Cooking, cleaning mums will be banned in advertisements across the UK from next year, following a study which claimed traditional gender roles are “harmful and outdated”.
The decision to tighten regulation was announced by the Committees of Advertising Practice (CAP) this week, after a report published in summer identified gender stereotypes in adverts as a driver of inequality between men and women.
“Wherever they appear or are reinforced, gender stereotypes can lead to mental, physical and social harm which can limit the potential of groups and individuals,” the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) alleged in its study.
Depictions deemed problematic include “family members creating a mess while a woman has sole responsibility for cleaning it up”, and adverts which “[suggest that] a specific activity is inappropriate for boys because it is stereotypically associated with girls, or vice-versa.”
Nanette Newman, an actress who appeared in 1980s Fairy Liquid commercials, told the Daily Mail the ban is “ridiculously over the top”. (Read more from “Depictions of Moms in Traditional Roles Banned in Ads” HERE)
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One month ago, when a North Korean soldier fled through the ultra-high security Demilitarized Zone amid a hail of gunfire from his comrades, he arrived in South Korea severely wounded. But Thursday, when another soldier of the communist dictatorship made a run for freedom, no shots were fired by North Korea’s elite guards.
Could the world be witnessing a repeat of 1989, when East Germans began crossing the border into Hungary and then to freedom in Austria, leading to the collapse of Eastern European communist regimes and, eventually, the Soviet Union?
That’s a question American Spectator writer and blogger Don Surber is posing amid other major developments that threaten the third generation of the Kim dynasty.
“I ask this because it seems like Kim Jong Un’s most elite troops – the ones he places along the border with South Korea – no longer protect that border,” Surber wrote. “If people figure that out, they will start walking south by the dozens, then hundreds, then thousands.”
The optimism may be premature, but the Daily Telegraph of London reported this week, citing an unnamed source within the Trump administration and two former officials, that the U.S. is drawing up plans for a “bloody nose” military attack on North Korea to stop its nuclear weapons program. In addition, foreign military forces told FoxNews.com that U.S. military forces trained earlier this month for a mission that would put them on North Korean soil with the aim of “infiltrating” and “removing weapons of mass destruction.” (Read more from “Kim Jong Out? Some See Signs of Collapse” HERE)
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A U.S. Army Veteran’s Russian Election Interference
By Zak Carter. In 2012 I worked as communications director for the Free And Equal Elections Foundation. We produced a series of two presidential debates that year, both attended by Jill Stein. The CIA lists those debates as evidence of Russian interference in our elections.
As F&E’s communication director, I was tasked with increasing viewership of those debates. In 2008 F&E hosted a presidential debate that was moderated by F&E’s chairwoman and broadcast by CSPAN 2. Nobody knew about it, and nobody watched it. So I reached out to Larry King’s producer at ORA TV and got the ball rolling on Mr. King moderating one of our debates. I then started contacting other television networks to ask them to broadcast, and having Larry King attached to the debates did help open a few doors. We managed to get broadcast commitments from Link TV, Free Speech TV, CSPAN, along with ORA TV as would be expected since their host would be moderating. Missing from that list though were any of the major networks. When contacting FOX, CNN, ABC, CBS and ABC etc, I was either met with silence or told that this was something that they couldn’t broadcast due to their relationship with The Commission on Presidential Debates.
We wanted as many people watching as possible though, so I went to the international media. I managed to get commitments from both Al Jazeera and Russia Today. Other international media ran stories on the debates but did not broadcast. Thanks to Al Jazeera and Russia Today broadcasting the debates, we were inundated with interview requests for weeks by journalists all over the globe, from Switzerland to New Zealand, who had no idea that there was a Green or Libertarian Party in America till then. They thought there was nothing but Republicans and Democrats here.
After that first debate at the Chicago Hilton on October 23rd, 2012, F&E was close to broke (I believe we spent close to $150k on that night) and on a shoestring budget. Russia Today offered to put us up in their studio in DC and have Thom Hartmann moderate, and being broke, we accepted. We drove from Chicago to DC, and thanks to Superstorm Sandy, we delayed the debate till November 5th, the night before the election. After the debate we had dinner with Misha Solodovnikov, Russia Today’s DC bureau chief, so I really must be guilty of something.
