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"Something dark going on": Fear of offending trans people ruining healthy debate, says radical feminist

RT
Thu, 23 Nov 2017 11:00 UTC

A radical feminist has accused public institutions of "reprehensible cowardliness" after being no-platformed by university students at King's College London. Heather Brunskell-Evans was due to deliver a speech on pornography and female sexuality.

The research fellow at King's College London (KCL), who is also a spokeswoman for the Women's Equality Party, had her speech cancelled amid concerns it would breach the institution's "safe space" policy. It was called off after she was quizzed on the Moral Maze show, a Radio 4 series, on the definition of gender, along with two transgender activists and a psychotherapist.

Questioning school and youth groups' policy of encouraging children to define themselves as trans if they feel such, Brunskell-Evans told The Times that KCL students cancelled her speech amid concerns her views on "transgender health ... would violate the student union's 'Safe Space' policy."

Toxic cloud from waffle factory fire threatens Brussels suburb

RT
Thu, 23 Nov 2017 15:26 UTC

A thick and potentially toxic cloud of smoke has engulfed a Brussels suburb following a huge fire at a waffle factory, officials said. Local residents were told to stay indoors and to keep windows and doors shut.

The incident took place in a Milcamps plant in the Forest municipality, less than 1km from the center of the Belgian capital. "The fire has caused a thick plume of smoke that is potentially toxic," Forest Mayor Marc-Jean Ghyssels said, as cited by De Morgen newspaper.

Local authorities advised the town residents to keep windows and doors shut, and to stay indoors. Some 200 students from a local school and employees from nearby companies were evacuated. "A significant amount of smoke is visible and we have asked [the local] population to close doors and windows, and to stay inside," police said, as cited by RTBF.

UK families facing the longest fall in living standards since records began

RT
Thu, 23 Nov 2017 15:07 UTC

Britain is on track for the longest period of falling living standards since records began, a think tank has warned. Its analysis shows Chancellor Hammond's budget will drive up inequality and see families suffer their biggest squeeze since the 1950s.

The Resolution Foundation, a think tank which focuses on how to bolster living standards, said the stark downgrade of economic growth revealed by the Chancellor on Wednesday means household disposable income is now set to fall until 2020. It also found the poorest third are set for an average loss of £715 per year over the coming five years, while the richest third stand to gain £185 on average.

"Following years of incremental changes, yesterday the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) handed down the mother of all economic downgrades pushing up borrowing for the Treasury," director of the Foundation Torsten Bell said. "While Philip Hammond chose to take a relaxed approach to additional borrowing, families are unlikely to do so when it comes to the deeply troubling outlook for their living standards that the Budget numbers set out.

Billionaire Peter Thiel pursuing a bid to buy Gawker, the website he helped bankrupt

RT
Thu, 23 Nov 2017 15:50 UTC

Venture capitalist Peter Thiel is reportedly pursuing a bid to buy Gawker.com, a website he helped topple by funding a clandestine legal battle against its parent company.

The billionaire complained in court documents filed Wednesday that administrators overseeing the sale of the site are"maintaining selective secrecy over the process," and are discriminating against his bid based on his history with the publication, according to Buzzfeed.

The roots of the dispute between the site and Thiel is believed to hark back to 2007, when Gawker published a story questioning the sexuality of the Facebook board member. When a sex tape involving former professional wrestler Hulk Hogan, real name Terry Bollea, appeared on the site in October 2012, Bollea launched a lawsuit against Gawker Media. Following Bollea's victory and award of $140 million in damages, and Gawker's subsequent bankruptcy over its inability to pay, it emerged that Thiel had spent millions of dollars to help fund Bollea's legal challenge.

Professor conducted illegal herpes vaccine trial at Illinois hotels - report

RT
Thu, 23 Nov 2017 00:55 UTC

A US researcher aiming to develop a herpes vaccine conducted illegal trials during which he injected people in hotel rooms and at a house on the island of St. Kitts, according to a new investigation.

