From the Trenches World Report
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Transgender women should be allowed to remain Freemasons if they joined as men, the largest UK lodge has said.
Expelling masons for transitioning was “unlawful discrimination”, the United Grand Lodge of England (UGLE) warned.
Women who transition to become men should also be allowed to join, its new gender reassignment policy states. Continue reading “Freemasons accept transgender women who joined as men”
House Speaker Paul Ryan is embracing his newfound Jewish roots.
Ryan, a practicing Catholic, learned he’s 3% Ashkenazi Jewish during the filming of an upcoming season of PBS’s “Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates Jr,” The Washington Post reported Wednesday.
“You could have knocked him over with a feather and then he was very proud of it,” said Gates, the show’s host. Continue reading “‘Officially A Member Of The Family’: Paul Ryan Is Excited To Be A Jew”
Jews around the world celebrated 1917 when the Bolsheviks (Communists), led by Lenin and Trotsky, seized power in Moscow. The first legislative act that passed by the new legislature was the “anti-semitism act” This law, according the traditions of men, made it a criminal offense to defame Jews and Judaism. Continue reading “Communism was created by Jews and serves only their interests”
Bored Panda – by Ligitas Nefas
A bridge outside Da Nang in Vietnam is wowing visitors with its elegant design – seemingly being held aloft by two giant stone hands.
Known as the Golden Bridge, it stands 1,400m above sea level above the Ba Na hills, offering majestic views of the surrounding countryside. The gold-colored walkway is lined with purple Lobelia Chrysanthemums and extends for almost 150 metres, curving around in an elegant design. But it is the sculpted hands that give it the true wow factor. Continue reading “Breathtaking Bridge In Vietnam Has Just Been Opened And It Looks Like Something From Lord Of The Rings”
In a campaign to improve its image abroad, the Israeli government plans to provide scholarships to hundreds of students at its seven universities in exchange for their making pro-Israel Facebook posts and tweets to foreign audiences.
The students making the posts will not reveal online that they are funded by the Israeli government, according to correspondence about the plan revealed in the Haaretz newspaper. Continue reading “Students offered grants if they tweet pro-Israeli propaganda”
THE JEWISH JOURNAL – Thousands of people have signed a petition calling for Columbia University to remove anti-Zionist professors from campus.
The petition from #StopAntisemitism states that Columbia populated the university with professors that “well-documented histories of demonizing Israel and the Jewish people” and allows “these professors to freely spread their hateful propaganda without leaving any room for more balanced opinions.” Continue reading “Thousands Sign Petition Calling for Columbia to Remove Iranian And Palestinian Professors”
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Campus Reform – by Toni Airaksinen
Eugene Lang College, part of The New School in Lower Manhattan, will offer a course next semester for students who wish to fight “heterosexist” explanations of animals and nature.
Taught by Heather Davis, “Queer Ecologies” is a four-credit course offered by the school’s Culture and Media department for students who wish to “disrupt prevailing heterosexist discursive and institutional articulations of sexuality and nature.” Continue reading “Course disputes idea that heterosexual sex is ‘natural’”
Last Friday evening the faces of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces during protests near the fence that separates the Gaza Strip from Israel were plastered across two midtown Manhattan buildings, the latest project of the activist-artist collective, Decolonize This Place or the DTP Crew. Continue reading “Light show projects Palestinian names on Manhattan buildings”
Live Science – by Laura Geggel
Popular genetics-testing company 23andMe is partnering with drug giant GlaxoSmithKline to use people’s DNA to develop medical treatments, the company announced in a blog post yesterday (July 25).
During the four-year collaboration, the London-based GlaxoSmithKline will use 23andMe’s genetic database to zero in on possible targets and treatments for human disease. Continue reading “23andMe Is Sharing Its 5 Million Clients’ Genetic Data with Drug Giant GlaxoSmithKline”
Natural Blaze – by Catherine J. Frompovich
There are facts and, then, there are factoids, which are a brief or trivial item of news or information; an assumption or speculation that is reported and repeated so often that it becomes accepted as fact [online Dictionary], which can apply, in my opinion, to the pseudoscience published by the HHS, CDC, FDA and the mainstream, lamestream media regarding vaccines and vaccinations.
In all the years I have been researching vaccine information—since the 1980s when doctors I was working with started seeing Moms come to them and say, “My kid got a vaccine and hasn’t been the same since”—the only conclusion I’ve been able to come to is vested interests use factoids, which are statements repeated so often, they became accepted as facts! Continue reading “New Jersey’s Eye-Opening Autism Facts Everyone Really Must Know”