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'Problem of Whiteness' controversial course returns to major university

Nathan Rubbelke
The College Fix
Thu, 28 Dec 2017 17:16 UTC
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This spring, a controversial course titled "The Problem of Whiteness" will once again be offered at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

The African Cultural Studies course seeks to teach students to "understand how whiteness is socially constructed and experienced in order to help dismantle white supremacy," according to its online description.

When the course debuted during the spring 2017 semester, it prompted national headlines and much controversy, with some Republican lawmakers even calling for the course to be canceled.

The class this spring may touch on that, based on the fact that its professor created a montage of headlines criticizing the course as its new syllabus cover sheet, its online description shows.

Comment: The problem of social justice warrior activists dressed up as university professors is they teach hatred and division while having an astonishing lack of even the most basic psychological knowledge. See:The Solution to the Hatred of Identity Politics Is Psychological Knowledge

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National Guard troops and snipers: 'Unprecedented' security planned for New Year's Eve in Las Vegas & NYC


RT
Thu, 28 Dec 2017 10:15 UTC
New Years eve in Las Vegas
© Richard Brian/Reuters
Party-goers in Las Vegas and New York City will ring in 2018 under the watchful eyes of snipers and the National Guard, as each city looks to prevent another mass shooting or terrorist attack.

Las Vegas

Three months after Las Vegas experienced the worst mass shooting in modern American history, Sheriff Joseph Lombardo of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) announced there will be an unprecedented number of law enforcement officers on duty during the New Year's celebrations on the Strip.

Lombardo held a news conference Wednesday to detail the new security measures and restrictions that will be in place for three days around New Year's Eve, when an estimated 350,000 tourists are expected to descend on the Strip, according to the Las Vegas Visitors and Convention Authority.

In October, the federal government upgraded the "America's Party 2018" event in Las Vegas from a level two Special Event Assessment Rating (SEAR) event to a level one event, the highest threat level.
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Facebook doing what it does best: Handing over your info to US government

Mac Slavo
SHTFplan.com
Wed, 20 Dec 2017 16:47 UTC
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Every year, Facebook gets tens of thousands of requests for data from governments worldwide, including search warrants, subpoenas, or calls to restrict certain kinds of content. And, according to a new report, those requests are increasing at an alarming rate.

According to QZ.com, in the United States, the requests rose by 26% from the last six months of 2016 to the first six months of 2017, while globally, requests increased by about 21%. Since 2013, when the company first started providing data on government requests, the US number has been steadily rising-it has roughly tripled in a period of four years.

This is alarming many and causing a concern about privacy. Joe Joseph, from the Daily Sheeple, isn't sugarcoating the reality of Facebook either. "Duh. This is exactly what Facebook was designed to do," says Joseph.

Comment: Facebook just doing what it's designed to do. See also:

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Red Flag

Police repeatedly ignored warnings about husband who severed wife's hands with an ax


RT
Thu, 28 Dec 2017 13:49 UTC
Margarita and Dmitry Grachev
© Маргарита Грачёва/VK
A police officer has been dismissed after ignoring calls for help from a woman threatened by her husband, whom she reportedly asked for a divorce. As a consequence, the husband mutilated the mother of two by cutting off her hands.

The horrifying incident unfolded in the Serpukhov region outside Moscow earlier this month, when a 26-year-old man drove his wife, who had reportedly asked for a divorce, into the forest where, in an apparent fit of sadistic rage, he tortured her for quite some time.

Named as Dmitry Grachev in Russian media, the man tormented 25-year-old Margarita for over an hour. He began by using an axe to break her wrists, then started cutting off her fingers one by one before eventually chopping off both of her hands at the wrist so she could not"pat [their] children anymore."

Comment: See also: Sadist: Jealous husband chops off wife's hand after she files for divorce

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Hug it out? Americans don't agree on whether a "non-consensual hug" should be considered sexual harassment - poll


RT
Thu, 28 Dec 2017 10:15 UTC
Me Too poll
© Lucy Nicholson / Reuters
A new poll reveals that Americans do not agree on whether a "non-consensual hug" should be considered sexual harassment. Seven other hypothetical situations were also put before people to determine what was appropriate or not.

