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This sick, self-hating fuck is using the Orlando shooting to push his "single mothers are the cause of every problem in the world" message. He assumes just because we're only hearing from the victims' mothers (and that they were mostly minorities) that the fathers are all absent from their lives, and that's why they "chose the gay lifestyle".

By the way, "Sotomayor" isn't his real name--it's Thomas Jerome Harris

Thanks for playingplaying, but my dad's father died when he was really young so he made an extra effort to always be there for us.

I stopped watching because I knew he was an idiot.

There are stupid people everywhere. We shouldn't give them an outlet.

Yeah I don't know why anyone listens to him. He has little dark skinned boy problems. Hates dark Black women because him mother was hateful & treated him badly because he was dark (so he says). All he speaks is gibberish

Why are we giving this guy attention?

So many are so funny in how they swear by their rather pat juvenile analysis of a variety of topics.

What about lesbians?

I've been noticing an INCREDIBLE amount of homophobia from blacks on Facebook and even YouTube since the shootings

Smaller the mind, the smaller the outlook

I'm a gay male and the majority of my gay friends come from mother-only households and absentee fathers, myself included. We've actually discussed the single mother/absentee father theory. Not that that alone turns a kid gay, but we think it can be a contributing factor, especially for a shy, insecure boy without confidence and without a sense of his masculinity. We believe that being gay is a result of a see-saw of nature-nurture factors. I am not self-loathing, just introspective and curious about why I turned out gay.

R9

I'm a gay male, and honest to God most of my (gay) friends come from allegedly ideal mother & father households.

NOTE: Funny thing in regards to SOTOMAYOR' theory is that in Black America don't the majority of children come from single parent households ? Hello ?

[quote]I've been noticing an INCREDIBLE amount of homophobia from blacks on Facebook and even YouTube since the shootings

Oh really? None of my black friends on FB are saying that.

R11

Maybe you have a better ilk of friends than R7

R11 none of my black friends are either but I'm hearing virulent homophobia from blacks in the Facebook comments section

One story that I linked on my page was of the heartbreaking black female athlete from the Philly area who was just 18 when she died

A lot of blacks in the comment section are saying "that's what she gets for being a lesbian" and quoting the Bible and shit. Almost celebrating her death

So let me get this straight an black man who robs people and is shot and killed by the police is acknowledged by the black community as a hero but a black honor student and star athlete with her bright future ahead of her who MIGHT be gay is brutally gunned down by a hateful Muslim for NO REASON and she "deserved it"?

Wow the black community really is homophobic and fucked up

R9, given the amount of research that's been carried out over the years on the subject, I doubt that's the case. If there were any statistics showing that a disproportionate number of gay men had grown up without fathers, right-wingers would never shut up about it. And as R7 pointed out, how would that account for lesbians?

R15 the truth hurts?

And I'm not even white, I'm Latino and from Florida, which is why this hits close to home

Your tortured logic is what hurts.

So, by his logic, Omar's son will grow up to be gay....?

Why do so many gay people use the words "choose" and "lifestyle"? I find then both offensive, since I never chose to be gay, neither did they and I don't feel it is a lifestyle, that makes it sound like a choice, it is just a life.

Who the fuck is he? I noticed that he is self identifying as Latino.

There is a petition to shut down his YOUTube channel.

Sorry didn't notice that petition was closed, this one is open.

r13 " So let me get this straight an black man who robs people and is shot and killed by the police is acknowledged by the black community as a hero but a black honor student and star athlete with her bright future ahead of her who MIGHT be gay is brutally gunned down by a hateful Muslim for NO REASON and she "deserved it"? "

I get what you're saying overall, but this section here is a generalization. You're assuming that the people who argue that Brown shouldn't have been killed are the same ones using religion to spout homophobic crap. It's likely that the former are younger, more liberal Blacks probably not unlike those who were in Pulse, while the latter are older, conservative Blacks like the ones that denounced the BLM protests and hip-hop culture.

