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Drive to ban ‘racist’ dogs from the Welsh countryside to make the outdoors more ‘inclusive’

Labour-run Wales has been told to ban dogs from parts of the countryside to help make the outdoors ‘anti-racist’. 

The devolved administration has vowed to end racism in the country by 2030 and ensure ‘all areas’ of public life are transformed.

According to a report funded by the Welsh government to help steer its ‘anti-racist’ policy, dog-free zones should be set up to make outdoor areas more inclusive. 

A government spokesman today insisted it was not planning to act on the proposal and dogs ‘would continue to be welcomed in the hills of Wales’. 

The creation of ‘dog-free areas in local green spaces’ is one of a slate of recommendations in the evidence report, compiled by environmental group Climate Cymru BAME.

Others include creating more urban allotments where people can grow their own food and handing out grants and subsidies to students, members of ethnic minorities and asylum seekers to help them ‘commit more to environment and climate change issues’.  

The taxpayer-funded report has been widely slated online and was described by Welsh Tory leader Andrew RT Davies as ‘virtual signalling nonsense’. 

‘This kind of outdated virtue signalling nonsense is completely out of touch with the needs of the people of Wales,’ he told the Telegraph.

‘Labour is stuck on yesterday’s thinking, the kind that is being roundly rejected globally. Time to turf them out.’

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Irish Leader Suggests ‘Illegal Migrants’ Don’t Even Exist

The Prime Minister of Ireland suggested during an interview that illegal migrants don’t even exist, refusing to even acknowledge that the term has any meaning.

The head of the Taoiseach was asked by the host, “So do you know how many illegal migrants we have in the country at the moment?”

He responded by acting completely baffled, before suggesting that there is no such thing.

“What does the phrase illegal migrants mean? Because that’s a phrase that is used by some but that’s not a phrase in law,” said Simon Harris.

“Anybody has a right to come here and seek international protection, it is the job then of the Department of Justice to assess the validity of that application,” he added.

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Telegraph Journalist Gets “Hate Incident” Visit From Police Over Year Old Tweet

A journalist with the London Telegraph has been visited unannounced at her home by police in the UK who told her they are investigating a “non-crime hate incident” over a tweet she posted a year ago.

Yes, really.

Allison Pearson relates what happened on Sunday in an article, noting that police will not tell her which post is the subject of the investigation, nor will they tell her who her accuser is or what they feel offended about.

The only detail given was that it is some sort of accusation of “racial hatred”.

The police also made it clear that she should refer to her accuser as a “victim”.

The Telegraph notes that Essex Police said on Tuesday night that officers had opened an investigation under section 17 of the Public Order Act 1986 relating to material allegedly “likely or intended to cause racial hatred”.

A police spokesman said “We’re investigating a report passed to us by another force. The report relates to a social media post which was subsequently removed. An investigation is now being carried out under section 17 of the Public Order Act.”

Pearson charges that the visit is “living proof of a two tier justice system,” and describes the incident as “Kafkaesque.”

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Trump’s war on “woke” ideology could trigger mass exit of Pentagon staff

If President-elect Donald Trump follows through on his campaign promises in his victory speech, the Pentagon could see personnel fired, especially “woke” generals who have embraced progressive movements associated with racial and social issues.

In his last term, Trump faced numerous forms of resistance, especially from the Pentagon, largely due to his position on security issues such as NATO or his willingness to put troops on the streets to suppress protests in the US. Former generals and defence secretaries have been some of the former president’s fiercest critics, labelling him a fascist and saying he was unfit to be president, a Reuters investigation found.

Having gained experience in his first term, Trump is expected to prioritise loyalty in key elements of his administration, which could lead to the removal of military officers and career civil servants he deems disloyal.

In June, when questioned by Fox News, Trump said he would fire generals described as “woke.”

“I would fire them. You can’t have (a) woke military,” Trump said.

According to the Reuters investigation, sources believe that the current chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr, a former fighter pilot and widely respected black military commander, is in Trump’s crosshairs after he spoke out on racial discrimination in the US following the May 2020 killing of George Floyd.

During the election campaign, Vice President-elect JD Vance expressed his opinion during an interview by stating that political leaders have to “get rid of them and replace” the people who are not aligned with the political vision that the head of state is trying to implement.

