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http://www.cnbc.com/2015/08/24/caitlyn-jenner-halloween-costume-sparks-social-media-outrage-.html

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...een-costume-labeled-817515?utm_source=twitter

It's nowhere near October, but one ensemble is already on track to be named the most controversial Halloween costume of 2015.

Social media users were out in full force on Monday criticizing several Halloween retailers for offering a Caitlyn Jenner costume reminiscent of the former-athlete's Vanity Fair cover earlier this year.

While Jenner's supporters condemned the costume as "transphobic" and "disgusting" on Twitter, Spirit Halloween, a retailer that carries the costume, defended the getup.

"At Spirit Halloween, we create a wide range of costumes that are often based upon celebrities, public figures, heroes and superheroes," said Lisa Barr, senior director of marking at Spirit Halloween. "We feel that Caitlyn Jenner is all of the above and that she should be celebrated. The Caitlyn Jenner costume reflects just that."
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According to someone "in the know" at the club it was the owner, his GF and 2 pilots on board. It might actually be worse because it crashed into a crowded area.
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Seems to be a mechanical fault with the tail rotor according to eyewitnesses.
 
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#IAmSexist: It’s time that we men take responsibility for our role in the problem of violence against women.




Prof. Yancy calls for the collective acknowledgement of guilt from ALL men for being sexist. Later, he recounts his personal struggle with sexism, including his conscious desire to subordinate his wife against her will and his grope-y childhood antics.

It's cowardly narcissism disguised as brave virtuosity. When Yancy apologizes for his uniquely sexist behavior (and it was sexist, for sure), he doesn't claim he apologized to specific women he may have hurt (with the exception of his wife) -- he apologizes to ALL women, as if ALL women were affected by his specific behavior. In his mind, each individual woman is simply a representative of her gender class. What's good for one woman is good for them all. Harm one woman, you harm them all. Of course, I doubt Yancy felt he was harming "all women" when he tried (unsuccessfully) to subordinate his wife against her will. I assume his subsequent reconciliation with his wife was an exercise in interpersonal growth and positively affected their relationship. That's great, but his personal redemption had no effect on the state of womanhood or gender dynamics in America.

And yet here he is, apologizing to ALL women for his shitty mindset and childhood behavior, while reaping the benefits of this performative "mea culpa." Perhaps hearing "I forgive you, let's move on" from his wife wasn't enough; he needs validation from every woman. It's so transparently self-serving.

What's even more infuriating is his attempt to collectivize his own individual transgressions. 'Since the world is watching, we, as men, need to join in the dialogue in ways that we have failed to in the past. We need to admit our roles in the larger problem of male violence against women. We need to tell the truth about ourselves.' In this way, he gets to share the blame. His individual sexism is now a property of masculinity and manhood. To me, this is a cowardly way of abdicating TOTAL personal responsibility for his actions by conflating his own individual rottenness with the nature of men. This becomes evident when he quotes bell hooks:

'As bell hooks writes in “The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity and Love,” men unconsciously “engage in patriarchal thinking, which condones rape even though they may never enact it. This is a patriarchal truism that most people in our society want to deny.”'

Yancy's decision to quote this particular book's line is quite revealing. Perhaps Yancy HAS condoned rape in his head in the past. I know I haven't, and I know (or at least am justified in believing) none of my close male friends or family members have (or do) either. I'd wager the vast majority of men in the US do not condone rape or have ever felt tempted to rape.

Yancy is clearly projecting in his article. He views women as property. He views women as little more than "meat" (he clearly has a hard time balancing his sexual desires with his acknowledgement of female agency and personhood). He instinctively seeks to subordinate women around him. He may have condoned rape in his mind at various points during his life. And he's too frightened to acknowledge that, maybe, JUST MAYBE, he belongs to a minority of men who really struggle with this stuff.

In short, it's another example of how male feminists continue to excuse their own shortcomings and dodge personal responsibility for their actions by projecting them onto their gender as a whole.

I imagine being this sexist in deeply feminist environments is pretty lonely. However, I do not think publicly throwing every heterosexual male with balls and a penis under the bus is a good solution. Perhaps Prof. Yancy should consider seeking therapy as an alternative. It has to be gentler on his psyche than this glorified Struggle Session.
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I was full well expecting this to be the latest /pol/ prank to make male feminists behave like idiots...