William Halford, a former associate professor at Southern Illinois University (SIU), began his first "trial" in 2013. But the setting wasn't a university laboratory or a room at a hospital - it was a Holiday Inn Express and a Crowne Plaza Hotel located 15 minutes away from the college, according to an investigation by Kaiser Health News.

Halford, who died of cancer in June, administered his experimental shots to at least eight herpes patients on four different occasions in the summer and fall of 2013. The volunteers were injected with a virus he had created, according to emails from seven participants and interviews with one participant.

In multiple email exchanges between Halford and the participants, seen by Kaiser, he asked them to send photographs of rashes, blisters and other reactions they might have received as a result of the injections.

Why people believe in Russiagate: They lack self-awareness

Caitlin Johnstone
Medium
Mon, 20 Nov 2017 14:52 UTC

I recently watched a former Hillary Clinton aide trying to prove in front of his large social media audience that the Sanders supporter who was arguing with him was actually a Russian bot using an improvised Turing test.

This is the new normal.

Remember last year when Rep. Adam Schiff accused Fox's Tucker Carlson of "carrying water for the Kremlin" for asking questions about the Russian hacking narrative and we couldn't believe our ears? This is just standard behavior now. Democrats have been so deeply saturated in toxic Russia hysteria that you routinely see political discourse stopped dead in its tracks by accusations of someone being a Russian bot or Kremlin agent. They've been propagandized into thinking it's normal, so they don't think twice about leveling that obnoxious, conversation-ending accusation with no evidence whatsoever in order to shut down anyone who questions their assertions.

A former Daily Show producer recently tried to kick off a smear campaign against Redacted Tonight for being "Russian propaganda", then started accusing everyone who objected to this oafish behavior of being "paid people and bots". She was so locked into the establishment echo chamber that she could not understand how people could possibly take issue with what she was doing, asking in a (since deleted) post how her McCarthyite smears were even a controversial take.

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TSA implements new security measures just in time to make Thanksgiving travel even more of a nightmare

RT
Thu, 23 Nov 2017 14:30 UTC

Millions of travelers are expected to endure endless lines this holiday weekend as the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) implements new security measures at airports across the country.

The TSA estimates there will be more than 26 million passengers traveling through airports between November 17 and 29, a five percent increase from last year. The Sunday after Thanksgiving is expected to be one the five busiest days in TSA history, with a total of 2.64 million passengers and crew expected to pass through security that day, the agency said.

The O'Hare and Midway International Airports in Chicago are expected to be among the busiest in the nation, with more than 1.9 million passengers expected over the weekend, according to the Chicago Department of Aviation.

The weekend will also mark the first major holiday after the TSA announced new screening procedures that require passengers to "remove electronics larger than a cell phone from their carry-on bags and place them in a bin with nothing on top or below" for X-ray checks in standard lanes.

Newly-appointed TSA Administrator David Pekoske said the security measures could lead to "a slight increase in wait times."

"The procedure is new," Pekoske said, according to Politico. "It's new to passengers. It's somewhat new to our screeners."

Brutal MS-13 gang stab man over 100 times and ripped out his heart

NBC News4
Wed, 22 Nov 2017 10:37 UTC

As many as 10 members of the gang MS-13 stabbed a man more than 100 times in a Maryland park, ripped out his heart and buried him, officials say.

Court documents released Wednesday reveal gruesome details about the killing of a man officials in Montgomery County still have not been able to identify.

Miguel Angel Lopez-Abrego, 19, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder.

A ranking gang member told police Lopez-Abrego was the first person to stab the victim, court documents say.

The informant said that he, Lopez-Abrego and eight other MS-13 gang members lured the victim to Wheaton Regional Park this spring. For about two weeks, they planned how to get the man to go from the Annapolis area to Wheaton because they planned to kill him and dispose of his body, the informant told police.

Lopez-Abrego helped dig a grave for the victim and used a walkie-talkie to tell the other gang members when the victim had arrived, the informant told police.