Black people always have to have a reason. Grew up without a father, abuse, hung around a lot of women as to why a male is gay. The hate is real. You all are thrown off buildings but the hate for Blacks is a little more

R13 Wow. So are you trying to imply that black people have some "gay-hating gene" that makes them hate gay people? So, does that make me, a black gay man, self hating? Or, do I not exist in your world where only black people and Muslims are the reason homophobia exists?

Anything to protect your straight white saviors.

Also, Latino isn't a race. It's a cultural identity. You can be white, black, Native American (Many Latinos are btw), etc. and still be Latino.

r22/r23 -- He has like 50 youtube channels; one gets shut down, he'll put up three more. He also has several "ghost" accounts pretending to be viewers patting him on the back for "speaking the truth" and arguing on his behalf. I wouldn't be surprised if he's trolling this thread. Pathetic.

That is true, absent fathers and/or domineering mothers are the cause.

Every single gay I've know has this. Of course they won't admit it, but when asked about their lives it turns out to be true.

[quote]Also, Latino isn't a race. It's a cultural identity. You can be white, black, Native American (Many Latinos are btw), etc. and still be Latino.

Incorrect, race is a self defined concept. This is why you have anything from a three race theory to a ten race theory. There's no way to define race because it's is nothing.

You can also be white AND black at the same time, or did you for get our president who is both black and white. Oh that's right he was raised white but identifies as black, to get votes.

I guess this cunt has never been to gay enclaves in Dupont or west hollywood.

[quote] That is true, absent fathers and/or domineering mothers are the cause. Every single gay I've know has this.

Allrighty well clearly you just don't know anyone gay but yourself.

Gee most of the gays I know had their fathers around and these men were such pieces of shit the gaylings were like het men are assholes and don't want to be like that.

God invented artificial insemination because he himself is sick of the heterosexual shit that passes for normalcy.

R28 sounds like a frau. Pay it no mind.

Obama doesn't "identify" as black, R29 - he, like most mixed-race people, doesn't have a choice in the matter. He pointed out that when he used to hail a cab, the fact that he was "half-white" didn't matter to the driver.

Raven Symone uses "sexual preference" on The View. It's obvious why she does it and I wish somebody would tell her to shut her fake ass up.

Remember when OBAMA disdainfully referred to his grandmother as a typical white woman ? He had pointed out in his observation what he considered her typical white woman hesitance when she would encounter black men. Maybe, but your grandparents took you in, raised you didn't they ? Your grandfather in particular who you rarely mention adored you.

Where was your wonderful father ? You know, the basis for DREAMS OF MY FATHER.

Sure you have, r7, sure you have.

Too bad it wasn't you who had their brains blown out that night.

R26 you're a moron from my PERSONAL EXPERIENCE on Facebook, I'm noticing a lot of black people saying homophobic things about the shooting and especially the innocent victims

I had to defend that one innocent black girls honor against the HATEFUL things that straight black people were saying about her on Facebook

I've come to thus conclusion through my Personal Experience, how dare you say that what I've seen from personal experience of blacks being homophobic is wrong?

If that's the case then isn't it the same if a black constantly complains about racism from white due to their PERSONAL EXPERIENCE. Are they In the wrong for thinking that?

And I'm Latino, Cuban, I don't need you to define my race asshole

I have heard these theories before. When I was in college, I took a social psychology class and there was a 40 something woman taking that class because she was trying to get a teaching degree. Anyway, that woman was a homophobic moron and she mentioned how she grew up in a home with 4 other sisters and one brother. She said that her family was surprised that her brother didn't turn out gay because he grew up in a mostly female household. I hated that moron. I was already out to some people at the college because it was in a fairly liberal city. I told the homophobe moron that I was gay and grew up in a household with two brothers and she didn't respond to me.

[quote]He assumes just because we're only hearing from the victims' mothers (and that they were mostly minorities) that the fathers are all absent from their lives

To be fair, this is usually an accurate assumption when discussing blacks in America.

[quote]This sick, self-hating fuck is using the Orlando shooting to push his "single mothers are the cause of every problem in the world" message.

Yes, of course, the problem is obviously caused by the mothers who are stuck raising these babies, as opposed to the asshole "fathers" who pump-and-dump and choose to leave their own children fatherless. Fucking sexist piece of shit.

