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British hospital allegedly denied rape claim because perpetrator was transgender

Zachary Evans
National Review
Tue, 20 Dec 2022 23:14 UTC
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© Rafael Marchante/ReutersA medical staff member rests leaning against a wall in an intensive care unit, where patients suffering from the coronavirus are treated, at the Santa Maria hospital in Lisbon, Portugal. April 9, 2020.
In a speech to the House of Lords on Thursday, a British politician alleged that a hospital denied a female patient's claim that she had been raped because the alleged attacker was transgender.

Emma Nicholson, the Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne, did not name the hospital where the alleged incident took place, or give the identity of the victim. No further information on the alleged incident has been publicly reported.

The woman who said she was raped "naturally reported it to police," Nicholson told fellow members of the House of Lords. "The police spoke to the hospital, and the hospital informed police that there was no male in the hospital, therefore the rape could not have happened."

Nicholson told parliament's upper chamber that "it has taken nearly a year for the hospital to agree that actually there was a male on the ward and yes this rape happened," and this only because of evidence captured on CCTV footage.

Comment: A terrible situation, if true.

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Stanford language guide warns against saying 'American'

Jennifer Kabbany
The College Fix
Tue, 20 Dec 2022 22:45 UTC
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A 13-page language guide at Stanford University warns against, among many things, using the word "Americans" because the term "often refers to people from the United States only, thereby insinuating that the US is the most important country in the America."

"Americans" is one of dozens of words and phrases listed in the "Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative," which came under scrutiny this week after it was brought to light by The Wall Street Journal on Monday.

The university hid the guide behind a password after it started getting media attention, but the Journal saved a copy.

Its editorial scorched the university for the guide, which editors argued is so "stupid" — one of the words on the naughty list — it's hard to believe it's not satire:
You can't "master" your subject at Stanford any longer; in case you hadn't heard, the school instructs that "historically, masters enslaved people." And don't dare design a "blind study," which "unintentionally perpetuates that disability is somehow abnormal or negative, furthering an ableist culture." Blind studies are good and useful, but never mind; "masked study" is to be preferred. Follow the science.

"Gangbusters" is banned because the index says it "invokes the notion of police action against 'gangs' in a positive light, which may have racial undertones." Not to beat a dead horse (a phrase that the index says "normalizes violence against animals"), but you used to have to get a graduate degree in the humanities to write something that stupid.

Comment: Bad words: California colleges push students to purge 'harmful' phrases like 'brown bag lunch'

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Bad words: California colleges push students to purge 'harmful' phrases like 'brown bag lunch'

Susannah Luthi
The Washington Free Beacon
Tue, 20 Dec 2022 21:49 UTC
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If you've ever used the phrases "brown bag lunch" or "long time, no see," congratulations: You're a racist, according to Stanford University.

That's the judgment of the university's IT Department, which is rolling out its "Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative," an effort to purge "potentially harmful terms" from the university's websites. The guide cautions that the phrase "blind study" is "ableist" and that saying "balls to the wall" inappropriately "attributes personality traits to anatomy."


Comment: The over-adjusted need something to mask their lack of technical skills. What better way of doing that than making technical skills secondary to thought policing.


Stanford isn't alone in its linguistic purge. Down the coast, California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo warns incoming students against saying "father and mother" or "boyfriend and girlfriend," according to a set of instruction slides for student orientation leaders obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. Suggested alternatives to mother and father include "supporter," while the university prefers "partner, beloved or lover" to boyfriend and girlfriend.

Universities and other elite institutions have increasingly embraced "woke" language in a bid to appear progressive. The Biden administration referred to mothers as "birthing people" in its 2022 budget proposal. Stanford is one of several colleges that urge students to use the term "Latinx" to describe Spanish-speaking people, even though most Hispanic people disavow the term.

Comment: In trying to fix society, these insufferable idiots are leading the way to societal collapse.

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CBC ordered to pay $1.7 million in damages over dishonest coverage

Mark Slapinski
Toronto 99
Sat, 18 Jun 2022 00:00 UTC
CBC broadcast
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The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) was ordered to pay almost $1.7 million in damages to a financial advisor after a Manitoba judge found that the network defamed him.

Kenneth Wayne Muzik, a former financial advisor based in Manitoba, may be $1.7 million richer after winning a hefty judgement in a defamation case.

Starting in June 2012, CBC broadcast two news stories and published several articles on its website that painted Muzik as a disreputable and dishonest financial advisor. The stories centered around a man named William Worthington, who said he felt cheated by Muzik. Worthington claimed he experienced "profound regret" after investing his retirement money into Muzik's investment portfolio.

The claims published by CBC hurt Muzik's reputation so badly he took the broadcaster to court for defamation. Muzik claimed he lost revenue due to lost clients.

The judge ruled in Muzik's favor, writing he was "satisfied" that the stories were defamatory and the CBC had "failed to establish it can escape liability through any possible defence available to it."

The judge raised concerns about the objectivity and integrity of Gosia Sawicka, the journalist that authored the story.
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Musk criticizes media silence on US migrant crisis


RT
Tue, 20 Dec 2022 11:17 UTC
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© John Moore/Getty ImagesVenezuelan immigrants across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas • December 19, 2022
Elon Musk has blasted the lack of media coverage of the US border crisis after footage of an overcrowded processing center in Texas was uploaded to Twitter. Musk's comment comes as the southern part of the country has seen a mass influx of illegal migrants over the past year.

