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LOS ANGELES Silicon Valley significantly escalated its war on white supremacy this week, choking off the ability of hate groups to raise money online, removing them from Internet search engines and preventing some sites from registering at all.

Companies such as Google, GoDaddy and PayPal are now reversing their hands-off approach about content supported by their services and making it much more difficult for "alt-right" groups to reach mass audiences.

Other companies have done the same. Ride-hailing firm Uber told drivers they do not have to pick up racists.Colour of Change, a racial- justice advocacy group, said on Wednesday that Apple had also moved to block hate sites from using Apple Pay. Facebook shut down eight group pages that it said violated hate-speech policies.

"It's one thing to say we do not allow hate groups, it's another thing to actually go and hunt down the groups, make those decisions and kick those people off," said professor of information systems Gerald Kane at the Boston College Carroll School of Management. "It's something most of these companies have avoided intentionally and fervently over the past 10 years."

Right-wing technologists have responded by building parallel digital services for their own movement. Gab.ai, a social network for promoting free speech, was founded in August last year by Silicon Valley engineers alienated by the region's liberalism. Other conservatives have founded Infogalactic, a Wikipedia for the alt-right, as well as crowdfunding tools Hatreon and WeSearchr. The latter was used to raise money for Mr James Damore, a white engineer who was fired after criticising Google's diversity policy.

"If there needs to be two versions of the Internet, so be it," Gab.ai tweeted on Wednesday morning. Its spokesman, Mr Utsav Sanduja, later warned of a "revolt" in Silicon Valley against the way tech firms are trying to control the national debate. "There will be another type of Internet which is run by people politically incorrect, populist and conservative," he said.

PayPal said late on Tuesday that it would bar nearly three dozen users from accepting donations on its online payment platform following revelations that the company played a key role in raising money for the Charlottesville rally. The Southern Poverty Law Centre, a left-leaning non-profit anti-hate group, said until now, PayPal had ignored its complaints.

"For the longest time, PayPal has essentially been the banking system for white nationalism," Mr Keegan Hankes, an analyst for the centre, told The Washington Post. "It's a shame it took Charlottesville for them to take it seriously."

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Karate Kill harkens back to a politically incorrect era of filmmaking filled with Oh-My-God moments. From writer/director Kurando Mitsutake, Karate Kill is a martial arts movie featuring over-the-top gore, gallons of fake blood, and an abundance of nudity. I also forget to mention the racist cult leader, internet snuff films, and abundance of nudity.

Karate Kill is the nickname of the films hero, Kenji (Hayate). Overworked Kenji comes to Los Angeles from Japan to find his sister, Mayumi (Mana Sakura). Mayumi came to Los Angeles to study and become an actress. Kenjis investigation leads him to a seedy Japanese gentlemens club where Mayumi worked as a hostess. Then to a racist cult compound specializing in producing real internet snuff films where Mayumi has been enslaved.

a martial arts movie featuring over-the-top gore, gallons of fake blood, and an abundance of nudity.

Lets break Karate Kill down a little bit. The films karate and martial arts are above average but not the greatest. Moves are enhanced by canned sound effects and creative camera angles. Each fight ends with an over-the-top grotesque finishing move of dismemberment or a massive stream of blood. Early on, Kenji ends a fight by grabbing his opponents ear, rips it out of his head and tosses it into a glass of booze.

The story is filled with hokey melodrama. After the death of their parents, Kenji promises to always protect his sister by becoming a karate master. Lets just say that plan does not work. I mean it really doesnt work. From there the story is all about Kenji being just a step away from finding his sister. Kenji is also faced with the problem of guns and defeating bullets, which plays a significant role in the plot.

The villain is Vandenski (Kirk Geiger), the leader of an internet cult called Capital Messiah. Still fuming over the attack on Pearl Harbor (which he is way too young), Vandenski seeks revenge on the Japanese. The cult live-streams their outrage by torturing and murdering Japanese girls and pitting Japanese men against each other in death battles.

Kenji promises to always protect his sister by becoming a karate master. Lets just say that plan does not work.

No cult classic would be complete without gratuitous nudity. Practically, every woman in this film is topless at some point. The problem is the nudity is always associated with violence and almost crosses the line of misogyny. Who am I kidding? It not only crosses the line but goes for the touchdown. Im not a big proponent of political correctness in storytelling, but Karate Kill makes no attempt to put a little irony or wink into these moments.

