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The stars who promised to move to Canada when Trump won (and didn't)

Ashifa Kassam and Benjamin Lee
The Guardian
Mon, 22 Jan 2018 23:25 UTC
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Snoop Dogg and Lena Dunham were among a host of celebrities who pledged to move north under a Donald Trump presidency - yet stayed put

It is a longstanding tradition of American politics: at some stage in the electoral cycle, prominent citizens from the world of art and entertainment declare that if their preferred candidate is not victorious, they will move to Canada.

In the last presidential campaign, the threat - or promise - started to surface during early in the primaries. And this time, as Donald Trump pledged to build a wall along the Mexican border and temporarily ban Muslims from the country, it seemed some might actually follow through.

Comment: Nothing more than celebrity virtue-signalling.

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Damore Lawsuit Exposes Extremist Ideology And Social Intolerance at Google

D. Rodriguez
Sott.net
Tue, 23 Jan 2018 00:22 UTC
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Remember when students at Evergreen state college took over their school last year, hurling racist abuse at their teachers and staff? Downright petulant and obnoxious, it was an expression of ultra-liberalism come full-circle: bigoted and racist.

But now imagine a place where such kids are a little older and not only have their way, they have the ability to influence one of the most powerful corporations on Earth.

For a multi-billion dollar outfit that has so much control over information, whose biases are expressed in the algorithms at the heart of its search engine, and is neck deep in state collusion from censorship to demonetization, it's pretty scary to learn what the culture at Google is like.

With its heavily progressive (like, crazily progressive) views, it's no surprise that anything resembling a conservative viewpoint is punished at Google, as a matter of policy.
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New Jersey man facing 15 years in jail for catching ex-wife cheating


RT
Mon, 22 Jan 2018 21:38 UTC
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A New Jersey man is facing 15 years in jail after he used an iPhone app to track his wife which led him to her boss' bedroom.

Sean Donis, 37, says he was minding his kids in April 2016, while his wife went to dinner with friends and he went searching for his son's iPad. When he couldn't locate it, he used the 'Find My iPhone' app to track the device and saw it traveling toward the New York state line.

Suspicious that the iPad was with his wife of six years, Nancy Donis, 38, Sean tracked the device to an unknown location and arrived at his wife's parked car outside a house he didn't recognise.
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University student charged with setting fires on campus tells police "you're lucky I don't know how to build a bomb"

Tad Vezner and Sarah Horner
Twin Cities Pioneer Press
Fri, 19 Jan 2018 21:33 UTC
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A former St. Catherine University student charged with setting fires on the college's St. Paul campus told police she did it because she'd "been reading about the U.S. military destroying schools in Iraq or Afghanistan and she felt that she should do exactly the same thing," according to a criminal complaint filed Friday.

"You guys are lucky that l don't know how to build a bomb because l would have done that," Tnuza Jamal Hassan, 19, of Minneapolis allegedly told investigators after being arrested Wednesday afternoon in a campus dorm lounge.

Hassan was charged in Ramsey County District Court with a single count of first-degree arson. No injuries or major damage were reported in the fires, all of which occurred in the middle of the day Wednesday.

Ramsey County prosecutor Margaret Galvin said in court Friday that Hassan had "substantial ties" to the local community and added that authorities were investigating whether she had any international ties as well.
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Study: Russia's the safest country in Europe for Jews

Alexander
RussiaFeed
Mon, 22 Jan 2018 19:58 UTC
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Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) and Russia's Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar (R) meet with representatives of the European Jewish Congress in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, 19 January 2016. Others are not identified.
Norwegian study confirms far lower incidents of anti-semitic violence in Russia than France, UK, Germany, Norway, Sweden and Denmark

The present controversy stirred up by the Russia Insider article on the subject of the relationship of the Jewish people and Russia (about which see my discussion here) by reviving old stories about the attitudes towards Jews of the tsarist authorities and during the Russian Civil War, has diverted attention from the actual reality, which is that Jewish people in Russia are safe and welcome, are now significantly safer in Russia than in the supposedly mature democracies of Western Europe, and that there is no climate of hostility in Russia towards Jews at all.

