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#MeToo is about destroying masculinity, not about sexual harassment

Suzanne Venker
Washington Examiner
Thu, 11 Jan 2018 11:39 UTC
Metoo Movment
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For years now it has been widely accepted, truth be damned, that women in America usually, if not always, get the short end of the stick. Turn on the television, flip through a magazine, or search America's airwaves and you'll be deluged with stories about women who wonder how their needs can best be met, how they can balance their lives better, or how they can deal with the myriad of problems and dangers they face. Women's grievances dominate the conversation, and it is women on the Left who lead the charge.

The thing about grievances is they're a lot like crabgrass: The more heat they get, the more it spreads. That's what's happening in Hollywood right now with the #MeToo movement and its faux concern for victims of sexual harassment.

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Wedding Rings

Saudi police arrest everyone at 'gay wedding' after video showed two men walking down isle being sprayed with confetti (VIDEO)

Amanda Devlin
The Sun
Tue, 09 Jan 2018 20:42 UTC
saudi gay wedding arrest
SAUDI police have arrested young men who were sprayed with confetti in a "gay wedding video".

Mecca police made the arrests after the men were seen walking side by side on a carpet at an outdoor festival in the holy city.

The video shows two young men, dressed in traditional Saudi robes, walking down the aisle to music.

Comment: While the West is indoctrinating school children on transgenderism, homosexuality, and howling about 'progress' with gay marriage and gender pronoun legislation, it's also busy propping up the backward dictatorship of Saudi Arabia:

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Cult

Doing the empire's bidding: Anti-war progressives and liberals now calling for regime change in Syria

Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research
Tue, 09 Jan 2018 00:00 UTC
Chomsky Goodman

What is now unfolding in both North America and Western Europe is fake social activism, controlled and funded by the corporate establishment. This manipulated process precludes the formation of a real mass movement against war, racism and social injustice.

The anti-war movement is dead. The war on Syria is tagged as "a civil war".

The war on Yemen is also portrayed as a civil war. While the bombing is by Saudi Arabia, the insidious role of the US is downplayed or casually ignored. "The US is not directly involved so there is no need for us to wage an anti-war campaign". (paraphrase)

War and neoliberalism are no longer at the forefront of civil society activism. Funded by corporate charities, via a network of non-governmental organizations, social activism tends to be piecemeal. There is no integrated anti-globalization anti-war movement. The economic crisis is not seen as having a relationship to US led wars.

In turn, dissent has become compartmentalized. Separate "issue oriented" protest movements (e.g. environment, anti-globalization, peace, women's rights, LGBT) are encouraged and generously funded as opposed to a cohesive mass movement against global capitalism.
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Eye 1

Snowden lends voice against India's Aadhaar ID program - world's biggest biometric database

Upmanyu Trivedi
Bloomberg
Tue, 09 Jan 2018 01:07 UTC
Edward Snowden
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Former U.S. intelligence-contractor-turned whistleblower Edward Snowden joined critics of India's digital ID program as the nation's top court is due to decide on its legality.

Snowden on Tuesday tweeted in support of an Indian journalist who faces police charges after she reported that personal details of over a billion citizens enrolled in the program could be illegally accessed for just $8 paid through a digital wallet. Named Aadhaar, the program is backed by the world's biggest biometric database, which its operator Unique Identification Authority of India, or UIDAI, says wasn't breached.

Snowden tweet
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Bullseye

Prominent French women denounce the puritanism of #MeToo - it "patronizes women and summarily punishes men for minor misdeeds"


RT
Wed, 10 Jan 2018 15:41 UTC
Catherine Deneuve
© Valery Hache / AFP
A hundred prominent French women, including actress Catherine Deneuve, have denounced the #MeToo campaign, saying it patronizes women and summarily punishes men for minor misdeeds, which only plays into the hands of "puritans."

In an open letter published in the newspaper Le Monde, the women acknowledged that while the campaign helped expose many cases of "sexual violence that women are subject to, particularly in their professional lives," it had now gone too far.
"Men have been punished summarily, forced out of their jobs when all they did was touch someone's knee or try to steal a kiss," reads the letter. "Instead of helping women this frenzy to send these 'pigs' to the abattoir actually helps the enemies of sexual liberty - religious extremists and the worst sort of reactionaries."

