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The Yaniv outrage has left Canada, rightly, the laughing stock of the world

Rex Murphy
National Post
Sat, 27 Jul 2019 12:15 UTC
Jessica Yaniv
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Jessica Yaniv, a transgender woman in B.C., has filed over a dozen human rights complaints against businesses she alleges discriminated against her on the basis of gender identity.
A friend of mine recently went to his local garage, claimed he was a re-conditioned '79 Chevy Nova and asked them to do a timing check on the carburetor and rotate his tires. They said they wouldn't because he didn't have a carburetor, or tires, and they only worked on "cars." He is off now to the local human rights tribunal (after a stop for spare parts at Canadian Tire).

The strange, ominous and creepy case before the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal is reverberating around the world. This is the case of the person, variously identified on the Internet as Jonathan or Jessica Yaniv, who has mounted a campaign to force unwilling cosmeticians to do a "Brazilian Wax" on their still very present testicles and penis. Yaniv has filed complaints against them all.

As I wrote last week, these are all women, some immigrants, and on the economic and cultural margins — 16 in total, according to most accounts. At least one, originally from Brazil, has had to close her small business. All have been under intense duress, and the vexatious complainant is notably hostile to immigrants (social media posts by Yaniv, then identifying as Jonathan, are remarkably insulting to newcomers to Canada). Some have paid Yaniv $2,500 dollars to lay off, while others equipped themselves with lawyers, at their own expense, had the complaints dropped.

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No shame: What Israelis do to Palestinians in the name of the Jewish state is pure evil

Gershon Baski
The Jerusalem Post
Sun, 28 Jul 2019 15:41 UTC
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You can’t keep a military occupation of millions of people going on for years without becoming the essence of evil. That is what we have become and now we don’t even have shame in what we do.
As I watched the video of the Israeli soldiers and police blowing up one of the 13 residential buildings demolished this week in the Wadi al-Hummus neighborhood of Sur Bahir in east Jerusalem, I wanted to bury myself in shame. When the building imploded and the soldiers laughed as we heard the screams and cries from the Palestinians who became homeless, my shame turned to pure outrage and the urge to be violent. But I will not step down to that level. I will not be violent. But I will not hold back, I will not forget and I will not forgive. What we did, what the State of Israel did, what we do in the name of the Jewish state is becoming pure evil.

My first thoughts about what I see in the daily reality of east Jerusalem, and the West Bank and Gaza - things such as the Sur Bahir home demolitions; the removal of Palestinians from their homes in Silwan and Sheikh Jarrah, and the moving in of Jewish settlers in their place; settlement expansion and building at a faster pace than I have seen in many years; unauthorized settlements being built, budgeted and hooked up to Israeli infrastructure; massive police presence all over the West Bank ticketing hundreds of Palestinian cars (not cars of settlers); and the ongoing strangling the Palestinian economy in full coordination with the US government - all of these actions and more are leading to a definite explosion. My thought: Maybe that is exactly what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants? This is the perfect backdrop for Election Day. Could even Netanyahu be so cynical? I thought to myself - this can't be.

Some of the right-wing politicians have been open and direct about their strategies - they will find ways of encouraging Palestinians to leave their homes and their country. This is what our transportation minister has been saying for years. This is what some of the Likud MKs say and believe. We don't need Meir Kahane's followers to force the Palestinians to leave against their will - that is what the government of Israel is carrying out. The policies being implemented on the ground, for years now, are working in that direction. But very few of the Palestinians are actually leaving. The majority of them are staying and they are suffering, and they will not forget or forgive.

Comment: Do Israeli's feel shame? Far from it: Israel's war criminals in their own words

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Arrow Down

Parkland school gunman was considered such a threat he was searched every morning, yet parents weren't informed of the danger

Megan O'Matz
South Florida Sun Sentinal
Sat, 27 Jul 2019 12:00 UTC
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The former student who later shot up Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School was such a threat in school that he was searched every morning for weapons, new testimony shows.

The extraordinary measure followed an earlier decision to bar Nikolas Cruz from taking a backpack to campus after he talked of suicide and wrote "kill" in a notebook.

The search procedure was revealed in a sworn deposition from Kelvin Greenleaf, the security guard who searched Cruz. The South Florida Sun Sentinel obtained a copy of the deposition this week.

"Never found a weapon on him," Greenleaf explained in the testimony July 11. "I think we got concerned when, I think, we found out he drank bleach, tried to hurt himself or something like that, the kid. That's when we started, like, having the kid come in every morning to be searched by me, but never found a weapon on the kid, never."

Administrators forced Cruz to withdraw from Stoneman Douglas within six months — in February 2017.

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Biohazard

River of radiation: Life in the area of the world's 3rd-worst nuclear disaster


RT
Sun, 28 Jul 2019 09:38 UTC
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An old radiation warning sign next to the Techa River in Chelyabinsk region.
Before Fukushima and Chernobyl, the worst-ever nuclear disaster was a massive leak from a plant in the eastern Urals. RT went to see how people live in areas affected by the fallout from the USSR's risky rush to the nuclear bomb.

