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Former Olympian Sharron Davies on the transgender sports row: 'How can this be fair to women?'

Guy Kelly
The Telegraph
Sun, 10 Mar 2019 08:00 UTC
Sharron Davies
© Russell SachFormer Olympian Sharron Davies, photographed at her home in the West Country.
Sharron Davies was stopped by strangers in the street half a dozen times this week. The former Great Britain swimmer - she won a silver medal at the 1980 Moscow Olympics and two Commonwealth golds - is used to being recognised every now and then, but as she walked around Bath on Tuesday, the interactions were of a different kind.

"It was all parents who were just saying to me, 'Thank you. Thank you for speaking out on this,'" she recalls when we meet at her home near the city. "People didn't realise what was going on."

The debate Davies has been congratulated for partaking in is one that's slowly consumed women's sport for much of the past month: whether transgender competitors should be allowed to enter female competitions. It is a notoriously thorny and misunderstood issue, but it was inflamed three weeks ago when 18-time tennis Grand Slam singles champion Martina Navratilova wrote that it was "cheating" to allow transgender women to compete in female competitions because of the potential unfair physical advantages. Navratilova, accused at best of expressing herself clumsily and at worst of being deliberately transphobic, later apologised for using the word "cheat", but not before Athlete Ally - a US-based organisation that campaigns for LGBT sportspeople - cut ties with her.

Comment: Once again, people being called bigots and 'phobes' for pointing out the obvious. This is the circus that is modern life on planet earth.

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"Syria is truly a country of love and peace" - Celebrity turned war reporter with a conscience, Carla Ortiz

Carla Ortiz, Richard Galustian, and Basma Qaddour
Global Research
Wed, 06 Mar 2019 00:00 UTC
Carla Ortiz


Forward by Richard Galustian

Carla Ortiz is one of the most unique people of our times, a real hero; a woman who is braver than the most seasoned war reporter. She has spent considerable time in the Syrian war zones where the fighting between the Syrian Army and Al Qaeda and its affiliates was at its most bloody and intense, especially in and around Aleppo.; a city where for centuries Christians, though dominant in the area nevertheless, lived as one community with Muslims.

Quoting from a Reuters article written in July 2017 mostly describing the world renowned famous Baron Hotel, located in West Aleppo, where some of the most famous people of the 20th Century including T.E.Lawrence and Agatha Christie, were frequent visitors.

Again quoting from the Reuters article
"In the upstairs room she (Christie) always stayed during her frequent stays to Aleppo stands the glass-topped wooden desk where she wrote part of Murder on the Orient Express."
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EU's mandatory national biometric ID card to affect privacy of 512 million people


MassPrivateI
Tue, 12 Mar 2019 00:00 UTC
EU ID
© Irish Times
A recent European Union (EU) announcement about national ID's will destroy millions of people's privacy and create a near global biometric database.

An article in State Watch News revealed that the EU has agreed to create a MANDATORY national biometric ID card.

"Measures being negotiated as part of the EU's 'Security Union' are moving ahead swiftly, with the Council and Parliament reaching provisional agreements on new rules for immigration liaison officers, the EU's Visa Code and the introduction of mandatory biometric national identity cards; and the Council agreeing its negotiating position on the new Frontex Regulation."

Earlier this week the Nepal government announced their plans to roll-out a national biometric ID card that will affect 30 million people.

Last month, I wrote an article warning people about the global effort to restrict everyone's right to travel. But what is happening across Europe and Asia should send chills down everyone's back.
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Finding a place of your own in the decimated middle-class of America

James Howard Kunstler
Clusterfuck Nation
Fri, 08 Mar 2019 00:00 UTC
main street in small town
Do you know your place? In these days of hysterical Wokesterism, the question would surely provoke a riot of cowbell-clanging Antifa cadres, fainting spells in the congressional black caucus, and gravely equivocal op-eds from David Brooks of The New York Times. Yet it's a central, unacknowledged quandary of our time that so many Americans have no place and suffer terribly from it.

Human beings need a place in the social order, in the economic order, and in actual geography in order to function optimally in a life fraught with the normal challenges and difficulties that reality presents. Let's take these places in reverse order.

It's a fact that most Americans live in everyday environments that are, at best, not worth caring about, and at worst actively punishing to human neurology. Have you taken a good look at the American landscape and townscape lately? How do you feel venturing down the six-lane commercial boulevards lined with cartoon architecture? Either anxious or numb, would be my guess. Or a Main Street of empty storefronts? Or an avenue of looming, despotic glass skyscrapers? Or a vast subdivision of identical McHouses where the buffalo once roamed? Is it any wonder that Americans require more antidepressant medication than people in other lands? Or, that failing to find treatment, they self-medicate with alcohol, opiates, sugary snacks, and anything else that takes them out of the soul-crushing reality of their surroundings.
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Gateway Pundit has proof of being censored by Twitter

Jim Hoft
The Gateway Pundit
Tue, 12 Mar 2019 20:04 UTC
social media censorship google facebook twitter
Since the 2016 election the American left will no longer allow the open exchange of ideas.

Small independent publishers were largely responsible for Trump's election victory. The Democrats know this. So they colluded with social media and eliminated several "threats."

The Gateway Pundit has repeatedly reported on the censorship and silencing of conservative publishers by the tech giants.

The Gateway Pundit's Jim Hoft spoke to Congress about this stifling of free speech by the tech giants.

Facebook has wiped out conservative content to American subscribers.

