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Rad feminists eviscerate NYT for warning Trump would 'erase' transgender peeps

Tyler O'Neil
PJ Media
Mon, 22 Oct 2018 00:00 UTC
transactivism
© Twitter
Lesbian banner against transgenderism led the Pride in London parade.
On Sunday, The New York Times dropped a bombshell, reporting that the Trump administration was considering draft rules to reverse Obama's move redefining "sex" as "gender identity" in federal law. Radical feminists eviscerated the report on Monday, even as liberal activist groups and transgender activists took to the streets to protest the tentative rule change.

"The Women's Liberation Front (WoLF) is a radical feminist organization that stands to liberate women and girls from patriarchy," WoLF lawyer and spokeswoman Kara Dansky told PJ Media on Monday.
"You can't fight for the rights of women and girls if you can't define that category directly. Women have been oppressed and discriminated against for thousands of years on the basis of our biology," not their gender identity, Dansky declared. "Everybody knew what a woman was when they wouldn't let us vote."
The radical feminists at WoLF actually sued the Obama administration over its legal redefinition of "sex" to include "gender identity" in federal civil rights law. This move "effectively strips women and girls of their legal protections by eliminating the ability to legally distinguish between males and females," WoLF explained. The group dropped the suit following news that the Trump administration would not follow the same rules.

"The NYT piece misleads its readers by suggesting that it is possible to change sex, and it uses the words 'sex' and 'gender' interchangeably," Dansky told PJ Media. Echoing the Obama administration, The New York Times adopted the language of transgender ideology, which makes it more difficult to protect women.

Comment: Dansky says 'gender identity' is an ideology. Is it? Ben-Shalom attacked transgender ideology as "fake science." Is it?

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USA

Gallup poll: 57% of Americans believe 2 parties not enough


RT
Sun, 28 Oct 2018 02:03 UTC
Broken seesaw
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'Busted'
The majority of US citizens believe the two-party system is inherently flawed, and there is need for an actual third party to reflect the will of the people, a new poll has found. The trend has been stable for past five years.

The new Gallup poll, released on Friday, shows that almost every third US national is dissatisfied with the alternating reign of the Republican and Democratic parties in the American politics. Some 38 percent of respondents said that the two do such a poor job that a new major political force needs to be established.

The concept of a third big party that will challenge the long-lasting dominance of the duo has, logically, found the most favor with the Independent supporters, who have long been calling for an alternative. Seventy-two percent of the Independents rally behind the third option.

Comment: In addition to a third party, Americans should vote for political term limits on senators and representatives, demand Congress reads and debates the laws they pass and make Israel's payoffs to own the US government a crime.

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Road Cone

Helicopter crashes outside Leicester football stadium with 4 aboard, including club's billionaire Thai owner


Sky News
Sun, 28 Oct 2018 15:57 UTC
leicester city helicopter crash

Firefighters were seen putting the massive fire out
A Sky cameraman who watched the Leicester City owner's helicopter crash outside the stadium says the pilot guided the aircraft away from people on the ground.

Having just recorded post-match interviews inside the stadium, Sky Sports News cameraman Dan Cox was walking across the car park as the helicopter came overhead.

He told Sky News: "I heard the helicopter coming out of the stadium, saw it as you do, they are amazing pieces of machinery and then I just carried on walking thinking next time I look up it is going to be overhead.

"The next thing I just looked up and it was just spinning, static just out of control, just a constant spinning, I have never seen anything like it."

Neither Leicester City FC nor the police have yet officially confirmed who was on the aircraft but Sky News understands the club's owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha was on board.

Comment: Noted below are some other recent helicopter crashes: Update 31 Oct 2018

Footage her surfaced of the chopper spinning out of control before plummeting to the ground:



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Hearts

Syria's cancer-stricken First Lady Asma Assad filmed warmly engaging with hospital patients


RT
Sat, 27 Oct 2018 09:55 UTC
Asama Assad
© asmaalassad / Instagram
Asma Assad at a hospital in Syria.
Bashar Assad's wife Asma has been filmed speaking to women at a Syrian cancer center before attending her own treatment session. Back in August, Syria's first lady was diagnosed with breast cancer.

Asma Assad was captured on camera at a local cancer center, where she arrived to undergo another treatment session. In the footage uploaded by the Syrian presidency, she is seen wearing a pink headscarf and warmly greeting the hospital staff and patients. She appears to have lost her hair as a result of chemotherapy.

The first lady herself is combatting cancer after being diagnosed with the disease back in August. At that time, Damascus acknowledged that she had started treatment for the early stages of breast cancer.

Comment: See also: 'I belong to the people who've taught the world endurance, strength and facing the odds': Asma Assad speaks about her battle with cancer

Read more about this amazing woman who is much loved and respected by the Syrian people:

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Fire

Inferno erupts at oil depot in Tianjin, China


RT
Sun, 28 Oct 2018 20:45 UTC
china factory fire

FILE PHOTO: Reuters
A massive fire has broken out at an industrial park in Tianjin, China, with videos showing enormous flames and thick plumes of smoke engulfing the area.

The fire reportedly broke out at an oil depot in the coastal city at around 8:45pm local time on Sunday.

A video posted online shows shocked locals as they stare helplessly at the inferno.

