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-Great Cultural Revolution
Planet Fitness Stock Drops After Making Women Share Restrooms with Men
[Breitbart] Get Woke, go broke
Good
Planet Fitness’s stock dropped after the company directed women to share restrooms with male customers and told employees to use pro-transgender language.

The gym’s stock dropped after it was pointed out on Friday that “Planet Fitness requires women to share bathrooms with men and to refer to men as whatever name and pronouns they want” and that the fitness company is also compelling its employees to speak in the way transgender customers demand.

“Some members may feel uncomfortable with a transgender member using the same locker room facilities, bathrooms, showers, or other facilities/programs separated by sex. This discomfort is not a reason to deny access to the transgender member,” read a Planet Fitness operational manual that was posted to social media.

“Planet Fitness staff should work with members and employees to address the discomfort and to foster a climate of understanding consistent with the Judgement Free character of Planet Fitness,” the operational manual continued.

The manual demanded, “Planet Fitness staff shall strive to address transgender members with names, titles, pronouns, and other terms consistent with their self-reported gender identity, if reasonably known to the Planet Fitness staff.”

“Planet Fitness reserves the right to terminate a person’s membership immediately for any violation of this policy,” the manual added.

Notably, PLNT stock dropped eight percent after the company’s operational manual went viral on social media.

Caitlyn Jenner backs Nassau banning trans athletes from girls sports

[NYPost] Caitlyn Jenner said that biological males should not be allowed to compete in female sports in order to "protect the integrity of competition."
Posted by: Frank G || 03/20/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [70 views] Top|| File under: Mob Rule

#1  Unexpectedly.
Posted by: Richard Aubrey || 03/20/2024 9:54 Comments || Top||

#2  Unilever selling off Ben & Jerry's. Woke politics not profitable.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/20/2024 10:05 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ and cutting 7500 jobs
Posted by: Frank G || 03/20/2024 10:58 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ Think of all the extra time they'll have to live their beliefs.

Those were the board's and the company founders' beliefs, not the workers?

Never mind...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/20/2024 11:57 Comments || Top||

#5  Oh, so that's what they meant by their leans 90% female audience'no judgement zone' ad campaign. Brav-O.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/20/2024 13:38 Comments || Top||


Arabia
'Witchcraft-using' female beggar arrested in Dubai
[GEO.TV] Dubai’s police have arrested a woman, belonging to Asia, for begging, Gulf News reported, but what stood out about her was the use of witchcraft.

Upon apprehension, the police recovered witchcraft talismans from the woman. The authorities believe the woman used this craft to influence the people she took money from.

Brig Ali Salem Al Shamsi, director of suspects and criminal phenomena department at the Dubai Police, said: "The beggar was arrested in a residential area, and the police found in her possession 'papers, tools, witchcraft talismans, and magic veils', which she uses while begging. She believes that they help her influence people to give her the money she wants."

Khaleej Times reported that the woman was arrested after a resident complained to the police's Command and Control Centre.

The police official urged the public to refrain from showing sympathy to beggars and asked them to stay alert and not fall prey to their schemes. He added that the beggars manipulate people more during Ramadan.

Dubai police had last week apprehended a man as he was wearing an abaya, clothing Moslem women use to cover themselves, and begging near a mosque.

The young man, whom the police arrested, said he chose to wear an abaya as women beggars are often given more sympathy compare to male counterparts.

Posted by: Fred || 03/20/2024 2024-03-20 00:42 || Comments || Link || [38 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I didn't know she was asian.

Posted by: Skidmark || 03/20/2024 10:46 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/20/2024 15:42 Comments || Top||

#3  The young man, whom the police arrested, said he chose to wear an abaya as women beggars are often given more sympathy compare to male counterparts.

He’s a marketing genius.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/20/2024 15:59 Comments || Top||


Economy
Saudi Aramco CEO: ‘The Energy Transition Is Failing. Policymakers Should Abandon the Fantasy of Phasing Out Oil and Gas'
[Gateway] The climate alarmist cult is in planetary disarray, with their once-unquestionable ’scientific theories’ and ’environmental policies’ getting rejected at a rapid pace in many parts of the world.

European farmers and Canadian Provincial Premiers and conservatives everywhere in the western world are getting increasingly vocal about the shortcomings of the so-called ’Green New Deal’.

In this context, it’s reassuring to see some measure of pushback from people who have real skin in the game, like Big Oil moguls.

The world’s biggest oil producer is the Saudi company Aramco. Its CEO, Amin Nasser, just came out yesterday (18) and said that the energy transition envisioned by the ’global warming’ crowd is failing.

He went ahead and in a rare show of honesty, advised that policymakers should abandon the ’fantasy’ (ouch!) of phasing out oil and gas, as he is sure demand for fossil fuels is expected to continue to grow in the coming years.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/20/2024 01:00 || Comments || Link || [36 views] Top|| File under:

#1  But you know, if tomorrow all the Saudis dropped dead, the oil would still be there.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 03/20/2024 13:50 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Dacoits slay 'defiant' primary schoolteacher in Kandhkot-Kashmore's kacha area
[GEO.TV] A primary schoolteacher was rubbed out by some bandidos in Sindh’s kacha areas (riverine belt) of Kandhkot-Kashmore, where the dacoits continue to reign despite several efforts aimed at eliminating them.

