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'Bigoted trash!' Transgender coffee shop employee fired for kicking out conservative customer


RT
Thu, 12 Sep 2019 19:03 UTC
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© Reuters / Lucy Nicholson
A coffee shop in Nebraska has fired a transgender employee after she began "yelling profanities" at a regular customer over their conservative and "bigoted" political beliefs.

The customer, Marilyn Synek, 23, who works for the Nebraska Family Alliance, said the employee asked her to leave the Cultiva Espresso & Crepes premises and warned that she would be "denied service" if she ever returned, due to her conservative opinions.

"You are f**king bigoted trash, and we do not want you in our restaurant. Over 80 percent of the people who work here are queer. You are not f**king wanted in our restaurant, so get out and don't come back!" Synek said she was told.

That, evidently, did not go over well with management, who promptly fired the employee, identified as Natalie Weiss. In a statement posted to Facebook, the coffee shop wrote that Weiss was fired "almost immediately" and an unreserved apology was made to Synek.

Comment: Really the only thing this person's actions have done is make life more difficult for trans people. Her twisted thinking reveals many of the problems associated with the so-called Woke Movement.

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Virginia residents skeptical that neighbor was actually Russian informant

Todd Prince
RFE/RL
Tue, 10 Sep 2019 14:20 UTC
Oleg and Antonina Smolenkov

The house in Stafford, Virginia, belonged to Oleg and Antonina Smolenkov, public records say.
As U.S. and Russian officials cast doubt on the accuracy of U.S. media reports that two years ago the CIA extracted a Russian intelligence asset who allegedly provided top-secret information on President Vladimir Putin, efforts to identify the man led to an estate an hour's drive southwest of Washington, D.C.

No one answered when an RFE/RL reporter rang the doorbell of 78 Partridge Lane in Stafford, Virginia, listed in public records as being owned by Oleg Smolenkov, the same name given by Kommersant and other Russian media as the alleged informant.

The drapes on the windows of the large home on a leafy cul-de-sac were pulled tight, and only a basketball court was visible in the back.
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Marianne Williamson caught on a hot mic saying 'conservatives are nicer' to her than the left

Joseph A. Wulfsohn
Fox News
Thu, 12 Sep 2019 16:38 UTC
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Spiritual guru and 2020 Democratic candidate Marianne Williamson was caught on a hot mic saying conservatives are 'nicer' to her than the left.

In an audio recording released from an interview last week, Williamson sounded off on the hostility she has faced from the political left.

"What does it say that Fox News is nicer to me than the lefties are? What does it say that the conservatives are nicer to me?... It's such a bizarre world," Williamson said. "You know, I'm such a lefty. I mean, I'm a serious lefty, but they're so... I didn't think the left was as mean as the right, they are."

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Dozens of prisoners released, 10,000+ cases in review after Danish police discover they used faulty phone data software for convictions


RT
Thu, 12 Sep 2019 00:32 UTC
Phone data tower
© Pixabay / markusspiske
Dozens of prisoners have been released and over 10,700 criminal cases are under review after Danish police realized the software they use to pinpoint the location of cellphone users is riddled with inaccuracies.

Some 32 prisoners - some of whom had already been convicted and sentenced - were released after an external audit launched late last month revealed gaping flaws in the geolocation system used as evidence in their cases. Danish courts have declared a two-month moratorium on the use of cellphone data as evidence following the discovery that it is not nearly as reliable as previously thought, and over 10,700 cases since 2012 are being reviewed.
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Famed British fashion designer Vivienne Westwood: 'The state Assange is in, it's a wonder, don't know how I would cope'


RT
Thu, 12 Sep 2019 16:34 UTC
Vivienne Westwood

Vivienne Westwood
Renowned British fashion designer Vivienne Westwood has broken her media silence on Julian Assange's imprisonment, telling RT that the solitary confinement in which he is kept for no reason has taken a toll on his health.

She spoke after visiting Assange in HMP Belmarsh, where he is being held after the UK police dragged him from the Ecuadorean Embassy back in April. Arranging a visit to Britain's maximum security prison took a month, and during this time the whistleblower was held in solitary confinement, Westwood told RT.
I was thrilled to bits to see him, he lost weight... and the state he's in, it's a wonder, I don't know how I would cope.
Westwood, a friend of Assange, has consistently spoken out against the way the UK dealt with him before and after his arrest, which ended nearly seven years in exile inside the Ecuadorian mission. Hours after his arrest, he was found guilty of skipping bail in London in 2012.
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New Wall Street report suggests the US is in debt to the tune of $400 trillion


RT
Thu, 12 Sep 2019 15:58 UTC
Wall Street
© Reuters / Carlo Allegri
A new report suggests that the real US debt level may be $400 trillion, or 20 times higher than the country's gross domestic product. The calculation includes government, state, local, financial and so-called entitlement debt.

