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Swan 'dies from broken heart' after teenagers kill her unborn cygnets
The mother swan was found dead in her nest by wildlife activists earlier this week, after a group of teenage boys killed her unhatched eggs on May 20 along Manchester Canal in Kearsley.
Swan 'dies from a broken heart' after teenage yobs killed her unborn cygnets when they smashed her eggs with bricks
By Kate Dennett For Mailonline
- A mother swan died after her eggs were smashed in Bolton, Greater Manchester
- She was found dead in her nest earlier this week by a group of wildlife activists
- The unborn cygnets were smashed by rocks thrown by teenage boys on May 20
- Her male mate disappeared from the nest near Manchester Canal two weeks ago
Published: 05:34 EST, 21 June 2020 | Updated: 05:47 EST, 21 June 2020
A mother swan is said to have died from a 'broken heart' after heartless vandals smashed her unhatched eggs with bricks.
A group of teenage boys killed the unborn cygnets after hurling rocks and bricks at them last month in Bolton, Greater Manchester.
The mother was found dead earlier this week, not long after the father swan disappeared, Manchester Evening News reported.
The yobs were spotted throwing rocks and bricks at the swans's nest along Manchester Canal in Kearsley on May 20.
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A mother swan (pictured) died of a 'broken heart' earlier this week, after three of her six eggs were killed and more were lost in recent weeks, leaving just one unborn cygnet remaining
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A group of teenage boys smashed the unhatched eggs after throwing rocks and bricks at the swans's nest (left) across from Manchester Canal on May 20
Witnesses said they were aiming for the island where the swans had made a nest and three of the six eggs were left smashed.
Wildlife activists, who were monitoring the swans, said more eggs were lost in recent weeks, leaving just one surviving egg.
They added that the father swan was driven away from the nest due to stress two weeks ago and has not returned since.
The female swan has been harassed by moor hens, ducks and a dog since her unhatched eggs were first attacked.
The heartbroken activists sadly found the female swan dead in her nest earlier this week.
Activist Sam Woodrow said: 'There's not much I can say really.
'She probably died of a broken heart as she had a partner for life and he was driven away by stress.'
According to Swan Lifeline, it has been known for swans to die of a broken heart if they lose their partners, as swans generally mate for life.
Posting on Facebook, Michael Mason said: 'Her mate left her on her own and sadly I was informed this morning she was found slumped in her nest dead. I just feel like crying.'
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The male swan was driven away from the nest by stress two weeks ago, leaving the female swan alone after the attack
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Swan Sanctuary said if a swan's mate is killed or disappears, the surviving bird goes through a similar grieving process to humans, the Mirror reported.
Then the swan either finds a new stretch of water to live in, flies off to join another flock or stays where it is.
A spokesman for the RSPCA said: 'This is a really sad development and it is very upsetting to hear about the death of this poor swan.
'We are investigating the previous distressing incident and we would urge anyone with information to contact our appeals line on 0300 123 8018.
'Swans, their nests and their eggs are protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.'
This comes soon after the Met Police launched a hunt for a jogger who allegedly booted a cygnet in Richmond Park in south-west London, on June 8.
Police suspected the jogger kicked the newly-hatched cygnet, leaving the tiny bird with brain damage. It died two days later at a sanctuary in Shepperton, Surrey.
The suspect is a white male around 60 years old, is 5ft 6in and is balding. He was wearing black running shorts, a vest and a running top with a logo on it at the time.
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Wildlife activists, who were monitoring the swans, found the female swan dead in her nest earlier this week
Last week, a swan and her three cygnets were killed near Eisey Footbridge in Wiltshire by teenagers armed with catapults.
The news was posted on a Facebook community page, The Only Way is Cricklade, on June 13 and was shared more than 1,700 times.
The post said: 'We have had some awful reports of teenagers with catapults attacking swans.
'One witness advised us that they killed three cygnets and a mother swan last night. They may have killed others as well.
'This is awful news. A cash reward has been offered for information that leads to a conviction.'
Hundreds of people commented on the Facebook page, describing the incident as 'heartbreaking' and 'sickening'.
