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Transgender contractor sues Nike for civil rights abuses because employees refused her preferred pronouns

Nigel Jaquiss
Willamette Week
Thu, 19 Dec 2019 18:27 UTC
Jazz Lyles
© Justin KatigbakJazz Lyles worked at Nike from May 2017 to September 2018.
Jazz Lyles, a former computer engineer at Nike's Beaverton headquarters, has filed a civil rights lawsuit against the sportswear giant.

The lawsuit, filed this week in Multnomah County Circuit Court, alleges Nike and Mainz Brady, an IT staffing firm based in San Mateo, Calif., exposed Lyles to gender identity-based discrimination and harassment and retaliation. (Mainz Brady didn't respond to a request for comment.)

Lyles identifies as transmasculine/nonbinary. That means Lyles was assigned the female gender at birth but identifies with masculinity and as a nonbinary person.

Comment: According to the Portland Business Journal, Lyles is seeking quite the payout:
Lyles seeks at least $195,000 in economic damages and at least $950,000 in noneconomic damages. Lyles, who now lives in California, also seeks attorneys fees.
The PBJ article is unsurprisingly a bit more balanced than the one posted above, however the WW article is instructive to witness first-hand just how darn confusing it is to use 'they' when only referencing a single person! Sentences have to be re-read just to understand what the heck is going on. This isn't about 'wounding' or civil rights abuses. It sounds more likely that Lyles was upset about not getting a fulltime job and indulged her unfettered narcissism and fantasy thinking to justify the feeling that she was wronged and thus deserves lots of money. That said, Nike sure has painted a target on itself by signaling how 'woke' they are. Progressives like to eat their own at every opportunity. Check out the uproar over JK Rowling supporting the simple statement that biological sex is real.

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Christmas Tree

Celebrating Christmas: Damascus joyously prepares for key Christian holiday


Spurnik
Thu, 19 Dec 2019 18:30 UTC
Christmas Damascus syria
© Sputnik / Mikhail AlayeddinThe celebration of Christmas in Syria
Christians make up about one tenth of Syria's total population, and are subdivided into over half-a-dozen denominations, part of the rich tapestry of Syrian society which only a few years ago was threatened by war and destruction.

The Syrian capital's preparations for the Christmas holiday, including the traditional lighting of a large festive tree at one of the city's central squares, has caught the attention of amateur reporters.
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Russia's pioneering floating nuclear power plant begins delivering electricity to remote Arctic region


RT
Thu, 19 Dec 2019 18:25 UTC
Akademik Lomonosov
© Reuters / Maxim Shemetov
The world's first floating nuclear power plant (FNPP), the Akademik Lomonosov, began supplying electricity on Thursday to a remote town in the far eastern region of Chukotka, Russia's nuclear agency Rosatom has announced.

The power plant's generators were launched after being synchronized with the connected electric grid on shore.

For the residents of the small city of Pevek, this was a symbolic event, as it was tied to the lighting of the town's Christmas tree ahead of New Years' celebrations, according to Rosatom.
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NPC

'She's joined the Death Eaters': JK Rowling slammed as 'TERF' over support for woman fired for saying sex is immutable


RT
Thu, 19 Dec 2019 17:34 UTC
feminist logo
© Global Look / Robin Rayne
Harry Potter author JK Rowling has been eviscerated by former fans after tweeting in support of a woman fired for denying that a person can change their biological sex. Will she have to write a trans Voldemort to win them back?

Rowling was assailed on social media after voicing her support for tax consultant Maya Forstater, who was fired from her job earlier this year over a handful of "gender-critical" tweets - including one stating that "male people are not women."

Offended fans (and newly minted ex-fans) rushed to shame the bestselling author for backing, or even being, that most deadly of four-letter words - a TERF (Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist).

Comment: The Left is cannibalizing its own!



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Handcuffs

Officer now locked in same jail he guarded after arrest for child sex crimes

Jack Burns
The Free Thought Project
Mon, 16 Dec 2019 00:00 UTC
Pinal County Corrections Officer
A Pinal County Corrections Officer will likely share a jail cell with the very child molesters he was tasked with guarding after getting arrested for possessing and distributing child pornography. Rick Vasquez has worked as a corrections officer since 2003 in Pinal County but was placed on paid administrative leave last week following his arrest.

Phoenix police say Vasquez was targeted by the Internet Crimes Against Children task force after uploading and sharing child pornography depicting children as young as toddlers. Vasquez used multiple social media apps and shared at least three images. Once the task force linked his social media account to his person, Vasquez was arrested.

He was charged with sexual exploitation of a minor and dangerous crimes against children. Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb made the following announcement after Vasquez was arrested:
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Eye 2

'Act of evil': 15 horses shot and killed in bizarre and horrific Kentucky carnage

Amanda Woods
The New York Post
Thu, 19 Dec 2019 10:34 UTC
horse
© iStockphoto
Fifteen horses — some of them pregnant or very young — appear to have been shot dead at a Kentucky strip mine in a "very large act of evil," according to a new report.

The carcasses were discovered on a site along US Route 23 near the Floyd-Pike County line. Some of the horses were 1 year old or younger, and others were pregnant, according to local outlet WYMT.

