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Daily Archives: November 13, 2017
Roy Moore, George H.W. Bush, Angelyne, Bill Gates, Alzheimer’s, Colin Kaepernick, Spice Girls, Hugh Jackman: HOT LINKS
Roy Moore, George H.W. Bush, Angelyne, Bill Gates, Alzheimer’s, Colin Kaepernick, Spice Girls, Hugh Jackman: HOT LINKS
GEORGE H.W. BUSH. Another woman accuses former president of groping her: “My initial reaction was absolute horror. I was really, really confused,” Corrigan told TIME, speaking publicly for the first time about the encounter. “The first thing I did was look at my mom and, while he was still standing there, I didn’t say anything. What does a teenager say to the ex-president of the United States? Like, ‘Hey dude, you shouldn’t have touched me like that?’”
THE DUGGARS. TLC fired one of the Duggar sperm donors for transphobic tweeting.
MITCH MCCONNELL. Roy Moore should “step aside.”
Here is the video of @SenateMajLdr saying he believes the women accusing Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore of sexually assaulting a 14-year old and pursuing other teens. pic.twitter.com/169YSHlXym
— Nick Storm (@NStorm_Politics) November 13, 2017
BRITAIN. Thanks to new data, queer communities are visible all around England. ‘Specialist dating apps have made it much easier to meet partners nearby. Thanks to a gradual decline in bigoted attitudes, older gay people are more willing to move to the countryside, where there is also a fair smattering of gay-run hotels and B&Bs (which we excluded from our visibility measurements, since they are mostly not presented as “gay” establishments or intended primarily for gay clients). After London, the next most publicly gay region in our data was rustic Devon, home to five annual Pride events and, as of September, a queer arts festival at Dartington Hall. Ceri Goddard, who helped organise the event, says it “reminded locals that amongst them there are thousands of gay and lesbian people”. As Britain becomes more comfortable with people displaying their sexuality openly, expect to see more of these events in the sticks.’
POLAND. 60,000 white nationalists march, use Trump-inspired slogan: ‘Participants marched under the slogan “We Want God,” words from an old Polish religious song that President Donald Trump quoted from during a visit to Warsaw earlier this year. Speakers spoke of standing against liberals and defending Christian values. Many carried the national white-and-red flag as others set off flares and firecrackers, filling the air with red smoke. Some also carried banners depicting a falanga, a far-right symbol dating to the 1930s.’
PINK CADILLAC. Emmy Rossum to play L.A. legend Angelyne.
ROY MOORE. New accuser to come forward.
VANITY FAIR. Radhika Jones to be new editor.
ALZHEIMER’S. Bill Gates pledges $100 million to fight the disease. Statement: “The human cost of Alzheimer’s is much more difficult to put into numbers. It’s a terrible disease that devastates both those who have it and their loved ones. This is something I know a lot about, because men in my family have suffered from Alzheimer’s. I know how awful it is to watch people you love struggle as the disease robs them of their mental capacity, and there is nothing you can do about it. It feels a lot like you’re experiencing a gradual death of the person that you knew.”
FBI. Hate crimes on the rise in the U.S. “According to the data, most of the reports were “single-bias incidents.” Of those, about 58 percent were motivated by race, ethnicity or ancestry bias, while 21 percent were motivated by religious bias and about 18 percent were motivated by sexual orientation bias.”
LAS VEGAS MASSACRE. A visual and audio timeline of the tragedy.
ANWAR AL-AWLAKI. YouTube blocks extremist cleric in “watershed” moment: ‘A search for “Anwar al-Awlaki” on YouTube this fall found more than 70,000 videos, including his life’s work, from his early years as a mainstream American imam to his later years with Al Qaeda in Yemen. Today the same search turns up just 18,600 videos, and the vast majority are news reports about his life and death, debates over the legality of his killing, refutations of his work by scholars or other material about him.’
ELON MUSK. Tesla semi truck to be unveiled.
Tesla Semi Truck unveil to be webcast live on Thursday at 8pm! This will blow your mind clear out of your skull and into an alternate dimension. Just need to find my portal gun …
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 12, 2017
IRAQ/IRAN. 7.3 earthquake hits Kurdistan region. “Iran’s western Kermanshah province bore the brunt of the temblor Sunday night, with authorities saying the quake killed 348 people in the country and injured 6,603. Kermanshah is a rural, mountainous region where residents rely mainly on farming. In Iraq, the earthquake killed at least seven people and injured 535, all in the country’s northern Kurdish region, according to Iraq’s Interior Ministry.”
Caught on #Rudaw: Strong earthquake in #Kurdistan Region. pic.twitter.com/y6WjZW1Lvq
— Rudaw English (@RudawEnglish) November 12, 2017
DETAILS. A grasshopper has been stuck in a Van Gogh painting for 128 years.