AB Bernstein, a global asset management firm based on Wall Street, came up with these figures by including in its analysis not only traditional levels of public debt, such as bonds, but also financial debt as well as future obligations for entitlement programs. These include social security, Medicare and public pensions.

In its report, AB Bernstein took debt from a number of sources and compared it to GDP. Using this methodology, federal, state and local government debt combined amounted to 100 percent of GDP. Households and firms accounted for 150 percent, while debt held by financial firms came to 450 percent. Another 27 percent came from trusts for social insurance programs, 484 percent from promises under current social insurance programs, and 633 percent from obligations for social programs. The total debt therefore amounted to 1,832 percent.
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The hysterical panic over vaping 'epidemic' must end

Noah Rothman
Commentary
Wed, 11 Sep 2019 15:49 UTC
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"There is clearly an epidemic that begs for an urgent response," wrote Harvard's Dr. David Christiani in the New England Journal of Medicine. The epidemic to which he refers is vaping, which is on the verge of being seen as a public health crisis. At the time of that writing, officials were investigating 450 possible cases of severe lung disease linked to vaping with five reported deaths around the country. A sixth potentially vaping-related death was reported on Tuesday in Kansas.

"If you or a loved one is vaping, please stop," said Kansas State Health Officer Lee Norman. Both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are conducting a nationwide investigation into the health effects of vaping products but have not yet established a link between respiratory illnesses and any specific product. Nevertheless, in this official's estimation, it's time for drastic action. "I think that I'd like to see our federal officials and law enforcement step up and say we need to pull these things off the shelves until we know what's going on," Norman averred.
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Mexican gas stations that refused to serve police following death threats from drug cartel get shut down by the government


RT
Thu, 12 Sep 2019 15:53 UTC
Mexican police officers.
© Henry Romero / Reuters
Mexican police officers.
A powerful Mexican criminal syndicate has pressured gas stations not to fill the tanks of police and military vehicles. The authorities have responded by shutting them down for discrimination.

The national consumer protection agency, Profeco, closed nine gas stations in the city of Nuevo Laredo near the US border for "discrimination" on Tuesday, after attendants there refused to serve the army and the federal police.

Three more stations were due to be shut down but they were found to be already out of service when the agents arrived.
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Social hysteria: Parents shocked as UK school asks kids to write 'SUICIDE LETTER' as part of English exercise


RT
Thu, 12 Sep 2019 15:35 UTC
Cheney School, Headington, Oxford

Cheney School, Headington, Oxford
A school in the UK gave their teenage English students the task of writing a suicide note in the context of an exercise to explore suicidal feelings, prompting one "genuinely shocked" parent to complain.

Pupils aged 15 and 16 studying for their GCSE qualifications at Cheney School in Headington, Oxford, were set the assignment as part of studying the classic English play 'An Inspector Calls' by J.B. Priestley. The writing exercise was delivered on 'World Suicide Day.'

One mother, who asked not to be named, told BBC News that the project was a "massive fail," revealing that she had been left feeling "genuinely shocked," after her child informed her about the distressing task.
The actual assignment was 'Imagine you are a young woman in 1912 writing a suicide letter to those who care about you.'
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'We are used to it,' say journos after Syria coverage called 'Goebbels s**t' by regime change crowd


RT
Thu, 12 Sep 2019 14:29 UTC
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© Rania Khalek's Facebook page
Max Blumenthal (left), Rania Khalek (center) and Anya Parampil (right) in Syria
Journalists Rania Khalek and Max Blumenthal caused a Twitter meltdown among some advocates of regime change in Syria by simply going to parts of the country controlled by Damascus and reporting on life there.

The two journalists traveled to the Syrian capital Damascus and some of its suburbs earlier this month and reported on what they saw and heard. Their reporting clashed with the narrative favored by some of their corporate-embedded colleagues, who jumped to called them propagandists on a trip paid by the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad meant to whitewash war crimes.

Khalek said she and Blumenthal expected being subject to what appears to be a coordinated attack from people rooting for the downfall of the Syrian government. Going against the narratives that align with US foreign policy goals, as failed and destructive as they may be, comes with a price of ostracism, it seems.
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