Society's Child
As a gay man who lives in the United States, I have no direct stake in Britain's intra-LGBT politics. ("LGB/T" might now be a more apt term.) But I am surprised that it has taken this long for such a formal breach to occur. The same pressures have been building everywhere, and it was only a matter of time before someone acted on them.

Logo and flags of Bayer AG are pictured outside a plant of the German pharmaceutical and chemical maker in Wuppertal, Germany August 9, 2019.
Bayer, the inventor of aspirin and owner of Yasmin birth control and Claritin allergy relief brands, is widely expected to eventually buy itself out of the litigation, with analysts currently estimating the size of a future settlement at $8-$12 billion.
It put the increase in claims down to a significant increase in plaintiff-side television advertising spending.
"The number of lawsuits, first and foremost, doesn't tell us anything about their merits," Chief Executive Werner Baumann said in a media call. "The number of the lawsuits in no way, shape or form is indicative of the amount of the settlement."
The company said it was still constructively engaged in a mediation process ordered by a federal judge.
Bayer, which last year acquired Monsanto for $63 billion, revealed the spike in claims as it reported a 7.5% rise in third-quarter adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) to 2.3 billion euros ($2.6 billion), in line with market expectations.
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The packed train was traveling from Karachi to the city of Rawalpindi in eastern Punjab province when a gas cylinder blew up inside.
The cylinder was booked by a group of passengers who were using it to boil eggs on a gas stove when the blast happened. Cooking oil added fuel to the blaze, which spread rapidly, completely burning three cars.
Firefighters were deployed to the site, and military helicopters were flown in to airlift the injured.

