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EU: More censorship for your 'protection'

Judith Bergman
Zero Hedge
Thu, 15 Mar 2018 05:00 UTC
EU censorship social media


Authored by Judith Bergman via The Gatestone Institute

On March 1, The European Commission -- the unelected executive branch of the European Union -- told social media companies to remove illegal online terrorist content within an hour, or risk facing EU-wide legislation on the topic. The ultimatum was part of a new set of recommendations that will apply to all forms of "illegal content" online, "from terrorist content, incitement to hatred and violence, child sexual abuse material, counterfeit products and copyright infringement."

The European Commission said, "Considering that terrorist content is most harmful in the first hours of its appearance online, all companies should remove such content within one hour from its referral as a general rule".

Comment: If safety truly is the greatest concern for the EU, censoring internet content should not be their top priority. Immigration is clearly the major issue, yet it remains the elephant in the room.

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Red Flag

Utter lunacy: Psychologist pushes for the creation of human-chimp hybrids because racism

John Ellis
PJ Media
Wed, 14 Mar 2018 21:47 UTC
primate face
© Getty Images
In a long article adapted from a chapter in his forthcoming book, psychologist David Barash proposes that society should sanction the making of human-chimp hybrids. He refers to this new creature as a "humanzee" and says that "making it would be a terrific idea."

Barash recognizes some of the scientific challenges to making a humanzee but claims that it is "by no means impossible or even unlikely that a hybrid or a chimera combining a human being and a chimpanzee could be produced in a laboratory. After all, human and chimp (or bonobo) share, by most estimates, roughly 99 percent of their nuclear DNA."

His main argument for pursuing the creation of a human-chimp hybrid is based on the belief that humans have an unwarranted belief that we are special creatures. As Barash puts it, "Moreover, I propose that the fundamental take-home message of such creation would be to drive a stake into the heart of that destructive disinformation campaign of discontinuity, of human hegemony over all other living things."
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Boat

Jordan Peterson is trying to make sense of the world and his own strange journey

Vinay Menon
Toronto Star
Fri, 16 Mar 2018 21:45 UTC
The University of Toronto professor and bestselling author of "12 Rules for Life" peers into the dark corners of humanity, often terrified by what he finds. Now, he's juggling his visions of doom and gloom with international fame and fortune. Vinay Menon explores the wild ride.
Jordan B. Peterson
© Nick Kozak photo/Star photo illustration
University of Toronto psychology professor Jordan B. Peterson ignites a global debate that is absurdly reductionist: is he a hero or a villain?
Jordan B. Peterson is on a journey into the unknown.

But at this moment, as he ambles into his sun-drenched living room, he first needs to get through the next agenda item in a daily schedule that is snapped together like a jigsaw puzzle by a team of handlers.

"How long are we going to talk?" he asks, as solicitously as Mister Rogers.

When I tell him I booked two hours with the gatekeepers, horror dances in his eyes, as if I just casually asked for one of his kidneys. But he nods gamely and rubs the back of his neck. His slender body folds up like an origami crane as he settles into a leather recliner and swivels into gabbing position.

Get comfy, Professor. There is much to discuss.
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Propaganda

Southern Poverty Law Center apologizes and retracts article linking journalists to Neo-Nazis


RT
Fri, 16 Mar 2018 21:32 UTC
Max Blumenthal

Max Blumenthal
A US-based organization that monitors extremist activity has apologized for linking several award-winning journalists to white supremacists and far-right groups in an article and deleted the story from its website.

A controversial article published by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), was retracted after it received angry reactions from those involved. Prominent journalist Max Blumenthal, who was the target of the article's ire, harshly called the story a "lie-filled, McCarthyite piece of innuendo."


Comment: More on the machinations of the SPLC:

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Life Preserver

Emotional reunion: Syrian soldier liberates his own mother from East Ghouta terrorists (VIDEO)

Paul Antonopoulos
Fort Russ News
Fri, 16 Mar 2018 20:40 UTC
Syrian soldier hug mother
Syrian state media SANA has released an emotional video that shows a Syrian soldier being reunited with his own mother.

The video was taken shortly after the soldiers mother safely evacuated from the Hamouriyah humanitarian corridor.

It is revealed in the video, that is not yet translated into English, that the soldier had not seen his own mother in eight years, effectively since the war began in March 2011.
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Life Preserver

UK-backed Libya coastguard threatens to 'shoot to kill' unless crew return women and children


RT
Fri, 16 Mar 2018 10:37 UTC
Libyan Coastguard
© Reuters
Libyan Coastguard threatens Spanish rescue crew. (pictured: 22-year-old Eritrean rescued on the Proactiva Open Arms)
The UK funded Libyan coastguard threatened to kill migrants and shoot those aboard a refugee search and rescue vessel. The coastguard ordered the crew hand over women children or face violence, according to the crew's tweets.

