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Pastor Who Said Jews Are Going to Hell Led Prayer at Jerusalem Embassy Opening

Robert Jeffress, a Dallas evangelical pastor, played a prominent role in the ceremony, as did the Rev. John C. Hagee, a televangelist with a history of inflammatory remarks.

How to make caviar sustainable

Leave it in the fish – dummy!

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Can homegrown caviar from North Carolina stand up to the cheaper Chinese product? A local farm tries to get Americans to bite

The chamber inside LaPaz Farm is so clean it almost feels like an operating room. Before we walked into the room, Sabine Mader, the manager of the farm, asks us to put on white coats, gloves and hair nets – and a beard net for my husband. Inside the chamber, a fish-cutter is waiting with a freshly dispatched, female Russian sturgeon on the table, one of five to be harvested today.

He deftly slices open the fish and pulls back the meat, revealing a wave of grey-black roe in the ovaries. It is the culinary equivalent of an old-fashioned coin purse slit down the middle with a treasure hidden inside. The treasure, in this case, is osetra caviar.

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The rise of Patreon – the website that makes Jordan Peterson $80k a month

So Patreon joins those enabling fascists?

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In five years, online membership service Patreon has attracted two million patrons supporting 100,000 ‘creators’ to the tune of $350m – including nearly $1m a year for rightwing psychologist Jordan Peterson. So what’s the secret of its success?

The internet has transformed creative industries. Words, music, video, images and games can be distributed worldwide, instantly and for free, delivering a cornucopia of delights to your screens and mine. The problem is that, historically, it’s not been quite so good at ensuring those same creative industries get paid. Ad-supported media did the job quite well, until a couple of years ago, when it suddenly didn’t. Streaming services seem to be making a lot of money for someone, but that someone is rarely the creators who exist on those platforms.

All of which goes some way to explaining the surprise (and jealousy?) that accompanied the news that Jordan B Peterson, the alt-right’s favourite psychologist and dispenser of such advice as “stand up straight”, is making just under $1m a year online, thanks to the support of some 9,500 fans on the membership service Patreon.

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Turkey’s president blames US for returning world to ‘dark days’

This is the pot complaining about the kettle.

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US has chosen to be part of problem not solution, says Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in London speech

The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has said the world is living in dark times reminiscent of the years leading up to the second world war as he lambasted decisions by Donald Trump to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal and recognise Jerusalem as the Israeli capital.

Donald Trump’s victory in US election in November 2016 put the fate of the deal in doubt. He had promised prior to his election to “dismantle the disastrous deal with Iran”, although many believed he might instead adopt a more rigorous implementation of the agreement and tighten sanctions already in place. This could force Tehran to violate first or make the deal redundant. 

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Gina Haspel: Democratic senator Joe Donnelly backs CIA nominee

Selling soul to try to stay in office is no different than what Trump is doing and just as shameful and traitorous.

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  • Indiana senator is second Democrat to support president’s pick
  • Donnelly faces tough re-election fight in state Trump won handily

Joe Donnelly of Indiana on Saturday became the second Democratic senator to back Donald Trump’s pick to run the CIA, Gina Haspel, whose nomination is in question over her role in a rendition and torture programme run by the agency after 9/11.

Related: ‘John McCain is not fighting a losing battle’: a senator defends his legacy

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Michael Bloomberg calls ‘epidemic of dishonesty’ bigger threat than terrorism

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  • Ex-New York mayor: democracy at risk from ‘endless barrage of lies’
  • Bloomberg does not name Trump in Houston university speech

Americans are facing an “epidemic of dishonesty” in Washington that is more dangerous than terrorism or communism, according to former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Related: ‘John McCain is not fighting a losing battle’: a senator defends his legacy

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