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'She's joined the Death Eaters': JK Rowling slammed as 'TERF' over support for woman fired for saying sex is immutable

RT
Thu, 19 Dec 2019 17:34 UTC

Harry Potter author JK Rowling has been eviscerated by former fans after tweeting in support of a woman fired for denying that a person can change their biological sex. Will she have to write a trans Voldemort to win them back?

Rowling was assailed on social media after voicing her support for tax consultant Maya Forstater, who was fired from her job earlier this year over a handful of "gender-critical" tweets - including one stating that "male people are not women."

Offended fans (and newly minted ex-fans) rushed to shame the bestselling author for backing, or even being, that most deadly of four-letter words - a TERF (Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist).

Comment: The Left is cannibalizing its own!

Officer now locked in same jail he guarded after arrest for child sex crimes

Jack Burns
The Free Thought Project
Mon, 16 Dec 2019 00:00 UTC

A Pinal County Corrections Officer will likely share a jail cell with the very child molesters he was tasked with guarding after getting arrested for possessing and distributing child pornography. Rick Vasquez has worked as a corrections officer since 2003 in Pinal County but was placed on paid administrative leave last week following his arrest.

Phoenix police say Vasquez was targeted by the Internet Crimes Against Children task force after uploading and sharing child pornography depicting children as young as toddlers. Vasquez used multiple social media apps and shared at least three images. Once the task force linked his social media account to his person, Vasquez was arrested.

He was charged with sexual exploitation of a minor and dangerous crimes against children. Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb made the following announcement after Vasquez was arrested:

'Act of evil': 15 horses shot and killed in bizarre and horrific Kentucky carnage

Amanda Woods
The New York Post
Thu, 19 Dec 2019 10:34 UTC

Fifteen horses — some of them pregnant or very young — appear to have been shot dead at a Kentucky strip mine in a "very large act of evil," according to a new report.

The carcasses were discovered on a site along US Route 23 near the Floyd-Pike County line. Some of the horses were 1 year old or younger, and others were pregnant, according to local outlet WYMT.

"This is very inhumane and it's a very cruel act of somebody who just apparently had nothing else to do ... just to go back on a strip job and shoot down horses who were, one of them obviously was feeding, had grass in its mouth," Floyd County Sheriff John Hunt told the station. "It looked like a battlefield for just horses, we counted 15 that we found dead."

Rescue groups on the site told the outlet it appeared the horses were hunted — and law enforcement added that it appeared a low-caliber rifle was used.

Comment: The gratuitous murder of life, in such cases as these, is a sure sign of psychopathic behavior. And the world of normal people is always left picking up the pieces.

Russian anti-doping agency to appeal WADA's 4-year suspension at CAS

RT
Thu, 19 Dec 2019 17:16 UTC

The Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) plans to file an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) attempting to overturn a four-year ban imposed on the country over alleged manipulations of Moscow laboratory data.

On Thursday, RUSADA Supervisory Board Chairman Alexander Ivlev said that the body's long-lasting dialogue with the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) will continue in court after the Russian side disagreed with the sanctions imposed by the anti-doping watchdog.

"I'm ready to announce a decision taken at RUSADA Supervisory Board meeting which was held today," Ivlev said. "We have discussed the recent decision to proclaim RUSADA non-compliant with WADA code and all the consequences triggered by the verdict. RUSADA Supervisory Board members have decided to disagree with the WADA's decision."

Comment: Putin responded with a very clear statement that gets to the heart of this whole WADA charade:

"It is not only unfair but it also defies common sense and international law. [...] Sadly, the decision is most likely political in nature"

Previously:

750 Billion reasons why Goldman Sachs is rooting for Greta Thunberg's success

Tyler Durden
Zerohedge
Mon, 16 Dec 2019 18:50 UTC

Having lost much of its central banker incubation skills over the past decade, and handing over the crown of Wall Street's most profitable trading desk to Morgan Stanley, in recent years Goldman Sachs has been best known for enabling and profiting wildly from Malaysia 1MDB criminal fraud, which culminated with the arrest of former Malaysia PM Razak, but not before Goldman made billions in illicit profits from selling bonds offered by the country's sovereign wealth fund.

