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Man who attacked a Sikh store owner is forced to attend Sikh temple parade as part of his punishment

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Andrew Ramsey
A Salem man who admitted to attacking a Sikh store owner in January because of his religion was sentenced Friday to 180 days in jail and ordered to attend the local temple's annual parade to learn more about the faith.

Andrew Ramsey, 25, had pleaded guilty Monday in Marion County Circuit Court to second-degree intimidation, a hate crime under Oregon law. He attacked Harwinder Singh Dodd on Jan. 14 at Dodd's Salem convenience store.

Ramsey will be credited for already serving the majority of the sentence and should be out of jail custody before the June parade in Salem.

He also pleaded guilty to second-degree criminal mischief and unauthorized use of a vehicle stemming from separate incidents that occurred while released from jail a week after the attack on Dodd.

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Great-grandmother with CBD oil arrested at Disney World

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Disney World may be the most magical place on Earth, but it turned into a legal nightmare for a great-grandmother with arthritis.

A 69-year-old woman was arrested at a Disney World checkpoint when an Orange County Deputy found CBD oil in her purse. She then spent 12 hours behind bars before being released on a $2,000 bond.

Hester Jordan Burkhalter, a great-grandmother from North Carolina, began using CBD oil for her arthritis after her doctor recommended it, Fox 35 in Orlando reported. She even had a note from the medical professional in her purse at the time of arrest, but it didn't matter.

Burkhalter told Fox 35 that she had been planning on the trip for two years. "I have really bad arthritis in my legs, in my arms and in my shoulder," she said. "I use (CBD oil) for the pain because it helps." When she was stopped by security outside of the Magic Kingdom, however, she was arrested. "I've never had one speeding ticket in my life."

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Where's MSM outrage over Julian Assange's persecution?

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Julian Assange holds a video conference with Catalan students outside the University of Barcelona on September 26, 2017
The news that WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange has been indicted on 17 additional charges under the US Espionage Act and could be sentenced to up to 175 years in prison should concern all journalists, the world over.

Some, to their credit, have spoken out against the relentless persecution of the white-haired Australian truth-teller.

But it's nothing compared to the outrage that could and should be stirred. Most journalists in the west have stayed as silent as Trappist monks with sore throats, or actually taken the side of the authorities acting against Assange.

Just imagine, as I discussed here if Julian was a Russian dissident, being treated in the same way by the Russian authorities. Then we'd be seeing column after column in 'serious newspapers' urging people to join the 'Free Assange' campaign. Celebrities would be falling over themselves to show their support. There'd be calls for yet more sanctions to be imposed on Russia, and to be maintained until the 'political prisoner' was released. But who so far has come out in defense of Assange, save for Pamela Anderson and Roger Waters? Where are the great 'human rights defenders'?

Comment: The MSM has remained silent for years in the face of Assange's persecution. Now they are waking up to the implications of cheering when a voice they despise is silenced.


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MindMatters: Capitalism and Christianity: Demonic Forces, or Not as Bad as You Think?

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Is money evil? Is profit theft? Is poverty the only way to be holy? Then if so, some of the first Western capitalists - Cistercian monks running extensive factories - didn't get the memo.

Today on MindMatters we delve a bit deeper into Rodney Stark's book, Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success, specifically his take on the rise of capitalism.


Running Time: 01:11:22

Download: MP3 - 65.4 MB


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Jordan Peterson on Equity: When the Left Goes Too Far

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It seems to me that the identifying factors of the radical left types that dominate the humanities and social sciences (and, increasingly, the HR departments of corporations) most particularly constitute the mantra of Diversity, Inclusivity and Equity (DIE). Of these three, equity is the most egregious, self-righteous, historically-ignorant and dangerous. Equity means "equality," in some manner, and is a term designed to appeal to the natural human tendency toward fairness, but it does not mean the classic equality of the West, which is (1) equality before the law and (2) equality of opportunity.

Equality Before the Law

Some definitions: equality before the law means that each citizen will be treated fairly by the criminal justice and judicial systems regardless of their status - and, as well, that the state recognizes that each individual has an intrinsic value which the polity must respect, and treat as a limiting factor to state power. In my estimation, that doctrine is grounded in the very deep and ancient Judeo-Christian proposition that man and women alike are made in the image of God, the very Creator of Being, and that each of participate in that creation in an ongoing process through the decisions we make (directing that participation with our ethical choices). There is likely no more fundamental presumption grounding our culture. So that kind of equality is to be celebrated.

