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Top economist: 'The economy is tanking... the dollar will be worthless'

Gregg Hunter
USA Watchdog
Sun, 05 May 2019 00:00 UTC
economy tanking
You might be wondering why the Trump Administration is calling for rate cuts and money printing with all the good news about the economy. Economist John Williams of ShadowStats.com knows why and contends,
"We have a recession in place. It's just a matter of playing out in some of these other funny numbers. The reality is on the downside, where you have mixed pressures right now. People who are really concerned about the economy right now, and that includes President Trump looking at re-election, he's been arguing that the Fed should lower rates, and I am with him. The Fed created this circumstance. They are pushing for the economy on the upside because they want to continue to keep raising rates. Banks make more money with higher rates, and they are still trying to liquidate the problems they created when they bailed out the banking system back in 2008."

Comment: As one commentator to the video put it:
WOW, the real numbers are 9% inflation and 21% unemployment!! That's what people are feeling!!! Thanks, gentlemen!


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Snowflake

Snowflakes at Philadelphia university: Camille Paglia can't say that!

Conor Friedersdorf
The Atlantic
Mon, 06 May 2019 21:17 UTC
Camille Paglia
© ReutersCamille Paglia
Art students are trying to get the social critic fired from a job she has held for three decades.

For more than 30 years, the critic Camille Paglia has taught at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Now a faction of art-school censors wants her fired for sharing wrong opinions on matters of sex, gender identity, and sexual assault.

"Camille Paglia should be removed from UArts faculty and replaced by a queer person of color," an online petition declares. "If, due to tenure, it is absolutely illegal to remove her, then the University must at least offer alternate sections of the classes she teaches, instead taught by professors who respect transgender students and survivors of sexual assault." Regardless, the students behind the petition want her banned from holding speaking events or selling books on campus. In their telling, her ideas "are not merely 'controversial,' they are dangerous."
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Sheeple

Leftish apocalyptic environmentalism and the ideology of overpopulation

Roger D. Harris
Dissident Voice
Mon, 06 May 2019 00:00 UTC
Extinction Rebellion
Gregory Barrett's rant against childbearing in Dissident Voice repeats a similar admonition by the author a year before in the same publication. Barrett, who now regrets having his two daughters, finds 2019 to be just as bad as 2018 to have offspring.

Unsustainable production models and wasteful lifestyles

While Barrett's article includes repeated references to his own thought, there is only one hyperlink to evidence purporting to support his view about "near-term human extinction" caused by the fertility of women. The cited report does not, in fact, support Barrett's argument, but rather supports this response to his essay. The report concludes: "We can no longer ignore the impact of current unsustainable production models and wasteful lifestyles." That is, population numbers are not the fundamental problem, but capitalist relations of production and consumption are.

Barrett's complaint is encapsulated in the title of his article: "Doctrinaire left lines up with Trumpists, calls overpopulation 'myth': humans über alles...to the bitter end." Barrett does not identify the "doctrinaire left," though presumably those who read and publish in Dissident Voice are included. Nor does he provide evidence of the left lining up with so-called Trumpists.
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Black Magic

'Yes, we're racists': Rabbis recorded endorsing Hitler, urging enslavement of Arabs


Sputnik
Sun, 05 May 2019 15:32 UTC
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An Israeli media outlet has released a series of undated recordings, in which two rabbis from a West Bank religious academy can be heard praising slavery, defending Adolf Hitler's ideology and making racist comments while speaking about Jewish supremacy.

In a recording published by Channel 13 news, Rabbi Eliezer Kashtiel, the head of the Bnei David pre-military academy in the settlement of Eli in the West Bank, is telling a class that being a "slave to a Jew is the best":

"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. 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 shapes", Kashtiel said as cited by Channel 13.

According to the media outlet, the rabbi goes as far as to claim that Arabs want to "be under the occupation" due to what he described as "genetic problems" and promotes Jewish superiority.

"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. Yes, we're racists. We believe in racism... There are races in the world and people have genetic traits, and that requires us to try to help them. The Jews are a more successful race".

Comment: The above quotes are far from being some anomalous statements made by just a few pathological rabbis.

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People 2

Complete internet blackout: Half of Russians believe their lives wouldn't change without the web


RT
Mon, 06 May 2019 21:38 UTC
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© Global Look Press / Klaus Ohlenschläger
More than 51 percent of Russians are sure that there is life without internet and their lives won't change significantly if it stops existing, a recent poll revealed.

If the internet completely shuts down, as many as 24 percent of Russians say it won't affect them, while 27 per cent believe their lives would be affected just slightly, a new survey by the Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VTsIOM) showed.

However, 48 per cent are really worried about a possible global shutdown of the world wide web. Some 37 percent of Russians said their lives would change significantly, but they would be able to adapt to living offline. Meanwhile 11 percent can't imagine functioning without the internet, most of them being residents of Moscow, St. Petersburg and other big Russian cities.

Currently, some 84 percent of Russians are internet users, while 69 per cent use it daily. Surveys show that most Russians use the internet for social media and reading news as well as for bank transactions and online shopping.

Though a complete shutdown of the internet sounds unlikely, the Russian government has already introduced measures to prevent this from happening. In April, President Vladimir Putin signed a bill designed to ensure the sustainable, autonomous operation of Runet - the Russian segment of internet - in case of a global shutdown or a deliberate cut-off by the US which could take place if the relations deteriorate further, according to the MPs who proposed the bill.
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Airplane

Boeing claims missing safety alarm on crashed 737 MAX was 'not necessary,' FAA didn't need to know


RT
Mon, 06 May 2019 21:24 UTC
Boeing 737 MAX 8
© AFP / Stephen Brashear
Boeing has claimed that a safety warning light packaged as an optional extra on the 737 MAX 8 was not "necessary for safe operation," even after the light's absence had been blamed for two fatal crashes.

