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Trans people labelled "parasites" & obstacle to feminism during Parliament event


RT
Thu, 15 Mar 2018 18:34 UTC
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Transgender women in the UK "invade" women's spaces and threaten gender equality, it was claimed. An event in Parliament heard heavy criticism of the trans community.

Speakers at the 'Transgenderism and the War on Women' event in Parliament hit out at transgender people, attacking them for "parasitically" invading women's spaces and threatening their liberation. The meeting was held by the group 'We Need to Talk UK' and sponsored by Conservative MP David Davies.

Author Sheila Jeffreys, who opened the event in the House of Commons on Thursday, didn't hold back. A Pink News journalist reported her opening line was: "Men can't become women, what's so difficult about that?"

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Dissent in the Western alliance: Irish Times - "Unlikely that Putin behind Skripals' poisoning"

Séamus Martin
The Irish Times
Wed, 14 Mar 2018 21:41 UTC
hazmat suits Sergey Skripal
© Ben Stansall / Agence France-PresseAll a big show? Salisbury, southern England, March 8, 2018
Attack would have been counterproductive for Russia and jeopardise future spy swaps

British prime minister Theresa May put two scenarios to parliament on Monday. The attack on former British-Russian spy Sergei Skripal may have been planned directly by the Kremlin or that through lax scrutiny Russia allowed the nerve agent to fall into the wrong hands. The situation is more complicated than that.

The nerve agent called Novichok is a very deadly substance, eight times more powerful than its western equivalent known as VX. There are also indications that it could have been smuggled out of the former Soviet Union as far back as 1993.

In September of 1993 as The Irish Times Moscow correspondent I obtained a list of chemical and biological weapons, including Novichok, that were being produced by Russia as the successor state to the Soviet Union. I brought these documents to the recognised expert at the time Dr Thomas Stock of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).
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Cops caught attempting to run over raccoon—slowly torturing it to death (VIDEO)

Rachel Blevins
The Free Thought Project
Tue, 13 Mar 2018 16:03 UTC
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Multiple police officers are being criticized after a video was posted on Facebook that showed two squad cars racing across an open parking lot and attempting to run over a raccoon.

The video was posted by Bryanna Catucci, and in the caption, she wrote, "Leaving the grocery store to find 2 cops charging at a raccoon in a car for 15 minutes until dead. You would think if it had rabies they would shoot him instead of torturing. Sad day."

The Coeymans Police Department also took to social media to confirm they had received multiple calls about a raccoon, and that the suspects seen in the video were officers from the department. The statement claimed that by racing across a parking lot and appearing to make a competition out of running over a scared raccoon, the officers were handling the situation "as quickly and humanely as possible."
"On March 12 we received numerous calls about a rabid raccoon in faith plaza. The raccoon had attempted to get into the establishment at one point. Our officer's [sic] did find the raccoon, but it was not in an area that was safe to discharge a firearm due to the proximity of pedestrians and residences. They dispatched the raccoon as quickly and humanely as possible."
The video clips posted by Catucci received more than 50,000 shares in less than 24 hours, and the Facebook users who responded to it were horrified by the scene. But the most scathing comments came from users who were responding to the department's support of the incident.
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Heroic 13yo boy stabbed 32 times while confronting attacker to save his mother

Jorge Millian
Palm Beach Post
Wed, 14 Mar 2018 00:07 UTC
Dane Bancroft, Palm Beach Florida stabbing victim
Dane, a student at Watson B. Duncan Middle School in Palm Beach Gardens, interrupted a knife attack that left another boy dead and Dane’s mother, Elaine M. Simon, hospitalized with stab wounds.
Dane Bancroft may only be 13 years old, but his father says the boy is a "hero."

Dane, a student at Watson B. Duncan Middle School in Palm Beach Gardens, interrupted a knife attack at his home at BallenIsles Country Club early Monday that left another boy dead and Dane's mother, Elaine M. Simon, hospitalized with stab wounds.

Dane was also left seriously wounded after being stabbed 32 times during the attack, according to Palm Beach Gardens police.