Bad acting and hokey storyline aside, Karate Kill is filmed brilliantly. Director Mitsutake went through the trouble of planning each shot meticulously. He is constantly looking for the most interesting angle. During one battle, Mitsutake rotates the camera 360 degrees. This unique film style makes his low budget sets and locations look interesting too.

Karate Kill is going for a specific niche audience, who like martial arts, blood, and boobs. There is a lot to love in this film, but its the sadistic treatment of women that makes it hard to give a recommendation.

Karate Kill (2016) Written and directed by Kurando Mitsutake. Starring: Hayate, Mana Sakura, Asami, Kirk Geiger, Katarina Leigh Waters.

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Google's firing of software engineer James Damore for daring to express politically incorrect ideas in an internal memo is the latest example of the political left's tyrannical propensity to suppress speech, thought and dissent.

Almost as troubling as the left's policing is its apparent obliviousness toward its own hypocrisy and the danger it poses to the liberal exchange of ideas. While constitutional issues may not be involved in the Google case because no state action is involved, moral shaming has become a chilling cudgel in the hands of leftist-dominated institutions.

In his memo, Damore notes that Google's political bias silences dissenting opinion supposedly to shield employees from offensive ideas and protect their psychological safety. "But shaming into silence," writes Damore, "is the antithesis of psychological safety. This silencing has created an ideological echo chamber where some ideas are too sacred to be honestly discussed."

Damore concedes that all people have biases but that open and honest discussion can highlight these biases and help us grow. He says he wrote the memo to encourage such a discussion about Google's biases, a discussion that is being silenced by "the dominant ideology."

Damore opines that both the political left and right have moral biases. "Only facts and reason can shed light on these biases," he says, "but when it comes to diversity and inclusion, Google's left bias has created a politically correct monoculture that maintains its hold by shaming dissenters into silence. This silence removes any checks against encroaching extremist and authoritarian policies."

He then details how this bias affects Google's explanation for the gender gap in the tech world and leadership positions: Its leftist bias tells it that the gap is due to differential treatment (discrimination and injustices). It then applies authoritarian measures that actually discriminate against men to achieve equal representation. This is the wrong approach, says Damore, because the gender gap is partially attributable to many biological differences between men and women, and because there are "non-discriminatory ways to reduce the gender gap."

Stated more simply, biologically based differences between the sexes in certain abilities and preferences, as opposed to gender bias and discrimination, are why there are fewer women in tech jobs and leadership positions. Redistributing these positions could be more harmful than helpful to employees and the company. We should think of people as individuals, not as interchangeable members of groups.

It's ironic that such leftist thinking purports to enhance the worth of women (or members of other allegedly victimized groups) but instead disrespects and devalues their human dignity by imposing groupwide remedies without regard to individual qualities and behavior.

We must recognize that Damore is making two separate but interrelated complaints. He is saying that Google is applying totalitarian groupthink to its gender bias problem and thus misanalyzing it; and that this same groupthink also prevents open and honest discussion of the problem by forbidding the expression of dissenting views.

It's one thing for Google honchos to strongly disagree with the thrust of Damore's substantive arguments concerning the reasons for the gender gap. But it's quite another for them to effectively ban dissent and summarily fire him for dissenting.

But this is nothing new for the left. For example, many leftists seek to ban debate on "climate change" through cultural fiat, declaring that an irrefutable scientific consensus has been established. In the name of science which by definition demands that such issues always remain open to challenge they shut down dissent. Similarly, they say certain views will not be tolerated on college campuses because they are offensive to certain people. On many of these same campuses, they commit violence to people and property to protest conservative speakers whose speech they think could lead to violence. Such preposterous thinking is as widespread as it is ludicrous. Through sophistry and semantic legerdemain, the left has ushered in an era of intellectual anarchy.

Leftists see themselves as stewards of enlightened thinking of liberal academic inquiry, tolerance and diversity but once again, they prove themselves to be Stalinist tailors of intellectual straightjackets who flagrantly violate the very spirit of free expression on which America was founded.

Leftists are ingenious manufacturers of twisted excuses to justify their indefensible actions. But intellectual honesty screams for an accounting in these cases. They might be fooling themselves into believing they are advancing the greater good, but they're not fooling those outside the intellectual prisons of their pride-spawned, self-congratulatory oppression.

