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SNP says it will push through Sturgeon's law that would help rapists and allow 16-year-olds to legally transition without parental consent

David Wilcock
Daily Mail
Thu, 22 Dec 2022 11:16 UTC
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© PASupporters of the For Women Scotland and the Scottish Feminist Network take part in a demonstration outside the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh
The UK and Scottish governments have clashed over Scotland's new gender rules, just passed by Holyrood, after Westminster minister threatened to block the controversial bill.

The SNP vowed to push through First Minister Nicola Sturgeon's law which will remove the need for a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria to obtain a gender recognition certificate (GRC).

MSPs voted to pass the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill by 86 votes to 39 earlier today.
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Details of North Korea drone incident revealed - media


RT
Mon, 26 Dec 2022 14:18 UTC
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© Getty ImagesNorth Korean drone
The South Korean military has said it fired more than 100 rounds at a trespassing North Korean drone on Monday, but failed to down it, according to Yonhap news agency. It is estimated that several unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) remained in the South Korean airspace for seven hours.

The South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff were quoted by local media after warplanes were scrambled to intercept the UAVs and a military helicopter attempted to use its 20mm gun to take out a drone. The UAV had been spotted near Gyodong Island, to the northwest of Seoul and close to the North Korean border.

The military said it respected concerns that residential buildings could have been damaged, according to local media. The North Korean drones are said to have made evasive maneuvers in response to the attacks.

In total, Yonhap cited the military as saying that it detected five North Korean drones, with one flying between the cities of Gimpo and Paju to Seoul's northwest, before going as far as the northern part of the South Korean capital. After that, the aircraft returned to North Korea.
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Emails reveal Arizona's Pima County staff were stumped by unregistered voters, old addresses, discrepant tallies

Natalia Mittelstadt
Just the News
Mon, 26 Dec 2022 20:34 UTC
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"It is your call how you want to handle the provisional ballots," the Pima County elections director wrote to the county recorder.

Following the Nov. 8 midterm elections, officials in Pima County, Ariz., struggled to determine how to handle provisional ballots cast by unregistered voters, discrepant provisional ballot totals, and ballots cast by voters with old addresses — even asking the secretary of state's office for guidance.

The confusion and uncertainty clouding county election officials' decision-making are revealed in newly released internal emails obtained through a public records request submitted by America First Legal Foundation.

A week after Election Day, Pima County Recorder Gabriella Cazares-Kelly wrote to Pima County Elections Director Constance Hargrove that the Recorder's Office found that 11 unregistered voters had cast provisional ballots but was unsure what to do about them because her office was "not normally in possession of the Provisional Ballots and my team is very opposed to opening them."
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Texas sends more illegal migrants to VP 'border czar' Kamala

Lawrence Richard
Fox News
Mon, 26 Dec 2022 17:43 UTC
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© Stefani Reynolds/AFP via Getty ImagesSince April, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has ordered over 150 buses to carry approximately 4,500 migrants from Texas to Washington, D.C., to highlight criticisms of President Biden's border policy.
Busloads of migrants dropped off outside VP Kamala Harris' home

Three buses carrying migrants from Texas arrived in Washington, D.C., late Saturday evening, including one which dropped its passengers near the home of Vice President Kamala Harris.

The U.S. Naval Observatory (USNO) is the official residence of the vice president of the United States and the Christmas Eve dropoff is the latest of several instances in which Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has bussed migrants to Washington, D.C.

The migrants were then helped by the Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid Network and taken to a local church, according to 7News reporter Christian Flores.

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The Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid Network was on hand to transport immigrants to a local church and provide them with proper resources after some were seen without adequate winter attire as the temperatures dropped into the low teens, according to 7News.

A video posted to Twitter by 7News Washington, D.C., reporter Christian Flores shows a group of people entering a bus. "The third and final bus of migrants of the night of migrants buses up to D.C. from Texas arriving, with Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid Network taking them to a church," the tweet said.


Gov. Greg Abbott has been busing immigrants seeking asylum to Democratic cities since April, much to the party's chagrin. The Texas Republican has sent more than 8,500 to Washington, D.C., more than 4,000 to New York City, over 1,300 to Chicago, and more than 260 to Philadelphia, according to data from his office.

Abbott's actions are intended to highlight the crisis at the border, responding to the Biden administration's decision to end Title 42, a pandemic-era emergency health order that allowed immigration authorities at the border to deny entry to immigrants. This week, the Supreme Court temporarily halted the expiration of the Trump-era policy.


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NHS orders interview panels to justify hiring white job applicants

Toby Young
The Daily Sceptic
Mon, 26 Dec 2022 11:46 UTC
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Woke NHS bosses are forcing interview panels to explain why they have hired a white person over a non-white applicant. The Daily Mail has more.
A policy at the Royal Free in north London requires staff to compile reports justifying why the successful candidate was deemed 'more suitable'.

