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Showering with biological men: Female inmates in US & UK recount sexual abuse from 'trans' prisoners


RT
Mon, 30 Aug 2021 14:59 UTC
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Women in the US and UK who were forced to live alongside biological men in prison have told RT that policies designed to protect transgender rights have led to violence and sexual assault against female inmates.

Tomieka Johnson was sentenced to 50 years behind bars by a California court in 2012 after she killed her abusive husband during a physical altercation. Johnson, a former highway patrol officer, told RT that she shared a cell with with a transgender prisoner who was "very violent and very vulgar." The inmate would reportedly force women in the prison to clean the bathroom and wash the floors, leading to interactions that reminded Johnson of the domestic abuse she once suffered.

And although the inmate in question identified as a woman, the biological male allegedly had a girlfriend whom he would "beat" and "choke" regularly. According to Johnson, the prisoner in question sometimes became violent if his 'girlfriend' rejected his sexual advances.

Comment: It is absolutely insane that judges would be more interested in virtue signalling to the trans lobby than providing safety of female prisoners. It's already egregious to have biological males invading women's spaces in the wider world, but in prison these women have nowhere to escape to. It's disgusting.

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Green gets the gold: The high-stakes game of waste and recycling industries in North America

Rosemary Frei, MSc
rosemaryfrei.ca
Sat, 28 Aug 2021 00:01 UTC
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© Pawel Czerwinski/Unsplash
Can you name the conglomerate that has equipment and trucks on many streets and construction sites in Ontario and elsewhere in North America -- but that few people give a second thought to?

Not sure?

Here are three clues.
  1. For more than a decade the enterprise has quietly acquired scores of other companies, and scooped up hundreds of lucrative contracts from cities and towns across the continent.
  2. Along the way it's significantly increased the privatization and vertical integration of sectors including the hauling and processing of garbage and recycling, and infrastructure development. It now has the bronze position among the top players in the North American waste-management industry.
  3. Canada and the U.S. are dotted with (as an educated guesstimate) about 10,000 of this group of firms' vehicles and machinery. They're all painted lime green.
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FBI allegedly funded white supremacist publisher: court documents

Ken Silva
The Epoch Times
Tue, 31 Aug 2021 10:16 UTC
fbi headquarters
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FBI headquarters in Washington on Feb. 2, 2018.
The FBI allegedly paid a publisher of white supremacist literature more than $144,000 over 16-plus years to serve as a confidential informant, according to recent filings in an ongoing domestic extremism case.

These allegations were made earlier this month by Kaleb Cole, an accused member of the white supremacist group Atomwaffen. Cole was arrested in February 2020 for allegedly participating in an Atomwaffen intimidation campaign against Jewish people and journalists of color.

On Aug. 13, Cole filed a motion to suppress evidence seized during the FBI's search of his Texas home. According to Cole, the FBI failed to disclose the sordid background of one of its confidential informants in the bureau's application for a search warrant.

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Thirteen police officers injured at protests against health passes in France's Marseille


Sputnik
Sat, 28 Aug 2021 21:05 UTC
french police
© REUTERS / SARAH MEYSSONNIE
Thirteen law enforcement officers received injuries during protests against the COVID-19 health passes in the French city of Marseille, the Bouches-du-Rhone police said on Saturday.

"Police prefect expresses its support to the 13 injured police officers," the police department tweeted.

It added that three people had been arrested.

Almost 160,000 demonstrators took part in the nationwide rallies against the health passes on Saturday.

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The media's addiction to Covid-19 'fear porn' is perpetuating an ever-worsening cycle of societal damage across the world

Eva Bartlett
RT
Sat, 28 Aug 2021 08:53 UTC
UK papers
© AFP
UK papers in December 2020
Over the past year and a half, hysterical media reporting on matters Covid-19 has reduced some people to a fearful state of unquestioning compliance - including a great number of otherwise critically-thinking journalists.

With screaming headlines in bold and large font such as, 'Will this nightmare ever end?' and 'Mutant virus skyrockets...' and 'Fear grows across the country: VIRUS PANIC', and 'Coronavirus horror: Social media footage shows infected Wuhan residents 'act like zombies', it is no wonder many people are in a state of panic.

In times when many are suffering mentally and physically under unnecessary and prolonged lockdowns, the incessant fear porn is causing excessive anxiety, which in turn will affect the health & mental well-being of some, if not many.


