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Texas mother loses appeal to gain power to transition her young son into a girl

Shane Trejo
Big League Politics
Thu, 30 Jan 2020 00:00 UTC
The courts have rebuked this deranged woman yet again.

James and Jeffery Younger
James Younger with his father Jefferey.
A Dallas, Texas judge denied the appeal of Dr. Anne Georgulas to reinstate an October ruling that would have given her the power to transition her 7-year-old son's gender into a girl against his father's wishes.

The case of James Younger gained national attention after James' father Jeffery Younger waged a campaign over social media to save his son. The judge ruled that both parents will have a say in medical decisions for their son, which may prevent the gender transition planned by his mother.

Georgulas had challenged the ruling that was made by Judge Kim Cooks last year to give both parents joint decision-making abilities regarding their son. Judge Mary Brown rebuked her request, and Cooks' ruling is now an official order. Georgulas' lawyer said she would attempt another motion to make a new trial to give her client control over James.

Comment: Previously:

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Dr. Jordan Peterson says the government should get out of sex education altogether

Jonathon Van Maren
The Bridgehead
Wed, 08 Jan 2020 14:32 UTC
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Late last year, Dr. Jordan Peterson sat down with the Scottish Catholic Observer for a wide-ranging discussion on the culture wars raging across the West. When the interviewer brought up the censorship increasingly inflicted on pro-life groups in Europe, Peterson was unequivocal: "That's just beyond belief to me, whether you are pro-life or pro-choice. If you think the pro-life voice should be silenced there is something seriously wrong with you. I don't care what you say about the abortion debate, there is something to be said on both sides at minimum so to stile that debate is part of this totalitarian leftism that I think is reprehensible and dangerous."

What I found most interesting were Peterson's comments about the debates on sex education currently taking place across Canada and other jurisdictions throughout the West. One of the reasons these debates generate so much heat is due to the fact that we no longer possess any cultural consensus on sexuality, and thus there is virtually no way to implement state-sanctioned sex education without alienating several groups of people who will strongly disagree. LGBT activists are simply never going to agree with Christians, Sikhs, Orthodox Jews, or Muslims on sexuality, and when they claim the right to teach their ideology to other people's children, backlash is inevitable and necessary.

"I think we are probably near the point where the state should get out children's sex education," Peterson noted, "because there is no cultural consent as to what it should be, so I think that should devolve back to the family." For obvious reasons, I believe that the only viable solution to this cultural chasm that preserves parental rights and freedom of religion is to do precisely what Peterson says, and I'm glad to hear that he holds this position and is willing to articulate it publicly.

Comment: Just have a brief look at what sex education has morphed into in recent years:

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Snakes in suits: Are psychopaths running the world?

Alanna Ketler
Collective Evolution
Sat, 25 Jan 2020 00:01 UTC
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Often when we think of the word psychopath, we think of deranged serial killers that are hopefully locked up in prison for life. While there are many psychopaths who kill for reasons that are unfathomable to most of us and who are indeed in prison, there is an even greater number roaming free in our society and often using their condition to their advantage in any way possible. In fact, it is very likely that you know some - they might even be your colleagues.

Most of us do not know or work with any serial killers, at least not that we are aware of. So, what exactly is a psychopath and how can we define them? The dictionary definition is as follows:
"A person suffering from a chronic mental disorder with abnormal or violent social behavior."

Comment: One important thing to realize is that it is incredibly difficult to identify a psychopath. Hare himself has said that, even after studying them for decades, he is still repeatedly fooled by efficient psychopaths. Let this serve as a warning against 'spot-the-psychopath' type activities. It may be that anyone you're sure is a psychopath is simply a damaged human being.

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Russian prosecutors drop murder charges against sisters who stabbed their abusive father


RFE/RL
Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:47 UTC
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Maria (left) and Angelina Khachaturyan, sisters who admitted killing their father, are shown in court in June.
Russia's Prosecutor-General's Office has ordered investigators to drop murder charges against teenage sisters accused of killing their abusive father in a closely watched case that fueled debate on the issue of domestic violence in the country.

Prosecutors on January 30 said the case of sisters Maria, Angelina, and Krestina Khachaturyan should be reclassified as self-defense, likely ending the legal case against the three, their lawyer said.

The sisters stabbed their father to death in a Moscow suburb in July 2017 after enduring what they said was constant humiliation and sexual abuse.

The three sisters confessed to using a knife and a hammer to kill their 57-year-old father, Mikhail Khachaturyan.

Comment: See also: 3 daughters stab father to death after years of alleged abuse in Moscow horror drama

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Tim Hortons pulls Beyond Meat products from Ontario and British Columbia after proving unpopular with diners

Arunima Kumar and Hilary Russ
Reuters
Wed, 29 Jan 2020 02:34 UTC
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© Facebook/Beyond Meat
Restaurant Brands International Inc's Tim Hortons said on Tuesday it has removed Beyond Meat Inc's products from its coffee and donut shops in the Canadian provinces of Ontario and British Columbia.

This comes after the coffee and breakfast chain cut Beyond Meat's burgers and sandwiches from its menu in September from all of Canada except the two provinces.

"We may offer plant-based alternatives again in the future, but we have removed it from the menu for now," said a spokeswoman for Tim Hortons.

Comment: That the plant-based faux meat products have "gained popularity" seems to be directly contradicted by the above article. Could it be that people aren't as enthusiastic about replacing real food with fake alternatives as the hype would have you believe? Fast food chains look at little else but the bottom line, so the true test of the popularity of these hyper-processed monstrosities will be whether or not they continue to be on offer beyond the initial boost of curious dabblers.