The teacher, Allah Rakhiyo Nandwani, was attacked on his way back home from a cluster primary school in Nasrullah Khan Bijarani, which is known as a no-go area due to the presence of dacoits, on Monday (March 18).

The dacoits reportedly stopped him as he rode his cycle of violence and fled after shooting him dead.

The gruesome incident comes days after a video of Nandwani going to the school went viral on social media. The short video clip showed the schoolteacher carrying a rifle for his safety while navigating from his residence to the school and back.

"I go to the school [to teach] for the sake of students’ future. Police and education department have been telling me that I can’t go there (no-go area), but doing this would harm the future of children. I am protecting myself," he said as he showed the gun he carried in the video.

Defiant of the bandit-rule, Nandwani vowed to attend his duties as schoolteacher regularly to serve the students.

In the video, the slain teacher's own son was seen sitting behind him on the cycle of violence, who apparently studies in the same school.

According to the local police, gunnies shot up Nandwani near Mandani check-post.

Sindh Home Minister Zia Lanjar took notice of the incident and sought a report from Larkana Deputy Inspector General of Police Nasir Aftab in two days.

With the latest incident, it seems like police are unable to control the situation as entire district Kashmore is reportedly been under the rule of dacoits.

It may be noted that the dacoits of kacha areas in Kandhkot-Kashmore have kidnapped over 400 people in the past one year.

Despite big claims and over 250 operations by the Sindh Police, the kacha area dacoits apparently have been operating freely.

The police reportedly do not have modern weapons and equipment, except for the armoured vehicles but even these vehicles cannot go deep into the kacha areas due to wild bushes and sand. The could only reach the areas housing elements facilitating the dacoits but not the areas where their hideouts are.

Posted by: Fred || 03/20/2024 2024-03-20 00:42 || Comments || Link || [49 views] Top|| File under:


Science & Technology
US Air Force tests hypersonic weapon
[7ISREAL] The US Air Force said on Tuesday it had conducted a successful test of an air-launched hypersonic weapon in the Pacific Ocean, Reuters reported.

The test was conducted on Sunday after a B-52 bomber left the island of Guam carrying an Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW), the Air Force said in a statement.

It called the test a success, but did not disclose the speed the weapon flew. In past tests the ARRW has flown at least five times the speed of sound.

The test comes as other countries have used hypersonic missiles as well.

US officials have said that Russia has fired hypersonic missiles at targets in Ukraine and China has tested hypersonic weapons, a charge denied by China's foreign ministry.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/20/2024 02:06 || Comments || Link || [32 views] Top|| File under:

#1  SpaceX Launch Lights Up Southern California Sky
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/20/2024 5:03 Comments || Top||


#3  Long-awaited Air Force 'laser weapon' in danger of being scrapped: report

The beam is only one color.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/20/2024 15:30 Comments || Top||

#4  ^White?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 03/20/2024 15:36 Comments || Top||


New NIH study sheds light on mysterious 'Havana Syndrome': Victims' symptoms are 'real' and 'quite profound' - but injuries don't show up on MRI much like a 'mini stroke,' one Pentagon medical consultant tells DailyMail.com
  • 24 'Havana Syndrome' patients developed persistent dizziness, balance issues

  • A neurologist who conducted research for the Pentagon tells DailyMail.com the syndrome led to 'functional' brain issues not unlike 'mini-strokes' and 'the bends'
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/20/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [41 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Maybe working for the State Department causes brain injury.
I mean, judging from results out in the wider world, I could see this as a pattern. I just thought they were brain dead going in.
Posted by: ed in texas || 03/20/2024 13:21 Comments || Top||



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  NYPD calls Level III mobilization to Chambers and Centre Street
Tue 2024-03-19
  IDF raids Gaza’s Shifa Hospital again, kills 40 gunmen including senior commander
Mon 2024-03-18
  Report: US border patrol nabbed Hezbollah man headed to New York ‘hoping to make a bomb’
Sun 2024-03-17
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Sat 2024-03-16
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Fri 2024-03-15
  Hamas said to execute leader of Gaza’s powerful Doghmush clan; Doghmushes declare vendetta
Thu 2024-03-14
  Strike on UNRWA facility in Rafah took out Hamas commander who stole aid, says IDF
Wed 2024-03-13
  Houthis fire missile against Liberian-flagged ship
Tue 2024-03-12
  IDF says foiled 'imminent' suicide bombing plot in heart of Israel
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  AQAP announces the death of its emir Khalid Batarfi
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  Mossad: Hamas toughening demands for hostage deal, seeks Ramadan escalation
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  Troops arrest 34 in overnight West Bank raids
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  Nikki Haley officially drops out of 2024 election, challenges Trump to win back her supporters
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