COLIN KAEPERNICK. GQ’s ‘Citizen of the Year’.
REUNION. Spice Girls (all 5) to reunite for TV special and compilation album: “The five of them have been locked in secret talks since the summer, and finally they are all on-board for a 2018 reunion. As it stands, they will be working together on a series of projects, which will include an album and a TV special celebrating the Spice Girls. And getting Victoria to agree has been a coup for everyone involved, given she has always been the person holding back on a reunion.”
FRIENDLY GREETING OF THE DAY. This cat who says hello.
PSA OF THE DAY. Don’t park your car too close to the train tracks, like this guy in Hanoi, Vietnam.
TRAILER OF THE DAY. The Greatest Showman starring Hugh Jackman.
MONDAY MANCRUSH. Nacho Hamada.
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Bob Geldof: Lord Mayor Of Dublin Blasts Singer’s Hypocrisy Over Aung San Suu Kyi Protest
Bob Geldof: Lord Mayor Of Dublin Blasts Singer’s Hypocrisy Over Aung San Suu Kyi Protest
The Lord Mayor of Dublin has blasted Bob Geldof after returning his Freedom of the City award in protest against Aung San Suu Kyi holding the same honour, claiming the gesture was ironic as the singer held a British knighthood despite “the shameful record of British imperialism across the globe”.
Micheal Mac Donncha, a councillor for the Irish nationalist Sinn Fein party, was responding after the musician and activist called the Myanmar leader “a hand maiden to genocide”.
Geldof returned his Freedom of the City of Dublin award in protest over his fellow recipient’s response to the repression of Rohingya Muslims. More than half a million have fled to Bangladesh following recent violence.
In the statement, Mac Donncha “condemned the persecution of the Rohingya people and their expulsion from their homes by the military in Myanmar and the failure Aung San Suu Kyi to acknowledge, let alone condemn, what the UN has described as ethnic cleansing”.
Mac Donncha said the city council had discussed taking away the honour and the matter was still under review. But he went on to note it was “ironic that (Geldof) makes this gesture while proudly retaining his title as Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, given the shameful record of British imperialism across the globe”.
Geldof was knighted by the Queen in 1986.
He also criticised Geldof for “grossly insulting” those who participated in the 1916 rising against Britain by comparing them to Islamic State (IS) last year, “causing offence to Dubliners and Irish people generally”.
Geldof on Monday said Suu Kyi’s association with the Irish capital “shames us all”.
In a statement, the Live Aid founder said he would hand the award back at City Hall on Monday morning, because while he was a “proud Dubliner” he did not want the ceremonial title while Suu Kyi also held it.
He said: “Her association with our city shames us all and we should have no truck with it, even by default. We honoured her, now she appalls and shames us.
“In short, I do not wish to be associated in any way with an individual currently engaged in the mass ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya people of north-west Burma.
“I am a founding patron of The Aegis Trust, who are concerned with genocide prevention and studies. Its founders built and maintain the National Holocaust Museum of the UK.
“I spoke at the inaugural National Holocaust Memorial Day at Westminster and in my time, I have walked amongst peoples who were sectionally targeted with ethnic cleansing.
“I would be a hypocrite now were I to share honours with one who has become at best an accomplice to murder, complicit in ethnic cleansing and a handmaiden to genocide.”
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/bob-geldof-mayor-dublin_uk_5a09f655e4b00a6eece37e5c
Mitch McConnell Now Says Roy Moore Should Leave Senate Race
Mitch McConnell Now Says Roy Moore Should Leave Senate Race
“I believe the women” who have accused Moore of sexual abuse and otherwise inappropriate relationships, McConnell said today.
www.advocate.com/politicians/2017/11/13/mitch-mcconnell-now-says-roy-moore-should-leave-senate-race
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Is it OK to sleep with your cheating ex’s brother…. if he’s hot?
Is it OK to sleep with your cheating ex’s brother…. if he’s hot?
A young man named Tom from Mablethorpe, England wants to know.
Fire Island Pines Manager Sued by Former Employees Over ‘Dark Series of Harassments and Assaults’
Fire Island Pines Manager Sued by Former Employees Over ‘Dark Series of Harassments and Assaults’
Joe Rapuano-Novella, a former employee, and another plaintiff, Dylan Pace, are suing the umbrella company Outpost Pines which owns several entertainment and food venues at the gay resort of Fire Island Pines. Rapuano-Novella and Pace are suing their former manager Mario Priola and owner PJ McAteer for sexual harassment and assault.
Fire Island Pines is the resort featured on the Logo reality show.
He and Pace interviewed in March 2016 for jobs at “The Pines,” an enclave of bars and restaurants which cater primarily to the LGBTQ community, according to their Brooklyn federal court filing.
