Society's Child

Yale graduate credits conservative values, not a victim mentality, for his success

Toni Airaksinen
Campus Reform
Tue, 29 May 2018 19:20 UTC

Rob Henderson

A recent graduate of Yale University says his conservative values helped him to succeed in college, despite a childhood spent in broken homes and foster care.

In a New York Times op-ed titled "Why Being a Foster Care Child Made Me Conservative," Yale graduate Rob Henderson argues that time in foster care made him appreciate conservative values, such as two-parent families and personal responsibility.

"The most successful people I know from disadvantaged backgrounds share my belief that responsibility matters." Tweet This

Those values, Henderson says, enabled him to avoid adopting a "victim" mentality that he believes would have caused him to give up on himself.

Henderson's conservative "cover" was blown after a classmate suggested he was a victim, to which he recounts retorting that "if someone had told me I was a victim when I was a kid, I would never have made it to the Air Force, where I served for eight years, or to Yale. I would have given up."

Escobar's Iran diary: Bracing for all-out economic war

Pepe Escobar
Asia Times
Mon, 28 May 2018 11:23 UTC

While the dogs of war bark, the Ancient - and New - Silk Road goes on forever and a civilization with a long and proud history gets on with life

The minute you set foot in the streets of Mashhad, the air smelling of saffron, a fine breeze oozing from the mountains, it hits you; you're in the heart of the Ancient Silk Road and the New Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

To the east, the Afghan border is only three hours away on an excellent highway. To the north, the Turkmenistan border is less than four hours away. To the northwest is the Caspian Sea. To the south is the Indian Ocean and the port of Chabahar, the entry point for the Indian version of the Silk Roads. The Tehran-Mashhad railway is being built by the Chinese.

A group of us - including American friends, whose visas were approved at the highest levels of the Iranian government - have gathered in Mashhad for the New Horizon Conference of independent thinkers. Right after a storm, I'm in a van on the way to the spectacular Imam Reza shrine with Alexander Dugin, which the usual suspects love to describe as "the world's most dangerous philosopher," or Putin's Rasputin.

Comment: Escobar gives a face and character to the Iranian people and offers us a superb glimpse into what is Iran.

Protests against Macron's labor reform take place in 160 cities across France

RT
Sat, 26 May 2018 18:03 UTC

Thousands took to the streets across France on Saturday to protest against President Emmanuel Macron's public-sector reforms. Protesters decried Macron's plans for massive lay-offs of workers and tax breaks for the rich.

Protesters were carrying posters bearing slogans such as "Macron, you can't buy France!" "Stop Macron!" or "Make our planet great again: Austerity, bombing of Syria, eviction of farmers, destroying the public service, pesticides for everyone." Many accused the centrist president of serving the wealthy elites, while ignoring the plight of ordinary people.

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City fines and arrests its citizens for cracked driveways, improperly stacked firewood - they're fighting back

Jack Burns
The Free Thought Project
Tue, 29 May 2018 00:00 UTC

A small town is being sued by its residents after they faced massive fines and were threatened with jail time for cracked driveways, improperly stack firewood, and overgrown vegetation.

A city has been named as a defendant in a lawsuit from residents who claim that they have received tickets and have even been threatened with arrest and sentenced to court-ordered probation for the crime of having a cracked driveway, chipped paint on their houses, and overgrown vegetation or improperly stacked firewood in their yards.

Hilda Brucker, a 25-year-resident of Doraville, said she was placed on criminal probation for "Rotted wood on house and chipping paint on fascia boards," "High weeds in backyard and ivy on tree and vines on house," and a "Driveway in a state of disrepair," according to the lawsuit against the city.

The town is being accused of setting up its own court with the city attorney acting as prosecutor and judge. Code enforcement officials, in conjunction with local law enforcement fine residents for such infractions. In essence, the town has transformed itself into a giant homeowners' association where the only major difference is that the town has the power to place code violators in jail.

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Japanese whalers slaughter 122 pregnant minke whales for 'research'

news.com.au
Tue, 29 May 2018 18:24 UTC

A 2014 image of three dead minke whales on the deck of the Japanese whaling vessel Nisshin Maru in the Southern Ocean.

© AP Photo/Tim Watters/Sea Shepherd
A 2014 image of three dead minke whales on the deck of the Japanese whaling vessel Nisshin Maru in the Southern Ocean.

Japanese whalers harpooned 122 pregnant whales in Antarctica this summer, a shocking new report reveals.

As Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk flew to Japan for a trade mission on Tuesday, a global conservation group called on her to lobby the Japanese government to end whaling.

A new International Whaling Commission (IWC) report reveals that 95 per cent of the female whales slaughtered by the Japanese were carrying calves.

The whalers killed 333 minke whales - plus 122 unborn calves - in the Southern Ocean last summer.

