Alyssa Milano is calling on women to abstain from sex amid a flurry of bills aimed at curtailing abortion.
“Our reproductive rights are being erased,” the actress tweeted Friday. “Until women have legal control over our bodies we just cannot risk pregnancy. JOIN ME by not having sex until we get bodily autonomy back. I’m calling for a #SexStrike. Pass it on.”
The tweet from Milano, a former child star who was instrumental in sparking the #MeToo movement, followed recently passed legislation to restrict abortion in Georgia and similar proposals in Ohio, Alabama and other states.
The tweet had more than 10,000 likes and 4,000 retweets overnight, and #SexStrike was trending on the social media platform early Saturday.
Since the Harvey Weinstein sex scandal and the #MeToo movement you would think the issue of sexual assault and the “casting couch”: which involved the offer of acting roles in exchange for sexual favours, within the profession would be a thing of the past.
However it appears the #MeToo movement has done little to halt the issue of sex trafficking, and Cannes plays an important role in the practise. Young actresses often from Eastern Europe are groomed and brought to the festival. They are then introduced to these wealthy, powerful men in the industry on their yachts. The young actresses are then promised small or non-speaking parts in movies, allowing them to have a H-1 visa. Once in the US they are passed around powerful and wealthy men in Hollywood. If they refuse they are told they will have their visas revoked. Experts say that immigration officials should always be suspicious if actresses are being given the expensive H-1 visa for small parts in films.
The New York Senate passed two bills back-to-back Wednesday that are being seen as a direct attack of the President.
The first could seen President Trump’s tax returns realised to Congress. The second could allow state prosecutors to charge people whom the President has pardoned with state crimes.
The bills are still to pass through the state assembly, before passing to the Governors desk. Republicans are calling the move politically motivated by the Democratic ran Senate of New York.
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Kathleen Kavalec’s written account of her Oct. 11, 2016, meeting with FBI informant Christopher Steele shows the Hillary Clinton campaign-funded British intelligence operative admitted that his research was political and facing an Election Day deadline.
A report, newly published, detailing the suicide rates of young people in the U.S. show an increase of nearly third in the month following the realise of “13 Reasons Why” in 2017.
The controversial and highly popular TV series premiered on Netflix in 20017 and follows the story of a teenage girl who commits suicide. In the show she has left 13 video tapes detailing the reasons why she will take her own life. In the final episode viewers graphically see the teen kill herself.
The show caused outrage amongst health care professionals and parents. People are now asking if the sharpe increase in suicide rates amongst this demographic are linked to the hit TV show?
Microsoft has entered the world of election security with its new Open Source software ElectionGuard. Security analysts have said it may take some time for the software to take on.
Microsoft CEO said the new software would help: “modernize all of the election infrastructure everywhere in the world.”
There are a growing number of States who are mandating the teaching of LGBTQ history in schools. California was the first state to bring such curriculum into law in 2011 , New Jersey followed suit in January of this year, however limiting the curriculum to Middle and High Schoolers.
Colorado is likely to be the next to bring the new curriculum for K-12 into law in the coming weeks. As the first openly gay governor of the State, Jared Polis, will review the legislation and decide whether or not to sign off on it.
A report ordered by the UK Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has concluded that Christians are the most persecuted religious group in the world.
The evidence shows that Christian persecution is growing across the globe not only geographically but also in its severity; and in some parts of the Middle East it is reaching “genocidal levels”. Observers are concerned that persecution threatens to wipe out Christianity in parts of the Middle-East altogether.
China has long been developing its naval capability. Western nations are now concerned about the size and capability of the Chinese submarine force. It is believed that China has developed a fleet of submarines capable of carrying ballistic missiles and nuclear warheads.
This comes at a time when China is showing increasing interest in the Arctic. For example Denmark are concern by Chinese plans to build a research station and satellite base on Greenland.
Despite having no land on the Arctic, China has been increasing submarine activity in the region. So far China have openly sought to increase their civilian activity in the region; however Arctic nations say this will lead to an increase in military activity.
At the time of the waning moon witches across the nation come together to cast binding spells against President Trump. The “Resistance Witches” are in their thousands, and the meet online to form a community and cast their spells.
Resistance Witch Alter
The Resistance’s New York moderator even takes her magic out onto the streets: castings her spells outside Trump Tower.
Stephan Moore, Federal Reserve Nominee, has said that one of the biggest problems facing the economy is the decline in male earnings.
Moore observes that where female earnings are rising, male earnings- for both black and white males- has been steadily declining. He argues that this is bad for both the economy and society. And that he would like to see earning rise for everyone regardless of gender.
The 22 trillion dollar debt of the federal government receives a lot of media attention. But this is only part of the picture. The true figure is an additional 50 trillion dollars.
When discussing America’s debt problem we have to also consider: corporate debt, which has doubled since the last financial crisis; consumer debt, accounting for $13 trillion; and state and local government debt, growing at an alarming rate.
So that is $72,000,000,000,000 and works out at $220,000 for every man, woman and child in the US.
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