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Record numbers of children identifying as transgender in UK and abroad

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Fri, 25 Jan 2019 10:08 UTC

Kids as young as ten are switching gender by deed poll as record numbers of UK youngsters identify as transgender.

The Sun reports that the UK's Deed Poll Service has seen a sharp rise in the number of parents forking out £35 to change their child's title from Miss to Master, or Master to Miss, in the past five years.

A quite shocking stat is that the service says one child under the age of 16 makes the change every day, often with a new first name. Louise Bowers, a senior deed poll officer, said:

"We used to issue a couple every couple of months - but now it's seven to ten a week.

"The majority are teenagers, 14 or 15, but they go down to aged ten."

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Antiwar hero Medea Benjamin disrupts Venezuela coup circle jerk

Caitlin Johnstone
Medium
Fri, 25 Jan 2019 09:33 UTC

Before they launch missiles, they launch narratives. Before they drop bombs, they drop talking points. Before they implement crushing starvation sanctions, they demonize and condemn. Before they invade, they propagandize. Before the killing starts, manipulation paves the way.

For this reason, the front line of any antiwar movement is a fight against the establishment narratives about disobedient nations that are aggressively promulgated by the political/media class. And right now one of the very most adept Americans at doing that is an activist named Medea Benjamin.

Benjamin once again displayed her knack for getting her message seen in high-profile spaces in a way that grabs attention and punches through cleanly and concisely as she crashed the warmongering bloviations of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at a meeting of the Organization for American States (OAS) in Washington, DC.

Following a speech in which Pompeo regurgitated already established Trump talking points referring to Venezuela's president Nicolas Maduro as the "former president", accusing him of being "economically incompetent", "profoundly corrupt" and "undemocratic to the core," Benjamin cut off his applause by standing at the end of the council room with a sign reading "OAS: DON'T SUPPORT A COUP IN VENEZUELA" and decrying the Trump administration's attempts to topple the Venezuelan government.

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Latin America's first school for transgender kids looks to expand

Associated Press
Fri, 25 Jan 2019 02:08 UTC

Growing up as a transgender child in Chile, Angela was so desperate to escape the physical and verbal abuse from other students at her elementary school that she thought about taking her own life.

"I just wanted to die," said the now 16-year-old. "I didn't want to exist, because what they did to me made me feel awful."

After suffering years of discrimination, Angela and some 20 other transgender minors aged 6 to 17 have found hope at Latin America's first school for trans children . The institution, founded by the Chile-based Selenna Foundation that protects their rights, is a milestone in a country that was so socially conservative that it only legalized divorce in 2004.

In recent years, the families of trans children have demanded greater acceptance - a call that recently led to the approval of a law that allows people over the age of 14 to change their name and gender in official records with the consent of their parents or legal guardians.

'The gilets jaunes are unstoppable' - French Author

Spiked
Fri, 11 Jan 2019 00:00 UTC

Christophe Guilluy on the cultural divide driving the yellow vests.

The gilets jaunes (yellow vest) movement has rattled the French establishment. For several months, crowds ranging from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands have been taking to the streets every weekend across the whole of France. They have had enormous success, extracting major concessions from the government. They continue to march.

Back in 2014, geographer Christopher Guilluy's study of la France périphérique (peripheral France) caused a media sensation. It drew attention to the economic, cultural and political exclusion of the working classes, most of whom now live outside the major cities. It highlighted the conditions that would later give rise to the yellow-vest phenomenon. Guilluy has developed on these themes in his recent books, No Society and The Twilight of the Elite: Prosperity, the Periphery and the Future of France. spiked caught up with Guilluy to get his view on the causes and consequences of the yellow-vest movement.

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Niall Bradley to PressTV: 'Yellow Vests Movement a Result of Sclerotic, Totalitarian Politics in Western Europe'

Italian police investigating case of kidnapped Belgian woman held for months as sex slave by Tunisian migrants

RT
Thu, 24 Jan 2019 19:53 UTC

belgian woman kidnapped tunisian migrants

Italian police are investigating a nightmarish case of a Belgian woman, who was kidnapped by a group of Tunisian migrants, Italian and Belgian media report. The captors had allegedly been raping her for two months.

The horror story unfolded back in early 2017 when a Belgian woman, 32, was abducted by six Tunisians in the north-western Italian sea resort of Sanremo, not far from the French border. The victim, residing in the French Riviera, allegedly approached one of her future captors in the street seeking to buy drugs, according to media reports.

The Tunisians forcibly took her to a house, where one of the migrants lived, where she said she had been tied to a bed with ropes and repeatedly raped. One of her captors also always stood guard in the house to prevent her escape.

