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The Gray Lady's losin' it: NYT flirts with irrelevancy after arguing 'Mary Poppins' chimney sweep 'blackface' is 'racist'

RT
Wed, 30 Jan 2019 20:23 UTC

Does the new Mary Poppins film feature blackface? No, but the NYT has nonetheless argued that the movie somehow borrows from racist 1930s minstrel jokes, the latest outrage-laden interpretation of a children's classic.

Mary Poppins Returns is an "enjoyably derivative film," but the story of the vivacious flying governess has a dark, racist side, the New York Times opined. The Gray Lady - known throughout the world for reporting "all the news that's fit to print"- explained itself thusly: In the 1964 film, Poppins accompanies her young charges, Michael and Jane Banks, up their chimney, resulting in her face getting covered in soot. Instead of cleaning her face, however, the magical nanny powders her nose and cheeks to make them even blacker, then launches into a song and dance routine with Dick Van Dyke.

The ramifications of 'new' ear to skull sound projection technology

Truthstream Media
Sott.net
Mon, 07 Jan 2019 00:00 UTC

Like so many other technologies that are being developed and thrust upon an unsuspecting society for the sake of "convenience", MIT's new laser-transmitted sound machines (dynamic photoacoustic spectroscopy (DPAS)) comes with a whole set of concerns that most have yet to consider - except for those who know how this this type of technology has been used before - and by whom.

'You should have died in Auschwitz': Australian rabbi target of anti-Semitic road rage incident

Ilanit Chernick
The Jerusalem Post
Wed, 30 Jan 2019 18:09 UTC

A Melbourne rabbi was verbally abused with antisemitic slurs while driving to his local synagogue late on Monday night.

The rabbi, who wished to remain anonymous out of fear of further attack, began to film the incident. As he did so, the man in the car next to him continued to shout at him, "Would you like me to get out and show you what Hitler did? ...You should have died in the Auschwitz."

The rabbi added that the man had also called him a "dirty Jew" and had said that "Hitler should have killed you all."

The video also shows the middle-aged man calling the rabbi a "f***** selfish cu** of a Jew" while they remained stationary at a red traffic light.

He said that he'd picked up his mobile phone to make a call while stopped at the red light when the middle-aged man began yelling.

'Reputational assault': Mystery Wikipedia editor Philip Cross targets journalist Rania Khalek

RT
Wed, 30 Jan 2019 17:25 UTC

Notorious Wikipedia editor Philip Cross, known for his campaign against anti-war and left-leaning journalists on the platform, appears to be at it again - this time taking part in a smear effort against journalist Rania Khalek.

Khalek, who produces content for RT's online video platform In The Now and has been critical of US foreign policy, seems to have caught the attention of Cross and another editor with the username 'Flickotown' - and the pair have repeatedly edited the information on her page.

The opening line of the page at one point described Khalek as "pro-Assad,""pro-Kremlin" and even suggested she is "anti-Semitic." Tweeting about the edits, Khalek said the smears on the page, which is the first thing people see when they Google her name, amount to "reputational assault" and suggested that she was targeted for her support of Palestinian rights and criticisms of US foreign policy.

When Khalek's page was restored to display the original description of her work, another editor appeared and changed it back.

Grenade attack on mosque in southern Philippines kills 2, comes on heels of cathedral bombing

Raul Dancel
The Straits Times
Wed, 30 Jan 2019 16:52 UTC

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The aftermath of a grenade attack on a mosque in the southern Philippine city of Zamboanga, January 30, 2019.

Two people were killed and at least four wounded in a grenade attack on a mosque early on Wednesday (Jan 30) morning in Zamboanga city, a key gateway in the Philippines' restive south.

This occurred just three days after twin blasts rocked a Roman Catholic cathedral on Jolo island, southwest of Zamboanga, and left at least 21 dead and more than 100 injured.

Chief Inspector Shellamae Chang, Zamboanga police spokesman, identified those killed as Mr Habil Rex, 46, and Mr Haj Sattal Bato, 47. Both were said to be Muslim missionaries, known as "tablighs".

Comment: It's notable that Islamic terrorism has risen in the last few years, just as Duterte has been working to free his country from the Empire.

Critics howl over Tehran's ban on dogs in public spaces

Mohammad Zarghami
Radio Free Europe
Wed, 30 Jan 2019 16:29 UTC

A woman walks her dog past a wall of the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran.

A leading Iranian veterinarian has questioned a new ban on the walking and transporting of dogs in the Iranian capital, Tehran, as illogical.

"How are veterinarians supposed to treat dogs if their owners are not allowed to take them out in public or drive them in their cars?" said Payam Mohebi, a senior member of Iran's Society of Veterinarians. "How are sick dogs supposed to get to us?"

The ban on the walking of dogs in parks and other public places and of transporting them in cars is the latest move by the Islamic republic against dog ownership, which has reportedly been on the rise despite being regularly denounced by hard-liners as an imitation of decadent Western culture.

The ban was announced on January 29 by Tehran's chief of police, Brigadier General Hossein Rahimi, who said the decision was made in a meeting with representatives from Tehran's prosecutor's office.

Texas officials have difficulty determining citizenship status on county voter lists

Alexa Ura
The Texas Tribune
Tue, 29 Jan 2019 16:17 UTC

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According to election officials, some counties are being instructed to consider certain voters on the list as citizens.