They must write to the trust's chief executive with evidence on how they scored the non-white applicant and come up with suggestions on how the candidate can improve for next time.

Frustrated staff say the system is a 'tick-box exercise' that is adding yet another level of bureaucracy to an already creaking NHS.

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The truth about Covid McCarthyism

Brendan O'Neill
Sp!ked
Mon, 19 Dec 2022 00:01 UTC
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The elites' blacklisting of lockdown dissenters was shameful and self-destructive.

There were two viruses that the authorities wanted to control in 2020 and 2021. The first was the virus of Covid-19. The second was the virus of dissent. Throughout the pandemic, experts referred to lockdown scepticism and Covid misinformation as their own kind of disease, as a contagious malady that might sicken the masses' minds as surely as Covid sickened their bodies. British politicians referred to a 'pandemic of misinformation'. We must protect people both from 'physical disease and the "disease of misinformation"', scientists insisted. 'False information has plagued the Covid response', said one academic. Plagued - what a striking choice of verb. And if contrary ideas are an infection in the body politic, then it's clear what the cure must be: censorship.

Nearly three years on from the start of the pandemic, it's apparent that censorship was central to lockdown. It wasn't only our everyday lives that were forcibly put on hold - so was our right to say certain things and even think certain things. In the US, Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases who was fawned over by the liberal media for his handling of Covid, has been deposed in a lawsuit that accuses him and the Biden administration more broadly of colluding with Big Tech to undermine the American people's speech rights during the pandemic. The lawsuit is brought by the attorney general of Missouri, Eric Schmitt. The transcript of the questioning of Fauci was released earlier this month. It's a frustrating read. Fauci continually says he doesn't recall or doesn't know in response to questions about his alleged role in suppressing speech in the Covid era. But it seems clear that, informally at least, he helped to devise and enforce the parameters of acceptable thought during the pandemic.

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War Whore

Feverishly racing toward our own destruction...

Michael Snyder
End of the American Dream
Mon, 26 Dec 2022 10:25 UTC
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We are careening directly into an abyss of war, pain and misery, and our leaders are thunderously applauding as it happens. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy came to Washington this week because he wanted more money, and our politicians in Washington definitely did not disappoint him. Even though we had already given Ukraine far more money than the rest of the world combined, our politicians agreed to give him another colossal mountain of cash. On some level, we all have to respect Zelenskyy's skills as a con man. Even though he has banned the main opposition party in Ukraine, and even though he has banned all television stations that were critical of him, and even though he just banned an entire ancient Christian denomination, our politicians continue to worship him like some sort of a pop music star. Zelenskyy has become an extremely oppressive dictator that has set himself up to rule Ukraine for as long as he wants, but members of Congress from both parties continue to hail him as a "champion of democracy" that deserves our unquestioning support.

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Snakes in Suits

How the process of peer review became scientific censorship

Dr Roger Watson & Dr Niall McCrae
The Daily Sceptic
Sat, 24 Dec 2022 09:53 UTC
Peer review
That oft-spouted dictum 'follow the science' would not have surprised American philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn (1922-1996). In his book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), Kuhn explained how 'normal science' becomes a rigid orthodoxy, maintained by rewards in pay, promotion and prestige. Great force is needed to disrupt the established paradigm and its assumptions, as everted by the discoveries of Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein. Consequently, science progresses not as linear trajectory but by a series of revolutions.

The peer review process in scientific journals is meant for quality control, but it has been criticised by editors of prestigious journals such as Richard Smith of the British Medical Journal, Marcia Angell of the New England Journal of Medicine and Richard Horton of the Lancet, the latter remarking:
"We know that the system of peer review is biased, unjust, unaccountable, incomplete, easily fixed, often insulting, usually ignorant, occasionally foolish, and frequently wrong"

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Another Twitter Files drop: Twitter and 'other government agencies'

Cristina Laila
The Gateway Pundit
Sat, 24 Dec 2022 12:20 UTC
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Another round of Elon Musk's Twitter files were released on Saturday.

The latest Twitter files were released by journalist Matt Taibbi on Christmas Eve.


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45% of Germans against sending tanks to Ukraine - poll


RT
Sun, 25 Dec 2022 15:20 UTC
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© WikipediaFILE PHOTO: Leopard 2.
Nearly half of Germans do not want to see the country's Leopard 2 battle tanks handed over to Ukraine, a recent YouGov opinion poll has indicated. Kiev has been imploring Berlin for the hardware for several months now, so far to no avail.

In its report on Sunday, media outlet Das Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland (RND), citing a YouGov survey, said 45% of respondents opposed the shipment of Leopard 2 tanks to the eastern European country, while another 33% spoke in favor of the transfer, with the remaining 22% undecided.

The poll commissioned by Die Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA) also revealed that it is only among supporters of the German Green Party that the number of those backing the move exceeds the number of skeptics, 50% to 25%, respectively.
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