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Campus speech codes endangered by Supreme Court trademark ruling according to legal experts

Ethan Berman
College Fix
Fri, 28 Jun 2019 10:00 UTC

'The same revolutionary impact' as Title IX complaints on campus rape claims

The fight against restrictive college speech codes might have received new ammunition from an unlikely pair: trademark law and fashion.

The Supreme Court struck down the U.S Patent and Trademark Office's prohibition of "immoral or scandalous" names in trademarks. The 6-3 majority opinion by Justice Elena Kagan took issue with the Lanham Act for making viewpoint-based determinations, and thus infringing on First Amendment rights.

A law professor and civil-liberties group separately told The College Fix that the decision in favor of fashion company FUCT is a boon for lawsuits against campus speech codes, bias response teams and other college policies that punish the content of speech.

John Banzhaf of George Washington University went so far as to claim that the ruling - in combination with President Trump's executive order on campus free speech - could have "the same revolutionary impact that Title IX complaints have had on allegations of sexual assault."

Comment: See also:

Italy in shock as mayor, medics & others caught brainwashing kids to sell them into foster care

RT
Sat, 29 Jun 2019 21:29 UTC

Italians are reeling from the revelation that a crime ring, which includes a mayor, doctors and social workers, had been brainwashing children to say their parents abused them, so as to easily sell them on to foster families.

So far eighteen people, including the mayor of the town of Bibbiano, near Reggio Emilia in northern Italy, have been arrested.

They were suspected of working together to brainwash the kids, who were taken from disadvantaged families under false pretexts, into believing they'd been abused at home. This was later used as a justification to seize the children and, basically, to sell them to foster parents at a high price.

The psychologists at the Hansel and Gretel Association in the town of Moncalieri, near Turin, have used a variety of bizarre techniques to achieve their sinister goal.

Comment: Yet another story of officials caught trafficking children. Although, unlike elsewhere, at least Italy is attempting to bring the criminals to justice:

Croydon stabbing: Baby fights for life after pregnant mother is stabbed to death

Asher Mcshane
Evening Standard
Sun, 30 Jun 2019 08:16 UTC

A baby was fighting for life in hospital today after being delivered in an emergency procedure after the mother was stabbed to death in south London.

The victim, named as Kellymary Fauvrelle, 26, was stabbed to death in the "horrific incident" at an address in Raymead Avenue, Thornton Heath, Croydon, at around 3.30am on Saturday.

Her child was delivered after the stabbing and is said to be in a critical condition today.

Scotland Yard officers were called to reports of a woman in cardiac arrest at the house, where they found Kellymary - who was eight months pregnant, with stab injuries.

Greening the planet: Glencore cobalt mine in DR Congo collapses, killing 43 miners

Al Jazeera
Fri, 28 Jun 2019 21:40 UTC

Two galleries collapsed in an open-pit mine owned by Swiss mining giant Glencore, killing artisanal miners.

The number of artisanal miners killed by a landslide at a copper and cobalt mine owned by Swiss-based mining giant Glencore in southern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has risen to 43 and could climb further as the search for missing workers continues, local officials have said.

The accident occurred on Thursday in the Kolwezi area of Lualaba province when two galleries caved in at the KOV open-pit mine operated by the Kamoto Copper Company (KCC), a subsidiary of Glencore.

The original death toll was estimated at 36 but rose through Thursday evening and into Friday as more bodies were uncovered, the officials told Reuters news agency.

"We think that other bodies are still under the rubble," said Joseph Yav Katshung, the director of cabinet for the governor of Lualaba, Richard Muyej.

Comment: Artisanal miners.

That's right up there with 'extraordinary rendition'.

It's slave labor. And their deaths are the ugly reality beneath all the idealistic nonsense about saving the planet by running everything on batteries...