Victoria Keville said: 'In these sad times it is such a joy to see these beautiful birds with their young.
'This is a criminal offence and the law needs to come down on those responsible. This is not acceptable – it's murder.'
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Amazon accidentally re-unified Ireland and apologized for the Troubles.
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Tech firm told Northern Ireland resident who wanted to watch rugby that he didn’t live in UK
Chris Jones’s desire to watch England’s rugby match against Georgia sparked an ‘international incident’. Photograph: Andrew Fosker/BPI/Rex/Shutterstock
Jim Waterson Media editor
Sun 15 Nov 2020 10.53 EST
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It was an unlikely statement from one of the world’s biggest companies, but for a brief period on Saturday afternoon it appeared that Amazon had pledged its backing to a united Ireland.
The tech company has now apologised after telling a resident of Northern Ireland that he could not watch its rugby union coverage because he didn’t live in the UK.
Chris Jones, from Ballyclare in County Antrim, had spent an afternoon struggling to watch England’s game against Georgia, which was being aired on Amazon Prime Video.
Out of desperation he turned to Amazon’s customer support account on Twitter for help, only to be told he was blocked for geographical reasons. “We apologize but upon reviewing your location you’re in Northern Ireland. Rugby Autumn Nations Cup coverage is exclusively available to Prime members based in the UK. We don’t have the rights to other territories,” the Amazon account said.
The response swiftly went viral, attracting tens of thousands of responses and political attention.
Amazon appeared oblivious at times, requesting “further details” after an individual complained: “I ordered 32 counties for next-day delivery and it is coming up on 100 years of partition. Can I get a refund?”
In response to those pointing out that Northern Ireland is part of the UK, Amazon replied: “Than you for reaching out to us. We’ll be sure to pass your feedback along to the appropriate team.”
When another user complained about trouble accessing the rugby union stream, Amazon replied: “Hi there! We apologize for the troubles.”
The Northern Ireland justice minister, Naomi Long, joked that Amazon had caused an “international incident” with its customer service responses.
The company declined to comment further but insisted it was a simple error. “We apologise for the error in our colleague’s response. Our Prime Video subscribers in Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK can access and watch the Rugby Autumn Nations Cup on Prime Video as part of their subscription,” it said.
Amazon employs thousands of staff in Ireland, and has a large customer service centre in Cork.
Jones, the man who had complained to Amazon, was amused by the responses. He said: “I was pretty close to the end of my tether by that point because I’d already been talking to five or six different people (or bots, who knows) on webchat and Twitter, just trying to explain what the issue was.”
Despite sparking an international incident, his tweet didn’t solve his technical issue around the rugby match, he said. “I didn’t get to see it in the end!”
Chris Jones’s desire to watch England’s rugby match against Georgia sparked an ‘international incident’. Photograph: Andrew Fosker/BPI/Rex/Shutterstock
Jim Waterson Media editor
Sun 15 Nov 2020 10.53 EST
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It was an unlikely statement from one of the world’s biggest companies, but for a brief period on Saturday afternoon it appeared that Amazon had pledged its backing to a united Ireland.
The tech company has now apologised after telling a resident of Northern Ireland that he could not watch its rugby union coverage because he didn’t live in the UK.
Chris Jones, from Ballyclare in County Antrim, had spent an afternoon struggling to watch England’s game against Georgia, which was being aired on Amazon Prime Video.
Out of desperation he turned to Amazon’s customer support account on Twitter for help, only to be told he was blocked for geographical reasons. “We apologize but upon reviewing your location you’re in Northern Ireland. Rugby Autumn Nations Cup coverage is exclusively available to Prime members based in the UK. We don’t have the rights to other territories,” the Amazon account said.
The response swiftly went viral, attracting tens of thousands of responses and political attention.
Amazon appeared oblivious at times, requesting “further details” after an individual complained: “I ordered 32 counties for next-day delivery and it is coming up on 100 years of partition. Can I get a refund?”
In response to those pointing out that Northern Ireland is part of the UK, Amazon replied: “Than you for reaching out to us. We’ll be sure to pass your feedback along to the appropriate team.”
When another user complained about trouble accessing the rugby union stream, Amazon replied: “Hi there! We apologize for the troubles.”
