Society's Child

Who is pulling Greta's puppet strings?

Jon Gaunt
Sputnik
Thu, 26 Sep 2019 16:03 UTC

© Reuters/Carlo Allegri
16-year-old Swedish Climate activist Greta Thunberg speaks at the 2019 United Nations Climate Action Summit at U.N. headquarters in New York City, New York, U.S., September 23, 2019

Is it just me or is Greta Thunberg getting on your nerves too? Why is this young woman getting so much attention and why are people taking her seriously? All kids worry about the end of the world then they grow up or am I being too harsh?

I posed this question on Twitter a few days ago and the overwhelming response was that instead of being too harsh I was in fact being too gentle to the 'Eco Messiah'.

Did you see her speech at the UN? It was incredible and frightening in equal measure. Not her doom-laden prediction that the world was going to end but the manner in which she delivered it. The trembling lip, the stare, the accusations and of course the tears.

It only confirmed my long-held belief that this young girl is being used and abused by the environmental 'nut jobs' who are seem to be drafting her scripts.

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Gallup poll: Just 13% of Americans trust the media 'a great deal'

Megan Brenan
Gallup News
Thu, 26 Sep 2019 15:49 UTC

Americans remain largely mistrustful of the mass media as 41% currently have "a great deal" or "fair amount" of trust in newspapers, television and radio to report the news "fully, accurately and fairly." This latest reading represents a four-percentage-point dip since last year and marks the end of improvements in back-to-back years after hitting an all-time low.

Although trust in the media has edged down this year, it is well above the record low of 32% in 2016 when Republicans' trust dropped precipitously and drove the overall trust reading down during the divisive presidential campaign. Republicans' trust is still at a very low level and a wide gap in views of the media among partisans persists as 69% of Democrats say they have trust and confidence in it, while 15% of Republicans and 36% of independents agree.

Trust in the Mass Media Remains Low

After hitting the low point three years ago, U.S. adults' trust in the accuracy of the mass media appeared to be rebounding -- increasing 13 points over two years. Yet, the latest reading from a Sept. 3-15 Gallup poll found levels matching those in 2017.

Russian priest with '70 adopted children in family' is accused of raping girl in his care

RT
Thu, 26 Sep 2019 15:22 UTC

A Russian priest who is credited with heading the largest family in the country after fathering and adopting over 70 kids, has been arrested on a charge of sexually abusing his dependants.

A court in Orenburg, a city about 1,200 km southeast of Moscow, has ordered the pre-trial arrest of Nikolay Stremsky.

Stremsky, or father Nikolay as he is usually called, is a sort of local celebrity in the Orenburg region.

A veteran of the Afghan war who was ordained a Russian Orthodox priest, he and his wife run a Christian foster home, except the wards there are also his adopted children. Investigators say he is a sexual predator, who has abused at least seven children in his care.

Story of 5 major pipelines explains Europe's love-hate relationship with Russian energy

RT
Thu, 26 Sep 2019 15:15 UTC

This year, Russia provided record supplies of gas to the European market to meet the region's growing demand. But some nations, particularly the US, Poland and the Baltic states, still insist Europe can do without Russian energy.

Here are the key Russian pipelines supplying oil and gas to Europe, which Washington and allies are trying to obstruct.

The Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline

This project, which is almost complete, aims to deliver more natural gas from Russia to the EU. It involves the construction of two pipelines with a total capacity of 55 billion cubic meters of gas per year, spanning from the Russian coast to Germany and further on to other European customers through the Baltic Sea.

This week, Washington and Warsaw called the Russian gas pipeline a "threat" to European energy security. While the pipeline does not cross the territory of either country, they have discussed the possibility of hindering the implementation of the Nord Stream 2. US President Donald Trump has been promoting American LNG to edge Russia out of the EU gas market, while Poland has ambitions of becoming a major European LNG hub.

Social justice warrior and hypocrite Megan Rapinoe under fire for saying footballer should win player of the year 'just for how cute he is'

RT
Thu, 26 Sep 2019 15:11 UTC

US women's football star Megan Rapinoe has been accused of hypocrisy after stating Virgil van Dijk should win the FIFA Best Men's Player award "just for how cute he is."

Rapinoe was named Best Women's Player at the glitzy awards bash in Milan on Monday night, where Liverpool defender van Dijk was in the running for the men's accolade.

The Dutchman ultimately missed out, being pipped to the award by Barcelona legend Lionel Messi - but if Rapinoe had had her way, van Dijk would have cleaned up based on looks alone.

When asked ahead of the ceremony who she thought should win the men's title, Rapinoe replied: "Ooo, I think Virgil, just for how cute he is."

Gender identity and why no one is born in 'the wrong body'

William J. Malone, Colin M. Wright, and Julia D. Robertson
Quillette
Tue, 24 Sep 2019 14:59 UTC

The idea that all people have an innate "gender identity" recently has been endorsed by many health-care professionals and mainstream medical organizations. This term commonly is defined to mean the "internal, deeply held" sense of whether one is a man or a woman (or, in the case of children, a boy or a girl), both, or neither. It also has become common to claim that this sense of identity may be reliably articulated by children as young as three years old.

