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Feminism: An obituary

Belinda Brown
A Voice for Men
Sun, 24 Jun 2018 13:51 UTC
wooman screaming
It is high time that feminism was recognised as a hate movement, that its ideology was felt as an embarrassment and being a feminist was seen as a badge of shame.

While the article by Suzanna Danuta Walters has been reassuringly and roundly condemned from all quarters - feminists appear to have been embarrassed into silence. Perhaps they are mortified that a mainstream, high profile, feminist academic has shouted from the rooftops those thoughts they knew to keep private and has made unambiguous the association between feminism and hate.

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10 illegal-immigrant MS-13 gang members charged in murder of 2 Virginia teens

Greg Norman
Fox News
Sat, 23 Jun 2018 15:03 UTC
Edvin Escobar Mendez, Sergio Arita Triminio
© Fairfax County Police Department
Edvin Escobar Mendez, 17, of Falls Church, left, and Sergio Arita Triminio, 14, of Alexandria, were found dead last year. Eleven MS-13 gang members have been charged Friday in their deaths.
Eleven MS-13 gang members - all of whom are illegal immigrants except one - are facing life in prison after being charged in the kidnappings and deaths of two teens whose bodies were dug up in a Virginia park last year.

The ages of the male gang members charged Friday ranged from 20 to 27. All of them are from El Salvador and only one - who is believed to have fled the country - is not in police custody, according to NBC Washington.

Police uncovered the bodies of 17-year-old Edvin Escobar Mendez and 14-year-old Sergio Arita Triminio at Holmes Run Park in March 2017 after receiving a tip.

The two teens disappeared just weeks apart the prior year.

After Mendez vanished and was reported missing by his family, his brother tracked down Triminio - one of his friends - who revealed to him that Mendez was "abducted or killed" because the MS-13 members thought he was allied with a rival gang.

Two days after that reported conversation, Triminio, who lived near Holmes Run Park, disappeared while taking out the trash.

"He never came back," his mother said.

Comment: These people are animals.

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Mixed-race family requests company rename ice cream flavor to make it more inclusive

Hank Berrien
The Daily Wire
Thu, 21 Jun 2018 14:45 UTC
choco vanilla ice cream
A Louisiana mother of six children and foster mother to other children has a mixed-race family whose children thought that Blue Bell Ice Cream should change the name of a popular chocolate and vanilla ice cream flavor, The Great Divide, to "Better Together."

As Fox News reports, "Traci Schmidley, her husband, and their brood of six children were sitting down for an ice cream party at their Louisiana home to celebrate the end of a hard week." Schmidley wrote, "We always buy Blue Bell, and this time we chose the flavor The Great Divide, which has chocolate on one half and vanilla on the other half."

Schmidley's older son, 10, joked that the Great Divide flavor reminded him of the Civil War. Schmidley recalled, "The line down the middle of the carton reminded him of the Mason Dixon line, and the name reminded him of a time in history when our nation appeared to be irrevocably divided. He looked at our table and saw a mixture of both black and white people, not divided on one side or another like in the ice cream but gathered around the table together."

Comment: That's all very cute but it's ice cream, people. A summer treat can't be enjoyed without dreaming up racial implications? Get over yourselves!

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US sends wooden caskets to N. Korea in preparation for return of US war dead


RT
Sun, 24 Jun 2018 14:45 UTC
Repatriation ceremony of UN Command and South Korean soldiers, April 2016
© POOL / Reuters
Repatriation ceremony of UN Command and South Korean soldiers, April 2016.
The US military has sent 100 wooden caskets to the border of North Korea in preparation for the repatriation of the remains of US soldiers killed in the Korean War.

More than 36,000 US troops died in the 1950-1953 war. Around 7,800 US military personnel still remain unaccounted for, according to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.

The consignment of "100 wooden temporary transit cases" was confirmed by US Forces Korea, who said that the coffins, built in Seoul, had been transferred to the Joint Security Area (JSA) on Saturday so the remains can be moved in "a dignified manner" when the time comes.

"We are also moving United Nations Command (UNC) flags to the JSA and also trestles on which the boxes can stand as we prep them ready to move them to Osan," a US Forces Korea (USFK) official said.
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Manchester police allow teenage boy to stay in paedophile's house to protect covert investigation


RT
Sun, 24 Jun 2018 11:56 UTC
Police line
Manchester police let a teenage boy stay in the house of a suspected paedophile and gangster for two hours in order to "protect an undercover investigation."

During the 2011 'Nixon' operation that was carried out to monitor suspect Dominic Noonan, police officers reportedly witnessed a 13-year-old boy walking into the paedophile's house, but were told not to take any action by their superiors, the Times has revealed.

Police officers at the scene were concerned and asked senior staff how they could intervene. It was suggested that a local officer could come in under the pretext that they had received a public call. But that was not carried out.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) chose not to take legal action against the officer in charge, Dominic Sally, and his colleague, when the incident was first revealed to internal investigations by a whistleblower in 2014. On the contrary, Sally has since been promoted to the head of counterterrorism policing in northwest England.
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Currency war can end global US dollar dominance and those who own gold have power


RT
Sun, 24 Jun 2018 14:34 UTC
Gold bars
© Leonhard Foeger / Reuters
The world is facing a currency war and the only hedge against the crash of the US dollar is real gold, a precious metal analyst has told RT. With geopolitical power shifting from West to East, US dominance may be ending.

