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Not inclusive enough: UK fire chiefs scrap 'Fireman Sam' to get woke


RT
Wed, 11 Sep 2019 16:49 UTC
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Lincolnshire's Fire & Rescue service is dumping much-loved cartoon character Fireman Sam as its official mascot, because Sam is too male. This didn't sit well with a large portion of the public, which is wondering "who's next?"

The move followed a persistent campaign by various organizations and individuals that peddle the so-called woke ideology. The trouble with the mascot was that it was too male and was putting women off from joining the force. The mascot will be replaced by in-house solutions, fire-extinguisher-shaped characters Freddy, Filbert and Penelope.


Comment: In other words, a tiny group of people not representative of the majority, who happen to be very loud and persistent in ramming their ideology down the throats of all the people who disagree with them. The fact is, something like 96% of firefighters are male, in large part because firefighters need to be physically strong. How many women can carry a full-grown man out of a burning building? And how many would willingly choose a career in which they did so for a living?


The Fireman Sam debacle is just one of the latest illustrating an ideological push by the PC crowd to dominate almost all aspects of everyday life. The public outcry against the decision was almost immediate, with people pointing out the absurdity of the whole thing.

"Fireman Sam works for the fire service and is called Sam. What else do they need to include?" asked Joe Carter from Lincoln. "You wonder if our fire chiefs are operating in the real world."

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Woman who accused footballer Neymar of rape indicted for extortion, fraud


ESPN
Wed, 11 Sep 2019 16:26 UTC
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Sao Paulo police say they are indicting Brazilian model Najila Trindade and her former partner over her rape allegation against football star Neymar.

Police said Tuesday they indicted the model for procedural fraud, slanderous denunciation and extortion.

Her former partner Estivens Alves is accused of disclosing erotic content, which was then published online.

Trindade went to Sao Paulo police to accuse Neymar of raping her at a Paris hotel in May. Neymar denied the accusation and said their relations were consensual.

Prosecutors officially closed the investigation against Neymar earlier this month, citing a lack of evidence against him.

The Associated Press doesn't name alleged sexual assault victims unless they make their identities public, which Trindade did in several interviews.

Comment: RT adds:
This echoes statements made by Neymar, his father and agent in the days following the May incident in which the player said he was the victim of extortion and that the incident was little more than a "setup."

Trinidade had told police that she was the victim of sexual assault by the player, who had arranged to meet her in a Paris hotel after an exchange of social media messages had taken place and later confirmed her story in several interviews.

Once the accusation became public, Neymar stated in an Instagram Live video that their brief relationship was entirely consensual.

"There was a relationship between a man and a woman between four walls. On the next day nothing happened," he said. "I hope investigators read the messages and see what happened."
More fallout from the perhaps well-intentioned #MeToo movement. Unfortunately, "believe all women" often translates to "don't believe any man". But news flash for the ideologically possessed: some men are rapists, some women lie. It's not pretty, but that's life.

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'No one's holding a gun to our heads!': Ring girls lash out at their feminist 'advocates'

Danny Armstrong
RT
Wed, 11 Sep 2019 14:57 UTC
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Ring girls replaced by men at a boxing show in Australia after feminists condemned the role as "objectifying women" have hit out at "ridiculous" female advocate groups who denied them their "basic right to work".

Just moments before entering the arena for the 'Battle of Bendigo' match between Jeff Horn and Michael Zerafa on August 31 in Victoria, ring girl trio Demey Maconachie, Kalista Thomas and Tammy Bills were told they would be banned from entering the ring altogether.

The reason? Female advocate groups and local politicians had joined forced to condemn the role as "objectifying" women, without consulting first the girls in question. The solution? The three women were to be replaced by male 'fight progress managers', putting them out of work in favor of under-qualified men.


Comment: Fighting dirty: Feminists are replacing ring girls with men to create the patriarchy they crave


Of those lobbying to block the ring girls that night was councillor Yvonne Wrigglesworth, who claimed the girls were nothing but "token trophy women," telling the local Bendigo Advertiser, "it's not OK that we have young females portrayed in this way."
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Smoking hysteria: 50-year smoking study overlooked

David H. Lewis
Fraser Coast Chronicle
Mon, 11 May 2015 05:00 UTC
Person smoking
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If I were a smoker I think I'd be absolutely fuming if I was called a bludger on the front page of my local paper (Chronicle 08-05-15) but that is how it is now: Smokers are regarded as second class citizens and anyone can bully or abuse them.

