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Yang says SNL novice should not be fired over Chinese racial slur, drowned out by PC crowd


RT
Sun, 15 Sep 2019 08:04 UTC
Andrew Yang
© REUTERS/Jonathan Bachman
Entrepreneur Andrew Yang takes the stage for the start of the 2020 Democratic U.S. presidential debate in Houston, Texas, U.S., September 12, 2019.
Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang has said that Saturday Night Live's new hire Shane Gillis should not be sacked for making a tasteless joke after a clip of him mocking Chinatowns resurfaced, setting Twitter alight.

Yang, a son of immigrants from Taiwan, struck a distinctly different tone from most online warriors when he said he would be "happy to sit down and talk" with Gillis about the ill-fated clip that resurfaced on Friday. The video shows the comedian tearing into Chinatowns and their inhabitants.

"Damn, Chinatown is f**king nuts," Gillis says in the clip, referring to the ability of Chinese immigrants to build up their sprawling enclaves in the blink of an eye and without apparent opposition from the locals. "Let the f**king ch*nks live there."
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OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma files for bankruptcy

Julia Kollewe
The Guardian
Mon, 16 Sep 2019 05:53 UTC
OxyContin
© Jessica Hill/AP
Purdue Pharma, which is owned by the Sackler family, has filed for bankruptcy in settlement over the toll of opioid addiction.
Move is partly aimed at halting more than 2,000 lawsuits filed against drug firm

US drug-maker Purdue Pharma has filed for bankruptcy and announced a $10bn (£8bn) plan to settle thousands of lawsuits that accuse the company's prescription painkiller, OxyContin, of fuelling the deadly opioids crisis.

The company, owned by the billionaire Sackler family, faces more than 2,000 lawsuits, including actions from nearly all US states and many local governments, which allege Purdue falsely promoted OxyContin by downplaying the risk of addiction. The public health crisis claimed the lives of nearly 400,000 people between 1999 and 2017, according to the latest US data.

Comment: There really is no level of justice appropriate for the evil the Sackler family has perpetrated on the US. Could this be the best possible outcome? Probably not, but at least there is some level of accountability and the money may be able to do some good.

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Companies deny responsibility for toxic 'forever chemicals' contamination

Emily Holden
The Guardian
Wed, 11 Sep 2019 14:29 UTC
3M billboard
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Denise Rutherford, senior vice-president of corporate affairs for 3M, argued the chemicals pose no human health threats at current levels and have no victims, conflicting with a large body of research and 3M’s own internal documents.
The 3M Company, the Chemours Company and DuPont appeared before lawmakers over PFAS

Chemical company executives have denied responsibility for a category of toxic fluorinated chemicals that have contaminated water supplies around the US and are now found in the bodies of nearly all Americans.

Three companies - the 3M Company, the Chemours Company and DuPont - appeared before US lawmakers in a Tuesday hearing reminiscent of those with tobacco companies in the 1990s.

Comment: Massive industrial polluters continue to cause irreparable damage to the populace and the environment and are never held to account. Yet the most innocuous 'pollutant' - carbon - is now considered to be so dangerous it's release into the environment is an inexcusable crime. People are so backward on these issues it will likely never be set right.

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'Anti-vaccine' protester douses California senators in 'menstrual blood'


RT
Mon, 16 Sep 2019 08:59 UTC
vaccine
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A nurse preparing to give a patient a vaccine.
The California state senate was forced to halt a session after lawmakers were doused with "menstrual blood" tossed from a balcony by a woman who says she was protesting vaccine laws.

A woman has been arrested for hurling a cup of what she claims was menstrual blood onto unsuspecting lawmakers in the middle of a legislative session on Friday, days after a bill further restricting the state's already strict vaccine exemptions was passed. The Capitol was packed with protesters opposing the new law, several of whom were allowed into the gallery.

"That's for the dead babies," someone shouted as the red liquid cascaded onto the lawmakers below (scroll to minute 43 in the video).
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Harvard and MIT leaders acknowledge deeper ties to Jeffrey Epstein than previously known

Susan Svrluga
The Washington Post
Fri, 13 Sep 2019 07:50 UTC
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
© Charles Krupa/AP
At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, senior officials knew of gifts from financier Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex offender, and sought to ensure those donations remained anonymous, the school’s president, L. Rafael Reif, wrote in a letter to campus.
Presidents of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology acknowledged in separate announcements this week that their connections to financier Jeffrey Epstein went deeper than previously revealed, further entangling the elite institutions with a donor who was a convicted sex offender.

At MIT, senior officials knew of gifts from Epstein and sought to ensure those donations remained anonymous, the school's president, L. Rafael Reif, wrote in a letter to campus. Reif also said an investigation had turned up a 2012 letter signed by Reif thanking Epstein for a donation.

Harvard officials revealed that the university had accepted about $9 million in donations from Epstein between 1998 and 2007, and announced intentions to redirect some of the unspent money to organizations helping victims of trafficking and sexual assault.

Epstein pleaded guilty in 2008 to two felony offenses, including procuring a person under 18 for prostitution. Epstein was arrested in July on new federal charges of sexually abusing dozens of girls in the early 2000s. In August, he was found dead while in federal custody.

The revelations raised questions from faculty, students and the public about how some of the world's most admired institutions raise money and whether the school's leaders are appropriately transparent about relationships with major donors.

