The CBC is being a little bit bashful in its wording here…

The Jewish Federation of Ottawa has confirmed Adi Vital-Kaploun, who has family ties to Ottawa, is dead as a result of the conflict in Israel.

Federation CEO Andrea Freedman said Vital-Kaploun was a proud dual-citizen of Canada and Israel. https://t.co/NroFlhqWyf

— CBC News (@CBCNews) October 11, 2023

Dead “as a result of the conflict”? Meaning what, dead of a broken heart?

But, I’m grateful to them in a way, because that silly periphrasis introduced me to this guy:

This should surprise no one. Ex-Muslims have been screaming about the Left-Muslim alliance since 9/11. It's the whole reason I got involved in talking about wokeness, for lack of a

What was that we were saying the other day (or maybe I was the one saying it) about how rape is basically legal in the UK? (Not that it’s much better in the US.) Tiny fraction reported; tiny fraction of those prosecuted; tiny fraction of those convicted.

Now we can add tiny fraction of those punished. It must be down to a thousandth of a rapist per annum by now.

Scottish man who R*ped a 13 year old girl smiles as he leaves court as his conviction is DROPPED due to liberal laws enacted by the Scottish government.

The 22 year old man repeatedly r*ped the 13 year old girl when he was aged 17 and was originally sentenced to

The Outside article with the subhead “Banning trans women from competitive cycling is an insult to all women” is written by…wait for it…a man who claims to be a woman. Well he would say that wouldn’t he – anything to fool or cheat or bully women into obedience.

My career as an athlete is a little complicated, though. As a trans woman, bike racing has always felt like a lose-lose proposition for me. If I do well, I risk getting called a cheater, or even worse, becoming a Fox News headline.

That’s because you are a cheater, bro.

Even before transitioning in 2020, seeing the hate directed at trans women athletes made me feel like competitive sports was a dead

Dishonest and stupid in one.

Banning trans women from competitive cycling is an insult to all women https://t.co/lvebkI2BGn

— Outside (@outsidemagazine) October 11, 2023

First of all nobody proposes “banning trans women from cycling.” The issue is that trans women have zero right to compete against women, because it’s unfair to the women.

Second, the insult is not to trans women, it’s to women. Letting men who call themselves women compete against women is a profound and multifaceted insult to women.… Read the rest

What a nightmare girls must live in.

“Most people aren’t able to do this job for more than two years.” It was a strange comment for an introductory training session, but it wasn’t an average first day of a new job. I was 27, living in Herne Hill and learning how to be an online sex and relationships advisor for young people on a salary of around £24,000 a year. “There’s no shame in quitting,” my trainer reassured me. “This type of work really takes its toll on a person.”

Because there’s so much of it? Because of all the research? Because too sedentary?

I realised there was one issue coming up over and over that shouldn’t be considered

Kenneth Roth, former executive director of Human Rights Watch (1993-2022), on atrocities and the moral high ground and international humanitarian law:

Hamas’s appalling attack on Israeli civilians has been widely described as the country’s “9/11 moment”. It is an appropriate description of such wanton cruelty. But the analogy carries a cautionary note as well.

The US government lost the world’s sympathy, and the moral high ground, when its response to 9/11 degenerated into a highly abusive war in Iraq, systematic torture, and endless detention without trial in Guantánamo. The Israeli government should be careful not to replicate this path to opprobrium. Indeed, such an abusive response may be exactly what Hamas wanted to provoke.

Hamas also thinks … Read the rest

Harvard students don’t actually know everything.

A letter from Harvard University student groups blaming Israel for violence in the region has drawn a backlash from prominent alumni and US lawmakers.

The letter, authored by the Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee, stated that students “hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence”.

Glad they’re not dogmatically absolutist about it.

“The apartheid regime is the only one to blame. Israeli violence has structured every aspect of Palestinian existence for 75 years,” the letter added.

