Israel’s National Public Diplomacy Authority prepared a billboard campaign for Holland, intending to raise awareness for the hostages still held by Hamas.
The campaign was supposed to be initiated as part of a variety of actions taken in response to the court case against Israel in the Hague.
The billboards were designed with pictures of hostages and the caption that the person in the picture was still captive and could not testify that day.
The main message of the signs was that 136 Israelis are still being held by Hamas and so were unavailable to testify in the International Court. These include victims and witnesses of the various crimes Hamas committed, both during and after the massacre.
Then 10 advertising companies were contacted, but all of them refused to run the campaign. During the negotiations with one of the companies, the wording of the sign was approved, but at the time when the sign was supposed to be displayed, the company reported they were canceling the deal.
Moshik Aviv, head of the Authority, stated: “Attempts to silence us will be answered with an even louder voice. Even in front of the Hague, there are those who aggressively and provocatively attempt to foil the public diplomacy campaign of hundreds of billboards throughout Holland, with a particular focus on the Hague. The truth will win and the State of Israel will continue to declare its just cause and tell the world the truth. We are operating an international public diplomacy campaign of unprecedented proportions. Despite everything, they will not silence us.”
The director of the Government Press Office, Moriah Shalom, commented: “The refusal by the advertising companies is a serious blow to the freedom of expression and Israel’s right to speak out loud against the terrorism from which its citizens are suffering. This is an obvious attempt to silence the voices of the Israeli hostages, who were taken captive during a murderous terrorist attack by Hamas. Their right to be heard is above any doubt.”
One of the things to remember about climate change madness is that it has all the scientific validity of the flat earth theory or the ancient medical belief in humors. That is to say, it’s a sealed universe driven by self-reinforcing faith and fantasy without any serious reality attached. The last two days have brought two new examples of the delusions and outright lies that drive the climate change narrative.
On the delusion side, we have Axios’s horror that the earth is within 1.5 degrees of the global warming limit set at the Paris Climate Accords, paired with its assurance that (and I’m quoting more accurately than Claudine Gay ever would), “The climate of 2023 was the hottest seen in at least 125,000 years…” (Emphasis mine.)
There are a couple of obvious problems with that article.
First, the Paris Climate Accords was a political agreement aimed at keeping the U.S. economy flat while other nations, which burn filthy coal, were unfettered. Let’s just say that I don’t take its “limits” seriously—although, of course, the climate changistas do.
Second, and this is the more important one, it’s nonsense to pretend we know to a “half-a-degree Celsius” how hot it was 125,000 years ago. Humans began keeping temperature records in the mid-19th century. Everything before that is guesswork. Some of it is scientifically detailed guesswork based upon ice core samples and tree rings, but it’s still estimates without precision.
Here’s what NOAA (the government’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) has to say about those ice core samples:
Scientists run melted samples through various instruments—mass spectrometers, scanning electron microscopes, gas chromatographs—to find tiny pieces of pollution, like sulfates, traces of metals, or radioactive fallout, or natural aerosols like dust or volcanic ash.
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After analyzing enough ice core slices, which may each represent anywhere from a week to a year of time, a researcher can look for patterns to track changes in the atmosphere’s composition and temperature, and what activity on Earth shaped it.
The ratio of “light” oxygen-16 to “heavy” oxygen-18 in a sample, for instance, reveals the global temperature when the ice formed; it takes colder temperatures for water vapor containing the lighter oxygen isotope to turn into precipitation. Examining the gasses trapped in ice cores is how scientists first learned that the amount of carbon dioxide and the global temperature have been linked at least the last million years of Earth’s history.
Thus, those cores allow us to go beyond merely concluding that a specific era was merely “hot” or “cold.” Instead, you get a level of detail that encompasses “warm,” “hot,” “very hot,” etc. On the flip side, you’ve got “chilly,” “cold,” and Ice Age, 50 of which have occurred in the last 2.6 million years. We don’t have details, but we know that the earth is a dynamic, ever-changing entity when it comes to temperatures.
Speaking of NOAA, the next bit of climate nonsense comes from NOAA. According to Just the News, a study reveals that NOAA has been less than honest in reporting about “billion dollar disasters”:
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Tuesday released its final tally for 2023 of disasters exceeding $1 billion in damages. According to NOAA, there were 28 such disasters in 2023, which set the highest record since 1980 when the agency began keeping track of the figure.
