Thursday, July 19, 2018
Radio Host Fired for Comparing Transgender People to Actors | pluralist
Radio Host Fired for Comparing Transgender People to Actors | pluralist
"People act and pretend to be different things. Kinda like what you're doing!"
"There have been multiple disciplinary incidents, and in spite of numerous conversations, he has continued to offend our audiences," a Rogers Media spokesperson confirmed to CBC News.
" As a result, we have ended our relationship with him and he is no longer with the company, effective immediately."
...The "Wheeler in the Morning" host commented on Scarlett Johansson's decision to drop out of a role playing a transgender massage parlor owner in the upcoming film "Rub and Tug" after facing backlash from the trans community. " I am so confused! I am so confused by the whole transgender community.
I mean literally, there is nothing you can do to make them happy," he said.
" Nothing!
Not a goddamn thing!
Yeah.
Nothing!
People act and pretend to be different things.
Kinda like what you're doing!
Really!
In the grand scheme of things."
"
Canadian radio host Dave Wheeler was fired Wednesday after comparing transgender people to actors who "pretend to be different things" during a broadcast earlier this week, CBC News reported.
The transgender community's response: "Radio, people listen every morning on their drives to work, right?
If that's their first touch with trans people or the queer community, that is derogatory and hateful, then that's what we're going to get from them eventually," Xavier Raddysh, who is transgender, told CBC News in reaction to Wheeler's comments..."
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Europe’s Flawed Addiction to Rail | Economics21
Europe’s Flawed Addiction to Rail | Economics21
"...Europe is hailed as the holy grail of transportation for its widespread use of trains instead of cars, while the United States is criticized for its reliance on cars and trucks.
However, Europeans have achieved this by spending much more on subsidies than Americans, leading to many unintended consequences.
Germany spends more than six times U.S. levels on its sponsored railway company, Deutsche Bahn.
...While the U.S. spends approximately $6 per person per year, Germany spends more than $160 since its population is much smaller.
Despite the subsidies, Deutsche Bahn has kept accumulating debt over the past decade, and it is now more than $20 billion (€17.6 billion).
Conversely, Amtrak has decreased its debt by more than half since 2008, to reach only $1.2 billion last year.
Germany is not an outlier, as subsidized trains in France and Italy are in a worse financial position and spend even more per person.
...On the other hand, airplanes are more environmentally friendly than trains.
Even the European Union has acknowledged the superiority of airplanes and is puzzled at the nonsensical preference of national politicians for trains.
...As Milton Friedman would have said it “Nobody spends somebody else’s money as wisely as he spends his own."
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"...Europe is hailed as the holy grail of transportation for its widespread use of trains instead of cars, while the United States is criticized for its reliance on cars and trucks.However, Europeans have achieved this by spending much more on subsidies than Americans, leading to many unintended consequences.
Germany spends more than six times U.S. levels on its sponsored railway company, Deutsche Bahn.
...While the U.S. spends approximately $6 per person per year, Germany spends more than $160 since its population is much smaller.
Despite the subsidies, Deutsche Bahn has kept accumulating debt over the past decade, and it is now more than $20 billion (€17.6 billion).
Conversely, Amtrak has decreased its debt by more than half since 2008, to reach only $1.2 billion last year.
Germany is not an outlier, as subsidized trains in France and Italy are in a worse financial position and spend even more per person.
...On the other hand, airplanes are more environmentally friendly than trains.
Even the European Union has acknowledged the superiority of airplanes and is puzzled at the nonsensical preference of national politicians for trains.
...As Milton Friedman would have said it “Nobody spends somebody else’s money as wisely as he spends his own."
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Obama admin. sent taxpayer money to campaign to oust Netanyahu - Washington Times
The State Department paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayers grants to an Israeli group that used the money to build a campaign to oust Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in last year’s Israeli parliamentary elections, a congressional investigation concluded Tuesday.
Global warming creates desperate media lies
Global warming creates desperate media lies
The New York Times has published a misleading article claiming global warming is largely responsible for unauthorized immigrants entering the U.S. from Central America.