And what was going on 75 years ago? 76 years ago? 77, 78, 79? That might have given Jews the idea that they needed a Jewish nation?

I overlooked this news last week:

Donald Trump has dropped his $500 million lawsuit against Michael Cohen, his former lawyer and fixer who is now a key witness in a criminal case against him, Cohen and a Trump spokesperson said Thursday night. But the former president did not waive his right to sue again.

Trump had accused Cohen of “spreading falsehoods” “with malicious intent” and causing “vast reputational harm” for talking publicly about hush-money payments made to women during Trump’s 2016 campaign that are at the heart of criminal charges he faces in New York. Trump has also accused Cohen of breaking a confidentiality agreement that he signed as a condition of his employment.

In other words Trump … Read the rest

Trump doesn’t have enough legal action going on so he’s suing, suing I tell you.

Donald J. Trump has claimed in a lawsuit in a London court that Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence officer, inflicted “personal and reputational damage and distress” on him by leaking a dossier detailing unsavory, unproven accounts of links between him and Russia during the 2016 presidential campaign.

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In a court filing last month, Mr. Trump’s lawyers said he was “compelled to explain to his family, friends, and colleagues that the embarrassing allegations about his private life were untrue. This was extremely distressing” for him, the filing said, asserting that Mr. Steele had presented the claims in a “sensationalist manner” that was “calculated

A month ago, on September 11, the president of Penn State explained about free speech and the First Amendment, while carefully also wringing her hands about how hurtful some speech can be – “not only offensive but deeply hurtful” she emphasized, without explaining the difference.

Today, it seems, Penn State canceled a talk by Riley Gaines, on account of how…um…er…

No way President of Penn State makes a whole video explaining why public institutions are legally obligated to let "bigots" apparently like me on campus to speak then proceeds to CANCEL my speech tomorrow for real women's day (X/X)😭😂

Have it your way. See ya tomorrow with a… pic.twitter.com/vHTPbK6hBZ

— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) October 9, 2023

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Phoning it in much?

Is it, as the South East Technological University (SETU) claims, “unlawful” to refuse to address someone by their preferred name or use their chosen pronouns? It isn’t and it shouldn’t be. But it is bad manners – and deliberate discourtesy is not a trivial matter.

I don’t understand why anyone has a problem calling people by the names they prefer. I’ve been doing it almost all my life.

If Fintan O’Toole really doesn’t understand then he hasn’t been paying attention. Easy for him, isn’t it. Women, on the other hand, have compelling reasons to be wary of men who order us to call them “Nellie” while taking over our spaces and even our feminism.

It started

A good thing for a change.

The women of Matobo, Zimbabwe paint their dwellings with intricate designs using charcoal, ash, water and soil, an annual ritual with continually changing imagery #womensart pic.twitter.com/amcolVsgPs

— #WOMENSART (@womensart1) October 10, 2023

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Outside Sydney Opera House:

Australian police said on Tuesday they were investigating a pro-Palestinian protest outside Sydney Opera House, after footage emerged of a small group appearing to chant anti-Semitic slogans at the demonstration.

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Unverified footage shared by the Australian Jewish Association and featured on Sky News appeared to show a small group outside the Opera House lighting flares and chanting “gas the Jews”.

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Protest organiser Palestine Action Group Sydney defended its right to protest “apartheid” in Israel but said a small number of “vile antisemitic attendees” had no place in their movement.

There was an interesting (and heated) discussion about Israel and apartheid on Start the Week yesterday.… Read the rest

Originally a comment by tigger_the_wing on Just dissolve that sucker.

I suspect that the reasons that they formed a ‘church’ were tax avoidance and lack of oversight; the latter enabled them to avoid prosecution for years, despite numerous complaints, injuries and deaths.

Because of the abuse of autistic children, there were a lot of campaigns from autistic advocates over the years; but the wheels of justice were clamped until governments finally made it illegal to administer the specific ingredients to children.