Skripal doctors didn't think Russian father and daughter would survive Salisbury attack

RT
Tue, 29 May 2018 18:13 UTC

Doctors who took care of the Skripals after they were poisoned by a nerve agent in the southern English city of Salisbury said they did not expect them to survive.

Staff from Salisbury District Hospital told BBC Two's Newsnight program they had little hope that former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia would recover after being poisoned with Novichok nerve agent.

"All the evidence was there that they would not survive," said Stephen Jukes, who treated the Skripals a week after they were admitted to hospital.

Lorna Wilkinson, director of nursing at the hospital, said she had feared the incident would have much graver repercussions. "When the [policeman] was admitted with symptoms, there was a real concern as to how big could this get," she said, explaining that there were fears the incident would "become all-consuming and involve many casualties."

"We really didn't know at that point," she said.

Comment: Everything about this story smells, from top to bottom. Just a small sample of the craziness:

Russian electronic warfare firm will upgrade products after studying captured US Tomahawks downed in Syria

RT
Tue, 29 May 2018 17:58 UTC

A Russian military contractor, specializing in electronic warfare, will use information gained from dissecting a US Tomahawk cruise missile, used during an attack on Syria, to boost the capabilities of its own equipment.

The missile, delivered to Russia after the tri-party night attack on Syrian government targets by the US, the UK and France in April, is of particular interest to KRET, a leading developer of electronic equipment for the Russian military, according to Vladimir Mikheev, an aide to the company's First Deputy Director Vladimir Zverev.

"Our new equipment needs to cover all spectra, optical and radio, which we found in the products of our counterparts," Mikheev told Radio Sputnik.

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Russia is winning big in US gas war in Europe

RT
Tue, 29 May 2018 17:51 UTC

There's been a lot of talk on both sides of the Atlantic about the US pivot and efforts at locking in natural as market share in Europe.

Much of this comes amid President Donald Trump's so-called American energy independence push as well as both US and several EU members thrust to wean Europe off of geopolitically charged Russian gas.

In fact, Trump has pushed for US-sourced LNG to become so much of the EU's energy security that several European states, particularly Germany, have accused the president of playing energy geopolitics, cloaking American concern for European energy security under the guise and to the benefit of US LNG producers.

NHS chief executive blames 'white privilege' for unequal BAME representation

RT
Tue, 29 May 2018 17:00 UTC

The NHS has been accused of being wrought with "white privilege" by one of its chief executives. Sarah-Jane Marsh has decided she will no longer sit on any interview panel that fails to ensure appropriate BAME representation.

BAME staff account for 18 percent of the 1.2-million-strong NHS workforce. While 27 percent occupy lower-paid roles, only five percent of them hold very senior positions.

As figures from Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Trust that reveal white people are twice as likely to be appointed, Marsh said that she will no longer sit on any interview panel that does not include an ethnic minority member.

Comment: What kind of analysis has been done and what factors have been looked at to determine that the NHS is inherently racist? Making a determination of 'unconscious bias' with regard to race based on a generalized picture just doesn't fly. Subscribing unconscious racist intentions onto interviewers as well as the reasons for how some BAME interviewees perform through identity politics measures fails to see that there is more to people than their race, be it white, black, Asian, etc. This low-resolution perspective of 'white privilege' doesn't take into account the many variable and complex factors that can be involved. In any case, it was right for Marsh to step down. She's obviously so swept up with the current of 'progressive' hysteria that she is unfit for the job.

Activist Tommy Robinson jailed for 13 months for contempt of court

RT
Tue, 29 May 2018 15:27 UTC

EDL leader-turned independent journalist Tommy Robinson was jailed for 13 months for contempt of court. Leeds Crown Court blocked the media from publishing anything about Robinson's imprisonment via reporting restrictions.

Robinson was on a suspended sentence, as he had previously been arrested for contempt of court after filming outside Canterbury Crown Court in May.

The reporting restriction had prevented the publication of any content to do with Robinson's arrest and subsequent imprisonment. The Independent and Leeds Live, however, successfully challenged the reporting restriction on Tuesday.

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Society's Child

Yale graduate credits conservative values, not a victim mentality, for his success

Escobar's Iran diary: Bracing for all-out economic war

Protests against Macron's labor reform take place in 160 cities across France

City fines and arrests its citizens for cracked driveways, improperly stacked firewood - they're fighting back

Japanese whalers slaughter 122 pregnant minke whales for 'research'

Skripal doctors didn't think Russian father and daughter would survive Salisbury attack

Russian electronic warfare firm will upgrade products after studying captured US Tomahawks downed in Syria

Russia is winning big in US gas war in Europe

NHS chief executive blames 'white privilege' for unequal BAME representation

Activist Tommy Robinson jailed for 13 months for contempt of court

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