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Greta Inc.: Thunberg files application to trademark her name


The Guardian
Thu, 30 Jan 2020 20:15 UTC
greta thunberg
© Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP/Getty
Thunberg in front of the Swedish parliament. She said she applied to trademark Skolstrejk for klimatet (school strike for the climate).
Climate activist also applied to register name of climate movement Fridays for Future

The climate activist Greta Thunberg has said she has applied to register her name and that of the Fridays For Future movement she founded in 2018, which has gone global and catapulted her to international fame.

The move would allow legal action against persons or companies trying to use her name which are not in line with her values or that of her movement, she said.

Comment: Thunberg claims it's only to keep her eco-crusade pure from filthy capitalism. But there's money to be made off the climate change nutters. Her handlers want to make sure it goes to them.

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Hammer

Homeland Security cracks down on counterfeit goods, tickets ahead of the Super Bowl

Luke Barr
ABC News
Thu, 30 Jan 2020 01:29 UTC
Counterfeit goods
© Dept. of Homeland Security
Homeland Security Investigations displays counterfeit goods seized in Miami ahead of Super Bowl LIV.Homeland Security Investigations displays counterfeit goods seized in Miami ahead of Super Bowl LIV.
The lowest ticket price to Super Bowl LIV is $4,000 - but imagine paying for it and the ticket be counterfeit? It happens more than people know, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

"Every year, we've seen it ... where a significant number of individuals have been already scammed by purchasing counterfeit goods and purchasing counterfeit tickets already for the Super Bowl," Steve Francis, the head of the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center, a division of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), told ABC News.

Francis cautioned those who plan to attend Sunday's game in Miami between the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs, to only purchase tickets from an official vendor and to be mindful of the seller.

In essence, he said if the price seems too good to be true, it probably is.
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Eye 1

Crime-think: Facebook censors Jordan Peterson video link sent in PRIVATE message

Paul Joseph Watson
Summit News
Wed, 29 Jan 2020 18:09 UTC
facebook censorship
Thought crime patrolling reaches absurd new level.

Facebook is now so censorship happy that it is blocking links to Jordan Peterson videos sent between two people via private message.

Yes, really.

A screenshot posted to The Donald Reddit forum titled "THE DYSTOPIA IS NOW. Facebook censored a PRIVATE MESSAGE I sent because it has a link to Jordan Peterson's Bible Lecture Series" illustrates the ridiculous new standard.

Comment: Facebook has been a liberal gate-keeper since it started But censoring private messages is a breathtaking new overreach.

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Russian Flag

Anti-Semitism is at record low in Russia - chief rabbi


RT
Thu, 30 Jan 2020 18:15 UTC
hanukkah celebrations
© Sputnik / Vitaliy Belousov
The Jewish community is feeling comfortable in Russia with anti-Semitic sentiments dropping to a record low, the country's chief rabbi said, attributing the change to both government efforts and a shift in public opinion.

Speaking at the 7th convention of the Federation of Jewish Communities (FJC) that kicked off in Moscow on Tuesday, Rabbi Berel Lazar noted that the Russian society has become more tolerant over the past two decades.

"Now, thank God, anti-Semitism in Russia is at its lowest level. Recently, Holocaust has been commemorated in Jerusalem. Everyone noted that Jews in Russia feel very comfortable, they openly show their Jewish identity and are respected by the state and the people around them," Lazar said.
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Australian federal police obtained six warrants to hunt down journalists' sources in 2018-19

Josh Taylor
The Guardian
Tue, 28 Jan 2020 22:37 UTC
ABC raid australia
© David Gray/AAP
Police during last year’s raid on the ABC. The number of warrants chasing journalists’ sources obtained by the AFP increased threefold.
Australian federal police accessed the metadata of journalists 20 times and obtained six journalist information warrants to identify those journalists' sources in the last financial year.

The data is contained in the federal government's report on law enforcement agencies' use of telecommunications data for investigating crimes and surveillance for the 2018-19 financial year.

Under the mandatory data retention legislation, law enforcement must get a warrant to access a journalist's historical telecommunications metadata - including information on who they called, when they called or their location information.

The journalist subject to the warrant has no knowledge that a warrant has been sought or issued, but a prime minister appointed public interest advocate can make submissions about whether to issue or refuse the warrant.
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Blue Planet

'Stop calling me Greta of India': 8yo climate activist says comparisons to Thunberg 'delete' her own campaign


RT
Thu, 30 Jan 2020 17:55 UTC
Activist Licypriya Kangujam
© Reuters / Susana Vera
Activist Licypriya Kangujam
Young Indian environmental activist Licypriya Kangujam slammed journalists for comparing her to Greta Thunberg, despite the fact that she began campaigning before the world knew who her Swedish colleague even was.

"Dear Media, Stop calling me 'Greta of India'. I am not doing my activism to [look] like Greta Thunberg," Kangujam, 8, tweeted.

