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Trans athlete Rachel McKinnon is a cheat and a bully

Madeleine Kearns
National Review
Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:27 UTC

So why are we humoring him?

Rachel McKinnon — the so-called defending "world champion" of women's track cycling — is a man. I'll repeat that so my meaning cannot be misconstrued. He is a man.

Maybe my kind-hearted reader is offended by this blunt phrasing. Why am I calling McKinnon a man — when, perhaps for complicated reasons, he would rather be called a woman? Why don't I compromise and call him a "trans woman," as others do? Or be polite and address him by "she/her" pronouns, like everyone else in the media?

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Woman found dead in house with 140 snakes seemingly strangled by python in Oxford, Indiana

Mike Wehner
BRG
Sat, 02 Nov 2019 10:58 UTC

A 36-year-old woman in Oxford, Indiana, was recently found dead in a makeshift "snake sanctuary" that was home to 140 snakes. The victim, Laura Hurst, was found lifeless on the floor of the home with a reticulated python around her neck. It's a bizarre story from top to bottom, and it starts with the home's owner, who happens to be the local sheriff.

As the Journal & Courier reports, Benton County Sheriff Don Munson owns the home but doesn't actually live there. He's apparently a snake enthusiast and was (or perhaps still is) a snake breeder who sells the animals. Hurst is reported to have owned some of the snakes in the house, and Munson lives right next door.

Help Mother Nature: Don't drive electric cars, ignore paper bags & forget about organic food

RT
Sat, 02 Nov 2019 23:56 UTC

Eco-consciousness has become a winning marketing strategy, but products sold as eco-friendly often aren't. From solar panels to paper straws, many of our supposed environmental saviors are making the problem worse.

The fight against climate change is poised to make a lot of people very, very rich. The world is expected to invest some $90 trillion in new infrastructure to stave off climate doom over the next ten to 15 years, according to a report from the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate, and manufacturers of consumer products want a piece of the action, with study after study revealing customers will pay more for "sustainable" and earth-friendly products. A third of consumers buy based on a brand's environmental impact, according to Unilever, with a fifth explicitly favoring green messaging.

Not all products sold as sustainable, however, actually are. In fact, some are worse for the environment than the products they've replaced. But there is a reluctance to tear away from the warm fuzzy feeling that comes with doing good for the planet, even when the virtue one is signaling is wholly imaginary.

Comment: What a mixed bag of information. But the author(s) are right to point out the futileness and/or hypocrisy of most "green" purchases. The problems are real, but way more complicated than the tiny, feel-good suggestions being marketed to the average customer. One of the most practical ways to address all the problems above, if even a small way, is to buy from local farmers and small businesses.

Attacker threatens teen girl with knife, 'yells Allahu Akbar' inside police station on Reunion Island

RT
Sat, 02 Nov 2019 21:09 UTC

A man armed with a knife threatened a 16-year-old girl in the hallway of a police station on Reunion Island, a French overseas department in the Indian Ocean. The attacker also shouted 'Allahu Akbar', according to local reports.

Police managed to disarm the man and arrested him at the scene. Fortunately, the teenager was not injured by the attacker, but was reportedly taken to hospital to be treated for shock.

Pakistani cleric leads anti-govt protest in Pakistan, demanding immediate resignation of PM Khan

RT
Sat, 02 Nov 2019 05:03 UTC

© Reuters/Akhtar Soomro
Supporters of religious and political party Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazal participate in the Azadi March (Freedom March) to protest the government of Prime Minister Imran Khan in Islamabad, Pakistan November 1, 2019.

Hardline Islamist cleric Maulana Fazlur Rehman has presented Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan with a two-day ultimatum, demanding his resignation and threatening continued demonstrations against the Khan government.

Addressing a crowd of anti-government protesters in Islamabad on Friday - many from the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Party - Rehman stated "the Gorbachev of Pakistan must go," calling Khran a traitor and a puppet.

"We give him two days to resign, otherwise, we will decide about the future."

New Epstein autopsy photo reveals broken neck bones

Tamar Lapin
New York Post
Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:00 UTC

$Epstein fractures$

A never-before-seen photo from Jeffrey Epstein's autopsy shows the late pedophile suffered three fractures to his neck — injuries a forensic pathologist hired by his family claims are more consistent with homicide than suicide.

Epstein, 66, had two breaks on each side of his thyroid cartilage, near the Adam's apple, and one above it on the left side of his hyoid bone, according to the image provided to Law&Crime Wednesday by Dr. Michael Baden.

"Those three fractures are extremely unusual in suicidal hangings and could occur much more commonly in homicidal strangulation," said Baden. "I've not seen in 50 years where that occurred in a suicidal hanging case."

In suicidal hangings, the binding "usually goes up under the mandible — the jaw bone — which is a tough bone. It doesn't fracture," Baden explained. "In manual strangulation, or ligature strangulation, fractures can occur."

Baden, the host of HBO's Autopsy, was hired by the pervert's brother, Mark Epstein, to observe his autopsy after he was found hanged Aug. 10 in his Manhattan lockup, while awaiting trial on child sex-trafficking charges.

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Gutsy Trevor Noah asks Hillary how she killed Jeffrey Epstein

Yaron Steinbuch
New York Post
Fri, 01 Nov 2019 11:27 UTC

A "vast right-wing conspiracy" still hounds Hillary Clinton, who was jokingly asked by The Daily Show host Trevor Noah how she managed to kill pedophile Jeffrey Epstein in a Manhattan jail cell.

"I have to ask you a question that has been plaguing me for a while: How did you kill Jeffrey Epstein?" Noah asked, drawing laughter from Clinton, 71, and the New York studio audience on Thursday.

