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Dangerous doors & fire hazards: Norway's largest naval ship flagged as unsafe & banned from sailing


RT
Wed, 25 Dec 2019 18:30 UTC
The KNM Maud.
© The Norwegian Armed Forces / forsvaret.no
The KNM Maud.
The Royal Norwegian Navy's newest ship cannot leave the dock as numerous safety hazards were discovered aboard the NATO vessel after being commissioned in May with much fanfare.

Having cost 2.2 billion Norwegian krones (US$246 million), the logistics and supply ship KNM Maud is Norway's largest naval vessel ever built. It has an operating room, a hospital for 44 beds and a hangar for two helicopters.

However, the ship cannot embark on voyages after global risk-assessment firm DNV GL deemed it too unsafe to sail. The ban will last until many of the vessel's deficiencies are fixed, which is expected to happen sometime next year.

After examining the KNM Maud and interviewing the crew, the company rolled out a laundry list of red flags. Among the problems uncovered are the heavy doors which pose a "danger" to the crew, and the absence of proper lighting on board, which makes it hard to walk around the ship in the dark.
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UN gender equality body thrashed by Twitterati after 'Motherhood is a PENALTY' tweet on Christmas Day


RT
Wed, 25 Dec 2019 19:06 UTC
thai church virgin mary
© AFP / Lillian Suwanrumpha / File
Thai Catholics of Vietnamese descent praying to a statue of the Virgin Mary at the Phra Mae Prachak Church.
UN Women is probably seeking the prize for the most tone-deaf tweet of the year. How else can their "motherhood penalty" post on the day many Christians celebrate the most important birthday on the calendar be explained?

The picture posted on Christmas cites things like "limited maternity benefits" and "gender pay gaps" as punishment for "being a mother." The penalty was issued by one 'P. Atriarchy' and has been in force since the "beginning of time."

Comment: More on the elite's covert war on humanity:

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The Left turns on its own: Trans woman Debbie Hayton accused of transphobia for expressing the truth that we are biologically attached to our sex at birth

Sophia Narwitz
RT
Tue, 24 Dec 2019 17:02 UTC
trans debate Debbie Hayton
© Facebook / Debbie Hayton
Transwoman Debbie Hayton supports biological reality.
A transgender woman has been accused of transphobia for wearing a T-shirt saying she is really still a man. The obnoxious side of the LGBT community is again trying to cancel someone for the "crime" of sharing a different view.

A transgender physics teacher by the name of Debbie Hayton is facing disciplinary action and potential expulsion from her seat on the Trades Union Congress LGBT committee, for stating trans people are biologically attached to the sex they are born-as.

The incident initially occurred in July when Debbie wore a T-shirt which read "trans women are men. Get over it." As is to be expected in today's culture, it didn't go over well and complaints claiming she was "propagating hate speech against the trans community" were sent to the general secretary of the TUC.
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Notre Dame rector: Fragile cathedral might not be saved

Jeffery Schaffer and Angela Charlton
AP
Wed, 25 Dec 2019 18:17 UTC
Notre Dame
© AP Photo/Thibault Camus
Notre Dame cathedral is pictured in Paris, Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2019. Notre Dame Cathedral is unable to host Christmas services for the first time since the French Revolution, because the Paris landmark was too deeply damaged by this year's fire.
The rector of Notre Dame Cathedral says the Paris landmark is still so fragile that there's a "50% chance" the structure might not be saved, because scaffolding installed before this year's fire is threatening the vaults of the Gothic monument.

Monsignor Patrick Chauvet said restoration work isn't likely to begin until 2021 — and described his "heartache" that Notre Dame couldn't hold Christmas services this year, for the first time since the French Revolution.

"Today it is not out of danger," he told The Associated Press on the sidelines of Christmas Eve midnight Mass in a nearby church. "It will be out of danger when we take out the remaining scaffolding."

"Today we can say that there is maybe a 50% chance that it will be saved. There is also 50% chance of scaffolding falling onto the three vaults, so as you can see the building is still very fragile," he said.