The study’s author, Dr. Roger Pielke Jr., professor of environmental studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has done extensive research over nearly three decades into the trends of disaster costs over time, which show the trends are actually declining.
Pielke explains that NOAA’s report was anything but transparent and violated its own scientific integrity guidelines.
I believe that humans are the earth’s stewards. We have a responsibility to keep it a clean, viable place for ourselves and our descendants. The anti-pollution measures of the early 1970s, when rivers were burning, and the skies over American cities looked like those over Beijing (where the smog is so bad you can see it inside the airport), were sensible.
Climate change madness, though, is another Marxist farce built on lies dressed up as “science.” It’s intended only to push through damaging policies that will eventually see us revert to a pre-modern world where transportation was limited to how far a person could walk, people routinely died from extreme heat and cold, and famine was omnipresent.
In a shocking case of moral policing, an interfaith couple was attacked by a mob of six Muslim men in a hotel room in Karnataka’s Haveri district. They barged into a room in the hotel in Hanagal Taluk of Haveri District where a Hindu man and a Muslim woman were staying, abused and thrashed them, while video recording the attack. The video clip of the attack went viral prompting the police to take action against the assaulters. The attack took place on January 7. The woman later said that she was gang-raped by the attackers after they took her away from the hotel.
In the video recorded by the attackers, it can be seen that the six men knocked on the door of the hotel room and wait. When a man opens the door, they barge in start assaulting and abusing them. One of them charges towards the woman, who tries to cover her face with a burqa. The man slaps her so hard that she falls to the floor.
Continuing to mutter expletives, three of the attackers catch the man who tries to escape and thrash him. The woman in the meantime gets up and sits on the floor, when one assaulter corners her near the bed, while another one hits her and drags her to the floor. After that, the attackers dragged the couple out of the hotel room. The victims were pleading to let them go, but they didn’t listen.
In another video taken after the attack in the room, the woman is with the attackers outside the hotel. She tries to cover her face, but the men lift her hijab and film her.
The result of the Mohabbat ki dukaan of @RahulGandhi –
A Hindu boy & a Muslim girl couple were brutally trashed, dragged to streets, assaulted & the entire act was filmed.
Aftab Ahmed, Md Isaaq Mandakki & Samiullah Lalanavar are arrested but remaining are absconding. pic.twitter.com/dEZzHa0PfJ
Anshu Kumar, superintendent of police, Haveri, said that after the assault in the hotel, the attackers took the woman alone to a place and assaulted her and later dropped her on the road.
The couple filed a complaint at the Hanagal police station after the incident, and three out of the six men have been arrested. A staff member of the lodge also lodged a complaint in the matter. The arrested attackers are identified as Afatb Maqbool Ahmed Chandankatti (24), Samaiullah Lalanavar (23) and Mohammed Isaaq Mandakki (23). SP Anshu Kumar added that the search for the other accused is on.
Gang rape allegation
Later on Thursday, a video emerged where the woman claimed that she was gang-raped when she was taken away by the attackers from the hotel. She claimed that she was raped by seven men in a jungle before she was dumped near a bus stand.
The woman said that after attacking her in the hotel room, she was taken to a jungle and raped by seven men at different places before she was abandoned near a bus stop. She said that she was taken to the jungle on a bike, and she was raped at three different locations in the jungle by the attackers.
She added that after some time, three of the seven men took her in a car and threw her near a bus stop, asking her to take a bus to Sirsi.
Cops said that the rape charge was not made in the original complaint, and they are investigating this claim. Haveri SP Anshu Kumar said that the rape charge was not made earlier and the police learned about it later after the video of the woman emerged. He said, “We weren’t told about rape earlier. We came to know about this only through media report about the video by the woman. We have booked a case under the appropriate section, investigation is ongoing.”
Disgusting repeated Incidents of Moral Policing comes to light from from Haveri, Karnataka.
A Gang barged into a hotel and trash a interfaith couple. The group abusing, assaulting the girl, trying to remove her scarf while she was trying to cover it. 2 people arrested pic.twitter.com/my58LH5zsD
Police said that the accused were not affiliated to any organisation, but were previously booked in a similar case.
