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Watch: Watters eats steak while debating meat-eaters' 'toxic masculinity'


Fox News
Sun, 17 Dec 2017 18:37 UTC
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Jesse Watters on Saturday debated a doctoral candidate from Penn State University, who contended that eating meat reinforces gender stereotypes.

As FoxNews.com reported, Anne DeLessio-Parson published an article in the Journal of Feminist Geography after studying Argentina's "meat-centric culture."
An academic journal has published an article by a Ph.D. candidate at Pennsylvania State University that argues eating meat maintains a society where "hegemonic masculinity" is the norm.
"I contend that in such a context, we cannot separate the ways people 'do vegetarianism' from how they 'do gender,'" Anne DeLessio-Parson wrote. "Doing vegetarianism in interactions drives social change, contributing to the de-linking of meat from gender hegemony and revealing the resisting and reworking of gender in food spaces."

DeLessio-Parson theorizes that being a vegetarian in the South American nation is a political act that contributes to the destabilization of the gender binary, or the view that there are only two sexes, masculine and feminine.

"[V]egetarians defy attempts to hold them accountable to gendered social expectations," she wrote. "Women, for example, assert authority over their diets; men embody rejection of the meat-masculinity nexus by adopting a worldview that also rejects sexism and racism."
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'Deeply shocked': UK Diplomat murdered in Beirut


Sputnik
Tue, 19 Dec 2017 02:51 UTC
Rebecca Dykes
© Associated Press/ Britain's Foreign and Commonwealth OfficeBritish dipolmat Rebecca Dykes
The body of a diplomat working at the British Embassy in Lebanon has been found unceremoniously dumped by the roadside on the outskirts of Beirut, various media reported.

According to the BBC, citing senior police officers in Beirut, Rebecca Dykes, 30, was strangled with a rope.

Local media reports said that Dykes was also raped, but the authorities said they are investigating whether she was sexually assaulted.

Rebecca Dykes was last seen alive late on Friday as she was heading home after meeting with friends at a bar.
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Russian invasion! RT launches new "RT France" channel


RT
Mon, 18 Dec 2017 23:58 UTC
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French speakers will now be able to "Question More" with ease as RT's global television news network has launched its French language channel, RT France.

The newest channel is dedicated to the French-speaking world, and will also be broadcasting in Belgium, Canada and the Mediterranean. It will feature a mix of news content, documentaries, debates, interviews and original programming.

Coming to you from a brand new state-of-the-art studio in the Boulogne-Billancourt broadcasting hub just outside Paris, RT France covers the local, regional, national and international stories most affecting the Francophone world. In line with RT's "Question More" motto, the channel aims to shed light on the issues and points of view that have traditionally been overlooked by the mainstream French-language television networks and other media outlets. The channel's content is also available online at rtfrance.tv.


RT's editor-in-chief, Margarita Simonyan, has welcomed the launch of the French broadcasting channel, which she said happened despite heavy criticism from the local mainstream media.

Comment: You can't stop the signal. Kudos to RT for continuing to annoy Western media by saying the things they censor themselves from saying. It's a tough job, but someone's gotta do it.

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France accepts first refugees screened in Africa - new policy will see many economic migrants deported

Claire Gallen and Marie Wolfrom
Yahoo News
Mon, 18 Dec 2017 23:49 UTC
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France under President Emmanuel Macron has launched a programme to distinguish between asylum seekers and those simply looking for a better life in Europe
France on Monday accepted a first group of 19 refugees who were identified in Africa under an overhauled asylum policy that will also see it expel thousands of economic migrants.

While it has drawn little public outcry in France, the policy faces stiff opposition from the left and from charities that shelter migrants, 22 of which called in an open letter for France's rights ombudsman Jacques Toubon to intervene.

Djamel, a refugee from the Central African Republic, arrived at Paris's Charles de Gaulle airport with his wife and four children after spending four years at a camp in Chad, telling AFP: "Now we've no other family. Now you are our family."

The new refugees -- also hailing from Sudan -- were brought to France from the camp in the Chadian capital N'Djamena where Djamel said around 1,000 people were sheltering.

The programme, which expects to identify 3,000 African refugees by 2019, aims to prevent people from risking their lives at sea.

More than 3,000 have died attempting to cross the Mediterranean in rickety boats since Europe's migrant crisis started in 2015, according to the International Organization for Migration.

Comment: Distinguishing between genuine asylum seekers and economic migrants? What a novel idea! Maybe you people (we're looking at you, Merkel) should have thought of that before you opened your borders and welcomed anyone and everyone claiming to be a "refugee".

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The #MeToo wildfire is raging out of control, and it will turn on its creators

Michael McCaffrey
RT
Thu, 14 Dec 2017 22:40 UTC
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© Ronen Tivony / ReutersA house is engulfed in flames as the Creek Fire burns. Los Angeles, California, US
As firefighters struggle to contain the wildfires ravaging Southern California, the firestorm of the #MeToo movement continues to burn out of control across America from Hollywood to Washington, D.C. with no end in sight.

Last week wildfires fueled by the hot, dry, and at times hurricane-force Santa Ana winds, raged across numerous locations in Southern California. Ventura County, which is just north of Los Angeles, has been hit particularly hard as over 230,000 acres have been scorched with more than seven hundred homes destroyed thus far.

In the fire's shadow, Los Angeles has at times resembled a scene out of a disaster movie with black, acrid smoke filling the air accompanied by white ash gently falling to the ground like snow. Air quality was so poor across the city that most schools and parks were closed for the week.

Synchronistically, just as this devastating wildfire was ravaging Los Angeles, another inferno that got its start in Hollywood was wreaking havoc across the country and in Washington D.C., in particular. That out of control wildfire is the #MeToo sexual harassment scandal that torches everyone in its path, leaving in its wake a pile of ash where careers used to be.

