>DOUGH
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11150351/Guatemala-mob-took-kidnapping-suspects-police-station-set-fire-murdering-boy-11.html
Three child kidnappers are burned alive by raging Guatemalan villagers following the murder of an 11-year-old boy after his parents paid a $19,000 ransom
Freddy MĆ©ndez, 11, was killed after he was kidnapped by three men in Guatemala on August 12
Ovidio MĆ©ndez, 24; Selvin PĆ©rez, 24; and Samuel GodĆnez, 38, were captured by residents in the western city of Colotenango and turned over to police Monday
The kidnappers collected a $19,000 ransom but never returned the boy to his family
Villagers were still upset because the child had not turned up and they returned to the police station where they were able to drag out one of the suspects
The man was killed after he was beaten and set on fire. The group went back to the precinct and took the other two suspects and beat and set them on fire
As proof that Freddy MĆ©ndez was alive, the abductors sent his family a photo that showed one of the suspects holding a shotgun with the child by his side.
The family proceeded in paying the ransom, but the boy was never returned.
Angry residents captured the three suspects on Monday and turned them over to local authorities.
The group stormed the police precinct, overwhelmed the cops and took one of the men by force to a wooded area.
They beat him, dosed gasoline over his body, and finally set him on fire after he had confirmed that Freddy MĆ©ndez was dead from a shot to the head and buried in a pit.
Seeking to serve additional justice by their own means, the villagers returned to the station and dragged out the two remaining suspects, and repeated the punishment all over again.
They also set fire to the home of one of the suspects.
>They beat him, dosed gasoline over his body, and finally set him on fire after he had confirmed that Freddy MĆ©ndez was dead from a shot to the head and buried in a pit.
I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.
>God help us restrain ourselves
>full blown neo-liberal western degeneracy
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/oct/01/how-gay-parenthood-through-surrogacy-became-a-battleground
āWe are expected to be OK with not having childrenā: how gay parenthood through surrogacy became a battleground
In New York, a gay couple fighting to make their insurers pay for fertility treatment have found themselves in the middle of a culture war. What happens when the right to parenthood involves someone elseās body?
Corey Briskin and Nicholas Maggipinto met in law school in 2011, were engaged by 2014, and had their 2016 wedding announced in the New York Times. They moved to a waterfront apartment block in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, with a bright playroom for families on the ground floor.
āWe got married and then we wanted all the trappings: house, children, 401K [retirement saving plan], etc,ā Maggipinto, 37, tells me in their buildingās shared meeting room, tapping the table in sequence with the progression of each idea.
Briskin, 30, grew up assuming heād have children. He came out in college. āOnce I had come out to myself and others, I donāt think my expectation of what my life would look like changed all that much.ā With marriage equality won years ago, they expected to be able to have a conventional married life.
Six months before their wedding, a targeted ad from an organisation called Gay Parents to Be landed in Maggipintoās Instagram feed, offering free consultations with a fertility doctor whoād give them āthe whole rundownā on how they could start a family. āWe had the appointment and we were 100% on the same page ā letās move forward with this,ā says Maggipinto.
Thatās when they first became aware of the eye-watering cost of biological parenthood for gay men. Maggipinto reels off the price list in a way that only someone who has pored over every item could. Thereās compensation for the egg donor: no less than $8,000 (Ā£6,600). The egg-donor agency fee: $8,000-10,000. The fertility clinicās bill (including genetic testing, blood tests, STD screening and a psychiatric evaluation for all parties, sperm testing, egg extraction, insemination, the growing, selecting, freezing and implantation of the resulting embryos): up to $70,000. And thatās if it all goes well: if no embryos are created during a cycle, or if the embryos that are donāt lead to a successful pregnancy, they would have to start again.
Then thereās the cost of a surrogate (called a āgestational carrierā when they carry embryos created from another womanās eggs). Maggipinto and Briskin were told agency fees alone could stretch to $25,000, and the surrogates themselves should be paid a minimum of $60,000 (the advocacy group Men Having Babies says a typical fee was $38,000 in 2020; in the UK, it is illegal for surrogates to be paid, but their expenses are covered by the intended parents). āThat payment doesnāt include reimbursement for things like maternity clothing; lost wages if she misses work for doctorsā appointments or is put on bed rest; transportation; childcare for her own children; [or] lodging.ā
It takes 15 minutes for Maggipinto to run me through all the expenses they could incur if they tried to have a child genetically related to one of them. The bottom line? āTwo hundred thousand dollars, minimum,ā he says, tapping his index finger on the table with each word in disbelief.