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Flashback Undoing the dis-education of Millennials

Adam J. MacLeod
New Boston Post
Thu, 09 Nov 2017 09:33 UTC
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I teach in a law school. For several years now my students have been mostly Millennials. Contrary to stereotype, I have found that the vast majority of them want to learn. But true to stereotype, I increasingly find that most of them cannot think, don't know very much, and are enslaved to their appetites and feelings. Their minds are held hostage in a prison fashioned by elite culture and their undergraduate professors.

They cannot learn until their minds are freed from that prison. This year in my Foundations of Law course for first-year law students, I found my students especially impervious to the ancient wisdom of foundational texts, such as Plato's Crito and the Code of Hammurabi. Many of them were quick to dismiss unfamiliar ideas as "classist" and "racist," and thus unable to engage with those ideas on the merits. So, a couple of weeks into the semester, I decided to lay down some ground rules. I gave them these rules just before beginning our annual unit on legal reasoning.

Here is the speech I gave them.

Comment: The article was published back in 2017, yet its essence applies even more strongly to what passes for education in the West today. See also,

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'Spring forward' to daylight saving time brings surge in deadly crashes, study

Lisa Marshall
CU Boulder Today
Fri, 31 Jan 2020 08:12 UTC
highway traffic
Fatal car accidents in the United States spike by 6% during the workweek following the "spring forward" to daylight saving time, resulting in about 28 additional deaths each year, according to new University of Colorado Boulder research.

The study, published today in the journal Current Biology, also found that the farther west a person lives in his or her time zone, the higher their risk of a deadly crash that week.

"Our study provides additional, rigorous evidence that the switch to daylight saving time in spring leads to negative health and safety impacts," said senior author Céline Vetter, assistant professor of integrative physiology. "These effects on fatal traffic accidents are real, and these deaths can be prevented."

The findings come as numerous states are considering doing away with the switch entirely amid mounting research showing spikes in heart attacks, strokes, workplace injuries and other problems in the days following the time change.

Driving tired, in the dark

For the study - the largest to date to assess the relationship between the time change and fatal motor vehicle accidents - the researchers analyzed 732,835 accidents recorded through the U.S. Fatality Analysis Reporting System from 1996 to 2017. They excluded Arizona and Indiana, where daylight saving time was not consistently observed.

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Dollars

Coronavirus outbreak: Following the money

Kit Knightly
OffGuardian
Sat, 25 Jan 2020 07:59 UTC
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The Coronavirus is still the big-ticket news item, with confirmed cases now covering 11 countries. ELEVEN!

Most of the mainstream media are doing that, saying the number of countries rather than the number of people. I suppose because it carries the implication that, somehow, everyone in all those 11 countries is under some kind of imminent threat.

As of the time of writing, the real (or at least reportedly real) numbers stand at 1407 cases, 41 deaths. Which means the mortality rate is now actually below 3%.

For comparison's sake - the death rate of the Ebola virus is 90%, Bubonic plague 40-60%, Smallpox was ~30%, and the 1918 Spanish flu between 10 and 20%. So we're hardly dealing with a big-hitter here.

Even the hysterical-nothing burger that was SARS had a (reported) death rate approaching 10%. [For more on the links between SARS and the Wuhan outbreak see John Rappoport's excellent work on the subject].

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Mexican conservationist Homero Gómez González was reported missing by his family on January 14, found dead in well

Jessica Corbett
The Mind Unleashed
Thu, 30 Jan 2020 00:00 UTC
Homero Gonzalez
Mexican conservationist Homero Gómez González was found dead Wednesday, about two weeks after he was reported missing, provoking a wave sorrow from allies and advocates worldwide as they honored his work running a butterfly sanctuary in the state of Michoacán.

"Authorities found Gómez González's body floating in a well in the community of El Soldado de Ocampo, not far from the butterfly sanctuary," according to the Washington Post. "Authorities told local media outlets that his body did not show any obvious signs of violence. But Gómez González's friends didn't have any details."

As Common Dreams reported last week, human rights advocates have expressed fears that Gómez González may have been targeted because of his activism by those involved in the local illegal logging industry, and the 50-year-old butterfly defender's family told the media that he had received threats from a criminal organization.

Gómez González was reported missing by his family on Jan. 14, a day after he attended a meeting in the village of El Soldado. BBC News noted Thursday that "more than 200 volunteers had joined the search for the environmentalist and, last week, the entire police forces of Ocampo and neighboring Angangueo were detained for questioning."
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Islamic texts permit entry of women to mosques: Indian Muslim board to Supreme court


The Hindustan Times
Wed, 29 Jan 2020 00:00 UTC
Muslim women praying
© PTI photoThe petition argued that women could only offer prayers at mosques of the Jamaat-e-Islami and Mujahid denominations but were barred from mosques under the predominant Sunni denomination.
The Muslim Personal Law Board said Muslim women were free to enter a mosque for prayers but underlined that it was not obligatory on women, unlike men, to offer Friday prayers in congregation.

Islamic texts do not prohibit entry of women into mosques and all fatwas that contradict this tenet should be ignored, the All India Muslim Personal Law Board has told the Supreme Court in an affidavit.

The Muslim Personal Law Board said Muslim women were free to enter a mosque for prayers but underlined that it was not obligatory on women, unlike men, to offer Friday prayers in congregation.
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