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Migrant-filled car attempting to cross border rams French police in northern France


Sputnik
Sun, 26 Nov 2017 16:15 UTC
refugee camp calais france police
© Sputnik/ Irina Kalashnikova
The refugee camp in Calais, France
A car with Iraqi and Afghan migrants reportedly heading to the United Kingdom ploughed into police officers in northern France.

A car carrying migrants sped toward police officers in the northern French city of Calais, with at least one serviceman receiving injuries, the LCI broadcaster reported on Saturday night. The incident took place when the officers stopped the vehicle to carry out the search of the car.

"As a result of the hit, an officer received a knee injury, [after which] security forces had to open fire," local authorities said as quoted by the broadcaster.

A total of nine migrants were reportedly in the car, namely six Iraqis and three Afghan nationals. They were supposedly trying to cross the border with the United Kingdom.
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Glee star Naya Rivera arrested for domestic battery against husband Ryan Dorsey


Metro.co.uk
Sun, 26 Nov 2017 15:54 UTC
Naya Rivera


Former Glee star Naya Rivera has been arrested and charged with misdemeanor domestic battery after an alleged altercation with her husband Ryan Dorsey, on Saturday night, it has been reported.

Police confirmed to People that the the 30-year-old's arrest took place in Kanawha County, West Virginia,

In a video captured by local news station WSAZ, Rivera is dressed in a hoodie whilst handcuffed as she is being arraigned.

The outlet reports Rivera was released on a $1000 (£750) PR bond and picked up by her father-in-law.

Comment: See? It happens to men too!

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Humanitarian Roger Waters on Palestine

Palestine YVR
Information Clearing House
Sat, 25 Nov 2017 15:45 UTC
Roger Waters speaks about his evolution as a human rights activist and why he supports the Palestinian cause at St Andrews-Welsey United Church in Vancouver.

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The Irish border problem is the ultimate barrier to a hard Brexit

Simon Jenkins
The Guardian
Fri, 24 Nov 2017 15:32 UTC
Theresa May
© Stephanie Lecocq/EPA
Any sort of border in Ireland, whether physical or regulatory, is politically impossible and publicly unpopular. That's bad news for hard Brexiteers.

Is Northern Ireland the first crack in the dam? There is no solution to hard Brexit along the Irish border. Negotiators have been chasing this will-o-the-wisp for over a year. They have not found it because it does not exist. A border is a border, it is not "not-a-border". It means barriers, checks, queues, papers, regulations, tariffs. No one wants it in practice. Does anyone want it in theory?

The trouble is politics. If Theresa May agrees special status for Northern Ireland to remain in a trading union with Ireland it will effectively "move the border" to Belfast. Her fragile Unionist coalition collapses. If the Irish prime minister, Leo Varadkar, fails to win such special status and sees a border installed, his confidence and supply government collapses. There is no way round this. It is the Schleswig-Holstein question of the age.

There can be no iron curtain across the Irish countryside. Not 10% of the British public would want that. Even the fiendishly complex use of electronic tags would still leave in place the fact that leaving a customs union would mean monitoring different tariffs and regulations north and south of the border. It would be a license to smuggling and piracy.
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Why feminism wants to break up the family

Nikita Coulombe
Medium
Sat, 25 Nov 2017 11:47 UTC
Feminist propaganda
© HeatStreet
Like many isms before it (Communism, religions, cults), feminism seeks to dismantle the traditional family unit for its own gain. Why? To the ism, old loyalties are like bad habits interfering with an individual's ability to pledge unwavering allegiance. Isms want control, but families tend to put family members and their needs before the demands of the ism, reducing the ism's power and influence and therefore undermining its control.

Throughout history, the family has been "the ultimate and only consistently subversive organization... the enduring permanent enemy of all hierarchies, churches and ideologies," notes Ferdinand Mount, author of The Subversive Family.

Comment:
Children suffer without dad: "The father plays an important role"

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ANTIFA: Neoliberal thought police or self-appointed radical revolutionaries?

Diana Johnstone
21st Century Wire
Fri, 17 Nov 2017 14:05 UTC
ANTIFA radicals
© Twitter

"Fascists are divided into two categories, the fascists and the anti-fascists" ~ Ennio Flaiano

In recent weeks, a totally disoriented left has been widely exhorted to unify around a masked vanguard calling itself Antifa, for anti-fascist. Hooded and dressed in black, Antifa is essentially a variation of the Black Bloc, familiar for introducing violence into peaceful demonstrations in many countries. Imported from Europe, the label Antifa sounds more political. It also serves the purpose of stigmatizing those it attacks as "fascists".

Despite its imported European name, Antifa is basically just another example of America's steady descent into violence.
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Beggar fined £180 after asking off-duty policewoman for spare change

Adam Smith
Metro
Sat, 25 Nov 2017 11:17 UTC
Worcester city center
© Google
Nicola Jackson has been begging in Worcester for 12 years
Nicola Jackson, aged 38, was told by magistrates to 'learn the penny whistle' and busk instead of continually begging in Worcester city centre.

