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Claim: Climate change causes premature births

Eric Worrall
Watts Up With That?
Tue, 03 Dec 2019 07:47 UTC
drooling baby
© Tognopop via Wikimedia Commons
A new study suggests climate change causes more women to go into premature labor, though the effect is diminished in warmer climates.
How Rising Temperatures Due to Climate Change are Shortening Pregnancies

BY JEFFREY KLUGER 11:00 AM EST

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To study this effect, Alan Barreca, an associate professor at UCLA's Institute of Environmental Sustainability, and economist Jessamyn Schaller of Claremont McKenna College, analyzed daily temperature and county-by-county birth rates across the U.S. in a two-decade window from 1969 to 1988. That is an admittedly old dataset, but the researchers had little choice.

"In 1989, the vital statistics system started to be more cautious about information it allowed out publicly in order to make it hard to identify individuals precisely by place or date of birth," says Barreca. "They even began masking some counties. So 1969 to 1988 gave us the most thorough information."

Comment: What spin! What's essentially an data analysis about how warmer weather can cause premature births gets spun by the researchers, and the compliant 'journalists' at Time Magazine, into 'Climate Change is Shortening Pregnancies!!!' The researchers know where the money comes from - relate your analysis back to climate change or remain unfunded. 'Temperature Affects Premature Births' doesn't sell clicks.

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Andy Ngo responds: Twitter punishes you for telling the truth

Andy Ngo
The Post Millennial
Tue, 03 Dec 2019 09:07 UTC
Andy Ngo
On "Trans Day of Remembrance" this year, numerous politicians and celebrities used the occasion to virtue signal on social media. They repeated the claim-turned-mantra from LBGT activist groups that there is an "epidemic" of trans homicides motivated by transphobia and racism in the U.S.

Chelsea Clinton, doing what the Clintons do best, weighed in vapidly on Nov. 20: "Since 2013, more than 150 trans people have been murdered in the U.S., the majority Black transgender women. On #TDoR2019, we remember and honor the lives lost, hold their loved ones in our hearts and must commit to doing all we can to end this epidemic of violence and hate."

Though the sentiment is valid, the claim she repeats is not. There is no "epidemic" of violent homicides against trans people in the U.S. How do I know? From data released by the Human Rights Campaign and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Comment: Facts are inconvenient, and largely irrelevant, to the ideologically possessed. It's unfortunate that a massive social media platform like Twitter has aligned itself with the crazy ideologues. When objective facts are deemed 'hateful', the fall of society isn't far behind.

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ISIS bride Lisa Smith arrested immediately after landing in Ireland with daughter

Michael McHughAmber Hicks
The Mirror
Sun, 01 Dec 2019 00:42 UTC
isis bride return UK
© RollingNews.ieMs Smith seen covered by a pink blanket as she disembarks from the plane
Lisa Smith, 38, originally from Dundalk in Co Louth, Ireland, was arrested as she landed with her two-year-old daughter at Dublin Airport - four years after she became radicalised and went to live in Syria

ISIS bride Lisa Smith has been arrested on suspicion of terror offences - minutes after she arrived in Ireland. The 38-year-old was detained by police after landing at Dublin Airport this morning.

Ms Smith, originally from Dundalk in Co Louth, Ireland, and her two-year-old daughter, disembarked from the aircraft at around 10.30am, where police were waiting.

Her daughter is being cared for by her family in Ireland while Ms Smith is questioned at a Dublin police station.

The mum was deported from Turkey early on Sunday and put on the first scheduled Turkish Airlines flight to to the Irish capital.

Comment: More on Ms. Smith and other 'ISIS brides'

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Man arrested after 12yo schoolboy killed, five others injured following hit-and-run outside Essex, UK school


The Telegraph, UK
Mon, 02 Dec 2019 19:38 UTC
Armed police outside house in Loughton
© Press AssociationArmed police stand outside a house in Loughton, Essex, thought to be connected to Terry Glover who is currently wanted for questioning after a serious crash near a secondary school on Monday left a 12 year old boy dead and others seriously injured.
Police have arrested 51-year-old man on suspicion of murder and attempted murder following the "deliberate" hit-and-run collision in which a 12-year-old was killed.

Four teenagers, who are thought to be pupils at Debden Park High School in Loughton, Essex, and a 53-year-old woman were also injured when the vehicle ploughed into them outside the school on Monday.

