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Why Greta Thunberg is really Time's "Person of the Year"

John Horvat
The Imaginative Conservative
Tue, 17 Dec 2019 00:00 UTC

Time Magazine has announced that this year's Person of the Year award will go to the 16-year-old Greta Thunberg. The Swedish school-girl-turned-eco-activist has become the poster-girl of the climate change-turned-emergency worldwide. The choice was not surprising, given the media adulation for the girl who has traveled the globe with a minimal carbon footprint.

Time has long abandoned the pretense of giving the award to truly great people, full of personality and talents, and who influence events. Alas, the time of grandeur, discipline and vision is over. Time is no longer the serious magazine of importance that it once was. People no longer want to make an effort to know, admire, and appreciate grand figures. We easily tire of greatness.

Greta a Perfect Fit

In this sense, the award to Greta Thunberg fits perfectly. In our shallow and mediocre times, today's figures must not be too deep or complex. They must not be connected to any historical or religious narrative outside of their own evolving story. Their speech must be Twitter-friendly. The new models need not be exceptional as long as they defy standard definitions. Time typically picks those who can link themselves to all the liberal causes in vogue.

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Muslim boxer Khan 'shocked by all the hate' after posting Merry Christmas message with family

RT
Thu, 26 Dec 2019 16:31 UTC

British boxer Amir Khan has slammed critics of a picture he posted to social media on Christmas Day of him and his family dressed in festive regalia, saying he is 'shocked by all the hate'.

Khan, a Muslim, posted the picture of he and his wife Faryal Makhdoom, along with their two daughters, dressed in pyjama bottoms and t-shirts reading 'Daddy Deer' to mark Christmas Day on Wednesday, but has apparently spent the next hours siphoning through his notifications after a string of offensive replies.

Having had his fill of the criticism, the former Olympic silver medalist then took to Twitter to hit back at his Christmas critics - and was backed by several prominent names on the social media platform.

Bolivia's free territory of Chapare has ousted the coup regime and is bracing for a bloody re-invasion

Ollie Vargas
The Gray Zone
Tue, 24 Dec 2019 00:00 UTC

Spending time with the union members of Chapare, who run society in a collective fashion, offers special insights into the resistance to the coup. They succeeded in expelling the police, but now fear a bloodbath in retaliation.

Known as Bolivia's Chapare region, the Tropico of Cochabamba is a sanctuary for elected President Evo Morales' most dedicated base of support. Since the November 10 coup, it has effectively become a self-governing territory where the military junta is absent.

The police and military were sent in full retreat from this area the coup began and were told they would only be welcomed back if the they "get on their knees and apologize" to the community.

In this 12,000 square kilometer swath of land, hundreds of unions have flourished over the years. I spent several days with the union rank and file, witnessing how they run society in a collective fashion, and how they have organized ferocious resistance to a right-wing coup government that threatens to destroy them.

Despite the resilience on display here, there is also a sense of dread. Union leaders told me that if the state decides to militarize the region, as it has threatened, a bloodbath is practically inevitable. If the violent crackdown arrives, it could unravel a social structure they have been steadily constructing for decades.

Airbnb attack ends in jail time for drunk NYPD cop who broke into Nashville home, threatened residents

Natalie Neysa Alund
Tennessean
Fri, 06 Dec 2019 16:11 UTC

NYPD officer Michael J. Reynolds

A New York City police officer who broke into a Nashville home next door to his Airbnb and then terrorized a family inside was sentenced to jail time and probation on Friday.

Michael J. Reynolds, 26, who works patrol in Manhattan for NYPD, was charged with assault and aggravated burglary after the July 2018 break-in. In September he pleaded no contest to one count of aggravated criminal trespassing and three counts of assault for his role in the attack.

During a more than two-hour sentencing hearing Friday, four witnesses — the victim, two of her neighbors and Reynolds — took the stand in Davidson County Criminal Court.

It ended with Reynolds getting about two weeks in jail and three years probation.

Conese Halliburton, who said she was home with her four sons — two who were 8 and 11 at the time — recalled Reynolds kicking in the front door of her 12 South-area home and charging in in the middle of the night. Video surveillance taken from a neighbor's RING camera showed Reynolds screaming and threatening the family and using racial slurs.

Think about this at Christmas: Israel's war on Palestinians targets Christians too

Asa Winstanley
Middle East Monitor
Tue, 24 Dec 2019 13:50 UTC

© Ashraf Amra/Apaimages
Palestinian Christians take part in the Greek Orthodox Christian Palm Sunday celebrations at St.Porphyrios Church in Gaza City, on 24 April, 2016

Here's a particularly galling thought for Christmas: Israel is much like the Grinch or Ebenezer Scrooge, as it once again does its best to spoil the festive season for Palestine's indigenous Christians. Unlike these two fictional characters, however, Israel has no redeeming features; it is not going to come good at the end of the story.

The Israeli occupation authorities decreed this week that none of Gaza's small Christian population will be allowed to visit their holy sites in Jerusalem or Bethlehem over the Christmas period. This is pure hypocrisy from the self-proclaimed "only democracy in the Middle East", which is actually so undemocratic and so racist that while Jews and Christians from around the world are allowed to visit those same religious sites, native Palestinians are barred from doing so in their own country.