Boeing's 737 MAX 8 has been involved in two deadly crashes in less than six months, killing a combined 346 people. In both cases, investigators have blamed incorrect 'angle of attack' (AOA) sensor data for pitching the planes downwards to their doom. A functioning warning light could have alerted pilots to this malfunction.

While Boeing shipped the aircraft with a light fitted as standard, it would not work unless airlines had opted to buy a separate AOA indicator, the company revealed in a statement on Sunday.

Boeing engineers discovered this problem in 2017, but conducted an internal review and concluded that the dummy alarm "did not adversely impact airplane safety or operation." Only after the crash of Indonesian Lion Air Flight 610 last November did the company issue a bulletin revealing that the light did not work as advertised.
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Bullseye

Court of Arbitration for Sport hands a victory to female athletes everywhere

Doriane Lambelet Coleman
Quillette
Mon, 06 May 2019 20:36 UTC
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Margaret Wambui and Francine Niyonsaba, photographed at the Olympic 800m semifinals in Rio de Janeiro on August 18, 2016.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) this week upheld the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) regulations governing eligibility for the women's category in international elite athletics competition. In effect, CAS decided the question "who is a woman" for purposes of elite sport. And it ratified the IAAF's preferred answer: A woman in sport is anyone whose legal identity is female - whether they personally identify as such or not - and who has testosterone (T) levels in the female range. That may seem like a mere technical ruling. But as I'll explain in this article, the ramifications are profound for female athletics everywhere-a cause that has been central to my life and to the lives of millions of girls and women worldwide.

The female range for testosterone is categorically different from the male range. In general, males have 10 to 30 times more T than females. Most females, including most elite female athletes, have T levels in the range of 0.5 to 1.5 nanomoles per liter (nmol/L). For men, typical values are 10 to 35 nmol/L. The reason there is a gap, with no overlap between the ranges, is that beginning in puberty, the testes produce a lot more T than ovaries and adrenal glands combined. And so the IAAF maximum of 5 nmol/L for women has been set, generously, to reflect the upper bound of T levels that can be produced even by polycystic ovaries.
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TV

Just making it up: Fake News Central CNN says Venezuela's Juan Guaido 'won elections in January'


RT
Mon, 06 May 2019 20:31 UTC
Juan Guaido
© Reuters / Ueslei Marcelino
CNN took the concept of "fake news" to a whole new level with a recent report on Venezuela, in which it claimed that citizens "chose" coup leader Juan Guaido over current president Nicolas Maduro in January "elections."

In a report on Sunday's deadly Venezuelan military helicopter crash, CNN wrote that "pressure is mounting" on Maduro to step down "following elections in January in which voters chose opposition leader Juan Guaido over him for president."
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IDF eliminates Gazan that allegedly transferred Iranian funds


Sputnik
Sun, 05 May 2019 19:01 UTC
Khudari/Car destroyed
© The Yeshiva WorldHamed Ahmed Khudari • Car airstrike
Shortly after the IDF announced that the Israeli Air Force had eliminated a senior Hamas militant purportedly responsible for smuggling Iranian funds to support Gaza-based armed groups, the press service of the Israel Defence Forces published a video of the operation.

Earlier in the day, the Israel Defence Forces stated that Hamed Ahmed Khudari, a Gazan militant allegedly responsible for transferring Iranian funds to Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Gaza, was killed.

"Attacking terrorist targets by fighter jets in the Gaza Strip", the IDF said on Twitter.

Shortly after the statement, the country's military published a video on its official Twitter account showing the very moment of the attack.


Comment: More from The Yeshiva World, 5/5/2019:
It appears that targeted strikes are underway, as the IAF has hit a black Toyota Corolla vehicle in a neighborhood in Gaza City, with Gaza source reporting there are two persons dead in the strike. This is the first targeted strike on terrorists in over four years.

Khudari was 'the' main money man for both Hamas and the Islamic Jihad, working with Iran and others to fund ongoing terrorist activities in Gaza, primarily for the Islamic Jihad. According to the IDF, al-Khodari owned a number of money exchanges in the Gaza Strip and used them to bring in large amounts of cash into the coastal enclave for Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and other terror groups.


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Propaganda

Once again, The New York Times distorts the news - dishonestly making oppressed Gazans the aggressor and Israel the victim

James North
Mondoweiss
Sun, 05 May 2019 00:00 UTC
New York Times headquarters
New York Times headquarters
Here's today's misleading headline in the Times; "Gaza Militants Fire 250 Rockets, and Israel Responds With Airstrikes." This is a classic Times tactic to rig its Israel/Palestine coverage; distort the timeline to make it seem like the Palestinians started the violence, and that Israel is (reluctantly) "responding."

Amos Harel, who covers the military for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, is hardly a supporter of Hamas. But he is an honest reporter, and you can turn to him (or one of his colleagues), rather than to the New York Times whenever there is a new outbreak of violence so you can try and figure out what is actually happening.

Amos Harel tells a more complicated story. He reports that the day before the rocket barrage, during Friday protests along the Gaza border, an Israeli jeep came under fire; one Israeli officer received "moderate" wounds and a soldier was wounded lightly. Then,
Israel responded with tanks and aerial strikes, killing two Hamas military wing members. Two more Palestinian protesters were killed by Israeli fire in separate incidents along the border.
Four dead Palestinians. Only then did the Gaza militant groups "respond," with the rocket attack.
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