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The public school system corrupts children

Jonathon Van Maren
Lifesite
Wed, 11 Jul 2018 18:20 UTC
olde tyme classroom
Across North America, the debate surrounding sex education continues to swirl through the schools. Parental protests are popping up in British Columbia to voice disagreement with the SOGI curriculum, Parents as First Educators are pushing the Doug Ford government to roll back the radical sex-ed of the previous Liberal government, and private religious schools are battling the provincial government of Alberta in court to keep them from forcing their LGBT agenda into the independent sphere, as well. Across the United States, small pockets of parents are also doing battle with the powerful LGBT lobby that is steamrolling its way through the school system, demanding that their ideology be taught to other people's children-and usually succeeding.

It is disturbing to stop and realize what is now considered too controversial for children, and conversely what is considered appropriate for children. Laura Ingalls Wilder, for example, has just had her name stripped from a prestigious award for children's literature because there are passages in her books that our politically correct elites consider to be racist, or at least culturally insensitive. Interestingly, Wilder was herself a teacher, obtaining her teaching certificate in 1882 and signing on to teach a one-room schoolhouse full of children in the Dakota Territory at the age of only fifteen years old. Her mother, Caroline Quiner, was also a schoolteacher when she met and married Charles Ingalls (known to generations of children simply as "Pa") in 1860.

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Monty Python's Terry Gilliam weighs in on the BBC's diversity push: 'I'm a black lesbian'

John Sexton
Hot Air
Fri, 06 Jul 2018 18:08 UTC
Terry Gilliam
© ReutersTerry Gilliam
Last month, BBC "comedy controller" Shane Allen announced a new slate of shows for the fall with a particular emphasis on the diversity of the programs. From the Guardian:
The BBC's controller of comedy commissioning, Shane Allen, said he aimed to "grow the stars of tomorrow" and promote "more and more diversity"...

He said the time had passed when having "quite a male-dominated selection process" led to "a lot of male, middle-aged middle-class comedy".
Someone asked Allen if that would rule out shows like Monty Python in the future. He replied, "If you're going to assemble a team now, it's not going to be six Oxbridge white blokes. It's going to be a diverse range of people who reflect the modern world." That didn't sit well with director and Monty Python cast member Terry Gilliam. Gilliam was asked what he thought of the comments and said he wanted to henceforth be known as a black lesbian:
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Caught red handed? Syrian army captures French, UK and US-made weapons in Daraa

Paul Antonopoulos
FRN
Wed, 11 Jul 2018 18:35 UTC
Syrian army captures FRENCH armaments in Dara'a province
Syrian victories continue to uncover the hand of Israel, some EU states, and the US in backing terrorism. The Syrian Army has captured several APILAS anti-tank systemsmanufactured in France in the south of the country, local media have said.

It is said that the systems were manufactured by the French armament and military equipment maker, Nexter. According to the issue, the guns were captured in Daraa province.

APILAS is an anti-tank system with cumulative ammunition of 112 mm caliber. It is used for the destruction of fortifications and shelters, as well as armored equipment. The range of the APILAS reaches 600 meters, depending on the target.

Comment: Having regained control of almost the entire border line with Jordan, the Syrian Army began a full-scale mop-up operation to secure the area before safely deploying border forces.
The cleansing operation has uncovered a huge underground armory which contains massive quantities of weapons and ammunition.

The arsenal includes mortar and tanks shells (mostly UK-made), various missiles and armored vehicles.
Units of the Syrian Arab Army discovered heavy, medium, and light weapons, some of which are US-made TOW missile launch pads left behind by terrorists in eastern countryside of Daraa.
Syrian Army discovers US-made weapons left behind by terrorists in Daraa
A field commander said that the army units on Wednesday found underneath caches for the terrorists groups in a number of the villages and towns in southeastern and northeastern countryside of Daraa, including US TOW launch pads, US-made armored vehicles, armored vehicles equipped with machineguns 14,5-57 and 30, tanks and anti-aircraft guns.


