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Red Flag

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

Tennessee boy with autism is punished for hugging
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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."

Bacon

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

Michael Mansfield
© Jane MingayMichael Mansfield QC
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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Horse

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

UK man punches police horse
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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.



Roses

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

USS George H.W. Bush
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.

Comment: See also: The Truth Perspective: The Strange Contagion: How Viral Thoughts and Emotions Secretly Control Us


Pocket Knife

Church of England identifies points on kitchen knives as social evil, calls for ban

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Church of England bishops are leading a call for the government to take a serious stance on knife crime by banning pointed kitchen knives. The suggestion has been met with some confusion, and a lot of jokes.

Church leaders, with support from police, victims, and psychiatrists, penned an open letter to the government, arguing that domestic knives should be redesigned with rounded tips to reduce the number of life-threatening stabbing injuries. They reportedly argue that pointed blades aren't even needed in this day and age, given that we have forks to eat with.

The absurdity of banning a common kitchen implement was pointed out by bemused netizens, particularly as the proposal comes after police recently announced that they will no longer post images of seized knives "to help reduce the fear of knives," and as the Home Office uses takeaway packaging to basically tell people that stabbing is bad.

Snakes in Suits

'Unsatisfactory': Boeing to pay 15 families $144,500 each for deadly crashes - Total death toll was 340

boeing compensation
© GettyFamilies are to receive about $144,500 each
Families who lost relatives in fatal Boeing 737 Max air crashes are set to receive about $144,500 (ยฃ116,200) each from the company.

The money comes from a $50m financial assistance fund, which Boeing announced in July.

The fund has started accepting claims, which must be submitted before 2020.

Lawyers for the victims' families, many of whom are pursuing the company in court, have dismissed the fund as a publicity stunt.

Comment: Considering the corruption and collusion that has been exposed at Boeing, and all in league with the US government, this compensation doesn't really reflect just how culpable they both are for the tragedies that occurred:


Stock Down

After losing $5 billion in three months Uber boss says business is 'absolutely sustainable'

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Uber is blowing through billions of dollars, but CEO Dara Khosrowshahi is undeterred.

In an interview with CNN correspondent Christiane Amanpour that will air Wednesday, Khosrowshahi defended Uber's business model, which involves the company investing heavily in promotions to entice customers to its on-demand ride and meal-delivery offerings.

"The model is absolutely sustainable," Khosrowshahi said. "The business, for example, is still growing 30-plus percent on a global basis. And anytime you have a business that has the kind of market size of trillions of dollars in terms of transportation and food and global commerce, it makes sense for a company to invest."

Uber lost $5.2 billion in the three months ending in June, its largest quarterly loss ever . Stock-based compensation related to its initial public offering accounted for $3.9 billion, but the remaining $1.3 billion in losses were still 50% higher than the year before.

Mr. Potato

Flat mind: Boxing champ Carl Froch says Earth is flat and 'whole planet has been sold lie'

Carl Froch
© GettyCarl reckons NASA's been making fake photos
Boxing legend Carl Froch says the Earth is flat and has accused NASA of making fake photos to keep the world's population thinking it's round.

The ex-super middleweight champion bruiser says the entire planet has been sold a lie.

And he refuses to believe proof from the US space agency NASA or space entrepreneur Elon Musk because they are in the "little clique" hiding the truth.

Comment: Though boxing legend Carl Froch has likely sustained many injurious blows to the head, there are many others who have no such excuse for such a ridiculous idea:


NPC

Greta Thunberg is programmed to make you afraid, while big business makes a killing off it

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Greta Thunberg at the UN.
Do the climate change sermons of Greta Thunberg fill you with anxiety and dread? If so, then that's the point. Thunberg and the modern eco-cultists all sing from the same hymn sheet, and fear is their most effective tactic.

In a speech at the UN Climate Action Summit on Monday, the 16-year-old Thunberg delivered a breathless sermon, chastising the adults in the room for stealing her "dreams" and her "childhood" by failing to take aggressive enough action against climate change.

"We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!" she thundered, voice on the edge of tears.

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Wolf

Internal document details Google retaliation against employees who reported abuse

google employee protest
© Reuters/Stephen Lam"Women's Walkout" at Google in protest over alleged sexual misconduct at the company in Mountain View, California, U.S. November 1, 2018.
A leaked document tells 45 stories of Google employees who claim they've experienced sexual harassment, personal insults, and racism, and were then sidelined and denied promotion for being "too much of an activist."

Apparently a product of the company's campaign to uncover cases of retaliation, the document is a cache of personal accounts submitted by Google employees to an internal company forum.

The document was first revealed by Recode earlier this month, but Motherboard published it in full.

Comment: Google left their "Don't be evil" motto behind long ago.