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Transgender group Mermaids says children as young as 12 who question their gender should be offered puberty-blocking medication

Jack Newman
Daily Mail
Sun, 15 Sep 2019 13:28 UTC
gender question

Children as young as 12 who question their gender identity should be offered puberty blockers, according to a transgender group
Children as young as 12 who question their gender identity should be offered puberty blockers, according to a transgender group.

Teachers were told in a training session led by a trainer for the group Mermaids the hormones give the children 'immense relief' and are 'completely reversible'.

The meeting was held at Newman University in Birmingham last December with around 20 teachers and pastoral staff.

A recording obtained by the Sunday Times was made by an audience member in which the trainer says: 'Puberty blocker medication doesn't make any changes, so [is] completely reversible.


Comment: Not really. Just because you are preventing one process you don't damage another. That damage can't be said to be "completely reversible".


'What it does is put a pause button on the pituitary gland and freezes puberty where it is. Not growth, just puberty. Take the blockers away and biological puberty will recommence.'

The training session is believed to be a blueprint for Mermaid's training in schools nationwide.

The advice have been criticised by an Oxford academic who said it could push children towards early medical intervention.

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Attention

More than 2,200 medically preserved fetal remains found after death of well known abortion doctor


CBS Chicago
Fri, 13 Sep 2019 20:21 UTC
Ulrich Klopfer
More than 2,200 medically preserved fetal remains were found by a family after the death of a well known abortion doctor last week, the Will County Sheriff's Office confirmed Friday night.

The Will County Coroner's Office was called to the property by a family attorney after Dr. Ulrich Klopfer died on Sept. 3.

The attorney said the family found what appeared to be fetal remains while going through the doctor's personal property and requested proper removal.

Investigators found and took possession of 2,246 medically preserved fetal remains at the location in unincorporated Will County.

At one time Klopfer had three abortion clinics in Indiana. His license was ultimately suspended three years ago. All throughout, he said he had done nothing wrong.

The family is cooperating with the investigation, officials said. There is no evidence medical procedures were conducted at the property.
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Google Earth leads to remains of missing Florida man in lake for 22 yrs


ABC News
Thu, 12 Sep 2019 20:17 UTC
moldt car lake

The car was spotted submerged in a lake just yards from nearby homes in Moon Bay Circle
It took 22 years, but a missing man's remains were finally found thanks to someone who zoomed in on his former Florida neighborhood with Google satellite images and noticed a car submerged in a lake, authorities said.

The skeletal remains were of William Moldt, who went missing in 1997 at the age of 40, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office.

Sheriff's office spokeswoman Teri Barbera said on Thursday that a previous resident of the Grand Isles neighborhood in Wellington, Florida, was checking the neighborhood on Google Earth when he zoomed into the lake and saw what looked like a car.

The former resident contacted a current homeowner, who used a drone to confirm it was a white car on the edge of the pond behind his house. The man called the sheriff's office on Aug. 28, and deputies later arrived to find the white sedan's exterior "heavily calcified." After they got the car out, they found the skeletal remains inside.

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System says Moldt went to a nightclub in November 1997 but did not appear intoxicated as he left alone before midnight. He had called his girlfriend from the club saying he would return to their Lantana home soon.
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Taliban revokes its ban on Red Cross, will provide security guarantees

Abdul Qadir Sediqi, Rupam Jain
Reuters
Sun, 15 Sep 2019 02:08 UTC
ICRC in Afghan
© Swissinfo.ch
The ICRC has been providing medical support in Afghanistan for more than 30 years. In this image from 2001, local Afghan Red Cross workers carry dead Taliban fighters after fighting ended near Mazar-i-Sharif, in northern Afghanistan.
The Taliban on Sunday revoked their ban on the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Afghanistan and gave a guarantee of security for its staff doing humanitarian work in areas under their control.

Taliban leaders imposed a ban on the ICRC and the World Health Organization (WHO) in April saying the organizations were carrying out "suspicious" activities during vaccinations campaigns and not sticking to their declared missions.

"The Islamic Emirate restores the former security guarantees to ICRC in Afghanistan and instructs all mujahideen to pave the way for ICRC activities and be mindful of security to this committee's workers and equipment," Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid in a statement.
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Attention

Chaos erupts in Nantes amid 44th week of protests against Macron's economic policies


RT
Sun, 15 Sep 2019 08:36 UTC
protester in Nantes France September 14 2019
© AFP / Sebastien Salom-Gomis
A protester throws a projectile during clashes with police during anti-government demonstration in Nantes, France on September 14, 2019.
Yellow Vests protests against President Emmanuel Macron's economic polices hit France for the 44th weekend in a row. It got especially heated in Nantes where clashes between police and protesters left several people injured.

Some 1,800 people took to the streets of the city on Saturday, according to police figures. This week, the Yellow Vests tried a different approach to the protests, avoiding the city's center and hitting different routes instead.


Comment: Inside the Yellow Vests: What the Western media won't tell you
...the media uses images to evoke emotional reactions. Does the media ever show the Macron regime looting people's taxes and pensions? No. Do they show French weapons being used to massacre Syrian children? No. Do they highlight absolutely anything that they should if they truly worked for the people? No. They work for oligarchs and lobbies exclusively. [..]

In the more longer term: if things remain on the current trajectory, then a civil war is on the cards. This is not a conflict on ethnic grounds. This clash concerns the system of governance. What the Yellow Vests want is so radically different from neoliberalism and the EU. It's like applying the handbrake/e-brake suddenly whilst traveling down the highway. Perhaps at first the Yellow Vests thought that a few violent protests would achieve the goals, but over time they started to realise the severity of the situation.


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