While praising the Swedish climate activist as inspirational and "a great influencer," Kangujam said "we have [a] common goal but I have my own identity, story."
If you call me 'Greta of India', you are not covering my story. You are deleting a story.
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Bullseye

Union puts out 'guidelines' for sex scenes in response to #MeToo, but do these changes mean anything besides PR?

Zachary Leeman
RT
Wed, 29 Jan 2020 17:37 UTC
Still from 'Fifty Shades Freed'

Still from 'Fifty Shades Freed'
The SAG actors' union issued new guidelines for on-set "intimacy coordinators" working to battle potential sexual harassment in sexually explicit scenes in film and television.

The guidelines require these intimacy coordinators to have pre-production meetings with filmmakers to outline the specific requirements for the scenes in question. The coordinators would also have one-on-one meetings with actors to cement what they do and do not consent to.

Union President Gabrielle Carteris claims the guidelines will "ensure the safety and security" of SAG-AFTRA performers and encourage the use of intimacy coordinators.

The move is the latest official step taken by the industry in the wake of the #MeToo movement to prevent performers from being taken advantage of. Past steps include a code of conduct put in place in 2018 stating that auditions and professional meetings should not occur in homes or hotel rooms.
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Eye 2

Psychopath: NYPD cop Michael Valva allegedly taunted son Thomas Valva for being cold before he died

Tina Moore, Lorena Mongelli, Alex Taylor and Natalie Musumeci
NY Post
Fri, 24 Jan 2020 17:28 UTC
Mike Valva
© John Roca
A heartless NYPD cop and his wicked fiancée starved and tortured his autistic 8-year-old son, even mocking the child as he collapsed from the hypothermia that would claim his young life, officials said Friday as the Long Island couple was charged in the boy's murder.

Michael Valva, 40, a 15-year officer assigned to the transit bureau, and fiancée Angela Pollina, 42, tried to make it look like they were as idyllic as the Brady Bunch, living with Valva's three sons and Pollina's three girls — each from previous relationships — at the couple's home in Center Moriches, but their sitcom veneer hid a sinister secret, a former nanny said.

"It's sad. They wanted to give the impression they were the 'Brady Bunch' family when it was more like a home crashing," Amanda Wildman, who babysat the family from 2017 to 2018, told The Post.

"There was always screaming. The boys were constantly being yelled at. There never was a day where somebody wasn't screaming and the boys would just sit there quietly and take it."
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Eye 1

Iowa child sex predator who had victims as young as one year old, to be set free because he identifies as a woman

Tom Cullen
Des Moines Register
Thu, 30 Jan 2020 16:28 UTC
Joseph Matthew Smith
The Iowa Attorney General's Office is no longer seeking the commitment of a former Midwest Christian Services student convicted of myriad sex crimes because the individual now identifies as a woman.

Court records show the state dismissed the application on Jan. 9. Attorney general spokesman Lynn Hicks wouldn't comment on the reason for the dismissal other than to say "an offender's hormone levels are an important part of substantiating an offender's likelihood of recidivism."

In November, the Storm Lake Times reported that Joseph Matthew Smith, a 23-year-old convicted of molesting a fellow MCS student in 2014, was "undergoing medical treatment that is needed prior to (Smith) potentially undergoing gender reassignment surgery."

Comment: Hormones do not dictate the activity of the criminal mind. This man will not suddenly become more virtuous just because he has a few surgeries and calls himself a woman.

From Anna Salter's book Predators:
"The dry research figures only confirm what I have seen over and over in this field: there are a lot of sexual offenses out there and the people who commit them don't get caught very often. When an offender is caught and has a thorough evaluation with a polygraph backup, he will reveal dozens, sometimes hundreds of offenses he was never apprehended for. In an unpublished study by Pamela Van Wyk, 26 offenders in her incarcerated treatment program entered the program admitting an average of 3 victims each. Faced with a polygraph and the necessity of passing it to stay in the treatment program, the next group of 23 men revealed an average of 175 victims each."
It's rather horrifying to now see how a correctional facility is letting loose a serial child sex offender and putting children in harms way because they have become 'woke'.

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Fire

Grenfell Tower fire firms want immunity guarantee over evidence


BBC
Wed, 29 Jan 2020 00:00 UTC
Grenfell Heart
© Reuters
Firms involved in the refurbishment of Grenfell Tower have asked the public inquiry into the fire for a guarantee that anything they say in the hearings will not be used for any prosecution. They want a guarantee from Attorney General Geoffrey Cox that they will be protected when they give evidence.

The fire in June 2017 killed 72 people.

The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea has "apologised unreservedly" for a "number of failings" by its building control services.

The inquiry's second phase, which began on Monday, is looking at how the building came to be covered in flammable cladding during its refurbishment between 2012 and 2016. Experts have previously said the work failed to meet building regulations.

Representatives from organisations including cladding company Harley Facades, building contractor Rydon and the Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation made the application for the guarantee.

Comment: See also:

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