And while Goldman is still waiting to learn its criminal and civil fate, and more importantly, how many billions it will have to pay Malaysia/the DOJ to put its 1MDB fraud in the rearview mirror, the company - which a decade ago was hoping to make billions from aggressively entering the carbon credit/offset market as profiled delightfully in Matt Taibbi's "The Great American Bubble Machine" - is already scheming how to profit from the latest round of anti-climate change euphoria, conveniently spawned by a 16-year-old child with Asperger's Syndrome.

On Monday, Goldman Sachs said it will provide $750 billion in financing, advisory services and investments for initiatives that fight climate change, as well as those that foster economic opportunities for under-served people over the next decade. What Goldman did not say is that it will pocket a generous commission, somewhere in the 3-5% ballpark, by peddling "green" products to naive investors (including central banks) who have fallen for the whole ESG virtue signalling charade.

92% of Americans feel their freedom is threatened

Tyler Durden
Zerohedge
Tue, 17 Dec 2019 00:00 UTC

Americans are most afraid their First Amendment rights could be taken away, according to a new poll by Harris Poll/Purple Project, which surveyed 2,002 people nationwide from November 18-20, 2019. Overall, Statista's Maria Vultaggio notes that 92 percent were concerned their rights were being jeopardized, USA Today wrote, citing the poll. Americans also fear their right to bear arms and their right to equal justice are in danger.

You will find more infographics at Statista

Comment: It's no wonder that most 'middle of the road' and/or conservative Americans feel this way. Every time one looks, another platform, website or venue is getting closed off, complained to - or shouted down by a hysterical minority that insists that any views differing from their own be labeled "hate speech", pro-Russian, or some such other nonsense. The sad irony of it is that this culture of taking offense at every differing perspective plays right in to the hands of those who would seek to keep the masses as divided and asleep as possible. And this is to say nothing of all the other rights that are, piece by piece, being taken away. But it all seems to begin with free speech.

See also:

Police ID suspect in Washington County stabbing rampage that killed 1, hurt 3

Jim Ryan and Shane Dixon Kavanaugh
The Oregonian/OregonLive
Thu, 19 Dec 2019 00:44 UTC

A 20-year-old man fatally stabbed a customer at a bank in a bustling Beaverton shopping center and wounded three other people during a bloody crime spree Wednesday morning that included two carjackings, authorities said.

What began as a reported robbery quickly turned deadly when the suspect slashed two women inside the Wells Fargo branch at the Murrayhill Marketplace, police said.

He then tried to make a getaway by stealing two cars, attacking the drivers inside each, police said.

His rampage ended several miles away when he ditched the second car and led officers on a foot chase through Tigard before police caught him.

Salvador Martinez-Romero was arrested and booked into jail on suspicion of murder, attempted murder and first-degree robbery, Beaverton police said.

Hours later, investigators were working to piece together the horrific episode that occurred a week before Christmas.

42 acts of vandalism in 1.5 years: Jewish cemeteries are being systematically desecrated in Alsace, France, but not a SINGLE arrest has been made

Saskya Vandoorne & Melissa Bell
CNN
Sat, 14 Dec 2019 22:07 UTC

Comment: This one's from CNN, so we've commented heavily on it, BUT we are at least grateful that they have reported on the phenomenon at all...

French Interior Minister Castaner visiting one of dozens of Jewish cemeteries desecrated in northeastern France in the last 18 months

Westhoffen, France - Guillaume Debré didn't know how to break it to his young daughters and has yet to show them a photograph of the swastika. "They are markings on sacred stones, that spell out hate and in this country, we understand what that means and what it can lead to," he says.

"To my daughters it's just a peaceful area where their family comes from. It's difficult for them to understand that their family, that their grave has become a target of hate."

But in early December, that is exactly what happened in the small village of Westhoffen in the Bas-Rhin region of Alsace, in eastern France. No one knows exactly when swastikas and anti-Semitic graffiti were spray-painted onto 107 tombstones in the village's ancient Jewish cemetery -- the 42nd anti-Semitic attack in the region in just 18 months.

