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  • What starts as “being kind” ends up right here

    ng kind” ends up right here.

    But it’s not just that he is in a woman’s prison, as bad as that is. It’s that his claim of being a woman was used as a defense to get him a lighter sentence – and it worked. What do legislators think that says to all the worst men in society? The easiest loophole imaginable has been created for them and, evidently, they’re using it. They will continue to use it until someone in power puts a stop to it.

    Currently, any man – ANY MAN – can claim to be a woman, go into a female only space full of women & girls, and then, in the event he does something horrific, claim to be a woman to get a lesser sentence & be put into a woman’s prison. Of course, no good man would even think to do this. Literally, only the bad men would. And that’s a massive part of the problem…

  • Schools as “therapeutic institutions”

    This. From the Sunday Times.

    Schools have become “therapeutic institutions” for children, and should return to their pre-pandemic focus on academic and extracurricular activities, according to the former head of Ofsted.

    Baroness Spielman said schools are encouraging children as young as three to identify negative emotions, which are a normal part of childhood, when many would be better off simply being “fully engaged” in school life.

    Spielman, who ran the schools watchdog from 2017 to 2023, said: “If schools have reconceived themselves as therapeutic institutions and are looking for things to be wrong with the child, they’ll probably find some. And we’ll stay in this sort of negative spiral of unintentionally encouraging children to find things to be unhappy about.

    “Wellbeing is an outcome of getting various pieces of a child’s life right, including their learning. It’s not an activity. Adolescence is a period of massive psychological adjustment with lumps and bumps, but you have to experience the lumps and bumps to be a resilient adult.”

    Exactly. Tell that to the puberty blocker fools – the ultimate example of trying to “cure” children from imagined social-contagion maladies instead of allowing them to grow and develop naturally.

    She added: “The danger is you get into a downward spiral where the more of that kind of [mental health] support you give to a child, the more you reinforce the idea that they can’t cope without it.”

  • All necessary means

    e “Global Sumud Flotilla” heading to Gaza is kitted out with Israeli weapons.

    The Furor is said to be "equipped with all necessary means", has a 76mm Oto Melara cannon and two MK-38 25mm automatic machine guns, all developed by Israel's Rafael defence group.

  • Violating human dignity

    ” behind his Facebook reply.

    To the question, “What did you mean by this comment?” he replied: “Well, that those who think there’s not just man and woman, I want to tell them that there’s only man and woman.”

    Seems fair enough. And of course absolutely true. But apparently it's belittling to LGBT(Q)I people. Well, belittling to the T portion of LGBT(Q)I people – the people who believe you can change sex.

    The Bernese judiciary determined that “through his comment published on Facebook, [Brünisholz] has publicly belittled the group of LGBT(Q)I people based on their sexual orientation and in a way that violates human dignity.” He was issued a penal order fining him 500 Swiss francs (approximately $580 USD), convertible to 10 days of imprisonment if unpaid.

  • Trans culture is not Maori culture

    Yesterday a Maori demonstration -"jihadists not welcome here". Today:

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  • Still fit to practice medicine

    Yesterday in the Jewish News:

    A doctor who regularly posts diatribes about “Jewish supremacy” on social media and has called for the ethnic cleansing of Jews from Israel has been allowed by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) to continue practicing medicine while the General Medical Council investigates her conduct.

    Dr Rahmeh Aladwan, who was also a member of Palestine Action before its proscription as a terrorist organisation, is now infamous within the British Jewish community for such claims as “the UK is occupied and controlled by Jewish supremacy – in fact, most Christian majority countries are”, and that the Royal Free Hospital in London, which has a large number of Jewish patients given its location, is a “Jewish Supremacy Cesspit”.

    Today:

    The health secretary has launched an unprecedented attack on the UK’s medical regulation system, saying he has “no confidence” in its ability to keep patients safe after a doctor who called for the ethnic cleansing of Jews from Israel was allowed to continue practising….

