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The Woker: Joaquin Phoenix calls out film industry's 'systemic racism' during BAFTA Award speech

Janelle Griffith
NBC News
Mon, 03 Feb 2020 22:13 UTC

Comment: Christ, first his 'go vegan to save planet' spiel, now this...


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Joaquin Phoenix
Joaquin Phoenix called out "systemic racism" in the movie industry during his acceptance speech at the British Academy Film Awards on Sunday.

Phoenix said he felt a range of emotions as he accepted the best actor award for the title role in the movie "Joker" at the BAFTAs, Britain's equivalent of the Oscars.

"I feel very honored and privileged to be here tonight," Phoenix, 45, said at the start of his speech. "BAFTAs have always been supportive of my career and I'm deeply appreciative."

"But I have to say, that I also feel conflicted because so many of my fellow actors that are deserving don't have that same privilege."

No person of color was nominated in the best acting categories and no woman was featured in the list of nominations for best director.


Comment: Maybe because they weren't as good as...?

RACIST!


Comment: All that public self-abasement about 'privilege', when Phoenix could have just let his work in Joker speak for itself. Still, the crowd of the woke, Brit version of Hollyweird ate it up, though those on the Joker set have said he was difficult and unpredictable to work with. Maybe that's what 40 years of veganism can do to a brain.

Here's the antidote: a British actor recently called BS on 'woke ideology'...
The Terrifying Parable of Laurence Fox's Question Time Appearance
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2 dead, 1 injured in shooting incident at Texas A&M University near Dallas


RT
Mon, 03 Feb 2020 19:16 UTC
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Police tape outside of the Pride Rock residence hall where two women were fatally shot and a toddler was wounded Monday at Texas A&M University-Commerce on Feb. 3, 2020 in Commerce, Texas.
Two women have been killed and a child was injured in a shooting incident at the Commerce campus of Texas A&M University. All classes have been canceled for the day and the campus was told to shelter in place.

Three gunshot victims were reported at the Pride Rock residence hall, which houses freshmen students, on Monday morning. University police were deployed to investigate.
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'Drone' sighting temporarily halts flights at Madrid's Barajas airport - Upon reopening, fighter jet escorts Air Canada plane's emergency landing


Reuters
Mon, 03 Feb 2020 19:03 UTC
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Barajas Airport, Madrid, Spain
Madrid's Adolfo Suarez-Barajas international airport resumed operations after briefly shutting its airspace on Monday due to the presence of a drone in the takeoff area, Spain's transport ministry said.

Spanish airport operator AENA said 26 flights had to be rerouted away from Barajas after the sightings. A transport ministry source said two pilots had detected a drone flying near the takeoff area alongside the airport.

Enaire, Spain's air navigation service provider, said it was gradually resuming normal traffic in coordination with police, who were investigating the presence of drones and monitoring for any further sightings.

"At 2:20 p.m. (1330 GMT) Madrid-Barajas airport capacity has been recovered with 51 landings per hour and 100 total flights," Enaire said in a statement on Twitter.

Comment: The London Gatwick shutdown in Dec 2018 was on and off for days, and it wasn't caused by 'drones'...
UK police: 'Drone' that shut down Gatwick Airport for days last December 'could see what was happening on runways, was eavesdropping on radio communications'
Now, with today's incident at Madrid Barajas Airport, the shutdown could well have simply been caused by the innocuous intrusion of a small civilian-operated drone. After all, the incident lasted just two hours and didn't cause much disruption.

However, when flights recommenced mid-afternoon, this happened:
Air Canada plane completes emergency landing in Madrid after lost landing gear forced fighter jet escort
RT.com, 3 February 2020
An Air Canada Boeing 767 has safely completed an emergency landing at Madrid's Barajas airport after part of its landing gear fell off and entered its engines.

An F-18 fighter jet from the Spanish Air Force was scrambled to escort the stricken plane as it circled Madrid burning off fuel ahead of the landing. Fire engines were seen rushing to the plane after it touched down on the tarmac but no fire was reported.