The ‘church’ had got away with it by handing out the ingredients and then giving unrecorded spoken instructions to the ‘congregation’ which, when followed, turned the MMS into a powerful industrial bleach.

Parents enthusiastically shared photos in online … Read the rest

It’s interesting that one way to poison people for $$$ is to tell them you’re a church. God and poison in one easy visit, hurrah!

A Florida man and three sons who used a business masquerading as a church to sell more than $1 million of a deadly bleach solution that they claimed was a “miracle” cure for Covid-19 and other diseases were each sentenced on Friday to several years in prison, federal prosecutors in Miami said.

Mark Grenon, 66, of Bradenton, Fla., and one of his sons, Joseph Grenon, 36, were sentenced to five years in prison for conspiring to defraud the government, while the two other sons, Jonathan Grenon, 37, and Jordan Grenon, 29, were sentenced to

Good to know Musk is careful with information at least.

As false information about the rapidly changing war between Gaza Strip militants and Israel proliferated on the social media platform X over the weekend, owner Elon Musk personally recommended that users follow accounts notorious for promoting lies.

“For following the war in real-time, @WarMonitors & @sentdefender are good,” Musk posted on the platform formerly called Twitter on Sunday morning to 150 million follower accounts. That post was viewed 11 million times in three hours, drawing thanks from those two accounts, before Musk deleted it.

Both were among the most important early spreaders of a false claim in May that there had been an explosion near the White House. The Dow

Nobel Prize in economics goes to a woman. Guess what her field is.

This year’s Nobel economics prize has been awarded to Claudia Goldin, an American economic historian, for her work on women’s employment and pay.

Prof Goldin’s research uncovered key drivers behind the gender pay gap, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said.

By “gender pay gap” the BBC means the fact that women earn less than men. Funny that it’s so taken for granted they don’t feel a need to spell it out.

And then the punchline:

She is only the third woman to receive the prize, and the first to not share the award with male colleagues.

Gender prize gap innit.

Isn’t it interesting that this … Read the rest

Grown-up news outlets shouldn’t be talking about manufactured babies this way:

This Is Going to Hurt author and ex-doctor Adam Kay is shattered, which is hardly surprising – he’s just been mopping up baby vomit and is clearly sleep-deprived.

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Kay and his husband, Games of Thrones producer James Farrell, share Ruby, aged 10 months, and Ziggy, six months, whom they had via surrogates.

They didn’t “have” anything. Two nameless women who obviously don’t matter did the having. Kay and his husband paid two women to carry and gestate and push out babies for them. It’s revolting to see an adult institution like the BBC prattle about babies that two men “had via surrogates.”… Read the rest

A music festival before dawn in a forest clearing near Kibbutz Re’im in southern Israel:

The music festival, known as Nova, was so loud that Cohen, who is thirty-one and lives in Tel Aviv, saw the rockets before he heard their sound. A handful of police officers soon arrived and broke up the party, shouting “Color Red”—code in Israel for incoming rocket fire.

As partygoers scrambled toward their cars or lay on the ground waiting for the barrage to pass, another kind of fire began. Cohen watched as four pickup trucks filled with armed militants and gunmen on motorcycles encircled the road leading out of the event venue, which was bottlenecked with cars attempting to flee the area. “They

The Sydney Morning Herald last month:

Hatred against trans people and a “radical precedent” in anti-discrimination law would flow from a lesbian group being allowed to invite only biological females to its events, Victoria’s peak union body has warned.

It’s not hatred for lesbians to have lesbian-only events. Women are the only people who can be lesbians; men can never be lesbians. Men who call themselves lesbians remain men. It’s not “hatred” to understand that men can’t be lesbians.

An application by the recently formed Lesbian Action Group to lawfully exclude trans women from a “Lesbians Born Female” event has caused a heated rift, with equality and inclusion advocates squaring off against women’s rights groups.

What about equality for … Read the rest