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Olympic champion figure skating coach Richard Callaghan banned for life over sexual misconduct claims

Jason Owens
Yahoo
Wed, 21 Aug 2019 17:41 UTC
Richard Callaghan
© AP
Richard Callaghan, best known for coaching Tara Lipinski to the gold medal at the 1998 Olympics, has been banned for life following multiple allegations of sexual misconduct.

The U.S. Center for SafeSport announced the decision on Wednesday, two weeks after Adam Schmidt accused the 73-year-old coach of sexually abusing him while he trained as a teenager from 1999 to 2001.

Schmidt, previously known as Adam Badaani, filed a lawsuit against Callaghan, U.S. Figure Skating and the Onyx Ice Arena where he trained alleging that USFS failed to protect him after skater Craig Maurizi accused Callaghan of abusing him from 1977 to 1986 when he was as young as 13 years old.
"How did this happen?" Schmidt told ABC News after filing his lawsuit. "Why 20 years ago did everyone know and do nothing? Because if they would have done something then ... I never would have been abused."
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Dominoes

Damage control: Gillette backflips after $12 billion 'toxic masculinity' backlash

Frank Chung
news.com.au
Thu, 22 Aug 2019 17:34 UTC
shaving
Razor brand Gillette says it is "shifting the spotlight from social issues to local heroes" after an ad delving into "toxic masculinity" caused a customer backlash.

The new ad, which launched last week, stars Australian firefighter and personal trainer Ben Ziekenheiner. "I've been a firefighter for 19 years," Mr Ziekenheiner says in the ad.

"People sometimes ask if it's scary. It can be, but like anyone who has a job to do, you prepare — not just in terms of your equipment but also mentally and physically."

The ad spruiks the brand's SkinGuard range, highlighting the issue of sensitive skin for men who shave every day — including firefighters, who are required to be clean-shaven as it enables a proper seal for their breathing mask.
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Health

Missing 5yo girl rescued in Russia after spending NEARLY THREE DAYS alone in a forest


RT
Thu, 22 Aug 2019 17:28 UTC
zarina avgonova
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Rescuers used drones, divers, thermal cams, and even recordings of her mother's voice as they looked for a small girl lost in a forest in Russia. She was unharmed, and the first thing she asked for was... some cake!

Five-year-old Zarina Avgonova disappeared around 2pm on Sunday. Reports say she may have wandered off from the village of Stepanovka in Nizhny Novgorod Region, 460km from Moscow, to a forest nearby while looking for relatives who went mushroom picking.

Rescue teams first searched the village. Then more than 800 people, many of whom were volunteers, began searching the woods, as divers examined several lakes and the Sarma River. The forest was hit by a thunderstorm with heavy rain on the first night of the operation, hampering their efforts. The fog was another problem. "The fog makes it hard to search during the night - it doesn't go away until sunrise," one of the volunteers said.
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Bad Guys

Mexico overrun with drugs: Court rules to allow use, possession, and transport of cocaine for petitioners


AFP
Tue, 20 Aug 2019 17:21 UTC
cocaine
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A Mexican judge ruled, for the first time, to allow two petitioners to "possess, transport and use cocaine," but not to sell it
A Mexican judge has granted two people's requests to be allowed to use cocaine recreationally, the organization behind the cases said Tuesday, calling it a "historic step" -- though it must first be reviewed by a higher court.

The rulings, the first of their kind in Mexico, would allow the two petitioners to "possess, transport and use cocaine," but not to sell it, according to Mexico United Against Crime, an organization devoted to ending the Latin American country's "war on drugs."

The Mexico City court ordered the national health regulator, COFEPRIS, to authorize the petitioners' cocaine use in personal, recreational doses, the organization said.
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Russian class: FM spokesperson Maria Zakharova saddles the beat of iconic Caucasus dance


RT
Thu, 22 Aug 2019 17:11 UTC
zakharova dancing
She may be better known as the public face of Russian diplomacy, but occasionally Maria Zakharova gives in to her not-so-secret passion for dance, as a new video shows.

The Foreign Ministry spokesperson was caught on camera dancing the Lezginka, a fast-paced, energetic dance popular in the Caucasus Mountains.

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People

Greenland seeks to break silence around child sexual abuse


Japan Times
Wed, 26 Jun 2019 13:22 UTC
Greenland
© CHRISTIAN KLINDT SOELBECK / RITZAU SCANPIX / VIA AFPWORLD
A woman and her children pass the Greenland County Council Hall in the streets of Nuuk, Greenland, last year. In Greenland, a sparsely populated autonomous Danish territory plagued by social issues, nearly 1 in 3 have been sexually abused as a child, and government efforts to combat the issue are hampered by a persistent taboo.
In Greenland, the scourge of child sexual abuse has emerged as a pressing concern with nearly 1 in 3 having suffered abuse in their childhood, and efforts to combat it hampered by a persistent conspiracy of silence.

The sparsely populated autonomous Danish territory is confronted with major social problems, including high levels of suicide and alcoholism. The government highlights alcohol and hash abuse as the number one health concern.

But the recent airing of a documentary on sexual abuse on Danish public television has put the spotlight on the issue, renewing the Arctic island's commitment to tackling abuse of children.