As per police, the 26-year-old Muslim married woman from Sirsi in Uttara Kannada district was in a consensual relationship with a Hindu man from Shivamogga district, and they were assaulted soon after they checked into the hotel on 7 January. The accused saw the woman in a burqa entering the hotel with a Hindu man, followed them and barged into the room to assault them.
The accused men are booked under IPC sections 354 (b) (Assault or use of criminal force to woman with intent to disrobe), 506 (criminal intimidation), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace), 143 (unlawful assembly), 147 (rioting), 149 (unlawful assembly with common intention), 448 (house trespass), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) and 354 (assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty).
This is the second incident in a week in Karnataka. On 6th January, a Hindu boy and his Muslim cousin-sister were attacked by a Muslim mob assuming them be an interfaith couple. The incident took place in Belagavi, Karnataka, when the cousins were waiting in a park for a nearby govt office to reopen after lunch break. The attackers, armed with pipes and rods, beat the siblings mercilessly for hours, causing severe injuries.
Former Karnataka CM Basavaraj Bommai questioned why CM Siddaramaiah was silent over the highly condemnable incident of moral policing.
The assault on a couple in a lodge in Hangal of Haveri district by some miscreants in the name of moral policing is highly condemnable. The police must arrest all those who were involved in the moral policing and punish for their act.
Bommai tweeted, “The assault on a couple in a lodge in Hangal of Haveri district by some miscreants in the name of moral policing is highly condemnable. The police must arrest all those who were involved in the moral policing and punish for their act. After manhandling the girl, she had been taken to the secluded place and reportedly sexually assaulted her. This incident of the moral policing by the miscreants has given the feeling whether the state government existed or not?”
He then asked CM Siddaramaiah to clarify his stand on this issue. “Why Chief Minister Siddaramaiah who talks a lot about moral policing, is silent on this particular incident. Is it because the miscreants belonged to the Minority community? Mr @siddaramaiah, clarify your stand on this incident,” added Bommai.
A FlixBus from France that was travelling towards Brussels has been stopped by police on the motorway, reports the Nieuwsblad.
The bus is currently stopped in Wetteren, about 50 kilometres from the Belgian capital, and special units are on their way to take over the operation, according to local media reports. The police suspect a passenger on this FlixBus of having “terrorist motives” and wanting to carry out an attack. The mayor of Wetteren has so far refused to comment on the case. Actu17
UPDATE
“A woman on the bus heard suspicious comments,” said Federal Minister of Justice Paul Van Tigchelt. The passenger then called the police. According to Nieuwsblad, she reported that several people were talking about an attack. Four suspects were arrested and are now to be questioned by the police.
Explosives experts accompanied by a specialised dog are currently on duty on the FlixBus to ensure that the suspects were not carrying any weapons or dangerous objects. The bus was travelling between Lille and Brussels.
Nicholas “Sapphire” Cunningham. Photo: Mahoning County Jail
A sex offender is in custody after being charged in the murder of his 12-year-old victim’s aunt. Nicholas Cunningham, also known as “Sapphire” or “Saphire,” was arrested in November in connection to the death of 44-year-old Gena Wade of Smith Township, Ohio.
Wade was first found dead in her home on October 26 by a young relative who was arriving home from school, with the youth reportedly seeing blood throughout the home. Smith Township Police immediately suspected homicide, and launched an investigation with the assistance of the Mahoning County Sheriff’s office. After two weeks of gathering evidence, Cunningham, 33, was arrested and charged with murder, aggravated murder, aggravated burglary, and two counts of violating a protection order.
While details on the case are limited as the proceedings are ongoing, police and court records have confirmed that Cunningham and Wade were known to each other, and that Wade had successfully filed for a restraining order against Cunningham in March of 2023.
In the application for the order, Wade revealed that Cunningham had been stalking her 12-year-old niece and sending disturbing threats to both her and the girl’s mother via text and Facebook.
Cunningham had reportedly become obsessed with the minor, and was determined to see her despite the objections of her family. While a hearing was scheduled for March 31 and Cunningham’s presence was requested before a judge, he never showed up, resulting in the court granting Wade her order.
Gena Wade. Photo Courtesy of Dean’s Funeral Home.
The order stated that Cunningham had to stay away from Wade and her family, and was not to “abuse, harm, attempt to harm, threaten, follow, stalk, harass, force sexual relations upon or commit sexually oriented offenses against the protected persons named in this order.” He also had to turn in any weapons he owned.
