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Good idea for a change: Ohio considering bill to let parents determine whether their children can receive gender dysphoria treatment

Jana J. Pruet
The Blaze
Thu, 05 Jul 2018 15:26 UTC
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Ohio lawmakers are considering legislation that would protect the rights of parents to determine whether their child should receive treatment for gender dysphoria, WOSU-Radio reported.

Reps. Tom Brinkman (R) and Paul Zeltwanger (R) authored the proposal that would prevent parents from losing custody of their child for allowing or refusing to allow gender-based treatments for their child who shows symptoms of or has been diagnosed with gender dysphoria.

"They [parents] should have that responsibility," Brinkman told WOSU. "And if somebody doesn't like it, you're emancipated at age 18 and you can go do whatever the heck you want."

House Bill 658 was inspired by a family court case where a Cincinnati judge awarded custody of a 17-year-old to the grandparents after the teen's parents refused to provide treatment that supported the child's chosen gender. The parents insisted that the teenager receive Christian counseling and wouldn't allow surgery or hormone treatments.
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Western Sovietism: Olympics hysteria shows that Britain has turned Communist

Simon Jenkins
The Guardian
Fri, 06 Jul 2018 14:53 UTC
We used to ridicule the communists for using sport as a proxy for economic success. Now, with the vast sums thrown at Team GB and athletes declared 'heroes', we're copying them
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Australia's cycling star, Anna Meares, said of Britain's triumphant cyclists: "They've got it together ... but, to be honest, I'm not exactly sure what they've got together." The French and Germans were heard to murmur likewise. One interpretation could be that murky word "cheating", although Meares strongly denied that she had ever suggested this. Given the recent history of the Olympics and the fierce pressure on British athletes, the accusation is pardonable. I doubt if it is true. What Britain "got together" was the money. Is that cheating?


Comment: The author, a British journalist, has insight, a rare pairing, but only so much of it. Yes of course British athletes are cheating, as we now know thanks to leaked WADA documents. And they're cheating with state and international support, if not outright sponsorship.


I have intermittently enjoyed the Olympics on television. Mostly it is hours of flatulent BBC staff killing time by interviewing one another, interspersed with a few seconds of mostly baffling hysterics. Clare Balding appears in perpetual shriek: "Oh my God, I think our great British paint is drying faster than the Russian and the Colombian paint - but we must await a decision from the judges."

Comment: Eh, no, in addition to lavish state funding, also they're up to the nines on drugs, thanks to suprastate-sponsored WADA 'exemptions'.

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Russia's World Cup message to the English: Come and feel the love

Tom Rosenthal
The Guardian
Tue, 03 Jul 2018 14:46 UTC
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England fans outside a bar in Nizhny Novgorod ahead of their drubbing of Panama last month.
Fans warned against travelling to the World Cup in Russia for fear of hooligans are missing a treat - the locals have been amazing

This. World. Cup. Is. Good. Having been lucky enough to be at Nizhny Novgorod for England 6 Panama 1 (stick that in your hats), St Petersburg for Argentina 2 Nigeria 1 (Messi's foot of God) and Kaliningrad for Belgium against England (the game was literally pointless), I get to write in the Guardian to say my personal experience is that Russia is absolutely killing this World Cup, which is a vast improvement on spies in Zizzi*. The organisation of this tournament has been fantastic and you'll struggle to find anyone who'll say otherwise, which is not because they're a double-agent or a Twitter bot, but because it's true.

Newspaper headlines "Bloodthirsty hooligans vow murder", "Russian Ultras: KID BOOTCAMP" and "Russian hooligans warn England fans 'prepare to DIE'''. A BBC documentary called Russia's Hooligan Army. A Foreign Office warning of "heightened risks of violence". What do these things have in common? Well, they all sound like things Ross Kemp would mumble in his sleep, but they are also UK media reports that put a lot of English people off having an experience like mine and having the opportunity to experience first-hand which country puts us out on penalties.
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CNN host Stelter asks, "Are we in a national emergency?" WaPo editor responds with hilarious delusions

L. Brent Bozell III and Tim Graham
CNSNews
Thu, 05 Jul 2018 14:39 UTC
Brian Stelter
July started with a lull. On the Monday before Independence Day, the news network morning shows led with the oppressively hot weather. The normal feverish panic about living in Donald Trump's America was missing for a few hours.

You can count on CNN "Reliable Sources" host Brian Stelter to stay true to the trash-Trump parade. At the liberal Aspen Ideas Festival, he interviewed Washington Post executive editor Marty Baron. Stelter claimed to speak for the crowd when he began asking: "Are we living through a national emergency? And if so, how in the heck should journalists be covering it that way?"

Baron replied that it isn't his place to answer that. His newspaper's role "is to cover very aggressively this administration as we would cover any other administration." He claimed, "We're not in the business of sort of characterizing the era."

This is preposterous. The Post greeted the Trump presidency by posting a new motto on the front page each day: "Democracy Dies in Darkness." It sells T-shirts with the motto to other liberals. By contrast, during Barack Obama's presidential transition in 2009, the Post promoted to national editor a journalist who wrote gushy captions for a coffee-table book titled "Obama: The Historic Campaign in Photographs."

