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Guardianistas shocked to discover how few feminists there are in Denmark

Richard Orange & Pamela Duncan
The Guardian
Fri, 10 May 2019 11:32 UTC
A poll of more than 25,000 people in 23 major countries found that just one in six Danes consider themselves a feminist
copenhagen denmark
© Flickr / Moyan Brenn
It is one of the best places in the world to be a woman, with a narrow gender pay gap, equal employment rights, universal nursery care, and some of the happiest female retirees on the planet.

So it comes as a surprise to find, in a global survey of attitudes towards gender, equal rights and the #MeToo movement, that Denmark is one of the least feminist countries in the developed world.

The poll, conducted by the YouGov-Cambridge Globalism Project of more than 25,000 people in 23 major countries, found that just one in six Danes consider themselves a feminist, a third said that wolf whistling at women in the street was acceptable, and two in five had an unfavourable view of the #MeToo movement.

Comment: No it's just relatively inoculated from pathological ideology.

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Mortal Kombat video game so violent developer was diagnosed with PTSD


RT
Thu, 09 May 2019 10:13 UTC
mortal kombat
© Tasia Wells / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP
The hugely popular video game Mortal Kombat is notorious for extremely graphic in-game violence, setting the industry standard, but now one developer claims they were diagnosed with PTSD after working on the game.

Physics-defying gory finishing moves called 'fatalities', replete with gratuitous blood spatter and bone splintering attacks, have become a hallmark of the franchise since its first offering back in 1992.

Game developers have to spend countless hours perfecting the gruesome animations for the over-the-top finishing moves in almost equally excruciating detail, often spending days if not weeks perfecting the character's disembowelment.

Comment: And to think that susceptible minds will, ultimately, become lost in this gore filled world for countless hours: Also check out SOTT radio's: The Health & Wellness Show: Game Over: Is Video Game Addiction Ruining Lives?

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Anarcho-terrorists in our midst: Austria charges Russian Pussy Riot co-founder with creating Antifa group, weapons trafficking


RT
Fri, 10 May 2019 10:54 UTC
Oleg Vorotnikov
Oleg Vorotnikov, looper
Oleg Vorotnikov, founder of the Russian art group Voina, known for its brazen provocations and brushes with the law, has been charged by Austrian police with creating and running a militant anti-fascist group and arms trafficking.

In a statement on its website, Voina said that Austria has issued an international warrant for Vorotnikov's arrest, who the police believe might be hiding from prosecution in one of the EU member states.


Comment: France is a good bet. A whole slew of deviants from FEMEN, and this batsh*t artsy terror cult, have been known to be 'down and out' in Paris.


Citing a final version of the indictment, the group said that Vorotnikov has been charged with involvement in the creation and leadership of a militant group called "Der Krieg" ("The War" or "Voina" in Russian).
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Best of the Web: No, We Don't Want Notre Dame Turned Into Another Secular Solar-powered Eco-garden

Igor Ogorodnev
RT
Fri, 10 May 2019 08:07 UTC
Vincent Callebaut
© Vincent Callebaut ArchitecturesVincent Callebaut Architectures proposal for the Notre Dame renovation.
Using the destruction of one of the prime Christian sites in the world as a chance to push your pet environmental agendas is disrespectful to Notre Dame's heritage. Also, architects, please stop putting fake tiny parks everywhere.

Top French design bureau Vincent Callebaut Architectures has gone viral with its plans to replace the roof of the medieval cathedral with a glass shell filled with solar panels.

Underneath will be a "sustainable" farm capable of producing 21 tons of fruit and vegetables each year, to be given out for free to the homeless. Not coincidentally, perhaps, this is at least the third eco-garden proposal that has been made public, while the vast majority of the submitted designs for the planned reconstruction feature a glass roof.