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China bans exams for six-year-olds stating pressure 'harms health', limits gaming time for under-18s


Hong Kong Free Press
Mon, 30 Aug 2021 07:53 UTC
china school mask
© Noel Celus/AFP.
Students leave school after finishing the first day of the National College Entrance Examination (NCEE), known as “Gaokao”, in Beijing on July 7, 2021.
Beijing on Monday banned written exams for six- and seven-year-olds, as part of sweeping education reforms aimed at relieving pressure on pupils and parents in China's hyper-competitive school system.

China's exam-oriented system previously required students to take exams from first grade onwards, culminating in the feared university entrance exam at age 18 known as the gaokao, where a single score can determine a child's life trajectory.

"Too frequent exams... which cause students to be overburdened and under huge exam pressure," have been axed by the Ministry of Education, according to new guidelines released Monday.

Comment: South China Morning Post reports that the under-18s will be restricted to gaming for one hour a day on weekends and public holidays:
Beijing has issued a new rule limiting the gaming time for players aged under 18 to between 8pm and 9pm only on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and statutory holidays, marking the country's most stringent measure yet to tackle gaming addiction among young people.

The National Press and Publication Administration (NAAP), China's top watchdog for gaming and other forms of online media, formally issued the rules to combat gaming addiction among teenagers, according to a report by state media outlet Xinhua.

The previous rules, introduced in 2019, limited the play time for minors to no more than 90 minutes each day and 3 hours on statutory holidays.
China gaming
© AFP
China’s top watchdog for gaming and other forms of online media, formally issued the rules to combat gaming addiction among teenagers.
While the direct impact on Chinese gaming companies such as Tencent Holdings and NetEase may be limited as players under 18 currently account for only a small part of revenues, over the longer term the new rule could gradually erode the country's player base.


That's not necessarily a bad thing.


The notice also states that companies must strictly implement the real-name registration and login system in their games and not provide access to video games for those who are unregistered.

The gaming unit of Tencent said in a statement on Monday that it supports the new regulation and will implement the new requirements as soon as possible.

"Many parents have said that the gaming addiction problem among teens and children has gravely affected their ability to learn and study as well as their physical and mental health, even causing a series of societal problems," a spokesperson for NAAP told Xinhua.


Parents and experts in the West report similar issues, and, notably, the recommendations are that children's gaming time needs to be restricted.


NAAP said that gaming companies are the main entities responsible for stopping children from becoming addicted to games. Beijing's heightened scrutiny of the industry in recent months has already hit the stock prices of Chinese gaming giants such as Tencent, NetEase and Bilibili.

After a state media article described video games as "spiritual opium" earlier in August, Tencent, the world's largest gaming company by revenue, lost US$43 billion from its market valuation in a matter of hours. Tencent has lost more than US$400 billion in value since a high in February.

In their recent quarterly reports this month, Tencent and Bilibili both emphasised that they have faithfully implemented the anti-addiction measures required by state authorities and that minors have become a small portion of their overall user base.

Tencent said that players under 16 accounted for just 2.6 per cent of its gross gaming receipts in China, with those under 12 accounting for just 0.3 per cent. Bilibili said that minors contributed only 1 per cent of the company's gaming revenue.
Whilst these various bans can and will be circumvented for those who are sufficiently determined, it seems that China's government is attempting to foster a society that it considers will be the most beneficial for its people:

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Rand Paul: 'Hatred for Trump' blocking research into ivermectin as COVID-19 treatment

Dominick Mastrangelo
The Hill
Mon, 30 Aug 2021 10:31 UTC
Rand Paul/FDA
© FDA/GOPUSA/KJN
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) suggested researchers are not pursuing ivermectin as a possible COVID-19 treatment because of their disdain for former President Trump. Paul told dozens of constituents at a meeting in a suburb just south of Cincinnati on Friday, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported:
"The hatred for Trump deranged these people so much, that they're unwilling to objectively study it. So someone like me that's in the middle on it, I can't tell you because they will not study ivermectin. They will not study hydroxychloroquine without the taint of their hatred for Donald Trump."
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned Americans last week not to take ivermectin, a drug sometimes used to treat parasitic worm infections in humans and livestock. "You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y'all. Stop it," the FDA said in a widely shared tweet.