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San Francisco now an expensive, 'crap-covered cesspool' overwhelmed with crime & depression

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Thanks to high-crime, squalor, relaxed drug laws and an excruciatingly high cost of living, San Francisco has become one of the nation's most depressing places to live, according to the City-Journal's Erica Sandberg.

And it's not just the shit-covered streets which require highly-compensated "poop patrollers" to try and keep up with the fecal fiasco, or the thousands of used drug needles littering the ground, or the shocking number of aggressive homeless people terrifying tourists; San Francisco is a bastion of property crime - in fact, it's the worst city in the nation when it comes to burglary, larceny, shoplifting and vandalism, according to the report.

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Video shows Israeli settlers & army responsible for West Bank fires, contradicting IDF statement

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A video shows Jewish settlers setting fire to fields in the occupied West Bank.
Israeli human rights organisation B'Tselem has released a video showing illegal Israeli settlers setting fire to fields in the occupied West Bank, contradicting the Israeli army's claim that the blaze was started by Palestinians.

The Spokesperson's Unit of the Israeli army was yesterday forced to change its original statement, in which it claimed to have extinguished "a fire set by Palestinians".

The fires were started last Friday near the occupied West Bank villages of Burin, Urif and Asira Al-Qibliya, all located off Route 60 south of Nablus. Illegal Israeli settlers from the nearby settlement of Yitzhar had attacked Palestinians from these villages, with both groups subsequently blaming the other for causing the fires which followed.

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Portland State rejects 'Conservative Political Thought' course because it's not inclusive

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Gilley with the University of Chicago’s Rachel Fulton Brown at a National Association of Scholars conference. Both were vilified by leftist mobs for defending Western civilization.
Latest snub toward 'The Case for Colonialism' professor

Portland State University didn't like a professor's explanation of how his proposed "Conservative Political Thought" graduate course would "represent a broad diversity of voices" and be "culturally responsive."

Those are Graduate Council requirements for new courses, and Bruce Gilley challenged their common academic interpretations in his application for the course.

The council rejected his proposal on Wednesday, citing the political science professor's answers to the diversity sections on the new-course application. It also dinged Gilley because a librarian allegedly didn't respond to his request to discuss what library resources he'd need for the course, another requirement.

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You REALLY Want to Know? US Army Asks Members How Serving 'Impacted' Them, Gets Schooled in Replies

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The US Army probably expected an influx of patriotic replies when it asked for testimonies about people's service. Instead, Twitter offered disturbing stories of debilitating injuries, mental health problems and suicide.

It all began with a a video of a soldier who told the camera he joined to serve "something greater than myself." The army, the featured soldier said, had given him the opportunity to "give to others" and better himself "as a man and a lawyer."

The Army then made the mistake of asking Twitter at large for their thoughts.

That was where the patriotism ended. The account was quickly inundated with responses from former service members and their families - and they make for some seriously disturbing reading.

Comment: That's how 'up for it' the US is for another 'Iraq' - whether in Iran or Venezuela. It 'aint happening.


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'The gentiles will want to be our slaves': Rabbis at West Bank religious academy caught on video openly promoting racism

Recordings show instructors at settlement academy openly promoting Jewish supremacy; principal says Arabs want to live under Israeli occupation due to their genetic inferiority
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“All around us, we are surrounded by peoples with genetic problems. Ask a simple Arab ‘where do you want to be?’ He wants to be under the occupation. Why? Because they have genetic problems, they don’t know how to run a country, they don’t know how to do anything. Look at them.”
Two rabbis at a pre-military religious academy in a West Bank settlement were recorded making derogatory and racist comments about Arabs, defending Adolf Hitler's worldview, and openly promoting Jewish supremacy.

In a series of undated recordings published by Channel 13 news on Monday, Rabbi Eliezer Kashtiel, the head of the Bnei David academy in Eli, can be heard calling for the enslavement of the "stupid and violent" non-Jews due to their genetic inferiority.

"The gentiles will want to be our slaves. Being a slave to a Jew is the best. They're glad to be slaves, they want to be slaves," he told a class in one of the video clips. "Instead of just walking the streets and being stupid and violent and harming each other, once they're slaves, their lives can begin to take shape."

"All around us, we are surrounded by peoples with genetic problems. Ask a simple Arab 'where do you want to be?' He wants to be under the occupation. Why? Because they have genetic problems, they don't know how to run a country, they don't know how to do anything. Look at them."

In the lecture, Kashtiel goes on to embrace racism against non-Jews.

Comment: The above mentioned video:

See also: Caught on video: Israeli rabbis praise Hitler at military prep school