Comment: Gender privilege, anyone? What else can you call subverting the burden of proof from accuser to accused?

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The women worried about the #MeToo movement

various authors
Spiked
Mon, 18 Dec 2017 21:42 UTC
Thirteen bold women on why we must reject victimhood.

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Propaganda: China is bad because they have lots of surveillance cameras and people just disappear

Gerry Shih
USA Today
Sun, 17 Dec 2017 10:19 UTC
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© Eugene Hoshiko, APChinese police officers patrol in front of Shanghai No.1 Intermediate People's Court Friday Dec. 4, 1998. Lin Hai, 30, a computer entrepreneur charged with subversion for supplying Chinese e-mail address to an Internet democracy magazine is on trial Friday in a closed courtroom. Hai is accused of "inciting the overthrow of state power" by giving 30,000 addresses to "VIP Reference," a pro-democracy journal published by dissidents overseas.
Nobody knows what happened to the Uighur student after he returned to China from Egypt and was taken away by police.

Not his village neighbors in China's far west, who haven't seen him in months. Not his former classmates, who fear Chinese authorities beat him to death.

Not his mother, who lives in a two-story house at the far end of a country road, alone behind walls bleached by the desert sun. She opened the door one afternoon for an unexpected visit by Associated Press reporters, who showed her a picture of a handsome young man posing in a park, one arm in the wind.

"Yes, that's him," she said as tears began streaming down her face. "This is the first time I've heard anything of him in seven months. What happened?"

"Is he dead or alive?"

The student's friends think he joined the thousands - possibly tens of thousands - of people, rights groups and academics estimate, who have been spirited without trial into secretive detention camps for alleged political crimes that range from having extremist thoughts to merely traveling or studying abroad. The mass disappearances, beginning the past year, are part of a sweeping effort by Chinese authorities to use detentions and data-driven surveillance to impose a digital police state in the region of Xinjiang and over its Uighurs, a 10-million strong, Turkic-speaking Muslim minority that China says has been influenced by Islamic extremism.

Comment: So this article puts the spin on China as being an oppressive and totalitarian state. See how bad China is? Well, the US ain't that much better! What the author conveniently forgot to mention is that these policies, while harsh as they are, are their attempt to control the spread of ISIS ideology and keep terrorism at bay. See also:

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Boris Johnson revives 'Russian meddling' fairy story - now with Facebook trolls


RT
Sun, 17 Dec 2017 17:10 UTC
Boris
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With the Russian Brexit meddling story unravelling almost as badly as Brexit itself, Boris Johnson has found a new angle. The latest dead cat to grace the table is a cabal of "Russian trolls" on Facebook.

"There's some evidence that there has been Russian trolling on Facebook," Johnson said, referring to Brexit, in an interview with the Sunday Times as he elucidated his brand new theory of the Russian meddling in the fateful vote. At the same time, he admitted that he had "seen no evidence" of the Russian alleged meddling affecting the referendum outcome in any way.

With less than a dollar spent, it is hardly surprising that the outcome of the referendum was unaffected. Indeed, an investigation conducted by Facebook at the request of no less than the UK Electoral Commission revealed that Russia spent as much as 73p ($0.97) on ads to allegedly influence Brexit. And that is without mentioning the fact that the ads themselves were about migration and the wider European context.

Comment: For some people, facts are never enough.

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Police in Malmo, Sweden retract safety advice to women despite 3rd gang rape in 1 month


RT
Mon, 18 Dec 2017 18:24 UTC
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Police in the Swedish city of Malmo have retracted advice given to women in the city following the brutal gang-rape of a 17-year-old girl. The force advised women not to go out alone after dark following the vicious attack.

Officers issued the warning over the weekend following the assault, which occurred on Saturday, and marked the third such vicious rape committed by unknown perpetrators in the city in less than a month.

The original warning, reported by various Swedish media outlets, said that women should avoid venturing out after dark without someone for company. Considering it gets dark quite early in Sweden at this time of year, that would mean women should avoid being in the streets alone after approximately 3pm local time.

Comment: See also: Propaganda? 82 percent of people sent to prison in Sweden for gang rape are foreign

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SOTT Focus: Lawyers, Girls and Money - Cui Bono with #MeToo?

J. Martin
Sott.net
Mon, 18 Dec 2017 21:33 UTC
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Dante is, to my mind, fiction's most satisfying executioner. In the 30th canto, in the 8th circle of hell, we find Potiphar's wife consumed with a fever so fierce, her skin smokes.

Now Potiphar was the captain of the Pharoah's palace guard in the book of Genesis. When Joseph, the son of Jacob, was betrayed by his brothers, stashed in a cistern and sold to a caravan, he ended up being purchased by Potiphar. Joseph, who was young, handsome and, best of all, favored by God, quickly rose in Potiphar's esteem until he was made overseer of the guardsman's house.

Joseph soon caught the eye of Potiphar's wife, whose name among the Muslims is said to have been Zulaika, and she wanted to get freaky with Joseph, but he refused. Joseph did not want to betray the trust his master Potiphar had placed in him, so every day Zulaika would proposition him, and everyday he would refuse. One day she became enraged at his refusal and tore a bit of cloth from his cloak as he escaped her.

Scorned and affronted by his rejection, a wicked idea came to her, and using the bit of torn cloth as circumstantial evidence, Zulaika falsely accused Joseph of rape. Potiphar felt deeply betrayed and had Joseph imprisoned. While Joseph's ultimate end was not unhappy, Zulaika is never made to answer for her crime until, over 2,000 years later, Dante arrived to condemn her to the 8th circle of hell, and smoldering flesh.
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