Lucas Bancroft, Dane's father, said his son had a kidney removed, sustained liver damage and has undergone two surgeries since he was taken to St. Mary's Medical Center, but is expected to recover.

"He's a hero," Bancroft said during a phone interview. "He saved his mom."

Corey Johnson, 17, is being held in juvenile detention while a grand jury decides whether to charge him as an adult on one count of first-degree murder and two counts of attempted first degree murder.
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One-time Ukrainian hero Savchenko facing arrest after claiming top official 'led snipers to central Kiev'


RT
Thu, 15 Mar 2018 21:03 UTC
Nadezhda Savchenko
© SputnikUkraine's Verkhovna Rada deputy Nadezhda Savchenko at the Ukrainian Security Service in Kiev
Ukrainian MP Nadezhda Savchenko, who was lauded as a hero for her role in the Donbass military campaign and her prosecution in Russia, is now accused of plotting to blow up the national parliament in Kiev.

The General Prosecutor's Office in Kiev has requested that the parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, strip Savchenko of legal immunity and allow her arrest. MPs in Ukraine normally enjoy protection from prosecution. However, General Prosecutor Yury Lutsenko filed the request on Thursday after Savchenko failed to show up for a scheduled questioning.

Lutsenko threatened he would do so earlier this week while Savchenko was on a visit to Europe in her capacity as MP. Savchenko responded by accusing Lutsenko of covering up the involvement in the deadly 2014 Maidan shooting, which escalated mass protest into an armed coup and ultimately brought the current Ukrainian government into power.

"Lutsenko called to go on offensive from the podium. He promised weapons. I saw armed people arriving in a blue van. Those people are now in the parliament," she said, adding that she saw "[current Rada Speaker Andriy] Parubiy leading the snipers to the hotel 'Ukraine'," from which shots were later fired.

Comment: So Savchenko points out the truth of what some Ukrainian officials are guilty of during the 2014 Maidan massacre, and now she is supposed to be part of a plot to blow up the national parliament in Kiev? How convenient.

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Police break up Italian sect that imposed macrobiotic diet, ruined follower's health

Angela Giuffrida
The Guardian
Wed, 14 Mar 2018 17:45 UTC
Italy
© Jam World Images/AlamyPolice say the group was based in the central Marche and Emilia-Romagna regions of Italy.

Followers, whose weight fell as low as 35kg, said to have been manipulated into following eating regime

A well-known guru of macrobiotic food who met Pope Francis is among the five people under investigation in Italy after police dismantled a bizarre "sect" that allegedly denied its followers contact with the outside world.

Mario Pianesi, the 73-year-old founder of a group in the central Marche and Emilia-Romagna regions of Italy, and his wife, Loredana Volpi, are suspected of being the ringleaders of a network that manipulated victims into following a strictly controlled diet known as "Ma-Pi".

Authorities said Pianesi convinced followers of the diet, modelled on the teachings of the Japanese philosopher George Ohsawa, that it would provide miracle cures for their illnesses and that traditional medicine did not work. It aims to avoid foods containing toxins and is based on whole grains, vegetables and beans.

Comment: The only way someone would follow a vegetarian macrobiotic diet, even when their health continues to decline, is if they were entirely brainwashed. The macrobiotic diet is just shy of inedible.

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Man survives being attacked by girlfriend with samurai sword in his sleep

Kyle Swenson
Washington Post
Thu, 15 Mar 2018 20:52 UTC
Alex Lovell and Emily Javier
© Courtesy of Alex Lovell / Associated PressAlex Lovell (left) recovers in a hospital after being attacked with a samurai sword. His girlfriend Emily Javier (right) faces attempted murder charges
With her boyfriend finally asleep, Emily Javier reached for the samurai sword she had secretly taped earlier to the side of the bed.

According to an affidavit filed by police, the room was dark, and she sparked her phone to see better. To aim better.

Below snoozed Alex Lovell. He played too many videos games, Javier would later explain to the police, and now he was cheating on her, she claimed. She knew the signs. Tinder on his phone. Scratches across his back. A girl's hair in their shower drain. In the weak phone glow, Javier allegedly started hacking.

