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Sessions' firing brings on flash protests and triggers Hollywood meltdown


RT
Thu, 08 Nov 2018 22:12 UTC
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Protesters outside the White House in August
With the midterms over, the anti-Trump #resistance didn't have to wait long for its next extinction-level meltdown. Jeff Sessions' forced resignation gave protesters and celebrities the perfect excuse to plan a day out.

Sessions resigned on Wednesday, at Trump's request, a move that came after months of speculation. Trump had publicly said several times that he was unhappy with Sessions' performance, and accused the former AG of failing to "take control" of the Justice Department.

The left's response was immediate. By Wednesday night, protests had been planned in 900 cities for the following day. MoveOn.org, a Democrat organization originally formed to oppose the impeachment of Bill Clinton in 1998, released a statement saying "Trump putting himself above the law is a threat to our democracy, and we've got to get Congress to stop him."

Comment: Pretty rich coming from the people who flipped out when he was hired in the first place! How times have changed.

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Ambulance-chasing Texas lawmaker celebrates midterm win from jail


RT
Thu, 08 Nov 2018 22:32 UTC
Barack Obama, Ron Reynolds
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Texas representative Ron Reynolds with former President Barack Obama
During a night of midterm election celebrations across the United States on Tuesday, one Texas state representative met the news of his reelection in a rather unusual location: a jail cell.

Ron Reynolds, a Democrat from Missouri City, claimed victory in Texas House District 27 after running (unopposed) from behind bars. Reynolds secured nearly 50,000 votes after being booked into the Montgomery County Jail on September 7.

The Democrat is serving a year-long sentence after being convicted in 2015 on numerous counts of 'barratry' - illegally soliciting clients for his law firm, more commonly known as 'ambulance chasing.'
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Outrage at govt. advisor's date rape comments sees right-wing come to his defense


RT
Thu, 08 Nov 2018 22:18 UTC
Roger Scruton
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Roger Scruton
Calls to sack philosopher Sir Roger Scruton, from an unpaid government role, have grown after quotes stating there was "no such crime" as date rape were attributed to him.

Buzzfeed News unearthed that in a 2005 lecture, Scruton dismissed both date rape and sexual harassment, saying the latter was just "impoliteness," claiming that there was a "huge injustice" against those accused.

During the lecture, titled: 'Sexual Morality for Heathens,' at Rice University in Houston, Texas, the philosopher said that women who made date rape allegations were withdrawing consent retrospectively, because "the whole thing went too quickly."

On Saturday, Housing secretary James Brokenshire announced that Scruton was appointed on the government's new buildings commission.

Comment: Outrage at comments from 13 years ago, but silence on present day support of Saudi atrocities in Yemen. These PC police need to get their priorities straight.

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'Anti-Islamic' terror suspect 'plotted to blow up mosque to avenge death of Manchester Arena child'


RT
Thu, 08 Nov 2018 22:09 UTC
Saffie Roussos
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A member of the clergy holds a picture of Saffie Roussos at her funeral at Manchester Cathedral
An 'anti-Islamic' terrorist suspect was planning to blow up a mosque in response to the killing of an eight-year-old girl who died in the Manchester Area bombing in 2017, a court has heard.

Steven Bishop, 40, from Thornton Heath, south London, is accused of tampering with fireworks with the intention of setting them off with a detonator he purchased from the dark web, a collection of websites that operate on an encrypted network.

It is alleged that the south Londoner planned the attack to avenge the death of eight-year-old Saffie Roussos, the youngest victim of the 22 killed by the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) bombing of an Ariana Grande concert, in the Manchester Arena, on May 22, 2017.
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Clueless Swedish Foreign Minster tells anti-PC academic Jordan Peterson 'crawl back under your rock'


RT
Thu, 08 Nov 2018 19:42 UTC
Jordan Peterson
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Jordan Peterson in Stockholm, Sweden on November 6, 2018
Sweden's Foreign Minister has issued a rather undiplomatic request to Canadian academic and internet sensation Jordan B. Peterson, thrilling a Stockholm audience by expressing her desire to see him fade from the public eye.

Speaking on a "pro-women" panel in Sweden's capital on Wednesday, Margot Wallström said that Peterson should "crawl back under the rock he came from," adding that she "can't grasp why people waste so much time on that man." The snide remarks were reported by local media that covered the event.


Comment: At least she's being honest about her ignorance - she has absolutely no idea why people are paying so much attention to Jordan Peterson because Wallström has likely only formed her opinion based on the most fallacious and superficial coverage of his work. It's enough for her to know that Peterson doesn't buy into her feminist shtick - but not why.


Peterson recently visited Sweden to promote the international release of his new book, '12 Rules For Life, an Antidote to Chaos.' The book has been slammed by the left as conservative snake oil and an affront to feminism.

Comment: Sweden is burning and ignoramuses like Wallström continue to pour gasoline on the fire.

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Study finds 8% of Germans approve of dictatorship as form of government


RT
Thu, 08 Nov 2018 21:42 UTC
man in suit
© REUTERS / Alex Grimm
Under certain "circumstances," some 8 percent of Germans are OK with a dictatorship as a form of government, while even more would welcome a leader ruling Germany with "a strong hand," research has found.

While the majority of the country surely bears no nostalgic feelings about such forms of governance, a new study suggests some are not against the idea. A report compiled in cooperation with two major think tanks found that as many as 7.9 percent of Germans believe that dictatorship would serve national interests better than anything else "under certain circumstances." Some 18.6 percent were described as latent supporters of the idea.

