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War against men: University of Texas rolls out 'MasculinUT' program branding all men as potential violent rapists

Daisy Luther
The Organic Prepper
Fri, 04 May 2018 00:00 UTC
The war on men continues to ramp up on American University campuses, with the latest assault on "toxic" masculinity coming from the University of Texas.
UT masculinUT, toxic masculinity
These days, it appears that being a man means you're crazy. You're a rapist waiting for a woman to rape. You're a misogynist, just looking for a woman to oppress. You're a brute, looking for a woman to punch in the face. You are violent, domineering, and angry.

At least according to the University of Texas at Austin.

They've rolled out a program called MasculinUT that treats men as though they are violent rapists just waiting for a woman on whom to force themselves. And, you know, slap around a little, because apparently, that is what men do. The project praises a poster of a black man with a flower crown, but mourns that masculinity "should go further than that."

This makes me curious about what "further than that" would look like. Curious in a morbid, car accident on the side of the road kind of way, where you want to see it but you don't want to see it all at the same time.

Comment: See also: Thankfully Jordan Peterson's growing popularity may be countering this ludicrous trend:

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Ambulance

Best of the Web: America's post-9/11 wars in Libya, Syria, Somalia, Yemen: How many have been killed?

Nicolas J. S. Davies
Consortium News
Wed, 25 Apr 2018 15:51 UTC
tripoli nato airstrike smoke
© REXSmoke is seen after an NATO airstrikes hit Tripoli, Libya
In the first two parts of this report, I have estimated that about 2.4 million people have been killed as a result of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, while about 1.2 million have been killed in Afghanistan and Pakistan as a result of the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan. In the third and final part of this report, I will estimate how many people have been killed as a result of U.S. military and CIA interventions in Libya, Syria, Somalia and Yemen.

Of the countries that the U.S. has attacked and destabilized since 2001, only Iraq has been the subject of comprehensive "active" mortality studies that can reveal otherwise unreported deaths. An "active" mortality study is one that "actively" surveys households to find deaths that have not previously been reported by news reports or other published sources.

These studies are often carried out by people who work in the field of public health, like Les Roberts at Columbia University, Gilbert Burnham at Johns Hopkins and Riyadh Lafta at Mustansiriya University in Baghdad, who co-authored the 2006 Lancet study of Iraq war mortality. In defending their studies in Iraq and their results, they emphasized that their Iraqi survey teams were independent of the occupation government and that that was an important factor in the objectivity of their studies and the willingness of people in Iraq to talk honestly with them.

Comprehensive mortality studies in other war-torn countries (like Angola, Bosnia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Guatemala, Iraq, Kosovo, Rwanda, Sudan and Uganda) have revealed total numbers of deaths that are 5 to 20 times those previously revealed by "passive" reporting based on news reports, hospital records and/or human rights investigations.

In the absence of such comprehensive studies in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Syria, Somalia and Yemen, I have evaluated passive reports of war deaths and tried to assess what proportion of actual deaths these passive reports are likely to have counted by the methods they have used, based on ratios of actual deaths to passively reported deaths found in other war-zones.
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Pistol

Small portion of body camera footage of Las Vegas shooting finally released

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Fri, 04 May 2018 15:57 UTC
stephen paddock vegas shooting
© The Free Thought Project
After seven months and a supreme court battle, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police have finally began releasing video from the officer's body cameras who breached the room of Stephen Paddock.

For seven months, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department has been caught lying, railroaded journalists, and done everything in their power to keep the facts on what happened on 1 October from ever reaching the public. The department's desire to keep the information secret was so overwhelming that they fought its release all the way to the Nevada Supreme Court. On Friday, the court rejected the police department's bid to keep the records secret and they are now forced to hand everything over.

On Wednesday, the department began releasing footage from the officers' body camera as they entered Stephen Paddock's suite in Mandalay Bay on the night of the shooting. Not surprisingly, Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo announced on Tuesday that the first officer into the room that night, Levi Hancock, did not activate his camera.

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Top Secret

Explosions from secret DOD training exercises terrify unprepared New Jersey residents


CBS New York
Wed, 02 May 2018 22:30 UTC
US Blackhawk Helicopter
© Flickr/ Morning Calm Weekly Newspaper Installation
It started off as a well-kept secret, but the explosions and helicopters ended up giving it away.

Members of the U.S. Department of Defense were conducting training recently in a New Jersey neighborhood, and the result was plenty of residents with frayed nerves, CBS2's Dick Brennan reported Wednesday.

Cellphone video captured the moment a helicopter flew above Totowa. There was excitement in the photographer's voice, but that's because the video was taken on the second night of action.

"I have never seen anything like this before," resident Michael Melograno said.
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Pennsylvania cops arrest grieving mother, keep her from seeing dying son in hospital

Jack Burns
The Free Thought Project
Wed, 02 May 2018 15:52 UTC
Cheirha Rankins arrested by police
When a mother received the call that her teenage son had been shot and rushed to the hospital, she dropped everything and went to see him. When she arrived, hospital personnel refused to let her see her dying son and when she begged in protest, she was arrested and taken away by police.