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Russophobia reaches fever pitch in US media as Trump-Putin summit approaches


RT
Wed, 11 Jul 2018 15:37 UTC
Rachel Maddow
© MSNBC / TwitterRussophobia hysteric-in-chief Rachel Maddow
Countless theories about Donald Trump's ties to Moscow have become a US media obsession, with mind-numbing Russia hysteria fully embraced by 'respected' outlets ahead of the summit with Vladimir Putin, RT's Murad Gazdiev reports.

American media have performed dizzying feats of wild speculation in the run-up to the Helsinki meeting on July 16, perhaps best exemplified by a particularly zealous New York Magazine article which suggested that the "private" meeting between Trump and Putin could be "less a negotiation between two heads of state than a meeting between a Russian-intelligence asset and his handler."

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UK police say 'no guarantee' they'll be able to catch those responsible for Skripal and Amesbury cases


RT
Wed, 11 Jul 2018 14:58 UTC
amesbury
© Henry Nicholls / ReutersPolice at a housing estate where two people collapsed in Amesbury, England.
Britain's counter-terrorism chief Neil Basu says he can't guarantee authorities will catch those responsible for the nerve agent poisoning of the Skripals and Dawn Sturgess, and is even unable to say if both incidents are linked.

Basu, who is national lead for Counter Terrorism Policing, told residents of Amesbury he would "love to be able to say that we have identified and caught the people responsible and how we are certain there are no traces of nerve agent left anywhere in Wiltshire, but the brutal reality is that I cannot offer you any reassurance or guarantee at this time."

Sturgess and Charlie Rowley reportedly fell ill after coming into contact with Novichok on June 30, and Sturgess died days later. This is the same nerve agent believed to have poisoned Sergei and Yulia Skripal in March. Public Health England have repeatedly said there is no wider threat to the public arising from the Skripal case.

"At this stage, we cannot say with certainty that both the incident in March and this latest incident are linked," Basu told attendees at Tuesday evening's community meeting.

Comment: If you don't even know who did it, and doubt you'll be able to do so in the future, in what world does it make any sense that they can blame Russia? "We don't know who did it, but we know Russia did it." The UK authorities have lost their marbles. Well, not exactly. They're just lying. They probably know full well who did it. But admitting that publicly is impossible, because it is not Russia, and such an admission would be very inconvenient for the UK authorities.

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Rinse, repeat: UK police admit they have no evidence of nerve agent or link to Skripal in recent Salisbury death


Sputnik
Wed, 11 Jul 2018 09:49 UTC
Salisbury police
© REUTERS / Henry Nicholl
In the latest development regarding the alleged poisoning in Amesbury, police said the couple could have found the container with the nerve agent right after the Skripals' poisoning, but opened it only within the last ten days. However, the container has not been found and it's unclear if the link between the two poisonings will ever be found.

British counter-terrorism police chief Neil Basu has admitted that detectives have thus far failed to confirm whether the toxic agent the couple from Amesbury was allegedly exposed to in late June was the same as the one that was ostensibly used against former Russian intelligence agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in March.

Speaking at a public meeting in Amesbury, Basu pointed out that he "would love to be able to say that we have identified and caught the people responsible and how we are certain there are no traces of nerve agent left anywhere in Wiltshire [county]."

Comment: The UK is reaching new lows with Skripal 2.0. And it shows just how desperate the establishment has become that it's willing to risk whatever credibility it had left in yet another attempt to smear Russia. Meanwhile fans visiting Russia for the World Cup are realising that what their government told them about the country and its people is quite far from the truth: For more, check out SOTTs' new show: NewsReal: Novi-shock! Devious Russians Tire of Spectacular World Cup, Poison Innocent Brits For Laughs



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Russian delegation walks out of OSCE session in protest over regulations violation


RT
Wed, 11 Jul 2018 14:50 UTC
OSCE logo
© Sergey Averin / SputnikOrganization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) logo
All Russian parliamentarians have left the current session of OSCE's Parliamentary Assembly as a protest against a blatant violation of the group's regulations, apparently condoned by its newly elected chairman.

The protest took place at the Wednesday session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Cooperation and Security in Europe that is taking place in Berlin, Germany.

