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Houston Association of Realtors no longer using phrase "master bedroom" - because slavery

Nancy Sarnoff
Houston Chronicle
Wed, 24 Jun 2020 17:20 UTC
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© Melissa Fitzgerald West
The Houston Association of Realtors has stopped using the word "master" to describe bedrooms or bathrooms, a change prompted by a group of real estate agents that requested a review of the term.

The association agreed to update the phrase to "primary bedroom" and "primary bath." It implemented the changes in its Multiple Listing Service and on har.com June 15.

"This topic is currently being debated across the real estate industry, and the national standards organization for MLSs will be considering a similar change that could make 'primary' the new standard nationally," according to a statement from HAR.

Tiffany Curry, a Houston real estate broker who recently became the first African-American owner of a Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices franchise, supports the change.

"'Master' represents a stigma and place in time that we need to move forward from. As a progressive, diverse city, Houston should be reflective of its citizenship," said Curry, a past National Association of Realtors board member.

Some builders have already dropped the term. David Weekley Homes, for example, calls a home's primary bedroom an "owner's retreat."

Comment: Some people have mastered the art of useless outrage. Is there a master's degree for that yet?





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Fire

'They didn't protect our people': Businesses abandoning riot-torn cities

Bailey Duran
CNS News
Wed, 24 Jun 2020 17:14 UTC
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© Reuters / Adam Bettcher
A Minneapolis business owner is leaving the city in the wake of violent protests that broke out after George Floyd's death, resulting in his business being burned to the ground.

Kris Wryrobek, president and owner of 7-Sigma, Inc., has decided to relocate his business out of Minneapolis after rioters burned it down. 7-Sigma was located in South Minneapolis and had been in the city since 1987.

"They don't care about my business," Wryrobek said, "They didn't protect our people. We were all on our own." He went on to say that a fire engine was sitting at the scene and didn't attempt to put out the fire.

Other business owners echoed Wryobek's words. They say the city turned its back on them.
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Dominoes

MSM scrambles to smear 'free speech' platform Parler as Twitter censorship wave pushes conservatives out

Helen Buyniski
RT
Fri, 26 Jun 2020 17:03 UTC
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© Reuters / Dado Ruvic
"Free speech driven" social network Parler is being smeared as a "far right" cesspool as a Twitter crackdown drives conservative signups - even as its new users include milquetoast Republican politicians like Ted Cruz.

Like Gab before it, Parler has attracted celebrity Twitter and Facebook rejects, lured by the promise of a censor-free experience, and a flood of users eager to interact with their banned idols - or just to express themselves without fear of deplatforming. And the market for alternative platforms is booming - Parler's app was the second-most-popular download in the App Store's News category as of Thursday.

Some 500,000 users reportedly joined the platform after Twitter, following in the footsteps of Facebook and stepping up its ideologically-motivated censorship, banned conservative meme-maker Carpe Donktum and locked National Pulse editor Raheem Kassam's account on Tuesday.
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Light Sabers

#MeToo snapback: Justin Bieber files $20 million defamation lawsuit over sexual misconduct claims


Yahoo
Fri, 26 Jun 2020 16:57 UTC
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© ReutersSinger Bieber and his wife Hailey Baldwin
Justin Bieber has filed a $20 million defamation lawsuit against two women who accused him of sexual misconduct.

The Canadian pop star filed the lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court on Thursday after saying on Twitter earlier this week that a claim that he sexually assaulted a woman in 2014 was "factually impossible."

The woman, who identified herself as Danielle but said she was posting anonymously, said in a Twitter posting that has since been deleted that she was sexually assaulted by the singer at a hotel in Austin, Texas, on March 9, 2014.

The other woman, who identified herself as Kadi, said on Twitter that she was sexually assaulted by Bieber in a New York hotel room in May 2015.
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Handcuffs

Israeli athlete Svetlana Gnezdilov arrested on charges of sex trafficking and prostitution

Gilad Morag|
YNet News
Mon, 22 Jun 2020 16:50 UTC
Svetlana Gnezdilov
© APSvetlana Gnezdilov
Former world-class Israeli athlete, Svetlana Gnezdilov, has been identified on Monday as one of the main suspects in a sex trafficking and prostitution probe.

Gnezdilov appeared in the Tel Aviv District Court on Monday, where she denied charges of conspiracy to commit a crime, pimping, advertising adult prostitution services, bringing a person into prostitution, permitting premises to be used for prostitution, tax fraud, money laundering, and causing a person to leave their country for purposes of prostitution.

The 51-year-old Ramat Gan resident previously represented Israel in three World Championships and two European Championships.
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NPC

Now CHESS is being called RACIST, because white always goes first. Stop this insane, leftist fantasy world - I want to get off!

Guy Birchall
RT
Thu, 25 Jun 2020 16:42 UTC
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© Getty Images / Valeriya Tikhonova
An Australian taxpayer-funded broadcaster has tried to book a former chess player to discuss whether one of the oldest board games in the world is steeped in white supremacy. This is utter madness.

In the words of Anchorman's Ron Burgundy: "That escalated quickly". Less than two weeks ago, I wrote a tongue-in-cheek article listing twelve things that should be next on the list for the cancel culture commissars to tear down. Such as the pyramids, the White House, William Shakespeare...