Jackson, formerly of Tallow Hill, was caught begging in Cathedral Square and Friar Street between July 5 and Friday, October 6. According to the Worcester News, she approached a female member of the public and said: 'Have you got any spare change?'

And she also asked off duty PCSO Rukhsana Machin for cash.
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Russia wonders what the big deal is over sexual harassment scandals in US

Chris Brown
CBC
Sat, 25 Nov 2017 10:00 UTC
Dmitry Kiselyov
© Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters
Dmitry Kiselyov, the Kremlin-friendly host of a highly watched Sunday night talk show in Russia, recently suggested the parade of Western women coming forward with allegations against famous men represents 'an explosive mix of political correctness' and 'hypocrisy.'
Many Russians are having a good chuckle these days at the state of Western society as the long list of sexual violence and harassment claims against prominent American men grows by the day.

The notion that there's something shamefully wrong, misogynistic or potentially criminal about a man exerting his wealth or power over women has struck many Russians as a big "so what."

And in many cases, those gaffawing the loudest are Russian women.

Lyubov Tolkalina
© Kristina Nikishina/Getty Images
Actress Lyubov Tolkalina told an online news site 'If you get the role, what does it matter what you had to do to get it?'
Take actress Lyubov Tolkalina, a 39-year-old veteran of stage and screen who spoke to the online news site Medusa.

"If you get the role, what does it matter what you had to do to get it?" she's quoted as saying.

"How can you actually blame a man for sexual harassment?" she continued.

"Isn't that why he was created in the first place? If he has power that he uses this way, that's fine."

Comment: Perhaps the reason they are laughing at it is that it has gotten to the point of hysteria, where every and any little thing can be construed as harassment. In particular, the comments by those in the film aren't too surprising, as it appears they have an understanding of how that business works. Not to say it's right or condone it - as this reporter notes:
In an environment like that, of course sexual innuendo, sexual overtures, and, yes, sexual harassment is going to occur. The very air these folks breathe is sexual, and most people know this going in. Those who want to be actors and journalists - in other words, in the media spotlight - are people who want and need attention. They like the power of the camera; it feeds their egos. If you put a bunch of men and women with this mentality together every single day, sparks are going to fly. Between the make-up room, the clothes, the playacting, and the cameras, it all begs for things to go wrong.

The notion that women in these industries are innocent is silly. Yes, the men and women (we don't hear about them, but they're there) who prey upon those who are young and unsuspecting is wrong. Of course it's wrong. But mixed in with these bad apples are just as many women who know exactly what they're doing.

These men we call sexual "predators," most of whom are not raping women but are, in effect, sexually propositioning them, would not be successful if there were fewer women willing to participate in such a way that allows the men to think their advances are welcome. A common thread among the men who've been accused is that, while they've apologized for being inappropriate, honestly they thought they were flirting with women who were flirting with them. They believed it was a two-way street.

I'm not referring to the Harvey Weinstein debacle, but to the torrent of subsequent harassment claims in which men who are guilty of egregious behavior are lumped in with men who flirt. And that is a slippery slope.
See also:

Contrary to what Western media says, Russia leads the world in women's rights
A view from the outside: The media's coverage of "sexual harassment of women by powerful men"
The Trials of Masculinity, Feminism and the Modern Male

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UK: Teenager slashed 7-year-old girl's throat in playing field 'to prove she was not a robot'

Richard Hartley-Parkinson
Metro
Fri, 24 Nov 2017 12:46 UTC
Katie Rough
© PA
Katie Rough was just seven years old when she was killed in a playing field in York
A teenager who killed a seven-year-old girl in a park has been given a life sentence and ordered to be detained for a minimum of five years by a judge who said it was a 'truly exceptional case'.

Katie Rough died after she was smothered by the 16-year-old girl, who cannot be named and was 15 at the time, and then slashed with a Stanley knife in a park in York, in January.

The defendant, who admitted manslaughter due to diminished responsibility at a previous hearing, appeared by video-link at Leeds Crown Court as Katie's family looked on from the jury box.

Comment: If this horrendous case is not a clear example of the disintegration of the human psyche, we don't know what is.

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ADHD is a fraud says renowned Harvard psychologist, up against 'powerful alliance of pharmaceutical companies and self interested professionals'

Carolanne Wright
Wake Up World
Sun, 26 Nov 2017 09:52 UTC
ADHD fiction
© iheartintelligence.com


Viewed by academics as one of the most influential psychologists of the 20th century, Jerome Kagan ranked above Carl Jung (the founder of analytical psychology) and Ivan Pavlov (who discovered the Pavlovian reflex) in a 2002 American Psychological Association ranking of the eminent psychologists. He is well-known for his pioneering work in developmental psychology at Harvard University, where he has spent decades documenting how babies and small children grow, and is an exceptional and highly-regarded researcher.

So it may be surprising to learn that he believes the diagnosis of ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) is an invention - and only benefits the pharmaceutical industry and psychiatrists.

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