R9, maybe your father left because you were obviously going to turn out gay?

I mean, since we're pointing fingers, and all.

The last person to post here for me was three hours ago and yet I see all of these "posts" show up in my watch list.

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has finally fulfilled his long-held ambition to expand his powers after Sunday's referendum handed him the reins of his country's governance. But success did not come without a cost.

His victory leaves the nation deeply divided and facing increasing tension with former allies abroad, while international monitors and opposition parties have reported numerous voting irregularities.

An unofficial tally carried by the country's state-run news agency gave Erdogan's "yes" vote a narrow win, with 51.4 percent approving a series of constitutional changes converting Turkey's political system from a parliamentary to a presidential one. Critics argue the reforms will hand extensive power to a man with an increasingly autocratic bent, leaving few checks and balances in place.

Opposition parties called foul, complaining of a series of irregularities. They were particularly outraged by an electoral board decision to accept ballots that did not bear official stamps, as required by Turkish law, and called for the vote to be annulled. International monitors from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, who also listed numerous irregularities, said the move undermined safeguards against fraud.

The referendum campaign was heavily weighted in favor of the "yes" campaign, with Erdogan drawing on the full powers of the state and government to dominate the airwaves and billboards. The "no" campaign complained of intimidation, detentions and beatings.

In Istanbul, hundreds of "no" supporters demonstrated in the streets on Monday, chanting "thief, murderer, Erdogan" and banging pots and pans.

"We are protesting today because the results announced by the government are not the real ones. Because actually the 'no' we voted won. But the government is announcing it as 'yes' has won," Damla Atalay, a 35-year-old lawyer, said of the voting irregularities.

Erdogan was unfazed by the criticism as he spoke to flag-waving supporters in the Turkish capital, Ankara.

"We have put up a fight against the powerful nations of the world," he said as he arrived at the airport from Istanbul. "The crusader mentality attacked us abroad. ... We did not succumb. As a nation, we stood strong."

In a speech before a massive crowd at his sprawling presidential palace complex, Erdogan insisted Turkey's referendum was "the most democratic election ... ever seen in any Western country" and admonished the OSCE monitors to "know your place."

The increasing polarization of Turkish society has long worried Turkey observers, who note the dangers of deepening societal divisions in a country with a history of political instability.

The referendum was held with a state of emergency still in place, imposed after an attempted coup in July. About 100,000 people have been fired from their jobs in the crackdown that followed on supporters of a U.S.-based Islamic cleric and former Erdogan ally who the president blamed for the attempted putsch. Tens of thousands have been arrested or imprisoned, including lawmakers, judges, journalists and businessmen.

On Monday, the country's Council of Ministers decided to extend the state of emergency, which grants greater powers of detention and arrest to security forces, for a further three months. It had been due to expire April 19. The decision was to be sent to parliament for approval.

"The way (Erdogan) has closed the door on the opposition, there is likely to be increased political unrest," said Howard Eissenstat, associate professor of Middle East history at St. Lawrence University in upstate New York. "Forty-eight percent of the population is being told that their voices don't matter."

There is also the risk of increased international isolation, with Erdogan appealing to patriotic sentiments by casting himself as a champion of a proud Turkish nation that will not be dictated to by foreign powers in general, and the European Union in particular.

Turkey has been an EU candidate for decades, but its accession efforts have been all but moribund for several years.

"They have made us wait at the gates of the European Union for 54 years," Erdogan told his supporters at the presidential palace. "We can conduct a vote of confidence on this as well. Would we? What did England do they did Brexit, right?"

"Either they will hold their promises to Turkey or they'll have to bear the consequences," he added.

Erdogan has also vowed to consider reinstating the death penalty a move that would all but end prospects of EU membership. But, he insisted, other nations' opinions on the issue are irrelevant to him.

"Our concern is not what George or Hans or Helga says. Our concern is what Hatice, Ayse, Fatma, Ahmet, Mehmet, Hasan, Hseyin says," he thundered as the crowd of supporters chanted for the return of capital punishment. "What Allah says. That's why our parliament will make this decision."

Both Germany and France expressed concern about possible election irregularities and called on Erdogan to engage in dialogue with the opposition.