The 12th-century cathedral was under renovation at the time of the accidental April fire, which destroyed its roof and collapsed its spire. With no more roof to keep the massive stone structure stable, the cathedral's surviving vaults are crucial to keeping it standing, but they are vulnerable.
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Bill aims to open lawsuit window for adult sex abuse suits

Ryan Tarinell
AP
Wed, 25 Dec 2019 18:31 UTC
Brad Hoylman
© AP Photo/Hans Pennink, File
In this Wednesday, June 19, 2019, file photo, state Sen. Brad Hoylman, D-New York, speaks in the Senate Chamber at the state Capitol in Albany, N.Y. Hoylman introduced the Adult Survivors Act in the autumn of 2019, saying survivors of adult sex abuse deserve their day in court.
Churches, youth groups and schools were hit by a tsunami of lawsuits in 2019 after New York gave survivors of childhood sexual abuse a one-year window to sue over allegations ordinarily barred by statutes of limitation.

Now, some lawmakers want to open the same window for people abused as adults, a move that could lay a pathway for people to file additional lawsuits against some high-profile men targeted in the #MeToo movement.

Sen. Brad Hoylman introduced the Adult Survivors Act this autumn, saying survivors of adult sex abuse deserve their day in court.

"For too long, justice has been out of reach for adult survivors of sexual crimes," Hoylman said in a statement.

The proposal would give abuse victims a temporary, one-year period to sue over abuse that occurred when they were 18 years or older. After the year window was up, the state statute of limitations would be back in effect.

New York is one of 15 states where rules have been enacted to extend or suspend the statute of limitations for certain past claims. The Child Victims Act has led to hundreds of lawsuits filed by people who say they were abused as children but were previously barred from suing.
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Mysterious drones flying nighttime patterns over northeast Colorado leave local law enforcement stumped

Shelly Bradbury
The Denver Post
Tue, 24 Dec 2019 08:28 UTC
eastern plains colorado
© RJ Sangosti, The Denver Post
A farmhouse sits abandoned on County Road 24 in Yuma County on May 1, 2017. Law enforcement officials say they are stumped by nocturnal drone flights over Yuma and Phillips counties in northeast Colorado.
Phillips County sheriff says there are at least 17 of the aircraft that fly between 7 and 10 p.m. nightly

A band of large drones appears to be flying nighttime search patterns over northeast Colorado — and local authorities say they don't know who's behind the mysterious aircraft.

The drones, estimated to have six-foot wingspans, have been flying over Phillips and Yuma counties every night for about the last week, Phillips County Sheriff Thomas Elliott said Monday.

The drones stay about 200 feet to 300 feet in the air and fly steadily in squares of about 25 miles, he said. There are at least 17 drones; they emerge each night around 7 p.m. and disappear around 10 p.m., he said.

"They've been doing a grid search, a grid pattern," he said. "They fly one square and then they fly another square."

The sheriff's office can't explain where the drones are coming from or who is flying them. The estimated size and number of drones makes it unlikely that they're being flown by hobbyists, Undersheriff William Myers said.

The Federal Aviation Administration told the sheriff's office that it had no information on the drones, and the U.S. Air Force said the aircraft aren't theirs, Elliott said.
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Millennials are turning to magic & astrology for 'empowerment' because liberal ideology failed them

Robert Bridge
RT
Wed, 25 Dec 2019 01:00 UTC
Harry Potter tour guide Greta Clarke
© REUTERS/Neil Hall
Harry Potter tour guide Greta Clarke poses for a portrait at her home in London
Increasingly open to astrology, magic and sorcery while happy to virtue signal on behalf of any PC-saturated issue, the entire millenial generation seems wholly unequipped to face the daunting challenges of adulthood.

They may not know how to change a flat tire, cook a simple meal or stop living in their parents' basement, but Millennials - the tech-savvy demographic typically born between the years 1981 to the early 2000s - seem increasingly preoccupied with subjects of a less practical nature ever since graduating from college.

Whether it is symptomatic of Trump Derangement Syndrome, some kind of New Age mysticism or perhaps spending four long years studying impractical liberal arts courses, it's hard to say. But many people are looking to empower themselves with alternative techniques once ridiculed as sheer quackery.

