Toxicity sample, December '19

cum: 7M
19-12-3 Seven men found guilty over the killing of environmental activist Berta Cáceres in Honduras in 2016 . Berta Cáceres murder: 50 years in jail for activist's killers .

cum: 7M + dozens M 
19-12-3 Police in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila are searching for dozens of gunmen who attacked the city hall in the town of Villa Unión. More than 500 shots were fired in the gun battle which ensued between the suspected members of a local cartel and the security forces. Twenty-one people, including four police officers, were killed.

cum: 8M + dozens M 
19-12-4 A 22-year-old man from Bath has been charged with 12 terror offences following an investigation by counter-terror police into suspected right-wrong-wing terrorism online. The charges include five offences of encouraging terrorism. He has also been charged with four offences of disseminating terrorist publications, two counts of terrorist fundraising, and one count of possessing material that is of use to a terrorist.

cum: 9M + dozens M + ~ 100 sexually-exploitative priests
19-12-4 The Vatican has announced the resignation of a US [Pedophile Protection Agency] bishop who faced widespread criticism for his handling of sexual abuse claims. Bishop Richard J Malone of New York state's Buffalo oversaw one of the country's most scandal-hit dioceses. It is facing more than 200 lawsuits and an FBI investigation. Malone released a document showing 42 priests who had been accused of sexual abuse, mostly from past decades. But his former assistant said an earlier draft contained upwards of 100 names.

cum: 10M + dozens M + ~ 100 sexually-exploitative priests
19-12-4 Sailor at Pearl Harbor Shipyard Fatally Shoots 2, Injures 1 and Kills Himself: The Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam was placed on lockdown for about an hour and a half.

cum: 15M + dozens M + ~ 100 sexually-exploitative priests
19-12-5 A 23-year-old alleged rape victim is fighting for her life after she was set on fire while going to court in northern India. The woman was on her way to a hearing in the case she filed against two men in March, in Uttar Pradesh state. She is in critical condition in hospital, where she is being treated for severe burns. Five men including two of her alleged rapists have been arrested on suspicion of setting her on fire, police say. Unnao rape case: Indian woman set on fire on way to hearing dies .

cum: 16M + dozens M + ~ 100 sexually-exploitative priests
19-12-6 Pensacola shooting: Saudi student kills three at US naval base: The gunman who killed three people at a US naval base in Pensacola, Florida, was a Saudi student, officials say. He has been named as Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani - a Saudi military member in training at the site. He was shot dead by officials. The local sheriff's office confirmed eight others were injured in the attack including two officers. The shooter used a handgun. It is the second shooting to take place at a US military base this week.

cum: 18M + dozens M + ~ 100 sexually-exploitative priests
19-12-6 Shootout after jewellery store raid in Florida leaves four dead: Two suspects perpetrators raided a jewellery store before hijacking a UPS truck and getting into a shootout with police on a busy Florida highway. The suspects, a motorist and the driver of the truck were killed.

cum: 18M + dozens M + ~ 100 sexually-exploitative priests + ?K? sexually-exploitative Uber drivers 19-12-6 Uber had 6,000 US sexual assault reports in two years .

cum: 19M + dozens M + ~ 100 sexually-exploitative priests + ?K? sexually-exploitative Uber drivers 19-12-6 Indian dancer has been hospitalised after being shot in the face because she stopped performing at a wedding.

cum: 20M + dozens M + ~ 100 sexually-exploitative priests + ?K? sexually-exploitative Uber drivers 19-12-6 High-profile trial in France concerning the abduction, rape and killing of a 24-year-old bank manager in 2002 has ended in a conviction and 30-year jail term for the defendant. 

cum: 21M + dozens M + ~ 100 sexually-exploitative priests + ?K? sexually-exploitative Uber drivers 19-12-6 Nepal man arrested over death of woman in 'menstruation hut': Nepali police have arrested the brother-in-law of a woman who died in a so-called "menstruation hut". Parbati Buda Rawat, 21, was found dead on Monday after suffocating from a fire she lit to stay warm in the hut. It is believed to be the first arrest for Chhaupadi, an outlawed practice which considers women impure during their periods and after childbirth. If convicted, the man faces three months in prison and a fine of 3,000 Nepali rupees ($26; £23).

cum: 22M + dozens M + ~ 100 sexually-exploitative priests + ?K? sexually-exploitative Uber drivers 19-12-9 Privacy campaigner sought over child abuse charges .


cum: 23M + dozens M + ~ 100 sexually-exploitative priests + ?K? sexually-exploitative Uber drivers 19-12-9 A serial rapist who carried out a string of sex attacks on 11 women and children across England has been given 33 life sentences. Joseph McCann's victims were aged between 11 and 71 and included three women who were abducted off the street at knifepoint and repeatedly raped. He was found guilty of 37 offences at the Old Bailey on Friday.