In April, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) concluded after a series of trials that hydroxychloroquine, a drug touted by Trump during his presidency, "had little or no effect on preventing illness, hospitalization or death from COVID-19."

A reporter at the event in Ohio pressed Paul about those warnings from the CDC and FDA.

"I don't know if it works, but I keep an open mind," Paul responded.

Comment: Those who want to skew information will slander the messenger and disavow the proof.

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Arrow Up

Report: New South African COVID-19 strain is the most mutated one yet

Yaron Steinbuch
New York Post
Mon, 30 Aug 2021 10:50 UTC
two women walk
© Shutterstock/Mukurukuru Media
Rise in covid variant South Africa
A COVID-19 variant first detected in South Africa could be more infectious than other mutations — and may have the potential of being resistant to vaccines, according to a report.

The C.1.2 strain has been linked to "increased transmissibility" and is said to have mutated the most from the original virus, which first emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan, the Mirror reported.

The strain has a mutation rate of about 41.8 mutations per year, almost double the global mutation rate seen in any other existing variant of concern, according to experts at South Africa's National Institute for Communicable Diseases and the KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform.

The number of C.1.2 genomes in South Africa has risen from 0.2 percent in May to 1.6 percent in June and 2 percent in July, according to scientists, who also have found 14 mutations in nearly 50 percent of the variants that had a C.1.2 sequence.


Comment: Here again is the misconception that the COVID vaccines offer protection. They don't. It is an unverified experiment.

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Armed robbers take hostages in deadly bank raids in Brazil city


The Guardian
Mon, 30 Aug 2021 10:23 UTC
woman bank
© Amanda Perobelli/Reuters
Bank in Sao Paulo, Brazil
Bank robbers armed with explosives and high-powered rifles have plunged a Brazilian city into terror early Monday, taking civilians hostage and even putting some on their cars while making their escape.

Video shared on social media showed a booming shootout and men dressed in black marching hostages down a street in Araçatuba, 320 miles from São Paulo and home to almost 200,000 people.

After ransacking at least two bank branches, the criminals drove away with hostages on their cars' roofs, clinging on to keep from sliding off. At least three people were killed in the clash, including two civilians.

The brazen attack is the latest in a series of increasingly violent bank heists in Brazil. Experts believe a pandemic welfare programme for poorer Brazilians has encouraged robbers to plan bold raids in sleepy regional cities where bank branches are storing more cash.

More than 20 heavily armed men carried out the robberies in Araçatuba, using 10 cars, said Álvaro Camilo, the executive secretary of Sao Paulo's military police. As the gang made their getaway, they also left a trail of explosive booby traps across the city. Camilo urged people not to leave their houses until the explosives have been found and deactivated.
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US drone strike in Kabul reportedly killed 10 civilians

Sophie Mann
Just the News
Mon, 30 Aug 2021 19:05 UTC
afghan children drone
© WION
After a long and hard day at work, Zemari Ahmadi drove to his home in Khwaja Burgha, a working-class neighbourhood just a few miles west of Kabul airport, when the ill-fated US drone attacked a vehicle, initially claimed by the US military that it was laden with bombs and driven a member of the Islamic State group.

As he pulled into the driveway about 4:30 pm (Kabul time), children — his own as well as those of his brothers and other relatives — swarmed around Zemari's Toyota Corolla car.

His 12-year-old son, Farzad, asked if he could park the car, to which Zemari obliged. He put Farzad in the driver's seat and then he switched over to the passenger side.

That's when, the family says, an "American missile", which was fired from a drone, drilled through the car, slammed into the ground and detonated, killing 10 people instantly.

Among the deceased include 40-year-old Zemari, an engineer and employed with a Japanese firm in Kabul, four kids — aged between 2 and 5 — and his 25-year-old nephew who was about to get married, Zemari's brother Emal said on Monday.

Comment: Just the News writes:
The Washington Post reported early Monday morning that a single extended family was the victims of a nearby strike that occurred as the family was returning to their home Sunday afternoon.

"Bodies were covered in blood and shrapnel, and some of the dead children were still inside the car," a neighbor told the outlet.

U.S. Central Command says the strike targeted an Islamic State vehicle bomb that posed an "imminent" threat to the Kabul airport. "We are aware of reports of civilian casualties following our strike on a vehicle in Kabul. It is unclear what may have happened, and we are investigating further. We would be deeply saddened by any potential loss of innocent life," said Central Command in a statement.



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