Nylik Moore was just 18 years old when he was shot in the back and the arm, causing injuries that took his life. When his father called his mother, Cheirha Rankins, and told her the news, she rushed to York Hospital, just a few blocks from their home.

Instead of cordially allowing Rankins to see her son, hospital personnel refused to allow the grieving mother to enter his room. Worse still, the denial of entry allegedly led the family to cause such a disturbance that Mrs. Rankins was eventually arrested.

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Dollar

'One-in-six' US pensioners is a millionaire


RT
Fri, 04 May 2018 11:28 UTC
Retiree
© Michael Hall / Global Look Press
A report by financial planning firm United Income shows that the US has never had so many wealthy retirees, with the share of millionaire pensioners almost doubling, and their average wealth soaring by over 100 percent since 1989.

"Most of that surge in wealth has occurred in financial accounts, which means it can be relatively more easily converted into retirement income, if needed," the company's analysts say, stating that average wealth among retirees is now $752,000.

According to the report, current US retirees are healthier, wealthier and living longer than any previous generation. "Among retirees, surging wealth has also not affected income inequality, which remains unchanged from 30 years ago," the paper says.

The researchers found out that the growth in wealth had contributed to a 42-percent increase in wealth inequality among this older group of the US citizens. However, that is "solely due to the growing difference in investment wealth among retirees rather than the differences in value of housing and other non-financial assets."
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Stock Down

Saudi Arabia's non-oil economy growth lowest in 9 years, uncertainty following "anti-corruption purge"


RT
Fri, 04 May 2018 14:17 UTC
saudi camel caravan
© Damien Meyer / AFP
Growth in Saudi Arabia's non-oil private sector slowed to a crawl, hitting its lowest level in at least nine years, as the kingdom's businesses keep feeling the impact of the government's struggle with low oil prices.

In April, the headline Emirates NBD Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) fell to 51.4 in April from 52.8 in March - the worst figure since the series began in August 2009.

However, a reading above 50 still means expansion in the sector on a monthly basis, while anything below indicates contraction. PMI, an indicator of the economic health of a sector, is based on data compiled after monthly surveys are sent to purchasing executives at nearly 300 corporations.

Comment: Saudi Arabia is as corrupt as ever despite the recent 'purge' and worldwide PR tour:

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Eye 2

Iranian FM slams US over its handling of nuclear deal - 'Bullying others' to support administration position


RT
Thu, 03 May 2018 15:45 UTC
eagle american flag
© W. Perry Conway / Getty Image
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has slammed Washington for "bullying" other nations against Tehran, and condemned EU states that are dancing to the US tune over the nuclear deal at the expense of Iran.

In a statement published on Thursday on his YouTube channel, Zarif once again lambasted the US for shaking the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). The minister reiterated that Iran had never shifted away from the 2015 deal, which has been repeatedly confirmed by the UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). However, some other signatories, and the US in particular, failed to show the same commitment to its obligations, according to Zarif.

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Attention

South Carolina Senate passes bill banning all abortions except in cases of rape, incest or threat to mother's life

Paul Bois
The Daily Wire
Fri, 04 May 2018 15:20 UTC
Pro-life protest, anti-abortion
The South Carolina Senate has taken a bold step to protect the lives of unborn children by passing a bill that would ban all abortions, except in cases of rape, incest or threats to the mother's life.

The bill would ban some 97% of the 5,700 abortions performed in the state each year. The measure passed the state Senate by a vote of 28-10 and will require a second vote of approval before moving to the state House for consideration.

Obviously, the law has no chance at standing given the framework of the much-maligned SCOTUS decision known as Roe v. Wade. However, lawmakers hope the law will trigger a chain reaction that leads to a direct challenge to the 1972 decision that launched an almost half-century-long culture war.
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Attention

Kanye West: 'Slavery for 400 years? That sounds like a choice, we're mentally in prison'


Liberty Headlines
Wed, 02 May 2018 00:00 UTC
'We're mentally in prison. I like the word 'prison' because slavery is too direct to the idea of blacks...'
Kanye West
Rapper Kanye West, on the receiving end of criticism in the music world after backing President Donald Trump, sparked fresh outrage Tuesday when he called slavery "a choice."

The rapper, never shy about expressing himself, made the comments in passing during one of two free-flowing interviews he gave as he promotes two upcoming albums.

"You hear about slavery for 400 years. For 400 years? That sounds like a choice," West told TMZ Live, the broadcast wing of the celebrity gossip site.

West elaborated little on his statement but appeared to be drawing a parallel to how he is presumed to hold certain views as an African American artist.

"We're mentally in prison. I like the word 'prison' because slavery is too direct to the idea of blacks. Like Holocaust is Jews, slavery is blacks," West said.

Comment: Kanye West has been watching Jordan Peterson

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