The Northern Ireland justice minister, Naomi Long, joked that Amazon had caused an “international incident” with its customer service responses.
The company declined to comment further but insisted it was a simple error. “We apologise for the error in our colleague’s response. Our Prime Video subscribers in Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK can access and watch the Rugby Autumn Nations Cup on Prime Video as part of their subscription,” it said.
Amazon employs thousands of staff in Ireland, and has a large customer service centre in Cork.
Jones, the man who had complained to Amazon, was amused by the responses. He said: “I was pretty close to the end of my tether by that point because I’d already been talking to five or six different people (or bots, who knows) on webchat and Twitter, just trying to explain what the issue was.”
Despite sparking an international incident, his tweet didn’t solve his technical issue around the rugby match, he said. “I didn’t get to see it in the end!”
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Tech firm told Northern Ireland resident who wanted to watch rugby that he didn’t live in UK
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Not Dead Yet: News Site Mistakenly Runs Dozens of V.I.P. Obituaries
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Not Dead Yet: News Site Mistakenly Runs Dozens of V.I.P. Obituaries
Queen Elizabeth II, Pelé and Clint Eastwood were among about 100 celebrities briefly reported as dead online by French public radio. The station blamed a website upgrade.
The headquarters of Radio France Internationale, near Paris. RFI is a public-service news station broadcasting in France and abroad.Credit...Kenzo Tribouillard/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
By Aurelien Breeden
For a brief moment this week, startled readers of a French news site had to grapple with the apparent demise of Queen Elizabeth II of England; Pelé, the Brazilian soccer legend; Clint Eastwood; Brigitte Bardot; and dozens of other celebrities and world leaders.
As it turned out, the website of Radio France Internationale had mistakenly published about 100 prewritten obituaries for prominent figures.
Several hours after the obituaries first ran on Monday, the public radio station, which broadcasts in France and abroad, apologized and started taking the reports offline. It said unedited drafts had been accidentally published as it moved its website to a new content management system. Tech platforms like Google and Yahoo News then automatically picked up some of the articles.
The radio station said in a statement that it wanted to “present its excuses first and foremost to those concerned by these obituaries” and who might have been hurt by the premature announcement of the deaths.
Some of those declared dead before their time responded with good humor.
“Not everybody gets the chance to take note of one’s obituary while still alive,” Abdoulaye Wade, who was president of Senegal from 2000 to 2012, quipped on Facebook after his obituary went out. Mr. Wade, 94, published a current photo of himself dressed in blue and relaxing outside in a lawn chair.
Some French social media users expressed surprise or even outrage that RFI had already written articles about people’s deaths. But that is common practice for media organizations. The New York Times has more than 1,500 advance obituaries of well-known people ready to be quickly updated and published at the time of death.
Discerning readers quickly realized thatthe obituaries seemed premature. For one thing, important details were lacking.
“Ali Khamenei, supreme leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, died on XXXXX at the age of XXXXXXX,” one read. Others had headlines with capital-letter annotations like “REREAD 30/07” or “LAST UPDATED in JULY 2019” — common warnings left by journalists to help scrambling editors.
For Bernard Tapie, the flamboyant French businessman and former owner of the Olympique de Marseille soccer team, it was not the first, nor even the second but the third time that reports of his death had been greatly exaggerated.
The newspaper Le Monde accidentally published his obituary in 2019, while the sports broadcaster La Chaine L’Équipe erroneously announced his death in an onscreen news ticker earlier this year. Mr. Tapie, 77, has stomach and esophageal cancer.
Line Renaud, 92, a French actress and singer, seemed unfazed by her own premature obituary. She declared on Twitter that she was “in great shape.” In a tweet sprinkled with winking and kissing Emojis, she added: “I still have so many projects to carry out.”
Queen Elizabeth II, Pelé and Clint Eastwood were among about 100 celebrities briefly reported as dead online by French public radio. The station blamed a website upgrade.
