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PETA goes nuts over cartoon Bo Peep's sheep-herding crook

RT
Tue, 05 Feb 2019 21:30 UTC

Controversial animal rights organization PETA launched an ad campaign this week, demanding that animation house Pixar edit out a sheep-herding crook from the new Toy Story film, claiming that the object promotes animal cruelty.

Activists at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) saw the crook as a betrayal of Pixar's attempt to give the character a tough "modern" update, claiming that the sheep-herding instrument she carries is "still problematic." "A badass Bo Peep would likely bop the shearers, not the sheep," according to PETA's Lauren Thomasson.

Their problem is apparently not that they think the crook itself is a cruel instrument, but the fact that it "promotes exploiting gentle sheep for their wool."

While it is doubtful that most kids will even know what the old-timey shepherd's tool is in the first place, the world's largest animal rights organization decided that the issue is so serious it merits the film being reanimated from start to finish, to censor the offending instrument.

Comment: More evidence of PETA's unwavering idiocy:

Digital darkness - Life without the internet in Tonga

Mary Lyn Fonua
Digital Journal
Tue, 05 Feb 2019 03:02 UTC

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Tonga, which lies nearly 3,300 kilometres (2,000 miles) east of Australia, was plunged into digital darkness for a fortnight.

A two-week cyber blackout caused financial headache and social heartache in remote Tonga, but it also forced residents of the Pacific island kingdom to rediscover the art of offline communication.

The sudden internet outage on January 20 brought an abrupt halt to many businesses and cut access to social media -- the community's lifeline to the outside world.

"We had to learn how to talk to each other without internet messaging," Joshua Savieti, who works in the creative arts, said of the involuntary digital detox.

"We didn't know anything, what was going on, anything on the news, (or) if there was a cyclone coming."

It took 13 days to find the fault -- a severed undersea cable -- and reconnect Tonga, which lies nearly 2,400 kilometres (1,500 miles) northeast of New Zealand.

During the blackout, a small, locally operated satellite service helped maintain limited service, but the speed was a throwback to dial-up days.

To conserve capacity officials filtered out social media, cutting families off from relatives and friends overseas and dealing a blow to companies which operate through Facebook.

Japanese couple finds drunken sailor in their bathroom

Popular Military
Mon, 04 Feb 2019 20:48 UTC

What do you do with a drunken sailor?

A U.S. servicemember was arrested Saturday in the home of a Japanese couple who found him naked after he'd used their shower, according to local news reports.

Petty Officer 2nd Class Nathaniel Williams, 27, is accused of walking through the unlocked front door of a home in Ebina City while intoxicated at about 5:10 a.m., the Kanagawa Shimbun reported Saturday.

Williams is assigned to the Aircraft Intermediate Maintenance Depo at Naval Air Facility Atsugi, Navy officials said Saturday evening.

Williams was discovered after an unidentified 44-year-old man who lives in the home woke up to use the bathroom and heard water running, the Kanagawa Shimbun report said.

The man thought a family member was using the shower, but soon saw Williams emerge naked from the bathroom, according to the newspaper.

The man then woke up his wife, who called police, the Asahi Shimbun reported.

Bestselling author outed as a pathological liar after repeatedly claiming he had cancer

Sian Cain & Allison Flood
The Guardian
Tue, 05 Feb 2019 20:33 UTC

Dan Mallory, author of the bestselling thriller The Woman in the Window under the pseudonym AJ Finn, has admitted to lying about having brain cancer for years, after a lengthy New Yorker profile accused him of a long history of falsehoods around his professional history and health.

Mallory made headlines in 2016 when his identity as a book editor was revealed during a heated auction for his debut novel, The Woman in the Window. A film version of the thriller, about a woman with agoraphobia who begins spying on her new neighbours, is due out later this year, scripted by Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Tracy Letts and starring Amy Adams and Gary Oldman.

However, the New Yorker article by Ian Parker lays out a history of Mallory fabricating stories of illness and death, including that he had been diagnosed with brain cancer. The article claims Mallory had repeatedly said he had cancer, including in an Oxford University application, and to colleagues while working at publishing houses in both London and New York.