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Is "Arab clan" a politically correct way in Germany of saying "rape gang?"
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Nope. They are into drug dealing, protection money, prostitution and so on. Basically arab mafia. It's not like the Rodham rape gang. It's an entirely different beast.
 
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https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2...ot-reflect-realities-life-japan/#.W9VxSntKiM8

Moral education may not reflect the realities of life in Japan
BY MICHAEL HOFFMAN


What’s wrong with the following story?

A magician, skilled but unlucky, finds success passing him by. One day, wandering lost in gloomy thoughts, he meets a boy who is unhappier still. The magician does some tricks. The boy cheers up. They become friends. They agree to meet the next day.


That evening the magician receives a visit from a friend. The friend brings news: The scheduled performer at the next day’s magic show can’t make it. Will the magician fill in?

Here it is, at last, the big break! Ah, but — the boy! He has promised to meet the boy! Can he disappoint him? No, he cannot. Success, fame, fortune are important, but friendship is more so. He will turn down the offer. He will keep his promise.

What’s wrong with the story? As a fairy tale, nothing. But as a moral lesson — since that’s what it’s meant to be — it seems to lack an essential ingredient: realism. Does real life work that way? Can it? Should it? If Japan’s did, what would become of its economic competitiveness?

It’s an old story, going back some 40 years, according to the Asahi Shimbun, and it has found its way, in one form or another, into all eight of the government-approved textbooks in use in a new — resurrected, rather — elementary school subject known as moral education. Discredited following World War II for its prewar and wartime militarist leanings, moral education sank into an informal limbo from which a reform backed by the education ministry has rescued it, effective this year in elementary schools, next in junior high schools.

History aside, critics fret about a key element of the reform. Moral education is now, as it was not in its informal phase, to be graded. How can teachers grade morality? By rewarding the loudest professions of determination to emulate the magician? Hypocrisy pays, while sincerity must be its own reward.

Another character figuring prominently in the new moral education textbooks is one Ninomiya Kinjiro (1787-1856). Born to a peasant family in Sagami Province (today’s Kanagawa Prefecture), he taught himself to read, worked himself up from poverty and became a noted figure of his time — an agronomist, economist, philosopher and forceful advocate for the starving poor. His posthumous life extended deep into the 20th century, via a famous 1-meter-high statue, much reproduced and adorning elementary school grounds across the nation, instantly recognizable by the load of firewood on the boy’s back and the book in his hand, symbolizing his indefatigable determination to work and better himself at all costs.

Readers of Kappa Senoh’s fictionalized wartime memoir “Shonen H” (“A Boy Called H”) will remember H, as an elementary school fourth-grader, getting into trouble over Ninomiya Kinjiro. A teacher rebukes H for reading while walking. “But,” protests H, “Miss Hayase (his homeroom teacher) said we should model ourselves on the statue of Ninomiya Kinjiro.” Yes, says the teacher, but not to extremes: “Modeling yourself on him means you should study hard, not that you should read as you walk.”

During the war the statues were melted down for ammunition, and Kinjiro more or less disappeared from view. He’s back — raising, on his return, the same question raised by the fictional magician: Is morality realistic?

Yasuhiro Ninomiya, a 71-year-old descendant of Kinjiro’s and a member of the Association of Japanese Intellectual History, tells the Asahi Shimbun that legend somewhat exaggerated his ancestor’s merits, considerable though they were. Kinjiro did teach himself to read, says Yasuhiro — but later in life, not as a child. And a famous story of him — again as a child — making straw sandals on his own initiative for laborers building a levee is “probably baseless” — a late 19th-century authoritarian government’s conscious attempt, in Yasuhiro’s view, to symbolize selfless dedication in opposition to a campaign then simmering for individual rights.

Two textbooks feature that story. Does factual accuracy matter? Yes, but secondarily, an education ministry official tells the Asahi Shimbun: “The essential point, in selecting content, is its educational value. Factual accuracy may or may not be an obstacle in that regard.”

Suppose a bright kid raises his or her hand in class and asks, “Is this story true?” What would the teacher say in reply — that “factual accuracy may or may not” matter?

It seems to matter less and less in society as a whole. Two examples, one benign, the other not:

Earlier this month the business magazine President ran a feature on job interviews. How should a job candidate approach one? Gingerly and yet boldly — gingerly because so much depends on it, boldly because bold is what an employer wants its employees to be. President cites an astonishing fact: A first impression of a stranger we meet is formed within, on average, 0.2 seconds. Once formed, it is more or less indelible. (“If you spill red ink on white paper, you can’t change it to blue ink,” is how psychologist Isamu Saito puts it.) The successful job candidate is he or she who seizes control of that crucial one-fifth of a second.