Comment: The lockdown appears to be on truthful reporting regardless of a site's political leanings.

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Light Sabers

Pulwama terror attack mastermind killed in encounter in Jammu & Kashmir


Times of India
Tue, 12 Mar 2019 19:04 UTC
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The mastermind of the February 14 Pulwama terror attack, which claimed the lives of 40 CRPF personnel, has been killed in an encounter in south Kashmir's Tral area, officials said Monday.

Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorist Mudasir Ahmed Khan was one of the two militants killed in the encounter in Tral's Pinglish area that started Sunday evening and went on till the early hours of Monday, they said.

The body of the second militant has not been identified yet, said the officials, who had earlier claimed he was Sajjad Bhat, a JeM operative whose car was used in the Pulwama attack.

Bhat's brother refused to take the body, saying it was charred beyond recognition. Khan's body has been taken by his family members, the officials said.

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Shareholder files suit against Google after two execs accused of sexual harassment are paid $105 million

Megan Rose Dickey
Tech Crunch
Mon, 11 Mar 2019 19:35 UTC
work protest
© Bebeto Matthews / AP
Google paid a total of $105 million to Andy Rubin and Amit Singhal after they were accused of sexual harassment at the company, The Wall Street Journal first reported. This confirms The New York Times report that Google paid $90 million to Rubin and reveals Google also paid $15 million to Singhal, who left Uber after it was revealed that he did not disclose the sexual harassment allegation.

The suit, filed by shareholder James Martin, confirms the board of directors approved a $90 million exit package for Rubin "as a goodbye present to him. No mention, of course, was made about the true reason for Rubin's 'resignation' - his egregious sexual harassment while at Google."

In a statement to TechCrunch, Rubin's lawyer denies these claims.

"This lawsuit simply repeats much of the recent media coverage, mischaracterizes Andy's departure from Google and sensationalizes claims made about Andy by his ex-wife," Ellen Winick Stross, Rubin's lawyer, said. "Andy acknowledges having had a consensual relationship with a Google employee. However, Andy strongly denies any misconduct, and we look forward to telling his story in court."

The suit goes on to describe how Singhal "was allowed to quietly resign at Google in 2016 in the wake of credible allegations of sexual harassment, and was paid millions in severance."

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Feds arrest dozens, including actresses and ex-Pimco CEO, in 'largest college admissions scam ever prosecuted'

Aaron Katersky, Bill Hutchinson and Mike Levine
ABC News
Tue, 12 Mar 2019 18:55 UTC
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Hollywood actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin and a slew of chief executives are among 50 wealthy people charged in the largest college cheating scam ever prosecuted by the U.S. Department of Justice, federal officials said Tuesday.

Those indicted in the investigation, dubbed "Varsity Blues," allegedly paid bribes of up to $6 million to get their children into elite colleges, including Yale, Stanford, Georgetown and the University of Southern California, federal prosecutors said.

"This case is about the widening corruption of elite college admissions through the steady application of wealth combined with fraud," Andrew Lelling, the U.S. attorney for the District of Massachusetts, said at a news conference.

"There can be no separate college admissions system for the wealthy and, I'll add, there will not be a separate criminal justice system either," Lelling said.
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Media investigation finds Swedes who fought in Waffen-SS during WWII still receive 'Hitler pensions'


RT
Tue, 12 Mar 2019 18:26 UTC
german troops Waffen SS
© Global Look Press / ScherlA reconnaissance troop of the Waffen SS in the southern sector of the Eastern front.
Seventy-four years after the fall of the Third Reich, the German government is still paying foreign soldiers injured while assisting the Nazi war effort, including two Swedes who served in the armed unit of the SS.

Last week, Berlin assured that none of the 15 Swedish citizens receiving compensation for war-injuries had been members of the paramilitary Schutzstaffel organization. However, Swedish paper Dagens Nyheter has determined that at least two of those receiving monthly payments from Germany are indeed former Waffen-SS members

Karl von Zeipel and Jan Dufv fought in the SS' Aryan-only 'Viking' tank division which directly engaged in the destruction of civilian populations in Nazi-occupied territory, although the data does not indicate if the two mentioned personally participated in the war-crimes.
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Piers Morgan 'identifies as hippo' in response to Alyssa Milano's 'trans, immigrant, gay' tweet


RT
Tue, 12 Mar 2019 18:12 UTC
piers morgan and alyssa milano
© Reuters / Henry Nicholls / Danny Moloshok
Good Morning Britain presenter Piers Morgan has jokingly said he identifies as a hippopotamus while dissecting actress Alyssa Milano's recent tweet, in which she identified as trans, gay, immigrant and disabled.

The 53-year-old host and controversial tweeter mocked the 'Charmed' actress - who he described as a rich, white, hetrosexual female born in New York - by reading her tweet in a fake American accent.

In fact, Morgan argued that Milano is simply suffering from "TDS: Trump Derangement Syndrome," which, he claims, has sent many "liberal actors completely barking mad."

When Morgan's co-host Susanna Reid pointed out that he once identified as a hippopotamus on the show, he clarified: "I called their bluff, if we can self-identify as she just did then we can all be anything.

"So I therefore identified as a hippopotamus. Does that make me a hippopotamus? No, it doesn't. I'm not a hippopotamus."

Milano sparked a fierce backlash with her tweet on Saturday, evoking a response from many people who actually are from one of her mentioned minority groups. They pointed out that empathizing with people does not allow someone to identify as one of them.

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