They couldnāt afford it. Maggipinto earns a corporate lawyerās salary but is saddled with student debt. Briskin used to work for the City of New York as an assistant district attorney, earning about $60,000 a year. His employment benefits had included generous health insurance. But when they read the policy, they discovered they were the only class of people to be excluded from IVF coverage. Infertility was defined as an inability to have a child through heterosexual sex or intrauterine insemination. That meant straight people and lesbians working for the City of New York would have the costs of IVF covered, but gay male couples could never be eligible.
This isnāt an oversight, itās discrimination, Briskin says. āThe policy is the product of a time when there was a misconception, a stereotype, a prejudice against couples that were made up of two men ā that they were not capable of raising children because there was no female figure in that relationship.ā
Scandi strip show! Is Norway's King Harald V, now set to follow Denmark's Queen Margrethe II - who's removed her grandchildren's titles - and stop daughter MƤrtha Louise, engaged to a bisexual US shaman, calling herself a Princess?
Danish Queen Margrethe II, 82, revealed grandchildren Prince Nikolai, 23, Prince Felix, 20, Prince Henrik, 13, and Princess Athena, 10, will be Counts and Countesses from January 1st 2023
The news has rocked Denmark's royal family, with Prince Joachim, saying his daughter Princess Athena, 10, has been bullied at school since the announcement last week
North of Denmark in Norway, King Harald V, 85, is said to be considering a similar stripping of titles for his daughter Princess MƤrtha Louise, 51, who gave up using the title 'Her Royal Highness' in 2002
Mother-of-three Princess Martha-Louise announced her engagement to US Shaman Durek Verrett in June. The couple started dating in 2019 and after meeting through a mutual friend, and share a passion spirit world
>Princess Martha-Louise announced her engagement to US Shaman Durek Verrett
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durek_Verrett
In a 2009 interview Verrett claimed to be "born into the lineages of Haitian voodoo and indigenous Norwegian medicine".
>born into the lineages of Haitian voodoo and indigenous Norwegian medicine
From 2007 to 2015 Verrett also had a boyfriend, a masseur named Hank Greenberg, who was also his business partner. They broke off their engagement prior to their planned wedding in 2015, and Greenberg later accused Verrett of being manipulative, violent and dangerous, and said he has a "brainwashed" cult of followers where "his word is law." Verrett lived for six years with his then-manager Tiana Griego, who said that "Durek controlled my whole life. It was as if he became jealous of anything that stole his attention. I was not allowed to start a serious romantic relationship or raise my son. It was all about Durek."
https://www.laweekly.com/la-people-2009-urban-shaman-durek-verrett/
LA People 2009: Urban Shaman ā Durek Verrett
L.A., long known for its high-vibing spiritual history (think Krishnamurti, Crowley, Blavatsky and Yogananda), has always been, and continues to be, a mecca for practitioners of mystical healing and metaphysical practices. And recently thereās been a fresh influx of shamans whoāve made their way West to mediate between the realms of the spirit and the physical, all in the name of healing humanity.
Enter Shaman Durek.
Whoa.
If, when you think shaman, you picture a pierced and painted Native medicine man, shaking rattles, chanting mumbo-jumbo and vomiting transmuted entities, Verrett will change all that. He dresses to the nines, vibing massive, fierce and powerful while bringing an endless array of shamanic tools and traditions to his elegantly lit Echo Park table.
Born into the lineages of Haitian voodoo and indigenous Norwegian medicine, Verrett sifts from a seemingly infinite supply of universal healing energy, calling upon Kaballah, Maori, Huna, Mahayana Buddhism and Native traditions, as well as ascended masters, Archangels, Egyptian and Indian gods and goddesses, devas, fairies, elementals, Akashic Records, sacred geometry, even those handy Pleiadans (an ascended race of interdimensional helpers). Heās traveled the world, studying with masters in Egypt, Israel, Turkey and Brazil, delving into realms of light and lore, unearthing well-watched secrets of the cosmos from sacred sites, ley lines and etheric other-realms. He says he was guided to Los Angeles to help heal the fractured feminine, and to uplift the dragging asses of the distracted masses from their slumber.
Lucky us.
A compendium of overlapping paradoxes, Shaman Durek never ceases to surprise. In one moment heās beating the crap out of my thighs, channeling an Inuit elder with a karmic bone to pick, while in the next heās swapping spit with his well-accessorized Chihuahua, and gushing loving and little boyālike over the pink flowers blossoming in his garden. Heās as sweet as he is fierce, as nurturing as he is tough; heās both elegant and playful, regal and silly, and he has the most beautiful skin in the world. Heās lived a thousand lifetimes in his scant 34 years, and died a few as well. Such is the path of the shaman, initiations and all.