"The narrow result of the vote shows how deeply split the Turkish society is," German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said in a joint statement. "This implies a big responsibility for the Turkish government and President Erdogan personally."

The U.S. State Department "encouraged voters and parties on both sides to focus on working together for Turkey's future," while calling on the government to protect rights and freedoms "regardless of their vote on April 16."

The words are unlikely to move Erdogan.

Relations with Germany and the Netherlands have been particularly tense, with Erdogan outraged by decisions in both countries not to allow his government to campaign there to woo the expatriate vote for the referendum.

The referendum approves 18 constitutional amendments to replace Turkey's parliamentary system with a presidential one.

The president will be able to appoint ministers, senior government officials and to hold sway over who sits in Turkey's highest judicial body, as well as to issue decrees and declare states of emergency. They set a limit of two five-year terms for presidents.

The new system takes effect at the next election, currently slated for 2019. Other changes are to be implemented sooner, including scrapping a requirement that the president not be a member of any political party. This would allow Erdogan to rejoin the governing AK Party he co-founded, or to lead it.

"Erdogan dominated the national media. He imposed a very restrictive environment for the 'no' camp," said Fadi Hakura, a Turkey specialist at the London-based Chatham House think tank. "He secured a thin majority of 1 percent. This suggests that Erdogan will become more robust and more challenging to deal with."

Associated Press writers Suzan Fraser in Ankara and Zeynep Bilginsoy and Bram Janssen in Istanbul contributed to this report.

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Published on April 17th, 2017 | by Steve Hanley

April 17th, 2017 by Steve Hanley

Britain has set a goal of 15% renewable energy by 2020. Today, it is has about half that, which means it will need to go very far, very fast to meet the target. If it fails to do so, it could face fines from the European Union totaling tens of millions of pounds. In an effort to avoid that fate, the British government is looking to abandon its renewable energy goal entirely, while maintaining its links to European markets and preserving its ability to participate in cross-border electrical energy trading with neighboring countries.

Not so fast, the members of the European Union say. So deeply do the economic and cultural ties between the UK and the EU go, the negotiations to unwind them may take up to 10 years to complete.EU leaders want to make sure Britain doesnt get to cherry pick the provisions that favor it most and ignore the rest.

Politicians in the European Parliament adopted a resolution last Wednesday that opposed piecemeal or industry-specific deals between the EU and Britain as one of its conditions for approving the UKs withdrawal arrangement. The lawmakers agreed that any future deal is conditional on the UK continuing to stick with the EUs policies on climate change and the environment.

Backing away from its renewable energy goals would put the UK at odds with other European Union nations that maintain targets as part of their membership in the regions energy market. While renewable targets and electricity market rules are negotiated differently, they link at the level of political discussions.

There is a risk that energy gets wrapped up in the wider political negotiation, with the EU seeking to make access to the Internal Energy Market subject to the U.K. signing up to future energy and environment legislation, said Simon Virley, head of power and utilities at KPMG. He is a former director-general of the UKs energy and climate ministry. That is when it could get difficult.

The move is an example of Prime Minister Theresa Mays government seeking to maintain the most advantageous parts of the EU relationship while scrapping rules that raise hackles in the business community. The EUs internal energy market is a package of assets, codes, and rules that allow intra-day trading across borders. Britain wants to build up those links as part of its effort to maintain electricity supplies as aging power plants retire from service.

Britain already has power links with about 4 gigawatts of capacity according to National Grid, and that could reach about 18 gigawatts by the mid 2030s. In all future scenarios, the UK will remain a net importer of electricity until the early 2030s, the grid operator predicts. Power links with other countries are key to reducing the cost of electricity in the UK, since each gigawatt from foreign resources has the potential to reduce wholesale prices by as much as 2 percent says National Grid.

Some countries that are not part of the EU, such as Norway, have cross-border energy agreements in place and are part of the internal energy market. Switzerland, however, is not part of the EU and has been negotiating deals on energy separately with the EU for more than a decade. It is not allowed to participate in intra-day trading of electricity, according to Antony Froggatt, an analyst at the Chatham House research group in London. It is possible the UK would like to follow the Swiss example as it seeks to chart its own course as it separates from the EU.