Leaders of Evangelical Covenant Church expel Minnesota church, defrock pastors for violating ban on same-sex marriage

Associated Press
Sat, 29 Jun 2019 23:27 UTC

© AP Photo/Jeff Baenen
First Covenant Church is shown June 29, 2019, in downtown Minneapolis. Leaders of the Evangelical Covenant Church voted June 28, to expel First Covenant and defrock its lead pastor, the Rev. Dan Collison, for permitting gay marriage. First Covenant was a founding member of the 134-year-old denomination.

Leaders of the Evangelical Covenant Church voted to defrock a Minneapolis pastor and expel his church for permitting gay marriage.

The Rev. Dan Collison had his credentials removed by a 77% vote at the Evangelical Covenant Church's annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, on Friday night.

Leaders also voted to expel Collison's First Covenant Church, a founding member of the 134-year-old denomination.

Collison, who became a pastor at First Covenant in downtown Minneapolis in 2009, told the Star Tribune he was "not surprised" but "saddened" after he was voted out.

"I feel grounded in the path we have chosen. I feel grateful for the pastors and churches who stood up for us. I feel compassion to those caught in the middle," Collison said.

The ECC says First Covenant is free to keep operating as a church and can keep its church building. First Covenant says Collison will continue serving as lead pastor.

Comment: 'The Overhauling of Straight America' - A 1987 blueprint for transforming social values

Broke Gen X to inherit cost of Gen Z's unrealistic dreams

Karol Markowicz
NY Post
Sat, 29 Jun 2019 19:43 UTC

As Democratic candidate after Democratic candidate continues to find things to make "free," there's the inevitable question of who will pay for it. Free health care, free college, reparations for African Americans, back taxes for married gay people, canceling student loans - there are few proposals among the Democratic presidential field that don't involve someone paying up.

While the candidates defer to a generic "the rich" or "the millionaires and billionaires," it's actually Generation X, currently around 40- to 54-years-old, who is poised to pick up the tab for all the "free" stuff.

Every proposal to make something "free" will involve plans to raise taxes and is aimed directly at the pockets of that generation. With the boomer generation largely retired, it's Generation X who will see their taxes spike if plans to cancel all student loans or create Medicare for All see fruition.

In a time of obsessive "fairness," this seems pretty unfair.

Tucker Carlson: The Democratic Party has broken from reality, doesn't care what is true

Tucker Carlson
Fox News
Fri, 28 Jun 2019 00:00 UTC

The Democratic Party went completely insane on Wednesday. That's been happening for a while, of course -- insanity is a process.

But Wednesday night at the first Democratic primary debate of the 2020 season, they made it official. Elite Democrats have permanently broken with reality. They no longer care about what's true, what's possible, even what's real. They live in a kind of dream-state, a place of fantasy punctuated by howls of self-righteousness.

Julian Castro was an actual cabinet secretary in the Obama administration. It was only a couple of years ago. He explained at the debate that men who get pregnant have the moral right to taxpayer-funded abortions. I'm not joking.

Julian Castro, Democratic presidential candidate:

I don't believe only in reproductive freedom, I believe in reproductive justice ... And you know, what that means is that just because a woman or let's also not forget someone in the trans-community. A trans-female is poor. It doesn't mean they shouldn't have the right to exercise that right to choose.

And so they cheered. Behold, late empire liberalism in full flower. Who exactly is the constituency for Castro's idea? Men dressed as women who get pregnant -- that's the constituency.

Israel: New rules - shoot protesters while they rest

Maureen Clare Murphy
The Electronic Intifada
Fri, 28 Jun 2019 00:00 UTC

Shooting "key instigators" during unarmed protests in Gaza when they're resting. Opening fire on teenagers attempting to make their way to pray in Jerusalem when they pose no danger. This is the routine, unjustified and criminal use of live fire against Palestinians by Israeli occupation forces.

An Israeli military document states that snipers are permitted to shoot Palestinians who it determines to be "key instigators" or "key rioters" during Great March of Return protests in Gaza. The military defines "key instigators" as individuals who "direct or order activities" during the protest, such as "tactical placement" and setting tires on fire. "Key rioters" are defined as those whose behavior "provide the conditions for which mass breach or infiltration" into Israel from Gaza may occur.