Rapuano-Novella was “hired on the spot” via Skype during a bizarre interview in which Priola asked him to take off his shirt, the suit says. Pace, a Long Island resident, was asked to report to Priola’s hot tub on the island, the suit alleges.
Before Rapuano-Novella even got to Fire Island, Priola, who was twice his age, allegedly sent him “inappropriate texts,” noting in one that “you’re perfect” and asking for explicit photos, the suit says.
Rapuano-Novella charges in the suit that Priola repeatedly asked him to sleep over and “groped his penis.”
Wrote Rapuano-Novella on Facebook:
I haven’t yet come forward with my #metoo story because I was waiting for the right moment. A lot of people know I worked on Fire Island last year. My time on the island was abruptly cut short when a series of dark harassments and assaults at the hands of my boss drove me from the place. I’m so proud of everyone who is able to come forward and discuss tales of their harassment experience. Sexual harassments and assaults are rife in the gay community and it’s time that people start really talking about their experience. I have been harassed, attacked, groped, embarrassed, and manipulated by forces in power who tried to use me- and I am not alone in my experience.
The day I reported the harassment to HR and the owner of the business, they told me there was “nothing they could do,” despite showing them proof of disgusting text messages, money that had been siphoned into my account with the suggestion of “sexual payment,” and evidence of voice recordings that I had been assaulted. As I sailed away from the island, I knew I could either live with this experience, or fight like hell on behalf of our community to make sure it stops. I’m using my voice.
The trauma of these experiences is that they are relived every day. By people across the country who have been hurt and abused and taken advantage of by men. This isn’t easy, and won’t be moving forward. This ball has been rolling since the day I was forced to leave my job and it won’t stop until the issue is made clear- you are not alone with your abuse: outside of gender, community, and orientation. If it has happened to you, you have the power to affect change.
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Fire Island Pines Manager Sued by Former Employees Over ‘Dark Series of Harassments and Assaults’
Why The Government Can Afford To Scrap The NHS Pay Cap, And Why They Can’t Afford Not To
Why The Government Can Afford To Scrap The NHS Pay Cap, And Why They Can’t Afford Not To
In the last few days of the General Election campaign earlier this year, Theresa May was confronted by a nurse at a Question Time debate, who asked if it was fair that her pay had barely increased since 2009. The Prime Minister responded by saying that while she recognises the work that she does, hard choices have to be made and that ‘there isn’t a magic money tree that we can shake which suddenly provides for everything that we want’.
NHS workers, as with workers across the public sector, have faced seven-year long pay squeeze. George Osborne introduced a two year pay freeze across the public sector from 2011/12, arguing that while public servants “did not cause this recession – but they must share the burden as we pay to clean it up.” The pay freeze was followed by five years of pay being effectively capped at 1%.
The long pay squeeze has had a significant impact on NHS workers. A band five nurse is now paid £3,200 less in real terms today than in 2010/11. Had the pay cap continued as planned for a further two years, the gap would have been over £4,000 by 2019/20. While the Chancellor reportedly described public sector workers as ‘overpaid’, the Treasury’s own analysis – which was only released after an FOI request by the GMB – shows that public sector workers are now paid less than private sector workers in comparable roles.
Beyond the direct impact on NHS workers, the long pay squeeze has had a growing impact on the NHS itself, contributing to a growing workforce crisis. The NHS Five Year Forward View set out in 2014 that “as the economy returns to growth, NHS pay will need to stay broadly in line with private sector wages in order to recruit and retain frontline staff”. Yet since then, pay has lagged behind the private sector, and we are seeing the consequences. Satisfaction with pay has fallen by 10% since 2010, and the NHS is facing a growing challenge in recruiting and retaining the workers it needs. The number of nurses is falling for the first time in three years, and the number of vacancies has doubled in the last three years. In the face of growing challenges with recruitment and retention, NHS trusts have increasingly had to rely on agencies to fill staff shortages. The agency staffing bill reached £3.6billion in 2015/16, double the level of four years before.
The public sector pay cap seems to have had a significant impact on the fortunes of the Conservative Party too. The Conservatives went into this year’s general election promising a continuation of the pay cap for a further two years up to and including 2019/20, which would have represented an unprecedented nine year pay squeeze. Conservative MPs and candidates reported the public sector pay cap being raised regularly on the doorstep by an electorate who are increasingly weary of austerity. There appears to be strong, cross-party support for lifting the public sector pay cap, particularly in the NHS. A recent poll by Lord Ashcroft found that 86% of people – and 79% of Conservative voters – think nurses should get a pay rise above the 1% cap.
So the NHS pay cap has contributed to a growing workforce crisis, and it has contributed to the Conservatives failing to get the majority they had taken for granted earlier this year. It has become increasingly clear that the Government can no longer afford to keep the NHS pay cap in place.
