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Tolvo

https://rhr.org.il/eng/2019/01/new-research-ranks-israels-rule-over-west-bank-3rd-most-discriminatory-regime-globally/

The Jewish human rights organization Rabbis for Human Rights has done a study and based on their research have ruled Israel as the 3rd most discriminatory regime globally. To note, this is an examination of the laws of a government. So there are government with less severe of discriminatory laws that do participate in greater levels of genocide than Israel does.

https://www.gaystarnews.com/article/british-council-under-fire-for-questionnaire-featuring-transphobic-image/

The British Council in Essex released a really transphobic questionnaire. Their defense was that it was really transphobic to aid people with learning disabilities in understanding it. Which makes no sense.

https://www.gaystarnews.com/article/bruce-mcarthur-pleads-guilty/#gs.4jMlkHdl

In Toronto the serial killer of queer men Bruce McArthur has plead guilty. He was a gardener who used his job to hide the bodies.

https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/conservative-group-hosts-anti-transgender-panel-feminists-left-n964246

Anti-LGBTQIA+ conservative hate group hosts a panel full of trans exclusionary radical feminists. This isn't new exactly as this happens frequently and they often fund TERF's but usually it's not this out in the open that both groups have ties together.

https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/01/28/diego-luna-trans-woman-berlin-i-love-you/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Buffer&utm_campaign=PN

Unfortunately Diego Luna is playing a trans woman in an upcoming film. This is disappointing I really liked him prior to this.

Lustful Bride

Polar Vortex is already claiming the lives of people. If you are in range of it be sure to stay hydrated, stay warm and be sure to keep covered.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/polar-vortex-death-toll-rises-as-arctic-blast-keeps-the-midwest-in-a-deep-freeze/ar-BBSZCnD?ocid=spartandhp

Tolvo

Living in it currently.

An important note for others dealing with this. It's important to keep cold weather gear in your car. Things like blankets, gloves, coats, hats. As well as water. If your car breaks down, the heat goes out, or you end up stranded, you may need these things to survive and this happens pretty regularly as many people still have to go to work in these conditions.

Oniya

Quote from: Tolvo on January 29, 2019, 04:50:37 PM
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/01/empire-star-jussie-smollett-brutally-attacked-anti-gay-trump-supporters-put-noose-around-neck/

Jussie Smollett from Empire has been attacked in a hate crime based on his sexuality and race. TMZ has reported on this and police have released a public statement. Though be a bit careful about certain details, while I'd believe Trump Supporters would do this and that the police wouldn't mention it but I haven't seen a public statement from Jussie yet that they did say Trump slogans. But he definitely was attacked and called slurs and had a noose wrapped around his neck.

The police have released photos of 'persons of interest' to the public:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/celebrity/jussie-smollett-attack-chicago-police-release-photos-of-persons-of-interest/ar-BBSYEs1?ocid=spartanntp
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ET has learned that Jussie's manager Brandon Z. Moore told police he was on the phone with Jussie during the alleged attack. ET has learned Brandon says he told police he clearly heard the MAGA comment in addition to both racial and homophobic slurs. ET has learned Jussie is cooperating with police and the ongoing investigation.
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Tolvo

Ah that settles that aspect then. I just tend to be careful because I hadn't seen personal quotes of it at the time so I wasn't sure if it was originally in his statement or if people just added that later.

https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/01/31/new-mexico-third-gender-birth-certificates/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Buffer&utm_campaign=PN

New Mexico has a bill that will be voted on which will allow people to be recognized as nonbinary on their birth certificate, it'll also allow people to be legally recognized as the correct gender when transitioning without having to undergo surgery(Terribly common in the USA, as well as sterilization which is also common globally like in Europe and Japan).

Lustful Bride

Hacker harasses family by speaking to their child through a baby monitor, messing with the temperature controls (Raising it up to 90 degrees), hurling racial slurs at them through speakers, and more.

This just makes me want to go lowtech for the rest of my life.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/dad-hacker-spoke-to-baby-taunted-me-turned-up-thermostat/ar-BBT0RMK?ocid=spartandhp

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Tolvo

https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/01/31/trans-sarah-mcbride-hrc-posie-parker/

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/two-women-disrupt-meeting-to-harass-trans-woman-in-appalling-video_us_5c52fe89e4b04f8645c84ee0

Sarah McBride of the HRC was harassed in person by TERFs Posie Parker and Julia Long. They approached her and recorded themselves taunting her, misgendering her, and slinging all sorts of transphobic hate at her while she didn't respond to them. They were there to protest LGBTQIA+ rights being added to the Civil Rights Act. As they feel it including transgender women somehow harms cis women. This happened just after a meeting with parents of transgender children and members of Congress. It should be mentioned both are from the UK and had to actually travel to Delaware to do this(Possibly they were at the anti-LGBTQIA+ feminists and conservative alliance meeting in DC). Both frequently doxx transgender people and even children. They're very vile people.