The headquarters of Radio France Internationale, near Paris. RFI is a public-service news station broadcasting in France and abroad.Credit...Kenzo Tribouillard/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
By Aurelien Breeden
- Nov. 17, 2020Updated 10:30 a.m. ET
For a brief moment this week, startled readers of a French news site had to grapple with the apparent demise of Queen Elizabeth II of England; Pelé, the Brazilian soccer legend; Clint Eastwood; Brigitte Bardot; and dozens of other celebrities and world leaders.
As it turned out, the website of Radio France Internationale had mistakenly published about 100 prewritten obituaries for prominent figures.
Several hours after the obituaries first ran on Monday, the public radio station, which broadcasts in France and abroad, apologized and started taking the reports offline. It said unedited drafts had been accidentally published as it moved its website to a new content management system. Tech platforms like Google and Yahoo News then automatically picked up some of the articles.
The radio station said in a statement that it wanted to “present its excuses first and foremost to those concerned by these obituaries” and who might have been hurt by the premature announcement of the deaths.
Some of those declared dead before their time responded with good humor.
“Not everybody gets the chance to take note of one’s obituary while still alive,” Abdoulaye Wade, who was president of Senegal from 2000 to 2012, quipped on Facebook after his obituary went out. Mr. Wade, 94, published a current photo of himself dressed in blue and relaxing outside in a lawn chair.
Some French social media users expressed surprise or even outrage that RFI had already written articles about people’s deaths. But that is common practice for media organizations. The New York Times has more than 1,500 advance obituaries of well-known people ready to be quickly updated and published at the time of death.
Discerning readers quickly realized thatthe obituaries seemed premature. For one thing, important details were lacking.
“Ali Khamenei, supreme leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, died on XXXXX at the age of XXXXXXX,” one read. Others had headlines with capital-letter annotations like “REREAD 30/07” or “LAST UPDATED in JULY 2019” — common warnings left by journalists to help scrambling editors.
For Bernard Tapie, the flamboyant French businessman and former owner of the Olympique de Marseille soccer team, it was not the first, nor even the second but the third time that reports of his death had been greatly exaggerated.
The newspaper Le Monde accidentally published his obituary in 2019, while the sports broadcaster La Chaine L’Équipe erroneously announced his death in an onscreen news ticker earlier this year. Mr. Tapie, 77, has stomach and esophageal cancer.
Line Renaud, 92, a French actress and singer, seemed unfazed by her own premature obituary. She declared on Twitter that she was “in great shape.” In a tweet sprinkled with winking and kissing Emojis, she added: “I still have so many projects to carry out.”
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How much money would you spend on a COVID-19 mask? For most of us, the answer is about 30 shekels for a pack of 30. But when one Chinese businessman living in Los Angeles decided he was willing to pay a bit more – $1.5 million, in fact – for the most expensive mask in the world, Yvel, the Israel-based luxury jewelry brand, took on the challenge of creating this mask at its factory in Motza, on the outskirts of Jerusalem.
Isaac Levy, the founder of Yvel, worked with 25 of the company’s top artisans and diamond setters to create a fully functional N-99 mask, made of 250 grams of pure 18k gold and set with 3,608 natural black and white diamonds, with a total weight of about 210 carats. It features a slot to insert a disposable N-99 mask, which provides protection from COVID-19.
“First, it’s a COVID mask, which is made according to FDA and European standards. We made sure that it’s wearable. Then it’s a piece of art,” said Levy in a Zoom interview from Palm Beach, Florida, where he is planning to open a new boutique.
The project came about when Levy, who founded Yvel with his wife, Orna, 35 years ago, was thinking of creative ways to keep the company going throughout the pandemic.
“People are sitting in their homes in their pajamas,” he said. “The last thing they need is a piece of luxury jewelry to adorn their pajamas.”
So he reached out to some of his most loyal customers and one said, “I don’t need anything, but I could use a COVID mask.” The customer had three requirements: that it be a real COVID mask, that it be completed by December 30 and that it be the most expensive mask in the world. Yvel is on track to fulfill all three requirements. The mask is with Levy in the US now and he will deliver it well before the end-of-the-year deadline.
“He’s an art collector, so I think he will keep it for a few months or years and then sell it,” said Levy. “He could wear it to the supermarket or take out the garbage, though. He could wear it anywhere he wants.”
