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Audience member at Iowa campaign event asks Elizabeth Warren 'why she took the DNA test'

Elizabeth Warren
© John Minchillo/Associated Press
Elizabeth Warren is making her first campaign tour around Iowa, a crucial state for the probable 2020 competitor, but was quickly forced to address an issue that's likely to hurt her in the race for the White House.

During a Saturday morning event in Sioux City, audience members were given the chance to ask the Massachusetts senator questions. The first? A query about her decision to take a DNA test and release the results on her Native American ancestry.

"Why did you undergo the DNA testing and give Donald Trump more fodder to be a bully?" an audience member asked the Democrat.

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Tucker Carlson: The American Dream is dying because of the economic and cultural attack on males

Tucker Carlson
America's middle class is in decline because American families are collapsing. A study in 2015 found that falling male wages cause a quarter of the decline in marriages.


Comment: Oppression against males in the West (as strange as it may sound) is now so ubiquitous and pervasive that it behooves one to take a step back and really see - based on the plethora of data now available to us - that it is, in fact, a societal scourge on the well-being of men and women alike.


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'Gender parity in torture': Twitter unimpressed as Maddow celebrates CIA's trio of war harpies

Gina Haspel

CIA Director, "Bloody" Gina Haspel
Women now control all three directorates of the CIA - a historic milestone for gender equality in the clandestine regime change/assassination sector. Rachel Maddow seems to be celebrating, but why is Twitter full of party poopers?

CIA Director Gina Haspel has appointed a fellow female comrade, Cynthia "Didi" Rapp, as deputy director for analysis, making her the highest-ranking analyst at the agency. Elizabeth Kimber was named the first female deputy director for operations in December, joining Dawn Meyerriecks, who has been the agency's deputy director for science and technology for several years now. As a result, the main branches of the CIA - operations, analysis and science and technology - are now headed by women.

NBC News toasted the agency's all-female leadership with an article detailing the new "sisterhood of spies". MSNBC's Rachel Maddow - usually busy hallucinating about Vladimir Putin hiding under her bed - rushed to tweet the story, in an apparent endorsement of the new trifecta of unaccountable girl power.

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Great March of Return's 42st Friday: IDF wounds 46 civilians, including 7 children, 4 journalists and 6 paramedics

Gaza 41st Friday March Return
On Friday evening, 04 January 2019, Israeli forces wounded 46 Civilians, including 7 Children, 4 Journalists and 6 Paramedics, in an excessive use of force against the peaceful demonstrators in the eastern Gaza Strip though the demonstrations have scaled down for the tenth week consecutively and despite absence of most means usually used during the demonstrations since the beginning of the Return and Breaking the Siege March 9 months ago.

According to observations by PCHR's fieldworkers, Though the demonstrators were around between tens and hundreds of meters away from the border fence, the Israeli forces who stationed in prone positions and in military jeeps along the fence continued to use excessive force against the demonstrators by opening fire and firing teargas canisters at them, without the later posing any imminent threat or danger to the life of soldiers and despite the prevailing calmness for the 9th week since the Great March of Return started on 30 March 2018.

Comment: Israel is impervious to all of the tepid condemnations for their crimes against humanity and so far there haven't been enough countries willing to risk courting the displeasure of the psychopathic state to force change.


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Trans teens who bind their breasts are causing irreparable damage to their body

breast binding
© Wikipedia
I remember when I was a little girl reading about the female toddlers in China who had their feet bound to keep them small and stop them from growing. The Chinese people would do this because they believed small feet on a female were attractive. The end result was a horrific, painful deformity that crippled the woman for life. The same magazines would show us the Africans who stretched their lips and necks with large metal rings. The neck stretching was incredibly dangerous because after the neck had stretched past a certain point, it could no longer hold up the weight of the head without the heavy metal bangles. I remember staring at the photographs of deformed feet and necks without being able to understand why people would harm themselves in such a way. I was grateful I had not been born in such a place. Try to watch this video without physically shuddering.


