On October 22, Israel branded six respected Palestinian human-rights groups “terrorist organisations,” outraging the UN and the wider global community. This, coming from a state that imprisons and kills Palestinian children, and murders uniformed medics. On the Israeli Defense Ministry’s list were Addameer, Al-Haq, Defense for Children International Palestine (DCIP), …
Read More »Human civilization could ‘collapse’ like Roman Empire if climate change not addressed, UK PM Boris Johnson warns
“This is our memento mori,” Johnson told Italian paper la Repubblica during a flight to a G20 meeting in Rome, Italy, using a Latin phrase meaning, ‘Remember that you will die’. The event takes place ahead of a major UN climate change conference in Glasgow, Scotland, known as COP26. Rome …
Read More »China reports new human case of highly deadly bird flu in southern province
On Thursday, the Health Commission of Guangdong Province said it considered the risk of H5N6 transmission to be low after a local citizen was found to be infected with the bird flu strain. The case was reported in Dongguan, a southern city home to some 10 million people. It is …
Read More »Facebook has ruined human social interaction and now Zuckerberg’s ‘metaverse’ wants to destroy whatever’s left
The emergence of all-too-perfect whistleblower Frances Haugen, backed by a bevy of PR valkyries declaring Facebook a profit-seeking hive of hate, might suggest to some that the social network’s goose is cooked. But while the government and censor-happy NGOs delusionally battle over how best to carve up Facebook’s carcass, CEO …
Read More »‘It’s terrible’: Team USA ice stars condemn China for ‘human rights violations regarding the Muslims’ over Uyghur controversy
Politicians including Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the US House of Representatives, have called for a boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympic Games because of questions around China’s human rights records, including claims that have been supported by human rights groups over the incarceration of Muslims in the Xinjiang province …
Read More »Biden obviously doesn’t care about border security or human trafficking, since the government has lost 45,000 kids
This shouldn’t surprise anyone, because if there is one thing worse than liberal ideas, it’s liberal implementation of liberal ideas. Hello? Obamacare? According to the progressive site Axios, Biden’s immigration czar – Hello? Vice President Harris? – has somehow managed to lose contact with 45,000 unaccompanied minors she let into …
Read More »Vatican enjoys diplomatic immunity, European human rights court says, dismissing alleged child-abuse victims
On Tuesday, the top court dismissed a case submitted by two dozen people who claim to be survivors of child sexual abuse at the hands of the Catholic clergy from France, Belgium and the Netherlands. The alleged survivors had initially filed a class action in the Ghent Court of First …
Read More »Ruling that correct pronoun usage is a human right for trans people makes a MOCKERY of freedom of expression
The tribunal in British Columbia found in favour of restaurant waitress Jessie Nelson, who regards herself as a non-binary, gender fluid, transgender person. Nelson was fired from her job after asking the bar manager to stop using the pronouns ‘she/her’ and refer to her as ‘they/them’. What is really significant …
Read More »The gold standard of espionage is human intelligence, yet the CIA has never come close to perfecting the art and likely never will
The New York Times has run a front page story highlighting the dismal state of human intelligence collection on the part of America’s premier intelligence service, the CIA. It points out that the agency has, in the past few years, lost “dozens” of agents – captured, killed, or turned – …
Read More »Activist deceived into relationship with undercover officer wins landmark human rights case against Met Police
Kate Wilson began a relationship with Mark Stone after they met in 2003 and had a “whirlwind romance” with him until they went their separate ways in 2005. Half a decade later, however, she found out that her former lover was actually a married police officer called Mark Kennedy, who …
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