While these claims about gender identity did not attract systematic scrutiny at first, they now have become the subject of criticism from a growing number of scientists, philosophers and health workers. Developmental studies show that young children have only a superficial understanding of sex and gender (at best). For instance, up until age 7, many children often believe that if a boy puts on a dress, he becomes a girl. This gives us reason to doubt whether a coherent concept of gender identity exists at all in young children. To such extent as any such identity may exist, the concept relies on stereotypes that encourage the conflation of gender with sex.

However, starting at a young age, children do tend to exhibit preferences and behaviors that we associate with sex (as distinct from gender). For example, male children display more aggressive behavior than female children. In addition, "cross-sex" behavior — or, more accurately, cross-sex stereotypical behavior — often is predictive of later same-sex attraction.

Family says child with autism accused of sexual harassment for hugging another child

26nbc.com
Wed, 25 Sep 2019 14:52 UTC

A 5-year-old Tennessee boy with autism is punished for hugging. School officials at East Ridge Elementary School say he was over stepping boundaries.

His family says he didn't know any better. "I was sick to my stomach because first of all don't you understand he's a 5-year-old," Summery Putnam, the boy's mother, said. "He's a child."

Putnam says she received a call from her son's teacher about 3 weeks ago. "The teacher called me and she said you need to have a talk with Nathan about boundaries," Putnam said.

Putnam says his autism makes it difficult for him understand social cues. "If you don't understand how autism works, you'll think he's acting out or being defiant," Putnam said. "But that's not the situation."

Propaganda: Eating meat could be banned like smoking, says top barrister, as he calls for new crime of 'ecocide'

Sarah Knapton
The Telegraph
Mon, 23 Sep 2019 00:01 UTC

Eating meat could be banned like smoking, one of Britain's foremost barristers has predicted, as he called for the offence of 'ecocide' to be introduced to prosecute those who damage the nature on a massive scale.

Michael Mansfield QC warned that the farming of livestock for meat was destroying the planet and called for legislation to criminalise those who cause global warming and the wilful destruction of wildlife. In a message delivered at the launch of the Vegan Now campaign, which encourages people to stop eating meat and dairy, Mansfield said he had a 'single message' to make ecocide a crime.

"I think when we look at the damage eating meat is doing to the planet it is not preposterous to think that one day it will become illegal," he said.

Comment: There's nothing wrong with holding industry and corporations responsible for harms they inflict on the environment. But these people are using environmentalism as a means of inflicting their ideology on the world, promoting falsified and exaggerated data. If they took their focus off of carbon and put it on to things that are actually detrimental to the environment (heavy metals, industrial pollution, GMOs, pesticides and herbicides, for example) they might actually be doing to world some good. But then they wouldn't be forcing everyone to become vegan now, would they.

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UK football fan punches police horse; tackled, beaten by baton-wielding officers

RT
Wed, 25 Sep 2019 21:20 UTC

There were shocking scenes at the English League Cup clash between bitter local rivals Portsmouth and Southampton when one fan appeared to punch a police horse.

Fans of the south coast rivals clashed in the streets around Portsmouth's Fratton Park stadium on Tuesday night, with footage showing one incident in which a home supporter seemed to lash out at a police horse.

Video shared on social media shows the footie thug - clad in blue - being pursued by an officer on horseback.

The fan then stops to square up to the horse and seems to land a right jab on its face.

"Man's swinging for a horse," the person filming says.

Three sailors commit suicide on USS George H.W. Bush in one week, sparks crisis

Tyler Durden
Zerohedge
Wed, 25 Sep 2019 13:15 UTC

Three sailors have committed suicide in less than one week on the USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77), according to the vessel's official Facebook page. The cluster of deaths has shocked the Navy, raising new questions about why the suicide rate in the service has spiked in recent years.

The suicides occurred while the vessel has been in dry dock in Norfolk, Va., for general repairs.

"It is with a heavy heart that I can confirm the loss of three Sailors last week in separate, unrelated incidents from an apparent suicide. My heart is broken," CAPT Sean Bailey Commanding Officer USS George H. W. Bush wrote in the post.

Bailey said the deaths "mark the third, fourth, and fifth crew member suicides in the last two years." He made a plea to the crew and families to come together and not just support each other in a time of crisis, but offer any suggestions on how the service can prevent the next death.

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Society's Child

Who is pulling Greta's puppet strings?

Gallup poll: Just 13% of Americans trust the media 'a great deal'

Russian priest with '70 adopted children in family' is accused of raping girl in his care

Story of 5 major pipelines explains Europe's love-hate relationship with Russian energy

Social justice warrior and hypocrite Megan Rapinoe under fire for saying footballer should win player of the year 'just for how cute he is'

Gender identity and why no one is born in 'the wrong body'

Family says child with autism accused of sexual harassment for hugging another child

Propaganda: Eating meat could be banned like smoking, says top barrister, as he calls for new crime of 'ecocide'

UK football fan punches police horse; tackled, beaten by baton-wielding officers

Three sailors commit suicide on USS George H.W. Bush in one week, sparks crisis

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