As a throw-away line, a joke and in the interest of bumping up the number of things on the list, I suggested the game of chess should be cancelled. I, and I cannot stress this enough, wrote for a laugh, that chess "is clearly an allegory for racial violence, and the fact the whites always get to move first is an obvious indication of white supremacy."

However, I apparently underestimated my powers, because yesterday, nine days after that article was published, it was revealed that ABC, Australia's national broadcaster, was preparing for a discussion on this very topic. Yes: a taxpayer funded organization was actively trying to book guests and devote airtime to discuss whether or not a board game was racist.
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No, Donald Trump is NOT a Nazi. Madonna's latest tirade highlights the other N-word we should all stop using

Jason O'Toole
RT
Thu, 25 Jun 2020 16:38 UTC
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© REUTERS / Twitter / @aaronxldn
Let's stop using the term Nazi to besmirch public figures, no matter how divisive. It trivialises the Holocaust and dishonors the memory of the millions who died in World War II.

We need to talk about the N-word. No, I don't mean the appalling ethnic slur directed at black people, but rather the other one, associated with wartime Germany.

This exceedingly offensive term, linked with the deaths of millions, has - wrongly, in my book - somehow become a weapon of right-on liberals of late.

I don't know how anyone can even think it's an acceptable insult to fling at every Tom, Dick... or Donald. In the latest instance, I read that Madonna has branded the US president as a card-carrying member of Hitler's party.
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Sheeple

'Borderline anarchists': BET founder Robert Johnson mocks crowds pulling down statues

Marisa Schultz
Fox News
Fri, 26 Jun 2020 14:01 UTC
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© CNBCRobert Johnson, founder of Black Entertainment Television
BET founder Robert Johnson, in an interview Wednesday with Fox News, blasted those who are toppling Confederate and other statues across the nation as "borderline anarchists" -- while challenging the notion that black Americans support this.

People tearing down statues "have the mistaken assumption that black people are sitting around cheering for them saying 'Oh, my God, look at these white people. They're doing something so important to us. They're taking down the statue of a Civil War general who fought for the South," Johnson said. "You know, black people, in my opinion, black people laugh at white people who do this the same way we laugh at white people who say we got to take off the TV shows."

Johnson, who became the country's first black billionaire in 2001, has made a $14 trillion pitch for reparations to descendants of slavery. But he said the movement to take down statues, cancel TV shows and fire professors does nothing to close the wealth gap that has persisted since slavery.

It's "tantamount to rearranging the deck chairs on a racial Titanic," Johnson told Fox News. "It absolutely means nothing."

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Dollars

Cash4Covid - How hospitals are making money off the coronavirus

Kit Knightly
OffGuardian
Thu, 25 Jun 2020 10:10 UTC
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Hospitals in the US are getting money for diagnosing Covid19. They get more money if those patients are then put on ventilators. It's time we really started thinking about what that means.

Early on in the launch of the Sars-Cov-2/Covid19 "pandemic", it was revealed by Dr Scott Jensen that hospitals in the US were getting paid bonuses for diagnosing Covid19 in their patients, and then larger bonuses again if those patients were put on ventilators.

We're not fact-checking that. We don't need to. It's already been done.

As soon as his words were aired, the "independent fact checkers" descended upon them in an effort to prove him wrong. They could not. Resorting instead to weasel words and obfuscations.

Snopes found his assertions "plausible", Politifact called it "half true", and FactCheck said it was true, writing:
Recent legislation pays hospitals higher Medicare rates for COVID-19 patients and treatment...
Before adding:
...but there is no evidence of fraudulent reporting."

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Attention

I warned about the COVID and now I feel like a fool

Anthony DiMauro
The American Conservative
Mon, 15 Jun 2020 19:01 UTC
Anthony Fauci
© MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty ImagesDr. Anthony Fauci (L), director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases speaks next to Response coordinator for White House Coronavirus Task Force Deborah Birx, during a meeting with US President Donald Trump and Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards D-LA in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on April 29, 2020.
Since the pandemic began, I've been described as a so-called "COVID warrior," which makes some sense. After all, I've defended the shutdowns of large gatherings. I've insisted that it's wise to temporarily close churches and postpone funerals and other ceremonies. I've argued that extreme caution is necessary — that to do anything else would be to blatantly and selfishly ignore the scientific information at our disposal. I've held the opinion that, although it has caused irrevocable harm to the economy and caused millions of people to suffer, business owners who close up shop for fear of spreading contagion are in the right.

Now I feel like a fool.

By no means am I a coronavirus denier — more than 100,000 and counting have died from the COVID. But with conflicting reports about everything from wearing masks to the spread of the virus through surfaces coming out of the World Health Organization and the CDC almost weekly, my head is spinning. Nothing seems to make sense anymore.

For fear of spreading the virus, health experts have consistently recommended shutting down and avoiding public spaces, including schools, playgrounds, public pools, and public transportation. They've also advocated for limiting large gatherings and closing anything that might draw crowds. It's advice that's been repeated for months — to the point that those ignoring it have been reviled and accused of experimenting with "human sacrifice."

Comment: Did social distancing practices help 'flatten the curve'? Most likely not.

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