A spokesperson for the British government insists the county remains committed to tacking climate change and will meet all targets while we remain part of the EU. The UK is seeking to avoid further constraints on its energy mix imposed by the EU, according to the official. We are proposing a bold and ambitious trade agreement that covers sectors crucial to our linked economies, including network industries, the officialsaid.

The problem is, the UK is actively trying to break free of what it considers the EU stranglehold, which seems to make its commitment to those climate change objectives rather weak tea. The government has given the lie to its own rosy pronouncements, however. Recently, it slashed incentives for residential rooftop solar installations by cutting the feed-in tariff rate (known in the US as net metering) by two thirds, according to The Guardian. Not surprisingly, installation rates of new rooftop solar have plummeted by 75% in the past few months. Many solar installers have gone bankrupt, throwing thousands of people employed in the solar industry out of work.

A government official, sounding like Donald Trump himself, concocted this pile of blather to explain the governments move:Its only fair that the costs on peoples energy bills to support solar projects should come down as the industry establishes itself and costs fall. Ultimately, we want a low carbon energy sector that can stand on its own two feet rather than relying on subsidies. Spoken like it came right from the desk of Charles and David Koch, which it very well may have.

Fossil fuel interests love to bleat about subsidies while racking in over $5 trillion in direct and indirect subsidies a year, according to the International Monetary Fund. The Koch Brothers and the multiple fake research organizations they fund always gloss over that fact while they talk about leveling the playing field and how government shouldnt be picking winners and losers, even though they routinely shovel barrels full of money to elected officials to make sure their interests get first priority. It is no coincidence that the talking points we read about in the British press are the same as the one we here in the US and in other countries, like Australia.

In England, adhering to climate targets is favored by 85% of Conservative party voters according to a survey released by Bright Blue, a UK think tank, on Tuesday.There is no mandate from Conservatives to dilute current environmental regulation, said Sam Hall, senior researcher at Bright Blue. There are a handful of prominent Conservatives who are skeptical about environmental challenges and policies. The mainstream of Conservative voters do not support scaling back current EU environmental regulations.

The unfortunate part of the British government turning its back on renewable energy targets is two-fold. First, the 2020 target of 15% is ridiculously low in the first place. Lowering it further borders on insanity. Second, it will act as a disincentive to investors thinking of backing renewable energy projects in England. Investors value stable markets more than anything else. If basic government policies can be altered so easily at the whim of a few self-interested politicians, what reason is there to support renewable energy investments going forward?

England is mad because regulators in Brussels are seen as meddlesome fools who only want to burden the UK with silly regulations. Echoes of that same argument are heard on the other side of the Atlantic from those who are taking a sledgehammer to the EPA, NASA, and any other government-funded climate research organizations. The timing of those two trends is far from accidental, as fossil fuel interests continue their quest to burn every molecule of hydrocarbons in existence for their own profit.

The voters could bring this destructive behavior to a halt, but they are overwhelmed by the tidal wave of false information pouring forth from the organizations who spout the fossil fuel party line. Which leads to this question: What good will all that wealth do anyone after the earth is stripped of its ability to support humanity? The wealthy are doomed to perish along with the hoi polloi. Do they think somehow they will be spared to enjoy an idyllic existence with but a few thousand other lucky souls? Apparently so.

Source: Bloomberg

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That's because when the world's largest consumer of dental amalgam Europe makes the well-vetted judgement that this proven neurotoxin is a major threat to children, their mothers and our environment, the focus now shifts to the FDA whose policy inexplicably calls for "greater" use ofmercury-based fillings, putting America well outside the margins of the current science.

Specifically, the EU action will ban dental amalgam mercury so called "silver" fillings in:

The EU's move is spurred by an international agreement called the Minamata Convention under which the nations of the world commit to specific measures to lessen the damage caused by mercury including dental mercury -- to the environment.With the EU vote, Europe also commits to developing a specific plan to reduce its overall use of dental amalgam and to decide if, and when, it will totally phase out the use of dental mercury as EU member nation Sweden did earlier in its own country.