The Israeli military document claims that snipers are permitted to "shoot a key instigator" as he "temporarily moves away from the crowd or rests before continuing his activity." The document presents such actions as an example of "restraint" and suggests that such precautions reduce the risk of "hitting someone else."

Australian court rules marine scientist's sacking by James Cook University over climate change research critique is 'unlawful'

Talissa Siganto and Tim Swanston
ABC News
Tue, 16 Apr 2019 18:38 UTC

Peter ridd james cook university climate change

A marine scientist was unlawfully sacked by James Cook University (JCU) in north Queensland for criticising his colleagues' research on the impacts of climate change on the Great Barrier Reef, the Federal Circuit Court of Australia has ruled.

Peter Ridd was dismissed by James Cook University (JCU) last year after being issued with a number of warnings for comments he made about a lead coral researcher and for telling Sky TV that organisations like the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) could "no longer be trusted".

Court documents said Dr Ridd described his colleague in an email as "not having any clue about the weather", and that he "will give the normal doom science about the Great Barrier Reef".

Dr Ridd said in another email that JCU, along with other universities, were "Orwellian in nature".

Comment: From earlier reporting on Professor Ridd in 2018:

JCU argues the sacking of Peter Ridd had nothing to do with his questioning of the science of climate change or the decline of the Great Barrier Reef, but rather the manner in which he made his arguments.

"Peter has always been allowed to conduct himself in relation to what our expectations of academic freedom are, it's the fact that he has broken the code of conduct on many occasions," said Professor Gordon.

Peter Ridd received an official warning in 2016 for critical comments he made about a colleague in an email he sent to a journalist.

But he was charged with the sackable offence of "serious misconduct" last August, after he told Sky TV that "scientific organisations like the Australian Institute of Marine Science and the ARC Centre for Coral Reef Studies can no longer be trusted".

Peter Ridd still stands by his statement.

"There's no doubt that what I said was a robust thing, and it would have upset people - I don't dispute that - but the thing is, if you say something important it's likely to upset people," he told 7.30.

Priorities: Swedish youths facing housing shortage - migrants given preference instead

Chris Tomlinson
Breitbart
Sat, 29 Jun 2019 17:44 UTC

A survey from the Swedish National Board of Housing, Building, and Planning has shown that while young people are struggling to find homes, half of the local governments give new migrants priority.

The survey, which saw data gathered from 290 Swedish municipalities, highlighted the fact that young Swedes are having an increasingly difficult time finding housing with 230 saying they had a shortage for young people, Nyheter Idag reports.

Fewer municipalities, 221, said they had a shortage of housing for new migrants, and 135 said they had given preference to new migrants for housing, compared to just 12 who said they had given young people priority for homes in their areas.

The National Board of Housing, Building, and Planning wrote that the figures were "alarmingly high, and they show a very strained situation for young people in the housing market".

One municipality defended the move to prioritise new migrants, saying, "It would be desirable for the newly arrived to get leases first, so that they don't have to move around" and claiming that it would also aid in integration.

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Society's Child

Campus speech codes endangered by Supreme Court trademark ruling according to legal experts

Italy in shock as mayor, medics & others caught brainwashing kids to sell them into foster care

Croydon stabbing: Baby fights for life after pregnant mother is stabbed to death

Greening the planet: Glencore cobalt mine in DR Congo collapses, killing 43 miners

Leaders of Evangelical Covenant Church expel Minnesota church, defrock pastors for violating ban on same-sex marriage

Broke Gen X to inherit cost of Gen Z's unrealistic dreams

Tucker Carlson: The Democratic Party has broken from reality, doesn't care what is true

Israel: New rules - shoot protesters while they rest

Australian court rules marine scientist's sacking by James Cook University over climate change research critique is 'unlawful'

Priorities: Swedish youths facing housing shortage - migrants given preference instead

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