The customer asked for black diamonds, but Levy was concerned this would be too dark, so they added some white ones. The mask features white diamond swirls on a black-diamond background.
While some might be put off by the idea of a jewel-encrusted mask when so many millions are facing tough times, Levy saw the mask as a golden – or maybe platinum – opportunity to keep the factory going, as well as the Megemeria School of Jewelry & Art at the Motza factory which trains and educates Ethiopian immigrants.
The school was established by the Levys in 2010 to provide professional training and employment opportunities that facilitate these immigrants’ integration into Israeli society. Overall, 90% of all Yvel employees are immigrants from 23 countries. Among those who worked on the mask are Ethiopians, Russians and Argentinians. “They are the neshama (soul) of the place,” he said.
Thanks to the mask, Levy will be able to present his employees with a check on the first night of Hanukkah in December for the difference between money they received from the government and the salary they would normally receive for the year. “They won’t lose a penny this year, in spite of everything,” he said.
Asked whether he thinks Yvel, which is best known for its work with rare, organic pearls, will now specialize in jewel-studded COVID masks, Levy said, “I hope that this is the first and the last mask like this,” but he added, “We’ve never said no to an order.”
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>create a fully functional N-99 mask
>features a slot to insert a disposable N-99 mask
Pick one.
>features a slot to insert a disposable N-99 mask
Pick one.
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Is this really gonna be the new status symbol now? Who has the most luxurious mask?
Why would you even need a mask as expensive as that? It looks like something I could get for maybe a little under $10.
Why would you even need a mask as expensive as that? It looks like something I could get for maybe a little under $10.
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A black family living in California’s Discovery Bay area have accused their white neighbour of using racial slurs during a confrontation where she also brandished a taser in her hand.
The video of Geritt Jones and his sister Jarielle Jones’s argument with their neighbour, identified in US media as Adana Dean, was posted on Twitter and Instagram by Ms Jones on 17 November and has since gone viral.
Surveillance camera footage and a mobile phone video, filmed by a member of the Jones family, show Ms Dean waving a taser in her left hand and carrying her dog in her right hand, complaining on Geritt Jones’s doorstep about their dog attacking hers.
As the argument becomes heated, Mr Jones can be heard asking Ms Dean to leave his property.
She responds telling him: "You are a black person in a white neighbourhood and you are acting like one”, suggesting they instead act like “a white person in a white neighbourhood”.
Informed that she is being filmed, Ms Dean says “I don’t give a s***”, adding that the Joneses are “acting like people who aren’t normal”.
“You know what? You guys are acting like Black people and you should act like white people,” she says.
Questioned about carrying a taser, Ms Dean can be heard saying she is doing so because her dog was attacked by theirs.
“Me and my family have lived here for over 10+ years and today our racist white neighbour decided to come over and show her true colours. Lied and claimed our pit Bull attacked her dog WHEN WE HAVE VIDEO EVIDENCE THAT WAS A LIE (her dog wasn’t even outside originally). Said multiple racial slurs, charged after us with her taser multiple times and refused to leave our property until we called the cops,” said Jariell Jones in a post on Instagram.
“I am TIRED of living this way. I am TIRED of passive aggressiveness. I am TIRED of the fake smiles. I am TIRED that I don’t feel safe in a house that I’ve lived in for 10+ years cause of the colour of my skin. I’m f***ing tired,” said Ms Jones.
ABC7 News interviewed the family and said it also went to Ms Dean’s house to speak to her about the incident, but that she declined to comment. Her husband reportedly identified his wife as the woman in the videos before calling it a “minor incident” and shutting the door.
Contra Costa police told the news network in a statement that it “takes these types of acts seriously”, and that officers had responded at the time of the incident.
“Although deputies determined that no crime had been committed, a report was taken to document the interaction between the two neighbours,” the statement read.
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Model alleges she was 'banned' from Tinder for being 'too hot': 'There's so many fake profiles out there'
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A 21-year-old model is claiming that Tinder “banned her” from the popular dating app for being “too hot.”
Luna Benna said she signed up for Tinder three years ago after ending a relationship and so many people stole her photos that her profile got flagged.