Sara Nilsson

https://www.theroot.com/what-black-girl-magic-looks-like-detroit-cop-seizes-wo-1832267738

QuoteA Detroit police officer thought it would be funny to post a video of a black woman walking in below-freezing temperatures after he seized her car. In the Snapchat video, the “good cop” filmed the woman, claiming that she was doing the “walk of shame” and posted stickers over the images “What black girl magic looks like” and “celebrating Black History Month.”

Of course he still has his job, sure he was demoted and moved to a different department but lets face it nothing else will come of it. But surely it was his first time doing something stupid so lets go easy on him?

QuoteHuffPost notes that this isn’t Steele’s first time being in trouble with the law. In 2008, he was charged with physically assaulting his ex-girlfriend and reportedly fired a gun next to her head.

“He took a misdemeanor plea deal for probation and stayed on the force,” HuffPost.

oh... wait he did WHAT?! And stayed on the force after that>?!?!? How in the hell do you a) get away with physically assaulting your ex, firing a gun next to your head and stay on the job. and b) when you again do something insanely stupid you STILL stay on the force?

Tolvo

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trump-supporter-library-drag-queen-protest-james-greene-houston-texas-a8758101.html?utm_source=reddit.com

https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/02/01/trump-gun-drag-queen-storytime/

A Trump supporter showed up armed with a gun to a library after hearing a drag queen was reading to children. He was swiftly detained and removed from the grounds. He then went onto his facebook to claim that he was censored for being a white christian and that the librarian there was a satanist. There were other people protesting outside though he was the only one who went in with a concealed weapon.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/01/us/winter-weather-deaths/index.html

A FexEx employee was found dead outside of their facility, dead from the cold. At least 23 people have been found dead from this current cold snap. Many while commuting, many elderly though there are younger people who have died as well.

I posted this in another thread as they were relevant but also are still more general news.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/feb/01/sacramento-rally-fbi-kkk-domestic-terrorism-california

FBI have been investigating civil rights groups as terrorists while defending Neo Nazis and the KKK, even in documents alleging that the KKK are not racist(While confusing a Neo Nazi org for the KKK). This investigation came about because Neo Nazis stabbed leftists, so the FBI started investigating those who were stabbed while using the assailants as informants.

Lustful Bride

Study claims the mass deaths of Native Americans in the 1600s led to the start of Climate change due to large swaths of native farmlands being left unattendend and then reforested, leading to sudden decrease in CO2 which caused the little ice age.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/european-colonizers-mass-killing-of-native-americans-caused-change-in-climate-study/ar-BBT3Up2?ocid=spartanntp

It sounds very legitimate but....at the same time feels alittle hard to buy. The land had to be cleared out first to become farmland, so wouldn't that have made more CO2? But ah....I don't know, I just gave myself a headache.

Markus

Quote from: Lustful Bride on February 02, 2019, 07:56:57 AM
Study claims the mass deaths of Native Americans in the 1600s led to the start of Climate change due to large swaths of native farmlands being left unattendend and then reforested, leading to sudden decrease in CO2 which caused the little ice age.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/european-colonizers-mass-killing-of-native-americans-caused-change-in-climate-study/ar-BBT3Up2?ocid=spartanntp

It sounds very legitimate but....at the same time feels alittle hard to buy. The land had to be cleared out first to become farmland, so wouldn't that have made more CO2? But ah....I don't know, I just gave myself a headache.

Quote...the arrival of European settlers killed nearly 56 million indigenous people over the course of roughly 100 years...

wow... just wow. thats practically an entire civilization wiped out, horrifying.


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Tolvo

Well the farmlands would be cleared out and farmed over generations. But the genocide was within a hundred years(Though it still continues today and even decades ago Native Americans were being sterilized). Meaning while farming would impact these things it would be a gradual change while the ceasing of the majority of the farming in a short time causes a rapid change.

