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Politician who pushed for ‘gender-neutral’ toilets has been charged with nine child sex crimes!

A local English politician who pushed for the implementation of ‘gender-neutral’ toilets just after being elected into office has now been charged with nine counts of sexual touching of a child.

According to a report by the BBC, David Smith, shortly after he was elected to the local authority in Teeside, Yorkshire as a Conservative Party politician, successfully petitioned the Mayor of Middlesbrough to trial gender-neutral toilets at the Middlesbrough Council.

In light of the allegations against him, Councillor Smith immediately resigned from the Conservative Party. After resigning Smith said that he “completely rejects” the “spurious allegations”, and claimed that he was simply “removing myself from the party [to]ensure I can focus all my efforts on fighting to clear my name.”

Despite resigning from the party, reports suggest that Smith doesn’t intend on stepping down from his role on the council. Thus, for the time being, he will continue to receive a reported £6,378 in basic allowance.

Smith claims that he “worked hard to ensure I serve the people of Coulby Newham to the best of my ability”.

Smith, also rather pathetically, claimed that “ordering bollards to be installed”, “tackling the issue of potholes”, and “being a very proud advocate of the local LGBTQ community” were all highlights and accomplishments of his career as a Conservative politician.

“This is who I am as a person and a community activist,” Smith asserted.

He added that “The allegations made against my character are nothing more than damaging lies and moving forward, I will seek to prove this is the case in a court of law.”

Before the pedophilia charges, Smith recently found himself in hot water when it came to light that he had suggested a “heinous benefit system” had led to “rotten pond life families that should be sterilized and washed” in a post on an association football forum under the screen name “Smoggy89”.

According to a spokesperson for the Cleveland Police, Smith it “due to appear at Teesside Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday 7 August.”

https://voiceofeurope.com/2019/07/politician-who-pushed-for-gender-neutral-toilets-has-been-charged-with-nine-child-sex-crimes/

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Colorado State University: ‘Avoid’ using ‘Americans,’ ‘America’. The war on America from inside continues..

COLORADO STATE: ‘AVOID’ USING ‘AMERICANS,’ ‘AMERICA’

By Ethan Cai, Campus Reform,

Colorado State University lists “America” and “American” as words to avoid.

The university’s Inclusive Language Guide also claims that “handicap parking,” “male,” and “female” should be avoided, along with many other common words and phrases.

Colorado State University claims that “American” is a non-inclusive word that should be avoided.

CSU’s online Inclusive Language Guide, compiled by the school’s Inclusive Communications Task Force, lists certain words and phrases to avoid while providing replacements in an effort to help “communicators practice inclusive language and [help] everyone on [its] campus feel welcomed, respected, and valued.” The school’s Women and Gender Collaborative website directly links to the document.

“This erases other cultures and depicts the United States as the dominant American country”

CSU lists both “American” and “America” as non-inclusive words “to avoid,” due to the fact that America encompasses more than just the U.S. By referring to the U.S. as America, the guide claims that one “erases other cultures and depicts the United States as the dominant American country.” The school suggests using “U.S. citizen” or “person from the U.S.” as substitutes.

The university additionally lists many gendered words and phrases to avoid. These include “male,” “female,” “ladies and gentlemen,” and “Mr./Mrs./Ms.”

“Male and female refers to biological sex and not gender,” says the guide. “In terms of communication methods (articles, social media, etc.), we very rarely need to identify or know a person’s biological sex and more often are referring to gender.”

[RELATED: VIDEO: Students say America is NOT the greatest country on Earth]

“Straight” is another word to avoid, according to CSU. The guide explained that “when used to describe heterosexuals, the term straight implies that anyone LGBT is ‘crooked’ or not normal,” and says to use the word “heterosexual” instead.

“Normal person” was also listed as a phrase to avoid because it “implies that ‘other’ people… are not whole or regular people.” The guide offered no substitute word because it claimed that it is never appropriate to use the phrase to describe someone.

According to the list, the phrase “handicap parking” should also not be used because it can “minimize personhood” and offend disabled people. The guide recommends “accessible parking” as an alternative.

“War,” “cake walk,” “eenie meenie miney moe,” “Eskimo,” “freshman,” “hip hip hooray!”, “hold down the fort,” “starving,” and “policeman” were among other words and phrases deemed non-inclusive by CSU.

'This leftie PC bullshit beggars belief!

More Here: https://gellerreport.com/2019/07/colorado-university-bans-america.html/

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Did the US Invent Lyme Disease in the 1960s? The House Aims to Find Out..

A decades-old conspiracy theory says Cold War bio-weapons research is sickening tens of thousands of Americans a year.