"This is very inhumane and it's a very cruel act of somebody who just apparently had nothing else to do ... just to go back on a strip job and shoot down horses who were, one of them obviously was feeding, had grass in its mouth," Floyd County Sheriff John Hunt told the station. "It looked like a battlefield for just horses, we counted 15 that we found dead."

Rescue groups on the site told the outlet it appeared the horses were hunted — and law enforcement added that it appeared a low-caliber rifle was used.

Comment: The gratuitous murder of life, in such cases as these, is a sure sign of psychopathic behavior. And the world of normal people is always left picking up the pieces.

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Dominoes

Russian anti-doping agency to appeal WADA's 4-year suspension at CAS


RT
Thu, 19 Dec 2019 17:16 UTC
rusada
© Sputnik / Anton Denisov
The Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) plans to file an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) attempting to overturn a four-year ban imposed on the country over alleged manipulations of Moscow laboratory data.

On Thursday, RUSADA Supervisory Board Chairman Alexander Ivlev said that the body's long-lasting dialogue with the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) will continue in court after the Russian side disagreed with the sanctions imposed by the anti-doping watchdog.

"I'm ready to announce a decision taken at RUSADA Supervisory Board meeting which was held today," Ivlev said. "We have discussed the recent decision to proclaim RUSADA non-compliant with WADA code and all the consequences triggered by the verdict. RUSADA Supervisory Board members have decided to disagree with the WADA's decision."

Comment: Putin responded with a very clear statement that gets to the heart of this whole WADA charade:
"It is not only unfair but it also defies common sense and international law. [...] Sadly, the decision is most likely political in nature"
Previously:

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Dollar

750 Billion reasons why Goldman Sachs is rooting for Greta Thunberg's success

Tyler Durden
Zerohedge
Mon, 16 Dec 2019 18:50 UTC
Greta Thunberg
Having lost much of its central banker incubation skills over the past decade, and handing over the crown of Wall Street's most profitable trading desk to Morgan Stanley, in recent years Goldman Sachs has been best known for enabling and profiting wildly from Malaysia 1MDB criminal fraud, which culminated with the arrest of former Malaysia PM Razak, but not before Goldman made billions in illicit profits from selling bonds offered by the country's sovereign wealth fund.

And while Goldman is still waiting to learn its criminal and civil fate, and more importantly, how many billions it will have to pay Malaysia/the DOJ to put its 1MDB fraud in the rearview mirror, the company - which a decade ago was hoping to make billions from aggressively entering the carbon credit/offset market as profiled delightfully in Matt Taibbi's "The Great American Bubble Machine" - is already scheming how to profit from the latest round of anti-climate change euphoria, conveniently spawned by a 16-year-old child with Asperger's Syndrome.

On Monday, Goldman Sachs said it will provide $750 billion in financing, advisory services and investments for initiatives that fight climate change, as well as those that foster economic opportunities for under-served people over the next decade. What Goldman did not say is that it will pocket a generous commission, somewhere in the 3-5% ballpark, by peddling "green" products to naive investors (including central banks) who have fallen for the whole ESG virtue signalling charade.
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92% of Americans feel their freedom is threatened

Tyler Durden
Zerohedge
Tue, 17 Dec 2019 00:00 UTC
freedom os speech


Americans are most afraid their First Amendment rights could be taken away, according to a new poll by Harris Poll/Purple Project, which surveyed 2,002 people nationwide from November 18-20, 2019. Overall, Statista's Maria Vultaggio notes that 92 percent were concerned their rights were being jeopardized, USA Today wrote, citing the poll. Americans also fear their right to bear arms and their right to equal justice are in danger.

rights threatened graph
You will find more infographics at Statista

Comment: It's no wonder that most 'middle of the road' and/or conservative Americans feel this way. Every time one looks, another platform, website or venue is getting closed off, complained to - or shouted down by a hysterical minority that insists that any views differing from their own be labeled "hate speech", pro-Russian, or some such other nonsense. The sad irony of it is that this culture of taking offense at every differing perspective plays right in to the hands of those who would seek to keep the masses as divided and asleep as possible. And this is to say nothing of all the other rights that are, piece by piece, being taken away. But it all seems to begin with free speech.

See also:

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Police ID suspect in Washington County stabbing rampage that killed 1, hurt 3

Jim Ryan and Shane Dixon Kavanaugh
The Oregonian/OregonLive
Thu, 19 Dec 2019 00:44 UTC
wells fargo
© Beth Nakamura/The Oregonian
A 20-year-old man fatally stabbed a customer at a bank in a bustling Beaverton shopping center and wounded three other people during a bloody crime spree Wednesday morning that included two carjackings, authorities said.

What began as a reported robbery quickly turned deadly when the suspect slashed two women inside the Wells Fargo branch at the Murrayhill Marketplace, police said.

He then tried to make a getaway by stealing two cars, attacking the drivers inside each, police said.

His rampage ended several miles away when he ditched the second car and led officers on a foot chase through Tigard before police caught him.

Salvador Martinez-Romero was arrested and booked into jail on suspicion of murder, attempted murder and first-degree robbery, Beaverton police said.

Hours later, investigators were working to piece together the horrific episode that occurred a week before Christmas.
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