French authorities are taking the matter extremely seriously. France's Interior Minister Christophe Castaner visited Westhoffen the day after the swastikas were discovered and French President Emmanuel Macron paid his respects at the cemetery of Quatzenheim after it was desecrated earlier this year. And yet, no one has been caught.

Comment: That is bizarre. We're not exactly talking about complex detective work here. When something has occurred 42 times in one small area over 1.5 years - that's an average of one incident every fortnight - and it's so important for the authorities that they send the president to the aftermath of several of them, then surely they'd have caught at least some of the culprits by now??

Comment: An international white supremacy movement that can send agents into a tight-knit locality in rural northeastern France, commit hundreds of acts of terror - undetected - on a weekly basis systematically for years under the noses of extra-vigilant locals and extra-well-funded state security forces??

If you believe that, you'll believe anything.

See also: Scapegoating Yellow Vests? Macron Moves to Outlaw Criticism of 'Zionism' as 'Anti-Semitism Wave' Hits France

'Dark patterns': How travel and online retail sites influence your spending decisions

Chris Baraniuk
BBC
Thu, 12 Dec 2019 20:29 UTC

If you've wondered whether there were actually 30 people trying to book the same flight as you, you're not alone. The numbers may not be all they seem.

Ophir Harpaz just wanted to get a good deal on a flight to London. She was on travel website OneTravel, scouring various options for her trip. As she browsed, she noticed a seemingly helpful prompt: "38 people are looking at this flight". A nudge that implied the flight might soon get booked up, or perhaps that the price of a seat would rise as they became scarcer.

Except it wasn't a true statement. As Harpaz looked at that number, "38 people", she began to feel sceptical. Were 38 people really looking at that budget flight to London at the same exact moment?

Security engineer says Google fired her for trying to notify co-workers of right to organize

April Glaser
NBC News
Tue, 17 Dec 2019 20:31 UTC

Google has fired a security engineer who updated a company tool to notify co-workers of their right to organize, spurring a labor complaint and adding to recent scrutiny of how the company has handled unionization efforts.

Kathryn Spiers, who worked as a security engineer, updated an internal Chrome browser extension so that each time Google employees visited the website of IRI Consultants — the Troy, Michigan, firm that Google hired this year amid a groundswell of labor activism at the company — they would see a pop-up message that read: "Googlers have the right to participate in protected concerted activities."

Spiers was placed on administrative leave the week of Thanksgiving, the same week the company fired four other employees who claim Google has been engaged in illegal efforts to discourage workers engaged in organizing employees. She was fired Friday.

"We dismissed an employee who abused privileged access to modify an internal security tool," a Google spokeswoman said in a statement, adding that it was "a serious violation."

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Jibrish

SBC says "Hang em... All the jab pushers." to which I add 'after fair trials.' You know all of the TV/film/fiction tropes about 'pushers' giving...

Rowan Cocoan

Good. Shut the bitch up. She was his girlfriend for Christ's sake! MeToo is a Team FUKUSraHell psyop. (I don't know why they threw Weinstein under...

Rowan Cocoan

Winternights3 There's probs a good connection! Just think about it.

sbc

Moving the goalposts. and people are too shit stupid to notice or care

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Society's Child

'She's joined the Death Eaters': JK Rowling slammed as 'TERF' over support for woman fired for saying sex is immutable

Officer now locked in same jail he guarded after arrest for child sex crimes

'Act of evil': 15 horses shot and killed in bizarre and horrific Kentucky carnage

Russian anti-doping agency to appeal WADA's 4-year suspension at CAS

750 Billion reasons why Goldman Sachs is rooting for Greta Thunberg's success

92% of Americans feel their freedom is threatened

Police ID suspect in Washington County stabbing rampage that killed 1, hurt 3

42 acts of vandalism in 1.5 years: Jewish cemeteries are being systematically desecrated in Alsace, France, but not a SINGLE arrest has been made

'Dark patterns': How travel and online retail sites influence your spending decisions

Security engineer says Google fired her for trying to notify co-workers of right to organize

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