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Quote from: Lustful Bride on February 02, 2019, 07:56:57 AM
Study claims the mass deaths of Native Americans in the 1600s led to the start of Climate change due to large swaths of native farmlands being left unattendend and then reforested, leading to sudden decrease in CO2 which caused the little ice age.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/european-colonizers-mass-killing-of-native-americans-caused-change-in-climate-study/ar-BBT3Up2?ocid=spartanntp

It sounds very legitimate but....at the same time feels alittle hard to buy. The land had to be cleared out first to become farmland, so wouldn't that have made more CO2? But ah....I don't know, I just gave myself a headache.

Yeah, I agree. Interesting theory but I don't really buy it. The little ice age began around two hundred years before Columbus - and lasted long into the wave of massive Atlantic migration to North and South America, which meant lots of farmland being put under the plough where there had once been prairies and forests.  The 19th century was actually a really cold period, one of the coolest in the last five hundred years - and by that time the amount of farmland in the Americas was much larger than before Columbus.

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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47123137

QuoteA US judge has found that two girls, aged 13 and 14, were partly to blame in a sex abuse case involving a 67-year-old man - and reduced his sentence.

I am at a loss for words. Even if a minor comes on to you you as an adult need to be.. well the adult and say no. They are children and as such cannot consent. EVER! Also.. they are kids!!!! You don't with kids.. argh so mad.

gaggedLouise

The old Swedish regalia that were stolen from a cathedral some time ago seem to have been found, according to police sources - dropped into a public dustbin in a Stockholm suburb. :) The guy who led the smash-and-grab theft is currently under trial, but the prosecutor asked for a brief break in the proceedings when the news came through that the stolen objects had likely been found. :D

*sigh of relief*

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gaggedLouise

Yep, police are confirming that everything that was stolen from Västerås Cathedral has been found. :)

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Quote from: gaggedLouise on February 05, 2019, 04:11:34 AM
Yep, police are confirming that everything that was stolen from Västerås Cathedral has been found. :)

yay!!!!!! I was so bummed when it was stolen. A priceless piece of history

gaggedLouise

Quote from: Sara Nilsson on February 05, 2019, 12:43:13 PM
yay!!!!!! I was so bummed when it was stolen. A priceless piece of history

The robbers probably found out that the stuff was impossible to sell to any useful antiques dealer - it's simply too unique and the word from the police gets around fast in the business. :)

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https://www.theroot.com/alabama-attorney-general-releases-video-rules-police-s-1832369751#replies

He was the good guy with a gun, just like we are constantly told to be. And he was shot and killed by the cops. Now the AG rules it was ok, no criminal wrongdoing on the part of the cops who shot him three times in the back. But.. good guy with a gun? Oh wait, he was black. Carry on. Apparently can't be a good guy with a gun if you are black.

wtf. Tell me again why I should be a good guy with a gun? I own a gun. Sure I don't have a concealed carry license, due to a) not wanting one and b) its not easy in NJ. But even if I had one, yeah not going to get shot by the cops for helping. Sure, as a white (they dont get much paler than me) and a woman my odds of getting shot are much less than a young black man but still. fuck that.

Lustful Bride

Now that there is an actual Measles outbreak, people suddenly want to vaccinate. There wouldn't be an outbreak if they had done it earlier.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/health-news/vaccine-demand-surges-amid-measles-outbreak/ar-BBTic0F?ocid=spartandhp

Skynet

A brief history on how transphobic regressives inserted their talking points within mainstream British liberal and feminist groups.

Cindy McCain, John McCain's widow, apologized for creating a false story around human trafficking which preyed upon racial fears.

Her primary worry was noticing that a parent and child apparently had different ethnicities:

Quote“I spotted — it looked odd — it was a woman of a different ethnicity than the child, this little toddler she had,” Ms. McCain said in an interview on Monday. “Something didn’t click with me. I tell people to trust your gut. I went over to the police and told them what I thought. They went over and questioned her and, by God, she was trafficking that kid.”

This is nothing new: Lindsay Lohan got in trouble several months ago when she tried to kidnap the children of a Syrian couple upon belief that their parents were slavers.

In the United States, approximately 17% of married couples are of different races, so while still a minority being 1 in 5 it's far more common than in the past. But generationally speaking it's still something many older Americans are not experienced with.

Sara Nilsson

But.. the McCains have a daughter that is from Bangladesh themselves! So it isn't like she has no exposure to parents and kids with different skin tone. I remember watching her speak at her fathers funeral. So clearly Cindy knows.. oh who am I kidding expecting logic from such people.