“People were stealing my photos and making money using my images. Catfishing, basically,” she alleged. “There’s so many fake profiles out there, whenever I start a legit account I get reported and Tinder has me taken down.”
“Catfishing” refers to when someone creates a fictional persona online, typically using photos of other people.
Benna also claimed that “being too good looking” led her to be harassed by a lot of men on the app. Although, it wasn’t all bad.
“People offered me vacations, proposed to me — even offered money if I agreed to meet up with them,” she said, before adding that she never actually took up anyone on these offers.
But even while on the app, Benna said she had a really tough time dating people.
“I definitely matched with people I liked. Did lots and lots of texting and FaceTiming, phone calls — the whole thing,” she explained. “One was a super awkward experience — the dude said my presence was so powerful it made him uncomfortable … He said it honest-to-God temporarily paralyzed him and he’d never met a woman like me before.”
While Benna makes a living from platforms like Instagram and OnlyFans, she said she still felt uncomfortable seeing people use her image on fake Facebook fan pages or Tinder accounts with inappropriate bios.
“At first I tried confronting [the impersonators] but it never ended well. The outcome would typically be a block,” Benna claimed. “It would motivate the catfishers to look even more ‘real’ and ‘authentic’ now that they knew I was aware [of them].”
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Model alleges she was 'banned' from Tinder for being 'too hot': 'There's so many fake profiles out there'
A 21-year-old model claims she was "banned" from the popular dating app, Tinder, after a bunch of people stole her photos.www.intheknow.com
She doesn't look that amazing, I think she probably paid for the article to increase her visibilty. You see often an instagram or onlyfans person show up in an article making some complaint, then a gallery of photos with a link to their account attached.
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Rollo Tomassi, Godfather of the Manosphere, warns Kamala Harris is leading a soft coup & worries Prince Harry may take own life
‘Godfather of the Manosphere’ Rollo Tomassi is a polarising figure, iconic to many men who treat his proclamations with reverence. To his detractors, he is a misogynist pedalling conspiracy theories and undermining female rights.
Rollo Tomassi, Godfather of the Manosphere, warns Kamala Harris is leading a soft coup & worries Prince Harry may take own life
Godfather of the Manosphere’ Rollo Tomassi is a polarising figure, iconic to many men who treat his proclamations with reverence. To his detractors, he is a misogynist pedalling conspiracy theories and undermining female rights.
Unknown to many, the Manosphere, a volatile digital world where male issues are debated with passion, is thriving. It even has its own lingo, with phrases such as MGTOWs (Men Going Their Own Way), a group who believe feminism is destroying society, and ‘Blue Pill Betas’, the non-assertive men going along with this.
Its biggest voice is the so-called Godfather, Rollo Tomassi. He joined the scene 19 years ago on the SoSuave forum, then began a popular blog The Rational Male, and has since become an author and operates a successful YouTube channel too. To understand him, you have to grasp the ‘red pill’, an analogy from the film
‘The Matrix’, referring to a capsule that allows you to see the world how it truly is.
Speaking to RT exclusively from his home in Reno, Nevada, he said: “Simply, I connect dots that people don’t like to have connected. A lot of guys take the red pill and use it as their own personal brand; back in 2016 when people were worried about the alt-right, they tied that to the red pill. Even Candace Owens used to go by ‘Red Pill Black’ on Twitter, and then suddenly she’s on Fox News – she abandoned the red pill. It’s been bastardised and become a metaphor for truth and whatever their ideology is.”
“When I say ‘the red pill’, I’m not talking about politics, religion or race – it's a loose science about inter-sexual dynamics."
In sexual dynamics terms, the red pill comes from the title of a 2016 documentary about the men’s rights movement as investigated by journalist Cassie Jaye. Jaye initially believed the movement was a hateful one, but over the course of the movie she became sympathetic to their cause. The film has since become something of an online cult classic.
It is on this topic that Rollo strays into controversial waters. He attracts scorn and anger, highlighting cancel culture as a consequence of that.
