Daily Mail

A transgender murderer serving a life sentence will be allowed to have gender reassignment surgery on the NHS.

Paris Green is set to be escorted on a 1,000-mile round-trip from jail in Scotland to a hospital in Brighton – a move that has been described by prison guards as a ‘security nightmare’.   Continue reading “Transgender murderer who had to be moved from women’s jail ‘after she had sex with female prisoners’ is now granted gender reassignment surgery on the NHS at a cost of £20,000 to the taxpayer”

IMEMC News

Nearly 3 weeks into its planned 4-week run, an electronic billboard honoring first responders in the Gaza Strip was pulled on November 13th when the billboard company received phone calls and email complaints labeling their staff as terrorists and anti-Semites, and threatening a boycott.   Continue reading “Billboard Honoring First Responders of Gaza Removed”

Daily Mail

Teenagers are setting themselves on fire in a desperate attempt to find fame on the internet, hospital staff have revealed.

The latest idiotic craze to sweep the internet- called the Fire Challenge – has seen teenagers film themselves dousing their bodies in accelerant and lighting it.   Continue reading “Teenagers set themselves on FIRE as part of a new social media ‘challenge’ that is leaving them in hospital with serious burns”

Business Insider

(Reuters) In April 2008, former Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez dispatched Justice Ministry officials to visit counterparts in the Chinese technology hub of Shenzhen. Their mission, according to a member of the Venezuela delegation, was to learn the workings of China’s national identity card program.

Chávez, a decade into his self-styled socialist revolution, wanted help to provide ID credentials to the millions of Venezuelans who still lacked basic documentation needed for tasks like voting or opening a bank account. Once in Shenzhen, though, the Venezuelans realized a card could do far more than just identify the recipient.  Continue reading “Venezuela is rolling out a new ID card manufactured in China that can track, reward, and punish citizens”

The Atlantic – by Alexis C. Madrigal

As multiple devastating wildfires raged across California, a private firefighting crew reportedly helped save Kanye West and Kim Kardashian’s home in Calabasas, TMZ reported this week. The successful defense of the $50 million mansion is the most prominent example of a trend that’s begun to receive national attention: for-hire firefighters protecting homes, usually on the payroll of an insurance company with a lot at risk.

Continue reading “Kim Kardashian’s Private Firefighters Expose America’s Fault Lines”

The Globe and Mail – by Bill Curry

Canadians strongly oppose Statistics Canada’s plan to obtain personal banking records – and most would not consent to participating, according to a new Nanos Research survey.

The survey suggests the federal government is on the wrong side of public opinion in its defence of the plan, with 74 per cent of respondents either opposing, or somewhat opposing, Statscan accessing those records without permission. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his cabinet repeatedly defended it this month in the House of Commons in response to criticism from opposition MPs.   Continue reading “Canadians strongly oppose Statscan’s plan to obtain the banking records of 500,000 households: poll”

Breitbart – by Alana Mastrangelo

Fordham University’s Political Science department announced on Thursday that it had voted unanimously to adopt a new policy regarding students’ preferred names and gender pronouns. The policy mandates that professors must use a student’s “preferred” name and pronouns.

The Political Science department joins the university’s Modern Languages and Literature as the second department to adopt the new policy, which allows students to mandate that their professors and other faculty members refer to them by their preferred name and pronouns.   Continue reading “Fordham University Political Science Department Mandates Use of Students’ ‘Preferred Pronouns’”

Independent – by Eleanor Busby

More than 200 children were placed in isolation booths for a whole school week last year, a new investigation has revealed.

And around 5,000 children with special educational needs last year attended isolation rooms – which are facilities that pupils are sent to when they are removed from a classroom, BBC News found.    Continue reading “Hundreds of children spent whole school week in isolation booths, data finds”

Daily Mail

Pink’s husband Carey Hart is encouraging victims of the California wildfires to defend their properties from looters by using their Second Amendment right to bear arms.

