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Vatican removes pope's comment that children with homosexual tendencies should seek psychiatric help


RT
Wed, 29 Aug 2018 12:37 UTC
pope francis
© Gonzalo Fuentes / Reuters
Pope Francis told a reporter that parents should seek psychiatric help if their children had homosexual tendencies. The Vatican says he did not mean it and removed those words from the official transcript, however.

The comment in question was reportedly made as the pontiff was flying back to Rome from Ireland on Sunday. While the Pope has earlier implied that there is nothing wrong with being gay, this time he said that "a lot that can be done through psychiatry" no later than in childhood and added that ignoring such a child is "error of fatherhood or motherhood."

"When it shows itself from childhood, there is a lot that can be done through psychiatry, to see how things are. It is something else if it shows itself after 20 years," Pope Francis told reporters, as cited by multiple outlets.
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Snakes in Suits

Staff of New York Housing Authority caught having orgies on company property


Sputnik
Wed, 29 Aug 2018 12:08 UTC
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© AP Photo / Dita Alangkara
Staff of the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), which provides housing for low and moderate income residents in New York City, transformed the Throggs Neck Houses, a Bronx housing project development, into a sex club where orgies involving supervisors, subordinates and even residents took place frequently.

"[It happened on] overtime, during working hours, after working hours, any day or any time of the day," Throggs Neck Houses Tenant Association President Monique Johnson told the New York Post Monday. "I now understand why work wasn't getting done."

After multiple complaints by residents and some NYCHA staff - who secretly took photos and shot videos of the debauchery - Johnson informed NYCHA management about the sex parties. Last week, the NYCHA transferred every employee who worked at the housing complex, around 40 in all, to another undisclosed location. Even the workers who were not involved in the sex parties were also relieved of their duties in Throggs Neck.

Comment: This is just the latest in a string of scandals for the Housing Authority. The fact that no one was fired but were instead reassigned to 'undisclosed locations' ensures that this culture of corruption will continue. The Observer reports:
Monique Johnson, president of the Throggs Neck Houses Tenant Association, told the paper that the staff, all of whom are members of the New York City Housing Authority, were frequently lying about the sorts of duties and repairs they had to perform in order to hide the fact that they were actually boozing and boinking. Last Friday, all of the NYCHA employees were relocated to different housing developments instead of being fired.

The NYCHA admitted to "a perversive culture of cover-ups" in court this past June, and is currently deluged with more than 170,000 backlogged work orders. The lead paint inspection crisis of December 2017 at Throggs Neck, wherein NYCHA employees allegedly found lead in 78 apartments but did not inform any of the residents, forced Mayor de Blasio to meet privately with Housing Authority officials in an attempt to contain the burgeoning scandal.


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Propaganda

German energy giant says Russian gas vital for continent


RT
Tue, 28 Aug 2018 14:56 UTC
The Castoro 10 pipelay
© Sean Gallup / Getty Images
The Castoro 10 pipelay vessel lays concrete-coated pipe for the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline onto the seabed of the Baltic Sea on August 16, 2018 near Lubmin, Germany
Russian natural gas that will run through the Nord Stream 2 pipeline is critical for Europe amid increasing demand and decreasing production in the region, according to CEO of Germany's energy company Wintershall, Mario Mehren.

"Demand in the EU is rising, but domestic production is declining - which in short means that the import demand is increasing," Mehren said, as quoted by the company's press-service.

"In 2030, for example, the EU will have to import around 400 billion cubic meters of natural gas. In order to meet this increasing import demand, we need reliable partners, especially in pipeline distance.

"Nord Stream 2, for example, will provide an additional capacity of 55 billion cubic meters of natural gas when it is completed. This is natural gas that Europe needs," the CEO stressed.

Comment: European leaders would be selling out its already impoverished citizens were it to instead go for unreliable and expensive US gas: Also check out SOTT radio's:

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Eye 2

Co-opting our lizard brain

Tanveer Ahmed
Quillette
Wed, 29 Aug 2018 08:34 UTC
lizard
There is money to be made from stopping us from using our devices, but it might involve better regulation of our most primitive selves.

Apple's controls to help us limit our phone usage is the clearest evidence yet that self-regulation of technology companies must include not just data privacy, but protections of our humanity.

Apple has included features on its new phones that turn off notifications overnight, during driving and expand parental protections. Google is implementing similar such controls.


Comment: Apple investors ask company to institute measures to curb childhood smartphone addiction


In the wake of the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica data scandals, the so-called tech-lash is the ultimate wake up call. It's never been more essential that the industry considers implications beyond the user experience in the race to further monetise our attention.

Comment: See also:

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Fire

Video shows inferno engulf Primark store in Historic Belfast bank buildings


Sputnik
Tue, 28 Aug 2018 16:11 UTC
primark fire belfast

Flames were seen shooting out from the roof of the 233 year-old Bank Buildings, which has recently undergone a £30million refurbishment
The Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue service has arrived at the busiest shopping street in Belfast to eliminate the threatening blaze that engulfed the roof of the Bank Buildings, the Daily Mail reported.

