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Crooked police chief allowed to run rabid in Indiana

Elkhart PD
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CCTV footage show Elkhart PD officers beating a handcuffed suspect
One mayor's decision to cut police oversight has allowed a department in Indiana to become a law unto itself; staffed with a gallery of rogue, undisciplined and shady officers.

Drew Neese was elected mayor of Elkhart, Indiana in 2015. Among his biggest donors were the Fraternal Order of Police, and throughout his campaign, Neese "made it clear that he wants all of the city's officers going home at night without second-guessing themselves and the decisions they make," a local CBS affiliate reported at the time.

Step one was appointing a new police chief. Neese chose Ed Windbigler, a military veteran and campaign supporter, for the role. According to an extensive report from nonprofit newsroom ProPublica, Windbigler had a questionable record.

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Mexican journalist reveals mayhem that caravan is bringing with it

the caravan
Mexican journalist Alex Backman has released a stunning expose on the caravan from Central America. He says the migrants are robbing and stealing in Mexico. They carjack cars containing just one occupant. There are even accounts of rapes. Many of the migrants will not let people film them. If they see someone filming them through a car window, they stop the car and demand the phone. Backman suspects the reason they don't want to be filmed is because they have criminal histories.

He said the Mexican president hasn't done anything to stop it. The Mexican government is instead providing them with necessities including medical aid. This despite the fact that 48 percent of Mexicans disapprove of the caravan. Almost 2,700 Central Americans have applied for asylum in Mexico since the caravan started. However, the Mexican government says it does not have the resources to house all the caravan members for six months.

Comment: More recent news on the highly politicized caravan:


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Dispute over 'Lingerie' comment persists, as the International Studies Association rejects Professor's appeal

Richard Ned Lebow of King’s College London

Richard Ned Lebow of King’s College London
The International Studies Association has rejected the appeal of a professor who was found responsible for violating its code of conduct after he jokingly requested that an elevator in a conference hotel be stopped at the lingerie department.

Richard Ned Lebow, a professor of international political theory at King's College London, responded by saying he would meet with his lawyer on Thursday and expects to file a defamation lawsuit. Lebow, who had threatened to sue the association unless it found in his favor, did not immediately respond to a question about who exactly he'd sue.

The association's lawyer, in a letter dated Tuesday, relayed its decision that no steps would be taken against Lebow if he offered an "unequivocal apology" to Simona Sharoni, a professor of women's and gender studies at Merrimack College who filed a complaint about the incident.

If he does not apologize, the letter said, the association will issue a formal, private letter of reprimand.

In an email to The Chronicle on Wednesday, Lebow made it clear he had no intention of apologizing.

Hardhat

The psychology of hostility among so-called progressives (or lefties)

Ben Affleck
Recently, I arrived at a moment of introspection about a curious aspect of my own behavior. When I disagree with a conservative friend or colleague on some political issue, I have no fear of speaking my mind. I talk, they listen, they respond, I talk some more, and at the end of it we get along just as we always have. But I've discovered that when a progressive friend says something with which I disagree or that I know to be incorrect, I'm hesitant to point it out. This hesitancy is a consequence of the different treatment one tends to receive from those on the Right and Left when expressing a difference of opinion. I am not, as it turns out, the only one who has noticed this.


Gold Seal

"I was the terrorist" - Veteran of Israeli military gives insightful and explosive interview

Eran Efrati

Eran Efrati
In a rare, candid conversation, Abby Martin interviews a former Israeli Army combat soldier who served as an occupier in Palestine's Hebron City.

Eran Efrati spent years as a sergeant and combat soldier in the Israeli military, but has since become an outspoken critic of the occupation of Palestine and Israeli apartheid. In a rare, candid conversation, Abby Martin interviews a former Israeli Army combat soldier who served as an occupier in Palestine's Hebron City.

Efrati gives explosive testimony on the reality of his service and explains how war crimes are institutionalized, as well as how systematic the oppression against Palestinians really is in a war of conquest that will no-doubt be accelerated under the Trump Administration.

Comment: Efrati is not alone among those with conscience in Israel's military to speak out against the slow-motion genocide of Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip:


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The insanity of gender confusion is overtaking the UK

all gender restroom sign
© Brian Branch Price / Global Look Press
As schools introduce gender-neutral toilets and uniforms, parents sue over a boy in a skirt and the government considers removing 'male' and 'female' from official forms, gender has become a contentious issue in modern Britain.

Increasing numbers of young Brits are expressing doubt about their gender identities. When the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) at London's Tavistock Clinic opened in 1989, it received two referrals. Last year, 1,400 children under 18 were referred there - double the number of the year before. Nearly 300 were under the age of 12, with some as young as three years old.


Comment: Why would anyone think that children of that age can make rational decisions, especially those that will impact the rest of their lives?


Schools are on the frontline of a fierce and polarized debate. This week a Christian couple threatened to sue a Church of England primary school because it allowed a boy in their son's class to wear a dress.