New IPPR research has shown that the Government can afford to lift the NHS pay cap. The headline cost of lifting the cap is significant. If pay in the NHS increased in line with CPI inflation over the next two years, it would cost £1.8billion extra by 2019/20 compared with keeping the pay cap in place. However, almost half of the cost is returned almost immediately to the Treasury, as lifting the pay cap would lead to higher tax revenues and lower welfare spending. Lifting the cap would also deliver a £250m boost to the economy, with a further £100million of this returned to the Treasury. Taking the fiscal and economic impact of lifting the NHS pay cap into account, the cost of increasing pay in line with inflation for the next two years would be just £950million a year by 2019/20.
The Secretary of State recently announced the NHS pay cap had been scrapped. While this is welcome news, three key questions remain. First, will NHS workers get a real terms pay rise, or will they see yet another year of pay falling behind both inflation and private sector earnings? The signs here are not good; the Government has lifted the cap for police officers and prison officers, yet both will get increases (2% and 1.7%) which remain below inflation. Second, will the Government fund the increase? Again, the signs are not good. In the case of the police and prison service, the additional cost will have to come from existing budgets. Surely this is not sustainable, particularly in the NHS where demand is rising rapidly and NHS Trusts went into this year with a multi-billion-pound underlying deficit. Third, does the Government plan to reverse the real terms cuts to public sector pay over time, or do they see lower pay as a new normal?
The Chancellor must use his Autumn Budget to answer these questions. He must ensure that NHS workers get the real terms pay rise that they deserve, and he must identify additional funding to pay for it. The Government can afford to scrap the public sector pay cap, and – given the growing workforce crisis in the NHS and their perilous political position – they can’t afford not to.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/joe-dromey/public-sector-pay-cap_b_18543518.html
1,400+ Parents of Trans Young People Sign Declaration of Rights In Response to Attacks on Equality
1,400+ Parents of Trans Young People Sign Declaration of Rights In Response to Attacks on Equality
In response to significant attacks on the rights of LGBTQ people, an unprecedented number of parents of transgender young people have come together to sign a declaration of rights seeking protections for their children and all transgender people from discrimination, violence and harassment. The declaration, signed by 1,400-plus parents and organized by HRC Foundation, comes as the nation marks Transgender Awareness Week, and one year after HRC launched its groundbreaking national Parents for Transgender Equality Council in the wake of Donald Trump’s election.
“What started as a council of 25 parents of transgender youth one year ago has grown into a movement of more than 1,400 parents demanding dignity and fairness for their children,” said HRC President Chad Griffin. “These courageous parents represent tens of thousands more across the nation and the challenges facing their families must be addressed by our policymakers and public officials. From building welcoming schools to ending violence against transgender women of color, our work will not be complete until every child in America and around the globe is afforded the opportunity, safety and respect that everyone deserves.”
The 1,400 signatories represent all fifty states and Washington, DC, demonstrating the breadth and diversity of the community of parents of transgender young people. Among the goals articulated by the brave and dedicated parents are the need for nationwide, comprehensive protections from discrimination, inclusive school policies, criminal justice reforms, and access to affirming health care.
The declaration reads, in part: “Despite our progress, we see our children growing up in a world where equality for all is not yet guaranteed. We seek universal respect, dignity, and the promise of safety for our children, and for all transgender people.”
“Our children are not political pawns,” said Peter Tchoryk, parent of a transgender youth and a member of HRC’s Parents for Transgender Equality Council. “They are young people simply hoping to learn and live productive lives. But because politicians like Donald Trump and Mike Pence have chosen to target them for discrimination, our families have been called to defend ourselves from their vicious attacks. Our country has been here before. This declaration demonstrates that our families exist in communities across the country and that we won’t relent until our children are safe from discrimination, harassment and violence.”
HRC’s Parents for Transgender Equality was launched in November of 2016 to amplify the voices of parents of transgender youth. Increasingly, the political attacks facing transgender people target the youngest in the community. Earlier this year, when the Trump-Pence Administration rescinded lifesaving guidance promoting the protection of transgender students, HRC’s Parents for Transgender Equality council sent a letter to the administration from more than a thousand parents demanding that the Obama-era guidance be preserved.
Throughout Transgender Awareness Week, HRC will discuss many of the urgent and important issues facing the transgender community — including support for youth and families, workplace equality, military service, and combatting violence against members of the transgender community. The week concludes on Monday, November 20, with Transgender Day of Remembrance, a time when the community comes together at vigils across the country to honor those lost in the past year.
Click here to read the declaration. To learn more about HRC’s Parents for Transgender Equality Council, visit www.hrc.org/resources/parents-for-transgender-equality-national-council.
Aaron Carter can’t wait to show you his “amazing” physical transformation
Aaron Carter can’t wait to show you his “amazing” physical transformation
He wants the universe to know he’s gone from 115 pounds to 160 pounds in two months.