One such sign is the recent repatriation of gold from the United States. Countries such as Turkey, Germany, the Netherlands have been moving the bullions home. The reason is the Cold War is over and countries don't see Russia as a threat anymore, says Claudio Grass, an independent precious metals advisor and Mises Ambassador.

"Central banks moved their gold because they felt threatened by the USSR and saw the USA as their natural ally. The fact that central banks are repatriating their gold shows that this has changed. It also implies that they don't see Russia as a bigger threat than the USA any longer. Europe stands in the center of this geopolitical power shift and some countries obviously believe it's wise to store the gold in their home countries," he told RT.

Comment: There does seem to be some currency maneuvering going on in preparation for something:

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American towns are using zoning codes to create gun store-free zones

Awr Hawkins
Breitbart
Fri, 22 Jun 2018 14:31 UTC
gun ban
© Joel Pollak / Breitbart News
Cities and townships are using zoning restrictions to create "gun-store-free zones" around the country. This includes over 20 such zones in California alone.

According to the Trace, a gun control journalism outlet, such use of zoning codes allows cities to "effectively ban firearm stores" in lieu of Congressional refusal to pass more gun laws.

Piscataway, New Jersey, is one of the latest townships to adopt this approach. They have no federally licensed firearms dealers in their township, and the town Council hopes to use a zoning resolution to keep any licensed dealers from setting up shop in the future. Their resolution, according to the Trace, "bans gun stores from opening within 1,000 feet of schools, parks, health care facilities, and other sensitive locations. While the new zoning law does not explicitly forbid gun stores from opening in the suburb, it makes dealers subject to conditions that almost no location meets."
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Fifteen fake transgenders get booted from Mexican elections

David Agren
The Guardian
Fri, 22 Jun 2018 14:24 UTC
Mexican transgenders
© Patricia Castellanos/AFP/Getty Images
Muxes speak during a press converence in Oxaca state, Mexico, on 7 May 2018.
Mexico's electoral tribunal has disqualified 15 male candidates who pretended to be transgender to get around gender parity rules in the southern state of Oaxaca.

The indigenous Zapotec community of the isthmus of Tehuantepec has long recognized a third gender of transgender people known as muxes - who are born with male bodies, but identify as neither male or female.

Electoral rules in Oaxaca allow muxes to occupy candidacies designated for women.

On Friday, the tribunal - the final referee in political and electoral matters - ruled that the disqualified candidates were not known to be muxes before the candidate registration period.

Two others candidates who had been disqualified by state electoral officials on similar grounds were ruled eligible, however, as they had consistently identified as transgender. The tribunal ordered the candidacies vacated by the disqualified candidates be filled by women.
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White Privilege Versus Racial Paranoia

Steve Salerno
Quillette
Sat, 23 Jun 2018 00:01 UTC
black lives matter
If you are white and enjoy any level of public platform - politician, professor, policy wonk - and you use said platform to address social issues, you are certain to be accused of seeing life through the distortive prism of white privilege. Black leaders and social justice firebrands will make the allegation in the most austere terms - witness that spicy moment during a recent debate on political correctness when Michael Eric Dyson bluntly labeled his conservative adversary, Jordan Peterson, a "mean, mad white man." Even those on the Left, such as Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, have not enjoyed immunity from this charge. Privilege is framed as a condition that, once acquired, can never be cured. However, it defies credulity to propose that Dyson and other leading social justice voices are alone in seeing life for what it really is, stripped of all parochial subtexts. Common sense suggests the existence of a complementary malady afflicting the accusers: racial paranoia, one might call it.

If some are inclined to miss the unfairness around them, is it not equally possible that others see unfairness where none exists? Nowhere in the public arena do paranoia and privilege collide more explosively than on the topic of unequal treatment under the law. In making their case, black advocates uniformly cite the videotaped incidents that by now have become an eponymous part of the national conversation on race: Eric Garner, Walter Scott, Philando Castile. All gave oxygen to Black Lives Matter, and later to the NFL's take-a-knee protests. Surely videos can be dramatic exhibits in mounting a case for extrajudicial violence. What a video cannot do, of course, is show us whether excessive force is excessively applied or racially motivated. For that we must turn to facts and figures.

Comment: The current discourse around race has reached a level of absurdity rarely if ever seen previously. The SJWs are seeing the world through a completely distorted lens where 'facts' lose all meaning and simply serve an agenda.

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U.S. Median Age Hits All-Time High of 38; Record 86,248 Are 100 or Older

Terence P. Jeffrey
CNS News
Fri, 22 Jun 2018 00:00 UTC
US elderly population
© Keith Getter/Getty Images
Elderly Portion of US Population Continues To Increase, Census Reports.
The median age of the U.S. population hit an all-time high of 38.0 in 2017, according to data released by the Census Bureau on Thursday.

The number of people in the United States who were 100 years old or older also hit a record in 2017, according to the Census Bureau data, climbing to 86,248.

The Census Bureau each year publishes estimates of the median age and year-by-year ages of the U.S. population as of July 1 of the previous year.

"The nation as a whole experienced a median age increase from 37.2 years to 38.0 years during the period from 2010 to 2017," the Census Bureau said in a press release.

Comment: How are Americans doing w.r.t rest of the world?
Median age by countr 2016
© CIA World Factbook
Median age by country, CIA World Factbook 2016 est.


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