Saturday, May 11, 2019

It’s staggeringly big business in Spain, where demand is being met by traffickers. Can a groundbreaking team turn the tide?

ARE THESE TWO STORIES CONNECTED

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It’s staggeringly big business in Spain, where demand is being met by traffickers. Can a groundbreaking team turn the tide?

The researchers suggest an intriguing reason why
(via Quartz)
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Leave makes fathers more involved—and less likely to want bigger families.

FINALLY SOMEBODY WHO IS BRUTALLY HONEST
'My motive was never money, I was power-hungry'


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Conwoman says she would do it all again - and hopes to move to London after her release

"Unless you are Bob Dylan in the 60s, or Bret Easton Ellis in the 90s, it is very hard to capture the zeitgeist when you are still living through it. But while I have yet to write my The Times They Are A-Changin’ or American Psycho, I’m going to describe this era as the age of the scam. Everywhere you look, there are people who have figured out ways to game our shoddy system, from politics to pop culture, and who are making inordinate amounts of money out of nothing or worse. Nothing feels entirely true; everything feels calculated to manipulate. Authenticity, instead of being a descriptor, has become a marketing concept."
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Everywhere you look, there are people who have figured out ways to game our shoddy system

HE IS AS POOR AS A CHURCH MOUSE, HIS VALUE IS ALL ON PAPER 
His numbers just didn't add up
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As we learned from The New York Times this week, Donald Trump lost $1.17bn (£897m) between 1985 and 1994 on failed business ventures, more than any other American taxp...

“I had never seen so many weapons in my career of 31 years.”
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Police seized an arsenal from a posh estate, deemed a ‘hoarder’s paradise’, then found the occupant had ties to the famous Getty family

RAPE IS NO JOKE ASSHOLE
Refusing to apologise for his remarks, he argued that 'any subject can be the subject of a joke' and said his only crime was 'against political correctness'
IT IS ASSAULT AND TO SUPPOSEDLY JOKE ABOUT IT IS TO ADVOCATE FOR COMMITTING A CRIME WHICH ITSELF IS ALSO AGAINST THE LAW 


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Police launch investigation after politician makes second rape 'joke' about Birmingham Yardley MP Jess Phillips



Protesters also threw fish at him.



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Incident is third time a rightwing activist has been targeted with the drink while campaigning

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Last week, it was Tommy Robinson who was being pelted with milkshakes while campaigning to become an MEP. This week, it is UKIP candidate Carl Benjamin who has had a n...

Gab, has no restrictions on antisemitic, misogynist or racist content, and has been used to promote terrorism. It describes itself as a vehicle for “free speech”.
HATE SPEECH IS NOT FREE SPEECH 


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Hate-filled platform has no restrictions on antisemitic, misogynist or racist content

“I would back something that stopped somebody as part of normal political discourse talking about raping another politician, yes.”


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Labour MP also calls for political candidates to be banned from discussing raping politicians


Nation of Islam leader speaks in Chicago after Facebook ban, leading Christian and Jewish leaders in city to condemn invitation
AND HE HAD MALCOLM X KILLED WHICH IS WHY HIS FAMILY IS NOT PART OF FARRAKHAN'S CHURCH
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Nation of Islam leader speaks in Chicago after Facebook ban, leading Christian and Jewish leaders in city to condemn invitation