Comment: Perhaps the only acceptable design should be an exact replica, and, where possible, using the same materials while reviving the craftsmanship that made Notre Dame the masterpiece that it was. This process may also give the architects, craftsman, witnesses and visitors an idea of what it took to inspire those to commit themselves to such an awesome task in the first place: Also check out SOTT radio's:

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Anna Sorokin: fake German heiress sentenced to up to 12 years in prison

Edward Helmore
The Guardian
Thu, 09 May 2019 22:12 UTC
Anna Sorokin
© Timothy A Clary/AFP/Getty ImagesAnna Sorokin in court on Thursday. Officials said they would seek to deport Sorokin to Germany after her release from state custody.
A judge has sentenced the fake German heiress Anna Sorokin to four to 12 years in prison for defrauding hotels, restaurants, a private jet operator and banks out of more than $200,000.

Judge Diane Kiesel said she was "stunned by the depth of the defendant's deception, her labyrinthine lies that kept her con afloat" at the sentencing on Thursday afternoon in Manhattan state court. As she handed down sentence, Kiesel reportedly made a reference to Bruce Springsteen's song Blinded by the Light.

"She was blinded by the glitter and glamour of New York City," the judge said, according to BuzzFeed News.

Sorokin, a would-be art collector, planned to open a members-only arts club but became known as the "Soho grifter" after her deception upon New York's glitzy social scene came to light. Sorokin, 28, was found guilty last month of grand larceny and theft of services.

During the trial she was admonished for throwing tantrums when she couldn't get her stylist-curated outfits, and drew unflattering sketches of the lead prosecutor during testimony.

But at sentencing she was humbled. Wearing a long-sleeved black dress, she told the judge: "I apologize for the mistakes I made."
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Students walk out of vigil for shooting victims after speakers talk gun control

Morgan Gstalter
The Hill
Thu, 09 May 2019 09:23 UTC
colorado students
© Michael Ciaglo—Getty ImagesStudents hold up their phones after leaving a candlelight vigil at Highlands Ranch High School on May 8, 2019.
Students and parents walked out of a planned vigil for the victims of a shooting at a Colorado high school after they say the memorial became political, 9 News reported.
The event was described as an "interfaith memorial vigil" to honor victims of the Tuesday shooting at STEM School Highlands Ranch, which left one student dead and eight others injured.

Students that belong to Team ENOUGH organized the vigil, held at nearby Highlands Ranch High School. The initiative is a youth program connected to the Brady Campaign, the nation's oldest gun violence prevention advocacy group.

Students from STEM reportedly became frustrated when two Democratic politicians from Colorado, Rep. Jason Crow and Sen. Michael Bennet, who is running for president, began to speak about gun control and policy.

A large group of students and parents walked out of the vigil in protest. Many were reportedly angry that the students themselves were not able to speak to honor their slain classmate, 18-year-old Kendrick Castillo.

Police said Castillo died trying to stop one of the armed suspects from firing, allowing his classmates time to escape.

"This was not a vigil," one student said, according to 9 News. "This was purely a political stunt. This is not what we wanted for Kendrick."
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Florida teachers can now arm themselves to protect students

Emily L. Mahoney
Tampa Bay Times
Thu, 09 May 2019 22:00 UTC
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis
© Chris Urso/ TimesFlorida Gov. Ron DeSantis
With little fanfare, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill Wednesday that allows teachers to be armed in classrooms of public schools.

Although the 54-page Senate Bill 7030 sparked days of debate and was one of the most contentious bills of the 2019 legislative session, DeSantis drew as little attention as possible in making it law, holding no news conference or ceremony. Instead, his office blasted a late afternoon, two-paragraph email stating that he signed it at some point Wednesday, the same day that he had received it from the Legislature.

The law goes into effect Oct. 1.
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BBC DJ fired after tweet mocking royals as "circus animals" is twisted into racism

George Katz
AP
Thu, 09 May 2019 20:40 UTC
baker chimp tweet
© Victoria Jones/PA via APDanny Baker speaks to the media at his London home on Thursday, May 9, 2019. A BBC DJ has been fired after using a picture of a chimpanzee in a tweet about the royal baby born to Meghan the Duchess of Sussex and her husband Prince Harry. Danny Baker tweeted Thursday that he has been fired after posting an image of a couple holding hands with a chimpanzee dressed in clothes and the caption: "Royal baby leaves hospital."
A BBC radio broadcaster was fired Thursday for using a picture of a chimpanzee in a tweet about the royal baby born to Meghan the Duchess of Sussex and her husband Prince Harry.