Terry Glover was arrested after armed officers with dogs had entered a property in Loughton.

Police also revealed they are investigating if it is connected to a similar incident amid claims a car tried to mount the kerb near another school in the area.

Helen Gascoyne, the school's head, said the community is "devastated" by the death of one of its students.
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Four arrested as India shocked by brutal gang-rape & murder of young vet - UPDATE: MP calls for 'public lynching' of suspects


RT
Fri, 29 Nov 2019 00:00 UTC
Priyanka Reddy, murdered Hyderabad Veterinarian
© TwitterPriyanka Reddy, a 26-year-old veterinary doctor murdered on the outskirts of Hyderabad, India.
The charred remains of a missing Indian veterinarian have been discovered discarded beneath an overpass. The young woman was apparently abducted and raped on her way to work in yet another attack that has shocked Indian society.

The 26-year-old vet, Priyanka Reddy, suffered a flat on her motorbike on her way to an animal hospital on Wednesday and was stranded in the town of Shamshabad, where a group of men offered her "help." Reddy's sister Bhavya said she had last talked to her sometime in the evening - unaware they would never speak again.

Comment: What is it with rape in India??

It's hard to tell if it's a particular cultural problem there, or if the numbers seem high because the population is so large. In any event, Indian society is expressing outrage, and vigilantes have begun taking matters into their own hands:

Man who tried to rape 4yo beaten and PARADED NAKED in India before being handed over to police

They're being encouraged by officials, one of whom has called for the suspects in the Reddy case to be publicly lynched:



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Indian rape crisis: Mother disowns accused gang-rapist son: 'Burn my son the same way she was burned'


RT
Mon, 02 Dec 2019 20:10 UTC
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© Reuters /Vinod BabuPeople shout slogans during a protest against the alleged rape and murder of a 27-year-old woman in Hyderabad, India, December 2, 2019.
The families of the four men accused of the gang rape, murder, and desecration of Priyanka Reddy in a case which has shocked the whole of India, have called for their sons to be hanged and burned for what they did.

The four accused men currently in custody for the barbaric crime are Mohammad Pasha, Jollu Shiva, Jollu Naveen, and Chintakunta Chennakeshavulu. Each of their families have faced public humiliation and intense scrutiny in the wake of the devastating crime.

"If my son is wrong, burn him the same way she was burned. Isn't the victim also the daughter of a mother? I am suffering today, I can imagine what the girl's mother is going through," Chennakesavulu's mother Jayamma said. "You hang him, kill him or shoot him dead. Will you listen if I say I want my son back? You give whatever punishment. I have a daughter too," she added while fielding questions from journalists in Telangana.

Comment: The four men have narrowly escaped being lynched by the furious public
Tens of thousands of people poured onto the streets of Hyderabad, and elsewhere across the state of Telangana, as the accused appeared before a district magistrate on Saturday. Police had to call in reinforcements to prevent lynching, escorting the suspects through the angry masses in one piece.

As the crowd grew increasingly violent, throwing slippers at the officers and refusing to let them pass, police were forced use batons to disperse the mob.


An Indian MP thought lynching would be appropriate, and said so in parliament:
Indian MP and Samajwadi Party leader Jaya Bachchan called for the public lynching of the accused rapists in the horrific Hyderabad case, which has swept the country and led to outbreaks of violence and protest.
"I think these people need to be shamed in front of the entire country. People who have not done their jobs properly. These kind of people (the accused) should be brought out in public and lynched."
Speaking at India's upper house of parliament, the Rajya Sabha, MPJaya Bachchan added: "I think the people now want the government to give a proper answer and a very definite answer. What has happened? How they have tackled it and how far justice has been done to these people?"


Further public outcry ensued when the victim's name was found to be listed on a porn site
The victim of a vicious gang-rape and murder, Priyanka Reddy, was propelled to the top of a popular porn site's trends by fake video uploaders and user searches, triggering a wave of disgust and demands it be scrubbed.

Indian and Pakistani versions of one of the world's most visited porn sites featured the name the 27-year-old woman as the number-one trend over the weekend, further sickening the people of India who are still in shock following the kidnapping, rape and brutal murder of Priyanka Reddy.