At the time of the protection order, Cunningham was already known to authorities as a registered sex offender stemming from a 2015 conviction for the sexual abuse of a child under the age of 13. During the trial, Cunningham attempted to claim incompetency, and a psychiatric evaluation was conducted by the court.
While one psychiatrist found Cunningham was competent, another disagreed and argued that Cunningham had an IQ of approximately 53.
Nicholas Cunningham. Photo Courtesy of the Mahoning County Jail.
He was also addicted to drugs, and had been diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome. While some debate surrounded Cunningham’s competency, another assessment found that Cunningham scored “much higher than the average mean score for defendants with mental retardation that were found competent to stand trial.”
Cunningham was ultimately sentenced to 3 years in prison, and was ordered to the sex offender registry for life. In his sex offender profile, “Sapphire” is provided as his alias, though his sex is still marked as “male.” On a now-barren Facebook believed to belong to Cunningham, his listed “gender” is “female.”
In the case of Wade’s death, Cunningham has once again pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, and an evaluation has been ordered.
According to Vindy, a new filing submitted by Cunningham’s attorney states that the predator “is not competent and does not presently have sufficient ability to consult with his lawyer with a reasonable degree of rational understanding.” Cunningham’s lawyer has also said he does not “have a rational as well as factual understanding of the proceedings against him.”
Cunningham is being held in the Mahoning County jail on a $500,000 bond. His next appearance in court is scheduled for January 22.
An overwhelming majority of Germans back the farmers’ protests despite media claims that the “far right” was co-opting the demonstrations, a tactic that was also used by the media to discredit Covid-19 demonstrations in Germany.
A new poll from INSA shows that 69 percent of Germans support the current farmers’ protests, while only 22 percent reject them. Despite one in five poll respondents saying they were directly affected by the protests, which featured tractors blockading roads and highways, the majority still gave their nod of approval.
Support is highest among respondents who said they would vote for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, with 88 percent of the party’s backers expressing sympathy for the farmers’ protest.
🇩🇪WATCH: German children join farmers' protest against the red-green government. pic.twitter.com/9v59E8yPeO
The support for farmers is particularly clear with regard to the climate protests. Only around 16 percent of Germans recently stated that they had sympathy for the climate radicals of the “last generation,” while 79 percent were of the opposite opinion.
The farmers’ protest week has sparked the survival instincts of left-wing politicians and journalists, many of whom appeared to go into panic over videos of endless columns of tractors coupled with criticism of the ruling government. Nearly in unison, they printed stories or made allegations about “right-wing infiltration.”
Thuringia’s Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow (Left Party), who was booed in the city of Erfurt on Monday, claimed protesters who dared boo him were “Reich citizens.”
WATCH: 🇩🇪 Thousands of German farmers commence their action week against the federal government by blocking highways up and down the country. #Bauernprotestepic.twitter.com/uvfHQ4Lu01
The science writer Dr. Christian Scharun also suddenly saw Nazis everywhere he turned, taking to X when he believed a farmer’s banner in one photo stated “Führer Gemüse,” a reference to “Hitler vegetables.” However, if he had looked more closely at the sign, it actually read “Föhrer Gemüse” which are vegetables from the North Sea island Föhr.
PiS President Jarosław Kaczyński during a parliamentary intervention in front of the Warsaw-Grochów Remand Center. Photo: @pisorgpl on X (Twitter), 9 January, 2024.. https://europeanconservative.com/
An extraordinary day in Polish politics ended with two MPs arrested by police in the Presidential Palace – without President Andrzej Duda’s approval.
Outraged Conservative PiS party members and supporters gathered in front of the Palace and a Warsaw police station holding the detained MPs to express their fury following the events.
On the morning of January 9, the police received a court order to arrest PiS MPs, former interior minister Mariusz Kamiński and his deputy Maciej Wąsik, whose presidential pardons had been questioned by judges despite having been upheld by both the Constitutional Tribunal and Supreme courts.
Under the direction of interior minister Marcin Kierwiński, the police had intended to arrest the two MPs at their homes. That did not happen as both had already left for a function at the Palace where they stayed for several hours as guests of Duda.
That evening, the President left to meet Svetlana Tsihanovskaya, the Belarusian opposition leader. Minutes after his departure, the police entered the Palace and seized Kamiński and Wąsik, taking them to a police station in another part of the city.