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President Trump made a morally disturbing and politically divisive series of statements yesterday about last weekends violence in Charlottesville at what was supposed to be a press briefing on his plans for infrastructure investments. By now, most public officials have felt compelled to weigh in on his shocking self-identification with neo-Confederate efforts to protect monuments to slavery and Jim Crow, and his suggestion that counterprotesters in Charlottesville had as much or more to do with the breakdown in law and order as the motley crew of white supremacists who started the whole thing. As my colleague Margaret Hartmann explained, members of Trumps own party split between those who flatly repudiated him, those who defended him, and those who pretended he didnt say what he said.

But beyond the demerits of Trumps rambling argument, his outburst showed a president who is literally incorrigible, unable to rein in his worst impulses even after a period of reflection and despite the best efforts of the vast number of people advising him. As the New York Times reported:

Venting, his face red as he personally executed the defense of his own actions that no one else would, Mr. Trump all but erased any good will he had earned Monday when he named racist groups and called them repugnant to everything we hold dear.

His largely unprovoked presidential rant on Tuesday instantly sparked an even more intense critique, especially from Republicans.

Yes, the president has shattered all normal expectations about presidential behavior and has gloried in defying political correctness.But theres something new and worrisome about this latest incident. Michael Crowley put his finger on it today:

It was a Trump familiar to those who followed his wildly unorthodox campaign, but one rarely on display since his election unpredictable and politically incorrect to a degree unseen since his visit to the Central Intelligence Agency a day after he was sworn in, when he raged at the media over reports about the crowd size at his inauguration.

Trump-watchers have finally stopped looking for signs that hes going to pivot into becoming a president like most of the previous 44 (though he does greatly resemble Andrew Johnson). But if hes capable of backtracking into self-destructive and grossly divisive behavior almost immediately after being steered away from a palpably damaging statement, it is hard to discern any bright normative lines he might respect.

It is also difficult after this performance to harvest any misapprehension that Trump is just playing the fool to manipulate public opinion. There is no sense in which there is a popular majority for the causes he now seems to be defending, and its not like the neo-Confederate right is going to find itself another national political champion.

No, it is increasingly clear that with Donald J. Trump, what you see is what you get, and what we got in this presser gone mad was Archie Bunker on paranoia-inducing steroids. By contrast, his remarks on Monday condemning the white riot in Charlottesville looked forced, like a statement made as part of a plea bargain. The minute he had a chance, as stunned aides stood by, he set us straight.

It is going to be a very long three-and-a-half years, and if Trump runs for reelection after incidents like this one, his slogan might as well be Make America Hate Again.

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Barack Obama had been president for roughly as long as Donald Trump when, on July 16, 2009, the black Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates was arrested on his front porch in Cambridge, Massachusetts, by a white police officer who thought he might be a burglar. At a news conference a few days later, Obama said the officer, Sgt. James Crowley, had acted stupidly. Conservatives were furious, saying Obama had sided against a policeman doing his job.

To defuse the tension and set an example of racial reconciliation, Obama hosted the professor and the policeman at the White House for a beer. He also conceded error: I could have calibrated those words differently, Obama said. He called the episode a teachable moment for the nation.

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In his explosive Tuesday news conference, President Donald Trump seized a far more dramatic moment not so much to teach as to fight. He admitted no fault, calibrated no words, and in the eyes of Republicans and Democrats alike inflamed rather than defused racial tension.

It wasnt just that Trump defended the pro-Confederate sympathies of a group of demonstrators heavily populated by anti-Semitic white supremacists, or that he seemed to draw equivalence between them and what he called a very violent group of alt-left counter-protesters who opposed them.

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Along the way, he castigated Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who is fighting brain cancer; refused to endorse the job security of his embattled senior aide Stephen Bannon (or Mr. Bannon, as Trump called him); snapped at the dishonest reporters who questioned him; and turned a question about Charlottesville, a city mourning a 32-year-old resident killed on Saturday, into a plug for the vineyard he owns nearby. (I own actually one of the largest wineries in the United States. Its in Charlottesville.)