Rollo said: “To be a guy is sacrificial; you’re not allowed to complain, you’re not supposed to say it’s tough being a guy. Women will always be victims, as they are the vulnerable sex. The gender dynamic from 1970 has seen a big change, but if I say that, I sound like I am a patriarch. We live in a gynocentric social order, which means there is female primacy. Our opinions have to be correct from a female perspective. If they are not, you run the risk of being cancelled. It used to be a very big concern for me, so I didn’t show my face until 2017, I tried to be semi-anonymous.”
One view that has provoked fury is Rollo’s opinion of the Biden administration. He believes it is a hangover from Hillary Clinton’s failed 2016 attempt to become president.
Rollo explained: “Everyone thought it was her turn, there was all this feminist propaganda. Back then, she was the only one if you were of a liberal leaning and feminist mindset. The one individual who was the antithesis of that was Donald Trump. It was the gestalt feminine against the gestalt masculine – and he took it away from her.”
Rollo believes that Biden is essentially a Trojan horse designed to get Kamala Harris into the White House by the back door.
Like many conservative commentators, Rollo believes Joe Biden’s faculties are deteriorating. “Joe Biden has dementia,” he says. “The reason I know is because my father died from it in 2010, so I know what it looks like. This guy isn’t going to serve out his term, and Kamala Harris will be the president. She will get there by default, but that is how obsessively dedicated that side of the political spectrum is to getting a human being with a vagina into the White House.
“I think on some level of consciousness, people realise they are not voting for Biden, they are voting for Kamala Harris. If you are going to do a soft coup, this would be how you do it. You don’t do it through military power in the United States, as we all have guns.”
One incident Rollo highlights as an indication his theory is correct occurred back in October, when Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi held a press conference about the 25th Amendment. “It says they can hold a vote of non-confidence if the president can’t serve and the vice-president takes over,” Rollo explained. “That was tilling the field for what is going to happen; despite what the media said it wasn’t directed at Trump, it was directed at Biden.”
That is a view he shares with Donald Trump.
He added: “I don’t think Kamala knows. Maybe she doesn’t care, but the Democrats want a feather in their cap to have a female president; it just happens to be her.”
Part of Rollo’s theory is that we are now in the Age of the New Enlightenment, where the internet has revolutionised how we access information. He likens the web to the Gutenberg press, saying: “The first thing they did was print the bible (in languages other than Latin) and it essentially changed the world, as it made information widely available that wasn’t before. We are in an unprecedented time, but most people don’t realise. At no other time in human history have we had the access to the information we have, and at no other time have we been so unprepared for it; we can’t filter it but have Google and Facebook filtering it for us – and people are waking up to that.”
One person that Rollo does hope to ‘red pill’ is Prince Harry, believing his marriage to Meghan Markle may end in tragedy.
“When I said he was a blue pill beta, so many people told me he flew helicopters and was a man’s man. I am worried he might commit suicide, and I made the prediction that he will kill himself if he remains in that relationship.
“He is trapped, he has voluntarily isolated himself and resigned from the royal family. Their videos look like hostage videos; she stays with him as he was the prince, but when people forget about him, she’s going to leave.
“Hopefully his brother or someone catches him when he falls. I don’t hope he kills himself, and I am very worried – he has been zeroed out to the point he doesn’t realise it.”
Male suicide is the reason that Rollo began to offer his opinions online – and it’s a cause that drives him on. His books and podcasts are designed to help men get answers.
He said: “My brother-in-law committed suicide as result of being taken to divorce court when my wife’s sister wanted to bail out of their marriage, as she was getting into it with a guy who was a multi-millionaire. I saw that, and it sucked that he hung himself, but what threw me was how people reacted.
“If I have a point it’s to keep the noose off guys' necks and keep the gun out of their mouths, which is also something I’ve experienced, as a friend of mine ended it all by eating a bullet after his soulmate left him.”
Rollo is 52 and has been married to his wife since 1996. They have a 22-year-old daughter but, ironically, he doesn’t advise other men to tie the knot. He explains the discrepancy by dividing the world into New Order and Old Order, drawing the dividing line at the sexual revolution.