According to Grażyna Ignaczak-Bandych, one of Duda’s senior aides, the police did not show any official documentation and simply arrested the two MPs.
On being informed of the events, Duda attempted to leave his meeting with Tsihanovskaya but the gate to the building he was at was blocked by a Warsaw city bus.
Ignaczak-Bandych said the President was contacting allies and international organisations regarding the affair and would state that the country’s laws and Constitution were being disregarded by the Government.
Earlier in the day, the Speaker of Parliament Szymon Hołownia opted to delay the latest planned sitting of Parliament by a week to try to quell unrest over the events as the PiS aimed to demonstrate outside the Parliament building on January 11.
Prime Minister Donald Tusk did not seem to be singing from the same hymn sheet; at a press conference, he threatened Duda with being criminally charged if he continued to try to “protect” the two MPs.
Tusk accused him of “colluding” with the PiS in “undermining the rule of law” and cited an article from the penal code that states any person who attempts to “pervert the course of justice” and is found guilty risks a prison term of three months to five years.
Duda, while President, can only be tried and removed from office by being put before the State Tribunal, with two-thirds of members of both Houses of Parliament upholding any such decision.
Tusk’s ruling coalition holds 314 of 560 seats in the both parliamentary houses, well short of the required majority to unseat a president.
Just before Kamiński and Wąsik were arrested, the PiS leader Jarosław Kaczyński appeared on independent news channel TV Republika and said Poland was on the eve of “having political prisoners” and predicted that “this was only the beginning”.
Once news of the detention of the two MPs broke, PiS supporters gathered outside the Presidential Palace to protest at the Government’s actions.
Former Polish prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki said: “Poland has political prisoners again,” in reference to Communist times.
Leader of the PiS parliamentary caucus Mariusz Błaszczak backed his colleagues, saying: “In the Tusk-owned State, Civic Platform [party] politicians charged with corruption are free.
“PiS politicians, who have been fighting against corruption during their entire political careers, are being sent to prison.”
In a separate development, a Warsaw court refused to register the new board of Polish public TVP station appointed by the Government just before Christmas.
Culture minister Bartłomiej Sienikiewicz had apparently anticipated that may happen – just after Christmas he put TVP and other public media into “liquidation”.
PiS supporters claim Tusk is effectively orchestrating a coup d’etat in which he has taken over all judicial functions and the public media.
In addition, they claim, he is ignoring decisions taken by the top courts and Duda and expect that, since Tusk did not flinch from sending the police into the Presidential Palace, he would not hesitate to send law-enforcement officers to seize those leading the top courts, too.
Deputy Speaker Krzysztof Bosak, who is also one of the leaders of the PiS rivals on the Right, the Confederation party, slammed the Government’s actions. He said they were confrontational, disrespectful to Duda and meant that “it was now the police which decided which organs of State were legal”.
Tusk supporters claim the Government is merely upholding the law and the principle that all are equal before it. They accuse the PiS of having seized control of the courts and public media when in power and having used them against their political opponents.
The PiS argues that Kamiński and Wąsik are innocent and that the recent upholding of their convictions is invalid because Duda’s pardons remain in place.
It claims the pair have been victimised by Tusk-led authorities including the current Government and judges due to the PiS’ “effective” fight against corruption.
Liberty Leading the People (1830), a 260 x 325 cm oil on canvas by Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863), located Musée du Louvre, Paris, France. Public Domain
Recent studies show that the academic level of young French people has collapsed, particularly in the French language and mathematics. A survey of 16-24 year-olds has added to the toll, this time looking at history: almost half of them are unable to place the start of the French Revolution in time.
French history is often invoked in speeches by French politicians, who like to summon the spirits of their predecessors and follow in the footsteps of great men—with varying degrees of success. And what can we say about the famous ‘spirit of Enlightenment’ or the so-called ‘Republican values’, which have become the yardstick for all political action, on the Right as well as the Left? To summon them up, we need to know where they come from. This is likely to prove an increasingly complicated task in the future, since by dint of having reduced the teaching of history to a kind of unstructured mush, the history of France speaks less and less to the younger generations, including on events as ideologically symbolic as the French Revolution, considered to be the matrix of contemporary France.
