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Social media joins Pam Anderson in slamming 'smutty' Australia PM for abandoning Assange

Pamela Anderson
© AP Photo / Paul A. Hebert/Invision
Appearing on a radio program, the Australian prime minister publicly chuckled at the Baywatch icon's proposal, claiming in response that he has a number of "envoys" close at hand who would eagerly deal with the Pamela issue.

Blonde and Blonder star Pamela Anderson has expressed her indignation over the Australia's reluctance to bring Julian Assange home in an open letter to Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, calling him "smutty" and "lewd." Writing on the US website The Daily Beast, the Baywatch star took a dig at Morrison over his response to her calls to assist in freeing the WikiLeaks founder.

"You trivialised and laughed about the suffering of an Australian and his family. You followed it with smutty, unnecessary comments about a woman voicing her political opinion," Anderson wrote, stressing that everyone deserves "better from our leaders, especially in the current environment."

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Hearts

Amanda Knox gets engaged to longtime boyfriend

Amanda Knox
© Instagram
Amanda Knox
Amanda Knox, whose legal drama gripped the world after she was accused of murder in Italy, is engaged to her longtime boyfriend.

Knox and her now fiance, Christopher Robinson, have dated for three years and announced their engagement in a video posted on social media Friday.The proposal happened at their home in Seattle, and featured an alien theme. It starts with Knox going outside after she hears weird noises and finding what looks like a meteorite with blue light glowing in the backyard.

As Knox laughs nervously and asks what's happening, she finds a tablet with an overview of their love story. "I had been thinking about this, but it's already happened in the future," Robinson says in the video. "It's happening now. I don't have a ring, but I do have a big rock. Will you stay with me until the last star in the last galaxy burns out and even after that? Amanda Marie Knox, will you marry me?"

Comment: Also see: Amanda Knox, Raffaele Sollecito and the nightmare of Italian justice


Jet3

WWII-era fighter plane crashes during re-enactment show in Texas

plane crash texas
A vintage fighter plane that saw action during WWII and the Korean War crashed into a parking lot during a re-enactment show in Texas. Two people died in the incident.

The P-51 Mustang went down on Saturday in Fredericksburg, Texas, during the WWII Pacific Combat Program event organized by the National Museum of the Pacific War. The museum later confirmed on Twitter that both passengers on the plane, one of which was a military veteran, had been killed.

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said the vintage airplane was completely destroyed and several automobiles were also damaged. The names of the victims have been withheld, and it is also unclear what may have caused the crash.

Comment: The number of aircraft accidents of all kinds appears to be on the rise: And check out SOTTs exclusive report from 2015 documenting the phenomenon: Mayhem and Maydays in May skies: Aircraft crashes, accidents, glitches, mishaps and near misses


Megaphone

Eugenics anyone? Human rights groups call on Canadian government to end coerced sterilization of indigenous women

forced sterilization
© Jemal Countess/Getty Images
The issue of forced sterilization of vulnerable people, including indigenous women, is a very serious violation of human rights,’ said Jane Philpott, minister of indigenous services
Human rights groups are calling on Canada to end the coerced sterilization of indigenous women, as a growing number of victims seek to join a class action lawsuit against government and medical professionals.

At least 60 women have joined a pending class action lawsuit against doctors and health officials in the province of Saskatchewan, seeking compensation for the violation of their rights.

The lawsuit has yet to be certified by a judge, but this week Amnesty International announced it will lobby the UN committee against torture to increase pressure on the Canadian government to act.

"Ultimately, this is about women who are supposed to have the right to make decisions about their bodies, having that right taken away from them," said Amnesty's Jacqueline Hansen.

Comment: From Wikipedia:
Eugenics (/juːˈdʒɛnɪks/; from Greek εὐγενής eugenes 'well-born' from εὖ eu, 'good, well' and γένος genos, 'race, stock, kin')[2][3] is a set of beliefs and practices that aims at improving the genetic quality of a human population.[4][5] The exact definition of eugenics has been a matter of debate since the term was coined by Francis Galton in 1883. The concept predates this coinage, with Plato suggesting applying the principles of selective breeding to humans around 400 BCE.