It was a Trump familiar to those who followed his wildly unorthodox campaign, but one rarely on display since his election unpredictable and politically incorrect to a degree unseen since his visit to the Central Intelligence Agency a day after he was sworn in, when he raged at the media over reports about the crowd size at his inauguration.

And even by the standards of a politician who has repeatedly shocked his critics and dazzled admirers with his flouting of convention, Trumps performance stood out.

A team of the country's most eminent behavioral psychologists, cultural historians, statesmen and clergy could have been asked to design the worst leader imaginable for this moment and Trump would have exceeded their imaginations, said Mark Salter, a former longtime chief of staff and speechwriter to McCain. (Trump lashed out at McCain for voting against a Republican health care bill last month.)

Leaders of the Republican establishment also scrambled to distance themselves from Trump and his comments his third effort since the violence erupted on Saturday. "We must be clear," House Speaker Paul Ryan tweeted. "White supremacy is repulsive. This bigotry is counter to all this country stands for. There can be no moral ambiguity."

But segments of the pro-Trump right were downright delighted. Potus Comes Roaring Back With Press Smackdown at Trump Tower, cheered one Breitbart News headline. Doubles Down, declared another.

Such headlines raise the question of whether Trump is consciously scandalizing the political mainstream in an effort to re-energize voters who thrilled to his taboo-busting style during the 2016 campaign.

But to Trumps harshest critics, Tuesday was merely a sign that Trump who aides said was not supposed to take questions at a news event meant to promote his infrastructure plans has no self-control or sense of propriety.

I think this guy is deeply ill. I really do, former Democratic Vermont Gov. Howard Dean said on MSNBC shortly after Trump spoke.

Either way, left in the dust was any sense of tradition or continuity with the way past presidents have handled similar moments and the subject of race in America. An empathetic, lip-biting Bill Clinton, whose first term included the racial trauma of the O.J. Simpson trial, kicked off a national dialogue on race, appointing a panel of esteemed race relations experts.

Speaking at the memorial service for five Dallas police officers murdered by a radicalized black man last July, former president George W. Bush cited scripture, spoke of empathy and urged Americans to reject the unity of fear for the unity of hope, affection and high purpose.

Obama repeatedly confronted Americas open racial wounds as president.

Asked to contrast Obamas 2009 beer summit with Trumps response to Charlottesville, Dan Pfeiffer, Obamas former White House communications director, was almost at a loss for words.

It's hard to compare Obama and Trump or Trump and any other sentient human with an ounce of empathy or self-awareness, Pfeiffer said. Obama made a statement when more facts came out and made it clear that first statement was incorrect, he took responsibility. Trump has proven time and time again that he is incapable of such an approach.

That was hardly Obamas only response to racial strife. In July 2015, Obama sang "Amazing Grace at the funeral of a pastor who was one of nine African-Americans massacred by a white gunman in a Charleston, South Carolina, church.

And after a Florida jury acquitted George Zimmerman in July 2013 on charges that he murdered the black teenager Trayvon Martin, Obama offered words that echo Tuesdays bipartisan response to Trump.

"Those of us in authority should be doing everything we can to encourage the better angels of our nature, Obama said at the time, "as opposed to using these episodes to heighten divisions."

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Britains Brexit process has got all the ingredients of a white-knuckle Hollywood blockbuster: colorful characters; the fate of a nation at stake; lengthy negotiations over minor changes to customs regulations.

So its perhaps no surprise that a major Hollywood studio plans to sign the rights to a book on last years EU referendum, according to The Daily Telegraph. Benedict Cumberbatch of Sherlock fame could even be considered to play Nigel Farage.

The paper reports that the script for the 60 million ($78 million) project is nearly finished and that shooting is planned to start in the new year. The six-part series would be based on a book, The Bad Boys of Brexit, by Arron Banks, who ran Leave.EU, an unofficial pro-Brexit campaign, during the referendum.

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Casting will take place in the Autumn and Cumberbatch is among the names mentioned in the media in relation to the project.

Aside from Farage, other main characters in the book include the American pollster Gerry Gunster and Banks himself. The film will reportedly be told from Gunsters perspective.

Donald Trump even makes an appearance; Banks and Farage met the president during a post-referendum visit to the U.S. and were later pictured with him in front of a golden elevator in Trump tower.

A source told the Telegraph that it would be an against all odds story in which a respected U.S. expert has to control these British lunatics.