Still, there was some good news for smokers because we learned that two out of three smokers will die which I suppose means that one in three smokers won't die!

You can't get such good odds on immortality any other way.

And that shows how ridiculous the claims of the anti-smokers have become.

They can make whatever ludicrous or outrageous threats of death and disease they like without the slightest question or criticism and that is extremely unhealthy in a democracy.

No one else is allowed to go around threatening and frightening people like that.

Comment: See also:

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Blue Planet

Environmental playacting: The hypocritical virtue-signaling of young green activists

Heather Mac Donald
City Journal
Mon, 09 Sep 2019 13:35 UTC
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Youth will save the planet, according to the elite narrative about global warming. It was young voters who were "asking the tough questions" and holding "Democrats' feet to the fire" at last week's Democratic climate-change pontificon, reported the New York Times. A high school student challenged Julian Castro about his previous support for fracking and demanded to know why "should we trust you . . . to transition our economy to renewables?" Minnesota senator Amy Klobuchar was grilled by a Columbia University student about her possible fealty to the beef and dairy industries. A Ph.D. candidate at Northwestern University berated Joe Biden for allowing a natural gas company executive to host a fundraiser for him; fossil-fuel companies are committing "crimes against humanity," announced this shoo-in for a prestigious professorship.

The claim about youth's transformative commitment to radical environmental change is — based on informal observation — bunk. The cardinal rule when it comes to environmental virtue-signaling is that people give up what they're willing to give up. Young people are no different. If being environmentally sound required sacrificing anything that a self-described environmental warrior actually valued, the conversation would quickly change to a different topic. One's own habits are necessary; it's everyone else's that need to change.

This always-unreached threshold for environmental sacrifice is particularly notable on the part of celebrity Greens, with their fortress-like SUVs, multiple residences, and massive carbon footprints — whether it's the cavalcade of yachts and private jets that brought such luminaries as Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Zuckerberg, and Katy Perry to Google's three-day climate-change summit in Sicily this July; environmental crusaders Prince Harry and Meghan Markle jetting off to Elton John's French estate; or Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter's "quick day trip" to Los Angeles from New York just ahead of the CNN climate-change debate. A police caravan drives New York City mayor Bill de Blasio 11 miles from his mayoral mansion in Manhattan to his favorite gym in Brooklyn. "Everyone in their own life has to change their own habits to start protecting the earth," he has intoned, but taking the subway is not one of those changes appropriate for him.
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Why 9/11 matters in 2019

Catte Black
OffGuardian
Wed, 11 Sep 2019 00:01 UTC
9/11 memorial
On 9/11 2001 three steel-framed high-rise buildings collapsed completely at near free-fall speed allegedly due to fires - which, if true, makes them the only steel-framed high-rises in construction history to have ever done this. Only two of these buildings had been struck by planes.

The official explanation for this event is that Moslem terrorists somehow confounded all the usual security procedures and 'attacked America' because they 'hated our freedoms.'

This version of the meaning behind 9/11 was the catalyst for the perpetual war currently being waged, the ultimate fail-safe irrefutable argument to silence criticism of the Patriot Act, Guantanamo and the creeping emergence of fascism in the Western world.

Comment: See also:

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Syringe

Gallup: Big Pharma sinks to the bottom of US industry rankings

Justin McCarthy
Gallup
Tue, 03 Sep 2019 00:01 UTC
syringe medicine
The pharmaceutical industry is now the most poorly regarded industry in Americans' eyes, ranking last on a list of 25 industries that Gallup tests annually. Americans are more than twice as likely to rate the pharmaceutical industry negatively (58%) as positively (27%), giving it a net-positive score of -31. The restaurant industry is rated most positively.

These data are from Gallup's annual Work and Education poll, conducted Aug. 1-14.

