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Feminist sues Twitter after getting banned for saying 'men aren't women'


RT
Wed, 13 Feb 2019 17:02 UTC
Women's March in Toronto, Canada
© Global Look Press / Creative Touch Imaging LtdWomen's March in Toronto, Canada
Canadian feminist writer Meghan Murphy is taking Twitter to court over its policy on transgender-related speech after she was booted from the platform for questioning the prevailing gender dogma.

Murphy's suit claims Twitter has been fraudulently misrepresenting itself as a "free speech platform" and failed to notify users of changes to its Hateful Conduct Policy, which the company cited as the reason for banning her in November.

Twitter "refuses to be accountable for its ideologically-motivated efforts to quell free speech," Murphy said in a video posted on Monday - even though, she points out, Twitter executives themselves proudly boast that "we are the free speech wing of the Free Speech Party."

"Twitter repeatedly promised and represented that it would uphold the free speech rights of its users and not engage in viewpoint-based censorship in its advertising, Rules, public statements and Terms of Service," Murphy says in the lawsuit. "These promises and representations were material to the decision of millions of users, like Murphy, to join. Without these promises, Twitter would not have been able to attract a critical mass of users to its platform."
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Heart - Black

Texan pays record $110,000 to kill Pakistan's RARE national animal


RT
Wed, 13 Feb 2019 16:54 UTC
Astore Markhor
© Wikimedia Commons
A Texas trophy hunter sparked outrage in Pakistan after he was photographed with a dead Astore Markhor, the country's official animal. However, as more details emerged about the hunt, it appears the anger was misplaced.

Bryan Kinsel Harlan, an entrepreneur from Dallas, Texas, paid a record US$110,000 to shoot the animal in Pakistan's northern Himalayan region of Gilgit-Baltistan. A photograph of Harlan sitting proudly with his kill, showing the majestic markhor with its symmetrical spiralling horns (which can grow to a length of 1.5m in some cases) angered many.

"It was an easy and close shot. I am pleased to take this trophy," Harlan said after, as cited by the Washington Post.

"I'm from America, there are not many people from the United States of America that would come over here as a tourist. They think it's dangerous. The problem is what the media is portraying. It's not dangerous. Mexico is more dangerous than Pakistan," Harlan added speaking at an impromptu press conference following the successful hunt.
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Cult

Explosive new book claims 80% of clerics in Catholic Church are gay

Christopher Lamb
The Tablet
Tue, 12 Feb 2019 16:38 UTC
Cardinals and Bishops
© ABACA/ABACA/PA ImagesCardinals and Bishops attend an Ordinary Public Consistory at St Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, 2016
On the day that Pope Francis' sex abuse summit is due to start, a potentially explosive book will be published claiming to lift the lid on gay priests in the Vatican and the double lives of senior officials.

The book, "In the Closet of the Vatican", written by French sociologist and journalist Frederic Martel, reports that around 80 per cent of clerics working in the Roman Curia are gay - although not necessarily sexually active - and details how they adhere to an unspoken code of the "closet".

After four years of gathering material which took him across the world Martel, a non-believer who is openly gay, spent around a week a month in Rome, sometimes staying in residences inside the Vatican or on Holy See property. He claims to have completed 1,500 interviews with 41 cardinals, 52 bishops and monsignors, 45 papal ambassadors or diplomatic officials, 11 Swiss guards and more than 200 priests and seminarians. The book is due to be published on 21 February simultaneously in 8 languages across 20 countries and will hit stores as bishops from across the world gather to discuss how to respond to clerical sexual abuse.
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Attention

20 members of Revolutionary Guards dead in suicide attack in S Iran


Sputnik
Wed, 13 Feb 2019 16:26 UTC
suicide attack iran 2019
© @Mahdiibakhtiari/TwitterThe first photo of the bus attack.
20 personnel died in a suicide attack targeting an Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC) bus, the local news agency IRNA reported citing its source on Wednesday.

The deadly attack took place in the Chanali area of the Khash-Zahedan road, between the cities of Zahedan and Khash - an area not far from the border with Pakistan, where drug smuggling and military activities are quite frequent.

Comment: The death toll appears to be rising:



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Syringe

Congo: Ebola vaccine being offered in exchange for sex, says taskforce

Kate Holt & Rebecca Ratcliffe
The Guardian
Tue, 12 Feb 2019 16:17 UTC
health worker
© Olivia Acland/ReutersA health worker prepares to administer Ebola vaccine outside a house in the village of Mangina, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s North Kivu province.
An unparalleled Ebola vaccination programme in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has become engulfed in allegations of impropriety, amid claims that women are being asked for sexual favours in exchange for treatment.

Research by several NGOs has revealed that a deep mistrust of health workers is rife in DRC and gender-based violence is believed to have increased since the start of the Ebola outbreak in August.

The research, presented at a national taskforce meeting in Beni, follows calls by international health experts urging the World Health Organization to consider issuing a global alert in relation to the outbreak. The experimental vaccine has been described by the WHO as "highly, highly efficacious" and hopes have been pinned on it controlling the outbreak.

The meeting was told that multiple respondents in one study had raised concerns over individuals offering Ebola-related services, such as vaccinations, in exchange for sexual favours.

The risk of exploitation by frontline Ebola workers was also mentioned by several focus groups.

Comment: What we know about the latest Ebola outbreak and the experimental vaccine

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Dollar Gold

Unsustainable: The national debt now tops $22 trillion

Michael Collins
USA Today
Tue, 12 Feb 2019 16:05 UTC
US debt
The national debt surpassed $22 trillion for the first time on Tuesday, a milestone that experts warned is further proof the country is on an unsustainable financial path that could jeopardize the economic security of every American.