cum: 55M + 1F dozens M + ~ 100 sexually-exploitative priests + ?K? sexually-exploitative Uber drivers 19-12-10 Spanish police say 33 people have been arrested globally in connection with a WhatsApp group for images of child sex abuse and other violent content. The many "extreme" images shared in the group had been "normalised by most of its members". Arrests were made in 11 different countries across three continents, but the majority - 17 - were in Spain. Many of those arrested or being investigated in Spain are themselves under 18, including a 15-year-old boy. In Uruguay, police arrested two people - one of whom was a mother who abused her daughter and sent images of this to the group.

cum: 57M + 1F dozens M + ~ 100 sexually-exploitative priests + ?K? sexually-exploitative Uber drivers 19-12-10 Jersey City: Deadly gun battle kills six people .

cum: 58M + 1F dozens M + ~ 100 sexually-exploitative priests + ?K? sexually-exploitative Uber drivers 19-12-10 GP Manish Shah guilty of sex assaults on 23 female patients .  

cum: 59M + 1F dozens M + ~ 100 sexually-exploitative priests + ?K? sexually-exploitative Uber drivers 19-12-10 Czech shooting: Gunman kills six at hospital in Ostrava .

cum: 89+M + 1F dozens M + ~ 100 sexually-exploitative priests + ?K? sexually-exploitative Uber drivers 19-12-10 Every weekend for two years, men would come home and rape her, the 12-year-old told counsellors. Some were known to her father, some were not. Sometimes, she said, the men would disappear into their single, musty bedroom with her mother. Then one day ... her father pushed her into the bedroom with one of his friends and locked the door from outside. The man raped her. Childhood soon became a nightmare. Her father would call up men, booking their time with his daughter, and taking money from them. Counsellors believe the girl was raped by at least 30 men since then.

cum: 90+M + 1F dozens M + ~ 100 sexually-exploitative priests + ?K? sexually-exploitative Uber drivers 19-12-11 Jaden Moodie murder: Man guilty of killing boy in gang knife attack .

cum: 91+M + 1F dozens M + ~ 100 sexually-exploitative priests + ?K? sexually-exploitative Uber drivers 19-12-12 Almost certainly a male attacker . Tessa Majors (18) was walking in the park when she was approached by one to three people near West 116th Street and Morningside Drive. There was a struggle, and one of the attackers pulled out a knife and stabbed Ms. Majors several times. Boy, 13, Arrested in Fatal Stabbing of Tessa Majors, Barnard Freshman . The boy was charged with murder. Detectives believe two other teenagers participated in the stabbing, an official said.

cum: 92+M + 1F dozens M + ~ 100 sexually-exploitative priests + ?K? sexually-exploitative Uber drivers 19-12-15 Man charged with murder over Cheshire boy's death .

cum: 94+M + 1F dozens M + ~ 100 sexually-exploitative priests + ?K? sexually-exploitative Uber drivers 19-12-15 A British man has been killed and his son wounded after being shot during a suspected robbery outside a five-star hotel in Buenos Aires. They were approached by at least two men on a motorbike, apparently accompanied by another vehicle.

cum: 95+M + 1F dozens M + ~ 100 sexually-exploitative priests + ?K? sexually-exploitative Uber drivers 19-12-15 A man has been arrested following a fatal stabbing in east London.

cum: 96+M + 1F dozens M + ~ 100 sexually-exploitative priests + ?K? sexually-exploitative Uber drivers 19-12-16 A teenage boy has been jailed for a minimum of 16 years for the murder of a young mother during an argument over drug money.

cum: 97+M + 1F dozens M + ~ 100 sexually-exploitative priests + ?K? sexually-exploitative Uber drivers 19-12-16 Prolific thief Michael Weir jailed for 1998 'double jeopardy' murders .

cum: 98+M + 1F dozens M + ~ 100 sexually-exploitative priests + ?K? sexually-exploitative Uber drivers 19-12-16 Man accused of murdering his estranged wife has admitted being responsible for her death -- Shaun Dyson, 28, ... killed Lucy-Anne Rushton by repeatedly stamping or jumping on her at her home in Andover, Hampshire. Ms Rushton died in the early hours of 23 June while children were at the property.

cum: 100+M + 2F dozens M + ~ 100 sexually-exploitative priests + ?K? sexually-exploitative Uber drivers 19-12-16 A 70-year-old woman was tied up and sat on during a "prolonged" assault and burglary at her home. A woman knocked on the victim's door on Airedale, Hull, on Sunday, at about 20:15 GMT, before barging her way into the house with two men who also threatened to kill her dogs.