Comment: The insanity of this postmodernist gender-bending nonsense is certainly a sign of a fundamental rot that's taken hold in western society and is a harbinger for its collapse. When people can't figure out what's actually important in life and in the world, let alone what bathroom to use, how does anyone expect the rest of the society to function and be productive? For more information:


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UK govt requests research explaining the large increase in school-age girls seeking gender reassignment

trans lives matter
© Joel Goodman / Global Look Press
''Protect Trans lives '' placard, Leeds, West Yorkshire. August 5, 2018.
A huge rise in the number of school-age girls seeking gender reassignment, which has seen an increase from 40 to 1,806 referrals in eight years, has prompted the UK government to request a study into the reasons behind the surge.

Minister for Women and Equalities Penny Mordaunt has ordered research into the reasons behind the sharp rise in gender reassignment referrals among all children, but particularly girls, the Times reports.

The Tavistock and Portman Trust, the only place in England and Wales to offer a gender identity service in the NHS for 18 year-olds, has witnessed a big surge in girls referred to its gender identity development service for children.

Comment: The transgender ideology has been pushed onto society from the highest levels of academia. Is it any wonder that we are now seeing the effects of this twisted agenda?


Attention

17 pupils at a single British school are in the process of changing gender, teacher says most are autistic

trans kid
© ITV
The Mail on Sunday can reveal that 17 pupils at a single British school are in the process of changing gender. Pictured: Anna Friel and Callum Booth-Ford in the drama Butterfly.
An astonishing 17 pupils at a single British school are in the process of changing gender, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

Most of the youngsters undergoing the transformation are autistic, according to a teacher there, who said vulnerable children with mental health problems were being 'tricked' into believing they are the wrong sex.

The whistleblower says few of the transgender children are suffering from gender dysphoria - the medical term for someone who feels they were born in the wrong body - but are just easily influenced, latching on to the mistaken belief they are the wrong sex as a way of coping with the problems caused by autism.

Comment: While the SJW crowd would like you to believe these children are just 'expressing who they really are', the reality is that these are vulnerable kids who are being manipulated for an agenda, taking life-changing steps that most will no doubt grow to regret. The fact that this is being done to children is what is truly horrific. There's a special place in hell reserved for people who manipulate children for an agenda in this way.

See also:


Bizarro Earth

Psychotherapist predicts in 20 years we'll look back on the rush to change our children's sex as one of the darkest chapters in medicine

Tavistock Centre London transgender

Since 2011, specialists at The Tavistock Centre's Gender Identity Development Service in London have seen more than 1,000 under-18s
Let me be absolutely clear: I am in no doubt there are people who feel they are one gender while having the body of the other.

Living with such constant, internal conflict is horrifying for many of those affected, and it should never be ignored. No one should seek to suppress another person's genuinely held sexual orientation or gender identity.

But the question we must ask ourselves today is this - how do we decide whose needs are genuine? And how, then, should we treat them?

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Transgender parade in Kiev attacked by far-right mob with tear gas and pepper spray

LGBT protest Ukraine
© Christopher Miller for RFE/RL
Ukrainian police move on transgender rights activists after their rally in a Kyiv park was disrupted by far-right radicals on November 18.
Activists for transgender rights were forced to disband a demonstration in Kyiv after counter-demonstrators assaulted several protesters and attacked a Canadian journalist trying to cover the event.

The organizers of the event criticized Ukrainian police for failing to protect about 40 lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights activists who had planned to gather in Shevchenko Park on November 18 for a legally sanctioned march through the streets of the Ukrainian capital coinciding with International Transgender Remembrance Day.

Comment: More information from RT:
Ultra-nationalist mobsters thwarted a transgender parade in the Ukrainian capital Kiev, spraying tear gas at participants and brawling with riot police who apparently failed to protect the gathering, local media reported.

Ukrainian LGBT activists planned to march through downtown Kiev on Sunday, but the event - intended to commemorate transgender victims of hate crime - never took place. As people began to gather outside one of the city's metro stations, they were confronted by far-right radicals, who had previously threatened to target the parade.

The standoff became more violent when the radicals began throwing smoke bombs at the activists. The attackers were also heard yelling nationalist slogans such as "Glory to the nation, death to the enemies," and "Ukraine above all."

There was a large police presence at the event, but when the situation became more tense, the security forces seemed incapable of separating the two groups.

Far-right groups, which played a key role in the violent 2014 coup in Ukraine, don't seem to be losing their influence amid worsening economic downturn and radicalization of the country's politics.

The ultra-nationalist thugs have no qualms about using violence against those who they consider enemies, including LGBT activists, ethnic minorities and media representatives, who they claim support Russia.

As Ukraine is seeking closer ties with Europe, the country's authorities have officially pledged their support for sexual minorities, and have advocated LGBT rights.

No LGBT public event in the country occurs without provocation by nationalists. A gay parade in Kiev this June was called off after just 20 minutes, as more than a hundred radicals tried to attack the activists. They shouted "Shame on you" and "Ukraine is no Sodom," as they clashed with police, resulting in more than 50 arrests.
Now watch as the media jumps all over Ukraine for being a homophobic haunt of horrific humans... oh wait, never mind... It takes Russia's foreign-language service to inform the world about it.

Hypocrisy, that's the state we live in!