    In a strongly worded statement to Jewish News, Health Secretary Wes Streeting responded to the MPTS ruling, saying: “The racist language of ‘Jewish supremacy’ reflects the values of Nazis, not the NHS. I fail to see how medics using such language with impunity doesn’t undermine confidence in the medical profession. I have no confidence in the ability of our medical regulation system to keep patients safe and I am taking urgent advice on next steps.”

  • The UN General Assembly

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  • Acting like the Stasi

    the exchange on his social media page where it has quickly gather more than 800,000 views.

    The clip shows two North Yorkshire officers confront Pete and his wife as a 'hate team' have concluded that 'there are offences there we need to explore,' before going on to say there are concerns he is spreading 'racial hatred'.

    He is then arrested and taken to Harrogate police station for further questioning, where he remained in an outdoor cell for about four hours before being interviewed.

    Speaking to the Daily Mail, North said: 'I'm disgusted by the police, because they could have done this in an orderly, civil way, but they chose maximum intrusion, and it was essentially [being treated like] an act of terrorism.

    'They were trying to find evidence that I had intended to stir up racial hit with it. Which is unbelievable. It's crass. The meme itself is a controversial sentiment, but controversial is not illegal, and it happens to be my opinion.'

    North has since been release on unconditional bail until December 21 but said the tweet in question is still 'a sentiment I wholly endorse'….

    Lord Young of Acton, head of the Free Speech Union told the Daily Mail: 'Pete North is a member of the Free Speech Union and we're on the case. The police's behaviour is reminiscent of the Stasi in East Germany.

    'I wouldn't be surprised if Pete has a case for wrongful arrest and false imprisonment. Last time I checked, criticising a proscribed terrorist organisation and its supporters isn't a criminal offence.'

  • Maori protest

    Well…

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  • A new dark age of American medicine

    ng-trust-in-medicine/”>Malcolm Clark at Spiked:

    Welcome to a new dark age of American medicine.

    This week, Donald Trump gave credence to claims about the MMR vaccine that have been disproven by rigorous medical research. The US president claimed that jabs for measles, mumps and rubella ought to ‘be taken separately’ to avoid ‘problems’. Accompanied by US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, Trump also added that pregnant women should ‘fight like hell’ not to take Tylenol, the US brand name for paracetamol. He implied that taking the widely used painkiller in pregnancy is linked to a ‘meteoric’ rise in autism diagnoses.

    These claims have, understandably, been met with a backlash. Experts have tried to reassure the public that MMR and paracetamol are safe. But will anyone listen? Unfortunately, many of Trump and RFK’s fiercest critics undermined their own credibility long ago by promoting equally unscientific ideas – not least the notion that kids can be born in the wrong body.

    Senator Elizabeth Warren is one such opponent. ‘You were lying’, she said of Kennedy’s Covid-vaccine stance during a senate hearing earlier this month. Warren was joined in her attack by other Democrat members, including Tina Smith and the left’s prince over the water, Bernie Sanders.

    You would hardly have guessed that just two years ago, this same trio put their name to a motion demanding a ‘trans bill of rights’, which aimed to enshrine in law the most extreme version of the trans agenda. The bill would have rendered references to ‘biological sex’ in US discrimination laws meaningless. It would have prevented states from limiting ‘life-saving’ gender-affirming healthcare for children – including puberty blockers, which cause irreversible harm, such as sterilisation. It would also have forced schools, sports organisations and employers to disregard the needs of women and girls.

    It wasn’t just politicians who were misusing science. The bill began by citing a list of medical organisations that supported its assumptions about sex and gender – effectively a who’s who of America’s clinical establishment, ranging from the College of Physicians and the Public Health Association to the American Medical Association. In other words, organisations representing the vast majority of America’s doctors were prepared to lend credence to claims about biological sex and ‘gender medicine’ that were scientifically nonsense.

    The cries of outrage now lose some of their power when you consider the medical absurdities  – telling children they can change sex – that these people have themselves supported.