Despite the intensity of the dramatic blaze, no casualties have been reported, according to Chinese media.

Comment: Tianjin, China, was where that INSANELY-large explosion happened in 2015. It was so large it left a giant crater, leading some to speculate that China had been 'nuked'. It wasn't obviously, but blame was left to fall on 'mismanagement', when in fact there was almost certainly some natural aspect to it, like unprecedented outgassing or related seismic, underground activity.

Other notable fires this year: Also check out: SOTT Exclusive: The growing threat of underground fires and explosions

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Bullseye

Public outcry forces Facebook to stop banning pics of starving Yemeni girl


RT
Sun, 28 Oct 2018 14:38 UTC
Yemen emaciated child
© Khaled Abdullah / Reuters
A woman is holding an emaciated child in hospital in Sanaa, Yemen. September 2016. Khaled Abdullah / Reuters
A backlash prompted Facebook to stop removing posts featuring a photo of an emaciated seven-year-old Yemeni girl, which accompanied a harrowing New York Times report from the war-torn country.

The atrocities in Yemen don't make poignant headlines in Western mainstream media as often as stories about chemical weapons in Syria or 'Russian meddling,' as the conflict usually gets sidelined in the press, but there are notable exceptions. 'The Tragedy of Saudi Arabia's War' was the title of a grim report published by the NYT on Friday.

An image of a starved child named Amal Hussain was chosen by the journalists to illustrate the horrible death toll and suffering inflicted on the small Arab nation of Yemen by the armed intervention of its Saudi neighbor.

Readers quickly began sharing the story on Facebook. They were surprised to learn that the company had been removing their posts for supposedly violating the social network's 'sexual material' guidelines.
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Snowflake

'Blackface' backlash: NBC's Megyn Kelly's career undone by ruthless liberal outrage

Simon Rite
RT
Fri, 26 Oct 2018 15:11 UTC
Megyn Kelly
© Reuters /Carlo Allegri
TV host Megyn Kelly
When NBC's Megyn Kelly started the discussion about what is appropriate and politically correct behavior at Halloween, she had no idea the segment on her morning show would provide such a conclusive answer.

Kelly was talking about what costumes are acceptable during the Halloween holiday and found herself pondering, on live TV, why a white person wearing a 'blackface' would be regarded as racist.

As she is now finding out, liberal outrage is ruthless and she's almost certain to lose her show as a result of the backlash that followed. A few seconds of unrehearsed, naive speech and a stupid mistake is all that is needed for careers to be ended.

Comment: Unfortunately this is not Kelly's first unthinking foray into fraught territory.

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Compass

Roger Waters dodges arrest with a last-minute slap at Brazil's right-wing candidate Bolsonaro


RT
Sun, 28 Oct 2018 08:54 UTC
Roger Waters
© Global Look Press / Lucas Tavares
Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters during a show in Brazil.
Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters toed the line during his show in Brazil, when he urged people to stop right-wing candidate Jair Bolsonaro seconds before he could be arrested for violating election law.

Waters, an indisputable music icon, has been in Brazil with his Us+Them tour since October 9. The singer, songwriter and bassist had performed six shows in the country before arriving in the city of Curitiba on Saturday.

At every one of his concerts, the legendary musician, known for his progressive views, decried neo-fascists, listing among them US President Donald Trump, Hungarian President Viktor Orban, and former UKIP leader Nigel Farage.

While touring Brazil, Waters added the frontrunner in the country's presidential race, Jair Bolsonaro, to this list. It caused mixed reactions among Waters' own fans, whose ranks include both supporters and opponents of the right-wing candidate from the Social Liberal Party (PSL).
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Heart - Black

Northern Brittany coastal town hunts mystery serial rabbit killer after 100 pets fall victim

Rory Mulholland
Telegraph, UK
Fri, 26 Oct 2018 16:33 UTC
Rabbit killer in France
© Getty Images
A serial killer of rabbits has struck fear into the hearts of the people of a picturesque French village on the north Brittany coast.

More than 100 animals have fallen victim to the mystery killer since he or she began their murderous spree in and around the village of Minihy-Tréguier, a pretty spot popular with tourists and home to a handful of British expats.

"The village is gripped by fear," Jean-Yves Fenvarc'h, the mayor of the village of 1,300 people, told the Telegraph.

The killer sneaks into people's gardens, removes the rabbits from their hutches, kills them with a sharp object or by simply crushing them with his foot, and then leaves their dead bodies where they died.

The rabbits he kills are often kept by elderly people who house them in their gardens, sometimes alongside chickens or geese.
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Magnify

Leftist open borders Activists are organizing the illegal alien caravan

Haley Kennington
Big League Politics
Sat, 27 Oct 2018 00:00 UTC
Immigrant caravan from Mexico
A group of 7,000 plus immigrants from Central America has been making its way through Mexico towards the United States border, with clear intentions: enter the U.S., even if that means violating American immigration laws.

One of the key organizers behind the caravan, Pueblo Sin Fronteras, or "People Without Borders," want to fly under the radar, but we're here to help lift the veil.

The New York Times has said that "no group has claimed responsibility for organizing [the most recent] caravan," but claiming responsibility and quietly funding are two different things entirely.

Comment: See also:

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