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NAACP: Earthquake warning signs in Portland are racist and due to white supremacy

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© Don Ryan
In this Dec. 13, 2014 file photo the Portland skyline is visible on the west bank of the Willamette River in Portland, Ore. The city of Portland has released a map and database showing about 1,800 unreinforced masonry buildings that may be vulnerable to shaking during an earthquake if they are not structurally retrofitted. These buildings were generally constructed before the 1960's using brick with little to no steel reinforcement in the walls.
A new city policy requiring public signs on brick buildings warning they might collapse in an earthquake is part of a long history of white supremacy aimed at forcing black people to move out of neighborhoods, the NAACP of Portland, Oregon, says.

The group on Thursday decried the policy affecting some 1,600 unreinforced masonry buildings that are on average 90 years old, many in areas with a predominantly black population, The Oregonian/OregonLive reports .

The policy "exacerbates a long history of systemic and structural betrayals of trust and policies of displacement, demolition, and dispossession predicated on classism, racism, and white supremacy," the group said.

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Russian flag left out of host country Canada's thank-you message for World Junior Hockey Championship

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© Getty Images / Kevin Light
Social media users were left fuming after organizers of the World Junior Hockey Championship in Canada failed to include the Russian flag in a closing message to fans and hosts at the tournament.

The championship ended in Canada on Saturday, when Russia picked up bronze by beating Switzerland before Finland defeated the US in a thrilling gold medal game.

The official World Juniors social media account sent out a message to fans and locals in the host cities of Vancouver and Victoria, thanking them for making the tournament "one for the history books."

Comment: This was likely the work of some brainwashed social media account managers copying their superiors, because the injustice Russian sportsmen are subject to show that sport is just another avenue for the West to attack Russia: And check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: Olympic Politics, Aleppo 2.0, and Russiagate to Nowhere


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Professor finds college students are defining what it mean to be an adult differently

adult gamers
When does one become an "adult"?

Legally speaking, one is an "adult" when they turn 18. That would mean since college students are between the ages of 18-22, virtually every college student is, in turn, an "adult." But some college students aren't so sure of this.

Rebekah Fitzsimmons, a Georgia Tech University English professor who taught a course in fall 2016 titled, "Adulting: Coming of Age in 21st Century America," told Business Insider recently that during the course she asked students to say at what stage in life one becomes an "adult."

Their responses were shocking.

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Science teacher who fed a sick puppy to a snapping turtle found not guilty of animal cruelty

Robert Crosland
© Eli Lucero, Press pool photographer
Robert Crosland was charged with one midemeanor count of animal cruelty.
A science teacher who ignited worldwide controversy after feeding a puppy to a snapping turtle was found not guilty of animal cruelty Friday evening.

A panel of six jurors delivered the verdict to a packed courtroom after deliberating less than 30 minutes following the two-day trial in Franklin County. Robert Crosland, the Preston Junior High School teacher, smiled as the verdict was read and afterward spoke publicly for the first time since the March ordeal.

"I would just like to thank all of the support that I've received," he said. "I'd like to thank this community for staying behind me. It's really what got me through all of this."

Crosland fed the sick puppy to a turtle named Jaws at Preston Junior High School after hours in front of a few students. Following an investigation by Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden, Crosland was charged with misdemeanor animal cruelty.

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Cruel and unusual punishment: Human rights org states that detained Saudi woman activist was threatened with naked footage, others tortured

Saudi Arabian activists

Some of the female Saudi Arabian activists detained by Saudi authorities - From right to left: Samar Badawi, Aziza al-Yusuf and Lajin al-Hathall
A detained female Saudi activist was filmed naked by her captors, who then used the footage against her in interrogation.

London-based Al-Qst Human Rights Organisation revealed the shocking details of the Saudi woman's suffering in a statement yesterday, detailing how the woman in question was deliberately filmed naked by her captors, who then displayed the images on the table in front of her during her interrogation.

According to Al-Qst, one of the interrogators then asked the woman who would protect her after she was arrested and whether human rights organisations would be able to help her. The statement added that the interrogators also flogged other female detainees and electrocuted them, highlighting that three are suffering from severe torture scars, tremors and weight loss.

Comment: This isn't the first time we've read reports of the Saudis inflicting psychological and physical torture upon its activists and dissidents: