Month: August 2022

The BBC is facing backlash over claims that it is “disappearing women” by allowing its 50/50 male and female quota to be filled by transgender guests. The MailOnline has more.

BBC news presenter Ros Atkins is at the centre of a trans row following the corporation’s 50:50 project, an initiative he founded in 2017 that aims to increase the number of women on air and on screen.

The project has seen the BBC increase the salaries of some of its most high-profile women such as Zoe Ball and increase the number of female stars in its shows such as Line of Duty.

Mr. Atkins is accused of “going along with change” after the corporation stated in their latest Equality Project report that “they do not monitor whether a contributor’s gender differs from their sex registered at birth”.

The BBC guidance states: “Content-makers monitor the gender identity of their contributors with the aim of featuring at least 50% women. They do not monitor whether a contributor’s gender differs from their sex registered at birth.

“Where possible, teams also monitor the proportion of contributors who identify as non-binary or genderqueer in order to improve their representation of all genders. This data is not currently reported to 50:50 The Equality Project, but is used by these teams to improve their representation of all genders.“

BBC employees have blasted the corporation for “following Stonewall law” despite ditching the controversial LGBT charity’s Diversity Champion’s programme last year.

It means transgender women who are born male will be counted as females in the corporations 50:50 project that aims to “represent women”.

Read more: BBC Criticised For Allowing 50/50 Female Quota to be Filled by Transgender Guests

Yesterday, Liberty Counsel settled USA’s first class-wide lawsuit for health care workers over a Covid injection mandate, for more than $10.3 million.

The class action settlement against NorthShore University HealthSystem is on behalf of more than 500 current and former health care workers who were unlawfully discriminated against and denied religious exemptions from the Covid injection mandate. The settlement must be approved by the federal District Court and was filed yesterday in the federal Northern District Court of Illinois.

Liberty Counsel is a Christian ministry that, among other things, advances religious freedom, the sanctity of human life and the family through strategic litigation.

In October 2021, Liberty Counsel sent a demand letter to NorthShore on behalf of numerous health care workers who had sincere religious objections to NorthShore’s “Mandatory Covid-19 Vaccination Policy.” If NorthShore had agreed then to follow the law and grant religious exemptions, the matter would have been quickly resolved and it would have cost it nothing. But, when NorthShore refused to follow the law, and instead denied all religious exemption and accommodation requests for employees working in its facilities, Liberty Counsel filed a class action lawsuit, along with a motion for a temporary restraining order and injunction.

Yesterday a settlement was agreed upon. As a result of the settlement, NorthShore will pay $10,337,500 to compensate these health care employees who were victims of religious discrimination, and who were punished for their religious beliefs against taking an injection associated with aborted foetal cells.

The amount of individual payments from the settlement fund will depend on how many valid and timely claim forms are submitted during the claims process. If the settlement is approved by the court and all or nearly all of the affected employees file valid and timely claims, it is estimated that employees who were terminated or resigned because of their religious refusal of a Covid injection will receive approximately $25,000 each, and employees who were forced to accept a Covid injection against their religious beliefs to keep their jobs will receive approximately $3,000 each.

The 13 health care workers who are lead plaintiffs in the lawsuit will receive an additional approximate payment of $20,000 each for their important role in bringing this lawsuit and representing the class of NorthShore health care workers.

This is a historic, first-of-its-kind class action settlement against a private employer who unlawfully denied hundreds of religious exemption requests for Covid injections. As part of the settlement agreement, NorthShore will also change its unlawful “no religious accommodations” policy to make it consistent with the law, and to provide religious accommodations in every position across its numerous facilities. No position in any NorthShore facility will be considered off limits to unvaccinated employees with approved religious exemptions.

In addition, employees who were terminated because of their religious refusal of the Covid injections will be eligible for rehire if they apply within 90 days of final settlement approval by the court, and they will retain their previous seniority level.

Read more: Chicago Health Care Workers’ Class Action Against Fake Vaccine Mandate Settle for $10.3 million

Rishi Sunak has reportedly built a private pool at his £1.5 million mansion, while his constituents are on the brink of losing their public baths due to soaring energy prices.

The former Chancellor and his wife Akshata Narayan Murty are said to have applied for a new stone building on a paddock in Richmond, North Yorkshire last year.

It will house a gym, a 12×5 metre pool, four showers and storage, according to reports.

Meanwhile, Richmond Pool is struggling after facing a 400% energy hike, resulting in eye-watering gas and electricity costs.

