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Military women who speak out about sexual assault are unfairly discharged with a "personality disorder"

Amanda Marcotte
Salon.com
Fri, 20 May 2016 15:23 UTC
sexual harassment
© Human Rights WatchEmily Vorland, discharged after reporting sexual harassment.
Noxious stereotypes about women being nuts and liars are being used to silence military women who report rape.

As all too many rape victims discover when they speak out, many react by just wishing the victim would shut up and go away.

Most rapists attack someone they know, which means that holding them accountable means tearing apart whatever community — school, work, friend group — that the accused and accuser belong in. Often, it feels just easier to pressure the accuser to shut up and go away so everything can return to normal, even though that often requires ignoring that there's a sexual predator in your midst.

Comment: This article is another example of the disgusting rape culture in America. In addition to how the system protects the rapists and fails the victims. If there is any doubt it is now confirmed - Rape is rampant in the US military:

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Bizarro Earth

Bizarro world: Think Progress editor argues that males can menstruate and get pregnant

Piper McGowin
The Daily Sheeple
Fri, 20 May 2016 14:35 UTC
zach ford
© twitterZach Ford
The fight between basic biology that most little kids learned in elementary school versus the bizarre progressive politically correct agenda that would see anyone using any public bathroom for any reason and no such thing as distinction between a man and a woman has just taken a train to crazy land.

It's one thing to "gender identify" with a specific gender (although many would argue that it is actually gender dysphoria, defined as "the condition of feeling one's emotional and psychological identity as male or female to be opposite to one's biological sex").

But this is just going way too far.

Comment: Society has become so warped and people are so enamored of their feelings that actual reality cannot penetrate.

Policing of speech: NYC to fine businesses for not using the correct gender pronoun

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Black Magic

Bayer Monsanto merger: A match made in hell

Steven MacMillan
New Eastern Outlook
Sat, 21 May 2016 00:00 UTC
Big Ag, monsanto
In a world infected with a plethora of immoral multinational corporations, it is hard to think of two corporations who have more nefarious histories than Bayer AG and Monsanto. Considering this, it is a harrowing prospect that the two corporations could potentially strike a deal in the near future.

As Bloomberg reported earlier this month, Bayer AG - the German pharmaceutical and chemical corporation - is reportedly considering a bid for the agrochemical and biotechnology corporation, Monsanto. This comes two months after Monsanto showed some interest in acquiring Bayer Crop Sciences, a branch of Bayer AG.

Founded in 1863, Bayer may be familiar to many readers as the first company to widely sell and trademark Aspirin in the late nineteenth century. But there is a far more sinister history to this company that is often omitted.

Comment: Further reading:

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Heart - Black

Farmer suicides in Marathwada above 400 in just 4 months, toll reaches 1,548

Manoj Dattatrye More
The Indian Express
Tue, 17 May 2016 13:28 UTC
Indian farmer drought
© Manoj MoreA farmer whose sugarcane cropped whithered away due to lack of rains in Latur.
The farmer suicides, which have remained unstoppable for past few years in eight districts of Marathwada, have crossed the staggering 400-mark in just over four month period in 2016.

Compared to 2015, as many as 92 more farmers have embraced deaths in the first four and half months of 2016, highlighting the failure of the government schemes launched in August to curb the spate of suicides.

A special taskforce appointed by the Devendra Fadnavis government on Tuesday conceded that the agrarian crisis was too "substantial" and results of the government efforts to put brakes on suicides will take time to show up.

In 2015, the collective figure of suicides in all eight districts of Marathwada stood at 1,130 - three suicides every day and throughout the year. In the past 16 months, 1,548 distressed farmers have been reported dead in the Marathwada region which is witnessing fourth successive years of drought with wells, rivers and dams having gone dry.

Comment: The Indian government should be less concerned with being a puppet of the US, and more concerned with what's going on in its own backyard.

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Quenelle - Golden

Best of the Web: 'America was never great' hat sets off a firestorm of racism and death threats from Trump supporters


RT
Sat, 21 May 2016 13:55 UTC
Krystal Lake hat controversy
© Chris Molla‎ / Facebook
American exceptionalists got riled up this week after a young Home Depot employee wearing an "America was never great" hat became the target of death threats and racist attacks by Trump supporters.

Krystal Lake, 22, wore her new custom-made cap to work in a Staten Island last Sunday when a customer violated her privacy and posted his photo of her online.

