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Woman who claims she was rushed into taking 'experimental' puberty-blocking drugs at 16 wins right to take NHS gender clinic to court in landmark case

Sophie Law
Daily Mail
Sun, 01 Mar 2020 15:48 UTC

Keira Bell, 23, (pictured outside the Royal Courts of Justice in January) started gender reassignment at the clinic when she was just 16 after she felt suicidal and asked to be called by a boy's name at school

A woman who claims she was given 'experimental' puberty-blocking drugs at 16 without being warned of the consequences is set to lead as a witness in a landmark case.

The Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust, which runs the UK's first gender clinic in London, is being sued over concerns it gave powerful drugs to children as young as 12 without proper consent.

Keira Bell, 23, started gender reassignment at the clinic when she was a teenager after she felt suicidal and asked to be called by a boy's name at school.

She was prescribed hormone blockers to halt the development of her female body after just three one-hour appointments.

But Ms Bell has now stopped transitioning and argues staff did not challenge her want to become a teenage boy.

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Chicago police shoot man at grand-state red line station after he was moving between cars

CBS
Sat, 29 Feb 2020 04:00 UTC

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The officer with her back to the camera has just drawn her gun. Seconds later, a shot is fired and the suspect runs up the escalator.

Chicago police shot a man Friday afternoon during a struggle at the Grand station on the CTA Red Line, after the officers tried to stop the man from moving between train cars. Video of the incident was posted on social media.

Deputy Police Supt. Barb West on Friday night said the officers were assigned to the mass transit unit and observed the man improperly moving between train cars, which is against city ordinance. They engaged with the suspect on the platform when the struggle ensued. The shooting is being investigated by the Civilian Office of Police Accountability and the Cook County State's Attorney.

"Due to the criminal nature of this incident, we have asked the state's attorney to respond," West said.

The officers have been placed on administrative duties. Interim Supt. Charlie Beck has been briefed and was decribed as "extremely concerned" about the incident. "We are conducting concurrent administrative and criminal investigations," West said.

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France's Louvre closed over coronavirus concerns, leaving blindsided visitors freezing outside

RT
Sun, 01 Mar 2020 23:46 UTC

France's Louvre unexpectedly kept its doors shut on Sunday, saying management is discussing the Covid-19 situation. The Twitterati were amused, unlike hundreds of people freezing in the street instead of gazing at the Mona Lisa.

To be fair to the museum, they were themselves apparently caught off guard by "ministerial instructions transmitted by the competent authorities," as a statement explained, prompting the museum to remain closed on Sunday. Three hours after the announcement, the museum said that it would not open at all on March 1, and left people in the dark regarding Monday.

Nearly 10,000 migrants 'stopped at Greek border', some have managed to slip through

RT
Sun, 01 Mar 2020 20:15 UTC

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Migrants clash with Greek police on the buffer zone Turkey-Greece border, at Pazarkule, in Edirne district, on February 29, 2020

The Greek government said almost 10,000 people were prevented from crossing into the country from Turkey on Saturday. Though stopped at the gate, the migrants are attempting to cut through the border fence or cross the river.

Thousands of people in Turkey rushed to the border with Greece after the government in Ankara announced this week that it will no longer stop them. Athens responded by closing the border crossing and deploying riot police and soldiers to halt the wave.

Around 9,600 attempts were made to cross the border on Saturday alone, Greek Deputy Defense minister Alkiviadis Stefanis told the media. The UN's International Organization for Migration estimated that as many as 13,000 people flocked to the border area in Turkey's Edirne province.

Comment: Greece appears to be more successful than not in turning back the refugees Turkey has cynically dumped on their border. This woman sends a warning message to those who are contemplating the trip.

Thousands of migrants try to cross border to Europe as Erdogan says Turkey will no longer 'close the gates'

Video shows last moments of Russian blogger's dry ice pool party stunt that killed 3

RT
Sat, 29 Feb 2020 20:47 UTC

Three people have died and more are in hospital after a birthday surprise at a Moscow party had unforeseen consequences. Video shows dry ice being poured into a pool for effect, inadvertently creating a carbon dioxide gas chamber.

The chilling incident occurred at a Moscow sauna late on Friday. Ekaterina Didenko, an Instagram blogger with over a million subscribers, was celebrating her 29th birthday with her family and friends.

No-one expected the festivities to turn into a tragedy when the blogger's husband Valentin presented the guests with a surprise treat. The man brought out a large amount of dry ice - solid carbon dioxide - and after everyone donned symbolic 'protection', he poured it into a pool to create the fancy mist effect for everyone to take photos and videos.

Comment: It would appear that the motivation behind this event wasn't really the celebration of someone's birthday but a stunt for publicity - how tragically sad.

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Palestinian Authority: Israel's armed settler militias should be blacklisted

Middle East Monitor
Sat, 29 Feb 2020 11:23 UTC

On Friday the Palestinian Authority (PA) condemned Israeli settlers' attacks on the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, stressing that settlers are "criminal armed militias" who should be added to the international terror blacklist, Al Watan Voice reported.

A statement issued by the PA's foreign minister announced:

"The armed settler militias who opened fire and threw stones at the Palestinian vehicles and homes in the Nablus neighbourhood of Huwara, should be added to the international terror blacklist. This aggression aimed to cause premeditated murder under the official protection of the Israeli occupation forces."