Video footage recorded by a passenger on board shows the military jet flying alongside the plane, which is reportedly carrying 128 passengers.


According to Spain's main pilot union, SEPLA, the aircraft lost pieces of its landing gear on takeoff from Madrid's Barajas airport. The aircraft was then forced to circle the airport for hours to burn fuel in order to reach the maximum allowed weight to make a safe landing. [...]

Eyewitness video purporting to show the plane flying unusually low over the Madrid suburbs has been uploaded online. According to Flightradar24 the aircraft involved, a Boeing 767-300ER, is about 30 years old.


Scrambling a fighter jet to escort a civilian aircraft as it 'burns off fuel for hours by flying super low over a city'? All because 'an engine ate a wheel'?

Is it standard operating procedure to escort civilian aircraft in cases other than possible terror threats?

Something seems off there.

UPDATE 22:00 CET

Correction: a Spanish military jet was apparently scrambled just to "evaluate the damage done to the landing gear of the aircraft," not to escort the Air Canada plane the whole time it was flying over and around Madrid. Here's Flight AC837's wacky holding pattern, per flightradar24.com:



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Russian PM Mishustin: Coronavirus-infected foreigners to be 'deported' if necessary - Deputy PM later walks back statement

Johnny Tickle
RT
Mon, 03 Feb 2020 12:59 UTC
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A woman walks past the train from Beijing just arrived at Moscow's Yaroslavsky railway station, Russia.
Russia can isolate, quarantine, and deport foreigners struck down with the new Chinese coronavirus. The step was announced on Monday by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin.

However, in the evening, Deputy Prime Minister Tatiana Galikova moved to calm fears of deportation and insisted that all foreign citizens diagnosed in Russia will be admitted for treatment until they recover completely. She stated that after being given the all-clear, and discharged, they "will decide themselves whether to stay in our country or not."

The country reported its first cases on Friday, raising fears that the epidemic affecting neighboring China could prompt a similar health emergency in Russia. However, Mishustin says the situation is currently contained, and there's no need for alarm.

Comment: Govts everywhere are being very indecisive about this Wuhan outbreak. They seem to be genuinely hesitant and uncertain about whether it's potentially The Plague or just 'something to keep an eye on'.

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Chiefs' player celebrates Super Bowl win by paying all adoption fees for local shelter dogs

Elias Marat
The Mind Unleashed
Mon, 03 Feb 2020 12:44 UTC
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The Kansas City Chiefs managed to reach the highest pinnacle of professional sports with their brilliant Super Bowl win, and now one of the team's stars is paying it forward in a big way by helping some of the most vulnerable animals around.

Defensive tackle Derrick Nnadi will pay for the adoptions of all dogs currently available at the Kansas City Pet Project (KCPP), the nonprofit charity announced on Facebook.

The group wrote:
KC WINS! We are so excited to announce that the Kansas City Chiefs defensive tackle, Derrick Nnadi is choosing to celebrate the Super Bowl win by paying for the adoptions of all the adoptable dogs currently at KC Pet Project!

We have had an amazing, season-long, partnership with Derrick and he couldn't have thought of a better ending.
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The gentler sex? Violence by females against men rises in UK

Ann Farmer
Mercatornet
Wed, 29 Jan 2020 00:00 UTC
Charlize Theron in 'Atomic Blonde

Charlize Theron in 'Atomic Blonde"
So why are we glamourising female violence in films and TV?

Domestic violence by women toward family members has risen twice as fast as those by men in the United Kingdom. According to statistics obtained by the Sunday Telegraph under freedom of information legislation, female perpetrators now account for 28 percent of cases of domestic violence - compared to 19 per cent a decade ago.

In a disturbing column in The Telegraph Celia Walden reports that in her own circle of acquaintances she finds that three out of four men have suffered some form, however mild, of abuse from women.

She is not ignoring the fact that most domestic violence is by men on women and that society has turned a blind eye to this for centuries. Indeed, she writes that in the year to March 2019, 1.6 million British women experienced domestic abuse. About two women a week are being killed by a current or former partner just in England and Wales.