Rollo said: “We have two generations of young men who, lifewise, are rudderless. They are not going to college or learning trades; they are at home watching porn and ordering Uber Eats. They are the products of the prior two generations. The sexual revolution has allowed the things we now take for granted, like women in the workplace, divorce, abortion, which all happened around the mid-60s.
“Men and women are better together; that’s how we’ve been the apex species on Planet Earth, we have an interdependence. But it’s only been since the sexual revolution that we’ve said ‘a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle’ – so marriage became a grift, a commercial enterprise.”
The rate of marriage in America has fallen to its lowest ever rate, of 6.5 per 1,000; it was more than double that following World War II. Another thing that has changed is the status of single mothers; Rollo explained: “That's gone from being a stigma to being a superhero, like ‘you go, girl’ – and you can even elect to do it by going to a sperm bank. Marriage used to be a great institution, the bedrock of society. I’m not against marriage and I’m in love with my wife. But according to the data and the conditions we live under right now, marriage for a man is an unconscionable contract. That’s the legal definition of a contract that no human being would enter into unless they were under duress or didn’t have all the facts. I want guys to have intimacy, love, and a good family, but I can’t endorse marriage, as the Old Order way of thinking is what people still cling to."
Two pivotal points, in Rollo’s thinking, were hormonal contraception for women and the right to legal, elective abortions following the landmark Roe v. Wade case in America.
He said: “When I say abortion is the ultimate expression of hypergamy, people lose their minds as suddenly I’m pro-life. I didn't say I’m pro-life or pro-abortion, I’m just explaining the nuts and bolts. I think asking why it’s important for women to have the right to a safe and legal abortion is a valid question, but you can’t ask that without people saying ‘you don’t have a uterus so you have no say.’
“The only reason for abortion is as a failsafe for bad reproductive choices. They say, ‘what about rape,’ but if you look up the stats that’s only one percent of cases. Women will cancel you for saying that the vast majority of abortions are elective; they don’t want to have that conversation, as they don’t like where it goes.”
Another conversation that sparks a backlash is Rollo’s take on homosexuality, which chimes with a study released last year that no single ‘gay gene’ exists.
He said: “Some say it's dangerous to encourage kids they are homosexual in their mid-teens.
"I personally believe homosexuality is a behavioural thing. I’m not saying it’s right or wrong, I’m saying it doesn’t have a genetic root. I don’t believe it’s innate until someone shows me the gay gene and shows me how we are biologically gay. For me, it’s reinforced. I don’t think it’s a choice necessarily, but you weren’t born that way, you were conditioned by what is reinforced.”
This is a phenomenon he relates to the recent high-profile controversy when pop star Harry Styles wore a dress on the cover of Vogue. He was subsequently attacked by Candace Owens, which made headlines across the globe.
Rollo added: “I think the reason he does what he does is because he gets a rise out of it and gets a reward. He was on the cover of Vogue and had all this attention, and when this conservative woman gave him shit, everyone else piled in to tell him he’s the greatest and give him that reward of positivity.”
Rollo offered an explanation for why social media and the reverberation effect occurs – but it’s also something that could be levelled at him.
He said: “We’re living in an age of ego."
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This is the least of my worries.
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A disgusting slob with a sex/sexuality prologue before their name wins a photo prize
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We at youtube declare that we hate America, fun, our creators, everyone that is not woke or a gynophile and also if you enjoy this day with your family you are a racist bigot probably trump supporter and should be send to a gulag
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From the local CBC Ottawa news, the perfect Amazon* truck heist seemingly foiled by shopping carts whose wheels lock when you try to take them out of the supermarket parking lot.
I'm glad Ottawa package thieves get discouraged far too easily.
* Amazon uses a company called Intelcom for deliveries in Ottawa.
I'm glad Ottawa package thieves get discouraged far too easily.
* Amazon uses a company called Intelcom for deliveries in Ottawa.
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Not sure if Pat Buchanan forgot to pay his bill or if they are coming after him; but as of about an hour ago it seems that his website/90s blog is suspended.
Could just be a glitch or something. We shall see. But I also wouldn't be surprised to see him get knocked off of the internet considering he is a populist.
Could just be a glitch or something. We shall see. But I also wouldn't be surprised to see him get knocked off of the internet considering he is a populist.