The article, titled “A Warming World Creates Desperate People,” alleges global warming is causing crop failures in Central America, which in turn has forced people to flee north to the U.S. In reality, global and Central American crop production is at record levels.
The true lesson from The New York Times’ article is a beneficial climate creates desperate media lies.
According to the Times, “Drought and rising temperatures in Guatemala are making it harder for people to make a living or even survive, thus compounding the already tenuous political situation for the 16.6 million people who live there.”
The article focuses specifically on coffee production, quoting “one young farmer” who said, “We can’t make a living purely off coffee anymore.”
The article then asserts global warming is causing coffee crop failures that are inducing people to enter the U.S. without authorization.
Objective facts obliterate this fictitious narrative.
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s June 2018 publication "Coffee: World Markets and Trade," the 2017–18 coffee season produced the second highest global coffee crop on record and narrowly fell short of the record 2016–17 season.
And the 2016–17 season will likely not remain in the record books for long.
“World coffee production for 2018/19 is forecast 11.4 million bags higher than the previous year at a record 171.2 million,” according to the USDA report.
The current forecast is a full 6 percent above the previous record yield.
That will make 2016–18 the three years with the largest coffee production in recorded history.
It’s also important to note Central America and South America are producing record global coffee yields..."
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The New York Times has published a misleading article claiming global warming is largely responsible for unauthorized immigrants entering the U.S. from Central America.
The article, titled “A Warming World Creates Desperate People,” alleges global warming is causing crop failures in Central America, which in turn has forced people to flee north to the U.S. In reality, global and Central American crop production is at record levels.
The true lesson from The New York Times’ article is a beneficial climate creates desperate media lies.
According to the Times, “Drought and rising temperatures in Guatemala are making it harder for people to make a living or even survive, thus compounding the already tenuous political situation for the 16.6 million people who live there.” The article focuses specifically on coffee production, quoting “one young farmer” who said, “We can’t make a living purely off coffee anymore.”
The article then asserts global warming is causing coffee crop failures that are inducing people to enter the U.S. without authorization.
Objective facts obliterate this fictitious narrative.
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s June 2018 publication "Coffee: World Markets and Trade," the 2017–18 coffee season produced the second highest global coffee crop on record and narrowly fell short of the record 2016–17 season.
And the 2016–17 season will likely not remain in the record books for long.
“World coffee production for 2018/19 is forecast 11.4 million bags higher than the previous year at a record 171.2 million,” according to the USDA report.
The current forecast is a full 6 percent above the previous record yield.
That will make 2016–18 the three years with the largest coffee production in recorded history.
It’s also important to note Central America and South America are producing record global coffee yields..."
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WATCH: Hillary Said In 2010 That Obama Wanted To 'Strengthen Russia' | Daily Wire
WATCH: Hillary Said In 2010 That Obama Wanted To 'Strengthen Russia' | Daily Wire
"Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in a 2010 interview on Russian television with Vladimir Pozner that the Obama administration wanted to "help strengthen Russia."
"What is being done to make it easier for Americans to come to Russia and for Russians to visit America?" Pozner asked.
"Well, we want to encourage a lot more travel and a lot more exchanges," Clinton responded.
"As we move forward and we get more experience between our two countries and facilitating business travel, tourism travel, education travel, every kind of travel, I think it will become, at least I hope, easier and easier."
"Many of our businesses want to have their business leaders come and have open-ended visas and similarly a lot of Russians want to be able to come and have as much time as they need," Clinton continued.
"That's what I would like to work towards."
"One of the fears that I hear from Russia is that somehow the United States wants Russia to be weak," Clinton added.
"That could not be farther from the truth. Our goal is to help strengthen Russia."
"Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in a 2010 interview on Russian television with Vladimir Pozner that the Obama administration wanted to "help strengthen Russia."
"What is being done to make it easier for Americans to come to Russia and for Russians to visit America?" Pozner asked.