Seven months after Boris Johnson pledged £9 million (US$12.5 million) in taxpayer cash to the Libyans, the coastguard - known as the LCG - has repeatedly abused its power. On Thursday, Spanish NGO Proactiva Open Arms was 73 miles off the coast of Libya when the LCG descended.

The NGO vessel was carrying out a rescue mission, involving more than 100 people who had escaped war-torn Libya. The crew was told over the ship's radio system that if the women and children rescued were not handed over to them, they would be shot.

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Chess

Russia to blacklist more US citizens in mirrored response to latest sanctions - senior diplomat


RT
Fri, 16 Mar 2018 20:33 UTC
Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry
© Maksim Blinov / Sputnik
The Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry, Moscow
Russia is preparing a mirror reply to the latest broadening of the anti-Russian restrictions by the US, says Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov. He added that those who initiated the confrontation are "playing with fire."

"On our side from the very beginning we are maintaining parity on the number of persons listed on sanctions registers. So this time we will add another group of American figures to our blacklist," Ryabkov told RIA Novosti regarding the recent broadening of the US sanctions list by two organizations and 14 people.

The diplomat emphasized that the move is neither Russia's choice nor its preferred method, saying Russia does not want to completely shut down the dialogue with the United States as it considers some normalization of relations in future as being possible.
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Mr. Potato

Special kinda crazy: Professor will speak at Minnesota university on 'dismantling whiteness'


RT
Thu, 15 Mar 2018 19:54 UTC
University of Minnesota
© Wikimedia Commons
University of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota has invited a professor, who believes "whiteness" is an "existential threat" to the United States and needs to be "dismantled," to be a guest speaker.

The lecture, titled "The Elephant in the Room: A 'Grown-Up' Conversation about Whiteness," will be delivered by Lisa Anderson-Levy, an anthropology professor at Beloit College who believes that teaching is "a political act".

Anderson-Levy is expected to share her thoughts on "the violence of whiteness" and suggest ways that colleges and government institutions can either perpetuate or interrupt this violence.
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Dollars

UK threatens to sanction Russian investments, unintentionally helps Russia repatriate offshore wealth


RT
Fri, 16 Mar 2018 19:45 UTC
British Airways
© David Bebber / Reuters
Possible UK sanctions against Russian deposits over the alleged poisoning of a former spy have triggered a return of capital to Russia from the West, according to regional political analyst Christopher Granville.

"There is evidence of reverse capital flight back from the West into Russia," he said, as quoted by CNBC.

Granville, who is at the helm of EMEA and Global Political Research at Trusted Sources Analysts, also noted "a major book building in a Russian sovereign Eurobond" in the current week with total value of nearly $7 billion. The figure will be "a very good instrument for Russians who are concerned about the safety of their capital, whether it's held in the UK or elsewhere in Western Europe or North America, to repatriate," according to the analyst, who specializes in Russian research.
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Attention

Palestine threatens Israel with new Intifada, response to embassy move


Sputnik
Fri, 16 Mar 2018 18:40 UTC
Intifadaguy
© Jerusalem Post
Intifada
Palestine will launch a new Arab intifada - an uprising against Israel - in response to relocation of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, which is expected to take place in May, Nayef Hawatmeh, head of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), said Friday.
"If the United States relocates its embassy to Jerusalem, this will be another crime against international law, a new crime, a new aggressive action against the Palestinian people... And we, certainly, will meet this decision with the people's resistance, with an intifada. All who advocate peace among the Arabs and among the Israelis must oppose this action," Hawatmeh said at a press conference in Moscow.
The official noted that the Israeli authorities didn't leave any possibility for the continuation of talks on the Palestinian-Israeli settlement.
"Right and far right governments of Israel that succeed each other do not leave any possibility for serious and responsible negotiations to solve the Palestinian problem," Hawatmeh said at a press conference in Moscow.
According to Hawatmeh, the Palestinian problem is now going through a very difficult stage, which is the result of Israeli and US policies that have become even more aggressive toward Palestine and the Middle East after the election of US President Donald Trump.

By deciding to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and relocate the US embassy to this city, Trump showed that the "issue of Jerusalem was just removed from the agenda of talks," the DFLP leader stressed.

Hawatmeh has also threatened Washington with protests in front of US embassies by Palestinians living in other countries.

Comment: Sheldon Adelson is calling the shots as to when and where the US will relocate its embassy. Along with the highly disputed location, the timing of the move with Palestinian Nakba will provoke the worst of reactions - not at all lost on the mega-funder.
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