What I’d like to know is if the CIA called those debates evidence of Russian meddling in our elections, what else is questionable in that report? And if Jill Stein and I are guilty of anything, clearly Larry King, an icon of our media, along with Thom Hartmann, darling of mainstream liberal talk radio, must be complicit as well, right along with CSPAN and the other American networks that broadcast our debates. Lawrence O’Donnell at MSNBC did a very positive segment on the first debate and should likely be questioned too while we’re at it.
Bottom line for me is, if The Commission on Presidential Debates didn’t block participation from independent and 3rd party candidates, I never would have called Russia Today. Open the presidential debates and I promise I won’t do it again.
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U.S. Intelligence Agencies Criticize Russia Today TV for Hosting Minor-Party Presidential Debates
By Richard Winger. Intelligence agencies of the United States have just published a booklet, “Intelligence Community Assessment”, which sets forth evidence that Russia, and the television network Russia Today (RT), intervened in the United States presidential elections of 2012 and 2016. The publication is from the “Intelligence Community”, including the CIA, FBI, and NSA. Here is a link to the booklet.
Annex A, in the second half of the report, on page six, says, “In an effort to highlight the alleged ‘lack of democracy’ in the United States, RT broadcast, hosted, and advertised third-party candidate debates and ran reporting supportive of the political agenda of these candidates. The RT hosts asserted that the U.S. two-party system does not represent the views of at least one-third of the population and is a ‘sham.’”
In 2012 RT carried the general election presidential debate between Gary Johnson, Jill Stein, Virgil Goode, and Rocky Anderson. In 2016, during the primary season in the first half of the year, RT broadcast a debate between various candidates for the Green Party nomination. It also carried a debate between some of the candidates for the Libertarian nomination. Thanks to antiwar.com for the link. See this antiwar commentary about the report. (For more from the author of “U.S. Intelligence Agencies Criticize Russia Today TV for Hosting Minor-Party Presidential Debates” please click HERE)
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Liberal states and liberal judges are attacking the foundations of property, conscience, and religious liberty rights. More than ever before, we need the two political branches of the federal government to stand up against the “bake the cake” fascism being deployed against employers, business owners, private institutions, and individuals. Yet, Trump just re-nominated Chai Feldblum, Obama’s most radical sexual identity movement leader, for another term as commissioner of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), which is a powerful and dangerous “independent agency” hurting our society.
The EEOC is perhaps one of the worst of the independent “fourth branch of government” agencies within the Executive Branch. The same power the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) wields over financial institutions, the EEOC wields over property rights, societal norms, and discrimination laws. It holds unconstitutional quasi-legislative and quasi-judicial powers to trump up and adjudicate charges against businesses and colleges over quotas and discrimination.
Unfortunately, like many civil rights-era laws and agencies that were originally designed to protect inalienable rights, the EEOC has become a tool for infringing on inalienable rights in service of phantom rights. They are the tip of the spear of the radical racial and sexual identity movements, creating super classes of Americans and unequal rights under the guise of promoting equality. Whether it’s quotas, contracting, or forced service for gay weddings, they apply the laws unequally for classes of citizens loved by the American Left at the expense of the classes out of favor with the political elites. Thus, they will force Christian business owners to serve gay weddings with their own property but then assert religious liberty privileges on behalf of Muslim employees seeking to force unreasonable accommodations (such as Muslim truck drivers refusing to deliver beer) on other people’s private property.
The EEOC has five commissioners and is the type of agency for which, if we will not abolish it, we need someone like Scott Garrett at the Export-Import Bank or Scott Pruitt at EPA to run it. In other words, we need someone who opposes the agency’s entire agenda from top to bottom. Instead, Trump re-nominated Chai Feldblum for another term. Feldblum was appointed to the EEOC by Obama in 2009 and re-nominated in 2013. Almost every Republican opposed her nomination in 2013, and conservative groups were up in arms. She is the lead architect of Obama’s transgender agenda, mandating that schools and states bring one gender into private dressing rooms of the opposite gender. Under her tenure, the EEOC has codified the entire sexual alphabet soup agenda, including “sex stereotyping,” into the Civil Rights Act without approval from Congress. An “independent” agency, indeed!