Comment: If he was lying about having brain cancer, he's more than likely lying about being bipolar. The only disorder he can truly claim is chronic fib-itis.

Police teargas protesters in Paris as unions rally over minimum wage

RT
Tue, 05 Feb 2019 19:38 UTC

As demonstrators marched in a union-organized rally over the minimum wage, French police again deployed tear gas on protesters in Paris as violent scuffles broke out.

The ugly scenes occurred as France's largest union, the Confédération générale du travail (CGT), held a rally in the capital.

Comment: See also:

Grave of Karl Marx smashed with hammer

RT
Tue, 05 Feb 2019 19:26 UTC

The tomb of iconic German philosopher Karl Marx, a grave visited by tens of thousands each year, will allegedly "never be the same again," after it was vandalized in a suspected hammer attack.

Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust have published an image on social media showing the damaged marble plaque which honors Marx and some of his family members, including his wife. Damage to the lettering of Marx's name can be clearly seen.

Hypothermia kills nearly 30 children, newborns at refugee camp in Syria

Press TV
Thu, 31 Jan 2019 16:51 UTC

The UN says nearly 30 internally displaced Syrian children have lost their lives because of freezing temperatures and lack of basic needs at a refugee camp in northeastern Syria over the past two months.

The World Health Organization (WHO) said in a statement on Thursday that children and newborns died in a teeming camp in Hasakeh, mainly due to hypothermia.

"At least 29 children and newborns are reported to have died over the past eight weeks, mainly from hypothermia, while travelling to the camp or shortly after arrival," the statement read.

The UN health agency also expressed extreme concern over the conditions of those who make it to al-Hol, where lies the main camp for people displaced by the fighting against the Daesh terrorist group and other foreign-sponsored outfits.

Comment: See also: The U.S. Role in the Destruction of Syria

Germany's power grid overhaul to cost billions more than expected - and consumers will be footing the bill

Brian Parkin
Bloomberg
Mon, 04 Feb 2019 16:16 UTC

Germany's plan for new power cable "autobahns" to take wind and solar energy from the north to the south of the country is set to cost billions more than envisaged.

The grid upgrade will cost as much as 52 billion euros ($59 billion), 53 percent more than was budgeted for in 2014, the companies building the north-south high-voltage links said in a joint statement. Two more of the super cables are needed on top of the three already planned in order to meet the government's new green power targets, the builders said.

The revised blueprint spells bigger electricity bills for a nation that already shares with Denmark the highest retail power costs in the European Union. Grid upgrade expenses are tacked on to consumers' bills.

Comment: With a rapidly changing climate this investment is likely to turn out out to be a seriously costly mistake:

Army vet live streams his suicide on Facebook after shooting his girlfriend and killing her son

RT
Tue, 05 Feb 2019 19:00 UTC

A US Army veteran said to be suffering from PTSD shot himself in the head on a Facebook live broadcast after shooting his girlfriend and killing her six-year-old son.

Jovonie McClendon Jr called the police and his mother after he had shot his partner and her son Carter, telling them he was sorry before he took his own life in an apartment in Miami Township, Ohio on Friday morning.

McClendon told those watching the live stream it had "been nice knowing you" before shooting himself in the head.

When police arrived at the scene, they found his girlfriend Di'eisha Patterson seriously wounded and the bodies of McClendon and the young boy.

Why aren't illiberal universities challenged?

Nigel Biggar
UnHerd
Fri, 01 Feb 2019 18:10 UTC

It's high time academics started standing up to the campus thought police

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Society's Child

PETA goes nuts over cartoon Bo Peep's sheep-herding crook

Digital darkness - Life without the internet in Tonga

Japanese couple finds drunken sailor in their bathroom

Bestselling author outed as a pathological liar after repeatedly claiming he had cancer

Police teargas protesters in Paris as unions rally over minimum wage

Grave of Karl Marx smashed with hammer

Hypothermia kills nearly 30 children, newborns at refugee camp in Syria

Germany's power grid overhaul to cost billions more than expected - and consumers will be footing the bill

Army vet live streams his suicide on Facebook after shooting his girlfriend and killing her son

Why aren't illiberal universities challenged?

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