Month: January 2018

RT

A church in a Swedish city has defended its choice of gender-neutral pronoun ‘hen’ in reference to Jesus in an advertisement. The church insists the word gives “new perspective.”

In November, the largest religious institution in the country, the Church of Sweden, advised its clergy to avoid terms like ‘Lord’ and ‘He’ in worship services in order to not highlight that God is male, in the new version of a handbook on how to conduct services. The move has triggered a backlash, with critics saying the change undermines the Christian concept of the Holy Trinity and politicizes faith.   Continue reading “Swedish church pushes for neutral gender reference to Jesus”

AlterNet – by Celisa Calacal

News headlines in 2017 were primarily dominated by coverage of President Donald Trump’s administration and tense party politics. But while most the attention was focused on the president’s antics, officers in police departments around the country killed over 1,000 civilians.    Continue reading “U.S. Police Killed Over 1,000 Civilians in 2017 While the News Was Watching Trump”

ABC News

Minutes before midnight on New Year’s Eve, a 16-year-old boy allegedly used a semi-automatic rifle owned by a family member to shoot and kill his parents, sister and a family friend inside the parents’ home in a coastal city in southern New Jersey, the county prosecutor said.

The teen, whose name has not been released, is in police custody in connection with the shooting deaths of his father, Steven Kologi, 44; mother, Linda Kologi, 42; sister, Brittany Kologi, 18; and a family friend, Mary Schultz, 70, who was residing at the Kologi home in Long Branch, New Jersey, according to Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher Gramiccioni and a statement from his office.   Continue reading “16-year-old allegedly killed parents, sister, family friend minutes before new year”

Gun Watch – by Dean Weingarten

Gary Busby has been ordered to report to the federal Bureau of Prisons to start a six and a half year sentence on March 8, 2018. He is 65 years old.  He was convicted of one count of dealing in firearms without a license, and four counts of structuring financial transactions to evade reporting requirements.  The press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas says the firearms charge was for conspiracy to illegally manufacture firearms.  The description of the crimes appears to be illegally selling firearms, not manufacturing them. From justice.gov 8 Dec, 2017:   Continue reading “Buy Receivers, Assemble Rifles, Shady Characters, Lots of Cash, Go to Jail”

The New American – by Dave Bohon

As of January 1 transgender individuals — those who identify and behave contrary to their biological sex — are free to serve in the U.S. military. While President Trump announced last July that transgenders would be banned from serving in the armed forces, in October a federal judge partially blocked the president’s ban while a number of lawsuits filed by transgender soldiers and groups opposed to the ban proceeded in court.

In late November U.S. District Judge Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly followed up with her original decision by ruling that her injunction meant the Defense Department must move ahead on the order given by President Obama in June  2016 allowing transgender individuals to enlist beginning in July 2017. Defense Secretary James Mattis then changed that deadline to January 1, 2018 to allow the Pentagon time to decide how to proceed with the issue.   Continue reading ““Transgenders” Now Free to Join U.S. Military”

Daily Mail

A once-liberal Oregon college town has been overcome with crime and emboldened groups of white supremacists.

The Oregonian spoke recently with several residents in the city of Eugene about the shocking and not-so-secret neo-Nazi extremists who have made their name known across the community.

Some of the individuals include two who are said to be the ‘most prominent’ men – Jacob Laskey and Jimmy Marr.    Continue reading “White supremacists take over a once-liberal Oregon town”

CBC News

Changes are coming to the way drunk drivers are policed and prosecuted in Alberta with the provincial government set to issue a directive to police that will largely decriminalize impaired driving, CBC News has learned.

Officers will be given wide discretion whether to criminally charge those who blow over the legal limit. But, for the most part, first time offenders will see roadside administrative sanctions rather than face criminal charges according to CBC sources.   Continue reading “Drunk driving to be largely decriminalized in Alberta in 2018”

Breitbart – by Chriss W Street

Police arrested a Los Angeles man on Friday after he made a revenge prank call — a “swatting” — to police in Kansas about a potential hostage incident that resulted in the police killing an innocent man.

Tyler Barriss, 25, was arrested in South Los Angeles on Dec. 29 on suspicion of making a hoax 911 call to Wichita, Kansa to claim that Andrew Finch, 28, had a family argument that resulted in the shooting death of Finch’s father. The call also claimed that Finch was holding his brother, sister, and mother hostage; that he had poured gasoline around the home; and that he intended to light the home on fire in a murder-suicide.  Continue reading “Los Angeles Gamer Arrested After Police ‘Swatting’ Death”

Breitbart – by Warner Todd Huston

Recently the Walt Disney World resort chain began to phase out those familiar “do not disturb” hotel door hangers that seem to have been around since forever. But the chilling reason this is being done seems to be a sign of the times in which we live.

According to reports, Disney has phased out the signs at its main hotels, The Polynesian, The Grand Floridian, The Contemporary and The Bay Lake Resort. It its place the hotelier has substituted a “room occupied” door hanger, AOL reported.   Continue reading “Chilling Reason Disney is Eliminating ‘Do Not Disturb’ Door Hangers is a Sign of the Times”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Adding to the pressures on bitcoin early this morning, the Sydney Morning Herald reported that bitcoin users across Australia are reporting that their accounts have been abruptly frozen by the country’s “Big Four” banks. And while the banks have remained largely tight-lipped about the closures, many angry account-holders are jumping to conclusions and blaming the banks for punishing them because of their involvement with bitcoin.   Continue reading “Australian Banks Reportedly Freeze Accounts Of Bitcoin Users”