After flagging tens of thousands of registered voters for citizenship reviews, the Texas secretary of state's office is now telling counties that some of those voters don't belong on the lists it sent out.

Officials in five large counties - Harris, Travis, Fort Bend, Collin and Williamson - told The Texas Tribune they had received calls Tuesday from the secretary of state's office indicating that some of the voters whose citizenship status the state said counties should consider checking should not actually be on those lists.

The secretary of state's office incorrectly included some voters who had submitted their voting registration applications at Texas Department of Public Safety offices, according to county officials. Now, the secretary of state is instructing counties to remove them from the list of flagged voters.

"We're going to proceed very carefully," said Douglas Ray, a special assistant county attorney in Harris County, where 29,822 voters were initially flagged by the state. A "substantial number" of them are now being marked as citizens, Ray said.

EAT-Lancet's tentacles stretch to New Zealand as health officials ponder a red meat tax

Cate Broughton
Stuff
Mon, 28 Jan 2019 15:09 UTC

An international expert panel says a red meat tax would help tackle global pandemics of obesity, under-nutrition and climate change.

First it was sugary drinks - now experts are calling for red meat to be taxed.

A report by The Lancet Commission on Obesity, released on Monday, said a tax on red meat was an example of the urgent action needed to address the greatest threats "to human and planetary health" - obesity, under-nutrition and climate change.

University of Auckland population health professor and commission co-chair professor Boyd Swinburn said national and international responses to all three problems had been "unacceptably slow".

Agriculture production accounted for about 50 per cent of all greenhouse gas emissions in New Zealand and foods high in saturated fats, sugar and salt, including red meat, were the biggest cause of ill health and premature death, he said.

Comment: The dogged adherence to the myth that meat, saturated fat and salt are unhealthy will be the death of us all. Excessive amounts of sugar and of carbohydrates, processed foods, trans fats and seed oils do more harm than meat ever could.

"We need to consider these together so we have food systems that continue to give us wealth, but don't promote ill health and death, and inequalities and drive up climate change."

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School history books vilify Europe, whitewash Islam - Norwegian researcher claims

Sputnik
Tue, 29 Jan 2019 13:38 UTC

In Norwegian textbooks, Europeans are systematically portrayed as abusers, imperialists, and exploiters. By contrast, non-whites are ascribed the role of victims, signalling an anti-Western bias, a new study has claimed.

"Something to do with European supremacy", a new study by Bergen University student Kristoffer Tyssøy Høisæther, has uncovered double standards in the way history is being presented in Norwegian textbooks used today in elementary and high schools.

According to Høisæther, there is a pronounced difference in the way Western and Islamic history in the Middle Ages is portrayed. In general, there tends to be an overemphasis on the problematic aspects of Western history, as opposed to a prevalent omission of problematic aspects within Islamic history.

"The most remarkable finding in my work is how Europeans are consistently portrayed as 'abusers', as opposed to other cultures and peoples, who continually hold a sacrificial role", Høisæther wrote in an article in the news outlet Resett.

Comment: Evidently modern schooling is overseen by the same ideologues who have also infected various other areas of society. And, while their failures are immediately evident in programs like 'multi-culturalism' and mass migration, the fruits of teaching a twisted version of history may take a little while longer to become apparent. What is clear is that no free society benefits from distorting the facts of history. It's the reason why any totalitarian regime seeks to burn and rewrite the history books, because being disconnected from the past, particularly one's own, makes a person much more malleable to nefarious influences.

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"The police are out of control": St. Louis dept mired in corruption and violence, two charged with death of patron during bar altercation

Jim Salter
AP
Tue, 29 Jan 2019 12:00 UTC

Two St. Louis police officers have been charged in a shooting outside a bar, the latest embarrassment for a department still reeling from an officer's shooting death at the hands of a colleague.

Prosecutors on Monday charged officers Joseph Schmitt and William Olsten with first-degree assault and armed criminal action stemming from a violent altercation last April. Schmitt also faces a weapons charge.

The charges come just days after Officer Katlyn Alix, 24, was fatally shot while allegedly playing with a gun with a colleague, Nathaniel Hendren. He is accused of involuntary manslaughter .

And in November, four St. Louis officers were accused in a federal indictment of beating a black undercover colleague during a 2017 protest against police. That same protest has spawned more than a dozen federal lawsuits alleging that several officers roughed up innocent demonstrators, onlookers and journalists.

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And check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: Para-military Police State: U.S. cops out of control?

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Society's Child

The Gray Lady's losin' it: NYT flirts with irrelevancy after arguing 'Mary Poppins' chimney sweep 'blackface' is 'racist'

The ramifications of 'new' ear to skull sound projection technology

'You should have died in Auschwitz': Australian rabbi target of anti-Semitic road rage incident

'Reputational assault': Mystery Wikipedia editor Philip Cross targets journalist Rania Khalek

Grenade attack on mosque in southern Philippines kills 2, comes on heels of cathedral bombing

Critics howl over Tehran's ban on dogs in public spaces

Texas officials have difficulty determining citizenship status on county voter lists

EAT-Lancet's tentacles stretch to New Zealand as health officials ponder a red meat tax

School history books vilify Europe, whitewash Islam - Norwegian researcher claims

"The police are out of control": St. Louis dept mired in corruption and violence, two charged with death of patron during bar altercation

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