There are ways to do it. Sixty percent of a first impression is determined by the expression on your face. What do you want yours to say? Compose it so that it says it. Dress, too, says Saito, is important. The cut and colors of your suit, necktie and accessories send subliminal messages: red — extroverted and novelty-seeking; blue — polite, knowledgeable and traditional; gray — unassertive; and so on. What do you want to convey to your prospective employer? Whatever it wants to see in you — which you’ll know, having done the requisite preliminary research into the company’s corporate character.

Sincerity? A virtue no doubt, but first things first, and the first thing is: Get that job!

Having got it, the “first thing” is apt to become: sell products, maximize profits, gain power, keep power, expand power, protect your boss, protect yourself — and so on. The long list of corporate and government scandals unfolding over the past year and a half suggests a moral crisis that is pervasive rather than aberrational.

Truth? The admission this month by KYB Corp., a manufacturer of earthquake shock absorbers, that it has been fabricating safety data for more than a decade, is merely the latest reminder among many that, in a society whose primary goals are not moral but economic, the moral high road belongs exclusively to itinerant, luckless magicians. More power to them.
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1000 human teeth found in wall.

VALDOSTA, Ga. (AP) - Construction workers in Georgia have found hundreds of teeth in the wall of a downtown building.

The Valdosta Daily Times reports a construction crew preparing a commercial space in downtown Valdosta found about a thousand teeth inside a second-floor wall.

Historical Society researcher Harry Evans says the building was constructed in 1900, and its first tenant was a dentist named Clarence Whittington. He says it later housed another dentist named Lester G. Youmans until at least 1930.
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Troons hold a #wewillnotbeerased protest in Minneapolis, it's as weird and cringey as it looks.

 
New Zealand, led by feminist progressive darling Jacinda Ardern, approves TPP



New Zealand's parliament passed legislation Wednesday to ratify the reworked Trans-Pacific Partnership, a $10 trillion free trade pact among 11 nations.



It will complete the process as early as the end of October, pending approval from the governor general, representative of Queen Elizabeth II, New Zealand's head of state. The move is a step forward for the so-called TPP-11 to take effect in January 2019.



The TPP-11 will come into force 60 days after at least six legislatures of member states ratify the agreement. Mexico, Japan, Singapore completed the procedures, followed by the approval of Australia's Senate last week. Vietnam is expected to ratify the TPP-11 in the upcoming session that ends in November. Canada is also on track to complete the ratification process, resulting in approval by the minimum six countries by the middle of next month.



The agreement covers 15% of global trade. Member countries, which also include Chile, Malaysia, Brunei and Peru, resurrected the deal in March after President Donald Trump abruptly withdrew the U.S. from the agreement in 2017.



https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/New-Zealand-approves-TPP-11
 
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https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entr...tucky-dad-apology_us_5bd647f8e4b055bc948d56cd
(yeah I know but it was the first source and I'm lazy)
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So was this a troll who got remorse, white supremacist who thought he could get away with dressing up like a Nazi if he made his son Hitler (lulz) or just a really, really stupid guy? Place your bets!

I'll note that while the kid's 'hitler' outfit is shitty AF (Adolph would never be caught dead in that tie) the dad's 'costume' is fucking detailed. You don't come up with that shit a couple days before going trick or treating. Nor did he pick a fairly generic outfit- went full SS.

He complained that he shouldn't be getting grief for dressing as a 'historical figures' for Halloween when other people are dressed as serial killers and such. Last year's selection in historical figures was confederate soldier.
https://www.courierpress.com/story/...apologizes-nazi-halloween-costume/1780810002/
Left unaddressed is how politically incorrect it is to label the event as "Trail of Treats" making light of the thousands of natives who died on the Trail of Tears. Maybe the dad was engaging in some expert satire of the way America glorifies its past transgressions on humanity while villif...

Screenshots of Goldbach's Facebook page prior to his apology show slogans like "White pride doesn't mean hate..."
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TFW you have to address pizzagate rumors regarding your dead bandmate.:(

http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/so...ses-chris-cornell-murder-conspiracy-theories/

Chris Cornell's SOUNDGARDEN bandmate Kim Thayil has dismissed conspiracy theories that have surfaced since the singer committed suicide last year following a SOUNDGARDEN show in Detroit.