Feldblum believes that every time the sexual identity and homosexual movements come into conflict with private property rights and religious liberty, property rights and religious liberty lose. This comes at a particularly dangerous time, as the EEOC is bringing a number of lawsuits encouraging the courts to enshrine the sexual identity agenda into Title IX of the Education Amendments and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.
We need a conservative, now, to lead the EEOC and push back against the radical courts, not maintain Obama’s personnel to encourage the courts to be even more radical.
It is unclear if the president himself is aware of this nomination, but clearly some staffers in the White House are rushing this nomination as part of a deal to get their people on the commission, as first reported by Paul Mirengoff of Powerline.
Defenders of this move are asserting that the re-nomination of Feldblum is in exchange for the nomination of two Republicans to the commission, Janet Dhillon and Daniel Gade. They assert that because there must be at least two Democrats on the five-member panel anyway, they’d have to nominate a Democrat for Feldblum’s seat, and at least this way, they get a 3-2 majority.
This overlooks the fact that Republicans control the Senate. They will get their people confirmed anyway, especially because there is nothing controversial about the GOP nominees. This also overlooks the fact that the ability and desire of GOP commissioners to aggressively promote good policies are not equal to someone as skilled and extreme as Feldblum on the other side. It would be better to appoint a random Democrat in her place. Nothing personal to Dhillon and Gade, but nothing suggests that they are conservative culture warriors to the degree that Feldblum is a liberal cultural warrior. This is neither an equal nor a necessary trade. As Christian Adams notes, Feldblum is worth three Republicans to the Left.
Feldblum’s nomination has already been fast-tracked through the process. The relevant committee, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, will likely approve her because RINO Sens. Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski sit on the panel.
The president should be made aware of this nomination. He should already be sensitive to the problems of retaining administration officials who thwart his agenda. The last thing he should do is re-nominate any Obama appointee for dog catcher, much less for a position that so gravely affects the fabric of our society. (For more from the author of “Trump’s Worst Nomination So Far” please click HERE)
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The United States remains defiant this week in the face of mounting criticism from the United Nations regarding President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
As The Western Journal previously reported, the U.S. vetoed a measure that would have reversed Trump’s pronouncement. U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley went on to criticize the member states who support that security council resolution and a similarly worded non-binding measure that was approved Thursday by the General Assembly.
One Reuters reporter tweeted Wednesday that a “senior diplomat from a Muslim country” shot back at Haley after reading a letter she reportedly sent explaining that Trump intended to keep a close eye on which nations voted against his Jerusalem decision.
“States resort to such blatant bullying only when they know they do not have a moral or legal argument to convince others,” the unnamed official told Michelle Nichols.
A senior diplomat from a Muslim country, speaking on condition of anonymity, said of @nikkihaley's letter: "States resort to such blatant bullying only when they know they do not have a moral or legal argument to convince others." https://t.co/x86IDjiDyL
The former South Carolina governor used similar language when she defended the prior veto, which marked the first such security council vote by the U.S. in six years.
Haley claimed the action was “in defense of American sovereignty and in defense of America’s role in the Middle East peace process.”
She went on to warn nations supporting the resolution against the U.S. that they could face similar retaliation in the future.
“The United States has a sovereign right to determine where and whether we establish an embassy,” she said. “I suspect very few member states would welcome security council pronouncements about their sovereign decisions.”
Ahead of the general assembly vote on the matter, both Haley and Trump have made it clear the U.S. plans to hold nations individually accountable.
In a letter sent to most of the 193 member states participating in the vote, Haley wrote that the administration will be keeping track of the nations voting in favor of the measure condemning the U.S.
She also tweeted that the U.S. would be “taking names.”
