Author: Galen

American Herald Tribune – by Alan MacLeod

For much of the world, donating blood is purely an act of solidarity; a civic duty that the healthy perform to aid others in need. The idea of being paid for such an action would be considered bizarre. But in the United States, it is big business. Indeed, in today’s wretched economy, where around 130 million Americans admit an inability to pay for basic needs like food, housing or healthcare, buying and selling blood is of the few booming industries America has left.  Continue reading “Harvesting the Blood of America’s Poor: The Latest Stage of Capitalism”

Patheos – by Michael Stone

Suffer the children: Popular Alabama televangelist Acton Bowen pleads guilty to 28 charges of raping and sexually assaulting multiple children between the ages of 12 and 16.

Before his arrest in 2018, Bowen was the host of xlroads TV, a global broadcast reaching millions every week.  Continue reading “Televangelist Acton Bowen Pleads Guilty To Sexually Abusing Multiple Children”

Columbia News – by Claire Levenson

More than 70.8 million people around the world have been forced from their homes by violence, persecution and other human rights violations. Almost 26 million of these individuals are classified as refugees by the United Nations. Only 3 percent of them will ever enroll in a college or university.  Continue reading “First University-Wide Scholarship Program for Displaced Students”

Times of Israel

NEW YORK (JTA) — Seth Rogen and his father were honored by the secular Jewish group The Workers Circle — formerly known as The Workmen’s Circle until Monday night — for their contributions to Jewish culture, activism and promotion of the Yiddish language.

Rogen, 37, who usually plays Jewish characters in his movies, recently studied Yiddish for “An American Pickle,” an upcoming film in which he plays a Jewish pickle maker who emerges from a pickle barrel after being stuck there for 100 years.  Continue reading “Seth Rogen and father honored for their contributions to Jewish culture”

The Local

Construction workers have been blockading refineries in Brittany since last week and a blockade at La Rochelle – which was listed over the weekend – has resumed.

French media reported on Tuesday morning that 390 filling stations have no fuel at all, and another 389 have limited supplies. The areas affected include Brittany, the west of France, the south east coast area around Marseille and some parts of eastern France near the Swiss border.  Continue reading “Hundreds of filling stations around France have run out of petrol and diesel as blockades of oil refineries enter their second week.”

Russia Insider

Section 3 of Act 447, the provision for heirless property, is the part that reveals the law’s intent. Under existing laws, heirless property becomes the property of the state. After WW2 there was a lot of property without owners (whether owned by Poles or Jews), and it has been sold ever since. This law has the potential to cause national havoc, as the vast majority of Poles own their own homes. Even in the relatively cosmopolitan capital of Warsaw, 79% of city-dwellers own their homes and apartments.  Continue reading “Poland’s Ruling Elite Want to Hand Over 30% of Residential Property to ‘Holocaust’ Survivors”

Middle East Eye

Israel’s defence ministry has issued an administrative order to set up a database of Palestinian and Arab activists and target their financial activities in Israel and abroad, Yisrael Hayom newspaper reported on Tuesday.

Naftali Bennett, Israel’s interim defence minister, described the order as “economic persecution” aimed at limiting activists from accessing assets and managing their finances. He said the move was part of a “war on terrorism”.  Continue reading “Israel to launch database to target Palestinian activists’ finances”

LA Times

A veteran Los Angeles police officer is under investigation after his body-worn camera captured him allegedly fondling a dead woman’s breasts.

The officer, who is assigned to downtown’s Central Division, was placed on leave once supervisors reviewed the footage during a random inspection, LAPD officials said. Continue reading “LAPD officer under investigation for allegedly fondling dead woman’s breasts”

The Mind Unleashed by Elias Marat

Around the world, the problem of homelessness has only grown over the last several years. The roots of the problem are social in nature: rising housing prices in large cities are leading to mass evictions and displacing communities, while poor access to health care and medical health services overlaps with a number of other public health crises.  Continue reading “These Parking Lots Turn Into Safe Havens for Homeless People at Night, With Spectacular Results”

CNN

The massive contract for nine nuclear-powered, Virginia class attack submarines comes just months after the head of the US Navy in the Pacific warned of a massive Chinese naval buildup and his trouble in getting enough submarines to counter it.  Continue reading “Keeping up with China: US Navy orders $22 billion worth of submarines”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Paulding County, GA — Police sexual misconduct is one of America’s dirty little secrets. Barely a day goes by without news of a law enforcement officer’s arrest for raping adults and children alike. There are so many instances of officers arrested for sexual misconduct that the Free Thought Project cannot report on all of them. However, when exceedingly disturbing cases involving school cops raping students they are tasked with protecting or cops who work with child victims betraying that trust and preying on children they’re allegedly trying to help, we are compelled to do so. The following story out of Georgia is one of these cases.  Continue reading “Top Cop Who Received Award for ‘Keeping Children Safe’ Arrested for Molesting Children”