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Fighting dirty: Feminists are replacing ring girls with men to create the patriarchy they crave

Danny Armstrong
RT
Tue, 03 Sep 2019 18:57 UTC
ring girls
© AFP / Josh Lefkowitz / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA
As if tired of 'the patriarchy' having all the fun in taking jobs away from women, radical feminists last week canceled 'objectifying' boxing ring girls and replaced them with their sworn enemy: white middle-aged men in suits.

We've all heard those age-old feminist moans and groans about men with no previous experience or qualifications taking jobs away from women because of their boundless 'privilege'.

Now the radicals have doubled down on their endless quest to prove women are equal to their patriarchal oppressors, by themselves actively putting women out of work at the expense of white, middle-aged men, after boxing promoters in Australia banned ring girls after caving to pressure from local councillors and female advocate groups that the role "objectifies women."

Ring girl trio Tammy Bills, Demey Maconachie and Kalista Thomas were knocked out of the 'Battle of Bendigo' boxing show in Bendigo, Victoria, on Saturday in favor of male 'fight progress managers' (yes, you read that correctly) for the evening.
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Tapper criticized for Palestinian smear: Israel's troll army comes to the rescue

Ali Abunimah
Electronic Intifada
Mon, 02 Sep 2019 00:00 UTC
Jake Tapper
© CNN.comJake Tapper used massacre of 22 people by a white supremacist in El Paso, Texas as an opportunity to egregiously smear Palestinians.
Israel has activated its propaganda app in support of CNN's Jake Tapper.

This comes as Tapper faces withering criticism for his anti-Palestinian comments made in the wake of last month's massacre of 22 people at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas. In an outrageous and egregious move, Tapper tried to tie the kind of white supremacist rhetoric that motivated the gunman to target Latinos to the way Palestinians "talk about Israelis."

That smear prompted more than 17,000 people to sign a petition urging CNN to "hold Jake Tapper accountable for his anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian comments."

But now Israel's troll army is riding to the rescue. Propaganda officials are employing the Act.IL app to urge users to send Facebook messages to Tapper to encourage him to stand by his anti-Palestinian declarations:
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Our least finest hour: Britain is in the grip of mass hysteria

George Galloway
RT
Tue, 03 Sep 2019 17:46 UTC
brexit
© REUTERS/Simon Dawson
Eighty years ago this week, Britain declared war on Nazi Germany. Within months, we stood alone with the Hitlerite hordes, at the Channel ports, preparing to invade us.

Our people then kept calm and carried on.

"Children queued in parks for their gas masks, men were digging air-raid shelters," I heard several eyewitnesses tell the BBC this week.

One family, the Walkers, had six children in the war. On the homefront, in India, then Burma, North Africa, and then Italy. Two of them were working as doctors in St Thomas' Hospital opposite Parliament... where my fourth child was born. The hospital was bombed three times in one week. After each raid (and a cup of tea) both doctors were back at work, attending to patients.

Eighty years later, in this September crisis, Britain is in the grip of mass hysteria.
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Identity politics, a victim of its own success

Adam Garrie
EurasiaFuture
Sat, 17 Aug 2019 00:00 UTC
MLKing
© ceert.org.brMartin Luther King, Jr.
One of the reasons that social conservatives have been almost entirely on the defensive in western politics for the last fifty years is due to the remarkable ability of such conservatives to lie to themselves about their own failure to influence anything outside of their own homes. The truth is that the long neo-liberal/neo-radical march of identity politics has been a remarkable triumph. No longer are the western political class content to follow the words of the Christian Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. which attempted to convince society as a whole that people ought to be judged by the "content of the character" rather than by accidents of birth.

Instead, today's radical liberals assert (often through grossly illiberal intimidation tactics) that one's virtue and social worth are indelibly linked to one's unchangeable personal characteristics. The corollary to this is that anyone who looks, sounds or even acts in the manner of a prototypical westerner from the early part of the 20th century (let alone before) is inherently inferior to everyone else.

Although many have grown fed up with this trend and wish to return not to an era of discrimination against minorities but instead to the ideal set forth by Martin Luther King, such a mood is but a reaction among those who cannot bring themselves to admit that whilst they may not have lost the argument, they clearly lost influence over the liberal elites who shape inorganic social trends and author new political creeds.
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Over 40 arrested as 'potential mass shooters' since terrorist attack in El Paso

Bob Bingham
Raw Story
Sat, 31 Aug 2019 00:00 UTC
artwork shooter
© UnknownImage of El-Paso shooter
Authorities have been aggressively investigating potential mass shooters since the white supremacist terrorist attack at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas.

"In the four weeks since a 21-year-old alleged white nationalist was charged in the slaughter of 22 people inside a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, law enforcement authorities have arrested more than 40 people as potential mass shooters — an average of more than one per day," the Huffington Post reported Saturday.
"A HuffPost survey of these arrests likely didn't capture every one, but it offers a snapshot of the types of cases that law enforcement officials face in a country with easy access to weapons capable of killing a lot of people quickly.

"The cases range from allegations of vague social media threats from juveniles that set parents on edge to well-developed plots from people who had access to weapons and appeared to authorities to have been planning a mass murder.

"There were roughly a dozen cases involving right-wing ideology. There were at least a dozen alleged threats against schools. There were half a dozen cases involving alleged threats against Walmarts."
Patrick Crusius was arrested for the El Paso attack, which killed 22 people and injured 24. He reportedly published a right-wing manifesto on 8chan shortly before the shooting.

Read the full report, which includes background on the individual cases.

Comment: More from Huffington Post, 31/8/2019:
A number of the alleged threats, if carried out, would have qualified as instances of domestic terrorism. A top FBI official told reporters this year that domestic terrorism cases were "challenging" for the bureau.

