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Sweden: Refugee from Syria with criminal history rapes 12 year old girl - receives 6 month sentence


Voice of Europe
Fri, 27 Apr 2018 12:00 UTC
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An unaccompanied refugee "child" has been sentenced to 6 months of youth detention for raping a 12-year-old girl in Sweden. In a police interview, the Syrian said that he did not know it was illegal to have sex with a child. The teen has also been convicted of other serious crimes, but will not be deported.

The investigation into the case started after Swedish journalist Joakim Lamotte revealed that the police ignored the rape case of the young girl, Fria Tider reports.

After Lamotte's revelation, a national debate was ignited in which the national police commissioner and Prime Minister Stefan Löfven were involved. After almost a year the research of the case was finished, Lamotte wrote 'a shame' in a Facebook post.

Comment: Rape is as illegal in Syria as it is in Sweden, so the defense is merely a sickening lie. The offenders criminal history and the lenient sentence for such a heinous crime - and were he in Syria he be locked away for a hell of a lot longer - is merely one example of the deleterious effects of supposedly 'liberal' thinking has had on Swedish society. Other countries are not so deluded and there is a growing movement to address the serious problems inherent in mass migration. However, so long as the West wages perpetual illegal wars around the world, the problem of refugee's and migrants will continue to be a problem: Also check out SOTT radio's: The Truth Perspective: Weapons of Mass Migration: Interview with Michael Springmann on Europe's Migrant Crisis

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Speaking the Unspeakable: The Assassination and Martyrdom of Thomas Merton

Edward Curtin
edwardcurtin.com
Thu, 26 Apr 2018 21:03 UTC
A Quasi-Review of The Martyrdom of Thomas Merton by Hugh Turley & David Martin
"Killing a man who says 'No!' is a risky business," the priest replied, "because even a corpse can go on whispering 'No! No! No! with a persistence and obstinacy that only certain corpses are capable of. And how can you silence a corpse?" - Ignazio Silone, Bread and Wine
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Fifty years have elapsed since Thomas Merton died under mysterious circumstances in a cottage at a Red Cross Conference Center outside Bangkok, Thailand where he was attending an international inter-faith monastic conference. The truth behind his death has been concealed until now through the lies and deceptions of a cast of characters, religious, secular, and U.S. governmental, whose actions chill one to the bone. But he has finally found his voice through Hugh Turley and David Martin, who tell the suppressed truth of Merton's last minutes on earth on December 10, 1968.

This is an extraordinary book in so many ways. First, because the authors prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Trappist monk and anti-war writer Thomas Merton was assassinated and did not die in a fabricated accident, as has been claimed for all these years.

Comment: The CIA can't help doing what it does for satanic forces, but it's appalling that a monastery appears to be covering up the murder of one of its own.

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Multiple Oregon cities pass ordinances making it illegal to ban guns

Jack Burns
The Free Thought Project
Thu, 26 Apr 2018 19:06 UTC
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A showdown is brewing in the State of Oregon following gun control advocates' proposed assault weapons ban called Initiative Proposition 43 (IP43). Under the guise of "gun control" and "safety of our children," proponents of the measure aim to effectively ban all weapons produced since the Civil War. But several counties are pushing back with their own Second Amendment Preservation Ordinances.

Klamath and Deschutes Counties are attempting to push back against the ordinance by passing their own county-wide ordinances to disallow the county sheriff from enforcing any state or federal law which would infringe on county residents' rights to keep and bear arms. It's effectively a ban on gun bans.

Klamath County resident Timothy Harris filed a petition titled K-18-1 to:
Preserve the right of the People of, on and in Klamath County to:
Keep and bear arms as originally understood; in self-defense and preservation, and in defense of one's community and country.
Freely manufacture, transfer, sell and buy firearms, firearm accessories and ammunition, which are designed primarily for the same purposes.
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'Dilbert' creator Scott Adams heaps praise on Kanye West

Billboard
Mackenzie Cummings-Grady
Mon, 23 Apr 2018 19:26 UTC
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Kanye West speaks onstage during the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden on Aug. 28, 2016 in New York City.
Scott Adams, who Kanye West has taken a keen interest in recently via a series of retweets, is the creator of the Dilbert comic strip, which started in 1989 and still runs today, appearing in more than 25 languages across the world. Adams is also a published author and has written novellas and a self-help book titled How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big.

Adams took to social media this past Sunday to film a 20-minute video titled "Kanye West Showed the Way to the Golden Age." In the video, which has since gone viral, Adams described how Kanye West will be the one that leads us mere mortals to the age of enlightenment. "Let me tell you about the golden age," Adams started off. "Maybe you've noticed that the universe seems to be serving up more surprises than normal." He then described how these "surprises" all started with Trump's ascension to president of the United States. "In each of these ways, what we're seeing is things we didn't think were possible."
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Marjory Stoneman Douglas teacher calls Kyle Kashuv 'the next Hitler' for visiting gun range and suggests 'something needs to be done about him'

Matt Vespa
Townhall
Thu, 26 Apr 2018 17:45 UTC
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UPDATE: Broward County Public Schools said they're looking into the matter:


Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student Kyle Kashuv is not part of the left wing push his peers have taken on the issue of gun control. He's a conservative. He's pro-Second Amendment. And he's trying to offer another view on this subject in the aftermath of the tragic shooting at his school on February 14 that left 17 people dead. In March, Guy interviewed Kashuv, who at the time was not given an equal platform in the media as that of his more liberal peers, Emma Gonzalez, Cameron Kasky, and David Hogg. All three have become the new faces of the anti-gun Left. So, it's no shocker since the news media is pro-gun control and appallingly ignorant of firearms, firearm terminology, and the current laws on the books that regulate gun ownership and carry rights. That's a post for another time, however.

