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Is feminism so insecure it won't admit that boys might just be BETTER than girls at Fortnite?


RT
Tue, 30 Jul 2019 17:51 UTC
Fortnite World Cup finalists
© REUTERS/Dennis Schneidler
The faces of the Fortnite World Cup finalists - 100 men, mostly teenage boys
Once again, feminists go to preposterous lengths to explain differences in performance between the sexes, even when the truth is obvious, and not hurtful in itself (but highly dangerous for the ideology).

After 40 million people spent 10 weeks qualifying for the highest-paying ever e-sports tournament, the Fortnite World Cup, with a prize fund of $30 million, an inconvenient fact emerged. Not a single one of the solo finalists who made their way to play the battle royale computer game in front of screaming crowds of thousands in Flushing Meadows, New York was a woman.

Media explanations immediately defaulted to the social discrimination templates that have been around since before consoles existed. According to the Guardian, gaming communities are "unwelcoming" while "women players are sometimes belittled and objectified, their abilities constantly questioned" when they are not being pelted with "misogynistic insults" through the in-game chat. In its analysis, Forbes spoke about unspecified but evidently unfortunate "root issues causing girls not to pick up games when they're younger" in addition to the assumed "toxicity." One of the many blue tick journalists commenting on the issue on Twitter distilled the argument to its essence: "male gamers."
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NYT reveals the truth: 'Full equality' for Palestinian citizens poses threat to 'Jewish state'

James North and Philip Weiss
Mondoweiss
Tue, 30 Jul 2019 17:47 UTC
orthodox jews
© REUTERS / Finbarr O'Reilly
Over the weekend, The New York Times ran a full-page "explainer" about the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign targeting Israel under the headline, "Is BDS Anti-Semitic? A Closer Look at the Boycott Israel Campaign." We were surprised — and pleased — that the piece was as fair as it was.

The biggest problem with the article is the headline/framing. The Times would never run an article asking, "Is Zionism Racist?" — although there is plenty of evidence that Jewish nationalism is as inherently intolerant of non-Jews as white nationalism is of people of color.

But the article does include many paragraphs that are fair. Just look at this one. The Times acknowledges that the demand by the BDS campaign for "full equality" for Palestinian citizens of Israel is threatening to Zionists.
But many Israelis say the movement's real goal is the elimination of Israel as a Jewish state. Full equality for Arab citizens of Israel would require overturning or amending Israeli laws that grant Jews automatic citizenship and define Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people.
Reasonable readers are sure to ask, If a state is premised on inequality, what kind of state is it? As the Times suggests, discrimination is embedded in Israel's laws. The nation-state law is a "basic law," said to be equivalent to a constitution. In Israel, Jews have more rights than the 20-25 percent of the population that is non-Jewish, and the millions of Palestinians under occupation are denied rights altogether.
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Attention

Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting: Suspect Santino William Legan, 19, identified as gunman who allegedly killed 3 people - UPDATE

Alex Stone, Morgan Winsor, and Julia Jacobo
ABC News
Mon, 29 Jul 2019 11:02 UTC
Garlic Festival .
© Noah Berger/AP
A road sign marks the Garlic Festival parking area in Gilroy, Calif., July 28, 2019.
A 19-year-old was identified Monday as the suspected gunman in the California festival shooting that killed at least three people and injured more than a dozen others.

Gunshots rang out Sunday just before 6 p.m. local time at the popular Gilroy Garlic Festival in the city of Gilroy, some 80 miles southeast of San Francisco.

The shooter was identified as Santino William Legan, law enforcement sources confirmed to ABC News. Investigators responded the home of Legan's father in Gilroy hours after the shooting, sources said.

A 6-year-old boy was among those killed, the boy's grandmother told ABC San Francisco station KGO.

Comment: From RT:
The first gunshots were heard around 5:40pm local time, immediately causing confusion and panic at Gilroy's Christmas Hill Park in Santa Clara County.

"We heard it distinctly. I just didn't recognize the first round. The second time I did, [when] they were getting closer," a witness told local media. "I just started running. I left everything and ran."

Videos shared online show people abandoning food stands and fleeing the park in fear, with bangs heard in the background. The Gilroy Garlic Festival is a popular family event in California, and many were there with small children when the shooting started.

UPDATE 30/07/2019: Shooter made social media posts before attack:
Santino William Legan posted the caption about the book "Might is Right," which claims race determines behavior. It appeared with a photo of Smokey the Bear in front of a "fire danger" sign and also complained about overcrowding towns and paving open space to make room for "hordes" of Latinos and Silicon Valley whites.