The Treasury Department reported the debt hit $22.012 trillion, a jump of more than $30 billion in just this month.

The national debt has been rising at a faster rate following the passage of President Donald Trump's $1.5 trillion tax-cut package a little more than a year ago and as the result of congressional efforts to increase spending on domestic and military programs. The nation has added more than $1 trillion in debt in the last 11 months alone.

"Reaching this unfortunate milestone so rapidly is the latest sign that our fiscal situation is not only unsustainable but accelerating," said Michael A. Peterson, chief executive officer of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, a nonpartisan organization working to address the country's long-term fiscal challenges.

For Americans, the growing debt should be a concern, experts said, because over time it can push up interest rates for consumers and businesses. The higher rates can ripple through the economy, nudging up rates for mortgages, corporate bonds and other types of consumer and business loans.

Comment: The US is rapidly going broke

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Bullseye

US Army employee in Germany says attack was not a 'simple burglary', stabbed robber who later died

Lucia I. Suarez Sang
Fox News
Wed, 13 Feb 2019 14:36 UTC
German police
Police in Germany said an American Army civilian employee killed a suspected burglar who tried to break into his home.
The civilian U.S. Army employee who fought off a group of suspected robbers - killing one with a kitchen knife - during an attempted home invasion in Germany said it was not a "simple burglary" as one man tackled his wife who was upstairs with their three children.

The American, who reached out to Fox News via Facebook messenger, said he answered his front door in Landstuhl on Sunday night to one individual, but as soon as he opened, three others appeared and "attacked me."

"While I fought three in my entry, one got past and made it upstairs to where my wife and children were," he said. "After I fought off the three, got them out of the door - that is when I got the kitchen knife and went upstairs to get the fourth attacker, who had tackled my wife and was strangling and pinning her down.

He did not want to be identified fearing possible recriminations from the attackers still on the loose.
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Fire

2 employees burned alive as liquid metal spills at Russian iron & steel plant


RT
Wed, 13 Feb 2019 08:55 UTC
Steel plant
© Sputnik / Aleksandr KondratukProduction facilities of the Mechel iron and steel plant in Chelyabinsk.
Two workers were trapped in a crane cabin in a deadly blaze following a liquid metal spill at the iron and steel factory in Chelyabinsk, Russia.

A fire struck the Mechel iron and steel plant in the Russian city of Chelyabinsk (1,783km east of Moscow) early on Wednesday as red hot liquid metal spilled from a scoop on a 150 sq. m. surface, leaving two people dead, local authorities report. Officials say a moving crane was burning as firefighters arrived at the scene.

A witness reports that the fire was caused by a blast as hot metal poured into the mold, which mistakenly contained water or ice. The incident reportedly caused major damage and left the production facility without a roof.
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Camera

PC totalitarianism? Yale student says she's collecting dirt on 'ambitious white boys'


RT
Wed, 13 Feb 2019 10:30 UTC
yale
© Reuters / Shannon StapletonStudents gather on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, October 7, 2009.
A Yale University student has pledged to monitor "white boys" on campus and document any potentially embarrassing behavior - in hopes of sabotaging their future careers. RT analysts weighed in on the controversial op-ed.

Isis Davis-Marks, a senior at the Ivy League school, vowed in an opinion piece published by the Yale Daily News that she would not allow "white boys" with "great ambitions" to enter the halls of power without first being held accountable for any politically incorrect transgressions made during their time at Yale.

Regretting that she hadn't documented past "white boy" misdeeds (such as "an unintentional utterance that he made when he had one drink too many at a frat party during sophomore year") she stated: "I can't do that anymore - I can't let things slip by. I'm watching you, white boy."

Comment: PC culture has pretty much adopted Stasi-like "report your neighbor" tactics of control at this point, including reporting anything from decades ago that may trigger a news cycle. The PC-friendly future is a paranoid totalitarian dystopia, yet the regressive left welcomes it with open arms.

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Star of David

Ilhan Omar sets off more hysteria for not being apologetic enough about 'anti-Semitic tweet'


RT
Wed, 13 Feb 2019 10:57 UTC
Ilhan Omar
© Reuters / Eric MillerIlhan Omar
Freshman Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan Omar has been forced to apologize by senior House Democrats for a series of "anti-Semitic" tweets - but her apology has set off another round of hysteria for not being apologetic enough.

In a post captioned "listening and learning, but standing strong," the Muslim representative thanked her "Jewish allies and colleagues" for "educating" her about "anti-Semitic tropes," while reiterating her original point about the "problematic role" of lobbyists like AIPAC.

Comment: RT reports more on both the backlash Ilhan Omar has faced and the support she has received:
Social media users are flocking to #StandwithIlhan after Rep. Ilhan Omar was pressured to issue an apology for her tweets about the Israel lobby's influence over US politicians, after she was accused of anti-Semitism. [...]

Many voicing their support for Omar pointed to American values of freedom of speech and shared a petition urging the Democratic leadership to stand up against "bad faith attacks" targeting Omar even after her apology. Others said they had donated to her campaign. [...]

Ironically, smearing people as anti-Semites is a tactic employed by the Israel lobby both in the US and theUK, as detailed in two Al Jazeera documentaries which saw an undercover reporter infiltrate both the US and UK lobby to reveal methods employed by the groups. The US version was never aired by Al Jazeera as a result of pressure wrought by the Israel lobby and members of Congress, who accused the network of... anti-Semitism.
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