Hart wrote on Instagram Tuesday morning: ‘It’s unfortunate that some people take advantage of others in a crisis. While the Malibu fires have been burning, some locals have been fighting off and defending their property against the fires.    Continue reading “Pink’s husband Carey Hart warns wildfire looters ‘will be shot on sight’”

The Ugly Truth

ed note–A fascinating 5 minute podcast discussion between 2 Jews discussing the biblical character Jacob (who later would be called Israel and is considered the ‘father’ of the Israelite nation) and how his trickery and dishonesty–having never been subjected to a rigorous moral examination by the followers of this peculiar cult–has colored the thinking patterns and behaviors of Jews throughout the centuries. Furthermore, as our 2 Hebraic hosts make clear, the discussion reveals how the absence of any moral examination vis a vis Jacob and his theft has led to ‘persecution’ and ‘anti-Shemitism’, but why–for the sake of revering the ‘patriarchs’–the entire biblical ordeal dealing with Jacob stealing his brother Esau’s inheritance from him via the mechanism of trickery needs to be overlooked or at the very least excused.   Continue reading “How theft, lying, and identity fraud are morally excused in Judaism”

The Register – by Rebecca Hill

Connected toy makers should make clear what data they slurp up, the UK’s Office of the Children’s Commissioner has said in a report warning of the long-term impact of amassing data on kids.

According to the report (PDF), young folk will have sent out an average of 70,000 social media posts by the time they reach 18, while snap-happy parents will have uploaded 1,300 photos and videos of their offspring online before they become teenagers. Added to that is the data gathered through the schools and healthcare systems.   Continue reading “As if connected toys weren’t creepy enough, kids’ data could be used against them in future”

Common Dreams

The Santa Susana Field Laboratory (Rocketdyne) Burned in the Woolsey Fire, Threatening Toxic Exposures From Contaminated Dust, Smoke, Ash and Soil. The Department of Toxic Substances Control Denies Risk That it Created by Delaying the Long Promised Cleanup

WASHINGTON – Last night, the Woolsey fire burned the contaminated Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL), a former nuclear and rocket engine testing site. Footage from local television showed flames surrounding rocket test stands, and the fire’s progress through to Oak Park indicates that much of the toxic site burned. Continue reading “Woolsey Fire Burns Nuclear Meltdown Site that State Toxics Agency Failed to Clean Up”

AP News

SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle is planning to review the iconic totem poles located in the city in consideration of cultural concerns.

KOMO-TV reports that the Seattle City Council on Wednesday discussed a proposal for landmarks boards and city agencies to evaluate the public art works.   Continue reading “Seattle to review totem poles for cultural sensitivity”

The Guardian

Poland’s newly appointed defence minister has been condemned for entertaining the possibility that a fraudulent document claiming to show there is a Jewish plan for world domination may be real.

Antoni Macierewicz is one of a number of controversial appointments the rightwing Law and Justice party made on Monday after securing an absolute majority for the first time in the country’s general election.   Continue reading “Polish defence minister condemned over Jewish conspiracy theory”

JTA

U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton was presented with the Defender of Israel Award at the Zionist Organization of America’s annual Brandeis Award dinner, held Sunday night in New York.

ZOA also gave its Brandeis Award to high-tech businessman and philanthropist Bob Shillman, its Woo Kai Sheng Outstanding Journalism Award to Fox television and radio host Mark Levin, and the Dr. Bob Shillman Award for Outstanding Diplomacy to U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell.   Continue reading “Zionist Organization of America gives John Bolton ‘Defender of Israel’ award”

Axios

California’s existing gun control laws are under the microscope after 12 people were killed on Wednesday at a bar in Thousand Oaks, the New York Times reports.

The big picture: California already has some of the most restrictive gun control laws in the country, but governor-elect Gavin Newsom is considering passing “even tougher laws” following Wednesday’s shooting. He said this week that he would have signed into law some gun measures that Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed in the past. Continue reading “California’s governor-elect eyes stricter gun control laws after shooting”

FEE – by Carey Wedler

Government has long been characterized as inept. It’s easy to forget that sometimes it can be downright cruel.

The latest example comes from Missouri, where the Kansas City Health Department is under fire after employees bleached food intended for the homeless because the people supplying it did not have the proper permit.   Continue reading “Giving Food to the Homeless Shouldn’t Be a Crime”