In the 1960s, on an 840-acre island at the entrance to Long Island Sound, scientists at the highly guarded Plum Island Animal Disease Center were at the forefront of U.S. biological-weapons research. Specifically, they sought to create pathogens that could be deployed stealthily, via insects.

Skip ahead to 1975, when the nearby town of Old Lyme, Connecticut, became the epicenter of a strange, tick-borne illness. Children began to report unusual skin rashes, chronic fatigue, and swollen knees. In 1981, the condition was named Lyme disease. A conspiracy theory spread like a fever: that the researchers at Plum Island had engineered a new sickness, one that now afflicts more than 30,000 Americans per year.

An amendment in the House version of the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act instructs the government to investigate.

The amendment’s author, Rep. Chris Smith, D-N.J., told Defense One, “I think it’s real.”

Smith has been active in legislative efforts to expand research into the causes and treatments of Lyme disease. But his main source for his belief are books in the popular press, including 2004’s Lab 257 by Michael C Carroll and the recently released Bitten by Kris Newby. The latter features an interview with Willy Burgdorfer, a researcher who helped discover Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacteria that causes Lyme disease.

Says Smith, “This book and all the others, is it conspiracy theory stuff? I don’t think it is. There’s just too much on the record now with Burgdorfer to suggest otherwise. It might help us figure out why people are so sick…If you are going to figure out how to treat it, why not figure out how it came to be? If it came about because of bioweapons research, it might provide a clue how to unravel it. There might be some accountability for those who did this, like there should be.”

Lab officials have historically been dismissive of the idea. A 2004 New York Times article on Carrol’s book quotes Roger G. Breeze, Plum Island’s laboratory director from 1987 to 1995. ”Mr. Carroll is a Baron Munchausen, or else he has been talking to him,” Breeze said. “You don’t sell many books by concluding that federal officials are doing a really good job.”

Richard Pilch, who leads the Chemical and Biological Weapons Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, said evidence exists both to support and refute the conspiracy theory.

“Probably the strongest argument for a connection is simply Google Maps. You can see that the closest mainland town to Plum Island is in fact Lyme, Connecticut, where the initial cases of B. burgdorferi were identified in the 1975-76 timeframe,” he said.

Public records do show that scientists at Plum Island were conducting research into very similar sort of pathogens as well as delivery via insect, though not ticks.

But Borrelia burgdorferi was in North America long before it was discovered by Bergdorfer. (Five years ago, it was found in a 5,300-year-old mummy.) The presence of that bacteria long before its 1975 flare-up “is compelling evidence against any sort of Plum Island connection, in my opinion,” Pilch said.

“In sum, if there is a circumstantial argument for a connection between Lyme disease and Plum Island, it would likely focus on proximity and would need to be supported by accession logs or research records that show the lab received samples for defensive diagnosis/evaluation that related to B. burgdorferi in some way,” he said.

Perhaps the world is about to find out.

https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2019/07/did-us-invent-lyme-disease-1960s-house-aims-find-out/158529/?oref=d-dontmiss

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Pentagon Will Default To Trusting Other Agencies’ Cloud Security Assessments

Within a month, the Defense Department—one of the most risk-averse agencies in the federal government—will be trusting other agencies’ assessments of cloud vendors’ security for middle-tier products and services.

Every software and service running on a federal network or hosting an agency service must meet a security baseline, certified through an authority to operate, or ATO. The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, or FedRAMP, was established to assist with this mandate, but the program has been mired in long wait times and heavy cost burdens for companies applying for authorization.

“What was supposed to be an expedited process—six months, maybe costing a quarter of a million dollars—instead, in many cases, took years—and takes years—and can cost companies millions of dollars, the very opposite of what FedRAMP was designed to achieve,” Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., said during a hearing Wednesday held by the House Oversight Subcommittee on Government Operations. “We can’t leverage the potential of cloud computing if the processes are slower than the speed at which the technology itself advances.”

Watch The House Oversight Subcommittee here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8MygMEJPJ4

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UK/IRAN

For Britain's Next Prime Minister, A High-Stakes Standoff With Iran Awaits

The United Kingdom is trying to defuse an escalating standoff with Iran just days before Britain's ruling Conservative Party announces the successor to Theresa May, who is resigning.

On Tuesday, the Tories are expected to declare Boris Johnson as their new leader. Johnson is a mercurial, pro-Brexit former foreign secretary who was also the London mayor and is not known for his diplomacy. If he's installed in office on Wednesday, as expected, he will inherit a full-blown international crisis, which erupted on Friday after Iran's Revolutionary Guard seized a British-flagged commercial oil tanker named the Stena Impero in the Strait of Hormuz.

Britain has warned its ships to stay out of the strait, which has become a focal point for tensions between the United States and Iran. Commercial tankers carry a fifth of the world's crude oil through the strait.