The majority of Americans agree that non-consensual groping or kissing should be considered sexual harassment, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released Wednesday. However, the poll found that Americans of different genders, races and ages bring diverse opinions to the workplace when it comes to other behaviors.

The December 13-18 poll asked more than 3,000 American adults about eight different hypothetical situations, and whether they should be considered sexual harassment.

Only 38 percent of those polled agreed that "unwanted compliments about your appearance" should be considered sexual harassment, while 47 percent said they should not. However, the poll found that Americans were split when it comes to telling "dirty jokes" in the workplace, with 41 percent agreeing it constitutes sexual harassment, and 44 percent saying it doesn't.

Comment: See also: Lawyers, Girls and Money - Cui Bono with #MeToo?

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Star of David

Israeli journalist who called for 'exacting a price in the dark' against Ahed Tamimi tries, and fails, to backpedal

Jonathan Ofir
Mondoweiss
Tue, 26 Dec 2017 16:40 UTC
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© Ahmad Gharabli / AFPIsrael is scared of a girl: Palestinian Ahed Tamimi (R) appears at a military court at the Israeli-run Ofer prison in the West Bank village of Betunia on December 20, 2017
Prominent Israeli journalist Ben Caspit caused international furor last week, when he wrote in his Maariv article that "in the case of the girls, we should exact a price at some other opportunity, in the dark, without witnesses and cameras".

Caspit has certainly felt the heat in response to his insidious suggestions, and probably began fearing not only for his reputation, but possibly for his job, which besides Maariv also includes the respected Al-Monitor. Israeli activist Ofer Neiman tweeted: "He can't have it both ways- writing for a liberal peace-oriented outlet and inciting rape/murder/violence."

Caspit's article was in Hebrew, but now he is trying to backpedal and 'clarify' in English - in a Jerusalem Post article from yesterday.

Caspit titles his piece "Fighting a shaming campaign with the truth", framing himself as a victim who has simply been misunderstood. He describes his 'ordeal':
"Within hours you discover that you've turned into Public Enemy No. 1, a modern day pariah; a man who calls for the rape of young girls and destruction of families; a contemporary Nazi. A rare combination of circumstances, a phrase taken out of context, an inaccurate translation and a great deal of evil intention have planted in your keyboard things you never said, and in your brain, things you never thought. All that is left it to chase after the eternal wind in the cyber willows."

Comment: Indeed, in a civilized society, Caspit would be put in jail for inciting to commit a violent crime - or at least he should be fired and banned from writing or broadcasting in any form via mass media, including the internet. His second article simply confirms what sort of person he is. Not only was he quite clearly suggesting violence or torture against teenage girls, most likely rape, but now we know he is ready to lie and twist the facts in order to save his own skin. He spits venom, and when the world disapproves, in truly psychopathic fashion he plays the victim!

Some Israelis may feel their blood boil because a girl slapped a soldier. The rest of the world feels their blood boil when 'the system' exacts revenge on that girl. Caspit, by the way, is part of that system, and he has played his part.

For the background on this story, read:

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Explosion at St. Petersburg, Russia grocery store leaves 13 injured - Putin calls it a terrorist attack, says police should take no prisoners


RT
Wed, 27 Dec 2017 18:24 UTC
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© Evgeny Biyatov / Sputnik
Nine people have been taken to hospital following an explosion in a storage locker at a busy St. Petersburg supermarket. Over 50 people have been evacuated from the building.

"There was a bang. Emergency personnel are already on the scene. The evacuation has been completed, and there was no fire," a local Emergencies Ministry official told TASS news agency.

The victims were taken to the accident ward with injuries "of variable severity." One man refused hospitalization.

Officials are treating the investigation as a potential mass homicide attempt and say that the explosion was equivalent to 200g of TNT.

Footage showed multiple medical and police vehicles parked outside the Gigant Hall leisure center, where the Perekrestok supermarket, in which the incident occurred, is located on the ground floor.