Dictatorship basically comes with a cult of personality, and this is where eleven percent of respondents said there should be a leader "who rules Germany with a strong hand for the good of all."

The survey shows slightly a similar ratio in questions targeting other sensitivities of the country's past. Some eight percent said "Nazism had its own positive sides" while slightly more agreed that Hitler could have become "a great statesman" if he did not unleash the Holocaust.

Comment: You'll probably find similar numbers in any nation. As Lobaczewski observes in Political Ponerology, the number of people supporting a totalitarian system usually number in the single-digits to mid-teens, with more tacit support ranging from the teens to low-twenties. Germany seems fairly normal in that regard.

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America's people are ignorant of what real freedom is

Stella Morabito
The Federalist
Tue, 06 Nov 2018 00:00 UTC
american flag waving
Too many Americans don't really know what our rights and freedoms mean.

Americans are suffering from a knowledge gap about what American freedom is about, and it's one of the most important underlying factors in what divides Americans today.

If you are immersed in the 24/7 news cycle, you can't help but reflect on the wide and wild political divide in America. Just as surely, as a reasonable American, you are asking reasonable questions: Why can't people just live and let live? What's with all of the agitation, the mindless street theater and street violence, the harassment of people in restaurants and in their homes?

Why would a member of Congress (Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters) actually rile up crowds to engage in more such harassment? Why do some people seem to prefer eternal hostility over talking to one another? Why is an uncorroborated accusation, or politically incorrect view, or an incorrect pronoun enough to get someone fired or expelled, even jailed? What's going on? Don't people want to get along?
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Liberals more likely to use social media to promote political ideologies than other groups

Monica Anderson, Jingjing Jiang
Pew Research
Mon, 05 Nov 2018 17:40 UTC
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Many Americans have been politically active on social media, from encouraging others to take action to using issue-related hashtags. And liberal Democrats were more likely than other ideological and partisan groups to have engaged in these activities, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of survey data collected this summer.

Liberal Democrats are especially likely to use social media to mobilize others or find like-minded groups. Some 44% of liberal Democrats say they have used these sites in the past year to encourage others to take action on an issue that was important to them, while a similar share (43%) have taken part in a group that shares their interest in a cause, according to a survey of U.S. adults conducted May 29-June 11, 2018. These shares fall to around a third or fewer among conservative or moderate Democrats and among conservative, moderate or liberal Republicans.

Comment: This finding isn't surprising and goes to show how the liberal echo chamber is strengthened through the availability heuristic and availability cascade.

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Calendar

At this point, why not? Trans-age 69yo Dutch man wants to identify as 49yo to get more jobs, Tinder dates

Koeh Berghuis and Chris Kitching
UK Mirror
Wed, 07 Nov 2018 17:45 UTC
Emile Ratelband
© CEN
Emile Ratelband says he doesn't get any messages when he lists his real age on Tinder
A single pensioner has launched a legal battle to change his age so he can go back to work and meet more women on Tinder.

Emile Ratelband, 69, wants to be recognised as a 49-year-old because he feels 20 years younger, but his application was refused by his local authority.


Comment: Obviously a human rights violation...


He argues that if transgender people are legally allowed to change sex, he should be allowed to give himself a new birth date because doctors told him he has the body of a 45-year-old.


Comment: Well, he's kind of right.


The entrepreneur and self-help guru, from the Netherlands, is suing his local authority after they refused to amend his age on official documents.

Mr Ratelband's case has now gone to a court in the city of Arnhmen in the eastern Dutch provice of Gelderland.

He was born on March 11, 1949, but says he feels at least 20 years younger and wants to change his birth date to March 11, 1969.
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Mr. Potato

Age of entitlement: Transgender 'woman' files human rights complaints against estheticians for refusing to wax his genitals

Amanda Prestigiacomo
The Daily Wire
Wed, 07 Nov 2018 16:43 UTC
body wax
© RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post via Getty Images
Sixteen Canadian women have had human rights complaints filed against them by a male-to-female transgender individual for alleged "gender identity" discrimination after they refused to wax his male genitalia.

John Carpay, a lawyer and the president of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, is representing two of the women who are being targeted by the complainant, who is referred to only as "JY." In accordance with an order from the BC Human Rights Tribunal, the transgender individual must be kept anonymous.

"In recent months, JY approached 16 Vancouver-area female estheticians who only serve women, requesting a 'Brazilian' bikini wax on his groin area," revealed Carpay on Tuesday. "In spite of the fact that JY is able to obtain a Manzilian in Vancouver, JY has filed 16 complaints against these women at the BC Human Rights Tribunal, claiming discrimination on the basis of 'gender identity.'"

The female estheticians in question only serve women and do not offer so-called "Manzilians" - the male equivalent to a Brazilian wax. "The procedure for providing a man with a 'Manzilian' is quite different, using a different kind of wax and a different technique," noted the lawyer.

Comment: This is ridiculous for so many reasons. Note that the women's defense is based on the fact that Manzilians have different techniques and materials from Brazilians. In other words, the women can claim they are not qualified to give a Manzilian. Isn't that beside the point? Women have the right not to handle a man's genitals if they don't want to. Or at least, they should, which is probably why so many estheticians offer woman-only procedures. But in the age of diversity and inclusivity, that is a crime, apparently.

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