Frederick Osborn's 1937 journal article "Development of a Eugenic Philosophy"[6] framed it as a social philosophy-that is, a philosophy with implications for social order. That definition is not universally accepted. Osborn advocated for higher rates of sexual reproduction among people with desired traits (positive eugenics), or reduced rates of sexual reproduction and sterilization of people with less-desired or undesired traits (negative eugenics).

Alternatively, gene selection rather than "people selection" has recently been made possible through advances in genome editing,[7] leading to what is sometimes called new eugenics, also known as neo-eugenics, consumer eugenics, or liberal eugenics.

While eugenic principles have been practiced as far back in world history as ancient Greece, the modern history of eugenics began in the early 20th century when a popular eugenics movement emerged in the United Kingdom[8] and spread to many countries including the United States,Canada[9] and most European countries. In this period, eugenic ideas were espoused across the political spectrum. Consequently, many countries adopted eugenic policies with the intent to improve the quality of their populations' genetic stock. Such programs included both "positive" measures, such as encouraging individuals deemed particularly "fit" to reproduce, and "negative" measures such as marriage prohibitions and forced sterilization of people deemed unfit for reproduction. People deemed unfit to reproduce often included people with mental or physical disabilities, people who scored in the low ranges of different IQ tests, criminals and deviants, and members of disfavored minority groups. The eugenics movement became negatively associated with Nazi Germany and the Holocaust when many of the defendants at the Nuremberg trials attempted to justify their human rights abuses by claiming there was little difference between the Nazi eugenics programs and the U.S. eugenics programs.[10]In the decades following World War II, with the institution of human rights, many countries gradually began to abandon eugenics policies, although some Western countries, among them the United States and Sweden, continued to carry out forced sterilizations.

Since the 1980s and 1990s, when new assisted reproductive technology procedures became available such as gestational surrogacy (available since 1985),preimplantation genetic diagnosis (available since 1989), and cytoplasmic transfer (first performed in 1996), fear has emerged about a possible revival of eugenics.

A major criticism of eugenics policies is that, regardless of whether "negative" or "positive" policies are used, they are susceptible to abuse because the criteria of selection are determined by whichever group is in political power at the time. Furthermore, negative eugenics in particular is considered by many to be a violation of basic human rights, which include the right to reproduction. Another criticism is that eugenic policies eventually lead to a loss of genetic diversity, resulting in inbreeding depression due to lower genetic variation.



Hammer

Mourning Stan Lee fans incensed after Bill Maher claims Trump could only get elected in comic book-loving country

Comedian Bill Maher (left), Stan Lee (right)
© Reuters / Lucas Jackson / Mario Anzuoni
Comedian Bill Maher (left), Stan Lee (right)
While many are still reeling after Stan Lee's death earlier this week, HBO host Bill Maher lashed out at his legacy, claiming that comics don't make Americans smart enough for adult life - and maybe that's why they elected Trump.

HBO's Real Time host turned legions of comic-book fans against him with his comments last Saturday - days after the legendary Marvel creator died at the age of 95. Ironically, Maher took part in the Stan Lee-produced 'Iron Man 3.'


Gold Coins

Meet Swissindo, the debt cult that wants to save the world with a mountain of gold

Swissindo offers people an end to all their money worries, but there's a cost...
swissindo sino
© Vice
The King of Kings was holding court by the time we arrived at his royal residence, a lived-in one story home in a partially abandoned housing development on the outskirts of a small coastal city in West Java, Indonesia. Soegihartonotonegoro, Sino or "M1" to his followers, leaned forward in his throne, an ornately carved, but well-worn leather and wood chair, and told the man to ignore the letters from the bank warning that his house was on the verge of foreclosure.

His debt had already been wiped clean, paid for by the UN Swissindo World Trust International Orbit, a global debt-relief cult that claims to be the sole possessor of vast fortune of gold and platinum weighting 78 million tonnes. Swissindo had provided the man with a "M1 Master Bond," that they claimed would wipe his debt clean. All he had to do was print the document out and hand it to the branch manager of his local bank. The rest would take care of itself.


Comment: Soegiharto Notonegoro, a.k.a. Sino, a.k.a. M1, has since been arrested.