Deputy speaker of the Russian Lower House, MP Pyotr Tolstoy (United Russia) said in comments with TASS that the protest was issued because some of the authors of the two latest anti-Russian resolutions were absent when these documents were put up for discussion. The Russian side asked that the debates are postponed, but the request was rejected by the current acting head of the assembly "in a teasing and insulting manner" after which all Russian representatives had to leave the assembly hall.
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The Left needs to sort out the reasonable from the unreasonable

Christian Alejandro Gonzalez
National Review
Fri, 25 May 2018 06:30 UTC
Tamika Mallory
© Jonathan Ernst/ReutersTamika Mallory (center) and Linda Sarsour (second from left) lead protesters at a march in Fairfax, Va., July 14, 2017.
On May 18, Jordan Peterson and Stephen Fry debated Michelle Goldberg and Michael Eric Dyson in Toronto on the merits of political correctness. The debate was infuriatingly unproductive, turning as it did into a wide-ranging but rather unfulfilling discussion. Still, I was glad to see that despite their frequent digressions, both sides managed to produce the occasional insight.

I wish, though, that one particular point of contention had been further explored. Around halfway through the debate, Peterson asked Goldberg if she thought the Left ever went too far in its theories or tactics. She replied with a bland comment about how she was against leftist "violence and censorship." This was moral pusillanimity of the highest order. Being against violence and censorship is the ethical equivalent of being against slavery or genocide; it is axiomatic and requires neither serious thought nor moral courage to state such a position. Goldberg failed to answer the real question Peterson was asking: What left-wing beliefs should be forbidden, deemed too radical and dangerous for anyone to hold?

One longs for the day when left-wing intellectuals answer this question - or even begin to contend with it. As Peterson noted, our intellectual culture has been largely successful in delineating the sorts of opinions which are unacceptable for right-wingers to embrace. Race hatred is not okay. Apologetics for Klansmen and National Socialists are not okay. Peterson says, correctly, that the cultural taboos on racial-supremacist sentiment are fully justified; we know what racist ideologies can do and have done, and so we feel disgusted whenever anyone attempts to resuscitate them.

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Health

Japanese nurse admits to killing 20+ elderly patients by poison to avoid 'nuisance' of having to tell their next of kin


RT
Wed, 11 Jul 2018 14:52 UTC
nurses
© Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters
A Japanese nurse who may have killed dozens of elderly patients wanted to ensure that her terminally ill victims died anytime but on her watch, due to the "nuisance" of facing relatives with tragic news, Japanese media reported.

A 31-year-old nurse suspected of having a hand in the death of 48 patients at Oguchi Hospital in Yokohama in the summer of 2016, has reportedly confessed to murdering the ill patients that were already on the verge of death. Unable to cope with the emotional burden of having to explain to the relatives why the patient died on her watch, Ayumi Kuboki allegedly killed her victims by administering intravenous drips with a disinfectant containing benzalkonium chloride.

"I hated seeing the rapid deterioration in their condition," Kuboki was quoted as telling investigators. "I did not want them to die during my shift. It was troublesome and difficult having to explain to their family members."

"It would be a nuisance if that responsibility fell on me," she explained.

Kuboki was arrested on Saturday on suspicion of killing Sozo Nishikawa, 88, who died in September 2016. When questioned, she immediately confessed to the elderly patient's murder. Kuboki reportedly confessed to murdering at least 20 other patients out of the 48 that passed away between July and September 2016.
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Transhumanism ideology is nothing more than oppression disguised as liberation

Libby Emmons
Quillette
Wed, 11 Jul 2018 12:34 UTC
transhumanism
Transhumanism is an ideology which holds that humans must harness technological advancements to take an active, intelligent role in our own evolution and the evolution of our species. When we think about these developments as a society, we tend to consider them in relation to the improvement of the human race as a whole. However, we must begin to consider the profound implications for the sovereignty of the individual and the primordial question of what it means to be human.

When the transhumanist movement began a few decades ago, its ideas had more in common with speculative science fiction than reality. But, inspired by Darwinian theory, the notion of human-directed, intelligent evolution has flourished alongside recent technological developments. The transhumanist perspective insists that humans have a distinctly separate mind and body, and that what happens to one need not affect the other. Understood in this way, apparently unrelated movements in biotech, tech, and social justice reveal themselves to be part of the same transhumanist project and aimed at the same objective: liberating the human being from the limitations of the body.

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