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Anti-Semitic Anne Frank football stickers appear in Germany

Fascism is hard to kill and we must always be on our guard against Nazi’s, neo-Nazis, and allies. Stickers displaying Anne Frank wearing football jerseys have appeared in Germany as an anti-Semitic provocation by neo-Nazi fans. Dortmund and Leipzig ultra groups appear to be copying their Italian counterparts.

Trolls force shutdown of French anti-harassment hotline

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Phone number launched as tool for women being pestered by over-insistent men closes after intimidation and death threats

Internet trolls carrying out an orchestrated campaign of intimidation and death threats have forced the shutdown of a French telephone hotline aimed at shaming men who refuse to take no for an answer.

The anti-harassment phone number was launched on Friday afternoon as a tool for women being pestered by over-insistent males.

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Bus Driver Says He Honked At Citi Biker Before Fatally Running Him Over

Bus Driver Says He Honked At Citi Biker Before Fatally Running Him Over

Dan Hanegby, the 36-year-old man killed by a commercial bus driver in Chelsea this June, did not swerve into a bus moments before he was fatally struck, prosecutors said Tuesday. Instead, the criminal complaint against bus driver Dave Lewis states that he honked at Hanegby, then struck and killed the cyclist in the process of passing him. [ more › ]

US winter has shrunk by more than one month in 100 years

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Scientists find that climate change has helped push first frosts later across the country

The length of the US winter is shortening, with the first frost of the year arriving more than one later than it did 100 years ago, according to more than a century of measurements from weather stations nationwide.

The trend of ever later first freezes appears to have started around 1980, according to data from 700 weather stations across the US going back to 1895 and compiled by Ken Kunkel, a meteorologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Centers for Environmental Information.

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Poland to Richard Spencer: keep out

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The American far-right leader plans to address an extremist rally in Warsaw next month, but the Polish foreign minister says ‘he should not appear publicly’

The Polish government has expressed strong objections to plans by American white nationalist Richard Spencer to speak at a far-right conference in Warsaw in November, but did not say if it would prevent him from entering the country.

Foreign minister Witold Waszczykowski described Spencer as someone “who defames what happened during World War II, defames the Holocaust.”

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Canada judge says sexual assault victim may have been ‘flattered’ by the incident

WTF Friday – ashamed of way too many men who are not even human.

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Judge Jean-Paul Braun suggested that a 17-year-old girl might have welcomed the advances of a 49-year-old taxi driver who allegedly assaulted her

A judge in the Canadian province of Quebec has come under fire after remarking in court that a 17-year-old who said she was sexual assaulted was a “little overweight but has a pretty face” and that she may have been a “bit flattered” by the attention.

The comments, which came to light this week, were made by Judge Jean-Paul Braun in May as he heard allegations of sexual assault against a taxi driver, Carlo Figaro.

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