Banks and Farage both cultivate a maverick, politically incorrect public image and rely on controversy to stir up publicity. In recent weeks, Bankss Leave.EU provoked outrage when it responded to news that Gina Miller, a pro-EU campaigner, had been threatened with acid attacks by political opponents. Leave.EU tweeted a gif suggesting she should leave the U.K., with the caption theres the door, liberals.

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Does your town need "riot insurance?" That may depend on what kind of statue is in the town square. Monuments and statues of Confederate-era generals and statesmen -- many erected after their cause was lost -- have ignited a firestorm that has inflamed racial tensions and helped escalate the white supremacists' rally last weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia, into a deadly conflagration.

Riot insurance was once a requirement for only major cities -- especially those hosting controversial gatherings like presidential conventions and international monetary conferences that attract demonstrators. But now such coverage is becoming a must-have for midsize cities and small towns nationwide, particularly throughout the South, where more than 700 Confederate monuments dot the landscape.

It could also be needed at federal parks and tourist attractions like Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where Confederate and Union generals faced off across the battlefield. Statues of former slave-holding presidents such as Andrew Jackson also may not be exempt.

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The issue of politically incorrect monuments had a harsh spotlight shone on it this past weekend in the liberal bastion of Charlottesville, home to the University of Virginia. White supremacists protested the city's decision to remove statues of Confederate Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson.

Their demonstration provoked a counter-demonstration. Violent confrontations between the two groups turned deadly when 20-year-old James Alex Fields Jr. allegedly drove his car into the counter-demonstrators, killing one and injuring 19. The Ohio resident has been charged with second-degree murder.

The killing provoked demonstrations across the country, including as far away as Seattle, and it escalated racial tensions everywhere. Meanwhile, a group called Americans for Richmond Monument Preservation recently announced plans to hold an "event" in September in Virginia's capital city of Richmond to keep Lee's monument in place. A permit for the event has yet to be granted. And this Saturday several more alt-rallies are scheduled for cities across the U.S.

Insurers -- even abroad -- are noticing the change in the tone of political violence in America and reacting to it. They're advocating that cities and municipalities should, too. "There's an increase in activism from all sides," said Srjdan Todorovic, head of terrorism for Allianz Insurance in London. "People aren't just satisfied with expressing themselves on social media anymore. The want to do their talking on the streets."

Allianz sells terrorism insurance, but it also offers "riot insurance," which covers strikes, riots and civil disturbances, as a "stand-alone product." It has been doing so for years, but riot insurance came to the forefront during the U.S. presidential conventions of 2016, when both Cleveland and Philadelphia feared that -- with the angry rhetoric surrounding the campaign -- these gatherings would turn violent.

Cleveland reportedly spent $10 million to protect itself. Americans are acting in a way "we haven't seen in generations," said Todorovic.

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Riot insurance covers companies, cities and even small towns. Many insurers have been "blindsided" by the current atmosphere of violence, so the current policy, which usually covers fire, flood and wind, may not be enough, said Todorovic.

"Policies generally include coverage for losses caused by riot," said spokesperson Loretta Worters of the Insurance Information Institute, which represents the property-casualty industry. But it has to be "direct physical loss caused by riot or civil commotion, and looting at the time and place of the occurrence."

"As for those businesses that must suspend operations due to rioting, coverage is only triggered if there is direct physical damage to the premises of such magnitude that the business must suspend its operations," she added.

Every business and government entity should determine if they're covered against the effects of political violence, said Allianz's Todorovic. They need to make sure they have insurance if a riot shuts down their business district for an extended time or forces a police curfew that causes financial losses or even bankruptcy to local restaurants, bars and night-time businesses.

Todorovic noted that when buying riot insurance, towns also have to be careful of the "triggers." For example, a single act of violence, such as ramming a car into a crowd, might not be enough to get the insurer to pay a claim, but a resulting protest by a thousand people would. "Some policies might say that 10 or more people have to be involved before it is a 'disturbance,'" he added.

This type of insurance is relatively cheap, and prices seem to be coming down. But the drawback is that these confrontations appear to be random and so could happen anywhere an offending statue of a general or slaveholding former president has been erected. General Lee is now an insurance risk.

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FARGO, N.D. Peter Teffts voice was hoarse, the result, he said, of tear gas he breathed over the weekend in Charlottesville, Va., where white supremacists and counterprotesters clashed during demonstrations that turned deadly.