As someone who has written about domestic violence against women before and will sadly feel the need to write about it again: I share that outrage. But whataboutery only ever paralyses discussion on and around any subject, and my aim today isn't to question "who are the bigger victims here?" We know that the vast majority anywhere in the world are female. No, I'm more interested in what has prompted this rise in female violence against men.

Comment: See also: Dispelling the myths about sexual abuse: Men are victims too, and women are often aggressors - but rates of violence are still lower than ever

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Rape kit backlog initiative in Missouri sends 1st batch to labs after sitting on a shelf

Ivan Pereira
ABC News
Mon, 03 Feb 2020 05:06 UTC
Rape kit
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An undated photo of sexual assault evidence collection kit.
A batch of rape kits that have been sitting on a shelf in Missouri has been sent to a lab for testing as part of the state's new initiative to clear out its backlog.

"We will move as quickly as we can to get as many kits tested," Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt told ABC News.

Missouri has thousands of rape kits that have not been tested, according to the AG's office, and advocacy groups say they hope this initial effort will help strengthen the efforts -- and, importantly, funding -- to get the remaining kits tested.

The attorney general said his office aims to get 1,250 kits tested over the next few months using a $2.8 million grant from the Department of Justice, which will also help in the prosecution of rape cases throughout the state.
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Louisiana executions stall for a decade amid legal quandary

Melinda Deslatte
ABC News
Mon, 03 Feb 2020 02:20 UTC
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Louisiana cleans its execution chamber at the state penitentiary daily, but it's been more than a decade since a condemned prisoner has laid on the chamber's black-padded gurney to die.

Sixty-eight people sit on Louisiana's death row, with no execution dates set. Though the state historically has been tough on crime and holds the dubious distinction as the nation's incarceration capital, Louisiana seems to be doing very little to carry out its death penalty.

Reaching the 10-year mark since its last execution this month, Louisiana has joined a trend of falling execution numbers across the country. Death chambers in 12 of 29 states with legalized capital punishment have gone unused for more than a decade, said Robert Dunham, executive director of the Washington-based Death Penalty Information Center. Utah will join that list in June.

Louisiana's execution protocols are tied up in litigation, and corrections officials say they can't obtain lethal injection drugs amid pushback from pharmaceutical manufacturers. Not surprisingly, people on opposite ends of the capital punishment debate disagree about the driving forces behind the drop in executions.
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UK: Posting 'anti-vaccine propaganda' on social media could become criminal offence, Law Commissioner says

Mike Wright
The Telegraph
Sat, 01 Feb 2020 21:00 UTC
Prof. Penney Lewis
© Ministry of Justice
Prof. Penney Lewis, who became the Law Commissioner for criminal law in January.
Posting anti-vaccine propaganda on social media could become a criminal offence - even if those promoting it believe the pseudoscience, the UK's new criminal Law Commissioner has said.

In her first interview since taking up the role, Penney Lewis, revealed she is considering whether laws should be amended to "lower the threshold" of criminality for posting false information online that endangers lives.

It comes as the Health Secretary Matt Hancock said in September he was "looking very seriously" at making vaccinations compulsory for state school pupils after the UK lost its official measles-free country status due to a steady fall in MMR immunisation rates.

Comment: When speaking the truth is outright criminalized, it doesn't get much more dystopic than this.

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Promoters of climate anxiety

Clifford F. Mass
Cliff Mass Weather Blog
Mon, 09 Dec 2019 00:01 UTC
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There is a special place in the underworld for those who promote anxiety, desperation, and terror in the most vulnerable. A place where the infernal warmth is particularly torrid.

And one does not have to spend much time looking for candidates for this netherworld — the front page of the Seattle Times will do fine.

On Sunday, our local tabloid featured a story about fearful/desperate folks dealing with their apocalyptic fears about climate change.

Comment: As was noted recently in this article, even the mainstream climate scientists who buy the IPCC schtick are pointing out the exaggerated claims of the extremists and the negative effect it's having on the general population. Radicals have essentially taken ahold of the the narrative and are running wild with it. It's no longer about science (nor was it ever).

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