Trump later made the same case more emphatically.
“Let them vote against us,” he said. “We’ll save a lot. We don’t care. But this isn’t like it used to be where they could vote against you and then you pay them hundreds of millions of dollars. We’re not going to be taken advantage of any longer.” (For more from the author of “Nikki Haley Sets the Record Straight After Senior Muslim Diplomat Called US a ‘Blatant Bully'” please click HERE)
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U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley is taking a bold stand for President Trump’s recent recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel – warning that she will be “taking names” of nations that reject the president’s decision in a General Assembly vote scheduled for Thursday . . .
President Trump is threatening to cut off aid to the countries in Haley’s list of names that call for him to withdraw his recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
“They take hundreds of millions of dollars and even billions of dollars, and then they vote against us. Well, we’re watching those votes. Let them vote against us. We’ll save a lot. We don’t care,” President Trump said at the White House Wednesday. “This isn’t like it used to be where they could vote against you and then you pay them hundreds of millions of dollars and nobody knows what they’re doing.
“People are tired of the United States – people that live here that are great citizens that love this country – they’re tired of this country being taken advantage of. And we’re not going to be taken advantage of any longer.”
On behalf of the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation, Turkey and Yemen had requested an emergency meeting of the 193 nations. The request came in response to the U.S. veto of a draft resolution rejecting President Trump’s Dec. 6 Jerusalem declaration. Egypt introduced the draft, which was supported Monday by all 14 other Security Council members. It expressed “deep regret at recent decisions concerning the status of Jerusalem.” (Read more from “Trump Issues Threat to United Nations” HERE)
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The United Health Foundation has released its annual report of the healthiest and least healthy states in the U.S.
According to the foundation’s website, “America’s Health Rankings” were based off of the World Health Organization’s holistic view of health.
“Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity,” reads WHO’s definition.
“The model reflects that determinants of health directly influence health outcomes. A health outcomes category and four categories of health determinants are included in the model: behaviors, community & environment, policy and clinical care,” the United Health Foundation said.
The study looked at a variety of different factors affecting a population’s health, including lack of physical activity and obesity rates, smoking and drug deaths. It also explored environmental factors such as air pollution and the number of health care providers available across a state, according to CBS News.
The foundation said the top five healthiest states in the U.S. were Massachusetts, Hawaii, Vermont, Utah and Connecticut.
This year, Massachusetts knocked Hawaii out of the top spot due largely to the accessibility of health care in the state. The Bay State has not only the largest number of dentists and primary care physicians per capita, but also the highest concentration of mental health care providers, according to CBS.
Utah has apparently also shown one of the greatest improvements. Factors in that state’s rise include reduced air pollution and an increase in immunization rates among children.
Ranking in the bottom five were West Virginia, Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi.
Those five states have not budged much, as shown by past rankings. Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas and Louisiana all maintained their positions from last year, while West Virginia fell three places to number 46.
Alabama had the lowest number of mental health professionals — 85 per 100,000 people vs. 547.3 per 100,000 for Massachusetts.
After Utah, Florida was noted for making vast improvements. Ranking at number 32, the study found positive changes in childhood poverty rates and levels of mental stress in the state since last year.
Meanwhile, North Dakota saw the sharpest decline, falling seven places to number 18. The study noted ratings for smoking and Salmonella — as well as the amount of children being immunized in the state — as major factors.
The United Health Organization listed rising rates of premature deaths and an uneven concentration of health care providers across the country as a cause for concern. (For more from the author of “Study: These Are the Healthiest and Least Healthy States in the US” please click HERE)
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Former DNC Chairwoman Donna Brazile appeared incoherent and agitated when WND approached her at a Tuesday book signing to ask her questions about murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich.
Brazile says in her new book, which is dedicated to Rich, that she was deeply concerned with Rich’s mysterious murder and had discussed it in a phone call with Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton after Clinton’s election loss . . .
“You say in your book that you urged Hillary Clinton to use campaign funds as reward to find Rich’s murderer(s). And Clinton briefly responded by saying she really had to go,” WND stated, before Brazile interjected . . .