British Defense Secretary Penny Mordaunt called Iran's seizure of the Stena Impero and its 23 crew members "a hostile and illegal act." She insists the tanker, which was headed to a port in Saudi Arabia, was in the territorial waters of Oman when Iran's Revolutionary Guard raided it. Iran claims the Stena Impero had collided with an Iranian fishing vessel and violated maritime safety.

But Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt — who is the other candidate for prime minister — told reporters on Saturday that Iran wasn't hiding that the move was likely retaliatory. Hunt made the statement after speaking to his Iranian counterpart, Javad Zarif, by phone.

"It's clear from talking to him, and also statements made by Iran, that they see this as a tit for tat situation following Grace 1 being detained in Gibraltar," Hunt said.

Grace 1 is the Iranian-flagged tanker that Britain's Royal Marines raided on July 4 as it passed through waters off the coast of Gibraltar. The British say they impounded the tanker because they suspected it was heading to Syria in an attempt to circumvent European Union sanctions against the regime of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad. The British are still holding the ship.

On Twitter, Zarif called the seizure of the tanker "piracy" and said Britain must "cease being an accessory to #Economic Terrorism of the U.S." Zarif insists Iran was upholding maritime law by impounding the Stena Impero.

Maritime security firm Dryad Global released audio on Sunday of the minutes before the tanker's capture. The Stena Impero's fate plays out in two radio calls. In one, an officer in Iran's Revolutionary Guard says, in English: "You are ordered to change your course to 3-6-0 degrees immediately. If you obey you will be safe." In another call, a Royal Navy officer on a British warship, the Montrose, tells the crew of the Stena Impero to stay on course.

"As you are conducting transit passage in a recognized international strait, under international law your passage must not be impaired, obstructed or hampered," the officer says.

The British say the Montrose prevented Iran from interfering with another British-flagged tanker earlier this month. But this time, the Montrose was more than an hour away, according to Mordaunt, the British defense secretary.

In footage released by Iran's Fars News Agency, Iranian speedboats and helicopters surrounded the Stena Impero. Masked marines from Iran's Revolutionary Guard are seen scaling down ropes from the helicopters onto the oil tanker. Soon, the Stena Impero was heading off course to the port of Bandar Abbas in Iran.

The Iranian government says the crew members, who hail from India, Russia, Latvia and the Philippines, are "safe and in good health." Of the 23 crew members, 18 are from India. "We are ascertaining further details on the incident," Indian government spokesman Raveesh Kumar said in a statement. "Our Mission is in touch with the Government of Iran to secure the early release and repatriation of Indian nationals."

The British are demanding the immediate release of the tanker and its crew — so far, to no avail. The U.K. Foreign Office also has summoned Iran's top diplomat in Britain.

Hunt says the tanker's seizure "shows worrying signs Iran may be choosing a dangerous path of illegal and destabilizing behaviour." He said the British government's reaction will be "considered but robust." Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper reports that the U.K. is expected to announce "diplomatic and economic measures" against Iran on Monday.

https://www.wbur.org/npr/743938222/for-britains-next-prime-minister-a-high-stakes-standoff-with-iran-awaits

Keystone Pipeline

Benefits of Keystone XL.

Nearly doubling the capacity of the existing Keystone system, the $7 billion Keystone pipeline expansion will be able to transport approximately 1.1 million barrels of crude oil daily, non-stop from Alberta, Canada to market hubs in the Midwest and Texas.

STRENGTHENING U.S. ENERGY SECURITY A stable, long-term energy supply is critical to our nation’s energy security, particularly when global supplies are often found in geopolitically unstable regions of the world and production from once-reliable sources is slowing.

SPURRING U.S. ECONOMIC GROWTH Refinery modifications and pipeline construction create jobs and bring additional tax revenue and other economic benefits to their localities. The economic impact and long-term benefits of the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline are significant.

Overall, the Keystone XL pipeline project will:

Create thousands of jobs Produce 20,000 well-paying jobs during manufacturing and construction;

Increase personal income for all America workers by $6.5 billion during the lifetime of the project.

Increase tax revenue for local governments.

Generate an estimated $138.4 million in annual property tax revenue for state governments and local entities where the pipeline is located;

Create $585 million in new taxes for communities among the pipeline route;

Create more than $5.2 billion in property taxes during the lifetime of the pipeline.

Spur additional indirect economic impact.

Generate additional private sector investment of around $20 billion on food, lodging, fuel, vehicles, equipment, construction supplies and services.

Not saying this is THAT keystone, but given it's massive role in the US security on so many levels & given all the events around oil at present, it is interdasting anyhow

See more at: https://www.globalenergyinstitute.org/benefits-keystone-xl

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