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e behavior to continue.

And that's it. Not just the poor kids sent off to labour camp, but their families sent to the NK equivalent of Siberia. Let it be a warning:

“County officials responded to the incident by conducting a series of intensive lectures targeting educators and local residents. The lectures were titled: ‘Let’s stay on high alert to unequivocally reject the influx of the imperialists’ impure elements and enemy propaganda.’”

According to the source, the lecturers claimed that “the devious imperialists are jealous that we [North Koreans] are living a better life because we hold our socialist values high, so they are ruthlessly trying to use their punk capitalist media to manipulate our impressionable youths because they are still growing up,” and emphasized that the people must be alert to the influx of outside culture into the country.

The authorities also gave attendees a strong warning during the lectures. “Don’t expect that students who are not yet adults will receive a lighter punishment,” they reportedly said. “If parents can’t control their children, [the MSS] will send the youths to receive reeducation and expel their families just like in the case of these three students.”

No lessons needed in North Korea about the evils of cultural appropriation.

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mjongilism and regard the loyalty to Kim Jong Un as its lifeline.

It will certainly accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche pioneered on Mt Paektu generation after generation, enshrining the immutable faith that the eternal happiness and rosy future lie in upholding with loyalty and following Kim Jong Un, the great leader of our Party, state and armed forces and the banner of victory and glory of our people who ushers in a new heyday of the Juche-oriented youth movement while bringing up the youths to be the reserves of the Party and advancing group for the socialist construction with great care after setting it as the strategic line of the Party to value the youths, the resolution said.

What next, at the 11th congress? The Kimilsungist-Kimjongilist-Kimjongunist Youth League? We can only wait and see.

A new video from Phoenix-based storm chaser Mike Oblinski, blending his favorite clips from the last few years, and set to Eric Kinney and Danica Dora’s “The Last Goodbye.”

Dramatic speeded-up cloud action, changing to colour near the end. Best on full screen.

Oblinski previously here and here.

On Vimeo and Instagram.

er being naughty, and getting more and more angry that it's being ignored.

More pressure on South Korea, meanwhile – and in particular on their craven ban on sending propaganda balloons over the DMZ – might be a better way for the US to proceed.

style=”padding-left: 40px”>“The overwhelming response was there was a risk around causing distress to particular members of the community and that was the last thing we wanted to do,” Biggs said. “We always thought Booktown should be an inclusive, welcoming place.”

"A risk around causing distress to particular members of the community" seems to be the over-riding concern everywhere now. The trans community. that is. Women – or Harry Potter fans – not so much.

time when it is seeking to increase its accessibility to and inclusion of survivors of gender based violence from marginalised and easy to ignore communities. As a passionate, loud and consistent advocate for the rights of trans women and Black Minority Ethnic women, I look forward to working alongside my new colleagues to ensure that we provide inclusive and flexible support.

“As we emerge from the pandemic, we know that more people will need support to cope with trauma they have experienced. It is an honour to be in the position to provide this support.”

Mridul Wadhwa is a trans woman. You might think that a real woman would be better placed to head a major Rape Crisis Centre – but then you'd only be demonstrating your transphobia.

The last time we heard from Wadhwa, (s)he was protesting an amendment that allowed rape victims to pick the sex rather than the gender of the person examining them after an attack. In other words, (s)he thinks it's fine for traumatised rape victims to be examined by men pretending to be women.

Mridul Wadhwa, a male transgender activist who self-identifies as a woman, is one of many who has shared the letter, which he referred to as not “just a call out but a call for action.” Mr Wadhwa, who has no Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC), was recently selected as an SNP candidate for next year’s all-women election shortlist. The practice of all-women lists was started to guarantee women a voice in politics, but recent years have seen a rise in men taking seats once set aside for women. Mr Wadhwa secured the position of manager at Forth Valley and Stirling Rape Crisis Centre by concealing his biological sex. 

By concealing his biological sex? Oh yes.

And now (s)he's manager at the Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre. Yep, perfect.

isn't the whole gender binary thing the basis for their decision that they're not one gender but the other? – because that binary is there, and it's fundamental, and they've come to realise that they're on the wrong side of it. Sex, on the other hand, as we've come to acknowledge thanks to modern philosophers like Judith Butler, is just a western construct and an imposition which doesn't correspond to anything in particular and can be dismissed as biological essentialism.

An Edinburgh University spokesman said its guidelines were "designed as a resource to support staff, inform discussion, and help promote a respectful, diverse and inclusive community". They added: "We will always seek to respond sensitively to any concerns staff or students might raise."

A Newcastle University spokesman said: "We want our campus to be a welcoming and safe place for everyone who studies, works or visits here, regardless of gender, race, class, age or disability."

No mention of sex, naturally. That's not important.

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