Chernobyl and Fukushima are the two names that are most likely to come to mind when one thinks about nuclear disaster, and rightfully so. People in the US will likely recall the Three Mile Island accident, while Britons may say the "Windscale fire."

The name "Kyshtym" will probably mean nothing to the wider public, despite it belonging to the third-worst nuclear accident in history. An RT Russian correspondent traveled to the area to speak with locals, some of whom personally witnessed the 1957 disaster, to find out what living in such a place feels like.

Bomb at any cost

Kyshtym is the name of a small town in what is now Chelyabinsk Region in Russia, located in an area dotted by dozens of small lakes. A 15-minute car ride east will bring you to another town called Ozyorsk. Six decades ago, you wouldn't find it on any publicly available map because it hosted a crucial element of the Soviet Union's nascent nuclear weapons program, the Mayak plant.
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Review of 'Inside the Bruderhof' documentary: Is this a religious stirring I feel?

Lucy Mangan
The Guardian
Thu, 25 Jul 2019 12:23 UTC
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I had always believed that if I were ever visited by religious feeling, it would be the blood-and-thunder Catholicism of my forebears. Folk memory or epigenetics would stir, and there I would be - calling fire down from heaven, searching for stigmatists and generally making a nuisance of myself, especially to Protestants. As I have grown older, I have realised this is unlikely for many reasons. First of all, God is dead - this was surely confirmed on Wednesday when Boris Johnson moved into 10 Downing Street. Second, my forebears must have been a much more extrovert lot than I am. I temperamentally incline to something quieter; less show, more focus. Something to which I can, since this documentary, call "more Bruderhoffy".

The Bruderhof is a radical Christian movement, founded 100 years ago, that comprises 3,000 members living in 23 settlements around the world. Inside the Bruderhof (BBC One) followed the lives of some of those ensconced in Darvell, their Sussex enclave. Bernard Hibbs, who has lived there for 30 years, explains that their purpose "is to follow Jesus as closely as possible, especially the Sermon on the Mount, and not wait for some future glorious kingdom to come". To this heaven-on-earthly end, the Bruderhof live as collectively and non-hierarchically as possible. Possessions are shared, clothes (many made on site) are issued from a central repository, food also comes from a central store and is cooked and eaten communally. There's a farm, a school, a laundry and no electricity, smartphones or other technology.

Comment: That sounds like a success story. Elsewhere, we read that:
The Bruderhof Christian movement is based around common ownership and was founded in Germany in 1920 by protestant theologian Eberhard Arnold.

The community was forced to flee in 1937 after refusing to join the Nazi Party, and many members moved to England.
There have actually been many like it for several centuries, also German-Protestant in origin, and generally flourishing in the US. What they're partially recreating is monastic life, a strong feature of the medieval period in Europe. In any event, it can work, even in the modern environment.

If we were to quibble about the above set-up though, there would ideally be no externally-mandated rules about dress, relationships, belongings, money and much that is personal. True colinearity towards a group aim ought to come from individually-realized principles or rules, and 'works' - creative and pecuniary - that are voluntarily given.

For example, people would just know, from their own basic rearing and miminal social feedback, what is or is not appropriate to wear in specific circumstances; there's no need for archaic uniforms.

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Attention

Kidnapped Austrian triathlete sweet-talks captor into letting her go

Bradford Betz
Fox News
Fri, 26 Jul 2019 14:00 UTC
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An Austrian triathlete said she was kidnapped and stripped naked by a van-driver earlier this week but managed to sweet-talk him into returning her home before he could do worse, according to report Friday.

Graz resident Nathalie Birli, 27, was riding her bike near her home when a van driver knocked her unconscious and took her back to his home, The Times reported.

When she regained consciousness, she was naked and tied to a chair "in an old house," Birli told the paper.
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Transgender woman, Jessica Yaniv, testifies at human rights tribunal after being refused Brazilian wax

Eva Uguen-Csenge
CBC
Sat, 27 Jul 2019 00:01 UTC
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Jessica Yaniv says she was rejected by more than a dozen B.C. beauty salons

A transgender woman testified before the B.C. Human Rights tribunal Friday complaining that she was refused Brazilian waxes at more than a dozen beauty salons because she is transgender.

Jessica Yaniv says she's been repeatedly refused waxing services since 2018. For the past several months, the tribunal has been conducting hearings into the complaints against each of the waxing salons and independent estheticians.

"None of these providers had any issue with anything until I mentioned I was transgender. Why was it not brought up saying, 'Hey we don't do services on male genitalia'?"

Comment: It's absurd that you have to say this, but getting your genitals waxed is not a human right. The idea that some pervert (and make no mistake, Yaniv is a pervert) thinks he should be able to identify as a woman and force women to touch his parts is so loony toons it just boggles the mind. And the fact that the Human Rights tribunal is taking this seriously is simply more proof that we're living in clown world.