The disparate handling of right-wing and Islamic terrorism has set off a debate over the need for a domestic terrorism law, and one prominent lawmaker has introduced such legislation, which has already raised objections from civil liberties advocates.

As of late July, FBI Director Christopher Wray told a Senate committee that the FBI had already been involved in 100 domestic terrorism-related arrests in the first three-quarters of the 2019 fiscal year, which began in October 2018.

The rapid pace of new cases suggests that the number of domestic terrorism-related cases in the 2019 fiscal year could outpace the 2017 and 2018 fiscal year figures. Bureau officials said they'll use any tool they can to take out a potential threat, and a review of the cases suggests the FBI was involved in a number of cases that resulted in local charges.

"It may not be evident in the face of the crime or who's involved working it that it's a domestic terrorism suspect who was arrested," an FBI official previously said. "We use anything [in federal law] we can that fits, that's appropriate."
See also:

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Return to McCarthyism? Messing and McCormack demand 'blacklist' of Trump supporters in Hollywood

Danielle Ryan
RT
Mon, 02 Sep 2019 17:34 UTC
Messing/McCormack
© Reuters/Mike SegarDebra Messing • Eric McCormack
Entertainment industry figures could soon find themselves on a "blacklist" of Donald Trump supporters if Will & Grace co-stars Debra Messing and Eric McCormack have their way. Have we reached peak neo-McCarthyism?

The pair are demanding that the Hollywood Reporter print a full list of attendees for an upcoming Trump fundraiser in Beverly Hills - an appeal which has drawn natural comparisons to the late Sen. Joe McCarthy's efforts in the 1950s to rid Hollywood of "Communist sympathizers."

The difference is, this time the calls for a political blacklist are coming from the Hollywood left itself.

Comment: See also:
Is Hollywood blacklisting actors & celebrities who support Trump?

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'Nothing!' Media refuse to cover Roger Waters concert in support of Julian Assange


RT
Tue, 03 Sep 2019 17:43 UTC
roger waters
© AFP / Martin BERNETTI
If most rockstars performed one of their iconic hits outside the British Home Office, the media would lap it up. Not so, if the star is Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters and he sings for jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

Mainstream media completely ignored Waters' performance outside the British interior ministry office on Monday evening. A search of the ProQuest newspaper database found "nothing" from any UK newspaper on the event, media fairness website Media Lens tweeted.

A Google News search finds coverage from the World Socialist Web Site, the Irish Examiner, Ecuador-based Telesur, and some Turkish outlets, as well as RT and Sputnik - but nothing from any major British newspaper or broadcaster.

The event was heavily promoted on Twitter by WikiLeaks and Roger Waters himself - so it appears that the lack of coverage by UK media was a conscious decision rather than an oversight.
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Israeli police to reduce presence in Issawiya, East Jerusalem


Middle East Monitor
Mon, 02 Sep 2019 11:30 UTC
Women/Israeli police
© Oren Ziv/Activestills.orgPalestinian women look on during a raid by Israeli police in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya, July 1, 2019.
Israeli authorities have agreed to reduce the heavy police presence in Issawiya, occupied East Jerusalem, after a months-long operation characterised by collective punishment and violence.

According to a report in Haaretz, the agreement between the Israeli police, Jerusalem municipality, and local residents, will see a reduced presence of Israeli forces in the community and the release of two detainees, while Issawiya residents have cancelled the school strike scheduled for today.

The deal came in response to an announcement by Issawiya's parents' committee last week that their children would not be sent to school on the first day of the school year as a protest against the police's collective punishment of local residents.


Comment: For more on Israeli harassment and collective punishment in Issawiya, East Jerusalem, see also:

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Four 'uncles' face off against swarm of armed protesters in Hong Kong metro


RT
Tue, 03 Sep 2019 17:34 UTC
hong kong protests
© AFP / Philip Fong
Hong Kong's club-wielding, helmet-clad 'peaceful' demonstrators may have met their match, after failing to intimidate four men riding the subway. Video of the confrontation shows the brave commuters facing off with the angry mob.

Footage posted to social media shows four men standing defiantly inside a subway car as a group of armed protesters threaten them from the station's platform. The demonstrators repeatedly raise their clubs and umbrellas as if preparing to strike the men, and on several occasions rush into the car and engage in a skirmish with the commuters.

Subway passengers quickly flee the scene, but the four men, apparently dubbed "uncles" on Chinese social media, remained in the car.
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Intense heat begins to burn away Europeans' opposition toward air conditioning

Graham Dockery
RT
Tue, 03 Sep 2019 16:38 UTC
Paris summer heat
© AFP / Bertrand GUAY
Northern Europeans have traditionally looked down on their American cousins for relying on home air conditioning. However, with temperatures rising they're starting to feel the heat, and beginning to embrace the American way.

From the muggy swamp of Washington DC to the arid heat of Texas, America is the land of air conditioning. AC units hum away outside 90 percent of homes, restaurants, and offices across the land, and few Americans have to subject themselves to the elements for longer than a few minutes at a time. From the air-conditioned home, to the air-conditioned car, to the air-conditioned office, and then on to the air-conditioned bar for happy hour, life is a series of short walks between cocoons of icy comfort.

Things are a little different in Europe. While air conditioners are common in the warmer south - the Greeks, for example, depend on them - the Viking-blooded northern Europeans would rather put up with the heat. Some of this, of course, has to do with the region's cooler climate, but even on hot days, Germans, Brits and Dutch will choose to shutter their windows and strip off their clothes before investing in AC, while the French will sooner dip their toes into a public fountain.
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