This speech corroborates the fear of some of the American elite who understand that this anti-woke movement by Trump could become broad.

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Counsellor wins £70,000 after ‘trans heresy hunt’ at rape charity

A trauma specialist has been awarded almost £70,000 and won a public apology from the rape crisis charity who forced her out of her job in a row over women-only spaces.

The payment to Roz Adams was twice the anticipated figure and came after a tribunal found she was the victim of a “heresy hunt” at Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre (ERCC), where her “sex realist” beliefs were at odds with those of Mridul Wadhwa, the trans activist who was the centre’s chief executive.

Adams suffered harassment after she stood up for a female victim who wanted assurances she would receive counselling from a woman, with Wadhwa identified as the “invisible hand” behind the counsellor’s persecution.

For 16 months under Wadhwa, who identifies as a trans woman but has no gender recognition certificate, the ERCC had no women-only spaces. Referrals to the centre have been paused while its safeguarding procedures are revamped.

In his remedy ruling, Ian McFatridge, the judge, ordered the centre to publish a statement and to refer survivors of sexual assault to Beira’s Place, the women’s refuge established by the author JK Rowling as an alternative source of support for female victims of sexual violence.

The ERCC has been ordered to apologise publicly to Adams for alleging that she was transphobic and acknowledge that there was no evidence to support the allegation and that its disciplinary action against her was wrong.

The centre is also required to acknowledge Adams “was motivated by a wish to act in the best interests of service users when she questioned how to respond to the service user” and that nothing the counsellor did constituted bullying or harassment.

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Internal CIA Documents, Presentation Show Effort To Mandate DEI At Center Of Intel Agency

The below article by Just the News heavily draws upon the May 2024 DACODAI meeting that STARRS monitored and recorded, primarily the briefing by the CIA’s Chief Zampolit aka Political Commissar aka Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer.

DACODAI is the SECDEF’s DEI advisory committee whose goal is to advise him how to push the CRT/DEI agenda even further on the Armed Forces. It had its basis in the Military Leadership Diversity Commission (pdf), which, among many things, said that assimilation in the military was no longer the goal and diversity wasn’t about treating everyone the same (see page 18).

During the December 2023 DACODAI meeting, one of the committee members noted that the CIA had managed to achieve a 50% male/50% female ratio and the thought among the committee was why can’t the ARMED Forces (their charter is not DOD civilians) do the same? (China would love this) So they made a note to ask someone from the CIA to brief them on how the Agency pushes DEI and achieved this goal.

At the next public DACODAI meeting (which at the last minute they changed to be online rather than in-person because STARRS had a host of people who were going to attend), the CIA’s top DEI officer gave one of the presentations (all of which are on STARRS Rumble Channel).

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‘What Did He Even Mean by This?’: Tim Walz Sparks Outrage After Internet Hears What He Called Elon Musk

Tim Walz continues to light up the internet — for all the wrong reasons.

The Minnesota governor and Democratic vice presidential candidate has been in a proxy war with billionaire Elon Musk over Musk’s support for former President Donald Trump — Walz effectively called Musk a “dips*** last week, as Fox News reported.

And at a campaign stop in Detroit on Friday, he sparked a storm of social media responses after he appeared to imply that Musk, a father of 12, is homosexual — and Walz was clearly insulting Musk at the time…

Walz was in the process of talking about the economy when he turned the subject to tax cuts for billionaires like Musk.

“If you’re a billionaire, Elon Musk for example, say, that gah … , that gay got …” then he snickered.
“Michigan knows that word,” he said.

“Look, that dude got a tax cut and the rest of us got shafted on the whole deal,” he said.

(The full video of the event is available here. Walz’s “gay guy” comments come about the 6:30 mark.)

Now, Walz almost certainly didn’t start out intending to call Musk “gay.” From the sound of the butchered sentence, he was trying to say “that guy got” and it came out as “that gay go…”

But his juvenile leering — along with the “Michigan knows that word” aside he tossed to the crowd — showed that once Walz committed the error, he also committed to going ahead with what he clearly meant as a slur. (To give Walz credit, he did switch the troublesome word to “dude.”)