It's difficult to consider this guy and his organization a 'puppet master', given the transparency of the fraud, and the socio-economic conditions that give rise to beliefs in such fantastic vehicles of salvation.

Here's a screenshot from their website's homepage:

swissindo



Question

Canada: Ontario Progressive Conservative Party passes resolution to debate recognition of gender identity

Tanya Granic Allen

Tanya Granic Allen
The Ontario PC Party has passed a resolution to debate whether or not the party should recognize gender identity.

The vote happened Saturday morning, during the party's three-day convention in Toronto.

The resolution says gender identity theory is "A highly controversial, unscientific 'liberal ideology'; and, as such, that an Ontario PC Government will remove the teaching and promotion of 'gender identity theory' from Ontario schools and its curriculum."

Comment: This pretty much sums up the political climate at the moment: Conservative party says they're going to debate teaching gender identity in schools. Liberals freak right out. Why on earth would anyone in favor of free speech and working through contentious issues by talking them out object to a debate?!

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Footprints

Migrant caravan taxes Tijuana as it struggles to cope with 'tsunami' of migrants aiming for the US

fence/migrants
© Sky News
Migrants at the Tijuana, Mexico border
The mayor of Tijuana says he faces six months of arrivals as central American migrants are met with razor wire and helicopters.

The Mexican city where the migrant caravan making its way through central America has reached the US border is unable to cope with the "avalanche" of people, officials have said.

Tijuana's mayor says the influx that has already seen nearly 3,000 people arrive in the last two days will continue for at least six months and may not stop.

Donald Trump issued a series of warnings about the caravan during the midterm election campaign, saying that many of those heading to the US to seek asylum are "bad people", and telling them on Twitter to "turnaround".

The US president claimed he would "call up the US military" to close the southern border - a request that was later turned down by the Pentagon, which said it would only allow logistical support for customs officials and border protection police.

Tijuana mayor Juan Manuel Gastelum said 2,750 migrants had arrived in his city so far but Mexico's federal government estimated the number could reach 10,000. He said: "No city in the world is prepared to receive this - if I'm allowed - this avalanche. It is a tsunami. There is concern among all citizens of Tijuana."

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Star of David

Ultra-orthodox Jews beat up flight attendant to land plane to keep Shabbat Law

ulta-orthodox_jews
© REUTERS / Ronen Zvulun
According to Jewish religious law, Shabbat is observed beginning just before sunset on Friday evening, with devout Jews refraining from using electronic devices, electricity or travelling by plane on the day.

Ultra-orthodox passengers on board two Israel-bound El Al planes that took off from New York on Thursday assaulted flight attendants out of fear that they would arrive after the beginning of the Jewish Shabbat.

Both flights were delayed by hours due to a snowstorm in New York that resulted in the delay or cancellation of hundreds of flights.

After the planes finally took off, a number of passengers grew angry despite the fact that the El Al crew assured they would arrive before sundown Friday when Shabbat begins, according to a passenger on one of the planes, Roni Meital.

Meital posted a short video on Facebook and a lengthy caption to explain what had happened, criticising the behaviour of the religious individuals:

"After six hours of flying, I suddenly heard screaming and saw a flight attendant crying after she was hit, pushed amid threats they would break open the door to the cockpit. I found myself standing and protecting flight attendants who were crying and who just wanted to catch their breath after the behaviour toward them," she wrote.

Bad Guys

Over 100 workers begin 'heavy cleanup' after train carrying propane derails in Byromville, Georgia

train derailment georgia
© Montezuma Police Department
It happened on Highway 90, causing piles of debris and about 30 train cars to come crashing to the ground -- everyone within a half mile radius was told to 'get out.'

Around 7 a.m. on Saturday, dozens of people in Byromville woke up to police officers knocking on their doors -- instructing them to leave their homes immediately after a train carrying propane tanks de-railed off a bridge.

It happened on Highway 90, causing piles of debris and about 30 train cars to come crashing to the ground.

Everyone within a half mile radius was told to 'get out'.

"We were running around yelling, 'oh my gosh,' then we had to rush to get out of the house and everything," said Skylar Towns.