Long Beach firefighters responded to shooting at a residence on the 2700 block of 7th Street.
Officials said those injured were seven women and two men ranging in age from 20-49. They warned that the number of wounded people could rise because they didn't know if people at the party had brought themselves to the hospital.
Five of the injured people were considered "immediate," or with injuries that paramedics believe could potentially be life-threatening, Jake Heflin, public information officer for the Long Beach Fire Department, said.
"California's burning while the deniers make a joke out of the standards that protect us all. The blood is on your soul here and I hope you wake up," former governor Jerry Brown snarled, during a House Oversight Committee hearing on the Trump administration's recent decision to bar California from setting its own auto emissions standards. "This is not politics, this is life, this is morality...this is real," he continued.
Brown likened Trump and his fellow climate change skeptics to believers in "flat Earth," claiming climate change is directly responsible for the wildfires currently engulfing swathes of California. While at least two of this year's fires are actually believed to have been caused by malfunctioning PG&E power lines - like last year's devastating Camp Fire, which wiped out an entire town - Brown has glossed over the notoriously mismanaged utility to pin the blame on hotter, drier weather. The only solution? "Limiting our carbon pollution," he told reporters in 2015, defying climate scientists who suggested that that year's fires were not caused by anything of the sort.
Comment: Talk about passing the buck:
- While California burns uncontrollably, lunatic state politicians waste billions on useless energy schemes
- California: Lights are out, the plan all along
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) had victims' family members hold up photographs of the loved ones they lost in two deadly 737 Max jet crashes that killed more than 300 people and said they were in "flying coffins" due to Boeing's decision to conceal MCAS stall-prevention software problems from the pilots.
He told Muilenberg that the crashes were "not only preventable" but also "the result of a pattern of deliberate concealment."
Other members of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation pressed Muilenberg about what and when the aviation giant knew about problems with the software.
"Did you read this document and how did your team not put it in front of you, run in with their hair on fire, saying we've got a real problem here," Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said about the instant messages between two pilots which suggested Boeing knew about problems with its MCAS software in 2016 - more than two years before the first accident. "How did that not happen, and what does that say about the culture of Boeing?"
Comment: Flawed analysis, failed oversight, greed: How Boeing & FAA certified faulty 737 MAX
The FAA, citing lack of funding and resources, has over the years delegated increasing authority to Boeing to take on more of the work of certifying the safety of its own airplanes.[...]
But several FAA technical experts said in interviews that as certification proceeded, managers prodded them to speed the process. Development of the MAX was lagging nine months behind the rival Airbus A320neo. Time was of the essence for Boeing.[...]
"There was constant pressure to re-evaluate our initial decisions," the former engineer said. "And even after we had reassessed it ... there was continued discussion by management about delegating even more items down to the Boeing Company."[..]
"There wasn't a complete and proper review of the documents," the former engineer added. "Review was rushed to reach certain certification dates." [...]
Minimizing MAX pilot transition training was an important cost saving for Boeing's airline customers, a key selling point for the jet, which has racked up more than 5,000 orders.
In a mostly party-line, 25-15 vote, the Republican-controlled Senate handed a political victory to the first-year governor, who made good on a campaign promise by suspending Israel within days of taking office in January.
But with the vote, the Senate defied the recommendation of its own special master, who held a two-day hearing in June, concluding that DeSantis failed to show enough evidence to remove Israel for the tragic mistakes of his deputies.
The special master urged the Senate to reinstate Israel.
But the Cambridge University team told BMJ Open patients must check with a doctor before changing medication. Some patients will not be able to switch and should not be made to feel guilty, they add.
What are greener inhalers?
There are more than five million people with asthma in the UK. The research looked at the environmental impact of different inhaler medications prescribed to patients on the NHS in England. In 2017, about 50 million inhalers were prescribed. Seven out of every 10 of them were metered-dose inhalers - the type that contain greenhouse gases. The gas - hydrofluoroalkane - is used as a propellant to squirt the medicine out of the inhaler.
What difference would it make?
Metered-dose inhalers account for nearly 4% of NHS greenhouse gas emissions, according to experts. The researchers estimate replacing even one in every 10 of these inhalers with a more environmentally friendly type (dry powder inhalers) would reduce carbon dioxide equivalent emissions by 58 kilotonnes. That's similar to the carbon footprint of 180,000 return car journeys from London to Edinburgh, they say.
Comment: We might wish to consider the level of absurdity that climate change nonsense has reached 'peak climate change nonsense'. But sadly, there's probably a whole lot more to come. In the meantime, just admire the total nonsense in this article. And if you're in the mood for more of that kind of thing:
- Don't blame meat for the climate crisis, say European livestock farmers
- Propaganda alert: UN climate change report wants humans to 'eat less meat' to 'save the earth'
- Meat tax proposed to combat climate change by two political parties in Germany
- Australia: Farmers' fury after Labor MP blames 'meat-eating MEN' for climate change
- Idiotic: New Oxford study suggests taxing meat by 40% to save the planet from climate change
- War Against Paleo People: Global Warming Fascists want to 'fix the climate' by taking meat off the menu
The bombshell claim by Dr. Michael Baden, a former New York City medical examiner who has worked on high-profile cases during a five-decade medical career, is certain to reignite suspicions that surfaced immediately after Epstein, who was awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges involving underage girls, was discovered dead in his cell on Aug. 10. Baden, who was hired by Epstein's brother and observed the autopsy, told Fox News its findings are more consistent with homicidal strangulation than suicidal hanging. He noted that the 66-year-old Epstein had two fractures on the left and right sides of his larynx, specifically the thyroid cartilage or Adam's apple, as well as one fracture on the left hyoid bone above the Adam's apple, Baden told Fox News.
"Those three fractures are extremely unusual in suicidal hangings and could occur much more commonly in homicidal strangulation," Baden, who is also a Fox News contributor, said.
While there's not enough information to be conclusive yet, the three fractures were "rare," said Baden, who's probed cases involving O.J. Simpson, President John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, record producer Phil Spector, New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez and many others.
"I've not seen in 50 years where that occurred in a suicidal hanging case," the 85-year-old medical legend told Fox News.
Comment: In other Epstein news, WeAreChange and The Dollar Vigilante recently released footage of their 'raid' of Epstein's island:

A wounded Palestinian is evacuated during a protest at the Israel-Gaza border fence.
In February, Antonio Guterres, the United Nations secretary-general, highlighted the crisis, saying that the near two million Palestinians of the besieged strip "remain mired in increasing poverty and unemployment, with limited access to adequate health, education, water and electricity". But the mainstream media does not always succeed in telling Palestine's contemporary story with accuracy and empathy.
On Thursday, in the Scottish city of Glasgow, experts discussed the media's role in covering one of the most pressing and divisive issues in international politics.
Comment: As Israel tightens the screw on anti-Semitism, reporters must choose between self-saving perception management or risk jobs and reputation smears to follow their conscience and present the public with the facts. The good ones know the difference. The ones worth reading act on it.












Comment: It's interesting that there seems to be a growing sentiment among the LGBs to separate, at least ideologically, from the Ts. The recent rise of Meghan Murphy in the news cycle in Canada (and worldwide) is one such example. The simple fact of the matter is that the radical remodeling of the concept of gender and complete denial of biological reality the trans activists are fighting for is a threat to everything our society has been built upon. Previous fights for women's rights, gay rights and even racial equality, is all threatened by these new kids on the block and their insane religious worldview.
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