The clip was captured by Republican Texas congressman Tony Gonzales and published on Twitter by FOX News correspondent Bill Melugin. The video shows hundreds of migrants, including women and children, lying on the floor of the facility covered with what appear to be aluminum space blankets. Gonzales told the outlet that on Friday, when the video was recorded, the Border Patrol Central Processing Center in El Paso was holding some 4,600 migrants in federal custody, well above the facility's official maximum capacity of only 1,040.

Musk responded to Melugin's tweet by asking why most media outlets are choosing to stay silent about the issue despite Border Patrol agents becoming increasingly overwhelmed by the influx of migrants across the US-Mexico border.

"Why do so few report about the millions of people crossing the border?" Musk questioned.

Comment: Only cheap labor and election results matter.

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Gas price cap may worsen EU energy crisis - Bloomberg


RT
Tue, 20 Dec 2022 18:45 UTC
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© Sputnik / Alexey Vitvitsky
A price cap on gas that the EU agreed upon this week may trigger a deeper energy crisis and expose the bloc to supply shortages, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday.

The so-called "market correction mechanism" aimed at protecting EU businesses and households from "excessively high gas prices" could in reality encourage demand and lead to an even worse scarcity of gas supplies in Europe, analysts from Golden Sachs said in a report on Monday, cited by Bloomberg.

Growing demand would put a squeeze on global supply and may force EU authorities to ration gas in the worst-case scenario, according to the outlet. EU interventions in the energy sector may also expose the region to stronger competition from Asia as demand in China recovers with the easing of Covid restrictions.
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Intelligence and attitudes to climate change

Noah Carl
Daily Sceptic
Tue, 20 Dec 2022 18:04 UTC
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© PTICyclonic storm Kyarr is seen in the Arabian Sea in Ocotober 2019in
Based on how the issue is often framed in the media, you might assume that people of higher intelligence would be more likely to take the 'alarmist' position in climate change: that climate change is a serious problem and it's caused mostly by human activity.

After all, it is said that there's an overwhelming scientific consensus supporting the 'alarmist' position. And you'd expect that people of higher intelligence would be more likely to share the views of scientists.

However, that's not what a recent study found.
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Mariupol residents on the horrors of war and the city's restoration: 'I was nearly shot for not knowing Ukrainian'

Yuri Mironov
RT
Tue, 20 Dec 2022 17:24 UTC
Mariupol
© RT/Yuri MironovA Mariupol street
A report from a Russian city that endured fierce battles and is now coming back to life

Active fighting in Mariupol began on February 24, 2022 - the first day of Russia's military operation. It ended in late May, when the last fighters of the neo-Nazi battalion 'Azov', who were holding a line of defense at the Azovstal plant, finally surrendered.

In three months of fierce combat, most residential buildings were damaged or destroyed. The statistics have been confirmed by hundreds of frightening pictures of the nearly-ruined city, which were seen by the whole world. Ruined homes, broken roads, and destroyed infrastructure form a recognizable image of present-day Mariupol. And yet, thousands of people still live in the city. How do the locals feel about the war and life there today and has the city managed to recover in six months of 'peaceful' life? RT's correspondent tried to find out.
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British airways 'technical issue' delays long haul flights

James Sillars
Sky News
Tue, 20 Dec 2022 10:51 UTC
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The airline, no stranger to an IT glitch, says it has now restored key flight plan systems that failed as the Christmas rush gets underway.

British Airways has apologised to customers after suffering "a technical issue" with its flight planning systems that has affected flights departing the US and elsewhere globally ahead of Christmas.

BA said it had fixed the glitch, first experienced overnight, that had grounded many long haul services ahead of scheduled departures and left many passengers complaining via social media.

Comment: There was another issue in June with staff shortages, due to lockdown layoffs, blamed, and that led to Heathrow airport's airlines cancelling flights as well as summer bookings - just what is going on?

Whist these issues could simply be a sign of a failing company, it's notable that it comes amidst a concerted effort by the establishment to restrict travel more generally.

Schipol one of Europe's busiest airports, announced it aims to restrict the number of flights it services to 'reduce air pollution', and, if the tyrannical attack on farmers in The Netherlands is anything to go by, it's likely that these travel lockdowns - because that's basically what they are - will be rolled out to the rest of Europe.

And that indeed appears to be what's happening; because in France they also announced restrictions to air travel, however this was done under the guise of 'reducing short haul flights where the journey could be instead done by train'.

Meanwhile over in Oxford, UK, the council announced plans to restrict car travel - the '15 minute city', whereby residents are restricted as to where they can travel by car, and how often, all in a bid to 'save the environment', of course.

The result of all of these sinister maneuvers is that the choices available for freedom of movement are increasingly limited, and, without a democratic mandate, they're no longer considered a human right, but a privilege granted to citizens by the government.

See also: London airports order military-grade anti-drone equipment worth "several million"



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CNN CEO blasts the 'uninformed vitriol' of the left

Alex Timothy
The Post Millennial
Mon, 19 Dec 2022 00:01 UTC
chris licht CNN
Chris Licht, the man who has been at the helm of CNN since February 2022, made some surprising proclamations during a wide-ranging interview with the New York Times.


Comment: See also:

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