cum: 101+M + 2F dozens M + ~ 100 sexually-exploitative priests + ?K? sexually-exploitative Uber drivers 19-12-20 Moscow gun attack: Second FSB officer dies after assault on HQ:

cum: 102+M + 2F dozens M + ~ 100 sexually-exploitative priests + ?K? sexually-exploitative Uber drivers 19-12-20 Former lawmaker from India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) sentenced to life in jail in one of the year's most high-profile rape cases. Sengar was tried under child protection laws as the survivor was 17 when she was assaulted in 2017. The case came to national attention last year when the woman tried to kill herself, alleging police inaction.
cum: 103+M + 2F dozens M + ~ 100 sexually-exploitative priests + ?K? sexually-exploitative Uber drivers 19-12-22 Crawley Down: Two women killed and man hurt at house [man arrested]: 

cum: 136+M + 2F dozens M + ~ 100 sexually-exploitative priests + ?K? sexually-exploitative Uber drivers 19-12-22 Marcial Maciel: Mexican founder Legionaries Pedophiles of Christ 'abused 60 minors': At least 60 children were abused by Marcial Maciel, founder of the ultra-conservative Catholic order Legionaries of Christ, an investigation has found. The report, published by the Roman Catholic group, said 33 priests in the order abused at least 175 minors since it was founded in 1941.

cum: 136+M + dozens M + 2F + probable tens of thousands of pedophiles [presumably mostly male] ~ 100 sexually-exploitative priests + ?K? sexually-exploitative Uber drivers 19-12-22  Sexual predators have grown increasingly adept at using the internet to share and view child sexual abuse photos and videos. Some have computer-programming skills and have deployed sophisticated defenses against efforts to take them down. But the predators don’t have free rein on the internet, thanks to nearly four dozen child protection hotlines around the world, which act as a first line of defense against the explosion of imagery.

RepuGNican Women Endangered = GOOD!

Republican RepuGNican Women Are in Crisis: In the past 10 years, they have become an endangered species on the political stage.

Goodbye 2010s

2019, in 6 minutes > .  

The 2010s: "Highlights" Of The Decade > .

Sane or RepuGNican?

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/08/opinion/sunday/party-polarization-quiz.html .

Shaming the USA

Showing up the USA is not difficult, admittedly: 

New Zealand is destroying military-style guns after ban: Police in New Zealand are destroying military-style guns and rifles ahead of 21 December, when its officially illegal to carry or possess them. The ban comes after the Christchurch mosque shootings, which killed 51 victims in March earlier this year.

The 2010s

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/world/decade-in-pictures.html .

Whom to vote out ...

pseudo-Democrats

Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey,
Jared Golden of Maine,
Collin Peterson of Minnesota,
Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii
Every current RepuGNican representative and senator.

Not that I expect enough American voters to do the right thing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/18/us/politics/how-democrats-voted-on-impeaching-trump.html .

Yup

Barack Obama: Women are better leaders than men: 

If women ran every country in the world there would be a general improvement in living standards and outcomes, former US President Barack Obama has said. Speaking in Singapore, he said women aren't perfect, but are "indisputably better" than men.

He said most of the problems in the world came from old people, mostly men, holding onto positions of power. [YUP!]

He also spoke about political polarisation and the use of social media to spread falsehoods.

Modi, Modi, Modi, Manipulation

Pro-Indian 'fake websites targeted decision makers in Europe': 

A global network of pro-Indian fake websites and think-tanks is aimed at influencing decision-making in Europe. The co-ordinated network of 265 sites operates across 65 countries, according to a report by EU Disinfo Lab, a Brussels-based NGO,

The researchers traced the websites to an Indian company, Srivastava Group. The network was also found to involve groups responsible for anti-Pakistan lobbying events in Europe. There's no evidence [discovered or revealed that] it is linked to India's government.

In October, the European Union's disinformation task force revealed that EP Today had been re-publishing a large amount of news directly from Russia Today and Voice of America. Some suspected Russian interference, but EU Disinfo Lab, which is an independent NGO, traced the servers behind the website to Srivastava Group. The researchers then uncovered a vast network of English language fake sites serving India's lobbying interests. 

Many of the fake websites use names of defunct newspapers to provide a veneer of credibility. EU Disinfo Lab have dubbed these "zombie" sites, because the names were resurrected from dead media outlets.

For example, one of the sites is called Manchester Times. Its "About Us" section uses text copied from a Wikipedia entry about a newspaper with the same name. But it omits an important part of the Wikipedia description, which states: "The newspaper's last issue appeared on 22 July 1922." It also fails to declare the website's links to Indian interests.

Pics

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/world/year-in-pictures.html

Quit, DUH, Greta OUTCLASSES you

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50762373

And another

Jersey City Shooting Live Updates: 6 Killed, Including an Officer: Two shooters opened fire on Tuesday afternoon at a kosher market.

The dead included three people in the market as well as two suspected shooters, officials said. The slain police officer, Detective Joseph Seals, 40, was a longtime veteran with the Jersey City Police Department, according to Chief Mike Kelly.

