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British VC war hero: "Worst travel experience of my life" after he was held up by US border officials during Donald Trump's 'Muslim ban'

Mirror
Sun, 05 Feb 2017 09:21 UTC

Victoria Cross recipient Johnson Beharry has described his "humiliation" after he was held up by US border officials during Donald Trump's 'Muslim ban' .

The Iraq war hero arrived at New York's JFK airport hours after the president ordered travel restrictions on January 27.

Long delays at immigration meant he missed a veterans' event where he was due to be a guest of honor.

Beharry, who was injured in the conflict in 2004, said he faced a wait of nearly three hours to reach the border where his passport was further scrutinised.

The 37-year-old told the Sun on Sunday he suspected he had been viewed with suspicion because of his travel to Iraq and his appearance.

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HRW report: Saudi repression of peaceful activists at alarming high level

RT
Mon, 06 Feb 2017 16:26 UTC

A new HRW report documents an alarming rise in Saudi Arabia's allegedly politically-motivated persecution of dissidents, while detailing the cases of four activists either jailed or sentenced at the beginning of 2017.

The report says that a rise in allegedly politically-motivated arrests that began in 2011 has seen at least 20 dissenters receive severe punishments comparable to man-slaughter sentences in the West - 10 to 15 years imprisonment. The charges they have faced all seem to involve being disloyal to the king, in one form or another - "breaking allegiance with the ruler" and "participating in a protest" are some examples cited by HRW.

Comment: More on the US and Saudi "special relationship"

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Desistance: The missing piece in the conversation about 'transgender kids'

Jesse Singal
NY Mag
Mon, 06 Feb 2017 13:33 UTC

transgender kids children gender identity

As anyone who has read much about the subject can attest, the discussion about kids with gender dysphoria — that is, discomfort with their body and the feeling that they should have been born the other sex, or that they are the other sex — can get extremely heated and tricky. Much of the controversy stems from questions of age: How young is too young to help a child socially transition — that is, to change their name and pronoun, and possibly the way they present themselves? To prescribe them cross-sex hormones to begin the process of physically transitioning?

For children with persistent gender dysphoria who are approaching adolescence, current best practice is to prescribe them so-called puberty blockers. Delaying the onset of puberty both forestalls the sometimes very uncomfortable experience of a child going through puberty in a body they aren't comfortable in, and buys them and their families time to figure out what to do. Sometimes, this eventually leads to the prescription of cross-sex hormones, and sometimes it leads to surgery after that.

Comment: Further reading: How Transgender Activists Got a Leading Psychologist Fired

Fukushima radiation levels soar to a record level as the media labels it a 'conspiracy theory'

Claire Bernish
The Free Thought Project
Mon, 06 Feb 2017 16:04 UTC

Radiation levels inside Fukushima Number 2 have reached astronomical levels — experts describe the 530 sieverts per hour as "unimaginable" — yet the political establishment and its corporate media mouthpiece insist on deeming those concerned about the catastrophe 'conspiracy theorists.'

March 11, 2011, saw a massive undersea earthquake spawn an equally formidable tsunami, and — as the world watched in horror — the wall of water slammed into the Japanese coast, knocking Tokyo Electric Power Company-operated Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant offline.

Anyone who watched the cataclysmic situation unfold on live TV surmised the dire consequences of having situated a nuclear facility in one of the world's most active fault zones — and on the Pacific coast — but the cost in radioactive impact of the disaster has yet to be fully assessed.

That, for one, concerns Tepco's notorious penchant for underreporting and misrepresenting the fiasco that has been the cleanup effort; and, for another, the unrelenting campaign to label anyone rightly concerned about the extent of damage a tinfoil hat-wearing lunatic.

Both of those conditions must be resolved — particularly with the discovery of astonishing radiation levels present in the Number 2 reactor — because the world deserves the truth about the catastrophe and to not be denounced when expressing fears information about Fukushima might not be as innocuous as we've been told.

Comment: Tepco admits Fukushima clean-up could take up to 40 years to complete

Please don't visit: 41% of Ukrainians have US visas rejected

Mark Nicholas
Russia Insider
Mon, 06 Feb 2017 15:49 UTC

Ukrainians you're great guys but please don't visit. That seems to be Uncle's Sam message to Europe's poorest country.

While Washington is happy to "fight the Russians" (as they imagine it) to the last Ukrainian, it is not very eager to have them wandering around the States.

New statistics by the US Immigration for 2016 show that fully 41 percent of applications from Ukrainians for a US tourism or business visa are rejected.

Disgusting sexual predators: Over 4,000 children alleged victims of Catholic Church sex abuse in Australia since 1980

RT
Mon, 06 Feb 2017 14:36 UTC

More than 4,000 children, mostly boys, were allegedly sexually abused by Catholic priests in Australia over decades, an investigation says, adding that since the 1950s some 7 percent of priests in the country were alleged perpetrators.

The report was released on Monday by the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.

The commission will resume its public hearing into the current policies of the Catholic Church on Tuesday.