In his last Instagram post Sunday, Legan sent a photo from the Gilroy Garlic Festival. Minutes later, he shot into the crowd with an AK-47 style weapon, killing a 6-year-old boy, a 13-year-old girl and a man in his mid-20s.

Under it, he wrote: "Ayyy garlic festival time" and "Come get wasted on overpriced" items. Legan's since-deleted Instagram account says he is Italian and Iranian.

The postings are among the first details that have emerged about Legan since authorities say he appeared to fire at random, sending people running and diving under tables. Police patrolling the event responded within a minute and killed Legan as he turned the weapon on them.

He legally purchased the semi-automatic assault rifle this month in Nevada, where his last address is listed. He would have been barred from buying it in California, which restricts firearms purchases to people over 21. In Nevada, the age limit is 18.

Legan grew up less than a mile from the park where the city known as the "Garlic Capital of the World" has held its three-day festival for four decades, attracting more than 100,000 people with music, food booths and cooking classes.

Authorities were looking for clues, including on social media, as to what caused the son of a prominent local family to go on a rampage. His father was a competitive runner and coach, a brother was an accomplished young boxer and his grandfather had been a supervisor in Santa Clara County.

Police said they don't know if people were targeted, but at this point, but it appears he shot indiscriminately. Twelve people were injured.

Police searched Legan's vehicle and the two-story Legan family home, leaving with paper bags. Authorities also searched an apartment they believed Legan used this month in remote northern Nevada. Officials didn't say what they found.

The city had security in place for one of the largest food fairs in the U.S. It required people to pass through metal detectors and have their bags searched. Police, paramedics and firefighters were stationed throughout the festival.

But Legan didn't go through the front entrance. He cut through a fence bordering a parking lot next to a creek, Gilroy Police Chief Scot Smithee said. Some witnesses reported a second suspect, and authorities were trying to determine if he had any help.

Police arrested a 20-year-old man who claimed involvement online, but investigators determined he was just trying to get attention.


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Biohazard

US govt regulator 'complicit' in radioactive leak at S. Carolina plant


RT
Tue, 30 Jul 2019 17:20 UTC
radioactive materials sign
© AFP / George Frey
A leak at a Westinghouse nuclear fuel site is partly the result of inaction by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), which is tasked with protecting the public from radioactive waste, an analyst told RT.

"I think the NRC is complicit with companies like Westinghouse. They do minimal inspections. They miss things," he noted, adding that such incidents illustrate how the nuclear power industry "is wasting the American people's money left and right."

Recently, a rusty shipping container full of uranium-tainted trash was found to be seeping radioactive sludge into the soil at a Westinghouse fuel rod factory in South Carolina, contaminating the groundwater beneath the facility.

Watch the full report below.

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Cross

'Compelled worship'? Lawsuit over Christian prayer in UK school sparks DEBATE


RT
Tue, 30 Jul 2019 17:14 UTC
bible
© Global Look Press / Steve Nagy
A lawsuit targeting a UK primary school for holding prayer sessions and biblical re-enactments has divided public opinion. RT panelists sparred over the heated issue of religion's place in education.

"We must make sure that our people have access to the culture, the history - including the Bible - of our civilization," Chris McGovern, chairman of Campaign for Real Education, argued.

Others took issue with Christianity being taught in schools. Describing the case as an example of "compelled worship," Luke Gittos, a lawyer and legal editor of Spiked Online, said that the state was imposing its religious beliefs on young Britons.

An atheist couple brought the issue to light, as they are taking their children's primary school to the High Court, claiming that Christian-themed activities during assembly are unlawful. Believed to be the first of its kind in Britain, the suit argues that all children have the right to receive an education "free from religious interference."

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Info

British teen reportedly fabricated rape charges against Israelis, who plan to sue


Sputnik
Tue, 30 Jul 2019 17:03 UTC
cyprus tourists
© AP Photo / Petros Karadjias
Ayia Napa in Cyprus is one of the most popular summer holiday destinations for young British people seeking sun, sea and in many cases sex. The resort is close to the British military base at Dhekelia, which is home to thousands of UK troops.

Several Israeli tourists who were falsely accused of rape by a 19-year-old British woman in the holiday resort of Ayia Napa in Cyprus have threatened to sue her for millions of pounds.

One of the men, Yona Golub, told the Times of Israel: "We will sue her for the anguish caused and for libel. I am walking in the street and people are calling me a rapist."