There are absolutely no indications that the rapists - who already confessed to the crime and are awaiting trial and sentencing - might have recorded their atrocities. Yet by Sunday evening, the woman's name was propelled to the top of the trends by uploaders of fake videos, abusing the viral hashtag, as well as searches by morally bankrupt visitors.

Blasting those who helped popularize the trend as latent sex abusers and rape culture enablers, hundreds vented their anger on Twitter, saying that such behavior undermines any remaining "hope in humanity." While the website has yet to address the scandal, a petition was launched urging it to remove Priyanka Reddy's name from the trends immediately.




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Economists forecast trouble: Rising food prices globally mean it's more and more expensive to eat

Michael Arnold & Anirban Nag
Bloomberg
Wed, 27 Nov 2019 16:00 UTC
more expensive to eat
Food prices are climbing fast in the world's biggest emerging markets, posing a possible inflation threat after months of dormant pressures.

Asia's two largest developing economies face a price surge for staple products -- pork in China and onions in India -- that are central to consumers' diets. In Turkey and Nigeria, supply problems are driving up costs, while United Nations data show global food prices rose at the fastest pace in October in more than two years.

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China's African Swine Fever is now a global threat

F. William Engdahl
New Eastern Outlook
Sat, 30 Nov 2019 00:00 UTC
pigs in pen
The worst outbreak of fatal African Swine Fever disease ever has devastated the world's largest pig population, that of China, over the past months. Now it is spreading to neighboring states and even threatens the United States pig herds. The political and human impact could be far worse than imagined as a de facto pandemic disease situation spreads. Globalization of agribusiness is not helping matters.

On August 3, 2018 a case of African Swine Fever (ASF) was confirmed in China's Liaoning Province. Since then despite various measures to contain the deadly disease it has spread across China where as of November, 2019 in little more than a year, nearly half of China's huge pig population has either died or been eliminated in a desperate effort to contain the disease. ASF is not deadly to humans but is 100% fatal to any pig that is infected. There is no known treatment to cure it. It can be spread by direct contact with an infected pig, body fluids, contact with equipment or clothing and via certain tick species.

The China Agriculture Ministry issued a report in August that the size of China's live pig herd had declined by a very precise 38.7% from August 2018. Industry sources suspect underreporting and put the actual number at more like 50%. In any event it is huge, and has impacted the politically sensitive measure of China food price inflation over the past year. Pork is a mainstay of the Chinese diet for meat protein and considered a national security issue. Most pigs in China are raised by small-scale farmers who face ruin now. According to reports inside China this has led many desperate small farmers to try to hide the presence of ASF in their herds, to slaughter and sell, to avoid financial ruin.
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Mafia state: Assassination attempt on Kiev city councillor kills his 3-year-old son by mistake


RT
Mon, 02 Dec 2019 12:20 UTC
Sobolev
© REUTERS / Valentyn OgirenkoInvestigators inspect Vyacheslav Sobolev's car after a gun attack.
The youngest son of a wealthy Ukrainian businessman was killed by a stray bullet when a gunman opened fire on his dad's car. The father is a member of Kiev city council, though what exactly made him a target remains unclear.

Vyacheslav Sobolev and his family were attacked on Sunday right after they left a restaurant that he owns in central Kiev. The gunman shot at the man's Range Rover at a crossroads right next to the posh establishment.

The businessman is presumed to have been the intended target, but was unharmed. Instead, the youngest of his five children, his three-year-old son Aleksandr, was hit in the head by a bullet.

Sobolev realized what had happened after his wife Inna, who was with their boy in the back seat, cried out, according to Ukrainian media reports.

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Terrorists afforded a second chance; victims get none

Graham Dockery
RT
Sat, 30 Nov 2019 16:30 UTC
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© Reuters/Simon DawsonFlowers are left at the scene of a stabbing on London Bridge
London Bridge attacker Usman Khan was a convicted terrorist and, in the eyes of the law, a "threat to the UK." So why was he released from prison early and paraded as an example of successful rehabilitation?

28-year-old Usman Khan stabbed two people to death and injured three others on Friday, before he was wrestled to the ground by members of the public and shot dead at point-blank range by police on London Bridge. Khan was wearing a fake suicide vest, and the incident is being treated as a terrorist attack by investigators.

Khan was not the archetypal US-style lone-wolf attacker, the kind who one day snaps and opens up on the public with an AR-15. Instead, he was a hate preacher and hardened terrorist who should never have been allowed back on the streets.

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