"It is the characteristic of Puritanism to borrow, in the name of a so-called general good, the arguments of the protection of women and their emancipation to bind them to the status of eternal victims, poor little things under the influence of the demon patriarchy, as in the good old days of witchcraft."

Comment: See also: The women worried about the #MeToo movement

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Oprah don't do it: Don't run for president

Pam Martens and Russ Martens
Wall Street on Parade
Tue, 09 Jan 2018 00:00 UTC
Oprah Winfrey
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Today's print edition of the New York Times carries an OpEd by Thomas Chatterton Williams with the terse headline, "Oprah Don't Do It."

The column follows a powerful speech delivered by Oprah Winfrey at the Golden Globe Awards on Sunday evening. (See video below.) That speech set Twitter and cable news ablaze with talk of an Oprah run for President in 2020. By Monday evening, CNN was reporting that she is "actively thinking" about a Presidential run.

In hearing that pronouncement on CNN, our first thought was that media outlets wouldn't have the guts to tell a black female celebrity with the stature of Oprah Winfrey that she could doom the already shaky credibility of the Democratic Party with a run for the White House; that her lack of prior government service and national security naiveté would be weaponized against her by Republicans.

Comment: Comparing Trump to Winfrey is like comparing rubber bands to rockets. Yes, they might have celebrity status in common but Trump is at heart a savvy business man and if anything, him as president has given us a peek at the man-behind-the-curtain. In contrast, look at what the legacy Obama left behind to see what " experience, knowledge, education and political wisdom" has got us. See also:

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USA

Harvey Weinstein Slapped and Called 'Piece of Shit' by Drunk Guy in Arizona Restaurant (video)


Sott.net
Wed, 10 Jan 2018 21:32 UTC
Weinstein slapped
Disgraced Hollywood producer Harvery Weinstein and his sobriety coach were accosted by two other inebriated diners while eating at the Elements restaurant in Scottsdale Arizona on Tuesday night.
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Toys

Paraguay says 'No' to transgender dolls and gender ideology


New York Times
Wed, 10 Jan 2018 21:24 UTC
transgender doll paraguay
© Ever Portillo/Associated PressPro-life and family activist Dannia Rios shows the male genitalia of a 'Bebe Mania Xixi' doll, which has caused a local media stir after some customers complained that the doll is transgender, in Ciudad del Este, Paraguay, Wednesday
Authorities in the Paraguayan border town of Ciudad del Este have temporarily closed a shop accused of selling transgender dolls.

Mayor Sandra McLeon justified Tuesday's closure by noting that the city, most widely known as a smuggling and counterfeiting haven, last year declared itself "pro-life and family."

City attorney Christian Cabral said the shop also was closed for failing to pay this year's commercial tax and for selling toys when it's only authorized to sell electronic goods.

The dolls had caused a local media stir after some customers complained. They appear to be standard, old-fashioned baby dolls with a red ribbon around the head, but with male genitalia.
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Year in review: Russia's top anchor looks back on fake news about Russia

Leo Standish
Russia Insider
Mon, 08 Jan 2018 19:04 UTC
fake news russia
If two words could perfectly describe the state of affairs in America for 2017 it would be Fake News.

Russia's top anchor, Dmitry Kiselyov, thinks the 'Fake News' phenomenon is one of the most important developments of 2017, calling it 'the word of the year.' In this segment he explains it from a Russian point of view - very interesting to see how the Russians understand this peculiarly American mental disorder.

Transcript included below.


Comment: See also:

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Cult

SOTT Focus: There Is No Such Thing As 'The Poor'

J. Martin
Sott.net
Wed, 10 Jan 2018 21:37 UTC
Economic gap
Knowledge is a curse. Having even a rudimentary understanding of anything is guaranteed to spoil any kind of fun and community you might have.

The current time is marked by collectivism of a particular sort. It is marked by a unity of resentment against one group or another. The ability to fall in and march to the orgy of rage is largely dependent on selective ignorance.

Even the smartest just don't want to 'go there' on something. More often than not, the 'there' they don't want to go to is basic economics. Not because they don't have the mind for math, economics isn't really about math anyway. Not because they can't find quality information, there's plenty of introductory books or youtube lectures available. Not because they don't consider it important, the most grandiose economic theories and plans are almost always espoused by people with the least education on the topic.

No. The reason people don't care to become educated is because they know education will spoil the enjoyment of everyone's secret vice: righteous anger.
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