Danny Baker, who had a weekly show on BBC Radio 5 Live, tweeted Thursday that he has been fired after posting an image of a couple holding hands with a chimpanzee dressed in clothes and the caption: "Royal baby leaves hospital."

The tweet came on Wednesday, the same day Harry and Meghan posed for photos with their first child, Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor. The tweet was seen as a racist reference to baby Archie's heritage. His grandmother Doria Ragland is African American.

Comment: The tweets below sum up the situation; Baker is critical of the institution that is the Royal family as well as a certain section of society that adulates the rather simple fact that two people they'll never know have managed to produce a child - which granted is becoming an achievement in the West in these dire times. Any implication of racism is merely in the addled minds of those desperately wishing to find it: Radical Leftist Ideologues: Finding Racism Where There is None





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Fake News? Julian Assange tortured with psychotropic drugs, says retired USAF colonel

Kurt Nimmo
Global Research
Wed, 08 May 2019 00:01 UTC
Julian Assange


Retired USAF lieutenant colonel Karen Kwiatkowski writes in an article posted at Lew Rockwell's website that Julian Assange is receiving the same treatment as suspected terrorists while in captivity at "Her Majesty's Prison Service" at Belmarsh.

The FBI, Pentagon, and CIA are "interviewing" Assange. Kwiatkowski writes:
Interviewing is the wrong word. I'd like to say doctoring him, because it would be more accurate, except that word implies some care for a positive outcome. Chemical Gina has her hands in this one, and we are being told that Assange is being "treated" with 3-quinuclidinyl benzilate, known as BZ.
BZ is a powerful drug that produces hallucinations.

Comment: Update from Pepe Escobar:
IMPORTANT UPDATE ON POSSIBLE TORTURE OF JULIAN ASSANGE

This adds up to my previous post on Assange possibly being tortured in jail - according to retired USAF Lt. Col. Karin Kwiatkowski.

My great friend Joe Lauria at Consortium News tell me, "Karin is backing away from her statements and has removed her tweet. She says she was just 'speculating about this when asked a question a couple of weeks ago. Some people think she may have been set up by a source to have her report this and thereby discredit VIPS, of which she is a member."

The attempt to discredit VIPS - who are EXTREMELY professional and in fact unimpeachable - makes total sense. They have been relentless debunking the WHOLE Russiagate narrative. I found it strange that Pamela Anderson and Kristinn Hrafnsson from WikiLeaks visited Julian on Tuesday and did not say anything about his condition being like this.

Besides, the UN rapporteur on torture saw Julian yesterday. Joe tells me "he had a doctor with him who examined Julian, and he said nothing when he met with the press afterward."

Anyway, here are the facts. But I STILL don't put beyond Chemical Gina and his goons to "interfere" with Julian in jail.
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Thousands march in empty Palestinian village of Khubbayza to mark 71st anniversary of the Nakba


RT
Thu, 09 May 2019 19:34 UTC
nakba memorial
© Ammar Awad / ReutersArabs in Israel take part in a rally marking the "Nakba" in Khubbayza
Thousands marched on the abandoned village of Khubbayza to commemorate the 71st Nakba that forced Palestinians from their homes in the lead-up to the establishment of the Israeli state in 1948.

The 'march of return' took place at 1:30pm local time Thursday in northern Israel and a festival was held in Khubbayza itself afterwards. Thousands of Arab citizens of Israel, including a number of Arab politicians, attended the march, which was organized by the Association for the Defense of the Rights for the Internally Displaced Persons in Israel. Attendees waved Palestinian flags and chanted.

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