Lovell woke to his girlfriend of two years attacking him with a sword, police say. Survival instincts - mainly martial arts training and all the kung fu films he had watched - clicked in.

"I was able to wing chun my way to survival," he told the Oregonian/OregonLive in an interview this week over Facebook messenger, referring to a Chinese martial art. He eventually wrapped Javier in a bear hug. "I saw the look in her eyes, and it scared the living poop out of me," he told the news outlet. "I told her I loved her, and she was killing me. She needed to call police, or I was going to die."
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Manafort seeks dismissal of 5 charges that are 'not related to Russia probe'


RT
Thu, 15 Mar 2018 15:56 UTC
Paul Manafort
© Drew Angerer / Getty Images / AFPPaul Manafort, former campaign manager for Donald Trump.
Former Donald Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort's lawyer has pressed a judge to throw out five charges brought by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. He says they are not related to the investigation into alleged Russian meddling.

Manafort's lawyer filed papers at a federal court on Wednesday accusing Mueller of cashing a "blank check" on his remit to prosecute any criminal acts he uncovered in his investigation into the alleged collusion between Trump and Moscow to influence the 2016 election.

"The appointment order here purports to give the Special Counsel power to investigate a specifically identified matter and anything that arises in the course of the investigation, without further consulting or obtaining approval from the Attorney General or Acting Attorney General," Manafort's team said. "The regulations do not allow for such an expansive appointment," the papers added.

Comment: Manafort's judge: There's a real chance of 'spending the rest of his life in prison'

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"Absurd...the same kind of canard that led us to the disaster of the Iraq war" - George Galloway on Skripal (VIDEO)


RT
Thu, 15 Mar 2018 13:12 UTC
skirpal
© I-Images/ Global Look Press
George Galloway has dismissed claims that Russia is "culpable" for the Skripal poisoning, saying it wouldn't put a "signature" on such a crime. Moscow is preparing to expel British diplomats in retaliation for UK sanctions.

Speaking to RT's Bill Dod, the former Labour MP hit back at Prime Minister Theresa May's allegations that Russia was behind the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. His comments follow demands by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn that the PM present evidence and use channels provided by international law before assigning blame to Moscow.

"Here is the killer question that was not asked by anybody in parliament either on Monday or Wednesday," Galloway said. "If this Novichok is exclusively Russian, why would Russia choose that weapon to mount a terrorist attack on the streets of Salisbury? They may as well be leaving a pair of boots covered with snow and painting 'Vladimir Putin was here' on the nearest wall.

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R. Kelly runs a child sex abuse cult and gets away with it by buying victims silence

Jim DeRogatis
BuzzFeed
Tue, 13 Mar 2018 22:08 UTC
Jerhonda Pace
© Kristen Zeis for BuzzFeed NewsJerhonda Pace
For Jerhonda Pace, who last summer accused musician R. Kelly of abusing her when she was a minor, watching #MeToo take down powerful men has been bittersweet. "What about R. Kelly's victims? What about us? Nothing happened for us."

Jerhonda Pace is frustrated and angry. As her three daughters sit playing at her feet, occasionally interrupting to vie for their mom's attention, the 24-year-old reflects on how she felt last October when she first read about the sexual harassment and assault accusations made about movie producer Harvey Weinstein. Since then, the #MeToo movement has prompted a flood of stories about the sexual misconduct of other famous and powerful men in Hollywood, media, and politics, often triggering their public disgrace.

When the allegations against Weinstein broke, it had been six weeks since Pace came forward alleging R&B superstar R. Kelly physically and sexually abused her when she was underage, violating the terms of the settlement agreement that kept her silent for years. As she watched other powerful men fall, she recalls, "I was livid, because when their stories came out, they received so much attention. It was just crazy, and I was like, 'What about R. Kelly's victims? What about us?' Nothing happened for us."

Comment: While the article spends an inordinate amount of time focused on the skin colour of the perpetrator and his victims, the fact of the matter is that R. Kelly is a dangerous sexual predator, pedophile, and a scumbag, who's getting a pass. Anyone who is still supporting him by buying his music should take a good look in the mirror.

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