This is the beginning of the new civil rights era, said Tefft, a 30-year-old from Fargo who describes himself as a pro-white civil rights activist and whose family members publicly disavowed his views Monday.

Asked how he felt about the estrangement, Tefft said he doesnt hold anything against his family and that he was angry that relatives, including a 13-year-old niece, were receiving threats.

Teffts father, Pearce Tefft, sent the Fargo-based Forum newspaper a letter to the editor condemning the involvement of his youngest child in the events that happened in Charlottesville.

In Pearce Teffts letter to newspaper, he described his son as an avowed white nationalist and said the rest of the Tefft family wants the world to know they reject the vile, hateful, and racist rhetoric his son has embraced.

In a Monday phone interview, Pearce Tefft said his son did not grow up learning such things, but began expressing extreme views on race about two years ago.

Pearce Tefft said hes not sure of the source of his sons involvement in the white nationalist movement, but he believes it is bolstered by praise from like-minded people whenever his son speaks out on the subject.

He got lost in getting kudos. I dont know for sure, Im speculating, Tefft said, adding that when his son returned to Fargo from Charlottesville, he handed his son a copy of the letter he wrote and let his son know he wasnt welcome at family functions until he distanced himself from groups that foment racial hatred.

I look at Peter as a prodigal son, Tefft said. I do pray that he will renounce all this stuff and come back.

He didnt grow up with it, and I do think he will change, Tefft said, adding: Maybe Im screaming at the wind, I dont know. I just hope he will.

During the weekend events in Charlottesville, Peter Tefft spoke to a number of media outlets and images of him were circulated on the internet.

Peter Tefft said he went to Charlottesville to hear speakers give talks, listen to music and exercise the right to free speech.

Were not politically incorrect, were factually correct, he said, adding, Im certainly not a hateful person.

He said he is looking to organize a pro-white civil rights event in Fargo in October. He said he expects 200 to 300 local residents would attend.

Peter Tefft grew up in Fargo and works in construction as a drywaller and framer, according to his father, who said the attention his son has been getting has been hard on siblings and other relatives, some of whom, he said, have received hateful attention on social media sites because people think incorrectly that family members share his sons views.

Its just wrong; they said some terrible things, Pearce Tefft said, referring to comments directed toward his family.

In his letter to the public, Tefft said he is breaking his silence on his sons views because one reason Nazism took root in the world was because people hesitated to stand up against what they knew to be wrong.

It was the silence of good people that allowed the Nazis to flourish the first time around, and it is the silence of good people that is allowing them to flourish now, Tefft said.

Jacob Scott Wieber, Peter Teffts nephew, said in an interview with WDAY-TV that the majority of the Tefft family are progressive-minded people.

Our grandfather, Pearce, who is Peters father, taught us all to believe in the fundamental equality of all human beings, and we all believe in social justice and equality, Wieber said.

His (Peter Teffts) mind has been poisoned by stuff hes found on this crazy rabbit hole hes gone into, added Wieber, who cautioned people not to judge the rest of the family on the actions and beliefs of one member.

Its just been a great big headache, Wieber said. I would say these people are motivated by the right motivations Nazis should not have a welcome place in this country but theyre targeting the wrong people. Its friendly fire, in a way.

Wieber said that if he could say one thing to his uncle, I would say if he has any love left in his little hateful heart for us, he should change his name.

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Comedy is currently more prescriptive than at any time I can remember. Prescriptive of words, of subjects, even of opinions. And that is worrying. The current industry-standard stand-up has to abide by a list of prohibitions that make a gluten-free, vegan shopping expedition seem simple. There are 328 recognised gender identities, Leo Kearse tells his packed audience, and reads a few from his phone. Canada has just passed a law making the non-use of the correct gender pronoun in any given situation an offence, he says. He thinks this is a bit much.