According to Charles Brown, whose organization Consumers for Dental Choice played a major advocacy role in both assuring the Minamata Convention prioritized dental mercury and for the EU's first ever partial ban of amalgam: "Minamata, the groundbreaking EU action and commitments by governments on every continent, have dramatically moved global scientific and policy consensus toward a world without the dangers of dental mercury, especially when it comes to protecting developing children.What this means is that America because of the FDA's 19th Century commitment to even greater use of dental mercury is now swimming upstream and becomes the global outlier."

The use of mercury-based dental fillings are especially pernicious in the US because of a concerted effort by the dental industry and the FDA to hide their true identity behind misleading names like "amalgam" and "silver fillings". A recent national survey conducted by Zogby Analytics on behalf of Consumers for Dental Choice found that a clear majority (57 percent) of Americans including the parents of young children -- did not know that toxic mercury is the principle component of these fillings.

To send a strong message to the FDA that it's time to follow the EU's lead in banning dental mercury for children and their mothers, Consumers for Dental Choice has set up an official Citizen Petition calling on the agency to catch up with the world scientific consensus by immediately banning dental amalgam for use on children, pregnant women and nursing mothers.

In Brown's words: "The FDA needs to hear from as many Americans as possible that we demand the same kinds of basic health and environmental protections from dental mercury as EU citizens have.The FDA needs to know that it's longer acceptable to be on the wrong side of history when the lives and futures of America's children and their communities are at stake."

Click HERE to sign the petition.

For further information:Brian Morris, Morris Communications, 614/226-3292, bmorris@morriscommunications.com; Charlie Brown, Consumers for Dental Choice, charlie@toxicteeth.org

To view the original version on PR Newswire, visit:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/consumers-for-dental-choice-european-union-in-final-stages-of-banning-mercury-amalgam-fillings-in-children-pregnant-women-and-nursing-mothers-300440240.html

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MANILA, Philippines Do you have a tale you have been longing to tell? A message to convey? Ideas to express? Now is your chance to be heard.

The Delegation of the European Union to the Philippines (EU) is giving you the chance to share with the world your thoughts, stories, and experiences.

The EU is hosting "What's EUr Story?," an essay competition that aims to shine the spotlight on European experiences and influences of young Filipinos. All you need to do is to share your personal, friends or familys adventures in Europe or tell about your experiences with European nationals in the Philippines. You may also write about how you may have worked with any of the European Unions NGO (non-government organizations) or Civil Society Organization partners or just simply how one or a group of Europeans made an impact on you.

Write about how European culture has inspired you in your work, or personal life or even your local community. Share your story and get the chance to win prizes and the opportunity to have your work published here and abroad.

European Union Ambassador Franz Jessen expressed his excitement over the possibilities that the contest opens up. As he said, "The Philippines is such a unique melting pot of cultures and Filipinos are truly global citizens, with communities all over the world. Philippine history is rich and Filipinos are also very quick to embrace new trends and technologies. The different experiences of the Filipinos have led to interesting narratives which we cant wait to hear. These factors make it very exciting for us to be able to gain insights into the imprint that modern European culture has also left on young Filipinos.

The competition is open to all Filipino citizens aged 16 to 35 years old. The contest will be divided into three categories: High School Students, College Students and an Open Category.

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Entries will be accepted online from April 1 to May 12. The submitted essays will be assessed by a panel of judges that includes National Artist for Literature F. Sionil Jose and Ambassador Jessen.

An iPad tablet will be awarded to the grand winner, which will be selected among the three category winners. The other two category winners will receive a smartphone as prize. Ten best works will also be selected from the finalists in each category, and will be included in a compendium of the best essays submitted in the competition. The compendium will be registered under the publications of the European Union.

Apart from being included in an anthology of literary works that will be published by the EU, the grand winner, along with the other winners from each category of the competition, will have his or her winning essay featured on Philstar.com, the competitions official online media partner.

All winners will be honored at an awarding ceremony to be announced by the EU.

If you have a story to tell that you want to share, visit the "Whats EUr Story" Facebook page at facebook.com/WhatsEUrStory to see the complete competition requirements and mechanics.

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