Comment: Interesting how often we see liberals raging against violence from the 'right', yet they have no qualms about engaging in or encouraging violence from those whose political ideology they find acceptable.

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Trump Effect: America's economy sustained a growth pace unlike anything seen in 13 years

Patti Domm
CNBC
Thu, 18 Jan 2018 19:00 UTC
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In the year since President Donald Trump has been in office, the economy has done something it has been unable to do since 2005 - maintain 3 percent growth for three quarters in a row.

While the final numbers aren't in, economists Friday were ratcheting up growth projections to 3 percent or better for the fourth quarter, after December's strong retail sales and revisions to prior months.

"It could even grow at 3 percent for the year. The numbers are very strong," said Joseph LaVorgna, chief economist Americas at Natixis. He forecasts an above consensus growth pace of over 4 percent for the fourth quarter.

Economists in CNBC/Moody's Analytics Survey upped their median fourth-quarter GDP forecast Friday by a median 0.4 to 3 percent. NatWest Markets raised fourth-quarter GDP to 3.5 percent from 2.7 percent, based on a stronger view of the consumer, and the Atlanta Fed GDPNow shows fourth-quarter growth now at a pace of 3.3 percent, from 2.8 percent earlier in the week.

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Suspected Golden State Killer found after initial search led to the wrong man

Michael Balsamo and Jonathan J. Cooper,
SF Gate
Sat, 28 Apr 2018 18:47 UTC
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Authorities probe the backyard of the home of murder suspect Joseph DeAngelo, Thursday, April 26, 2018, in Citrus Heights, Calif.
Investigators hunting down the so-called Golden State Killer used information from genetic websites last year that led to the wrong man, court records obtained Friday by The Associated Press showed.

An Oregon police officer working at the request of California investigators persuaded a judge in March 2017 to order a 73-year-old man in a nursing home to provide a DNA sample.

The Oregon City man is in declining health and was unable to answer questions Friday about the case.

His daughter said authorities never notified her before swabbing her father for DNA in his bed a rehabilitation center, but once they told her afterward she understood and worked with them to eliminate people who conceivably could be the killer.

The case of mistaken identity was discovered as authorities hailed a novel use of DNA technology that led this week to the arrest of former police officer Joseph DeAngelo at his house outside Sacramento on murder charges. Critics of the investigative approach, however, warned it could jeopardize privacy rights.
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Amazon Prime fee jumps to $119, up from $99

Todd Spangler
Variety
Thu, 26 Apr 2018 18:40 UTC
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Amazon will increase the annual cost of Prime for U.S. customers to $119 per year, up 20% from $99 currently - news coming after it blew the doors off revenue and profit expectations in the first quarter.

The price increase will take effect starting June 16 for existing Prime customers based on their renewal period, CFO Brian Olsavsky said on Amazon's first-quarter 2018 earnings call. New members will pay the $119 price starting May 11. The company last raised the price of Prime in the U.S. in March 2014.

Asked on the call why Amazon was raising rates now, Olsavsky cited rising costs because of higher shipping expenses and spending on digital content. "It's really nothing more than looking at the state of the program, and the high benefits it's delivering," he said. "There's all kinds of new features we've continually added to the Prime program. It's much different than it was in 2014."

Four years ago, Prime offered free two-day shipping on 20 million products in the U.S., Olsavsky noted. Today Amazon offers more than 100 million products in Prime available within two days, and many are available even faster than that - with same-day or two-hour delivery.
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Microsoft violation: Computer tech gets 15 months for selling computer restore disks

John Vibes
The Free Thought Project
Thu, 26 Apr 2018 18:37 UTC
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Computer technician and E-waste recycler Eric Lundgren is going to prison for 15 months for selling restore disks for computers, which would extend their longevity and allow them to be resold to new users. A federal appeals court in Miami rejected the appeal in his case this week, upholding a federal district judge's ruling that Lundgren violated Microsoft's copyright by selling the disks.

Although these restore disks come free with every computer, there is a licence key that is tied to the first buyer, which makes it effectively impossible to restore these computers for private sale, that is, unless you want to pay Microsoft for an entirely new licence, at which point most people would just choose to buy a new computer.

"I am going to prison, and I've accepted it. What I'm not okay with is people not understanding why I'm going to prison. Hopefully, my story can shine some light on the e-waste epidemic we have in the United States, how wasteful we are. At what point do people stand up and say something? I didn't say something, I just did it," Lundgren told the Washington Post on Monday.

By keeping computers out of landfills for just a few more years, Lundgren was really doing great work for both the environment and people with lower incomes who cannot afford to go out and buy new computers. Even the judge expressed remorse during the sentencing, but still decided to send him to prison for 15 months anyway.
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Homicidal violence rivals that of war zones: Over 2.5M people have been murdered in Latin America since 2000


teleSUR
Thu, 26 Apr 2018 00:00 UTC
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Boys play football as an armed soldier looks on in Mare Favela Complex in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The startling numbers were released by the Igarape Institute, a Brazil-based think-tank focused on security and development issues.

Despite recent pronouncements by the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), the Caribbean Community (Caricom) and other regional organizations declaring Latin America a zone of peace, over 2.5 million people have been murdered in Latin America since the year 2000. The startling numbers were released Thursday by the Igarape Institute, a Brazil-based think-tank focused on security and development issues.

"The sheer dimensions of homicidal violence are breathtaking," the report noted. Despite having just eight percent of the world's population, Latin America is home to a whopping 33 percent of worldwide homicides.

Twenty-five percent of all global homicides are concentrated in four countries - Brazil, Mexico, Colombia and Venezuela - all of which are preparing for presidential elections this year, according to The Guardian.

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