Bills will increase from £63,600 to £315,000 per year – with no prospect of any government help, according to locals.

This is because only household consumers are protected by Ofgem’s energy price cap to keep tariffs down – which excludes community and school pools.

The leisure centre, in the heart of Richmond, has served the community of 2,000 since 1976 as a charitable venture.

Leadership hopeful Mr Sunak, who is a multi-millionaire, is said to pay running costs of £13,000 a year on his mansion.

Read more: Rishi Sunak builds private pool at mansion as local swimming baths face closure

Food pantries and food banks are a key economic indicator for tracking poverty levels and financial instability in the US, and in the past few months they have been ringing alarm bells.

Stagflationary pressures have all but wiped out the savings of the average American and driven up credit-card debt to historic highs.  Only in the past month have credit spending and debt levels begun to slide, but this is more a sign that consumers are tapped out rather than a sign of a return to normalcy.  High prices are slowly but surely overwhelming lower-wage workers in particular.  The average living wage across most US states is around $16 an hour; over 30% of American workers make less than $15 an hour.

Democrats and leftists will of course claim that this is because the Federal Minimum Wage is too low and needs to be increased, but the minimum wage has become irrelevant in the post-covid economy.  Many retail and service companies now pay around $11-14 an hour, well above minimum wage, in order to retain workers. And STILL prices are too high for many of these people to keep up with expenses.

Read more: Food Banks Across America Report Record Demand And Record Shortages

The pandemic has shone a spotlight on public health ‘experts’.

Many initially opposed lockdown, before abruptly changing their view when doing so became politically convenient. They said that masks don’t work, only to turn around and back mandates. And after assuring us the vaccines would stop transmission, they were met with overwhelming data to the contrary.

In October of last year, I wrote about two studies in which ‘experts’ and laymen were asked to forecast weekly Covid numbers. ‘Experts’ performed somewhat better in the first study, but actually performed worse in the second. (A possible explanation for the divergent results is that laymen in the second study were self-selected and hence better-informed about the subject matter.)

These findings don’t inspire confidence in the ‘experts’ who’ve guided us through the pandemic. After all, the most basic task of science is to predict things, so if scientists can’t predict better than laymen, that suggests their theories are wrong. And if their theories are wrong, we probably shouldn’t listen to them – especially if they’re telling us to shut down the economy.

That’s public health scientists. Are social scientists any better? According to a new study: no, they’re not. (The study is still a pre-print, so hasn’t been peer reviewed.)

Cendri Hutcherson and colleagues asked both ‘experts’ and laymen to predict the size and direction of social change in the U.S. between April and October of 2020. There were ten different domains: prejudice, individualism, traditionalism, generalized trust, political polarisation, life satisfaction, depression, delay of gratification, birth rate, and attitudes to climate change.

Then in October of 2020, participants were asked to give retrospective estimates of the size and direction of social change over the preceding six months. Prospective and retrospective estimates were compared to objective indicators of social change, based on large representative surveys.

Read more: Social Scientists Can’t Predict Better Than Laymen, Study Finds

Data published by the UK Government reveals the vaccinated population in England has a higher mortality rate per 100,000 than the unvaccinated population.

The figures show that it takes approximately 5 months from receiving the Covid-19 vaccine for that elevated mortality rate to be realised.

This, therefore, implies the mass winter “Booster” vaccination campaign is to blame for the sudden rise in weekly excess deaths across England since the end of April 2022.

Read more: UK Government Report & Excess Deaths Data confirm ‘Covid’ fake vaccination takes 5 months to kill recipients

The WEF is pushing for digital IDs to be sewn into people’s clothes to ‘save the planet’ by transitioning from buying to renting clothes to reduce waste.

“This start-up gives clothes digital IDs to help the planet. EON creates online digital passports for garments enabling brands to sell their clothing, again and again, creating more sustainable business models,” a video from the World Economic Forum begins.

The WEF continues, saying that companies will then be able to actively track the clothing they sell, which brings up innumerable privacy concerns not addressed by the Forum.

“The CircularID also lets rands follow garments over their entire life cycle from production to sale and resale, reuse, or recycling.”

Read more: The WEF Wants to Sew Digital IDs Into Your Clothing

Senior General Min Aung Hlaing quoted stressing need to strengthen ‘genuine’ and ‘disciplined’ democratic system.

But the ex-chancellor’s pledge for the end of the next parliament is criticised as being too slow.

New Zealand’s borders fully reopened Monday, but the return of international visitors and students is only expected to start with a trickle following the lifting of Covid-based travel restrictions.