Kearse makes a properly funny show out of his problems with political correctness, the hypocrisy of the left, and misinformation. Kearse offers to make us Tory, but his points are not particularly Political, just political. I am a huge Jeremy Corbyn fan but when Kearse rips into him it is funny. Incorrect, in my opinion, but funny. I comprehensively disagree with him on global warming but I laughed out loud. Kearse has a way with words and his description of the result of a fortnight at a Pray The Gay Away camp is with me still. He is enthusiastic and persuasive in his exasperation with micro-aggressions and safe spaces, no-platforming and triggering. He, like an increasing number of comics around the Fringe, is taking another look at equality, so hard fought for by early feminists. Todays feminists just go for the nice stuff, suggests Kearse before pointing out that 97 per cent of workplace deaths are male. This is a solid hour of honest funny which will change your attitude to bananas forever.

Of course, the poster boy for alternative alternative comedy is Andrew Lawrence, whose current thoughts on equality of the sexes centre, he tells us, on the now obviously unfair and sexist caveat on boys hitting girls, when they can hit anything and everyone else. I will leave that one with you but remind you that it is a joke. That is what Lawrence does. He says things for comic effect. His show is funny. Lawrences material is dark and deeply self-deprecating, bitter and somehow managing to be both biting and tongue in cheek, which is difficult to do without drawing blood. He has, he tells us, always regarded comedy as a barometer for freedom of speech. If it is then we are heading into a deep depression. He is a wonderful technician and if you cannot appreciate what he does up there on his comedy tightrope, juggling shock, disgust, outrage and laughter, then I am truly sorry for you.

Gavin Webster takes the genial Geordie approach to frustration with quotas and militant liberals. He comes from a land of sectarianism and hard knocks, where turning the other cheek can be dangerous. His show is pretty much solid laughs making hard points. He explains why Geordies would have made good, if reluctant Nazis, explores uxoricide, and shares with us the four kinds of people he hates. Hippies take quite a lot of stick. Of course the Geordie accent makes his impotent raging and bewilderment at socio-economic unfairnesses lovable rather than threatening. And we agree with him. Especially when it comes to his irrefutable reason for not having more women on panel shows. He is not remotely interested in when Diwali is and resents the amount of time womens football gets on telly, he paints a chuckle-worthy picture of a dystopian future where humour has been outlawed, and tags it with a great callback to end on a huge laugh. This is great blokey stuff. I identify as a girl-bloke so I loved it.

Chris McGlade is angry. His is the most unleashed of the four shows, as he prowls his Cave down off the stage, getting in the faces of his audience and howling his frustration with bourgeois advantages and the way the world looks down on the working classes. He plays the working mans club circuit and loathes the way proper joke-telling is sneered at. But then he gets into politics and rips into Obama and the 26,000 bombs he dropped, the Thought Police culture we are living in and the increasing number of caveats in our lives. He rails against the unfairness of the strictures on cigarette sales and his suggestions for warning signs on other items are brilliant. Newcastle Brown and Crispy Creme doughnuts should be packaged the McGlade way. I know Im a scary man, go with it, he reassures an American couple in the front row. And they do. He gets his teeth into taboo words and how words can be weaponised and this is gripping stuff. And when he gets onto PC and gender politics and how society is being divided and controlled, and urges us to fight back for the sake of generations to come, I felt like grabbing a banner and marching. This is weaponised comedy, locked and loaded. It is awesome.

These guys are part of a growing group in the crowd pointing out that the kings and queens of political correctness might not be as well dressed as they are thought to be. Andrew Doyle, another comic in the group, calls the current climate of professional liberalism a dogma. And dogma is never good. All of these guys are terrific comics. Take a walk on the comedy wild side and see them.

Leo Kearse: I Can Make You Tory, Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, until 28 Aug (not 15); Andrew Lawrence: The Happy Accident Tour, Assembly Rooms, ends today; Gavin Webster: Its About Time We Had More Women in There, The Stand Comedy Club 2, until 27 Aug (not 14); Chris McGlade: Ignorance Is Chris, Just The Tonic at the Caves, until Aug 27 (not 14 or 21); Andrew Doyle: Thought Crimes, The Stand Comedy Club, until 27 Aug (not 14)

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Learn to identify & play against the "sticky bun," the "roly poly," the "chirper" & the "butterfly."

Ashley Adams lists four new poker archetypes commonly found in low-stakes no-limit hold'em games.

I became a serious poker player in the early 1990s when limit stud and limit hold'em were the most popular games. In those days, there were three well known poker "archetypes" that survive to this day.

You are almost surely familiar with them the "rock," the "maniac" and the "calling station."