A survey carried out for the newspaper La Tribune Dimanche in early 2024 revealed that 46% of 16-24 year-olds are unable to place the start of the French Revolution in 1789. Another subject with strong symbolic power is the abolition of the death penalty, often used in France in public debate as a marker of political respectability—the camp of the good defining itself as abolitionist. 77% of these same young French people do not know the date of its abolition, in this case 1981, under the socialist presidency of François Mitterrand.
In terms of universal history, despite the media’s obsession with the Second World War and the Vichy regime, often summed up in the phrase “the darkest hours of our history,” which serves as a common reference for evil, 37% of those polled do not know when Hitler came to power, do not know what the Rafle du Vel d’Hiv (Vel d’Hiv Roundup) was, and do not know the meaning of the expression ‘Final Solution.’
Finally, when it comes to civic education, 41% of those polled believe that secularism exists primarily to discriminate against Muslims. Proof, if proof were needed, that the victim mentality conveyed by the French education system, about the French Republic oppressing minorities, has borne dangerous fruit.
In-depth history teaching, like the teaching of grammar and spelling, has long been sacrificed in the course of curriculum reforms, so the result of this survey comes as no great surprise. But the irony is that the ideological foundation on which progressive republican France has been built is now being eroded. The French Revolution, the founding myth of the origins of modern France, will soon mean no more to the average teenager than the reign of Philip III the Bold.
As for the republican values erected by the radicals as a republican catechism just over a century ago, they have ended up being emptied of their meaning and consigned to oblivion by communitarians of all stripes. Perhaps there is some good news to be gleaned from all this: on this rubble, we may one day be able to hope to put our long-term history back on track.
The media and other Democrats have been trying to destroy President Trump since before he even took office, even though that meant endless lies and concocted criminal hoaxes. They can’t afford an outsider to come in and take away the power they have amassed.
Now, Nancy Pelosi admits that states should just overrule the Constitution to keep Trump off the ballot. Ignoring the Constitution? What an odd way to protect our “democracy.” From Mike Miller at RedState:
So, to protect and defend the Constitution, Pelosi believes [Democrat] states should ‘overrule’ it and ban Donald Trump from running for president in those states. Perfect ‘logic’ — ‘Pelosi logic,’ that is.
Here’s the clip:
ABC: "You believe [Trump] is ineligible to be president?"
NANCY PELOSI: "They have different laws from state-to-state."
Why don’t the Democrats run on their record? The answer is clear. Their record and policies are unsuccessful and unpopular, and Trump’s policies were both successful and popular.
Trump told the protesters to walk “peacefully and patriotically” to the Capitol, and in large part, they did. Pelosi knew there were going to be protests, and somehow didn’t secure the Capitol. It is she who was derelict! Did she want the protesters to get out of hand? Was this a set-up?
It sure seems that Pelosi, most of the media, and all the other Democrats haven’t cared about the Constitution for a long time, or have forgotten which branches of government are responsible for what things. Here is a refresher, from the Truman Library:
A PRESIDENT CANNOT . . .
make laws.
declare war.
decide how federal money will be spent.
interpret laws.
choose Cabinet members or Supreme Court Justices without Senate approval.
And this, from the U.S. courts website: “The judicial branch decides the constitutionality of federal laws and resolves other disputes about federal laws.”
Over the years, Pelosi and other Democrats have shown that they don’t care about the separation of powers or the abuse of power, just as long as the abuse comes from other Democrats.
They didn’t care when Obama used the IRS to violate the First Amendment’s free speech and freedom of association protections of his political opponents.
They didn’t care when Obama dictatorially and unconstitutionally implemented DACA without going through Congress.
They don’t care that Biden ignores his oath of office by refusing to enforce immigration laws Congress passed.
They ignore when executive branch agencies enact de facto laws (by mandates and rules) on “climate change” issues without going through Congress.
They don’t care as Biden dictatorially spends hundreds of billions of dollars writing off student loans without getting congressional approval, in what is an obvious move to coerce political support.
They intentionally mislead the public on the nature of Roe v. Wade, claiming that the Supreme Court gave women a “constitutional right” to abortion, and the overturning of Roe v. Wade represents an “attack on constitutional rights.” The Supreme Court is not charged with making laws or changing the Constitution, and since explicit protection of a supposed “right to abortion” is not found within the Constitution, it does not exist. The current Supreme Court did its job when it overturned what was obviously legislation from the bench, and returned the decision to legislative bodies.
