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Half of UK universities are peddling woke agenda to students

Connor Stringer
The Daily Mail
Sun, 15 Jan 2023 19:00 UTC
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© AlamyThe University of Chester cautioned students reading the Harry Potter books, claiming they ‘can lead to difficult conversations about gender, race, sexuality, class and identity
League table reveals 'dark shadow' has fallen on elite institutions

More than half of Britain's universities are peddling controversial and radical 'woke' ideologies on students, a damning league table has revealed.

Some of the nation's most prestigious institutions are 'poisoning the minds of generations to come', critics said last night, by subjecting undergraduates and academics to 'trigger warnings' and guidance on 'white privilege'.

Elite Russell Group universities dominate the table, accounting for eight of the top ten spots. Cambridge and Oxford come first and second, having introduced 'unconscious bias' and race workshops for freshers, followed by the University of Bristol, which has outlawed words such as 'mankind' to avoid causing offence.
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Furious dad stabs pit bull to death as revenge for savage attack on 12-year-old son in Argentina

George Mathias
Daily Star (UK)
Sun, 15 Jan 2023 11:47 UTC
CCTV footage caught the dramatic moment the dog was killed
CCTV footage caught the dramatic moment the dog was killed
A rage-filled dad stabbed a pit bull to death in revenge for brutally attacking his 12-year-old son.

The young boy, Lionel, was knocked over by the dog while on a walk with two friends in Cale Oliva, in the southeast of Argentina, on December 30, 2022.

It then viciously attacked the boy and sank its teeth into his neck.

A passer-by spotted the attack and managed to narrowly save the 12-year-old from certain death.

His father then took matters into his own hands, with CCTV footage recorded outside the owners' home showing the dramatic moment the dad killed the dog.

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Eye 1

These doctors pushed masking, covid lockdowns on Twitter. Turns out, they don't exist

Matthew Kupfer
San Francisco Standard
Tue, 13 Dec 2022 14:23 UTC
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© Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesTwitter app icon is seen on the smartphone screen with Covid-19 sign in the background in this illustration photo taken in Poland on March 21, 2020.
Last month, Dr. Robert Honeyman lost their sister to Covid. They wrote about it on Twitter and received dozens of condolences, over 4,000 retweets and 43,000 likes.

Exactly one month later, on Dec. 12, Honeyman wrote that another tragedy had befallen their family.

"Sad to announce that my husband has entered a coma after being in hospital with Covid. The doctor is unsure if he will come out," they tweeted. "This year has been the toughest of my life losing my sister to this virus. This is the first time in my life I don't see light at the end of the tunnel."

Again, the condolences and well-wishes rolled in. But there was a problem: Honeyman wasn't real.

The transgender "Doctor of Sociology and Feminist studies" with a "keen interest in poetry" who used they/them pronouns was, in fact, a stock photo described on DepositPhotos, a royalty-free image site, as "Smiling happy, handsome latino man outside — headshot portrait."

Their supposedly comatose husband, Dr. Patrick C. Honeyman, was also fake. His Twitter photo had been stolen from an insurance professional in Wayne, Indiana.

Comment: Sounds like they're bot accounts...

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Creepy tech: Roomba testers feel misled after intimate images ended up on Facebook

Eileen Guo
MIT Technology Review
Tue, 10 Jan 2023 09:36 UTC
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Image captured by iRobot development devices, being annotated by data labelers. Faces, where visible, have been obscured with a gray box by MIT Technology Review.
When Greg unboxed a new Roomba robot vacuum cleaner in December 2019, he thought he knew what he was getting into.

He would allow the preproduction test version of iRobot's Roomba J series device to roam around his house, let it collect all sorts of data to help improve its artificial intelligence, and provide feedback to iRobot about his user experience.

He had done this all before. Outside of his day job as an engineer at a software company, Greg had been beta-testing products for the past decade. He estimates that he's tested over 50 products in that time — everything from sneakers to smart home cameras.

"I really enjoy it," he says. "The whole idea is that you get to learn about something new, and hopefully be involved in shaping the product, whether it's making a better-quality release or actually defining features and functionality."

But what Greg didn't know — and does not believe he consented to — was that iRobot would share test users' data in a sprawling, global data supply chain, where everything (and every person) captured by the devices' front-facing cameras could be seen, and perhaps annotated, by low-paid contractors outside the United States who could screenshot and share images at their will.
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New York to spend $275M on hotel rooms to house 5,000+ migrants

Carl Campanile
New York Post
Mon, 16 Jan 2023 00:14 UTC
Migrant families
© J. Messerschmidt/NY PostMigrant families last week wait outside the Stewart Hotel on Seventh Avenue, which was full.
Mayor Eric Adams' administration has been forced to shell out $275 million in a contract with the Hotel Association of New York City to house at least 5,000 migrants as waves of asylum seekers continue to land in the city from the southern border, The Post has learned.

The "emergency" agreement between the city Department of Homeless Services and the Hotel Association puts the city on the hook for as much as $55,000 per migrant that lands in town.

The group represents nearly 300 city hotels with 80,000 rooms. Hotels also contracted with the city to house thousands of homeless New Yorkers during the coronavirus pandemic.