“We discussed – on Dec. 1 we offered – Jim Roosevelt [co-chair of the DNC rules and bylaws committee] proposed that the DNC raise money to help with the reward fund, and we urged members to provide resources. But at no time did I tell Hillary – in the book, I said, ‘Don’t forget Seth Rich.’ That’s what I said in the book,” she claimed . . .
As WND reported, WikiLeaks is offering $20,000 for information leading to the arrest of Rich’s killer. The D.C. Metropolitan Police Department is offering $25,000; One America News Network, $100,000; GOP lobbyist Jack Burkman, $105,000; and businessman and investor Martin Shkreli, $100,000. (Read more from “Donna Brazile Has Breakdown Over Seth Rich” HERE)
Cmdr. David Fravor and Lt. Cmdr. Jim Slaight were on a routine training mission 100 miles out into the Pacific when the radio in each of their F/A-18F Super Hornets crackled: An operations officer aboard the U.S.S. Princeton, a Navy cruiser, wanted to know if they were carrying weapons . . .
Commander Fravor, in a recent interview with The New York Times, recalled what happened next. Some of it is captured in a video made public by officials with a Pentagon program that investigated U.F.O.s.
“Well, we’ve got a real-world vector for you,” the radio operator said, according to Commander Fravor. For two weeks, the operator said, the Princeton had been tracking mysterious aircraft. The objects appeared suddenly at 80,000 feet, and then hurtled toward the sea, eventually stopping at 20,000 feet and hovering. Then they either dropped out of radar range or shot straight back up . . .
Hovering 50 feet above the churn was an aircraft of some kind — whitish — that was around 40 feet long and oval in shape. The craft was jumping around erratically, staying over the wave disturbance but not moving in any specific direction, Commander Fravor said. The disturbance looked like frothy waves and foam, as if the water were boiling . . .
But then the object peeled away. “It accelerated like nothing I’ve ever seen,” he said in the interview. He was, he said, “pretty weirded out.” (Read more from “Navy Pilots Weirded out by ‘UFO’ Sighting” HERE)
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By Todd Starnes. It appears the Obama Administration weaponized the Federal Bureau of Investigation just like they weaponized the Internal Revenue Service . . .
We have a growing mountain of evidence to suggest the FBI was attempting to overthrow a duly elected president. We have evidence to suggest the FBI was protecting Hillary Clinton so she might be elected president . . .
“We are at risk of a coup d’etat in this country if we allow an unaccountable person with no oversight to undermine the duly-elected President of the United States,” Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) said on the House Floor. “And I would offer that is precisely what is happening right now with the indisputable conflicts of interest that are present with Mr. Mueller and others at the Department of Justice.”
“It is troubling, deeply troubling that the revelations have come to light there is extreme bias against this president with high up members of the team at the FBI,” J. Hogan Gidley told Fox & Friends . . .
“We know from texts and emails – those who were assigned to this investigation – gave largely to Democrats. It looks like an obvious bias here. When we have that kind of smoke there is almost always going to be fire behind that,” he added. (Read more from “Was the FBI Weaponized to Take Down the Trump Presidency?” HERE)
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FBI Warned Trump in 2016 Russians Would Try to Infiltrate His Campaign
By NBC News. In the weeks after he became the Republican nominee on July 19, 2016, Donald Trump was warned that foreign adversaries, including Russia, would probably try to spy on and infiltrate his campaign, according to multiple government officials familiar with the matter.
The warning came in the form of a high-level counterintelligence briefing by senior FBI officials, the officials said. A similar briefing was given to Hillary Clinton, they added. They said the briefings, which are commonly provided to presidential nominees, were designed to educate the candidates and their top aides about potential threats from foreign spies.
The candidates were urged to alert the FBI about any suspicious overtures to their campaigns, the officials said.
The Clinton campaign didn’t respond to a request for comment. (Read more from “FBI Warned Trump in 2016 Russians Would Try to Infiltrate His Campaign” HERE)
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