Democrats, including Carter, Clinton, Obama, Biden, Pelosi, Schumer, and others have had fifty years to pass a federal law codifying abortion, but never did, even when they had complete control of Congress. Why?
Nancy Pelosi is routinely described as extremely smart, but to me she has seemed to be a few bricks short of a load for a long time. For example:
In 2008, when Nancy Pelosi was 68 years old, she seemed to have no idea where natural gas comes from when she promoted it as an alternative to oil and coal:
Nancy Pelosi Still Doesn’t Know Where Natural Gas Comes From
The day before the Democratic National Convention Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) went on Meet the Press and told Tom Brokaw:
‘I’m, I’m, I’m investing in something I believe in. I believe in natural gas as a clean, cheap alternative to fossil fuels. … These investments in wind, in solar and biofuels and focus on natural gas, these are the real alternatives.’
As we pointed out at the time, natural gas is not an alternative to fossil fuels … it is a fossil fuel. And as the ‘Energy Kids Page’ of the Energy Information Administration (EIA) explains, it is a fossil fuel that needs to be drilled for.
Do we want people who are so confused about where resources come from to make the laws and regulations to determine what we drive, how we cook our food, and how we heat and cool our houses?
Our political “representatives” are categorically uninformed on a number of issues, but nowhere is it more dangerous than their woeful lack of understanding of the very document they’re supposed to be defending and upholding.
A woman who was suspended by council bosses over he belief a person “cannot change their sex” has won a landmark legal claim.
Rachel Meade, from Dartford in Kent, won the discrimination case on the basis of her protected beliefs under the Equality Act 2010.
She was issued with a one-year warning by Social Work England after a complaint was lodged in 2020.
Meade received the complaint after making and liking gender-critical posts on Facebook.
The social worker was sanctioned by Social Work England and subsequently suspended by Westminster City Council for gross misconduct.
Council chiefs also launched a disciplinary investigation and warned she could be sacked for misconduct.
Meade received a final written warning after her suspension.
She claimed she was “bullied into silence” when trying to “speak up for women’s rights”.
The posts were mostly made during the Government’s consultation period on the reform to the Gender Recognition Act.
A 51-page judgment declared Meade’s Facebook posts fell “within her protected rights for freedom of thought and freedom to manifest her beliefs”.
It also ruled: “The opinions expressed by the claimant could not sensibly be viewed as being transphobic when properly considered in their full context from an objective perspective, but rather her expressing an opinion contrary to the interpretation of legislation, or perhaps more accurately the amendment to existing legislation, advocated for by trans lobbying groups to include, but not limited to, Stonewall.”
The judgment added: “In particular we do not consider that the respondents struck a fair balance between the claimant’s right to freedom of expression and the interests of those who they perceived may be offended by her Facebook posts.”
Responding to the judgment, Meade said it was a “huge relief to be so completely vindicated”.
She added: “It has been a horrendous experience. This ruling makes it clear that I was entitled to contribute to the important public debate on sex and gender.
“I hope it will make it easier for other regulated professionals to speak up without threats to their career and reputation.”
Shazia Khan, a lawyer from Cole Khan Solicitors representing Meade, called the judgment a “landmark victory for common sense and free speech in the culture war on gender issues”.
She added: “We demand apologies from Westminster City Council and Social Work England who have to date failed to acknowledge and accept their breaches of the Equality Act 2010 and the harrowing impact of their actions upon my client.
“We now call for urgent root and branch reform from the top down of both organisations to mitigate against further unlawful discrimination of employees and registrants.”
A Westminster City Council spokesperson said: “We apologise to Rachel Meade for the way she has been treated and the upset that has been caused.
“We acknowledge and accept the findings of the tribunal.
“As recent landmark cases have shown and the tribunal noted, the issues and policy making involving gender recognition and rights is a fast-evolving area.
“We will be carefully studying the points made in the judgement and considering what changes we need to make at Westminster City Council to ensure the best balance we can to support our staff, service users and our partners.”
Colum Conway, Chief Executive of Social Work England, added: “We acknowledge the Judgment of the London Central Employment Tribunal in the case of Ms Rachel Meade against Westminster City Council and Social Work England.
“The tribunal made findings in respect of Ms Meade’s claims against Social Work England.
“Following the judgment, all parties have the opportunity to consider the decision and their options.
“As such, we do not intend to provide further comment at this time. Any further updates will be published on our website.”