Roger Waters funds operation to rescue abducted children from Syria

Sputnik
Thu, 24 Jan 2019 09:18 UTC

Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters used a private jet to reunite a Trinidadian mother with her two children, who were kidnapped by their now-dead father to live in the so-called Daesh caliphate.

Speaking with Channel 4's Jackie Long, Roger Waters has disclosed some details of the rescue operation of seven-year-old Ayyub and 11-year-old Mahmud, two boys from Trinidad, who were stuck in Syria after their father from Daesh* died.

"While Clive [Stafford Smith] and the others went across the Tigris and went to the camp and got the boys, it took hours and hours, and hours, and hours, much longer than you would imagine, to get them back and through all the police check-points...", he told the TV host.

Comment: Roger Waters is a rare entertainer with a conscience and stands in stark contrast to the majority of celebrities who bore us with their virtue signaling (when they aren't bashing Trump).

Israeli citizen jailed for nearly a year for bumping into Egyptian woman

Sputnik
Thu, 24 Jan 2019 19:59 UTC

Yusuf al-Assam, a 19-year-old Israeli citizen from the town of Tel Sheva in southern Israel, was arrested last April while on a family vacation at an unidentified resort in Sharm el-Sheikh. At the time, al-Assam was a senior in high school.

"He was playing with his little nine-year-old brother on the water slides and hit some girl," Assam's father, Khaled, recently told Ynet News. "When he got off the slide, she slapped him."

"There was commotion, and my son was detained until the police came and took him away," he added.

The young Egyptian woman, whose identity was not revealed, filed a complaint with police in Sharm el-Sheikh stating that Assam groped her chest on the water slide and thus offended her honor.

Four explosions occur within 24 hours in Sweden

Jim Hoft
The Gateway Pundit
Wed, 23 Jan 2019 19:38 UTC

The last day has seen an unprecedented number of bombings across the country of Sweden, with local businesses and family homes being targets.

Shortly after 4 AM on Tuesday morning the Swedish police were alerted to an explosion at a family home in the city of Värnamo.

"It was a powerful explosion, the front door has been completely blown away" Police officer in charge, Peter Ström, commented to Värnamo Nyheter.

This is the second bombing in this city alone so far this year, and it is suspected to be part of an ongoing criminal gang war in the area.

Later on in the evening saw the second bombing of the day, this time in a Stockholm suburb. Police were called to the scene around 10 PM after a loud explosion was heard at an apartment building containing family homes and local business.

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Kalashnikov sales soar despite Western sanctions

Digital Journal/Agence France-Presse
Thu, 24 Jan 2019 16:24 UTC

© Alexey Druzhinin, Ria-Novosti/AFP/File
Russia's Vladimir Putin, seen handling a replica Kalashnikov assault rifle at a shooting gallery in Moscow in 2012.

Russian arms manufacturer Kalashnikov said Thursday its sales rose sharply in 2018 despite Western sanctions that the firm acknowledges are causing customers to think more than twice before placing orders.

"Overall, the year was rather successful for the group, which is especially important when you are working under sanctions," the group's new head Vladimir Dmitriyev said in an interview published in the Russian business daily Kommersant.

Sales at the maker of the famed AK-47 assault rifle rose by 86 percent from 2017 to hit around 40 billion rubles (535 million euros, $607 million at current exchange rates) and production rose by 20 percent.

Alibaba billionaire Jack Ma warns tech revolution may cause World War III

RT
Thu, 24 Jan 2019 17:36 UTC

Chinese entrepreneur Jack Ma says the spate of technological advances around the world could lead to a new global conflict between major powers looking to assert their dominance.

"The First World War was because of the first technology revolution. The second technology revolution caused World War II," he told the audience during a discussion at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

"This is the third technology revolution - we're coming."

The Alibaba founder's comments echoed those he made two years ago, when he said that automation and the rise of artificial intelligence would create internal social upheaval and a geopolitical redistribution of power between the leaders and those left behind.

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Society's Child

Record numbers of children identifying as transgender in UK and abroad

Antiwar hero Medea Benjamin disrupts Venezuela coup circle jerk

Latin America's first school for transgender kids looks to expand

'The gilets jaunes are unstoppable' - French Author

Italian police investigating case of kidnapped Belgian woman held for months as sex slave by Tunisian migrants

Roger Waters funds operation to rescue abducted children from Syria

Israeli citizen jailed for nearly a year for bumping into Egyptian woman

Four explosions occur within 24 hours in Sweden

Kalashnikov sales soar despite Western sanctions

Alibaba billionaire Jack Ma warns tech revolution may cause World War III

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