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'Gender equality trailblazing' Nordic nations have 'disturbingly high' levels of rape, says Amnesty

Maya Oppenheim
Independent
Thu, 04 Apr 2019 17:35 UTC

Nordic nations have "disturbingly high" levels of rape despite being gender equality trailblazers, according to a new report which also suggested they were failing victims.

Flawed legislation, prevalent harmful myths and gender stereotypes have given rise to endemic impunity for rapists across the region, Amnesty International found.

Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden - four countries which are among the top-ranking countries in the world for gender equality - were all found to have high levels of rape and survivors of sexual violence are being let down by their justice systems.

In Finland, around 50,000 women each year experience sexual violence but there were only 209 convictions for rape in 2017. In the same year, 24,000 women were victims of rape or attempted rape in Denmark, but only 94 people were convicted.

Social justice warriors must stop harassing scientists

Peggy Sastre
Quillette
Thu, 04 Apr 2019 17:01 UTC

Editor's note: This article was originally published in Le Point and has been translated by Holly Haahr.

Is this the end of the era of factual, scientific inquiry? In today's labs, the line between affirmative action and ideological harassment is vanishingly thin. But prioritising scientists who have the correct opinions and tick the right identity boxes rather than because of the quality of their research can lead to real persecution.

"At the moment I prefer to stay anonymous," explains an astrophysicist. "I am not proud of this, but I have to eat, and I am also responsible for the research opportunities of my students and my postdocs." He hadn't killed anyone. Rather, he had just chosen to move from Australia, the country where he earned his degrees and spent most of his career, to China. Why? Because, as a researcher, he has more freedom in China. As unbelievable as this may sound, it's true. Indeed, for more and more scientists, the pressures in universities and other research institutions to be "politically correct" (for lack of a better term) are so great that going into exile in a non-democratic country, where dissidents disappear and religious minorities are sent to re-education camps, has become a stopgap solution for those who want to be left alone to pursue their research interests. "I left Australia because I am fed up with seeing job and grant opportunities dwindle for real astronomers," he says.

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British Airways flight from London to Germany took off in the wrong direction and landed in Scotland

Sinéad Baker
Business Insider
Mon, 25 Mar 2019 14:53 UTC

A British Airways flight bound to Düsseldorf, Germany, from London accidentally landed in Edinburgh, Scotland, instead, 525 miles from where it should have been.

British Airways said in a statement to Business Insider that the plane ended up in Edinburgh after the flight paperwork was submitted incorrectly.

Passengers realized they were in the wrong country only after an announcement was made welcoming them to Edinburgh after the plane landed, the BBC reported.

"We have apologised to customers for this interruption to their journey and will be contacting them all individually," British Airways' statement said.

Comment: With extreme weather, faulty aircraft, perverse security, unusual illnesses, and the odd crazy passenger, air travel has never been so unappealing:

Virginia police officer under investigation after threatening schoolchildren

Sputnik
Thu, 04 Apr 2019 09:43 UTC

A Richmond, Virginia, police officer who threatened a group of black middle school students last week is currently being investigated by the police department.

Video footage of the interaction was shared on Facebook by Tenesha Calloway, the mother of one of the students involved in the incident. The officer, whose identity has not been revealed, heard someone say "f**k the police" while he was patrolling the neighborhood. As a result, the officer yells, "Wait until your a**es turn 18, then you're mine," from his patrol vehicle, directing his statement toward the group of students. However, according to students who were confronted, they were not even the ones who cursed at the officer in the first place.

"While waiting to walk to their after school program a Richmond City Police officer drove past my daughter and her classmates that were standing in front of Albert Hill Middle School, made a U turn and yelled out of his window 'What did you say?'" Calloway wrote on Facebook.

'Threat to our way of life' - British soldiers filmed using photo of Corbyn for target practice

RT
Thu, 04 Apr 2019 09:43 UTC

A video clip circulating social media appearing to show soldiers shooting a picture of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, is to be investigated by the British Army, according to the UK Ministry of Defence.

Ex-Army Sergeant, Trevor Coult, posted the footage on Twitter saying: "Not looking good for a Labour leader." Coult has since deleted the 26-second clip that seemingly originates from Snapchat.

The Ministry of Defence confirmed that the video, showing British troops shooting a Corbyn image at a shooting range in Kabul, is genuine.

Comment: These soldiers just expressed what their like-minded types in the establishment feel about Corbyn. If you see it from their perspective (a portion of them anyway), Corbyn is an existential threat to the fun they derive from killing people.

The UK has been at war continuously since 1914. They're not about to let some bloody socialist come in and put an end to it.

Britain has been at war continuously for 104 years

A tangential possibility is that they were put up to it as part of 'hate week' against Corbyn:

UK judge sparks controversy by saying man having sex with wife is 'fundamental human right'

Owen Bowcott
The Guardian
Thu, 04 Apr 2019 09:43 UTC

UK English Central Family court of protection

A row has erupted after a judge spoke in court about the "fundamental human right" of a man to have sex with his wife.