Those Trump supporters who are privileged enough to have Sunday off had plenty of time to send her death threats and rage on the internet.
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Eye 1

Children's minister and volunteer pastor caught haggling for sex with underage girls


RT
Sat, 21 May 2016 13:12 UTC
Knoxville police
© Knox County Sheriff's Office / Facebook
A trafficking ring in Tennessee was busted, leading to the arrest of nearly three dozen men, including the pastor of a children's ministry. He has since lost his job at Grace Baptist and is charged with human trafficking and patronizing prostitution.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation announced on Friday that 32 people have been arrested in connection with a Knoxville human trafficking ring. Among them were Jason Kennedy, a children's minister at the Grace Baptist Church in Karns, Tennessee, and Zubin Parakh, a volunteer creative pastor at the Lifehouse Church in Oak Ridge, WBIR reported.

Kennedy, 46, and Parakh, 32, were caught in a three-day operation in which undercover agents posted ads on Backpage.com, a common site for escorts. Kennedy and Parakh were both charged with trafficking after specifically seeking out sex with an underage girl, according to KGW.

Kennedy is facing a Class A trafficking charge and, if found guilty, could spend between 15 and 60 years behind bars and have to pay a $50,000 fine. He is currently in a county jail with bond set at $50,500.

According to WLTV, Kennedy responded via text to an ad placed by an undercover agent. He then received a text back in which he was made aware that two underage girls would be present. He haggled with the agents and finally agreed on a price of $100 for half an hour of sex with both of the girls.
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Fire

Police investigate firebombing at Google Maps office


CBS SF Bay Area
Fri, 20 May 2016 20:59 UTC
google office
Two incendiary devices ignited a fire late Thursday night at the offices of digital giant Google, damaging a Google Earth demo car and leaving a large singe mark on one of the buildings, authorities said.

Mountain View firefighters were called to the massive complex on Salado Drive at about 10:52 p.m.

The fire was set at one of the more well-known landmarks, the Google Street View car parked at 1501 Salado Drive in Mountain View, where the Google Maps team is based.
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Books

Portland schools ban textbooks that question climate change

Shasta Kearns Moore
Portland Tribune
Thu, 19 May 2016 20:19 UTC
portland school meeting
© pps.netPortland Public Schools board member Mike Rosen (center) at the May 17 board meeting.
In a move spearheaded by environmentalists, the Portland Public Schools board unanimously approved a resolution aimed at eliminating doubt of climate change and its causes in schools.

"It is unacceptable that we have textbooks in our schools that spread doubt about the human causes and urgency of the crisis," said Lincoln High School student Gaby Lemieux in board testimony. "Climate education is not a niche or a specialization, it is the minimum requirement for my generation to be successful in our changing world."

The resolution passed Tuesday evening calls for the school district to get rid of textbooks or other materials that cast doubt on whether climate change is occurring and that the activity of human beings is responsible. The resolution also directs the superintendent and staff to develop an implementation plan for "curriculum and educational opportunities that address climate change and climate justice in all Portland Public Schools."

Comment: The "science" of man made global warming has been thoroughly exposed as fraudulent but it's not surprising that indoctrination centers schools would push such lies on their students. The global warming myth fits in quite well with all the lies taught about history, health, civics, etc.

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Pistol

Breaking: White House on lockdown - gunshots fired in area


Sputnik
Fri, 20 May 2016 19:56 UTC
White house US government
© George Skidmore/Flicker
The White House is on lockdown after shots appear to have been fired in the area.

The suspect approached a Secret Service checkpoint at 17th and E Streets, brandished a weapon and the agents engaged with him. He was shot in the abdomen and taken into custody, a law enforcement source told CNN.

The press corps has been told to shelter in place, then were moved to the basement after reports of shots fired at the corner of West Executive and Pennsylvania avenues.


The location is inside the pedestrian area between the West Wing and the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.
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Handcuffs

Inmate dies in prison custody and is buried; no one tells his family

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Fri, 20 May 2016 19:33 UTC
jail cell
© Jenevieve Robbins/Reuters
A family is now heartbroken after attempting to get in touch with their incarcerated son only to find out that he'd died months prior and had been buried without any word. To make matters worse, the prison never conducted an investigation into his death, and the family has still yet to receive a cause of death.

The family of the deceased, Lonnie Hamilton, received this horrible news earlier this month after unsuccessfully trying to call him, write him, and eventually going to the state's correctional website. When they logged into the website to see if he'd been transferred, Hamilton's family was shocked to find that he was listed as "deceased."

They thought it was a horrible joke; unfortunately, it was not.
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