Israeli occupation settlers and forces raided the south of Nablus and attacked Palestinian protesters, Safa news agency reported, wounding 134 of them. Pointing out that such aggression aims to reinforce the occupation of Palestinian territories, the statement declared:

"These criminal attacks reflect the organised state terror which is carried out by the different arms of the Israeli occupation, including the terror settlement groups.

"The disastrous 'Deal of the Century' affords a political cover for the Israeli expansionist colonial projects and the continuous settlement violations, which are being carried out under the official protection of the Israeli army."

First confirmed coronavirus death in US, travel restrictions implemented

Science Times
Sun, 01 Mar 2020 00:21 UTC

Washington state health officials speak about the first patient death from novel coronavirus in the United States

Washington State has announced on Saturday three new cases of the virus including the person who died in King County.

The Trump administration has announced on Saturday additional travel restrictions affecting Iran, Italy, and South Korea. This is in response to the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S. following its first death from the virus.

The travel ban will be extended to foreign nationals who visited the three countries in the past 14 days, said by Vice President Pence. Furthermore, the State Department is also increasing its travel advisory to Americans not to travel to parts of Italy and South Korea affected by the virus.

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Expert says US job situation can improve even more if Trump ends H-4 Visas, OPT Program

John Binder
Breitbart
Fri, 28 Feb 2020 18:50 UTC

President Trump can shore up jobs for American professionals and graduates by ending the H-4 visa program and the Optional Practical Training (OPT) that gives away thousands of U.S. jobs to foreign nationals every year, an immigration expert says.

In an exclusive SiriusXM Patriot Breitbart News Daily interview at CPAC, NumbersUSA's Chris Chmielenski said there is still action the Trump administration can take executively to end the outsourcing of Americans' white-collar jobs to foreign workers.

Two of those actions, Chmielenski says, is ending the H-4 visa program — where at least 100,000 foreign family members of H-1B visa-holders take U.S. jobs — and the OPT program that gives discounts to giant tech corporations for hiring foreign graduates over young professional Americans.

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Trump signs 'Buy American, Hire American' executive order
'Hire Americans': New Trump executive order to crack down on work visas for foreigners
Trump administration to propose ending rule allowing spouses of H-1B visa holders to work in U.S.

Humanity is making a very important decision when it comes to Assange

Caitlin Johnstone
Medium
Sat, 29 Feb 2020 00:00 UTC

The propagandists have all gone dead silent on the WikiLeaks founder they previously were smearing with relentless viciousness, because they no longer have an argument. The facts are all in, and yes, it turns out the US government is certainly and undeniably working to exploit legal loopholes to imprison a journalist for exposing its war crimes. That is happening, and there is no justifying it.

So the narrative managers, by and large, have gone silent.

Which is good. Because it gives us an opening to seize control of the narrative.

It's time to go on the offensive with this. Assange supporters have gotten so used to playing defense that it hasn't fully occurred to us to go on a full-blown charge. I've been guilty of this as well; I'll be letting myself get bogged down in some old, obsolete debate with someone about some obscure aspect of the Swedish case or something, not realizing that none of that matters anymore. All the narrative manipulations that were used to get Assange to this point are impotent, irrelevant expenditures of energy compared to the fact that we now have undeniable evidence that the US government is working to set a precedent which will allow it to jail any journalist who exposes its misdeeds, and we can now force Assange's smearers to confront this reality.

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Absurd victim culture hits the courts: Woman gets paid for career she MIGHT have had but gave up for marriage and kids

Zachary Leeman
RT
Sat, 29 Feb 2020 18:19 UTC

In an unusual divorce case, a woman has been awarded not only half of the assets she and her husband owned, but also a large payout for potential earnings she would have earned had she never given up her career to have children.

The judgement in London could have dangerous implications for future marriages ending in years to come, thanks to a court ruling over "relationship-generated disadvantage."

Comment: And if the husband hadn't gotten married in the first place, he would've been able to keep all the money spent on his family. This ruling is ridiculous, as is the very concept of a "relationship-generated disadvantage". Every choice you make is a sacrifice of all the other choices you could have made. If you make the choice, you live with the consequences.

A judge used the term to explain why a woman was being awarded a payout from her husband of 10 years for sacrificing her career as a solicitor. The couple share two children, both of whom the woman cared for full-time.

"The husband's career took precedence. I accept that it is unusual to find significant relationship-generated disadvantage that may lead to a claim for compensation but I am clear that this is one such case," the judge said about his ruling.

What makes the decision especially egregious is that the divorcing woman was not only awarded £400,000 for her supposedly stymied career, but also half of the £10 million she and her husband had in assets. The husband is also a solicitor. One would assume the splitting of assets would prove suitable compensation for one person's career 'taking precedence' over their partner's in a relationship, but now that is not enough.

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Society's Child

Woman who claims she was rushed into taking 'experimental' puberty-blocking drugs at 16 wins right to take NHS gender clinic to court in landmark case

Chicago police shoot man at grand-state red line station after he was moving between cars

France's Louvre closed over coronavirus concerns, leaving blindsided visitors freezing outside

Nearly 10,000 migrants 'stopped at Greek border', some have managed to slip through

Video shows last moments of Russian blogger's dry ice pool party stunt that killed 3

Palestinian Authority: Israel's armed settler militias should be blacklisted

First confirmed coronavirus death in US, travel restrictions implemented

Expert says US job situation can improve even more if Trump ends H-4 Visas, OPT Program

Humanity is making a very important decision when it comes to Assange

Absurd victim culture hits the courts: Woman gets paid for career she MIGHT have had but gave up for marriage and kids

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