"Because you're not in power, but you have all the power. I really need to understand how you do what you do, because you seem to be behind everything nefarious, and yet you do not use it to become president," he continued.

"Honestly, what does it feel like being the boogeyman to the right?" the host asked the former presidential candidate and ex-secretary of state.

"Well, it's a constant surprise to me," responded a chuckling Clinton, who was appearing alongside her daughter, Chelsea, 39, to promote their new joint project, The Book of Gutsy Women. "Because the things they say, and now, of course, it's on steroids with being online, are so ridiculous, beyond any imagination that I could have," she said.

"And yet they are so persistent in putting forth these crazy ideas and theories. Honestly, I don't know what I ever did to get them so upset."

Bomb kills 13 civilians, 20 injured in Syria border town divided with Turkey

RT
Sat, 02 Nov 2019 16:39 UTC

A car bomb detonated at a busy marketplace in the Syrian border town of Tal Abyad, the Turkish Defense Ministry said. There are dozens of casualties and injuries, Ankara claims.

The town is located right on the border and is part of a divided city, continuing into Turkey where the injured were taken to hospitals. A total of 20 people were wounded, while at least 13 were killed in the blast.

The Defense Ministry accused the Syrian-Kurdish militia group known as the People's Protection Units (YPG), of planting the bomb in the car. No group claimed responsibility for the blast at the time of writing.

Comment: Sputnik, 2/11/2019: Turkey says YPG behind the blast

The injured were taken to a hospital in the Turkish town of Akçakale. The Turkish armed forces have strengthened security on the border with Syria following the explosion. According to our correspondent, women and children are among the dead, and 23 people were injured. The explosion occurred in Suluk - a town within the Tell Abyad District of the Raqqa Governorate in Syria.

Animals are not people: Disentangling animal rights vs. animal welfare

Wesley J. Smith
Evolution News
Sat, 02 Nov 2019 18:35 UTC

"Animal rights" activists are determined to "break the species barrier" and create legal standing for animals to sue in court. Of course, the animals would be oblivious to these actions. "Animal standing," as the issue is known, is really a Trojan horse to allow animal rights extremists to seek court rulings enforcing their own ideology.

The Nonhuman Rights Project is leading this charge. Having failed to win personhood for chimpanzees — alarmingly, the idea gained support from one high court judge — it is now pursuing a case in New York to determine whether "Happy," an elephant at the Bronx Zoo, should be granted a writ of habeas corpus. (Ponder the surreality of those words!) From The Guardian story:

Lawyers representing an elephant have argued in a New York City court that their trunked client be considered a person, in a fresh attempt to upend human dominance over this designation.

Happy the elephant is, contrary to her sunny name, being detained by the Bronx Zoo "illegally", due to her personhood, and must be released, according to the pachyderm's self-appointed legal team.

The case's instigator, an animal rights group, hopes it will cause a legal breakthrough that will elevate the status of elephants, which the group calls "extraordinarily complex creatures" similar to humans that should have the fundamental right to liberty.

Comment: Animals do not - and cannot - have rights. Groups like PETA are trying to piggyback a radical ideology on the very real and valid concern for animal welfare. But consider what they actually want. If animals have rights - like humans - then anyone who kills an animal for food could be charged with murder. Anyone who eats meat could be charged with the equivalent of cannibalism. Pet ownership and animal husbandry would be the equivalent of slavery, and calling someone a damn dirty dog would be hate speech. Training dogs to sniff out drugs and diseases would also be questionable: did the dogs choose to be trained in such professions?

The ideology is absurd and dangerous, but as with so many other facets of the hyper-liberal agenda, speaking out against it makes you an easy target, as if by denying animal rights you are arguing in favor of torturing animals and mistreating them in various ways. Just as countering far-left talking points can leave you vulnerable to accusations of sexism, racism, transphobia, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, etc.

Jihadists kill at least 53 soldiers and 1 civilian in Mali attack

Jason Burke
The Guardian
Sat, 02 Nov 2019 18:30 UTC

Islamic militants in Mali have killed dozens of soldiers in one of the deadliest strikes against the west African country's military in recent memory.

At least 53 soldiers and one civilian died in the attack on an isolated military base in the north-east of the country, the government said.

The authorities first reported the attack in Indelimane, in Menaka region, on Friday, but gave a lower provisional death toll.

"Heavily armed unidentified men attacked around noon. The attack started with shellfire ... Then they retreated toward Niger," the government spokesman Yaya Sangare said.

Sangare said the death toll was unclear because the bodies were still being identified, and that the army was undertaking a combing operation on the ground with support from international forces, including French troops and UN peacekeepers.

"The dispatched reinforcements found 54 bodies including one civilian, 10 survivors and considerable material damage," Sangare said on Twitter earlier on Saturday.

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Society's Child

Trans athlete Rachel McKinnon is a cheat and a bully

Woman found dead in house with 140 snakes seemingly strangled by python in Oxford, Indiana

Help Mother Nature: Don't drive electric cars, ignore paper bags & forget about organic food

Attacker threatens teen girl with knife, 'yells Allahu Akbar' inside police station on Reunion Island

Pakistani cleric leads anti-govt protest in Pakistan, demanding immediate resignation of PM Khan

New Epstein autopsy photo reveals broken neck bones

Gutsy Trevor Noah asks Hillary how she killed Jeffrey Epstein

Bomb kills 13 civilians, 20 injured in Syria border town divided with Turkey

Animals are not people: Disentangling animal rights vs. animal welfare

Jihadists kill at least 53 soldiers and 1 civilian in Mali attack

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