"I was about 6 years old... I was woken up in the middle of the night because someone was touching me. My hands were tied, my knees were tied and he abused me," said Anna-Sofie Jonathansen in the documentary.
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Cult

Pedocracy: Nine more lawsuits accuse Boy Scouts of America of protecting 8,000 child rapists for decades


Jezebel
Wed, 21 Aug 2019 12:07 UTC
boy scouts america
This week, nine people filed sexual abuse lawsuits against the Boy Scouts of America, joining a roster of accusations that the organization fostered a culture of abuse over the course of four decades. In addition to the individual incidents, these suits allege that the organization was not only aware of the abuse, but tracked it, documenting problematic individuals in a detailed ledger, nicknamed the "perversion files." Thus the aim of the legal battle is not just individual accountability, but a broader reckoning for the organization — an intention to make the secret files public.

The cases against the Boy Scouts were filed in New York state as part of the Child Victim's Act, signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in February, which opens a year-long window that extends the time frame for survivors of childhood sexual assault to file civil or criminal suits. The bill opened hundreds of cases in New York state on its first day, against individuals and institutions including the Catholic Church.

For the Boy Scouts, the open window comes in the midst of a broader upheaval. Per the Washington Post:

Comment: See also: Lawyer claims Boy Scouts of America has 'perversion files' covering nearly 8,000 alleged sexual offenders

Then there's the rampant sexual abuse of children in the foster care system, in sports, in church organizations, etc, etc.

Houston, we may have a major cultural problem...

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Attention

Parents sentenced over neglect of child on vegan-only diet

Benedict Brook and Ben Graham
news.com.au
Thu, 22 Aug 2019 16:58 UTC
vegan baby
© AAP Image/Hanna Higgins
The court heard that the child will need ongoing therapy.
A Sydney couple dissolved into sobs after being sentenced for the cruel malnourishment of their 20-month-old baby fed a strict vegan diet.

A Sydney couple who had their three children taken away from them when police found their 20-month-old girl was severely malnourished and suffering from rickets after being fed on a strict vegan diet have avoided jail over the neglect of their child.

Both sobbed in court as a judge slammed their behaviour as "reckless" and questioned their "untruthful" statements to authorities about their daughter's health.

At Sydney's Downing Centre court today, the couple was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment, however they will not have to spend time behind bars with the sentence in the form of an intensive correction order. Both will undertake 300 hours community service.


Comment: The original story:

Comment: If you want to ruin your own health with a deficient vegan diet, be our guest. But endangering the life of children due to adherence to a ridiculous ideology should be a punishable offense. Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon Morell should be required reading for any potential parent, especially vegans.

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Attention

Fracking suspended after biggest earthquake yet in Blackpool, UK

Phoebe Weston
The Independent
Thu, 22 Aug 2019 11:25 UTC
Cuadrilla
© PA
Operations were paused for 18 hours from Wednesday evening while Cuadrilla monitored the site near Blackpool
Fracking has been halted at the UK's only shale gas exploration site after it triggered the largest earthquake caused by the practice to date, according to an energy firm.

Operations were paused for 18 hours from Wednesday evening while Cuadrilla monitored the site near Blackpool after a "micro seismic event" with a magnitude of 1.55.

Most people who live near the site would not have felt the movement, which a spokesman for the firm claimed would have felt similar to someone dropping a large bag of shopping on the floor.

"Minor movements of this level are to be expected and are way below anything that can cause harm or damage to anyone or their property," he added. The "integrity" of the Preston New Road site has been confirmed by regulators, he added.


Comment: If it was so normal then do they suspend operations every time someone 'drops a large bag of shopping' in the vicinity?


Comment: The 'pioneer' of the fracking industry has declared it an "unmitigated disaster"; there's irrefutable evidence of the devastation it causes to the environment; the price of shale in the markets has collapsed; there's a surplus of reliable and inexpensive gas from Russia; the quakes that are threatening the very foundations people live upon are relentless, and yet the UK government still pushes on with fracking, which tells us everything we need to know about the people running the country: Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal #26: Globalization vs Nationalism - The Hidden Causes of The Yellow Vest Protests in France

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Stock Down

Japan's $1.5 trillion pension fund warns of serious global investing losses


Free Malaysia Today
Thu, 22 Aug 2019 10:32 UTC
shibuya

Japan's Government Pension Investment Fund has lost money in equities, fixed income and currency positions over the last three months.
Global markets have become so synchronised that money managers risk losing on every front, said chief investment officer Hiromichi Mizuno, of the world's largest pension fund.

Japan's US$1.5 trillion Government Pension Investment Fund lost money in equities, fixed-income and currency positions over the last three months, Mizuno said Tuesday in Sacramento, California.

"Conventional wisdom of portfolio diversification is when we lose money in equity we make a profit in fixed income," Mizuno told the board of the California Public Employees' Retirement System, the largest US pension.

"But we lost in every single asset classes and lost in the currency translation as well. It never happened in the past."

Comment: The signs of a financial meltdown are everywhere. As noted in Plummeting stocks at Dow, S&P & NASDAQ, signs of 2008-style crash up ahead?
Stock fell and demands for bonds rose as the markets interpreted Treasuries rates as a signal preceding a recession [...]

Yields on 10-year Treasury bonds have just slipped below the yields for 2-year bonds, for the first time since the 2007 run-up to the Great Recession.
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