The pharmaceutical industry has unseated the federal government as the lowest-rated industry this year, in terms of its net-positive score; the government has been last or tied for last from 2011 through 2018. The healthcare industry's negative ratings also exceed its positive ratings by double digits, while the advertising and public relations industry's net rating is barely negative.

Comment: Perhaps, if Big Pharma really care to turn their image around, they could cut their ties with Satan himself and try working for good instead of evil. In the past, such moves have been good for public perception, on the rare instances they've been tried.

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2 more people go missing in Hawaii in less than a month

Shawn Nottingham
Mercury News
Mon, 09 Sep 2019 08:12 UTC
missing hawaii
California woman is one of two hikers missing in Hawaii Khiara Henry was last seen renting a car, which was later found near the beach

A California woman is the subject of a search on Maui, and a second person has been missing in Hawaii for a little more than a week.

Khiara Henry, 23, of San Diego, was last seen on July 21 when she rented a car in Kahului, according to a news release from August 5 from the Maui Police Department. She missed her July 29 flight home.

Her vehicle was found at the Waianapanapa Park area, the release said. Her daypack, phone and car key were not in it.

Comment: More on the missing persons:
"Nobody actually has seen Kyle since they saw him at the bathroom overlook on Friday morning going down into the valley. There's hundreds of people in the valley if not more because it's a three day weekend and people hiking and camping and everything and nobody has seen him. So everybody's baffled," Kyle's father, Steve Brittain, wrote in a Facebook post.

"I get a lot of questions about who Kyle is," he added. "Kyle is a healer. Kyle knows what love is. Kyle will help you when you're down. Kyle doesn't understand anger and resentment. Since he was born, people have said that Kyle has an old soul. They are right."

Search teams and dozens of volunteers have been scouring the valley for more than a week to find Kyle. Helicopters and search dogs are involved in the efforts, KHON reported. Rescuers who helped find yoga teacher Amanda Eller earlier this year have joined the search, according to KHON. A Facebook page called Find Kyle Brittain shows searchers in the valley, and Steve shared a Facebook photo of a bright green shirt that read "BRING KYLE HOME."

"Trying to sleep, knowing that he's out there, is killing me," Steve told NBC News on Sunday. "I was up at 3:30 this morning looking at the stars, praying that we can find him today."

Police are asking anyone with information to call the Honokaʻa Police Station at (808) 775-7533.
See also: Hawaii woman missing for 2 weeks found alive in forest, spotted from helicopter

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Health

RFK Jr mic-dropping speech marks birth of a new civil rights movement vis-à-vis the rise of the medical police state

Sayer Ji
GreenMedInfo
Tue, 10 Sep 2019 07:45 UTC
new civil rights protest
© AP/Rich Pedroncelli
While California's tragic fall into what might rightly be described as a Medical Police State has many up in arms, RFK Jr's spontaneously delivered speech outside Gov. Newsom's office helped transform the anger and grief experienced by thousands of shaken onlookers into inspiration and hope, no doubt contributing to catalyzing further what is clearly becoming this country's next, truly grassroots civil (and human) rights movement.

Following immediately after the California Senate passed SB 276 in Sacramento on Monday, which effectively removes medical exemptions in the state (even for those with previous life-threatening reactions to vaccines), a protest erupted at the state capital in front of Gov. Newsom's office, who would sign the bill later that day. Earlier, five protestors were arrested for exercising their First Amendment right of peaceful protest — a painful irony, considering that the removal of religious exemptions also violates the First Amendment rights, which is why they were protesting in the first place.

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University of Michigan under fire for requiring students to cross-examine each other in campus rape cases

Ethan Berman
The College Fix
Wed, 11 Sep 2019 09:46 UTC
University of Michigan
When an appeals court told the University of Michigan last year that it must allow cross-examination in sexual-misconduct proceedings, the judges gave the taxpayer-funded institution two options.

It could let the student parties cross-examine each other, which would be cheaper but could subject students to "further harm or harassment." Or it could let their "agents" handle cross-examination, most likely lawyers, and either pay for representation itself or let students hire their own lawyers.

The university chose the cheaper option.

UMich is facing blowback from both pro-accuser and due-process advocates for implementing an interim policy that is considered even worse than the process struck down by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
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