Comment: It's perhaps not entirely coincidental that these migrant hotels are being set up from New York, US, to Cornwall, UK: Also check out SOTT radio's: The Truth Perspective: Weapons of Mass Migration: Interview with Michael Springmann on Europe's Migrant Crisis

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UK gov't to tighten anti-protest restrictions, despite criticism from human rights groups


Financial Times
Sun, 15 Jan 2023 22:54 UTC
Yellow Vest
FILE PHOTO: Yellow Vest protester in France. Legal definition of ‘serious disruption’ to be broadened, allowing police to act earlier against demonstrations.
Rishi Sunak will on Monday propose new measures to help the police stop disruptive public protest in Britain, heading further down a route that has drawn heavy criticism from civil rights groups.

The prime minister wants to broaden the legal definition of "serious disruption" in a new public order bill, to help police stop what he calls a "disruptive minority" who use tactics such as blocking roads or slow marching.

Sunak believes the public and business will support the government's efforts to stop protesters causing serious disruption following a series of high-profile protests by groups such as Just Stop Oil and Insulate Britain. But Human Rights Watch, the international NGO, last week criticised the government for a series of recent measures, including restrictions on protest.

Comment: The police had no problems cracking down on anti-lockdown protesters, however, more recently, when Just Stop Oil protesters were vandalising public and private property the police mostly stood down. It's likely that, in part, this was intentional, in order to build the case for the draconian power grab.

By now it's abundantly clear that this sinister security state creep isn't about needing new powers, it's about preparing the ground for laws that will allow the police to target the general public who, once inflation and energy bills become unbearable, and food shortages really begin to bite, will be in uproar.

Already in France 52% of people are calling for a 'social explosion' of protests; and France's government has also been working towards even more draconian police powers in recent years.

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80,000 people turn out for Tel Aviv protest against Netanyahu government

Hadas Gold
Egypt Independent
Sun, 15 Jan 2023 21:56 UTC
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Tens of thousands of people protested in Tel Aviv Saturday night against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government's proposed changes to the Israeli judicial system.

Despite pouring rain over the city, police estimated that more than 80,000 people flooded central Tel Aviv's HaBima square and surrounding streets, according to Israeli media, while others took to the streets in Jerusalem for parallel protests.

Attendees held signs comparing Netanyahu to Russian President Vladimir Putin, and saying Israel was turning into the likes of semi-democratic Hungary and theocratic Iran.


Comment: Netanyahu is nothing like Putin, because Putin has a confidence rating amongst his citizens of over 80%, whilst Netanyahu barely managed to scrape together enough support to claw his way back into power.


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Wells Fargo cancels prominent Florida gun dealer's accounts, implies it won't work with gun companies

Stephen Gutowski
The Reload
Fri, 13 Jan 2023 05:05 UTC
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© Brandon WexlerGun shop in Delray Beach, Florida
Wells Fargo abruptly ended its business with a well-known gun dealer in a move emblematic of the increasing hostility big banks are showing towards the firearms industry.

With little explanation, the bank closed the business and personal accounts of Brandon Wexler just before Christmas. After 25 years with a personal account and 14 years with a business account, Wexler was given about a month to find a new bank. As owner of Wex Gunworks in Delray Beach, Florida, Wexler has been cited in countless major media reports for years, but Wells Fargo said his business had suddenly become too risky.

in a December 22nd letter to Wexler, the Bank said:
"Wells Fargo performs ongoing reviews of its account relationships in connection with the Bank's responsibilities to manage risks in its banking operations. We recently reviewed your account relationship and, as a result of this review, we will be closing your above-referenced accounts."
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Arrow Down

Biden economy: Banks are preparing for billions in losses in 2023

Joe Hoft
Gateway Pundit
Sat, 14 Jan 2023 06:00 UTC
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© UnknownUS President Joe Biden unknown
Despite good earnings due to an increase in interest rates, banks are predicting a major increase in defaults in 2023.
JP Morgan and other banks have set up some major provisions to expected credit losses.

Comment: ...and this is probably the good news.

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Federal judge hands DeSantis admin big win over Florida's 'Stop WOKE Act'

Emma Colton
Fox News
Sun, 15 Jan 2023 20:25 UTC
deSantis stop woke act florida
© Daniel A. Varela/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty ImagesFlorida Gov. Ron DeSantis addresses the crowd before publicly signing the "Stop WOKE" act during a press conference on April 22, 2022.
DeSantis: "Florida is where 'woke' goes to die"

A federal judge ruled that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration did not violate a court order regarding the state's "Stop WOKE Act," which prohibits colleges from promoting critical race theory lessons and targets other "woke" concepts prevalent on higher education campuses.

"Although this court would not hesitate to compel compliance with its preliminary injunction, this court finds there has been no violation of the injunction at this time," U.S. District Judge Mark E. Walker wrote on Thursday, according to the Orlando Sentinel.

Plaintiffs had challenged the law, known as the "Stop Wrongs To Our Kids and Employees Act" or "Stop WOKE Act," arguing that the DeSantis administration had failed to comply with a preliminary injunction that prevents the enforcement of some parts of the law.

Comment: Common sense is slowly but surely spreading in Florida. May the groundswell continue.

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