Now, it’s safe to say that if Musk were gay, the world wouldn’t have needed Tim Walz to break the news. And it’s a damn good bet that he’s not.

Besides the dozen children he’s sired, the uber billionaire’s romantic life is the stuff of international tabloid fare (how many other guys have dated actress Amber Heard?), and it’s a better-than-even chance the news of any gay liaisons would have leaked long ago.

Harris and Walz Declare War on America

Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are prepared to wage war on America. 

Let me explain. Walz’s most important education advisor is Brian Lozenski, a professor of “urban and multicultural education” at Macalester College. Lozenski is a prominent national voice in the world of critical race theory (CRT), and the foremost authority on CRT in Minnesota. CRT holds that everything about American society is racist. Everything—American values, from patriotism and hard work; American institutions, from the traditional family to religion; and American policies, from secure borders to energy independence. Racism, say the critical race theorists, is in America’s DNA.

In a recently unearthed video, Brian Lozenski puts it even more directly: “America is irreversibly racist…[and] must be overthrown.” In case you missed his meaning, he goes on to say, “You can’t be a critical race theorist and be pro-U.S.”

This is a declaration of war. It could not be any clearer. 

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Report finds cash-strapped NASA still spending MILLIONS on grants to DEI and “environmental justice” initiatives

Despite being severely underfunded, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) still spent millions of taxpayer dollars on grants to initiatives that focus on “environmental justice” and diversity, equity and inclusion.

Records indicate that much of NASA’s $10 million grant spending went to universities to help them study environmental justice in urban areas as well as other places with high concentrations of racial minorities.

For instance, the agency approved $150,000 in funding to Columbia University so it could pair “earth observations and socioeconomic data” and enable students to do environmental justice work in New York City.

Another grant, this time worth $250,000, was paid out to Los Angeles as part of NASA’s Predictive Environmental Analytics and Community Engagement for Equity and Environmental Justice (PEACE) program.

To remedy its observation that “people of color often face higher exposure to air pollutants,” NASA’s PEACE program paid the city to provide pollution data to its residents in “a way that works across communities and cultural differences and specifically analyzes, engages and responds to needs for environmental justice.”

NASA has provided over $5 million for “environmental justice” grants since 2022, according to federal records.

“The environmental justice movement focuses on ensuring communities receive equitable protection from natural and human-induced environmental hazards,” NASA’s webpage on equity and environmental justice reads. “It embodies the principle that all communities should be heard and represented in decision making.”

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The Democracy Fund: Trudeau’s Online Harms Act could weaponize courts and stifle free speech

The Democracy Fund (TDF) has warned the public that the proposed Online Harms Act of the Canadian government could “weaponize” the courts and instill fear while doing little to curb social conflict and promote safety online.

In February, Minister of Justice and Attorney General Arif Virani proposed the Online Harms Act, also known as Bill C-63. The bill, which includes amendments to the Criminal Code and the Canadian Human Rights Act, claims to protect children from online sexual abuse, cyberbullying and self-harm.

Bill C-63 seeks to reinstate Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act, a “hate speech” provision abolished in 2013 by former Prime Minister Stephen Harper. The bill would enable the government to target and remove specific online content.

The bill aims to create a Digital Safety Commission, a digital safety ombudsperson and the Digital Safety Office, all tasked with monitoring and regulating internet content.

Additionally, a five-person government-appointed panel would monitor internet platforms and hold “secret commission hearings” against rule-breakers. Under the bill, those who commit hate speech online could face severe penalties, including life imprisonment or fines of up to CA$50,000 ($36,150).

However, in a 26-page legal brief, TDF argued that the proposed bill would grant excessive government power to clamp down on online speech.

“Historically, the power to censor has been a weapon of authoritarian regimes. This power inevitably expands and eventually eliminates the civic process by which society adapts and progresses,” the TDF wrote in the legal brief. “It will not reduce social conflict. On the contrary, it is likely to exacerbate the problem of social conflict, weaponize the courts and the human rights tribunal for political purposes, and introduce fear into the online social environment.”

Moreover, TDF stated that “open dialogue and education” are better alternative solutions to address harmful attitudes rather than censorship.

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