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PSU punishes prof who duped academic journal with hoax 'dog rape' article

Celine Ryan
Campus Reform
Wed, 24 Jul 2019 19:55 UTC
Peter Boghossian
The professor who duped academic journals into publishing bogus articles has now been banned by Portland State University from conducting any and all university-sponsored research and threatened with an administrative review of his "questionable ethical behavior."

Peter Boghossian made headlines in 2018 after he and two other researchers set out to prove a point about the integrity of "peer-reviewed" academic publications by submitting several fake studies including an analysis of "dog rape culture," and a piece that was simply a section of Hitler's Mein Kampf reworked to include a smattering of academic buzzwords.

After seven of the team's fake submissions were accepted and published by esteemed academic journals, a Campus Reform investigation led the publisher of the infamous Portland "dog park rape culture" article to question the origins of the submission. This ultimately revealed the article as part of a larger effort by Boghossian and his team to demonstrate the inadequacies of these publications.

After his experiment, Portland State threatened Boghossian with disciplinary action, accusing him of conducting research misconduct. The school asserted that Boghossian had unethically conducted research on human subjects with his experiment. According to the school's Institutional Review Board, Boghossian would have needed to obtain "informed consent" from the individuals reviewing his hoax articles in order for his actions to have been considered ethical.


Comment: How "informed" would they need to be? In order to demonstrate the inadequacies of these journals, they couldn't exactly be told the papers were hoaxes.


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Black rag dolls made to 'slam into walls' pulled from shelves over racism complaints


RT
Sat, 27 Jul 2019 17:03 UTC
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A 'disturbing' black rag doll designed to make kids 'feel better' by slamming it against a wall to vent their anger has been pulled from New Jersey stores after outcry.

The 'Feel Better Doll' is a black smiling rag doll with multi-colored hair styled like dreadlocks, and bears instructions to "slam" the stuffed toy "whenever things don't go well and you want to hit the wall and yell."

The dolls were pulled from three retailers in New Jersey, including one in Bayonne that withdrew about 1,000 dolls after complaints from local legislator Angela McKnight.
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Moscow police detain 1000 protesters at unauthorized rally over city council election


RT
Sat, 27 Jul 2019 11:27 UTC
Protesters Moscow
© AFP / Kirill Kudryavtsev
Protesters clash with riot police during an unauthorised rally in downtown Moscow, on July 27, 2019.
A protest was organized by the Russian opposition after the Central Election Commission disqualified some candidates wishing to run for the city council. Police detained some of the activists and ordered others to disperse.

People gathered in front of the Moscow mayor's office on Saturday, a week after a previous rally saw at least 12,000 protesters gather in the city center. Unlike the previous demonstration, however, the latest event was not sanctioned.

Mayor Sergey Sobyanin warned Muscovites that the rally could be used for provocations, and advised citizens not to attend. There is a heavy police presence in the area, with some officers wearing riot gear.

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Protesters attempt to break through a police cordon during an unauthorised rally in downtown Moscow, on July 27, 2019.
A standoff quickly escalated when protesters, who had sought to stage a rally outside the Moscow mayor's office, defied police orders to disperse. On Tverskaya Street, where the office is located, law enforcement personnel were assaulted with pepper spray.

"The gas was sprayed from above, probably from one of the balconies of a nearby building," a police source told TASS. The officers even had to wear gasmasks for a period of time, the Russian media reported.

Six officers were injured in the incident, according to media reports. Two other police officers suffered injuries in separate incident, police said, without providing any further details.

In a separate incident, protesters also pelted officers with stones and sought to break through a police cordon on several occasions. The demonstrators blocked several streets in the city center near the mayor's office, and vandalized some outdoor dining areas, according to TASS.

The police had to respond by forcibly dispersing the crowd. Almost 300 people were detained following the initial clashes by 15:20 (local time) (12:20 GMT), police said in a statement. Some activist groups claimed, though, that the number of those arrested exceeded 500 at that time. Most of those detained were not Moscow residents, according to police.

Over 3,500 people took part in the action in defiance of a ban by the Moscow authorities. Following the clashes with police, the protesters retreated from the Tverskaya Street and moved to the Trubnaya Square, also in the city center, where they attempted to stage another unsanctioned rally. A group of protesters briefly blocked part of the Garden Ring (Sadovoye Koltso), a ten-lane transport artery.



The police moved in seeking to disperse the crowd. More than 1,000 people were detained following the Saturday protests, the police said in a statement. At least 10 people were detained during the follow-up action. Earlier, Mayor Sergey Sobyanin warned Muscovites that the rally could be used for provocations, and advised citizens not to attend.

The protest organizers apparently planned provocations at the Saturday rally all along, said a member of the presidential human rights council, Kirill Kabanov. "The provocations ... were prepared in advance. They were needed to give the protests a flavor favorable towards the organizers," he told the Russian media.

Saturday's protest was called by an opposition activist, Aleksey Navalny, during another demonstration last weekend, which was sanctioned by the Moscow authorities. He was detained on Wednesday and sentenced to a 30-day administrative arrest for organizing an illegal event. Some other opposition activists were also detained either before or during this Saturday's rally.
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