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Tiger shot dead in Paris railway station after escaping from circus

Jeremy Culley
Daily Star
Sat, 25 Nov 2017 10:18 UTC
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ALARM: The tiger was shot in Paris after escaping from a circus
The big cat reportedly entered a railway station in the city and was "terrorising passengers".

The animal was shot by circus staff, police said. A tram line had been closed while the animal was at large.

No further details were immediately available.

"He had entered a railway station, leading to its closure," said an eyewitness who lives nearby.

"There were fears that the tiger would hurt railway passengers around the Garigliano Bridge. That's where he was cornered and then shot dead."

The alarm was raised at 5.50pm and armed police rushed to the scene, together with the tigers' owners.

Comment: Second time a tiger has been loose in Paris: Firefighters and police hunting tiger on the loose near Paris

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Snowflake WaPo contributor wants us to stop talking about the Clintons

Ian Mason
Breitbart
Wed, 22 Nov 2017 00:01 UTC
Bill and Hillary Clinton
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Hillary and Bill Clinton
A Wednesday Washington Post op-ed is calling for Republicans to give the Clintons a pass and stop discussing decades of sexual misconduct and scandals because "their political careers are over."

The piece, by pro-hijab Canadian History Professor Matthew A. Sears is the latest in a string of similar columns to acknowledge Bill Clinton's decades of sexual misdeeds were once relevant, but to argue they are largely undeserving of attention now.

"Many liberals have for a long time thought a Clinton reckoning is long overdue," Sears writes, "We look back with great horror and shame at the way the allegations against Clinton were handled in the '90s, not to mention the appalling and life-ruining treatment meted out against his accusers."

Comment: The idea that Bill and Hillary Clinton are somehow above reproach because they're no longer in office is absolutely absurd. Why should someone's current position have anything to do with whether or not they're prosecuted for crimes committed in the past?
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Black Lives Matter protesters storm St. Louis Galleria mall on Black Friday

Jim Hof
The Gateway Pundit
Fri, 24 Nov 2017 10:14 UTC
The St. Louis Galleria was shut down today on Black Friday - the biggest shopping day of the year - after Black Lives Matter protesters stormed the popular St. Louis mall.


Hundreds of race activists took part in the planned protest.
The protesters were chanting, "Shut it down!" and "We will win!"


galleria black friday

Comment: Not exactly the best way to get popular support for your cause. Maybe that's because it never really was about black lives. See: BLM member ditches group after finding out "who's in charge", warns others of infiltration and misdirection

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11 year old child prodigy astounds music world with full-length opera composition (video)

Dr Mercola
Mercola
Sat, 25 Nov 2017 10:44 UTC
Alma Deutscher prodigy music child opera
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I am so pleased to post this video and I hope it gives you as much joy as it did me when I first viewed it on 60 Minutes. It is beyond extraordinary to have a glimpse into someone as exceptionally talented as 12-year-old Alma. My only regret is that there is no way to post this without exposing you to a minutelong drug commercial, which I'm sure you realize I don't endorse. For some of you, it may be the only time you see these commercials so let them entertain you.

Most of us are gifted with some degree of natural talent - something we do better, or with greater ease, than the average person. And then, there's the true prodigies; people with seemingly unnatural talent. Their gift is so profound, and comes from God-only-knows-where. Alma Deutscher, from Basingstoke, England, is a perfect example of the latter.1

There are a number of musical prodigies out there, but Alma has most of them beat. She was able to name notes on the piano at age 2 and began playing piano and violin at the tender age of 3. Within a year of tutoring, she was playing Handel sonatas on the violin. She's now considered a virtuoso of both instruments. By the age of 4, she'd already begun composing her own melodies, and by 6 she'd written her first piano sonata. This was followed by a violin and orchestra concerto at 9.

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Black Friday goes global: Topless feminist trashes sweets store in Ukraine as shoppers in Brazil and Greece join the frenzied struggle for bargains

Iain Burns
Daily Mail
Fri, 24 Nov 2017 11:42 UTC
Ukraine Femen protester
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A topless activist of the feminist movement FEMEN bearing the slogan 'Black Friday' raids a shop in Ukraine this morning as consumer madness spreads around the world
Black Friday is well under way around the world - with a topless feminist protester appearing in a Ukrainian sweet shop and frenzied bargain-hunters battling for deals in the likes of Brazil and Greece.

Photographs from the Ukrainian capital show a woman from radical feminist group FEMEN throwing confectionery while screaming in protest.

Before being taken away, the woman - who also had the words 'Black Friday' painted on her torso - managed to cause a considerable mess in the store.

Comment: Nice to see that Americans have exported yet another vacuous and damaging tradition around the globe. Considering the US is the only country that celebrates Thanksgiving (other than Canada, but they celebrate a month earlier), Black Friday literally makes no sense in any other country. But it seems a day of unbridled consumerist chaos is just what the masses of planet Earth need to let off a little steam to distract from their sense of impending collapse. See also:

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Fascism came to America wrapped in a rainbow flag and wearing a pussyhat

Caitlin Johnstone
Medium
Fri, 24 Nov 2017 10:17 UTC
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There's a popular quote of unknown origin that usually goes something like "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross."

It's a good quote, whoever said it. It warns that if manipulative oppressors are going to seize control of a nation's government, they will obviously need to do so by appealing to the spirit of the times, the current values system of the masses. They're not going to make their entrance screaming "Freedom is slavery!" while a band plays the Darth Vader theme. This is obvious to anyone who possesses any insight into how people think and behave.