The remark was made by Mr Justice Hayden, who had been asked to consider imposing a court order preventing a man from having sex with his wife of 20 years because she may no longer be able to give her consent.

The case had been brought to the court of protection, which considers cases where people lack the mental capacity to make their own decisions, by lawyers for a council's social services after the condition of the woman, who has learning difficulties, began to deteriorate.

NY Magazine's 'collusion' pusher mocked mercilessly for doubling down on his Russiagate conspiracy theory

RT
Wed, 03 Apr 2019 15:18 UTC

A writer for New York Magazine has rehashed his most outlandish theory that US President Donald Trump could have been a Russian asset since the 1980s - and has been mercilessly mocked on Twitter for his efforts.

Proving that Russiagate is the conspiracy that just won't die - even in light of the Mueller report which found no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia - New York Magazine writer Jonathan Chait has revisited a piece he published in July 2018 in order to see how well it holds up today.

The article in question - which made the magazine's front cover - extravagantly contended that Trump could have been compromised by Moscow as far back as 1987. That claim holds up "extremely well" today according to Chait, who doubled down on Twitter on Tuesday, insisting that Russia holds "secret leverage" over Trump.

Texas border town residents threatened by human smugglers

OAN
Tue, 02 Apr 2019 06:54 UTC

Residents in a Texas border town say they are living in fear of so-called "cartel coyotes." According to residents near the Falfurrias border checkpoint on Monday, the area has become a stomping ground for human traffickers.

One rancher - identified only as Solia - said she regularly sees armed cartel gunman directing groups of illegal migrants as with as many as 70 people through her property in hopes of bypassing border check points. She also said the groups frequently threaten residents to stay quiet.

"They just put a finger to their lips and it's like... 'you better not say anything'...they know what we drive, they know where we live," explained the Texas rancher. "They were trying to get in towards the house."

Solia said she feels so threatened that she can no longer leave her house without a gun. She also said the number of human traffickers she sees has increased over the past years, and clearly illustrates the need for a wall at the border.

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Blackburn, UK: 230yo church engulfed in fire

BBC
Wed, 03 Apr 2019 00:00 UTC

Firefighters are tackling a huge blaze at one of the oldest church buildings in Blackburn.

It started just before 05:30 BST in The Bureau Centre for the Arts, in the former Church of St John the Evangelist, which opened in 1789. The Grade II-listed building is thought to be the oldest church in the town.

The Dean of Blackburn Cathedral, the Very Reverend Peter Howell-Jones, tweeted: "Very sad to see.......just praying now one was hurt."

Blackburn with Darwen Council, which owns the building, said it would work with the Bureau's directors to discuss its future. Watch manager Chris Archer said the cause of the fire was not suspicious.

Radical Islamic preachers gaining increasing influence in Dutch education

Janene Pieters
NL Times
Tue, 02 Apr 2019 17:48 UTC

Dutch intelligence service AIVD warns of radical influences in education in its annual report for 2018. According to the service, "radical Islamic boosters" play an increasingly emphatic role in the education offer for young Muslims in the Netherlands. In the long term, this could undermine the democratic legal order, the AIVD said, NOS reports.

As examples, the AIVD mentioned the "at first sight accessible and innocent" after-school lessons in Arabic and Islam. "We believe, however, that children and young people are alienated from society by this interpretation of education and may be hindered in their participation in society. This is caused by the intolerant and anti-democratic views of the initiators. According to the AIVD, "a new group of eloquent preachers" has been trained, and part of this group is not necessarily opposed to the violent jihadist ideology.

Got a lot of banning to do now if songs have to only contain official, literal, "truths" I reckon.

Neizvestno

We must believe lies as truth or face the consequences. I am not sure if I can assimilate into the Brave New World.

nuggatron

This figure is such an obvious parody and insult of the voters, I don't know why the whole deepfake administration was not court-martialled and...

codis

Only space aliens or pedojewzskies would abuse a child at school: [Link]

Jibrish

Good luck to them, to us all.

Demore

Society's Child

'Gender equality trailblazing' Nordic nations have 'disturbingly high' levels of rape, says Amnesty

Social justice warriors must stop harassing scientists

British Airways flight from London to Germany took off in the wrong direction and landed in Scotland

Virginia police officer under investigation after threatening schoolchildren

'Threat to our way of life' - British soldiers filmed using photo of Corbyn for target practice

UK judge sparks controversy by saying man having sex with wife is 'fundamental human right'

NY Magazine's 'collusion' pusher mocked mercilessly for doubling down on his Russiagate conspiracy theory

Texas border town residents threatened by human smugglers

Blackburn, UK: 230yo church engulfed in fire

Radical Islamic preachers gaining increasing influence in Dutch education

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