Confirmation of this comes not from 'Russian state propaganda'. It comes from a recent (June 2017) and detailed academic study of instances of anti-semitism in Russia, which also looks into similar such instances in France, the UK, Germany, Sweden, Norway and Denmark.
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'God Save the Queen': Tory MP calls for students to learn UK national anthem to aid integration met with backlash


RT
Mon, 22 Jan 2018 21:12 UTC
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Conservative MP Andrew Rosindell is calling for 'God Save the Queen' to be taught in schools across the UK to bolster a sense of "national identity" and aid integration - but the suggestion has been met with a backlash.

"With such a diverse society, it is even more important that all schoolchildren in the UK are taught the national anthem," he told the Romford Recorder. "This instils a great sense of belonging for young people growing up, and aids integration."

Reverend Paul Nicholson, founder of Taxpayers Against Poverty, spoke to RT's Polly Boiko in response to the Romford MP's comments. He said that, in modern Britain, we need to question what the UK's national song actually means.

"All the major faiths support the moral law that you should love your neighbor as you love yourself - so we should be asking what the national anthem stands for," he said.
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UN envoy encounters 'unacceptable squalor' among homeless in California

Alastair Gee
The Guardian
Mon, 22 Jan 2018 20:56 UTC
Leilani Farha
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UN special rapporteur Leilani Farha in San Francisco: ‘deeply, deeply concerned’ by homelessness in California
Leilani Farha was being given a walking tour in central San Francisco. Near a thronged artisanal grocery store and a food-truck park, she saw something under a freeway that gave her pause.

A young homeless man sat on the ground. He wore two pairs of jeans and had a hood pulled over his long brown hair. Before him was a crockpot filled with burning paper, over which he was heating tortillas in a dirty skillet. As cars, cyclists and tech commuter buses rushed past, white smoke poured into the darkening air.

"The last time I saw cooking on a sidewalk," Farha said, "was in Mumbai."

Farha, 49, is a Canadian lawyer. She is also the United Nations special rapporteur on adequate housing, charged with probing deplorable living conditions and assessing compliance with international human rights law. Her latest project is a report on "informal settlements" - shanties, favelas, tent cities - which will be presented at the UN general assembly.
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Police tase & assault handicapped veteran, arrest him for half a gram of cannabis


The Free Thought Project
Mon, 22 Jan 2018 19:58 UTC
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Disturbing body camera footage has just been released that shows a handicapped man being tased and manhandled by police officers for the heinous crime of flexing his rights.

Corey Bracken, 38, was trying to eat his lunch in his van outside a convenience store when officers approached him and demanded that he exit his vehicle. Bracken, aware of his rights and his need to protect himself against unlawful prosecution, began recording the incident.

Bracken rightfully asked for the officer's supervisor to come to the scene. He told officer Chris McGauley he was not going to exit his vehicle and was just trying to eat his lunch.
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Catholic 'Deacon of Death' goes on trial accused of killing at least 10 people by injecting air into their blood


Expatica
Mon, 22 Jan 2018 20:40 UTC
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A Catholic deacon accused of killing at least 10 people - including his own mother - has gone on trial in Belgium.

Former nurse Ivo Poppe is suspected of killing his victims by injecting air into their blood, causing a fatal embolism.

The offences are alleged to have taken place at a clinic in Menen, where he worked as a nurse - and later, after being ordained, in a pastoral role.

Belgian newspapers have nicknamed the 61-year-old man the "deacon of death".

If found guilty of all the alleged murders, he would become one of the most significant serial killers in Belgian history.
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The future? Amazon's automated grocery store opens Monday

Jeffrey Dastin
Yahoo News
Sun, 21 Jan 2018 20:20 UTC
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Amazon.com Inc will open its checkout-free grocery store to the public on Monday after more than a year of testing, the company said, moving forward on an experiment that could dramatically alter brick-and-mortar retail.

The Seattle store, known as Amazon Go, relies on cameras and sensors to track what shoppers remove from the shelves, and what they put back. Cash registers and checkout lines become superfluous - customers are billed after leaving the store using credit cards on file.

For grocers, the store's opening heralds another potential disruption at the hands of the world's largest online retailer, which bought high-end supermarket chain Whole Foods Market last year for $13.7 billion. Long lines can deter shoppers, so a company that figures out how to eradicate wait times will have an advantage.
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