Thayil told the Detroit Free Press that he and other SOUNDGARDEN members were already en route to Columbus for the band's next date when they got word that Cornell had died back in his Detroit hotel room.

There had been no signs anything was particularly amiss that night, he said — "nothing that would have allowed us to anticipate what would happen."

"There were a few minor difficulties [early] in the show that I felt adjusted themselves within a few songs," Thayil said of Cornell's performance. "And then the rest of the show went pretty well."



Thayil also addressed what he called "cockamamie ideas floating around out there" — conspiracy theories that hit the web after Cornell's death, such as speculation the singer was murdered because he was about to expose a child sex ring allegedly associated with a Washington, D.C., pizza parlor some claimed was a front, although Washington police said that theory was "fictitious."

"The fact of the matter is there was nothing that would suggest this outcome," the guitarist said.

Chris was found hanged in his room at the MGM Grand Detroit hotel in May 2017. His body was found soon after he had spoken with a "slurred" voice to his wife, Vicky, by phone. The death was ruled a suicide.

But his family has questioned the medical examiner's ruling, saying that he had a prescription for Ativan and that a higher than recommended dosage may have caused him to experience suicidal thoughts.

In May, Vicky told The Detroit News that she did not agree with the coroner's ruling of suicide, which came just hours after the singer died from asphyxiation caused by a rubber exercise band tied around his neck.

"This has left me and my family still looking for answers, but at the same time, set off this whirlwind of conspiracies," Vicky told the paper. "Some of the people are just fans looking for answers, but some of them are conspiracy theorists who have said the most vile things to my children and me."

Last year, Macomb County Medical Examiner Daniel Spitz, who was not involved in the case, told The Detroit News that sometimes people don't want to accept when people kill themselves — especially when the victim is famous.

"People have a problem with celebrities doing this because they're wealthy and have a lifestyle everyone wants," Spitz said. "They say, 'He couldn’t have killed himself; he's got fans and people love him.' But that doesn't change what's going on inside his head."
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I believe that CDAN started the whole "Chris Cornell was silenced because he was trying to take down a pedo ring" rumors.

It must be annoying when people ask you about this stuff. Not to mention offensive. CDAN has been fueling this whole pedo ring nonsense for over a year now.

Exactly why Chris Cornell committed suicide will likely remain a mystery. He had no drugs in his system save for prescriptions at normal doses. The dose of Ativan wasn't high enough to cause suicidal thoughts. It's speculated that the suicide had to do with his marriage as a family friend leaked a social media post that Chris and his wife were getting a divorce.

But whatever it was, it sure as hell wasn't pizzagate.:roll:
 
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But whatever it was, it sure as hell wasn't pizzagate.:roll:
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Suppose you were about to blow the whistle on a huge international child trafficking conspiracy and you knew they constantly murdered people and made it look like suicide. Instead of just doing it, though, you let them know first that you're thinking about it.

Why are all the potential whistleblowers so fucking stupid?

Also, there is no way some fucking Ativan was so mind bending it made a rock star contemplate suicide. Sure, it's a benzo, but it's about the weakest ass benzo you could possibly take, making Valium look like crack in comparison.
 
The arm wrestling between italian populist eurosceptic govt and EU worsening now that EU refused to approve italian deficit spending budget for the year 2019.

Bruxelles refused the italian deficit because of the already high debit Italy is facing, credit crunch of italian enterprises and slow economical growth in the last years.

https://www.businessinsider.com/eu-rejects-italy-budget-in-unprecedented-move-2018-10?IR=T

The italian govt refused to comply and Matteo Salvini (Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Internal Affairs) said he wont stand back for even a millimeter.

Matters are growing worse because of attacks from italian euro MPs attacking colleagues (https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1035823/eu-news-italy-budget-economy-pierre-moscovici-latest) and italian-french relations in crisis over the french soldiers repeated trespassing in italian soil in the last weeks (https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1032381/france-news-italy-migrant-crisis-matteo-salvini)

Many are wondering; is Italy planning on leaving the EU or is forcing the hand to obtain what they want? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_q17ut8IwM)
Will it destroy the union in the long run? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kVKNQ7dtyU)
Will italian financial turmoil become a full fledged crisis and expand worldwide?
(https://www.independent.co.uk/voice...e-brink-economic-crisis-not-new-a8566416.html
https://www.scmp.com/comment/insigh...taly-and-its-ailing-banks-trigger-next-global)
 
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