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Remake of Disney's 'Lady and the Tramp' to do over 'racist' Siamese cat song

Danny Cox
The Inquisitr
Tue, 07 May 2019 18:19 UTC
Siamese cats from 'Lady and the Tramp'
We live in a time where the Walt Disney Company is taking their animated classics and turning them into live-action remakes for a different generation. One of those is Lady and the Tramp, a remake that will only be available on the company's new streaming service Disney+, which is due out in November. Now, it has been revealed that one of the songs in the animated film is going to be redone due to it being racist and offensive.

Entertainment Weekly is reporting that "The Siamese Cat Song" is going to be redone for this new live-action remake due to it depicting the Asian community in offensive ways. Polygon actually calls the song "racist," and reveals that it will be replaced by an entirely new song performed by Janelle Monae.

Monae is going to cover another song called "He's a Tramp," which was also performed by Peggy Lee in the animated classic. Monae, like Lee, will also voice the dog named Peg in Lady and the Tramp.
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NYU votes to not cooperate in study abroad program in Israel


Mondoweiss
Thu, 02 May 2019 00:00 UTC
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Editor's Note: The following is a statement from the NYU Department of Social and Cultural Analysis. Mondoweiss occasionally publishes press releases and statements from organizations in an effort to draw attention to overlooked issues.

By a majority vote, faculty in NYU's Department of Social and Cultural Analysis have passed a resolution that pledges non-cooperation with the university's study abroad program in Tel Aviv. Citing the obligation to uphold the university's Policy of Ethical Conduct on non-discrimination and equal opportunity, the faculty declared non-cooperation with the program until the Israeli state both ends its restrictions on entry based on ancestry and political speech, as well as adopts policies granting visas for exchanges to Palestinian universities on a fully equal basis as it does to Israeli universities. Members of the department as well as the NYU community at large have been impacted by these policies and so their right to academic freedom and movement has effectively been constrained.
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Male student takes stand against 'toxic masculinity' narrative

Drew Van Voorhis
The College Fix
Tue, 07 May 2019 18:17 UTC
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'We have so many people talking about toxic masculinity, but so few talking about toxic femininity'

Jermelle MacLeod is a man, and he's not going to apologize for it.

The San Diego State University freshman and budding philosopher recently took to the pages of the campus newspaper The Daily Aztec and let the world know what he thinks of the term "toxic masculinity" and those who wield it.

"Toxic masculinity doesn't exist," he wrote in his op-ed. "Traits that one person considers toxic, may not be to another person; the entire phrase is based on a subjective scale with absolutely no objective ground and is used as a shaming tactic for 'modern feminists' and anybody else buying into their horrible rhetoric."

"For example, one person may like the typical 'alpha male,'" MacLeod wrote. "Confident, loud, powerful, buff, etc. But another person may find those traits unlikeable, and so they'll brand that male as 'toxic' because 'toxic masculinity' is a catch-all term for any traits a man has that are considered unlikeable or 'overly masculine.'"
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Kim Kardashian quietly helps free 17 inmates who've served years of life sentences without parole for low-level drug offenses


TMZ
Tue, 07 May 2019 18:11 UTC
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Kim Kardashian is helping free inmates at an amazingly high rate, and she's been doing it rather quietly ... until now.

We've learned Kim and her legal team helped 17 prisoners gain freedom over the last 3 months or so -- each of them having served years of life sentences without parole ... for low-level drug offenses.

It's all part of the 90 Days of Freedom campaign launched by Kim's lawyer, Brittany K. Barnett, in partnership with lawyer MiAngel Cody of The Decarceration Collective. The campaign puts the First Step Act -- signed by President Trump last year -- to work for prisoners who received Draconian sentences.
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FT journo scolds Moscow authorities for not instantly removing crashed jet, gets schooled on Twitter


RT
Tue, 07 May 2019 17:55 UTC
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Most reactions to the plane crash at a Moscow airport on Sunday were of simple sadness and shock - but for Financial Times Moscow correspondent Max Seddon, the tragedy was a chance to gratuitously bash Russian authorities.