A Belfast-based Primark department store was engulfed in flames which resulted in the evacuation of the visitors shopping inside, the media stated.

The fire crew that arrived at the site made an effort to get access to the source of the fire with a fire engine's ladder.

Comment: There have been a few notable fires of late:

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Megaphone

How to get your dissident voice heard in the new media environment

Caitlin Johnstone
Medium
Wed, 29 Aug 2018 08:32 UTC
laptop
I often say that my long-term goal here is to become obsolete so that I can focus on making art and poetry. Ideally this will look like our society shifting to a mode of operation that is so healthy that there is no longer any demand for an Australian political blogger who points out the fact that it's wrong to manipulate public thought with mass media and drop explosives on children, but I'll also settle for a world in which there are enough people doing this sort of thing that I'm no longer wanted or needed in this role.

Toward that end, and because I've been getting some requests for advice on how people who want to do what I do can get started, I'm going to try to tap out a few tips. I've caught some lucky breaks and been really blessed and supported in a bunch of frankly miraculous ways on this weird and wonderful journey, but there are also some concrete pointers I've picked up along the way which I employ constantly. Here they are for anyone who's interested in getting their ideas heard in the people's information rebellion against the establishment propaganda machine:

1. Create daily content.

This is honestly the most important one. Whether you make blogs, podcasts or videos, the best way to build an audience is to become a part of people's everyday routine; something they can enjoy over coffee in the morning or on the train on their way to work. If you're making high-quality content on a daily basis, this will necessarily happen, and the more shareable your content (more on that in a minute), the quicker it will occur.

Comment: One could say the oligarchy has already exposed themselves as totalitarian fascists, however, they still need to manufacture consent and we can see it in their increasing desperation to censor and shut down dissenting views. This is a good way to counteract that.

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Brick Wall

Palestinian girl has to scale a fence to reach her own home


RT
Tue, 28 Aug 2018 19:03 UTC
Palestinian girl climbing a closed security gate
© Breaking the Silence
Video of a young Palestinian girl climbing a closed security gate to get home has sparked anger on social media and highlighted the daily inconvenience for Palestinians living under Israeli control in Hebron.

The video, shared by Israeli activist and Breaking the Silence NGO spokesperson Achiya Schatz, depicts the extreme lengths a Palestinian child goes to to get back to her house. The girl is seen struggling to climb a closed gate in Hebron, the top section of which is angled back towards her. The video has been viewed over 13,000 times since being posted.

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Eye 2

Liars! Baltimore police dept now claims cop killed himself - only days before he was set to testify against notoriously corrupt cops

John Vibes
Free Thought Project
Tue, 28 Aug 2018 00:00 UTC
Baltimore cop corruption
Baltimore police now want us to believe that a cop, set to testify against bad cops the day before, was chasing a suspect when all of the sudden he randomly shot himself.

Last November, Baltimore City Police Detective Sean Suiter was shot and killed while on duty the day before he was set to testify against dirty cops in the department. Now, nearly a year later, the panel responsible for investigating the case have ruled his death a suicide, because they claimed they could not find any evidence of a second person in the area.

Not only was Suiter set to testify in a massive corruptions case the day after his shooting but his partner was off work that day and the commissioner lied about this important detail in a press conference where he revealed the details of the case to the media. The man who filled in as Suiter's partner on the day of his death is friends with one of the officers who Suiter was set to testify against.

Comment: See also:

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Pistol

Jacksonville shooter was hospitalized for mental issues and put on anti-psychotics - court records


RT
Tue, 28 Aug 2018 00:00 UTC
Jacksonville shooting scene
© Gianrigo Marletta / AFP
The man who shot two people at a video game tournament in Jacksonville had been hospitalized multiple times for mental illness and was prescribed anti-psychotics and anti-depressants, according to court records obtained by AP.

Divorce filings from the parents of David Katz, 24, state that he was twice hospitalized in psychiatric facilities as a teen and was prescribed medications.

Comment: Police say Jacksonville Landing mass shooting left 'multiple fatalities,' suspect dead - UPDATE

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Newspaper

Student loan watchdog Chief resigns accusing Trump of 'Harming of Students'


RT
Mon, 27 Aug 2018 00:00 UTC
Student loan debt protest
© Randall Mikkelsen / Reuters
The federal student loan ombudsman for the US government has resigned, blaming the Trump administration for turning its back on "young people and their financial futures."

Seth Frotman, who became the student loan ombudsman for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) in 2016, has announced his resignation, in a letter written to the bureau's Trump-appointed acting director, Mick Mulvaney, and obtained by NPR.

"Unfortunately, under your leadership, the Bureau has abandoned the very consumers it is tasked by Congress with protecting," reads the letter, copies of which were sent to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, along with a number of senators and representatives. "Instead, you have used the Bureau to serve the wishes of the most powerful financial companies in America."

Comment: See also:

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