrick Brown at Cushman & Wakefield, a property agent. The chain's profits have risen like a helium balloon since the recession, to more than double those of Macy's, one of the most famous brands in retail, in the past fiscal year. Its market value is a whopping $28bn.

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Gem

Giant emerald, 1.6kg, found in Russian mine in Ural Mountains


Sputnik
Mon, 29 Jan 2018 23:26 UTC
Ural Mountains
© Sputnik/ Evgenyi Shatalov
The Urals highest summit--Mount Naroda
The stone costs a fortune and is a unique find. Emeralds of such size are discovered only once in ten years.

A rare emerald weighing 1.6 kilograms was found in Russia's Sverdlovsk region on Monday, RIA Novosti reported.

According to preliminary estimates, the value of the stone exceeds four million rubles (some 71,600 US dollars). Specialists say that such large emeralds are found once in a decade.

"The stone was spotted and taken to the surface right in time; it preserved its original form," Evgeni Vasilevsky, director of the mine in the Malyshev settlement, said.

The Malyshev mine is the largest emerald mine in Europe and the only one in Russia. It produces up to one and a half kilograms of emeralds every day.
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Stop

Man turns himself in after an Audi mows down three teens on their way to a birthday party

Holly Christodoulou and Ellie Cambridge
The Sun
Mon, 29 Jan 2018 08:51 UTC
car crash north london 1

Harry Rice had been signed to semi-pro side Farnborough Town FC and had played for the U18's county side
A MAN has handed himself in to cops after an Audi mowed down and killed three teens as they walked to a 16th birthday party.

Cops said a 34-year-old man walked into a north London police station yesterday and was arrested over the deaths of Harry Rice, George Wilkinson and Josh Mcguinness, all aged 16 and 17.

Another man, Jaynesh Chudsama, 28, from Hayes, was arrested at the scene of the horror crash in Hayes, west London and has since been charged with three counts of causing death by dangerous driving.

He will appear at Uxbridge Magistrates Court this morning.

It comes after an Audi mounted a kerb and ploughed into the three teens as they walked to a birthday party on Friday evening.
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Pirates

Yale SJW students outraged over 'woman hater' novelist who happens to be a feminist supporter


Campus Reform
Mon, 29 Jan 2018 18:57 UTC
Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie
Yale University student recently criticized her peers for shunning "alternative voices" after she was "roasted" for defending British-Indian novelist Salman Rushdie in class.

In an op-ed for The Yale Daily News, Anushree Agarwal recalls her experiences taking a "World Literature" class, which she says the school only offered after students "begged" for more literature classes focused on women and people of color.

During the World Literature course, Agarwal recounts that she and her classmates happily read a variety of literary works that were not written by white men. Then, her professor assigned Midnight's Children, a family saga set during India's transition to independence.

Comment: This is what happens when inane ideology is indulged. Rushdie's book sounds like it has some feminist-based distortions, but that's not enough. A total revision of history is being sought by deluded and victim-crazed students.

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Is 'outrage culture' finally in its death throes?

Heather Wilhelm
National Review
Mon, 29 Jan 2018 20:03 UTC
protestor bullhorn
© Satori13/Dreamstime
Jordan Peterson's popularity as an author and commentator may indicate a coming backlash.

'Don't tell your problems to people," football legend Lou Holtz once declared. "Eighty percent don't care, and the other 20 percent are glad you have them." That's rather harsh, I suppose - I'm sure you'd love to hear about the rogue fire hydrant that leapt in front of my car as I blamelessly tried to park at the local Chuy's last month - but it's probably also not too far from the truth.

Don't tell that to the purveyors of today's simmering outrage culture, however. For a frightening amount of people, the art of being offended by everything - or, even better, loudly and publicly complaining about being offended by everything - is pursued with alarming dedication. For some, being offended is practically a credo and an all-encompassing way of life.
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