Seddon took to Twitter on Monday to chastise Sheremetyevo Airport authorities for the most nonsensical of reasons - because they did not instantly remove the destroyed aircraft from the tarmac after the crash landing which killed 41 people, including two children.

"A day after an Aeroflot flight burnt up at Sheremetevo, the airport has just left it there for everyone to stare at," he wrote, in an apparent attempt to provoke some kind of outrage.
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Authorities make 82 arrests in massive eight-state child exploitation sting


Sputnik
Tue, 07 May 2019 17:10 UTC
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Federal authorities and local police arrested 82 people in a massive eight-state child exploitation sting, according to reports.

A Facebook post by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) notes that "Operation Southern Impact III" was held across a number of southern states including Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia, according to WBNS TV.

It was a "Great display of local, state, and federal partnerships," the GBI exclaimed.

The mass operation targeted people who were making or distributing child pornography.
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Four arrested for contaminating Russian oil in Druzhba pipeline


TASS
Tue, 07 May 2019 17:01 UTC
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The investigation has revealed a group of companies that delivered contaminated oil to the Druzhba pipeline, four people have been detained in the case, Russia's Energy Minister Alexander Novak said at a government meeting.

"The investigation has revealed a group of companies that transferred standard oil using organochlorine compounds in volumes excessing the norm. The inspection documents have now been handed over to the prosecutor's office, a set of operational measures, investigative actions of the FSB of Russia, the Investigation Committee of Russia are being held, criminal proceedings have been initiated under articles 158, 210 and 215.2. Four people were detained and placed in jail by a court decision," Novak said.
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Border Patrol chief says officers have arrested over 30,000 illegal immigrants in last 10 days

Nick Givas
The Daily Caller
Tue, 07 May 2019 16:43 UTC
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A U.S. Border Patrol official said his agency has apprehended more than 30,000 illegal immigrants on the southern border in the past 10 days.

"This is a challenge unlike any we've ever faced before," Chief of Law Enforcement Operations Brian Hastings said Monday on "Fox & Friends."

"We're up to 474,000 arrests so far this fiscal year, and just the last 10 days alone, 33,000 arrests for us," he added. "So, our facilities were not designed to handle this type of flow or more importantly, this demographic - about 63 percent being family units and UACs, or unaccompanied alien children."

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Pamela Anderson and Kristinn Hrafnsson pay emotional visit to Assange at Belmarsh Prison: 'We need to save his life'


RT
Tue, 07 May 2019 16:01 UTC
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© FullerGareth/AbacaPamela Anderson and WikiLeaks spokesperson Kristinn Hrafnsson address Journalists in Belmarsh Prison in London May 7, 2019
An emotional Pamela Anderson and WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Kristinn Hrafnsson opened up to reporters following the first 'social' visit to Julian Assange since the whistleblower was imprisoned last month.

Anderson and Hrafnsson were the first people allowed to visit Assange, aside from his lawyer, since the 47-year-old was sentenced to 50 weeks imprisonment for violating bail conditions.

The pair looked solemn following the visit on Tuesday, and spoke to reporters outside of the prison about the "shocking" conditions the WikiLeaks founder is being held in. Friend and public advocate Anderson spoke of her love for the Australian and said he has not been able to speak to his children or access a computer or library since his incarceration.

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Are France Telecom and its CEO implicated in 35 employee suicides?


Sputnik
Tue, 07 May 2019 15:29 UTC
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© Agence France-PresseThe former CEO of France Telecom, Didier Lombard, arrives at his trial in Paris
France Telecom was privatised in 2004, a move which led to major restructuring and job losses. The former CEO, Didier Lombard, and several other executives of the company - which rebranded as Orange in 2013 - have been accused of "moral harassment."

Lombard, who served as chairman and chief executive from 2005 to 2010, went on trial on Monday, 6 May, accused of creating a toxic work culture and inflaming matters with a series of callous remarks.

After its privatisation the company slashed 22,000 jobs from the 100,000-strong workforce and sent another 10,000 employees for retraining, often at the other end of the country.

"I'll get people to leave one way or another, either through the window or the door," Lombard, now 77, said in 2006.
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