There were thousands of visitors inside the shopping complex in the northeast of the Russian city, during what is the busiest time of the year in the run-up to the New Year celebrations.

Comment: Thirteen people were injured - six are still in hospital. The bomber arrived by shuttle bus, pretended to look at merchandise for less than a minute, placed the bomb, then left. CCTV footage shows him entering the store:


Putin called the bombing a terrorist attack:
Putin gave law enforcement officers carte blanche to act decisively and "take no prisoners" if suspected terrorists resist and a police officer's life is threatened. "You know that a terrorist attack was committed yesterday in St. Petersburg. Recently, the FSB [Federal Security Service] thwarted another attempt to commit an act of terrorism. And what would have happened if the thousands [of terrorists] whom I have just mentioned, returned [to Russia] - well trained and armed?" he said.

"I have instructed the director of the Federal Security Service... to act within the framework of the law during detention [of suspected terrorists.] But if there's a threat to a police officer's life and health, our officers need to act decisively, take no prisoners, kill the assailants on the spot."

Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists on Thursday that Putin's words referred to those who plot terrorist attacks in Russia. When asked to specify where the terrorists would be eradicated - in Russia or overseas - Peskov replied: "No, we are talking about those who have plans to carry out terrorist attacks on the territory of our country."

The statement came as Russia's Investigative Committee said all lines of inquiry into how the explosion in St. Petersburg had occurred remained open.


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Erica Garner's mom: "She's not gone, she's brain dead," after massive heart attack


New York Daily News
Thu, 28 Dec 2017 16:26 UTC
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© Michael Schwartz/for New York Daily NewsErica Garner (c.) is in ICU in a Brooklyn hospital after suffering a heart attack.
Doctors have listed the daughter of police chokehold victim Eric Garner as brain dead with no chance of recovery - five days after the mother of two suffered a massive heart attack, the Daily News has learned.

Family members were being called early Thursday to Woodhull Hospital to say final goodbyes to Erica Garner, who became an outspoken critic of police brutality after her father's death in 2014.

Comment: Oldest daughter of Eric Garner on life support in ICU after suffering heart attack

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Black Magic

'Vampire' serial-killer charged with more murders in Virgin Islands


TeleSur
Wed, 27 Dec 2017 16:25 UTC
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© Antigua News RoomVirgin Islands Public Safety Minister Steadroy 'Cutie' Benjamin has described the homicides as "vampiric."
Two water bottles filled with what appeared to be blood were found in the vicinity of the suspect's Virgin Islands home.

The grisly case of a suspected 'vampiric' serial killer who drinks the blood of his victims is continuing as 23-year-old Delano Forbes is charged with the murders of two more victims in the Virgin Islands.

Two water bottles filled with what appeared to be blood were found by police in the vicinity of Forbes' home. Shawn Henry and Lisue 'Dirty' Williams are the latest names to be added to the growing list of Forbes alleged victims.

According to reports, Henry is presumed to have been killed sometime in early May: his body was found with his throat slashed open in an abandoned home. Williams died of similar injuries and was discovered on February 21, outside the Industrial School for the Blind.
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Star of David

63 Israeli teens tell Netanyahu they won't serve in IDF, blast 'racist' occupation of Palestine


RT
Thu, 28 Dec 2017 16:15 UTC
IDF recruit
© Nir Alon / Global Look PressThe IDF conducts a swearing in ceremony for new recruits at the Western Wall. January 25, 2017
Sixty-three Israeli students signed a letter stating they would defy mandatory military service despite the risk of jail. Citing the occupation of Palestine, the letter criticizes the policies of Israel's "racist government."

The letter, signed on Thursday by sixty-three high school students from across Israel, is addressed to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, Education Minister Naftali Bennett and Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot.

Pointing to Israel's blockade on the Gaza Strip and illegal West Bank settlements, the letter states that "the army implements the policy of a racist government that violates basic human rights, which applies one law to Israelis and another to the Palestinians in the same area."

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