Most Americans would suggest that the Dow Jones Industrial Average being up 5,000 points since President Trump's inauguration and the unemployment rate being 3.8 percent is not a national emergency. But then again, most Americans aren't journalists.

Comment: The media establishment just isn't self-aware enough to realize that they are seeing reality upside down. At least it makes for somewhat entertaining viewing (and reading). But then again, it isn't nice to laugh at people sever mental disabilities.

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Right-wing Swedish party wants to deport at least 500,000 migrants - says integration has failed


Voice of Europe
Thu, 05 Jul 2018 14:30 UTC
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The Alternative for Sweden (AfS) party wants to return at least half a million migrants, its party leader, Gustav Kasselstrand, told SVT news.

Kasselstrand believes this is the only way to solve Sweden's problems:

"It's not enough for a restrictive immigration policy. It is not enough to want to stop immigration. In order to solve the major societal problems in Sweden, one has to dare to talk about re-immigration. And not on a small one, but on a large-scale," he said.

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Israeli apartheid: Isaac Herzog calls intermarriage between Jews and non-Jews a 'plague' - won't apologize

Jonathan Ofir
Mondoweiss
Thu, 05 Jul 2018 14:22 UTC
Isaac Herzog
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Isaac Herzog
Last week, Isaac Herzog, the outgoing Labor leader and newly elected head of the Jewish Agency, opened his new role by saying that intermarriage (particularly in USA) between Jews and non-Jews was a "plague" which required a "solution". Many have commented on this horror. "It's not a plague, it's progress," Robert Lord opined.

But Forward editor Jane Eisner was accommodating. She suggested that the matter was merely "sensitive", and that Herzog just needs to learn that it is so, and Eisner was "willing to give him the benefit of the doubt here".

Benefit of the doubt about what? That he didn't mean what he said?

Unbelievably, this is the lie that Herzog attempts to insert via Eisner, and she does it willingly:
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Craig Raymond Turner, eldest son of Tina Turner, dies from apparent suicide

Ben Beaumont-Thomas
The Guardian
Thu, 05 Jul 2018 04:55 UTC
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Craig Raymond Turner, standing right, with the rest of the Turner family. Clockwise from bottom left: Michael, Ike Jr. (both sons of Ike and Lorraine Taylor), Ike, Craig Raymond, Ronnie and Tina.
Tina Turner's eldest son, Craig Raymond Turner, has died in an apparent suicide aged 59.

A Los Angeles coroner confirmed to Variety that Turner was found dead at his home in Studio City, California, from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. His mother hasn't commented on the news.
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18 wheeler-truck marooned on North Carolina beach after taking wrong turn


RT
Fri, 06 Jul 2018 11:29 UTC
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The 18-wheeler truck on Corolla beach.
Video footage has captured the travails of a hapless truck driver who ended up marooned on a North Carolina beach after taking a wrong turn.

The 18-wheeler truck-trailer got into trouble on North Carolina's Corolla beach near Outer Banks this week. According to local news outlet WVEC-TV, the driver made an error following directions and ended up in the unfortunate situation.
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No Entry

Japanese cult leader responsible for sarin gas attack executed by hanging

Justin McCurry
The Guardian
Thu, 05 Jul 2018 13:55 UTC
Shoko Asahara
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Shoko Asahara, guru of the doomsday Aum Shinrikyo cult responsible for the sarin gas attack, has been hanged.
The former leader of the doomsday cult that carried out a fatal gas attack on the Tokyo subway in March 1995 was executed on Friday .

Shoko Asahara, who masterminded the attack in which 13 people died and more than 6,000 others fell ill, was hanged at a detention centre.

Japan's chief cabinet secretary, Yoshihide Suga, confirmed Asahara's execution. The justice ministry later confirmed that six other senior cult members were executed on the same day.

"I think it's right that he was executed," said Shizue Takahashi, whose husband, a subway worker, died after removing one of the sarin packages.

"My husband's parents and my parents are already dead," she added. "I think they would find it regrettable that they could not have heard the news of this execution."

Kiyoe Iwata, whose daughter died in the attack, said the news had given her peace of mind. "I have always been wondering why it had to be my daughter and why she had to be killed," she told public broadcaster NHK. "Now I can visit her grave and tell her this news."
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Protect the babies! Texas mom shoots carjacker in the head

Awr Hawkins
Breitbart
Thu, 05 Jul 2018 13:47 UTC
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A suspect allegedly tried to steal a car with two toddlers in the back seat on July 4 and ended up hospitalized with a gunshot wound to the head.

WTSP reports that the mother was out of the car at a Shell station south of Dallas, Texas, around 10 pm when the suspect allegedly jumped into the vehicle and begin to take off. The mother jumped into the passenger seat and begged him not to take the car but he refused her request. The mother then reached into the glove compartment, pulled out a handgun, and shot the suspect in the head.

The mother said, "I'm not a killer but I do believe in defending what's mine." She added, "I hope that woke him up."
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