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Best of the Web: The 'Yellow Vests storm Paris hospital' fake news story: "I was there. Here is what really happened"

Ramin Mazaheri
The Saker
Sun, 05 May 2019 19:57 UTC
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© APA man, his face covered in blood, is assisted as he walks away during the May Day protest in Paris, May 1, 2019. Francois Mori
The French government has been forced to shamefully admit that they made totally false accusations that May Day Yellow Vest anti-government protesters tried to break into the Pitié Salpêtrière Hospital in order to "attack", "assault" and "steal". Countless mainstream media are just as covered in ignominy for having repeated these untrue claims.


Comment: See also: French interior minister slammed over fake news of hospital attack by Yellow Vests


I was right there when it happened, covering it for PressTV, so I witnessed exactly what transpired.

In fact, I even gave a live interview at the exact time of the incident, just after 4pm. I don't have a copy of that for now, but I hope to get one soon: certainly, I can explain what happened and why.

Why it happened: A new rule permitting even worse police brutality against Yellow Vests
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8th Place: A high school girl's life after transgender students join her sport

Kelsey Bolar
The Daily Signal
Mon, 06 May 2019 00:01 UTC
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© The Daily SignalSelina Soule, a 16-year-old runner from Glastonbury, Connecticut, shares what it’s like being forced to compete against biological boys.
When two high school athletes who were born male but identify as female took first and second place at Connecticut's girls indoor track championship this year, it wasn't just a local news story.

To some, it was a story of triumph and courage. The winner, a junior from Bloomfield High School, set a girls state indoor record of 6.95 seconds in the 55-meter dash, and went on to win the New England titles in both the 55-meter dash and the 300-meter dash.

To others, it was a story of shock and disappointment: Is this the end of women's sports?

Comment: See also:

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SOTT Focus: USA: Going South

James Howard Kunstler
Straight Line Logic
Mon, 06 May 2019 00:00 UTC
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A 25 percent tariff on Chinese goods coming into the USA. That'll git her done, all right - if you mean pulling the plug on America's holographic economy. For about thirty years this is how it worked: China sent a massive volume of finished goods to us and we paid them with a massive volume of US Treasury bonds at ever-lower interest rates. A great deal for us while it lasted. Or so it seemed. Eventually, China caught on to the swindle and began liquidating its US bond holdings to buy gold and other real goods like African mining rights and farmland, Iranian oil, and port facilities in strategic corners of the world.

Now China has obviously designed a policy to dissociate itself as much as possible from the losing trade racket with us and replace the American market by increments with whatever customer base it can cobble together from the rest of the world. The Belt-and-Road initiative to physically link China with Central Asia (and beyond) with railroad lines and highways through some of the most forbidding terrain on earth was an out-front part of the plan, which we haplessly financed by buying all that stuff they sent over here for decades, and giving them the time to complete that colossal project.
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Remake of Disney's 'Lady and the Tramp' to do over 'racist' Siamese cat song

Danny Cox
The Inquisitr
Tue, 07 May 2019 18:19 UTC
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We live in a time where the Walt Disney Company is taking their animated classics and turning them into live-action remakes for a different generation. One of those is Lady and the Tramp, a remake that will only be available on the company's new streaming service Disney+, which is due out in November. Now, it has been revealed that one of the songs in the animated film is going to be redone due to it being racist and offensive.

Entertainment Weekly is reporting that "The Siamese Cat Song" is going to be redone for this new live-action remake due to it depicting the Asian community in offensive ways. Polygon actually calls the song "racist," and reveals that it will be replaced by an entirely new song performed by Janelle Monae.

Monae is going to cover another song called "He's a Tramp," which was also performed by Peggy Lee in the animated classic. Monae, like Lee, will also voice the dog named Peg in Lady and the Tramp.
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NYU votes to not cooperate in study abroad program in Israel


Mondoweiss
Thu, 02 May 2019 00:00 UTC
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Editor's Note: The following is a statement from the NYU Department of Social and Cultural Analysis. Mondoweiss occasionally publishes press releases and statements from organizations in an effort to draw attention to overlooked issues.