Each of those names captured an entire category of player one often faced at the tables. A "rock" was (and is) an extremely tight player. A "maniac" is an extremely loose and aggressive player. And a "calling station" is extremely loose and passive, often checking and calling and very seldom betting and raising.

By the early-to-mid 2000s the game had changed, with no-limit hold'em swiftly becoming the most popular game. Soon the game became more sophisticated, with different, creating a need for more nuanced categories to describe players.

"Tight-aggressive" ("TAG") and "loose-aggressive" ("LAG") joined the lexicon as phrases describing certain types of players. So did "nits" (a "rock" by another name), "LAGtards" (self-explanatory and more than a little politically incorrect), and "donkeys" (replacing the old school "pigeon" or "fish").

Sure, there were other words thrown about to describe poker players, but as far as archetypes or primary categories were concerned, that just about covered it.

But the times they are a changing (again), meaning some new archetypes are needed. I've taken the time to identify a few that more closely resemble some of the more complex types of players we face today, especially at the lower limits of $1/$2 and $2/$5 no limit hold'em.

A "sticky bun" is a rock of sorts. But it's a rock who has a very hard time folding to action after the flop.

Preflop he's a nit, but postflop he's the antithesis of weak-tight, c-betting with a very weak range and then calling action from his opponents with a similarly weak postflop range.

He's the type of player you want to float with a broad range, expecting him both to continue the action after the flop, even if he hasn't hit anything, and then to call your return fire if you hit a monster.

You want him at your table. Hey, who doesn't like a sticky bun?

This player type is based on that suburban lawn insect that fascinates children. A "roly poly" is only about a centimeter or so long, has multiple legs, and typically is seen crawling slowly through strands of grass.

But as soon as one experiences any danger in the form of a stick or a finger coming its way, it rolls up into a tight sphere the size of a small ball bearing, remaining in that form until many minutes after the danger abates.

Similarly, a poker roly poly has one move preflop only. He may raise light, and it may be a fairly large raise. But come the flop, if he hasn't hit it, he'll roll up and go away in the face of any action.

You can float him from any position. If you're out of position, a small donk bet on the flop will almost always scare him away unless he actually hit. If you're in late position, bet when he checks and fold when he bets. He, too, will add to your bottom line.

Here is another, different example of a generally poor player, in this case one who one craves some action preflop. The "chirper" sees others raise preflop, so he does so, too, but but without any real purpose or meaning.

His move is a small raise, typically from any position, with a huge, weak range, just to spice the pot a little. It's preflop noise, signifying nothing just the chirping of a little bird, and should be largely ignored.

Call, raise or fold as you would an unraised pot (with allowances for the slightly larger size of the pot). If you're a fairly tight player, the chirper is a mild annoyance, meaninglessly inflating pots. You'll do fine with him at the table as long as you can ignore his noise, and have a bankroll to absorb the slightly bigger game.

Finally, the "butterfly" is a solid player who likes to float the flop, hoping to chill action or take the pot away on the turn.

Against such players, you should be less inclined to c-bet with medium strength or weaker hands out of position, and more inclined to reraise on the turn and river if you read him for having made this habitual-for-him float move.

But be careful. Good floaters are often very good players. Though they float like a butterfly, they can come back and sting you like a bee.

Profiling players and being able to recognize which categories they fit into is an important part of winning poker. The clearer your picture of the habits of your opponents, the better able you will be to exploit them.

Without making too much of these new differentiated categories, I think you'll find that they may help you recognize and then exploit some of the typical behavior patterns of poker players today.

They may also prompt you to think of other archetypes for the characters you see at the table. If you come up with any, I'd be interested in knowing what they are.

Ashley Adams has been playing poker for 50 years and writing about it since 2000. He is the author of hundreds of articles and two books, Winning 7-Card Stud (Kensington 2003) and Winning No-Limit Hold'em (Lighthouse 2012). He is also the host of poker radio show House of Cards. See http://www.houseofcardsradio.com for broadcast times, stations, and podcasts.

Photos: "Sticky buns..." (adapted), Amber DeGrace, CC BY 2.0; "Roll E Pole E" (adapted), Frank Boston, CC BY 2.0; "Chirp!" (adapted), hedera.baltica, CC BY-SA 2.0; "Butterfly" (adapted), Conal Gallagher, CC BY 2.0.

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