This is not the first time that Israel has imposed such arbitrary restrictions on Palestinian Christians by any means. Bans are often in place, not only at Christmas but also Easter. It is part of the wider Israeli policy of denying Palestinians freedom of movement and equal access to their religious sites. The same cruel collective punishments are also imposed on Palestinian Muslims during their religious festivals.

Man dead after alleged excessive force by Sonoma County police who thought he had stolen his own car

Christina Carrega
ABC News
Tue, 24 Dec 2019 20:37 UTC

police body cam sonoma county man killed

© Sonoma Sheriff
Body camera footage released by the Sonoma Sheriff in Northern California shows Sonoma County Deputies taking David Ward into custody on Nov. 28, 2019.

Sonoma County Sheriff's Office released video of the deadly arrest gone wrong.

A vehicle owner ended up dead after alleged excessive force by police who thought he had stolen his own car. Now, two Sonoma County, California, sheriff's deputies are on paid administrative leave.

The bizarre incident was captured on body camera footage that was released by Sonoma County Sheriff Mark Essick.

"If you watched the body-worn camera closely, you may be concerned by what you saw," Essick said in a Dec. 20 video posted on the Sonoma County Police Department's social media accounts. "So was I."

Mexico granted asylum to Morales, now deeply concerned Bolivia monitoring its embassy

RT
Mon, 23 Dec 2019 20:03 UTC

Mexico's government has expressed "deep concern" about the monitoring of its La Paz embassy by Bolivian intelligence and security services. Last month, Mexico offered deposed Bolivian leader Evo Morales asylum following a "coup."

Mexico's Foreign Ministry sounded the alarm on Monday, claiming that Bolivia's security and intelligence apparatus has been monitoring the diplomatic mission since the country granted political asylum to Morales last month. The deposed leader lost the support of his police and military in early November, after the opposition declared his re-election in October fraudulent. Morales was ousted despite announcing a fresh general election.

The ministry alleges that around 150 Bolivian police and intelligence agents have "surrounded" the Mexican ambassador's residence since Friday, and that these police and agents have intimidated and spied on Mexican diplomatic personnel.

Ultra right-wing on the move: Ukrainian city bans 'deviant' LGBT marches

RFE/RL
Wed, 25 Dec 2019 20:04 UTC

The Rivne City Council in western Ukraine has banned the holding of equality marches.

The local lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community had plans to hold an event on January 1 in the regional capital located 327 kilometers west of Kyiv.

The ban, initiated by the head of the council's budget committee, city councilman Oleh Karpyak of the nationalist Svoboda party, cited the Family Code as justification.

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India: Molestation accused comes to court dressed as woman, says 'turning into female'

Hindustan Times
Wed, 25 Dec 2019 00:00 UTC

The accused came to the court dressed in formal attire worn by women, wearing make up and feminine hairstyle.

© Sonu Mehta/HT Photo
The 33-year-old victim, a bed-ridden woman suffering from multiple sclerosis, was brought to the court on a wheel chair and refused to compromise the matter.

The Delhi High Court has dismissed the plea of a man, seeking quashing of criminal proceedings against him for allegedly molesting a woman colleague, claiming that he never had an inclination towards women and was in the process of transitioning into a female.

Asserting that he has gender dysphoria since childhood and identifying himself as a woman before the court, the accused alleged that the relation between him and the complainant was that of two "sisters", so he could not have molested her.

Gender dysphoria is a condition of feeling one's emotional and psychological identity as male or female to be opposite to one's biological sex.

Jury backs Johnson & Johnson in talc cancer case

Fox Business
Mon, 23 Dec 2019 20:01 UTC

A St. Louis jury has ruled in favor of Johnson & Johnson in the latest of several lawsuits alleging that the company's baby powder caused ovarian cancer.

The jury ruled 9-3 late Friday, denying 56-year-old Vickie Forrest's allegation that more than 30 years of use of the talcum-based powder caused her illness. Forrest, of St. Louis, was diagnosed with stage 2 ovarian cancer in 2012 and is in remission after surgery and chemotherapy, her attorneys said.

"It's disappointing that J&J is going to see this as approval of their continued sale of talc-based baby powder that harms women," Ted Meadows, one of Forrest's lawyers, said in a statement.

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Society's Child

Why Greta Thunberg is really Time's "Person of the Year"

Muslim boxer Khan 'shocked by all the hate' after posting Merry Christmas message with family

Bolivia's free territory of Chapare has ousted the coup regime and is bracing for a bloody re-invasion

Airbnb attack ends in jail time for drunk NYPD cop who broke into Nashville home, threatened residents

Think about this at Christmas: Israel's war on Palestinians targets Christians too

Man dead after alleged excessive force by Sonoma County police who thought he had stolen his own car

Mexico granted asylum to Morales, now deeply concerned Bolivia monitoring its embassy

Ultra right-wing on the move: Ukrainian city bans 'deviant' LGBT marches

India: Molestation accused comes to court dressed as woman, says 'turning into female'

Jury backs Johnson & Johnson in talc cancer case

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