"Well, we want to encourage a lot more travel and a lot more exchanges," Clinton responded.
"As we move forward and we get more experience between our two countries and facilitating business travel, tourism travel, education travel, every kind of travel, I think it will become, at least I hope, easier and easier."
"Many of our businesses want to have their business leaders come and have open-ended visas and similarly a lot of Russians want to be able to come and have as much time as they need," Clinton continued.
"That's what I would like to work towards."
"One of the fears that I hear from Russia is that somehow the United States wants Russia to be weak," Clinton added.
"That could not be farther from the truth. Our goal is to help strengthen Russia."
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Limbaugh: Left in panic, acting like ‘recent escapees from asylums’
Limbaugh: Left in panic, acting like ‘recent escapees from asylums’:
“These people leveling these charges are a making it look like they are recent escapees from asylums and that they need to be sent back. We have heard people on MSNBC claim that what Trump did with Putin is akin to Hitler murdering Jews on Kristallnacht. It’s irrational to the point that it can’t be rationally explained,” Limbaugh said.
He said the Rosenstein announcement may actually signal the end of Mueller’s investigation.
“I think it was a cold shock to the system that Mueller doesn’t have anything, because there isn’t anything speaking of evidence of collusion — and then Mueller handed this case off to a division of the Justice Department where it’s never gonna be seen. This case has been tossed out. This case … Rosenstein announced that Mueller is sending this case to the counterintelligence investigative department in the justice department,” he said.
He said the Rosenstein announcement may actually signal the end of Mueller’s investigation.
“I think it was a cold shock to the system that Mueller doesn’t have anything, because there isn’t anything speaking of evidence of collusion — and then Mueller handed this case off to a division of the Justice Department where it’s never gonna be seen. This case has been tossed out. This case … Rosenstein announced that Mueller is sending this case to the counterintelligence investigative department in the justice department,” he said.
'Anti-Oppression Guide' spreads to multiple college libraries
'Anti-Oppression Guide' spreads to multiple college libraries
- Numerous college libraries now proudly tout an "Anti-Oppression Guide" featuring resources on topics like "Christian fragility," "microaggressions," and coping with the Trump presidency.
- Notably, the guide warns that using the suffix "phobia" in reference to oppression is "harmful" because it denotes fear rather than hatred, suggesting the suffix "misia" as a replacement.
- The guide also asserts that oppression "is built into institutions like government and education systems," offering resources designed to help students recognize the ways they are unknowingly oppressing others.
An “Anti-Oppression Guide” that has previously been published by librarians at Simmons College is now appearing at other universities and colleges across the country.
As previously reported by Campus Reform, the Simmons College "Anti-Oppression Guide" warned students that Christians may be guilty of microaggressions, and included other sections on “Anti-Racism,” “Anti-Ableism,” “Anti-Queermisia,” and much more.
"Trans folks can be agents of transmisia as well (particularly when acting as representatives of cis-dominated systems, such as higher education)..." Tweet This
Recently, the same guide, meant to help students navigate the ever-expanding maze of microaggressions and other forms of “oppression,” has begun to appear at additional universities, including the libraries of Lesley Universityand Beloit College.
“This guide is intended to provide some general information about anti-oppression, diversity, and inclusion..."
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Human Wasteland Map Plots All of San Francisco's Poop - Thrillist
Human Wasteland Map Plots All of San Francisco's Poop - Thrillist: "Fecal matter is elusive, and doesn’t necessarily register until it’s crusted on the bottom of your shoe.
But there might be a dark cloud of poo hovering above your city, as evidenced by this stinky, stinky map.
Citing human waste reports made in San Francisco, software engineer Jenn Wong mapped the city’s most poop-ridden neighborhoods, and it is a feast for watery eyes.
Her project, called Human Wasteland, is pretty exhaustive, listing reports made by individual 311 calls from 2008-2015.
If there was a frantic call made to city authorities about a steaming pile over that seven-year period, it’s listed in Wong’s map in the form of that ubiquitous poop emoji."
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