​An Israeli lawyer, based in Cyprus, Yaniv Habari told AFP his clients would "pursue legal action against the person behind the false accusations that led to them being unjustly detained. We will claim damages for the suffering of our clients."
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Bullseye

Claiming Baltimore is not a mess just because 'racist' Trump said it will lose Democrats votes

Igor Ogorodnev
RT
Tue, 30 Jul 2019 16:52 UTC
inner city Baltimore
© Getty / The Washington Post
Man walks through street in inner city Baltimore
Baltimore is one of the most deprived cities in the US. President Trump knows it. Bernie knows it. Most importantly, the voters know it. Answering Trump's criticism by shouting "racist!" is both bad politics and bad for the city.

Maryland's largest city has the second-highest murder rate in the nation, behind St. Louis, Missouri. In a city of 600,000, over 300 people will have been shot by the end of the year for the fifth year running. If it were a country, it would be one of the three deadliest in the world.

More than a fifth of its citizens live in poverty, its trash problem has been covered in hundreds of local articles dating back decades, while the rat infestation received its own recent documentary on PBS - which, incidentally used it as a metaphor for general urban decay.

Thus, when President Donald Trump called it a "rodent infested mess" that "ranks last in almost every major category" he is on strong ground - while the Democrats who have run the city since 1967, and Congressman Elijah Cummings, who has been in his post for 23 years and 12 elections, are vulnerable.
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Chess

Russia squeezes out Saudi Arabia in race for Asia's oil market share

Simon Watkins
Oilprice.com
Mon, 29 Jul 2019 16:46 UTC
port
© Reuters
Saudi Arabia is struggling in its key economic and geopolitical ambition to position itself as the key substitute in Asia in general and China in particular for lost Iranian barrels due to re-imposed sanctions by the US.

The opportunity is huge as, a senior source who works closely with Iran's Petroleum Ministry exclusively told OilPrice.com last week, Iran as of last week was exporting just 266,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil compared to the 2.5 million bpd exported just before the US withdrew from the nuclear deal last May. Although some of the headline figures appear to offer some scope for Saudi optimism, a look beneath the surface shows the situation is far from rosy, with threats from both US and Russian supplies. Indeed, with the recent scare over contaminated barrels now apparently behind it, Russia is also ramping up its threat against increased US supplies as well, signalling a broader burgeoning relationship with the Asian powerhouse of China.
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Attention

100mn+ people's data exposed in Capital One bank hack, thousands of SSNs & accounts leaked


RT
Tue, 30 Jul 2019 10:05 UTC
capital one logo
© Reuters / Brendan McDermid
Over 100 million Capital One customers have had their personal data hacked in a massive breach that exposed social security numbers, linked bank accounts, birth dates, phone numbers, and even transaction histories.

Personally-identifying information from the credit card applications of about 100 million Americans and 6 million Canadians has been stolen in one of the largest-ever bank hacks in the US, Capital One has acknowledged in a press release on Monday. The bank launched into damage control mode almost immediately, pinning the breach on one "highly sophisticated individual" who penetrated the bank's defenses, but emphasizing that "no other instances" of the specific "configuration vulnerability" were found. Also, it took a third-party bug-hunter to bring the vulnerability to Capital One's notice earlier this month, and they still took two days to find the breach.

Comment: See also:

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Arrow Up

Muslims worldwide calling for boycott of Hajj pilgrimage to protest Saudi war crimes in Yemen

Jarni Blakkarly
SBS
Sun, 28 Jul 2019 12:00 UTC
Mecca
© Sputnik / Mikhail Voskresenskiy
Muslim worshippers at the Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca in 2017.
Next month more than two million Muslims from around the world are expected to descend on the cities of Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia for the annual Hajj pilgrimage.

But a growing number of Muslims, including some in Australia, are turning their backs on what is one of the central pillars of Islam, and calling for a boycott of the event.

Sydney-based aspiring filmmaker Faraaz Rahman says he believes going to Hajj at the present time is not morally responsible.

"Going for Hajj would financially contribute to the Saudi regime, which currently is carrying out mass atrocities in Yemen against fellow Muslims. This is not what the Hajj is meant to be about," the 31-year-old told SBS News.

Comment: Saudi Arabia's crimes against humanity are only possible thanks to the West and Israel, and so, while this boycott is unlikely to have any immediate nor resounding impact on the death eating hydra plaguing the Middle East, it's nevertheless an admirable and worthy cause: Also check out SOTT radio's:

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