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The vagina dialogues: 33-metre artwork draws far right’s ire in Brazil
A 33-metre reinforced concrete vagina has sparked a Bolsonarian backlash in Brazil, with supporters of the country’s far-right president clashing with leftwing art admirers over the installation.
The handmade sculpture, entitled Diva, was unveiled by visual artist Juliana Notari on Saturday at a rural art park on the grounds of a former sugar mill in Pernambuco, one of Brazil’s most culturally vibrant states.
Campus Reform has the story of Brown University police chief Mark Porter, who is black. White, affluent student activists at the Ivy League institution are driving him out of his job because social justice and reasons.
A comedy sketch depicting God as a rapist, aired during a New Year’s Eve countdown programme by Ireland’s national broadcaster, has sparked a furious backlash from the country’s catholic bishops.
The mock news report was broadcast on RTÉ as viewers across locked-down Ireland tuned into the state television station to finally bid farewell to 2020. In the controversial clip an aged man in a white robe, with white hair and a long white beard, is seen being dragged away from a courthouse and into a police vehicle by a member of the Irish police.
OTTAWA — Elections Canada watched as social media posts from Canadians began wondering if the last federal election had been rigged by dubious voting machines.
The tweets were linked to the U.S. election and unverified claims from President Donald Trump and his allies that automatic vote tabulators were to blame for his loss to Joe Biden.
On Nov. 16, the agency tweeted how it only uses paper ballots counted by hand in a bid to educate Canadians.
… Automatic tabulators aren’t used at the federal level for elections, but ones manufactured by Dominion Voting Systems were used in one leadership race: The one where Justin Trudeau became Liberal leader.
Over a thousand Iraqi refugees have been resettled in Portland.
The year that the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Trump administration’s Islamic terror state travel ban, an Iraqi member of ISIS applied for American citizenship.
Hawazen Sameer Mothafar didn’t have much to worry about. Not only was he already living in the United States, but under political pressure, Iraq had been taken off the travel ban list.
And no one would have suspected Mothafar of being an ISIS terrorist. He was in a wheelchair.
Without further ado:
1) Pointing Fingers
A 6-year-old with Down Syndrome made a finger gun gesture at her teacher and said, “I shoot you.” That was enough to trigger a call to the cops in Tredyffrin, Pennsylvania. While the principal and teacher agreed that the girl had not intended to make a threat, they said district policy mandates safety threat assessments. Apparently even when everyone knows there is no safety threat.
LAGRANGE, Ind. (AP) — Peace, love — and LaGrange.
LaGrange County, Indiana, has repealed a 1971 law that was intended to block huge gatherings like the 1969 Woodstock music festival in New York state.
“I called it our anti-hippie ordinance,” county commissioner Dennis Kratz said with a smile.
The year 2020 is not one that beekeepers in Washington state and the Canadian province of British Columbia are likely to forget in a hurry. Since the spring, experts in both states have been gripped by fears of Vespa mandarinia, a hulking insect whose voracious appetite for honeybees and stealthy spread could pose a threat to the region’s vulnerable ecosystem.
While the eradication of an Asian giant hornet nest in Washington in October was a success, officials to the north in Canada have dealt with a number of setbacks in their own bid to eradicate the hornets.
American Girl’s has announced that its 2021 Girl of the Year is a doll who loves animals and the environment — and spends a lot of time in Australia.
In a press release today, the brand said that that the new addition comes in response to Australian bushfires and wildfires in the western US.
Ten-year-old Kira, who likes to visit her great-aunts’ wildlife sanctuary in Australia, ‘confronts critical ecological issues, such as wildlife protection and the threat of climate change, that are more relevant to our planet than ever.’
American Girl Fail: It doesn’t have to be this way.
Would you be surprised or not at all surprised if I told you that every single thing sold by American Girl is made in China? At USA Love List, we generally prefer to focus on the positive. We could keep ourselves busy all day long griping about the American companies giving their jobs to workers overseas, but we all know that story and it is not uplifting to read. But the absurdity of American Girl, and the reaction of their staff when I mentioned it, have stayed with me.
Many watching on TV were outraged and said the show was ‘ruined by politics’ after Thames bridges were turned blue and yellow in a tribute to the EU as the UK finally left and 300 drones made the shape of a BLM fist and a turtle with Africa on its shell during a climate change lecture by Sir David Attenborough – but ended with no Auld Lang Syne.
The BBC helped with the planning of the broadcast, which the Mayor’s office said: ‘Looked ahead in hope to 2021, including sending a message to European Londoners that they will always have a home in our city’.
Related – Racist reveal’s herself.
‘How VERY 2020 of you!’ Erica Joy challenging ‘allies’ to ring in 2021 with a nice dose of racism AND sexism does NOT go well, like at all
Beats me why they did it, no reason given, woke up this morning and it was gone!
Thing is social media of all types has only ever amounted to between 3 and 5% of all traffic to BCF. We’ve been shadow banned and otherwise “managed” for years by Twitter and FB yet still pull in 5-6 million blog visits per annum without or despite their dubious assistance.
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