Officials believe the shooting began when the detective approached one of the gunmen at a nearby cemetery in connection with a homicide investigation and was shot dead, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.

The gunmen then fled in a truck and eventually ended up at the kosher market, where they opened fire on police officers and civilians, officials said. For much of the next hour, residents nearby — and blocks away — could hear rapid bursts of gunfire echoing off the low buildings.

Dreaming of a White Impeachment

TARTUS wants to roast FLATUS ...

'Twas the Night Before Impeachment > .

Examining America's Manifest Failings

Lawrence Lessig, "They Don't Represent Us" > . 

Comments disabled because Americans are aggressively partisan.

Virtue Signalling about Virtue Signalling

Is virtue signalling a perversion of morality?:

"In the only full treatment of the topic in the academic literature (that I [author, Neil Levy] know of), the philosophers Justin Tosi and Brandon Warmke accuse the ‘moral grandstander’ (their term for the virtue signaller) of perverting the function of public moral discourse. According to them, ‘the core, primary function that justifies the practice’ of such public moral discourse is ‘to improve people’s moral beliefs, or to spur moral improvement in the world’. Public moral talk aims to get others to see a moral problem they hadn’t noticed before, and/or to do something about it. But, instead, virtue signallers display themselves, taking the focus away from the moral problem. Since we often spot virtue signalling for what it is, the effect is to cause cynicism in the audience, rather than to induce them to think the signaller is so great. As a result, virtue signalling ‘cheapens’ moral discourse.

But Tosi and Warmke offer no evidence for their claim that the primary, or the justifying, function of moral discourse is improvement in other people’s beliefs or in the world. That’s certainly a function of moral discourse, but it’s not the only one (as they recognise).

Perhaps, in fact, virtue signalling, or something like it, is a core function of moral discourse."

... 

"Lots of religious behaviour can be understood as costly and credibility-enhancing signalling. Religions mandate many behaviours that are costly: fasting, tithing, abstinence from sex except in certain contexts, and so on. All of these behaviours are costly not only in everyday terms, but also in evolutionary terms: they reduce opportunities for reproduction, resources for offspring, and so on. Religious activities are also credibility-enhancing displays of religious belief: no one would pay these costs unless they really believed that there was a payoff.

Why, from an evolutionary point of view, would someone signal religious commitment? A likely explanation is that the function is to secure the benefits of cooperation." [I submit that much religious fare is, in practice, religionist attempts to impose inculcated moralistic controls (historically harmful to minority groups) on others for the sake of regressive control.]

"The accusation that virtue signalling is hypocritical might be cashed out in two different ways. We might mean that virtue signallers are really concerned with displaying themselves in the best light – and not with climate change, animal welfare or what have you."

[I submit that, for the sake of propounding his argument, the author is conflating external-interest (environment, climate, treatment of other species) advocacy with the moralistic virtue signalling that pervades social discourse. This is both a category error and a fallacy of equivocation, specifically of lumping a spectrum under a narrow, poorly-defined label.]

https://aeon.co/ideas/is-virtue-signalling-a-perversion-of-morality

Conclusion? Levy has failed to differentiate the hypocritical moral grandstanders who congregate in social-media lynch mobs from those arguing for compassion, consideration, and tolerance. Is virtue signalling a perversion of morality? In some instances, yes.

Hell Hath No Fury Like a Male Loser Scorned

‘Hate is infectious’: how the 1989 mass shooting of 14 women echoes today: In Canada, 6 December is now a national day of remembrance and action on violence against women. The massacre at Montreal’s Polytechnique school, fueled by misogyny, is not a horrifying memory confined to a bygone era – rather it seems like a foretelling of things to come.

Two weeks ago, a young woman in Chicago was killed by a man after she ignored his catcalls. Last November, a man whose hatred of women was well-documented online shot six women at a hot yoga studio, killing two. And seven months earlier, a man named Alek Minassian drove a van on to a Toronto sidewalk and killed 10 people, eight of them women.

The sexually frustrated young man behind the van’s wheel – a self-described incel, or “involuntary celibate” – saw his act as retribution against women who had starved him of the affection he felt he was rightfully owed. Minassian said he was inspired by Elliot Rodger, an incel and wannabe pickup artist who shot 20 people in 2014.

The pseudonymous “Liz” (a volunteer researcher on hate groups in Canada who “outs” extremists – and who uses a fake name because of the volume of violent threats her alter ego receives) says misogyny is a powerful undercurrent in all alt-right-wrong and white "supremacist" online groups.

“Where do you really start to discuss the intersection between misogyny and hate groups, when they are really one and the same?” asked Liz, adding that hatred of women often serves as a base upon which to build other forms of hate.

Greedy RepuGNican Scammers

C*N*servative Pseudo-Christians Proselytizing for Greedy Power Mongers.

GRIFTERS > .
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