Another verified Twitter lunatic runs amok

Brian Hendrix
Halsey News
Wed, 22 Nov 2017 10:27 UTC

Twitter's been on a rampage of drawing clear battle lines. They've been deleting verified check-marks and entire accounts of people who can be considered right-wing, while allowing every single liberal and SJW, like Emily Lindin, free reign on the platform to curse, insult and form hate mobs against people with whom they disagree.

This is no conspiracy theory; this is out in the open, broad daylight, and can be tracked. And it's the reason that people like Emily Lindin say stupid sh*t on the platform. They know there are no consequences for doing so.

The Story of the Insane Emily Lindin

This is a story in three parts.

Part one: It all starts when Emily Lindin leaves a provocative tweet, in which she's virtue signaling to people a variation of "listen and believe" and damn the torpedoes because men's lives being ruined over false allegations is something she seems to find hilarious. Lying women? Protect them. Innocent male victims? Burn them!

She calls it an unpopular opinion, and speaking of people in totality, just like the nonsense wage gap numbers are calculated, she's correct. Though speaking for her bubble, and the people who like and retweet this, it's not only a popular opinion but the exact right way to look at it. Men are horrible! She's a feminist, a sex-positive feminist! This means she's against slut-shaming and fatherhood and masculinity in any form and believes women need to dominate. She's not just a modern feminist; she's a radical feminist.

Comment: As Piers Morgan says, "She is the very worst kind of radical feminist, the kind that hates men so much it blinds her even to basic fairness and justice."

Comment: There are many of her ilk on Twitter, who get a free pass to violate all the rules and spout complete nonsense while others get shutdown.

See also: The Trials of Masculinity, Feminism and the Modern Male

Today, feminists want all the rights, and none of the responsibilities, none of the more problematic side of life and reality. The last 40 or so years of feminist nonsense has not worked to uplift and empower women, or teach them about their rights, responsibilities and prerogatives in human society vis a vis the human mating and reproductive cycle. Instead the feminist movement has invested its time in promoting women as both super-heroines who can do anything, and passive victims that can do nothing.

Mother wants her child's school to take 'Sleeping Beauty' off the curriculum because the princess does not give consent to be kissed

Alex Matthews
Daily Mail
Thu, 23 Nov 2017 12:03 UTC

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Sarah Hall, from North Shields, claimed Sleeping Beauty promotes an 'inappropriate sexual' message to young children.

A mother has demanded her six-year-old son's school bans Sleeping Beauty because the princess does not give consent to be kissed.

Sarah Hall, from Northumberland Park, North Shields, claimed the fairytale promotes an 'inappropriate sexual' message to young children. She argued the story is irresponsible because it teaches children it is acceptable to kiss women while they are asleep.

The mother of two said: 'I think it's a specific issue in the Sleeping Beauty story about sexual behaviour and consent. 'It's about saying is this still relevant, is it appropriate?'

Ms Hall is worried about what message the tale, which features a Prince waking up a Princess by kissing her, sends to impressionable youngsters. The 40-year-old left a comment in her son's record book, and contacted the school to ask if it could be taken out of circulation for younger classes.

She said: 'In today's society, it isn't appropriate - my son is only six, he absorbs everything he sees, and it isn't as if I can turn it into a constructive conversation. 'I don't think taking Sleeping Beauty books out of circulation completely would be right.

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Society's Child

"Something dark going on": Fear of offending trans people ruining healthy debate, says radical feminist

Toxic cloud from waffle factory fire threatens Brussels suburb

UK families facing the longest fall in living standards since records began

Billionaire Peter Thiel pursuing a bid to buy Gawker, the website he helped bankrupt

Professor conducted illegal herpes vaccine trial at Illinois hotels - report

Why people believe in Russiagate: They lack self-awareness

TSA implements new security measures just in time to make Thanksgiving travel even more of a nightmare

Brutal MS-13 gang stab man over 100 times and ripped out his heart

Another verified Twitter lunatic runs amok

Mother wants her child's school to take 'Sleeping Beauty' off the curriculum because the princess does not give consent to be kissed

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