By a majority vote, faculty in NYU's Department of Social and Cultural Analysis have passed a resolution that pledges non-cooperation with the university's study abroad program in Tel Aviv. Citing the obligation to uphold the university's Policy of Ethical Conduct on non-discrimination and equal opportunity, the faculty declared non-cooperation with the program until the Israeli state both ends its restrictions on entry based on ancestry and political speech, as well as adopts policies granting visas for exchanges to Palestinian universities on a fully equal basis as it does to Israeli universities. Members of the department as well as the NYU community at large have been impacted by these policies and so their right to academic freedom and movement has effectively been constrained.
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Male student takes stand against 'toxic masculinity' narrative

Drew Van Voorhis
The College Fix
Tue, 07 May 2019 18:17 UTC
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'We have so many people talking about toxic masculinity, but so few talking about toxic femininity'

Jermelle MacLeod is a man, and he's not going to apologize for it.

The San Diego State University freshman and budding philosopher recently took to the pages of the campus newspaper The Daily Aztec and let the world know what he thinks of the term "toxic masculinity" and those who wield it.

"Toxic masculinity doesn't exist," he wrote in his op-ed. "Traits that one person considers toxic, may not be to another person; the entire phrase is based on a subjective scale with absolutely no objective ground and is used as a shaming tactic for 'modern feminists' and anybody else buying into their horrible rhetoric."

"For example, one person may like the typical 'alpha male,'" MacLeod wrote. "Confident, loud, powerful, buff, etc. But another person may find those traits unlikeable, and so they'll brand that male as 'toxic' because 'toxic masculinity' is a catch-all term for any traits a man has that are considered unlikeable or 'overly masculine.'"
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Kim Kardashian quietly helps free 17 inmates who've served years of life sentences without parole for low-level drug offenses


TMZ
Tue, 07 May 2019 18:11 UTC
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Kim Kardashian is helping free inmates at an amazingly high rate, and she's been doing it rather quietly ... until now.

We've learned Kim and her legal team helped 17 prisoners gain freedom over the last 3 months or so -- each of them having served years of life sentences without parole ... for low-level drug offenses.

It's all part of the 90 Days of Freedom campaign launched by Kim's lawyer, Brittany K. Barnett, in partnership with lawyer MiAngel Cody of The Decarceration Collective. The campaign puts the First Step Act -- signed by President Trump last year -- to work for prisoners who received Draconian sentences.
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FT journo scolds Moscow authorities for not instantly removing crashed jet, gets schooled on Twitter


RT
Tue, 07 May 2019 17:55 UTC
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© Reuters / Russian Investigative Committee
Most reactions to the plane crash at a Moscow airport on Sunday were of simple sadness and shock - but for Financial Times Moscow correspondent Max Seddon, the tragedy was a chance to gratuitously bash Russian authorities.

Seddon took to Twitter on Monday to chastise Sheremetyevo Airport authorities for the most nonsensical of reasons - because they did not instantly remove the destroyed aircraft from the tarmac after the crash landing which killed 41 people, including two children.

"A day after an Aeroflot flight burnt up at Sheremetevo, the airport has just left it there for everyone to stare at," he wrote, in an apparent attempt to provoke some kind of outrage.
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Authorities make 82 arrests in massive eight-state child exploitation sting


Sputnik
Tue, 07 May 2019 17:10 UTC
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© Georgia Bureau of Investigation
Federal authorities and local police arrested 82 people in a massive eight-state child exploitation sting, according to reports.

A Facebook post by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) notes that "Operation Southern Impact III" was held across a number of southern states including Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia, according to WBNS TV.

It was a "Great display of local, state, and federal partnerships," the GBI exclaimed.

The mass operation targeted people who were making or distributing child pornography.
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Four arrested for contaminating Russian oil in Druzhba pipeline


TASS
Tue, 07 May 2019 17:01 UTC
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The investigation has revealed a group of companies that delivered contaminated oil to the Druzhba pipeline, four people have been detained in the case, Russia's Energy Minister Alexander Novak said at a government meeting.

"The investigation has revealed a group of companies that transferred standard oil using organochlorine compounds in volumes excessing the norm. The inspection documents have now been handed over to the prosecutor's office, a set of operational measures, investigative actions of the FSB of Russia, the Investigation Committee of Russia are being held, criminal proceedings have been initiated under articles 158, 210 and 215.2. Four people were detained and placed in jail by a court decision," Novak said.
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