This week, for example, NBC published a lengthy essay that celebrated the rise of interest in astrology "in an insecure world."
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Merry Christmas in Syria: Liberated from terror by Russia, oldest Christian country celebrates birth of Jesus


RT
Wed, 25 Dec 2019 11:44 UTC
syria christmas
© AFP
Syrians gather for the lighting of the Christmas tree in Aleppo's Aziziyah neighbourhood on December 21, 2019.
Flashy firework displays and bright lit Christmas trees popped up all across Syria to celebrate Christmas, a joyous day not only for the Christian minority, but to people of other faiths living in the country.

Christians were among the minority groups persecuted by various Islamist militant forces, which tore Syria into pieces since 2011. The central government has managed to regain control over most of the country, and life there is slowly returning to normality. That includes celebrating Christmas openly and without fear of sectarian violence.

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Confidence Building: BJP launches social media campaign to reach out to minorities


Republic TV
Tue, 24 Dec 2019 19:34 UTC
Modi CAA media campaign
Hours after Prime {Minister} Narendra Modi gave an in depth clarification on the federal government's stand concerning the Nationwide Register of Residents (NRC) from the Ramlila Maidan, the Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP) has launched an enormous public consciousness marketing campaign on the social media and thru its cadres to achieve out to the Muslim neighborhood and dispel their doubts on the difficulty.

The BJP's clarification has been necessitated after a slew of protests broke out throughout the nation, just a few of which additionally witnessed violence. The CAA and NRC have develop into emotive points among the many Muslim neighborhood. Sources acknowledged it is for that reason that the federal government and the BJP have determined to achieve out to the neighborhood to dispel any myths concerning the difficulty. The CAA grants Indian citizenship to non-Muslims who entered the nation from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan until December 31, 2014.

Comment: Mean while, a German student who was studying at IIT-Madras was asked to leave the nation for participating in the Anti-CAA protests in violation of his visa terms.
A second source told ThePrint that a "discreet inquiry" was initiated against Lindenthal after they received complaints about him carrying a poster that said, '1933 to 1945; We Have Been There', pointing to Nazi rule in Germany.

The source also said officials from FRRO did visit Lindenthal after they found out about his alleged proximity to a Marxist group, Chinta Bar, which organised the protest at IIT-Madras. The source said the officials asked him about the purpose of his visit, checked his document and asked him why was he at the protest.

The official, however, said they did not ask Lindenthal to "leave the country" and also did not give him anything in writing.

"He was told that he has committed a violation and his visa could be cancelled. He then told us that he had already booked tickets because he was anyway leaving for home for Christmas," the source said.

Speaking to The Indian Express, however, Lindenthal said he was given "oral directions" to leave the country and so he returned to his hostel, booked his tickets and left.


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Periodic Exercise: India approves funds for census and population survey

Aftab Ahmed
Reuters
Tue, 24 Dec 2019 00:00 UTC
India's national population register exercise
India's federal cabinet approved funds on Tuesday for a census and population survey to be conducted in 2020, amid fears that the database could be used to build a controversial citizens register that has been opposed by hundreds of thousands of people who have taken to the streets.

The government approved 87.54 billion rupees ($1.23 billion) for conducting the census and 39.41 billion rupees for updating the National Population Register (NPR).

The census collects data on population, economy activity, social and cultural aspects, migration and demography, down to the lowest administrative level.

Comment: While talking to media, Indian home minister clarified that no documents needs to be submitted for NPR. He mentioned:
  • People can submit the information in Govt. created App.
  • The information asked in NPR is not useful for NRC and both are based on different constitutional laws. This needs to be done with census as it is done in 2011.
  • it is used for planning of development programs( like education, gas, toilets, housing etc.) that benefit the citizens.
  • This is standard procedure that had been done in many states before and needs update every decade (to accomodate people's life changes -deaths, births, movement from one state to other etc.)
  • Some of the information gathered is needed for the activity of mapping the houses to be started in April 2020. There is no change in the time table and it is as per the plan.
  • CAA mainly impacts states adjacent to Bangladesh( West Bengal and North Eastern states). But, the protests in other states is created by opposition parties for their politics. There is no provision to remove the citizenship in CAA.


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