The investigation analyzed all types of claims of sexual abuse, including against former priests, "religious brothers or sisters, or any other person employed in or appointed to a voluntary position by a Catholic Church authority."

"Between January 1980 and February 2015, 4,444 people alleged incidents of child sexual abuse made to 93 Catholic Church authorities. These claims related to over 1,000 separate institutions," the report says.

Team US track and field athlete cleared of doping after 'contaminated meat' defense

RT
Mon, 06 Feb 2017 12:35 UTC

Team USA distance runner Fernando Cabada has been cleared of doping after the United States Doping Agency (USADA) ruled he had ingested banned drug clenbuterol by eating contaminated meat.

Track and field athlete Cabada, who competed at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka, Japan, tested positive for trace amounts of clenbuterol as the result of an out-of-competition urine sample he provided on December 6, 2016.

However, after an investigation that gathered evidence from Cabada and reviewed the athlete's whereabouts and dietary habits, USADA adjudged Cabada to have ingested clenbuterol due to the presence of the substance in contaminated meat.

Clenbuterol is an anabolic agent prohibited at all times under the USADA protocol for Olympic and Paralympic Movement Testing, the United States Olympic Committee National Anti-Doping Policies, and the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).

Evidence from laboratory reports also demonstrated very low parts per billion concentrations of the prohibited substance in Cabada's urine sample.

Flint, MI: Active shooter threat closes Mott Community College

RT
Mon, 06 Feb 2017 14:35 UTC

Mott Community College in Flint, Michigan, has been closed due to what the college is calling an "active shooter threat," it tweeted.

The threat was made in the morning, prompting the closure until 1pm local time, according to the report.

The police are handling the situation at the college campus, reported local channel WJRT.

The college has several campuses, with the main one affected by the alert boasting a student body of about 8,000.

"Continue to check email, social media and the college web site for updates before traveling to campus locations," the college said on its Facebook page.

Italian 'orgy & pimping' priest faces defrocking

RT
Mon, 06 Feb 2017 14:19 UTC

An Italian Catholic priest - who is at the center of a scandal alleging he staged orgies, had up to 30 lovers and produced home porn videos - will most likely lose his job regardless of an investigation's findings, the Bishop of Padua said.

The scandal involving Father Andrea Contin, a 48-year-old priest at the church of San Lazzaro in Padua, broke in December 2016. Since then media have released some very unholy details of his clerical life.

"I am incredulous and pained by the accusations [against Contin]," Padua's bishop, Claudio Cipolla, said at a press conference on Thursday, as cited by the Local. He added that his position was like "a father of a son who has fallen into disgrace."

How Transgender Activists Got a Leading Psychologist Fired

Jesse Singal
NY Mag
Mon, 06 Feb 2017 13:33 UTC

© Jim Ross/The New York Times
Dr. Kenneth Zucker, a psychologist, is pictured at the Center for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto in 2006. Zucker encourages children to be content with their gender.

On paper, Dr. Kenneth Zucker isn't the sort of person who gets suddenly and unceremoniously fired. For decades, the 65-year-old psychologist had led the Child Youth and Family Gender Identity Clinic (GIC), in Toronto, one of the most well-known clinics in the world for children and adolescents with gender dysphoria — that is, the feeling that the body they were born with doesn't fit their true gender identity. Zucker had built up quite a CV during his time leading the clinic: In addition to being one of the most frequently cited names in the research literature on gender dysphoria and gender-identity development, and the editor of the prestigious journal Archives of Sexual Behavior, he took a leading role helping devise diagnostic and treatment guidelines for gender dysphoric and transgender individuals. He headed the group which developed the DSM-5's criteria for its "gender dysphoria" entry, for example, and also helped write the most recent "standards of care" guidelines for the World Professional Association for Transgender Health — one of the bibles for clinicians who treat transgender and gender-dysphoric patients.

An impressive career, yes, but it's doubtful any of this gave him much comfort on December 15. That was when he was called in from vacation for an 8:30 a.m. meeting with his employer, the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), one of the largest mental health and addiction research hospitals in Canada. Given the long-brewing investigation of his clinic by the hospital, it's unlikely Zucker was feeling optimistic about what awaited him in downtown Toronto.

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Society's Child

British VC war hero: "Worst travel experience of my life" after he was held up by US border officials during Donald Trump's 'Muslim ban'

HRW report: Saudi repression of peaceful activists at alarming high level

Desistance: The missing piece in the conversation about 'transgender kids'

Fukushima radiation levels soar to a record level as the media labels it a 'conspiracy theory'

Please don't visit: 41% of Ukrainians have US visas rejected

Disgusting sexual predators: Over 4,000 children alleged victims of Catholic Church sex abuse in Australia since 1980

Team US track and field athlete cleared of doping after 'contaminated meat' defense

Flint, MI: Active shooter threat closes Mott Community College

Italian 'orgy & pimping' priest faces defrocking

How Transgender Activists Got a Leading Psychologist Fired

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