But it's a quote from a bygone age. Christianity and flag-waving patriotism still hold value in red states, but they've become largely invisible to the major culture factories of New York and Los Angeles, and thus to the dominant culture of the greater United States. If fascism came to America wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross today, it wouldn't have enough broad public support to implement its agendas, because crosses and flags don't hold that much sway over America's dominant value system. In order to rope in those who don't value the old cultural value symbols, something more is needed.

So when fascism came to America, it came wrapped in a rainbow flag, and wearing a pussyhat.

Comment: Indeed, people in America and in the world at large seem to have lost the ability to think critically and to understand the nuances of complex issues. The misleading and simplistic divide between left and right, the caricature of actual social causes as exemplified by those pink hats and rainbow flags, together with the hysteria that imbues any social or political discourse these days (starting with 'Russiagate'), make it extremely easy for the masses to be manipulated.

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Red Flag

Walking Dead: Shootings, brawls, babies injured in Black Friday madness

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Fri, 24 Nov 2017 00:01 UTC
Black Friday
Before their Thanksgiving dinners could settle, many Americans left their family atmospheres and descended upon department stores and big-box retailers across the country to partake in rampant and apparently violent Black Friday consumerism.

Mindless shoppers aren't even getting the great discounts they cherish since retailers artificially inflate prices of goods in the months before the sales in order to make the subsequent discounts look good in comparison. Also, even if shoppers do manage to grab some genuine discounts, they will invariably buy another product that has a 98 percent markup value.

If we take a step back to observe this downright insanity, it is getting difficult to differentiate between Frank Darabont's Walking Dead and Black Friday shoppers.

Comment: That's a pretty big maybe. While some have speculated that more people are doing their Black Friday shopping online to avoid risking their lives in the chaos of brick and mortar full-contact shopping, the reports of this years madness are still coming in. See:

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Centuries-old English church bells silenced after single noise complaint

Victoria Friedman
Breitbart
Fri, 24 Nov 2017 10:01 UTC
St Peter's church Sandwich Kent England
An historic church which has rung its bells since 1779 is to be silenced after a single noise complaint, in a move residents say threatens the "traditions and history" of the medieval town.

The bells of St Peter's in Sandwich, Kent, South East England, have chimed every 15 minutes since the eighteenth century, but Dover District Council has served a nighttime 'noise abatement' order against the church, reports the BBC.

The order, usually reserved for neighbours who play excessively loud music or who have barking dogs, means the Norman church, which dates back to the thirteenth century and stands on grounds that have been a place of Christian worship since the 1100s, must be silent between 11 pm and 7 am.

The council said it had received a single complaint from a neighbour and it had a "statutory duty to investigate noise complaints". After undertaking decibel tests, the bells were deemed "too loud".

Comment: One wonders what would have happened if someone in England had complained about the noisy activity of a nearby Mosque or Sinagogue, for example.

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Danish High Court confirms the guilty verdict of 17-year-old female terrorist


RT
Sat, 25 Nov 2017 09:11 UTC
Danish policemen
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Danish policemen
A Danish High Court has confirmed the guilty verdict of a 17-year-old female student who was earlier convicted over a plot to blow up two schools after being inspired by Islamic State.

The girl, named as Natascha Colding-Olsen from the town of Kundby in Zealand, was found guilty of attempted terrorism by the Holbaek district court in May. She was sentenced to six years in jail. On Friday, after hearing appeals from both the defense and the prosecution, three judges and eight out of nine jurors ruled that Olsen is guilty beyond reasonable doubt of the terrorist offenses.

The 17-year-old first became interested in Islam following a trip to Turkey and later converted to the religion, apparently leaning to a radical interpretation of the faith. Olsen began posting messages in support of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) on social media and in the autumn 2015, tried to contact IS leaders. She was also a member of the Facebook group for the Danish branch of Hizb ut-Tahrir, an Islamist movement that seeks to establish a worldwide caliphate. The group is banned in Russia and a host of other countries as a terrorist organization.
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Red Flag

There is some kind of revolution coming to American life

James Howard Kunstler
Kunstler.com
Fri, 24 Nov 2017 01:59 UTC
pitchforks
What if the fun and games of 2017 are over? The hidden message behind the sexual harassment freak show of recent weeks is that nothing else is sufficiently serious to occupy the nation's attention. We're living in the Year of Suspended Reality, stuck in the sideshow and missing the three-ring circus next door in the big tent.

It probably all comes down to money. Money represents the mojo to keep on keeping on, and there is probably nothing more unreal in American life these days than the way we measure our money - literally, what it's worth, and what everything related to it is worth. So there is nothing more unreal in our national life than the idea that it's possible to keep on keeping on as we do.

The weeks ahead may be most illuminating on this score. The debt ceiling suspension runs out on December 8, around the same time that the tax reform question will resolve one way or another. The debt ceiling means that the treasury can't issue any more bonds, bills, or notes. That is, it can't borrow any more money to pretend the government can keep running. Normally these days (and it's really very abnormal), the treasury pawns off paper IOUs to the Federal Reserve and the Fed makes digital entries on various account ledgers that purport to be "money." And, by the way, the Fed is a consortium of private banks not a department of government - which is surely one of a thousand ways that the public is confused and deceived about what condition our condition is in, as the old song goes.
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